The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1931, Page 1

(SECTION OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. VIII, No. 142 at New York, N. ¥., ander the fintered as second-class matter at the Post Office act of March 3, 1879 <>" _NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents : 2,000 Miners---Join the Communist W. FRANKFORT, ILL. MAYOR FORCED TO WITHDRAW BAR TQ HUNGER MARCHERS Start for Springfield from Chtcago On Sat. Expect Over A Thousand In March Commander of State Troopers Sends Telegram | Saying Marchers May Travel Highways Party National Miners Union with its policy of militant struggle against starvation, against wage-cuts, against the coal operators, successfully’ Yeads your present strike /o victory. ‘You. have learned from bitter experience that the U.M.W.A. with its j agents of the coal operators (Fagan, Lewis and their henchmen) have be~ trayed and sold out your interests time and again. Long before the coal operators’ agent Lewis smashed the U.M.W.A. hundreds of miners raised their voices to oust him. These left wing miners were Jed by the Communists. After Lewis and the operators smashed the U.M.W.A. hundreds of miners worked day and nighé to organize the National Miners Union. These rank and file organizers were most of them Communists. During the darkest days of police terrorism, wage-cuts, unemployment, hunger and starvation, hundreds of men in your own ranks worked day and night to keep the National Miners Union in existence, to build it, to prepare it for the present strike. These men were either members of the Communist Party or its close sympathizers. marches, spreading the strike, organizing the union, gathering relief— stand the most advanced, most courageous and self-sacrificing men and women, Among them today are hundreds of Communists. To be a Communist means never to give up the fight for the workers’ interests. Communists are always in the front ranks of every strike, of every struggle to improve the workers conditions. Communists always fight sgainst the enemies of the workers, be they coal operators or their treach- erous agents like Fagan and Lewis. ‘The Communist Party today supports your strike in every coal field and in every factory. The Communist Party is composed of the most advanced and fearless workers whose duty is to take part in the front ranks in every strike and every movement to improve the conditions of the workers. 2 The Communist Party members in the trade unions always fight for the policies that will improve the conditions of the workers. Communist Party members always fight against labor fakers and agents of the bosses. ‘The Communist Party fights against all the bosses government efforts to. oppress the workers. In the struggle against deportation of foreign born workers, the Communist. Party takes the lead. When the white bosses lynch Negro warkers the Communist Party organizes the white and Negro workers to crush the lynchers. The Communist Party always tells the workers when to strike and how best to fight. The Communist Party also teaches the workers that starvation, misery, wars and terrorism that workers must face day after day, can only be overcome and done away with after 2 Workers Government is established in this country. A-workers government such as the Russian and own ‘the mines, mills anid factories and run them for the benefit of workers. ‘The Communist Party calls upon the most advanced coal miners to Join its ranks. The present coal strike will be over. But the fight against the bosses must go on until the capitalist system is overthrown and the workers gcvernment rules this country. ‘Through ‘his strike you can get better shee and unemployment relief, But the strike alone can’t stop aeemtaispnane ‘The strike alone won't abolish the Coal and Iron police and the State ‘Troopers. ‘The strike alone will not remove the coal operators from the control of the government and ownership of the mines. However, this strike is a definite battle in class struggle against all the evils of capitalism. Only 2 revolutionary movement of the working class of the entire country under the leadership of the Communist Party can successfully fight the bosses and their system of starvation. Only the Communist Party can lead the workers against all the evils that you and your fami- us suffer today. Join the Communist Party! COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. For