The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1931, Page 1

women ee See Special Correspondents’ < Report on Page 3 [Ve CoT ALL THe Money CouLd ouT oF THE PTALIAA! Dal Central (S¢ection of ly aw Vol. VIII, No: 122 Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office <<q@r- at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 SE 21 orker WORKERS 7 OF THE WORLD, . UNITE! e-Communiet Party U.S.A. the Communist International) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DAILY WORKER MUS Protest This Outrage! HE Michigan State Legislature, sitting at Lansing, Michigan, has passed a bill providing that all foreign born residents of the state must be registered. This, of course, is in reali#y meant to terrorize for- eign born workers, and undoubtedly comes out of the open-shop pro- gram of the Employers Association of Detroit, whose official journal, the Industrial Barometer, for May, stresses the importance of “check- mating the Communists.” But if anyone thinks that the Employers Association is directing their attack solely against Communists, they are very much mistaken. They are persecuting the Communists because the Communists are the only ones who are giving effective leadership to all workers in the strug- gle against wage cuts and for unemployment insurance. This is clear in the Employers Association’s journal in the section headed: “Open Shop Benefits.” Here it is boasted that Detroit electrical workers, pipe fitters and steel construction workers get less wages than those “in another city where the open shop does not exist in the building trades.” And a cau- tious propaganda for wage cuts is put over by saying that “thet opera- tion of economic laws requires certain readjustments.” When these “readjustments” take effect, and wage cuts are being put over, it is very valuable for the capitalists to have a law handy with which to terrorize the workers into “accepting” the wage cuts without striking. A foreign born worker who is forced to register and thus to account to the capitalist police power for his every daily action, and frightened with the threat of deportation in case he joins in a strike, is reckoned upon by the employers to be a force against the success of any strike even when most of the strikers are native born Americans. The obvious strike-breaking character of this Michigan law is, therefore, clear to everyone. More, in practice it will result in direct police supervision over even the mative born American work- ers; for when the capitalist police descend upon a picket line to weed out the foreign born workers and to threaten them with de- portation, any American worker whom they seize upon will be required to prove that he is not a foreign born worker. Thus every native born worker will be subjected to a third degree examination and his “freedom” as a citizen be limited by police terror exactly the same as in any despotism of the Old World. The Michigan bill is the first of its kind passed through any legis- ature. It has not yet been signed by the Governor. Everywhere work- ers and workers’ organizations must pour in a storm of protest against this outrageous bill being made a law. A defense of the foreign born worker is a defense of the American worker—a defense of the whole working class! Let the arrogant Em- ployers Association and their lackeys at Lansing, Michigan, hear’ your protest! Hearing on Motions for New Trial for Nine Boys Postponed Judge Sets Case Forward to June 5 As Brother- - In Law Dies—Roddy Timed Vicious Attack On ILD Attorney for Day of Hearing CHATTANOOGA, May 20.—The hearing on the motions filed by the attorneys of the International Labor Defense for new trials for the nine Scottsboro Negro boys has been post- poned by Judge J. A. Hawkins on account of the death of his brother-in-law. The tentative date of June 5 has been set. wee Hac ans hd RIN eae le ia SI WALTER WHITE BRANDED AS A LIAR BY PARENT Mother of Scottsboro Boy Score Tactics of NAACP Head CHATTANOOGA, May 20.—Walter “white, national secretary of the N. A.A.C.P. is. branded as a liar by Mrs. Josephine Powell, mother of 14-year old Ozzie Powell, one of the Scottsboro Negro boys faring clec- trocution on a framed-up charge of “raping” two notorious white pros- titutes, Mrs. Powell's letter is addressed to the Chattanooga office of the In- ternational Labor Defense. In her letter Mrs. Powell complains that ‘Walter White in his persistent ef- forts to hamstring the defense de- liberately lied t oher boy in a letter sent him to Kilby Prison in which White falsely told the boy that he had seen his mother and she had agreed that the N. A. A. C. P. should take over his defense from the I.L.D. Mrs. Powell sends White's letter to the I. L. D. and writes that organ- | th ization: “It make no difference what nobody say I am ’pending on you. 1 wish you will look after this let- ter right away so Ozie won't sign for no one else. Walter White is just a liar, I has not even seen him. I just want to let you know how White is posting letters on me, atso my son,” Walter White's letter to Ozie, which is dated May 14, is being rushed by air mail to the Daily Worker, In that letter White told the 14-year old boy: “I was very happy to meet your mother in Atlanta and to talk with