The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1931, Page 1

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Entered as second. se matter at the Post Office <gBpp2 under the act of March 3, 1879 eee Interna tional) y, Worker WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 3 NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Ce nts Ku Klux Klan Attack on Unemployed Council A GANG of local business men, by them, and led by Mayor Welborn of West Greenville. the disguise of the Ku Klux Klan, made an armed raid on the Unemployed Council at Greenville, South Carolina, and by violence attempted to break it up. mill overseers and other thugs recruited masked in The Unemployed Council at Greenville, organized under the leader- ship of the Trade Union Unity League, has already become a powerful organization numbering several hundred organizing both Negro and white workers 10ut discrimination and put- ting up a militant struggle for the relief of the unemployed starving work- ers and their farhilies. The most desperate condition of poverty and suffering has come to the workers of Greenville dur crisis and especially with the tile mills. The Red Cross and other so-called “charity” been perfectly willing to see these workers and their death, even while these organizations are trauduler collecting funds on the excuse that they are looking after the unemployed. The health and even the very lives of the working nd children have been and are dependent upon their own self-o zed unemployed councils to compel relief from starvation. ng the past year and a half of economic down or part time work of the t organizations hav families s e to ASS woine: The well-to-do parasites of the community know they would be com- pelled to bear the ¢xpense of unemployment relief, if the working class of Greenville, both employed and unemployed, bi Ygro and white, became sufficiently organized and militant to enforce their deman Every effort is therefore being made by the city officials, wealthy taxpayers and mill superintendants interested in cheap labor, to break up the unemployed councils and thus to leave the working class to starve in helplessness. ‘These wealthy gangsters, in the cowardly disguise of the murderous Ku Klux Klan, had long hoped to be able to arouse conflict between the white and Negro workers, by appealing to age-old prejudices of the white workers against the Negroes. These ruling-class gangsters were particu- time of chatttel slavery and still cultivated by the employing class, are being thrown off by the workers of Greenville in the organization of the exploited class, black and white, in the Unemployed Councils and in the revolutionary trade unions, especially the National Textile Workers Union, under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League. All efforts to break up and demoralize the Unemployed Council with the old murderous cry of “white supremacy,” and thus to leave both white and Negro workers helplessly unorganized and starving, were unsuccessful. ‘The rich white thugs in Klan uniform, when they raided the workers’ hall, found the white workers as ready as any to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with the Negro workers in defense of all. Capitalist newspaper reports tried to make it appear as if the Negro workers “ran away” from the cowardly Klan gangsters. This is a lie, The Negro and white workers together defended themselves and each other from the attack of the Mill super- intendants and their agents of the employers in Ku Klux Klan uniforms. After the brutal and criminal assault on the workers’ hall, the Un- employed Council sent its delegation composed of both Negro and white workers to the Red Cross to present, a list of starving working class fami- lies who are receiving no aid. This organization, controlled by the ruling class, contemptuously refused any aid. The Trade Union Unity League calls upon every member of the work- ing class, North and South, black and white, to stand by these heroic workers of Greenville. The best answer to the Ku Klux Klan gangs of mill bosses and capitalist politicians is the organization of mass Unem- ployed Councils of workers in every city and town and the militant pushing forward of our demands for Unemployment Insurance—for the payment of full wages to all workers who have been thrown out of em- ployment only because the idle rich who own the industries find no pre- sent profit in allowing the workers to work and live. The workers of the Southern textile mills have had terrible exper- iences with the so-called organizers of the “American Federation of Labor” and especially with the so-called “United Textile Workers Union.” These fakers have come into the South, pretending to organize the workers to struggle against wage-cuts and the speed-up, but they have only sold out the workers