The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 1

Negro Jobless Discriminated Against Reports from many cities give the information that the families of Negro unemployed workers are discriminated against by the city governments and charity institutions. The relief distributed is always inadequate, but Negro families in many instances ¢>t nothing than amounts given to white families. Starvation and sickness among Negro fam- ilies is much more severe. crimnination, unite Negro and white un- employed workers into neighborhood ‘or much less Fight dts- branches for common struggle for adequate relief. Vol. VIII. No. 79 ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED BY BOSS-INCITED Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, Dail Central y ye © ——_ DN orker Party U.S.A (Section of the Communist International) N. Y., ander the act of March 4, 1879 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! - Unite Against Starvation! MAN with four cents, and some himself Tuesday, in a New York subway station. unemployed workers who committed pawn tickets, in his pockets, killed There were 162 suicide in Indjana last year, is the admission of the State Board of Health, Workers, every day and in every city, are thus falljng useless victim to the starvation policy of the capitalist class, The dead number thou- sands, the wounded—the sick and millions, This is war! slowly starving—actually number It js the war of the capitalist class against the working class, to retain the billions of dollars profits taken from the sweat and blood of the tojlers! Suicide is no solution. kill themselves. But they can live “times getting better” are only told The starving millions neither can nor should only by struggle! The lies about to cover up the cutting off of even the mjserable bowl of charity soup and the dole of bread hitherto given by capitalist “charity.” ‘The capjtalists are refusing even to pose any longer as philanthropists. Community chest funds, wasted in graft, and taken originally from the pockets of the workers, no longer serve to fill the soup bowls. And to save the capitalists from paying back some of the profits they have re- tained by robbery, breadlines are being shut down. Unless the workers take up the struggle for relief, and jntensify it where it is started, tens of thousands face death. Only the most bitter struggle, led by the Unemployed Councils, case by case, forcing the authorjties and the capitalist class to provide relief, an save numberless families from tragedy and starvation. This fight for immediate relief c onstitutes the rallying point around whjch to mobilize all workers for support of the demand for unemploy- ment insurance. No worker yet employed is free from the menace of unemployment. Either he or she is contributing jn one way or another to those who have lost their jobs, or the employers use the unemployed to make cuts in his wages. Every worker should support the common struggle of the working class for unemployment insurance and against wage cuts! action between the unemployed and By unity of the employed, the starvation of one and the wage cuts of the other can be defeated. The capitalist class can be defeated! Into the shops, militant workers, them to strjke against wage cuts! djate relief and unemployment insurance! to organize your shop-mates! Rally To support the demand for imme- To join with them, in daily struggle for the interests of both employed and jobless, and to demon- strate together on May First, against the capitalist system of robbery, wage cuts, starvation, persecutions and war! Ohio Jobless Councils Show How to Win Some Demands How the Unemployed Council are developing the Struggle in the vari- ous cities on concrete issues of un- employed workers and their needs is told in a report from Ohio. In Collinwood, a section of Cleve- land, Ohio, mainly populated by steel and railroad workers, the Unem- ployed Council took up the demands of an unemployed family before the Community Fund. A jobless worker vith: a large family was receiving $3.50 weekly from the Community Fund. Going up to the council, he complained of the small charity he was receiving, saying that his fam- lly was starving on this sum, as it was not enough to buy bread. He asked the council for assistance. A committee of the council went up to he Community Fund, demanding an nerease. This was at first refused. 4 demonstration took place, with the result that his allowance was in- creased, In the same section of Cleveland a Negro worker went to the Com- munity Fund and asked for coal. His demand was flatly refused. He immediately told them he would take the matter up with the Unem- ployed Council. When they heard this they gave him some money to buy coal with and promised a de- livery of coal the next day. This was carried out. > Many of the Unemployed Councils are developing the struggle for re- lief, not only in a general way, but are carrying on the fight by put- ting forward demands of the in- dividual workers against the charity organizations, community funds and other boss organizations that deal out their miserly “relief” Starving Worker Electrocuted in Trap Set by Col. Fuel & Iron Co. “our Others Jailed for to Save Lives; Hu Killing Calf for Food ngry Child Faints in School; More Wage Cuts (By a Worker Correspondent.) WALSENBURG, Colo., March 31.