The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1931, Page 1

i ‘49 Danger! Lagging Behind in Drive Is Crushing the ‘Daily’! % received less than $500 a day. The failure to raise $1,000 a day is threaten- | ing to crush the Daily Worker! Pressing bills for printing, paper, stereotyping and other ma- terial must be met this week—but how? The campaign to raise the $35,000 by July 1 that is absolutely necessary to save the Daily Work- | er and safeguard it for some time in the future has been on for exactly a week, with what re- sults? Despite our appeals, despite our warn- ings, only $2,166 contributed thus far. Instead of $1,000 a day—the minimum needed—we have sent to Chicago, phia and Boston. The appearance of the Daily Worker yester- | day and today has been made possible only by the response to long distance telephone calls Cleveland, Detroit, But what will happen today? Will there be a Daily tomorrow? be a Daily during these coming critical weeks when the workers of this country need it so badly in their struggles? 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CITY EDITION _Price 3 Cents _ HUGE SCOTTSBORO CONFERENCES IN CHARLOTTE, CHICAGO Michigan Workers and Far Farmers Greet Jobless oss State Hunger March On The Masses Can Free Tom Mooney and Other Political Prisoners IM MOONEY’S letter published on this page today must be answered by every class conscious worker, not with words but with action. ‘The action must be the action of masses, and it must organized with the Bolshevik genius and determination which today are the only means by which concessions can be wrung from the unwilling hands of the ruling capitalist class. To say this is to say that it must be organized by the Communist Party. It was organized Bolshevik pressure in the midst of the great Russian revolution and the world war—organized by the Party of Lenin in the city which is now called Leningrad—that saved Tom Mooney from the gallows in 1917. With such determination, such firmness, and such appeal to the masses of the working class, Tom Mooney: can be saved from his present living death in San Quentin prison. ‘Tom Mooney is but one man, but in the person of that one prole- tarian class fighter is symbolized the whole legion of proletarian class war prisoners who are now being tortured and slowly killed in prisons of capitalism throughout the world. And when we say that Tom Mooney can be freed by the pressure of working class masses, we mean that not only his liberty but. the liberty and lives of thousands of others. can and must be successfully fought for by the working class. We will take exception to one word.in Tom Mooney’s letter—the word “apathetic,” and that word, perhaps, is not his deliberate choice. The masses of wage workers are not apathetic, today, but are fast moy- ing toward a tremendous upheaval. The greatest world economic crisis ‘of all history has broken upon al! capitalist countries with profoundly disturbing effect. The economic crisis is not being overcome, but is grow- ing deeper with each month and more destructive to capitalist stabiliza- tion. Even the most stubborn capitalist economists now admit that the economic depression will continue’ for many months. Fifty million work- ers in capitalist countries are unemployed, and countless other millions are unemployed in colonial countries. The capitalist system has no way of attempting to overcome the crisis that does not include (besides im- perialist war and intervention against the Soviet Union) a sharp internal war of starvation, wage cuts and intensified slavery waged against the working class. The unemployed movement, with its increasing organization and its hunger marches, together with the now rising tide of strike struggles against wage cuts and speed-up, are an expression in this country of the growing revolutionary upsurge throughout the world. Those who do not know this are even more blind than the capitalist politicians, who see it. If a hunger march in Greenwith, Connecticut, storms the city hall with a demand for food, and yet carries a banner saying, “We are not reds”—this only means that they are on the way to become reds. The powerful effect upon the whole world of the success of the building of the new socialist society by a nation of 160,000,000 people in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is corroding and breaking down the slavish attitude of the hungry masses of capitalist countries toward their own once-feared and once superstitiously worshipped capitalist slavery. The enslavement of Central Europe under the terms of the Versailles ‘Treaty and the Young Plan prepares the ground for a mass movement. of European workers against the Wall Street imperialism which is now torturing the bodies of thousands of working class political prisoners in its dungeons, American imperialism which imprisons the admittedly in- nocent Mooney and Billings, which condemns the Imperial Valley strike leaders to 42 years of living death for organizing unions, the American imperialism which condemns to the electric chair nine innocent Negro boys of ages from 13 to 20 as a blood sacrifice to its Jim Crow capi- ‘alist domination. It is for the Communist Party to organize and lead this action in this country, and without the slightest doubt it will be taken up by the sare Parties of other countries