to the bosses acting as strike-breakers. The Trade Union Unity League warns the workers to beware of these fakers who are now union, to attempt to smash up the Unemployed Councils and to divide the workers by claiming that the Negro workers should be excluded from the unions or organized separately. These ‘labor’ fakers have no interest but to help the bosses to prevent the real struggle against wage-cuts, speed-up and unemployment. Workers of the South! Whether your skin be black or white, do not let the reactionary enemies of our class cause a division between the workers on the basis of race! White workers! You can make no progress in the struggles of labor if you concede anything to the ruling class pro- gram of “white supremacy!” Negro and white workers! You must build par organizations on the basis of complete equality, or you will be divided jand beaten back into starvation by the parasite class which is now keeping / ten million American workers and their families in conditions of starvation ) for lack of employment, The Trade Union Unity League calls upon all workers, and especially upon the textile workers who are or were employed in mills in and around Greenville to organize in the National Textile Workers Union, to form close connections between the workers who are still employed in the mills and those who are without work. ‘The workers now employed should have their representatives in the Unemployed Council to fight for the interests of all. The interests of the workers in the shops are the same as the interests of the workers now without employment. All must stand together and fight together against the brutal wage cuts that the bosses are now making and have already made in the textile mills. All must fight to- gether the vicious speed-up—‘the stretch out” system—and compel the withdrawal of the “efficiency” men from the mills, Workers, black and white! Fight together against starvation! Fight against wage cuts and speed-up! Women workers! Fight in the interests of your own class and your own children! Fight for equal rights of the Negro workers! Fight for the right of self-determination for the Ni in the Black Belt. rer ‘The Trade Union Unity League calls upon workers in Greenville and throughout the country to hold the biggest possible mass demonstrations on the International Labor Day—May First. Down with the Ku Klux Klan and the mill bosses and capitalist politicians. Don’t Starve—Fight! NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE . ‘yy Wm, Z. Foster, Secretary, rp * of workers in that community, | larly enraged when they saw that the brutal prejudices inherited from the | | Over thirteen hundred Clev lk | resentment sweeping the count legal lynching in Scottsboro, A posed s s of death in the State Hunger March to | Demand Its Repeal PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 12.— Bill Lawrence, an active worker in the revolutionary movement in Phila- |delphia and at present organization | | secretary of the Communist Party of | | this district, has been given a most | outrageous sentence on the Flynn state sedition law of “2 to 4 years” jin the Eeastern Penitentiary and “$250 fine and cos This is the eighth worker con- victed on the Flynn act in Penns) vania, The case of Lawrence is about | two years old. “Phe reason for the bosses’ resur- |recting the case now is because of | the growing struggles of the workers |of Pennsylvania. Especially are the |bosses afraid of the coming state | | hunger march. | | The International Labor Defense | ‘is now circulating petitions for the | repeal of the Flynn sedition law in Pennsylvania. The use of this law jagainst the workers in their daily Struggle is becoming a frekuent oc- curence. Every piece of literature | distributed by workers’ organizations is “sedition.” | The workers should circulate these | petitions and, above all, support the | state hunger march to Harrisburgh. | | One of the election promises of | | Governor Pinchot was the repeal of | the Flynn sedition law. Now this | |fake “progressivee” capitalist politi- |cian has already refused to see one delegation elected at a united front | conference of workers’ organizations | riday night joined their protests to the wave of working class | “Negro workers, following vicious frame-up and farcical | Cleveland, New York Workers Protest Planned Murder of 8 Negro Youths in Alabama | Mighty Protest Pinaned for May Day Thruout | | World—ILD Sends Lawyer; Needs | Funds for Defense veland workers in mass meeting ry as a result of the outrageous labama, where a boss court im- electric chair upon eight young | al trial. All Under 20. After several speakers had exposed the trial, in which the boys, all under 20, were “defended” b lawyers selected by the court and who had previously been howling for | their blood, the mass meeting unani- | mously