The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1931, Page 1

Negro Worker Lynched iP le a ReGee STATION kee ES Taw CAPITALIST PRESS. in ere : Answer Terror May 1! the Com (Sree: ti ono f Entered aso Vol. VIII, No. 95 at New York, N. ¥.. munist es Norker the-ESVMumist Party U.S.A. tional) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! d-class mat at the Post Office cx. "P> ander the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, MO Expose Stimson’s Hypocrisy! DEFEND THE ARMED FIGHTERS FOR NICARAGUAN INDEPENDENCE! Mm HAMILTON FISH has again broken-into the press “demanding protection for American citizens.” Indeed he says “A nation that does not protect its own citizens is unworthy of the name government.’ But Mr. Fish is not at all concerned with the protection of American work- ers from starvation. Indeed, he insists that the American government compel American workers to starve to death, rather than pay unemploy- ment insurance from taxes upon the rich. The only Americans Mr. Fish refers to, are the imperialists and their agents in Nicaragua. About these, Mr. Fish declares, “The American people do not propose to throw overboard their rights, wherever they may be.” By the phrase “the American people,” Mr. Fish, means the American capitalists, since it is obvious that the American workers not. only have no “rights” in Nicaragua, but have no rights in America’ either. About Nicaragtia, the whole chorus of imperialist hypocrites, is in full cry in all keyes. Mr. Fish’s bluster against the “new policy” of timson and Hoover is but the high key of imperialist arrogance to which the basso of approval from the Borah’s and LaFollettes are the imper- lalist apologists accompaniment—all blending in nicely to afford shelter to Mr. Stimson’s hypocritic note about “no protection to Americans, and withdrawal of marines.” General Smedley Butler of the marines has already answered the liars who depict the fighters for Nicaraguan independence as “bandits.” In effect, the general stated a year or so ago, that “Anyone who opposed American interests was declared to be ‘bandits’.” And against the reports flaunted in the yellow press about Nicaraguan “bandits,” beheading Americans, we refer readers to the report of Mr. Bruell, an investigator of the Foreign Policy Association, who has stated that the U. S. Marines themselves have beheaded Nicaraguan fighters for independence and exposed their heads in the public square! These arrogants of Yankee imperialism forget that it is not in the same historical position as in the days of Teddy Roosevelt, and that precisely the hypocritic circumspection of Stimson and Hoover is at pre- sent the best mask of deceit to screen an intensified campaign to con- solidate Yankee imperialism in Nicaragua. Incidentally, flowers of praise are gathered from such scoundrels as Borah and LaFollette.* The policy of Stimson is nothing other than. the extension of the imperialist strategy in Mexico carried out by Dwight Morrow. It is the strategy of breaking up bourgeois opposition to Yankee penetration by minor concessions and the effort to consolidate bourgeois forces around ‘Yankee imperialism and its native tools on a common program of in- tensified joint exploitation of the toiling masses, and fascist terror against the revolutionary movement of the workers and peasants. The policy of Stimson and Hoover of ‘gradually withdrawing” mar- ines, after they have built up Yankee-officered and controlled National Guards is part of this program; while Yankee warships patrol the coast and back up with the full force of American arms the native tools of Wall Street. Against this whole hypocrisy, workers of the United States must - demand—on May Day and afterwards—Hends off Nicaragua!. Immediate withdrawal of the U. S. Marines, Yankee officers of the National Guard and all other civil and military agents of imperialism—Full support to all forces engaged in battle against imperialism! All aid to the struggle of the Army of Liberation! Defeat the Frame-Up! c the prison cells at Paterson, New Jersey, are five workers, victims of a vicious frame-up, in danger of their lives. They are strikers. They fought with and for the workers as mem- kers of the National Textile Workers’ Union. For this, the Silk Manufacturers Association is attempting to send them to the electric chair. Some of these workers are veterans of other strikes. selected by the manufacturers to die. Because a petty silk mill boss, who was a bootlegger as well, mixed in underworld life, died a month after being attacked