The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1931, Page 1

‘2 Negro Workers Sentenced to Die; < SHARP Ww Nog DeMonsTRATE als AGAINST | War ! 5 AGAINST THe: a ONION. (Section of Vol. VIII, No. 85 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 MN the oo. . iW YORK, WEDNESDAY, ~Conmunist APRIL 8, 1931 orker — Party U.S.A. LO ORR CITY EDITION 7 More in ' ynch Frame-up WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents TWO STATE HUNGER MARCHES LEAD TO MAY FIRST 7 Baleainatan, Get Out! ECRETARY of State Stimson, whose sister-in-law subsidizes monarchist Russian white guards against the Soviet Union, is welcoming a cer- tain oriental foreigner to these United States. Secretary Stimson is very particular about “foreigners.” While he arranges, with one hand, whole- sale deportations of foreign-born workers, with the other he shakes the bloody paw of every murderer of the working class who takes a notion to visit these shores. Secretary Stimson is making tremendous and most expensive ar- rangements to welcome this foreigner, who is, of course not a worker, such as T. Hariuchi sentenced to 42 years in San Quentin for organizing farm workers in California. On the contrary, the “distinguished visitor” of Mr. Stimson is Crown Prince Takamatsu, brother of the imperialist @espot who oppresses the millions of Japanese workers and peasants and Ives in feudal splendor off the blood of the oppressed masses of Korea, Formosa and subjugated China. Takamatsu will soon be welcomed at the Port of New York, and Secretary Stimson, whose flair for monarchy and reaction is notable in all affairs, has seen to it that the U. S. Government, which can afford not @ penny to ten million American jobless and their families, is financing a swarm of “experts” to teach no lesser dignitaries than Professor Nicholas Murray. Butler and Thomas Lamont precisely what ‘to say, to do, and even what kind of pants to wear in the presence of this royal louse! Of course there will be no publicity release by the State Department about peonage and forced labor in Japan or Korea. Such things are given out by Mr. Stimson only in relation to the workers’ Soviet Republic. But in spite of this, and in spite of the supposed air tight censorship of the Japanese police system, American workers will be told of the cruel murders of Japanese workers by the barbarian henchmen of this bar- barian prince! American: workers will’ demand to know of Takamatsu why Senji Yamamoto, working class member of the Japanese Parliament, was mur- dered in cold blood! Into the face of the Japanese Crown Prince, the American workers will hurl the accusation of “assassin” in memory of Watanabe, Secretary of the Communist Party of Japan who was mur- dered by the hirelings of the Mikado, brother of Takamatsu! If Mr. Stimson chooses to lick the boots of the Crown Prince of Japan, this constitutes a good reazon for American workers to tell this royal.representative of the eppres<ors and rebbers of millions. of slaves of Japanese imperialism, that he is not wanted in this country! Mr. Stimson cannot deny to the American working class its inherent right to demonstrate its international solidarity with the working class of Japan and Japan's colonial slaves. American imperialism, which seeks t6 screen the war preparations against Japan for domination of the far east behind Mr. Stimson’s polite hypocrisy, finds it possible to: make com- mon cause with imperial Japan against a Soviet China. The American working class challenges the right of all imperialisms to rob and oppress any workers. The arrest of 500 workers in Japan only last. week, under a despotic law which makes punishable by death the organization of workers, is enough to justify a hostile reception to Mr. Stimson’s guest. And the American workers are going to demonstrate their despise and distaste! They are going to shout so that all the world 1,227 DEPORTED COURTS SPLIT ON FOOD PICKETING FROM N.Y.C. ALONE Boss Courts Hail Drive As New Weapon NEW YORK.—Since Jan. 14 the U. S. government has deported 1,127 foreign-born workers in this city alone in the drive of the bosses to deport militant foreign-born workers and intimidate the foreign born as a whole from taking part in the! struggles of the rest of the working class against starvation and for un- employment relief and insurance. Although these attacks against the working class are being carried out under the pretense of a drive agair racketeers and criminals, the o press admits that of the 1,127 de- ported only “some 100” were crim- inals. The rest were workers whose militancy hac “ffended the bosses. ‘The bosses’ courts have hailed the deportation drive as a “powerful «weapon” in the hands of the capi- 1) alist authorities, ti\lis effect was made by Judge Col- jas on March 27 in General