further information about the Communist Party fill out the blank below and mail to us. “Liberal” Lolly-Pops for Starving Miners Tr “Scripps-Howard” chain of newspapers, of which the N. Y. World- Telegram and the Pittsburgh Press are two of more than twenty run by the same owners, make a great pretense at appearing “fair” to the workers. They call themselves “liberal,” and the N. Y. World-Tele- gram occasionally utters pious platitudes recently against wage cuts. “But in.the great battle against starvation by wage cuts being fought by the Pennsylvania miners, the Pittsburgh Press on June 9, reveals what ts behind all these liberal lolly-pops with which the Scripps-Howard papers try to soothe starving workers. So long as the mins operators were “merely” starving the miners’ \, babies into pitiful little corpses,“so long as “only” miners’ wives were ‘forced by low and ever lower wages to go ragged and die prematurely aged of diseases easily traced to poverty, so long as it was “just some )coal miners” whose gaunt bodies hollowed by starvation, were dragged | to.one sie of the coal seam’s face because of fainting from hunger— ) that, workers, was not “violence” to the editors of the Scripps-Howard _¢ “Pittsburgh Press.” i But when the miners and their desperate wives and children rose | up and struck against starvation, struck against the Pittsburgh Mining | Company ovned by Secreary Mellon whose fabulous fortune ever mounts higher, whose $200 suits of clothes and purchases oj enormously costly paintings of old masters is known to all—then, at last!—the Scripps- Howard “Pittsburgh Press” becomes alarmed at the prospect of “vio- lence.” Such damnable hypocrisy! On the very day (June 9) in which even an ordinary capitalist sheet like the Pittsburgh “Sun-Telegraph” is forced to protest at “Coal Police Brutality,” brutality that is illegal even under the capitalist system | of government, which makes workers’ lives and liberties the plaything of capitalism's police, the Scripps-Howard “Pittsburgh Press” came out picturing the thugs of the “Coal and Iron Police” as “harmless fello who “don’t want to hurt anyone” and the coal operators as ites and‘ ” “More! And worse! The Scripps-Howard paper offered a Hac ca Ie“ that the United Mince Workers” “be permitted and en! aged” by the mine owners, to’ “organize.” The U.M.W., says the Pittsburgh Press 1s “stable.” But “stable” in what’ way? Let the miners . have been betrayed again and again by the U.M.W. throw that the. face of the Scripps-Howard editor! - Indeed, the “Pittsburgh Press” especially recommends the U.M.W. be~ yuse of its betrayal of the miners! It says that if the U.M.W. js brought and the mine owners “encourage” it to “organize,” then: Z PONG Li bor ae rtiSUllg: ateul! @aeerer gomaalioee. In West _ Virginia, organization has just been accomplished at wage scales lower . than any reputable Pittsburgh operator is paying.” Y ‘What @ splendid “program” to come from the “liberal” Scripps-How~ papers! Please, Messrs. Operators, encourage the United Mine Work~- to organize the miners so you can cut wages as low as the West This is the “program” of those “liberals” and “friends 5e gina opera’ ‘Today in the thickest of the fight, at. the head of picket lines, leading | workers established in 1917. A soviet government in which workers rule | ture. delegates are staying together. will be protested by the law” Chicago. Mayor Martin's reply to this |stated that “the Chief should jnot of said for you to not pass through our city, I do not ob- ject to your passing through ” (exact quotation). ‘Today another communication was dispatched again stressing that the Hunger March will come through West Frankfort and that a meeting will be held there, Mass Reception A mass reception by the workers, mniers and poor farmers will greet all five sections of the State Hunger | March when the rive routes will con- verge in Reservoit Park, Springfield, Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The various sections start frof Chicago, Rockford, Eldorado, Rock Island and | Bast St. Louis to arrive simultaneous- ly for the mass reception. A mass farewell demonstration in Chicago is scheduled for 9 ‘o'clock Saturday morning et the corner of Ogden and Kolin (between Crawford and Cicero Ave.) when the Chicago ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8IVE) EVICTION ORGY IN