The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1931, Page 1

The Daily Worker is your paper. It Fights for you. Do your bit to save it. Collect funds from friends and _ shopmates and rush to 35 E. 12th St., NUY. C. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! aily, <Worker (Section of an Seema oes) ‘he Communist city BUETIO "NEW YORK, TUESDAY, ‘MAY 26, 1931 Price 3 Cents STARVING HARLAN MINERS IN ARMED HUNGER MARCH | a Crisis in ‘Daily’ Threat FORCE MAYOR 10 GIVE | A Sham Battle UNEMPLOYED | CARLOAD OF FOOD: REAL To Whole Party Press WAR LIKELY ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office t>21 w York, N.Y under the act of Murch 3, 18 Vol VOT, No 126 | | Hooyer are carrying on one of the prettiest and at the same time one of the dirtiest sham battles of recent years. IR. GREEN, President of the American Federation of Labor, is having | a glorious time in recent days. He, Secretary Doak and President BREAK INTO Now, it is well known and it was reported in the press, that: shortly before this sham battle began, Mr. Green, Mr. Hoover and Mr. Doak met “at breakfast” in the White House. To all who are grown up be- yond the age of diapers it will be understood that these three precious scoundrels did not limit their conversation to the excellency of ‘fr. The financial crisis in the Daily Worker is threatening the collapse of a large Hoover's cook. But the capitalist press tater hinted that they talked |"Throw Out Mayor In section of the Communist Party press! . * Re a 4 | about wage cuts take Wis, pod ene iy Bail Denied to Arrested Leaders By Coal Operator Judge However, shortly after, to be exact, on May 19th, Mr, Green ap- 4a. Ke IS. anc Here is the full bitter truth of the situation, comrades. The delay of the i es peared in the role of an alarmed accuser of “certain bankers” whom he Silence Cop working masses of the country in realizing just how critical the situation and re- While State Militia Patrol Court House; charged were in a “conspiracy” to reduce wages. pe sponding with the $1,000 a day that is absolutely essential if the Daily is to continue | In passing, it is rather strange that Mr. Green could not have ob- | Defeat Graft In Jobs to live, is threatening much more than the suspension of the Daily Worker. Because Miners Pledge Release tained the friendly offices of his host at breakfast, the President of the United States, to have these “conspirators” arrested and indicted for that already taken place. Everything was put forward as if there had been no wage cuts, but that-they were about to begin. Why was this? Because Green was compelled to say something about the workers resisting “even to the point of striking.” And if work- Socialist Sheriff Is dents and taxpayers of the town of Lake, Milwaukee County, assembled at the town hall to demand work. Jobs were being allotted by a com- of the financial interdependence of the various Party publications, if under, it will drag with it exaggerated, change your mind before it is too late. printers more than $8,000, the creditors refuse to wait any longer. the Daily goes the Freiheit, the Young Worker, the Workng Woman, all The Daily Worker owes its it owes thousands more for paper and other material, and This issue of the Daily may be the last! And if the Daily goes under, it will mean immediate suspension for a score of other working /Turnblazer, U. Maw. (By Spe HARLAN, Kentucky, Faker, “Cordially In- crime. Conspiracy is a crime regardless of whether the end aimed at the Party weelli 5 pps eet fe : "i foie | A } ° he Party weeklies and a mass of other Party literature. The crisis in the Daily | vites” G over to y enti } is legal or not. At least it is when workers unite to strike for higher : : eas a “y : is 3 ss xovernor to Convention wages. ‘i Exposed As Tool Worker threatens the extinction of the leading Communist organs in various lan- | : ae eeu | 300 armed miners from Harlan marched on Pineville, a neigh- In Mr. Green's pronouncement, made in the name of the A. F. of peaches Ue Lae guag & | boring city, more than a week ago demanding food and the mayor Te ee re tanks e empierd that Wage, cuts have) oe and poor farmers; aif. resi Comrades, if any of you have been thinking that these appeals are a little | — was forced to give them a carload of food, 400 starving children paraded in Harlan demanding food. al Correspondent ) May 21.