The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1931, Page 1

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The USE COUPON ON PAGE 3 POSS 4n0 YouR (Poss RSeudoye ue | 7 LLY Sunk ag WORKERS SHER You_> OF THE WORLD, Central (SECTION OF THE COMMUNIST Ray Entered as at New York, N. ¥., under the jecond-class matter at the Post Office ast of March 3, 1879 pn NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1931 20,000 MINERS PIC Capitalists Drive to War to Smash tl the Soviet Uni Thought It Was Impossible for Masses in the Soviet Union to Rebuild Industries - Support The Pennsylvania Ohio Miners Strike Ween: All attention must be given to the heroic ‘strike of the starv- ing miners of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union, of the Trade Union Unity League, 20,000 miners are already engaged in a desperate struggle against | the mine-owners, against their private armed-guards, the state's armed forces, and the bosses’ agents, the notorious strike-breaking United Mine Workers of the American Federation of Labor. Already the armed forces | of the employers have shot several union organizers, used gas bombs on hundreds of pickets, arrested scores of strikers, and clubbed men, women | and children. This strike against starvation-has encountered, in its first KET OVER 70 MI LOT: vrtlet Party INTERNATIONAL) STR UNITE! ITY EDITION _ Price 3 Cents ESI RIKE-FRONT MO OHIO MINES JOI ; DEPUTIES SHOO Destroyed By War; Spread Stream of Lie. 3 K | N L 0) C ) T R | K E R Yesterday's article, the first in the series on the “Holy Capitalist War on the Soviet Union”, how the Russian Revolution of 1917 made the work- In February 1917 the Russian capitalists used the Revolution to estab- Thus the Provisional Goy- ernment of Russian capitalists replaced the Czarist ers the rulers of that country. lish their political power. days, the mailed fist of the capitalist state—under the “progressive” Government of big landowners. For the workers this | tion, told Together with | army detachments, throw the Soviets. An American army invaded Russia at |Murmansk and another one at Vladivostok. French, British and Japanese they undertook to over- At the same time arms| ;and money were freely given to the counter- S1 TION JOBLESS HELP STRIKERS; STOP SCABS faker, Governor Pinchot. revolutionary czarist generals. U. S. Senate Document No. 86 shows that almost two years after the fall of the Kerensky government, a large part of the millions originally loaned by the United States to Kerensky were used upon advice and with the consent of the State De- | partment in Washington to furnish war sup- plies to the counter-revolutionary armies of | Picketing < oes On ‘WOMEN, CHILDREN, FORM OWN LINE | BULLETIN. | A United Prees telesram f change brought no reduction of their economic This strike is of the utmost importance to every worker in America. burdens. The workers, therefore, followed the lead- ershop of the Bolsheviks and developed the Febru- ary Revolution further to the victory of the working class. This victory was signified by the taking over of power by the workers and peasants councils, the Soviets. The second article follows: It is the first mass strike in the heart of heavy industry, since the on- set of the present shattering economic crisis. It is the first decisive answer of basic sections of the working class to the capitalist program of starvation, of placing the burdens of the crisis upon the workers. This strike is showing the only way out of the crisis for the tens of mil- lions of starving and half-starving toilers and their families; for the only ae re from way is the way of struggle against the capitalist class, against the sys- Ul. “Down With the Soviets.” _ 7 a: : : New Kensington, Pa., : 7 tami of stacvation of ‘tha ‘mnasecs! | | ee and W — Simultaneously a ming siike/spinatiicce «canes Out from the mines, where they starved while working, have streamed | By MAX BEDACHT. uceknde pwas> Garni the miners. New mines have closed thousands have joined the fight. The strike grows and spreads. down each day, new hundreds and Already | Immediately after the taking over of the! | Soviet Government. through against the 20,000 miners, an overwhelming majority, are out in the Pittsburgh fields; now the Ohio fields are joining; next will come West Virginia. Every- where the miners greet the strike with joy, enthusiasm, and fighting spirit. The picket lines and strike committees include men, women, and children; Negro and white, native and foreign-born workers. The strike is securely organized and controlled by the strikers themselves, who have formulated their own demands. It solidly is under the leadership of the revolutionary National Miners Union. All the forces of capitalism are mobilized against the