The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1931, Page 1

2 TS Alga sae OA a Se ore ea fam eer tena, Se i 9 Shan eee a fd ee ee “Daily” Threatened With Extinction Be; forts. Let us make these efforts. Let every militant | By MAX BEDACHT Our Daily Worker is in danger! Mass strikes demand the help of our Daily as an agitator and organizer. Yet, our Daily is in danger of suspension! The growing capitalist attack against the Soviet Union demands the help of our Daily as the most effective mobilizing force against this attack. Yet, at this mo- ment, the existence of our Daily is in question. Extraordinary conditions demand extraordinary ef- worker at once contribute and collect from his fellow workers the contributions that will save our Daily. ore Tag Days! Let every workers’ organization thrucut the country make an immediate emergency appropriation for our Daily. . . . The Daily Worker Tag Days are only three days off, yut we don’t know whether we can survive these three | | Let us save our Daily Worker! | | days. Immediate action will save the Daily! Speed con- | tributions by air to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., | New York City! pe fd AREADER OF THE DAILy WoRKeR Lives HéRe jae KAS WOT ee 4 Peis. To HELP THe teal Dairy Worner Tal [ | SLL See WHY Al I\ Dail Central Orga OF THE UN Party U.S.A. (SECTION OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) WORKERS WORLD, ITE! Vol. VIII, No. 150 - Entered an second: <lins matter at the Post Uffier <<a i at New York, NB. ¥., ander the act of March 8, 1379 ‘NEW YORK, TU ESDAY, JUNE 23, 193 CITY EDIT 10N Price 3 Cents MINE 00 GUNMEN AMBUSH PICKETS: KILL 1, WOUND MANY Answer the Murder of the Miners! 'TRIKING against starvation, the coal miners of Pennsylvania have been ambushed and shot down in cold blood, one already dead in | the hospital, others desperately wounded. The murderers—those directly doing the shooting—are deputy sher- iffs (for whose acts Governor Pinchot is legally responsible), and com- pany officials and their private gunmen. There is “a law” in Pennsylvania, recently passed. supposedly ‘ ‘against injunctions,” supposedly “guaranteeing” the right to strike and to picket. But in fact there is no law other than that of brutal and murderous capitalism, of the mine owners and their government servants, from Hoover down to the deputy sheriffs. Shot down from ambush, while not even on Company ground! Shot down from ambushed murderers who fired from the U. S. Post Office! Shot down by agents of the fake “liberal” Governor of the State, and by private thugs whose authority is the same as the state officials, both the hired killers of the coal barons. Workers! Everywhere you must rally to the defense of these heroic miners who are striking ‘against starvation! Against the murderous forces of capitalism! Rush relief to the striking miners! Organize protest meetings everywhere! Expose the United Mine Workers and other A. F. of L. accomplices in this murder of the miners at your local union meetings! Unmask the “liberal” fakers, Governor Pinchot and expose the class nature of the whole government which murders miners for the profits of the rich! Smash the injunction! To Save the Scottsboro Boys 'HE only hope of saving the lives of the nine innocent Negro boys fac- ing the electric chair at Scottsboro, Alabama, lies in the organization of the widest possible mass movement. This, the Daily Worker has stressed again and again. And a notable achievement has been made on this line. In over 40 cities united front Scottsboro Defense Conferences have been held. Hun- dreds of mass meetings, street and factory gate meetings, demonstrations and protest parades have helped to rally the masses to fight the crime being carried through by the Alabama landlords and capitalists against the Negro people. Bui— But—the mass campaign still suffers grave shortcomings. The essen- tial task of building block and neighborhood committees has been grossly neglected. Yet their importance cannot be too strongly emphasized. Failure to build these committees will endanger the entire mass fight to save these boys. Neglect plays directly into the hands of the Negro reformist leaders in the mass organizations and churches. Leaving the initiative to them opens the way for betrayal by them. In many cities the comrades are following the wrong line of con- fining their ¢ppeals to the reformist leaders instead of getting to the workers directly, arming them with the facts about the case, and thus vreparing the rank and file for raising the question in the organizations and churches. ‘The crassest example of this wrong lie comes from Cincinnati, but it is by no means confined to that city. A report from Cincinnati ¢on- tains the fo..owing statement: “We visited some churches (Baptist) Sunday, May 24, The preachers promised to come but didn’t. Someone made an appoint- ment