The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1931, Page 1

‘Unite Your Ranks! Negro Rights! | For the Right of Self Determnation of ane Negro Majorities | Join in Common Struggle Against Starvation, Terrorization of Workc in the South FIGHT STEADILY FOR RELIEF! Visit the homes of the unemployed workers. List all cases of starvation, undernourishment, inade- quate relief. Carry on a sustained and steady struggle for unemployment relief for the starving families from the city government, the large corporations and employers. Have large delegations of unempioyed workers present at every meetin~ cf the city council to fight for adequate re- lief for all cases of starving and undernourished workers’ families. Vol. VIII, No. 76 ‘Whole Glen Alden Coal Lori pany - Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Yu Daily Central (Siectto nn. of under the act of March 3, 1879 Orga we ¥S in 1 Africa, West cn ! Stop Deportations! ey Smash Lynching : ete.! _ Defend the Sovi the the Comm —— or. ust mMuUnN ommy unis t NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1931 Win the Anthracite Mine Strike! ‘HE conditions of American coal miners, both in the bituminous and anthracite fields are utterly appalling! faint and collapse of hunger at their place of work in the pits. families are in abject misery, slowly starving, the children actually with- out any clothes at all, the miners and their wives in rags! ‘This is the fruit of the “able leadership” of John L. Lewis and equally i who have at a still pretend—to of the fake “progressives” “oppose” his treachery. In the anthracite, it is directly the result of the supposed “victory” of Lewis in the Five Year and a Half Agreement. In the name of this unspeakable “agreement” the miners are working longer hours and for wages which are nothing less than starvation. describable! They are slaves to the least whim of the operators! And the district officials of the Lewis, completely and openly the agents of the operators just as Lewis is, rely upon the police and the companies to collect “union” dues, and assist the companies in return to choke all These district scoundrels would treachery so far, had it not been that the very instrument to which the miners look for protection, the official “Grievance Committees” were not, in fact and not in theory, merely another instrument against the miners in the hands of the companies. of it only to disorganize and behead The Maloney leadership in the Grievance Committees is only an echo of the Boylan leadership. It stalled off the present Glen Alden strike as long as possible, and when the miners struck in spite of it, took charge | Nothing is being done by these Maloney-ites, who pretend to be “dif- {ferent” and who pose as “progressives,” to really organize the Glen Alden ; In semi-starvation, miners ‘Their Their poverty is in- United Mine Workers, the tools of resistance from the rank and file. not have gotten away with this it. 500 PICKETS IN SHELTON CLASH WITH MILL THUGS Strikers Invite NTW) to Lead Them SHELTON, Conn., March 27.—The Blumenthal company mill here has imported over 200 heavily armed guards, to herd their six scabs, and sharp clashes between the mass pickets and the guards took place yesterday and today. The strikers have invited the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union to lead their struggle, and Martin Russak is here for the union. He is district strike and try to win it, The honest elements who are still trying to make ; Organizer of the N. T. W. the Grievance Committees work for the miners should know this, Against this whole series of double-crossers, the Glen Alden miners ‘must take the strike into their own hands! Glen Alden miiiérs can witristhe policy proposed by the National Miners’ which is supporting the strike in every way possible. But it is up to the miners themselves to act, to smash down all of- ficial treachery and organize their own Rank and File Opposition! a large and really representative Rank and File Strike Committee, elected Union, The only policy by which the Only The Blumenthal strikers, in two mills, one here and one in Bridge- port, number. over 600. They walked out, with no cther organization than their Weavezs’ Club, on March 2 in Shelton, and on March 4 in Bridge- port. They have been orde wd back | to work by Anna Weinstock, U. S. in every mine, united in a. Joint Strike Committee for all Glen Alden | Department of Labor “conciliator,” mines, can prevent betrayal by the “opposition,” and rally support and relief from all the anthracite field. Only such rank and file strike committees can make an effective struggle for the demands of the miners, which the Maloney gang in the | liam Green, president