Sessions ordering a worker charged with ult to be turned over to the im- migration authorities for deportation to Latvia. Collins said at the time that the courts would exploit’ depor- tation to the fullest extent. ‘The City Committee for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born has issued a statement denouncing these mass de- portations as a vicious attack on the working class, and calling upon the workers, native and foreign born, whiite and Negro, to demonstrate ‘May Day in Union Square against starvation and wage-cuts, against persecution of Negro and foreign- born workers and for support of the struggle for unemployment relief and ‘The City Committee has started a campaign to translate into organiza- leat strength the influence gained jon the Day of Struggle against de- portation and lynching. The most \ phase of this campaign ds the affiliation drive which, during ‘the month of April, must be intensi- fied all over the city in order to widen the organizational base of our : nent. To organize and spur this drive a meeting of the entire Committee has been called, will take place at 32 Union : naan ipa 8pm, hai ae’ A statement to) |/A FL Admits Bosses Pay Union Lues NEW YORK.—Mass picketing in violation of the injunction continues at Sun Market and other tsruck food shops. The strike is being spread widely through all 17 districts here |of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. The good effects of this tac- tic are apparent from the picketing in the Bronx Saturday, which lasted four hours without an arrest because the A. F. of L, strike-breaking Local 328 of the Retail Grocery and Dairy Clerks was so busy serving injunc- tions and having pickets arrésted in Kings Highway at the time. Monday, mass picketing continued and five were arrested at 184th St. and St. Nicholas Ave. (Sun Market); | three were arrested at Osstrowsky Bros, 148th St. and Broadway, and | three more at another Osstrowsky Bros. place at 2434 Creston Ave. | These arrests were made through the A. F. of L. strike-breakers. Eight of these cases came up in the magistrates court at 15ist St. and Amsterdam Ave. and were post- poned to Thursday, the judge order- ing the defendants not to picket. ‘Three cases came up at West Farms Court, 181st St. and Boston Rd., post- poned to Thursday, and~ the judge specifically rules they can picket! Juggling With 600. Fourteen cases, previously taken up under Paragraph 600 (violation of injunction), went to special sessions, where they were dismissed. Now the magistrates are again binding over cases of pickets to special sessions, in spite of the acquittal! Seventy- eight pickets have been arrested since the Sun strike started. The Food Workers’ Industria’ Union, leading all the above strikes has also called strikes to enforee union conditions at Rural Butter anc Egg Market, which has three stores at 272 B. 169th St., 2434 Creston Ave. and 141st St. and Second Ave. Strike are on at stores at Freeport, L. I. and Central Ave ., Far Rockaway. Goss Pays A, F, of L, The business agent of Local 328 ad- mits his close connection with the employers by scolding. the workers through. the of the Jewish BN. GLEN ALDEN STRIKERS FORCE FAKERS AGAIN TO POSTPONE SELL-0U; Indignant Local Meetings Remove Some of Those Opposing Police Keep Rank and ~ Secret Meeting; WILKES BARRE, Pa., A termination of the 25,000 anthracite miners on strike against| and bad conditions, forced the} the Glen Alden wage cutting Strike Last Time New Maneuvers pril 7—The militancy and ‘de- | General Grievance Committee in its secret session this morning to postpone again its scheme to break the srike. 400 STRIKE AT O'GARA MINE OVER LAY OFF OF HALF National Miners Union Urges Mass Picketing ELDORADO, Ul, April 7.—Four hundred. miners of O’Gara No. 10 mine in Saline County are on strike against the company’s plan to simply starve half of them to death when it put in new labor displacing ma- chinery. The strike started April 1. The strike was forced by,the rank and file, as both the Howat and Lewis outfits are strictly against the miners doing anything to improve conditions. The National Miners’ Union calls on these workers to throw a mass picket line around the mine, to or- gamize a rank and file strike com- miviée and to spread the strike to other mines. Roy Groves, National Miners’ Union organizer who got 87 votes in the last election on the Communist ticket, has been arrested and-charged with disturbing the peace and at- “tempting to fight because he resisted the eviction of the family of another miner, Ed Gwaltney. Groves is out. on bail and will be in the lead to organize the miners now in _rebel- lion against both Lewis and Howat. Thefamily of this worker was theatened with eviction by an ex- bootlegger while the miner himself was in jail. The