The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1931, Page 1

{ ( : ee RESPONSE SLOW; DAILY IN DANGER! RUSH FUNDS TODAY! $399°75 Only $322.75 thus far received 11 | from suspension, we did not mean that answer to the appeals to save the Daily i Td eeu unhilsthendaet ‘4 Marker! you could ib until the last week or Workers, we must tell you the truth: two to raise this amount. the issue of the Daily Worker that you are reading now, may be the last! There must be a substantial increase. today and tomorrow over the funds we have received thus far, or there will be no Daily Worker next week. When we announced that we must raise $35,000 by July 1 to save x Daily dollars a day must be raised until July i or the Daily cannot survive. e know that these are critical times for the working-class. wages cut or are working only one, two | or three days a week. We know how hard it is to contribute even a nickel or a dime let alone the dollar bills that are needed to save the Daily. But because these are critical times for the work- ing-class, because they are fighting against the savage attacks of the bosses | on their living standards, against Negro One thousand : Millions are un- | persecutions, against deportations, employed, millions more have had their | against imperialist war, the workers cannot do without their fighting organ, their leader, inspirer and organizer, the | Daily Worker. | We know that you will not fail us, | comrades. You have made sacrifices before for the Daily and you will make them, you must make them again. Our enemies are rejoicing in this hour. The far behind. We Fishes, the Wolls, the Ralph Easleys, ne send it by the “socialists” and the whole fascist The quotas have been signed. crew would like nothing better than to | Everybody on the job! Everybody | see the Daily go under. You must give | giving all that you can and more, every- | ing Daily! the lie to their predictions! Your an- | body collecting among shopmates and ' Worker, 50 E. swer to them must be thousands of dol- lars to save the Daily Worker! | | | No time must be lost. of dollars in the next few days, Daily Worker will not appear Already we are | Money yo ust receive thousands ber of or the | Daily will t | morrow your ACT NOW—TODAY! Don’t wai filled; send together with tl The office be open all day t till your coupon whateve u have num- book tie today and to- Bring the money wire or air m in pers Save our fi ‘Rush Funds to the Daily 13th St., New York City! ght4° ctro n.. 6 f the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No: 124 Entere@ as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents War!---For What? Against Whom? jOT a cent will Hoover give for unemployment insurance to save the workers’ babies from starvation! But today a great armada of 672 bombing planes, costing millions of dollars, are flying over New York! It is a rehearsal for war. But what war? Has not the United States government “solemnly pledged” itself under the Kellogg “peace” pact not to go to war? Certainly, but it is now admitted even by capitalist apologists, that the more “peace” treaties there are signed, the more the danger of war. What hypocrisy! All capitalist governments are protesting day and night their desires for peace. Yet night and day each one of them is feverishly preparing for war! Every “disarmament” conference increases armaments! Let every worker understand that the flying engines of death and destruction that are circling like vultures over the American cities in these “air maneuvers” are a warning that war is approaching! For what will the workers be asked to submit to conscription, to be blown to pieces on the battlefields of the coming war? For what will their wives and children—no longer safe from poison gas, explosive and incendiary bombs—be asked to die like rats in a trap when great cities are attacked from the air? The answer, somewhat distorted because it comes from a capitalist editor, but none the less clear, is stated by the New York Graphic on Thursday, May 21st, in the following words: “The trend of the time is a combine of the other great nations of the world against us commercially, and probably later in a mili- tary sense. To many Americans this will come as a startling sit- uation, an unbelievable one.” It will be a commercial war. Driven by the capitalist crisis, all im- perialist nations are fiercely contending for domination of the world market and a redivision of the colonies. Warfare with arms is only an extension of commercial war, and with American imperialism its most prominent rival is British imperialism. The other capitalist powers are @rawn in by one or the »ke~ of these imperialist rivals into blocs—blocs that may change and shift overnight but that circle around these two great rivals. Already there would have been armed war had it not been for one thing—the fear of revolution at home! The fear of revolution by the masses is the only rsetraining