The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1931, Page 3

JOBLESS WORKERS IN Baily Vor Starving Harlan Miners ( Capture Six Machine G Guns from Scottsboro Defense GRAND RAPIDS PAID —— me & Coal C any; Fighting Cont ; Death Total 31 BY CITY IN SCRIPT] ™ Pa—Hall to be announced. O ompany; U m on inues; e O May 23. ‘ . ’ 0 . Tae P ane resident and secretary o? the Harlan county strike, of whom| Harlan County Coal Operators stubborn resistance to starvation and} but the president and secretary o} one ides acaoneraara EDITOR'S NOTE 18 were coal miners, Among the dead | sociation, Only very few are scab-| armed force alfke is that they have] Evarts local (in the f venut . A 8 SY = ones Pe . + ¢ This is the first direct news from | miners are three Negroes who were | bing had five wage cuts in the last three| fighting) have been indicted Forced to Werk on Sewer Job in Exchange for May heat u, 323 & || Harlan than we have received, ex- | shot in the back, One deputy was} When the companies evicted the] montt They earn, even when] mt and are in jail, as Rotten Food Onioagomeerea: Rb cept what had already been strain- | killed last night, and the miners fired | miners who struck, their houses were $6 weekls | the chief of police, the deput ais - 43rd St. La—At Marine || ° through capitalist press sources. | into a troop of militia with casualties | burned. Seventeen houses wer burnd| ‘The strike was called by District | of the police and the city clerk o ney : ‘ es a Saige Charl ae Notice that the capitalist press has | unknown. We heard firing today,| one night last week | President Turnblazer, who came here | Ey Evarts was the only “free 1 Must Buy $3 Groceries at City Store Before }} workers Hau, 308 Charles St. 1) aitogether concealed the extent of | one mile from the center of Harlan 600 Mititia |as an AFL organizer a short time | town” in the surrounding country, the ~ They Can Get Milk Charlotte, N.C. Hal the struggle, minimized the number | ‘The miners are ni g six m There are 600 militiamen in the| ago. This Turnblazer was 2 UMW| rest of the land all being owned by j nounced, arian of deaths, and has not given the | chine guns they captured from a} county, making common cause with | official four years ago, but left short- | the coal companies, Evarts had the ‘ 5 Rockford, Ill. Hal e an- |) minrs credit for the amount of | company ammunition depot ‘the mine guards, whom the coal op-| ly before the disappearance of the] only stores not owned by the com- Grand Rapids, Mich. heath BSE ea resistance they have shown. There is a report in an that | erators’ sheriff makes into deputies. | union here, He held conferences with | panies. Evicted miners came to Ev Dear Editor: - ee pal Si eee 9,000 more miners in Tennessee, Ken- | The miners are fighting them both. | the governor and agreed to the send-| when they were driven from their * 4 ‘ * eral St., at 2.30 p, m. (By Special C t) ey and - 5 W. ut i ne fu + . * loyed worker, in order to get relief ae y Special Correspondent tucky and Virvinia are out today on 5 Wage Cuts ing in of the militia, saying to the] nomes by company gunmen. Sheriff * py ree a a Sie et asia ae ne ee Viking Hall. |) aRLAN, Ky., May 20—Civil war| sympathy strike. This in addition] Although the United Mine Workers,| miners that they would disarm the figiaevacaratore year sale oe SEN uate leat acacia ld Pe eee ' 704-Tth St at 2 p. m. is still raging here. Your co to the 9,000 striking now in Harlan | which called the strike presents only| deputized mine guards eli the Hvarts city’ a thing for fifty cents an hour, paid in scrip. Milwaukee—At Labor Temple, 1/ pondent has established conclusi county against the Black Mountain] the demand for the return of union eee itical enemy of the Evarts city ¢ 808 Walnut St., at 2:30 p. m. May 25. Philadelphia, Pa. At the Knights of Pythias Hall, 19th and Lom- bard Sts. This scrip is redeemable only ate———— ——__________-—_ the city store for “food.” One can/this is that some people would use get no fresh fruit at this store other | these tickets to buy bread with in- {han some oranges at thirty cents | stead of going to the city store each dozen, while they retail at some] day or else buying up a lot of bread stores for 45 to 49 cents a peck. at one time. Others would buy some One Day Work A Week. other articles at stores for regular We cannot get whatever we want| prices, paying with those tickets, for | at the store and the