N. M. U. members decided that if this eviction was at- tempted they would oppose it. Groves himself has been~ black- listed since the December,*1929, strike here. ¢ LONDON NAVAL TREATY AGAIN What's become of the London naval treaty that was supposed to have settled all matters of naval armament? What's become of its still-horn child, the Franco-Italian treaty? We find now that Arthur Henderson, British foreign. minister, is now talking about a European “disarmament” conference. What is more likely is that this is to be an armament conference, with Britain trying to line up its allies in the next war agaist its foremost rival, the United States—or to take the leadership in the anti-Soviet war front, with the U. S. included. Some of the locals whose del- egates to the General Grievance Committee voted at the last meeting to end the strike have now removed those delegates and sent others instructed to vote to carry it on. However, the Tomicheck-Maloney- Davis gang of local.politicians, who are trying desperately to betray the strikers, put over a new maneuver at the secret session. , “Forcing” A Sell Out. They elected a committee of ten to “force District President Boylan to settle oa demands,” and to “force International president John Lewis to come to the Anthracite to settle the. strike.” Since both Lewis and Boylan have been outspoken in condemna- tion of the strike, haye ordered the miners to go back to their slavery and wait for very improbable redress through the conciliation machinery, this action of the Grievance Commit- tee is sure té bring a fresh outburst of anger from the strikers. At previous secret meetings, large numbers of rank and file miners have crashed the door and filled the hall, howling down the open traitors and embarrassing those who still work se- eretly. This time, in spite of a | drenching rain, hundreds of miners stood in the streets all day, but could not get into the hall because of heavy police guards at the entrance. The police broke up the crowds. Fight in Locals. Many locals of the United Mine Workers of America meet tonight. Rank and file opposition groups in these locals are meeting prior to the union meetings, and planning a bitter fight on the strike opponents. These groups are also nominating worker candidates for the coming urion elections. Jersey Workers Rally Against No Picket Rule The vice chancellor of Paterson, N. J, has set. the ruling on picketing of the Wright Airplane Factory for next week. Nearly six hundred workers are on strike at this factory against the in- famous bonus system set up in the factory. The judge's ruling will de- cide for the bosses of the factory whether the workers can’ be legally clubbed on the picket line. The de- termination of the workers, neverthe- less, will make the picket lines at the factory go on despite the injunction. | File Crowds Out of the Arch Betrayer John L. Lewis, vesident of the U. international M. W. He gets ,000 a month from the starving | miners and performs only strike- | breaking and wage-cutting activi- | i DOCK STRIKERS PICK COMMITTEE icketing at Pier 8] This Morning | NEW YORK.—A meeting of a good! part of the 50 strikers who walked | out last week against wage cuts at the Green Coffee Warehouse of Laf- | ayette Lightering Corp, Pier 8,| Brooklyn, was held yesterday at 173| Myrtle Ave., and a strike committee: of four elected. The meeting drew up demands for: 75 cents per hour, | coffee piles to be only 8 sacks high, | and committee. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union called the meeting. Scabs have come on the job due to the absence of real picketing, but the strike committee and the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union will or-| ganize the picket line, today at 8 a. m.| Yesterday morning several strikers who tried to go back were stopped | by the others. | When the company saw the stri ers were beginning to organize, they called the police to chase away thi organizers, but the committee is still} on the job. Much interest is being shown by workers of New York dock ware- houses, most of whom get only 44! cents per hour. Real organization | coming, and these will support the strike and fight soon for their own | demands. Temporary strike headquarters are at 73 Myrtle Ave. ! | Cockroach Tries To: Hold Out $20; Jobless} Council Spoils Game) NEW YORK.