The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1931, Page 1

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Peak are yc) the Ps ee US ercr von sof _NEW YORK WEDNESDAY. JUNE 10, 1931_ gtter at the Post the net of Mareh 3, entered at New c ITY EDITION isa Price 3 Cents | MINE STRIKE SPREADS TO OHIO; JOBLESS MINERS MARCH Mr. Pickens Takes the | Handkerchief | Moc kepo peer the vio mas of tw wocins saw wee |(BEAACHt Shows How the Masses in 1917 Sa oheirod to ack ee deca ate ty Albina.” ca | Revolted in Russia and Ended Bloody Regime of the Feudal Czarist Rulers _Vol. . VII, } No. 139 Series Ans swering Capitalist Lies on the Soviets Begins Today UNEMPLOYED MINERS MASS AT COUNTY SEAT 10 DEMAND IMMEDIATE RELIEF Everyone who has looked into the case even to the slightest degree, knows that the boys are innocent. Their condemnation to death, al- though innocent, was not an “irregular” proceeding, but was the regu- lar course of “justice” as it is practiced month after month and year after year in the white capitalist class courts, especially in the southern | states. Scarcely a week passes but what innocent Negroes are rail- In recent months anti-Soviet propaganda has analyzes the current anti-Soviet hysterics and dis- TES ae { et. pray roaded to death sentences or to long prison terms for such “crimes” as | Fetehed a point of hysteria. Anti-Soviet documents | closes them as the propaganda phase of the present T0 WELCOME 145 Ja a for Picketing Are Faced With Riot disputing the price of an electric battery or the price of a bale of cotton. emerge from the laboratories of capitalist forgers holy capitalist war preparations against the Sov- i ; for the “crime” of demanding payment of their wages, or even for asking | faster than ever. The Riga and, Helsingfors lie fac- iet Union. Charges; Organize Labor Defense; mu. 65 8 By MAX BEDACHT, | |. The Original Sin he i917 a revolution took place in Russia. Up till then the Russian masses lived in un- | bearable misery. The whole country was just | one big prison. The Czar was the chief gaoler. From his hands dripped the blood of countless Russians, shot, hung, banished and starved by his orders. His will was law. An army of tories are working over-time. Even Mr. Sisson has been heard from again. He has dug up his own thoroughly discredited “documents” of old and served them anew as creditable evidence against the Sov- iet Union. Anti-Soviet articles receive prize awards; and so-called newspapers base their jcircuiation drives on anti-Soviet campaigns. The workers cannot always penetrate this maze of lies. They do no always find an answer to. the many anti-Soviet assertions thrown at them. In meeting this campaign it is impocsible to supply an answer to everysingle “However, these lies are mot merely lies—they are CAPITALIST lies, @ white woman for a drink of water. Therefore there is nothing out of the ordinary procedure of the southern courts that nine innocent Negro boys, the youngest 13 years of age and two of 14, are railroaded to death sentences on false charges of “rape.” The only thing “irregular” about the Scottsboro case is that the smooth process of sending them to their death has been’ interfered with by a wide stirring up of mass protest which has already secured for them a chance for their lives, the first chance that they have had. These boys would, without the slightest question of doubt, have gone straight to their death in the electric chair if there had not been a tre- | mendous popular movement started by the Communist Party, the League | 6f Struggle for Negro Riglits andthe International Labor Defense. | But the boys will still.go to their deaths if the popular mass protest Thir d _Degr ee Seer ‘etary FSU DELEGATES sia NCW RETURNING 200 Delegates From Striking Mines Meet Wednesday in Pittsburgh to Plan Further Spreading of the Mine Strike PITTSBURGH, Pa., Mass Meeting at Gal tral Opera House on | Friday, June 19 “ | NEW YORK.—The returning F. S. | June 9.—More Ohio | a ean be stopped. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was informed about this case from the first day. But the NAACP lead- ers kept the matter quiet, suppressed al! news of the event and looked upon it merely as a “rape” case. The NAACP leaders, after a thunder of protest against thet treachery, claimed that they had taken action in the beginning through a lawyer, Stephen R. Roddy, member of the they are ANTI-SOVIET lies. Therefore, a clear brutal policemen all over the country enforced analysis of capitalism as defended by the crusaders against the Soviet Union, and an analysis of sociai- ism as now under’ construction in the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics can supply a fairly accurate and reliable gauge for the detection of anti-Soviet lies. |this law. A lash of the knout was the answer to every groan of any of the millions of vic- tims of this government. Out of the groans of those millions, out of the sweat and the blood of its victims, Russian Czarism, with its land- U. delegation from the Soviet Union is due to arrive the week of June 19. Preparations are now under way by the Friends of the Soviet Union to give them a welcome and at the same time to utilize this meeting to reach the workers of New York with the call for