The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1931, Page 1

t ‘(SECTION OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) orker Junist Party U.S.A. : WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! VoLVGL No.1 | Sop <=> _NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931 CITY EDITION _Price 3 Cents CREIGHTON MINERS REJECT U. M. W. SCAB SELL-OUT Ex-Ambassador Gerard’s “Young Man” o° June 10th, Ex-Ambassador Gerard attended a luncheon of the open shop National Civic Federation (N. C. F.), and evidently became captivated by the charms of Mattie Woll, acting president of the anti- labor union N. C. F., and also, quite fittingy, vice-president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. Ralph M. Easley, infamous professional patriot and an accomplice in the notorious “Whalen forgeries,” served as the “madame” in the case and at the pleasant luncheon proposed that his protege, Mattie Woll, tackle the rather large job of “dealing with” what Easley described as the “all émbracing and blood-soaked program of Russia.” Mattie Woll, on his part, coyly remarked that the N. C. F. “prob- ably” would act favorably on Easey’s “suggestion.” Mr. Gerard’s in- fatuation for Mattie Woll dates from that moment, and like any fer- vent swain, he “worked fast.” Behold therefore, New York awakening on the dawn of June 15th, to find the Ex-Ambassador (who will long remain famous for having called attention to the fact that fifty-nine capitalists rule the U. S. A.) and his “young man” playing the front page in a duet called “A Ten Year Plan.” It must be said, however, that the treble of Woll quite drowned out what Gerard might have said, in fact he seems to have gone around the corner and left his “young man” on the street to play the game alone. Hence the papers are full of what Mattie Woll said and thought, after what Mr. Gerard said and thought is barely mentioned. But we insist that Mr, Gerard be not forgotten. For Woll proposes a “Ten Year Plan” to “offset”—so the N. Y. Times puts it—the “failure” of the Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union! Why, if it is a “failure,” it should require “offsetting” we know not. Any- how, Woll proposes a whole program, designed, if we accept it at face value, to “organize” capitalism, which he calls “democracy.” This “democracy,” he himself admits, “fails to feed our people” and there is “enormous wealth on one hand and on the other great valleys of want.” By his plan, he proposes “the extension” of this “democracy” so “we can go forward in absolute confidence.” A happy aim, for a “failure to feed our people” multiplied by ten still leaves Mr. Gerdrd’s “Fifty-Nine Rulers of America” still ruling, and the people still unfed. Workers will not forget that! For if Woll’s “Ten Year Plan” means anything more than demagogy, it means a fascist program in defense of Gerard’s fifty-nine capitalist rulers. As for demagogy, Woll’s proposal for a six-hour day and five-day week, when Woll himself opposes strikes right now for the eight-hour day, is clearly only a vulgar piece of buncombe designed to set the eyes of workers on beautiful vistas of what ought to be, while Woll and his fifty-nine masters continue to speed up the workers in shop, mine -and mill for as many hours as the profits of the boss demand. In short, Mattie Woll, 2s Mr. Gerard’s “young man,” assures the proletariat that in the next.world where capitalist anarchy will have beer transformed to “order” painlessly, and without any such rude over- throw of the fifty-nine rulers as the Bolshevik revolution, all will be sweetness, beauty and light. Workers who face the misery, brutality and starvation of capitalist reality, however, will reject such fascist demagogy. They will organize where they work and strike against wage cuts; they will demonstrate their power to prevent the fifty-nine rulers and Mr. Woll from “ex- tending the democracy” of hunger any further, and under the leadership of the Communist Party they will go forward to overthrow the rule of the Fifty-Nine and establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. The Wrong Mexicans ‘HE killing by an Oklahoma deputy sheriff of two Mexican students, accidentally reveals the whole system of terror against the foreign- born workers in the United States. Not because these two students were workers—they were not—but rather because they turned out to be the sons of Mexican capitalists, one of them a cousin of the President of Mexico. It is for this reason and no other, that the American imperialist government acted with lightning rapidity in “regretting” and bestirring itself to “investigate.” If these capitalist students had been Mexican im- migrant workers, they would have been only two more “dead greasers” and neither Yankee imperialism nor its lackey government at Mexico City would have given more than perfunctory attention, even if the