voted to send the following | ‘gram to the governor of Alabama: | vernor B. M. Miller, | “Montgomery, Ala. | “Mass meeting attended by over thirteen hundred workers in Cleve- land Friday, April 10, called by In- ternational Labor Defense of Ohio, condemns conviction and attempt to electrocute eight young Negro workers on charge of supposed rape white girls. We demand you re- lease at once these workers and will hold you responsible for their safety.” A telegram of protest was also sent the governor by a mass meeting held the same evening, Friday, April 10, at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th} St., New York City. Organizations Denounce Sentence: Protest telegrams have been sent by many working class organizations, | including the Trade Union Unity League, the League of Struggle for (CONTINUED ON Olympic Boss Tries | Tricks But Fails: BO MAY 1 DEMONSTRATIONS TO RATIFY OHIO HUNGER-MARCH Protest Legal Lynching of Eight! ‘Demonstrate on May First! SSES POSTPONE LEGISLATURE Q AVOID JOBLESS DEMANDS Wages to Be Slashed Heavily, Says ‘Business Week’, Boss Sheet War Dept. Cuts Pay ot Builders At West Point Job; Average Pay of All Workers Already Cut 20 Per Cent NEW YORK, admit there g count * Week,” men for the big bankers and issue: “A marked wage cuts, I Business is a i sein erating the trend sine turn of the year, appears almost inevit- » able unless a sharp upturn in business or a halt in commodity price declines intervenes soon.” Thus in a guarded way, this mouth- —urriers Score Kauffman Scadary Picket Dress Shops NEW YORK.—By unanimous vote of all present, and in spite of the attempts of four or five Kauffman machine officials who tried to stop it, the mecting Friday of Local 54 of the International Fur Workers condemned sending of scabs by In- ternational President Kauffman to break the strike at the S. K. & S. fur dressing shop at 135 Logan Ave., Jer- sey City. The Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union calls on all members |of the International to do likewise, and to demand that Kauffman take his scabs out of that shop. The ‘workers there went on weeks ago, and the ‘strike was Workers Aid Strike NEW YORK.—The 100 per cent strike of workers in the Olympic Suitcase Co. at 96 Bleeker St. con- | «.cttieq” by the chief of police in tinues in full force. The strike 48 | favor of the International Fur Work- against the low wages and long hours, ers, whose connection with it was strike two | demanding the repeal of this law |and is led by the Suitcase and Bag | determined to carry on the same work as the Ku Klux Klan in the effort | to demoralize the workers, to prevent the organization of a real workers’ | jand the release of all political pris- | oners. The hunger marchers will | also demand the repeal of the law. | Wheat Area in Soviet ‘Union Is Advancing: Collectives Increase. MOSCOW.—Whilst the world eco- | /nomic crisis in the capitalist coun- | | tries results in a reduction of the | Makers’ Union, Local 22, in which a| jrank and file committee was organ- | the picket line w ized after hearing many complaints of experienced men getting $20 a week or less in the Olympic. | On the same day the strike! started, April 10, the workers of the Metropolitan Suitcase Co. raised $100 at a shop meeting for this strike. Other shops are raising money. } The Olympic boss is trying to di- | vide the strikers. Saturday was pay} just that the International officials were supplying the scabs. After that as attacked by po- lice, and the strike headquarters five blocks away raided. The scab agree- ment was made by Kauffman in person, with Moe Harris, a member of his officialdom and the chief going along with him boss. Local 54 is a fairly large local, in Brooklyn. to the industrialists, says in its latest “piece of big busine: Daily Worker has repeatedly in- formed its readers—namely, that the wage cutting drive which heret>fore went on underhandedly, though af- fecting millions, will now be speeded up to hit every worker in the United States. There has been no “sharp upturn business” and the “commodity ice declines” continue with mono- tonous regularity. Cut Wages 20 Per Cent. f same magazine, “Business also admits that the talk cutting wages because prices *, and using that arguen tification, is based on a -pack “Living costs”, says this Wal eet organ, “have declined «bou 13 per cent since October, 1929”, I on the other hand, they point out Average earnings of labor have dropped 20 per cent, according to th National Industrial Conference Board.” Thus the net result is a drastic ‘smashing of the standard of living of the American workers who are still employed, with the prospect of a nation-wide pay slashing campaign to cut wages still further. Federal Government Leads In Drive. The U. S. government itself is tak- , ing part in this wage cutting