The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1931, Page 5

ad € r aaaan G@anAeatsins ee ae 8 ee Pee, ee ee ee en Don age >» 3 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931 Page Five Hoover Builds Navy As Jobless state capitol t odemand relief. these. Many homeless jobless do not even get a place indoors on the floor like Battleship Wyoming, with big guns ready to kill for U. S. profiteers, with President Hoover (inset) who rides around on it. Group of the striking miners of Harlan County, Ky. work, N. Y. YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE PREPARES NATIONAL YOUTH DAY Scottsboro Defense Conferences May 18, Bridgeport, Conn.,.at the Work- ers Center, 57 Canngm St. May 22. Erie, Pa—Hall to be announced. May 23. Buffalo, N. Y., at the Michigan Avenue “Y.” May 24. Chicago—Forum Hall, 43rd St. New Orleans, announced. Charlotte, N. C. nounced, Rockford, Ill. nounced, Youngstown, O., af.334 E. Fed- eral St., at 2.30 p.m. Rockford. Ill. at Viking Hall. 704-7th St at 2 p. m. May 25. Philadelphia, Pa. At the Knights of Pythias Hall, 19th and Lom- bard Sts. 323 EL La.—Hall_ to be Hall to be an- Hall to be an- May 26. Washington. D, ©. Galilean Fishermen's Hall, 320 F. St. S. W. at 8:30 p. m. May 2% if Pittsburg, Pa—At the Pythian Temple, 2011 CenterAve. May 28 Minneapolis, Minn. announced. spat Boston, Mass. Hall to be an- aounced, Hall to be May 29. Cleveland, Ohio, at Spiro Hall, 3804 Scoville Ave. St. Paul, Minn. Hall to be an- nounced. Duluth-Superior, Minn. Hall to be announced. ae May 31” . Chattanooga, Tenn.—Hall to be announced. Newark—At 90 Ferry St., at 2:30 p.m, Elizabeth, N. J. Hall: to be an- nounced. : St Louis, Mo., at Hibernian Hall, 3619 Finney Ave., at 2p. m. June 5. Indianapolis, Ind—At 536 1-2 Indiana Ave., at hp. m, Baltimore, Md—At "Galilean Fishermen's Hall, 411 W. Biddle St. at 8 p. m. 4 Gary, Ind.—At 2 p.m. Hall to be announced, June 6 Chester, Pa. at Li:thuanian Hall, 4th and Upland Streets. “DEFENDER” AIDS FIGHT TO SAVE 9 Supports ILD. Policy of United Front NEW YORK.—“One hundred per cent co-operation” in the united front. fight to save the nine innocent Scotts boro Negro boys, is pledged by the Spokesman, a leading Negro paper of Philadelphia, in a letter to Cyril “riggs, a Negro member of the edi- ‘ial staff of the Daily Worker. 1 its latest issue, ‘the Chicago ender, the most influential Negro per in the country, continues its yport of the united front policy in news article, captioned “Nation rds to Save 9 Boys From Chair.” ne article points out the initial vic- ories won by the International La- bor Defense in gaining the right of a hearing on the motions for new trials for all nine boys, and in getting a change of venue for this hearing. ‘The article says, in part: “Led by the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the nation has aroused itself over°this case as it has not been stirred for many yervs. In almost every city in the country large mass meetings “are being held and the facts of this case are being made public, For the-first time it is being made public that the women who accused these boys of raping them are of questionable character and that they were known to be such at the time they appeared in court to testify against the youths. “All of these facts are being broad- cast by the International Labor De- fense, a leading militant organization composed of workers of both ‘races, and no effort is being made ‘t6 gloss them over .n any sense, This’ teague, in its sincerity, has drawh to its sup- i ‘port some of the leading thinkers of eRe ‘ NEW YORK—A membership meet- ing of the Young Communist League held May 14, attended by over 300 members, endorsed enthusiastically all the preparations for the First Na- tional Youth Day and made final preparations for the day-to-day act- ivity up till May 30. This member- ship meeting raised as tthe key slo- gans for mobilization of the thous- ands of young workers in this city and throuout New Jersey, the strug- ‘gle against the war danger and the ‘freeing of the nine Scottsboro boys. It was decided to send a telegram to the Scot socro boys assuring them j that all of our efforts will be put ‘forward for their release, and also ;send a telegram to the governor of Alabama demanding freedom for these boys. Winners Go to Germany The meeting endorsed the confer- ence of Youth organizations held ‘April 30, and tthe final Conference held May 16, with the following plan for May 30. Arrangements are made to transport hundreds of young work- ers to Passaic. There will be a great parade throughout city, beginning at 3 p. m, and with