—“No foolin’, ers should strike against future wgae cuts, there is no reason why they | mittee in the town hall. The doors should not strike against the ones they have already suffered. Evi- | were locked and the supervisor. class papers. we'll get satisfaction or they'll have a civil war dently, Green did not wan’ h acti So the past wage cuts 1 th h 1s’ ently, Gre van’ sucl ion. 0 tow cuts were | Brodde, who with the rest of the i “ * ieee 7 y ignored “by him in spite of the fact that on February 17th he himself | committee was acting behind. these After several appeals, what results have we obtained? Only $1,860 contributed | 0 heir hands” are the words uttered by a de- had said: locked doors, giving jobs to one or thus far. Nearly a week since the first appeal, and where is the $1,000 a day? termined looking Kentucky miner who declared “Workets! incomes teday are 37 per cent below the 1929 level | t¥0 of their cronies and leaving the ; ‘ Bet pence op aiaueata eee 2 that the men are “tired of eating beans, beans in aside atial Ao ER HAG attexatiinnds. (If wage one rest of the workers out in the cold. Get busy, fellow-workers The millions of workers, employed and unemployed, laut (ties ered unable teeihwe z > continue, we will limit eur ability to pull up quickly from this de- pression.” (New York Times, February 28th.) Why did the President of the A. F. of L. not discover the conspiracy The workers outside insisted on coming in, but the politicians would not open the doors, So the 75 work- ers battered in the doors and filled must have the Daily in the fight against hunger, wage cuts, ialist war! speed-up, terror, imper- The nine Scottsboro boys must have the Daily to expose the murder plans of the lynch bosses and help break the bars of their southern prison-hole! The foreign- when we asked him questions here. suffer the consequences,” today regarding the situation to cut wages before the breakfast with Hoover? The answer, is that | the small town hall born workers must have the: Daily to fight against deportations! Tom Mooney must Hee Bt Ae Wa i. Prepares for Sell-Out. ; until recently the workers were not resisting wage cuts on such a wide | One motorcycle policeman was have the Daily, the Imperial Valley and Centralia boys—all of us must have the Daily, Hig: Seeking V0: Capitalize their miseries, the U. M. W. A. is ; scale as at present—but now a wave of strikes against wage cuts is rising | there and he interfered, but the our voice, our champion, our leaders and organizers We all must save the Daily! “organizing meetings,” collecting a throughout the country, and the three gentlemen at breakfast in the White House had to do something to cripple and halt the strike wave. President Hoover's role in this—the real conspiracy—was to trot out his official liar to remark that: “The Administration believes that wage ers soon silenced him and threw outside. approached him Brodde and demanded an explana- tion of the locked doors, accusing Collect in your shops and factories, in your organizations! Glubs! 12th St., New York City! Rush every cent you can raise at once—today—to the Daily Organize Daily Worker Worker, 50 E. 4 NEGROES ON FRAME-UP TRIAL, dollar a head for initiation and get- ; ting ready to “name the price” for a second sell-out to the Kentucky op- erators. To hasten this, a “conven- ie * | him of giving jobs only to those who tion” has been called to meet in * levels generally have not declined.” And to add-some pious and empty ui nae | . es s | words “hoping” they would not decline in the future. In short, Pilate toni Papa Ole the speakeasies ripen ae b fblalerertica ; y his , Mp toon supersor oo [PATERSON 5 ARE |Toledo Workers Cheer Moore} cali for Demonstration’ stmpsom nas been "cordiany inter } | As for the third member of the breakfast trio, Mr. Doak, as Secre- The ctowd dem ahaa’: Besdde’ cat H ] C rt | to address the miners by William oe | tary of Labor, he simply had to say something at least faintly resembling | ., (Ne Crow demanded Brodde. get * S sce d b Il in Harlem Court Turnblazer, the U. M. W. A. president 0 | the voice of labor. So Mr. Doak, also, issued a “statement” in which he ad) new rurker grabbed py the ALL OUT QN BAIL; jin “ pirite S cotts oro Ra y NEW YORK Tod: t io! of this non-union field. Turnblazer ; ‘7a oe oom te iS Secretary of Labor. And bike Teo eee “a “yough | ii cams sn a clocks the ‘four Harlem ene moist a ee ee s | e si in his capacity as Secretary o! r. And as such he | handling, Brodde was thrown out of 5 aa ‘li ili mh dl ori peace | emphasized, that if any employers would stoop so low as to cut wages, it | tne town hall with the policeman, GET BIG WELCOME TOLEDO, O., May 25.