The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1931, Page 1

_ sere comer Two Thousand Workers Have Made Application to Join the Unemployed Council of Salt Lake Sity. Are You Winning Members for Your Council? Vol. VIII, No. 64 at New York, N. Dail Central (Sectio Entered as second class matter at the Post Uffice ¥. onder the act of March 3, 1979 Orga n of EBX the Mea ich Lae frunict Norker Party U.S.A. <>" NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 14,1931 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION 3 ee ee 3 Cents “CODER HURST, SAVED FROM DEATH BY NEGRO FARMERS Detroit Mayor Says Cities ( Go Broke; Starvation 1 For Jobless FOUND UNCONSCIOUS; DELIRIOUS FOR DAYS Mr. . Morrow’ s ‘Pleasure Trip’ MOST innocent looking news item appearing in the N. Y. Times of Thursday, March 12, page 5, was accompanied by the photograph ot Mr, and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, recently elected to the United States Senate, after having made a name for himself by taming the bourgeois government of Mexico and teaching it how to stand up and bark when Wall Street commands. ‘The news item mentioned, pertained to Mr. Morrow and the steam- ship Leviathan. It seems that Mr. Morrow was aboard the Leviathan Wednesday, March 11, when that ship sailed for Cherbourg and Sotth- ‘empton. The Times says: “On board were United States Senator Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey and Mrs. Morrow, on a pleasure trip to France and Italy. They will return early in May.” Now, workers, there are “pleasure trips” and “pleasure trips.” And it happens that, by chance, the Daily Worker came into possession of a copy of what is known as “The Kiplinger Washington Letter,” which is “circulated privately to a limited number of business executives,” to let these gentlemen know the “inside” of what is going on in Washington. | This “Washington Letter” is dated Feb. 28, and in the third para- graph it says that “the administration"—meaning Hoover and his cabinet has some ‘deferred plans” which are to be put into effect by said ad- {| ministration when Congress is adjourned. Further along, among Hoover's “deferred plans” for the big railroad merger and the dumping of new armies of railroad workers on the street jobless, is the following item: “If Mr. Morrow goes to Europe this summer on a pleasure trip, he will carry administration authority to look into (a) foreign debts and (b) some international entente looking to the protection against foreign trade dumping by the Soviet ‘trust.’” So, workers, you see how the “innocent” little “pleasure trip” of Mr. Morrow is—in reality—secret diplomacy, a link in the chain of imper- ialist conspiracy against the Sovief Union! A conspiracy which travels a road toward imperialist war and intervention against the first Workers’ Republic! . ‘This is one of Hoover's “deferred plans’—war against the Soviet Union! The need for “some international entente” takes Mr. Morrow to Francé and Italy, the rivalry between which two. nations has been one of the obstacles to the anti-Soviet imperialist plans. Workers should understand that in foreign relations, in the attitude of the capitalist ‘government at Washington toward. the Soviet Union, Just_as in national affairs, the program of the Fish Committee by being cafried out without any new laws or official decrees. The same is true of Hooyer's action against the Soviet Union. Was there any permission by Congress for this? No formal permission, no! But just as the capitalist congress gave silent consent to the broadcasting of Fish Committee propaganda against the Soviet and against the Com- munist Party, so it will approve of the anti-Soviet “international entente” rigged up by Mr. Morrow while on his “pleasure trip.” The Fish Committee fascist plans against the Soviet Union are neces- sarily linked with fascist plans of Fish and Hoover to terrorize the Amer- ican working class into acceptance of tremendous wage cuts and con- tinued jobless starvation. And against this hideously reactionary program, the entire American working class must be aroused and prepared for struggle! HIT FAKERS AT ESTIMATE BOARD TO PROTEST TER- ROR WED. NIGHT | employment Insurance. | Murphy did not mtend anything of | Demand “Real Relief for Jobless NEW YORK.