The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1931, Page 1

DEAK Continue the May First Fight Against Starvation, Wage Cuts, Lynching, De- portations, for Defense of the Soviet Union, for Amnesty for all Class War Prisoners, and Scottsboro and Paterson Frame- ups. Vol. VIII, No. 111. “Bandits In re the Daily Worker exposed banditry of the to Smash the (Section of the Communist Interna tional) Entered ax second-cluss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Nicaragua” some days. ago the looting and the American marines during the earthquake which wrecked Managua, the Washington hypocrites have ceased trying to explain Hoover's “new policy.” ‘This “new policy”, which was supposed to inaugurate a period of “no protection” by marines—marines, incidentally, already supposed to be “‘withdrawn”—is actually no ‘new feels that it can get away with it, of “firmness” and act accordingly. rising in the oppressed country and policy” at all. When imperialism its spokesmen, such as Hoover, talk But when faced with a popular up- anti-imperialist opposition at home, imperialism resorts to soft soap and gabbles about “a new policy” or “withdrawal of marines.” Eleven years ago, for example, Warren (normalcy) Harding wished to be President. following: “Nor will I misuse the power Consequently, a part of his campaign demagogy was the of the Executive to cover with a yeil of secrecy repeated acts of unwarrantable interference in domestic affairs of the little republics of the past few years have not only made Western Hemisphere, such as in the enemies of those who should be our friends, but have rightfully discredited our country as their trusted neighbor.” Did any one notice any difference in the practice of American im- perialism after Mr. Harding assumed the Presidency? Coolidge carried on what he boasted was a “Harding policy.” Not at all! And Hoover's “new policy” is the same old policy of hypocrisy—and imperialist violence. Not only in Nicaragua and Hondi luras, but also in the Philippines im- perialist violence is the order of the day. The Communist Party of the Philippines is declared illegal and its leaders are imprisoned for the, “gedjtion” of trying to enter the elections (while the “socialist” party, it sbould be noticed, is allowed to organize for the first time) and 41 peas- ants who rebelled against an intolerable robbery of their land—2 of them were mere boys—have been sentenced to prison for terms varying from 14 years to life! All this and many other instances can be given to show the neces- sity for the American revolutionary workers—and indeed all who are ready to unite upon such issues—to bend every effort to organize the Anti-Imperialist League around these concrete struggles against the im- perialists who are the same bandits that rob and oppress the American workers and farmers. It must also be said that those districts of the Communist Party which have the task of “patronizing” specific countries, must no longer neglect this duty. As in all struggles, the fight against imperialism re- quires concrete organization, and organization of the Anti-Imperialist League stands in the foreground of revolutionary necessities. “Mother’s Day ” Bunk Spread To Cover Hunger and Deaths By GRACE HUTCHINS. (Labor Research Association.) “Flowers by wire for Mother's day.” “A Mother's day treat in the candy shop, only $1.50 a pound.” (The un- employed will be glad of this good news.) “If you cannot go home, do as your heart tells you, send her a telegram.” A five minutes walk on any shopping street reveals these and more such signs in the shop windows. Over 16,000 mothers each year in the United States die leaving behind them their new-born babies. The United States, richest capital- ist country in the world has a higher death rate from child birth than any other country in the world for which atatistics are available, and has held this record for 20 years. At least 10,000 of these dead moth- ers could have been saved each year if they had had money for proper medical care, rest and security. Babies die at the rate of 167 for the families where the fathers earn- $1,250 or over die only at the rate 50 for every 1,000 live births. For in families of the unemployed the fathers had “no earnings”, vete is highest of all — 211 for 1,000 live births. ‘These cold facts tell the true story ef working class mothers in theUnited States. They are facts admitted by Physicians and by government sur- Working mothers who must con- tinue work through pregnancy almost iit j up to the moment of child birth have far less chance of ‘having healthy babies than other women, and the numbe of still births is greater among factory workers than among women who can stay at home during the last weeks of pregnancy. Yet the number of mothers who must go out to work with no protection for the months before and after child birth is steadily increasing in the United States. In Philadelphia the percent- age has increased from 14 percent in 1918-19 to 21 percent in 1928. Boss Class Profits. from Slushy Sentiment. In the face of these facts about motherhood in the United States what does the boss class do? Urge maternity benefits for the proteetion of working mothers? Social insurance against unemployment and against illness? Of course not. Only in the Soviet Union is such protection estab- lished. The boss class in every capitalist country wants profits and more pro- fits. So a few years ago some clever advertiser for the capitalists invented “Mother's Day.” Cash in on the sent- imental appeal of “Mother”. Make Mother's Day a second Christmas for buying surplus goods. Capitalize child birth and make it profitable for the ruling, owning class. But the workers answer: demand social insurance so that mothers may have constant care and supervision during the illness of pregnancy and child birth. We demand leave of absence with full pay for working class mothers before and 2 months after child birth. Put Out Many Hair-Brained Plans at Commerce Meeting WASHINGTON, May 7.