—A spirited mass meet- ers, Arthur Williams, William Camp-) after one of the early fights against ee |) “might” justify the workers in demanding wage increases. But as a |The workers then locked the doors ing of over 400 white and Negro workers held | srown, who have been framed up| ¢'*,;ket® and was “planted here as y | loyal member of President Hoover's cabinet, of course, he had to assert | and said they were going to run age ‘ 3 = vahbaiy, wil 5 | 2, Provisional agent” of Lewis in the | ae j fe ses last night under the auspices of the Interna-|° Pparses of robbery, will come up) sell-out of the Kentucky and Tennes- that: “As @ general rule no reductions have been made by the major | things themselves.. The supervisor’s| Mgt Rally to Save a g ausp . MUGEN GS oe trial Gn the General Seasions ak caltare i ioje cea nee ee Pursuing Mr. Doak into the field, however, we find from the Hous- : e v her . 5 pte : ‘ ‘Workers are called by’the New York < ‘ a ton, Texas, “Press” of May 13th, that Secretary Doak, intervening in a | could be no jobs given out that pr otested vigorously against the attempt of |pitinict of the International Labor ease cod tees Se coe | strike of building trade workers against a wage cut of $2 a day, advised | might; it was necessary to wait until! psrpRson, N. J., May 2%5—Lieb| the Southern bosses to legally lynch the nine Scottsboro Negro| pefense, which is defending the| miners acc known to Rean eaa eee s , nothing like a counter demand for wage increase. On the contrary, he | the town council met the next Tues-| ..4 Kutzebuck, the last of the five}children on a framed-up charge of rape. The meeting was one| four workers, to demonstrate against | jn trim for Mei tg ee Ringed held a secret conference with the officials of the unions involved and | 4ay Mees: ar Naa of ae framed-up in Paterson on the charge | of hundreds being held throughout the country to mobilize the this vicious frame-up by packing the | cording to our informer, a delega- f these gentlemen at once began talking “arbitration”"—a method of help- alah eiadae tt aac Reais of murder following a strike in a sk] Negro and white masses in the fight to save the lives of these |°t the trial tion has gone to Frankfort to pre- i ? ing the employers. docaaith ia: divwer to ae that suey mill, were released on $3,500 bail each innosont boys. Williams and Campbell were ar-| sent demands to the governor and mn Confronted concretely by a wage cut, Mr. Doak could find no words got work yesterday. ip: sete 2g 2 some imei Radneee” Was tnade: be rested about two months ago at the} unless met with favorable action, he at publicly to condemn it. And so it is, also, with Bill Green, head of the ay 2 ‘The three previously released were Rickard Ss Stoore ) HadionabaNeero instigation of “General” Grant, @| declares that “hell will break loose.” A. F. of L. Mr. Green fulminates furiously against bankers. In effect. Ready for Struggle. ——_| given a rousing reception at a mass PUT T. " LU IN. work director of the International | M0trious faker and one of the lead-) «They haint gonna make us work he says, “The employers are alright. They do not want to cut wages. | The workers went home knowing | meeting of Paterson workers on May Labor Defense, who is now touring | ®TS Of Garvey’s treacherous racket-| every day 10 and 12 hours and still But the devilish bankers are compelling them to do so against their | that they had thrown a healthy fear} o3rq. Louis Harris, Louis Bart and the country in connection with the|CeT2S outfit known as the Univer-| starve,” declared this man. who will. No ‘fair employer’ will cut wages without being ‘forced’ to do so into the hearts of the politicians.| Helen Gershonawitz were greeted at SOLITARY CELL Scottsboro cases. Comrade Moore| Sa! Negro Improvement Association.