The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1931, Page 4

SUBSCRIPTION RATHA: By mat! everywher@ Gne year, $6; six months, $8; two months, $1; eacepting Boroughs ot Manhattan and Bronx. New York Caly, Foreign: one year, 88+ six months. $4.50, Published by the Comprodatly Publishing Co., Inc., daily except Sunday. at 50 East 18th Steet, New York N. ¥, Telephone Algonquin 7946-7. Cable: “DAIWORK.” Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Dail Page Four PISS Worker —S——— Why I Believe the Daily Worker Should Live Orga Eha=EPYpryniet Party USA HEAR AN ANGEL SINGING? UM Wit A opficial By BURCK m ——— By JORGE By TEODORE DREISER. waves of reform have gone over this countr > “We tline men itical | was instigated among so many of the ma Remember those “4,000,000 homes” that Hoov= moyem at doctrines | that the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed to | Operator ers “twenty year plan” is going to “build for Daily Worker represents, and wity I believe | check the size of corporations. Then in 1920 tt | 20,000,000 more people”? with 20 percent more the w ch i railroads by the Transportation Act were | “farm products” to feed them? ge. S peor jected, supposedly, to regulation by the govern- | Vell, the Baltimore Post of June 3, gives just America t ment—also the utilities. But I ask what good | a little example of what the millions of workers The millio cast out of work, and has any of these reforms dgne the American la- | already alive, or yet alive—without looking for hence out of'e borer? None. The prosecutions under the Anti- | | those to come—have to endure: those barely Trust Act were for the most part evaded by “In a three-room clapboard and tar-paper of to health and life hh everyone can ob- own and rural section of e of th or relatives trengthened their tion by hemselves and giv- nass of common people just enough and in most cases h upon which to live on decently, t ss of Amer- scans control the banks, the railroads, the indus tries, the utilities—in short, every necessity of life for these mas All this, I have learned in great detail from an involved study I have made of the economic situation in America position taking ing tl Banks Control Everything. ‘The banks and corporations have gained such | them—every- j| power that everything goes with thing carries out their wishes—all of the great large publicity/bureaus and even Both political parties in Amer- the government ica are aligned with the owners of wealth whose motive is to enrich themselves and to make their own profits de: This is done ite all suffering. by increasing rates which the common people are | to pay. Witness the recent drives and victories of the telephone companies, of the New York Edison, the New York Central, the Lackawan- na, and now all the railroads are asking a 15 percent rate increase. It seems to me there is also graphic proof that the corporations are out maneuvers of the great trusts. The railroads now have just as staunch a grip on the masses- and more so—than they had in 1920. The cen- | tralization of their control is appalling. And with them they carry the great industries, many | of which they own and direct. The same with itilities which strike out and get what they Corporate reform has been absolutely usel quelling the great trust movement. Marx Showed the Way. Yet thousands upon thousands now mar this convention and that to reform an America which powerfully in the hands of these few thousand rich men that no reform of any value can possibly be made without a fundamental change. The fate of these laws and of political movements like the non-partisan league, twelve years ago in Dakota, ruined by financial and | political manipulation of capitalists, has made me certain that nothing in .the way of super- ficial or local reform can be of any deep value at all. Karl Marx, the great German economist and philosopher, saw this a hundred years ago; Rus- sia saw it. and is building another system, the | motive and basis of which is to manage every activity and industry of the country for the bene- fit of the masses of people instead of, as here, for the super-enrichment of those few who own by inheritance or direct or both. This political analysis, in the large, is what the Daily Worker stands for. It is the only |. daily paper in the English language in America which adheres to this economic doctrine that a change in the treatment of property is neces- sary. This solution I claim is the only real one to restore the balance of power which has so for their own interests when they lay off men at will, with no planning of employment and with no protection, and then give enormous surpluses SIEMIWIO’ PEAR. in dividends. to themselves, the owners. rapidly favored the wealthy few at great loss shack, William Hartman, the wife and three children are facing starvation. Two loaves of bread, doled out daily by the police... Out of work more than a year... The rent behind more than a year. Charles, -who is ten years, no shoes to go to school. Louise, who is five, with- out carefare to go to the hospital for treatments for anemia Three year old Marie slek; had no milk for months... Mrs. Hartman ‘cold all the time’ and hungry ... No clothes, no food, no money.” This is what Hoover boasts of—the result of his refusal of Unemployment Insurance, because that, oh, that would be a “dole,” and would “une dermine the morale and ruin the proud indivie dual independence” of the workers! ~ But he has billions for waet ime eae All O. K. in Alabama Are wages high in