The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1931, Page 1

\" TOW CAN ANY ONE RE 3 ; ee ih tam >) )TONGRY IN THY GREAT, 5 starvine( ( SORTER OF ~y— SURG THAT £ HAVE Peenrry, ‘TION OF THE CO Pee SER Munit MMUNIST INTERNATIONAL a J Party U. S.A. ) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! at New York, N.Y. ‘Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office under the act of March 4, 1879 "NEW. YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931 Cc ITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DQ 000 NOW OUT; MINE STRIKE CONTINUES TO SPREAD War and Peace HERE is much fuss in the capitalist papers just now about the desire of European “Allied” nations to demand a reduction of the war debts they owe the United States, supposedly to allow the German capitalists lighter payments ‘on “war reparations” on the theory that the German capitalists will thus not rob the German workers so outrageously as to cause these workers to rise in revolution. There are broad hints from Washington that appear to promise some relief on the war debts—providing, it is said, that “Europe disarms”, Workers must know that this whole thing is a piece of hypocrisy on both sides. The “allies”, most particularly France, are anxious enough to get a reduction of their war debt, but have no intention of reducing their demands on vanquished Germany. Again, if capitalist Germany were relieved of some of the reparations payments, the German capitalists would not secure better conditions and higher wages to German workers—only a working-class revolution will do that, Five Year Pian Is Possible Only Because Workers Rule Couniry ™ But the prince of hypocrites is imperialist America, for by hinting | that if its imperialist rival, England, will disarm, “something might be done” about war debts, American imperialism pretends that this will “assure yorld peace”, when as a matter of fact it is simply a scheme to disarm its rival for world trade and colonial domination (England) as a step to making war to win these objectives. The N. Y. Times of June 9, editorially commenting on these maneuv- ers, spills the beans by remarking “It has always been perceived that the debt agreements place in the hands of the United States a great bargaining power.” But adding the hypocrisy: “This may yet be used in order to strike a bargain for world peace with sccurity.” The coal miners of Western Pennsylvania are learning that Amer- ican capitalism's pretensions about desiring “peace” does not mean peace for the working class. about “disarmament” and “peace”, American capitalism was waging war and spilling the blood of the miners in Western Pennsylvania! Even the N. Y. Times which printed the above palaver about “world peace”, had to print on page 21 (war against the workers is unim- portant to capitalist papers!), a story of battle and bloodshed of which the following is an excerpt “Bricks, sticks and stones came from the mob and the police replied with tear-gas bombs (of course the~“Fimes lies, the police opened the battle—Editor). A gray cloud settled over both sides. Although half-blinded by tears, the mob advanced until the vanguard was almost against the barricade. Screaming women urged on the attackers. Many children of 15 or less took part.” Workers! Hoover's program for “disarmament” is not effective in Pennsylvania! The Coal and Iron Police, as murderous a lot of cut- throats as ever walked, are armed with machine guns and tear gas, re- volvers and shotguns, clubs and rifles and sent out to shoot down the miners, to make war against women and children who can no longer endure starvation! Hoover's “peace” is not meant for the workine clos aud ‘ais sup- posed “opponent”, Governor Pinchot, who promised to abolish the Coal and Iron Police allows these thugs to club and shoot the miners at will, for the benefit of the coal operators! aivery v rker throughout America should rush to the aid of the heroic miners, and their brave and battling wives and children! Relief and still more relief musi aid them; and strikes and still more strikes against wage cuts must show American capitalism that the workers re- fuse to starve even while working! More, the lesson must be learned that only by going beyond the strike, victorious though it may be, onward to the revolution and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, can the work- ers be really assured peace, Away With Doubt and Pessimism ! 1F any had doubted—and some have!—that the Daily Worker and the Communist Party of which it is the central organ, is rooted deep in the hearts of the American workers, they should have seen what hap- pened here at t®® @fice when last Saturday the New York City and neighboring workers learned that the Daily, their Daily, was really in danger. In a constant stream, the workers came from near and far—some from out of the city. They came to offer their dollars, their dimes and even their pennies to save their Daily Worker! Old and young, Negro and white,’ .reign-born and typical native American, hastening to the rescue! All day Saturday and Sunday they came, hundreds of them. They \ is) Wi ‘or their Daily Worker, to bring them one by one. A great majority had never before visited the Workers’ Center. Hun- dreds of them have never or rarely attended Communist meetings. The most of them were not members of the Communist Party, though, these, too, came with the results of their collections for the Daily. They