The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1931, Page 1

| ) (MES Ate Ge TING Be TIER For a cane MORTIAGE TAGS ‘Dail Central Orga (Sec tho n of the Communist Vol. VIII, No. 93 at New York, N. Entered ay second-class mutter at the Post Office ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 Party U.S.A y, <Worker International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE}. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents PENNSYLVANIA HUNGER MARCHERS START OUT TODAY Upheaval in Spain E spite of the lack of adequate information on the events in Spain, that which is received indicates a vast upheaval, a popular revolutionary movement, which sharply differentiates itself from the less significant military coup d’etats of the sort familiar to Latin America The very volume of hatred for the autocra whose symbol was Alfonso XIII and the spontaneous flood of mass revolutionary feeling goes to show that the agreement between the bourgeoisie and the feudal- ists whereby Alfonso withdrew—he claims only temporariiy—was forced by this tremendous mass movement which the bourgeoisie, in the provisional government of the “Republican-Socialist alliance” seeks to halt. But it would be a mistake to think that this vast upheaval is neces- sarily going to halt because these gentlemen desire it. Just as it is a stupid opinion of Trotsky that because the monarchist Camarilla is ply replaced” by Republican Camarilla that we have in Spain “a -new edition of the short-lived and fruitless republic of 1873-4.” This is an opportunist conception which leaves out of account, the movement of the masses whicl: forced this “simple” replacement and, of course, is to be expected from the chieftain of the fake “leftists,” who reject the Communist view that this is a period of world revolutionary upsurge and does not see that events in Spain take place as an integral part of this world situation. It is apparent that the capitalist class in alliance with the “socialist” leadership is attempting to halt the on ih of the masses. To do so, they are promising in words, the “reform” of certain “abuses” of land tenure. Whether this will suffice or not, is another question, One cannot be beguiled by the seeming “peacefulness” thus far boasted of. The same “peaceful revolution” was observed in the February days of 1917 when the Czar abdicated. It is clear that the peaceful change at the top does not settle the fundamental questions raised by the revo- lutionary mass movement which has not attained its objective in this change. These objectives: the expropriation of the land for the peasantry; abolition of the church privileges; independence of netional minorities and othen democratic demands can only be accomplished by a revolu- tionary state power of the workers and peasants. How soon these can be accomplished depends upon the relation of forces which are now in motion, a relation which may well change with greater or less rapidity. But above and beyond all, the great fact stands out that the masses are in motion. T the same hour on Tuesday, while Hoover American Day” with a speech about understanding,” and ‘‘mutual helpfulness,” airplanes were dropping bombs upon Nicaraguan villages near Puerto Cabezas where 300 Americans, evi- dently besieged by hostile population were taking refuge on the dock and on board steamers ready for departure. Reports state that the native workers and peasantry, driven by the starvation imposed upon them by imperialist concessionaires, are joining the army of liberation, and it is rumored. that Sandino’s forces are approaching from the west. Wash- ington admits 4 Americaris had been killed. was “Pan- “mutual confiden “reciprocal lebrating N example of “reforms” which are “given” by. the capitalists is seen in the statement of Louis J. Brown, president of the Kellogg (food products) Company at Battle Creek, Michigan. He says the company has introduced the six hours, four shift day, with a wage rate “the same” as on the eight hour basis. This sounds all right, but he adds that the unit cost is lower, by increased daily production, giving an increased profit from invested capital, more packages per dollar of overhead and “opportunity to reorganize the working force.” In effect, it is a speed-up through the intensification of labor during the six hours that produces more than in eight hours, and in relation to the product the wages re- ceived are actually reduced. Besides this intensified labor wears out the life force of the workers much quicker. Enthusiastic Send-Off Given May Day Delegation to USSR: An enthusiastic send-off was giv- en the group of workers, farmers and professionals who will be present at the May Day celebrations in the Soviet Union. The delegation which was organized by the Friends of the Soviet Union, were cheered repeated- ly at a mass meeting, held in Irvin Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, Wednesday night. “The purpose of the delegation,” said