| was able to escape the governor's by these terrible bankers.” be Re nea lgl hayes - i! a mass reception arranged at 205 stressed the need of a broad unitea | GT@Nt accused the Ene ee oe military dragnet at the time of the 00 It is obvious that by dividing up the capitalist class between “good” | trom ana avoid pers peichuapp ised Enter Be by, the National Textile 1 front in the fight so save the boys Boule Scccat Ribhta in Hay-| recent Harlan battle which came id and “bad,” Green wishes to protect the capitalist class as a whole. For, | next Tuesday. So all through Tippe- | Wns) OO ON EI LIS ISL AND and smash the murderous frame-up ay Paevaeig” ARES file as a result of conditions that make re “pad” injurin : ough ‘TIPPe-| all five of the workers face the against them. ' He pointed hat |!e™ with breaking Into his room| $1.59 a “high day’s wage.” ‘ ene ee eee ee try Seer ene, beokers woenent nieve || cannes, ab Frdncis and the other | Pa Aas te Posted out to Hig ted aso. Gee ran and stealing some of his belongings.| “Today Judge Jones, who is openly ‘d b cared apt oy shi re Parts of the town of Lake the work-| Sacco nad Vanzetti—unless the work- | p+ thingp possible to defend the boys | Williams and Campbell were released | charged with “coal connections,” de- ‘Thus, the whole bluster and bluff of the A. F. of L, against wage | ers and poor farmers are organizing, ers rally behind them and smash the Fight for Release On fv the ti Of Aleta - on $1,000 bail each provided by the] nied bail to the men arrested and eats is not worth a thin dime! It serves the employers in cutting wages! | preparing for the town council meet-| {'* Te Appeal Bay abe lade Wk Wegrs aone: New York LL.D. charged with murder after the Har- It is aimed to prevent strikes against wage cuts! eink pets ; je Pat Devine, of the NTWU who get justice in the courts of Ala-| "About two weeks ago Warfield and| lan battle and to one charged with Sete eee ere Selec eee ten tne, ASB ey And in 4... With @ soclalist sberife in Mulwairs| Vo: ay the’ mass ‘eating showed ET bama and tha tonly the mass pres- | Brown were arrested and also charg-| criminal syndicalism $10,000 bail was ever increasing numbers they are turning to the revolutionary unions | kee County (Al Benson) it is abso- the hand of the silk bosses behing NEW YORK.—With conditions 50] sure of millions of Ba eH and sym-|ed with robbery in addition to three| attached. For nine others indict- nd of the Trade Union Unity League for leadership in organizing and | lutely necessary that the workersand| 15 frame-up of the five Patersm| Ve on Filis Island where T. H. Li) patnizers in organized protest can| other charges: grand larceny, feloni-] ments charging “banding and con- i. ) striking. Everywhere, revolutionary workers must explain the sham | farmers be ready to fight on such| oo. He pointed out as the strug- . a eae eare an oe stop the planned legal lynching of|ous assault and receiving stolen] federating” were returned. a battle of Green and Co. and rally the workers to the T.U.U.L.! issues as those raised in these last} 51, against wage-cuts nicreased the} i" his case, and the food so rotten! these boys and force their uncondi-| goods. The frame-up machinery had| National Guardsmen patroled the few days. bosses answer was more terror and| that it is impossible to eat, a spon-| tional release. evidently improved and exorbitant| court house today during the hear- It was a socialist sheriff, Buech, Braehacti taneous protest demonstration broke bail of $10,000 each was set on War-| ing on a habeas corpus action to pi S R ie hd Mf who furnished the deputies to mur- ir out among the workers detained Moore Denounces Boss Tools. field and Brown. They have been| have the arrested men released on . Jersey tate att wcatton der two men in the Cudahy packing ANOTHER BANE CRASHES there, many workers refusing to| The meeting had been originally kept in the Tombs since their ar-| bail, because it is generally agreed . - plant strike in 1919. Many of the EI ae ey a te ee touch the stuff. Immediately after | arranged for the Frederick Douglas] rest. that the miners will attempt to carry workers and poor farmers who bat-| C! . Ill.