The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1931, Page 5

ee DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1931 Page rive HOW THE WORKERS ADVANCE IN THE SOVIET UNION Note: Comrade Bedacht’s articles will be pub- 7 lishepl as a 5 cent pamphlet as soon as they are | completed in the Daily Worker. Order your copy tio. PRS ay 2 By MAX BEDACHT. TX. ’The Cultural Advance of the Soviets. The. revolutionary advance of the Russian workers to the position of the ruling class created colossal tasks for them. The supposed high “culture of the ruling landed aristocracy in Czarist Russia only emphasized the bitter antagonism of czarism to mass culture. The white: spots of the “culture” of the ruling classés only brought into sharper relief the utter darkness in the cultural life of tife Rus- sian. masses. Under Czarism less than 28 per cent of the entire rural population could read. In thé cities 40 per cent of the population were illiterate. [Illiteracy gripped 64.5 per cent of the,entire population of Czarist Russia. But even-these fearful figures cannot give a com- plete picture of the problems which the cul- ‘ural révolution of the Soviets must solve. Capitalism developed within feudalism. So- cialism cannot develop within capitalism. The economic organization of capitalism developed even ‘Before the capitalists were the ruling class. The capitalist revolution did not have to ,establish capitalist economy. It merely hadeto establish the political conditions for its further expansion. The nucleus of the admin- rative and technical staff needed by capi-| talism,for the further expansion of its eco- nomic system had been trained in the capitalist | industrial and commercial ‘relations and trans- | actions. existing and developing under feud- alisms- The workers do not have such favorable con- ions, for their revolution. The economic stem which the workers’ revolution must establish is not a further development of the | oldjieapitalist system but a complete replace- | mefit"6f it. The task of the proletarian revo- lution is not further to develop the capitalist world; its task is to build a new world. This new-world must be built with the materials provided by the old capitalist world. The most important of these materials is | the, working class itself. Out of this material the proletarian revolution must build its gov- ernment; from this material it must man its new “economic structure, its administrative! 2pparatus; from this material it must recruit | its eadres of educators, | Thé-eapitalist cadres of these categories can | be a8ed by the proletatian revolution only to a very limited degree. The cadres of admin- | istrators, technicians, educators, ete., taken | overof7sm the capitalist order are dominated | by-a@feurgeois ideology (capitalist’ way of thialyng). For them the taking of power by thé"Riissian workers was an intolerable pre- | su m. They were antagonistic to the| d the leading positions of the government and the industry they resisted the building of the new world. Out of their ranks the counter- revolution recruited the most active sections of its forces. After the defeat of the counter- revolution these elements settled down in the hope that the workers’ government could not last long. They consented to take positions in government and industry; but in these posi- tions they waited for the collapse of the So-| big elementary school which taught not only | viets. When the success of the Soviets and the progress in the building of socialism put | understand and to build it. an end to their hopes of a bourgeois degen- eration of the proletarian revolution, their op- position again changed from a passive into an active one. They again became soldiers of the counter-revolution, this time on the economic front. By means of sabotage, of mis-direction of efforts, etc., they fought socialist progress. | The $Shachty trial and the recent trial of the Industrial Party bear witness to this fact. The bourgeois intelligentsia, technicians, in- structors,,etc., remain a foreign political body in the growing socialist state almost to the end. A complete assimilation of this element is possible only in the melting pot of the final success of- socialism. Under these conditions it is clear that the success in the building of socialism cannot be based on these