The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1930, Page 1

SHOE WORKERS MOBILIZE Read of the Attempt of the Bosses and Their Agents in the A.F.F.F.H.W., the “Progressive” Musteites, to Saddle the Hosiery Workers With the Burden of the Crisis by Big Wage-Cuts, Speed-up, ete. Special Ar- ticles and Features all this Week. Hosiery Workers, Don’t Fail to Get Your Copy of the Daily Worker. aily = Enteres as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 8, 1879, FINAL CITY / 2 EDITION ished daily "Vol. VII., No. 144 Put to the Test ROM an article by Comrade Bill Dunne, given in another column, it seems clear that a great battle of the coal miners is beginning in the Western Pennsylvania and coke region. The capitalist crisis is pinching the operators, who are trying to unload all the burden of intensified competition on the miners. To the inhuman speed-up and robbery of working conditions is now added mass dismissals and a wage cut that amounts to 13 per cent. The attack against the workers is begun by none other than the Rockefeller interests, the Consolidation Coal Company which is one leg of the great octopus called “Standard Oil.” A thousand miners are already on strike. They strike under the banner of the National Miners’ Union, the fighting revolutionary union to which the miners of the whole area are turning after rejecting the fascist U. M. W. of A, led by the unspeakable Lewis. The miners should beware of any attempt by the equally crooked but more disguised company union, also claiming to be the “real U. M. W. of A.” and making a lot of tall talk “against Lewis,” but led by the Fishwick, Farrington, Howat gang of social fascists whose outstanding crookedness in the past is well set off in the present by their acting as tools of the Ilinois mine owners. This gang is backed by the Rev. Muste group of fake “progressives” whose chief accom- plishment in the last year was to betray the southern textile workers to the mill owners. he The miners should stick tightly to the National Miners’ Union. any by The Comprodaily Publishing Sauare, New York City, N.Y. BUBSCRIPTION RATES: 86 a year everywhere excepting Manhat and Bronx, New York City and forelgn countries, there $8 ay /HUGE WAGE CUTS SPEED UP LOOMS FOR HOSIERY MEN | United Textile Union) Fakers Guarantee to Put. Over Boss Plan ‘But Men Will Fig ht 'The National Textile Workers in Call | PHILADELPHIA, ' sinister conspiracy, cret conferences and meetings be- tween the hosiery manufacturers and the officials of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Ho- | June 15,—A hatched in se- HOSTILE JURY CONVICTS NINE Class Enemies Refuse to Consider Evidence Sentences Today Face 42 Years Apiece Case Brought to Block Vegetable Strike EL CENTRO, Cal. June 15.— The prejudiced rancher jury in the case of nine workers charged with criminal syndicalism here came back within an hour, Friday, with a ver- dict of “guilty” for all of them. The IN EL CENTRO 1.000 MINERS STRIKE: LED BY NATIONAL MINERS Musteite Hosiery . Misleaders i in Conspiracy With Bosses to to Make Attack on on V Wo i} rkers FIGHT OPEN WAGE CUT OF 10 PER CENT BY BIG PENNSYLVANIA OWNERS Standard Oil, Storpan teas ana Morrow Owned Mines Lead; Swindling Makes It A 13 Per Cent Cut Penowa, Last Important U.M.W. Local in Dis- trict Joins Miners’ Union; Crisis Hits Hard By BILL DUNNE. PITTSBURGH, June 13, (By Mail).—One and min- ers are on strike in a number of mines owned by Bethlehem Steel, the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company and the Du- quesne Steel Company. These strikes are led by the National Miners’ thous: Union and And the N. M. U., as Comrade Dunne well remarks, is bein; : ; p verdict is the same for all three 4 : : per ae | tested as to its ability to organize and lead the struggle. Obviously |SitY Workers, is threatening some points of the indictment, and on| are against the 10 per cent wage cut made a few days ago. its main policies are marked out for it by the situation: The fight {18000 organized hosiery workers each point, a sentence of “one to|A number of leaflets calling®— ~~ ar : P 3 [3 1 th is ‘ claw ‘ . nd Big Firms Gird for Lake Cargo i against wage cuts, speed-up and mass dismissals are in the foreground. | ee any enna ne eee ndustry, fourteen years” will be given each! for strikes against all wage Strugele Regard Debate As of Ut- q The fight for local demands is equally important. eee piles aa Shea lepaen, 77) NATIONS man, making sentences of 42 years) (i+, have been issued by the Mose lite fer ce Olio) Opecatene i shot through w yment,| Peon ie: ‘ en iss 1 2 | most nortance=Ohio Ope f But how the N. M. U. stands up to the test depends greatly on | part-time work, speed-up and other COMMUNIST PRRTY (coe N. M. U. Fifty thousand ad-| Enter Fight for Equal Footing With 4 putting coneretely into practice the basic strike strategy of the Red | gsects of the economic crisis grip- he Jury ale wecommend a (des) anal leatieta’ willl be issued | Southora Wield: International of Labor Unions as determined by the Strassburg Con- |°;.