The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY JUN IN SOVIET UNION TO REBUILD INDUSTRIES pay DESTROYED BY WAR; SPREAD STREAM OF LIES (CONTI \UEO FROM PAGE ONE) to an inglorious retreat. Invasion and coun- ter-revolution were defeated. Kolchak, Deni- kin and all the other pets and white hopes of the capitalist government in Washington were pushed off Russian soil and in some instances off the face of the earth by the victorious Soviets. Capitalism however, had another trump card. The Soviets intended to get along with- out. the capitalists. They wanted to build So- cialism. That, the capitalists were sure, was impossible. They contended that if the capi- talists are not allowed to levy a tribute on all productive work in society in the form of fat profits, society cannot endure. Such an emi- nent capitalist prophet and engineer, for in- stance, as Herbert Hoover, at present chief crusader against “Soviet dumping,” declared in March, 1921: “Under their (the Soviets) economic system . . . there can be no real return to productign in Russia, and there- fore Russia will have no considerable commo- dities to export and, consequently, no great ability to obtain imports.” With such advice to guide them, and with their invasion and blockades defeated, the capitalists waited for the “natural” collapse of the Soviets. The Triumphant Soviet Power Expands. Meanwhile the Soviet Republic had become a Union of Soviet Republics. Soviets in Si- beria and in the Ukraine, Soviets in Georgia and in Armenia, Soviets in Turkestan and in the Crimea, were united into a Union of So- dialist Soviet Republics (the USSR), with a territory covering one-sixth of the globe. That did not at all look like a collapse. In 1921 the capitalists thought that a ray of hope was breaking thru the bleak skies of near-| ly 4 years of uninterrupted Soviet rule in Russia The New Economic Policy (NEP) was initi- ated. Here, the capitalists declared jubilantly, finnally was the collapse of Communism. At/ last capitalism was coming into its own again in Russia. But—somehow it did not work out that way. Instead of collapse came progress. Instead of the waning of the power of the Soviets came its rapid growth of strength. Instead of in- dicating a turn back toward capitalism, the NEP turned out to be another relay on the road to socialism. Finally the Soviets grafted upon the New Economic Policy a Five-Year Plan of indus- trial construction and collectivization of agri- culture. The Soviets began to advance toward Socialism with seven-mile boots. Now suddenly the propaganda of the cap- italists changed. For years they cried them- selves hoarse with: “Down with the Soviets, because they can never succeed.” Now, they began crying: “Down with the Soviets, because they do succeed.” But, “Down with the Sov- iets” it remained. Why this change? Why today this unpre- cedented campaign against the Soviets be- cause of their evident success after the previ- ous campaign was so long based upon the con- tention that they could not succeed? Why do today capitalist generals and admirals, capital- ist politicians and socialists, capitalist scribes and professors, capitalist popes and ministers, capitalist Wolls and Fishes, join their voices inthe common cry—‘“Down with the Soviets”? Why this seeming hysteria? Isn’t there method in this madness? Capitalist Crisis Kills Workers Capitalist Illusions. At this moment and for some time past ‘American capitalism is shaken by a deep crisis. There are too many commodities. Consequent- ly the factories stop producing more, or, at least: raduce their output. Because of this millions of workers, who themselves with their families depend on jobs for their livelihood, are deprived of their jobs. They cannot get enough of the necessities of life because there are too many of them. This is not lunacy— it is a fact—it is capitalism. The workers be- | an to think. They witness the transformation ie THOUGHT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR MASSES of capitalist democracy into fascism. They see the oat of socialism in the Soviet Union. They watch the revolts of colonial masses. They witness their impoverization under capi- talism. They cannot help seeing the evidences of capitalist rule in America and of workers