—Lost in a maze of conflicts, arising out of the growing severity of the world crisis, dozens of hair-brained schemes were put forward yesterday and today by various capitalist spokesmen to the 1,000 delegates at the International Chamber of Commerce now in con- vention here. British and German delegates talked about world war “debt read- justments.” The American capitalist delegates tried to dodge this question. ‘With a deficit of $1,000,000,000 in the U. 8. Treasury, Hoover refuses to discuss this matter. Sir Arthur Salter, a British delegate, asked for “cooperation” through the League of Nations. Sir Arthur said that high tariff walls were the cause of the crisis. Several days before, Mellon said the World War was at fault— in fact, all sorts of faults are found here except the main one—capitalism much chance of a unified economic “plan” coming out of this session of conglomerate interests as there is for Hoover admitting he is one of the Jeading Wall Street robbers. The only thing they can agree on is their common hatred for the Soviet Union. At the very beginning of the ses- sions, Secretary of the Treasury An- drew Mellon was forced to come to the defense of capitalism, He claimed it was still in its infancy. The truth of the matter is, Mellon mistakes second childhood for infancy. There are two main questions which are discussed in real earnest, however, in committees, in private sessions, and among the delegates when not in the convention hall. They are (1) A general drive against wages. Only one delegate, Meyer, of the European Steel Cartel, came out openly with what all are for covertly a drastic wage cut for every work- and its hopeless contradictions. Fach speaker presented a new plan. Since all the delegates have their own plans for the “solution” of the crisis, reflecting the anarchy of she capitalist system of production, er in the capitalist world. (2) Hatred of the Sovict Union. Every attempt is being made to keep the question of the Soviet Union off the official agenda. It was brought to the fore by Col. Cooper, famous hydro-electric engineer. But behind the scenes Plans are being worked out for block- ades, for mutual alliances against the| lord to evict Mr. Orrilliss McGinniss Soviet Union, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 ee NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1931 CITY EDITION MASS PROTEST TONIGHT AGAINST WALL ST. WAR ON NICARAGUAN MASSES Harlem Casino Meet to Call for Support of Mass Struggle in Nicaragua and Honduras To Demand Freedom for the Nine Nebro Boys in Scottsboro Frame-Up NEW YORK. St. and Lenox Ave., workers Latin-Ameri Tonight at 8 p. m. at Harlem Casino, 116th of New York, American and an, Negro and white will unite in powerful mass protest against the Wall Street war on the workers and peas- ants of Nicaragua and Honduras, and will demand the un- POSTPONE CASE OF 5 FRAMED UP IN PATERSON Demonstration for Trial PASSAIC, N. J., May 7—The five comrades arrested on a frame-up charge of murder in the Max Urban strike, were supposed to have been arraignment this morning in court before Judge Harley to plead to the charge brought in against them by the Grand Jury. The arraignment, however, was postponed for some other day, probably next week. At the same time, counsel for the defense, Ward & McGinnis, served notice on the prosecutor and on the judge that they will argue on a mo- tion either tomorrow or Saturday for bail on all of the five comrades. The demonstration which was sup- posed to have taken place this morn- ing in front of the court house, has Plan thus been foiled by the city authori- | ties. This is the second time this has happened—the city authorities de- layed the arraignment on the frame- up charge of first degree murder. The Defense Committee, however, will plan and organize a demonstra- tion in front of the court house as soon as the date becomes known. MAY DAY PHOTOS ¥V All comrades who took photos of the May First Parade and demon- stration are asked to bring them to the Workers International Relief, 131 West 28th St., to prepare for an ex- | hibition of photos of working class events. “:onditional release of the nine Negro boys of Scottsboro. Driven by the most appaling misery andstarvation, thé masses of the Carribean countries, especially of Ni- caragua and Honduras are taking up arms against the fearfuul exploita- tion an doppression of Yankee capi- talism backed by marines, warships and airplanes. To strengthen and tighten its iron yoke of mass suffer- ing, the Hoover imperialist govern- ment is pursuing a policy