—Alfred Weber, a food | worker unemployed for 9 months, and! a member of the Down Town Unem-} ployed Council, couldn't pay his rent} and took his radio to the “Sunbeam Electrical Licensed Electri is and) Radio,” 67 Third Ave., to have it sold on consignment The “Sunbeam” outfit sold it all right, but when Weber wanted his; money they gave him an “I. O. U.” instead. Weber went to the unemployed| council, whieh sent a committee to} reason with the Sunbeam swindlers, | and made them turn over $20 to! Webery \7 | Party, JOBLESS DELEGATES DEMAND INSURANCE FROM LEGISLATURES SEND 2 NEGROES - TO CHAIR IN A LYNCH HOLIDAY More Young Boys Face Death Verdict SCOTTSBORO, Ala., first two of nine Negro boys, under 21 years of age, were convicted today by a jury which was out only 50 minutes, and which recommended death in the electric chair for them. This is the beginning of a legal lynching, held as an added attraction to the fair now going on. | of white lynch advocates are in town, and the capitalist news services re- port “the national guardsmen at the , court house were forced into mild ac- tion to quell a five minute demon- stration staged by the crowd in ap- proval of the verdict.” The Negroes sentenced to death are Clarence Norris, aged 18, and Charles Weems, aged 20. Almost immediate- ly after the sentencing, the court iti ; turned to the trial of a third, Hay-| poaeaynnalay Mie sahil ' the sate legislature and Governor Pinchot on Apri wood Patterson, aged.17. The first ; two are from Atlanta, and the third from Chattanooga. This slaughter of Negro young workers is being conducted at the in- stigation of two notorious white pros- titutes who are evidently advertising themselves by claiming that they were raped by the Negroes There will be a special mass pro- _| test meeting against the lynching, legal or otherwise, of nine Negro young workers .at Scottsboro, Ala. The protest meeting will be held at | "St. Luke's Hall, 125 West 130 St., at 7:30 pm., Friday. ND OFF FOR MAY ‘1 USSR DELEGATE NEW YORK.—A Latin-American agricultural worker of Palo Alto, Ca- lifornia, has been declared the win- ner of a subscription contest held during the past few months by the Spanish organ of the Communist “Vida Obrera.” R. Gonzales Soto, with the delegation which is going under the auspices of the Friends of | the Soviet Union to witness the suc~ cess of the 5-year plan and the May Day celebrations in the Workers Fatherland, showed through his ac- tivity that he as well as many other latin-american workers in this coun- try have learned a lot from the work- ers of the U.S.S.R, A Farewell Rally and Ball has been arranged for Saturday evening, April 11, at the New Harlem Casino (up- per large hall) 116 St. and Lenox Ave., at 8:30 p.m. Industries and:Army Ready for War; Will Put Down “Disorder,” Says Wilbur WASHINGTON, April 7.—How the? army is used’ and will be more and | more and more used against the working class in this country when it ‘finds capitalist starvation unbearable was contained in a speech made by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, on che fourteenth anniversary of Ameri- 2a’s entry into the World War, cele- brated as “Army Day.” Wilbur's speech was broadcasted wer a nation-wide radio hook-up. H rid the groatest stress on what» h® ‘led. the “peace-time”, functions of he army, He termed the army “in- surance” against “disorder, epee emergency and even total collap May Day Demibnstrations to Deriand Millions Used for War to Go to Unemployed by “disorder” and “emergency?” When the 10,000,000 unemployed re- fuse to starve any longer and fight for food, this is “disorder,” and the army is called in to shoot down the workers. When capitalism reaches “total collapse” when they call their army and fascist murderers to attack the workers. This is what Wilbur was referring to in his general phrases. The bosses know the function of "| the army in preparing for war against the Soviet Union Lee for ites refuse to starve any longer and act as a class against capitalism. To show the advanced preparations of the American imperialists for war, Captain George F. Unmacht, execu- tive officer of the army’s second chemical warfare procurement dist- rict, in a speech Monday at the Ho- tel Astor listed the industries which are all ready to be used for war pur- poses. He said 50 per cent of the factories in the United States districts can be turned over for war purposes at any they|moment. In his own district—New P York and North Jersey—117 plants are prepared to supply chemicals for war. Supplies for the next war, Captain Unmacht said, ‘would cost twelve billion dollars. ‘To advance the war preparations, to build up the army, against the work- ers at home and in the Soviet Union, the capitalists have spent billions of dollars. There is never any scarcity of money for war preparations. But when the workers demand food, when the unemployed demand unemploy- ment insurance, then the capitalists refuse to give one cent. On May Day, the workers will rally against the capitalist war prepara- tions. Demand that the war funds be turned over to the unemployed in April 7.