The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1931, Page 1

: Browder Calls for Aid to “Daily Worker” DEAR READERS of the DAILY WORKER: Of course you realize the importance of having a paper which gives you every day those vital facts of work ingclass struggle, of the heroic Pittsburgh miner’s battle, of the Scottsboro Case, of the hunger marches, of the struggle against war. You understand that without the Daily Worker it would have been impossible to de- velop such magnificent class movements, to put up such fights for our demands. But you do not all yet realize that the Daily Worker can only live so long as its readers give it enough money to pay the printers, the engravers, and the paper houses. You must realize this fact. Our campaign for funds must be given the help of every reader. YOU must also do your part----and quickly. 2 cy e 8 s EARL BROWDER Readers, the Daily Worker is seriously threatened and there is no assurance that we can hold out to the nation- wide Tag Days June 26-27-28. Speed funds to the Daily Worker. 50 E. 13th St., New York City OF THE WORLD, ; WORKERS UNITE! oe eat (SECTION OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. VIII, No. 148 oo NT. ander the act of Maren 2, 18% => ~=NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1931 ",),.0..004 EDITION Price 3 Cents Smash the Enemies of the Miners! YY worker throughout the country should rally to the call for relief to the striking miners who are battling against starvation end a _, United front of all enemies, open and concealed, of the whole working ) class. * It is imperative that these heroic strikers, their wives and babies be fed. Other workers must furnish the food which will be the munions of battle in the class war now raging. But even the sending of relief funds, workers must guard against, them falling into the hands of the strikers’ enemies, because the so- called “socialist” party, which is supporting the U. M. W. A., the com- pany union approved by the mine owners, has resorted to a despicable trick to prevent funds reaching the only relief organization chosen by the strikers themselves, the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Avenue, Room 517, Pittsburgh, Pa. ‘Thése “socialist” scoundrels have opened a so-called “Miners’ Relief Fund” at the same street address—on the floor above! All workers should be warned that this “socialist” outfit is working against the strikers, playing the bosses’ games, trying to drive the miners into the scab organization they despise, the J. M. W. A. of John L. Lewis and Pat Fagan, ttying to break the strike. Send relief funds only to the miners’ own committee, the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Avenue, Room 517, Pittsburgh, Pa. Aid the strikers! Smash their enemies! ‘The strike will be won on the-picket line! And relief will help the picket line! The strike will be won on the picket line and in defiance of the outrageous injunction of the capitalist courts! The strike will 4 © be won on the picket line by mass picketing, defying the injunction and the attempt of the bosses, the United Mine Workers company union, the brutal police and the hypocrite Governor Pinchot. The miners are learning that the state law “against injunctions” is ® farce; learning that capitalist laws and capitalist government are always against the workers; learning that the only way to win their strike is to tear up injunctions and defy them by picketing in masses! ‘These miners, who already have suffered betrayal after betrayal by the U. M. W. A, are seeing a new attempt at betrayal. The capitalist press réports from Pittsburgh on Wednesday openly states that Governor Pinchot is supporting the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company in driving the miners back at a wage cut in agreement with the U. M. W. A. It says: “The company is willing to recognize the union (the scab U. M. W. A.—Editor), provided a satisfactory wage rate of 421-2 cents a ton for loading, instead of 45 cents, the highest rate paid before the strike.” The dispatch, which is from the United Press service, makes clear @hat the company is making a deal with the treacherous U. M. W. A., to give this scab outfit the check off in exchange for betraying the miners into a wage cut. The dispatch says: “The operating company desires the reduction in wages in re- + tarn for union recognition, which includes the check-off.” In short, the mine owners are bribing the officials of the U. M. W. A., ” the notorious Fagan end the rest, t@ sell out the strikers, to betray the strike against starvation into even worse starvation wages than before! The miners will stand like a rock against this dirty game of sell- \out! Against the U. M. W. A. and the bosses and the governor who ‘trying to drive them back at a wage cut! They will fight like lions break the capitalist court injunctions by militant mass picketing! ‘And to help them do it, every worker everywhere must rush to their relief! Send funds to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 611 Peun Ave., Room 517, Pittsburgh, Pa.! Governor Pinchot Admits He | Is Trying to Break Mine Strike . PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 19.