The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1931, Page 1

Dail Central Orga (Sec tron: ‘ot the the AW ——™ NC orker ~Cormunist Party U.S.A. Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, N at New York. Entered as second- une matter at the t Office ¥.. ander the act of Mareb 3. 1879 NEW YORK, M A , APRIL 6, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 25,000 COAL MINERS NOW ON STRIKE IN GLEN ALDEN nemployed Place Demands Before California Legisl Crocodile Tears Over Nicaragua © sooner had the earthquake shaken into smoking ruins the capital city of Nicaragua, than all apparatus of imperialist “mercy” rushed sobbing to “relief.” ‘The astounding hypocrisy of this “mercy,” supposedly for the Nica~- Taguan victims of the earthquake, can be understood only by remem- bering that the same imperialist government of the United States, which is now pretending to shed tears over the death of the Nicaraguan people, in one week alone of 1927 massacred over 500 Nicaraguan workers and peasants by dropping bombs from military airplanes upon the peaceful and non-combatant men, women and children of the villages in the Province of Nueva Segovia. Hundreds more Nicaraguan workers and peasants have been delibe- rately assassined by the marines sent in by Coolidge and maintained by Hoover. In Nicaragua the military forces of “civilized” American im- perialism have beheaded their victims and exposed the blood clotted heads in the market place of the city now in ruins! ‘The Workers Trade Union Federation of Nicaragua has been sup- pressed, and its leaders deported under the rule of bayonets and “de- mocracy.” ‘The stinking hypocrisy of these crocodils tears over Nicaragua would turn the stomach of any honest worker. The Nicaraguan “government, with a boot-licking “president,” Mr. Moncada, is the complete lackey of the Washington government and everyone of its agents. How completely this is true, is shown by the New York Times accounts of April 3rd, where, in speaking about the situation of the government, it is mentioned that a Mr, Lindberg, who is rated as the “High Commissioner”—“has already paid the government $200,000 for its expenses in March.” The “independence” of President Moncada’s goyernment thus being thoroughly understood, the Times hastens to assure Wall Strect investors that the presidential employe o: “High Commissioner” Lindberg is guard- ing their investments—“He (Moncada) emphasized that interest on Man- akua’s bonds willbe paid promptly.” Of the 35,000 inhabitants of Managua (barring the 9,900 killed) the marines are feeding only 8,000—undoubtedly the “better classes”—mean- while shooting down like dogs workers who refuse to be impressed into forced labor to save property, of which they possess not one centavo! This is imperialist “relief!” ‘Those Nicaragua toilers who, with arms ‘in hand hev> heen fighting for the liberation of their country from the invader, have every reason, at this juncture, to call upon the entire people to rise as one and drive the imperialist hypocrites and bandits beyond their frontiers! Imperialism is more dangerous than any earthquake! And all sincere fighters for Nicaraguan independence, seeing the danger of increased rather than lessened invasion under the excuse of the emergency, will not be deluded by the “r lief” and will call upon the entire Latin Amer- ican masses and the revolutionary workers of the United States to come to their aid in expelling the invaders and relieving the suffering. Perhaps some of those workers and peasants who have been fighting for national liberation independently of and also under Sandino, ° will reject the cowardice of this vacillating “nationalist” leader who, it is reported, has issued proclamation ceasing all postilities! And this, after bombastically proclaiming it his own intention to “burn the ci es w tactic which, if justified at all by military expediency, he now rejects when it is presented to him gratis. Away with imperialist hypocrisy! Let the toiling masses of Nica- ragua, of Latin America and the whole world give real relief to a people free from imperialism! Withdraw every armed agent of imperialism! Get out of Nicaragua! “Race Hatred on Trial” HE trial of August Yokinen, a Finnish worker, for the crime of white chauvinism, and his expulsion from the Communist Party, was an event that shook the whole chauvinist structure of American imperialism. A tremendous interest has been aroused by the discovery that the Communist