strike. Especi- ally are the bosses relying upon the United Mine Workers (A. F. of L.) to break the strike. With one voice the capitalist press calls for a settle- ment of the strike by a contract with the U. M. W. A. which, it assures the individual mine-owners, will make “no difficulty about wages or con- ditions.” “In West Virginia,” boasts the Pittsburgh Press today, “or- ganization (in the U. M. W. A.) has just been accomplished at wage- scales lower than any reputable Pittsburgh operator (open shop) is pay- ing.” | The striking miners know the U. M. W. A. for a scab organization, | hiring itself out to the mine-owners to break strikes. They have isolated the U. M. W. A. and are driving it out of the field. The state and the bosses are preparing a big effort to bring it back, with the help of guns, gas-bombs, and clubs, to break this strike. Workers of the whole country! Just as the capitalists are rallying all their forces to break the strike, because its success means a halt to their wage-cutting schemes everywhere, just so the working class must rally all its forces in every city, in every industry, to support the strike, to push it forward to victory for the same reasons! | Unemployed miners and unemployed workers everywhere! ‘This is a joint struggle of all workers against starvation! This is a strike for unemployment relief and insurance, as well as for wages and conditions! ‘Today the workers are starving, whether they have a job or not. Support the strike with all forces. Unemployed join the picket lines, join the government power and functions by the So-| Every church in America called upon ever | viets, the capitalist propagandists the world! 2 e | down on the Soviets. But because they have j over began to predict the Soviet Government’s as littievtsadon as the augurs of old te be. lieve in their own prayers and in their own Capitalist propaginda also denied the| gods, the ministers of these churches propagat- | mass character of the revolution. had so long been the subjects of their govern- | | ment that the capitalists denied them not only | the right but also the ability to make them-) | selves masters of the government. At the same time the capitalists mistrusted Therefore they under- | took to play fate in the predicted collapse of They organized armed interven-| | immediate downfall. jern? their own predictions. the Soviets. How could the governed | | of centuries be expected to know how to gov- The masses | i aSseS | and brimstone | the s' their gods. | masses fought Soviets. | one of its gods to rain su (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) phur and brimstone | ed and supported the attempt to shower sulphur upon the Soviets rather from ubstantial cannons of a capitalist inva- |sion than from the unsubstantial heavens of But the Soviets triumphed. The Russian _ for their government, for their The capitalist invaders were forced | German Workers Protest Scottsboro Outrage Before Dresden Amer. Consulate DRESDEN, Germany, June 10.—Demonstrating their solidarity with the oppressed Negro masses and their indigna- tion against the murderous court room lynch verdict against relief committees! Strikers, join the Unemployed demonstrations! Workers everywhere! Set up committees in your shop, in your union, in your neighborhoods, in your city, to collect relief for the strikers and their unemployed brothers. Remember that every cent of money, every pound of food, is a blow against the wage-cutting, starvation policy of the capitalist class. Lvery bit of relief, however small, will help to win this historic battle, Support the Pennsylyania-Ohio miners strike! Expose the strike- breaking role of the A. F. of L. and the fake “progressive” Pinchot! Or- | ganize relief committees and get them to work quickly! Fight against starvation! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. S. A. ANTI-WAR MEET SET FOR JUNE 25 Prepare For August 1 World Demonstration ticns to prepare to send delegates to the Anti-War Conference on June 25 at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St, at 7 pm. . While the bosses government is mobilizing for war and voting thirty million dollars as it did at the last Congress, to “modernize” three bat- tleships, the army of unemployed, starving workers mounts steadily higher, with no relief in sight. The capitalists are seeking a way out of the crisis, by world slaughter. The NEW YORK.