drive, | while Hoover leads the workers to believe he is for “maintaining pay standards”. Representative La Gu- ardia, in a letter to Secretary of La- bor Doak, exposed the fact that the states what the in The Week” pout West Point. Nearly every capitalist newspaper carries propaganda material in the interest of uhe wage cut drive. are being put into effect in hundreds | of major plants. The A. F. of L. | officialdom is doing all it can to help the bosses along. The workers must mobilize ‘Chamber of Commerce Writes to Cities to Stop All Aid to the Hunger Marchers; Get Aa Extension of Recess May Day Ma | and Give Them En | i} The | drive has passed the propaganda | police | t28e, however, and big wage cuts| Leading newspapers of Wall Street now Pass ic, Neale Johnstown, Pas, Superior, increase in wage cuts throughout the one of the authoritative spoles- Day Demonstrations; Denies Permit to We \ 7 CLEVELAND, Ohic ons of workers thro brate May Day asad bra Meets Ratify Hunger Marches thy stic Send-Off Wise., Plan May Mayor } ate OWA 1 wick per) i ie TS Ay il 12,.—While mil- the world cele- ay of struggle against ys 1g canitalism, in Ohio dozens of demonstrations wl give the state hu thusiastie send-off. T’ or POSSE m the hers arrive on Ma; t the legi At the same time Ohio che. MASS OR} “TAY 1 DELEE ay Bi: ature’s re We ran Greet Workers Going to USSR Wed. Night NEW YORK.—The workers of New re pre} ring to give a rou sud off to the 23 American workers, nals who. con- rs May Day delegu- tion to Soviet Russia. The delegates | are sailing late Wednesday night, | April 15 .on the Europa and a fare- well meeting has been arranged for them Wednesday at 8 p. m. at Irving | Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. | The meeting is under the auspices war department is cutting wage rates |of the Friends of the Soviet Union | on government construction work at |which has organized the May Day delegation. Speakers will include | two delegates, R. Gonzales Soto, a| Latin-American agricultural worker from Palo Alto, Cal., and J. E. Sny- der, a truck driver from San Fran- | cisco; and Frank Palmer, manager of the Federated Press. John J. Ballam, national secretary of the Friends of | the Soviet Union, will act as chair- | man. Following the meeting, the | delegates will be given a mass send- to off at the boat. hunger mar nally set for April 27th, has been postponed so that the oer gel marchers an en= rch to Columbus, Ohio, n his was necessitated by the fact SS was extended to May 11. mbers of commerce are actively fighting the state hunger march avd cracking the whip over their azents in the state and cit ments. The Cleveland Chamber of Com- meree, through: its sccreiaiy. Mun son Havens, has written to chambers of Commerce, throughout Ohio. ¢ ing them to decline to feed, hous encourage or gnize the hunger marchers. Such opposition from the organized bosses has already resulied in increased hostility to the march on the part of mayors and city cous= cils, and in extension of the legis! ture’s recess until May 11 to avoid being in session when the hunger rect (CONTINUED ON PAC 770 BANKS CRASH IN THREE MONTHS $144,000,000 Involved in Failures HREE) NEW YORK.—Banks crash every day, but the news seldom gets into the capitalist newspapers. R. G. Dun and Company, reporting on bank failures in the first quarter of 1931, states that 270 banks failed the first |three months of this year. In 1930, \their number was 124. The total The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- | amount involved in these bank fail- |area under seed, the area under seed | 4ay, and one girl operator received a in the Soviet Union at whose front- jers the economic crisis ceases, is constantly increasing. The prepara- | tions for the Spring showings already | , begun. The first day in the fields |developed into a demonstration in jfavour of ollectivism. Numerous | |peasants joined the collective farms. | sudden raise of $4. Another was told | she could take home work. She re- fused. One who had been hired at $5 a week, for week work, was told she should come in and finish her work, as she was now on piece work. None of these tricks broke the soli- darity of the strikers, Women will be mobilized for the next world slaughter that capitalism is now rapidly preparing. This is the gist of an article by Major Gen- eral Hanson E. Ely, Command of the Second Corps Area, and former chief of the 1S. Army College, published in last Sunday's New York Amer- ican. The next war of capitalism, Han- son admitted, will be a gigantic mass murder. Capitalism will try to mob- ilize everyone to insure its profits —men, women and children. While complete plans for driving the men to war have always been part of the capitalist war machinery, General Ely says the same practice will now ap- ply to women. He didn't mince any words about the matter. What is more, the general works on the as- surance that war will come soon. Here is what he says about mobiliz- ing women: trial Union has an important shop | delegates’ council meeting today at 7 | Pp. m, at 131 West 28th St. All are called to picket this morn- ing at Jerry Dress, 500 Seventh Ave.; at Needleman & Bremmer, 263 West 40th St. and at the Stylish dress shop, 257 West 39th St. smash this drive. On May Day, when the revolutionary workers gather to | their determination to organize and | strike against wage cuts under t | leadership of the revolutionary trade | union center, the Trade Union Unity League. Women Will Be Mobilized for Next World Slaughter, Says Mgj.