—With over a million ynemployed workers ard their fami- ties existing in utter misery and starvation in the richest city in the world, the Board of Estimate, backed by. the charity racketeers and the socialist party fakers, Thomas and Hilquit, yesterday side-tracked the proposals of a committee from the Unemployed Councils for réal relief and insurance and talked instead of appropriating $10,000,000 to be used by the Prosser Committee to pay salaries to its officials and fake “re- let” by giving part time Jobs at starvation wages to some 24,000 of the city’s million jobless, Lawson Purdy, general director of the Charity Organization, admitted that conditions were “the worst he had seen in his 37 years of charity work,” but had nothing to offer but fake “relief” and hunger rations for the unemployed. Rev. Norman Thomas and Morris Hilquit, leaders of the treacherous socialist party, fully supported the manouvers of the bosses to shelve the question of real relief and to use the existence of the army of un- employed to further attack the standard of. living of the working- class. In order to cover-up their betrayal of the workers, they put up a re- quest for $25,000,000 to be dispensed at the rate, of $5,000,000 a month, or 50 cents per jobless if it were dis~ pensed pro rata to the unemployed million in the city, Sadie Van Veen, as spokesman for @ committee of seven from the Un- employed, Council, asked for the floor and was refused, She then took the floor and denounced the fake “relief” measures, demanding $15 ®& week for every unemployed worker, with $5 extra for dependents, evictions of a no egy on Expose Role of Men- sheviks NEW YORK.—The savage attacks on Charles Coder, secretary of the Communist arty at Dallas, Texas; and Louis Hurst, organizer of the Trade Union Unity League, also at Dallas; by a sheriff's mob will be exposed and condemned at the meeting called by the Communist Party at the Cen- tral Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., on Wednesday, March 18, at 8 o'clock, . This unloosing of savage attacks upon white workers in the South who are fighting for equal rights for the Negro workers is part. of the whole campaign of the capitalists and the government of this country against the working class as a whole, and in preparation for war against the Soviet Union. This is in Une with the persecution and threatened deportation of mill- tant workers, such as Yokinen, Serio, Murdock, Devine, Bebrits, Burkman, etc, as part of the campaign to divide the Negro and white workers, the native and foreign born. The role of Hillquit, Thomas and Co., Menshevik conspirators against demonstrate against gov- of Labor lead- party. ‘ é g F i a i 3 Ze have foul must not pate with denounc- of American te A ae th x a F WON'T CUT. 100 Armed Thugs Brutally OFFIC AL P AY Assault Miners Picket Line OR PROFITS Organize “Unemployed for Great Struggle for Insurance! WASHINGTON, D. C., March 13.— Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit yes- terday gave complete confirmation of the need of the demand of the Na- tional Campaign Committee for Un- To be sure, the sort. Murphy spoke before the| “Progressive Conference” here, But he declated that “If the federal gov- ernment won't help our American cities, we're sunk,” because of the strain on the city treasuries of even | the slight amounts of relief and emergency work given the jobless. Murphy won his election by cam- paign promises that he would “feed all the jobless,” etc. His weak, inef- fective scheme went bankrupt months ago. It is certain that the cities are not making more than casual efforts for the jobless. The tities have not cut the wage of a single overpaid polit- ical . officer, as demanded by the councils of the unemployed. They have not turned over to jobless re- lief a cent of the money appropriated for the bloated bankers and bond holders, as demanded by the jobless. ‘They have not cut down on a single appropriation for police; instead, they have increased such appropria- tions. They give the jobless only what money is lying around, and only then when powerful mass dem- onstrations force them to do so. And, even so, Mayor Murphy says the cities are going broke and inti- mates that unless federal aid is pro- vided there will be no relief at all. Continue the battle for unemploy- ment insurance! Make the next few| weeks periods of intense organiza- tion of unemployed councils and of the militant unions. Days of even more terrible starvation are right ahead! And only organized power can force the rulers of this country to feed the jobless, Rank and File Outlaw Strike In C Strike In Coell, IIL, Against Wage) Cut, Unemployment; Thought Carrying American Flag Would COELLO, IIl., Mar | | Save Them | ch 13—The iiners in| the Old Ben Coal Corporation are on strike in Franklin and Williamson Counties, striking against a wage-cut and for division of work. On March 9, a bloody encounter took place when the peaceful pickets were mercilessly assaulted by 100 armed thugs, deputized gunmen and mine guards, led by Sheriff | Robinson; who took the place of the