The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1931, Page 1

“RALLY TO SAVE DAILY!” IS T.U.U.L. CALL TO ALL WORKERS Answer the Merciless Wage Cutting Drive of the Bosses! Organize, Strike Against Wage Cuts! Vol. VIII, Nos 123 at New York, N. Dail Central (Section.of Entered an socond-clays matter at the Vost Office «gep>21 - Y., ander the act of March 3, 1879 ly, We ist the Communist Interna NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1931 Party U.S.A. tional) orker CITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents 75 PER CENT OF INDUSTRIES HAVE PUT OVER WAGE CUTS! STATE HUNGER MARCHERS READY; DEMAND RELIEF AND NO REGISTRATION Registration Law Goes to Governor for His Signature; Provides Finger Printing of All Foreign Born By the State Police DETROIT, Mich., May 21:—While scores of elected delegates of the unemployed pre- pare to march on the state capital at Lansing, and thousands of workers and unemployed workers are mobilized to support the march, the full and most vicious nature of the bill to register foreign continues to be revealed. The hunger marchers will demand of the state govern- ment, when they reach Lansing on May 27, that unemploy-! ment insurance be established through a state law, and that Sra memes "ab=| REDORT MINERS STRIKE IN OHH) $3 additional to each deperident. They demand immediate appropria- ‘The capitalist press states that a strike is on at Hocking mine, near tion of $55,000,000, to be paid for on Athens, Ohio. The company an- @ special tax of 10 per cent on for- tunes over $25,000 and on yearly in- nounced a reduction from 45 cents a ton to 40 cents for loaders, and comes over $5,000. The state legislature, which hur- a cut from $3.75 and $4 a day for day workers, to $3.52 and $3.74 a ries to adjourn so as not to be in day. session when the jobless arrive, has passed the Cheeney bill to register foreign born, Details of the bill, as they are revealed in the capitalist press, show that it provides for not only registration, but finger printing of the foreign born, to be done by the state police within 30 days. In registering, each foreign-born The number involved and the leadership are not given. (CONTINDED ON PAGE 'THREE) “Socialist” Strike Breakers A LESSON for all workers in the strike-breaking policy of the “Socialist” Party is available in the events taking place in the strike of the Ladish Drop Forge workers at Cudahy, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At this plant 150 workers went out on strike against a wage cut of 10 per cent and a life-wrecking speed-up. These workers were unor- ganized, and when they struck they naturally turned to the only trade union organization of this country that is leading strikes—the Trade Union Unity League. A reporter for the “socialist” paper, the Milwaukee Leader, or per- haps it would be better to say a stool pigeon, visited the strikers. He tried to convince them that the treacherous officials of the A. F. of L. were the “leadership” they should have. But these workers knew too well the strike-breaking role of the A. F. of L. and they rejected both the A. F. of L. and its social-fascist ally, the “socialist” party. Workers should note what then happened. The “socialist” paper, the Milwaukee Leader, came out with an article that is nothing less than fascist propaganda for strike-breaking. It was headed: “Cudahy Workers Ask Protection From Communists.” A heading which no fascist editor, American Legionnaire, or even Mr. Fish himself could improve upon. And from this headline it went on to say: “Two employees at the Ladish Drop Forge plant at Cudahy com- plained to the police today that they have been threaténed by Commu- nists, and requested protection. They said that last week five Com- munists....threatened them with their lives. They declare the Com- munists demanded they go on strike. The officials of the company said the dissatisfaction among the workers is confined to 10 per cent, and that a strike is not pending. The District Attorney referred them to Sheriff Al Benson.” Remember workers, that this “socialist” pancr alrendv knew that 150 men comprising 90 per cent of all those employed at the Ladish Drop Ferge plant were on strike, and that these “socialists” knew very well that the strike was against a wage cut and the speed-up. But even had they not known this, the whole effect of the article is to break the strike, to justify police violence against the strikers and encourage scabbing. In fact a “socialist” in Cudahy named Houdek sent his son-in-law to scab (he himself is busy running a saloon) and is encouraging other scabs. Anyone who is “appealifig for protection” is a scab and no doubt will receive full consolation and support from the “socialist” sheriff, Mr. Benson! If the Milwaukee “socialists” receive the applause of the capitalists for this piece of strike-breaking, they may, of course, refer to precedent. During the same days in which they were breaking strikes in Wiscon- sin, the New York Times (May 15th) was eulogizing their illustrious example, Gustav Noske, the “socialist” who in 1919 ordered the butchery Must Raise $35,000 By July Ist to Save Our Fighting Organ zations. another crisis. York City. The rapid rise of the strike movement against wage cuts, wage cut drive on a national