—The sham battle of war staged across the country by the eight of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys framed up on a lying rape charge, several thousand German workers held a tremen- jdous protest demonstration} last night in front of the American Consulate here, Smashing two windows of the building, the workers shouted their angry denunciations against the vi- cious terror directed against the Negro masses by the American rul- ing class, Through one of the broken win- dows they hurled a bottle contain- ing a piece of paper on which was written; “Down with American murder and imperialism. For the brother- hood of black and white young proletarians. An end to the bloody lynching of our Negro co-workers.” Scores of banners shouted similar jogans attacking the lynching ter- n of United States imperialism. Thedemonstration was led by the Cermen Young Communist League. The powerful German Communist (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Foreign News Briefs . DESTROYERS TO NORWAY STRIKE. | OSLO, Norway, June 10—Two| | Norwegian destroyers and mine lay- | ers have been sent to Porsgrund to | help break a strike led by Commu- nists. On June 8 over 1,000 strikers | disarmed the police, beat ap many | and drove them out of town. They lice were taken to a hospital, ete! WARSAW STREETCAR STRIKE. WARSAW, Poland, June 10.—A} general strike of street car, motor | bus, and shop repair workes has | been called to resist a speed-up plan | being introduced with the aid of an | American engineer, Wallace Clark, eS hs 36 TO BE TRIED IN MANILA. MANILA, Philippines, June 10— Out of 319 arrested at a Communist demonstration recently 36 are being held for trial. The chief of police, Columbus Piatt, insists that all 319 be tried and jailed. Left to right: Edward Sherwood, 18, of Pittsburgh; Mike Sklorski, 35, of ‘Gilmore; and William Parson, 26, of Slovan. All have been arrested and held without bail. The International Labor Defense is coming to the defense of all miners who are bein; thrown into Pinchot's jails. Great Dageamenton to See Illinois Hungermarchers Off |200 Will Leave from Piicsea: : Peori ia Workers Enthusiastic; Legion and Militia With Aid of A. ¥, of L. Plan “Affair” BULI ROCKFORD, Ill, June 10.—One (So@mau miners, the majority of them unemployed for two or more years, fall $ie hall at Spring Valley last night and unanimously endorsed the Hunger March to the state capitol. They elected five marchers, a committee to secure the smashed the police cars. Twenty po- | Public Square to greet the marchers on Saturday. Washington Park was secured for a meeting at Peru, Ul. Peoria officials, after much passing of the buck, have given the marchers the Court House Square for nine o'clock Sunday morning. But after con- sulting A. F. of L, officials, the city authorities say: “No meals and no lodgings and no speeches.” The Peoria unemployed are enthusiastic, and a big turnout is ex- pected. There is a baby parade on Saturday and the Militia, Legion and Elks are gathering for a reproduction of “The Siege of 1918,” on Sunday night. Telegraphic protests are pouring in upon the mayor. . . CHICAGO, June 9.—A great demonstration of Chicago's unemployed will give a fitting send-off to the Chicago route of the Illinois Hunger March, on Saturday, June 18th, at 9 o’clock in the morning. The demonstration will take place at Ogden Ave., and Kolin (4833 Ogden Ave.) near the Chi- cago-Cicero boundary. \Foster Tells of Strike of 20,000 Coal Miners Spreading; Fight On in Face of Difficulties Close to 200 marchers with banners calling for unemploy- ment insurance, immediate re- lief, repeal of the sedition Jaws, equal rights for Negroes, etc. will be the center of the demonstra- By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 9. — As I write this, the coal siri!:e continues Air Forces of the imperialist Wash- ington government is hardly over, when the announcement comes of preparations already started for an- other air war next year, with the U.S. Navy putting up a fight in de- fense. This battle between the bomb- ing planes and the U.S. Navy will be conducted at Camp Knox, Ken- tucky, with the anti-air craft weap- ons concentrated at this point from many forts. War is uppermost in the minds and plans of the Wall St. government, declares the Communist Party call to all workers organiza- working class must seize the present breathing spell to mobilize and or- ganize its forces against the bosses war plans and the attack against the Soviet Union which challenges the foundations of the bosses capi‘- alist system of robbery and exploii- ation of the workers. All working class organizations, shops, unions and fraternal bodies are urged to place the June 25 Conference on the | 80n® out. agenda and to elect delegates im- mediately, forwarding their names to spread. There are already about 20,000 miners on strike, and the num- ber constantly increases. Every day new mines are added, to those al- ready out. Now the committee is taking steps to spread the struggle into Chio’and West Virginia. The workers there are in a strong mood for strike. Already some mines