The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1931, Page 1

eee ee a ye he ‘Organize Proletarian Relief in Fight On Hunger Fight Relief-Racketeers of Socialist Party andUMWA By MARCEL SCHERER (Nat'l Secretary, W.LR.). 'HE heroic battle of 35,000 miners calls for solidarity from the working class. Against the combined forces of the coal companies, the coal and iron police, the traitorous UMWA and the fake-liberal governor Pinchot to force starvation on the miners we must build the United Front of Solidarity to help win this strike. No trick too low for the enemies of the working class to stoop to in order to help the bosse: At a time of stark privation in the coal fields the yellow socialist party and the strike breaking UMWA are both “racketeering in relief.” The national executive committee of the S. P. meeting in Pitts- burgh voted to issue a nation-wide appeal for miners’ “relief” funds. Imagine the socialist party collecting relief. For whom? Is it for the starving miners? Of course not. The S. P. is opposed to every struggle of the workers. The S. P. are loyal cooperators of the coal companies. In fact loyal partners—Hillquit, socialist leader, has stock in the Burns Bros. Coal Co. The national executive meeting came during the strike to be close to the coal companies and ready to help. ‘The S. P. program is to defeat the strike. Why do they collect “relief”? These yellow rats are using the dis- tress and starvation of the miners to collect funds for the S. P. and U.M.W.A. The hunger situation is used to collect money to help the bosses’ starvation program. The S. P. appeal for funds is for a strike- breaking fund. The S. P. knows that the appeal for help from the Pa.- Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee finds a ready and enthusiastic response among hundreds of thousands of workers and workers’ friends. They want to try to defeat this appeal of the strikers. They seek to bring in confusion—to divide the forces of solidarity in order to sell out the strike. In West Virginia the Muste group has algo set up a fake relief committee to help the U.M.W.A. West Virginia is pointed to by the bosses as the ideal state of slavery for workers. But the miners of West Virginia have heard the message of the National Miners’ Union and are joining the struggle. Already 1,500 are marching on the picket lines and many more are coming. So Muste and his gang are there to break the ranks and lead them back into the camp of Van Bittner and starvation. In Western Pennsylvania the fakers of U.M.W.A. under Fagan are doing their slimy work. Swept aside by the tens of thousands of fight- ing miners their game now is to crawl in with a promise of food. Racketeers in relief they are holding out to starving miners the food collected by the S. P., Muste, and other agents of the coal companies to break the ranks. Food in the hands of these racketeers is a dangerous weapon against the strike. The coal companies can well afford to spend a few dollars for food as an investment against the strike. All workers must wake up to this crucial starvation. We must not allow the bosses to use hunger to drive the fighting miners back. Against the “Racketeering relief” we collect Proletarian Relief—to feed the strikers—to encourage these fighters of ours—to help win the strike. Rally to the call of the Pa.-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee. your answer today—send relief funds for Solidarity and Victory. Give “Free” America Os 410th, Matthew Woll, president of the “open shop” National ‘Federation and vice-president of the American Federation of Pabor, : at a *nncheon” of the first-named organization, waxed eloquent Yipon the Bolshevik “menace” and, “his eyes in fine frenzy rolling,” “all this is being deme in a frenzied heaadid to destrov the free and institutions of other nations.” | tariff ‘walls going up on every frontier, one might inquire what tree ‘markets” this fascist scoundrel was referring to. And certainly, wath #he"tmemployed workers being treated as criminals in Illinois, with an army fully equipped with all the munitions of war shooting down miners in Pennsylvania and Ohto for daring to strike, there is no evi- dence of “free institutions” visible in America. But if there were any “democratic” disguise left in America to mask the reality of the dictatorship of the capitalist class, the so-called “Reg- istration Law” recently passed by the Michigan Legislature and signed by the Governor, shows American “free institutions” to be an illusion. Millions of workers have been beguiled to immigrate to the United States because they resented the police supervision of their lives and labor by the despotism of old-world monarchies. In Michigan they can find an exact replica of the most despotic of despotisms. ‘The Michigan law begins with the enchanting announcement that it “defines a legal resident of this state as distinguished from a citizen.” It should be understood that, although this would indicate that Michigan offers special privileges to citizens, yet citizens who are workers have no unemployment insurance, they are just as “free” to starve, citizen- ship and all, after this law was passed as before, they are clubbed just as brutally if they go on strike as if they were not blessed with citizenship. However, under Michigan’s “Registration Law,” all these brutalities visited upon citizens can be, in the case of a foreign-born worker, added to by deportation. Thus it must be clearly understood that