of bloody massacre against the revolting work- ers and peasants of Nicaragua and Honduuras. While Mr. Guggenheim, copper king and ambassador to Cuuba, just arrived in Washington by plane to “confer” with Hoovergand Stimson on “conditions” in Cuba, the Butcher Machado declared yesterday in an interview that “as a soldier, he had jearned not to turn his back to the enemy.” American imperialism is determined to maintain this bloody agent against the developing strug- gle of the Cuban masses by mass violence and terror. Fighting the same exploiters and pressors, workers and anti-imper- talists of New York must protest en- ergetically against the Wall Street war on Nicaragua and Honduras. The meeting will also demand the unconditional freedom of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys whom the bloodthirsty Southern bosses and their government have sentenced to legal lynching. William Patterson, of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, which is leading the nation- wide defense campaign for the | Scottsboro boys will speak. Other speakers include Robert Dunn, na- tional chairman of the Anti-Imper- ialist Leagueu and Clarence Hatha- way, member of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party. ‘Expect Big Crowd Sunday to Hear Foster Debate Muste The most important debate held in New York City for years will take place at New Star Casino 107th and Park Ave on Sunday, May 10, at 2p.m, The whole question of policy and tasks in the work of organizing the unorganized workers into trade unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, methods of win- ning the rank and file workers in the A. F. of L. for a program of struggle against their reactionary leaders, the question of strike strategy and lead- ership, will be discussed. Wm. Z. Foster, gereral secretary of the Trade Union Unity League will urge and defend the policies of that organization, which is the center of revolutionary unionism in the U. S. A. J. Mygte, chairman, Conference for Progressive Labor Action will de- fend the policies of his grouup. Mr. Muste as the ideological leader of the United Textile Workers, has had an interest in the strikes conducted by that organization in Danville and Elizabethton. The debate is under the auspices of the John Reed Club. The commit- tee in charge calls upon all workers, organized and unorganized, to attend and to arrive early, because the de- bate will begin sharply at the hour set. Collection Stations Scottsboro, Pater- son Defense NEW YORK.—The following are the stations for the house-to-house collections for the defense of the Scottsboro, Ala., and Paterson, N. J. cases, to be held tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday by the New York District of the Interna- tional Labor Def 27 E. 4th St. 799 Broadway, Room 410; 64 W. 22nd St.; 350 E. Bist St.; 353 Lenox Ave.; 569 Prospect Ave.; 1400 Boston Road; 2700 Bronx Park East; 61 Graham Ave., Williamsburg; 136 15th St., Williamsburg; Osborn St., ; 534 Vermont St., 140 Neptune Ave., Brighton Beach. Collectors should report 9 a. m. at the nearest station, Brooklyn; RED ELECTION ‘RALLY INN. J. May 9th At Kanter‘s Auditorium, Passaic PASSAIC, N. J., May 7—The Com- munist Party is holding a big indoor election rally, Saturday evening, May 9, at 8 p.m., at Kanter’s Auditorium. This is the first rally for the three worker-candidates. At this meeting the election platform of A. Bennett, S. Smelkinson and Miriam Fireman, candidates for Commissioners in the city of Passaic, will be explained. ‘Thus far not one of the candidates, outside of the three Communist can- didates, have touched on the vital problems affecting the people of Pas- saic. Practically all the candidates are running on a platform of “ef- ficiency,” “lower taxes,” “technically trained,” or “progressive.” Not a word is said on unemployment, not a word about the eight workers who, after long months of unemployment and starvation, committed suicide, Commissioners. . In addition to the three candidates there will be other speakers. Wm. Z. Foster, national secretary of the Trade Union Unity League and lead- er of the unemployed delegation of March 6, in New York, will speak. Also Richard B, Moore, Negro or- ganizer of the International Labor Defense, and John J. Ballam, can- didate for Governor in the State of New Jersey. Sophie Melvin, will be the chairman of the meeting. There is no admission charge. All are wel- come. 2 JOBLESS MEN COMMIT SUICIDE, NEW YORK.—Peter Tannon, 50- year old Negro worker, commiited suicide by leaping from the platform to the tracks of the elevated at 151st Street and Eighth Avenue and per- ished under the wheels of an on- rushihg train Sunday night. He had beenout of work for months and was denied even the meager “relief” being handed out by the bos eteering charity organizations. Carl Grosser, 50-year old white worker, who was laid off of his job a month ago, committeed suicide early yesterday morning by inhaling gas. When his wife awoke she found his body on the floor of the kitchen. Mrs. Grosser said Both herself and her husband had been out of work and were penniless and starving. |Governor Sees Masses Unemployed and Agi After a long silence, Gove ment insurance that the marchers readiness to receive the deleg: Still greater masses rally of relief and insurance. MIDDLETON, Ohio, May div Where Miners Battle Sissi Militia have been sent to Harlan, mine of the Black Mountain Coal Co. Four men were killed in a battle there between deputies and strikers, Tuesday. ROTEST MEET IN BRONX FRIDAY Smash the Scottsboro Frame-Up! NEW YORK.