John J. Ballam, national sec- retary of the Friends of the Sov Union, “is to express the solidarity of the American workers with the workers in the USSR who are build- ing up socialism while the capital- | ist lands are in a crisis which rocks: them to their foundations.” Frank Palmer, manager of the Federated Press, and a member of the American trade union delegation which visited the Soviet Union three and a half years ago, was the first speaker. He told of the determina- tion of the workers to fight to pro- t the victories of the revolution; he told of their enthusiasm in build- ing up industry, even before the 5- Year-Plan became effective. “No one can take those factories back from those workers until every one of them had died besides those walls defending them.” J, A, McCorkel, of Los Angeles, the chairman of the delegation, member of the Brotherhood of Car- penters and Jointers said he would start off by completing his five min- ute speech in two and one half min- utes. J, E. Snyder, delegate of an A. F. of L, truck drivers local, in San Francisco told of travelling from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast and seeing breadlines stretched all across, He said he was going to tell the Rus- sian workers the facts of the con- ditions in this country and return to tell the American workers beset by starvation and wage cuts the facts | of socialist construction in the U. S. S. R. A tremendous ovation was given | Julius Meisenbac farmer delegate | from Montana. Dressed in the same clothes in which he tills his rented farm, he told of the stir his proposed | visit aroused in the farming com- munity where he hives. “I put a bug in their ear about the Soviet Union”, jhe said, “and when I get back they | wil be following me around th |corners asking questions about the Soviet Union. My landlord wants | me to patch things up here. suit with older patches. We want to build something new. I'll tell them all about it when I get back.” lydia Bydell, one of the women members of the delegation said she Was anxious to go to a land where the women, as well as ine men are at last freed from capitalist: exploi- tation, and will come back with an inspiring message for the American working women, A young Negro worker, Robert, ‘Turner, next spoke, telling of lynch- ing of Negro workers in the United States and the lies the Negro intel- lectuals spread about the Soviet Union. R. Gonzales Soto, representing 23 Latin American workers’ organiza- tions and the agricultural slaves of the Imperial Valley, told of the en- thusiasm of the Latin-American workers for what is going on in the Soviet Union. “You are going to a place where the workers are building a new world!” said William Z. Foster, the concluding speaker, “No matter what you do,” Foster said, “study the Communist Party, the party of the workers, the party that made the revolution.” But 1/© | don’t believe in patching up an old | NICARAGUAN REBELS TAKE CAPE GRACIAS Fighting Goes On With Imperialist and Alabama Bosses Flaunt Intention to Burn 9 Negro— Youths, Victims of Frame-up EW YORK.—The answer of the Alabama} boss lynchers to the rising indignation of the} white and Negro masses against the murderous} frame-up and attempt to burn nine Negro} Troops Sendiny More Marines| oover Lied About In- tervention | According to reports fram Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, large numbers of | railroad workers,’ plantation workers, | peasants and other workers have en. | tered American imperialism in Nicaragua. |The same dispatches tell of the re- newed fighting of the Army of Lib- | |eration, under Sandino. A group of insurgents, undoubtedly jeomposed mainly of railroad, dock | |and other workers, captured the port} jot Cape Gracias a Dios, just south lof the Honduran border. Marine corps aviators who came near Gr cios a Dios were fired on by the re: |belling forces. Clash With Marines. Heavily armed insurgents are con- centrating in the hills of Northwest |Nicaragua and have encountered jmarines and the national guard in jseveral skirmishes. American ma- |rines are constantly being landed. A | |group of marines debarked from the |gunboat Asheville. Struggle Grows. renewed fighting of | | ‘The many new forces besides the Army of Lib- | eration, under Sandino's leadership, |shows that the struggle against American imperialism is intensifying throughout Nicaragua. The addition of strong forces pf workers and pea- |Sants gives a new turn to the whole | struggle, rooting it deeper in the | masses, | wor directly involved in the armed strug- gle. |“peace” by Dr. Zepeda, Sandino’s |representative in Mexico, Sandino | has been spurred into struggle by the upsurge of the new fighting forces. | The added ‘murders of the’ Amer- ican marines, ruling in Nicaragua for Wall Street, following the destruc- |tion of Managua by an earthquake, has aroused the Nicaraguan people | |to a more determined struggle against | | Yankee imperialist