the Anti-War Conference of mines went on strike today. At the Hanna Coal Co. at Dillonvale, 400 men went on strike. At the Bainbridge mine of another company, 60 men joined the strike. At the Warden mine of the Pittsburgh mines struck today. More Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan, who by conniyance with the court and prosecutors, The following articles are designed to suppty |OWners and capitalists, coined fabulous wealth. | ie Communist Party, which is to be | Coal Co. 500 men walked out. At the Tremont Coal Co. mines appeared on the records of the cases as defense attorney but in fact. such a gauge. They are trying to give a compre- The wealth was dissipated by the degénerate held on June 25 to mobilize for the| at Fayette City 80 men joined the strike. Seventy-five min- collaborated in true Ku Klux Klan fashion in the railroading of the | hensive presentation of the fundamentals of cap- nobles and millionaires in a life : italism and of socialism. | grand dukes August 1 demonstration ers of the Creig hton Fuel Co. at Creighton struck. boys to their death sentence, publicly refusing even so much as to ask They are answering the | of uselessness, idleness and debauchery. The Friends of the Soviet Union fea Arabic i § aA eee the jury for an acquittal when his turn came to address the jury. most important questions which arise before every 3 : will welcome the delegates at Cen- | The strike is still spreading in Ohio where the National . . . worker who meets the anti-Soviet propaganda of Yet, Czarism, brutal and bloody autocracy’| tral opera House on Friday. June 19, | Miners Union is sending more organ- ithe = R. WILLIAM PICKENS, Field Secretary of the NAACP, at first re- belled against the hideous policy of his own organization. and came out boldly to announce his adherence to the united front to save the cepitalicm. By way of example they are a ana- Iyzing and refuting some of the mest outrageous lies against the Soviet Union. | though it was, was a recognized equal in the assembly of the capitalist governments of the world. Though the hand of the czar reeked at 8pm. The speakers include Frank Palmer, of the Typographical Union. who was also a member of the fii izers, Jobless Miners March. Iners who were riking mines meets in Pitts- burgh at one o'clock ou Wednesday. A truckload of delegates is expected un-! from the Ohio mining section. boys. But the reactionary wealthy white people who now control the While every one of the articles of this series eS . < trade union delegation to Soviet Ru empl y before the strike are | Sheriff Cain of Alleghen: jz NAACP policies called Mr. Pickens to order, pushed Im in line with | is an entity in itself, yet it is necessary to consider | With the blood of the Russian people, yet the| i. in 1997; Juliet Poyntz recently | marching on Washington, the county Ieotiny issued aa eiloe Waceie cae threats to discharge him from his position. And now Mr. Pickens has all of the articles together as one whole. This whole ere returned from the U.S.S.R.; Robert | Seat. Next week the same sort of crawled and whined before his masters and begged for forgiveness. To &tone for his “sin” of trying for a few short hours to be a man, Pickens was made to go to the South to become the chief instrument of the NAACP in its campaign against the defense of the Scottsboro boys. Pickens appeared in a church at Chattanooga where he made one of the most contemptible and cowardly betrayals of the nine Scottsboro boys and of the Negro people that can be found on the records which reek with treason since the time when a Negro house-servant betrayed the great Negro revolutionist, Denmark Vesey, to the slave owners and to death. Pickens knows that the nine Scottsboro boys are innocent. But in his Chattanooga speech Pickens grovelled before the white master and in whining “admissions” did all that he could to deliver the nine in- nocent Negro boys to the hangman of Alabama. The text of Picken’s speech as it appears in the Chattanooga Times of June 8, says that “there is some doubi” as to the guilt or innocence of the nine Negro boys. There is “serious doubt as to whether sentence should stand under the trial that was held.” There is “almost no doubt” that a “fair and impartial trial” could not have been had under the conditions sur- rounding the court in Scottsboro, says Mr. Pickens. And the grovelling Mr. Pickens then does not even advocate the release of the boys! He does not assert their innocence. He does not even dare to ask unequivocally for a retrial of the cases, but speaks only for 2 rotviel “or a proper re- view of the procedure and the evidence.” (This shows the eaiicrs of the policy of the Ku Klux Klan lawyer, Roddy, of not even seeking the liberation of the boys, but only a “review” by that agency of the south- ern ruling class, the pardoning and commuting power, and the leaving of these innocent boys at least to life terms in the Alabama prisons. Then Pickens, with the new bandana handkerchief on his head, proceeds to his real mission in the South, for which he was sent by his masters in New York. The mission is, even at the sacrifice of the lives or liberty of the nine boys, to get the NAACP into the good graces of the southern ruling class—to win for the NAACP