The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1931, Page 1

Entered as secon: st New York, N. Vol. VIII, No. 88 Against the Workers ‘THE case of “vice squad” policeman, convicted in New York City of perjury in framing up women on charges of prostitution, the presiding judge, Morris Koening, in passing sentence stated: “It is unfortunate that you have to take the brunt for the misdeeds of this system.” In other words, regardless of the fact that this policeman was a willing instrument of the Tammany graft machine, which gets $200,000,000 a year according to Federal government estimate, out of the New York under- world, the position of Tait as a policeman, a paid gunman and slugger of the capitalist class against the workers, was sufficient for a capitalist judge to lay down in his judicial decision the basis for an early release for this criminal who made the framing up of women on charge of pros- titution a lucrative business for Tammany Hall. Workers should contrast this treatment of a policeman with the hid- eous class justice which is demanding the death sentence against five striking silk workers of Paterson, New Jersey, because a drunken mill owner, who was also a bootlegger—as a result of an injury received from other bootleggers—died ‘some time after he had attacked some strike pickets, Workers have not forgotten that the policeman who murdered Steve Grand Jury headed by a banker. Workers have not forgotten the murders by police of Alfred Levy and Gonzalo Gonzalez, nor the fact that the police murders go un- punished. ‘The murder of militant workers is not a crime under capitalist justice. But, the death of a capitalist, however remotedly connected with a strike of workers against a wage cut, is made the excuse for a dastardly frame- up against every striking militant the murderous police can lay hands on! Again, we have only to turn to Alabama, where the terror against the oppressed Negro nation is taking the form of the legal lynching of nine Negro workers to check the rising struggle of the Negro masses for the right to govern themselves in the area where they are the majority and for the confiscation of the land to which they are denied access except upon terms of practical slavery. Workers will not forget the elght workers who are lying in California prisons under sentences of 42 years each for the “crime” against capitalism of trying te organize a workers’ union in the Imperial Valley. Nor will workers forget the wholesale deportation of foreign born workers in practical carrying out of the program of the unspeakable Fish Committee, ir Lise with the policy of the capitalists to. choke the demands of the starving millions for unemployment insurance and the rising wave of strikes against wage cuts. . ‘ talist “justice.” And in pledge of class solidarity to all who are.victimized by capitalist terror, the workers will come on to the streets on May 1st! Down tools on May Day! On to the streets to demonstrate your resent- ment to the persecution of your class! On the Birthday of the Freiheit Poke, is the oth anniversary of our sister paper THE MORNING FREIHEIT, organ of the Communist Party of the U. 8. A., printed in the Jewish language. The Freiheit through its years of existence has been an invaluable weapon in the»hands of the revolutionary workers Sgainst all enemies. The Morning Freiheit has developed, as the Communist Party has developed, a firmer line in the class struggle until today it is a real Communist organ, vigilant in all spheres of activity among the vast mass of Jewish workers throughout America. and battled externally against a narrow Jewish nationalism, becoming an Invaluable aid to the struggle against social fascists of the trade union bureaucracy and for the building of the Trade Union Unity League. It has advanced in spirit of internationalism as the expression of the Une of the Communist International against the treachery and class collzboration of the second international and is‘in the front ranks as a defender of the November Revolution and the Soviet Union. Its role will be more important in the future than in the past and now, as it assists in rallying the masses for struggle on May Day, the Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, extends revolutionary greetings to the Morning Freiheit in the common struggle for a workers’ government in America! Long live the Morning Freiheit! New York “World-Telegram” headline states that “London nears transit unity by socialism.” Which is a lie. The story says that the, McDonald government has decided to “nationalize” the $65,000,009 traction system, but it says not a word about confiscating this system, and the net, result will be that the government will simply administer transportation for bond-holders whose bonds will’be government bonds and not corporation bonds. This is not socialism, nor is any “nationalization” of industry 60- cialism, while capitalist relationships are maintained. Mee Spectator,” an insurance trade paper, expressing alarm at the growth of murder in'the United States, reveals that there were 11 | ' ) this to the yearly average of 4.9.