were workers, taxi-drivers and teachers, plumbers and clerks, some recruits and some veterans of the class struggle—a few touched with tears of anxiety lest their aid be too late. All so devoted that— knowing that the sending of help by mail would take a long two days “wer the week end, they came personally and immediately. Let those few in our ranks who harbor a touch of pessimism, who lare to doubt that the Daily Worker and the cause for which it stands, inds a response in the American working class, hang their heads in ! ; Let us see no more shrugging of shoulders at the supposed “back- wardness” of the mass of workers! He who has no faith in the masses is no revolutionist! : “Faith in the creative forces of the masses,” says Comrade Stalin, “constitutes that peculiarity in Lenin's activities which en- abled him to grasp the meaning of working class movements and direct their coutse into the channels of the proletarian Revolution. tr Every Communist, every reader of the Daily Worker, should take in deep seriousness the lesson taught by these workers who proved by deeds their devotion to the Daily Worker, which each day reaches tens of thousands with the message of Leninism, with guidance in the strug- gle and hope in its future. 4 And in every organization, particularly we would say, in the forma- tion of Daily Worker Ciubs, let. everyone who has a fear of the masses, who holds a doubt of their creative force, who adopts a snobbish atti- tude toward them, get rid of such baggage! And let the free and in- dependent initiative of the masses develop with no mechanical hobbles in the support, through their own Dally Worker Clubs, of their own id not need the motive force of a mass, but only their own deep love | _ Paper! ee | ious scheme to blow | they grant prize: | While all the columns of ink were being spilled | sor their products. Against it escaped de-| machinery to w generates from Soviet prison camps are trans-| jn order to pr | formed into sainted martyrs and their lies arel are owned by spread as infallible revelations from capitalist | gods. | the capitalist or Now what, really, is this insidious thing | jliars, to their Hillquits and their | rallied to save the lives of stronghold, Harlan, Kentucky. The previous article déalt with the military ef- forts made by American capitalism to* overthrow the Soviets after the 1917 revolution, But the sup- port of the Soviets by the Russian masses defeated , social system . these efforts. Then the capitalists waited for a | all the natural “natural” collapse of the Soviets, Instead of col- | tural oil, metal lapsing, the Soviets, however, advance and are | factories and a building socialism. at is why the capitalists again prepare a military attack against the So- | viet Union. ‘The anti-Soviet poison spread by Knickerbocker, Hillquit and Fish, are preparing the minds of the American masses for this war. Car aa jas a whole. Wi | not. feed, | Capitalism, the prevailing social order, based on private property. private property. | things are indispensable necessities for society clothe and house itself. capitalism these natural resources are not ex-| Under capitalism | resources, all land, all the na- and mineral deposits, all the ll means of transportation are All of these privately-owned ciety can-| Yet under | thout these things as MI. THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN ploited and these factories are not operated | By MAX BEDACHT. |for the good of society as a whole. Their 1 \primary purpose is not to feed and to clothe According to the capitalists and their news| and to house society. They are operated for Wolls, the | ive-Year Plan of the Soviet Union is a nefar- | up America. Against it | end promotion for every | journalistic anathema. Against it capitalist | police commissioners protect forgers and spon- | owners. Aside from tl there are num own nothing b called the Five-Year Plan? In order to under- | stand the Five-Year Plan we have to make a | little excursion into the realm of sociolog; | they need to liv The Russian Revolution is a social avail: | ing approximat tion; it aims at a-fundamental. change. of the! conditions that The capitalists hire workers (CONTINUED profit and for the enrichment of their private | | he comparatively few capitalists erous workers. These workers ut their ability to work. All the natural resources and the factories and the | hich their labor must be applied | ‘oduce their necessities of life the capitalists. Therefore the| worker is forced to sell his labor power to} to starve. | only under the} they produce much more than} e while receiving wages cover- | ely only their needs. The dif- PAGE THREE) Illinois Hunger Marchers to Arrive at Springfiela on Sunday at 1 P. M. Engdahl Back jrom Kentucky ’ Calls for Defense of Striking Miners Facing Death Sentence tempt of the bosses to railroad the Speaking of the struggle, Engdahl says: NEW YORK.—“Just as the work-, evs and poor farmers of the nation | strikers. the 16 RRC ean Coos #22] “The courts, the police, ey must rally again as they strug- ? gle to cheat the electric chair at) °° inty governments, with the state ‘dering out its militia, the sheriffs | | Scottsboro, to free also nearly 100) coal miners, union officials, strikers, | °f Harlan and Bell Counties deputiz- sympathizers—from the death sen-|!"