the tolerance and co- operation of the police and the Ku Klux Klan on the ground that the NAACP is a “good” organization of “white man's Negroes,” which can be very useful to the white ruling class as a means for fighting against the awakening spirit of protest of the Negro masses. Pickens in his speech attacked the Communist Party for conducting “sensational propaganda” in defense of the Scottsboro boys “among the more ignorant of the colored population.” “Consistent with this evil purpose,” said Pickens, in defending the court that framed up and railroaded the innocent Negro boys, “the Communists have threatened every authority in Alabama from the gov- ernor down; they have threatened violence, offered to ‘free’ the prisoners by force,” etc. Pickens then shows that his mission in the South is to sacrifice the lives or liberty of the nine Negro boys, if needs be, in order to stop any movement of protest among the Negro people. He said that “the (CONTINUED O8 PAGE TEREEY Pickens in Attack on Fight To Save Scottsboro Boys Defends Lynch System ULLETIN. CHATTANOOGA, June 9.—The bosses, whose system throws gir!s on t he street to prostitute themselves for a living, are rallying to -the defense of the “characters” of the two white prostitutes who were coerced by the state into testifying against the Scottsboro boys, after they had at first declared that the boys had not molested them. At the hearing in Scottsboro, Ala., on June 5 on the motions of the International Labor Defense for new trials for the boys, the state charged in counter-affidavits that the LL. D. attorney, George W. Chamlee, had paid witnesses “75 cents and their dinners” for af- fidavits testifying as to the character of the two girls, The state submitted affidavits sworn to by thre officers of a Huntsville factory giving the two girls “splendid characters.” The state also made an effort to prove that the noise in Scotts- boro following the first verdict was not caused by the mob celebrating the verdict with cheers and a brass band but was “caused by a dem- onstration of new automobiles just from the factory.” CHATTANOOGA, June 9. — With the Southern Negro masses thoroughly aroused over the hideous lynch verdict of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SOCIALISTS FOR BRUENING REGIME Convention OK’s Anti- Worker Policies (Cable by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, June 6. — The National Congress of the Socialist Party of Germany closed yesterday after un- conditionally confirming the policy of toleration of the Bruening govern- ment, condemning the left wingers who voted against the building of the armoured cruiser, and support- ing the emergency finance decree of the Bruening government. Daily tumults from socialists in the public gallery protesting against the reactionary policy of the party lead- ers. The hopes of the socialist workers that the Leipzig Congress would bring a change in policy has been blasted. Many are joining the Com- munist Party. (Special to the D: Daily Werker) PITTSBURGH, June 9.—Six thou- sand more miners struck Monday morning, thousands joined the Na- tional Miners Union, There were many mass marches, and et three No. 1 and No, 2 walked out at Pin- neyfork. Among the mines struck Monday morning is Wildwood mine of the Dutler Consolidated Coal Co., where 300 rhen in the most mechanized mine miarying Miners in Desperate Struggle; Strike Spread By Militant Picketing Coal Co., near California, 1,000 out. Pricedale Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 250 out, a hundred still working, but expected to come out as 500 are picketing. Renton Mine of Union Colliaries, Dunn and others. This meeting will answer effectively the ravings of the yellow press and the reports of the returning delegates will set forth the latest achievements of the Five Year Plan. Grafter Commits Suicide as Graft Investigation Nears NEW YORK.—The proposed in- vestigation into the graft record of Tammany Hall officials in Queens has resulted in the suicide yesterday of the assistant engineer in the Engi- neering Department of Queens, John D. C. Mackey, whose work was mainly in the sewer construction de- | partment, notorious for its record of racketeering. Thirty Queen’s officials are to have their bank accounts investigated, at least the portion that is open for in- spection. What is hidden away un- der false names and in dummy al counts never comes to light. The storm center of this so-called shake- down. to be conducted by Attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr., is the Borough President of Queens, George U. Harvey, and the Commissioner of Public Works, John J. Halleran. same sort of human waves swept to- wards Westland mine from two sides, Avella and Cannonsburg. As two thousand marchers ap- proached Ellsworth mine, coal and march will take place in Fayette last week laying off 5,000 more. About 45 strikers were arrested in Monday’s action charged mostly with disorderly conduct, rioting, etc. ‘The International Labor Defense is ac- of the organizers for Miners Union, on bail. Pittsburgh police Sunday siezed the International Labor Defense car on the north side. They are still hold- ing it. Stern, International Labor Defense secretary, who went looking for the car was arrested and third-degreea all night by questioning, and finally released in the morning. A full district strike meeting with over the National committee 200 present rrom | 1 | saying he will “abolish” tive. It got the release of Getto, one | and children from the picket demon- | Strations, statin vi County where the Frick mines closed | Senne (cuberwise Te a attack them. Governor Pinchot, replying to the National Miners Union protest an@ | exposure of his fake promise to elim!