by rival bootleggers’ sluggers, the fact that he was slugged while around the strike lines is being used by the silk barons to railroad five workers to death in the electric chair, These silk mill bosses care nothing for Urban, their underworld col- league, They want to, they hope to break the National Textile Workers’ Union by sending five workers to death. Lurking in the shadow are the social fascist “socialists,” who are enemies of the workers and the militant Union both as silk manufac- turers and as social fascists. These scoundrels, of whom Urban was one, are united with the capitalist terrot against the workers and their union. All the forces of reaction are conspiring to send these five brave work- ers, one a working woman and mother, to death in the horrible electric chair. It is a case that cries out to workers everywhere to protest! It is a part of the whole system of deportation, lynching and intimidation of the capitalists to crush the workers’ resistance to wage cuts and starv- ation! The story of Paterson must be spread to the far corners of the Uni- ted States and the world! The frame-up must be exposed! The victims must be torn from the bloody jaws of capitalism! Every May Day marcher must cry aloud—Free the Paterson Prisoners! Out on the streets May Day, demanding that the frame up stop! Strike on May Day to demand the right to organize and strike against wage cuts, for unemployment insurance! Defend the revolutionary unions by defo “__ the Paterson strikers! Defeat the Frame-Up! PLAN LAST DETAILS FOR MAY DAY TONIGHT AT MANHATTAN LYCEUY NEW YORK.—Tonight, at 8 p. m.,| told the chairman she wanted only in Manhattan Lyceum, the final May | to announce tonight's United Front Day United Front Conference mects, lay Day Conference. with delegates from all workers’ or-| Virne officials refused even this and ganizations, unions, fraternal orders, | again ordered her out. Workers in sports, defense and cultural clubs. | the hall wanted to know what was The big delegation assured already | in the tetter, and, on being told, in- may be made larger by last-minute sisteq they wanted to hear it read, affiliations. This conference will) ang that the uhion rules we ere that work out the last details of the May| no matter what was in the letter it sd inated hit is, the business of the offici It is intended for the demonstra- | read it. Van Veen Sent ane ak tors to mobilize at Madison Square | was again ejected and one of the of- Park at 12:30 and to march from | ficiais tore up the. lettes there to Union Square, in spite of the | expecting ren 6 teen laa ok united front plans of the police, so- cialist party and fascist Veterans of ineke a cases rg ene Foreign Wars to hold Union Square | 399 bakers gathered around, includ- all day away from the workers. ing 12 bakers thrown out of the meet- Carry Call to Bakers. ing by the official gangsters because | Sadie Van Veen, representing the | they were Communists. All at the United Front May Day Committee, | meeting applauded the announce- came to the Amalgamated Bakers’ | ment of the May Day Conference and meeting Saturday afternoon in La-| Van Veen exposed the union bureau- They are being NDAY, APRIL 20, 1931 CITY EDITION WALL ST. PREPARES WAR ‘Boss Lynchers Raise Funds to Defeat Struggle to Save Nine nnoc ent Negro Boys fromChair ON NICARAGUAN PECPLE; RUSH MORE BAL TLeSHIPS Rake Up Old Fake Yarns About Banditry in ‘Nicaragua | DEMONSTRATE MAY 1 AGAINST IMPER- IALIST ATTACK ON N NICARAGUANS Nibeation Army Pushes Fight to Drive Imperialists Out of Nicaragua; Support the Fight of the Nicaraguan Rebels | War against the Nicaraguan people is being carried on by American troops, in the interest of the imperialists of Wall Street. The capitalist press is printing the usual horror stories against Sandino and the Army of Lib- eration. Not satisfied with the fact that warships le®ve for | Nicaragua every day loaded with troops, machine guns, bomb- ing planes and other war instruments, the capitalist press is re-hashing the torture-stories that were used to initiate the! war against G ermany and sre are used to ) murder the Chi-} PLAN FOR may 1 Times., and nearly every other cap- italist paper’ in the country print 15 Organizations i in Conference “Atrocity” Yarns, scare head lines packed with lies to |stir Up war against the Nicaraguan |people. The main “atrocity” story | | is based on the living accounts of the | group of imperialists who arrived in New Orleans Saturday on the S. S. | Teteeta ee |Cefalu from Puerto Cabezza. Most| PASSAIC, N. J. April 17.