murders would have received publicity outside the town where they occurred. The Associated Press item from Ardmore, Oklahoma, dated June 8, throws 4 brilliant spot-light upon the customary violence of U. S. gov- ernment officials toward foreign-born workers and more particularly how these officials regard the capitalist courts for what they are ,a shelter for their own crimes and an instrument of class vengeance against their vic- tims. The news item states: “The officers asked that a murder charge be filed, to bring about their vindication.” ‘Thus the official murderers demand that they be charged with mur- der, not for the purpose of determining who is to blame, but to be “vin- dicated.” Recently in New York City, two alleged counterfeiters, when brought into the Federal Court before Judge Woolsey, complained of being beaten up; and, ordered by the judge to disrobe, exhibited bodies black cud blue from head to foot—beaten by the recently established “Alien Squad,” of the New York City police. This case also shows the growing campaign of police terror that is directed particularly against foreign-born work- ers. By pure accident both in this case and in the Olklahoma murders, victims happen not to be workers. But the apparatus of police terror and even extra-legal fascist vio- lence (American Legion, KKK) is being built up and given authority as an “American institution” for the especial purpose of terrorizing the working class, An outstanding proof of this, is the recent “Registration Law” of Michigan which, while superficially directed against foreign-born “illegal residents,” actually will put every worker in the state of Michigan under police supervision, subjecting them to police inquisition at their work «places. > Every worker should take notice of the aid given the capitalist police by the fascist leaders of the American Federation of Labor, who approve this outrageous law against the workers, by saying that: “If a worker has nothing to conceal, he should not kick against the law.” Every rank and file member of the A.F. o f L. knows very well that an active union man, especially a striker, has something “to conceal,” because of blacklist by the bosses. Yet under this law, as it will be en- forced, not only foreign-born workers will be required to distinguish themselves from workers who are citizens, but under such police super- vision, the workers who really are citizens will be required to produce proof of that fact—and in so doing to make themselves just as fully iden- tified and supervised ¢s are the foreign-born workers. , Thus the capitalist p: authority—always on the side of the em- ployers—will be efficially established as a blacklisting and strike-breaking machine of terror against the working class as a whole! Every worker, native born and foreign alike, should rally behind the fight being made by the workers of Michigan against this despotic “Re- ‘gistration Law.” And all should support thte Council for the Protection of the Foreign-Born in its struggle against the growing campaign of (error against the workers! STATE TROOPERS, COPS KEEP HUNGER MARCHERS IN ILL UNDER GUARD Mass Demonstration Greets 300 Marchers On) Arrival in State Capitol Conference Draws Demands; Frankfeld to Put Them \ —@ ‘Will Starve to Save Daily’; Danger Great! SRATTLS UNKUPLOYSD ARANCH 4 Room 15 Howard Blég. Seattle, ¥eeh. MORE MINERS OUT IN W. VA. OHIO: FOSTER AND BORICH TAKEN BY GUNMEN Injunction Hearings On; Company Builds High Fence Around Mine Preparing for Scabs Two Mmes With Over 600 Men In West Virginia Jom | the Before Legislature Today SPRINGFIELD, Ill., June 15.—Three hun- dred hunger marchers, of the first session of t after the adjournment he state conference on unemployment here at the Illinois capitol, left the hall to go to Riverview Park, two miles out- side of Springfield for lunch and to remain there for the night, as state and city authorities refused to lodge them in any public place. lice and actually held prisoners armed to the teeth. The situation is very serious. protest is being sent to the governor ® and speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives as well as to the mayor of Springfield. The protest demands the withdrawal of the armed police guard; full freedom of the delega- tions. The possibilitiés are that the del- egation will be driven out of town by the state police tomorrow. Twenty-four miner delegates from Franklin County broke through’ the | ring of armed forces. | Phil Frankfeld. delivered-the main |- report at the conference and will be the spokesman of the. delegation td the state legislature. is SS ae, See SPRINGFIELD, June 15.