of the A. F. L. Grievance Committee will either ditch outright if they think they can | They have been intensively propa- “win” only on paper if they cannot put over an | gandised by | patriots. yThe N. T. W. immediately get away with it, or open sell-out. Promises will mean the rank and file committees do not remain to enforce them, | The main demand, the payment for all dead work, of which the | strikers. miners have been scandalously robbed, will be supported by all miners. official traitors and Maloney’s fake nothing to the companies later, if ‘The shifting and wage cutting going on everywhere, must be stopped | by maintenance of scale for all classes of work. And the outright robbery on weights by “topping” must cease! ; j ; Bae | ‘The demands of miners in individual mines must be settled with their Rank and File Committees, and recognition of the Mine Committees , should be a demand supported by every miner. The alliance of “union” traitors of the U. M. W. A. and the com- panies must be broken down by abolition of the check-off, and militant miners protected against discrimination. | hold it! All aid to the Glen Alden strike! some of those who still owe on their Beit Sh BNO ‘a. IRED IN YONKERS YONKERS, March 27.— Yonkers orkers, native and foreign born, hhite and egro, will demonstrate in kins Plaza today at 10 o'clock SES! reign born workers, The rotten boss politicians of e extent that yesterday 16 carpen- rs reporting for duty on the Health ‘enter were refused permission to ork when it was found that they re non-residents. Evidently other sections of the two foreign born kers employed in the erection of portable school were fired. City Director McCarthy said that ne State Department of Labor had ssured him and Public Works Com- jissioner Colquhoun that the state pvernment would back them in me attacks on the foreign born, ge q In Support of the “Daily” ‘HE last warning which appeared in the Daily Worker, Thursday, March 26th, regarding the financial condition, is being taken very seriously by Build the National Miners’ Union! | bundles. District Organizer Chaunt, in Buffalo, wires his quota will be reached in three days and that seven cities in the District have been notified by telegram. He states: “We launch drive tonight for $50.00 weekly support until May 1st.” Rochester and Syracuse have already replied by wire. Other districts Lecture on Post War Literature This P M. NEW YORK.—The main distinc- tions between the literature in the capitalist countries and that in the Soviet Union was systematically cov- ered at the first lecture, as an in- troduction to the series of twelve lec- tures on post-war literature by B. E. Jacobson, Many workers attended and enjoyed the lecture, ‘The second lecture of the series will take place this Saturday after- noon, March 28, 3-4:30 at the Work- ers School. In this lecture the re- presentatives of the U. 8.’ will be taken up. Dreiser's “American Tra- gedy,” Lewis, “Main Street,” Ander- son's “Dark Laughter,” Sandberg’s “Good Morning America,” ‘etc., will be analyzed and critizised, , Admsision for the whole series is $1.50 and for a single lecture 20c. Workers are urged to take advantage of the low rate offered for the com- bination card which ts obtainable at the Workers School office, 48-50 E. 13th Street, Second Floor, Use your, Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker ete tba Soars manne Talia: Lallivemdanementaniand and ordered not to have anything to do with the National Textile Work- ers’ Union in leaflets signed by Wil- imported professional offered all possible help to the 500 Fight Guards. Yesterday, continuing their strug- | gle more militantly than ever, 500| | strikers and their wives clashed with guards who were attempting to trans- | port scabs. A group of 15 of the | armed guards was beaten by the un- | armed strikers, and in the course of ‘the fighi, an aute was wrecked. The mass pickets were only dispersed by The Glen Alden miners will learn that only by following the fighting | | tear ¢ gas used by the police. policy of the National Miners’ Union, by mass picketing and rank and | Another group of strikers clashed | file control of the strike and its settlement, can they win victory and | with guards and forced them to retreat, 4 This morning there were more | clashes on the picket line and the} | situation is tense this evening. The poiice of Shelton are support- ing the guards and gangsters. The guards are allowed by the po- lice to terrorize the strikers at their homes all over the city. Mass meetings are being held to) mobilize the strikers and other work- | ers for mass picketing, and to id ganize defense commitiees to mec the attacks of the company pinnes RED SUNDAY