notorious Sheriff Pritchard in the last election. This strike is in the hands of rank and file members on the United Mine Workers of Amer-»— ica and is outlawed by the officials. Rely On Flag. About 450 mass pickets marched from Coello mine and from Johnson City No, 18 mine, or came in their wornout cars, and assembled for mass picketing at Pershing Mine No. 15. The members of the Amer- ican Legion took the lead, carrying & large American flag. They had convinced the bulk of the miners that if they carried the stars and Stripes, and did not belong to the National Miners’ Union, they would not be attacked. They were met by the deputies and menaced with sawed-off shot guns, machine guns and pistols. They had shots fired over'them and were mer- cilessly clubbed. Twenty men were beaten up very severely. One of the pickets beaten up was a deputy sheriff at the time of the strike of | the National Miners’ Union in Coello in December, 1919, Smash Cars, Too. After smashing the picket line the police, who had remained on the read, rushed down to the miners’ cars and wrecked everything they could, kicking in the windshields and smashing the headlights and tearing the doors out of the cars. Afterwards these same police told miners they saw that the deputies {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Jobless Worker Tries To Kill Wife and 4 Small Children DENVER, March 13.—Driven to desperation by the loss of a $14 a week job on which his family was | barely able to starve through and un- able to bear the thought of his wife and four children starving to death, Orville Swinney, 28 years old, 1920 E. Sixth Avenue, plotted to blot out his family and then kill himself early Tuesday afternoon, according to the admission of the police. pe Having reluctantly made his de- cision, Swinney proceeded to sharpen a knife to a razor edge in order to make the deaths he planned as mer- ciful as possible. The fact that his wife and children were out at the time together with Swinney’s revelation of his plans to a neighbor was all that prevented Swin- ney carrying out his plans. The neighbor spread the alarm. The boss police came around and arrested Swinney before his family could re- turn. The same police would have clubbed Swinney and his entire fam- ily had they been in a demonstration to protest against the bosses’ starva- tion system. Even the boss press which regularly hides the misery of the masses was not able to kill this story, The Den- ver Post reported it with a huge double column front page scream headline: “Desperate Man Arrested as He Sharpens Knife to Kill Family.” The news was too sensational for the boss press to miss. It would help the ¢irculation, help sell their poison among the workers, The boss press, however, does not say & word about the misery in which the Swinney family was forced to ex- ist on that paltry $14 a week, does not mention that Swinney was unable of}to provide milk and other necessi- ties for his children who range in age from 2 to 7. They were never able to get a square meal, going to bed hungry many a night because $14 a week was not able to pay rent, buy le necessary: food tithe fea ani ae of ¢ ates Losing the $14 a week job, Swinney had vainly hunted other employment, had vainly applied to the bosses’ fake relief organizations. At last, uttery desperate and not realizing that sui- cide is not the way that workers should meet the onslaught of the bosses, he decided to kill his loved ones and himself. There are many other families in as dire straits as the Swinney fami- ly. A $14 a week sop for this starv- ing family won't “relieve the misery of the unemployed millions. Workers! Don’t stand for it! Organize and fight for relief and insurance! ‘Build un- employed councils! Refuse to starve while the bosses and their families wallow in luxury on the wealth your sweat and blood have produced! MASS PICKETING AT JERSEY SHOP MON. MORNING ‘Injunction Hi Hearing in Court Today NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union calls upon | demonstration before. the Jersey | Dress Co., 500 Seventh Ave., which | tic injunction against picketing. | The injunction hearing which was | to be held yesterday in the Lafayette | and Center St. court.is postponed to| this morning, at the same court. | | Special sessions Judge Daniel F. Murphy of Kings County yesterday sentenced the worker Kellerman to | three months in prison after he had | been framed for an assault. The/ charge was that three months ago he threw a rock at a scab. Monday at 1:30 p.m. there will be a@ meeting of all unemployed dress makers at Bryant Hall. Saturday at 1 p.m. all tailors and | men’s clothing workers meet ‘at un- | ion headquarters, 138 West 28th St. DEMAND FILIPINO FREEDOM AT MEET NEW YORK.