NEGRO HRLEM Harlem U.C. in Protest meet This Afternoon NEW YORK. —An open-air meet- ing will be held in Harlem this aft- ernoon (Saturday) to protest the in that section by the landlords with the aid of their courts. The meet- ing is called by the Harlem Unem- ployed Council. It will be held in the middle of the block on 117th St. ; between Lenox and Fifth Aves. |The sidewalks of Harlem are lit- tered every day with the furniture of evicted unemployed tenants. Many other evictions are planned. Mrs. A. Collazo, a Porto Rico worker, who has a small child and whose husband is dead, is to be evicted. Mrs. Collazo has been’ paying $13 a month for a small, dark, unheated in arrears. She managed to scrape up $6 and gave it to the landlord. ‘The landlord accepted it, but pro~ ceeded to evict her. She has, been unemployed for several months. The eviction is planned for Monday morning. Two brothers in the same house, unemployed for 5 months, are also to be evicted. Last Thursday at 10 W. 116th St., Mrs. - Bimsdean, an | unebployed worker, was evicted. —_— fake “socialist” Norman Thomas and who hire the “socialist”. clown | 347 & 72nd St., 2700 Bronx Park Heywood Broun to write “human interest” stories about gamblers and | mast, 1400 Boston Rd. 131 W. 28th chorus girls! orgy of evictions being put through | basement room. She is three months | BULLETIN SPRINGFIELD, UL, June 12.—Under pressure of the workers, the speaker of the State Legislature has agreed to permit the hunger march- ers to present their demands on Monday at 4 o’clock before the legisla~ The governor and state authorities have consistently evaded seeing the hunger marchers. State representatives also refuse to give housing and food and a meeting place for the workers. All hunger marchers and The State Conferente opens at 5 o’clock Sunday at Odd Fellows Hall. The Springfield workers are furnishing food for the marchers. Siig Sa CHICAGO, IIl., June 12. — Mayor William Martin of West | Frankfort capitulated from his former position that “any at- tempt to hold any meeting or pass through our jurisdiction tions in a letter received by the State Committee of Unem- ployed Councils at its headquarters 28 South Lincoln Street The Unemployed Councils, in a letter sent June 8th,. stated that the march will pass through West Frankfort, and in case of attack, the mayor will be held responsible for the act. and today withdrew all objec- NEGRO TENANTS | IN RENT STRIKE Tenants League Leads Third Ave. Strike BRONX, N.Y.—Organizing a house | committee, Negro tenants at 3874 Third Ave. near Claremont Park- way, have refused to pay the high, exorbitant rents demanded by the landlady. The Tenants’ League, the Women’s Councils were instrumen- tal in the organization of this com- mittee and are pushing the strike. | Landlords had made it a practice) of herding colored tenants into the old, dilapidated dwellings on Third Ave. and charging them 30 per cent more than the white tenants pay. While at 3874 Third Ave. the rents average $30 and $32 for dirty, in- sanitary rooms, with no hot water and little heat in winter, the white tenants had always paid $25 at 3876 Third Ave. Eight tenants of the house, in-~ spired by the active picketing by the ‘Tenants’ League, refused to pay rent this month. The landlady called the police to stop the Tenants’ League. but that did not scare the tenants. The landlady secured summonses for the tenants and will bring them into court, 162nd and Washington St., at 2 p. m. on Monday, June 16. The Tenants’ League, together with the house committee, will be present with an I. L. D. attorney and the determination of the tenants to @e- cure lower rents will be stressed. An open-air meeting in the neigh- borhood will be held tonight at 8 Pp. m. and the strike spread to other apartment houses. The neighbors have expressed strong sympathy with the rent strike, ARREST 15BRONX BREAD STRIKERS BRONX, N. Y.