rule in the Soviet Union, Their confidence in capitalism begins to waver. Instead they develop confidence in the powers of the work- ing class. Thus the Soviet Union commits two crimes against capitalism. First, by its very existence and progress and socialist growth it impresses the workers with the fact that socialism is a better social order than capitalism. Second, by the fact that the success of the Soviet Union is achieved by a workers’ government confidence is created in the minds of the work- ers in the powers of their own class. This self-confidence inspires resistance to wage cuts, struggle for unemployment relief, workers’ of- fensive against rationalization. In addition to these two crimes the capital- ists cannot forgive the Soviet Government that it prevents them from squeezing profits out of the 150 million Russian people and that it keeps them from exploiting the natural wealth and resources of one-sixth of the globe. The situation therefore is that the workers get more and more dissatisfid with capitalism in America, while the American capitalists get more and more hopeless about the collapse of socialism in Russia. The workers get ever more ready to fight wage cuts, unemployment and even capitalism itself; and the capitalists get ever more and more frantic about the neces- sity of fighting and defeating the Soviet Union. Hillquit and Fish Are Decoys for Capitalist Robbers. It is in this connection that we can analyze the hysteric ravings of Hillquit and Fish, of Hoover and Woll, of Knickerbocker and Hasley as a coldly devised, dastardly policy of capital- ism. The American capitalists slash wages. To prevent the workers from revolting against these wage cuts and to prevent them from fighting their capitalist exploiters, Hillquit and Woll try to arouse the workers to a holy capital- ist crusade against the Soviets. American capitalists starve their workers in mass unem- ployment. To prevent the workers from fight- ing against this unemployment and to keep them from revolting against their exploiters, Knickerbocker and Hillquit try to arouse the workers to a holy crusade against the Soviet Union. The American capitalists drive the masses of poor farmers off their farms or turn them into croppers. To prevent these masses of poor farmers from revolting against their capitalist tormentors, Hoover and Hillquit try to arouse them to a’ holy crusade against the Soviet Union. The American capitalists have their hands in the pockets of the American toilers. Hillquit and Fish, Woll and Knicker- bocker, perform the functions of decoys for confidence-men. They try to draw the atten- tion of the victims from the hands of the pro- fit-picking capitalists by raising the cry of a holy war against the Soviet Union. Woll and Hillquit, Fish and Knickerbocker, are trying to mobilize the American workers to fight for their exploiters and against their Russian fel- low-workers in order to prevent them from do- ing what they must eventuallly do to solve their problem, fighting on the side of their | Russian fellow-workers against their common expoiters, the capitalists. ee 6 The third article in this series will appear in tomorrow’s paper. In this article, Comrade Bedacht explains the basis of the Five-Year Plan preliminary to a discussion of the Plan itself which will be contained in the following article. Every worker will want to read Com- rade Bedacht’s clear and simple analysis of what is behind the epoch-making Five-Year Plan. Be sure to order your copy of tomor- row’s Daily Worker immediately or make ar- rangements to receive the entire series. If you missed yesterday's article, write to the Daily |* Worker, 50 East 18th Street, New oYrk City, for your back copy. ar Tells of Strike of 20,000 Miners “ Spreading: Fight OnInFace of Difficulties, (CONTINUBRD FROM PAGE ONE) any union in this A is badly discredited and mass, basis among the min- this district. Many years of have undermined the cor- outfit among the work- local UMWA fakers overcome this by ex- mass activities. They are up fake locals in yarious of the coal fields. But the refuse to participate. For example in Coverdale the U. M. W. A. set up a “local” consisting of 10 ex-miners working on the county road who were mobilized for the meeting by the