the law grants no special privileges to citizens, but only lays special punishments upon the foreign-born. Firstly, all foreign-born workers must “establish proof” (for the state, remember!) that they “legally entered the United States,” and obtain a “certificate of legal residence,” and the “Commissioner of Public Safety”—namely, the police—shall require of them: “Photographs, finger prints or such other evidence of identification as the discretion of the Commissioner shall demand.” Thus the police surveillance and supervision of all foreign-born workers is established by the capitalist government—for the obvious purpose of terrorizing them from participating in strikes. For any citizen always becomes an “undesirable citizen” to the capitalist gov- ernment merely by striking, and any foreign-born worker who strikes certainly will come under the following provision: “Sec. 3.—Any person of foreign birth, who comes within the clas- sification ‘Undesirable Alien’ as defined by the laws of the United States, is hereby disqualified from establishing or mafntaining legal residence in this state and from sojourning at all within the territorial limits of the State.” If any such “seeks to enter this state,” he will be “denied admission as its borders, or if detected after entering the state, shall be subject to deportation.” Such wonderful “freedom!” ‘That the Michigan Law is aimed directly at the workers is clear from the fact that such “undesirable aliens” are “prohibited from having employment” in Michigan, but—for the benefit of the emp!) s, is it provided that: “Sec. 16.—Nothing in this act contained interfere with any regula- tions that may hereafter be put into effect by the United States govern- ment to permit the temporary importation of emergency labor for ag- ricultural or any other necessary work.” As said before, Michigan gives, by this law, no privileges to workers who are citizens. And in practice the persecution authorized by it against foreign-born, will also apply to the worker citizens. Firstly, they will find that, when they want to strike against wage cuts, their foreign-born fellow workers—however “legal” they may be registered—will be terrorized by the bosses and the police into scabbing, in fear of deportation. Secondly, when strikers are “rounded up” by police, these police agents of the bosses will put each worker, even though a citizen, through the “Third Degree” to make them prove that they are really citizens and not the “undesirable aliens.” The result will be that every worker, cit- vee izen or alien, is in reality registered by and under supervision of the bosses’ police. With good reason every worker of Michigan, both citizen and foreign- born, who is conscious of his class position as a worker, as opposed to the capitalist class and its government, rallying all forces to resist this detestable tyranny of Michigan's’ “Registration Law.” nation over must support this fight! All workers the per SAVE THE DAILY $35,000 Save-The-Daily Worker Fund ene ie Me Me CURD ae a Ba dollars " vee Cents: We pledge to do all in our power to save our Daily ‘by, raising $35,000 by July 1. NAME cosccssersseraceevesceeresrereteenseersnesesgn, 2% aT SRN Sa Ie into Pittsburgh | ———— ee Cut out and mail at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York 6,000 Now Out There, Mine W235, ow thane wees TPatabugh TerPruiar Gor Ce, be Ae ore Hoo negro + wilt ‘race ahs mance Vol. VIII, No. 146 Entered as second: class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879q@35>21 Commu (SECTION OF THE: COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) unist Porty U.S.A. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUN E 18, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 15,000 MINERS MARCH ON WASHINGTON, PA. ® OHIO, WEST VA. STRIKE HEADS JAILED UMWA Under Armed Aid of Bosses Works to Break Strike ) More Mines Come Out As Strike Spreads BULLETIN. BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 17.— Tony Minerich, Secretary of the Ohio District Executive Committee of the National Miners Union was arrested on the picket line at the Powhatan Mine. He was taken to St. Clairsville. Peter Peris was ar- rested at Warwood and taken to Wheeling, W. Va. Four mines with 700 men joined the strike today. a: Wangs | WHEELING, W Va., June 17.—| Whitney Nelson, chairman of the Rank and File Strike Committee and his wife of the National Miners Union in this district were arrested along |' with another member of the Com- mittee at the Pineyfork picket line this morning. Five were arrested at Warwood, W. Va. The mass meeting at the Stew- art mine was broken up by a tear gas attack. Six hundred and fifty men struck this morning at the Darkey, Unionvale and Rail River | Mine No. 6. A total of 6,000 are now out in this district. ‘The chairman, secretary and most of the members of the Strike Com- mittee and the Union District Secre- tary, Sivert, are now in jail. Belmont, Jefferson and Harrison Counties. are armed camps. The United Mine Workers of America are operating openty under the protection of the armed forces of the bosses. Eviction of Negro and white miners hhas begun at Bradley. No charges as yet have been placed against the strikers’ organizers, except aganist ‘Thompson. The authorities simply arrest the strikers and hold them while efforts are intensified to break the strike. Allentown Strikers Speak in Paterson Mass Meeting Friday, June 19 at 8 P.M. PATERSON, N. J.