—The workers of the Bronx will gather on Friday, May 8th, at 3859 Third Ave., on the call of the Lee Mason Group of the and will demand immediate and un- conditional release of the nine col- ored boys who are sentenced to death in Scottsboro, Alabama. The tremendous indignation that sweeps the country against the at- tempt to legally lynch the nine in- well and they will rise with the rest of the workers in the country and create such a tremendous movement that will force the white ruling class of the South to liberate these Negro boys and retreat before the counter- attack of the united force of the white and Negro workers. 150 Armed Men Turned Out To Evict Hazel Park Family; Thousand Rallied To Protest BULLETIN, DETROIT, Mich. May 17.—All workers’ organizations should send delegates to the State Hunger Maren United Front Conference, Sunday, May 10, at Ferry Hall, De- troit. Saturday there will be a mass meeting and lecture, with Scherer, from the national office of the Workers’ International Relief, as speaker, at Women's Federation Hal), Second and Hancock Sts. All workers and unemployed workers and their organizations should help collect funds for the state hunger march on the tag days: May 15 to 17. Mos ait ae DETROIT, Mich, May 7.—Over 150 gunmen, state cossacks and fire- men from Hazel Park and the sur- rounding territory of Oakland County were called out in support of a land- Rush to Elect Delegates to the Michigan State Hunger March Conference, Sunday Park home. These state cossacks and gunmen were armed with guns, tear gas and sawed-off shotguns, all Prepared for “business” against the militant and fighting spirit of these workers who are being organized and Jed by the Unemployed Council of the Trade Union Unity League. Never in the history that anyone can remember among the workers in Hazel Park was there such a situa- tion where a poor family was forced to leave their home under such a murderous atmosphere by the state police and other state instruments of the bosses. The Unemployed Council of the T, U. U. L. has been fighting this particular eviction case and suc- ceeded up to this time, through the co-operation of the workers in the sity, in preven! ting it. The: boner on the other hand, realizing the growing leadership of the Unem- ployed Council, mobilized all the forces at their command to check the building of organization among the workers under the leadership of the Unemployed Concil. 1,000 Protest. A thousand workers (by count of the capitalist press) turned out to protest the eviction. In the face of guns and gas and fire hose, they were not able to prevent it, But they denounced the eviction, and the movement for a bigger and still more militant unemployed council gained impetus from the sight. Prepare Hunger March. The T. U. U. L. and the Unem- Ployed Council are now going ahead (with the program of building up a!) State Hunger March. This State Hunger March must expose all of these methods which are being used by the boss class. The State Hun- ger March must further drive home to the broadest section of the work- ers in Michigan what the answer of the bosses so far has been to the demands of the unemployed workers. ‘The Hunger March will take place on May 27. In addition to this a 3-day Tag Day is being organized throughout the state for May 15, 16 and 17, A play, “The Singing Jail- birds,” is also being given for the benefit of the hunger march on Fri- day, May 22, at Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St., near McGraw. All workers’ organizations, as wel) as the employed and unemployed workers generally, are called upon to rally around the movement for the building up of the State Hunger March, as well as the building up of the Unemployed Councils of the q ty Ohio Hunger Marchers Smash UMW Agrees to Have BULLE action by the clear evidence -that the m route of the hunger march are for t ion and ng to their supy le on of the Ohio State Hunger } € a rigidly terrorized town, where everyching is run by the sub- sidiary of the American Rolling Mills. The marchers got a good crowd together, and organized a Ky., near which is Evarts and the | League of Struggle for Negro Rights; nocent Negro boys reached the white| and Negro workers of the Bronx as} Demands; Marchers Form Unemployed Councils N. nite of Ohio has been forced to r the demands. rt will force the granting Cincinnati ched Middleton, day the local council of the unemployed, | of which there are many. The marchers also struck a blow at the Jim Crow policies of one restaurant keeper, whe refused to serve Negro delegate among the marchers, and stooc aghast while the whole delegation ‘0 and white, walked over to 2 to eat. city of 50,000, the is were warn re- ccived, d an uncomployed counci was formed A mass mecting of 2,500 was held MANSFIELD, Ohio, y united Cleveland and Youngstown divisions of the Ohio state hunger | march arrived in this industrial town last until | toward of 000 inhabitants at 4:30 night, where hey remained resuming their long hike Columbus this morning. The marchers were met at the city limits by the unemployed’ council of | nsfield and escorted by their band into town In excellent formation the march- |} ers passed through the working-class and Negro workers’ sections of the} town, with masses lining the streets and cheering them. The march 2 THREE) (CONTINUED ON PA TOBLESS COUNCIL MAKES BOSS PAY One of Its Activities; BigConference Sunday NEW YORK.