where the masses of workers are riencing almost as directly as we American workers the brutal, blood- sucking corruption of American imperialism. ‘The time is favorable for such a mass drive, The working masses are ready for such a campaign, and becoming readier every day. Not te overcome apathy, but organize and increase their militancy is the task of the workers’ revolutionary Party. ‘Tom Mooney’s exposure of the betrayal of the working class by the Judas bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor is being trans- Jated into many languages and is already being circulated in large quan- tities in Soviet Russia and in Germany. It must be used here in the land of its origin to spur the struggle on against the fascist agents of the capitalist class and against the capitalist rule itself. Revolutionary workers, with true proletarian instinct, do not think of such a campaign as unassociated with organization. Organization must be one of the distinctive features that raises this campaign of today far above those campaigns of the past which have been wide in propaganda, but so weak in organized action as to fail always in their objective. Together with the fight to save Mooney, Billings, the eight strike leaders of Im- perial Valley, Schmidt, and MacNamara, the Centralia prisoners, the Scottsboro Negro boys, and the many hundreds of other§, and as an in- divisible part of it and the first condition for its success—must be the energetic building of the revolutionary trade unions for which the work- ing class is already more than ripe, and the courageous and persistent pushing forward of the revolutionary minorities in the old unions which are under fascist A, F. of L. leadership. The building of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which is the most direct and one of the main instruments for the struggle for the workers’ class war prisoners, must be pushed ahead at full speed. Concessions from the capitalist ruling class are never won by tearful pleas, nor by the babbling of those who would “reform” capitalism; re- forms and concessions from the capitalist class and government are ob- tained only by revolutionary class struggle led by! the enemies of capi- talism, not by its reformers. Workers! ee * y aA bb "tn Say aay Bay tre eeenee, ©? | ne Teme Mieeaey. sand sit of our For advance sale, call at the Work- INSEND-OFFIN 5,000 OUT KALAMAZ00 Masses Turn Out to Cheer, Welcome the Hunger Marchers werOne THE “FRAMEUP' Robert Minor BULLETIN. OWOSSO, Micia., May 26,—The Detroit section of the Michigan Hunger March was forced back by the entire police force of Flint, the General Motor town. Gas and ce- ment trucks blocked the road and the police were fully mobilized with guns and black jacks against the marchers. The marchers arrived at Owosso, Michigan, demanded and received food from the city ad- ministration. The marchers wiil reach Lansing at 7 p. m. tonizht. PONTIAC, Mich.—Oyer 5.900 | auto workers, including many un- Dear Comrade: employed, demonstrated at City Hall in a send-off for the State Hunger March on Lansing. The workers showed their militant sup- port of the demands for immedi- ate relief of the unemployed at the demonstration. DETROIT, Mich, May —The mass response of the workers and poor farmers of Western Michigan to the hunger march now on the way to Lansing to demand relief for the unemployed has been such as to arouse great enthusiasm among the marchers. At Wayland five hundred workers turned out to greet the vanguard of the Michigan unemployed march- ing on the state legislature. Seven hundred townsmen lined the streets of Plainwell and showed their sym- pathy with the marchers. At Kalamazoo a crowd estimated at 4,000 was at -hand to greet the marchers and give them a send-off. Battle Creek, home of the infamous speed-up Kellogg Corn Flakes Fac- tory, witnessed a mass turnout of 5,000 workers. Food, money and gosoline were freely donated by the workers in all these towns. The city governments in each instance refused to lodge, feed or assist the hunger marchers. Greet Nat. School Students Tonight Graduation Mass Meet and Concert demands at a state wide un-° employment conference at Odd Fellows Hall, Springfield. Five routes, have been chos- en over which the hunger marchers and delegates will converge on Springfield from all NEW YORK.—Tonight, the larg- est student body trained by the Workers School for the battles of the working class, will be graduated at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street, at 8 p.m. with an impressive program and mass meeting. Wm. Z, Foster is to be the main speaker for the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The meet- ing. will be opened by A. Markoff, director of the Workers School, who will act as chairman. Students of the National Training School will gveet the audience, and Alexander ‘Trachtenberg will address the stud- ents. A. splendid concert has been ar- ranged by the Music Committee of the Cooperative Music School. Danc- ing is to follow the program. Ad- mission is 50 cents and tickets are obtainable in advance or at the door. directions. The Trade Union Unity League and the united Unemployed Councils of Illinois, sponsors of the marches and the conference, have dispatched letters to the mayors of all the cities through which the marchers will pass demanding ac- commodations