amount that we|some of the prices charged at the + can get of anything at one time is| city store are simply outrageous. limited, for instance, they will not Build Unemployed Councils. *, sell any milk tickets (forfherly re- This is only one of the many } deemable at any store for one quart | grievances the unemployed workers | of pure sweet milk, ticket worth 9| working for scrip have. Only by or- cents) unless you buy $3.00 worth | ganizing into the Unemployed Coun- of groceries. Most workers only|cils and putting up a militant fight work two half days for which they|can the workers better their condi- get $4.00 a week. tions, Last week they changed the milk| Unemployed workers, working for tickets, making them redeemable by | the city for scrip! JOIN THE UN- a milk dealer only. The tickets are} EMPLOYED COUNCILS! now 10 cents each, The reason ror —E. D. that 317 have been killed so far in| Coal Co., and other ns in the] men fired, the basis of the miners’| Turnblazer has not been arrested; { ministration. May 26. Washington. D, C., Galilean Fishermen's Hall, 320 F. St., S. W. at 8:30 p. m. May 27. Pittsburg, Pa.—At the Pythian ‘Temple, 2011 Center Ave. May 28 Minneapolis, Minn. Hall to be announced. Boston, Mass. Hall to be an- iounced. 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. 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 2 p. m. June 5. New Brunswick, N. J.—At the Workers’ Home, 11 Plum S&t., at 2:30 p. m. Indianapolis, Ind—At Odd Fel- lows Hall, 5302 Indiana Ave, at 7:30 p. m. Baltimore, Md-—At Galilean Fishermen's Hall, 411 W. Biddle St., at 8 p.m. Gary, Ind.—At 2 p.m. Hall to be announced. Green Protects Hoover, Mellon, U. S. Steel in Wage Cut Drive In various departments of the) quarters of the American Federation American Federation of Labor a loud| of Labor,” Green went on to say, cry is being raised that is supposed | “that some bankers have refused to | to be taken as a “protest against | extend credit to manufacturers un- wage-cuts.” William Green, presi-| less they reduced wages. This is dent of the A. F. of L., speaking be-| coercion of a most reprehensible fore the convention of the Brother- | character.” hood cf Railway Trainmen in Hous- The banks doing this stunt are ton, Texas, again talked about “a/ these connected with Hoover and conspiracy to reduce wages.” Mellon; the banks that own and A careful examination of Mr.| control the U. S. Steel Corporation | Green’s speech reveals the fact that} ®nd the General Electric Co. that | he actually praises those chiefly re- | GGreen says are not cutting wages, | sponsible for the drastic wage-cut-| Green's speech about “striking” | ting that Green admits is going on.| and “resisting” in the event of wage- \, In his speech, which was loudly ap-| Cuts is a deliberate smoke screen to plauded when he called for resistance | Protect the leading labor exploiters to wage-cutting, Green said: in the United States in their wage- this ahi lit Senin Sos aioe cutting drive by directing attention agains: the lesser wage-cuts. President of the United States, the | 71’, policy of shouting for resist: Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mel- | ance while crushing real united ac- | lon, and members of the President’s | tion of the workers in the shops has Cabinet, large employers of labor, | been taken up by the Metal Trades such. as Mr. Farrell of the United | 1, partment of the American Fed- States Steel Corporation Mr. | eration of Labor. On Wednesday Harlan miners welcoming militia when martial law was declared. They believed the promise of the governor and U. M. W. District President Turnblazer that the troops would protect them. The artillery, hand grenades, and machine guns. They clashed again troops immediately lined up with the company gunmen. President Hightower, of Evarts local, led ir with the miners Tuesday, and scattered when a volley ripped into the welcome to the ‘state soldiers; now he is in jail charged with murder because he said the governos them, double crossed the miners about disarming the mine guards, Kentucky state militia, who are now hunting the hills to kill striking miners in Harlan county. They are armed with rifles, JERSEY WORKERS |Son of Morgan & Co. Partner Heads|WALTER WHITE TO RATIFY CP War Maneuvres of 672 War Planes) BRANDED AS A meee der ip cover up the gigantic extent | | | pe . of the air war preparations and what | doubiedly be attacked not only with |) 4 ‘; Hold-Opem. Air Meet! they msan to the working messes | | dant wal with exwlenive and tanedl- Mother of Seottsbor ° at Singer the public showing of the “night at- ary bombs. , Boy Seores Tactics of NAACP Head tack” on New York has been can- “Experts discovered that explosive (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) June 6 Chester, Pa. at Li:thuanian Hall, 4th and Upland Streets. June 17 Gary, Ind.