— oe Gillan, 26-year-old unemployed fexicah worker, trying to save his ily from starvation by gathering copper to sell for junk, was uted yesterday when he into a trap of 22,000 volts From a South Slav worker of South Chicago, we received the following note: “Enclosed you will find mon- ey order for $7.50 for three new » Subscribers; one for three months, and two for six months, , We are working for our Jugo- Slav paper ‘Radnik,’ here in So. Chicago, but at the same time we do not forget (1e Daily Worker, because Communist papers ave the only papers fighting for the, rights of the workin class.”—Anton S, This worker sets a fine ex- ample for every foreign-born worker to follow in the present drive for 1,000 nuw yearly sub- scriptions or‘renewals by May 1st. Send your subs in now and start a new acocunt with the Daily. Get your friend's sub- scription, and put the Daily Worker on a solid financial basts. +1,990 circulation reports ox ei 4 set by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. As Gillan reached for a piece of loose wire he was horribly tortured and killed by the tremendous volt- age. Last night four starving unem- ployed workers were jailed for killing a calf for food. The calf belonged to Harry Capps, county sheriff. No doubt these workers will be sent up for ten years for rustling. ‘This is only part of what the un- employed workers thrown by the bosses. on the streets to.starve, de- nied unemployment relief and in- surance, have to face, A few days ago an 11-year-old girl fainted from hunger in school. At Walsen Camp, @ Mexican worker was forced to feed his family alfalfa or hay. ‘The local mines in this section are laying off more men every day. Most of .the mines only work one day a week. The bosses refuse: to give their employees any credit in ‘the stores and have stopped the small merchants from giving credit. In the face of these growing at- tacks on. the workers, a movement is being organized among the unem- ployed of Walsenburg for an Unem- ployed Council affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. Only by militant organization and strug- gle will the workers be able to fight successfully against mass unemploy- ment and misery, A local union of the National Miners’ Union is also under way, as we workers here are wise to the treacherous role of the A. F. of L, ia co-operating with the Noha to force further wage-cuis o tie workers, 4 SMASH GLEN ALDEK GRIEV- ANCE MEET Indignation of Miners Over Sell-Out Breaks Up Sessions. 20,000 Still Striking Hand Picked Delegates Meet Bosses Again The capitalist press reports the sell-out session of the General Griev- ance Committee of the Glen Alden Coal Co. which met Monday night wjth the district officials, as having broken up in disorder. It seems that the rank and file pressure and indignation at any at- tempt to call off. the strike of 20,000 miners who fight against the length- ening of the work day, against doing dead work without pay, against the topping swindle, and against all sorts of wage cuts, was too much to be handled. Though the local fakers control this General Grievance Committee, there are mjnorjties closer to the rank and file who oppose them, and there is now rapidly growing an organization of the Rank and File Opposition in the locals themselves, which demands no end to the strike until real de- mands, not the fake demands of the Grievance Committee, are won. The strike is still going on. Yesterday John Boylan, district presjdent of the Ufited Mine Work- ers, and Davis, the “commissioner of conciliation,” sent especially Secre- tary of Labor Doak to break the strike, were cooperating with the Jocal machine to have the company representatives meet with “miners’ representatives” to consist of only four of their reljable men from each mine. This is openly admjtted by the capitalist press to be a plan to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PREPARE MAY 1 IN NEW JERSEY Newark United Front Conference April 5 The workers of New Jersey are al- ready preparing for the biggest May Day Demonstrations in the history of this state. In Newark 150 or- ganizations have been called upon Front Conference on April 5 at the Workers’ Center, 93 Mercer St., at 3 p. m. The conference will lay cut plans for a monster demonstration against unemployment, for immediate relief, against imperialist war and in de- fense of the Soviet Union. Similar United Front Conferences will take place in New Brunswick at 11 Plum St.; in Jersey City at 337 Henderson St.; Elizabeth, at 106 East Jersey St.; Perth Amboy, at 308 Elm St.; Lin+ den, at St. George Ave. and Fern St. All. fraternal organizations and lo- cals of the A. F. of L. are requested to elect delegates to this conference. War Planes,” WASHINGTON, March 31.—Re- porting on the war maneuvers of the American fleet just concluded in the Panama region, Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, told newspaper men that the United States navy needed to build not only more bombing planes but battle- ships as well. ( At a recent hearing of the senate, Admiral Pratt said that to live up to the London “disarmament” treaty the American bosses would have to spend at least $1,100,000,000 for na~- val armaments, Discussing the war maneuvers, Pratt also said that the navy needed two more dirigibles like the Los An- geles. At the same time the special army board of the War Depariment is 2 1 ae the ecming a ha ve nt ot rent labos david d-v Goin to send delegates to the United|~ Police Dep’t. Issues Lies to Excuse The Lynching of Young Worker SHOW WAGE CUT W AVE: Boss Press Tries Cove was lynched by a boss mob late ing occurred near Vicksburg. young worker, Eli Johnson. BUILD NEEDLE. UNION IN SHOPS ational Board Adopts} Democratization Plan | NEW YORK.