~er 100,000 in Moscow from 1924 to 1928. Tt adds that “the present situation strikes at the very root of our civili- zation,” without of course seeing that “our” civilization, beign a capitalist civilization, manufactures murders and is in itself a murderous system. 40 Strike at Olympic Suit Case Co.; Fight Low Wage, Long Hrs. NEW YORK.—Over 40 workers,| NEW YORK~—The Workers Ex- the whole force in the shop, are'Servicemen’s League held an open striking at the Olympic Suit Case i air meeting at 125th Stteet and Fifth Co., 96 Bleecker St. Thes ers | Ave. Over 600 Negro and white work- were suffering from uw: edhours; }ers attended the meeting, at which wages for men inthe trade for 20/47 Daily Workers and 35 pamphlets, years were down to $20 a week, and | “Next War Coming,” “Chemical War- the boss hed the nerve to offer ex- | fare,” were sold. » tot perienced men as low as $15 aweek.| after the meetii Thelow waces and ‘bad conditions| at st, Luke's Hall Kha 3 irik ee were undermining conditions in union | 15 members was Organized; four of shops. rt those were Negro workers. Regular The Olympic workers began to go nization: and street meetings will Organize Workers Ex-Service Men’s League in Harlem to the Suit Case and Bag Makers held in Harlem by this new Union, Local 22. A rank and file} branch, bo a committee was organized in this lo-| T! new members will report at cel and the Olympic workers re-|the speakers class on Sunday which sponded enthusiastically. Demands} will b= held at 79 Mast 10th St. - ere for shorter hours and more pay. |; : i i Pickoting will take place in the/'at 5p. m. All should support this at 7:30 and in the ev \strike, k ¢ tes eg ‘ sad R ! Fi the, ds ‘ “ wn othe ait *, Central (Section ot the Communist International) Katovis with a shot in the back, received the compliments of a New York Workers wil not forget these lessons of the class character of capi- | It has overcome in itself | | murders per 100,000 population in the United States in 1930, and compares | \d-class matter at’ the Post Office ,-<=ap> ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 STATE MURDER OF EIGHT NEGRO YOUTHS SET FOR JULY 10; PROTESTS GROW I L D Demands New Trial or Appeal--Sends Attorney South—Needs Funds at Once T U U L Wires Governor Denouncing Legal Lynchings—Workers to ‘Protest May Day BULLETIN. y i GADSDEN, Ala., April 10.—Showing the utmost militancy {n face of their conviction and sentence to death in the mass legal lynching just ended at Scottsboro, Alabama, the eight young Negro workers shouted denunciations of the vicious frame-up and sentence from their cells today, They beat on the cell doors, tore up the lousy, filthy bed- ding furnished them and protested against the rotten food. In an effort to further stir up lynch sentiment against them, Sheriff Griffin tried to make out that the youths were attempting a jail break and called in guardsmen who entered the “bull pen,” where they are confined, and brutaliy beat them up, handcuffing them in pairs. The boss press admits that the youths stated their protests against the death sentence of the Alabama boss court, | SCOTTSBORO, Ala., April 10.—With working class resent-! ment mounting and Negro and white workers planning a mighty protest throughout the country on May Day against the legal | lynching planned by Alabama bosses for nine young Negro! workers, Judge A. J. Hawkins yesterday set July 10 as the date | fee Se ee “of the State murder of thej j 9 ARRESTED IN. |", | Hold Judge Responsible. |, 3 FOGD STRIKES. Several hours before ern | VEARLA5 | this action, the judge receiv é , 2 telegram from the International | : : : Labor Defense di je) the ti { Contin ue Picketing | abor Defense denouncing the trial as Ini . a legal lynching ‘and advising him! n. ion | that the workers’ defense organiza- Despite Junet s tion was entering directly into the: NEW YORE. — Winter Bros., fruit |aee and 4s sending an attorney to/ | a 3 offer the nine Negro youths, who | Market, 3451 Jerome Ave., locked out | “defended” by attorneys who a were its workers yesterday. Picketing , few days ago were howling for théir| peated “ai, once, od, the services of the IL. D. } under the leader | Ship of the Food Wor Tndustrial | The telegram, a copy of which was} also sent