for us with the Ministers’ Alliance (Baptist), but when they fou- 4 that we represented the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, it was nothing doing. Yester- day we ‘cisited Methodist churches and it seems that we will get some response.” It appears the Cincinnati comrades ti.ink it’s just a question of bap- tt pre.chers versus Methodist preachers. Their experience with 3eptist preachers did not serve to warn them of their mistake in putting their sole dependence on the good will of preachers. Instead of correcting their mistake and beginning to build a united front from below which would enable them to break down the resistance of the reformist traitors to the struggle to save the Scottsboro nine, the Cincinnati comrades turned from one set of traitors to another set of traitors, The success of the All-Southern Conference fully. proved the value of building block and neighborhood committees as a part of the mass defense of the Scottsboro boys. Though held in an atmosphere of mur- derous terror, with the N. A, A. C. P. leaders and other reformists sup- porting the bosses and police in the attempt to terrorize the white and Negro workers from supporting the conference, it was none the less a tremendous success. Illustrative of what has been accomplished in the South, Chattanooga already has eight block and neighborhood committees, Birmingham four, and the work is being pushed in other Southern cities. But in the North, very few block committees have so far been organized. As a result, while the Northern conferences were fairly successful. in some instances it was possible for the Negro reformist leaders to effec- tively sabotage these conferences and the fight to save the boys. Again we emphasize that this shortcoming is endangering the de- fense of these boys. It must be ruthlessly rooted out and overcome. On with the fight to save the nine Negro boys! Build block and neigh- borhood comuwittees as one of the chief guarantees against the betrayal , Ny the reformists of the fight to save and free the Scottsboro boys. Help win the fight! It is your fight! o— DEMONSTRATION SAT. 27 | i | | | | ;orous efforts of the N. A. A. C. ' Defense and the League of Struggle | for Negro Rights to rescue the boys | from the | southern plantation owners and capi- j talists. Workers’ organizations thru- group in Saturday's demonstration. i IN HARLEM TO DEMAND TH RELEASE OF 9 NEGRO BOYS | With July 10, Date for ‘or Murder, Only Few Weeks Off, Workers Must Mobilize More Thay Ever to Smash the Frameup NEW YORK.—Thousands of New York workers, Negro | | and white, will fill the streets of Harlem this Saturday, June 27, in a monster demonstration to demand freedom for the nine innocent Negro boys in Scottsboro, Alabama, whom the southern white ruling class is trying to railroad to the electric chair. The demonstration, which is 4 expected to be the biggost ever held | |der threat of themselves being sent in Harlem, is being arranged by the | t© Jail to testify against the boys. Scottsboro United Front Detenas | The demonstration will also bring Committee with the support of a| ome to the Negro workers of Har- large number of organizations of | lem the facts in the Scottsboro frame- | both Negro and white workers, | up, the choice by the parents and the L. With July 10, the date set for the | <°% CONS Of tne Tt, D. and ine |S. N. R. for their defense, and will legal lynching of eight of these chil- dren, only a few weeks off, the work- | prepare the Negro workers to meet] | f the N. A. A. ers must rally more than ever to the | and, enewer Wie. tes a Sim faht wich sone can ae, the! ing in Harlem for Sunday, the day ys and smash the murderous | ¢onowing the demonstration. frame-up against them. Especially | We bho Ny TAL A is this necessary in view of the trait- | meeting, make the main attack against the | fight to save the boys. Pickens has | just returned from the South where leaders and their Klan ally and at- torney, Stephen R. Roddy, to betray the fight to save the boys. The nine boys and their parents are all look- ing to the masses with their mili- tant support of the legal defense ar- ranged by the International Labor southern boss lynchers as to earn the praise of the Chattanooga Times, one | of the boss papers that has been loudest in its demand for the blood | of these innocent working class chil- | | dren, The demonstration will start at 4/ o'clock with a parade from Lenox Ave. and 130th St. marching up Lenox Ave. to 140th St., west to 8th Ave., south to 135th St., east to Sev- enth Ave., north to 14th St., east to Lenox Ave., north to 146th St. At 16th St. and Lenox Ave. a meeting murderous claws of the out the city are urged to mobilize their members to participate in a The demonstration will serve both to rally additional masses to the} mass fight to save the boys and to and demonstration will be held, with give notice