—Making the fourth | this, the authorities in charge, seized| Community Center, but at the last oy se | Out their threa' “Fe - 4 Convention on Sat. June 14 tered in the doors of the town hall} to fail in less than ten days, the|Tj and placed him in solitary con-| minute the Negro misleaders in con- f fea § ae tdinte: ares at ers out” if eee sok som oe r took part in that strike and heard Meer ane a ene ea Le finement. This is an example of of ee center refused to permit raisurs Rasehen through the frame-| The troops also are still in the town . . Have. the socialist bullets whizz past their | close voday. nm e nort side ll St. gover icy | the workers to meet there to voice is of Evarts, wl 2 Delegates from Shops, Organizations Cosi} cars. so they will be ready to fight| alone there are two banks closed to fe boteat ue bee Pace sured their protest. against the Scottsboro| UP. 4 courtroom packed with Ne- place, and salbeea tig aote BEE } . + those still open are i : ; | outrage. Comrade Moore sj WO Sed Whe works Wil 6, 6 * 7 to Ratify Workers Candidates to the last ditch to make the town} one open and U. S. Department of Labor in per is ‘omra loore sharply! tong way toward achieving this end.| Stit their teeth, just raring to go. | KR I BES eS Se and county governments come across| lottering on the brink of the de-|sccuting foreign born and native | denounced this vicious effort of these i No one seems to know if any men a NEWARK, N. J.—Work is in full) for the release of the Scottsboro Ne- | With relief or work. pression: workers, heaping every kind of hu-| Cowardly tools of the white oppres- iene Say have really gone into the mines, be- vas swing for the New Jersey State Rat-| gro boys. It will mobilize the work- miliation and abuse on workers who pease e Alabama boys from) cause ‘there is no outward evidences ification Convention of the Commu-|] ers for a struggle against the many i have the spirit ie oh and fight} (CONTINUED ON PAGE TRREE) = [esal lynching. etait Seoerhee tie ees nist Party to be held Sunday, June| wage cuts that have taken place in 1 500 D El back against the bosses’ terror Tetris hey are “steadily return- ee 14th, at Laurel Garden, 457 Spring-| New Jersey; against the fake oH Age| Ly emonstrate nm y campaign ‘“ 9 ing to work." ae field Ave, Newark, N. J., beginning| Pension Bill passed by the State Leg- i SOG 45" Pivetee “dhe govern. W, S D I R d oa at 10 a.m. islature recently, and for immediate Block Traffic; Fight Cops ment’s decision to send T. H. Li, ar vereiars ep ores (4 To All Comrades ar= Candidate for Governor, candidates | relief and Gh Gere winklaaee \ pd militant Chinese student and anti- I ae for General Assembly, and Board of |for the protection of foreign-born ant - imperialist, to his death at the E p f Al Sh @ n order to prevent the suspen- fa Freeholder in seven counties, a can-| for equal rights for Negro workers, ELY, Minn, (By Mail).—A mass) police chief, “Doggy” Nankervis, ar- pees ‘of the murderous Chiang Kai- xX OSUTES O ur OW ost sion of the Daily Worker which didate for State Senator and several] ‘The city elections in Trenton, New| demonstration of 1,500 against the} rested Wiitala and others arrested] snex government in China, the New is facing its most critical few candidates for city elections will be} Brunswick, Passaic and other cities| terror waged here by Captain Tre-| Karson section organizer of the Com-| york istrict of the International] 2AST HARTFORD, Conn., May 25. Socialist for War Arming. days, and to ensure all funds col- ratified. The work being done points! on May 12th showed a big increase} zona and his steel trust city cops| munist Party, and Arvo Halberg, sec-| rebor Defense, through its attorney,|——TTubee Davison, whose money was] PARIS, France, May 25—Paul|| lected reaching the Daily Worker ‘ to the holding of one of the biggest! in the vote for the Communist Party| blocked traffic Friday and fought] tion organizer of the Young Commu-| ya, ghorr, will file an appeal in| ™ade by his father, a member of the] Boncour, socialist deputy, at the so-|] office in the shortest possible 80- Ratification Conventions ever held in} candidates. This convention will] with police, American Legionnaires | nist League. his case in the federal court to-| House of Morgan, out of the last] cialist national convention, now in|| time, all comrades are instructed on= New Jersey, with hundreds of dele-| mobilize the workers to carry on a| and steel company detectives. Legionnaires Club. morrow (Wednesday) world slaughter, in a speech here| session, brought in a report calling}| to turn over all money to their the gates present, vigorous campaign, exposing the con-| ‘The trouble did not start until the} A regular battle started, with the i took occasion to “deplore” the Com-| upon the socialist party of France|} unit Daily Worker representatives of ‘The successful Trenton Hunger nections of D. Baird, the republican | police pulled down the speakers. The Legionnaires clubbing anybody they| Department of Labor officials, co-| munist charge that $3,000,000 was be-| to unite with other capitalist parties |] at Unit Meetings tonight. The WS? March, the many demonstrations in| candidate for Governor, with the] chief of the Oliver Iron Mining Co.