The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1931, Page 1

7 ALL Downs To PRY TS DEMoniptean WALL Cites £4 OUT MAY 1 TO MADISON SQ. & 23RDST. I’. 12:30; PARADE TO Daily Worker Central the-Saunict Party U.S.A. UNIONSQ! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 1S KIDS ay ALfo piety oT (Section of the Communist International) Price 3 Cents Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y,, ander the act of Mareh 3, 1879 Vol. VII, No. 101 eo CITY EDITION Expose the Liars! 'VERY worker should be warned against the unprecedented flood of falsehood now pouring out of Washington through the capitalist press. Each department of government is engaged in what might be humor- ously termed a competition for prizes in hypocrisy. Seriously, every worker must understand that the reason for this is an attempt to cover up with beautiful words and tricky statements, the wholesale, brutal and relent- less attack being made by the American capitalist class on three fronts; the working class, the poor and middle farmers, and the oppressed people of the colonial and semi-colonial countries dominated by American im- Perialism, Browder Exposes | NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1931 War Plot Against || USSR By US Bosses |) SMASH ALL OBSTACLES NEGRO, WHITE WORKERS TO DEMONSTRATIONS AND , IN PARADE PROTESTING HUNGER MARCHES, MAY 1 ‘LEGAL LYNCHING OF 9 ‘Take the first, Secretary (liar) Doak, finding it necessary to cover up |Ohio Mayor, “Friend of (CONFERENCE 0 the frontal attack on workers’ wages, especially speaking of the railroads, | a abor” Tries to Stop MAY 10, DETROIT Cops Ambush Workers and Attack Parade: | says “there is nothing to it.” Which is a lie. But he tries to shelter this | March Meeting oreiay | Workers Resist Onslaught of Clubs ‘Half Million Jobless; lie by saying that “only the bankers” want wage cuts and that “the ad- ministration has done everything to prevent it.” This ridiculous hypocrisy Aroused in Indiana ionic | | and Blackjacks \Protest Frees J obless) Prepare March See Leader, Youngstown | DETROIT, Mich., April 26.—The } would have us believe that the bankers have no influence, whereas the fact is they give the capitalist government its orders and, further, they are ALLIANCE, Ohio, April 26 —Mayor | Trade Union Unity League and the} Hari of Alliance, who was elected by|Unemployed councils call on all the In tomorrow's issue of the Daily Worker there will appear a com- plete and smashing expose of the war prepara by American capitalism against the Soviet Union. “War Against the Soviet Union!” by Earl Browder is the most complete analysis yet made of the part of American imperial- ism in the daily war mongering against the workers’ republic. Read about the Federal Farm Board's part in preparing for war on the U.S.S.R.! Learn how Fish, Hillquit, O'Neal, Cannon and Lovestone are linked up in laying the ground for an armed attack on the Soviet Union, No worker can miss this article. Order your copy of tomorrow's is- sue 6f.the Daily Worker no’ 9 determined to cut wages. Then take the second offensive—against the farmers. The’ lie here turns around the dumping of 275,000,000 bushels of wheat on the market. Secretary (liar) Hyde’ says it is not dumping. Everybody else in the whole wide world, correctly, says it is dumping. |Tear Down Placards Calling For Smashing | of Scottsboro Frame-Up Secretary (liar) Hyde says it will not harm prices here, but prices promptly sink here and all over the world, and they will fall still more. On Wednesday Secretary (liar) Hyde who has been given $67,000,000 for alleged “relief” to supposed farmers” ” among the 6,350,000 individual farms, announces that only 296,128 loans have been made—this small number being due to his own restrictions upon loans—and that the remaining amounts, totalling some $26,000,000 are “available to bankers!” This is the hypocrisy of “helping the farmers.” Thirdly, the attack on peoples subjected to American imperialism: Secretary (liar) Ssimson, under the pretension of “withdrawal of marines” trom Nicaragua, launches an increased and intensified war of invasion and slaughter covered up with the further lie that it is against “bandits.” Again, the “protection of American lives” in Honduras is made the hypocritical excuse to conceal the invasion of its shores and the establish- ment of an equally hypocritical “neutral zone’”—which is precisely how imperialist domination of Nicaragua was begun in 1912 and concealed again in 1926. Again, all the bellyaching hypocrisy of Secretary (liar) Stimson about “protecting lives” has no application to Chinese lives. For American im- perialism