—At Croatian Hall: ‘WORLD STRIKE it i their interest to carry their Ww hy They y Called Off N Y Night Air “Attack” NEWARK, N. J.—Open-air election | celled. | and incendiary bombs are capable campaign meeting at Singer Sewing! This originally was staged as a big| “It must be admitted”, says this | of producing such destruction that nt Se of W Red Cross report, “that the pro- if explosive bombs fell on a congest- Swope of the General Electric Co, many railroad executives, the As- sociated Employers of San Fran- “collecti ion” t= pecan psa as Entre: ‘collective action” against wage-cul ting and “organizing the ynorgan- contractors and representatives of | ized.” The American Federation of Jabor making strong declarations in |r ehor, thro i py & ugh Green, is protecting epponition to wage reductions, the U. 8. Steel Corporation, the lead- This is a deliberate lie and is| ing company in tls metal industry, Green's method of protecting those| in its wage-cutting campaign. chiefly responsible for the wage- On Wednesday, Alexander Legge, cutting drive. Hoover, Mellon, Far-| of the Federal Farm Board, also rel of the U, 8. Steel Corporation, | came out with a statement that was Swope of the General Electric—all| supposed to be taken as a blow affiliated with the leading bankers of | against wage-cuts. But here is what the House of Morgan, the Chase Na-| this enemy of the American and tional Bank and the National City| Soviet workers actually said: Bank of New York lead the present. “Probably some adjustment down- wage slashing drive that Green| ward from the wage and price lev- makes a fake attack against. els we have become accustomed to “Reports have reached the head-| is inevitable!” Support Grows for All- Southern Scottsboro Conference May 31 CHATTANOOGA, May 20.—Negro| the work of preparing the confer- and white workers throughout the | ence. South are feverishly working to-| In several other southern cities gether to mobilize mass support for | conferences will be held before May the All-Soutuhern United Front /31; in New Orleans, La,, and Char- Scottsboro Conference which will be | lotte, N. C., on May 24; etc. These held in this city on May 31, as part | conferences will send delegations to of the nation-wide fight to save the|the ll-Southern conferences in nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys | Chattanooga on the 31st. Delega- from the legal lynching planned by | tions will also be sent from all the the Alabama capitalists and land-|big northern conferences to be held lords. before the 31st. The New York City Many organizations and churches |°°Mfreence on May 17 elected a del- have already elected delegates to the |°#@tion. Chicago, Youngstown, Mil- conference and pledged their whole- | W8ukee, Philadelphia, Washington, hearted support to the movement to| Pittsburgh and other cities will also step the mass legal lynching. Mass |8¢0d delegations from their local or meetings have been held with great |'¢sional conferences. , succes in many cities of the South. ‘The “work cot’ tiilatng —Wlook’ and oe neighborhood committees is being 2 pushed also with great success. Santal Midy Thousands of white and Negro workers have rallied, in a fighting| Prescribed for years for eitsaet: te ak semane the Kidneys me and ‘The parents and other relations of the boys, who haye just returned B from Kilby prison where they went | dd m to defeat the attempts of Walter eo night Hing, er Bis White, together with several local aches, night preachers and Ku Klux Klan| S88es Gp eiage le lawyers to betray the defense of Kap eu pues Pe a” their children, have thrown them- the original Santali aed he selves with the utmost energy into arg century. Cut out and maihat once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York SAVE THE DAILY $35,000 Save-The-Daily Worker Fund. Enclosed find... 0...40..0. coceeee Collars: Rey nik rs okie + tents: We pledge to do all in our power to save our Daily by raising $35,000 by July 1 Address oes ces ee eaee GAG WELD E ISS CPT CLD bade aeeheasacedsbaveacs MUST HAVE $1,000 A DAY! ~~ this department issued a message to the Metal Trades Council urging Wage Cuts" Rage in Capitalist Lands STRUGGLES ON Machine Shop was held in Blizybeth, | show by As N. J., where over a hundred and| Trubee Davison, fifty workers gathered around the speakers of the Communist Party and many more listened from the windows of the factory. ‘The bosses sent out a man with @ bible to drown out the words of Forecasting a rising wave of gi- Gantic strike struggles in all parts of the world, workers in many foreign countries are striking against wage cuts and drastic inroads on their standards of life. WARSAW.