° an industries, is to be made portation for all the defendants who! Gltlonal ‘eatlets WIN be Issued |r ne lead aes | ference on that important subject. an Site Brees the alnai are foreign born. this week. he lead to t ry says: : ‘And one of the imperative needs is that the N. M. U. itself be | tow standards of life of the hosiery Sentence will be passed Monday.| Miners in other properties are| at Sma eaiee ot ee organizationally consolidated as firmly as a rock in the course of the | workers. si @ ¢ preparing for struggle. pee em siatde struggle so that nothing can dislodge it. All loose and haphazard oe ee B To Break a Strike. There is every indication that ad vates on tie (ieeat a methods must be bannéd and the union machinery tightened up from |, Huge wage-cuts, ranging from ae ; lehese eitives arc quevely’ the bentna| Con tates oF the Great x cent, will be the start- The railroading of the nine Im-|‘" : “Among those who 1 lead the & top to bottom. H : Bs bes ial Valley workers grew so di-|ing of far wider struggles. oe : ? : a e , |ing point for more wage-cuts. Thou- perial Valley ers grew so di-|7 TE Gs upon the strength of the| Pennsylvanians in this hearing, the i _ Rank and file committees in Build; the, No M. Us| gangs ae hosiery: workers, csoetially rire q! , rectly out of the February strike of |@ePends unon oh send into the| most. important for many years to |. solidly! Fight for its program agains bosses and both their | nitters, are to be foreed out of the | Lt Him Howl! Pack Madison Square Garden | some 8,000 vegetable workers in the | forces the N-M.U. can send into the fh yestomn Pennsylvania coal. in- i treacherous U. M. W. A.s! Fight the wage cuts, the speed-up, the | industry with the introduction of on June 20th valley, and the preparations for|field. The necessity for struggle is| 731.) aimost strangled by rates Z mass discharges! A firm fight will defeat the attempt of the oper- | the 9.4 and even 6-machine system a another strike during the present | Understood by the great majority | favoring Southern 1 will be J. ' ators to swell their profits at the cost of starving the miners, their | f Gal eee Se = 7 5 canteloupe seasor. there, that it is|0f the miners and the ability of the’) °°,“ atorrow, president of the " dthete children? Leading the attack against the * | ésap tlic Circles |N-M-U. to organize and lead the|D- 4. Morrow, p eas wives an eir children! Homiany workers will be the Masts I di P a ant B R d ait a scandal even in capitalist eee ogine resistance tothe wage cut Pittsburgh Coal Company, George | sane Be Biss | While delegates were gathering in| ® en | R. Francis, secretary of the Key: 4 ee (Continued on Page Three) | n ta e S) $s urn ecor S; the valley for a great convention of Se ee arus hore rea eh stone Coal Company, R Templeton er ee | . . . . \the Agricultural Workers Industrial Stee. | Smith, of the Poland Coal Company. j | J i s : Smith, of the Poland Coa pany. Tell Us All About it | Anti-Picketing Law Violated time ste sraie Union Unity| New Stage of Boss Drive. |" th Wericin Pennstvanians a RA E | League, to which the 15,000 Imperial] The drive against the miners in| poined in their 24 of the :, f | ? = Sa : Valley workers were turning after|Central and Western Pennsylvania | biggest coal com Eastern { HE editorial department of the Daily Worker is keenly aware | MADRAS, India, June 15.—The y Irwin and the misleaders of the | the sell-out of their previous strike] has entered a new stage. The clos-|Qhio..... ” (M : that the paper has many faults, despite its improvements in re- | F F peasant uprising against tax ex-| Indian parties, 1,000 troops were!by a Mexican “mutual aid” reform-|ing of mines and mass discharges| y,o.0 Eyidence of the Crisi # cent months. It is trying to correct these remaining faults, and since | (* ploitation, which Gandhi is attempt- | rushed to Bombay to smash picket-| ict organization, 85 were arrested.|are being accompanied by an an- Worveue the. i teads the paper is published for the wi rs, it requires the aid of the work- | * ing to lead into non-resistant and ing and enforce the new government | Many were held on $40,000 bail each. | nounced wage cut of 10 per cent } 1 s i the United Mine Workers 4] ers to make it better. | ihilels horn cae has jewene ine edict ee Hi months’ im-| qt was openly admitted that the ar-|but an actual wage cut of 13 per ee | v wes pate 2 ‘ ‘ c South India and on a tide of re- | prisonment for pickets. ek es we ne is ce 3 ¢ It is not always easy to express, in language understandable to | Hai] Party Vanguard | sistance to police brutality. | Though this ruling is immedi- | crop,” e the co workers, whom cagitalism deprives ‘of elementary education, not to Californians; Spector and Sklar, U. The tactic of the companies is to |the burden of the crisis in the in- # mention trained political analysis, many complicated political situa. | Of Working Class When two nationalist “volunteers” | ately stimulated by We Sand te The number actually placed on | cut wages in the smaller mines first, | jstent “central competitive field.” f tions and theories. Yet our aim is to attain such clarity and simplicity | were convicted of breaking the salt oe ea a ual ae pati ae | |trial was nine: Alonzo and Orosco, | and in certain instances to confine | Southern coai, especially that from i in form and content that the masses cannot fail to grasp the meat of NEW YORK.—At the time when | /aws at Tindivanam, 80 miles south eat ee ee eee here are | Mexicans; Hariuchi, Japanese; Her- | the wage cuts for the time being to West Virginia, where John L. Lewis Fi all that is published. II the black, reactionary forces are | ° hates great crows an diate us Foca and Fifth Mahar. |2¢T Porto Rican; Roxas, Filipino; | certain classes of work, but the gen-| sold o ers, wiped out this a % sei fate CUe perio ae i stoned the police and constabulary | #2 = | id Birickadah natiy 5 i nee See oa atte ‘ 7 z We are progressing, as the following letter from a worker in united in an effort to smash the | and severely injured an inspector of Tattas, but a Manchester regiment Hmery and Erickson, native born | eral policy of placing still more of ibi the Lewis offi Buffalo, indicates: | at Secunderabad is ready to entrain| x the speed-up of ey call upon all our members, and getting thespaper material to publish, it has two other connected im- 4 he shoe and slipper workers in gen- perative tasks: First, to speed to completion the Drive for $25,000 so They told of the recent appropria- tion made by the French imperialist has been closed. The Pike mine, owned by the Hillman interests, em- | ‘Now, if you men will quietly serve slate), ete. a . : : vanguard of the revolutionary move- | police. on S. citizens. The trial was featured | dustry on the miners and their fam-| the miner the Jacksonville | ; uae Workers T tike es Ce ee ments, the Communist Party of | The police fired into the crowd, fr Bombay at a moment's notice. |i several stool pigeons, apparently | ilies is being carried out rapidly. | agreement b vibe ea eS taniad 2 ee aes ee Li c hing America opens its Seventh Conven-| which suffered unknown casualties. | | (SVS ™ ar received here of | new “professional witnesses” like| Mines are shut down, the com-| ‘The rer the struggle for Pi pomee aiay bra WEL hac aay Lag eeeee La aed tion with a mo 1s mass protest It nt that during the | #utinn t demonstrators S¢iz-|those used in the previous orgy of |panies attempt to force the same justice by the Pennsylvania and i i ont ake oa tha Be Sad os ies yay a es i ia meeting at Madison Square Garden | fighting the peasants broke into the she 3 caiter dill a ates jeciminal syndicalism trisis, in/1922 | production froma smaller number of | Ohio coal baron cluding the big- ee Mu anes Ae tte be os Feria COM uaee Bae 8 m Friday, June 20. agricultural office and destroyed all | #20PS Alter driving out the po'lce-|and 1923. | mines and workers, and at the same gest coal companies—and the be Buffalo section in the Daily Worker? For a better Daily : a sconde. ‘This has been the first | There has been fighting in Agra it- Defend niet wage (cake bake plate g Hos Worker and a Revolution of the Workers—A Reader.” The Communist Party of Ame sora egrets pth f, but details are lacking. pereccate) Det enders: 4 pou ter Yeo. | ginning of a. 1 A ing cam- : cazge ea “fi t is the champion of the interests of St€P 17 uprisings of exploited pea: The government communique on|. DUTing the trial, members of the| The miners now actually face) paign, shows that thc atures’ Ge Boe suet ete care Dioeressiie, ec not galietied: And the. | (woulda claaa of the county, (Sante in every. eee, and in every le tiniepisamtbe Dharsanna salt | Labor Jury were arrested, and I.L.D. |a fight for existence. tationalization which | include) ames comrade is quite right. in asiting: for p Buffalo section. We would Lanne : 3, country in the world. SE idenien alice ctreci,|™mass meetings broken up. Those| Standard Oil Leads Offensive. | chanization forms of Eis 7 Because we find the Communis works recently “denies police atroci- e Le HG tone the De Ae ea ay Hes atlas teal a Party at the head of every pefugele Lea ated is oH a6 i “The semausteators arrested and tried for assisting the The: new offensive was begun by | speed ue what they don’t like about the Daily Worker—and why, : : . | ties” a ye defense by distributing leaflets ex-| the Consolidated Coal Com crisis in th 1 5 raat i : ‘ of workers, it i itterly by ; | | pany in| crisis in th h, caught Your suggestions, criticism, praise and blame, will all be given a MOETers) ie ae attacked bitterly by Send a aane es (ieee. only moderately” beaten’ with plaining the case to the workers, or | Somerset County—a Standard Oil in the general ec s, must careful consideration. About the Buffalo Section: Firstly, the Buf- | the black reactionary forces, the fas-/ BOMBAY, India, June 15.