Party, different from all other political parties, not only promises but fights in practice against all evidences and actions of race prejudice both within its ranks and among the working class. It is no new thing to talk apout “equal rights” of the liberals. The so-called “socialist” party has always used pious phrases about “the equal rights of subject peoples,” but in practice it has always upheld the dom- ination of the oppressor both in colonial countries and in such cases as ithe oppressed nationality within America’s borders, the Negro nation. a It was therefore an historic event for the Communist Party to place ne of its members on trial before a jury, only a minority of which were Feenbars of the Party and to publicly expose and expel the offender from its ranks after an audience of fifteen hundred workers composed of both Negro and white workers had voted to approve the verdict of the jury, ‘The resulting arrest of Yokinen by the capitalist government, because he recognized the justice of the verdict and agreed to its terms—which included a number of tasks in fighting against race prejudice among other white. workers, created still more and wider interest among all classes of the population. The Yokinen case has become a symbol of the Communist struggle for equality of the Negroes, for their right to form a government of their own in “the blackbelt" of the South where they are in the majority of the population, for their right to determine the rela- tions of that state toward the United States Government. It has become © symbol of the Communist effort in the face of bitter oppression to unite the white and Negro workers against capitalism, All the more interest will be aroused by the fact that the stenographic report of the Yokinen trial with the speeches of the prosecutor, Comrade Hathaway, who presented the charges against Yokinen in the name of the Communist Party, the speech of the defense attorney, Comrade Moore, himself a Negro Communist, the statement of Yokinen and the verdict of the jury, has been published in pamphlet form. It is called “Race Hatred on Trial”*and is sold at ten cents per copy by the Workers Library Publishers, Post Office Box 148, Station D, New York. It is especially necessary that in the preparations for May 1 dem- onstrations, which will in part be devoted to @ protest against the lynch terror as applied to the Negroes, and the deportations of foreign-born workers as applied to Yokinen, that this pamphlet be given the widest circulation. It will also serve to educate members of the Communist Party in the necessity of following closely the line of the Party, and not erasing race prejudice from their own heads, but in combating it employed Negro workers in ord Tice we wie RB, ef. Show a it | down here in Alabama when dealing uke iit’ leaders, Fish fascists, and their so- o \ J wit rere worker. UF they set the! commun on race tunmey-|Siglist party fngers, are driving | |Niagara Falls Protest at City Hall Today; Mass Demonstrations May ! ‘Senater Wagner Admits Unemployment Crisis Starts ulosis Which Will Kill Youth In Years to Come ecretary of Labor In Radio Speech Aain Lies, About Increase In Jobs; Does Nothing Piague of Tuber | Philade'nhia “Make Work” Committee Firing Right Left; Charities Declare They Are Fleoded; | ‘Kind’ Judge 6 | SA FRANCISCO. C: the publie hearing in th fornia state legislature The Jegislature has before | of mon ‘FRAME-UP, INDICT 5 FOR ‘MURDER’ IN PATERSON, N. J iWork ers Ston New Sacco-Vanzetti Case PATERSON, N. J., April 5.—The frame-up against five Paterson | workers, which holds the prospect of being another Sacco-Vanzetti case. | was further perfected today when the grand jury returned indictments of murder against Louis Bart. Ben- jamin Lieb, Mrs. Helen Gershono- | witz, Louis Harris and Albert Kataz- buck. | All these workers are charged with the murder of Max Urban, a silk mill | | boss and bootlegger who was killed | | in a brawl with his fellow gangsters. The five workers were framed up| because they participated in a strike | at Urben’s shop. The International Labor Defense. which is directing the defense of these workers, has employed two leading attorneys in Paterson, Ward | and McGinnes. to defend these work- ers. They will be assisted by six other TI. L. D. lawyers. Leaflets exposing the frame-up will be issued to all Paterson wor' ers by the I. L. D. A tag day will be held on April 12 all over New Jersey to raise defense funds and to prevent these workers from meeting the fate which the capitalists gaye | Sacco and Vanzciti. $1,400,000,000 FOL WAR PARIS, April 2.