her, As soon as I had explained ‘Timing his action with the sched- uled date of the hearing, Stephen R. Roddy, Klan lawyer claimed by the N. A. A. C. P. leadership to be rep- resenting them, today came out with @ vicious attack against General George W. Chamless, I. L. D, chief of counsel. His attack was featured in the Chattanooga Times and other boss papers hostile to the defense. Aimed At Hamstring Defense. Roddy’s attack on Chamless is in line with the definite policy adopted by the N. A. A. C. P. leaders of ham- stringing the defense of these nine innocent boys at every available op- portunity. This policy is helping to railroad the boys to the electric chair by its objective support to the South- ern boss lynchers, Today's attack by Roddy was a direct incitation to v2 23 to carry through their planned legal massacre of the nine innocent col- ored children, three of whom are only 14 years old, several 17 and the oldest 20, Stephen R. Roddy is the attorney who helped the boss court at Scotts- boro, Alabama, to railroad the boys toward the electric chair in the first “trial,” when eight of the children were sentenced to burn in the elec- tric chair on July 10 on a framed-up charge of “raping” two notorious white prostitutes, A mistrial was declared in the case of the ninth boy, 14-year-old Roy Wright, one of ie two sons of Mrs. Ada Wright, who is now touring the North under the auspices of the I. L. D, Roddy Denounced by Boys as Traitor. Roddy, who has been denounced by all of the boys as a traitor to their cause, has persistently tried to sabotage the defense. The leaders of the N. A. A. C. P., in statements to the press, have named him os their representative in the case, in spite of the fact tha tall of the boys and their parents have several times stated and re-stated their endorse- ment of the I. L. D. as the only or- ganization charged with the. defense of the boys. In their statements, the boys and tittir parents have urged all organizations and sympathizers to co-operate with) the International ‘Defensd xf a WIN VICTORY ATWOOLMILL, WEYBOSSETT ‘Enthusiasm Rises for National Textile Workers Union ‘Spinners Local Joins \Organize Now to End Wool Trust Pay Cuts PROVIDENCE, R. I, May 20.— | Under the leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union and the N. T. W. mill committee at the Weybos- sett mill of the American Woolen Co., the workers there have won a real victory. The company yesterday granted four of the five demands for which the Weybossett workers stood ready to strike. The workers win an in- crease of two cents per yard. They win day pay for the sample weaving, which means in many cases an in- creasé of $10 a week. The speed-up is stopped for the loom fixers. Bet- ter conditions for the four-loom Weavers have been won. The Weybossett workers’ commit- | tee also demanded the stopping of fines in the National-Providencemill of the American Woolen Co., and this demand was also won. The com- mittee demanded the return of the 1242 per cent wage-cut, and that de- mand was not granted. Fight Soon Over Cut. At a great meeting yesterday of all Weybossett workers they decided to go back and intensify organization work in all American Woolen Co. mills for a strike to rescind the 12% per cent cut. ‘The Maynard delegation was pres- ent and pledged solidarity and joint action. There is much enthusiasm for the National Textile Workers among all workers in Olneyville, the mill center of Providence. Many workers of other mills are joining. An inde- pendent spinners’ local has voted to affiliate with the N. T. W. ‘The General Fabrics mill strike is still going strong. A big delegation of young strikers and other textile workers will attend the National Youth Day in Passaic, N. J. MIDDLE VILLAGE BREAD STRIKE Thousand Rally to Fight High Costs The bread strike of the Middle Village housewives brought over 1,000 workers out on the streets last night in the greatest open air meet- ing this community has ever seen. In defiance of the threats of the Weiss bakery, the meeting was held right opposite the store while the bakery boss stood by helpless in the face of the situation. The first victory of the strike was announced at this meeting, the set- tlement with the Gershenblatt bakery located at Morton Avenue. The prices of bread were reduced as follows: bread from 8 cents to 6 cents a loaf; rolls from 24 cents to 18 cents a dozen, white loaf from 25 cents to 20 cents and buns and crullres from 20 cents to 15 cents a dozen. United Council Leads. One of the bakers during the afternoon had declared flatly that he wowld not give in to the demands but would act “charitably” and contribute if necessary 20 dozen rolls a day to those who were in need. This was flatly rejected by the Strike Committee and the indica- 4 “Call of Daily Worker for $35,000 Must Receive Immediate Response” --Central Committee, C.P., U.S.A.|Bill to Register Yesterday the Daily Worker opened its drive to collect $35,000. This sum is necessary to make possible the further existence of the Daily. To be successful this Drive demands the energy, enthu- siasm and the devotion of every revolutionist. An economic crisis is shaking the capitalist world to its founda- tion. Unemployment, misery and starvation are shaking the confi- dence in capitalism of large masses of workers.