The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1930, Page 1

15,000 MINERS STRIKE AGA “Struggle of Jobless I: 15,000 Miners Strike Against Unemploy- ment. More and More Join the Jobless Army as the Crisis Grows. Mobilize for the July 4-5 Unemployment Conference in Chicago to Broad- en the Fight for “Work or Wages.” Publisheo daily ex Company. tn Vol. VII, No. 150 Marshal Our Forces HE brief survey of the mining industry—bituminous, anthracite and metal—given in another column is sufficient to show that the perspective for the 900,000 mine workers is one of struggle. It is of the greatest importance in working out the strategy of the struggles into which the mine workers and their militant leader- ship, the National Miners’ Union, are now entering, to keep in mind that in *hose sections where mass unemployment is worst, and where direct wage cuts show the sharpness of the boss offensive, is pre- cisely those sections which are allied with the steel and metal indus- try—U. S. Steel, Jones and Laughlin, American Brass Company, ete.— big trustified industry employing in all its ramifications some 7,000,- 000 workers. The closest coordination of the struggles against wage cuts, ra- tionalization and mass unemployment in these related industries is an obvious necessity. The economic demands of this great mass of workers must be brought into the foreground from the very beginning and from the very beginning political implications of the struggles must be made clear to the workers on the basis of the attacks by city, county, state and national government that will certainly take place. ® Census Admits 400,000 48,000 Apply for 200 NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT CONVENTION JULY 4 IS: TO BUILD BIG MOVEMENT Orders Immediate Completion of Delegations; All Rally to Union Park Demonstration Out of Work in N. Y.; Low Paid City Jobs NEW YORK.—“The struggle against unemployment is Ne NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RA 86m year and Bronx, New York City and foreign Price 3 Cents pting Manhattan there $8 a year. SGYS Unity League Instructions ie Hunger System! | NATIONAL MINERS UNION OFFICERS IN ANTHRACITE; WAR ON CUTS, SPEED-UP Miners Defy UMW Bureaucrats; NMU Urges to Spread Strike, End Contractor System Great Struggles Loom; Wages Cut In Coal and Copper Mine Fields; Troops Called The National Miners’ Union, the Metal Workers’ Industrial League and our Party can furnish only the core of the leadership for these struggles. ranks of the workers in battle. The mass leadership must be developed straight out of the The election df Rank and File Committees of Action, the elec- tion of large Rank and File Strike Committees, the formation of Rank and File Organizing Committees, etc., the drawing into leadership of every single wo! r who shows ability and militancy, the exercise of the most painstaking methods for training new corps of leaders, mak- ing in actual practice every conflict a Leninist school for our class— these forms and methods by which the burning problem of furnishing revolutionary leadershif for forward moving masses will be solved. Break down all craft, sectional and occupational divisions. with our full weight on the first Step signs of opposition to the struggle for the economic demands of Negro workers and for full social, eco- nomic and political equality for them. Build the shop groups of our Party, build the shop committees of the class struggle unions. Maximum concentration of our forces in mining, steel and metal, more attention to the railway industry, wider and more continuous agitation, more emphasis on economic demands, independent and ag- gressive leadership of the growing struggles by the Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated unions—these measures will open the road | the struggle of the entire working class,” states a letter of instructions sent out by the national office of the Trade Union Unity League to all affiliated unions, national leagues, district organizations and unemployed councils. The letter orders them [awa a es Ee tO Inimediately ‘complete. the BOMBAY CROWD: | final organizational arrange- |ments to elect delegations to | the National Convention of F | § H T POLICE 1 Unemployment, meeting July 5 4 and 5 in Chicago. /500 Injured by Charge |struggle against unemployment,” states the T.U.U.L., and continues: —By FRED ELLIS} Beginning of Struggle. “The Chicago convention must be | the symbol of class solidarity under | \the leadership of the revolutionary | trade union movement. .. The strug | gle against unemployment must be “The convention must be the rally- ing center for the building of a of Horsemen mighty movement among the em- ployed and unemployed workers to Evidently censored British news sent out the story sources today “Into the Shops” Keynote of : | United Mine Workers of PITTSBURGH, >, ae June 22.