—The plans of the French militarists for an attack on | the Soviet Union took another step | forward today when the Chember of | Deputies voted $1,400,000,000 for “na- tional defense” purposes, Of every dollar that the French government exacts from the pockets of the workers, 25 cents goes for this next war. Debts incurred by past the schemes of the leaders of the Labor and the employers of this state to prevent real relief. ives Ten Days al., Avril 5 — Delegate of the Unemployed Councils of California. jwhere there are 809.900 jobless, appeared at, e chambers of the Cali- on April 2 and exnased American Federation of it measures for fake relief, but the Unemployed Council’s speakers demanded an appropriation now slated for anti-labor purposes, and extra money to be raised by taxation of huge in- comes, to be put in a fund to pay weekly cash -relicf to the jobless. They demanded that the funds be administered by the unemployed and mployed workers through their elected committees. The Unemployed Council speakers received the hearty applause of the workers who heard them and of those they reported to, after exposing the fake “hearings.” Wee Hea. Demonstrate in Niagara Falls. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., April 5. aflets of the Unemployed Counci! heré distributed at breadlines and in working class parts of town, and to those getting the “relief” work, call for a demonstration tomorrow at. 2 p. m, at the city hall against failure to furnish relief to most of the stary- ing unemployed, and against cutting the wages of those given emergency relief work. City Manager Robbins has just or- dered the wages of those on relicf work cut from 50 cents an hour to 40 cents. The appropriation of $25,009 for this work was forced from the Niagara Falls city government only by mass militant demonstration on Feb, 24. It is necessary to fight to ‘eap even what was won then. The city is using the unemployment situation to cut-wages of employed workers, and the A. F. L. officialdom is helping the city administration to do it. Recently when 60 carpenters, plasterers and plumbers walked off (CONTINUED ON PAGE REE) TOR MR STR! Starving: |One 2. Dies Rather Than Seab SHELTON, Conn., Apri strike of 300 weavers Blumenthal company’s wage cut of | 45 per cent and introduction of the | two loom system instead of one loom. stands fast in the sixth week of the strike. usual pressure to listen to U. S. Department of La- bor “conciliator” Anna Weinstock. who was here a couple of weeks ago. Just last week they fe- fused to heed the orders of another U. S. Department of Labor Concil- iator, Brown, sent in after Weinsto | was reb:iffed. Both these ators” had ordered them — The the They “con back li- to id had told them the strike lost. The strikers were not moved by the wild anti-red, anti-National Tex- | tile-Workers Union talk of an im- | ported spell binder, the professional patriot Kampp. Instead. they invited the N. T. W. to come in,»and take the leadership of the strike, which it has done. Between 100 and 200 hired gang- sters were imported by the company |to serve as armed guards for the | half dozen scabs the company had |The police gave these guards the right to ce on a three day reign of terror, but the strikers and sym- pethizers made the guards hard to ch, and conducted mass picket- ing operations on the third d The strikers have been deluged by ‘leaflets signed by President William Green of the A. F. L. urging them to fight the National Textile Work- ers Union. These leaflets they tore up right in Weinstook's presence. | The strikers are desperately in need of relief, however. tanley Do- zal, aged 24, refused to scab. He was driven from home, and denied food. A few days ago, starving, he committed suicide by motor gas in | a garage. All workers should rush to the support of the heroic Shelton strik- ers by sending relicf donatiens to the National Textile Workers Union. care of Robart Pace, 366 Coram Ave., Shelton, Conn. | Smash the anti-labor laws of the ' bosses! SHELTON TEXTILE S NEED iCE The strikers are resisting un- have refused | ature Indignant Rank and File Block Intended Strike Breaking By GeneralGrievance Committee Wages Cut $9,000,000,000 For U; S. Workers in 1930 More evidence of the huge sla: Am 2 report prepared by the Geneva Ri ations. According to this report 1,000,000,000 