elements. They are some of the indispensable materials left by capitalism for the construction of socialism. They can | and must be used in this construction; but they cannot be entrusted with it. The work- ing class itself must supply the forces which will assure the success of the Soviets. The Russian working masses were left by Czarism in darkest ignorance. The November revolution made them the rulers of Russia. The revolution gave them power; but for mil- lions of them it afforded also the first oppor- | tunity to learn to read. Through painful and difficult efforts they had to acquire the ability to be the government; they had to learn to be administrators of industry; they had to de- velop into technicians; they had to learn to be military leaders against the well-trained gen- erals of the counter-revolution. It is clear therefrom that the problem for the Russian masses was not merely to acquire “culture.” The prevailing culture was a pro- duct, an expression and a stronghold of Czarist rule and of capitalism. The toiling masses need a different culture—a culture that grows out of their own life and out of their own class needs; a culture that grows out of the revolution itself. The proletarian revolution is developing such a new culture; as it de- velops it this culture becomes itself a revolu- tionary force in the building of the new world. | The first step forward made by the Soviets was the struggle against illiteracy. This strug- gle was carried through even in the darkest hours of advancing counter-revolution. While complaining that the absence of freedom of the press in Soviet Russia deprived the Rus- sian masses from choosing their reading mat-) ter, the Soviets were making almost super- human efforts in teaching these masses how to read. combatted. | When the lash education of the masses. All previous ruling | which they lea classes based their education on the science of | ligion. oppression and exploitation. The education |; viet Union is based on the science of ending | in the Soviet U dous educational efforts of the Soviets is an-| The capital other crime charged against them. To fill} bury, of Paris millions of workers’ children with the trash|the Soviets of |that they must be satisfied with their lot of | To save the lives of their capit their minds into the belief of an unknown, in- visible, but all powerful force that cannot be} With poison of religion the lcoking for the mater his s are incanable of by mii of peli rn to resist the poison of re- In 1928 already 87.2 per cent of all children | nomic exploita‘ion desconls cn the'r ke from 8 to 11 years of age were provided with | ligion makes them look for th invisible hanc schools. The Red Army was turned into one|of gcd. If the 1e material} y ause of their mi 1 nd the how to defend the revolution, but also how to|hand of the ruling class on le They Every step for-| would halt that hand. They would wrest the ward which was made by the Soviets was ac-|lash from it. They wovld fi for what is companied by efforts to make the next step] theirs, instead of allowing their exploiters to easier, to develop new administrators, new) rivet their eyes on the nothingness of a here- technicians, new instructors. after while they pick their pockets. Contrary to all previous ruling classes, the| The progress made by the toiling masses in working class as the ruler is interested in the| the Soviet Union is indicated by the degree in | | The progress of revolutionary culture | \in Russia is indicated by the retreat which the | provided by the proletarian rulers of the So-| church, the merchant of religion, had to make nion, Every transformation of | oppression and exploitation; it is the embodi-|a church building in the Soviet Union into a} ment of the science of revolution, of socialism. | workers’ club is a milestone on the road of the | | This revolutionary content of the tremen-) cultural progress of the Soviets. t popes of Rome and Canter- and Washington are accusing bloody exces against god. alist gods these 4 of Largest Districts Drop Badly in Daily Worker Drive Workers who do not wish their were a little | zh. A tot. e in, but this is sti other dis fell down tributed alifornia) 13 con- in any} second alifornia, 8 excep. badly more th bit, with $48 ( up a sota) woke DISTRICT 1 A. becauxe of pos- | § e