The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1931, Page 1

' i { WoRKERS / C&LL ON YouR STATE CAPITALS awe Bees N\ ISOBARIC Sp SS pe Yad) stiteshew Vol. VIII, No. 102 pail Entered ax second-clans matter at the Post Office at New York, 8. V., under the aet of Mareh ¥. 1879 (Seetton of the Communist Interna «Worker ~Conrmunict Party U.S.A tional) -“ NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 193 CITY EDITION nw) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents STARVATION INCREASES! FIGHT AGAINST IT ON MAY Ist! To All Workers! MAY DAY APPEAL OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL HE Executive Committee of the Communist International issued the following May Day appeal: Workers of the World! Capitalism never before revealed its own bankruptcy and class bru- tality so clearly as in the present tremendous crisis, unparalleled in world history. 5 ; Hunger, misery, brutal wage-cuts, wholesale dismissals, reduction of social insurance, intolerable taxation, reaction, fascism, war, impoverish- ment of the colonies—that is imperialism’s policy seeking an outlet from ‘the crisis. : Have the toilers another outlet from the crisis of unemployment, starvation, and misery? Yes. Th Communist International, party of the proletarian world revolution, shows the way out. The way out is by the. overthrow of the bourgeois dictatorship and the establishment of proletarian dictatorship, socialism. The example of the Soviet Union shows convincingly the correct way out for the toilers. fi In the capitalist countries thousands of factories are closing, whilst in the Soviet Union socialist industry is developing at a tremendous pace. In the Soviet Union there is no unemployment. 2,000,000 extra workers were used there this year. New towns are arising on former desert land. Socialist cultural, industrial, agricultural giants are arising everywhere. Modern technique and socialist organization of labor is replacing the grinding toil of the peasants and leading millions of collectivists on the broad path of well being and culture. Wages are increasing unceasingly. Social insurance benefits are likewise increasing. The whole of industry is adopting the seven-hour day. The socialist offensive is exterminating the last roots of capitalism. The last exploiters are disappearing. The kulaks are being liquidated as a class on the basis of solid collectivization. Under capitalism ruthless political terror is raging everywhere. With | assistance from the fascists, and the social fascists, the bourgeoisie are , crushing strikes, drowning demonstrations in blood, destroying revolu- tionary organizations, crippling the proletarian press, and oppressing revolutionary peasants. The oppressed peoples of National minorities are groaning under the Versailles yoke. In the Soviet Union hundreds of nationalities formerly oppressed under czarism, now freed by the proletarian revolution, have or- ganized themselves into a brotherly union utilizing the Social National Emancipation in order to achieve ceaseless economic cultural progress. Advantages of planned socialist economy over capitalist anarchy were | never more plainly revealed as today. The imperialists, therefore, fear the success of socialism in the Soviet Union and are preparing feverishly for war, and intervention, . Workers of the world Imperialism is preparing to overthrow tne Soviet Union and to establish a military dictatorship which will restore capitalism and again enslave the peoples freed by the November Revyolu- tion. They plot to convert the Soviet Union into a capitalist colony whilst they are intensifying the slavery of the workers in the capitalist countries. The imperialist ylans are fully supported by International Social Democracy. Workers, especially social demotrats, expose the socialist leaders! De- mand a reckoning for the shameful scabbing in the Ruhr, Lancashire, South Wales, French miners’ strike for supporting the bourgeoisie to carry out wage cuts, and cut social benefits, for supporting the Bruening Gov- ernment of Germany which is introducing the fascist dictatorship with hunger and terror. Demand a reckoning from the Second International for the dastardly treachery of the agents of the French General Staff, Boncour and Blum; for the attitude of the British Labor Government which imprisoned fifty thousand Indian freedom fighters; for participating in the intervention preparations; for the shameful treachery of the Russian menshevists; for supporting Chiang Kai Shek; for the treachery of the Spanish socialists, who facilitated the fascist victory at the highest point of the revolution. Workers, social democrats! Abandon the socialist parties. Leave the Second International! Turn your backs on the international scabs, po- lice, presidents, interventionists. The Second International is nothing but a contemptible ally of dying capitalism. Workers of the world! It depends upon you whether the socialists succeed in saving capitalism, from a proletarian revolution as in 1918. Capitalist stabilization is ending. The Versailles system is collapsing. ‘There is uncertainty in the imperialist camp. It depends on you whether capitalism finds a capitalist way out from this crisis. Workers of the World. Form revolutionary united fronts of workers, and oppressed peoples of the world against the exploiters. ‘The workers, and collectivist peasants of the Soviet Union are reply- ing to the intervention threat with bolshevist tempo of development, and formation of housands tof new shock groups, building hundreds of new facories, power stations, mines, collectives, by consolidating the fighting strength of the Red Army. On May Day the workers of the world will march under the fighting banner of the Communist International.