—Monday night the National Board of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union held a very important meeting. The most important problem that was discussed at the meeting was how to establish in the unions a sys- tem that will enable all the rank and filers to come in contact with ail the workers’ problems and happenings, to understand and learn about all the questions confronting them, in the | life ofthe workers and the union. | On this problem an interesting dis- cussion followed. Democracy. ~The system ofbroad democracy de- vised will include strict recognition of the shop organization as the basic unit in the union, with frequent shop meetings and discussions, and with | trade committees established for a/| thorough discussion of trade prob- lems. It was decided to strengthen a number of districts by adding more forces, and to conduct an intensive organization drive in the dress in- dustry in New York and Philadelphia througi:out the season. There is also | to be a concentrated organization drive in the'knit goods industry. The most definite concrete plans for further democratizing and ac- tivizing the union will be drawn up by the bureau of the National Board. The N. T. W. I. U. calls all workers to come out today to picket at Needleman and Brennar, and at the Jerry Dress Co. Pickets should meet at 7 a. m. at 131 W. 28th St., the union headquarters. 10.000 Workers Lose Eyesight in Factories Annually Thousands of workers become blind yearly due to the negligence of money-mad bosses. Workers slave in the factories and risk their eve: sight rue to the fact that employers will not go to the expense of put- ting in machinery that will save the worker his eyes, Louis Resnick, director of indus- trial relations of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, stated that thousands of workers would be saved from blindness and American industries would save $50,000,000 a year if methods of elim- inating eye accident dangers were “Build More Battleships and observed, Says Admiral semi-automatic rifles for tests to see how much faster they can kill work- ers than the ordinary rifle. The adoption of this new rifle would in- crease the war strength of the ex- isting army and would lead to a gen- eral speeding-up of artnaments throughout the capitalist world. With the conflicts between the im- perialists growing, there goes on rapid preparations for war. The boss government finds plenty of money for armaments while 10,00,000 work- ers starve. On May Day, the international demonstrations will unite the work- ers in a struggle against the grow- ing war danger, against the threat- ened attack on the Soviet Union. Demand the war funds be turned Lynching, the Tenth Known for This Year — Over 40 Last Year Workers Must Protest These Outrages By Huge, Militant Demonstrations In Every City On May Day VICKSBURG, Miss., March 31.—Another Negro worker His body was riddied with bul NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents r Up News of Lates Sunday afternoon. The lvnch- The latest victim is a 25-year as he v fleeing a mob. Following this brutal lynch- ing—the tenth known so far this year—the entire machin- ery of the bosses was put into motion, not to arrest and pun-| ish the lynchers, but to justify the | murder of this Negro worl The boss police, without investigating the crime, at once put out the lying story that “they learned that Johnson at- tempted to attack a woman Sund: afternoon as she was going to church with her two children.” The mur- | dered worker is supposed to have at- tempted to drag the imaginary wo- man into a vacant lot in broad d light and leaving the chjlcren free to spread the alarm and attract the | attention of white residents of near- by homes. The story is plainly diculous, but the rape angle had to be brought in and this was the best | the police could do. Another part of the boss machinery, the capitalist press, did their best to | cover up the lynching. The New York | Times hid the story on-its last page. Other papers put jn on the financial page and other pages not generally read by workers. All of them peddled the damnable lie of the Vicksburg po- lice. The Negro reformist press will as is their custom, also bury the lynching and most likely peddle the lje of the police that the murdered worker tried to rape a woman. Last year there were over 40) recorded lynchings in this country, | several of them occurring in the North. Most of the victims were Negroes. This count does not include the scores of Negro share croppers and tenant farmers quietly done away with each year by the planta- | | | | | | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE! TAMMANY STARTS NEW RELIEF FAKE Jobless Not to Get Much of 10 Million NEW YORK.