during 1930, The A menths of 1930 wages dropped $9,0 Most of this data refers to dil wrced to admit that wages dropped $10,000,000,000 during 1930. Standard Statistics Company of the sh in the standard of living of the ican workers, through unemployment and wage cuts, comes from esearch Committee of the League of wages in the United States dropped merican Federation of Labor was The ted States said in the first nine 100,000,000. rect wa ents. If it included the wages lost by the 10,000,000 unemployed workers it weuld be at least touble this sum or around $18,09! tue entive Americ: ing acute starvation. Against this drive on the Ameri workers must mobilize for struggle. n workingelass is affected by the c 1,000—which means, of course, that . millions fac- ican workers’ standard of living, the On May Day, the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League will organize demonstrations, <s part of the international demonstrations tion and wage cuts. SPEAK IN HARUE On Unemployment end Negro Reformists NEW YORK.—William Patter cll-known Harlem militant has just returned from a three ar a half years’ stay in the Soviet Union, will speak this Friday nigh at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St His subject will be “Unemployment and the Role of the Negro Reform- is er speakers will be I. Am- ict organizer in New York Communist Party, and So! dis of Narrer. The mecting will be under the aus- pices of District 2, Communist Party of the U.S. A. RED BUILDERS’ © NEW YORK.—At a class on the Fundamentals of Communist,” or- sanized by the Red Builders’ Club of he Daily Worker, which met for the first time Sunday afternoon, Apiil 5, 19 applications for membership to | the Communist Party were made. The class is being conducted Comrade Pullman and mects e week. by ‘Unite in Gigantic Demonstration On May!’,Says Trade Union Unity League Urging all workers to join in the May Day demonstrations threugh- out the country, together with the workers throughout the world, and especially in a fight on unemploy- ment and wage cuts, the Execu- tive Board of the Trade Union Unity League, has issued the fol- wars take up the major proportion of the remainder, lowing call: Workers: Unite in a gigantic dem- Birmingham PoliceShoot Down Negro Workers in Cold Blood BIRMINGHAM, April 5.—Because| wrong man, they say that it Was a his hands were loaded with pack-| good lesson anyway for the “niggers.” ages and he could not get them in| ne police were looking for another the air quick oe when police or- | Negro who lived in the same house as dered him to, Babe Dawes, Negro worker was filled with a load of | DcWe® bast week a Hill Grocery buck-shot which ripped his arm and | % | side to hell, A plcca of his coat was| hese robberies take place every day i i £30 Nn Spaldhy | naw as starving workers get desper- Shot two inches deep into a telephone) ate and do not realize that they must post. The worker lost over a gallon organize and fight in a mass move- of blood. ment against starvation, instead of Then the police found out that they merely robbing stores. The police had shot the wrong man. This is a irealitax’ pewbtiow ot thi Woume\potine | Pecans ous, (0 rab Sad eat Up: uns Store was robbed and a cop shot. | Fight On Starvation and Growing Mass Wage Cuts onstration on May Ist. Make this great international day of the work- ers one of real protest and struggle against the intolerable working and | living conditions now being thrust upon the workers by every indus- trial center of the United States. Make it a mighty solidarity outpour- ing of employed and unemployed, of Negroes and whites, of foreign-born and native workers—of the whole working class. Fight against the encroaching mass starvation and pauperization of our class. Don’t let the capQitalists starve us and our families. Because their industrial system is bankrupt they force us to walk the streets by the millions, unemployed and hungry. | Although they are wallowing in j Wealth robbed from us, they refuse | to pay unemployment insurance and charity relief. Famine stalks hor- ribly among the unemployed. The capifalists, with the aid of their government, their A. F. of L, are even cutting off their miserable | | through a great offensive against us. | They are starving the unemployed. They are slashing the wages of the employed and speeding them beyond human endurance. They are carry- ing on a horrible lynching campaign against the Negroes. They are sys- tematically