to the Alabama boss| prominent speakers from, the League lynchers that the workers, white and! of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Negro, are as determined as ever to| International Labor Defense, the force the release of the nine children | Trade Union Unity League, the Com- framed up on a lying rape charge,| munist Party and other organiza- ‘with two white prostitutes forced un-| tions. | C. P. leaders who have called a meet- | P. | William Pickens has been chosen to} | he cooperated so excellently with the | Commun ree in China Make! More Advances | Hong Kong ry orts by the Asso- | Giated Press state that a battalion \o of the Red Army met troops com- mandeered by Chiang Kai Shek, de- feated them and captured 20,000 | rifles, 100 trench mortars and thirty | machine guns. The number of sol- | diers defeated by the Red Army was | nev mentioned in the capitalist dis- | patch. But judging from the num- ber of rifles captured, it was a large force. The same cable tells of a division of the Red Army being driven back {in Kiangsi Province. In Fukien Province the Soviet ter- ritory is rapidly being extended. The A. P. cable states: “Red Activities | Fukien Province, overflowed into where the Com- viet State. The invaders were re- ported to have captured virtually | every town in the northern part of | that Province with the exception of {| Yenping.” ‘MACHADO SHOOTS | CUBAN JOBLESS Cuban unemployed workers were shot and killed by troops of the/ ; butcher, President Machado, when | they demonstrated for food at Bay- | amo. | A report to the New York Times on this incident states that a ban- | | quet was oeing held by a group of | Machado supporters, and that the jobless workers, seeing the vast heaps of food wasted by the parasites, de- manded that they be fed. The an- swer was the calling of troops, who shot down a number of unemployed demonstrators. A battle followed be- tween soldiers and unemployed. | The National Labor Union in Ha- | vana met on Sunday and passed a | resolution calling on the workers to | demonstrate in protest against the killing of workers in Manzanillo by | munists were said by refugees to be! | planning the establishment ‘of a So- | i rik INTO 600 MEN, THUGS WOMEN AND CHILDREN ON PICKET LINE 10,000 Detroit Workers, Fighting Slave Law, Pledge Miners Relief \aiaa Truckload of of Food Wec Wednesda : Mobilize| for Wide-Spread Tag Days (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, June 22.—Ten thousand Negro and white workers dem- onstrated here in Grand Circus Park in militant protest against the alien registration bill recently passed by the Michigan State Legislature and for the freeing of the nine framed up Scottsboro Negro boys. Negro and white leaders of the working class addressed the crowd and were enthusiastically received. Resolutions demanding the freeing of the boys and the repeal of the vicious :2zistration bill were unani- mously adopted. In the evening four thousand workers gathered at the Olympia Hall to hear William Z. Foster who came here direct from the coal strike zone. The workers gave Foster a thunderous ovation. Other speakers included Robert Minor and William Patterson, both from New York. The indoor meeting, like the earlier open air demonstration pledged to carry on the struggle for repeal of the registration law and for the freeing of the boys and support of the striking miners. . . * DETROIT, Mich.—The national tour for miners’ relief to defeat starvation in the strike area, started here with enthu- siastic mass support when ten thousand workers, demonstrat- ing against the vicious Michigan Alien Registration law soldiers. cheered two striking miners and pledged the fullest support etor relief. WIR STATIONS FOR, FOOD, CLOTHING NEW YORK.—Announcing that of- fices in all parts of the city are ready to receive food and clothing for the striking miners, the Workers In- ternational Relief has issued #m™ ap- peal asking that such relief be push- ed as rapidly as possible. The sta- tions where food and clothing may be deposited are: The Hungarian Workers Home, 350 East 81st St. The Bronx Workers Prospect Ave. Concoops, Inc., East. Finnish Hall, 15 West 126th St. Brooklyn Section, Food Workers, 140 Neptune Ave. Workers Center, 1344 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn. South Brooklyn, 764-40th St. Center, 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn. All funds should be sent to the Workers International Relief, 799 Broadway. The main depot for food and clothing is at 240 East Ninth st. Center, 569 | 2700 Bronx Park NEW YORK.