-Gen. Ely, U. S. Sir Balfour and American Legion Stir Up War Hatred Against Soviet Union; Must Demonstrate Answer May First in future wars. Governments, in- cluding our own, have been study- ing use of women in war. Woman- power will in some instances sup- plant and in other cases supple- ment man-power in the next war. “Utilization of women in war will grow, in final analysis, out of @ new conception of war-making, born during the last war. The struggle was so gigantic that, for countries involved, war-making be- came the national industry.” “War A National Industry’—Bosses Profit. In the next war, says General Ely, it will become still a greater “national industry’—killing workers wholesale, tional industry.” That this rapid war mobilization is being directed in a good measure against the Soviet Union was further admitted in a speech by Dr. John J. Tigert, made before the members of the American Legion in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Tigert was former Fed- eral Commissioner of Education and is now president of the University of Florida. Calls for War on Soviet Union. He called all members of the Le- * | sion “to arms” for a war against the Soviet Union to smash the advance of the Five-Year Plan, because, said Dr. Tigert, the Five-Year Plan “is a direct challenge to the economic aiuotie the security, and antety of | fenee. : Army American standards and ideals, and that “everything should be done to prevent its consummation.” Balfour Also Calls for War. A like opinion was echoed on the same day in Buffalo, N. Y., by Sir Arthur Balfour who came here to lay the ground for war against the Soviet Union. “Russia,” Balfour said, “is a menace to the rest of the world because of non-consumption and competition in world products.” Because the workers in the Soviet Union refuse to be tied to the cart wheel of British imperialism and build up Socialist industry, Balfour declares the workers’ republic is a menace and joins with the Florida professor for war to end the five year plan at all costs. On May Day the American work- ers will mobilize to declare their solidarity with their brothers in the The delegates will participate in celebrate international May Day, the ‘1° May Day celebration in the So- day of struggle, they will express | Vict Union and will travel more than 5,000 miles, visiting every part of the . S. S. R. as the guests of the So- viet trade unions. On their return they will make an official report to the American workers. The delega- tion for the first time includes a Latin-American and agricultural worker, as well as three farmers; Shelton Weavers Return to Work SHELTON, Conn. April 12.—By unanimous vote the 300 weavers who had been on strike in the Shelton |Looms against the introduction of | the two-loom system of speed-up and a big wage-cut for the past six weeks have decided to go back to work. All the men are determined to go ahead with the organization of a local of the National Textile Workers’ Union in the Shelton Looms and in the other mi!'- 9° ~ ‘thal Co, in Bridgeport, Uscwsviue dnd South River, N. J. The workers realize that the lack of a uNion organization in the begin- ning of the strike and the failure tc spread the strike to other depart- ments and other.mills were some of the main causes for the defeat of the strike. They are learning the lesson of organization quickly and a con- siderable number have already joined Soviet, Union and to rally to the De-| the National Textile Workers’ Union of the Soviet Ualods yp ang | ures is $144,000,000. ‘The continuous smashing of banks shows that the crisis is far from jended. During the latter part of 1930, jover 500 banks went to the wall. The capitalist newspapers then followed |the policy of not reporting the fail- | ures from day to day. In this manner | they hoped to prevent bank runs, and | by keeping the news of the individual bank crashes from the depositors, help to keep rotten banks going. 50,000 Ordered by Philly, May 1 Fifty thousand copies of the May Day edition have been or- dered by District 3, Philadel- phia, and 1,000 by Cincinnati. 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