—Calling on the silk and dye workers here to hear of the Allentown silk strike and greet Allentown silk strikers, the National Textile Workers’ Union has called a mass meeting for Friday, June 19, 8 p. m. at Carpenters Hall. Pointing out that the conditions that the Allentown silk workers are striking against are identical to that of the Paterson workers, the N. T. W. U, calls for shop organization and preparation for similar struggles here, y A committee of the Allentown strikers, together with a committee of the Paterson local of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union will present a plan of action for the silk and dye workers here. htigy Biedenkapp, well known New pce wes fe Scottsboro Struggle Needs ‘Daily’, Says Negro Worker; Act! : “Any paper that has courage to carry on so militantly the struggle against the lynching of the nine Negro boys in Scottsboro should have the backing of every black man and his organization.” Thus writes a Negro help the Daily Worker carry on its fight for the working class.” This Negro worker knows what a terrible blow it would be at the fight to free the Scottsboro boys if the Daily should'go under. He has acted; we hope he will act again and that many other workers, both black and white, will follow his example. Unless that happens, the Daily will be forced to suspend. Our receipts have slumped badly during the past five or six days. tributions go down, our debts go up. The average of $1,000 a day, that was needed from the beginning of the drive was never reached; now we must have at least $1,200 every day until the Daily Worker the country on June 26-27-28. Every district should until they are held. When the Daily Worker appeared with only two pages, thousands of workers became alarmed and sprang to action. We tell you now: THE SITUATION IS JUST AS CRITICAL TODAY: PRESENT RATE OF CONTRIBUTIONS KEEPS UP, WE CANNOT SURVIVE TILL THE TAG DAYS. COMRADES, YOUR S.0.S AT ONCE! NEW YORK CITY! SPEED FUNDS TO THE DAILY WORKER, worker of Boulder, Colo., enclosing a $1.00 contribution “to While the con- Tag Days that will be held in every district, in every city of be preparing for these Tag Days now, but we must exist IF THE FIGHTING DAILY, IS IN DANGER! ANSWER THIS 50 E. 13TH STREET, SENTENCE THREE IN READING, PA. Mass Protest Meeting Is Being Arranged READING, Pa. June 17.—Louls Scott, Communist Party organizer; Rothwell, Young Communist League organizer, and Isaac Hoffmaster, candidate for mayor on the Com- munist ticket, were arrested today by state police and sentenced by Judge Castner to prison for ten days. This is the beginning of a reign of terror in this “socialist” town. In order to avoid responsibility, the policy of the “socialists” who head the government of Reading, is to call in state cops. A mass pro- test meeting is being organized. Resistance of N. A. A.C.P. Leaders to United Front to Save Boys, Trotter Admits BOSTON, June 17.—William Monroe Trotter, Secretary of the National Equal Rights League, announces in the Boston Guardian, organ of the League, that the N.A.A.C.P. leaders have flatly refused to confer with the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights which e | tried to quit, and were told by armed are defending the 9 Scottsboro® Negro boys. The I. L D. and the L.S.N.R. have repeatedly called for a united front of all forces willing to fight for the release of the nine boys being railroaded to the electric chair in Alabama in a hideous frame-up. Trotter, whose organization has not yet joined the fight to save the boys, sent a letter to a number of organizations proposing an “arrange- ment for harmony on the defense of these helpless victims.”’ The L.S.N.R. and the I.L.D. which have all along stressed the importance of a united fight involving millions of Negro and white workers, to save the boys, at once accepted Trotter's invitation. They wrote to him welcoming the National Equal Rights League “into MASS PICKETING SPREADS STRIKE; PUSH CAMPAIGN FOR MINERS RELIEF 500 More Vesto Miners Join Strike Tuesday One Miner Shot WIRandTUULIn| United Front Relief | Conference | PITTSBURGH, ° June” 17.—Yester-{ day 500 miners in Vesta Mine ho joined the strike. Mass picketing at| the Sagamore mine brought out most) of the crew of a thousand this morn- | ing. Most companies are refusing} back pay to the miners. | The Socialist National Executive in session here is working up a “re- lief’ scheme to aid the scabbing | United Mine Workers of America. ‘The Central Rank and File Strike| Committee of about 300 members | opened its sessions at one o’clock this | afternoon. KINLOCH, Pa., June 17.—One of the approximately 40 men hired’ by Valley Camp Coal Co. in Cleveland last week, and taken to tis Kinloch mines without being told that there was a strike, has been shot by the deputies for trying to quit and join the strike. These men were driven into the mine after the 20 guards, one with a machine gun, and car- loads of state troopers running along- side their special train had bought) a fierce battle with the pickets. Once in the mine, most of the guards that they had to work. They are driven to labor in the mine at the points of guns. One tried to es- cape, and was shot down, his where- abouts being now unknown. One did escape, and told the strik- ers that the majority of them wanted to get out but were in fear of theri lives if they tried. The newspapers state today .that small pox has broken out among them, Issue Injunction | PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 17.