persecuting the foreign- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SWICK MASS: EUBCTION samrmi-t Condidates SWICK, N. J. April leeflet hes been issued to all rs i this city to come to “lection rey, Wednesderv. Anril 8: 7 p. m. French and New Sti where the Commnnist candidates wil! NEW A an sp7ak on unemnlovrment. wage cuts and how to fight-against them For the firs. time in the history this city the Comm™nrists are of ne part in the city elections. let issued to the workers, As election day ditions of worse. More workers are laid off swelling the ranks of the unemploy- jed in New Brunswick. The workers | together with the rest of the un- employed and their families are face to face with starvation. Disease and sickness is growing among the work- ers. Our children go to school un- dernourished and without sufficient food and warm clothing. gets nearer con- the workers are getting “With more lay-offs, as have taken | place in Johnson & Johnson, with the closing down of the Armstrong | Corp., speed up and wage-cuts tak- | ing place in other shops, the need | for unemployment relief, and the | struggle against wage cuts, lay-offs, and speed up looms up as the out- standing issues in the coming city elections. What are the candidates | for commissioner doing about the | above issues? Nothing. They are sil- ent. Silence in this case means | agreement with the lay-off, and} wage-cutting campaign of the bos- ses. Only the candidates of the Communist Party fight for unem- ployment insurance and immediate relief, and against lay-offs, speed up and wage cuts.” Against evictions, for rent reduc- tions! Bosses’ Profits How war will be extremely profit- able to the big industrial lords and bankers and would at the same time aim to wipe out the workers’ republic in the Soviet Union is contained in | a series of news stories in the Sun- day editions of the capitalist news- papers, The huge profits of the bosses that come of war were brought out Saturday in a trial for a division of such profits between the U. S. Steel Co, and the Bethlehem Ship- building Corporation, taking place now in Philadelphia. Uteaiinany” was given boggy," War; Call for War On Soviets 50 Per Cent in writes the New York Times, “that the United States Steel Corporation made a profit on wartime contracts of more than 50 percent.” While the American workers were slaugther- ing their fellow workers of other countries in the last world war, Mor- gan, Rockefeller, Gary, Dawes, Mor- | row, Hoover, and the others who get Miners Smash Meeting Traitors Flee Down the Fire Escape on Organizing siti ‘repo ‘tonal Miners Union Tolds Many Meetings WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April Only the tremendcus. pre sure and mi and fi tancy of the-rank ikers prevented C obvi General ( ymmiites fevance emy ho ¢ who, Ge- ared in fayor of endi:z Air nerend after the y ing the meeting and out of a rear entrance esee mber Kmet and He wiskise, pe police and fi (CONTINUED _ BANKS ¢0 11'S) Vorker-Dennsitors to Organize Monday ay > LINDEN. N. J., April 5. — Two of the three banks in this city went bankrupt yesterday tying up the | hard-earned savings of the workers who had anything at all. The un- employed who depending on their fe~’ pennies to keep them from starvation are now facing stark hunger. The two banks to crash were the Linden National Bank and Trust Company and the State Bank ot Linden. The total assets of the twe banks amounted to more than $4,- 000,000. Thousands of depositors were hit, mostly workers and small business men, On Saturday the small depositors organized themselves and have cal- led a mass meeting to fight for the full return of the deposits of the workers. The mass meeting will be held at the Workers Center, St. George and Fern, Monday, April 6 at 3 p,m. Cartoon Strips to Best Sellers An original Ryan Walker cartoon strip will be awarded by our popular staff artist to the three best Daily Worker sellers of the week, whether a Red Builders’ News Club, backing and can be hung up on the wall to great advantage. In addition, an original car- toon will be forwarded to any the profits from the big corporations, were making 50 to 500 per cent profits, Now they are preparing for another war, more drastic than. the last, (CONTINUED OS - FAGH SEREM.- unit, club or worker who in- creases his order by at least 10, Ryan Walker has agreed to award these strips as an in- pentive to mass ciroutation. {Sixty thousand clveuietion dps on pege three.)