scale in the big industries with the blessing of the bankers, the backing of the government and the betrayal of the workers by the A. F. of L. leader- ship, show clearly that the latter half of 1931 will bea period of sharp mass struggles The reduction of relief for the unemployed, and the actual cutting off of all forms of relief in many instances by government and charitable agencies, add to the mass misery of jobless workers and are intended to make more efficient the use of mass starv. ation to force the unemployed to take the jobs of workers who strike against wage cuts. VOICE OF THE WORKING CLASS The Daily Worker is the voice of the working class, its revolutionary guide, the or- ganizer of the fighting masses, the teacher and defender of the proletatriat. sion of the Daily Worker would be a victory for the class enemies of the revolutionary trade union movement and a tremendous defeat for the working clags. The National Committee of the T.U.U.L. for the appeal of the Daily Worker not as a mere defensive measure Worker, but as an integra] and an all-important part of its main task of mobilizing and leading the working class in militant strike struggles against the imperialist attack on all fronts—for the defeat of the wage cut program of the bosses, for the defense of the Negro masses against’ murderous” suppression, typified in the Scottsboro Case, for thé defeat of all injunction measures, for the repeal of all suppressive laws, mass deportations of foreign born workers, for social insurance, against the imperialist war danger and for a most aggressive mass defense of the Soviet Union NOT ENOUGH TO “SAVE” DAILY To “save” the Daily Worker is not enough. sharp class battles that the Daily Worker is enabled merely to skim over its present des- perate financial crisis with no margin to spare and to halt for a short time on the edge of The TUUL National Committee calls upon all members and sympathizers, througuh the regular committees and special committees which may be set up for the pur- pose to organize, on the living issues of the attack on the working class, in the unions, in the shops and factories and among sympathizers a mass response to the appeal of the Daily Worker, expressed in dollars, dimes and pennies and in greatly increased circuulation Answer the attack of the class enemies of our trade unions by swift and effective organization of mass support for the $35,000 fighting fund of the Daily Worker, the daily expression of revolutionary trade unionism and the entire working class! Raise funds at once and send them to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGU Support of the appeal of the Daily Worker for $35,000 by July Ist is a basic and pressing duty of every member of the Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated organi- and the launching of a new The suspen- regards the task of organizing mass support to save the Daily for the struggle against It is not sufficient for this period of HAYES BODY MEN BLOCK ATTEMPT TO FIRE LEADERS Unorganized: But Win the Struggle INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 21.— The water sanders of the Hayes Body Corporation walked out a few weeks ago on Saturday afternoon in protest against working overtime. When they appeared for work the morning of May 18, they found that Plant Manager Staples had fired three of them, those he considered the leaders in the walk-out. The men all notified Staples that they would strike at once if the three were not rehired, and won their point, The next morning, a crowd of the workers outside the plant cheered speeches of Comrades Lewis and Ross. The police arrested the two as the workers went back to work. Thirty per cent of the force in of some twenty thousand German workers! The New York Times expressed the thanks of American capitalism for this. In part it said: “He (Noske) had the resolution to do what Kerensky in Russia has been by many chided for failing to do, and that is to turn machine guns on former associates and fellow-socialists. . . . Up to the present day the German socialists have remained stout sup- porters of progress by the democratic method.” Workers will note how easily it is for the “democratic method” to turn into the method of machine guns against the workers! ‘It, is this same method that the American “socialist” party is working with in its attacks upon the Communists and its strike-breaking of the struggles of the workers against, wage cuts. Everywhere revolutionary workers must expose these bearers of fascism, who pretend to be on the side of labor— only to stab it in the back! the Marmon plant were laid off May 13. Half the office force was laid off May 16. The speed-uup makes it possible to do this. CLIQUE BLOCKS RAISE - CHICAGO, Ill, May 21.—President. Charles Paulson. following in the wage cutting and strike breaking tactics of his superior, Broach, jam- med a motion through a meeting here of Local 134 (telephone elec- triclans) of the A.F.L. electrical workers’ union, not to take the 25 cents a day raise in wages which «he contract provides for on June 1. to the pressure of the Negro masses United Front to Save Nine Negro Boys Gains Support NEW YORK.