tural) Kuronewisz, . respectly 1 be dol raised ont ut 9 especially 16 (South), 1 und 19 (Denver),-which making a habit of Tt More action from?all the distri t afte your frien om at “DISTRICT 5 Finnish Wkemen's | Philadelphia 5.00 | J, Weiner, nd 85.00 | —|F Reaves Falle, Po. 1:00 Lee | Total, Ftt00) wanien'é Club of BO DIST EIOrs Ambridge 15.00 130 | Syracuse sW.00 | Col. by J Doratt: tat 50) Rea DISTRICT 6 Cleveland: Max Ratnoff M. Shapiro be ama 59| Mi. Rosenthal pas 1. Kalman + vhec Gasca Reback beri a Onset Col, by Desantls ayer A Pawlowsky M. Shank M. Halperin t Pees Ho Hurvitz J. Skempsky ‘arnet) S. Barna N. Varisane t 5.00 nia Heinrich 1.00 0 Z Heise é 5 rie ae ob Heinrich = 4 | slaving for capitalist profits because capital- | popes want to sacrifice a few million workers’ J. Gaxbara ism in return supplies one out of every 20 mil-| lives in a bloody invasion of the Soviet Union. Coby nesail Potat 836. lion of them with the theoretical chance to be-| Blood-curdling stories of religious persecution | ‘Total 7335.00 | Deere ‘Ts |* fe ee come president some day is called ‘free” edu-|are manufactured to create the necessary holy | DISTRIC' | Col-by G, Phillipa: Deters ee jcationy But to teach the workers’ children the} war myth; but the w eapon with which the| wpe’ * © $o wens L- Bate Bs | science of the conditions and the materials of | Soviets are fighting the capitalist gods and)| Bees cts a2 ae tare building. a better world—that is called misus-| their religious poison are schools, books and aie buns lepine We, ceadaia | ing science in the interest of a class. proletarian culture. Valentino L. Routt: | In spite of all opposition the Soviet Union| The Soviets combat illiteracy: by training| Suninese Saipenks proceeds with the work of achieving the cul-/new teaching staffs and by building new} Sites heen tural elevation of the masses on the basis of| schools. This creates the basis of mass edu) GU Panes erie SES ie | Marxism-Leninism. This science has led the| cation. Literature and the press enter as the} un Y | Cal. by J. Schwarta: ; Bi ovaakerhoner | Russian masses in their struggle for freedom | next step. The output of the proletarian pre: banquet. W. |: di. Chanehinsky ts jfrom capitalist exploitation. It is guiding] of today is already more than double of the| Rianeth Uaioe vical r | them in the building of socialism. It teaches| output of the Czarist pr in pre-war days. | ro. Be eo keane. > 760 PE mapels Che | them the basis and conditions of social life and| The book publication and circulation has more | 1 Berkowlts 251-3; Johnson, Unit 2 thereby enables them to change their slavery | than doubled since 1913. maga- Lisauta” 1.00 West Allis to into a mastery over the social forces. | zines, books are all put into service to advance | ‘So. meee The cultural revolution taking place in the! Soviet Union is freeing the fnasses rapidly | signed to crow \ talism, just as the political revolution has freed | them from the political shackles and the eco-| administrators, | nomic revolution is freeing them from the eco- ers, new leader: nomic shackles of capitalism. Under the influence of the cultural revolu- | tion the Russian masses are breaking away \from the influence of the darkest force of op- | pression, religion. Religion is an insidious |poison. This poison has been and is being ad- | ministered to the masses by all forces of ex- | ploitation and oppression the world over. The purpose of the poison of religion is to take derstanding of | leads to a more The cultura the building of soc from the remaining mental shackles of capi- | ologies with socialist | serve the purpose of prepa of the revolution; this unde lism, They are all de- d out remaining capitalist ide- conceptions. They all ng new cadres. of new technicians, new teach- Their production is planned like all production is planned under Soviet rule. It is planned not only as to quantity, but also as to its purpose. It is the fore used to convey an un- s and of the purposes systematic use of the available forces and to greater speed in the accomplish- ment of the purposes of the revolution. advance of the Soviet Union tanding in turn} prelstarian revolution. They fought it. In| the “liberals” of the capitalist world were the minds of the oppressed and exploited off the, material world. Religious