— The injunction against picketing re- quested last week by the Butler Con- solidated Coal Co., whose mine at Wildwood is the most mechanized in| the world, has been granted. A full (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRED) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Rally All Detroit Workers On June 19 Against Alien Registration Bill and Scottsboro Lynching By EARL BR BROWDER. On June 19, a nationally important demonstration is being held in De- troit. It is a mass protest against the infamous Broeker-Murphy Alien Registration Bill (officially the Chee- ney Bill), and at the same time against the execution of the Scotts- boro Negro boys on July 10 in the electric chair. This demonstration, called by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, by the Council for Protection of the Foreign Born, by the International Labor Defense, and by the Unemployed Councils of De- troit, assisted by dozens of other or- ganizations, must receive the enthu- Siastic cooperation of all workers. Michigan Alien-Registration 3 at the very possibility, of life of hundreds of thousands of workers in Michigan. At the same moment it hits the entire working class, It is part of the preparations for general wage cuts and speed-up in the automobile industry. It ts preparation for brutal police sup- pression of all resistance to wage- cuts and speed-up. It is prearation to suppress the growing army of un- employed, whose meagre dole now being paid about 10 per cent of the unemployed, is further to be cut in half, while the growing army starves altogether. It is openly proclaimed to be a weapon to outlaw the workers’ organizations who really fight for unemployment insurance and relief, against wage-cuts and speed-up, and for all demands of the workers. part and parcel of the same capi- talist class oppression, and attempts to divide the working class, that has produced the infamous Scottsboro le- gal lynching, the frame-up of the nine Negro boys (three of them less than 14 years of age) who are being sent to the electric chair on the charge of having “raped” two notor- ious white prostitutes. The nation- wide protest against this lynching which has roused the entire country, will be further emphasized in the mass mobilization of the Detroit working class on the streets June 19, and in the mass meeting in Olympia hall at night. The demonstration A mighty mass protest in Detroit on June 19, will really begin the seri- ous struggle against the Alien Regis- tration Bill of Governor Broeker, the faker Mayor Murphy, and the ex- Czarist stoop pigeon, Spoliansky, who worked it out on behalf of the auto- mobile manufacturers. It will, be a serious blow against the lynch-justice of the Southern white ruling class, whcih drives down the conditions of the entire working class by its enslavement of the Ne- gro masses. It will be a great step forward in the struggle for equal rights and self-determination for the Negro masses, must also join the nationa-wide pro- test against the 42-year prison sen- of the Imperial Valley organ- It will be a preparation for organ- a ‘MARCH SWELLS T0 35,000 PARADERS Plan Bigger March. If 1 Demands Not Granted PITTSBURGH, Pa.. June 17.—Fit- | teen thousand striking miners and unemployed workers Weekington, Pa. county seat of Washington County. Men and wom- jen, Negroes and whites and children -—they marched along the highways. Some got up at midnight, marched ten miles on the picket line—inei- dentally they pulled Vesta Mine No. 6 at California out on strike, 450 men, this morning (Tuesday)—and marched or |then marched ten or fifteen miles to | Washington. When the parade swept through Washington streets, crowds marched jalong the sidewalks with them, and thousands joined the parade in the street until finally over 35,000 were parading. For the first time in the mine strikes they sang “Solidarity”. and while the placards tossed above the line over a mile and a half long cheers rang out in volume for the National Miners Union—Booes for Fagan and the operators. ‘Two county commissioners tremb- led visibly when the committee of 30. laid before them a picture of the starvation of men, women and chil- |dren in the mining and steel towns, the picture of brutalities by the po- lice Governor Pinchot sends in while pathy” for the workers of Washing- ton county, the picture of heroism (CONTINUED O03 PAGE TBREE) FORM ANTI-SOVIET WAR GROUP OF 100. Woll Active for World Imperialist Front NEW YORK. — A committee of 100 leading exploiters and anti-Soviet labor fakers in the A. F. of L. to spur on a united front of the lead- ing imperialist powers for an attack on the Soviet Union is now in form- ation under the leadership of Na- tional Civic Federation, headed by Mathew Woll. ‘ At a dinner held Tuesday night Woll declared that the Civic Feder- ation was organizing an interna- tional movement “to combat the Soviet menace now confronting the world.” The “ten year plan” which Woll and Gerard, ex-ambassador in the name of the Civic Federation to combat the Five Year Plan of the U. S. S. R., was dropped like a hot potatoe after Hoover denounced “planning.” Mr, Theunis, former Prime Mine ister of Belgium, who has been work- ing with the Civic Federation to forge a united anti-Soviet war front among the leading imperialist pow- ers, issued a statement approving of Woll’s plans and offering to do his ization and strike against the wage- ee ee \ best in Europe to strengthen the he mouthes honnied words of “sym-. ‘