in China on April 8th at the City of Ichang, shot down—mur- dered—no less than 25 soldiers of the very government recognized and supported by American imperialism. And U. S. Gunboat Commander Bischoff, the agent of Secretary (liar) Stimson responsible for the mas- sacre, haughtily rejects the Chinese and compensation. demands for an apology, punishment Workers and farmers of America must realize that this astounding ‘flood of lies and demagogy does not cident, Its purpose is to shield the States government, from a counter fill the capitalist press merely by ac- capitalist class, owners of the United attack of the workers, farmers and against its intensified robbery ‘and plurider. And, realizing the clear necessity of common struggle against the common foe, the American workers and farmers should demonstrate in united protest on May Day, and unite in struggle—together with the colonial oppressed—after May Day to overthrow the capitalist-imperialist system of banditry anc murder! The Fight of the Miners the workers because they thought he | |was for them is showing his colors |now. He absolutely refuses to give any co-operation to the delegation of Youngstown marchers who are due there on the second of May. He de- nied the marchers a permit for a street meeting. But the workers of Alliance want to greet the marchers whether the Mayor likes it or not. The delegation will have a meeting jin Alliance, police or no police. Free Jobless Leader. munist League was given 60 days in jail for fighting an eviction case here two weeks ago. Mass protest led by the International Labor Defense has forced his release and he is now again carrying on the struggle against wage cuts and speed-up. The news of impending general wage cutting in the steel mills has aroused the workers here. They will be out in mass demonstration on the First of May, against the cut, against the capitalist system, and demanding unemployment insurance. Hunger marchers will go from Youngstown to the state capitol at Youngstown soon after the demonstration. ba om Overcome Obstacles. Reports from Ohio are that some of the towns along the five lines of march, concentrating on the state YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 26—) John Andrews of the Young Com-| capital at Columbus, are willing to} workers’ organizations to prepare to support the state hunger marches on May 27, and the signature campaign | for a state referendum for the Work- \ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. All are urged to send delegates to} |the conference, May 10, at 10 a. m at 1343 East Ferry, Detroit, to plan | these campaigns. They are urged to} support the campaigns -with funds. The Workers International Relief | is organizing a district-wide Tag Day| for May 15, 16, and 17. In addition to this an International Concert by all} the workers’ choruses is being organ- | ized. Groups of workers from the| | unemployed councils will go into cities jof Michigan, such as Jackson, Kala- mazoo, Lansing, Battle Creek, etc.,| | where no organizations up to the pre- | jsent time have been established. | | The Trade Union Unity League in| |Minneapolis is being urged to coop- \erate in the building up of the Hun-| |ger March by mobililzing the lumber | | workers and metal miners in the up- | per Michigan district. MRS. PATTERSON | _ SPEAKS TONIGHT | Will Address Meetings to Save Son’s Life ERS NEW YORK.—Determined to save | CALL OTIS MEN TO FIGHT CUT Demonstrate At Noon | On First of May YONKERS, N. Y., April 26.—The Communist shop nucleus in the Otis Elevator Co., has issued a bulletin | calling on the workers there to fight the wage cut which rung from 5 to | 15 cents per hour. The nucleus urges the workers to organize a grievance committee and present demands against the cut. The company claims that it made | $2,000,000 less profit than the year before, and whether this is true or | not, the company is plainly out to get | about $2,000,000 out of the .workers in the shape of wage cuts and harder work. Demands proposed by the nucleus are: 1. Withdrawal of the cut. 2. Recognition of the grievance committee. 3. Against the bonus system. The nucleus announces the May First demonstration against cuts, for unemployment relief, at noon, Larkin Plaza. ‘The mail address of the nucleus is Mrs. Janie Patterson, mother of one of the Scottsboro frame-up vic- tims. She is now in New York helping to mobilize mass support in the fight to free the nine Negro boys. MINERS CONVENE — MAY 23 IN MIDST OF STARVATION Shoeless Children Run} in Ice; Live on Weeds | PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 26—Sev- | eral hunger marches of the starving Avella miners have forced the capi- talist press of Western Pennsylvania to give wide publicity to the starva- tion prevailing in that section. One of the Pittsburgh papers says: Workers | PROS ESS to Answer in Mighty Demonstration May 1; Mobilize in Madison Square BULLETIN BERLIN, April 2 immediate release. Shop meeting street car workers Berlin terminal ten protest most sharply against execution of 8 Nezro workers. Demand CHAIRMAN. NEW YORK.