~ Against imperialist interven- tionist preparations! Against white terror of bourgeois reaction! Against fascism, social fascism! Against capitalism, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie! For the Soviet Union! For Soviet China! For the dictator- ship of the proletariat! For Communism! Defend the Soviet Union! 0” page 4 today the Daily Worker gives a complete picture of the par- ticipation by the capitalist government of this country in the anti- Soviet war and intervention plots of world imperialism, On page 1 there is exposed a concrete case of forgery and war propa- ganda against the Soviet Union, a propaganda that is aimed to influence the toiling masses of America against the First Republic. of Workers’ and Peasants.’ There is a pleasant fiction broadcast by the capitalist press and fervently supported by the lying social fascist “socialists,” along with all rag-tag and bob-tail brands of ‘‘pacifist” spreaders of confusion, to the effect that while American capitalists “don’t like” Bolshevism and the American capitalist government will not recognize the Soviet Union— still “there is no war plot” against the Soviet, The exposures in today’s issue prove otherwise and give their own lesson. But it is necessary here to mention another liar, Walter Duranty, Moscow correspondent of the N. Y. Times, who has tried to ascribe to “fantasy” the revelations in Soviet papers of the role of the American Farm Board as a supply organization for imperialist intervention and war against the Soviet. Union. The exposure we publish today cannot be laughed off as a “fantasy.” ‘And the same Walter Duranty is compelled to report in the N. Y. Times of Monday, that the Soviet Union is not taking the hostile moves of the Hoover government against it lightly, nor is it taking them laying down. But the danger of war against the Soviet Union grows daily! Pre- cisely because the Soviet Union, with unemployment wiped out, with the q-hour day ,a rising wage scale and its Five Year Plan of socialist con- struction independent of imperialist. domination, is a beacon light to the workers of all the world, American capitalism is mobilizing for war against it! American capitalism would destroy that beacon light! And it is the deepest duty of the American working class to say “No”! To defend the Soviet Union! To let the war makers at Washington and in Wall Street know that a war against the Workers’ Republic will establish a revolu tionary fighting front in defense of the Soviet Union in every American _ factory, mill, mine and regiment! And it is the duty of American workers : in the May First demonstrations to shout so th y heare-Down with “nih ae ml dnd eGo 'Anti-Soviet Photo Forgeries Incite to War! Strike and Protest May 1 Against War Makers! RED RUSSIA’S LUMBER CAMPS PENAL SERVITUDE REVIVES WHERE , | Fight starvation by a one-da Relief Cut Down In 61 Cities; Pay Cuts Everywhere Millions Starve; Millions More on Part Time Work; Misery of Jobless Is Weapon of Bosses to Slash Wages May First Demonstrations Lead to Hunger Marches on Capitals of Three Lake States Demand Unemployme nt Insurance! World Wide Demonstrations and One Day Strike On May 1; Back It on May First! International I with Organization! strike and mass demonstrations sabor Day this year is a world wide protest against the actual killing by mass hunger of thousands of unemployed workers, against the desperate mis- ery and half starvation of tens of millions, against the lowering -,of the standards of living of FRAME-UP TODAY! Workers, DefendThres Arrested. Saturday NEW YORK.—Not content having used their police in a mur- | derous attack on the white and Negro | workers who joined in the big Har- | }lem parade Saturday which protested \the frame-up and attempted legal lynching of the nine Negro boys in | Scottsboro, Alabama, the Tammany with send three of the workers to jail. The | |three arrested workers are John | Tsernorius, Philip Spector and Dmitri | Paulas. The charge against them is felonious assault. They will receive a hearing at 10 o'clock this morning Than the Knout!” STOP. BOSS COURT Tales of Soviet “Horrors” Expused As Capitalist Lies "+ Laborer Under Lash in Delaware; But Forzers Picture It As in the Soviet Un‘on! Smash the War Propaganda on May First! By HARRISON GEORGE Workers, look at the picture given above {t is the photographie reproduction of a double- page display story, printed on pages 8-M and courts will today (Tuesday) try to\9.M of the New York Evening Graphic mag- | seers of the boss who was killed. azine section on Saturday, Feb. 28, 1931. Read the screaming headline, workers! “Red Russia’s Lum- | ber Camps, Where Penal Servitude Revives Oppression Worse ! | This, workers is the typical anti-Soviet and anti-Commun-| in the magistrate’s court at 455 West | ist propaganda that is being given to you. by the capitalist Perth Amboy Workers |Meet Tonight to Fight! Two Frame-up Cases | | PERTH AMBOY, N. J., April 27. Workers! Come to Washington Hall, 179 Fayette St., Perth Amboy, to- night at 7 p.m. to protest the attempt to burn five of your fellow workers | in the electric chair in this state, to | | protest the attempt to burn nine of | your Negro fellow workers’ children in the electric chair in Alabama! Both the Paterson case and the | Scottsboro case are frame ups! | In Paterson the silk mill owners are trying to murder five militant pickets, accusing them of a murder committed by gangsters, rival boot- | In Scottsboro, lynch law justice is | using the Jim Crow courts to murder nine Negfro boys, all under 20 years of age, for a crime that was never | | committed, and just to keep the Ne-| gro workers in terror. Admission free to Negro and white | | | men and women workers! | ADMIT IMPORT OF SOVIET LUMBER Treasury Says No “Forced Labor” WASHINGTON, April 27.