—A con- |of the men were involved in shoot-| ference to make plans for the cele- ing Nicaraguan workers, and when bration of the workers international they were defeated and a number of | holiday, May «1, was held Thursday their group executed, they cooked up | % f all sorts of lies about “torture” and| Cvening. April 16, at 39 Monroe St. “panditry” in order to increase the| BE BON NEES te Wall Street armed forces in Nicara-| tons were present. David Gordon from Paterson re- ported briefly on the importance of gua and confiscate ‘more of the lands | of the Nicaraguan people for the ben- Hoover and Stimson, in order not | to arouse the indignation and resent- |ment of greater masses throughout Latin America, have issued a state- | ment saying they have changed their [Policy in Nicaragua whereby troops! ne resolutions eommittee elected | will be supplied only for the coast ities. At the same time, daily sh’p-| at ja sacagegad ene, the fol- | | lowing plan of work: ments of troops were made to carry | 2 on warfare against the Nicaraguan} 1. That all organizations not re- people, and especially against the! Presented be visited before May 1 Army of Liberation led by Sandino,| 2d drawn into the preparations for the demonstration. 2. That a call, |and the new forces of workers and | peasants armies that are fighting the | be issued to all organizations and | impe. troops and the Nicaragu-| individual workers, in 4 languages, urging them to take part in the de- monstration. 3. That the mobiliza- tion place be Hudson Street, between | Market and Third. 4. A parade be arranged from the mobilization point, through the workers neighborhood to} the City Hall. 5. That the confer- | ence endorse the Communist candi- date running for Commissioners in | the city elections, namely, Simon | | Smelkenson, Miriam Fireman and tween the of the world is due to the fact that workers rule in the Soviet Union, while in the United States and the rest of the world, the capitalists rule. (CONTINUED ON PAC HREE) | | BOAST OF CUTTING WORKING FORCE NEW YORK—The “Lamp,” pub- | lication of the Standard Oil Co. of | New Jersey, boasts of the economies it effected by laying off 10 per cent | |of their working force. The rest have been speeded up. Begin Lying Stories of Tort of Torture to Stir Up War Hatred; now | efit of the American imperialists. | May Day, pointing out the present | Stimson’s Hypocris, | conditions under which the workers | Perey: | are living. The sharp contrast. be- Soviet Union and the rest | I Southern Landlords In| New Mob | Lynching | Intensify mie et 0 r| Take -Negro Out of Jail; Seeking | Another CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 19. —With millions of white and Negro | workers rallying to the defense of the nine Negro youngsters framed- | |up and railroaded to the electric | chair by an Alabama lynch court, the land monopolists and capitalists in other sections of the South are sa- vagely intensifying their mob terror gainst the Negro workers. In Union City, Tennessee, a boss mob last night rode up in a swell | automobile to the county jail and | took George Smith, a Negro worker, from his cell and lynched him, Smith |has been arrested on the usual charge of rape used by the bosses | to get even with Negro workers who insist on getting wages for their la- | bor. On thesameday, in Huntingdon, |'Tenn., a mob sought to lynch Henry | | Mumford, a Negro worker ccused of | shooting a Humboldt, Tenn. officer who attempted to brutalize him. | while the sheriff hid with the keys, j his wife met the mob and told them | | thte prisoner had bee removed to | another jail. “Y was waiting for them when the ears drove up this morning,” she said. “They were mighty nice about | it and didn’t come in.” Every worker can imagine what would have hap- ' pened if the “nice” mob had insisted | ‘on entering the jail, where no plan had been made to defend the Negro. | his increasing terror against the | Negro workers give additional em- phasis to the necessity of every | worker coming out on the streets on | | May Day to demonstrate against the | murderous béss system of lynching, | starvation, wage cuts, and prepara- tion for imperialist war against the | Soviet Union, the workers’ father- land which points the way to the workers out of the capitalist system | | of starvation and terror. ‘Tile. Marble Setters Picket Today for the | 8-Hr. Day; Organized, | | NEW YORK.