poison draws produces socialist men just as the economic advance produces socialist economics. MINERS PREPARE HUNGER MARCH More Miners Join the} Strike AUBD FRO Pittsburgh, Allecheny and surround- ing counties, into the steel and coal capital°of the world. These thou- sands..will demand cash relief for unemployed and strikers alike, food for children, milk for babies, no evic- ; tions, tte. PAGE ONED rch was decided upon by the €entral Rank and File Strike Comiitittee, 302 members from all the mine strike area, meeting here Wed- nesday; The march will take place June.30, ‘There will probably be two other marchés éither shortly before or just after the Pittsburgh march. These will, b¢.in Fayette County, on the county..seat at Uniontown and in Westmoreland County, on the coun- seat at Greensburg. Both these counties are full of jobless miners. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 18.—The steel:workers are moving to the aid of therstriking miners, and are be- ginning to organize also for their own-cause. A conference of steel workers and mine strikers, both em- ployed.-and unemployed workers, has been; called by the Central Rank and..File Strike Committee of the NationalMiners Union, and the Me- tal Workers Industrial League of the TUUb-to meet in Pittsburgh at IrenevKauffman Hall, 2035 Center St. ate3 p. m., Saturday, June 20. Each miner member of the strike committee is spreading. the word among<the rest of the strikers that each is:to agitate for the support of thewonference among the nea: steel workers. Many of the s' towris are literally surrounded by coal ‘The-Cofference will work out plans for organization of relief in the steel towns**for the striking miners, for other®=‘4id; particularly in hunger marches, and will plan a drive to or- ganize the steel workers to put up a fight’ for'their own demands. There“ are continual reports of wagé-¢tits and lay offs among the steel “workers. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 18. — A committee of striking miners is tour- ing thé” middle west with Marcel Schérer,” national secretary of the Workers International Relief to or- nize collections of food, clothing | ences there Saturday. | Strikers and their wives and chil- ployed and to demand his immediate ee , and money for the striking miners. ; | They will arrive in Detroit, June 19} and speak at section relief confer- Monday they will be at a relief conference in Cleveland. Scherer stated when he began his tour: “The crucial need for relief for the miners’ struggle against starv- ation has not been felt by the rev- olutionary workers. Relief is need- ed today—the strikers cannot go on .starving and at the sage time con- tinue their heroic battle against the coal operators and their gun- men. The strikers have no food for their children, babies have gone unfed and we must sound the alarm. In such a situation there is serious danger for the strike. dren are canvassing the mining camps but there is little to be had. The steel workers and railroad workers are themselves ¢Jose to starvation even if they have work. But half are unemployed. So in the area close to the striking mines very little food can be had. “But relief funds and food can be gotten from the workers in the larger cities. Our collection must be immediate. Miners are coming with trucks to our relief head- quarters for food and we do not have provisions to give them. But we must not and we will not turn them back emptyhanded. We must pack those trucks full and encour- age and help these fighting min- ers and comrades of ours. Show your solidarity today! “The fakers of the United Mine Workers are opening up saloons to dope the strikers with poison moon- shine to demoralize the fighting spirit. We will answer the U. M. W. A. saloons with relief kitchens of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee. “Today counts—delay is danger- ous—food and funds for relief to 611 Penn Ave. Room 601, Pitts- burgh, Pa, ' ILD Mass Trial for Unemployd Worker INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. June 19— A mass workers trial “Luesse vs. the Capitalist State,” will be held at the Workers Center, 932% S. Meridian St. on Sunday, June 28, at 2.30 in the afternoon. The trial is called by the International Labor Defense against the jailing of Theo. Luesse, young leader of