local squire and su- perintendent of roads. Similar lo- cals are established elsewhere. ‘The press is doing all possible to assist the UMWA in re-establishing - its shattered ranks by giving it a strong play up in the publicity and making things appear as if it were a leading force in the strike. Never was there a more brazen attempt the bosses to actually build a - breaking organization under guise of a labor union. The near “will certainly bring forth in strike the rankest exhibition of ines conference. i should be reached sible force, i strike. of all our forces. open-strike-breaking ever made by This strike is taking on national Proportions. If there is a successful spread into Ohio and West Virginia, the question will then arise of devel- oping a national movement. may probably necessitate the calling of a national miners convention or Meanwhile the miners of Illinois, Indiana, the Anthracite acquainted with the course ‘and significance of the strug- gle here and stimulated to begin lo- cal struggles. The linking of these together will come with the develop- ment of the national movement. The question of a national struggle of the miners is fully much a question of forces on our part. are ready for struggle. problem is to reach them soon enough to bring them into this spreading To rouse the miners of the other districts must not be left to the N. M. U. alone, In the meantime relief organiza- tions and collections must be started everywhere. The miners were starv- ing even before the strike, | Dangerous to Neglect ' pains in Bladder and Kidneys Heed the warning of burning pains setilgee rearaie cbleaaes kid- ney weakness. Doctors warn against be ary and advise action to prevent us trouble. For ae relief, ask your druggist for the remedy used for Ne Santal Midy The DAILY WORKER Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For information Write to Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. country. This wom with every pos- New York City The miners The great their support is imperative. A flood of food, clothing, money must be poured in here. Send all donations to the Pennsylvanian Striking min- ers Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., That is the job | pittsburgh, Bulld a Worcorr Group in your w | shopt Write About your struggles! fy ial f banished forever. PAGE UNE) (CONTINUED FROM at the Montour Mine drove all wo- men and children from the mass picket lines at 10 o’clgck this morn- ing. The women and children then formed their own picket line thirty yards ahead of the men and con- tinued to picket. Several picket lines were over one thousand strong. The Butler Consolidated Co. ap- plied for an injunction against the National Miners Union yesterdya. Judge Samuel Gardner rejected it on the ground that no individuals were named. ‘This morning the company applied again, naming Kemenovich. A hear- ing has been set for this afternoon. Governor Pinchot announces that an investigation will be undertaken mines. ‘The following is a practically com- | plete tabulated list of the mines on | strike and the number of men in- volved.’ The total is 19,595 men out on strike. There are a number of small mines which are not tabulated here that are involved in the strike: Valley Camp Coal Co., Soudan and Kinlock mines, 400 men out; Pitts- burgh Terminal Co., Mine No. 2. Castle Shanon Mine 3 at Mollenauer, Mine 4 at Horning. Mine 7 at Large, Mine 8 at Coverdale, Mine 9 at Avella. In this 6 mines 2.400 men out; Hillman Coal Co., Moffat-Ster- line mine at Point Marion and Gib- son Mine at Bentleyville, 600 men out; Pittsburgh Coal Co. Montour 10 at Library, 1,600 men out; Y and © Manifold mine, 250 men out; Car- negie Coal Co, Atlasburg, Cedar Grove & McDonald mines, 1,100 men out; McClain Coal Co. Rich Hill] mine at Meadowlands, 150 men out; Washington Coal and Gas Co,, Tyler Mine, 250 men out; Langeloth Che- mical Works, Lahgeloth Mine, 300 men out; Vaeldo Coal Co., Gilmore mine at Venetia, 150 men out; Bertha Consumers Coal Co., Bertha Mine at of the strike and conditions in the} More Ohio fies Join Striker | Deputies Shoot Three Burgettstown, 300 men out; Avella Coal Co. Dequesne mine at Avella, 300 men out; Burgettstown Coal Co., Burgettstown Mine, 60 men out; Chartiers Creek Coal Co., Buffalo | Mine at Cannonsburg, 230 men out; Poland Coal Co., Poland Mine near Point Marion, 50 men out; Francis Mine at Burgettstown, 120 men out; Jefferson Gas and Coal Co., Jeffer- son mine near Avella, 80 men out; Driftwood Mine, Brownsville, 120 men vE 11, 1931 ROH eral e THE NEW RULERS Two workers checking up on earth testis on their own land, from which | Clyde, 300 men out; Charleroi near | Bentleyville Y and O, 300 men out; | Lincoln Gas and Coal Co. Lincoln | Hill near Washington, 500 men out; Butler Consolidated Coal Co. Wild- | wood mine near Etna, 300 men out; Pittsburgh Coal Co. Westland Mine, 1,400 men out; Bethlekem Steel Co., Ellsworth mine near Bentleyville, 900 men out; Pittsburgh Coal Co., Price- dale ynine, 250 men out; Union Colli- eries, Newfields mine, 400 men out; Hillman Coal Co., Barking mine. 400 men out; Pittsburgh Coal Co., Cres- cent mine, 1,000 men out; Hannah | Coal Co, 2, Pincy Fork, Ohio, 300 men | out; Hannah Coal Co., Dillonvale, | Ohio, Mine 1, 400 men out; Bain- bridge, Ohio, 60 men out; Creighton Fuel Co. at Creighton, 75 men out; ‘Tremont Coal Co., at Fayette City, 80 men out; Tillman Coal Co., Ella mine, 300 men out; Pgh Coal Co. Warden mine, 500 men out; Renton | papers stat Cleveland - dealings in the crash of t mt i. bay pred ae | ates in New Sori +. Racheff, Cleveland | of United States in New York. with | (pte Clevelona over $200,000,000 involved and 400,900 bitsks, Cleveland eek 2 aC: . Tamkel, Cleveland .... depositors who for over 7 months! sy yitistein, Clewel: Union Colleries, 500 men out; Ukon, | 200 men out; Pinney Fork, Ohio, 900 men out; Melrose Mine, South Fay- ette Coal Co., 200 men out; Char+ tiers Mine, Greene County, 200 men | out. Total 19,595 men out, (CONTINUED FROM PAGH ONE) prees has been carrying on a sys- tematic exposure and attack on the Scottsboro frame-up and the lynch- ing terror generally. Tens of thou- sands of Gernian workers. rallied by the Communis‘s, are joining mass fight begun in the United States by the Communist Party of the U. 5. A. to smash ithe hideous frame-up and free the boys. . . NEW YORK.—The capitalist New York Times and the New York Eve- stration felt it necessary to add a feotnote to the story in which they repeated the vicious framed up slan- der of rape egeinst the boys. Pera Soviet Workers in Protest. CHICAGO, June 10.—The Chicago Daily News has published the fol- iowing communication from its Mos- cow correspondent in connection with the p'ciest movement in the Soviet Union egainst the Scottsooro Treen verdicts: Under the(slogan, “The revolution- ary youth of the world must save the eight condemned Alabama Ne- eroes from the electric chair,” Kon- somol (Communist youth) organiza- tions are meeting and passing reso- lutions of protest against the Amer- ican verdict and pledging to increase their membership here. “The fear of an increase in the veorld revatutionary movement has thrown the puppets of the bour- vee'sie into abject terror,” says a reselytion of the young Communist eos '=ation of the central area and the hydrodrynamic institute. “Dhev are trying through the legal lynching of eight young boys, Negroes, who are guilty only he- cause they are Negroes and en- slaved, to stop the revolutionary movement of American Negroes and compel the laboring Negro the | uing Post in reporting the demon-| mame to sesept mbberable Uvipg | German Workers Protest Scottsboro Outrage Before Dresden Amer. Consulate | conditions. The attack must he | repulsed by the international proletariat and the growing Amer- | ican Communist Party.” Another resolution couched along the same lines calls on the revolu- | tionary youth of the world to save the Negroes from the electric chair | land raise “a wave of raging pro-| list which will stop the hands of | | the executioners.” . | Charlotte Ministers Alliance Support Fight For Boys. | CHARLOTTE, N.C, June 10.