influence to the imperialist war-makers. And because the Soviet Union—the Workers’ Republic—stands as an example of what the workers can do to transform an imperialist war into a victorious civil war against the rule of capitalism, these imper- ialist powers are continually striving to attain a temporary compromise of their own differences in order to make war upon the Soviet Union and destroy this revolutionary inspiration of the world’s workers. And to seize at the same time as much as possible of Soviet territory as a colonial conquest. Whether or not they attain their aim in attacking the Soviet, they are mobilizing every repressive and reactionary force within their own countries, to crush working class resistance to war or to starvation by unemployment ‘and wage cuts. ‘This is clear from the plans af Hoover and the War Department, who, finding it necessary to disguise the meaning of the “air maneuvers” behind talk of “economy” and a “cut in army posts,” revealed the prep- arations for war against the working class in the following lines, taken from the New York Times of May 12th: “Stations near large cities, although some are small, will not he disturbed, according to officials. This would apply to such sta- tions as Governors Island in New York Harbor, which the War Department maintains principally to have troops available to New York City for use in any serious demestic disturbances.” The “large cities” are looked upon as places where “serious dis- turbances” may be expected, because they are centers of working class resistance to wage cuts, to capitalist starvation and imperialist war. On May 30th, which is National Youth Day, the Young Communist League calls upon all workers and particularly upon the youth—the youth which will especially be selected for slaughter in the next war— to demonstrate against imperialist war. All workers should support National Youth Day as a counter-demonstration to the “air maneuvers” and war plots of American imperialism! Our National Training School three months full time National Training Schoo! of our Party is + coming to a close, The comrades sent to the School by the dis- tricts and by the revolutionary unions are getting ready to return to their posts. They will return richer for experience because the exper- jence of the whole Party and, as much as possible, the experiences of the international revolutionary movement were made available to them in the School. They will return with greater knowledge of Marxian and Leninist theory because these theories were conveyed and explained to them in the School. They return as better working class leaders be- cause every subject in the School was selected and treated with the object to create a clearcr understanding of the forces of the class forces for the benefit of the working class. The National Training School embodied a great effort on the part of the Party. Fifty of the best and most active comrades had to be withdrawn from Party work for three months to be sent as students to the School. Party leaders had to devote much time and energy to the School as teachers. Party resources had to be drained to maintain the School. Yet all these efforts wers only a beginning. Our problem is not yet solved. Our leading cadres are still far from strong enough. Our unit buros and functionary groups often still lack leadership and therefore cannot always supply the necessary leadership. Our efforts must eyen now, at the end of this full-time training course, concentrate already on the next one. In spite of the importance of the National Training School, there was insufficient attention to its problems by most of our Districts. To change this attitude for our next full-time Training School, the students of the present one must become the advance guard in the districts for the organization of the next one. The whole Party membership must be aroused to the importance of thece Schools. An. erithusiasm must be created which ses in thes> Eehoeols an indispensable and a tremendously important contribution to the bolshevization of our Party. With such an enthusiasm our full-time National Training Courses will become a closer tie between the Party and the messes because they will help to make the Party a better and a more effective leader of the working class. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U, S. A. Scottsboro Campaign Taking On Organizational Form As Fight Grows to Save 9 Youths Mrs. Wright Speaks in Phila. Tonight, Many Organizations Supporting United Front Defense Conference In That City On May 25; Other Cities Busy PHILADELPHIA, May 22.