—That Northern Negro and white workers are no to be permitted to protest the murderous frame-up and mass legal lynching of nine N sgro children planned by the landlord and capitalist class of Alabama, was the edict laid the Scottsboro lynch verdict was viciously attacked and broken up by police. The parade followed a meeting ‘at 140th St. and Lenox Ave., at which speakers from the International La- bor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights had ex- posed the legal lynching nature of the Scottsboro verdict sentencing 8 of the 9 Negro youths to burn in the electric chair on July 10. The meet- ing was attended by hundreds of white and Negro workers, determined to wage a united struggle against this murderous frame-up and for uncon- ditional equality for the Negro masses. | Application for a permit for the | down by Wall Street and its Tammany police on Saturday when |a parade in Harlem protesting*—— DEMONSTRATE AT BOROUGH HALL. BROOKLYN TODAY Demand Relief for Jobless BROOKLY! extent of mise) N. ¥.—Showing the in Brooklyn, espe- cially among the unemployed work- ers, the Boro Hall Unemployed Branth sent a letter to Borough Pres- ident Hesterberg presenting their de- mands and preparing for a demo e stration Monday at 11 a. m. before : give food or lodging or both, while| the life of her son, Haywood, and the | P. O. Box 131, Yonkers. “The little children are running are Pay ae madesand dented | Borough Hall ; IN recent weeks the miners have taken first place in the struggle against | others viciously attack the attempt| eight other young Negro workers in about ‘barefoot in the icy mud of | °¥ the police. The white and Negro) esrining the worsening condit- i Pee cits, speed-up, starvation program of the bosses. In the |of the jobless to save themselves from| Scottsboro, Ala., whom the southe| Nice Young Ladies the barren hillsides. They have been | “O'K*!S Unanimously voted to voice | jons of the unemployed workers, the d «anthracite about 25,000 miners struck despite the treachery of the Lewis starvation. The chambers of com-| ruling class is trying to burn in the ao shoclsas abnes abt talc Whe nies their protests against the Scottsbore | letter called attention to several cascs 4 Boylan leadership. They fought courageously but were defeated because | merce are being mobilized to crush| ¢lectric chair on framed-up charges Teach Jobless How oor cen ni ‘see ao a, | outrage, permit or no permit. investigated by the Unemployed 4 they did not take the strike into their own hands. They relied upon the |the hunger marchers by all means.| Mrs. Claude Patterson, who arrived | * | etree ce sees We nes 4 se oe Branch, , Maloney Davis leadership of the Glen Alden Grievance Body who sold | Big capital wants these men to suffer| here Friday, will, during the next ten| LO Live On Fodder | ini, strength and nourish their | | 5 the parade reached @ point mid-| wry the following families who are > them out at the first opportunity to Lewis and the operators, until they are willing to cut wages,| days visit a large number of organ-| Booron sass, April 26—Two| bables on a dict of dandelions gath- abs SOc aha Aas had been con | sctually starving: Mr, Jose 1 : Now over 10,000 miners in the Shamokin section of the lower anthra- | But the jobless will march. izations and address meetings in an Se ae : | . le eee ere DSR DSU OOM: lide uridae Siy\a tather cd urease : n : r ) college girls here, loyal to the profit | ered on the hillsides. For months | ceaied nearby, rushed out and began x 4 cite are fighting against the same starvation program of the mine oper- | The Ohio marchers start at| effort to rally support for the de- system and anxious to show the Reds| none of the little children have had | murderously clubbing and mauling | @¢? who has been unemployed for 1 ators. Again they fight not only against the operators but also against | Youngstown, Toledo, Cleveland, Cin-|fense of the nine boys. that a eorker can Gadel ave tel aul, the Newro aaa wt t es kers, Negro | the last 8 montis, facing eviction, : the strikebreaking activity of the Lewis-Brennan machine in this district. |cinnati, and Stuebenville just after| Mrs. Patterson was brought