| saw who didn’t have one of their operating with the Chinese hang-| ing spent for the air war maneuvers | for full support to armaments for|] Unit Daily Worker Representa- ries the many cities of New Jersey have] public service, the banks, also expos- | police; Cloutier, pulled his blackjack | buttons on, and the crowd fighting}™€M, continue to insist that Li must} while not one cent was given to the| war and for “national defense.” Bon-|] tives must turn this money into spread the influence of the Commu-| ing the democratic candidate, A.| and attempted to slug Karson and| back. go to China and refuse to allow] unemployed by the government. cour, who is a member of the war|] the District Daily Worker office, our nist Party considerably, and this) Harry Moore of the Hague machine,| Impe Wiitala of the Young Com-| “Little Bits” Arvo Lapakko led a pe a voluntary departure to the! Davison, who is in charge of the| department of the French” govern-|{35 East 12th St., 5th floor as ; growth of influence will be registered] and the socialist party candidate, H.| munist League. A sympathizer said] charge toward the jail to protest| Soviet Union. A flood of protests] air war show, did not deny the fact | ment, took an active part in the Jas* early as possible Wednesday by the many delegates that will be| FP, Messner, and the sell-out of A.| he would kill a policeman he saw| against the arrests just taken place,|@nd a mass demonstration on May | that $3,000,000 or more was being} war and” is preparing thé “wo. morning and only this haste will at the convention from such cities) P, of L, in many strikes of the State.| using a ¢lub, as a consequence of| when he was seized by two bulls and|15, the day before Li was scheduled] spent. He tried to make the “tax-| who still follow the socialist party in Saye the Daily. A few dollars re- and towns of the state as were never! Plans will be laid to penetrate thc| Which the police around put their] thrown in. When the melee was|to be deported, caused Judge Wool-| payers” feel that they would not] France to follow the French imper- maining in the pockets of Party represented before. many small towns, and line up the| blackjacks back and also stopped finally over many of the police had | Sey of the federal court to postpone | have to pay immediately for this war | ialists in the next war members may be sufficient to For Release of Paterson 5 workers in large numbers behind the | Pulling Wiitala’s hair, She got up| bruises, and six had ben arrested.}Li’s deportation for the present. | preparation. President Doumergue of France} cause the non-appearance of the ‘The convention will be a rallyin®| candidate of the Communist Party | 0M the stand and announced the} Wiitala was released, but the others|Only a relentless mass movement in} The fleet of 672 planes, which for| opened the air war show in France Daily Worker. point for the struggle for the un-|" purpose of the street meeting, a pro-| were kept in. his behalf can force a reversal of| some reason has been cut down to] vO.er 100,000 people attended. The District Secretariat, conditional release of the five textile |f" Governor, John J. Ballam and the] sont against police brutality in pre-| ‘The International Labor Defense} the government's decision and the | 500 planes, is now carrying on its| air war preparations are being rap- Diy “Worker Manarenisnt workers of Paterson facing the olec-| candidates for General Assembly and] vious meetings, and pointed to the| called another mass meeting of pro-|eranting of a voluntary departure to| war preparations around the New idly pushed in all capitalist coun- ve ai vas Soviet Russia. i" tric chgir on framed-up charges, also Freeholder in the varjous counties. examples in this one. The local city Seat to meet Sundar England States, tries.