the Indiana unem- release. The audience will be the jury, and witnesses will be unem- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 0: | plan their. scab activity. The gov- ernor conferred with. Samuel Purs- glove, president of the Terminal Coal Co.; Horace F. Baker, legal ad- viser for the company, and Phillip Murray, international vice-president, and Fagan of the United Mine Workers, Bosses, Governor, U.M.W Unite. From the statement of the gov- ernor it is clear that thé company, the governor and the U.M.W. are in perfect agreement and are going to do all they can to ram the scab agreement down the miners’ throats. Aresolution passed by the miners who sent the delegation to Harris- burg, repudiating the U. M. W., said, in part: . “We denounce this conference as an organized effort to break our ILD HITS POLICE AID TO LYNCHERS OF NEGRO TOILER Exposes Police Lie of How Bosses Got Entry to Jail CHATTANOOGA, Ala., June 19.— No trace has been found of Thomas Jasper, 35-year-old Negro worker, who was taken out of the city jail at Huntsville, Ala., on Tuesday by two white men. The police admit their belief that the worker has been lynched, In an attempt to explain how the two white men could enter the prison and break open the cell in which Jasper was confined, the police give the alibi that in their absence in an- swering a fake emergency call the men filed off the door of the jail. Police claim ignorance of the iden- tity of the men, but as Jasper had been locked up on a charge of an- noying a white girl engineered by his employer the general opinion here is that one of the two men was Jasper’s boss, Jasper had been de- manding his wages of the boss. Charges of “rape,” ete., usually fol- low such demands by the enslaved Negro workers. ployed chain gang workers, evicted workers and workers in the factories. The open collaboration of the po- lice with the two boss lynchers is GOVERNOR PINCHOT ADMITS HE IS TRYING TO BREAK MINE STRIKE strike, “The United Mine Workers of America have not even a handful of members among the strikers at the Terminal Mines, “We here by give notive we will not abide by any agreement nego- tiated by the United Mine Workers and the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co, “We condemn the action of Gov- ernor Pinchot in arranging the strike-breaking conference. He is working hand-in-glove with the coal operators and their tools, the United Mine Workers of America officials, to break our strike and drive us back to work under slave- like conditions. “Governor Pinchot is an enemy of the workers, a tool of the big coal and railroad interests of the state.” . vigorously denounced in a wire of Protest sent by the International Labor Defense, Southern District, to Chief of Police H. C. Blakemore. The telegram declares: “We protest the lynching of Thomas Jasper and demand an immediate and thorough investi- gation with a speedy trial and execution of his murderers. Po- lice officers and deputies respon- sible for leaving the jail un- guarded, are equally guilty. Co- operation of police and lynchers clear. Excuses published in the presS are ridiculous.” The Southern District of the I: L. D. has arranged in Huntsville a wide distribution of leaflets exposing the murder of this Negro worker, and calling upon white and Negro work- ers and poor farmers to organize defense groups to combat lynching. “Thomas Jasper was openly lynched,” the leaflet reads. “The nine boys framed up at Scottsboro, Alabama, and being railroaded to the electric chair were given the forms of a trial, But it was the same thing. The railroading at Scottsboro is a legal lynching. Lynching can be stopped by ‘an or- ganized fight. The International Labor Defense is mobilizing thou- sands of workers to fight the lynch verdict against the nine innocent Negro boys setitenced to death at Scottsboro, Negro and white work- St. Paul Daily Worker Readers Meet Sunday MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 19— A meeting of the St. Paul readers of the Daily Worker for the purpose of organizing a Daily Worker Club will be held Sunday at 10 am. at the Workers’ Center, 303 Jackson. Sun- day evening a meeting of the Twin | Cities Daily Worker agents will be} held in the Trade Union Unity League Hall, 124% §. Fourth ‘st. Minneapolis. A meeting of the Minneapolis readers will be held Monday night in the T. U. U. L. Hall. E. Levin, manager of the Daily Worker, will speak at all three meetings. os ae ae ‘ Irish Republicans in Demonstration Roumanian - Workers- Peasant Bloe Man- dates Robbed LONDON.