FOR D.W. TOMORROW Workers All Over City) to Answer Call In order to build the Daily Worker into a fighting revolutionary mass paper, there will be, a Red Sunday tomorrow throughout the city. The purpose of the Red Sunday is to get, subscribers to the Daily Work- er. Workers are asked to come to the stations all over the city and to visit workers’ homes with the paper. There will be numerous sta- tions in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Down- town and Harlem, Downtown the stations will be at the Downtown ena Club, at It artes Broad Ea le We ‘ourth Fourth st 27 ae St3 Workers 64 W, 22nd St. Bronx—Prospect Workers Club. 830 r Ave.t Workers Center, Ra.s Workers Center, 569 Center, Center, z Ta Beach ‘orkers Club, AS Bay 28th St; Workers Cen, ter, 140 Neptune Ave.; Workers Cen- ter, 1873-43rd St, H-rlem—Workers Center, 253 Len- ers 105 e ot «SE Aveg gum, Slovaks “deh Cle, | ing class behind this framed worker. “|Mass Pressure of Rank and File Forces 23 Locals of UMW to Act vote last night. During the® day, although 150 walked aut of the Hollenbeck and Murray jobs, the colliery made a pre- tense of working. There was no picketing there. The Hollenbeck breaker uses coal from Murray. Picketing was conducted around South Wilkes-Barre colliery and Woodward colliery. Over 20,000 miners are on strike in the Wyoming Valley and Luzerne | | county, tying up the operations of the whole Glen Alden Coal Co, The international officers of the U.M.W., Vice President Murray, Sec- retary Treasurer Kennedy, and the irternational board members, did not | appear at yesterday's meeting. They | | got a hot reception the day before from the rank and file present, al- though they had assistance from some of the grievance committee miembers to get them in and give them the floor. Rank and File Militant Yesterday's meeting was packed with at least 1,000 rank and file members, who cheered vociferously as the various locals reported them- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ASSAY GREETED ON HIS RELEASE AKRON, O., Mai-h 27.—Over 900 orkers jammed the Ziegler Hall in this city last night to greet Paul Kas- say, Hungarian’worker frame-up vic- tim, on his release on $40,000 bond. The bond was furnished through the efforts of the International. Labor | Defense, 22 workers pledging their | homes to secure Kassay’s release. The assembled workers rose, to their feet in prolonger demonstra- | tion of approval when Kassay qde- |clared that although not a meniber | of the Communist Party or the revo- |lutionary industrial unions in the past, he would now devote himself to untiring service in support of the militant organizations of the work- ing class, Jennie Cooper, I.L.D. organizer in the district, denounced the frameup system and the Fish Committee pro- posals for registering, fingerprinting |and deporting foreign-born workers. All present roared approval when Herbert Benjamin, Communist Party district organizer, declared that the working class will insist on complete acquittal for Kassay and will not be intimidated into submission to hunger, wage cuts and) imperialist war, The government is trying to! rail- road Kassay without chance for pre- paring defense by setting trial for April 2, The ILD fs holding a mass pro- test meeting on Tuesday evening, April 5 at 8 o'clock, at 4309 Lorain Street to further mobilize the work- Some Danger Signals: General Grievance Com- mittee Meeting With Miners Barred to Adopt Demands Today; U. S. Cuts in Doak Sends Best Federal Strike Breaker: UMW Machine Had Him There Already Rank and File Opposition Calls for Miners to Elect Broad Strike Committee; Draws Up ‘Demands Against Dead Work BULLETIN All readers of the Daily Worker are urged to send contributions to the Daily Worker office to pay for papers to distribute among the miners, The Daily Worker exposes the strike breaking officiaidom of the U. M. W., and mobilizes support for the strikers. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 27.—Twenty-three out of | the 24 locals of the U. M. W. here reported themselves on strike | yesterday at the continued meeting of the general grievance committee of all the locals. One, local, at Hollenbeck colliery and Murray mine, reported that the men were to take a strike ‘Hold Food Workers BKLYN MEET AT BORO HALL TODAY FOR NEGRO RIGHTS Demonstrate for Pro- tection of Foreign Born | BROOKLYN, N. Y. — Saturday, March 28, at 1:30 p. m., Negro and white workers of Brooklyn will gather at Borough Hall Court and Fulton | Street for a demonstration for the protection of the foreign born and against the increasing attacks waged | by the bosses against the Negro| workers. In the last appeal to the workers the joint committee of the League of | Struggle of Negro Rights, Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Council for the Protection of the Foreign | Born which are arranging the dem- onstration points out that only the might of the workers can stop de-/ portation of the foreign born and| smash the lynchers. Richard B, Moore, national Negro | director of the I. L. D., will speak | together with Mitchel, Halper, and Domenick Flaiani, organizer of the Communist Party in Brooklyn. Meet Monday Night NEW YORK.