a huge rally at , Ward Park at 5 P.M. Then in the evening at Belmont Park at Garfield, N, J., there will be an entertainment, _ dance, and a boxing tournament. When it was reported that the A.A.U. the professional boxing organization supported by the government, wants to force the young workers to take out a permit from them for a tour- nament and get one, of their referees, the membership expressed its com- plete defiance of these requirements ‘and determined to continue with the ‘plans for the tournament. | On Sunday, May 31. the Spartaki- ‘ade Finals will be held in Ulmer Park in New York, The winners will be sent ‘> the International Sparta- }kiade in Germany during tthis Sum- i mer, Tickets for all these events and the trip to Passaic are only 75 cents This is being made possible because of the affairs that are being run to raise funds, and the Tag Days that are being held this week-end Satur- day and Sunday. The following are the stations:— 1400 Boston Road., 569 Prospect Avenue, 353 Lenox Avenue, 35 East 12tth Street, 73 Myrtle Avenue, 61 Graham Avenue, All League members are to parti- cipate in the collections. Besides the | other expenses the funds will be used to bring down to these events young unemployed workers who cannot af- ford to go otherwise. Come to these stations to help with collections. Buy your ticket at the District Office of the Young Communist League, 35 E. 12 Street 5th floor. SHOOT DOWN 5 IN SWEDISH STRIKE Soldiers Fire At the Strikers (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, May 17.—Five workers were killed today when soldiers fired into the ranks of striking cellulose workers at Adalen, North Sweden. The workers went out against wage cuts. The bosses brought in scabs who were entering the factory. ‘The police were helpless in the face of the militancy of the strikers. The government then dispatched soldiers to the scene. When the soldiers ar- rived they attacked the workers with gas bombs, Defending themselves, the strikers retaliated with a shower of stones. Then the troops fired a volley of shots into the ranks of the strikers killing five and wounding many. A fierce wave of indignation is spreading throughout the country. Protest strikes and demonstrations are occurring everywhere. . Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it abovt your day to day struggles. + the nation, among whom are Theo- dore Dreiser, noted novelist, and Wil- liam Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People.” Men Who Served 15,834 Years MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By Mail) — The Fourth All-Union Congress of the Association of Former Political Convicts and Exiles has passed a strong resolution condemning the frameup and continue imprisonment of Mooney and Billings and the im- prisonment on 42 year sentences of the Imperial Valley TUUL organizers, It has passed another resolution scor- ing the sabotage and imperialist in- vasion plot of the second interna- tional the Russian Menshevist and so- cial democratic parties of other coun- tries, and their alliance with the imperialist governments. This latter resolution calls on workers every- where to defend the Soviet Union, and highly praises as “the loyal guards of the Soviet country,” the GPU (state political administration) which discovered these plots. The Association of Former Politica] Convicts and Exiles consist of 2,806 members, of all nationalities in the USSR, and of all political leanings, including a large number of old mem- bers of the Mensheviki, who until the revelations of the Moscow trials were not very much in favor of the GPU. This association includes all revo- lutionaries against the czarist gov- Old Mensheviks In Organization of Former Political Convicts Also Recognize Treason of Socialists; Laud G P U ornment who have spent time in prison or exile. They have served a total of 15,834 years in convict pris- ons, and 4,883 years in exile. ‘Their resolution on the Mooney case declares: “These workers were framed up and have spent 15 years in pris- on.” The Association “calls for in- ternational protest against this typi- cal case of American capitalist jus- tice, so similar also to the more re- cent railroading to jail on 42-year sentences of organizers in the Imper- ial Valley, California of the Agricul- tural Workers Industrial League of the Trade Union Unity League.” Defend Soviet Union! ‘The resolution on the war and sab- otage plots is entitled an “Appeal to the Workers and Peasants of All Countries.” It states that the trial of the “Industrial Party” (the Ramsin trial) and the trial (in Moscow) of the “Union Bureau” of the Central Committee of the Mensheviks proved that these organizations “carried on their wrecking work in the sphere of the supply of food and other neces- sities for the millions of the toiling proletariat of our country,” and in other departments, trying to “par- alyze the defensive powers of the country,” and “they prepared for mil- itary attacks on the USSR by the capitalist and imperialist govern- ments. They formed a plot to es- tablish a bloody military dictatorship which would inevitably have mowed down millions of the more reyolu- tionary sons of the working popu- lation and would have restored the domination of the bourgeoisie, the landlords and the monarchy in our country.” ‘They compared their own suffer- ings and the sufferings of the thou- sands who died in the long struggles against czarism with the certainly much greater blood bath that would have washed over the Russian work- ers and peasants if the plot had’ been Successful. They remind the workers in Czar’s Tim Score Mooney and Imperial Valley Frame-Up and peasants of the pitalist w how the fall of the Soviet Govern- ment would increase the exploitation and terror among them also, and prove by the facts of the tria guilt in preparation for this horror of the so of the capital- ist countri with the mil- itarist governments of those nations. The resolution ends with this de- claration: “To the workers and peas- ants of the USSR we send greetin: and we look with admiration on the achievements in socialist construction ial and cultural up- ing population of the USSR, which are of an extent and tempo hitherto unknown in history. We are convinced that henceforth they will be still more vigilant against the attempts of the wreckers and in- terventionists, both here in the USSR and in other countries, will give all possible stance to the loyal guards of the Soviet country—the GPU— against internal enemies, and to the victorious Red Army of the workers and peasant enemies abroad, that they will rally still more closely around the Soviet Government and their vanguard, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” COLLECTIVES GAIN RAPIDLY IN USSR 737,400 Join Month MOSCOW.—In January alone 737,- 400 peasant farms joined the collect~ ive agricultural undertakings in the Soviet Union. In February the num- ber was even 1,520,800 farms and in March still higher, namely 1,661,500 farms. In the first. 10 days of April, 673,000 peasant farms joined the col- lectives so that on the 10th of April no less than 11,187,500 individual peasant farms were organized in the collectives, representing 45.2 per cent of the total number of poor and middle -peasant farms in the Soviet Union, In Northern Caucasia the per centage of collectivization is 80 Per cent and in the Lower Volga district 60 per cent. In the Auto- nomous Republic of the German Set- tlers on the Volga the per centage is even 85.5. in One The spring sowing in the southern districts of the Soviet Union [has been interrupted by sharp frost. How- ever, work has again been resumed and up to the present 1,150,000 hee- tares have been sown. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! 2,0) Steel Strikers Chase A F L Organizers Out; End Cut (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) night the A. F. L. bureaucrats threatened the moulders’ local with having its charter lifted if it did not go back to work. They also told the laborers that their strike did not have much chance as the company was determined to fight te a finish. Mike Pell, representing the Metal Workers Industrial League of the T. U. U. L, and Patrick Pafundi, of the council of the unemployed were not admitted te the hall until rank and file strikers who had noticed their activity on the picket line de- manded that they be brought in and given the floor. Pell spoke, showing that the strike could be won and pledging full sup- port of the Trade Union Unity Lea- gue, urging the men to take over con- trol of the strike. There was great enthusiasm by the strikers, especial- ly when Pell told the moulders not to worry about the charter..as they could join the T. U. U. L. if they were expelled by the A. F. L, Pafundi pledged the support of the unemployed council of Troy not to scab and to help with picketing. The next morning, Pafundi, and others were on the picket line, in conference with the strike commit- tee, and the A. F, L. officials and the bosses, seeing the game was up, sur- rendered. The strike is won. The strike is won, But speed up must be fought against and depart- mental committees built up. Negro Workers Raise Demands in