have, Conferences, mass meet- ings are being arranged. The strike wave spreads south and west. to the Communist Party headquar-|/ This is a strike’ against starvation. in the mines ee Sonics ashe mines vers. 35 Bast 12 Street, Sth a sa have simply | the revolutionary become unbearable and the workers are in a state of revolt. Unemploy- ment is about fifty percent, and those’ who have jobs work a couple of days a week. The miners are refus- ing to starve. In the face of a thou- sand difficulties they are drawing their forces together in a desperate struggle against the operators and famine conditions. Bosses Fear Miners’ Militancy. The capitalist. press is fully aware of the vital |significance of this strike. They see the wonderful mil- itancy of the workers and they don't fail to note the meaning of these workers following the Isadership of y_ Ngfesna] Miners Miners Union, These papers reflect the Great alarm of the capitalists of this vicinity at the rapid spread and un- paralelled militancy of this strike, In the face of thousands, of state police, coal and iron police, deputy sheriffs and gun men of every de- scription, the workers advance mil- itantly with the spreading of the great strike. The whole body of workers here—steel, etc—are great- ly aroused by this strike. The un- employed miners are showing real militancy. U. M. W. A. Strikebreaker. The strike is developing clearer than ever the strike-breaking char- moter of the U. MW. A The: are depending on this organization, together with the mass of |armed thugs, to break the strike. tion, but all unemployed branches and other organizations, as well as masses of unorganized unemployed i oa and employed workers, will gather plan {s, while terrorizing N. M. U. Picketters, to engineer some sort of fake settlement thru the UMWA and then try to force the workers to ac- cept it. The whole local press unite in one chorus with the slogan “Why not revive the UMWA?” On all sides the propaganda is made that this organization must be rebuilt or the coal operators will have a real union to contend with. The big fly in the ointment, how- ever, for them in this plan is that (CONTINUED UN PAGH DHREE) to give a rousing send-off to the Hunger March, which has already captured the attention of workers all over the state. Negro and white, American and foreign-born, men and women, old and young, will moke up the March, which will be captained by members of the Ex-Servicemen’s League. As Chicago’s Marchers gather other sections of the March will also be on their way—Southern route, leav- ing Eldorado on June 11, B. S| and slightly wounded this afternoon (Wednesday) when fired upon by deputy sheriffs at the Kinloch mine All three were treated at the Citizens General Hospital, New Kensington.” A group of scabs were stoned as ther were be- ing driven to the Kinloch mine. A number of deputic: tried to arrest the pickets. Failing in this they fired with shotguns and_pistots. Three men fell. near here. PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 10.— Three Kinloch mine pickets were shot this afternoon by pistols and shotguns fired by deputies who were following a truckload of scabs. Wal- ter Galbski was shot in the leg; An- drew Janis was shot in the hand and Martin Savo was shot through the chest. 3 PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 10:—This morn- ing 200 struck at the Melrose Mine of the South Fayette Coal Co. 200 struck at the Char- tiers Mine in Green County. Sheriff Duff of Belmont County, Ohio, and deputies broke up a march of over one thousand on the Fairpoint Mine of the Hannah Coal Co. Mass picketing is going on at three more Ohio mines in an effort to add them to the strike. Yesterday 50 pickets from the Unemployed Council stopped all but one of 20 jobless miners brought from Connarsville to Penn-Yough Commissary on Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh; and one hundred joined the Council at mass meetings. Penn- Yough handles the scabs for nearby coal mines. Today 300 jobless picketed. the same place. A riot squad attacked and in the melee plate glass windows were smashed. Successful picketing is going on at all Pennsylvania mines that tried to work this morning. The Strike is solid and will spread. Four machine guns were mounted at the entrance to the Crescent imine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. Deputies THREE) (CONTINUED ON PAGE route on June 13. All routes will meet at Springfield on June 14, when a state-wide con- ference of worker and farmer organ- izations will take place. At this con- ference final demands to be presented to the legislature will be decided on. On Monday, June 15, a mass dem~- onstration will take place in front of the Capitol and the demands of the Louis | Marchers will be placed oa