—The Food Workers | Industrial Union has called a meet- | ing for Monday, March 30, at 9:30 p.m. at 341 East 149th Street, to dis- cuss conditions in the food industry. Comrade Obermier; organizer of the union, will be the main speaker, with discussion from the floor. . All| food workers are urged to attend. | onstrations led by the local unem-| | ployed councils, the city council ap- | | ready on the charity rolls of the city | | were given | pointed out, | the demands upon charity organiza- | Party U. Ss. A. qe ie ee ORKERS! RESIST ATTACKS ON NEGRO AND FOREIGN BORN Sup2 ort the Struggle for WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DEMONSTRATE TODAY! FIGHT LYNCHING, DEPORTATIONS ied Up by Strike ‘ATTACK WORKERS IN DRIVE TO SMASH FIGHT GAINST STARVATION HERB HOOVER |Stop All Saiegiaty Jobs’ in Rochester; Big Protest Starts Lumber Payrolls Cut) Admit 750,900 Jobless in| New York City ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 27.—| Five thousand workers have been thrown onto the streets of this city,| without the slightest trace of jobs| in view. Thes eworkers were em- ployed, during the winter months, on a fake relief program of the city administration, given them when the} jobless workers, under the leadership | of the local unemployed councils, | demonstrated their determination not | to freeze or starve in the midst of | plenty, without putting up a stub- born fight. Besides these 5,000 now laid off, there are already, according to the most conservative estimates, | about 20,000 jobless here. Last fall, under pressure of dem- propriated $750,000, in three install- | ments, from which those workers al- “jobs,” 2 days per week | at 45 cents per hour. This sop, as the unemployed councils constantly | was intended to relieve; tions, and, second, to fool the work- ers into the belief that the city ad- ministration is actually interested in| their welfare. That they did not| fully succeed is proven by the indig- uation of the workers over the mass} layoff. A demonstration and march to the} city hall of all employed and unem- | ployed workers has been called by| the unemployed councils for today to | further expose this fakery and to demand that the city immediately | hemes of workers; immediate and substantial cash relief for all job- OUT INTO THE WAGE-CUT, DEPORTATION LYNCH PRESIDENT AND STREETS TODAY! Demonstrations in All, Parts of City NEW YORK.—Every section of New York will witness mass demonstra- tions today against the Jim Crowing Seek to Terrorize Negro and Foreign-Born Into Submission We Was | Fight Back Klan Doctors Kill Off Negro Babies | With peonage spreading to the North where in the city of Pittsburgh a 14-year-old Negro girl was kidnapped and held in virtual peonage by “a promi- nent Dormon Borough white family,” according to the Pitts- burgh Courier; with Ku Klux physicians in the South “de- liberately cutting the naval string of newly born (Negro) babie: too short” in a murderous attaci upon the lives of workers’ babies a: part of the bosses’ effort to solve thi economic crisis by suicides, murders} and deportation of “surplus workers, the need for a united militant struggle by the entire working class against persecution of the Negro and foreign ‘born workers, and against the whole? boss system of unemployment and starvation becomes increasingly clear \ as the workers mobilize their forces for the nation-wide demonstrations today against lynching and deporta- tions. As the workers answer In increasing | ana lynching of Negroes, the perse- cution and deportations of foreign | born workers. Thousands of Negro and white workers are preparing for the anti- lynching parade in Harlem, which is | the central demonstration in the city. The parade will begin at 144th St. and Lenox Ave. at 2:30 p. m. with a mass meeting. From there the ma joint meeting will be held under the | ces of the League of Strug- terror against the Negro and foreign | born workers, they are confronted | With a united front of social-fascists | and the Negro bourgeosie with the i eratise bosses. In New York we | See the Negro reformists rallied by the | fascist Hamilton Fish to hold a coun- ter demonstration on Sunday March 29 in a desperate attempt to detract the attention of the Negro workers from the March 28 demonstrations | against persecution of foreign born stop mass lay off of workers; that} workers will proceed along 7th Ave.