The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 1

| i ties and one miner were killed in this clash. Now the militia are 2 ugs. 3 Where carloads of mine company gunmen with a tuty sheriffs’ badges, machine guns, aka gren- | aides, rifles and pistols fonght a battle with starving, striking Kentucky miners near Evarts. Four there to reinforce the company Part of one division of 200 hunger marchers, unemployed thuosands starving in Ohio. their way to Columbus, the state capital to demand unemployment Workers and jobless workers hailed them in mass meet- insurance. ings all along the way. delegates of the They were photographed on they were ri demned to death on purely fram TIN TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE a Daily Central itis of the Communist unist Party U.S.A. dvr Nine Negro boys, the younges orker st 14 and the oldest under 20, who were picked off a freight trike ing in search of work, and railroaded through a court without witnesses, without comuset of their own, and without a chance before a jury picked from the lynch mobs outside, They are cons c-up charges, Fight for their release! — WORKERS OF THE WORED, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 118 at New York, N. “Render Unto Caesar” 4 is a sardonic commentary on the encylical letter of Pope Pius XI wherein he condemned “men fixing their eyes on earthly goods’— that the very same day the very same Pope demanded cash reparations from the, government of Spain for the $30,000,000 losses the Catholic Church is said to have sustained from the revolutionary masses of Spain Who, resentful of the centuries of robbery by the church, retaliated by he! a ‘small: part of that property which represented the proceeds the robbery. | * While the Spanish masses will probably find that they can make Ws of church property when they go forward to the establishment of a Soviet Government, we have no especial condemnation for their in = dental destruction of a few mouldy convents and cathedrals in the @ourse of their first efforts to overthrow the regime of feudal and capi- list exploitation which the church directly represented and which the “Socialist’-bourgeois coalition government is defendng. Out of the sweat id blood of the masses these edifices were built and the masses have | tevoluticnary right to do with them what they will. | _ It is precisely to fight against this revolutionary right of the working @less that the Pope has written. his encylical letter. This is the meat the expression that: “The differences in social condition in the human family. which were widely decreed by the Creator, must not and cannot ver be abolished.” There is a \reat difference between “must not’ and “cannot.” It is macily becaus> the workers of the Soviet Union have ignored this “de- ty of the Créator” and are actually abolishing capitalism and its class 4 erences, that the Pope comes forward with a mythical mandate from “the Creator” to say that: it “must not” be done. It is because the toiling masses of Spain, learning from the Russian ple, that the mandate is worthless, are trampling over it in the rd march to a revolutionary seizure of power and property from le hands of the feudal aristocrats and capitalists, ti_4 the Pope’s r is written to strengthen the hands of the fascist dictatorship of “socialist”-bourgeois coalition government. _ It is because the Pope recognizes that also in Catholic Poland and in Germany the growing discontent of the broad masses is undermining one. of the principal bases for counter-revolutionary war against the Soviet Union and is accelerating the ripening of the prerequisites of a revolutionary crisis, that the Pope seeks to hold back the masses by exhibiting spurious credentials from “the Creator.” _ As a part of this restraining influence, the Pope correctly estimates the role of the “socialists” and takes care to distinguish between the real champions .of socialism, the Communists, and the false “socialists” whose teachings, he points out, are “conformable” to the “mutual col- laboration between capital and labor’—which is not only “decreed by the Creator” but also by the “socialist” parties of the Second Interna- tional, by the capitalists of all countries and by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. “But the workers will take notice that all this “mutual collaboration” acheme is supposed to operate upon the basis of the workers accepting “the differences in social cendition” wherein they, the workers, sweat and toil.and starve and die to sustain a small class of socially useless para- sites called capitalists, forever and by “the decree of the Creator.” The issue is thus clear between the robbers and the robbed. On one side is the toiling masses battling for emancipation. On the other the robbers of the capitalist- class supported by the church, the “socialist” party. the A. F. of L. and all other fascist forces, ‘The struggle takes the concrete form of the daily fight for bread, for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts and the speed-up. Around these struggles the Communist Party, the party of the workers, call upon all who toil, all who are oppressed, persecuted and down- trodden, to join with it in the daily struggles for improvement of their lot and to march forward under its leadership—regardless of “decrees of the Creator”—to the revolutionary overthrowal of capitalist rule and the establishment: of a socialist society under a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government! The Answer Editor's Note:—Besides the explanation given herewith, we are in- formed that Comrade Nessin will furnish us with a comprehensive ar- ticle in a few days. ei Le I a front page editorial of the Daily Worker of May 15 under the head- ing “What About It?” you state, “We hear that the delegates from the Unemployed. Branches to the Unemployed Council, delegates who are supposed to be elected by the rank and file of the branches, are not so elected, but on the contrary are, in fact, selected by the Secretary of the ‘Unemployed Council,” The editorial further states “perhaps the secretary, of the Unemployed Council of New York would favor the Daily Worker with an explanation about this reported denial of elementary working class democracy, and anything ‘else that may be said to explain the weaknesses of the work and how to overcome them.” In the present letter I will just confine myself to a reply about the denial of elementary working class democracy. I will write about our weaknesses in our unemployment work within a few days, I am in full agreement with your attitude against the appointment of delegates to the Unemployed Council by the Secretary instead of the rank and file electing them. I am also of the opinion that anyone who is at the head of a mass organization and fails to understand the neces- sity for working class democracy for the strengthening of the organiza- tion and the development of new forces should be removed. I must admit I was surprised to read that, “the Secretary of the Un- employed Council of New York should favor us with an explanation.” ‘This a part of working class democracy, I am not at all em- My answer is that not a single branch of the Unemployed Council ean say that I have selected delegates for it. Neither has this been charged by any of the branches,. Sam i iN NY. WORKERS IN Entered as second-class matter et the Post Office eqez, ¥., onder the act of March 3, 1879 Over Attempts ‘Scottsboro Parents Frantic On Way to Prison to See Sons PROTEST TODAY ‘Demonstrate Against Scottsboro Frame NE WYORK. — The approach of the date of the hearing of the In- ternational Labor Defense motions for a new trial for all nine of the Scottsboro Negro boys finds the united defense movement reaching new mass: proportions. . The hearing takes place May 20 at Fort Payne, Alabama. Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the boys, Roy 14, and Andy, 17, is being enthusiastically welcomed by numerous organizations on her tour of the North to help the L L. D. mobilize the masses for the de- fense of her two boys and 7 others. Many organizations in New oYrk have shown their support of the fight to save the boys by contribut- ing money for the defense and by electing delegates to the City United Front Scottsboro Conference which: takes place this Sunday at 11 a. m. at the Finnish Workers Hall, 15 West 126th Street. All Out Today in Militant Protest. Many of these organizations have also endorsed and promised to par- ticipate in the huge protest parade and demonstration of white and Negro workers today, The parade will form at 128th St. and Lenox Ave. and will proceed up Lenox ‘Ave. to 145th St., through to 7th Ave., down 7th Ave. to 116th St., through 116th St. to 5th Ave. and 110th St., where a gigantic demonstration. will be held to voice the protest of tens of thousands of New York’s workers against the Scottsboro boss court lynch verdict. Mobilization for the parade will begin at 3 o'clock, with numerous meetings in the section. between 118th St. and 145th St., from Fifth to 7th Ave. The parade will start from 128th St. at 4 o'clock sharp. All workers are urged to demon- strate their indignation at this frightful. frame-up and attempted murder of nine innocent Negro boys by taking the streets in thousands today in vigorous protest against lynch law and oppression of the Negro masses. Stop the murder of the nine Negro boys! Fight lynching! Smash Jim- Crowism! Join the Fight for Negro Rights! A Permit for granted, (Additional News on Page 3) MRS. WRIGHT IN YONKERS TONIGHT NEW YORK.—Following successful meetings held in various parts of New Yo5rk City during the past few days, Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy Wright, two of the nine framed up Scottsboro boys, will speak, in Yonkers tonight (Satur- day) at a protest meeting that will demand a halt to the mass lynching plans of the southern courts: She will speak at 8 p. m. at 252 Warbur- ton Ave, ‘Tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Wright wil laddress the United Front Scotts- boro Defense Conference that will be held in Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St. the Parole was }Ske will also be one of the sneaks Ss Csoose banevet that will tind up tne conference im the evening, ment Denouncing “Meddlers” Call for United Front Restate Their Faith in the ILD and Its Attorneys (By Telegraph to Daily Worker) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 15.— Alarmed: by reports that pressure was again being brought to bear on their sons by prison authorities, Ku Klux lawyers and local preachers to- gether with Walter white, national secretary of the N.A-A.C.P., to have them sign statements detrimental to the défense and against the advice of their parents, the parents of the nine Scottsboro boys left here last night in a frantic rush to Kilby prison, where their sons are held, eight of them under sentence to burn in the electric chair. Parents Defeat Tactics of N.A.A.CP. Leaders. ‘This ‘is the second time that the parents of these boys, already tor- mented with worry over the frame- up and unjust conviction of their sons, have had to rush to Kilby Pris- on to defeat the white and Negro “uplifters” who are desperately at- tempting to carry out the wishes of the Alabama boss lynchers of elimi- nating from the case the Interna- tional Labor Defense and its policy of mobilizing mass pressure behind its legal “defense of the boys. Before leaving for the prison, the parents issued_a statement bitterly denouncing the efforts of “inter- meddlers” whose sabotage of the de- fense chosen by the parents and the nine boys are helping to railroad these innocent victims of Alabama boss justice to the electric chair. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FIRE EIGHT, HIRE ONE. BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, May 13.— On May 1 in the railroad yards here they laid off two drivers, two oilers, two tire knockers, and two shovel men, ‘and told the hostler that he would have to do the work they had been doing: He protested vigorously to his union, and that bunch of misleaders told him’ to do the work: NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 c ITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Green “Justifies” Strikes; But AFL Is Strike Breaking Financial Sheets Tell of Hope in Washington That the General Wage Cut Plot Will Not Be “Political Issue;” More Slashes Already INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 15.—The strikers. on the Indianapolis building projects have won their two weeks’ strike and ate. back at work. The strike was an uprising of the rank and file which the officials of the A, F. L. unions tried in vain to compromise or arbitrate. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14—“We feel | labor would be fully justified in resisting at- tempts to reduce wages even to the extent of striking,’ said Green, president of the AFL, today in a statement following that of his executive council yesterday. Green didn’t explain why if this JOBLESS’ STRUGGLE FOR RELIEF to Coerce Boys; IS GROWING; BUILD COUNCILS! | issue Scathing State-| New Hunger Marches Coming; Pittsburgh to Have Unemployment Conference in. June; Fight On to Stop Evictions Mellon Gang Cuts Off “Relief” and Gives the Starving “Gardens” They Cannot Use 1,500 Unemployed Miners at Swoyersville Fight Police Who Attack Meeting; Arrest Two; Crowd Demonstrates Again Following the very successful Ohio and Pennsylvania state hunger marches, intensive organization of the councils of the unemployed must continue, and the daily struggle in the |cities and towns for relief and to stop evictions must be in- jcreased. From many places news comes. of. this intensification of the struggle. Meanwhile a new state hunger march is being prepared for May 27 in Michigan, and fora little later in Illinois. » . . Jobless’ Gardens, Pittsburgh. is so the A. F. L. has been vi since the depression started, and why, in the face of all facts until the facts could no longer the employers have kept their Now he has to admit wages* were cut. But he does not, lead strikes against them, he only feels that such strikes would be “justified.” The Trade Union Unity League months. ago declared for “strike against all wage cuts, and T.U.U.L. unions have led and won many such strikes since then—always against the opposition of the A.F.L. In many cases the A.F.L. unions have sent Scabs, got injunctions against pickets, and provided thugs for the use of the employers. The Wall Street Journal's Wash- ington Hoover and his administration con- tinue to keep up the story that “there are a few wage cuts.” The bureau says, however, other industries will be driven to cut costs wherever they can do so. The hope here is that this'can be accomplished, where it (CONTINUED ON THREE) Only the organized power of the working class can save the politica) prisonérs! Bureau stated today that |. igorously strike-breaking ever be denied, Green insisted that promise not to cut wages. 3s dine ily s Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro Boys, and her little daughter. Both of them are touring the country under the auspices of the International Labor Defense to help mobilize the mas- ses to smash the Scottsboro frame- up. Tammany Cops Beat Men, Wonen. At Protest Against Li Death Exile NEW YORK.— Tammany ponder did their share toi help the butcher, Chiang Kai-shek of China, by mur- derously attacking men and women who took part Friday noon in a demonstration at Ellis Island Ferry against: the deportation of T. H. Li. Li was ordered to present himself to the immigration authorities Fri- day morning for shipment to his death at the hands of the Chiang Kai-shek government. Hundreds of workers gathered at the Battery, near the. Ellis Island Ferry. There. were a dozen police on the scene but they did not at- tempt to attack the demonstration at first. Several speakers had’ ex- posed the murderous attack on the workers by the immigration author- Mt ites who: were esonerating with the Arist 3 in dovesiing Ti ‘red. Biilenagp War Li On Ellis I Island alt Fight to Save Him Goes On Li had received an ovation, when the riot squad rushed to the dem- Onstration, Several dozen cops jumped the truck with long clubs in their hands, Without waiting, they plunged into the crowd and beat everyone on sight. Several women were knocked to the ground, The New York Evening Post in its story reports the attack on one woman by a cop. The cop swung his club and struck the woman on the head. Blood spurted out. The woman red and the cop ran after her hitting ber until she fell to from sptaking aster, ground, the | One cop hit Biedenkapp on the head while he was speaking shoving | him off the speakers’ stand, | him off the speakers’ stand. The International Labor Defense, which is fighting to save Com, Li from sure death at the hands of the Nanking Government if he is deported to China, has succeeded in having a writ of habeas corpus issued which was’ signed by Judge Knox. Li will be held prisoner at Ellis Island yntil Tuesday when the case is to be argued in. Federal PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 15.—Now that the “Pittsburgh. Plan” a fake, the Mellon gang is try- ing to avoid giving relief to the starving unemployed thru another and even worse fake scheme. Following the exam- ple of the. Murphy in Detroit the city council is now giving the unemploy- ed workers an “unemployed garden” as relief. The “gardens” are way out on Mt. Lebanon, which costs 20 cents to reach by street car. Besides the workers are forced to buy the neces- sary tools, If any one refuses to ac- cept a “garden” they lose the little relief (a couple of baskets of groc- eries a week) which is being given to some families now. The workers however see through these fake schemes. The branches of the unemployed council are being formed in all parts of the city. Block committees are springing up where- ever evictions are prevented by the branches. section on the “hill”, take place almost daily, the move~- ment is growing rapidly. On June 21 a city unemployed con- vention will be held to consolidate the organized movement for relief and to launch big city wide struggles. A call to all workers’ organizations, lodges, unions, etc., is being prepared. Monday a Negro family on Manilla YCL IN WIRE TO SCOTTSBORO BOYS Pledge “Continued Fight NEW YORK.—Ar ncouragement and assurance thi. _.. fight will be continued for their release, the membership meeting of the Young Communist League sent the follow- ing telegram to the nine Scottsboro Negro boys, addressed to the oldest, | Charlie Weems: Court. Edwin Lowy, photographer of the Graphic, had his camera smashed by the. police and was then arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, | When the Tammany gangsters be- san swinging their clubs in an at- tempt to break up the protest dem- “Membership meeting of ‘tite Young Communist League, over 500 attending, pledge solidarity with you. Will continue fight for your re- lease. class youth. Negro and white, for mighty protest that will force the bars of your priso ncells wide open. 1.cep high courage. Thousands with Vonsiration. you.” Especially in the Negro | where evictions | | | | | | | We will mobilize working | has completely collapsed, and Proven to be nothing but [SEES VRE i SERS RR IE street got notice that they had to be out by the following Wednesday or their furniture would be sold in a sheriff sale. The block committee immediately notified the whole street to be out on Wednesday to prevent the sheriff from selling the furniture. When he.arrived he was told by the committee that there was not going to be any sale. Looking at the de- termined crowd of workers the sher- iff decided it would be best for him to keep moving. Many workers joined (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) GREET PATERSON 5) RELEASED ON BAIL AT 1 TODAY Are Framed-Up On Murder Charge Today the workers will welcome the five brave élass fighters who for the past two months have been in the Paterson, N. J., county jail on framed charges of murder, ‘The five workers. Benjamin Lieb, Louis Harris, Lewis Bart, Albert Kalzen- buch and Helen Gershonowitz, will be released on bail today and a big mass demonstration will be held at 1 p. m. outside the county jail in Paterson to welcome them. The bail has been raised by the New York District of the: Interna~ | tional Labor Defense—t3,500 each for |the four men and $1,000 for .the |woman. The I. L, D., in addition te providing the legal defense in the case, is rallying the masses who alone can smash this brazen frame- up and force the boss courts to re~ lease the five workers. Their arrest followed the death of Max Urban, a silk mill owner who died fater an» attack by underworld elements with whom he had had dealings. The | five workers, who were leading fig~ ures in a strike against Urban’s mill, were then framed ‘up. 3 The New York District of the I. L, D. calls on all workers to demon~ strate at the county jail at 1 p. m. today, not.only as a welcome to the five comrades, but as an expression of their determination to tree them permanently, &