—When the mine own- ers in the Dabrowa and Cracow coal fields sought to enforce a 10 per cent wage cut upon the Polish miners who receive from 56 to 79 cents a day, 20,000 walked out in strike. The miners had been working on short time, three and four days a week. Miners in Upper Sillesia regard the strike sympathetically and may join in several days. COLUMBIAN COFFEE WORKERS BOGOTA, Columbia. against conditions in the coffee plantations in the department of Cundinamarca, 500 coffee harvesters resisted the importation of strike- The Mayor of Viota, in the depart- ment, sent a detachment of national police against the strikers. An attempt to break the strike 1s being made by the National Labor Bureau of Columbia, in the interest of the planters. . 100,000 FRENCH TEXTILE WORK- a ERS STRIKE PARIS.—The textile mills of northeast France and Lille were closed ‘yesterday when more than 100,000 textile workers struck against a 3 to 4 per cent reduction in their Already 12,000 special police and gendarmes have been rushed into the strike zone in an attempt to break the strike. * SWEDISH WORKERS CONTINUE COPENHAGEN. — The Swedish Employers Union issued a statement that it will press with the full the Communist Speakers. But these tactics proved futile. The workers listened and applauded the program of the Communist Party, The meet- ing lasted three-quarters of an hour. Singer Sewing Machine formerly employed 10,000 workers. They now employ 3,500. Every week workers are being laid off. Many are now working part time. The Communist Party has a nucleus in this shop, and issued their first shop paper on May 1. Workers are looking forward to the June issue. On June 14, in Newark, New Jer- sey, at 457 Springfield Ave., there will be a State Ratification Conven- tion. ¥ will be the biggest ever held in New Jersey. Hundreds of organ- izations are sending delegates. The Party has candidates in seven coun- ties, several New Jersey cities, also a candidate for governor. Unions, unemployed councils, fraternal or- ganizations are sending delegates. A concert will be hied a day before the convention in the same hall, as an opening to the convention. Players Wanted for a Scottsboro Case Play The Workers Laboratory Theatre is now casting for a Scottsboro play. The play must be performed as soon a8 possible so that it may serve to rally support to the defense of the 9 Negro boys. If possible two casts will be formed this week. Both colored and white workers are required. Come to rehearsals on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, 8:30 p. m. at 131 West 28th St. attempts to procure food for them- Selves, Unemployment is growing among the tin miners with the smaller mines almost all completely shut down and the larger ones on part time. its state power the wages conditions of the workers and will make no concessions. In Hernosand, a strike center, the workers have set up their own com- mittees, maintaining order in the At Solleftea, another ‘irike cen- ter, the workers demand the imme- diate expulsion of all strike-break- TIN MINERS CLASH LA PAZ, Bolivia—According to the Iniest capitalist news sources, unemployed tin miners in the Oruro mining region have clashed on sev- ral ovoasions with troops in their! Steamship Line, efective Aysust 1, PLAN HUGE WAGE CUTS IN JAPAN TOKIO, Japan.—A sweeping wage cut, from 10 to 25 per cent, and es- pecially affecting the lower categor- jes of government employees is the scheme proposed by the Wakatsuki government to cover the deficit pending this year. $8,000,000 is thus to be loped from. government expenditures. fiber aa BRITISH MARINE WORKERS GET CUT LONDON.