— | Under the préssure of the Negro |masses militantly rallying to the fightto save the nine Scottsboro boys, the Inter-denominational Ministers | Alliance of Charlotte voted to join |the United Front Scottsboro Com- mittee initiated by the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The vote was made after a stormy tustle be- tween the smaller preachers who are nearer to the masses and the leading bureaucracy of big preach- ers. The vote followed an appeal by D. Doran for the nine boys. The president of the Alliance and the big preachers tried in every way to prevent Doran from talking, final- ly consenting to give him just 3 or 4 minutes to talk on the fight to save the nine boys. Doran exposed the legal frame-up and pointed out the evident success registered by the I. L. D. and the L. 8S. N. R. in forcing the granting of a new hearing despite the traitorous tactics of the Negro higher-ups and the white and colored uplifters of several times tried to interrupt the speaker, but the poorer preachers defeated him. A motion to send a protest to the Governor of Alabama was passed almost unanimously in spite of the consternation of the president who will have some e plaining to do to his white masters. the N. A. A.C. P. The president | | walking by | him in with the strikers. to do (SUNDAY AND MONDAY RECEIPTS SAVE DAILY; MUS T KEEP IT UP DISTRICT 3 Louis Singer Philadelphia, Pa.& ected by Ned Baron, Ches- Crnasija Allen, DISTRICT 4 Workers’ Progres- Syraeuse, N.Y +. Buffalo, N.Y by A, Korbel, indi- Pitts the bosses have been 19 BANKS CRASH IN CHICAGO AS BIG ONES “MERGE” | Borko, Clev Unit 12, Clev Alexander, Cleveland . Villie Kesti, Cleveland B. Goodman, Cleveland Fader, Cleveland Shaw, Cleveland Bernzwelg, Clev Epstein, Cleveland Standard Bakery, Clevela 5 Dental Clinie, Cleve: land, Ohio ... |. 7 Stark, Slusarehuk, € Kalinshuk, Capitalist Politician Is| Involved | CHICAGO, banks crashed here Il., June 10.—Over 19 in a few days. : Bennie Rosen: » Cleveland This followed the “merger” of the| M. Hernstel veland First. National Bank. the Foreman- TENT GIR TSENE 87>: rv Claunds, Cleveland . | | of the ls | State Bank a R J.B. K , Cleveland out; Knot Hole mine, Independent] jeaaing emer. | Dickhol sed ed dere company, 70 men out; Henderson-| soy adict Biteasr ot ti : ae cies Npaeteakas S, oh Coa | condition of the Foreman- s. Parke vr "ele veland, s ae, eee eee neae State Bank, due to heavy losses in| N. Pesenm: Ghoveies otetetiindry i (Gose400/suen outs) Enterprise mine) | ‘sat extats toreclogures, Whe “mime bien Seetiee Casa c ¥ and O Coal Co, Meadowland, 350) gory was a qetnutia trioye ta men out; Cokeburg Junction mine,| «0.6 the i 1 Cleveland Sav a te Bank, ele . Fairview, Ohio Kahn & Kahn Co., 350 men out; of the la t banks in Chicago. As | M. uroth, Clevel | Eclipse Gas and Coal Co., Eclipse}, yo} i; eveland . 4 | @ result, 19 banks affiliated with’ tn Norgand, Clevelan miné at Roscoe, 150 men out; Rainey | the Foreman-State closed thetr doors,|.1anda Sala, Cleveland ¢¥, Coal Co., Mines 1, 2 and 3 near A. Romeo, Cleveland ., 5.90) | oan Tee Ym Sarah N fi onevat NEW YORK.—New ‘York financial that the banking dif- ficulties which led the so-called merger of the First National and Foreman-State were so severe t they caused the drop in the stock market on the date the bank merger was announced. Twelve of the banks which their doors were und the control of. John Bain, Sr. South P; Commissioner, and one of the leading grafters in the Republican Party Mainly workers’ savings will be lost in these bank closurt ‘The involve- ment of Bain in these bank crashes | is similar to Tammany Hall's shady the d : Ohio... . Cleveland | have not received their money, Millstein, Clev Cleveland . Klein, Cleveland eitzer, Cleveland, FINE TEXTILE STRIKERS IN BR Mta Sears Valseaniidens « Total Col Arrest 7 i Pick pied ilaaman iS lected at Pyramid Plant ALLENTOWN, Pa., June 10.—Al- lentown police attempted to break the textile strike here by terror and | | victimization. Seven strikers were arrested for picketing the Pyramid| plant. Four strikers were fined $25 and costs or one month in jail; three chkataneeia ra . were fined $10 and costs or five days | P17 TSBURGH. Pa., June 10—*My aaa check-up shows that ninety-five per cent of the miners in this district are in favor of the National Miners Union,” said Emmaline Pitt, U.S Department of Labor “conciliator” to | Frank Borich, secretary of the N. |M.U., William F. Dunne, of the na- | | tional bureau of the Trade Union| ‘The strikers are begining to realize | Unity League, and Vern Smith, pub- | that the police are not on their side | licity director of the