—The 17 workers at | the Excelsion Tile and Marble Co., | Bronx, are ready to start picketing | this morning to enforce their de-| | mands for the -eight-hour day, 44-| | hour week, restoration of the 15 per | cent cut in their wages, no overtime land resognition of the shop .com- | mittee. ‘They met Saturday and elected a committee of five, which presented these demands, and the boss offered | to grant all but the recognition. The | ; Workers met with the Trade Union | Unity League and decided to insist | on all the demands. They are now | organized in the Tile and Marble | Setters League of the T.U.U.L. | be found around the shop during; REFORMISTS AID LYNCHERS |Support Court Room | 11 Lynching of 9 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Apri 19. —The boss lynchers of Scottsboro, Alabama, determined to carry thru their court room lynching of nine| Miners, Steel Workers| Negro youths, have raised a huge | purse to employ the firm of Proctor | Arr ests ape ff obless c | and Snodgrass to assist the State | * | prosecutor resisting the efforts of the | Leaders Ever y ching BULLETIN. workingclass to smash this murder- | ous frame-up and railroading to the) SHENANDOAH, Penn., April 19. Two rousing meetings in St. Clair, electric ‘chair of these nine young- | sters. | . In the meantime, working-class| meetings in Port Carbon, Frack- | resentment is constantly increasing| Ville and Minersville were held | as the true facts in this vicious bce Pree Paci are @ i | Ployed dele; si | frame-up are brought to light by search i eikcrabure.Taastings will be held tonight at Centralia, investigations conducted by the In-/ bor Deft » ‘Thru- bs Mester nest as | Fiardville, Ashland, and Kulpmont. Tomorrow a meeting in Shamokin, | out the country, workers and their organizations are thundering their 3 j i fei: | the center of the strike of 11,000 protests and intensifying the prepar- | iideta Sill necuke the. ateikets “of the solidariyt of the unemployed. ations for huge May Day demon- | strations and struggle against the | boss system of starvation, wage cuts, i Lie trad Nog wrinemaia | terror against Negro, and foreign- | pa age spelen de Agee born workers, and preparations for | eapetly Antfiracite AS sel ae ee ment Insurance!” Southern Workers Rallying To | Defense In the South, where the boss ide- | ) Hunger archers Leave Pittsburgh on | War to Harrisbur ye Shes PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 19.—A hundred and ten hunger marchers left Pittsburgh Saturday morning for ology of race hatred has taken | Harrisburgh, the state capital, to de- | strongest hold, white and Negro’ mand passage of a state unemplo: workers are uniting as never before.| ment insurance bill. They were | Meetings and demonstrations have from Pittsburgh and from the mining een held in Atlanta, Ga., New Or- } ahd steel towns immediately around, leans, La., and Chattanooga, during | and will be joined on the way by | dozens more marchers from other | such industrial cities, | The masses of employed and un- employed workers who picked these Active Picketing in Be op % Fo | marchers to represent them at the Olympic Strike; Call | state capital are watching eagerly | for Shop Committees news of their progress, and are build- | ing back of the march a great cam- NEW YORK.—The strike of the | paign for demionstrationsMay First Olympic Suit Case Co. 96 Bleeker to support the demands for insur- } Street, which has been going on for, ance and to expose the whole capi- more than a week is in a splendid | talist system to the masses of the condition. The strikers hlod together | Workers: Unemployed worker dele- and the shop has been picketed every gates will take an active part in the day from 7 a.m. till 7 p.m. May Day Conference here to. map Workers from other shops are to| Out detdils of the demonstration. The Pittsburgh marchers paraded (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) the day. The workers in the shops | are also responding with money con- | | tributions. The workers of the Metro- Woods Gives Dope On politan Suit Case Co. have already Unemployment; Press contributed for the strike close .to $2. Workers from other shops are Must Not Publish It! y also responding splendidly. They must organize committees in the shops to help the strikers. The strike in the Olympic must be a be- ginning of an organization campaign | in the luggage industry in New York and also in other centers of the/ jus Klein will tell members of the trade. The left-wing group of the | American Society of Newspaper Ed- Suit Case and Bag Makers Union, |itors “the unvarnished truth about affiliated with the Trade Ufion Unity | unemployment and business condit- | League are taking an active part ions ‘in this country,” according to | in the Olympic strike. They are do- | Editor and Publisher, newspaperman’s | ing their utmost to take care that magazine. | the workers take an active part in| Woods and Klein will make their | the leadership of the strike, to make | addresses at the banquet of the s0- | the wide membership of the union | ciety at the New Willard Hotel, Wash- NEW YORK.