—The board of esti- mates, Tammany controlled, has found a convenient way to dodge anything {or the jobless, 24,000 of whom have been getting part time work from the Prosser Committee but are now being fired. | The board appropriated $10,000,000 to ccutinue these men at work, and then discovered that the measure would have to be passed by the state | assembly and signed by the governor | before @ny work could take place Tammany never hesitates to spend any amount of cash for police, for graft, for welcomes to distinguished parasites from abroad, but now in- terminable delay is in order. The Tammany office holders also claim that there is a convenient law prohibiting them from giving any jobs to men who have not voted in New York for the last two years. ~ Besides this, the board holds that it can not give even as much of the money to the workers as even the Prosser Committee did with its $8,- 000,000. Out of the 1,000,000 jobless in Greater New York, the Prosser Committee gave jobs cleaning parks, etc., to 24,000. But the city officials say this work must end, and the money must be spent for “regular construction,” that is most of it spent for mate-ials and contract graft, with only a little given as wages. Rykov Appointed As Telegraph Commissar , MOSCOW.—The presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union yesterday ap; vinted Rykov to the post of telegraph com- over to the uncmployed, as unem- |plorment ircusnnes! Tight t's wa: ¢ for bi ’ Dey Gini mst itane ‘ missar to replace Antipoy, who cransterred to the position of vice- “ie.r of the Workers and Peas |for defending himself, ours auspesion Committee, Quarter of Children in 3 Penna Towns 4ave Tuberculosis MEADVILLE, Pa., March 31— The survey conducted by the awford County Health Society, under the supervison of Margaret Donaldson, its secretary, shows that in Meadville, Titusville and Cambridge Springs, one-fourth of the school children have tuber. culosis ,or incipient tuberculos and that the disease is spreading rapidly. These towns are not worse hit by the crisis than the others in this territory, and the facts place a charge of murder against those who have closed down the steel mills, coal mines and factories of the state. MISS, TO LEGALLY Killed Slave Driver In Self-Defense VICKSEURG While a bi was lynching Miss., March 31. — ed mob near here ear old Eli Johnsen, the boss courts. were at the same time putting through a legal lynching of Waddell Cosey, anothcr Negro work- er. Cosey has been sentenced to be | hanged on May 1 because he defend- | ed himself when attacked by Will | Davis. white manager of the Mercer | Hawkins plantation, who resented | Cosey’s militancy in refusing to work | any longer without w Davis | had made a murderous attack on| The state hunger march commit- | Cosey, and the Negro worker, fight- | ing for his life, killed Davis in the struggle that followed. The bosses, sentencing Cosey to dic have at th same time covered up and condoned the lynching of Eli Johnson, and | countless other Negro and white workers. This is capitalist jusitce as | it is meted out to the Negro and| other workers. The entire working- | class must protest this outrage on | May First. Must intensify the strug- | gle against persecution of foreign- | born and Negro workers. Must mili- | tantly support the demand for the | right of self-determination Zor the | Negro majorities of the Black Belt, | with confiscation of the land of the rich plantation owners, and for un-| conditional equality for the Negro | masses throughout the world. | Grocer Right On Hand to Grab Relief Money CADDO, Okla., March diers Bonus and Red Cro: Will Go Farther If Spent Here. We | Solicit This Business!” shout hand bills circulated by a grocer in this | town. The only trouble is to get the | Red Cross to come through with some | funds, so the grocer can get his! fit out of it. It is just taken for granted by this grocer that nobody | can buv food unless there is some | charity dispensed. | GOVERNMENT'S FIGURES MASS PROTEST MAY DAY DEMAND FOOD FOR HUNGER MARCHER Jobless Bring Pressure, On Ohio Towns | | » March 31. — arch is being or- CLEVELAND, Oh The Ohio hunger m ganized to” bring between 300 and/ 400 unemployed workers and poor farmers to Columbus to demand un- employment insurance for the job- less and state relief for the farm-| ers. The marchers are being elected | by Unemployed Councils and various other organizations of workers in the| different cities and the United Farm- ers’ League is co-operating to see that the needy farmers are also rep- | resented. | The state committee of Unemploy- | ed Councils has demanded of the} cities on the four main lines of march that they provide food and lodging | for the marchers while they stop over. Unemployed Councils in each of these ci e pushing the de- mand for and lodging, and foo some of the city governments have. i been to answer. There is} more disposivion to yield on the ques- | tion of lodging than on that of food. | The most “hostile attitude to the hunger march was that adopted by, | the city council of Northfleld, the} 39,096. The wage increa rst stop-over- town only refused.out= right to provide either food or shel- ter for the jobless who are marching to Columbus to demand relief, but instructed the chief of police to or- der the marchers to use some other route, | (CONTINUED ON PAC PRENCH MINERS OUT ON STRIKE Arrest 150 Jobless In Budapest vane: | (Wireless By Inprecorr) VIENNA, March 31.—Budapest po- lice have raided the home of a shoe- maker, Vig, in the suburb of Bacos- czaba, allegedly finding a secret printing plant. Seven persons, in- cluding one woman were arrested. Yesterday noon there were unem- ployment demonstrations before the parliament at Budapest. Police ar- rested 150 of the demonstrators. PARIS.