—The mining industry— bituminous, anthracite and metal—is today a field of rapidly developing struggles with groups of workers in the various sections either already st wage cuts or prepa here yesterday. In the anthracite where the Lewis-Boylan machine of the America stematically aided the speed- drive of the operators, has up {15,000 miners have begun an open struggle centering around a mand for equalization of work They have elected a committee of thirty to take charge of the fight and conduct it over the heads of the U.M.W.A. officials. N. M. U. President Sent, The National Miners’ Union de- has |National Miners’ Union issued *—— some | sent its president, Freeman Thomp-| g against the speed-up and @ for battle, says a statement of the diary of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Co.—near Pittsburgh. Here, some 5,000 miners, already speeded up to the limit, are, according to reports from company sources, facing either a sweeping wage-cut, in line with the general policy of the coal and steel companies, or @ complete shutdown of these big mines. Cut Copper Mine Wages. In the copper mining districts of Michigan the Calumet and Hecla Co. has announced a 10 per cent wage-cut, effective July 1. The Quincy Mine in Hancock has already cut wages 10 per cent. There is to the decisive sections of the working class for the revolutionary unions and build the mass base for our Party. The Convention and the “Daily” The National Convention of our Party is in session. We of the Daily Worker who have been given the task of making our central organ a powerful national mass paper are talking to many delegates about our paper. Many delegates are voluntarily talking to us about their achievements, shortecmings in reaching large sections of the working class with our revolutionary organ. This latter is a good sign. It indicates that the Party member- ship is becoming mindful of the fact that transforming the wide in- fluence of the Party among the workers into organizational gains for the T. U. U. L. and the Party can be accomplished in substantial measure by getting the workers we influence to read the Daily Work- er and thereby winning them for our movement. However, in all our Party districts we still have sections of the Party leadership and consequently of the T.U.U.L. membership which apparently separate the Daily Worker from the Party, do not include in the every task the Party has before it, every campaign it enters into, plans and actions to win new readers and financial support for the Daily Worker. The convention thesis of our Party calls sharp attention to this. We have noted this shortcoming many times. The Daily Worker is fighting to keep going and growing. The Daily Worker depends upon all of you, every leading district committee and department, upon every Party member to connect the immediate need for mass support for the Daily Worker with all of our mass work. In this way our fighting fund, the $25,000 we need to keep going can be raised quickly and thousands of new readers can be secured. FOOD FAKERS MEET REVOLTS ,ent was against this treachery of ithe Fagen clique, in hand with the \chefsky and Klien, members of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union asked for. the floor to expose the true nature of their maneuver, they attempted to railroad this issue. The workers resented it very much Defeat Treachery and: from India of at least 500 native men and women badly injured as a result of repeated charges on foot and horseback of British and native made the central task for the build- ing up of mass proletarian organs of struggle. The policy of the boss- es and their government to shift the Opening Report at the 7th National Party Convention no question but that the steel trust iron mines in Northern Minnesota will follow suit. N. M. U. Speaks. son, into the anthracite, together with Joe Tash and Carlo Sabatini, Youth Section organizers of the N. M. U., and Dan Slinger, national |burden of the eeonomie crisis upon q _ | the shoulders of the working class! A gathering of the nationalist must be met on the part of the whole, volunteers (pledged to non-resist-/ movement by a counter offensive. | ance) was called by Motilel Nehzu, The Chicago convention must be a |the aged head of the organization. challenge against the fascist meth- | They were to meet on the Maidan, jods of the bosses, their government, ‘an open space also used as a drill and the fascist and social fascist ground by the royal marines. The leadership of the American Federa- police proceeded under the instruc- | tion of Labor.” |tions of the viceroy to smash the Instructions. ‘ janetiog: The T.U.U.L. National Executive f Chowd Restate: |Bureau calls upon affiliated organ- izations to prepare along the fol- police in the service of imperialism. NEW YORK.