— “with the assurance that what they have to say will not be published,” Col. Arthur Woods, | Hoover's unemployment committee | head, and Asst. Sec. of Commerce Jul- | jof the Pennsylvania | march. Against evictions, for rent reduc- | tions! Alex Bennett, a Negro worker. For full political and social rights ‘The resolution was adopted unani- | and self-determination for Negroes! | office and mill in the country. Even mously,. | Against imperialist war! interested in the importance of the) strike and to lay a strong basis tor| further organizational activity. pais eens | the railroads, “Hoover put Doak in as Secretary of Labor with the ex- press purpose of undertaking wage- cuts in the railroad industry, The big steel bosses, particularly the Uni- ted States Steel Corporation, through the columns of the Wall Street Jour- nal announced months ago there would be wage cuts. Now we have the reports of definite conferences of the bosses at which plans for car- rying out these wage cutting drives were taken up. Concentrate Their At- tack On Rail and » Steel Workers Plans for the biggest wage cut- ting drive against the American workers in the history of the coun- try are well under way. The cap- italist press is.already advancing the propaganda under which this new and national wage cut campaign will go on. While the wage cuvs, ac- “Wage reductions in some of the cording to open statements made in} country’s basic industries,” writes the capitalist newspapers, will can-| the New York Times (April 18) centrate on cutting the pay of steel and railroad workers, it will be car- ried into every factory, shop, mine, “including steel, have been discus- sed tentatively here, some down- ward revisions may be put into effect soon.” This cautious manner of announ- cing a definite fact—that the bosses have the plans rea is an attempt to disarm the workers and to keep now wages are being cut left and right, directly and indirectly, all over the country, Months ago the Daily Worker printed facts about this wage cutting | them from struggle. / bor Lyceum, Brooklyn, and was de-| cracy, using that night’s incidents as nied the floor by the officials, She ' proof, drive. It was shown how the rail-! Push Plans For Wide Cuts road bosses insisted on wage cuts on| ‘The Associated Press on Saturday reported mectings held by the lead- | ing New York bankers and exploiters on how to carry through these wage cuts. Naturally, the details were not | made public but the workers will soon feel them in their pay envelopes —in the form of heavy wage cuts. The railroad bosses present ai these conferences came out for heavy wage slashes. “An important transportation executive’—the capitalist press, of course, refuses to name him—‘“ex- pressed the belief that railroad wages would and must come down!” Concentrate On Rail Workers Nearly all the financial newspapers are carrying on a heavy attack against the wages of the railroad workers, The American capitalists own $25,000,000,000 of railroad bonds and stocks. They insist on receiving high interest on these bonds and stocks. The crisis has cut down the income of the railroads. Instead of Bosses in Biggest Wage Cut Drive in U. S. History; Get Aid of A. F. of L. Officials profits that. are squeezed out of the workers, the bosses want to put the entire burden of the crisis on the backs of the workers -- they want | their profits to come out of the wage | cut that they intend handing the | railroad workers. Answer the Bosses May 1 Green, Woll and the other A. F.) of L. misleaders have promised to break strikes to advance the wage cutting drive. This was the result of their agreement with Hoover and the leading bosses jn November, 1929. Only the Trade Union Unity League, and its affiliated unions, supported by the Communist Party, is mobiliz- ing the workers to organize and strike against wage cuts. The bosses’ plans are made. Every worker must join the fight against wage ents! Rally to the May Day demonstrations where the unity of the workers will) be solidified,. and the bosses’ chal- lenge will be answered by a counter- standing one cent of drop in their aitack ‘of the workers, ington, D. C., April 18. | William Green, president of the A. | F. of L, will address the editors on “The Press and Labor News” on Fri- day, April 17, at 2 p. m. A confidential conference with Pres. Hoover will be held Thursday night, April 16. The Hoover conference is limited strictly to eos of the as- scciations, Rush May Day Greetings Have you sent YOUR May Day greetings to the Daily Worker? Has your mass or- ganization sent its greeting? Send individual greetings (at 25 cents) and larger greetings from fraternal organizations, | workers’ clubs, trade unions, ete., before the following dead- lines: Pacific Coast edition, Dists, 12, 13, 18, 19—April 20, Midwest, Dists. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17 April 22, Eastern, Dists, 1, 2 (upstate N. Y. only) 3, 4, 5, 6,- 15, 16—April 24, New York City and No, New Jersey, April 25. Greetings and ads from local dealers ($2 per inch) should be rushed without delay. Thou- sands of greetings for May Day will be carried in the Daily Worker. Be sure yours is there! Price 3 Cents Rousing for May 1 Demonstrations in All Cities, Towns SMASH TERROR AT NORRISTOWN, PA. Score S Socialist Crew in Reading Meets READING, Pa., April 19—A fine jaugery for huge May First demon- strations against the capitalist-system itself, and for unemployment insur- ance is seen in the enthusiastic recep- | tion by the masses in the towns along the way to the Philadelphia section state hunger The militancy, courage and dash of the marchers, wo go through |towns with hostile city governments, singing and cheering and shouting slogans, brushing aside the threats previously showered upon them and holding big mass meetings, is inspir- liring all the workers. Expose Socialists. The 126 marchers from Philadel- phia have had additions to- their ranks as they came along, and are now in Reading, where they are get- ting ready for the pushon, to Har- risburg, the state capital, tomorrow. Masses of Reading workers’ met the mat the city limits, and marched |with them through Reading streets, jand attended a big mass meeting a | the city hall! where speakers exposed tnorougniy the socialist party admin- Coin Jobless Misery " Into Solid Profits * CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 19.— While over ten million starve, the big corporations take such profit from wage cuts, lengthened hours, and by refusing to do a thing for the unemployed, that the nation- ally known accounting firm of Ernst and Ernst is able to pub- lish figures proving that an aver- age profit of 6.49 per cent was made in 1930 by a list of 407 rep- reseptative corporations in 20 versified industries. This com- pares with 1.39 per cent profit for these industries in 1921, the last depression year, and with 11,35 per cent overage profit in the boom year of 1929, os istration here. The city officials have been insisting there is little unem~ ployment distress in their territory, |and have refused to join in:demands on the governor, meanwhile allowing the little relief to be cut down, and | letting the constables evict those who can not pay rent because of lack of work, Four open air meetings are being | held in Reading. Smash Norristown Teror The hunger marchers were received with a tremendous ovation from the workers of Norristown, whose city offi- cials. had warned them that if they |came through, the state police would |be used to smash the procession. The lynching arguments of the officials fell on deaf ‘ears, and seeing that iene had no support whatever, the \city authorities gave up the plan of attacking the hunger marchers, Four hundred local workers jammed a hall to hear speakers from the hunger march, and 00 more tried. to get in but were unable because of lack of room, This spirited meeting, fhe-first }of its kind in Norristown, was a bold lexposure of the lie that there is n | unemployed proble min Noristown, As a result of the march and meeting, |75 Negro and white workers joined |the unemployed council. In Pottstown, the next stop after Norristown, 50 Ocheered the marchers | at an outdoor demonstration, adopted | the. demand for state unemployment insurance, and derranded the release | of Everett, Trade Unicr Unity League representative arrested in Harrisburg and sentenced to 80 days in jail for hunger march activities. All the mass meetings participated in by the hunger marchers pass re- solutions denouncing the attempted legal lynching of the. nine Negro young workers in Alabama. | Use your Red Shock Troop List jevery day un your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker,