The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 4

blished-by the Peet, New Ss and malt Page Four: 3 “SCOTTSBORO--A. YOUTH ACTION Publishing Co, tne, daily exe Y. ‘Telephone Algonquin the Daily Worker. 60 Wast 13 Com prodaity York City. N all enecks to t Sunday. at 50 East Uable> treat, New York. S. & *PALIWORK.” ANDEEWS. { | By BIL of Scottsboro, le prepares & | more act of terror. in | r ¢, the: growing. unity-of Negro | unemployed youth for relief and better Cohdi-~ - é and white worke: rthe leadership ~ of tions, With the fight of the employed -youth _ a We must specify that it is at the Hotel Asws. the Commurist Party a wide movement has | against lay-offs, wage cuts and speed-up. The and add that it is very expensive to honor the been set on fodt to repel this latest attack. ~ It is now the=task of the Young~ Communist, .j League to organizé a determined drive for youth action against this act of bdsséciass terrorism. The Scottskoro event takes-place in that: part af the counti# whete the worst possible cond jotig the youth, and is directed pa: es that section of the c a as had to endure the } most shamefut-eppresston. While the hypocrites of American «imperialism 2sing praises of the gloriot opportunities offered the youth < of wtost fearful €onditions face the t 6s in. every state, e highest num= h one ‘hané achinery: in bout “ e€orced labor” in r where “the workers have suacess- fully rid theniselves of ‘their bosses, with, the | other hand they organize murder parties against Negro workers, andthe number of lynchings } imcrease yearly, = And the South leads again! | ‘The largest: number of occurred in the South, Fynehi of the Southern big 1 first instituted this form of murder the State itself the legal Jynching of these Negro bc This act demands. the fulleét “mobilization 0: youth particularly, Scottsboro is a challenge to 4 the youth of the entire country. The Young Communist Geagne: calls upon all youth to an- | swer it decisively | The South eae thiem all with 4 While= Young workers. in all parts of the country must be wom for mass p fin this Answer the attack with a hing voll resolutions ofpré Mass.meetings and mass { conferences of youth The youth membership of must be brought together in one solid front of organized action: against the Scottsboro legal | lynching. Youhg workers who are members of such organizations as the NAACP and the UNIA must be brought=into this united front against the reactionary leadership of their organization who in reality are the servants of the bour- feoisie in the<ranks of the Negro people. A struggle must ‘be cerried on to bring fhe mem~ bership =of h:-organizations as the YMCA; the Boy Scouts: nd other zations of Amér- ican @apitalisnt, to the support and defense of the Scottsboro-boys, linking it up with a fight against their Readership ‘which jim-crows: the | Negro youth; disétithinates against them, insults and mistreats them in every way concsivat ¢ class membership of the izations as the YPSL must to this united front, understand- hip, while mouthing pretty all organizations { | (Negro youth is used by the employers to lowér | yoting workers. | fight for Negro rights. same time shamelessly stand by and assist the bourgeoisie in these murders. The employed and unemployed young workers must unite to fight this comsmon issue: ; Scotts- boro-is tied up completely with the fight of the | qwhite young toilers especially must take up the ‘pattle in the interests of the Negro youth. The the level of conditions of the workers ‘and the The interests of the Negto-werk- ers and young workers are the interests ‘of alt - workers. . The white young workers Joptaiageat de 1 must take up the fight. Scottsboro. must be used ag a teal forge with . | which ..to_ build the Young Liberators, youth | branch. of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Build mass Young Liberator branches of white and Negro determined to rush to the defense at the first breach of Negro rights. Children’s organizations must launch, a real | drivé under the leadership of the Young -Pio- | neers of America ‘The petition being citculated for 000 children’s protest signatures against this tegal lynching must go hand in hand with & real organized drive to win Negro ¢hildren in the movement of workers’ and farmers’ children. Young workers in the armed forces must be won over to the support of this issue, and :par- tisularly to the support of the demand for @ workers’ and framers’ volunteer armed guard to defend-the Scottsboro boya. All working class youth organizations, trade unions, sports fraternal, cultural and social‘must carfy on a struggle on the basis of their par- ticular. field of the class fight. Scottsboro must be one of-the means which we. shall .use to root out race hatred, and the feeling of white superiority injected into the minds of the youth under capitalism. The Young Communist League through all its units and organizations must carry on a re- jentless struggle against this barrier to Negro— white solidarity. hroughout the entiré drive every effort must be made to recruit hundreds of. young -Negro workers into the YCL, to strengthen it for a better and more sustained: | There are Scottsboros -/ every day. Discrimination, jim-crowism, lynch- ing in factory, field and mine, in schools, in | restaurants and on the streets. All these must be welded into one gigantic struggle which -will give a splendid reply to the attempts of the ruling class to separate Negro and white and to divide the solid front of the working class. All these must be rallied behind every élementary struggle for better conditions, for the rights of | Negroes to determine should they want to sep- arate and. form their own government where they form a majority of the working class, and for a revolutionary struggle of all workers un- der the leadership of the Communist Party and Young Communist League. Young workers, through their spirited cam- paign for the defense of the nine Scottsboro boys must weld a fealty strong united organ- ization of Negro and white for the defense of With the Ohio Hunger Marchers By BEN GERJOY. HE Ohio Hun; march undertook to achieve a number of objectives. Chief among these was the need of placing the unemployment movement in this State on a higher level, through extending the movement and drawing did that night. That town, with a population of about 20,000, never saw such a turn out at a mass meeting. It is no exaggeration when we say that the entire town turned ‘out in friendly reception. e Farmers Support A very significant incident which shows how A CALL FOR. | Year Plari” ; Conducted by the Organization Department: of |: the Central Committce, Communist Party; U.S.A. Where Does Our Duty Lie? oe ¢ Sexe, MOS By PHIL FRANKFELD and JOB TASH (iliinsis) F the Southern Illinois coal fields, we-hays a niimber of Party members and sympathizers | leaving the capitalistic statea-for the “Soviet Unién. - In one nucleus, 2 comrades out of 4 are leay- ing. In another, 1 comrade out of 5. In a third, | ons comrade. towns, we have quite a number of families of We surely applaud the sentiments of the com- rades. They say: “We will help build Socialism in Russia. We will help carry through the Fiye- In the :Tilinois coal fields, the class struggle is growing ever sharper. Unemployment effects over one-third of the miners today. Whole towns are practieally unemployed. Hundreds and thousands of mineis and their families are in dire need. Part time work is almost universal; } re Marx pointed out in 1847, are now be- “ginning “to be recogniged by the capitalists ina (siCco 1927 wenn Pelee a SUBSCRIPTION RATES: : By niall everywhere: One year, $6; six months. $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs one year, $8+ six months, $4.50. ot Manhattan and Bronx. New York Ctiy. Foreign: By BURCK " : iv ysis By HARRY GANNES, - 2. FTER the event the stupidest becom The (peculiar features of capitalis! sort of sttpified amazement. talist development, with the productive: ft econontic crisis presents the glaring contr merce sessions in Washington: things immensely rich, but we are all Ford, Rockefeller, members of their class.) Deterding and the cause our warehouses are stuffed with “Impeverishment Comes From Plenty.” It is oly natural that at this stage of cafi- fully developed on a gigantic seale, with over- production so rampant in every agrarian coun~ | try, that even the capitalist economic blunderers In several of the small mining | should stumble on the fact that the capitalist pearls at the International Chamber of Com- “We find ourselves teday in all material (Sir Alan wants us to pity Messrs. Mellon, “We suffer, not be- cause we-have too Mt'e to drink or eat, or wear, or because the goods are dear, but be- goods that no one will (!) buy, and our har- bors congested with ships that no one will Capitalism Apologizes for Its Existence and Finance Section of the League of Nations, sort of epitomized the crisis when he said: “But ours is a problem of #ne impoverishment that e. wis . comes from plenty.” t - crisis, forces 80 | eyes to it, talist crises: ‘adiction merce,” poor.” other social needs,” cheap Eighty-four years after Marx, in the Commu- nist Manifesto, accurately pointed out the na- ture of capitalist crisis, the glaring nature of these crises becomes so obvious that even the capitalist spokesmen can g@ Songer shut their Marx in 1847 pointed out the features of capt- “Society suddenly finds itself put back inte a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had tence, too much industry, too muth com- And why does all this happen? Marx answers: “It (capitalist production) comes to a standstill at a point determined by the production and realization of profit, not by thé satisfaction of With the deve spment of imperialign the capi- talists thought that these specific features of the capitalist crisis which Marx so accurately described in 1847 (and which eten the bour- geoisie cannot blind themselves to at this time) auth; By JORGE Bee Gandhi Dinner “In honor of Mahatma M. K. Gandhi,” a din- ner is to be held Thursday, June 4, in the City ot New York and at the Hotel’ Astor. Indian “ascetic” whose common habiliments: ts a breech-clout and who lives only on barley, goat milk and popular applause. For on the invitations to the “testimonial din- ner,” whereat a gentleman named as “Sailendre Nath Ghose of India” is due to “express. what American opinion can do for India,” it is noted: “$6.00 per person.” While observing that Mr. Ghose will’ likely enjoy a meal costing more than a Bombay tex- tile worker gets in wages for a whole month, we must note that he has distinguished company. ‘There is U. S. Senator Royal 8. Copeland, for example, whose interest in Gandhi can: be meg~ sured by the fact that he éxpresses ‘American inmPerlalist: desire to see India ‘‘ltberated” from British imperialism so that the Indians may,'bé “free” to buy Arrow collars and other trinkete “made in U. 5. A.” Then there is Mr. Upton Close, who for many years in China has been “criticizing” imtperiglst mistakes in order that, with such wegknesaes corrected, imperialism might strengthen its grip on China, We seé a judge—Judge Cohalan, whose pas- sion for justice does not operate for- workers in the United States, but is reserved solely for ex- port to India, And then Bishop MeConnell, who doubtless would like to impose upon “heathen” India the same blessed religious regime ‘which is getting smacked in the eye in Spain. Then we have Major Eugene F. Kinkead. Well, the British Foreign Office ought to be interested in this! An officer of the U. 8.,Army sticking his major-ial nose into the business of Indian independence—from Britain, Doesn't this vielgts the etiquette of Mr. Stimson? How would Stim- son like to hear that a British major is pow- wowing with leaders of a movement for Philip- pine independence? ‘Then, at last we have Raymond Robins, whe seems able to agree with anybody on any. of any question, a generous soul with no tion of latitude, longitude or altitude in poli- tical affairs. But there is one name missing, but no doubt there will be no vacant chair. ‘That is, the name and person of Mr. Jay Lovestone, whose devotion to the cause of the Ameriean bourgeoisie ‘has been shown by a previous ceremonial occasion whereat Mr. Ghose “represented” India and Gandhi, and Mr. Lovestone represented Amer- ican imperialism and the opportunist: Samaiesi from Communism. A united front at $6 a plate never tntimiaated Jay; and anyké6w, perhaps it may go to-buy his hero, Gandhi, « pair of pants to attend the London “Round Table” contprence, where the “battle” for Indian “liberation” will be won with- cor black masses” at the | the interests of all youth. sympathetic miners leaving for the Soviet Union. of starvation.in the midst of plenty. | ent off the supply of every means of substs- [ out bothering with the Indian masses. e fi Thus, we find Sir Alan Anderson, director of tence; industry and commerce seem te he —- ‘These comrades Sa aapreh to the inact elds of he Bank of England, a learned pundit, of Bri; | destroyed; and why? Because there is too “eas the Soviet Union: sear: “{"tish” Capiialism, unburdening himself of these much civilization, too much means of snbsis- “Dear Patriotic Friend” Such is the salutation on a circular letter sent out by the ‘Fellowship Forum,” which says it is “The World’s Greatest Patriotic Weekly News- Paper.” A large job, that being patriotic for the whole world, you will observe. And it involves certain difficulties. In fact the first paragraph of the letter indicates one of them. It says: “For ten years, the Fellowship Forum has stood for all those things which go to make up in wider masses of unemployed and employed | t¢ farmers feel about this question occured at | and. those miners who put in 9 or 10 shifts a | charter, and our men, here, there and every- « ; alism workers into active participation, in an organ- | post Greenville, a small farming community. As | month still consider themselves “lucky.” where are out of work. Something has slipped pals ate Tes teanetaaain catas, | iehteous government, and, during a portion of ized form, for the Unemployment Insurance | jhe marchers approached the town they were |< ~ ; : out of gear inthe intricate machincry of this | trophes, : that time, you were among our regular readers Bill and immediate relief. Although it is early | met by a group of eleven young farmers carry- ] “Loading machines are being installed that are simple, elvilized life.” jo eclaliy in the inited aphtes! where ~ ob and supporters. For some reason—probably over- to state that this objective was achieved. since | ing a large American flag. The spokesman of throwing inany miners out of work permanently. | ‘phe. idea:of the 1,000 bankers, industrialists, ane ere maak 4 io te porary Geaheaen ‘ a pene edged part—you have not renewed your » the | subserip up the hunger march with concrete organization, yet, judging from the man- ner the marchers were received by the work- ers and farming communities through which the marchers passed, we can already state with assurance that the foundation has been laid. In both cases where the city governments used social demagogy in receiving the hunger marchers, and where the police and the fas- | cists were mobilized to greet the marchers with a display of at the workers and farmers of these towns. gave the marchers rousing welcomes, seeing in them struggling representa- tives of their owh immediate needs. Begin- ning with the May First demonstration in Cleve- Jand where 15,000. workers assembled on the Square to send off the marchers, and six thou- sand in Youngstown, the marchers were greeted in every town they passed with tremendous en- thusiasm. In ‘Bedford, about 13 miles from Cleveland, the eritire town turned out. Good mass, meetings éré held in Akron, in Canton, at Alliance a street meeting was held in spite of police reft allow this meeting. After passing Barbet ‘where the chemical trust mobilized the ebtire- police force of both Bar- berton and Akkor as; well as the American Tegion and firemensfor police duty, while ‘the workers lined up_the.streets cheering the march- ers, the marchérsicame in to Massilon where again they were:met by the entire working pop- © ulation of the fown. In front of City Hall a» mass meeting took place. The Cleveland group arrived first amidst the cheers of the workers © as they were winding their way to City Hall. About five minutes later down the hill were seen coming the Youngstown army in military forma- tion. A loud cheer went up. Soon.both divi- sions were joined together into one fighting army. “Demagozy” ‘The city officials turned upon the marchers “social demagogy.” ‘The marchers the group stepped forward and annowsiced, “‘we came to greet you and escort you thru town.” The leading comrades, of course, considered the American flag as an insult to the Red flag, and allowed them to walk in the rear only. The comrades did not realize the real meaning of this event. After escorting the marchers through town they bid farewell and good luck and turned back. We must mention that the comrades lead~ ing the march never bothered to take the addres- ses of these farmers. This was supplied to us by the capitalist press. ‘The readiness with which workers and farmers through the route are contributing food and funds to the marchers is another example that the hunger march is blazing the trail for a more extensive unemployment movement in this dis- trict. In Mansfield for instance Comrade Cowan made a ten-minute talk over the radio, arranged by the local comrades. After he got thru numer- ous telephone calls began to comé in asking, where the marchers would stop /tHat night so” that they could bring aid. At one point of the March two workers in a small Ford truck came towards them, stopped and handed: the leaders ee them success, after which they turned back. .” There are numerous other instances that could be etted as examples, showing that as a result *| of the march, we can now proceed to place the movement on-a more mass basis, linking up the-| “| eriployed- with the unemployed. The’march has also developed a number of comrades and worker: as futtire organizers. This was particularly dis- played.in these cities where the government ap- \paratus and the fascists were mobilized to in+"| midate the marchers, They did not succeed, | »and found that the marchers were of good i aga | per miner iszbeing increased, but the wages re- Prodii¢tion. is steadily declining for the year 1931—as compared even with 1930. For the first 92 working days of 1931 (until April 18) produc- tion declined by 6.9 per cent as compared with 1930. The newspapers state that this is the lowest production figure for the past 10 years. And for the week ending April 25—another drop of 133,000 net tons, ‘Wages are being cut indirectly as yet. Output main the same. The Lewis :machine has united with Walker- Nesbit. This ‘medps that greater betrayals are ahead for the mass of the miners in Illinois. What are the duties of every Communist in the coal fields, and of every sympathizer as well? le agi the miners for resistance to ir attacRs of the coal companies; for résistance’ to-the mass hunger and misery that | stares every miner:in the face. The Communists in-the cpal fields must help build up the weak- ened National’Miners Union, and the small Com- munist Part}; The Communists must be in the forefront in Zhe fight against wage cuts, speed- up, unetployrhent—and for bread, jobs, and un- employment énsurdnce. “To mobil: the- American and foreign-born miners for active participation in the class strug- gle; to instill am understanding of the class struggle -itself.in fhe minds of the miners; to rally the-mimers for support of the Soviet Union in ‘case of attack—these are the tasks of every revolutionary sminér in the coal fields. Anstead-—comrades and sympathizers are leav- ing for Russia. The Russian workers and pea- sants are building. and will contintie.. to build socialism, “The task’ of the Amerieat revolution- ists is to help safe-guard the achievements of the Russian Revolution—and to hy pletion of a socialist society not “too little to drink, or eat, or wear,” passed as a good joke at their well-fill quet tables. capitalism means starvation for the m: He is oblivious of the fact that the gear destruction. By W. 8. among the locals repress eb fraternal delegates’ represented the tive Unity Alliance. stock “gamblers, ‘capifalist politicians assembled at Washington thinking of themselves as having must have Nevertheless, Sir Alan does begin to see that the degree that food becomes “too plentiful.” And he thinks “something has slipped out of gear.” out and the whole machine of capitalism is going down the steep hill of decay and ultimate The contradictory nature of capitalist crisis was brought out by many more of the delegates. But Sir Arthur Salter, director of the Economic ‘HE metal miners’ third district conyention of the ‘National Miners Union. held a‘ Iron- wood, Mich., on May 10, was an effective mobili- zation of our forces to organize the miners in the copper and iron country of Northern Mich- igan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Sixty-seven reg- ular and fraternal delegates were present, and 2-2 were’ eleven shaft committees and orgenizing committees. The Workers’ Union, the Unemployed Councils, the ‘Trade Union Unity League, the Finnish Work- ers Club, the Women’s Sections, the Labor Sports Union, and the Workers -and Farmers Coopeya- Ten young miners were among the delegates to the convention. The reports showed the effects of the crisis on the conditions of the metal miners, With the the early stages of capitalism. led ban- the development of cartels, of trusts, asses in | the ultimate general industrial ws worse is worn | said: in the number of minérs employéd compared to At Iron “River only 8 out of 17 mines ave working. Around Ironwood, the mines are also facing further lay-offs or a complete shut- 1920, down, miners. Lumber Jarge turn-out of miners in spite of tempt to prohibit the demonstrations. miners around the struggle against idea had sprung up that erfses of the type now described by the capitalists’ were typical only of But Engels, as far back as 1894, speaking of growth of tariff barriers as “preparations for out, thet the basis was being laid for crisis far than any heretofore experienced. He “Thus every element, which works against a repetition of the old crises, carries the germ of a far more tremendous future crisis in itself.” Now we haye that “far more tremendous fu- ture crisis” so that even the blindest apologist for capitalism is forced to describe it in a poor imilation of the Communist Manifesto of 1847. Metal Miners Prepare for Struggle These conditions haVe greatly increased the sentiment for organization among the metal In spite of the spy system and the threat of black-list by the steel and copper trust the miners are responding to the National Miners Union. On May 1, an outstanding feature of the demonstrations and mass meetings was the The discussions at the convention clarified the basi¢ form of organization of the NMU in mine committees, pit and shaft committees, The role of grievance committees in mobilizing the of the pointed the at specific Now that is downright bad. Has the cause of “righteous government” no place to rest its weary head? It seems so, becayge the next para- ae tells us — or rather t@Ms the “patriotic lends” “Just ahead of us are crucial times—times when all good Americans MUST stand to- gether. Commenism is lifting its vicious head in an effort to capture our government.” This begins to lock serious, don’t it? We, that is to say “Communism,” is always and every “lifting its vicious head.” In fact it sives us a pain in the neck to have our vicious head lifted 80 often and in a!l directions. It begins to feel like a chiropractic -djustment. solutely that we are ous” or otherwise, to “capture” the capital ornment merely {9 installourselves in + arm-chair of Mr. Hcc-c>. Tt would be joss on our hands. \.> would have to: rad off for a dog and the: kill the dog. We ca. use it. It don’t answer the requirements, And besides, we have something better. W have the idea, which is proven excellent by ex perience, that a Workers’ 2nd Farmers’ ( ment is the only form cf ~overnment which will help the workers and i-- soverished farmers. And perhaps it is proci: > this idea which has dawned upon the minds o! many of the hitherto “patriotic friends” of the F-". owship Forum and caused a slump, a busi -.: depression, so to speak, in its circu’: ion. Indeed, the letter speaks anxious): vf this: “Curely, loss of. in- ey i (ot ‘ne great cause whic we represent did i sag r into your failure to renew your sub- Perhaps not. But then,’ ono can never tell, bir “vicious heads” are beinz “sised by’ empty | | an ie com- rthrow Ls Ror Workers! Join the Party of Your r Class! | Communist Party U. BA A P. O, Box 87 Station D. the guns of “ price of copper: steadily sinking to its lowest, point in history, the copper trust is seizing the opportunity to slash wages. The “official” wage “reduction is 10 per cént, but in actual fact the miners’ wages have been cit as much as 50 | per vent. Avout half the copper miners are un- | grievances in each mine was emphasized. young miners will play an especially import- barriers among the older miners. is most rebellious against company but in the United States by help capitalism and establishing a ment here, We must state categorically to | aiay were handed a letter from the mayor welcom- ing. them to the city. This demagogy was soon exposed when it was prohibited to distribute the leaflet “We March Against Hunger.” At the mass meeting in the evening in the City Cra GAamas wecer cere ee ten a ing support to the Duluth and Superior dock- workers strike. A resolution of suoport for the issuing of the “Mine Worker” was also adopt- | et New York City. cca Auditorium, about a thousand workers were zu and sympathizers: ‘That migrating/to the sone 3 mall mining towns, and 5 present. Cccesion was taken by the speakers | Please send me more information on the Oum- | Union is indeed excellent, but | Jn the copper coitry te pleture | tovHion ean be won over Ind st Moria! Miners | C7; 4 Provosal to ratse firianoes ‘for the prints, once more to expose the “social demagogy” | Munist Party. remains right here in the U.S.A.) EA we Js indescribable; by actual count ib Union, ‘The role of the W ing of the program and constitut'sn of the method of solving the upemployment Problem America! We cannot fulfill our di eG eas |e Fn Psat ah AB: Gt“ OVGRY, XD enidihen'/ hota: permanent part of the union pty bead hey Junction with the other distriets, orker: the lazy way out—avoiding the shafpening class ‘ othe: bebe! ok Pe pimeers ct Maspllon. Mae yes . ei hbeys eae Aik In the iron ore mines, conditions are no bet- | 2d other relatives of the miners can The Plan of Work approved by the conven- | struggle, and gaining without effort or struggle, that which the Russian workers sacrificed and fought for against czarism and Kerenskyism in order to gain, The Party should call on all revolutionary yorkets to stry right here in the U.S.A.— the rxput Ber Sard of the §9.25t Unigh—and into tite struggle was brought Councils among the jobless miners phasized as an important task of “The best example how the workers feel about the mission of the hunger marcher was supplied _. by Mansfield. We did not have a single con- tact in that town before we began the organi- gation of the march. As a result of the march “ecel wsicrpiosed tranch wes organized. It MSs this 17: flized. eld io ve ‘nebimger marchers agthey: Y HENTENN ter. On the Cayuna Range, where manganes¢ ore is mined, out of 54 mines only three are working, and these are also facing a shut-down. Recently, a cut of wages was introduced amount- ing to $2 off the previous scale, Wage-cuts have ranzed es hith es 60 per eamt. On the Mesaba Panyzo. iad Cleo eaten ef roiners has atthe tion for the building of mine shaft, and sriev- arice committees in the six sections of tho dis- trict, and the spirtt with which the dslogates discussed the possibilities of growth of the union, is a guarantee that the District Conv ster Address We tereeeeneccaseeetans CMY ssreverensececcccecceeess StAt® sssresesene seapeenerene