—A huge demonstration of Irish Republicans assembled yes- terday evening outside of the Mount- joy Prison in Dublin in support of the hunger strike of the political prisoners. The demonstration was followed with a meeting in the cen- ter of the city, and a Prisoners De- fense League was organized. Police charged the demonstration and over twenty persons were in- jured and sent to the hospital with | head wounds. The police threw a cordon around the prison. The crowd attacked the police cordon using chairs as weapons. Several police were injured and many personis were arrested. Pen ae rahe BUCHAREST.—The Roumanian parliament annulled five manaatos of the Workers and Peasants Bloc on technical reasons. Great workers demonstrations yesterday evening protested against the mandate rob- bery. A large police force finally suc- ceeded in dispersing the demonstra- tions. Socialists voted for the annullment of the workers mandates which is now distributed amongst other par- ties, the socialists receiving one as a reward of their treachery. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day to day struggles. Use your Red Shock Troop List every day on your job. The worker ers! Join these struggles of the LL. Do” next to you will help save the Daily Worker. “MASS PICKETING TO SMASH THE INJUNCTION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the combined group to go in a body, travelling all night Wednesday night, to Harrisburg. There they will walk into the conference between Interna- tional Vice President Murray of the United Mine Workers of Amercia, President Purseglove of the Pitts- burgh Terminal, and Governor Pin- chot, and tell. the assembled fakers that they can not make an agree- ment to settle the strike in the com- pany’s mines through the United Mine Workers. Meanwhile, it was voted, there will be mass picketing of all the Pitts- burgh Terminal Mines Thursday, to | back up the delegation. Frank Borich, National Secretary of the National Miners Union will head the joint delegation, and act as spokesman. The resoltion on the mjunction is as follows: Resolutions of the District Committee “Judge H. H. Rowand’on Common Pleas Court has just issued an in- junction restraining the striking coal miners from picketing, assembling, or urging workers to strike at the Wild- wood Mine of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co. This injunction, which in substance attempts to deny the right to strike, is declared by the Pitts- burgh daily press of June 16 to be “one of the most- drasticf and far reaching of any labor controversy in the history of Western Pennsyl- vania. “Judge Rowand’s injunction is a direct and deliberate attempt to break our strike. Its issuance shows Judge Rowatid to be a tool of the coal operators in their efforts to force the miners deeper than ever into the morass of poverty and des- titution. It is also an effort to check the rising wave of unrest and of struggle among the steel workers, and workers generally in the Pittsburgh area. “Our strike is a strike against starvation, Thousands and thousands of miners have had no work for a year or more, Those who had jobs are working only part time and get- ting wages of not more than one- third of formerly. Consequently, act- ual famine conditions stalk through-/ out the coal fields. Our children are | being stunted in their growth fo wart of proper food. Our familie Jack the most elementary necessitic S. Morris nsion Caf. J. Simonidis H. Mikaehan DISTRICT 9 | Minneapolis: AH, sympathizer .59 Stoth Emily Siely= A Friend Total DISTRICT 10 Kansas City, Kan.: A Comrade . Krappy Sec, 9, Unit 2 A, Maiko SI. M.