—A broad mass Fili- pino organization to fight against im- perialism in the islands, and for the protection of the Filipino workers and | farmers in this country will be estab- lished at a mass meeting on Filipino freedom to be held Sunday, March 15, at 7:30 p. m., at 188 Columbia St., Brooklyzi- ‘The following speakers will touch | on the present struggle in the Philip- pines and in other colonies, as well as how to struggle against imper- jalism: M. M. Abulence, chairman; G. Concepcion, P. R. Sajona, Albert Moreau, H. Lopez and H. Gannes. All Filipino and American workers in- terested in struggle against imper- jalism are invited to attend. | proving the government's activities, {and instructs the government a re-| UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATION GREENVILLE, S. C. : Bee lt a : City Councillors called off Council meeting and sneaked out the back way when these jobless workers gathered in front of Greenville City Hall to support demands of their Committee for Relief and In- surance, IN_ | Expected is Die But Were Nursed to Life Aftexe Struggle Murder of Two Seemed Certain \Negro Farmers Brave Ter- ror in Solidarity With White Workers KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 13— Hurst and Codér senile. Countitlors Sneak Me suciy as Jobless Demonstrate SERIA SOO | GREENVILLE, S. C., March 13.—The city council of | all workers to join in a mass. picket | | Greenville, s¢ared at the growing crowd of workers outside the | city Half, met in the dark and adjourned their meeting without is trying to make permanent a dras- | holding a regular session Tuesday evening, March 10. Several , hundred Negro and white workers gathéred outside the city SOVIET CONGRESS CLOSES SESSIONS, (Wire By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, March 13.—The Sixth) Soviet Congress, now in session, un- animously adopted a resolution ap- sclution approving the government's activities, and instructs the govern-| ment to continue the peace policy, | to consolidate and extend trade re-| lations with other countries, to con- | Solidate the defensive capacities of | the Soviet Union, to diminish im- ports from countries committing hostile acts against the Soviet | promptly at 8 o'clock to present de- | | mands have been brought to Kansas City. They had been beaten into unconsciousness on March 5 after which they were picked up by Negro farmers south of Dallas. They *hall at 8 o'clock, when the city) Were delirious, and council meeting was scheduled weakened by loss of ito take place. | blend and by torture. The Workers’ Committee, |composed of two mill workers, | They had been sec- | two painters, a woman mill worker | reted for six days, | and a Negro worker, who had been and nursed back to elected at two mass meetings called | |by the Unemployed Council of the| life by the Neeroes. Trade Union Unity League, arrived | DALLAS, Texas, March 12 —New facts have appearea, which pin the guilt of this atrocity even more firmly on the Dallas authorities, and in- deed, implicate as provocateurs of the affair other local officials and even the governor of the state. The kidnapping of March 5, from which Coder was saved, was not the first one. Coder was kid- for cash relief and make other demands on the city. Noj lights were lighted in the city coun- cil meeting room, but the committee | was informed the council had met| and adjourned. Three of the coun- cilmen were seen sneaking around the corner. The committee will report at the third mass meeting called by the Union. In the closing speech Comrade Mo- | Unemployed Council of Greenville on | Monday, March 16, at the Perry Ave. | Show Grounds, on the scare thrown lotoff promised to diminish SanOree from countries hindering Soviet ex-!' ports. into the city council, and their re- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Terrorize Unemployed Negro Workers in Wheeling W. Va. WHEELING, W. Va., March SRS A vicious reign of terror is being directed here against the Negro workers of Wheeling. Warren Watkins, a Negro workers and member of the Wheeling Unem- ployed Council, was arrested for dis- tributing leaflets and held for 48 hours, Throughout his imprison- “Must Hurry To Get Into War,” Says Willard, President of B&O Railroad WASHINGTON, M March « 13.