The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1931, Page 1

= tan Jobless Discriminated Aguinst 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 get nothing or much less than amounts given to white families. Starvation and sickness among Negro fam- Mes is much more severe. Fight dis- crimination, unite Negro and white un- employed workers into neighborhood branches for common struggle for adequate relief. Dail Central Us the-Co (Section of the Fe he wane Rinunist Party U.S.A. i aa Norker WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII, No. 80 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 <u NEW YORK, THURSDAY. APRIL 2, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents SLUG MARYLAND HUNGER-MARCHERS AT STATE CAPITOL , 2,000 Miners Strike at Shenandoah; 15,000 More Ready No Leadership Is Bad Leadership Py SPITE of the real progress made in giving the unemployed movement national organization and a program of definite demands, still in many sections the Unemployed Councils, whose very existence and correct func- tioning depend—as do all organizations of struggle—upon Communist leadership, are left adrift and with insufficient leadership. Insufficient leadership means bad leadership, for inevitably all manner of reformist practises become a menace, unconsciously cropping up, or de- liberately. brought in by social fascist “socialist” and I. W. W. elements. In some cases the astounding condition prevails that the Trade Union Unity League secretaries do not know where the Unemployed Councils in their territories meet! Yet the T. U. U. L. is supposed to give direct leadership to these Councils. Lacking suffigient leadership of revolutionary character, no correct policy is possible, and thus we see that I. W. W. elements, for cxample, are forming unempleyed “unions,” with a policy which is in no positive way different than the “begging-the-boss-for-a-hand-out” policy of the I. B. W. A. (International Brotherhood Welfare Association), But it rejects class ‘struggle and leads the workers into a blind ally of cheap charity and submission to capitalism. Not only must the Unemployed Councils have leadership, but it must be revolutionary leadership. Which does not mean, of course, that the immediate needs of the unemployed workers be pushed into the back- ground and out of sight. On the contrary, the Unemployed Councils can only grow and fulfill | their function if they uncover the numberless cases of starving families now keeping their sufferings hidden, and case by case rallying all workers to fight for relief from the local authorities and capitalists, leading them on—employed and unemployed together—to fight for unemployment in- | surance, against wage cuts and to a realization that only by putting an end to capitalism can the systematic starvation of the workers be ended. The policy of the 12th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party. of “Less..high-falutin’ phrases and more practical work,” needs immediate application in the better organization and real leader- ship of the unemployed movement, The class defense of resistance against wage cuts depends upon it. ‘The employed workers will realize their unity with the unemployed in fighting the “stagger” system and wage cuts. The fight against depor- tation and lynching depends upon Communist leadership, and without real leadership which is rooted in the day to day struggles, the workers cannot be rallied for mass struggle on May First or any other day and may be defeated in the fight for immediate relief and in any struggle where reformist policy’ creeps in to take the place left vacant by Com- munist negligence and isolation. There is a rising will among the masses for struggle. In every city, town and village there are concrete issues requiring leadership. There must be organizational consolidation and contact to insure such leadership. New leaders from the ranks of the militant workers can be trained in working side by side with experienced leaders. More attention should be given to the Jimmy Higgins tasks and details of organization. Haphazard direction and “inability” to find new mothods of persistent concrete struggles to force relief for starving fami- lies, is inexcusable, ; All struggle requires organization! All organization requires a re- yolutionary leadership! More organization; more leadership is required in the preparations for May Ist! EXTRA PAY FOR ROBBINGWORKERS Woolen Trust Gives A Bonus to Officers NEW YORK.