- The rising structure of Socialism in the Soviet Union is replacing this confidenec with confidence in the powers of the working class. But in spite of all this capitalism is not abdicating. It fights every inch of the road. It fights with every means of government power at its disposal. It cuts wages _ tt clubs striking and demonstrating workers It prosecutes working class leaders It lynches and inti- midates the Negro masses. It arms for imperialist and for anti- Soviet war. It suppresses the re- volutionary press. It attempts to erush all signs of opposition un- der the iron heel of its political dic- tatorship. Under these conditions the ex- istence of a revolutionary paper is doubly difficult; but it is also ne- cessary. Under these conditions our Daily Worker is a mighty weapon in the hands of the work- ing class. It is the spokesman, the organizer and leader of the work- ing class. Against the lies and forgeries of the capitalist press about the Soviet Union, it shows the facts. Against the voice of profit interests out of the columns of the capitalist press, it raises the voice of proletarian interests. Against the social demagogy and hypocrisy about the misery of the A sharp contrast between the po- licies of the Socialists and the Com- munists was brought out in the dis- cussions in Geneva at the Council of the League of Nations. Arthur working class, it calls for prole-| tarian struggle against this mis-' ery. Against the liberal paralysis of democratic phrases which in- tend to cover up the capitalist dic- tatorship it proposes an end to this dictatorship by means of the fist of the proletarian revolution. The more important the exist- ence of our Daily Worker, the greater must be the efforts. to guarantee this existence. This is the more necessary because the greater the value of the Daily Worker for the working class, the more persistent become the efforts of the capitalist class to suppress it. Under these conditions the call of our Daily Worker for help and the demand to organize for the $35,000 Drive must receive the immediate attention and enthu- siastie response from every revo- lutionary worker. Every Com- munist must bring this call of the Daily Worker for help to the at- tention of the workers in his fac- tory, workshop, mill or mine, as well as into the workers’ organiza- tions where he is a member. Every revolutionary union or working class organization must constitute itself into an auxiliary force for making the Daily Worker Drive a success. Every unemployed coun- cil must organize a canvass in shops and homes for the success of the Daily Worker Drive. In order to live the Daily Worker must get every cent of the $35,000 proposed to be raised. The question whether the Daily Worker shall live we answer with the shout: LONG LIVE THE DAILY WORKER! Rush funds at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th Street, New York City. ‘ CENTRAL COMMITTEE T RECEIVE $35,000 OR SUSPEND DenounceMich Foreign Born Detroit Masses Demonstrate City Hall; Give Funds for Hunger March On State Capital; Score City’s Forced Labor Legislature Rushing to Adjourn Before the Jobless Arrive; Passes Registration Bill Workers In Cities of Western Michigan Are Roused By Hunger March Preparations; Big Support Every- where; Many Delegates DETROIT, Mich., May 19 — The Michigan state legislature has passed a bill for registra- tion of foreign-born. Rushing.its session to a close so as to be adjourned before the delegates of the unemployed, marching from all the in- dustrial cities and towns of the state can reach the capital at Lansing, the legislature has found time to strike a blow at foreign born workers. A mass demonstration of Detroit workers took place be- fore the city hall today, protesting against forced labor on STRIKE BREAKING the home. The demonstration was a mobili- zation for the hunger march on the state capital, May 27, and denounced separate soup lines which breaks up HOUSTON, Texas, May 20.—Sec- using his influence to “arbitrate” the strike of the building trades workers here into a defeat. The strike is called by the . F. L. unions a lock-out; it started over a wage cut of $2 a day effective on May 1. The Trade Union Unity League proposed to the workers that they take control of the strike, and par- ticularly avoid the “arbitration” swindle. President H. Winkler and Secretary George Wilson of the Labor and Trades Council persuaded the men to circulate petitions for arbitration, and themselves held fre- quent conferences with Mayor Mon- teith, County Judge Spencer, and F. M. Law, chairman of the city “un- employment committee.” Then Secretary of Labor Doak came to the station just after tell- men (of whose union he was a high- ly paid official and lobbyist before getting his present job) that wages should be kept up (without a strug- gle of course). The chance to get the blessing of this big bug was eagerly seized by Winkler and Wilson, who had a long secret conference with Doak on the COMMUNIST PARTY train, Boss Press Admits That Charge of “Dumping” Against Soviet Is Tissue of Lies Henderson, foreign minister in the Labor cabinet, devoted most of his speech on Tuesday to a defense of British imperialism in