-—The demands presented to Governor Pin- chot by Frank Borich, seczetary of the National Miners’ Union, and a delegation of 32 Negro and white striking miners, as reported by the Pittsburgh press, are as follows: ditions at mines. Abolition of forceable dealing at company stores, the companies to bay miners in cash, Abolition of company towns, Cessation of efforts by Governor Pinchot. and local authorities and /MASS PICKET | An open hearing in Pittsburgh on the mine situation. Removal of all armed forces from strike area. Release of all strike prisoners. ‘Establishment of the state un- employment insurance and relief to all unemployed miners. \No restriction of relief collec- | tions. _ | Abolition of injunctions, es Establishment of rights to speak, assemble, picket and demonstrate. Abolition of terrorizing methods against foreign-born workers. Abolition of persecution of Ne- against unhealthy and unsafe con- strikebreaking organization to us¢ Power of the state to force miners back under the yoke of the United Mine Workers. General conference of coal op- erators and rank and file commit- tee, National Miners’ Union, on basis of demands submitted opera- tors by committee, Immediately after the strikers’ delegation left, Governor Pinchot made a statement admitting he was trying to break the strike led by the National Miners’ Union. He told of his efforts to get the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. officials and the United Mine Workers together to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TO SMASH - INJUNCTION Expose Judge As Tool of Mine Operators Refuse ‘to Starve . | | Miners Demand Right | to Live PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 19—The striking miners will march in masses on the Wildwood mine of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co, from all sides, in defiance of an injunction against picketing granted the company on Tuesday by Judge Rowand. A resolution to that effect was adopted by the 302 members of the Central Rank and File Strike Com- mittee at their meeting yesterday at 1 p. m. here in Irene Kauffman’s Settlement Hall. The committee is the leading body of the strike, and is made up of members elected by the mass of workers at each of the minés.. of Western and Central Pennsyl- vania. Wednesday's meeting was the largest held so far and the hall was packed far beyond capacity. ‘The resolution defining the strikers policy on the injunction was pro- posed by a rank and file member and adopted and was followed by a motion, also adopted, to make the picketing a mass demonstration of miners from nearby places. ‘The second most important deci- sion of the session was to endorse the sending of a joint delegation of five from each of the seven struck | Pittsburgh Coal Co. mines, plus a committee of five elected right in the session Wednesday of the Cen- tral Rank and File Strike Committee, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) GERARD IN RADIO. _ PLEA TO BOSSES Wants Help for Fake | 10-Year “Plan” NEW YORK.—Continuing his ef- {forts to divert the attention of the American masses from their misery under capitalism, James W. Gerard, appealed over the radio last night for support of the attack engineered by himself, Matthew Woll and others on the successful Soviet Five-Year Plan. Woll, who is vice-president of the A. F. of L. and, quite appropriately acting president of the labor-hating Civic Federation, has transmitted to 600 organizations ‘this proposal for a 10-year Plan to save capitalism by fooling the masses into the bélief that capitalism can solve their mis- ery. Most of the letters nave been sent to commercial organizations. They call for a congress to “repre- sent industry, trade, transportation, credit, finance, agriculture and ‘ser- vice equipment.” In his radio address, Mr. Gerard intimated that the Sherman Anti- Trust act would have to be abolished to allow huger combimations of American capitalists. Scottsboro Tag Day in Chattanooga This Sat. and Sunday CH2TTANOOGA, June 19—A lo- cal Scottsboro Tag Day has been or- ganized for Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and “21. % Working-class neighborhoods, churches, lodges and fraternal or- ganizations will be canvassed in and around Chattanooga. Additional funds will be raised in the South through the collection lists recently issued by the Southern districts of the International Labor Defense. These lists have been circulated in Charlotte, Elizabethan, Chattanooga, Birmingham, Atlanta, Tampa, Pen- sacola, Fort Lauderdale and New Or- | leans to date, * GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER’'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! MINERS! DRIVE OUT THE SCAB HERDING UM. W. A! ‘MINERS PICKETING WILL SMASH UMW-PINCHOT STRIKE-BREAKING me | MINERS PREPARE | HUNGER MARCH FOR JUNE 36, -| More Miners Join th Strike PITTSBURGH, Five hundred mines marched on National No. 3 of the National Mining Co. today and pulled out all but a couple of hun- dred of the 900 working there. The rest promised to come out tomorrow. The company is owned by Caxmegie Steel. Seven hundred men struck at Elm | one of the} Grove, West Virginia, Paisley interests’ Valley mines. ‘The press here reports that today in Florence mine of the Yougihogeny and Ohio Coal Co., Ohio, deputies attacked with tear gas a mass march of 300 men. Some broke through the cloud of tear gas, and neared the mine where mine guards set upon them with clubs and guns and wounded eight. Camp Co. From Greene County, Pa., come re- , ports of impending strike in eight mines, to each of which has been 2 Pa. June 18. —/ strikers from other! WEDNESDAY MORSING. JUNE OPEN-SHOP URGES MEN JOIN UNION | MINE OWNER} “alse To This story, reproduced from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, speaks for itself. It shows the U.M.W.A. as the strike-breaking tool of the coal oper- ators working against the miners. < | ‘United Mine Workers Vital nnotineed last night that he will eal! go Mounds W. Va, todsy 390 miners from Ube Panaa spine of bis , and Snvite them to form @ loca! of the United Mins of Ameriy cr Sulstanding Aevelopaanis 18 th TA Smale atae Rstsike yesterday were as follows) eee Solution, Employer Of 300 Contends, ging the coal industry and matte ble for both operators and miners, MJ. president of the Beh Franklia Cos) sent a big force of newly deputized company guards. The idea is to try to terrorize the miners into staying at work, | | | * 8 PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 18. Active preparations are being made for the greatest of all hunger march- es. It will be a march of thousands} of striking and unemployed miners; and s teel workers from all around} (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Mass Protests On Scottsboro Force Issue Into Pages of Capitalist Press NEW YORK.—The angry protest | of teh international working-class against the frightful Scottsboro, Ala., frame-up and attempted legal lynch- ing of nine'innocent Negro boys are breaking through ,the copspiracy ot silence with which the northern poss papers have béen aiding their south- ern class brothers 7 carrying through thjs brutdl cr Twice within the pases ‘two weeks the capitalist’ press has been forcea to report powerful demonstrations of German workers in front of Amerl- can Consulates against the horrible crime beitig prepared by the southern lynch bosses and their white and Ne- gro agents In the United States it- self, the mass fight to save the boys which was initiated by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense has su roused the Negro and white workers, and‘ many sympathizers, that the boss papers are being flooded, with letters , protesting the hideous out- rage. On two occasions within the past week, the New York Evening World-Telegram has had to'print a number of these letters. These let- Boss Papers Forced Report International Demonstrations ters show how deeply the masses are stirred. Excerpts from some of the letters follow: J. Goldberg writes, in part: “Con- sidering the facts of the case, tt 1s highly important ‘that’ every” fair- minded person should protest this legal lynching of a group of boys who are not much more than children. Even their trial was rushed through with unwonted haste and secrecy, with very little opportunity for de- fense. This affair should be: brought, to the attention of the whole world in order that justice may be done.” H. Kappelman, writes, in part: “We have accustomed ourselves to lynch Jaw justice, but.as yet we have heard little of mob-surrounding con- victions. And now, when’ a member of the Bar from New York (here he refers to Joseph Brodsky, one of the. LL.D, attorneys in the case) comes Vto the aid of the victims to