~ nate the iron and coal police, replied the coal and iron police after July 1. The sheriffs announce they will replace these company gunmen witn deputies. State troopers were more vicious yesterday than the coal and jiron police. The state troopers act on orders from the state capitol. Major Lynn Adams, the troopers’ chief commander, is now in the strike area. There are actually 20,000 miners out. A list of all mines struck with the number involved will be published by the Daily Worker as soon as it is tabulated Revolutionary W riters Greet Cultural Conference June 14 A stirring cable of greetings tothe|eral crisis of American capitalism conference that will launch a eration of all proletarian fed- | cultural | creative forces united in the feder- We trust that the revolutionary groups in the New York District has | ation will grow and consolidate and been received from the International Union of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, with headquarters in Mos- cow, U.S. S. R. The conference will be held Sun- day, June 14th, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, starting at 10:30 a. m. It has been called by the American section of the Inter- national Union of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, the John Reed Club, 102 West 14th St. The cable declares: “The International Union of Revo- | create a culture incomparably su- perior to the contemporary culture of bourgeois America. We hope the federation will bear in mind that the only condition for a truly na- tional culture is the hegemony of the revolutionary proletariat. Be- fore the federation stands the task of creating a proletarian culture in the womb of the capitalist syste. The launching of the federation is the most significant event in the history of American revolutionary culture. Wage your struggle with- en ae Use trace mutton seresent, activities would be to | -oints bloody clashes took place when | in the world has been getting out| 500 out. tional Miners Union nereniey: acta’ |lutionary Writers and Artists wel-| out wavering. Long live the pioneer abo Nr toh ae ice plaene dai Hinieald form prise seal and iron police, deputy sheriffs | 5,000 tons of coal a day—anl they| Newfields Mine of Union Collieries, Getto came forward gh demandea | Comes the launching of the federa-|of American revolutionary culture! iy % 5, tex | came out on strike, i ‘ a ~ v v y culture, to the southern ruling clacs as just one more little agent of “white | Bd state troopers, part of the latter “4 lee 400 out tion of workers’ cultural organiza-|Long live revolutionary cultur supremacy” licking the boots of what he calls “influential and just drunk, attacked with tear gas, guns, slubs, by charging on horseback and Other mines which struck Monday morning are: Barking Mine of Hillman Coal Co., 250 out. the right to go through. The police clubbed him down injuring him se- tions. We hope the federation will pursue the correct line in its fight destined to replace the culture of the decaying bourgeoisie!” minded whites” and delivering the half starved black masses into even | ‘inrestening with machine guns, Two| Westland Mine of Pittsburgh Coak|_ Yukon Mine of West Moreland Have cls HUGHCE EACH ce ier ea | MERUUAE: Icipivntnns, “agaiting “oladai| “AU! proletatian euitural grolna dl worse slavery. niners were shot and then arrested. | Co.. 1,400 men out. Coal Co., 300 out. The open sein infuriated, surged en national and racial oppression, in| New York and vicinity, working in This Beltayal by Me. Pickerw should surprise no one—even thoush | twenty thousand miners are fignt-| Riléworth ‘Mine’ of ‘the Eilsworth | The fighting. took plece when the ward. and charged through the clouds |e struggle for culture which 1s na-|all the cultural forms including Pickens has appeared at times as somewhat less of a “white man's ‘ng starvation in western Pennsyl-| Collievies Co. a subsidiary of the] miners, their wives and children, a| of tear gas aati 15 Serb. iron tional in form, but proletarian in| sports, nature study, anti-religious Negro’ than his sssociates. Fot even in the beginning, when he came | ‘onia and the strike has spread into| E2thlehem Steel Co. 1,200 men out.| great hunger parade of whole starv- ollce had, . ‘Terhporarily’” blinded, | Aubstance, | work, Usperanto, etc, are urged to out wholeheartedly endorsing the united front call of the International | ss¢ Ohio, where Monday morning|'Tb’s mine is near Bentleysville. ing communities marched from. all] ” ‘ raat eee Ge American bourgeois | send two delegates each to the cons (CONTINUED ON PAGE 'THRED) $00 men in Hannah Coal Co. mines Crescent mine of the Pittsburgh| around on Ellsworth mine, when the culture is the expression of the gen- ~~ r Ch (CONTINUED ON PAGER MIRE) ia iii iii kN i i ‘ ferent - ~~