—The | all! Hundreds j the winner of | the prize, a trip to the Soyiet Union | | Intensified Oreaaiiatioe of the dieeaphered and Linkin; Their Struggle With That of Wage Cut Workers i in the Factories Day-to-Day Strudel Against Evictions and ta Force Relief From Cities Must Increase Mass Meeting at Philadelphia City Hall at 9 A M Marc’ 17 to Stort the State March; Unemrloyed Score Pinchot As a Liar Interest in the fight to win relief center: at present on two most important state hunge: marches: in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Both these states of heavy industry have their hundred: of thousands of jobless, and their more hun- dreds of thousands of part time workers. starv- ing along on one or two days a week of work. The Pennsylvania marchers, starting from Philadelp’i and Chester April 17, and from Pittsburgh a few days late: will concentrate on Harrisburg and present their | demands te The Ohio marchcehs, coming from five direc:iox Noronctrate Frida yi ae oe it A a Killars i umbus, April 2., and hold a 1 Tananacn Wep'raps conference, where the unemplovme { insurance bill will be finally and a delegation sent to pr the state legislature, probabl; 27th. Al Out May Ist! These demonstrative marches reac’) their high point at the stat cepita’s only a few days before the worl] wide demonstrations against unem+ Voice Protest Against Japanese Princes NEW YORK. — Hundreds of New York, American and Japanese work- ers will stage a protest demonstra- tion against the bloody reign of ter- ror of the Japanese ‘imperialists, on} the occasion of the arrival of the representative of the Japanese ruling class, prince Takamatsu, who comes in on the Cunard liner, Acquitania, which docks at the pier at West 14th Street, April 10. More than one thousand militant fighters of the labor movement in Japan are in jails facing either the death penalty or ‘long prison terms. They have been in jail since the raids on revolutionary workers’ or- ganizations which took place in March 1928 and April 1929. The Japanese “socialists” helped in the passage of the “imperial ordinance,” under which the revolutionary work- ers were jailed. The increased terror against the revolutionary movement of Japan is @ result of the sharpening economic »{¢risis and the war preparations of Japanese imperialism. The hands of these princes who arrive Friday are stained with the blood of Comrades Jamamoto and Wattanabo, militant workers of Japan, as well as thou- sands of other workers beaten and murdered by the Japanese imperial- ists. All workers should turn out inthis demonstration against imperialism and the war danger — against the ithis year ployment andfor relief of the mil. lions of starving jobless. May 1 is as usual a day of inter- national demonstrations against the capitalist system, particularly a day of protest against starvation, wage- cuts, and speed-up. The numeroug industrial towns which these hungey marches pass through, and the other hunger marches held in other states within recent months, will each hold their own demonstration May 1 Build Councils! The success of the hunger marcheq and of the May 1 actions largely depend on the mass support in tha towns through which they pass, and this mass support must be organized. The main task of the movement to win relief for, to save the lives of, the millions of jobless is now, in spite of the hunger marches, the organiza- (CONTINUED ON PAGE MACHADO ADMITS FEAR OF UPRISING Stays Clear of Havana As Congress Opens While the Cuban Congress opened Monday, with the supporters of Ma- chado present, ready to do his and Wall Street's bidding, with 10,000 paid PHREE) bloody rule of Japanese imperialism, | troops at the command of the but- for the international unity of the} cher-president of Cuba, Machado workers in their fight against cap-| said he was afraid to appear because italism. of “riots.” Not many months ago Machado : issued a statement to the American PUSH FOREIGN LOANS capitalist papers saying he feared no- An appeal to push foreign loans] body, as the Cuban people “loved” was made by Dr. Stephen I. Miller,| him. Now he admits he fears mass executive manager of the National] uprisings, and is staying away from Association of Credit Men, in a/the speech before 700 credit men at the} Several days ago Machado offered Hotel Commodore, New York, a few] truce to the opposition among the days ago. Miller said that. this was| Cuban bourgeoisie, but the truce was a way of getting out of the crisis,| rejected, The rejection of the truce increasing American imperialism’s| did not come about because these hold on the colonies and piling up oppositions most of whom would be more profits for the investors. The] ready to unite with Machado, are matter is not quite so simple as Dr.| against a united front, but the mass- Miller put it, however, as the crisis} es of Cuba are becoming more revo- in other countries lutionary and a truce would not stave em tpt on EM a a Se dae wr *