to the governor, demanded | Union. Three were arrested, and are; held to special sessions on $500 eps: stay of exectition and protection of the youths against lynching. each. | Three arrests were also rnade to- | warned the judge and |day at the Ostrowsky Bros. strike at j 147 St. and Broadway. | strictly responsible for the éafety of! | the I. L. D. attorney and of the nine ts were le atl cf ‘Three: More arrests. were made s ‘ defendants. Governor/Miller yester- | day declared he would take no action} It! the governor | hat the working class will hold them | | the picket line at Sun Market. They, were held by Judge Murphy o: | 2 a Ca ea |mass murder. The judge continued! The 12 cases of pickets previously 'to speed the youths to the electric | arrested came up in 16lst Street chair. | court before Judge Harris, and were) Hostile “Defense” Council in,Fake : put off to April 14. | ‘Move. i H | Picketing in spite of strike break-| When sentence of death was pro- ing injunctions obtained by 4 ed and the date of execution | F. of L. and the market owners |for eight of the young workers set tinues. for July 10, the judge asked the | workers if they had anything to say.| " | All are reported to have returned a U, &. MARINES IN CHINA | contemptuous “NO.” : A report from Ichang, China, near-| Following the exposure in the Daily! ly 1,000 miles in the interior, reveals | worker that the attorneys named by that American naval forces are tak-/tne court to “defend” the young ing part in not only standing guard! worxers had previously expressed the! over Chinese river steamers, but are) wich for a speedy execution, the “de- | fighting against Chinese revolution- | tense” counsel, in an attempt to cover ary troops. Soldiers, evidently 1/115 their hostility to the defendants, mutiny against the Nenking govern | -eeerday entered a motion for a new ment, opened fire on the C trial in the case of one of the eight} tiver steamer Iping, “but were silen- | condemned to death—Heywood Pat- | ced by the American guns,’ 5 As-| | sociated Press. ' e652 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) _ Vv YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1931 ® | Workers Industrial Union. The Jer- ‘of the injunction. | against him being dismissed. GLEN ALDEN MINERS ORGANIZING TO FIGHT AGAINST BETR CITY EDITION NEGRO, WHITE WORKERS MENACED BY BOSS LYNCH LAW 1 Down With Capitalist Terror TAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents KKK Raid Greenville Jobless Bedford Officials Offer | Marchers “Sympathy” CIty OF BEDFORD | OFFICE OF THE MAYOR BEDFORD. OHIO opril 5, 1931 Mr, Pronk Miller 1425. ¥.'.Srd, Ste Cleveland, Ohio Deer Sirs an of Sectors ves ter wes instructed Tour letter tothe council of the read in council aeeting last evening. The » to write you as follower Tefuatriel conditions etistingas they do today, council feels in coaplete gapathy and perfect accord with anyaction that vould tend to relieve suffering and cistress. Word has been given in euch manner as to reach the unesployed of our City, informing thea of the march and the opportunity for those who osred to and could, to join this arch. Walle in numbers we are a City, still we are 20 ssl) that Te do not poscses housing facilities for the munber of people whom ve asticipate will compose your delegation. Gi Our city has been hart hit by the ranoval of the two larevat industries of our town. vo endr@ous plants privately owned now lie idle as thay have for the past three years. Our citizens are unsble to pay their tazes and as already implied by Cleveland News Papers ve face the dire necessity of closing our schools. Due to a shortage of funde we have beensorced to discontinue aany of the services to e{tigens of any community are rightfully entitled, ‘We have nd city funds ftos which we cold take money to feed your marchers and nb legal wy:wherehy we could uss ths money for . that purpose if we had it. As to the citizens of the town I belicrs their 1s saall bly of any defng in euch position ax to aect the cennd for foods ‘The council regrets excesdly tha J of Bedford is in | such shape as to offer only qapathy and Gods speed on your undertsking, | It 19 far froma pieasant duty for the writer to sen you the informtion | that tha'eond!'icna in our community beve made it necessary for m to pend. Yours tery truly, WORKERS) MONDAY ‘The Mayor and City Council of Bedford report to State Hunger Committee that closing down fof two big plants has wrecked busin€is one can pay ta schools are clos- ing down; no one has food to give marchers, This letter was sent by the mayor to those in charge of the Ohio state | hunger march, which will pass thru NEEDLE PICKET NEW YORK. — Mass