N.M.U. The| as the United Textile Union traitors | statement was made in the national | told them at the start of the strike. | office of the union, to which the| The court was crowded. Many wait-|federd@! conciliator came today} ed outside. The strikers booed in| (June 9) court when they heard cops and scabs! She commented on the rithlessness | lie about the strikers under the in-| “the terrible brutality” of the coal| struction of the manufacturers’ at-| and iron police and state troopers, torney. which she stated she had ‘witnessed personally, Monday. She expressed herself as “horri- fied” at the starvation, the disease, and the wretched living conditions in which the miners and their fami- lies were living before the strike started. “The mine owners ought to get all that’s coming to them for their utter inhumanity,” stated Miss Pitt. All this led up’ to her declaration, “Things are very bad, but one man can’t change them.” “No.” Dunne assured her gravely, One young fellow who was fined was not even picketing. He was just and a policeman told him to move on. He was too sick to walk fast enough so the cop pulled Use your Red Shock Troop List every day on your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker. | NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACH: OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR | | Geo. & feoemaker, Seattle, Wash Scatile, Wash. - | VER'S PROGRAM OF ‘WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! 1.06 1.06 1.54 Loe 1.06 106 1.06 Charlie Krusoff Mrs. Hanna Bachko. Mich, Collected Pont Detroit 5.08 by Kay Ha Mich.: t, Mich Detroit tC: roit ch, Detroit Mich S. Mich Mich DISTRICT 8 of Shifress Vest AS. Chicago XXX, Chicago Total Morrisette, Brainard, Meyers Minne: Minneapolis polis » Minneapolis .. r, Minneapolis. . Frank Kubus, Minnenpolls .. Minneapolis ohnson, Minneapolix uk, Minneapolis A Friend, Minneapolix . Erickson, Minneapolis. . Minneapolis . 50 inneapolis .... . Minneapolis , Minneapolis DISTRICT 10 Clyde McCarthy, Nebraska City, Nebraska ‘ Albert Gerling, Madrid, Lown Total DISTRIGD 12 “pistrier 13 sIseo District... 1,00 1.06 1,00 i, Sesaa, San Fra Oaulaua District Total DISTRICT 15 Morrix Kominsty Providence us é Hartford South End Nucleus— G. Pearson Hartford South End Nucleus— A. Dobin Hartford Nucleus Total . DISTRICT 18 H. J. Frenette, Boise, Idaho.. 2.50 DISTRICT 19 Ada Merrian, Denver, Colo 1.00 Roxe Yenheim. Denver, Colo 1.00 Denver District 10, International Workers’ Order, Denver, Colo. ... 3.00 Total 15,00 MISCELLANEOUS — J. Fox, Parkhill, Ontario, padi cates Total, all districts Previously recetved O41 Total . 2. oe ome 810,384.03 Saturday's Omission... 463.74 Total to date. . 810,847.78 Pennsylvania Mine Strikers % I Percent Behind National Miners Union “But the miners together are going to change some of them a little.” The federal conciliator stated that she had not yet been to see District President, Fagan of the United Mine Workers. Dunne told her, “You can | probably find him at his office now, as he was just chased out of Molle- anur by 300 angry miners about an hour ago.” ‘The federal conciliator left with- out a positive declaration that the government wanted to send the min- ers back to work, but issued a gen- eral invitation to the N. M. U. and T.U.ULL. officials to “call her up if there was anything she could do.” In the course of the convention she was assured by all present that the National Miners Union and the district strike committee proposed to deal only directly with the operators, to settle the strike only on the basis of the demands made by the miners and that the press and the mine owners themselves had been officially notified of that policy by the N.M.U. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- HUNGER, Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEK | CAMP NITGEDAIGHT, BEACON, N.Y Enclosed find We pledge to do all in our power | by July 1 PHONE 781 they could in support of the “tight t to 0 | save the boys, and are opening wide their doors to speakers from the I. | De aps Ue LS. Ne Name ... Address MUST HAVE Cut out and mail at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., N SAVE THE DAILY $35,000 Save-The-Daily Worker Fund. 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