—The United Front defense policy of the Internationa] Labor Defense and the League ef Struggle for Negro Rights in the fight to save the lives of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro children is receiving increasing support on every hand. The wisdom of this policy was immediately recognized by the broad masses of Negro and white workers who began to exert mass pressure in their organizations and churches with the result that hun- dreds of these, together with scores of Negro newspapers, have been forced into ‘support of the united are paving the way for that not far-off day when, the black work- ers of this country, uniting with their white brethren, will make common cause, and fare forth un- der one banner, to wrset from the hands of their oppressors, those things which have been brutally denied them. “We are with you in this fight to prevent the legal lynching of those who have been denied their rights as citizens, and are hoping (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) AFL Officials Already MISHAWAKA, Ind., May ers broad rank and file stri the struggle of the many here. ‘The-strike, according to latest in- formation, is in the hands of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats at the head of the rubber workers’ Union. A. J. Smith, head of the “southern dis- trict” of the union, is to have com- plete charge of it, according to the A. F. of L. officials’ program. Under the command of Smith and of William I. Stayton, local presi- dent, the work of smashing down the morale, reducing the militancy and hampering the picketing of the strik- ers is already well under way. A handful of employes are scabbing. The A. F. of L. officials have lim- ited the size of picket groups to 30 men and 15 women. The strikers and members of their families, to the number of 5,000, held a@ mass meeting in Battell Park and were addressed by a collection of A. F. of L. central labor body and state federation officials and by Mayor Mason Petro, who told them: “I am a friend of the working people. A working man myself, I promise to Support you, as long as your actions are under control!” An evening meeting was urged by Stanley Whitsell, preacher at the Immanuel Baptist Church, invited to speak by the union officials, He urged them to be very peaceful. ‘The workers point out that they are getting only from $4 to $7 a week. The strikers demand the 1929 scale of $25 a week for laborers, and up to $45 for skilled workers. The strike started May 18, The company has the main industry in town. HATTERS WIN IN DANBURY, CONN. DANBURY, Conn., May 21.—With the program of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, and fighting both the company and the officials of the United Hatters of North America, the ten day strike of part of the workers here in the Lemme Shop has been won. ‘The wages in certain departments were cut from 69 cents a dozen pieces to 40 cents. ‘The strike was declared in these Limit Picketing; Bring in Mayor and Preacher to Advise No Militanecy; $4 a Week Wage 21.—The Trade Union l nity League has issued a leaflet to the 2,400 striking rubber work- in the Mishawaka Rubber and Woolens Company, full support and urging the strikers to mass picket, elect a ke committee, joblesse ————_ pledging and unite with them in MASS MEET IN PATERSON TO FIGHT FRAMEUP | editor of the New York Amer- Fear Demonstration of | Workers PATERSON, N. J.—The five Pater- son workers framed foy murder are being released on bail one by one in accordance with the high handed methods characteristic of capitalist justice Fearing a demonstration of work- ers, orders have been issued to re- lease these workers at different times. Yesterday Louis Bart and Louis Harris were released on $3,500 bail each. Helen Gershonowitz was released the day before, and the re- maining two comrades are expected to be released today or Monday Tonight the National Textile Work- ers Union will hold a protest meet- ing at Union Hall, 205 Paterson St., at 8 p.m. The NTWU is determined to conduct a vigorous campaign to have the five militant workers re- leased unconditionally. The bosses are determined to railroad them to the electric chair. Mass pressure forced their release on bail, also the Protest telegrams of the International Labor Defense and the campaign it conducted were instrumental in arousing and organizing the pres- sure brought to bear on the city au- thorities which forced their release on bail. All workers and working class organizations argued to turn out tonight for the mass protest meeting Use your Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker. Trades Workers’ Industrial Union held both open air and indoor meet- ings, built up a shop committee, and convinced th eother depart- ments a day or so ago that they should come out too. When that happened, the bosses and convinced the other depart- departments over the heads of the United Hatters officials. The Needle they had to retreat. ‘The wage cut is rescinded, and the boss gives up his proposal to fire the shop steward. front as the only guarantee of suc- cess in the fight to stop the legal massacre of these young boys. The Black Dispatch of Oklahoma City has been one of a number of influential Negro papers to join the united front within the last week. ‘This paper sends a check of five Rev. N. Thomas, Socialist, Tells War Board How to Do the Job Efficiently dollars to the I. L. D. for