here | 3 Lone eee rae at one toner: aero WEVA Ree ewe tonne Boanogt Again the strike faces defeat because of lack of militant policy and or- ganization. Again a group of local leaders not elected by the miners either willingly or through ignorance, inexperience and cowardice on the part of some are leading the miners by the nose preparing the defeat. Strikes have taken place also in W. Va., Ill. and in the Pittsburgh re- gion. Only in the Pittsburgh. District did the miners have real militant , leadership despite the many mistakes made by the N. M. U. leadership that led the strike. In all other places the Muste Howatt type of leader- ship only led the miners to defeat. The miners are in a fighting mood. But they “ave no effective lead- ership as yet to lead the fight against the operators and Lewis. ‘They are Jearning to ward off the Muste Howatt type of attack that they face in every struggle.. The miners are expressing this dissatisfaction though not yet clearly and still very feebly. In Illinois the Fishwick Lewis unity has resulted in many miners seeing the need for building up their own power for the fight. The recent Howatt convention was an attempt to further fool the miners and keep them from rallying behind the National Miners’ Union. Though the convention was not a great success for the Muste Howatt misleaders it nevertheless did represent a growing activity among the May First demonstrations and reach Columbus for a state confer- ence May 10. On the 11th they pre- sent demands for unemployment in- surance to the legislature. Police Overseers. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 26.— Burley policemen are set to watch the jobless on the charity gang work, and where formerly the jobless got $2.20 weekly and a small dole of groceries for a week on the gang, from now on they are to get only the groceries. All men must have at least three small children to get any charity work at all. In mass protest against such treat- from Chattanooga by the Interna- tional Labor Defense which is con- ducting a nation-wide campaign to smash this infamous frame-up. She received a tremendous ovation when she spoke at the big protest meeting in St. Luke's Hall, Harlem, Friday night. Her defense work in this city is under the auspices of the New York District of the ILD. Speaks Tonight Monday night at 8 o'clock Mrs. Patterson will address the Lithuanian May Day Conference at 46 Ten Eyck St., Brooklyn. Wednesday night she will speak at the Bronx Women's Council, at 2700 Bronx Park East. Mrs. Patterson will also speak before many other workers’ organizations, live on almost nothing, left their nice | apartment, and fat with plenty of | meals in the past, proceeded to live | for a limited time on $6.25 a week. They spent $2.15 a week of it for food, and a grateful college will give them class room credit for the ex- periment, The experiment is- worthless, for there are some millions of men who have been “living” on a dollar's worth of charity soup a week—only they turn green and die by inches and are now being cut off from even the soup. The girls escaped pellagra and scurvy by going back to heavier meals when the “class room exercise” ended. The New Bedford Times hails this “There is immediate need for clothing for children of all ages, from 2 years to 14; shoes, stockings, | underwear and outer clothing for both girls and boys. Clothing for the women is needed too. The men are shabbily and but sufficiently clad, Few of the women can ven- ture out, especially when there are visitors in the camp. They have not enough clothing to cover them.” The Penowa miners were robbed of | 6 weeks of their pay. The company | owes them about $300 a piece. Simi-| lar conditions prevail throughout the mining industry. The United Mine Workers of Amer- ica is doing absolutely nothing to or- cops were used for the attack. These viciously clubbed the workers and tore. down and trampled into the dust the banners calling for “Death to Lynch Law,” “Smash the Scottsboro Frame- up,” “Save the Lives of Nine Inno- | cent Negro Youths,” “Down With Jim Crowism and Segregation,” “Uncon- ditional Equal Rights for the Negro People.” ~* Negro and white workers heroically defended their banners, and in spite of the police terror made their way to 110th St., where a mass meeting was held denouncing the co-opera- tion of the northern bosses and thei: Negro and white police agents with the southern boss lynchers. The following work- with no food in his home, we demand that the city give a cash weekly re- lief of at least $16 and free rent during the period of his unemploy- ment.” Demand Cash Relief “For Mr. Fernando