—The usiness sessions of the Seventh Con- vention of the Communist Party, at which the report of the Central Committee was given by Comrade Max Bedacht, opened Saturday morning with the election of 15 delegates to the Presidium. The Presidium consists of the following: Com- |Harry Cantor, Betty Ganett, | Isaiah Hawkins, Isaki, Ella} organizer. The Trade Union Unity League has sent John Little, Youth Section organizer. Ten thousand leaflets have been distributed by the N. M. U. to the anthracite miners. They point out that (the demand for equalization of work is not sufficient, that the demands for abolition of the speed- up and the contract system must 1 ®rades Kjar, Hewitt, Nowell,| Reeve Bloor, Max Bedacht, Earl Browder, Clarence Hath- \be raised, that the struggle against | wage cuts must be combined with the fight against mass unemploy- A leaflet issued to the metal miners of these two districts by the National Miners’ Union says, in part: “This wage-cut is not the concern of the copper miners alone. It ef- fects all miners in Northern Minne- sota and Michigan. It is part of the general attack of the copper and steel trusts upon the metal miners. It marks the definite beginning of a wage-slashing campaign that will affect every copper and iron mine. |A. F. of L. Local 500, When Pin-| The crowd soon forgot all about |Gandhi’s instructions to meekly take | ‘the blows of policemen’s clubs (/a- \this, sticks) on their heads without | complaint. They began to fight back, jand only the most savage trampling {by mounted police finally broke them up. The sternest resistance came from several hundred Sikhs, the’ dispatch- les speak of as “carrying the s daggers required by their religion.” Several hundred orange clad women with the Sikhs also fought back. (The founder of the Sikh faith commanded his followers to “always wear Steel” meaning that they should continually go armed with sword or knife. This has, particularly sine: |the British occupation, been literally | interpreted, and for years has mean: lonly that they wear a steel bracelet or ring. However, it may well be/ that in the face of recent British | persecution, the Sikhs, who have) within the last five years developed | a strong anti-imperialist sentiment. | have gone back to the good old prac- ‘lowing lines: “1, The election of the mass dele- gations to be completed immediately. “2. The leading comrades in the national unions as well as in the district T.U.U.L.’s are held respoa- sible for the proper organization of their delegation. “3. Assign the most responsible comrades to head the delegations 19 the Chicago convention. “4, All heads of the delegations must make a detailed and final re- port on their arrival in the city of Chicago. “5. All heads of the delegatioa’ must prestnt their final credentials of their delegates at the Chicago T.U.U.L. office, 23 S. Lincoln St. The credentials must state the num- ber of delegates to the convention. “6, The egnvention will open with a mass demonstration on July 4 in Union Park, Chicago. “7. On July 5 all delegates are instructed to be out at Ashland au- ditorium, Ashland Ave. and Van Buren, at 9 a. 1. sharp and the final tice. They have been British Cos- MEET JUNE 27th “Shield of the Working | Class” Defends | NEW YORK.—On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the organ- ization of the International Labor Defense, a mass meeting will be vheld on Friday night, June 27, at | Irving Plaza Hall, to demand the immediate release of all class war | prisoners. | All organizations should at once elect their spokesmen, prepare to send greetings, and mobilize their membership to attend this demon- stration in a body. Thirty thousand leaflets, announe- ing the meeting will be distributed by the New York District Office ot the LL.D. to shops, factories, fra- ternal organizations, conferences be | tween now and the 27th, urging at- | tendance at this meeting. | The tremendous struggle which is | now at a new height against capi talist oppression, and the imme jaway, J. W. Ford and Jack) ment, for Work or Wages. The} Al nce ines ae | Stachel. ee coe gore che streading oF and iron miners, must unite to resist i cimfade, Bloor, as chairman of/ “ave leaflet puts in the center of /the Wage-cut and prepare for etedg= prison sent by Comrades Foster, | the struggle the slogan of a general aie Inost ‘brutal speed-up system Winer and. Amter, endorsing the] Strike September 1, when the Lewis| oo crnerienced. The most ele thesis of the Central Committee, |Slave contract, signed five years! tary safety rules are ignored in ago, expires. The statement board of the N. M. L giving their joint perspective of the situation, and listing the principal ch regulations cubie feet of the mines. Even as that calling for of the executive declares that Party tasks. The complete letter he Lewie-Boylan fascist machine | Per man is violated. The, faint- is on page 4 of this issue of the; ‘he bLewls-Boylan tascis ' ing of miners is a daily occurrence Daily Worker must be defeated and that the|I6 OF MMO’ © it otal accidents . agents of the Springfield faction of |“ ca gig nal ek Greetings were read from the MOU AE Wein Gadel teectee| aan? increase as a ult ee seven workers sentenced to 42| Jing ‘controlled by the Peabody | "Pooru: : PROF years each in California for organ- 4 : ‘ work eight nours a day, but we izing the Agricultural Workers’ In-|C°#! Co., must be exposed and driven) Jtiany slave nine and ten how dustrial Leazae uri the sTinper-|OUe of the coal fields in order to) 4 “idan ‘are forced toawae am dustrial League during the er | st atcha fight against {24 many 2 ‘orced to. work ial Valley strike. ehesee acvaneee sae eeu agains. (time and Sunday without extra pay. | Comrade Bedacht reviewing the/‘2€ Coat Barons I 900 ‘Troops to Helena. ment. | 5 Bitte seatlon’ tteetetaae In Western Pennsylvania the In the Butte section, 7 stuikes “Senitt wagecuts, begun {etal mining district in the world, sates ok hy the National’ Miners’ {there has been mass unemployment Union’ niilie. locals’ are) still’ in [ior onthe. fb is) now ae | progress, with mass picketing being |*™2t one-third of the miness ail ee working will be laid off July 1. Corsi spa cose Nine hundred state militiamen have exter cpu , |been brought into Helena, 72 miles the tasks which arose as the result} Relief is needed badly and the N-/ from Butte, ostensibly to break a of the growing crisis of world capi-|M. U., in co-operation with the developments within the Party and in the objective situation since the Sixth Convention, began by stres: ing the unity of the Party attained in this period by the aid of the Communist International. “It has been a most eventful period,” said Bedacht, proceeding to show how strike of metal workers and team- talism, were obstructed by the ob-| Workers’ International Relief, is Friday, a meeting which was held, bombastically called by the Fagens, Grosses and Felts, who were flirt- ing with the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union, attempting to cause the impression among the bakers that | iand forced them to allow Pinchefsky |to speak, and when the clique then refused to give Klien the floor, the workers brok: up the meeting. | When they saw this so-called “mili- tant” Gross attempt to beat up Klien, after the meeting, they did not allow it. they were militant, and who lately| Jobless Clothing joined hands with the A. F. of L. fascists, Goldstein, Méyerhoff and tompany, and formed a_ so-called “new” branch of the A. F. of L. Workers to Meet NEW YORK.—To spur on efforts organization for the conventio: iG e national Ls sacks, the backbone of the Anglo In-|¢ne istrict thake cfill te taken ap| Usportance of the International La dian army fe d their |;, a ie io P| bor Defense in the struggle, has be an army for many years, and their | in the auditorium on July 5. | i See Pea defection from British allegiance is; « i . | come increasingly obv ‘8. Following the convention, ; oe one of the greatest grievances of the July 5 all delegates will be organ. The struggle is gaining momen imperialists.) ized into their respective industrial ‘4: pe ie Re kaituigss eto: The crowds, finally broken on the | conferences in order to work out! pe pelt Rite: tg ayy aculie isha A Maidan, continued the demonstra-| practical programs of action in our | Tete a the International, Labor tion on near-by streets, and the dis- | struggle against unemployment. | Daterige xl vi at i ieee ie patches speak of renewed fighting! “9. These conferences are to be | cacvart af jel ae aed eth expected yesterday. jormanized on industrial bases and all, - hand li rl be 3 ie rete | the unions, national leagues and the | individual in the class conscious vane jheads of the delegations from the | ®¥4"° © dh hurd a jobless, three meetings will be held districts will be placed in charge. | make this demonstration a suc- Monday, June 23. “10. The T.U.U.L. Executive Bu. | °°S** us. stinate and organized opportunists| who stood in the way of transform-| ing the Party into one of revolu-| tionary action. Factionalism be-! came. an instrument, consciously! used, of the Lovestone and Pepper| leadership. At the same time, sim-| ilar opportunist elements organized in all brother parties and with them a conciliatory group who tried to soften the fight against the right} wing. Expulsion of the Opportunists. setting up its strike machinery in preparation for a national relief campaign which the entire series of developing struggles against wage- cuts and mass unemployment shows to be necessary. Fifty thousand “Strike Against Wage Cuts” leaflets have been is- sued by the N. M. U. in Western Pennsylvania, Central Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia and East- ern Ohio. The rapid development of the sters, but also undoubtedly because the Anaconda Mining Co. fears that sharp struggles will follow further wage-cuts and mass lay-offs. It is in the midst of these strug- gles, which are the preliminary skirmishes of far larger battles, that the preparations for the Sec- ond National Convention of the Na- tional Miners’ Union July 26 in Pittsburgh are being carried on. One hundred thousand convention calls are being distributed. The meeting was held in Grand to organize the ever growing num- Central Palace, 96 Clinton St., and! ber of jobless men’s clothing work- only 40 to 50 workers responded.