and food for them. Chicago, Rockford, Moline, East St. Louis and the southern Illinois coal fields are the five points from which the demonstrators will depart, in- creasing their numbers along the way. ‘The state call issued for the con- ference gives 800,000 as the number of Ilinois jobless, it points to 60 per cent un¢mployment in the coal fields and destitution among poor farmers dispossessed of their lands by bank foreclosures. The purpose of the con- ference, the call says, is to “present to the state legislature a bill for workers’ social insurance, relief for the workers and farmers and the re- ers School, 50'Bast 13 Street, Editor, The New York City Fully realizing that The Comrades of the Workers’ task is to awaken the apathetic masses of the wageworkers and arouse in them the spirit that will lead to action. confidently relying upon these comrades to stand by me and give service to the very limit of their powers, throughout the period | of the impending hearing in Sacramento. The endless-chain process is, purpose: advocating always that each reader shall pass on to another the pamphlet which he himself has read, and the promise be exacted that each recipient will do likewise, after reading and taking note of the pamphlet's contents. without saying, that the more pamphlets there are in circulation, the greater will be the united power of that endless chain of pamphlet-readers; the more will be their good understanding of this case, with all its implications - and tne more effective will be the work of each reader. Tom Mooney FORMED BY MEMBERS OF INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS UNION NO. 164 v TOM MOONEY-—piRECTOR => P.O. Box 1475 San Francisco SAN Molders’ Defense Committee AFTER | YEARS IM PRIBOK QUENTIN PRISOK California May 12, Daily Worker of course, Phe comrades of 1931 the only hope of obtaining my freedom is thru united action by the worker masses, in this and other countries of tho world, I am calling upon that militant minority to giva now their very best efforts in my behalf, Party well know that the major So I an I hope they will bring that proceeding to the attention of every worker with whom they can come in contact - and will tell them all about it. will make every possible effort to gain wide distribution of the Pamphlet ~- "Labor Leaders setray om Mooney" - and sea that every copy of it is kept in constant circulation among the people who will read it, and will then take an active part in all efforts for a United Front of labor's forces in this fight. I know they the pest for this And of course it goes We are at the crossroads,in this case, and it is now or never that my freedom must be won. can - and will - help much in the winning thereof. the Workers Party TOM MOONY THIS COMMITTEE IS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION AUTHORIZED TO COLLECT FUNDS FOR THE Ill. Hunger Marchers To Go To Capital To Put Demands CHICAGO, Ill—Placing their Pidemanda for immediate cash relief for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed and their families in Illinois, the Ilinois state hunger march will march into the state legislature at Springfield on Monday, June 15th. The day previous will be occupied with the formulation of the peal of the sedition law.” The social insurance bill provides for a weekly payment of $15 to every unemployed worker, disabled war veteran and workers subject to old age, with $2 additional for each dependent. Simila rdemands were made on the Cook County Board in Chicago last week by a delegation from the Un- employed Council. On June 7, Chi- cago workers’ organizations will send delegates to a local conference to prepare the Chicago contingent which will leave the morning of June 12, Marchers will participate on the basis of one‘for every ten members in the Unemployed Councils, while other organizations will be entitled to from two to five marchers. Dele- gates to the conference in Spring- field who may or may not take part in the marches will be officially cred- ited by their organizations. Special Scottsboro Edition LABOR UNITY OUT TODAY ALL ORGANIZATIONS ARE URGED TO ORDER TWO CENTS A COPY CALL AT 16 W. 21ST STREET HARLEM PROTEST MEET THURSDAY Fight the: Seottsboro Legal Lynching NEW ORK. — Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro vic- tims, will be the principal speaker at a mass protest this Thursday evening at St. Luke's Hall, 125 West 130 Street. The meeting is called by the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union and will also be ad- dressed by Louis Hyman, president; June Croll, organizer, and Charles Alexander, of the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights. The meeting is one of hundreds being held throughout the country by working-class organizations to rouse the masses to militant protest and struggle against the hideous frame-up and planned legal lynch- ing of nine innocent Negro children being railroaded to the electric chair on a fake charge of rape. In mobiiization for the meeting several street meetings will be held tonight, at 7:30, at the following corners: 100 Street and 2nd Avenue; 113 and 5th; 140 and Lenox; 134 and 7th Ayenue. All workers are urged to come out and demonstrate their indignation at this outrageous frame-up. Especially must. the white workers turn out en masse to show their solidarity with the Negro workers. Lansing FIGHT TO SAVE 9 BOYS SPREADS OVER COUNTRY; MASSES RALLY T0 DEFENSE 285 DELEGATES AT CHICAGO CONF. Block Committees Ral- ly Masses CHICAGO. May 26.