—The New York Times carries hidden in an inside page a little announcement from Springfield, Mass., saying that the Airer'ezn Woolen Co. stockholders have approved a plan by which the three leading officers of the com- pany are given a neat raise in sal- ajry if the company makes over a cjertain amount. Unity League Headquarters, 16 West 21st St. Besides being its regular by-month- ly meeting, the League considers this meeting of special importance for two reasons: 1, That at this meeting we will adopt extensive plans for our organ- izational campaign in all trades in our industry. And 2. At this meeting we will discuss the Program and Principles of the Trade Union Unity League versus that of the A. F. of L. Starvation Army Serve Poison Slop After $2,000,000 net profit has been nhade the bonus goes into effect. Iuionel J. Noah, president, then will get $40,000 a year extra salary if the company makes another $1,000,000, and. tnother $50,000, making $90,000 in addition to his regular yearly sal- ary, if the company makes a total net profit of $4,000,000. If it makes still more profit, Noah gets 6 per cent of that. Similar and slightly lower bonuses are given Moses Pen- delton, vice-president, and William B. Warner, chairman of the execu- tive committee, The beauty of this is that the American Woolen Co., run by these officers, this year instituted savage wage-cuts in all its mills, until the Lawrence strike and other. strikes stopred some of them, But some of the mills are still cut. Every. dollar saved from the workers adds to Noah’s bank account. Printing Workers Industrial League to Hold Meeting April 2 - The next meeting of the Printing sae and, at 8 Fm, fn the Trade Union) ‘ors’ Industric! League will take} get decent food, not slop. ‘this coming ‘Thursday, April} time these hypocrites ave oxposed. New York, N. ¥. Daily Worker: I am one of 24,000 employees of the Prosser Committee employed at City Island. Our foreman who is a city employee told us last week that all regular city employees are com- pelled to contribute weekly to a so- called “food fund.” The money thus collected is given to the Salvation Army, and this lousy soul saving gang get paid 50 cents for each meal they serve to the Prosser Committee men. Last Thursday they sent up a can of slop to City Island which was so sour it stunk. The men refused to eat it.. The foreman, Mr. Dineen, and many other men protested. The coffee was full of chunks of curdled milk. The men worked all day with- out dinner. On Saturday, another can of stinking slop was sent up. The workers protested to the helper on the truck. The helper tried to get hs ving that it wes good enough for us. We dared him to come off, and we would have had a good fight had not two cops come over and stopped us. The workers on City Island ‘are wise to these grafters who claim to have a divine mission. We intend to <A Park Worker. boar wpeonmneey ny Tt is high]’ GLEN ALDEN COMMITTEE AGAIN T0 GRIEVANCE MANEUVERS SELL STRIKE Afraid of Rising Mass Resentment of Miners Jockeys With District for Election Gains National Miners Union Calling Conference; Urges Miners to Take Over Own Strike BULLETIN. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 1—John L. Lewis, international presi- dent of the United Mine Workers has wired the 20,000 men_ striking against the wage cuts and lengthened work-day in the Glen Alden mines and ordered them back to work. Lewis says: “Your strlke violates the pledge made by the officers of your union to the anthracite oper- ators and to the public and should bring the blush of shame to every man guilty of promoting its continuance, WILKES BARRE, Pa., April 1.—Rank and file represen- tatives of miners in District 7 and District 9 of the United Mine Workers a Commitis. npeared before the on Monday, with a Glen Alden General Grievance request that they be allowed to speak and ofier solidarity to the 20,000 Glen Alden miners of STATE TRESS T0 MURDER TOILERS ‘LD Will Defend the Paterson Victims NEWARK, N. J.—The workers of New Jersey are mobilizing their forces to stop the legal murder of the five Paterson textile workers who are being held in prison today on a frame-up charge of murder. This frame-up grew as a result of the activities of the National Textile Workers’ Union in Paterson which is organizing the textile workers against wage cuts and the terrific speed-up and all kinds of efficiency schemes. At a defense conference called in Paterson by the International Labor Defense and the National ‘Textile Workers’ Union where quite a num- ker cf workers’ organizations were represented, a joint committee was selected which was named the Pater- son Textile Workers’ Defense Com- mittee. A plan of action was made to extend the defense campaign thru- out the state of New Jersey. A general mobilization is to be carried out of the membership of the I. L. D. branches and sympathetic organizations all over N. J. for a house-to-house collection on Sunday, April 12. Capitalists’ Gambling Instructor and Labor ~*Distriet 1 who