Asveda, of 44 Johnson St., a father of 5 children, whose family is suffering from starva- tion, we demand cash relief of $25 and free rent during the period of his unemployment.” “For Mr, R. Jimones, of 194 Pearl St., whose wife is sick in bed, and no food in the house and with the gas shut off, we demand a minimum | cash relief of $15 and free medieal aid to be paid by the city govern- ment.” ; : : ; spread | Demands for Children -% ment, which is common in all cities Many street mectings are also be- victory’ over the greedy workers who | ganize the starving miners. Vas a w pe k the miners, a grouping for militant leadership. of this state, mass demonstrations wwill| ing held by the New York ILD in| Seem to want something better all the | The pesravatione fom the District (ome were arrested and charged with) The letter goes on to list several } Much of the lack of leadership the miners are facing and the pos- =e time, and “The girls believe ‘ » Natt ners | CONUS Assault in the Harlem pa-| other seriolis instances. of . actual } sibility of Muste Howatt leaders to fool the workers is due to the weak- |P° held May First, and on May 3,| behalf of the Scottsboro case and of | time, and says sails bichae eve | Convention of the National Miners ‘i a ness and mistakes of the N. M. U. a long time stopped functioning as not use the powerful weapon of the The National Miners’ Union has for a national union. The N, M. U. did united front from below in the fight jor the interests of the miners. Now many of these mistakes are being corrected. In the strikes in Pittsburgh recently the N.M.U. has shown that it is learning how to defend the interests of the miners. In the anthra- cite strikes it has come forward with a program of struggle and united front with the rank and file miners, a fighting force among the miners. This is establishing the N. M. U. as In the St. Louis Howatt convention #2¢ voice of the N. M. U, and its united front policy caused consternation an the Muste Howatt camp and was the one ray of hope for the miners. The N. M. U. must now regather all the forces that were at one time behind it. New elements can and must be drawn in. The N. M. U. must come forward with a program of struggle for the industry give leadership in every struggle of the miners, and particularly The present strike in Shamokin must receive full support and energetic work of all the forces of the N. M. U. The N. M. U. is already working in Shamokin trying to lead the fight of the miners to victory. FOSTER DEBATES MUSTE SUN. MAY 10 To Expose Reformist “Left” Outfit NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, General Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will debate A. J. Muste, | nead of Brockwood Labor College and of the League for Progressive Labor ind 107th Street, on Sunday, May 10, 2:30 p,m. ‘Whe. subject of the debate. will be: “Trade Union Policies of the Trade Union Unity League versus the ?oli- cies of the Progressive Action.” The debate will be held under the auspices of the John Reed Club, a New York organization of revolutionary writers and artists, . An overflow meeting is expected when Foster, a leader of militant, class conscious workers for more than 20 years, will face the misleader of labor, whose policies are back of the sell-out of the Elizabethton strike in 1929, the Danville strike this year and of many other smaller strikes. Muste and his group are fighting the Trade Union Unity League and its affliated unions with all their strength and that of the bosses who work with ‘them, | hunger marches starte at widely sep- arated points: Mammond (through Gary); Evansville (through the farm- ing section) Terre Haute (through Greencastle); Clinton (through Rock- ville) and all reaching Indianapolis for a state conference May 4, and a demonstration that afternoon at 4 o'clock and presentation of demands. the murder frame-up of five Pater- son, N. J., silk workers. The follow- ing street meetings have been ar- ranged: Monday, April 27: Seventh St. and Avenue B, 166th St. and Prospect Ave.; Wednesday, April 29: Tenth St. and Second Ave.; Thurs- day, April 30, 14th St. and University | Pl., Burke Ave. and Allerton. their findings will be useful to the Massachusetts: legislature in connec- tion with operation of the old age pension law, when, as and if funds are found for the same.” For full political and social rights and self-determination for Negroes! Against imperialist war! Union are being carried out on the basis of a determined struggle for; immediate relief to all the starving} miners and their families. The min- ers throughout the Pennsylvania coal fields are requested to send their del- | egates to the District Convention that will be held on May 23-24 in Pitts- burgh, Pa. Not only have united front con- ferences for the May Day demon- strations been held in hundreds of cities, but detailed plans have been worked out for parades and marches. The May Day demonstrations in each city are putting forward local de- mands for immediate relief for the unemployed, against wage cuts and are tying up these demands with the international struggle against capi- talism and for the defense of the So- viet Union. Cty Lee ERIE, Pa.