| and Negroes. As a substitute for mile | alt workers already laid off be im-| down to 114th St., will pues turn into | itant struggle against persecution, un. mediately reinstated; to stop shut-| Fifth Ave. and March ciong Fifth | employment, wage cuts, evictions an« ting off gas and electricity in the! Ais. to 110th St where a gigantic | starvation, these traitor tools of fass cist Fish and United States imperial- | ism impudently offer the Negro | less workers; that the city councii! gle for Negro Rights, International | masses a demonstration ‘in honors call an emergency meeting of that body to consider these demands, at} which time a delegation of workers from the demonstration will be there to present phen, Action to compel relief in Roches- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Starving Workers Compete With Swin Sioux City, Iowa. Daily Worker: The conditions of this town are rapidly growing worse, yet the over- fed city dudes still howl that unem- ployment is not prevalent, for they are blind to the unfed men, women and children digging ‘garbage and refuse boxes for any rotten things they can find to keep the daca of life in, them. ‘The bloated holder of the street commissioner job in this town has a hog ranch to which the garbage is heuled, but it’s a fight between the) utemployed and the hogs to see who can get the most to eat. ‘We have a miserable specimen of kumanity here who is called “over- seer of the poor.” He looks like a, e for Garbage half-starved wreck. He gave an un- employed worker and his family of | six 5 pounds of pancake flour, 3 pounds of sugar, 1 pound cf oatmeal, 3 loaves of stale bread. This they’ were expected to use forever. If this worker had possessed a radio, old piano or dilapidated old car, they would have refused him, this so- called “relief.” ‘There is also a very “charitable” mission that allows the jobless to sleep on floors for a nickel a night, in a room which normally holds 20 men and instead crowds in 50. They also allow some jobless to sleep in} jail, but the padded cells and the rest of the sleeping quarters are so full of bed bugs and other vermin | Claremont Parkway, at 3 p. m. Labor Defense and the Council for} Protection of Foreign Born. Many prominent speakers will ex- | pose the Negro-p: ‘ting, ar ti-working class activities of the fascist Fish Committee, the plct to increase the persecution of *the foreign born, to deport tens of thousands of foreign born workers, and drive all revolu- | | tionary organizations of the working | class underground, Similar parades will be held in all parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx. South Brooklyn workers will assem- ble at 40th St. and 9th Ave. from where they will march to 50th St. and Fifth Ave. At this point the march will erd in a mass demon- stration, In Brownsville the worker: white and Negro, will demonstrate, 1:30 p. m, 6t Hinsdale sd Sutter Ave., where a march will begin along Pitkin Ave. to Saratoga where a huge detaenstration will be held A mass demonstration will also be held at the Boro Hall Court and Fulton St., Brooklyn, 1:30 p. m. ‘The Bronx workers will demonstrate after a series of shop gate and street | meetings at Washington Ave, and Four outdoor demonstrations will be held | in the downtown section at 2 p. m. at 10th St. and 2nd Ave., 7th St. and Ave. A, Clinton St. and E. Broadway, and at the Seamen’s Church tsti- rah sleep is impossible. “ek A Worker, tute, 25 South St. of his Imperial Maffiesty Haile lasse 1, Emperor of Abssynia and son, the prince recently born.” This, plus a free meal for one day for the tens of thousands of Negro unemployed in Harlem, is the price for desertion of the struggle against persecution and starvation;for aban« donment of the fight for Negro rightel and the right of self-determination of the Negro majorities throughout the world, in the Black Belt of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Downtown Jobless Will Hold Meeting at | Breadline Today Noon employed Council will hold a meets ing today at noon in West Houston in front of the breadline at Sixth Ave. They are closing down this breadline, where the council has held meetings right along. The Downtown Unemployed Couns cil members picketed the place about twenty minutes, then held a meeting an | for about halt hour. Thursday afiernoon, * 5 Lafayette St, runs the breac-line. The U. C. had a platform in the ceriter of the street for the speakers. Police tried to ine terrupt the meeting, but they could not stop it. NEW YORK.—The Downtown Une '