—Slugging women picketing the baker shops in the baker shops in the Bronx bread strike police arrested 15 active wo- men pickets. One housewife, who was engaged in picketing one of the shops, was beaten though is preg- nant. All were lodged in jail. A demonstration against police at- tempts to break the bread strike and brutality against working class housewives and women will be held THE MINE STRIKE FRONT H t 4%. ieee 7 4 wow : Vi - ikensinGpoe\ i EDHENYT icra & : : ys ALLE ' ‘ (eee, [ | eave > <naen 23 { bse. ¥ ee | oveetGis ee , ee ! f 1 qrassyne a Hotes i Eo) genre | fi. 4 gavage 2 Ss ate Patan oe a {oes a rust Smet \, GREEMTAINS x oe oh ig aby WASH Maureen < QO wet, / ReTINS ~~ te mn snte f BEY WASHING ee, it f= — parses’ ' : ee Comet ¢ BP ps eh aes es ee me ee Se Ls, west viecms LEGEND 7 sauce parmees MAVE BEEN St! Sess STATE LINE bores COUNTY LIME PET Se naa A (1s Tetmeecswec’ ee OAV ET Ty, of ae Ss. Lee, Erbe ) Peis é é ., 4 § 1 DO NOT DELAY! The response to the financial appeal of the Daily Worker shows that the work ers who know how desperately the Daily is needed in every part of the country, will do everything to raise the money necessary to keep our paper alive. We have absolute faith in the devotion of the workers to their paper. Letters such as the following prove that we are “Enclosed please find check for start in the drive to help the Daily. and in the $5 is included a dime that did not know where his next cup of pily, though, knowing that he helps fully justified in our confidence: $5, collected by me in my shop as a The staff of workers here is very small came from an unemployed worker who coffee will come from. He gave it hap- his Daily. “The spirit of this worker encourages me to do more for the Daily, and the enclosed check is only a beginning.—H. P.” With such response, multiplied by thousands, the Daily can and will be kept alive and placed on a firm foundation. Workers! Appeal te your shopmates, appeal to the organizations you belong to or have contact with! RUSH FUNDS TO THE DAILY WORKER, -50 East 13th Street, New York City. Do not delay! Act at once! Saturday at 6:30 pm. at 180th St. and Prospect Ave. The strike against the high cost of bread is still going on and gaining strength despite the attempts of the boss bakers and the police to break it. The strike is conducted by the Bronx Council of Workingclass Wo- men, COLLECT TODAY — FOR DEFENSE Funds for Paterson, Scottsboro Cases NEW ‘YORK.—All workers are called on to take part in the house- to-house collections for the defense of the Scottsboro and Paterson cases that are being held today (Saturday) and tomorrow by the New: York Dis- trict of the International Labor De~ fense. They should report at one of the following stations at 9 a. m.: daily, Ce mek has just ben received from Scotts- boro that the hearing will not be continued this Saturday. Only the filing of the additional affidavits and briefs to be submitted by the I. L. D. attorneys and the State prosecutor will be made. At the June 5 hearing, the LL.D. attorneys presented an imposing ar- ray of affidavits exposing the hid- eous character of the frame-.., against there boys. These affidavits But the coal miners of Western Pennsylvania are through with be- trayers of the U.M.W.! And they ‘will scorn the “program” of the Scripps- Howard “Pittsburgh Press” and its fake “socialist” friends, a “program” of wage cuts to fatten the fortunes of Andy Mellon and his kind! ‘The coal miners of Western Pemnsylvania are striking and marching against starvation, and they do not mean to accept starvation under any other name such as “peace” and “organization!” They are lined up Union and are ready to die’ fighting rather —2 stressed the lynching atmosphere in which the original “trial” was con- ducted, the setting of the “trial” for local fair day when 10,000 people were in the town whose normal pop- ulation is only 2,000, the character of the girls on whose unsupported and coerced testimony the boys were 257 E. Tenth St., 353 Lenox Ave. St, 343 E. 84th St. 799 Broadway, Room 410; 1666 Marison Ave., 350 E. Bist St., 64 W. 22nd St., 569 Prospect Ave., 785 Forest Ave., Queens; 61 Graham Ave. Brooklyn; 524 Ver- mont St., Brooklyn; 1373 43rd St.,|convicted, and the fact that the four Brooklyn; 135 15th St. Brooklyn; |farcicial “trials” were rushed through 118 Bristol St., Brooklyn; 140 Nep-|in 72 hours to the tune of a brass tune Ave. Coney Island; 252 War-!band while the jurymen sitting in burton Ave. Yonkers, Boss.Court Lynchers Cheered by Pickens’ Attack on Defense As Hearing Approaches BUFFALO, June 12.-The second general meeting of the Sectional United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference was held here last night at the Michigan Ave. Y. A number of additional organizations were rep~ resented. The influence of the mass fight to save the boys is spreading. cheers of the mob greeting the ear- CHATTANOOGA, June 12.