Organizations, Newspapers for United Front to Save Nine NEW YORK. — Increasingly the Negro masses are rallying to the sup- Port of the International Labor De- fense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in the fight to save the lives of the 9 innocent Scottsboro Negro boys, In their organizations and in the Negro newspapers they are raising the demand for a fitm united front, a fighting alliance of Negro and white workers and all oth- er forces interested in saving the lives of the boys and smashing the fightful frame-up concocted by the Alabama capitalists and landlords. ‘That the traitorous policy of the Pittsburgh Courier in openly co-op- erating with the southern boss lynch- ers does not have the approval of the Negro workers who read that pa- per, is seen in the letters from Ne- &ro workers published in the same is- sue which contains a vicious edito- rial attack on the International La- bor Defense and the Communist Ne- gro and white workers who rushed to the defense of the Scottsboro vic- tims at a time when the Pittsburgh Courier was treacherously supporting the rape charges of the bosses with such headlines as “9 Indicted for Rape in Alabama” (issue of April 11, 1931). One letter, written by Mrs, Viola Courtney, of 22 Kansas St. Pitts- In Albany, the T. U. U. L. com- mittee picketed the employment ag- encies to keep scabs from being ship- ped to Troy by truck. ae, eat Win at Afbany. ALBANY, N. Y., May 17. — The building trades workers on the Ar- bor Hill Junior High School and the filtration plant went back with a victory against the attempt to pay them less than the prevailing wage. The settlement went through the formality of ~ conference between Finn, the contractor, Mayor Thacher and Thomas McGraw, chairman of the Tri-City Business Agents Asso- ciation. With McGraw at the con- ference were Anthony Sarra, Willi- am M. Crowley from the construc- tion laborers’ bureaucracy, and other union officials, The local capitalist press is try- ing to give the impression that the mayor settled the strike, but it is a fact that the thing which turned the trick was the spreading among the strikers of leaflets and copies of the Daily Worker editorial, “Take the Initiative”, and strikers had asked the T. U. U. L. to help. McGraw Sarra and Crowley were well aware of this growing influence of the T. U. U. L. and knew that arrangements were being made to give the T. U. U. L. committee the floor at Friday’s meeting So they settled the strike Thurs- day, with a victory for the strikers. OIL INDUSTRY IN USSR ADVANCES Plan Completed; Go on With New Work MOSCOW.-—As is known, the Five- Year Plan for the Soviet oil industry was carried out in two years and six months , the Supreme Economic Council is now considering plans for the future development of the indus- try. In 1933 the production of the industry is to reach 48.5 million tons. In 1982 three great destillation works will be opened in Moscow, Samara and Lisk works are organized, Sim- be constructed New pipelines from y to Arm- also planned. In 1933, 44 new will be opened. benzine stations Ey 1934 it is hoped oil industry to 61,300,000 tons. tral As istan, at the moment are to increase their production tremendously. Great pros- pecting work is bei the north and in Kasakstan where large oil deposits have covered. Demand Amnesty ! Letters From Workers in Pittsburgh Courier in Sharp Contrast to That Paper’s Open Co-operation With Boss Lynchers burgh, declares in part: “After reading in last week's is- sue of that terrible case of those young boys in Alabama, I have shed tears. Is it possible that the N. A. A. C. P. is going to stand by and see our children killed as beasts?” In the same issue, Joseph Sunday, a Negro worker of New York City, sharply criticizes the leaders of the N. A. A. ©. P, for their refusal to cooperate with the revolutionary Ne- gro and white workers in their fight { to save the nine boys. Mr. Sunday} declares, in part: a Praises Pickens for His Support of! “For the life of me I cannot see what we stand to lose by accepting help from any source, provided it is sincere, and when white people are willing to defend Negroes in Amer- ica when charged with rape and ex- pose themselves to all sorts of ridi- cule and taunts, not forgetting physical injury from the minions of the state, I would be less than an ingrate to challenge their sin- cerity, Professor Pickens deserves the support.and congratulation of every intelligent Negro for his stand. Why can't we present a united front to injustice in compa- ny with Communists and other radicals and thus save human lives? The Scottsboro