|evs, and to elect delegates to the The. sentiment of the workers pres-| July 4th National Convention of the The meetings for jobless men’s} reau will work out further detailed | clothing workers are scheduled iti | organizational arrangements and all Brownsville, Brooklyn, and New| heads of the delegations will receive | York. (Continued on Page Five) Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. | In the first stages, the Love-| sharp drive of the bosses against ' stone group claimed that it defend-| the living standards of the miners ‘ed the Sixth Congress of the CI,|and their families is illustrated by but now they openly publish their the situation in mines No. 4, 5 and (Continued on Page Three) {6 of the Vesta Coal Co—a subsi- Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. Birmingham Workers Defy Gag Law —- Party, and Frank Burns of the T. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 22-|U. U. L. The meeting was called Flinging defiance into the faces of | to protest the attempt to murder by the capitalists and their city com-! electrocution six worker organizers mission which a few days ago passed lin Atlanta, Ga... and a strong reso- a city ordinance prohibiting meet- ution demanding their release was ings of the Communists or the rev- | passed. olutionary unionists, 300 Negroand| The meeting was preceded by an white workers assembled in Capital | act of attempted terrorism by the Park yesterday and listened to the | Ku Klux Klan, which paraded Thurs- program of the Communist Party|day night through the Negro sec- and the Trade Union Unity League | tion, blowing horns and distribut- as outlined by Jackson, acting dis-| ing leaflets and later burned an trict organizer of the Communist] effigy of Tom Johnson, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party. |she arrives on the Crescent Limited There was every indication that | at 11:45 daylight saving time. Bur- an attempt to smash the meeting | lak is Southern representative of yesterday was being planned, but| the International Labor Defense | the temper and determination of the | and was arrested with three others workers was so evident that the! at a meeting May 21 in Atlanta, Ga. “thugs did not attack. Squads of |The meeting was called by the ' police, Klansmen and bosses’ thugs | Americar Negro Labor Congress to were all around it, unite white and Negro workers for 2 * 7 common defense against | lynch Meet Burlak Today. gangs and for organization into the NEW YORK.—All workers are! National Textile Workers’ Union {celled to Pennsylvania station this and other T. U. U. L. unions in a morning to meet Anna Burlak when | tight against starvation on the job or off of it, Burlak was released Friday after- {noon when her bond, a few days before set at $4,000, was finally re- duced to $3,000. With the other three, and two more arrested April, she is charged with “insur- rection” and if convicted will be electrocuted under a Georgia law | dating from 1861, which provided the death penalty for that offense. faa Cr | GR Workers Greet Milit NVILLE, S. C., June 2: in) : Demand Release of Six | A group of workers met Anna Bur- | for the International Labor Defense. \lak when she arrived here yester- The I. L. D. in the South is hold- day after being bailed out in At-jing a series of mass meetings lanta, where she is to be placed on oe ne Sead to oe trial for her life because she helped| thousands of workers in protes' aad ; 1 organize Negro ahd white works | agathah tim atenipied murder of the | Je 17 with representatives from ers. Burlak is known in the textile | six organizers in Atlanta, the per- 32 workers’ organizations, includ- gions as an organizer for the Na-| secution in Southern states of union, | ing union locals, denounced the at- tonal Textile Workers’ Union be- | 1, L. D., Negro Labor Congress and | tempted electrocution of workers’ fore she went to Atlanta for the In-| Communist Party organizers. “Im-|leaders in Atlanta and demanding Tn th this girl | mediate freedom for the organizers | their release. The delegates repre- militant were of the N, T.| of the working class” is’ the slogan sented something over 2,000 work- 1 W. U. and Jennie Cooper, organizer lof the meetings i i Conference Demands Release. MILWAUKEE, Wisc., June A defense conference, held here in Bues Hall, 296 W. Water St., on jers