—A ship- load of Soviet lumber aboard the steamship Anversoise, which was sent here as a test case against the so-called “forced labor” charge, we admitted today on order of Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. In order to get out of the embar- rassin gsituation of being forced to permit the lumber in, the treasury officials deny that this is a test case. The fact is the lumber was sent pecifically by the Soviet Union as a reply to the fake charges of “forced labor.” The treasury officials said their investigation revealed there was no | “forced labor” in connection with the shipload of lumber. The lumber is now being unloaded in Providence, Bh. NEEDLE YOUTH PREPARE FOR MAY DAY The Youth Department of the} Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | 11st Street, | Papers of this country. It tells you- that the life of the workers in the! believe the words of the story. But Allan Taub, attorney for the New| | York district of the International} Let Asid we will deove ttf Labor Defense will defend them. All|” ‘ workers are urged to pack the court| It tells you this lie in photographs, room in demonstration against this| because you might believe photo- open collaboration between Tam-| graphs even though you would not many and the lynch courts of the} southern bosses. | The parade on Saturday was led | | by August Yokinen, Finnish worker, | whom the boss government is trying | to deport because of his repudiation | of the boss poison of race prejudice | Soviet Union is terrible. In Today’s ‘Worker, Browder’s Expose of Anti-Soviet War Plot What American imperialism is and his solidarity with the Negro workers. The Finnish Workers Club of Harlem, participated in a body, marching with the parade to 110th St. and Fifth Ave, where a demon- stration was held. The workers of New York will an- swer the attack on Saturday's protest parade with a monster demonstra- tion, which will begin at 12 noon on May First in Madison Square Park, 25th St. and Madison Ave. By CYRIL BRIGGS. NEW YORK.—“Haywood is an all right boy, would always mind me,” Mrs. Janie Patterson, mother of one of the nine Scottsboro, Alabama, vic- tims told representatives of the workers’ press yesterday. Mrs. Patterson, a quiet, gentle little woman of 44, who started working in the cotton fields of Georgia when she was only 8 years of age, spoke quietly and without hysteria. In- spired by ‘the militant solidarity of white and Negro workers in the Struggle to smash the frightful frame- up and railroading to the electric chair of her 17 year old son along with seven other Negro boys, and confident in the knowledge tha’ is- || doing in the war preparations |] against the Soviet Union. Earl Browder, in a special article printed on the last page of today’s issue of the Daily Worker, gives the most complete answer to this question yet written. Turn now to this article. Spread it among your fellow workers. Get || more copies of the Daily Worker |] and distribute them. But it is a| there is a lie in every photograph! | They are forged! Read the proof! | Look at the picture shown in the center of the Evening Graphic pages! Underneath it is a caption of five lines, which says: “WOMEN WORKING in the salt fields at Solinen, on the Black Sea, show how desperate the Soviet is | to get caught up with its five-year plan, the failure of which will de- stroy the government. Left, a photo of political prisoners work- ing in the lumber camps amid ice | and snow.” | Now, workers, what is the truth? The truth of the picture showing women working is, that it was taken before the Russian workers overthrew the Czar and the capitalists! It was taken before the World War! It was taken before the Soviet Government was in existence! You will find a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE) Mother of Haywood Patterson Appeals for United a ‘Eftort to Save Lives of 9 Scottsboro Boy Victims every weapon at its command in the demand for a new trial, Mrs. Patter- son is bearing up bravely under the | terrible ordeal of having a sentence of death hanging over the head of her innocent boy. Tells How Son Left Home to Help Family With tears in her eyes but speak- ing quietly and coherently she told “Haywood Is an All Right Boy, Always Minded Me,” Mrs. Patterson Tells Workers’ Press —Left Home Job Hunting to Help Starving Family of 8 ery and starvation of his parents and five other children, one a grandchild of five years, hunted day after day for a job in Chattanooga, and finally discouraged but still determined to, help ease the terrific burden of his parents, striving to support a family of eight on $7 a week, decided to extend his hunt for work beyond Cattanooga, “And then the next day we heard of Reds Seeking His Removal |of a corrupt capitalist party, sees | Porters of the capitalist system and | | Union will hold a mass meeting to | | which all young needle workers are GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO-| invited on May Day. The meeting VER’S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, | starts at 6:30 p. m. tonight at the | WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! | union office, 131 W. 28th St Amter Answers Walker’s Tale “James J. Walker, corrupt mayor , show clearly that they are full sup-| | red,” says I. Amter, District Organ- | jiaer of the Communist Party. “He | declares that he is the victim of a ‘Communst plot,’ and calls Rabbi Wise, Norman Thomas and John H. Holmes ‘Reds.’ “The Communists do not claim such miserable capitalist apologists as even sympathetic to the Commu- nist movement. On the contrary, the very proposals of these gentlemen of his arrest. He would not have left home if I had told him not to,” she continued regretfully. “Hay wood is an all right boy, would al- ways mind me. But he said, ‘Mama, you know you need help. You know we all need clothes.’ No, he was not glad to go away from home. He just saw how terrible things were and wanted to help.” Father Only One Working. | While most of her children are) grown up, work is as scarce, or scarc- er, in Chattanooga as throughout the country. Only her husband, Claude enemies of the workers. They pro- pose to clean out Walker first, then Tammany Hall, then the Republi- cans,—and then install a “non-par- tisan government.’ “The Communist Party tells the workers clearly that there are only two kinds of government—capitalist, governments and working class gov- ernment, The socialists want a non- partisan government, which means a capitalist government. “Jimmie Walker pretends that the Communists are concocting a plot for his removal and for the defeat of the Tammany machine. The Com- munist Party makes this clear to Jimmie Walker, the Tammany Hall machine, the Republican and the so- cialist parties: The revolutionary workers are not out to reform capi- talism. We know that no reform of capitalism will help the working class, Capitalism must be destroyed and a Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- ernment be established in place of the capitalist government, We are not non-partisan. We are for the workers and poor farmers, That is why the Communist Party alone is organizing the workers to fight for unemployment relief and insurance, against wage cuts, speed-up and the stagger plan (Wm, Green’s five-hour day with corresponding wage reduc~ Patterson, was working. And only part time. Three days a week at $7 a week, [Out of the $7 they have to (OONTINUED ON FAGE THREE) tion). We fight for the seven-hour day and no wage reduction, against tens of millions more in all cap- italist countries by wage cuts and speed-up and part time work and long hours for those who actually have jobs. Over ten million of the totally un- employed, the same number of part time workers, are in United States, According to the statement yester- of the United States Employment vice (which gives no employment) there are 61 cities, the biggest in the country, which are either cutting off relief to the jobless or reducing it ‘ing the last two weeks in April. ceording to government figures, which tell only half the story, two cities now cut off 41 to 50 per cent of the private “family” relief they have da been giving; one city cuts of 31 to 40 per cent; three cut off 11 to 20 per cent, an 2 rest 10 per cent. The ig involved forced ief for only an in- of the jobless. nple. Only 100 oortion of the jobless. izhs were given jobs, and aS are now being fired, most were fired weeks ago. During the first half of April 11 cities cut relief by more than 40 per cent; 25 cut from 11 to 40 per cent, |and 19 cut up to 10 per cent, by ad- | mission of Hoover's expert Col. Wocds. unemployment Starvation Plot. U. S. Senator La Folette, who has done absolutely nothing to get un- employment insurance admitted in a speech yesterday in Brooklyn that end of the depression is not in sight, that a generally lower standard of living is the proposal of “those who wish to saddle the whole burden of depres- sion on the rank and file.” And that is why they cut off what relief was being given, to starve and if need be kill the jobless in order to be able to cut wages everywhere! Protest On May First! ry mass demonstration on May a flaming protest against this S attack, this actual Killing of the workers for the sake of profits. Following the demonstrations, there will be May 2, five lines of hunger marchers from different corners of the state of Ohio, to the state capital to demand unemployment insurance. For the same purpose, and starting at the same time, there will be four lines of hunger marchers, from four different parts of Indiana to the state capital. On May 10, there will be a united front conference in Detroit to arrange for a state hunger march to demand insurance for the jobless, on May 27. * 8 @ New York workers will mass in Madison Square and 23rd St. at 12:30 in the afternoon on May 1. From there they will march to Union Sq, (Additional News of New York May 1 Demonstration on Page 2.) 300 Strike in Lowell Against “Efficiency” LOWELL, MASS., April 27.—Three hundred men in the Mohair Plush Co, here went on strike Friday morn- ing against wage cuts, stretch-out, lay-offs, and efficiency speed-up schemes, They demand the with- drawal of the efficiency men. persecution of the foreign-born (in CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) _. ANSWER THE SOCIALISTS, PO- LICE AND WHITE GUARD PRO- VOCATIONL