case, if won or not, will, through the publicity given to it, cast doubt on the guilt of the accused and by extension upon ev- ery case of alleged rape in which Negroes are involved? i “In closing I will say that I can- not see any valid reason for the vattitude of the N. A. A. ©. P. in disassociating itself from the Com- munists on the ground of their rad- icalism. “Instead of being conservative the Negro should be radical — as red as the blood in the veins of hu- manity and the glowing hue of the rising sun.” Another worker writes the editor Boys St. Louis Worker Demands United Front A Negro worker of St, Louis writes the Daily Worker “AS a member of the Negro race and concerned in its advancement I feel that it is my duty to de- nounce the policy of the leadership of the N, A. A. ©, P. in failing to lend a helping hand to the fight to save the Black Americans who are condemned to die in the electric chair on July 10 in Alabama. “I want to praise the work of the International Labor Defense. I think it is most wonderful the way they are working for those boys. I am not at present able to send any cash to help as I have not worked for one year. But you have my best wishes and whole-hearte: prayers.” ‘ N.Y. Paper Exposes N. A. A. C. P. Attorney In New York City the New York News and Harlem Home Journal, an influential Negro paper, carries an article ih its current issue, sharply attacking the refusal of the N. A. of the Pittsburgh Courier to suggest | A. C. P. leadership to join the nation organization for self-defense: “Wade in blood and fight to our Jast breath and probably there will be a little check in lynching.” wide united front campaign to save the boys. The article is given a front page scream head: “N. A, A. ©, P. Hires Insane Klan Lawyer.” 3 the} avir and from Liski to Moscow are} to raise the production of the Soviet | The oil districts in Sachelin, Cen- | Turkmenistan and Usbek- | ich play a subordinate role; been dis- | Starving Miners Face Bullets et There are 20,000 men in this county, thon- sands locked out or striking against intollerable conditions, the others getting only two days a week They have fought savage battles against mine guards using machine guns. DAILY WORKER NEEDED IN STRIKE CITIES: MANS- FIELD, HARLAN, DULUTH The bosses’ attempt to more wage cuts on workers who are already living on starvation wages is | being met with strikes. Harlan, Ky., and Eldorado,.Ill. (mine); Mansfield. O. (steel); “Allentown, Pa. (silk); Cudahy, Wis. (forge); Lawrence, Mass. (textile); Duluth, Minn. (long- shoremen), are just a few of the many cities where workers) have hown fine militancy. In view of the rising tide of workers who refuse to {be stopped by false promises, it is i hecessary now, more than ever be- fore, to see that the Daily Worker is given a wide circulation in sections of the country where strikes are occur- ring. Workers in the vicinity of the | above cities should immediately send in orders for bundles of the Daily for distribution among the strikers. In [omratieles O., particularly, where {several thousand steel workers | walked out on May 13 in opposition to the 15 per cent wage cut of the Empire Steel Corp, opportunities for acquainting the strikers with the workers’ paper are plentiful. We j would like-to hear from Mansfield, j East Liverpool, Niles, Massillon, and , Marion with increases in their bundle j orders as well as from workers in other points’ with new orders. A strong net of Dailies should be cast over the affected regions so that | workers may-learn of our support in their struggles. Sparks from the Smoky City. Pittsburgh slowly seeing light, “I jam finally. released now from all other work, .to devote most of my time to the Daily Worker,” writes J. Mankin, rep., “and am now covering various sections to organize for the enforce District page which we expect to put into effect as soon as we have ail ar- rangements completed.” Inactivity outside Pittsburgh to be wiped out. “All units with the exception of three, are outside the city, Very few active comrades use their own initia- tive when it comes to such a propo- sition. However, will put in a little work and overcome these difficulties,” concludes Mankin. We hope Pitts- burgh’s - month of — postponement. won't drag into a second month, New Bundies, Orders. M. P., ,active in Columbus, O., sends new order for 10 a day, Prom Pontiac, Mich., comes a request from a Hungarian worker, G. P., for five daily, showing understanding of ne- cessity to use the Daily Worker in making contact with native-born. S. R., Long Beach, Cal., increases to 7, with 10 on