—Fol- | staves.” ; for serving on the Labor Jury have | subsidiary. Mines employing 2,000 now resort to the most dangerous falo workers must make that possible by giving us a prompt and ga cae A. F. of L, and the so- lowing 8 a conference between Vice-' However, some of them died. ai teeny eal Bind aneyenuiew! Of Cals | aikntwars iolduad laniduatidlie: aatiel methods tor the coal’ hetone cee complete news service; naturally, this must be organized by the Com- | ~ Wa ae tea ifornia justice,” as follows: jtime a 13 per cent wage cut made lowering product ts i. an munist Party in Buffalo (and the same thing can be said for any other | The shoe workers, members of the to answer the attempts of the French | «Phere were originally six of us/in the mines still working. outright camp: wage cutting district). Secondly, the Daily Worker is limited in space simply be- Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, | imperialists in their war plots | arrested and charged with vagrancy, | In the last few days other big nc longer cause it has not enough money'to publish a six or eight page paper | affiliated with the Trade Union| against the Soviet Union. Our ane hay ‘all evidence was directed to-|coal and steel concerns have follow- | temptible \f every day. , Unity League, recognizing the sup- | swer will be, war against the im-| ards proving our membership in|ed suit. The Lambert mine, in| nage figures, el pay While the Buffalo (and other districts, also) must give the at- | Port given them by the Communist | perialists. For the revolutionary | the Communist Party. Fayette County, owned by the Frick | for “dead work,”. increased penalties tention it deserves to such calls for a section in the Daily Worker in | Party, issued a statement in which overthrow of the capitalist system.” | «pistrict Attorney Heald said: | interests, and employing 400 men for “dirty coat” (coal containing out your five months sentence and The minerss’ living standards are we can give space to the material. Second, to make a circulation eral, to participate in the protest NEW YORK, June 15.—Carrying government for war purposes of |not appeal your cases, I will not} ploying 450 men, and the Cokeburg|now attacked from both sides— campaign, not for just a while but continued, that will put the Daily | ™eeting, with them the revolutionary greet: three billion francs for naval forces. | prosecute you further. But if you | mine, employing 450 men, and own-| wages and work, W s are cut and Worker into the hands of the workers, who are really anxious to SER eats ings of the eae Lina et ae the seamen demanded 8 5,000 | appeal, I will put criminal syndical-|ed by Bethlehem Steel, have shut thousands of mi left without ead ow . Augustine an arbonetto au', france yearly pension for disabled or | j, har; inst you.’ He does | down. | hope of em mt by the permen- | read our paper. |Special India ism charges against you. e does p © P aged men their demands were re- | | | Workers, let us know how we can improve the Daily! Marseille seamen, hailed the District not want us out on bond, because Evidence of Sharp Crisis. ent closing of mines. All together—speed up the Drive for $25,000! | | And while the | fascist Fish is attacking your Daily—support it by a continuous show- er of eeperneons and bundle orders! GEORGIA DEATH (TRIAL IS NEAR ATLANTA, 2 dai Tune 15, Thursday M. H. Powers, Commu- nist Party district organizer, and Joe Carr, Young Communist League district organizer, go on trial here charged with “insurrec- tion,” ete., with the prosecutor de- manding the death penalty for them. Under a Georgia law passed in 1861 to kill leaders of Negro slave rebellions, they can be elec- | trocuted if convicted. Held in the same jail with them are two girls under 21 years of) age: Mary Dalton, organizer of the ional Textile Workers’ Union; and Ann Burlak, representative in Georgia of the International Labor 1 ", Defense, and two Negro “workers, Henry Newman, of the American | Negro Labor Congress, and Henry | Storey, a Negro worker of Atlanta, who may be the Communist candi-’ date for governor of Georgia ,this | | year. All are under the same death | ‘charge. The two women and two Negro workers were arrested at a meeting of the A. N. L. C. News has been received from within the jail as follows: “The authorities are beginning | to tighten up on the ‘insurrection’ defendants from every angle. Since the Seventh, ‘Nation-Wide Protest Day,’ queer things have been BO- | ing on here. Hundreds of wires | and letters have been