dofination. Support the Struggle. Every American worker should | |rally to the support of their heroic | brothers in Nicaragua, who have | | taken up the fight against the same | |forces that throws millions on the streets to starve in this country. |The renewed fighting of the Army io Liberation shows the widening \base of the anti-imperialist struggle. A dispatch from Washington says | that Hoover is taking the “attitud: |that the renewed rebel menace in rm Nicaragua is one for the na- | ional guard of thot country to com- jbat, and has determined on a new | policy toward Latin-American coun- | tries.” This is an outright lie, as Hoover is constantly shipping more ma- rines. youngsters in the electric chair is a threat wired | to the | Taternational Labor Defense last night to fling the} |charred bodies of the nine working class youths into the face! 2 MASS DEMONSTRATION AT 9 A.M. AT CITY HALL PREPARES FOR MAY 1 the armed struggle against | rallying support among the | kers and peasants who are not | Despite the repeated offers of | | won't leave town! “We will stick to of the protesting working class protests which are flooding the ing the bosses more concern than they wish to admit. | protests are plastered all over thee |} southern newspapers and are accom- | | panied in many cases by editorials | raving against interference from the |‘outside” in “southern affairs.” | ‘The :elegram was sent from the | Hotel Walden in Chattanooga, ad-| dressed to the “Negro Labor Defense,” and reads as follows: | Brazen Declaration of Murderous governor of Alabama and caus- and to lynch all parties to | These 10,000 Coal Miners Strike; National Miner Union Aids Intent | “You Negroes are invited to Ala- | jbama. We want your scalp along with the nine we already have. And | | we'll get as well as any one else who is a party to the telegrams sent South in behalf of the nine Negroes to burn. | Read this to your entire body. | | —"K.K. of Alabama.” | | This brazen declaration of murder- ous intent and discrimination to car- ry through the legal lynching of nine innocent Negro boys framed and | being railrodded to death by the boss lynchers operating through their courts is representative of the atti-| tude of the white ruling class of the | | South, their A. F. of L. tools and |their northern capitalist allies. The | | huge wealth of this class is distilled | | out of thé blood and agony of eT |of Negro and white toilers slaving at | starvation wages ii) the southern} mills and factories, of hundreds of | thousands of peons and share crop- | jpers held in actual slavery on the F plantations. Workers Must Answer Boss Terror! | The workers must give a smashing | answer to this expressed determina-| tion to carry though the legal mur- | der of the Negro youths by vigorous preparations for the May Day dem- | onstrations, by intensive mobilization | of the entire working class, of white and Negre workers ana ;ocr farmers, native born and foreign born, to tre- mendous protest against this duplica- | tion of the Sacco and Vanzetti offi- | cial murders on a mass scale! The protest wires and’ resolutions which have aroused the ire and fear | of the southern slave drivers must i (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE Greenville K. K.K. Led by Mayor Fails to Break Up Jobless Council GREENVILLE, ek April poe “We have more right here than you] have! We won't leave this hall! We this organization! shouted Negro jobless workers in the last meeting of the unemployed councils here to be raised by the Ku Klux Klan. This is not the regular K.K.K., -but the iba tereaiey of mill owners, boss to Push Wage CINCINNATI, April 16.— Wages must come down and the bosses wil do all they can to make them come down was the main slogan of a speech made by Magnus W. Alexander, pres- ident of the National Industrial Con- ference Board before the annual meeting 6¢ National Metal Trades As- sociation, Steel Workers Get Cuts. The Metal Trades Association com- prises the leading meta] bosses in the United States, and Alexander gave them some pointers on how to cut the wages of the hundreds of thous- ands of steel workers. Alexander used the lying argument that the cost of living is coming down and therefore wages must come down. The Department of Labor figures Steel Bhssck Ca Pointers Haw Cutting Drive show that while wholesale prices are falling rapidly, the price of the ne- cessities of life hardly go down at all. The price of milk, for instance, is higher than ever. Drive Is On. But Alexander gave the steel bosses the cue in their argument for wage cutti-* as follows: “It is ever more fallacious to ar- ove that wage rates must be main- tsined despite reductions in the cost of living, in order to protect the standard of living of American wage earners.” It is with this type of talk that the wage cutting drive is proceed- ing, affecting every worker in the ecuntry. FINAL MAY DAY | CONFERENCE MON. All Workers Elect| Delegates | | NEW YORK—The final United| Front Conference for the organiza- tion of the May First Conference will take place Monday, April 20th, at the| Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., 7:45 p. m. This conference will still further expose the socialist party and its al- liance with the police department and will call upon the rank and file work- | :|ers who are still under the influence | of the socialist party to boycott their | in | “demonstration” and join the work-| ing class United Front May Day| | Demonstration which will assemble | |at Madison Square, 23rd St. and 5th | | Ave., 12:30 p.m. Home of Heywood Patterson Chattanooga, Tenn. At this conference final organiza- tional steps will be taken in regard to the parade and rallying points for | each organization. |: We call upon the revolutionary | union, Industrial Leagues, Unem- ployed Councils, A. F. of L. locals,| | fraternal sports and language organ- \igations, as well as workers from| shops, to form May Day Shop Com- | | mittees and send delegations to the! | April 20th Conference. | Workers of New York, rally at} | called through a meeting of repre- jindicate clearly |mittee of the Glen Alden strike. It ~~ Mother of Heywood Patterson, Mrs. | | Janie Patterson, and her ti child. | Madison Square, 23rd St. and Fifth| Ave., May First, 12:30 p. m. | Participate in the march ent Madison Square to Union Square, Elect delegates to the United Front) Conference, if you did not elect them | yet. Executive Committee, May Day United Front Conference Com- mittee, John Lemke, Secre- tary, B. D. Amis, Chairman. Klansmen in 1inR obesand) Masks Parade to Back Up Stretch Out city officials, police and local busi-| ness men formed especially to try, and break up the unemployed coun- cils and to prevent Negro and white workers from meeting andyorganizing together. . ‘This a was followed by the | new K.K.K. parading in full regalia | through eyery mill village near here | Sunday night, with 40 automobiles | driven by white robed and masked | figures. The villages visited, Mon- | aghan, Mills Mill, Woodside, Bran- don, Duncan, Poe and Sampson, are all places where another stretch out was given recently. After that, fourteen automobiles of klansmen drew up in front of a workers’ hause where they thought | the unemployed council was meeting, | and masked K.K.K.’s paraded up and down the street. This Klan group {ts led by Mayor Mann of Greenville, and Chief of Detectives L. W. Hammond, and is the same which filled the empty seats at the city council meeting, April 7, to try and intimidate the delegation of the jobless who were there to make demands for relief. Following the Klan’s activity in | the lnemploy ed council, and one new| | branch, in a Negro workers’ territory | was formed. A delegation of twelve workers, six | Negro and six white, have been elec- | ted to go from Greenville section to the state legislature at Columbia and | present demands for passage of an unemployed relief bill. They will pro- bably go the last week in April. Defy Lewis and Dis-! trict Gang; Demand Equal Division of Work The National Miners Union has de- | | clared full support of the strike of | jover 10,000 coal miners in western Pennsylvania (District 9, of the U. M. W.) but warns the miners’ to learn a lesson from the Glen Alden strike recently, betrayed by international, | district and local misleaders, and build their own strong rank and file strike committees to lead the strug- gle. The capitalist papers in New York | yesterday carried news of the strike | of 10,000 miners in District 9 of the | United Mine Workers of America | which is a strike covering practically. | the whole district. | It was stated that the strike was | sentatives of locals, and that there |were 1,500 of these delegates at ay conference im.Shamokin, Pa. There is nothing in the story to whether they were real miners’ delegates, or were con- | trolled by local fakers as was the Wilkes-Barre general grievance com- is known that representatives of 2,500 men on strike in District 9 appeared at the Glen Alden general grievance committee during the strike in Wilkes Barre and Scranton territory (Dis- trict 1 of the UMW) and told of 15,- 000 more ready to come out on strike in district 9. These men were denied the floor by the fakers in the Glen Alden general grievance committee, and were denounced as “Reds.” It is stated in the capitalist press that speeches in the meeting of the delegates of District 9 denounced In- ternational President Lewis of the | UMW, and his president of District 9, | Martin Brennen for allowing the | companies to discriminate, refuse division of work, and cut wages. The main demand of the District 9 local delegates was for division of the work, according to the press stories. It is stated on the same authority that before this meeting of delegates, 7,000 men had struck because of the refusal of Locust Gap colliery of the | Philadelphia and Reading Coal and |Iron Co. to accept division. Delegations are reported to have been sent by the conference in Sham- okin to Mahanoy City and to Shen- endoah to enlist support. Both these are in District 9. Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for Protection of foreign born. Build New Fleets of Bombing Planes for Coming Boss War ‘War preparations are being con- centrated now on building a new fleet. of bombing planes for the United States Army and Navy. Millions were given to the army and navy for gen- eral armaments and a good part of it is going for plane construction. A special story from Buffalo, N. Y. to the World-Telegram tells about rush- ing the building of war planes. The Curtiss-Wright Corp. has constructed a new plant at Kenmore “for army and navy machines.” Boost Aair flect For War. To bolster up propaganda for a big- ger air fleet for war, Assistant Sec- retary of War, F. Trubee Davison made a speech on Wednesday at the New York Society of Military and | ing the speeding-up of airplane build- ing. “Without air corps operations on a large scale,” he said, “such as we are pianning this year, we will not | be practiced in the handling of large numbers of planes and fiying personnell.” He said the object was to get 2,238 planes, mostly of the bombardment and pursuit types, to plunge into the coming war. Against these war pereparations the workers must give their answer May Day. There are plenty of funds for building war planes, but the bosses refuse one cent to the millions of un- employed. Demand that all war funds Greenville, 15 new members joined WORKERS! NEGRO AND WHITE! Bight Against Hunger, Wage Cuts, Speed-Up! ‘For the 7-Hour Day, Without Reduction in Pay! to Lynchers! Fight All Jim-Crowism and Discrimination 1 Against Negroes! Fight Against Imperialis Naval Officers of the World War urg- go to the unemployed for immediate 150 Victims « of Mellon Starvation Program March Tomorrow Fired for Not Paying |Miners and Steel Mill Workers Predominate PHILADELPHIA, F Pa., April 16.— | Tomorrow at 9 a. m. there will be a huge demonstration of employed and unemployed workers at the city hall to give a send off to the 126 hunger marchers starting from here at that hour for Harrisburg. “The demonstration will also demand “im- mediate relief for the jobless from the city government, and will be preliminary mobilization for May | First. 150 From Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 16.—One | hundred fifty hunger marchers from western Pennsylvania who leave Pittsburgh on the morning of April 18 include steel workers and miners who have been the victims of the re- |cent wage cutting drive in the steel mills and coal mines of this district. Many mines have shut down and [then reopened later on with a 10 per cent or more wage cut. The hunger marchers include also workers who have been fired from their jobs be- cause they refused to give a day’s pay to the Mellon Pittsburgh Plan. The wage cutting drive in western Pennsylvania is spreading throughout the coal fields of this territory The Duquesne Mine, at Ayella, Pa., began on April 10 to work under a wage cut. Tonnage rates v cut from 40 cents to 30 cents, men got cut from $4 to $3 and $2. The Driftwood mine, in Brownsville, got a cut of 20 per cent, 10 cents a ton for both machine and picked The Kinlock mine in the Allegheny Valley, of the Paisley (Cleveland) coal interests cut wages 10 per cent. In response to these wage cuts, and to similar drives in the steel indus- try, delegates will go to Harrisburg from Pittsburgh and vicinity repre- senting the Westinghouse workers, those of the Byers Pipe Co., the Mc- Kees Rocks Pressed Steel Car Com- pany, the Unemployed Councils of the “Hill section,” the “Jungles” and the “Helping Hand,” and outside Pittsburgh from Avella, already con- ducted a hunger march of their own to Washington, Pa., and succeeded in getting $5 each from the welfare de- pertment. The marchers, represent- ing 300,000 jobless in this section will leave from 805 James St., N. S., on Saturday morning. The send-off to the Hunger March- ers will be tomorrow night at the Irene Kauffman Settlement, 1835 Center Ave. Minnesota Sends May Day Order Minnesota orders 2500 copies for May Day campaign, in ad- dition to regular section page of 1,000, ensuring thorough concentration in workingclass neighborhoods, before factories, ete. for May Day demonstra- tions, Workers! Greet the Daily Worker on May Day (25c~@ name). Uni sections, dis- tricts may send collective greetings with a donation. Can- vass mass organizations for May Day ads covered by liberal sums according to their means, Solicit local ads at $2 per col- umn inch, All greetings and ads to be sent immediately in order to appear in respective May Day editions for West Coast, Mid-West, Eastern and N.Y. City. relief! t War! DOWN TOOLS ON MAY DAY! For Unemployment Insurance! -Against Deportations and Persecutions of Foreign-Born! Smagh the Intervention Plot Against the Soviet Union? ——