+Fight- ing their way through police terror from state troopers and local police in many cities along the route, 300 Hunger Marchers assembled in Re- | servoir Park, Springfield, the Illinois State Capitol today. These unem- ployed workers who came here to | demand immediate unemployment relief from the state government marched from all parts of the state. Fifteen hundred Springfield workers greeted them on their arrival. | ‘The marchers and workers paraded | through the streets to the conven- tion hall with the masses of work- ers on the streets singing revolu- tionary songs and shouting slogans. The convention, which is to formu- late the final demands, just opened. All routes reported tremendous response of the workers along | way. The only marchers | missing are those from Wil-| liamson County who were kidnapped and sent back. And yet no report | has been received about what hap- | pened to the delegation. The head of the delegation, Phil Frankfeld, was released this afternoon under pressure of the miners in Pana. | The Chicago section of the Hunger March attracted the most attention. In Joliet 300 workers greeted the marchers. City dicks beat up the leader of the marchers, Steve Ru- bicki. In Dwight, 300 cheered the marchers. In Pontiac, 600 workers defied the | police and Legionaires to greet the marchers. The Pontiac workers sent a delegation to Bloomington inform- ing the workers there of the march, and to come and prepare to defend the marchers. The workers assem- bled in Bloomington at 9:00 P. M., and waited until midnight for the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) They were surrounded by 50 state and city po- by the police forces who were A strong ADMIT RED ARMY BEAT 20,000 OF NANKING TROOPS Chiang Kai. Shek Is Frantic An Associated. Press report from Shanghai, announcing a new anti- Re@ ‘campafgn® under the personal supervision-of Chiang Kai-Shek, tells Of-the complete route of 20,000 of. the last army of Nationalist soldiers sent against the Red Army. Ahe Associated Press dispatch says “The Nationalist Government admit- ted today that 20.000 soldiers had been slaughtered or otherwise dis- posed of by the Communist bands in Kiangsi, Hunan and Northern Fu- kien Provinces recently.” “Otherwise disposed of” , means that a-vast number joined the ranks of the Red Army. The same cable admits that the greater part of these | provinces are now in the hands of the Soviets. It said that the Na- tionalist tools of the imperialists now regard Communism as their worst enemy and most dangerous oppon- | ents. General Chiang Kai Shek an- nounced that he would begin a new expedition “to wipe out Communism in three months.” The A. P. dis- patch remarks that Chiang Kai Shek made the same statement eight montsh ago with disastrous results. Rush Relief to the Striking Miners THE WORKERS’ INTERNA» TIONAL RELIEF and TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE all upon all workers, native and for- eign born, white and colored, old and young. men, women and chil- dren together, to rise to the soli- darity-support of the 32,000 Penn- sylvania and Ohio striking miners! Extend the fighting line of the strikers! Help them build the :yad to victory! Send food and cloth- ing to depot at 240 E. Ninth St. Rush funds to DISTRICT PENN.- OHIO STRIKING MINERS’ RE- LIEF COMMITTEE, 799 Broad- way, N. Y., Room 614, Woll, Gerard Draw Up Fascist “Plan” To Preserve Capitalism NEW YORK.—A fascist answer to the ‘Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union is the proposal of Matthew Woll, one of the leading strike-break- ers in the A. F. of L., and James W. Gerard, ex-ambassador to Germany. ‘The proposal for a “ten-year plan” for American capitalism was sent out to 600 of the leading exploiters and A.'F, of L. union officials by the ational Civic Federation, a leading organization of the American bosses. The letter calls on the capitalists ‘o stt up a centralized force to plan industry in order to keep capitaism irom colapsing. Both Matthew Woll’ and James W. Gerard are activerin anti-Soviet war campaign. ard a few weeks ago declared, “We are at war now with the Soviets!"” ‘The “plan” advocated by Woll and Gerard follows the fascist pr contained in the A. F. of L. official organ, “The American Federationist,” which advises the bosses to set up a centralized dictatorship _ which would be able to enforce wage-cuts, dragoon the workers for exploita- tion at will, etc. Outside of the fact that it shows the capitalists a means of developing an open fascist dictatorship to smash the growing radicalization of the workers, the. Woll-Gerard plan is imnossible of execution. Woll, hn his teiter to the leading | bos-es, egmits that something must be done t§ distract the workers from the Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union. The Communist plan, he writes, must’ be met with a fascist plan. As a model he points out the Wilson war-time nationa industrial conference. Deily Worker, Yew York City. Dear Comrades: Enclosed you will find 910,00, whieh te 811: the money the Dnemployed Branch has on hand.