& thugs. bootleggers and rum run- | tences or long prison terms threat-| CFS a8 deputy sheriffs, all on the| ening them in the mine barons'| Sid° of the mine owners, indicate the ». | Wide mobilizations secured by the | of g,| great coal and steel interests, r6oted | Louis Engdahl, general secretary of in Wall Street, against the miners. the International Labor Defense, on| “Open war, with the state militia | his return from Harlan, Ky., where| with all modern war equipment, the | the starving miners are heroically | deputized thugs furnished with ma- | resisting the brutal onslaughts of| chine guns and high powered rifles, the mine bosses and the machinery | shooting dum dum or mushroom bul- of the state mobilized to break their| lets, that tear and rend human} strike against starvation wages. flesh, leaving wide-gaping, ghastly Engdahl visited the arrested strik- | wounds, eviction of miners from ers in prison. The prisoners gladly|their homes, wholesale imprison-| accepted the proferred aid of the|ments—these are the methods of the | I. L, D. in fighting aga: the at-| money oligarchy in Kentuc! local and | This was the declaration “Mobilize to jiu Mine Strike Relief,” Says an. Le Re NEW YORK.—“Immediate relief for the 20.000 militant, battling coal miners of Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, so that the strug- gles of the bitterly expioited m‘nc-s and their families can be further strengthened against the coal bosses and their Coal and Iron Police, against starvation and wage cuts, is the purpose for which the Workers International Relief is mobilizing its relief forces,” reads in part, the ap- peal broadcast today by the WIR. ‘This is an immediate response to the plea for immediate aid sent out. by the Miners Relief Comm‘tte> from ils headquarters, 611 Penn Ave., Pitts- burgh, Pa. The National Office of the WIR, from its new headquarters, 799 Broad- way, New York City. sent the follov- the widest mass support of relief for the battling miners and their families in their hour of fight, or- ganizing all sympathetic Mass or- ganizations, workers’ clubs and fra- ternal bedics, sympathetic workers and small shop keepers for the gathering of food, clothing and funds, for immediate consignment to your relief headquarters at Pitts- burgh.” N. Y. WIR Mobilizes for Action ‘The first direct answer to the trai- torous policies of the United Mine Workers of America leadership in the raging mine warfare, by unanimous endorsement of the relief plans of the united front N.M,U. and W.LR. Relief Committee at Pittsburgh was given last night by the conference called by the New York District WiR | to which ¢oele: ef trade unions ing wire of solidarity to the Min: Relief Comnjittee endorsing their united front of the National Miners Union and the WIR. organized against mine bosses starvation pol- icies and terror: “We are rallying all our forces throughout the nation in effecting fraternal organizations and workers’ clubs pledged the widest support for the children’s camp established at Wingdale, N. Y. for the purpose of taking care of striking miners’ chil- dren strikers’ children generally, Mass Far ewell For Chi-) cago Group Sat. BULLETIN. CHICAGO, IIL, routes of the Illinois State Hunger March will arrive at 1 o'clock on | Sunday at Reservoir Park, Spring- | field, for a mass reception. The | Chicago marchers will be given a | mass farewell demonstration on | Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at | the corner of Ogden and Kolin Sts. A telegram demanding the legisla- ture meet Monday was sent today foliowing the wire from David Shanahan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, stating that a | Monéay session was “improbable.” A wire was also sent to Governor Emmerson demanding housing for the entire delegation, — j eae ROCKFORD. IIl., June 11.—Prepar- ations for the Illinois State Hunger | | March are moving along swiftly here. A series of open air meetings, leaflet distributions, and speakers to work- ing class organizations is preparing | the ground for a big sendoff demon- stration Saturday morning, June 13) at 8 o'clock, corner of Broadway and | 8th St. In the meantime scounts sent out South to prepare the route report mass meetings arranged for the | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FORCE RELEASE 50 YOUNGSTOWN YOUNG VICTIMS YOUNGSTOWN, 0. O., June 11,—Un- der pressure of the tremendous “out- door mass demonstration against police brutality recently held here with Wm. Z. Foster, the police re- leased fifty young workers held in prison on blanket charges of “incit- ing to riot.” The trial of eight young workers, variously charged with “incitement to violence” to “intent to kill” is now going on, with Yetta Land as de- fense attorney. The murdercus assault of the po- | licemen upon the roung participants in the National Youth Day demon- stration had aroused a high tide of resentment against the city adminis- tration. ‘The bosses are seeking to quiet the feelings against them, but .at the THREE) children of the unemployed as well as children of employed workers. same time to get vengeance upon the eight they had selected June U.