—Word ) lier rapid-fire death verdicts. While the southern boss lynchers are feeling materially strengthened by reason of the support given them by Pickens and other leaders of the N.A.C.P, in attacking the defense, the ILD. and its attorneys, together with the L.S.N.R.. are determined to fight the cases through to the U. S. Supreme Court, ifnecessary. In this fight they willl make us of overy measure that can be resorted to in the law to defeat the frame-up. However, the L.S.N.R. and the I. L. D. warn that the courts of the ruling class will give justice to these boys only if forced to by tremendous mass pressure and that the real depend- ence for saving the boys is in the building up bigger and bigger the Mass movement of the Negro people with the working class to save them. Especially must block and. neighbor- hood committees be organzed in all cities of town and the work of yisit- ing organizations persistently kept some of the cases listened to the up. AT JAIL DEMAND RELEASE OF MINE STRIKERS Strike Spreads toW.V Some Operators a a a Virginia; {fer Terms | Governor Pinchot Threatens | Sending of Troops to | Break Strike $25,000 For 5 iLewis Offers Strike-Break- ing to Hoover BULLETIN. | BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, —400 men at the Bradley Mi 100 at the Witch Hazel in son County, struck today June Jeffer- PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 12 Frank Borich, secretary of the Na- tional Miners Union, was approach- ed yesterday by the management of the Charities Gas and Coal Co with 2 request to sign a contract on the basis of demands contained in a letter sent to all operators in this vicinity by the union and by the Pennsylvania District Rank and File Strike Committee. The Char- tiers Company stated that “our miners want to belong to the Na- tional Miners Union.” About the same tim& a delega- tion arrived at the national office of the NMU from the Tremont Mine of the S. E. Spears Co. They reported that the management * there was making the same answer to the letter proposing a settlement, The Spears Co. had approached the. Tremont strike committee directly. . * PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 12.—The executive of the District Strike Com- mittee is sending a delegation of four, inoluding one Negro, to the: Illinois Unemployment Conference, urging relief and the broadening of the strike. The Washington Count Poor Board of which Miss Lane is the Director, told a committee of strikers and unemployed who w {asking for milk for their babi “Your trouble is not ours.. We c \not help you if the children die. A wave of indignation is spedi: the preparations for the great hun ger march of the striking miners and unemployed Tuesday on the Wash- ington County seat. Relief collections are going forward in the mine localities; central feding kitchens have been established in some centers, Kinloch relief is only for women and children, but men on the picket line are getting coffee and bread. Twenty-seven thousand miners are now striking in both states, accord- ing to reports of the Executive Com~ mittee this morning. Two thousand pickets, marching from Bentleyville Crescent mine and the unemployed of Charleroi pulled out the Vesta coal mine No. 4 at California. Four+ teen hundred miners struck. Four hundred are still at_work. Tomor- row there will be more picketing at the Vesta mine Nos. 5 and 6 at Cali~ fornia, and will pull out 2,000 more, Five hundred men of the Ocean mine, No. 5 of Pittsburgh Coal Co, are al out on strike. Hearst's Pitts- burgh Sun Telegraph has faked an interview with Kemenovich claiming that he said: “Miners armed will be another Herrin.” Kemenovich des nies this. Lance Shaw, 2 picket, at the War- den mine at West Newton was shot through the knee last night by Depu~ ty M, C. Lutz. Considerable piketing is going on elsewhere. rie (Special to the Daily Worker) BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 12.—Following the arrest of the Com- mittee of Rank and File Organizers while holding a meeting at the Hanna Coal Co,, Lafferty Mine No. 6, by Sheriff Duff and 25 deputies of Belmont County, over 2,000 miners and other workers came to St. Clairsville, Couns ty Seat, to hold a protest meeting at the court house last night at eight o'clock. as Leo ‘Thompson, ‘the. ‘first speaker, said = few words then 4 tear gag *