—The campaign to give the sweeping mass resentment against the Scottsboro frame-up and legal lynching an organized form, thus increasing the ef- fectiveness of the fight to save the lives of the nine Negro | ceptance of war when it comes. boys and force their release, i being pushed with the utmost energy. Many organizations, includ- ing several large Negro churches have pledged their support to the local United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference? to be held Monday evening, May 25, ate the Knights of Pythias Hall, 19th and Addison Sts. Many organiza- tions have already elected delegates | to this conference Tonight there will be a big protest mass meeting at the same hall, at which Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, will be the chief speaker. This is the second of a series of mass meetings planned by the joint committee of the Inter- nationg! Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the’ two organizations leading the fight to free the boys. The first meeting was held on May 20 at the Mt. Olivet Tabernacle Baptist Chuhch at 42nd and Wallace Sts. BOSTON, Mass., May 22.—Many (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) “Peace” Societies Parade in Mock Anti-War Parade NEW YORK, N. Y.—Rollowing their usual pacifist fakery, the so- cialists will unite with the leading capitalist “peace” societies today in a “Good Will” march as a “protest” against the air war mneuvers. Among the pacifist organizations that the socialists will unite with many who talked against war before the U. S. entered the last was and then became super-patriots during the war, driving the workers to war. ‘The object this time is the same— to talk peace and permit the bosses to prepare the workers for week ac- A parade will be hold from Cooper Union, by these pacifists, on tn 4th! Ave. and north to 26th St EMERGENCY CALL The returns in the Daily Worker campaign thus far—only a little over $322--make immediate action necessary if the Daily is to appear Mondar. Atl Party members are ‘ructed to bring every cent they have collected to the district of- fice of the Daily Worker, 50 East 18 Street, fifth floor, TODAY. Disregard all previous instructions to turn the money in to your unit as this is a LIFE AND DEATH MATTER FOR THE DAILY. The District office of the Daily will be open till 9 p. m. tonight and all day tomorrow. If your coypon book fs not filled out, bring the number with you and both you and your unit will receive credit for the money collected. All non-Party workers and friends of the Daily Worker, as well as workers’ organizations, are also called on to bring all pos- sible funds to the Daily today and tomorrow, Comrades, there is not a moment to be lost! Unless we receive sufficient contributions to- day and tomorrow to make up for the slow start of the cam- paign, there will be no Daily Worker Monday. ACT NOW! Communist Party, District 2 Daily Worker Management Committee (MARINE WORKERS OUT FOR MOONEY |; Demonstré ate Sunday to Demand Release NEW YORK. -—- A mass demon- stration called by the Marine Work- ers Industria] Union for 6:30 p. m Sunday at Coenties Slip will dé- mand the release of Mooney and Billings. "The place of demonstration is op- posite the Seamen’s Institute. R. Hudson will be chairman of the demonstration meeting, and speakers will be: H. Harvey, national organizer of the M.W.1.U.; George Milk, national chairman of the M. WwW. I. U,, and E, Glickson, of the union. The demonstrators will march after the meeting. At 8 p. m., Bill Dunne will be the principal speaker, with other speak- ers, at an indoor meeting to which all are invited, at 140 Broad Street, headquarters of the union. Dunne is just back from the Red Interna- tional of Labor Union headquarters in Moscow. He has for years been a fighter for release of Mooney and Billings. MILITANCY IN BICKNELL STRIKE 500 Pickets Pull Out 600 Other Miners The capitalist press reports that 600 miners were prevented from go- ing to work at the American No. 1 Mine near Bicknell, Ind., by 500 pro- testing miners. The strike has already assumed a militant tone. The influence of the National Miners’ Union is quite strong here and an organizer is be- ing sent at once. STATE HUNGER MARCH ON LANSING STARTS ON MAY 24 Schwab, Gifford Say Waves Must Be Cut---And in 2 Ways Steel Head Admits Bethlehem Steel Corporation Cuts Wages by Speed-Up and Slashing; “Wage Cuts Inevitable” | NEW YORK.—In a speech that told the lead- inz steel bosses how to Schwab, chairman of the board of director: of the Bethlehem Steel the American Iron and Charles M. S | = cut wages, Corp., speaking befor Steel Institute Friday, said that the economic crisis ‘was ending.” By thig deliberate lie, Schwab, millions in profits while thousands of Bethlehem steel workers who has been reaping were fired or got their wages cut admitted that all the work-| ers in the United States fear wage-cuts. \ Yet wage cuts must come and are coming, Schwab admitted; and he teld how his company cut wages. “Wages must be liquidated,” said Schwab, “This could be aecom- plished by increased labor econ- omy (speed up) as well as by de- creased wages.” In short, the bosses have two methods of cutting wages, and most of them employ both of them—speed up and actual cut in money wages. Schwab said