—A strike of‘French miners, | under revolutionary leadership, began yesterday morning. Thirty thousand stopped work at Pas-de-Calais. The strike starts teday in the Loire Basin. Martial law has been declared in all mining districts. PARIS, March 31.—The reformist leaders of the miners union agreed to accept a six per cent wage cut of a ten per ceht cut as originally de- manded by the mine owners. The first four per cent wage cut gves into operation today. Chicago Mass ‘At Barving Party from Ballot CHICAGO, Ill, March 31.—Judge | go on the ballot only because it held Taylor of the Cook County Circuit Court yesterday refused to consider the argument of the attorney for the | Communist Party that it be put on the ballot. The argument was tech- nically for a writ of mandamus, or- dering the election board to rescind its decision against putting the Party on the ballot, and forcing the board | to print the names of the Commu- nist candidates, The decision of the board, now backed up by Judge Taylor, is that the Communist Party “is an outlaw organization because it is against private property, religion and the American form of government.” The fact that the Party has enough signatures it not allowed to enter into the controversy. Different for Socialists. the other hand, the socialist which did not collect any On wies at all, and which asks to Protest Friday a nominating convention, was treated very gently, and its plea was entered for consideration. It looks as though the socialist -party would be put on the ballot without a struggle. The militant workers of Chicago, who know that their party is the Communist Party, and that if the socialists are put on the ballot it is because the employers’ government here knows it can rely on socialists to defend capital against labor, are planning a monster demonstration Friday to demand that the workers be représented on the ballot through the Communist Party. Friday’s meeting is to be held in People's Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. at 8 p. m. It will be a mighty demonstration against mass unem- ployment, against the wage-cuts and speed-up and against this attempt We | ing. jof the government's policy of to deny the workers the right to vote for their own candidat Hoover’s Employment Chief Still Lies About High Wages ng Flop Houses 10,009 Jobless In Saw Mill City, Tacoma BULL MONTREAL, Canada, March 31. —One worker was shot and prob- ably fataliy wounded and several others were brutally beaten in un- employment demonstrations here March 27th. The worker who was shot was the victim of the super- intendent of a tobacco warehouse, where te workers demanded j Demonstrators marc! to iN. the hail were later attacked by the police and dispersed after several were badiy beften. x @ In all the es to the United blishments reporting tates Department of Labor on increases and de- creases, only three, one a job p: one fertilizer manufacturer, and one a glass manufacturer, reported wage ses during the month of J uary 15 to February 15. In contrast, to this, 228 shops in 43 industries, reported wage cuts during the same period. The wage increases affected 209 employees, the wage cuts affected eS. overaged five-per cent, and the wage decreases averaged ten per cent. Fifty-five of the wage cuts were in textile mills, were in the iron and steel industry, and 55 were in the lumber indust: These are only the shops ceport- It is safe to say that in view wage pros- perity boosting were reported tion of the y, all the wage raises d that only > cuts were announced Wood. Still Li In the fe 1 the own figure, as indicated a’ ident Hoover's chief of cf the Hoover Emergency ment Committee, has the ome out and say ip a pub! ‘view yesterda ce uteeements were re: eighteen mo ago ip the co ence called by President Hoover be- tween employers and labor leaders there has been a holding up of the wage scale to a degree never before known in any depression. “Today some employers are feport- ed to be letting down the bars and cutting wages. These are, happily, in the small minority.” Such brazen lying on the part of a) nerve to t (CONTINUED O% JOBLESS DEFEND TENANT TODAY Landlord Brings Him to Court NEW YORK.—The landlord of G. Sikorski, 9 months’ unemployed fur- niture worker with a family of seven children, has had him arrested and the jobless worker will be heard in Second Street and Second Avenue Magistrate’s Court at 10 a. m. today. The Down Town Council of the ‘Unemployed calls all workers and un- employed workers to be in court to- day. The landlord tried to evict this worker about a week and a half agu, and the Down Town Council put his furniture back in the house for him. The police are beginning to flock around the daily meeting where the Down Town Council speakers address the throngs outside of the Tamma fake employment a at Leonsr and Church St rt THREE) Police to the jobless. tically no jobs being agency, Indoro meetings are held at 27 Fourth St. after the open air meeting at the agency. Yesterday at 2 p. m., a main speak- er at the meeting at 27 B. Fourth St. was Jack Johnstone, secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council. Today at 6.45, at the same hall Carl Brodsky will conduct the cl in public speaking. AU those regise tered should be there, il