—May Day will be cele- brated this year in the heart of the city at Perry Square, 2.30 p. m, The workers of Erie will concen- trate at three different points of the ity. and-manzh to the Square, One May Day Marches Have Been Planned in Scores Of Cities by United Front May First Conferences Refusal of Jobless group will form at Columbus Park (16th and Poplar), another at Fourth and German, and the third at the hall of the Unemployed Council, 1116 Peach St. These three groups will start their’ march at 2:15 p. m, and reach the main demonstration at about 2.30 p.m. A mass rally will be held at the headquarters of the Unemployed Council at 7 p. m. fol- lowing the demonstration. ‘In Public Square, Youngstown, 0. en cer: 8 - YOUNGSTOWN, O.—The United Erie, Pa. Workers to Answer Gov. Pinchot’s Youngstown, Public Square Relief; All Out to Front May First conference in Youngstown, O., has laid a good basis for the demonstration. The May Day demonstration will start at 11 a. m, at Basin and East Federal St. March- ing on Federal St. to Himrod Ave., to Hines St., to Oak St., to Aayen Ave., to Walnut to Wood St.; it will then go down Wick Ave., to the north east corner of the Public Square, at 12 noon, After a meeting on the Square the demonstrators will ac- company the state hungeg marchers to the city limits. The hunger march- ers will march on to Columbus, O., to present their demands for unem- ployment insurance. ries tae | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Nine May Day demonstrations have been ar- ranged in District Nine as follows: Minneapolis, 5 p. m., Bridge Square; St. Paul, 4.30 p. m., Tenth and Wa- basha.; Duluth, 5 p. m., Courthouse Square; Virginia, 2 p. m., Mesaba and Chestnut; Superior, 5 p. m., Broad- way and Tower; Ironwood, 2 p. m,, Farmers Market Square; Negaunce, 1,30 p. m., Labor Temple; Newberry, 1.30 p. m., Finnish Workers Hall. About 40 mass meetings will be held rade Saturday protesting against the frame-up and attempted legal lynch- ing of the nine Scottsboro youth: | John Tsernorius, Phillip Spector and Demitri Paulas, all arrested at 4:15 at Lenox Ave. and 139th St. Their case came up before Magis- trate De Luca yesterday and the case was postponed until Tuesday, April 28. Five workers were badly beaten up by cops who swung clubs and billies freely, , The workers are being defended by the International Labor Defense. Another defendant, Jack Speiser, was arrested when he stepped out of a subway exit and was beaten up. He was given one day. ‘The workers of New York, colored and white, will answer this brazen co-operation with the southern boss- es’ lynchers with a tremendous dem- onstration on May First, which will mobilize at 12.30 at Madison Square Park, Madison Avenue and 23rd St., and march to Union Square, ar- riving at the latter point at 4 o'clock. (Additional News on Page 3.) GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE (CONTINUED ON PAGH THREB) | SOVIET UNION! sey arn - | That the President, Mr. Hes starvation and sickness and makes concrete demands upon the borough, Among the demands the Unem- ployed Branch puts forward are: (1) erberg, at once open lunch rooms in every public school and give free food to all children of the unemployed. (2) Free clothing for the children of the unemployed to be provided by the city authorities with medical care and dental clinics to be instituted in every public school. (3) Immediate cash relief to the amount of at least $10 per week per family with an addi- tional amount of $3 for each depend- ent. The Borough Hall demonstration will start with a mass meeting at Jay and Johnson Sts. before the State Employment Agency. There a delegation to present the demands to the Borough President will be elected. The assembled workers will then march down to Borough Hall at Court and Fulton Sts., to present the de- mands. Need Vehicles for May Day All Party members and sympa- thizers who have trucks, cars or motorcycles which can be used for May Day should register at the headquarters of the United Front Committee, 16 W..2lst St. ‘Telephone Chelsea '3-0962, »