are on strike. The Grievance Committee os- sailed them as “Reds” and re- fused to let them speak. This is in spite of the fact that there are three minzs with 2,000 men, on strike now in Shenandoah, in District 9, against conditions similar to those in the Glen Alden mines, and that 15,000 more miners in that vi- cinity are prepared to go out. The meeting of the General Grievance Committee yesterday vot- ed, according to the officers of the meeting, by 41 to 37 to continue the strike. This is recognized by the rank and file opposition here as only the latest step in the complicated maneuvers which the local fakers find necessary in their attempt to (CONT! DED ON PAGE REE) Anthracite Celebrates Eight Hour While Boss Changes It to 9 WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 1.— All miners in the Anthracite take the day off today to celebrate a holi- day known as “Eight Hour Day,” which commemorates the winning of the eight-hour work day in 1903. Celebration of this holiday this year is the greatest mockery, because the companies are driving their men into the longer work day. The present Glen Alden strike of 20,000 men started in one mine over the in- troduction of the nine-hour day. Trial of Nine Negro Workers! Set for Day of Fair As Press, Whips Up Lynching Sentiment | Already Drunken Mohs Are Gathering Threatening Lives of Prisoners Held on Usual Fake Charge of Rape SCOTSBORO, Ala., April 1 — Intensifying itheir campaign of terror against the Negro ;workers in an effort to smash the growing unity of white and Negro workers as expressed in the growing resistance of the working-class to the persecution of the Negro and foreign born workers, the local bosses and courts are rushing through the frame-up of nine Negro workers who were taken off a freight train a few {days ago and thrown into jail on the usual lynch-terror in- | citing charge of “attacking white women.” The nine workers, Heywood Pat-¢— terson, Eugené Wil Charles Green, Roy Wright, Mose Powell, Willy Roberis, Clarence Norris, Owen Montgomery and Andy Wright, were arraigned today under the charge that they “forcibly ravaged, debased Victoria Price and Ruby Bates against the dignity of the state of Alabama.” They are supposed to have attacked the two girls after throwing off of the freight train seven white men Luxury Homes for Parasites; Flop Joints for Workers || NEW YORK.—\While millions of unemployed not only starve but have no place to lay their heads, the parasites roll in luxury and continuously increase the splendor of their living quarters. A letter sent out by the Berlock Company, real estate, to many wealthy parasites tells of the mag- nificent palaces it has for their comfort. The letter tells of “a most gorgeous and unusual duplex furnished penthouse apartment on Park Avenue,” which “is really |} beyond description—fourteen rooms and five baths. Entrance hall is a high domed room in Spanish tile about 50 by 20. Very large drawing room. Beautifully panelled dini ng room. Charming -solar- ium—two large master bedrooms, three colored tile baths and bar on first floor of duplex. Very large terraces surrounding the entire apartment which is beautifully furnished and can be seen by ap- pointment only.” Most of the workers who built this palatial dwelling for some parasite swine are on the bread- lines while others sleep in the || vermin infested city flop houses. (CONTINUED 08 PAGE NEW FAKE UNION FOR CHAUFFEURS NEW YORK.—The officials of the | International Brotherhood of Team- | |sters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and| Helpers of America aré said to be} looking with favor on a new local! being formed by one of the big bosses in the taxi industry. Larry Fay, head of the El Fay Taxicab Co., recently acquitted with 60 others in connection with an in- dictment charging violation of the state business law, announces that his office is taking a dollar a month dues from the taxi drivers and giving them membership cards in something he calls “The Taxicab Workers’ Union, Inc.” He makes a demagogic play | of winning for the drivers a six-hour week, no lay-offs, club houses, insur- ance and free tooth filling, etc. This new organization seems to be a company union of about the worst type, but Fay says he is applying to join the A. F. L. with it soon, and A. F. L. officials are reported in the press to have listened interestedly, and to have stated that the question of accepting the “union” and issuing a local charter was up to the Inter- national Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, etc. PERE) Does Not Dare to Advertise Jobs SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—An em- | ployment bureau manager here told the press that he does not dare to advertise the few jobs that come in, because he would be swamped by applicants. | Square Monday | for part 2f Rochester's 20,000 un Faker Woll Unite in Call for War on USSR Ely Culbertson, editor of the Bridge World, and Matthew wWoll, vice-president of the American Fed- eration of Labor and acting presi- dent of the open-shop, strikebreak- ing National Civic Federation, as well as an insurance company and other capitalist enterprises, united their volces yesterday for war on the Soviet Union. Culbertson enjoys a certain fame among the capitalists in their play- time periods as the foremost inter- national authority on the game of Bridge. His mother was a Cossack hetman’s daughter, and Culbertson, an American citizen, evidently han- kers for the good old days before the Cossacks went red and ran the Czar’s officers out. His\father was an American engineer who was en- gineer for a company that founded the second largest oil field in Rus- sia and exploited thousands of Rus- sian workers, “War At Once.” Culba: icon advises wor at crce to smash the workers’ fatherland be- fore it gets any stronger. “When will such a war occur?” he repeated in response to an in- quiry. “Maybe in five years; maybe in 15 years, I hope at once, for now it will be a question of several hun- dred thousand lives and a few bil- lions of dollars, Fifteen years from now it certainly will be a question of millions of lives and many bil- lions of dollars.” Clarifying this statement, he sald that “the more the Bolsheviks are allowed to for- tify themselves and grow, the more problematic will the final outcome of the war be.” The war {s inevitable, he says, evi- dently basing his belief on intimate association with the captains of in- dustry and their wives at the gam- ing table. “We are already in a state of war with Bolshevist Russia. Why war? Because the Bolshevik struc- ture of society is directly antagon- istic to our own democratic struc- ture based upon individualistic property. Bolshevism is surrounded by a ring of capitalistic countries _ and in order to survive they must either break through this ring with a sword and conquer the larger part of the world or eventually disappear.” Woll Broadcasts Lies. Woll spoke in a nation-wide radio broadcast over Columbia Broadcast- ing Co., in a hook-up arranged for him through the National Security League, a war machine of the big- gest big business. This misleader of labor had the nerve to pledge American labor, “its prestige, influence, voice and power” for a “counter-attack” on the Soviet Union. Woll repeated all the old lies of “forced labor,” and, of course, said nothing about the abolition of un- employment in the Soviet Union, the seven-hour day, the continually ris- ing wages and the vast cultural op- portunities, the continually improy- ing housing, etc., aall at a time when mass unemployment, wage-cuts, part time, speed-up and starvation pre- vail among the workers of capitalist countries. Well in addition to wild mis-in- | tern ns of the facts, such as © » regulations against de- | se. of Key Jobs by responsible workers, “slavery for all workers,” also displayed a complete disregard for the facts themselves. He stated that the Soviet Union enslaves: “First, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners, those who have demanded some measure of freedom for themselves or criticized the Sov- iets. The majority of these are not bourgeois or middle class but social- ist peasants and workingmen.” Calls For War. Woll, as is usual with the most re- actionary capitalists when speaking to the most ignorant of their own class, declared that the kulaks are being killed off, and lavished prais? on these reactionary landlord types who have resisted collectivization of the land. stirred up murders of Sov- iet officials and worker correspon- dents. Woll closed his tirade with a slightly more guarded appeal to war than Culbertson’s, but nevertheless an appeal to war. He said: “Sovietism is a real issue to the American people and to every dem- ocratic people. The sooner this is realized, the ,more sure will be the victory of freedom over tyranny,” Police, Firemen Called Jobless to Slug Marchers “Liberal” Gov. Ritchie of Jobless When «Exposed As Slugger They Attempt to Present Relief Demands Two Delegates Repor ted Severely Injured; One Finally Allowed to Speak House Adieu ? After Maryland Workers Brief Speech; Call On to Answer Brutal Attack by Mass Organization BULLETIN. BALTIMORE, Md., April 1.