—Daniel Pozniak, of 146 Ludlow St.. worked for the Na- tional Hebrew Delicatessen owned by one Silverman, at 111 Delancey St., as a dishwasher, 12 hours a day, six and a half days a week, for $12 a week. The boss fired him and kept back five and a half days’ wages. Pozniak went to the Legal Aid Bu- reau, 197 East Broadway, where he had to pay a fee of 25 cents, and got nothing for it but a little blue card. He went also to the Department of Labor, Division of Aliens, at 124 E. 28th St. and filed a complaint, and got nothing but a nice little white card. But he wanted his wages, and went. to the Down Town Unemployed Council, which sent a committee and after some trouble, collected $9 for the worker from the boss, However, this same worker is now unemployed, and faces eviction from his home at 146 Ludlow St. He is up in municipal court this morning at 264 Madison St. The jobless should be there, United Front Conference It is to fight such swindles, evic- tions, to force the granting of relief, that the Lower Manhattan United Front Conference on Unemployment is called. This conference meets on Sunday at 10 a. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Tast Fourth St, All work- ers’ organizations in Manhattan be- low 59th St. should send delegates. The conference will form a delegated body, an Unemployed Council of Lower Manhattan, to whieh will be affiliated all branch unemployed councils in this sectioy, and to which WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents MILITIA, TANKS AND MACHINE GUNS SENT AGAINST KY. MINERS State Gunmen Placed Over Starving Men pany Is Owned By Peabody of Illinois Famous fer Hebit of Bribe ing District Pres- ideats HARLAN, Ky., May 7. The governor of Kentueky, with the consent and approval of the United Mine Workers officials, has sent 359 militia with machine guns and an armored tank into the Har- lan-Evarts region. At the same time the governor clear ly in- licated that these troops are ‘0 smash the armed resistance of the miners to the murderous atiacks of deputized mine guards. Governor Flem apson issued a statement late Wednesday that: “All the vio- lence there is due to Communists from outside the state who have taken advantage of the discontent resulting from unemployment.” In the teeth of this military inva- sion of the Harlan County coal fields, the whole force (200) at the Harlan Gas Mines walked out yesterday, in protest against discrimination. They first demanded that the company reinstate several employes who had been fired for agitating against the wage-cuts and bad conditions, Buy the U. M. W. There are about 20.000 miners in Harlan County. The strike, in which hun; men with families already starving on two or three days’ work a week are fighting. for th eright to live, centers around the Black Moun- tain Coal Co. mine at: Evarts, near Haran]. This Black Mountain Coal Co, is owned by the Peabody Co. of Illinois, the same company that con- trols the Fishwick district adminis- tration in illinois of the U. M. W., and which bribed former President Farrington of the district at a rate of $25,000 a year. President Turnblazer of the Ten- nessee-Kentucky district of the U. M. W. also shows a suspicious wil- lingness to have the strike broken by the force of the state. He has issued a statement saying that district of- ficials conferred with Governor Sampson and agreed to have the militia sent in, in return for prom- ises (undoubtedly fake—Editor) that the militia would keep scabs out of the district and that the Red Cross would feed the starving miners. Civil War. In the ‘fighting during the last two weeks around Evarts, two pitched battles, and several smaller shoot- ings, have taken place, with five men killed, of whom four were depu- tized mine guards and one was @ miner. Three other men haye been killed in the mines by accidents and two more shot in a fight which may have been part of the struggle. The starving miners have raided and taken the food from company stores and chain stores, and the mine guards have burned 16 miners’ houses. American Legion Can’t Stop Daily From R. J. of Springfield, UL, comes this story: “Was arrested four times, and once before. First time they took me in they brought two fellows who asked all kinds of questions, Noticed American Legion buttons on their coats. Mayor took me to the city council and they told me they would not allow the paper to be sold in Springfield any more. I just laughed at them.” Neither the American Le- gion, city government or any other capitalist-controlled in- will come delegates of lécal unions, shop groups, shop committees, groups in breadlines and flop houses, build- ing and block committees and ten- ants leagues stitution will stop the spread~ ing of the Daily Worker which fights against terror and in- timidation of the bosses? (60,000 circulation sparks pg. 3).