Saturday. Mel Wermblad in Kansas City, Mo., reports 490 sold on streets, 45 before factories, 40 distributed during week ending April 25. In addition, secured one six-month, one three-month, one one-month subscriptions. “Send 100 for Sunday, May 10, as the miners are having a conference here,” writes C. S. of Belleville, UL, sending ad- vance payment plus $2 donation: A. M., Santa Rosa, Cal., writes: “Am 79 years young, but for the past 40 years have worked for the op- pressed class, have been in jail sev- eral times for defending the rights of my class. I think I am the only one in this county who registers as Com- munist.” We hope Comrade M. will break the lone Communist situation in Santa Rosa before the next elec- tions! Story of Graft and Gunmen to Start on Monday How did-gangsterism and graft originate and develop in the Unit- ed States to such gigantic propor- tions? Who is behind Al Capone? What is the real story of the Bugs Moran massacre in Chicago? Read how J. P. Morgan, the eld- er, hired gangster armies to amass his millions, All this will appear in a special pamphlet that will be run serially in the Daily Worker, beginning next Monday. In this pamphlet by Harry Gan- nes is traced the history of graft and gangsterism in the United States. The role of the gunmen in the labor unions. The story of | Big Bill Thompson and his succes- \{ sor, Anton Cermak, Here is the '} story of graft leading from Tam- many Hall to the White Mouse. Read about the facts behind the Buckley niurder in Detroit. This is thé first complete study of gangsterism and graft in con- nection with capitalism ever made. Get the inside story of the gun- men and grafters. Order your copies now. Be sure to read this series of articles. MORE SUICIDES IN JOBLESS YEAR NEW YORK.—Starving workers are killing themselves in appalling numbers, the report of Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, in the Spectator, insur- ance paper, reveals. The suicide rate has gone up from 15.4 per hundred thousand in 1900 to 20 in 1930, In New York, taking a typical city, the rate was 18.3 in 1929, a relatively prosperous year, and jumped to 20.1 in 1930, the first-year of depression. ‘The number who killed themselves last year in New York was 1,402, Back of these dry figures is a story of acute misery and despair. The Communist Party calls on workers to fight, not die, but masses untouched by this message continue to oblige the capitalists.who have no further use for them, Examples are the following: Paul- ine Reinchik of New York, only pos- sessions @ worn hat, coat and house dress, an empty suit case and 82 cents, was found dead from gas poi- soning in her room. She had no job and could not pay rent. George Mapes, of Middletown, left @ widow and two children when he 1,500 SEIZE PHILADELPHIA (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) headquarters of the Emergency Re- lief Committee, pushing aside chairs and desks and forcing the four clerks to vacate their places. They then proceeded to hold a meeting and ex- posed the role of the Lloyd commit- tee. Speaker after speaker made use of the various documents, seized by the unemployed workers in the Emergency Relief offices to expose how the Lloyd committee used the general registration of workers as a means of blacklisting them. The meeting was one of the most enthusiastic ever held In the city. The cops present, who had been summoned by the clerks, when the unemployed captured the offices, were afraia to interfere, beause of the spirit of the workers. The Unemployed Councils are in- volving hundreds of Negro and white workers in the day to day struggles of the unemployed. Eviction and furniture sales are being stopped and food collections are proceeding rapid- ly in all parts of the. town. Ss)! ‘aia An analysis of the documents found in the Lloyd Committee offi- ces, giving instructions for discrimi- nation in ‘relief’ and admitting that there are thousands applying for every job at the Zone Work office is promised soon. ——$—$— shot himself. He was a. carpenter, 45 years old. The age limit in industry is 40 years now. Mrs. Myrtle Roberson of Durham, N. C., 33 year old wife of a carpenter, five children, no income, lay down on the floor of a bare room and turned on the gas. She was found dead. John Lubic, a textile worker for 15 years in Passaic, N. J., was thrown out of his job during the depression and tried to recoup. his losses by opening a small candy and_pencil store, That failed, and he killed his three sons and himself. Police take a cheerful -attitude. 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