the de- fense of the boys, and in an editorial in its current issue strongly supports the united front policy of the I. L. D. Other Negro papers are responding WASHINGTON, May 21. — Rey. Norman Thomas, leading light of the socialist paryt, did his share be- fore the War Policies Commission, headed by Secretary of War Hurley, in telling capitalism how to prepare for war most efficiently. The War Policies Commission is formed to prepare for the coming war which is rapidly drawing near. Thomas actually congratulated the Comission and acted in a good- fellow fashion throughout. “I do want to congratulate the comission and the country on the dawning,” said the beaming Rev- erend Thomas, “if somewhat mud- dicheaded, conviction that when it and are lining up behind the fight to stop this frightful frame-up of nine boys on the fake charge of “raping” two notorious white pros- titutes, The Flatbush Forum of Ethiopian Culture, of Brooklyn, N. Y., sends two dollars for the defense and in a letter to the Daily Worker de- clares, in part: “We fully realize that in your attempt to protect the rights of an inarticulate people from this most sinister monster, the four ten- tacled monster of capitalism, you comes to a real emergency like war the overblessed profit system won't work without an immense degree of control.” Thomas’ plan is to give capitalism this “immense degree of control,” so that when the emergency does take Place the capitalists can conduct war efficiently. Thomas protested against the public hearings on the war plans, and the airing of the war schemes of capitalism, He said this made for an “unsettled atmosphere at var- jance with the ideals of peace.” Like a true social-fascist, Thomas wants the war mongers to do all their war preparations in secret—so the workers might be fooled by the Pacifist phrases of sky pilots and social-fascists and not be ready to act in a revolutionary manner when war breaks out. Along with Norman Thomas, the War Policies Commission has had before it leading . generals, Wall Street: bankeis, capitalist politicians, all doing their share in preparing for the next war. On the day Thomas testified, a Congressman La Guardia of New York testified putting forward a plan of conscription of soldiers and workers for war, and the taking of materials at “prices fixed by the government.” In Chicago, 650 war planes massed for the gigantic war maneuvers that are being carried on by the United States War Department. | Hoover and Green talk about HOOVER, GREEN AND WOLL HIDING FACTS OF BOSSES’ BiG WAGE SLASHING DRIVE TUL Calls on Milnwake Hoover Prepares for Vote Strikers to Block Treachery Catching On Fake Program Some Pay Cuts 50 PC AFL. Misleaders Help the Leading Bosses NEW YORK— Wages have been cut in 75 per cent of the country’s plants, and there is at present. a heavy wage cut mpaign going on is the startling state- ment made by the financial ican. ‘The statement of this capitalist editor, as printed in the New York American, reports “A powerful banker is authority for the statement that possibly 75 per cent of the country’s plants al- ready have lowered wages in one form or another. He goes on to-point out that while “re- sisting wage-cuts,” wages are being cut by all industries, and that “the process of downward adjustment pro- ceeds at an accelerated pace but without publicity.” Hoover is suppressing the pub- licity of these drastic wage-cuts anc instead, together with Green anc Woll, of the A. F. of L., make state- ments about wage levels being kept up and taking “firm steps to prevent wage slashes. That President Hoover, with the support of Wm. Green and Matthew Woll,’ leading strike-breakers of the American Federation of Labor, is preparing for re-election by carrying on a fake campaign against “wage reductions,” is shown in a feature (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CROWD BATTLES POLICE TO SAVE HOME OF NEGRO Police Pull “Guns; 11 Workers Arrested PHILADELPHIA, Pa . May 21—A battle took place here when a large force of police, threatening with drawn pistols and swinging clubs attacked a crowd assembled under the leadership of the unemployed council of 612 South Brooklyn St., attempted to prevent the eviction of an unemployed Negro workers’ fam- ily at 3617 Warren St The constable came down to do his dirty work with five police. The unemployed mobilized quickly, and resisted. The police pulled their guns, and the crowd defied them to shoot, They did not dare to shoot. Some workers left the crowd and rushed off, saying they were going home to get their guns. A'‘riot car came up loaded with police, and then the fight started. It raged for half an hour, before the growing police forces managed to break uup the demonstration, and throw the Negro worker's furniture out. Eleven were arrested, after having been clubbed. Among them are 9 Negroes. The names known of those arreste dare: Anna Lynn, 21, of the 2400 block of North Thirtieth St.; David Sand, 23, of Sixtieth St. near Pine; Raymond George, 42, colored, of Newtown Square, and Adolph Lewis, 39, of North Wanamaker St They are charged with inciting to riot, disorderly conduct, breach of the peace, resisting arrest and at- tempted assault and battery. Registration, Finger Printing, Forced Labor and Blacklist in New Michigan Law