—Two hundred and eighty-five delegates, represent- | ing 182 Negro*and white organiza- tions with collective membership of | SvePBO08H Attended the local United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference | here on ‘Sunday. The Forum Hall, at | 323 E. 43rd St., was packed to capa- | city with delegates and hundreds of visitors. The conference was unani- } mously voted the biggest in Chicago in years. Among the organizations repre- sented were 18 Negro churches, 16 wsegro clubs and lodges and 17 unions Tremendous enthusiasm greeted the reports of Ed. Williams, local secretary of the League of Struggle or Negro Rights, and William Bre ail der, district secretary of the Interna- | tional Labor Def done so far in mobilizing the m save the lives of the nine being railroaded to the electric chair by the Alabama landlords and capi- talists on a fake charge of raping two white girls. Cheer Telegram from Scottsboro Parent. This was followed by a still greater outburst of enthusiasm at the read- ing of a telegram from Claude Pat- on the work | the courts and in| es in the fight to Negro boys | terson of Chattanooga, father of Andy and Roy, two of the framed-up | lads, greeting the conference and praising the work of the I. L. D. in the fight to smash the legal lynch- ing About 20 speakers, mostly Negroes, took the floor. The sentiment of the Negro workers was expressed by one in the- following statement: “This is the first time we knew of this wonderful fight that is be- ing carried on to save these inno- cent boys and against lynching. We will do our best to help.” Scores N. A. A. C, P. Leaders, ‘The treacherous co-operation of the leadership of the N. A. A. C. P. with the Southern boss lynchers in their attack on the fight to save the boys was sharply repudiated by sev- eral speakers representing strong Negro organizations. There was stormy applause when Emil Gardos, speaking for the Communist Party, called for a fighting alliance of colored and white workers in the fight to smash the legal lynching and against the Negro reformist misleaders who hamstringing the defense. Mr. Tilford, a Negro newspaper man, told the conference that the leaders of the Negro reformist press Charlotte Workers Smash Race Bars; Join Fight Cheer Mrs. Williams White Worker Exposes “Rape” Lies of Bosses CHARLOTTE, N. C. fighting alliance of ; and Negro workers to save the lives of the nine Scottsboro Negro: boys being raiJroaded to the eléctric chair on a fake charge of rape, was es- tablished here Sunday with the pres- ence of Negro and white delegates from 19 organizations at the local United Front Scottsboro Defense Con- ference. Among the organization: represented were 3 churches, 3 mili locals, 3 Unemployed Councils, and the Communist Party. The eonfer- ence was called jointly by the In- ternational Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights The chief speaker and Honorary | chairman was Mrs. Williams, Mother | of 14-year-old Eugene Williams, one of the framed-up youths. Mrs. Wil- liams highly praised the ILD for rushing to the defense of the boys against the legal lynching planned by the Alabama bosses when other organizations were praising the State of Alabama for giving the boys an orderly “trial.” She said “I want to praise the Interna- tional Labor Defense and want to say I am with them until I am dead and gone. Our boys were being whipped and beaten until the ILD came in. I never heard of them before they came and looked up us parents. They’ve done every- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CUBAN STRIKERS AND SCABS IN ARMED CLASHES Police Arrest Jobless In Havana Reports from Havana, Cuba, state that a pitched battle took place Monday between armed strikers and scabs at Caribarien on the docks of the Munson Steamship Line. The Munson Steamship Line, an American concern, cut wages of the Cuban dock workers and hired scabs, under the protection of the dictator, President Machado, On Monday the strikers gathered at the docks early in the day and opened fire on the scabs. The scabs scurried for cover and returned the and organizations had betrayed the boys! “The Negro race owes thanks to Communists, Rally behind them despite all.” Exposes Oscar DePriest. Miss Patricia Sharpe of the Union ‘Tabernacle Chureh sharply exposed the traitor, Oscar DePriest, and called “all common people to unite against the enemy rich class.” Comrade Rulis, editor of the Vilnis, stressed the necessity of unity of the ‘foreign born and Negro workers in the fight against special persecution. Comrade Matheson of the Trade (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE) shots. Police proved helpless. Ma- chado sent his soldiers to the rescue of the scabs and many strikers were arrested. t aa. ai a.. ‘A number of Spanish unemployed workers demonstrated in front of the Spanish consulate Monday. An- other report tells of a group of un- employed Spanish workers being evicted from the Centro Asturiano clubrooms where they were sleeping. They had no other place to sleep. When the unemployed demonstrated in front of the Spanish consulate Machado sent two truckloads of to beat up the goblowee sao wi