assure them of their constitutional privilege and the right of counsel, we hear of some unknown citizens asking his leaving the State.” H. Marshall Fredericks, writes, in| part: of hiding behind the skirts of his women to justify his thirst for kill- ing black men, both fm and out of the courts of justice, has been of such long practice that it is arousing the concern of the intelligent element of all groups.” The League of Struggle for Ne- gto Rights and the International Labor Defense, the two organiza- tions charged with the nine boys and their parents to conduct their defense call upon all persons and organizations opposed to this legal lynching to rally in a united front to the mass fight to save the boys. Moral and financial support will help to defeat this frightful out- rage. Funds should immediately be tushed to the International Labor _ ARMY IN CHINA | Province, China, according to an As- “The Southern white man’s hobby | Chiang Kai Shek has not started ADVANCING RED NEARS NANCHANG Nanchang, the capital of Kiangs! sociated Press dispatch from Shang- hai is being surrounded by Red Army troops, and its fall is momentarily expected, The Shanghai report stated that | 20,000 Nationalist Government troops were being rushed to Nanchang in an effort to bolster up the white guard defense. “The Reds, with @ strong: grip on Southern Kiangsi,” reads the cable, “moved northward, their advance ap- proaching the gates of the capital Fearing Nanchang would fall, the government hurried 20,000 more troops into Kiangsi with field guns and modern arms.” out on his second much-heralded anti-Communist crusade. Red advances were reported in new sections of China, Chengyangkwan, the A.P. dispatch said, “an important | city 150 miles west of Nanking, was reported surrounded by Reds. No troops were available for its defense and its fall was expected.” UNEMPLOYED AID MINERS “COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., June 19. —The Unemployed Council has de- cided to send a letter of solidarity to the striking miners of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio in their fight against starvation and is pledging them full support in their struggle. They also made a collection of $1 ‘Terminal Company Says It Will Run With Open Ship PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 13.— Fifty women on the Creighton picket line were attacked by dep- uty sheriffs today when they re- sisted an attempt to drive them out. Dorthy Luciasano, Bruna Blaques and John Sara were ar- rested. Twenty-five hundred picketed at the Montour Mine today, begin- ning at 10 am. HARRISBURG, Pa. —Frank Borich, secre- tary of the National Miners Union who led ‘\a delegation of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee to expose the secret con- ference called by Gov- ernor Pinchot together with the United Mine Workers issued the following statement : “The reason the Pinchot- United Mine Workers of America conference broke up without a scab agreement just now is not because of disagreement of wages. The Creighton and Ben Franklin agreements showed the UMW$9 is not trying to raise the wage scale. The reason is the mass Proetst of thirty thousand miners as preparations to smashing the Scab agreement by mass picketing. “The fake wage issue is designed to raise the UMWA prestige to try again later through state or federal mediation to effect such a scab agreement.” The Pittsburgh Coal Co. now says they will operate open shop. It will be met by mass picketing. A permit for fifty thousand hunger marchers, striking unemployed miners and steel workers: to meet in Pittsburgh, East Side Park, June 30 at 1 p.m. has al~ teady been received. Demands to be raised are: $10 a week and $5 additiorial for deperd- ents, withdrawal of state poljce depu~ ties, abolish the Butler injunction, no evictions, gas, light and social in- surance by state. The Washington hunger march leaders went back to the Diamond mine and pulled out the whole crew of 130 men and took them in pit clothes to the Vesta Six picket line. Jobless workers twice today pick« eted the Corraddo and Budd-Davis Employment agencies here on Second and Grant which ‘import strike breakers from Cleveland offices of Corraddo, East Ninth at Public Sq. and International Agency, 207 Supe~ rior St. Picket Cleveland Scab Agencies. The Cleveland agencies must be picketed. Corraddo promises*fare and board free but miners charge that @ which was sent to the miners and Defense, 80 E, 12th St. New York cit~ have pledged to collect additional funds, shot gun guard is placed over Cor~ tado scabs at Youngstown after which they’become virtual prisoners, } were an