¥ We will eterve for ® week rather than aee the “orker go under, It_breke our heert to see the Daily Yorker sons ont on two pages. The paper that leads us in our strugglen sgeinet the onelaught of tho pirate olags, the bosses. The peper that keepp un informea of the struggles of our comrsdes in other parts of the country."The paper thet unites mass action; and mass solidarity. Ho. Never must the vangeurd of the fighttig militant “working” cless go down and out. workera to rally all the reat of the worzers,thst hes not yet realized their el working olaas. Norker wt our special meeting ¢ell tonight. 2 “eattle "ranch of the Unemployed Councils Figned. Sian. Branch Geo: We are letting this letter do the talking for us today. We are letting it do the talking because THE DAILY WORKER IS AGAIN IN DANGER OF GOING TO TWO PAGES! Friday the receipts dropped about $1,100 from * Thu ’s totals to $823.83; were Only $478.60; and from two o’clock Saturday till 5 p. m. yesterday we received only $845.77. The inspiring letter from the Seatttle Unemployed Don’t wait till the Daily goes to two pages again or suspends altogether! Rush funds TODAY to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Branch is a call to action! The “orkere fighting organ met not go down.” Vhat‘will the workere do without 2% their mouthpeice. Itlincour duty," and the duty of all“oless aonscious ©” ponittony to swing into line and ‘neve the Daily Yorker---. The only fighting ¢) The balance of our treanury wea voted to the Deily June? 10 41981> ell the workors in mans’ thougat; in of the ‘mericen ye Saturday (till 2 p. m.) they Decision on New Trial For Nine Scottsboro Boys Expected This Week by ILD CHATTANOOGA, June 15.—According to the latest de- cision of Judge Hawkins there will be no further oral testi- mony on the International Labor Defense motions for new trials for the nine Scottsboro Negro boys. going over the additional affidavits and counter affidavits filed on Saturday by the LL.D. at- torneys and the State prosecutor. He is expected to give his decision some time this week. Attorneys Chamlee and Brodsky, counsel for the ILD. have an- nounced that in case Judge Hawkins rules against the boys the case will be appealed to the State Supreme Court of Alabama, and, if necessary, to the United States Supreme Court at Washington. The two attorneys are supported by a staff of eight south- ern and northern legal advisors all retained by the LL.D. While plans are being prepared for the most energetic battle in the courts, the I.L.D. correctly points out that the capitalist courts which framed and railroaded these boys toward the electric chair cannot be depended upon to give them a fair trial and that only the workers, mo- bilizéd in a militant and well-organ- ized mass movement, can save these nine innocent boys and smash the Tegal lynching being prepared by the Alabama landlords and capitalists. Especially must block and neighbor- hood committees be built in order to achiéve a united front from below which will serve to overcome the re- sistance of the reformists in the churches, lodges, etc., to the fight to save the boys. An- appeal. for. funds for: the. Judge Hawkins is fense of the boys was made yester- day by George Maurer, Assistant Secretary of the I. L. D. He stated: “We urgently request all organiza~ tions and individuals to make their contributions immediately to the Scottsboro Defense, International La- bor Defense, 80 East 11th St., Room 430, New York City.” Strike Against Hunger BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 15.—Mass meetings will be held today and tomorrow at all Terminal Coal Co. mines on strike, which are P and W at Coverdale; Nos. 1 and 2 Castle and Shannon, and Nos: 4, 7, and 8 near here. These mass meetings will vote to accept the proposition made by the joint meeting at Castle and Shannon Saturday of all their’ mine strike committees to send a delegation of five men from each mine, elected at the mine mass meeting, to Harrisburg, the state capitol. The delegation wil Itell Governor Pinchot, Murray and Purscgiove of the Pittsburgh Terminal meeting there Thursday “to settle the strike,” that the miners repudiate such slave settlement and will picket more intensely the mines so settled. The United Mine Workers of America regards the settlement here asopening a wedge to spit and betray the strike, and this move by the miners will be an effective answer. . PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 15.