—All five |]. ‘Continue Hearing Tomorrow 2,500 SAID TO BE OUT IN OHIO; 730 | MORE STRIKE TODAY IN PENNA; SCORE GOVERNOR'S SECRET “INVESTIGATION” alse Confidence! This is the rock on which many hopeful enterprises have foundered. And false con- fidence is now threatening the Daily Worker. The crucial financial storm which a few days ago cut the size of the Daily in half and nearly sank it altogether was weathered because of the splendid rescue work of thousands of workers. But the re- appearance of the four-page Daily caused a certain lull in activities. A danger signal! Yes, more funds are being raised now than at the beginning of the drive, but we fell so far behind that the accumulation of press- ing debts is now threatening to snuff out the Daily. We had to go to a two-page Daily be- cause the paper company refused to give us any more paper unless we paid them a sub- Stantial amount on account.. But we still owe $8,500. Any day the company may cut off our paper supply and sue us for this debt. .Under the circumstances no other firm would serve us with paper. The Daily Worker has continued to live thus far because the workers of this coun- try Roe decided that it must live.. But un- less you increase your efforts TODAY and EVERY DAY for the duration of the drive. our creditors are going to decide otherwise. That meens: contribute every possible cent today! If you have already contribut- ed, do so again! That means: get after your shopmates, your friends and oresnizztions. That means: brine your fellow-workers and other sympathetic eic ents torcther in Daily’ Worker Clubs to funciion not only now, but permanently. No false confidence! Sneed those dol- ‘ars, quarters, dimes, nickels at once to the ailv Worker, 50 EB. 13th St.. N. Y. City! on ILD Motions for New Trials. for the Nine Scottsboro Youths CHATTANOOGA, June 11.—The hearing on the motions filed by the International Labor Defense attorneys for new trials in the case of all nine of the Scottsboro Negro, boys will ke continued this Saturday before Judge J. A. Hawkins, in Scottsboro, Ala. The hearing, which opened on June 5, was continued by the judge to permit the I. L. D. attorneys and tha. state |that Pickens did not go far enough in his treachery t 0 the Negro people and in his abject crawling to the white ruling class. Tbe Times cen- sures him for even the mIM manner prosecutor to file additional|' Which he questioned the fairness ; of the farcial first “trial” in Scotts- aMidavits and counter-aMdavits 31) toro, Alabama, at which eight of the | nine children were sentenced to burn in the electric chair. Says the Times: “It is regrettable that Dr. Pick- In the meantime, the Chattanooga Times continues its vicious attack on the fight to save the lives of the nine boys. Editorially declaring that | day. | 2,500 out in the Ohio strike, ange March On Wash’ton County Tuesday |Another Miner Shot | Rebiet Goniniiioc’ Borie In Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 11.— Three hun- dred men struck at the ‘East Millsbury Mine yesterday. Today at the | Davis Co. Elizabeth mine 100 men went out 'on strike; at the Spears 'Co. Tremont Mine, 80 ‘struck; at the Renton +Mine, 250 went out. '100 are still at work at Ren- Another ton, but they are expected out soon. Two thousand massed on the picket lines at the Wardan Mine. Few scabs entered yester- They were stopped today. Fourteen state police at Ne searched the whole picket line fieli and | allowed only ten to picket, only one to speak to scabs. A Negro miner. name unknown, was arrested at Kin- loch yesterday. A miner was shot while bending over trying ta revive a tear-gassed child of a family pas- sing on the road. Another sectional Relief Commit- | tee was formed in Pittsburgh. An intensive House-to-House Campaign starts on Saturday for relief. There will be a tag day on Sunday. The miners will take part. There will be a hunger march on Washington County next Tuesday, but not in Fayette. The injunction hearing has been postponed’ to Mon- | day. The capitalist press says there are The lat- | est count of the National Miners Union shows 22,000 are out on strike | now altogether. (Additional News on Page 3.) PROTEST HUNGER DECREES IN GERMAN CITIES Associated Press dispatches from Berlin tell of severe fighting in many | German cities when police attacked Communist demonstrations against the Bruening “hunger decrees.” On the return of Chancellor Bruening from London, the Communist Party called for demonstrations against the $100,000,000 tax decree, falling mainly on the backs of the workers. In Mannheim barricades were erected against police attacks. In Kassel a policeman was killed when he shot at a crowd of workers. In Frankufort-on-Main and Gel- senkirchen police had great difficul- ty in smashing demonstrations in the workers quarters. Workers marched through the streets in dozens of cities sholting: “Down with the Bruening dictatorship!” A tremendous popular resentment against. the...Bruening™” goveriiment and its “hunger decrees” is spreading throughout. Germany. SHIPOWNERS IN WAR MOVE, “Southern people would do well to heed the warning of Dr. William Pickens,” the Times yesterday rend-| ered the thanks of the southern boss lynchers to Pickens for his traitor- ous speech in Chattanooga last Sun- day. This boss paper protests, however, service of warning against the Communist menace without adding his contribution to the total of ill- advised remarks about the Scotts- boro case.” To make its meaning quite clear, | | ens was not able to p erform the | (OONTINUED OX PAGR THERE The Baltic International Maritime Conference, an association of large ship owners, sent 2 letter to British shipbuilders and the government not to grant the Soviet Union long-ternt credit for ships built in Britain and that shipbuilders should + not build iis gh for Soviet” Bausaia’ de :