—Rumors of thé rapid approach of war are reported by Dr. Max Winkler, one of the leading Wall Street authorities on forelgn invest- ments. In a special article in last Saturday’s New York Evening Post, Winkler writes, regarding the rumor that war is soon to be declared: The most fantastic rumors are current: War is going to be de- clared within the next two weeks; thirty-five war correspondents have already embarked for Europe, as if men who happened to have served as correspondents during the last war had no right to go to Europe.” ‘These rumors in the financial dis- tricts of Europe and America show that beneath the surface there is a rapid preparation for war, which has its immediate effect on the bond and stock markets, Hold Anti-War Con- -ference June 25 at. Manhattan Lyceum ‘The same idea of the growing bit- ter conflicts in Europe driving to war—in fact, already in the first stages of war—is contained in a let- ter sent out by the Republican Na- tional Committee (June, 1931, Vol. 1, No. 51) which states: “A hard political game is being fought by the nations of Europe—a game in which ruthless advantage is taken of every weakness on the part of adversaries. No quarters is given and no confidence exchanged. Duplicity that would blast the repu- tation of men in ordinary’ affairs is practiced as a matter of coutse by Dr. Winkler Tells of Wall Street Rumors About War Approaching gS 5 EANTTS STOO Gel SEN en aS NT game now being played is a form of | the governments Jately, at-war.. The | Sth the a from addressed Miners, fresh strike fields, banquet at the Workers Camp and Workers International Relief Conferences at Delray and Pontiac. A truckload of food, consigned for Trade Union Unity League} war, but it is not bound by any of the chivalrous rules of warfare. For- tunately some of the propaganda devices are now known to Amer- icans, and they are not as easily de- ceived as they were in 1914-1916.” The Republican National Commit- tee, however, fails to mention the part that Wall Street plays in this fame, rushing headlong to war. Workers! Organize and fight against the mounting danger of war! Send delegates to the anti-war con- ference on June 25 at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 E. 4th St., at 7 p. m, All working class organizations, shops, unions and fraternal bodies are urged to place the June 25 Con~ ference on the agenda and to elect delegates immediately, forwarding the strikers, will be sent Wednesday. The Workers International Relief wired the Central Strike Commit- tee in Pittsburgh to send 25 miners’ children to Detroit. The W. I. R. will arrange a workers’ demonstra- tion at City Hall to meet the chil- dren. Daily shop gate meetings for relief are held. Detroit auto workers have joined the miners struggle against starva- tion and will give decisive help in tag days,- Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and.28. Already two thous- and havepiedged to turn out to col- lect relief. The Cleveland relief conference will be held June 22 and the Chica- go conference on the 24th. The workers in both these cities are fully aroused to the importance of the their names to the Communist Party headquarters, 35 East 12th, St., ig 8 end Ree mine strike and will help the miners Strike Spreading in Spite of the Bosses Terror in Ambush Shoot At Lone Miners Frow Company Store BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, June 22.—The mass protest here against the mur derous attack upon the miners in Wildwood will be held Wednesday at Moose Hall. The mass funeral will be held in Wildwood on Thurs- day. | PITTSBURGH, “Bay |June 22.—The first de- jtachment of 600 men, | women and children on [the Wildwood picket j\line were ambushed 'this morning at 5:30 by |deputy sheriffs, com- |pany officials and com- jpany gunmen who {opened fire on the pickets. They shot their guns, pistols and rifles from the bushes on the side of the road and from the company stores as well as from the post office Thousands of miners who marched from other towns were turned back by barriers over the roads with ma- chine guns mounted on top. List of Wounded. Peter Zigaric, a striking miner, died in the hospital from gunshot wounds. The following were woun- ded and are in the Western Penn Hospital: Charles Bestruck, shot in tthe mouth. He said he walked a mile along the state and county highway to join the picket line. De- puties in the post office shot him while he was alone and walking to- wards the post office he saw ma- chine guns and pump guns in the post office. Adolph Wakner, shot in the side of the head and body. He was 100 yards from the company store and alone. He was not on company property. Peter Brown, shot in the arm, was one half mile from company property. Nick Win- owski, shot in the chest three times from the company store. John Ob- rowski, shot four times in the side f the legs and neck. Robert Brown, aged 20, was the first to fall, shot in the side of the head Thecompany gunmen shot without warning from ambush on both sides of the road. In the New Kensington General Hospital is Stanley Miculski who was shot in the arm, In the Allegheny County Hospital is Jos Jendyesak, MERE OM} ox PAGS RRB . Thugs