picketing| Monday morning at Jerry Dress, 800 ‘7th Avenue.; Needleman and Brem- mer, 263 West 40th St,, atid Stylish; Dress, which went on strike Thurs- day, is called for by the Needle Trades ; No corners of the state on April 16, and converge on the capitol at Columbus. | They will hold a state unemploy- | ment convention for unemploym: relief to the legislature on April 27. | ty was picketed Friday in violation | Salvatore Adicci, a striker, was ar-| rested by Immigration authorities’ during the dress strike, and “held | on Ellis. Island for deportation. Yés- terday he was released, the case marchers as they go through. Most The Daily Worker national of the cities have yielded to the de- office would appreciate some {mand for lodging, but only a few to volunteer help today for fold- | that for food ing and inserting material in | Local committees of the unem- envelopes. Every hour of as- | ployed continue their pressure on the sistance is valuable. Take the elevator at 35 E. 12th St. HELP WANTED! lodging for the marchers. | Secialists, Police and Fas NEW YORK.—‘“The socialist party has openly united with the police’and the fascist leaders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in an attethpt to prevent the workers of New York from demo: ing on: Union Square Conference Takes Pl ‘on May 1, the District Commit- |Party, which is one of the leading tee of New District of the Com-| participants in the United Front May munist Pa in a statement issued} Day Conference, called up’ Precinct yesterday. The statement continues: | 1, of the Police Depar' Basa are ‘With deliberate hostility against the workers of New York, with a complete understanding with the po- ranged for the use of Union Square on May Da from 1:30 to 6 p.m. Al letter to the same effect was sent on Bar Workers from Union Square May 1 |few day Noes Sake Wa a cs EMC at) Communist District Committee Gives History and Proof of Police Lies; Workers May 1 cists United to | | | ly on May Day, when the workers of this country and the entire world | will demonstrate against everything} tl the bl ci 5 . ace Mon. at Lyceum hat. 6 lopdy czar’ stood for, for the fascist Veterans of Roreign Wars—indicating cjearly that this or- ganization did not get permission to use the square before the workers did, but the contrary. Thié is Lie'Num- ber 3. The pewspapers state that the veterans’ organization received per- allies in the fascist veterans’ organ-| izations and thé socialist party. The! workers this year will demonstrate) against hunger, starvation, wage cuts, | government terrorism against the foreign born and the Negroes, against lynching, against imperialist war and} against intervention in the Soviet | not go. Davis and others who run it The Hunger March Commiittee has | the s | written to the city governments of | tional Miners’ Union, closely cooper- all cities through which the march- j ating with the rank and file in the ers pass, demanding that the cities | United Mine Workers of America lo- provide food and lodging to the} cals, is ready to hold a series of mass meetin; lice department and with the fascist leaders of the veterans’ organization, they are uniting with the Russian white guards in an effort to drive the workers off Union Square on May Day. This conspiracy of the socialists, the police, the Russian monarchists and the fascist officers of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars is now fully exposed. On March 16, I. Amter, district organjzer of the Communist mission on March 21—significantly Union—for which this united front of Council; Beat Up Unemployed | Terrorism to Try to Keep Negro and White Workers from Uniting for Struggle; White Jobless Defend Colored Against Kluxers May First Demonstrations Will Answer New Attacks; Daily Events Expose Capitalism “Grand Cyclops” Confesses Klan Was Extinct, Was Re- vived by- Mayor to Fight Unemployed Council; Jobless Determined to Fight Oa GREENVILLE, &. C., April 10.—More thar 100 masked Ku Klux Klansmen raided the Workers’ Hall here last night as the Council of the Unemployed began its meeting, The workers refuse go, and the K.K.K. began to beat up the Ne- The white workers immediately came ordered all to leave. xroes. and d to to their defense, and some of them were beaten too. no move to interfere. The city police were present, but.made The organizers of the unemployéd council were ordered to leave town at once, although every one. of them resident, and threatened with being “taken out’” if The members of the K.K.K. gang MORE SLAVERY: Conference Going On;|« Miners Enraged WILKES-BARRE, Pa., A) 10— The 25,000 Glen Alden miners, or- |dered back to work after a two | weeks’ strike by the General