Alabama? They must ba, Are there no workers unemployed in Alabama, Apparently not. Is thgre anything at all which Southern workers Lave to complain about, or have they been emancipated from capitalism without letting the rest of us in on it? It seems so. Because the “Southern Labor Re- view” of June 10, which says it is “devoted te the interests of organized labor” lies before me, with its entire front page “devoted” to twe things: First, a “Sermon by Rev. J. A. Bryan, Pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Birming- ham, Alabama;” Subject: Paul's Inspired Epistle to the Ephesians and to us.” Second, an editorial entitled: “Our Flag is One | Hundred Fifty-Four Years Old!” ea ae I COLLECT FOR Skimming Thru the News The Houston, Texas, “Press” has a headlines “State Prison Farm Cannery Goes to Work; 23 To mitigate this whole situation, sweeping and expense to the masses. Workers, You Are Deciding the Hunger March Spreads Miners’ Strike = By MYRA PAGE (Special to Daily Worker) sae hunger march on Washington’s county seat last Tuesday of 15,000 striking and un- employed miners—a march joined by many hun- dreds of unemployed steel and other workers— has had an immediate effect in spreading the miners’ strike. Coal-diggers still at werk found courage to walk out themselves when they saw or later heard from other miners who were there of the fighting determination and solid unity dis- played at Washington. Up util this time they had hesitated. Though starving and desperate over conditions in the mines, they had held back, because of the many séllouts they had suffered atthe hands of the United Mine Work- ers in the past, and because they had been lied to and misinformed about the present strike and the National Miners’ Union by the daily papers which, without exception, are under the thumbs of Mellon and the coal operators. At the hunger march these men and their wives, for the first time, heard the true facts from their fellow-miners about the union and the strike. “At last we have got a union of our own,” “The National Miners’ Union belongs to the coal-diggers,” “Men, I'd shed the last drop of my blood before I'd give up the N.M.U.,” and similar statements were made again and again, both by pit-men speaking from the plat- form and by those standing packed together in the demonstration. There is no question that the Western Pennsylvania miners are solidly behind the National Miners’ Union. They are putting their last ounce of strength and all their past organizational experience into building it. They willingly go hungry and trudge many miles in its service, for they feel, as one expressed it, “Unless we win our union, for us it is the end.” At the demonstration the solid unity of Negro and white, of employed and unemployed miners was also brought home to the approximately 35,000 participants. “We unemployed miners will never scab on you,” one declared. “This strike is our strike, too. A victory for you will be a victory for us.” “I am proud to see so many of my race here.” one Negro miner de- clared. ‘In 1922 and other years the operators imported many hundreds of us to break the strike. We were too ignorant at that time to know better. Besides, we felt the United Mine Workers was not for us, only for the whites... . I want to say to the white miners, stand by us. And to the Negro miners—boys, this is our great chance, to prove the stuff we're made of and build our union which treats all alike.” Here is one example of the after-effects of the march against starvation at Washington. ‘There were several hundreds of mining fam-. ilies from the Brownsville area which took part. Among these were two miners from the Dia- mond Mine (which was still operating), These men had laid off for the day. One of them had brought along his guitar and, at the crowd's demand, sang two miners’ ballads. The first began: “The children wake up crying in the morning, For the cupboard is so empty and so bare.” Young Workers, ‘Daily’ Is YoursToo bd By ART STEIN. 'VERY class-conscious young worker, and especially every member of the Young Com- munist League, must support the campaign of the “Daily Worker” for $35,000. Every young worker can understand the im- portance of our fighting Daily Worker at this time, Of the thousands of miners now on strike in Western Pennsylvania and in Eastern Ohio, a large number are young miners. These are among the most active on the picket line 4nd in leading the strike. The Daily Worker is helping these miners to win their fight against ‘This miner told me he had three children he was trying to raise alone, as he'd lost his woman last winter. “As I understand it, this here strike is to win something for our kids. Ain't that right? We can’t let ‘em starve any longer. We gotta do something, that’s all. I tell you, a man’s a coward that’ll stand by and see children starving.” The next we saw of him was two days later, when he led the Diamond miners straight from the pits over the mountain to the mass meet- ing of Vesta Mine No. 6. Vesta 6 men, women and children had just ended their three-hour picket dyty and were gathering in a grassy field still wet with morning dew, for it was barely 7:30. The Diamond miners, in their pit clothes and caps, were spied coming down the valley. As soon as them came within calling distance they shouted: “We pulled Diamond 100 per cent.” ‘Ninety men alf out.” They were the happiest men I’ve seen in a long time, and Vesta 6 gave them the reception they de- served. ‘The Washington hunger march has not only enthused the