that the Bethlehom Steel Corporation was cutting wages by “increased labor economy.” His talk about the crisis ending is the greatest piece of fakery Schwab has yet put over. Ever Since the crisis began this has been the steel magnate’s line. He said there was no crisis last year. Now he'says it’s ending. The latest. reports from Pittsburgh state that steel plant cap- acity, which a few weeks ago was 57 per cent, has now dropped to 40 per cent and is going lower. Thou- sands of steel workers are being fired. So much for Schwab's “predictions.” Another leading capitalist to come out for wage cuts is Hugh Bancroft, one of the owners of the Wall Street Journal, In a speech in Philadel- phia on Thursday, Bancroft said: “Important readjustments of wages and salaries (in short, wage cuts), are inevitable.” | Bancroft told the usual story abou. commodity prices having aroppea and the living standard being lower. The Daily Worker several days ago published a statement by the Na~ tional City Bank of New York, a Morgan & Co. concern, in which the ampere bank admitted that wages had dropped 18 per cent below the standard of living. Bancroft in his speech before the Philadelphia Bond Club, insisted that profits could be kept up only at the expense of slashing the wages of all workers in the United States, and the sooner this was done, he said the better—for the bosses, HARLAN MINERS | JAILED TOPAL 13) Vicious Drive to Kill| All Militants HARLAN, Ky., May 21.—Six more | miners have been indicted for mur- | der by the coal operators’ grand jury here, and were arrested last night. The indictments are retalla- | tion against miners for thelr success- ful defense in pitched gun battles with Co. gunmen. Those arrested last night are: Bill. Turpin, Charles Bradley, Hugh Lester, Andrew Hench, and Henry Oliver. Those arrested previously on mur- der indictments are: Police Chief Asa Cusick of Evarts; A. L. Benson, assistant chief of police of Evarts; Joe Cawood, the Evarts town cler! W. H. Hightower, president of the weal union of the United Mine Workers; W. B. Jones, the local’s secretary; and Floyd Murphy and Jim Reynolds, miners. Frank Martin, preacher at the | Baptist “Church of the Ages” has | been arrested and charged with cri-/ minal syndicalism. | ‘Ware ‘preparations are going ahead rabidly with the two focus points at the moment ‘being the gigantic air War maneuvers of 672 bombing, and fighting planes sweeping over New York City, and the War Policies Commission meeting in Washington, actually discussing the profits of the bosses in the next war. Friday and Saturday, the 672 planes which massed at Dayton, Ohio, then carried on their war formations over, Chicago, will do their work over New York..City. The United States gov- ernment, which cannot find-one cent. for the millions of hungry unemploy- ed, spe'-is over $3,000,000 for this one air show. David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secre- tary of the Nevy for Aeronautics, speaking on efficiency in killing in War Planes Maneuver Over N. Y. As Hurley Plans Policies of Next War Gifford Tells Weise | How to Make Money : In War Time the next war, pointed out on Thurs- day that the airplane carriers are the bosses’ most, effective war weap- ons as they carry 80 ting planes each, capable of dropping 40,000 pounds of destructive bombs. Ingalls’ talk was to spur the building of more airplane carriers at the cost of about $40,000,000 cach. While the war planes gather at New York, Secretary of War Hurley, heading the War Policies Commission in Washington, clled before him Witer S. Gifford, president of the Americn Telephone nd Telegrph Co. Gifford made millions during the last war and Hurley called him in to ask his advice on “regulating profit’ in the next war. Gifford said the bosses should not be interfered with during the coming war as “to lay the iron hand of the government over the civil population would seriously impair voluntary effort,” and war is best carried on when profits flow freely. A little tiff arose between Hurley and M. G. Johnson of the Peoples Legislative Service, a pacifist organ- ization, Hurley insisted he was a pacifist too and a more “resonble one,” thn the others—meaning Thom- as and Co. There is little doubt that Hurley's pacifism is little different from the Rey, Thomas—as both would shoot down workers to save capi- talism, wattami county supervisor of the; poor, and demanded food for eight starving families and milk for four where there are small babies. After an argument, Turner came ; off his f horse a little and gave the food, fuel, milk and , IN one case, medical attendance. He re- | babies, do we?” | be more respectful.” MASS PRESSURE | GETS SOME RELIEF Jobless Force Issue In| Council Bluffs |: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, May 22. —Wednesday a committee of 30 from the council of the unemployed ap- peared before Harry Turnar, Potta fused food for one of the families. The jobless council took this fam- ily to-@ chain store, made demands there for food and got it. These families*"were all refused work in the past by Turner and Mary Larson, his assistant. The committee was headed by W. A. Mills, Jack Bryant, Sam Middle- ton and Charles Clary. This is an indication of the way the conyersa- tion went with Turner: “We demand milk for these four hungry babies, and food, medical aid and rent for these eight families,” | Said Mills. Can't you say ‘please?’ Turner ed. “Surely we don’t have to get down on our knees to beg milk for sick Mills replied “No,” said Turner, “but you should Demands were made a few days before by a still larger committee on the board of supervisors. Demands On Supervisors. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (By mail).—A committee of 40 men and women, unemployed workers, marched jnto the meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Pottowattamie County, May 18, and presented the demands of the 500 members of the Unem-} ployed Council of Council Bluffs. The workers would not be satis- fied with the kind words of William Jackson, a member of the board, who tried to impress the unemployed by telling them that the county has al- ready spent $150,000 feeding the un- employed workers. It..is doubtful whether all of this money was used for the unemployed. The demands of the unemployed were: Increase in rations for each family of three or more children {GONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 2,000 EDISON C0. WORKERS FIRED NEW YORK. — Two thousand workers recently fired at the Brook- lyn plant of the Edison Company have found out that the Edison Corporation pocketed $50,000 on the vacations these workers would have had if they had not been thrown ou of jobs, Matthew 8. Sloan, president of the Brooklyn Edison, is a member of Jimmie Walker’s Prosser Commit- tee on Unemployment. He is apply- ing the “golden rule” of Tammany Hall “relief” by firing the workers and speeding up those who remain on the job to the breaking point Nicholas Brady, also one of the chief executives of the Edison mon- opoly, is a high Catholic Church of- ficial. The Pope’s decree 1s being | carried out by Brady, iw ill DemandInsurance ;} and No Registration of the Foreign-Born Mass Meetings 2,000 Denounce Cut In Detroit Relief DETROIT, Mich., May 22, — Mass meetings and local. demonstrations continue to mobilize for and sup- port the state hunger march on Lan- sing. The hunger marchers will st from Detroit and other cities | Many on May 24 and 25, and reach the state capital from several directions on May 27. The demonstration of 2,000 work- ers before the city hall here on May 20 endorsed and collected funds for the hunger march. ‘The demonstra- tors came without any advertise- ment. They were — particularly eroused over the dractic ablcklist. and finger printing bill against the foreign born just passed by the state Jegislature and awaiting the gover- nor’s signature. The demonstrators scathingly at- tacked the proposition of May Murphy to cut down what little re- lief is being given the starving job- less now, and denounced in stragg terms the practice of forcing the jobless to swear away their lives in affidavits when they apply tor re- lief, an dthe brutat disregard for human feeling shown by the deci- sion to break up families of the job- Jess, evict them from their apart- ments and send the men and wo- men to different soup lines. A mass meeting is being organ- ized to ratify the Detroit Hunger Marchers and to present the pro- gram of demands for adoption which will be presented to the State Legis- lature. Negro Worker Murdered in Ohio Barberton Cops Kill Leader of U C CLEVELAND, May 20. — An !n- vestigation conducted by the Inter- national Labor Defense has just brought to light the brutal murder by Barberton, ©., police of C. Louis Alexander, an active Negro member of the Unemployed Council. This militant worker was first kid- naped by the police,. beaten and taken out of the town limits with |a@ warning that he stay out of Bar- berton. When he refused to be cowed and returned and together with a committee from the local Un- employed Council protested to the Mayor against the police terrorism he was again taken from his home by police in uniform .and plain clothes and ‘beaten to death. Hs body was thrown into a lime pit A mass demonstration is being ar- ranged for May 27 in Barberton wit: Richard B. Moore as the prince speaker. The I. L. D. ts issuing appeal to all organizations/to s' protest telegrams to Governor at Columbus, Ohio, and to Mayor Decker of Barberton, Ohio. A Very Important Article on Back Page An article appears on the back page of today’s daily Worker of extreme importance to all werkers and others interested in the stru, gle to save the lives of the mine innocent Scottsboro Negro chil dren. Be sure to read it! _MWIU URGES SEAMEN TO DEMAND MOONEY RELEASE! DEMONSTRATE SOUTH ST. 6 P. M. TOMORROW .