its rivalry with American imperialism. His attack on tariffs was directly chiefly against the United States and was not made in the interest of the “great mass of suffering humanity,” as Henderson tions are that this boss along with] tried to make it appear. Henderson Weiss will either yield or be forced] made no proposals conflicting with out of the neighborhood. the interests of the British imperial- The mass meeting unanimously | ists. adopted a resolution in support of] On the other hand, Litvinoff, rep- the Scottsboro Defense and shouted | resenting the Soviet Union, attacked approval on the vote to send a tele-|the capitalist war preparations, show- gram to B. M. Miller, Gov. of Ala-|ed the real basis of the present, crisis bama, demanding the unconditional | which was due to the deep-going cap- release of the 9 Negro bays . who] italist contradictions. : hq elecieie shah “7+ "~ \ Ot He pointed: out that only the Bey- ee E. is iet Union, the workers’ fatherland, was advancing in the midst of uni- versal chaos, “The analysis of the situation made by Maxim Litvinoff, Foreign Commis- sar of the Soviet Union, ts privately considered a fair and reasonable statement”, admits William Bird, New York Sun correspondent in Ge- neva. Furthermore, Mr. Bird goes on to make some more admissions about the capitalist lies against the Soviet Union: “Privately it is admitted that the so-called dumping of raw materials by Russia has not been a serious factor in the present economic crisis, but has frequently served as a convenient alibi for bad conditions. due to other causes, . “Privately it is conceded that the industrial development of Russia under the Five-Year Plan. does not constitute a dangerous threat to the prosperity of other nations.” It is clear from the actions of Hen- derson, Briand and other imperialist diplomats at Geneva, that an attempt is being made to form a bloc against American imperialism, in the strug- gle for world markets. At the same time, behind phrases of accord, the imperialists are strengthening their war front against the Soviet Union. Litvinoff’s proposal for “economic hon-aggression” was made to’all the imperialist powers, including the United \States. The ‘European imperialists, tawough the ‘Labor’ Minister Henderson Seeks War Alliances for British Imperialism at Geneva Meet leadership of the British Labor Party, are maneuvering for war. More proof of this maneuver of the European imperialists is shown by the statement of the Chilian secre- tary of commerce for a union of the Latin American republica against high tariffs—which spe€ifically “hits at American imperialism. All the proposals made, including those of Litvinoff, have been turned over to a sub-committee, so that the leading imperialists can handle them as they please in secret, The French protest against the proposed Austro-German customs union, which constitutes a blow at French imperialism, was turned over to the world court for “solution”. Briand smoothened the matter out by making various promises, but the real purpose of showing this matter aside were not made clear at the open Sessions in Geneva, ©" retary of Labor Doak is personally | ing the convention of railroad train-! in ringing terms the state bill to register, which means to blacklist and deport in many cases, all for- eign born workers. The Workers International Reliet made a collection at the demonstra- tion for hunger march expenses, and there will bea big mass meeting Sunday afternoon at Danceland Auditorium, for the hunger marchers and to protest registration. A united front conference is called for May 31, at which delegates from al) workers’ organizations will take up plans for a further struggle against this bill. Workers’ organizations are send- ing telegrams to the governor de- manding that he not sign the bill The hunger marchers will make one of their demands on the state gov- ernment the killing of this vicious registration bill. Mayor's “Liberalism.” Last Sunday Unit 6 of Section A of the Communist Party in Detroit held an open air meeting, to mok- ilize for the hunger march and rally support for the nine framed Negro boys in Scottsboro. The meeting was opened by Esther Rosow and another speaker was just finishing with 50 Negro and white workers listening eagerly and collecting nickels and pennies to send a pro- test telegram to Alabama, when the police came down. The crowd refused to tell who was speaking—the police called it “riot- ing,” and the cops in exasperation (CONT UED os © THREE) 300 Block Eviction In Indianapolis; Parade Red Flags INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 20.— ‘Three hundred workers took part in @ mass meeting May 15 here to stop the eviction of a man with three children who had been out of work for six months, A committee of the unemployed branch knocked on all the doors in the neighborhood and called them together. The constable and three squads of city police tried to chase them away, and failed. The police finally be- came so convinced of the militancy of the workers that they stated: “We don’t care what you do.’ What these workers did was first to put the furniture all back in, then to parade the streets with red flags, block traffic, stop a train and gen- erally arouse the town, .