—How to conduct war if it breaks out to- day—that is the leading topic of the American capitalist government at the present time, through the War Policies. Commission, a government organ, now in session here, This is not @ question of abstract prepara- tion for war. Money has already been spent for this war, Billions of dollars have been given to the army and navy. Factories are organized for war. The crisis is rapidly driv- ing the imperialist powers for war. Now we have the open. prepara- tions of the actual conduct of this war. The most startling fact brought out before the War Policies Commis- sion is that all these capitalists who testify admit that war might break out any time now and they must be prepared for it. They are discussing bow much money they should make| |War Policies Main Topic of U.S. Boss Gov’t out of war. They talk about the best ways to plunge the workers into slaughter. ‘ All this work was done in secret before. Why ts it done so openly now? Because war is drawing so close the capitalists: are. the workers with the idea that war is not just a thing that happened in 1914, but that they must be ex- pected to be called for war at any time, Yesterday they talked about prof- its. ‘They were squabbling on how much they should be allowed to make in the next imperialist slaugh- + pais of war, counting millions of dead workers, and millions of prof- its for the bosses, new colonies, new markets. Today they went more into details, They talked about railroads. How much swag would the railroad. besses make in the war. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, testified. Willard made money in the last war. He is against government control of railroads in war time. He sald that the railroads should be allowed to help in war under the control of the capitalists who own them indi- vidually, instead of under the col- lective control of the capitalists, as they did in the last World War. Wil- lard said that it would make for a] cents a day, and have to buy their better and bigger war, This would} apples through Mayor Beckett, and not Sater eee with the war, even if| pay way above rent he was threatened with beat- | igs and violence. Then at midnight Watkins was secretly taken out of the Wheeling jail for a ride by de- tectives, two of whom are definitely known to be George Gasten and Sam Moran. Watkins was beaten | and blackjacked in the car and put out at the Bridgeport-Island Bridge. The dicks were going to throw Wat- kins into the Ohio River, but his screaming attracted the attention of several passersby and the dicks fled, leaving Watkins lying on the bridge. After Watkins was out of jail for a few days he was again threatened by Sam Moran, while walking down Main St. This notorious dick, Mo- tan, stopped Watkins and Stovall, another unemployed council member and Negro worker, and threatened again to shoot both of them if they were seen at the unemployed council | headquarters, 2351 Market St. Negro workers are stopped by cops and dicks in open daylight on the streets of Wheeling, searched and or- dered to “get to hell out of town.” ‘The local and county jails are full of unemployed workers, particularly Ne- groes, who are framed up on va- grancy charges. The Trade Union Unity League and the International Labor Defense are planning a big protest mass meeting, in order to arouse mass sentiment against this reign of terror directed at both Negro and white workers. Apple sellers here make about 15 ;Napped Feb. 28, taken 50 miles out into the country, stripped of bh’ clothing and robbed, beaten up ad turned loose with a warning never to show himself ‘in Dallas. He came right back, and a few days later had an interview with the organizer of the San Antonio unit of the Com- munist Party, who was on her way back to San Antonio at the time, The report received yesterday from the organizer tells the first consecu= (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FIGHT EVICTION OF JOBLESS TODAY - NEW YORK. — The Brownsville Tenants League has called for a dem~ onstration at 9 o'clock this morning in front of 342 Livona, near Stone Ave., to stop the eviction of an un- employed Negro worker and his sick wife and 4 small children. The landlord is evicting this work- er although he owes only one month’s rent for the miserable quarters he has been forced to occupy. The house has been unpainted and une repaired for years, the sanitary cone ditions are terrible. There is no elece tricity, no gas. The tenants of this block and all other workers are urged to show their solidarity with this unemployed Negro worker and his family who ara to be thrown on the streets to freezq ‘to death, The landlords are forcing through @ wave of new evictions. Another eviction is scheduled for Tuesday in the same neighborhood, at 521 Powell Street. This case is of a white fam~- ily by the name of Garber. Scores of other evictions are planned and will be carried out by the bosses and their courts unless the workers mobi+ Ba mee tae a ee lize to stop them. ‘The Brownsville Tenants League is i