Griey- ance Committee, with the committee and the local Bedford. The marchers start at 5) f are disillusioned Tomicheck,- Maloney. and/ in a fighting mood over the be-| yal of their strike, and the Rank) sition groups in the} 5 are preparing meetings to Right l-out by the officials. The Na- Lying Tactics. ‘When the General Grievance Com- mittee finally stopped maneuvering and ordered the strikers to go back,| April 8, it declared that if the griev- ances Ww not being remedied in a the Committees would call the men out on strike again. But the miners now see that this is only a bluff to get the men back| in the mines. The General Griev- ance Committee has no intention of against the Ham Fishes and their! ever calling the men on strike again | At the present time, International President Lewis of the U. M. W. is here, and with him are International Vice President Murray and Interna- tional Secretary Treasurer Kennedy. These, joined by a sub-committee of the General Grievance Committee, are in conference with President |the K \2 when they tried to frighten | demands of the | The mayor turned The N. M. U, calls on the miners} ¢o the Kia: themselves to organize and take up! poneq a, struggle for their demands for pay| Grand ©: for all the work they. do instead of | being forced to do dead work -free. city administrations for food and | against wage cuts, and against longer |... {hours, and against being cheated by| “topping” and short weights. 8 a‘lccal were recognized auvinists. Prepare May 1, Events such as thess do not ter- e the workers and loy s both Negro ard white, ile. -Instead, it is con: gh’ age s em and its The Klan outrages tea do. such incidents as the ing of. eight Negro you! cottsboro, Ala., that murder and abusing of Negro workers i of the program of t eep labor divided, ch unity of action in‘ the rapidly Unemploy Against such a tem as shows it- elf in the starvation and terror hére a rising in protest on May First. There will probably be a May First dem- onstration in this city teo. Klan Re The conr with the Klan terrorists is ev er in the invasion of. the city West Greenville by 22 members of KK. in full regalia on Ar the committee presenting the in n inter that the disbanded in Gr: The unemployed here char; it was deliberately and specially ;organized to enforce starvation | the unemployed here, and that it was ville, let it out cal first 22.Klansmen w: ;Mmill police and overseers Brandon and Poinset mills j from outside the village, one of th a professional stool pigeon and the jother a shos xeeper of Greenville The Unemployed Councils here has been growing by leaps and bounds, the first three councils are dividing into six. On April 8 they took a list of needy families to the | Red Cross, and followed Mrs. Laign, ithe director, into.a private office to | tell her they would be around every day until these starving workers were :fed.. The Red Cross head said, she |“had no time. for thess cases.” y the of the tro were DANISH-NORWEGIAN STRIKES March 16 to Captain Heftzman. Heitzman states he did not receive it. This ic Lie Number 1, On March 20, Captain Heitzman visited Communist Party heedquarters and there made the agreement to have the Square clear from 1:30 p.m. to6 p.m. Ac- cording to the papers Captain Heitz- man denies this, and that is Lie Number 2. On March 23, Captain Heitzman called at Communist Party headquarters to affect a compromise the police, the socialist party, the fas- cist officers of the Veterans of For-!' ¢ign Wars and the Russian monar- chists stands, with the banners of} Russian czaristic barbarism andj American ‘democracy’ flying together. | Conference Monday. “The workers of New York will not! bé daunted by this united front. They one day after the workers made the arrangements with the ‘police. 4.» Here Are Your Enemies: "The workers of New York now know their énemies. They know that these people are in open league with the Russian white guards, who with the permission of the police depart- ment will carry the bloody czarist flag as an open proyceation against the workers of New York, particular-} (coyTiNUED ON PAGE TWO) Inglis of the Glen Alden Coal Co.,; ; rf BAH fince the intemational officers} ™ RORY Mantes eee and district officers both of the v.| “7° eat a: Spel Seip M. W. have condemned the strike | 12.500 bass . Wee Bre from the beginning, nothing but be-| /ocK*d out for three ckouts are an effort to put over trayal‘ean come out of the con- as 7 e ,w $ ring Norway's ¢f- ference. | wage cuts and bring | ficial uner 000. In Dr T Fight iynchin: Fight deporta- top of fore'yn vorn. Elect dele- gates to your city conference tor | copits ar q protection of foreign porn, w trom 6 to 15 per cent