—St: hunger marchers at the capitol here The workers fought back with t beaten that they were taken to a were arrested. ate police aitacked the Maryland today. ‘he result that three were so badly hospital. Eleven of the marchers The hunger marchers forced their way into the state legislature. After the battle with the police the demands of the unemployed workers. legislature was forced to hear the Governor Ritchie expressed “sym- pathy” with the unemployed, but made no proposals for relief. The protest of the marchers who got into the legislature building resulted in the release of the elev ANNAPOLIS, Md., April the “liberal” governor’s answer who arrived at the state capitol here today demands of the unemployed. The United Press reports DEMAND 5,000 RETAIN ‘JOBS’ Workers Cheer Speech of De'>gates ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 1.—Five hundred Rochester workers marched on to the City Hall from Washington night and invided the invaded the Council Chamber to demand a stop to the starvation pro- gram of the City Adminis The Unemployed Council through continued struggle forced the city last December to provide employment a ployed. Five thousand workers got jobs for two days a week under the belly-robbing stagger system. Five thousand workers back into the| streets to starve. The spokesmen for tie unemploy- ed, Henry Brandt and Josephine} Bogdan, exposed the Councilmen and accused them of being part and par- cel of the ruling class, doing every- thing in their power to help crush the living standards of the workers. The cheering of the 500 workers who packed the Councii Chamber and the lobby of the City Hall added to the discomfiture of the City Fath- ers who walked out when they were challenged to answer the unemploy- ed. The local press, true to its col+ ors, carried articles stating that the unemployed “had again abused” the poor City Council. After the demonstration, the work- ers again marched through the streets of the city to the Labor Ly- ceum, 580 St. Paul St., the head- quarters of the Unemployed Council. Traffic was stopped. The workers displayed a militant spirit, cheering on the strets and singing. By the end of the march, every worker in the parade was singing “Solidarity For- ever” and other workers’ songs. By the unanimous vote of the workers, a mass meeting has been arranged for Thursday night at 7,30 p. m. at Brown €quare at which the report of the delegation will be given and further plans will be outlined. The Unemployed Council is organ- izing workers both employed and un- employed in all sections of the city on a block and neighborhood basis. Further demonstrations are being planned to force the bosses like the Eastman Kodak, ete.. to stop lay- o.fs and provide. iohs and cash or lief for the workers they have robbed. “of the arrested workers. . ——Clubs and blackjacks were to the state hunger marchers to present the that‘when a committee of 25 hunger marchers en- tered the Maryland House to present their demands they were set upon and _ severely beaten. They had sought to present a petition in behalf of the unemployed to Speaker Francis A. Michael. Fifteen were immediately arrested after being slugged. Two of the delegates were seriously injured. When the unemployed were given an exhibition of how the “liberal” gov- ernor treats the demands of the job- less, to cover up his tracks, Governor | Ritchie “requested” Szeaker Michael to permit the remaining delegate of the hunger march to address the House of Representatives. The others were in jail or bleeding in a hospital, Several of the delegates went to the governor in order to present their demands. At the time of receiving this story, no details were obtained as to the treatment by the faker Ritchie. The beating began on the order of Speaker Michael, according to the United Press. The delegates came into the house and asked for the right to present their demands. Speaker Michael ordered them out and then police were called in to beat them up because they refused to leave without speaking for the unemployed workers of Maryland. The police clubbed the demonstrators mercilessly, The petition which the house re- fused to listen to demanded: 1. Appropriation of a sum of money for relief of Maryland unem- ployed. 2. Demand that Hoover call a Special session of congress to grant unemployment insurance. 3. Reduction of the heavy salaries of the capitalist politicians and turning this money over for unem- ployment relief, After the major part of the unem- ployed delegation was clubbed and jailed. and the remaining spokesman Was permitted to say a few words, the house adjourned. The spokes= man for the hunger march was Ed- ward Bender of Baltimore, of the Trade Union Unity League. He was Joined during his talk by Leonard Anderson, an unemployed Negro worker, and William Lawrence. All demanded the immediate release of the unemployed workers who took part in the hunger march. Anderson said that the workers of Maryland would answer this vicious slugging by mobilizing. to force the bosses to grant unemployment relief,