—-A flat 10 per cent re- duction in the wages of all seamen and wharf workers in ils employ was announced by the Peninsular Orient on of the late Hen- ry P, Davison, partner of Morgan & Co. Assistant Secretary of War Da- vison bought his position as war sec- | retary through the funds his father tection of civilians against gas war- fare encounters great diffeulties. Let us suppose that we wish to provide | the population of all countries with masks; this would represent a con- made in the last world slaughter. He | siderable expense which . . at any is drumming up a new slaughter in| given moment may be rendered order to make more millions. | useless . . What imperialist war will mean to the masses was revealed in a report made to the International Red Cross conference at Brussels last October, - But let us suppose that we provide masks and shelters, we must realize that the civilian popu- lation will not be completely pro- tected . . . If belligerents believed } ed community nothing would re- | main... | “At first we thought that inter- national law would prevent such attacks on civilian populations, but consultation with jurists shows that protection of civilians through legal prohibitions is very doubtful, and that in time ofwar the few little documents we have in our hands would be likely to have small ef- fect.” Pittsbur oh Workers to Hear Mrs. Wright Scottsboro “Mother in Steel Town, May 21 PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 20.—In- dignant over the attacks on the Uni- ted Front Scottsboro defense cam- paign by the Pittsburgh Courier, the | Negro workers of Pittsburgh are pre- paring to turn out en masse to greet Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro victims, when she speaks here at the Pythian Temple, 2011 Center Avenue, this Friday evening, May 21. Mrs. Wright's appearance in Pitts- | burgh will give added stimulus to the preparations for the local United Front Scottsboro Conference which is to take place on May 27 at the same hall. Many Negro and white organizations and churches have al- ready elected. delegates to the con- ference, an@ the attacks by the Pittsburgh Courier, instead of serv- ing the southern boss lynchers as in- tended, have served simply to arouse the Negro masses to the terrible danger of legal lynching facing the boys as a result of the boss terror against the Negro masses and the treacherous support of that terror by such reformist papers as The Courier. The Joint Committee of the In- ternational Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights last night issued a statement on the attacks by the Pittsburgh Courier, The statement declares, in part: “The slanderous outburst of Mr. Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier against the International Labor De- fense is an attempt to strike a direct blow against the nine young Negro boys of Scottsboro who have been sentenced to burn in the electric chair, after a shameful frame-up and farcical trial.” The statement further points out that “only a broad mass protest movement will save the Scottsboro defendants from legal lynching. If the mass protest organized by the I. L, D. does not continue, the same fate will overtake them as has over~ taken dozens of other workers in the South—death at the hands of a Jmeh mgh oF legal Inching" sein (the uatal eollection, apd asked the| they would get DENOUNCE MICHIGAN BILL TO REGISTER FOREIGN-BORN COONTIN yAGE ONE) {picked up a spectator who could hardly speak English. Others pro- tested that he was only listening. “No matter,” said the police agents the liberal-mouthed Mayor Mur- phy, “he had no right to listen to unlawful sayings.” Rosow immediately began to speak again pointing out the real mean- ing of capitalist police power and using the present circumstance as proof, and was arrested, with an- other bystander. They were all held for from 15 to 48 hours. 3 CHURCHES AID SCOTTSBORO BOYS Support TLD United Front Defense ATLANTA, Ga., May 20.—Three of the largest Negro churches in this city last Sunday went on record in support of the United Front Scotts- boro defense movement to save the nine Negro boys framed-up on a ly- ing charge of rape. All three chur- ches promised to send delegates to the All-Southern defense conference in Chattanooga on May 31 The three churches are the Zion Hill Baptist Church, with 700 present; the W. Mitchell A. M. E. Church, with 30 present; and the Mount Ver- non Baptist Church with a member- Ship of 3,200. Mary Dalton spoke at all three meeting and was enthusiastically received, Especially responsive were the memberships of the W. Mitchell A. M, FE. Church and the Mt, Vernon Baptist Church. These loudly ap- Plauded the defense program of the International Labor Defense and the points already gained in the fight to save the boys. The Mt, Vernon Bap- tists Church sent a telegram of protest to Gov. B. M. Miller of Ala- bama, ‘The pastor of the church omitted Mobilize Western Michigan. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 20. —At a meeting Sunday of the Trade Union Unity League and United Front Mobilization Committee of the Western Michigan Division of the State Hunger March on Lans- ing, the field organizers’ committee reported enthusiastic response from jobless workers, poor farmers, and also employed workers, In Muskegon, two lively branches of the Unemployed Council have been organized, with many Negro workers taking an active part, and| three times the quota of marchers lined up. big send-off demon- stration is being organized in Hack- ley Park Saturday at noon when the Muskegon marchers will leave for Grand Haven, Holland, and go to Grand Rapids, whree a big mass meeting will greet them at A. A. S. Hall, 439 Ottawa Ave. in the eye- ning. On Sunday, a big T. U.. U. L, picnic will be held at Cooperative Lake, proceeds of which will go to feed, shelter and transport the marchers, Admission is free and also the transportation which will be from 336 Bond Ave. (T, U. U. L. Headquarters), at 10 a. m, At Wayland the committee spoke to farmers at a Grange meeting and were well received by all except a rich mortgage holder. Arrangements have been made for a meeting there to greet the marchers; also in Plain- well and Otsego. In Kalamazoo a meeting was held with an A. F. L, union whose leaders have deserted congregation to donate instead to the defense of the boys. $17.00 was col- lected, So aroused were the Negro worker members of the W. Mitchel A. M. E. and the Mt, Vernon Baptist that they decide to hire automobile trucks to send a large delegation to the All-Southern Conference. Many members of the congregations stated they would walk all the way to Chattanoogs, if they had to, but the facts regarding the case she told me very promptly that she wanted the NAACP to defend you instead of the ILD.” Ozie wrote his bother on May 17: “Moma, I got this letter today. 1 am sending it to you so you will know just what to do. T wrote a letter to the people (NAACP) be- fore I have seen you so I will do just what you say. You know the best for me.” Negro workers! Rank and file members of the NAACP! Stop this treacherous hamstringing by Walter White and other NAACP leaders of the fight to save the lives of these nine innocent boys* Support the united front defense policy of the International Labor Defense. Join the fighting alliance of white and Negro workers to smash this hideous frame-up and planned legal massacre of these working-class children! De- mand the NAACP leaders stop their treacherous scooperation with the southern boss lynchers who are at- tempting to legally lynch these boys gn July 10! Raise the question of United Front Scottsboro defense in your organizations, in all branches of the NAACP, in the columns of the newspapers! Stop the betrayal of these innocent bo; i sa Warkers Face 15 Per Cent Wage Cut CLEVELAND, May 20.—A dead- lock is reported in the wage nego- tiations between the United States Potters’ Association, and the offt- cials of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, now going on. The misleaders of the potters’ union are working with the bosses to put ovre a wage cut. The bosses Propose a 15 per cent cut, and re- plying the officials called for a se- cret wage conference. The purpose is to accept a wage cut, but at a lower figure than 15 per cent, The bosses are pressing them hard, which accounts for the deadlock. The union officials do not dare to let the union members know what is going on at the conference, them and which will support the march, A mass meeting will be held tomorrow to organize an Unem- ployed Council and elect marchers. Two new lively branches of the Unemployed Council have been or- ganized in Battle Creek, home of Kellogg's “Six-Hour Day.” Good progress is being made in the ar- rangements to house the Western Michigan Division of the march there over Monday night. A demon stration will be held there at 7 p. m, to greet the marchers. Meetings to greet the marchers will also be held in Marshall, Albion and Jackson, This division will meet the Detroit section in Lansing on Tuesday at 2 Pp m a Pt A a emit ?