—Bellair, Ohio, police closed the hall and prohibited the Ohio- West Virginia Strike Conference on Sunday. The conference. convened at Dillonvale, 26 miles distant within one hour with 109 dele- gates from 26 mines, representing six thousand strikers, and four thousand unemployed miners: Nelson, Pineyfork miner, was ‘chairman’ ‘Paul’ Bolus, secretary; William Z. Foster, Bill Durine and Toney, Minerich reported on the strike situaijes ma three states. . . Bill Dunne, is now. ¢he “‘trgadiztr for the Trade Union Unity League in Ohio and West Virginia. Toney Minerich is the organizer for the National Miners’ Union local Strike Committees. The strike demands are | similar to those of the Pennsylvania | miners. On Friday, 750 struck at Pow- hatan, Ohio; 300 at Provident, Ohio. On Saturday two smaller mines struck at Constanzo, Ohio. | In Pennsylvania the Creighton | miners, for whom the United Mine | Workers of America “made an | agreement” Friday, picketed. Only | one man went in to.work. In spite | of the fact that the United Mine Workers attempted to put over a scab agreement to make it appear | that the miners had won a point, the workers are standing solidly behind the National Miners’ Union and are repudiating by action the fake “agreement” of the U. M. W. At the Versailles mine 125 miners struck. There were five big picket lines at all mines. Injunction hearing was on today. Twenty bosses were called to testify for the Butler Consolidated Co., but they could not show violence by the | N. M. U. members. Borich and Kemenovich only were allowed to} testify for the N. M. U. The court tried to make them say that the Red International of Labor Unions and the Third International are the same. ‘The decision on issuing the injunc- tion for the bosses is “under advise- ment.” Vesta mine No. 4 at California is} building an 8-foot fence around the mine shaft. By aig © Associated Press dispatches from the mine strike territory report that William Z. Foster was met by coal company gunmen at Moundsyville, West Virginia, when he attempted to speak from the Court House steps. ‘There were 500 miners present, the report states. Foster, Frank Borich, Detroit Workers Pushing Plans yor Demonstration Fri. DETROIT, June 15.—Preparations for the gigantic mass demonstration this Friday against the Cheeney Anti-Alien Bill and the Scottshy~- boss court lynch verdict ar pushed with the utmost energ). -.. ; demonstration will be held ‘in the Grand Circus Park. It ‘will begin at 5 p. m. with an auto and truck parade which will bring workers from scores of meeting halls selected as mobilization points. ‘The workers will not bé fooled by these gestures, however, but, will press the fight all the harder against such vicious laws as the Chéeney Bill, | ' { which are aimed directly at crippling the struggles of the wre'in~ ‘class again’ wing we rva- ~aiitinguabpese 3S iw sareed to turn out for Friday’s demonstration. Among’ the speakers who will expose the boss attacks on the working class are William Z. Foster, William L. Patterson, and Robers Minor of New York. Other speakers include Maurice Sugar, Judge O'Brien, John Schmies, Communist. candidate for mayor in the fall lections, and T. Andonoff, secretary of the Council for Protection of the Unemployed. seorétary ‘of the National Mihers’ Union; Frank Setich and Robert Sivert, N. M. U. officials, were met by 50 armed thugs and ordered out of the city limits. Another A. P. report from St. Clairsville states that the mine own- ers of Southeastern Ohio are pre- paring to ship more scabs into the mine and will use all of their: pri- vate gangsters, cops and other thugs in an effort to re-open the’ mines“as they feel’ the shutdown of the mines | severely. Today is the ninth anniversary.of the terrific mine battle at Browns- ville, Pa., during the mine strike of 1922, At that ‘time 1,200 mounted | police attacked 8,000 striking miners wounding many. ae aes ‘Two more mines at Warwood. West Virginia, have joined the strike Jed by the National Miners’ Union, ‘ac- cording to an Associated Press’ dis- patch from Wheeling, W. Va. This dispatch states that 400 men quit work at the Colliers mine of the Wést Virginia and Pittsburgh Coal Co., and 200 struck at. the Constanzo mine. t 14 UP FOR TRIAL FOR PICKETING AT GYP BAKERY SHOP NEW YORK. — Thirteen women and one man will be arranged today in the capitalist court before Judge DeLuca. Their crime is picketing the bakeries at 180th St., between Prospect and Arthur Ave. to foree: the bakers to redyce the. price: of bread from 8 to 5 cents a pound. This is a “crime” in the eyes of. the capitalist, but not in the eyes of the workers. The workers of the neighborhood shall be there in mas- ses to force the Tammany judge to release our fighting comrades. Picketing must continue tomor- row and every day, until the bakery owners give into our demands. Attacks Daughter Tries to Put Blame On Negro Worker WHEELING, W. Va.—Failing in his attempt to place his crime on a Negro worker, Jack Gunnoe,: white, of Shannon Branch, is locked up charged with raping his five-year-oid daughter, According to the evidence at the hearing, Gunnoe took his little girl with him to the mountains on Friday and there criminally assaultéd her. He told her to say’ that a “nigger” had attacked her, the child testi- fied, He promised to buy her a new mays and shoes if ghe would.