delivered to | the prison, but the defendants have seen none of them. Meanwhile the | officials are actually frightened by | this mass protest and rumors such as, ‘The Reds are going to storm | the Tow ‘The Reds are prepar- ing for violent action, are spread-, ing.” 4 Convention of the Communist Party . held today. Speaking with the warm fervor of the French revolutionar workers, the two seamen, members of the Communist Party of France, told of the growth of the revolu- tionary movement in the fighi against imperialist war preparations significance of the world-shaking| | 114 the worsening conditions of the ) events now taking place in India| |} saeioe | as in China, Watch for it. i" sua egret » Edition June 1s The special Indian Revolution | edition of the Daily Worker Wednesday, June 18th, contains special features, articles, and. news items explaining the great. | “The French workers are ready; fused. In 1914 the imperialists co: fiscated the treasury contributed by the seamen to pension their mem- bers and used it for war purposes The establishment of close ties be- tween marine workers of France and United States was one of their com- missioned duties, they told George} Mink, chairman of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, in hand- ing him their credentials. our determination. the picked juries of growers. ment for organizing to make con say, ‘Don’t give up the fight!’ Fifteen More Days to July Ist! ‘Fifteen more days to July Ist. In these fifteen days we must collect $15,000 to complete the Daily Worker fighting fund, our Emergency Fund to keep our paper going and growing, The Central Committee has decided that all Party forces must speed up collection activities so that the difficulties our paper finds itself in will not multiply; so that we would save it and strengthen it in face of the attack of the agents of the enemy class, now conspiring in secret sessions in Washington to suppress us. Every one of you, every Party unit, section, district, every sym- pathetic workers’ organization surely understands the danger we are facing. Recognizing the danger, standing around shouting, Danger! Danger! may be a means of awakening yourself, but if you do not join our army of supporters to fight the danger, then what’s the use of shouting? We must have instant action, We must rush to workers’ organ- izations, to workers in the shops, in workers’ neighborhoods to tell them about the danger, to enlist them on our side, to secure their contributions. Fifteen days to go and $15,000 to collect. This is your task. Take your collection list out of its hiding place and collect. Visit ali work= ers’ organizations and collect. Mobilize forces for mass collections. Help accomplish the task placed before us by the Central Commit- Help to keep the Daily Worker going and growing. tee. i he has had some experience with We will not sur- render one inch, though we see ia present criminal syndicalism trial, what we can do with his hand We are lucky there is no capital punish- tions better, as there is in Georgia. | “To the workers everywhere we Many of the iaines in the Western Pennsylvania district produce fo what is called the “lake market’ to the local steel and railway de- mand. In normal times, contrary to the situation ir other sectoins of the coal mining industry, these mines work full time. But the economic crisis has struck | such a blow at this market, and the| depression in the local steel market | t is so severe, that competitive strug- ol gles which in ordinary a very mild charac or entir non-existent, hz. 1 out in so | sharp a manner that the Pittsburg] | press is giving columns of front page news and editorial space 1 the heroic battle now being waged by the local mine owners for “just | ice.” Justice in this instance means lower railway rates. In this struggle | Pennsylvania and Ohio coal barons | have formed a united front against | their Southern competitors. | “The Pittsburgh Press” for June | 13 features the story of the com- | petitive strugsle under the follow. | ing headlines: | “Coal Men Join for Coal Rate ‘Hearing Monday—Prominent Men mes during the summertime, in addition 1,000 Miners Are I Will Joi The strikes now taking place are preliminary engagem . The Penn- sy!vania miners have a long tradi- tion of stru re respond: ing to the National Miners U day 40 miners in Per 1owa, tial block for Lew hting—More their support of nal Miners Union, and Party, have a tremendous re- lity in the present situation. s to lead e struggles our The me t be 1930 when t ermanent prosperity” theorie: the capitalist class and its agents of the of Labor cannot be plained by the millions of v guaranteeing 0 | ment and misery, th In this year of h of all the pet of Pennsylvania coal f | well be the be of a cl flict which will bring into action hundreds f workers in the mining in other allied and decisive ing