-Bawlukewiex Bogdan | Fy Kremapast ult, Biklyn | » Umit 1 R, Goldberg } 7, Units 3-7 Ben-ami f Sec. 7, Unit 3 A. Bloom | See. 5, Unit 15 B. Ashkin | Litton, B’kiyn B. Weiner | G: Schathlin, Kan- Col. by C. Kosoff: saa City, Mo. 1,00 Rosen as H, Agronin Total $10.00 I. Cohen DISTRICT 13 Rochester: Los Angeles, Cal.: Four Horsemen, Bx. 1.00 | N. Mykyin Jew. Wkrs. Club 20.00 See, 12, Yonkers 3.75 Tancoste Hyvan Lewis 4000 Affair-D.W, Club, Martin Miller 5.00 See. 12, Yonkers 52.55 A.A, Sittells at meeting 50.00 ©. Nahiman 5.00 G nel . Goodman 2.30 S F. dra So: Slav Wkrs. Shusky Clu San Pedro 25.00 Fonhuz J. Stender, s Shaskewiex San Francisco 1.00 See. 5, Unit 26 M, Ckopliany Robbins, Sec. 5 B, Durba Total $113.30 Unit 2 ©. Boneksat DISTRICT 15 See. 1, Unit 10 Borzdinski New Haven Nu- S. Alfons J. Orensiden cleus, No. 1 11.20 . Heinig Sam Stamford Nucleus L. Buck A, Rumbuster Portchester, NY Proleteult A, Amiszhewies — J. Kiss M. Bohdassow ‘Total 817.95 Joe Brown, Bk’lyn J. Cannon DISTRICT 18 H Bitter, Paterson L. Sinkix J. Heide, A Friend, N.Y, J. Gerdelt Waliace, Idaho 1.00 =. | Clymus pa ‘Total $535.30 J. Totores | Potal all dist. $ 905.30 DISTRICT 3 A, Bladezroen 00 | Prey, received 18,287.32 Col, at Cont., —! : Baltimore $10.00 Total $48.25 | Total to.date $19,192.62 of life in the Iand of plenty. While working we often went to work hun- gry. The unemployed, denied unem- ployment insurance or any relief worthy the name, are in a desperate condition. Our strike is a struggle against this impossible and intoller- able misery. “Now comes Judge ‘Rowand with his injunction. This judge, himself supplied with all the necessities and luxuries of life, callously and auto- cratically issues this restraining or- ded, aimed to deprive us of the right to strike, of the right to fight to protect our interests so that the em- | ployers may reap still bigger profits. Judge Rowand, like other autocrats, thinks that at the beck and call of the coal operators, he can off hand sentence the miners to starvation. “But we refuse to starve. We de- mand the right to live. We demand food for our children and for our families. We demand the right to strike, to picket, to assemble, and we will exercise these rights. “This injunction comes in the train of a series of attacks by the state and. county. authorities. upon the miners, including the flooding of the strike area with state police, dep- uty sheriffs, etc., the wholesale evic- tion of strikers, Governor Pinchot’s refusal to have a public investigation of conditions in the coal industry, his attempt to force the miners back into the strike-breaking U. M. W. A., in spite of the fact that 98 per cent of the strikers are members of the National. Miners Union. Even as Judge Rowand directs his attrocious injunction against us, Governor Pin- chot,. with an eye on the United States presidential nomination, is telling the world what a reign of justice and liberty exists in the strike zone of Western Pennsylvania, The , Whole working class in the Pittsburgh district will protest this outrageous injunction. oS. “The. miners do not -agrée with Judge Rowand's ‘ukase that. we be driven ‘back to work or to starve.| | Qn the contrary, we insist upon our | ‘ghts to strike in support of the demands we have submitted to the GERMAN MINERS GREET STRIKERS Berlin WLR. Pledges Strike Support The miners and Workers’ Interna- tional Relief of the Ruhr District, Germany, joined in-cabling a mes- sage of proletariaii solidarity to the striking miners~ of: Pennsylvania- Ohio, as follows: The Miners’.Gonference of the Schachtenlage. and the Ruhr Dis- trict send warm revolutionary greetings ‘to the Pennsylvania- Ohio miners and wish them the greatest success in their struggle. The miners of the Ruhr district are preparing fheir own struggle against wage-cuts and starvation program of the Hunger Dictator- ship. Long. live the struggles of all miners against the murderous mine capitalists.. Long live the solidar- ity of the whole working class! (Signed). Council. of Miners and W.LR., Ruhr, District, Germany. The W. I. R. of. Berlin has cabled greetings fo the. miners, urging the suppore of the N. M. U. and W. L. R.: | The Central. Committee of the W.LR. sends greetings of flaming solidarity to the striking Pennsyl- vania-Ohio. miners. The German workers, struggling against the, wage-cut offensive, against the Young Plan and against unemploy- ment, appeal to the working class of America to support the National Miners’ Union and the Workers’ International Relief in their pres- ent struggle. — ” aan operators ahd-the state government, The miners- will eontinue to picket the mine of fie Butler Consolidated Coal Co. at Wildwood, even as other mines in the Strike area, We are fighting against starvation and the right to live.” ‘