miners to pull down many new mines. It has also given the unemployed fresh hope and a strong desire to organize. New Un- employed Councils are being built up. Like- wise, the steel workers are becoming aroused, and not only are undertaking to give the miners active support, but are asking among them- selves: “If the miners can do it, why not us, also?” An old-time miner, veteran of many struggles and now busy in various sections with N. M. U. organizing, remarked in conversation: “If even one big steel mill comes out! When the miners see that, it’ll mean a general strike in the coal industry.” J’ So it goes. Conditions throughout the coal and steel state are so unbearable, the ferment among the men is so great that each stride for- ward lets loose immense forces for strike struggle and the building of mass revolutionary unions and unemployed councils. Hunger marches are @ powerful factor in giving this ferment ergan- ized direction and fighting spirit. The gigantic demonstration called for June 30 in Pittsburgh will witness many tens of thou- sands of striking and unemployed miners, steel workers and other jobless and starving, march- ing on Mellon’s home town from every section of the state. The difficulties in the way are great. The coal and steel barons and their pup- Pet governor will do everything within their power to cripple and terrorize the march, The marchers have many miles of mountainous coun- ery to cover, with little or no means of trans- portation. Many of them even have no shoes. Nevertheless they will come, men, women and children, For it is a march against actual star- -vation. June 30 will be a day that Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania working class will never forget. For the streets will. resound with the march of those who have mined the coal and wrought the steel, crying their defiance of their rulers and exploiters, throwing their demands into the teeth of the Mellons, Schwabs and Rockefellers, who have waxed ever richer while their wage-slaves have sweated and starved. Starvation. It is an organizer—it is helping to spread the strike to new fields. It is an agi- tator—it is mobilizing workers throughout the country for the support of the heroic struggle of the miners, °- Have you been reading the articles of Max Bedacht on the Soviet Union? These articles and other material in the Daily Worker are very effective in countering the poisonous prop- aganda of the yellow boss press against the Soviet Union, The Daily Worker is one of the most effective weapons of our Party in mob- ilizing the working class of this country against ; ; : | THE DAILY Washington, Pa. ae By RAY FAUST (A New York Worker) @ATURDAY, June 6, I went out to buy a Daily Y Worker, but was unable to get the Daily at the stand as usual. I went to other stands, but | they told me that the Daily Worker “has gone out of business.” My heart fell, but I answered: “The Daily Worker is not a ‘business paper’ and so it can’t go out of business.” To myself, I said: “It is possible that we have lost the Daily Worker? No, it cannot be! Now we're going to gét on the job and work as never before!” But I felt sad! We must not be without our Daily even for a few hours. I could hardly wait until three o’clock, when the demonstration to free the nine Scottsboro boys started at Wash- ington Ave. and Claremont Parkway, the Bronx. I noticed that some women comrades were sell- ing the Daily Worker. Overjoyed, I ran to buy @ copy. So there still is hope and the Daily can still be saved! On the Job for the “Daily.” I decided that I must do my share for the Daily Worker and must sell all the coupons in my coupon book. The next day I went to Cro- tona Park, where workers always gather, and I started asking for contributions. Several work- ers contributed, but they couldn’t give much. I go over to another group, and when I come back to the first group I am told that somebody who wanted to contribute had been looking for the Daily Worker agent (meaning me). I am pleased at this new title, I feel proud to be called a Daily Worker agent, but what pleases me most is that somebody wants to help the Daily. The worker who had been looking for me gave me 50 cents. I now have collected $3 and I feel encouraged. I go over to another worker and am pleasantly surprised—he wants to buy a dollar coupon! But here I strike a snag: no change for the $10 bill he hands out. But the unknown worker gives me the $10 and tells me to change it. “Aren't you afraid to trust me?” I ask. He answers that a person who collects money for the Daily Worker can be trusted. That makes me feel good; it inspires me with new deter- mination. By this time it is already dark. My four- year-old child, who is with me, wants to go home to eat. I go home. On the way I meet a comrade; in a voice loud enough for others to hear I tell him of my success in collecting funds for the Daily Worker and also about the man who trusted me for $10 merely because I was collecting for the Daily. Follow This Example! Young workers, hear what I say. I go over and ask them to help the Daily. One of them tears out a 50-cent coupon and says to another: “I challenge you to buy a 50-cent coupon, too.” The other also takes one, and so I have another dollar! All told, $5 for the Daily Worker. And there are still plenty of coupon books to collect on, I am writing this so that others who may read it will be inspired to collect funds in order that our Daily may appear, not only with four pages, but with six. The Daily: Worker must live! the coming ‘imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. i Some of the comrades may say: “Well, we have the ‘Young Worker.’ We cannot help the Daily Worker. We must spend all our time in building up our youth press.” Such an atti- tude is wrong. We must build up our youth press, we must widen the influence of the “Young Worker,” but this does not mean that we are to do nothing to help the Daily Worker in its present campaign. We must understand that by building up the Daily Worker we are not only helping the revolutionary movement in a general way, but that we are helping to build up a more powerful YOUTH movement. The Daily Worker reaches thousands of young readers who have no contact with our move- ment as yet. Every member of the Young Communist League and every young worker must help put the Daily Worker drive over the top, | understand this. Fate of the Daily Worker! By EARL BROWDER. ALLY mass support for the Daily Worker! Precisely at the moment when the Daily Worker is doing its most effective work it is threatened with suspension for lack of money. The financial crisis of the Daily Worker is not caused by a decline in its influence or its cir- culation. Quite the contrary. Because the Daily Worker circulation hes doubled, and because the | issues of the class struggle are becoming so sharp, those timid parlor radicals, who used to enjoy donating on,the quiet to the Daily Worker, have fled away from us and are rapidly going over openly into the enemy camp. Nobody gives money any more to the Daily Worker except the workers. These workers are forced to give smaller amounts than ever be- fore because the vast majority of them are on the verge of. starvation. Therefore we have a situation in which it is no longer possible, for the large contributions of a few thousand people to meet the deficit of the Daily Worker. Now it is necessary that we get the small contributions of tens of thousands of workers to cover the smaller deficit of the Daily Worker. This means that the Daily Worker must be @ mass ‘paper, not only in its circulation, but in the financial support extended to it by contribu- tions. The Daily Worker cannot live a single day unless tens of thousands of workers decide that it shall live by sending in their small do- nations, Let every worker reader of the Daily Worker You, individua:’~. are decid- ing whether the Daily Worker shal. live or not, when you decide whether to make a contribu- tion to the sustaining fund. Let every working class organization under- stand that if it fails to make a donation to the Daily Worker, it is thereby making a decision that the Daily Worker is not necessary. If it believes that the Daily Worker is a necessary fighter for the interests of the working class and of each particular workers’ organization, it can only effectively make such a decision by voting a dcnation to the Daily Worker fund. I. is not enough for individuals to send dona- ticns to the Daily Worker. It is not enough for trade unions and fraternal organizations and cluys to vote donations from their treas- uries and take up collections. It is necessary, in addition to these things. that the Daily Worker readers shall begin to organize them- selves into Daily Worker Clubs which shall not only help to collect money for the Daily Worker but even more important, will begin to partici- pate in the editing of the Daily Worker, in the collection of news for the Daily Worker, in the discussion of the faults and strong points of the Daily Worker, and in helping the editorial staff of our paper. And yet, only a small part of the wide circle of workers which our paper reaches, have re- acted to the financial crisis of the Daily Worker. Many of them evidently do hot yet understand how serious it is. Suppose we had no Daily Worker at all! Would you be interested in starting such a paper? With just one tenth of the effort and sacrifice which would be necessary to start a daily paper anew, it is possible to save the Daily Worker and put it solidly on its feet! The\tremendous role now being played by the Daily Worker in the historical coal miners’ strike in Pennsylvania; in the famous Scottsboro case in Alabama; in the fight for unemployment in- surance and relief; in every issue affecting the life of the working class, has proved and is proving that it is absolutely essential for the workers’ movement. * Let every worker, therefore, do his part in carrying through the $35,000 campaign to com- pletion in the shortest possible time. Clear the decks for larger and greater actions of the workers. The Daily Worker Must Be Saved! An Apeal of the Paterson Five to the Friends and Sympa-. thizers of the Comrades and Fellow Workers :— “At the present time the boss class and its government is carrying on a‘ vicious policy of terrorization against the workers, taking the form of frame-ups, lynchings, deportations, etc. This is an attempt to crush the fighting spirit of the working clacs, This spirit is being more and more aroused. The efforts of the bosses, in the form of less pay, longer hours, speed-up etc., to make the workers bear the burden of the crisis result in the increasing dissatisfaction and radicalization of the working masses and in their greater readiness to fight against the bosses. At such a time it is of the greatest importance to the workers to have feariocs leadership in their struggle against the bosses. More. than ever the workers need a fighting organ to point the way of militant class struggle. This fight- ing paper of ti:2 working class in this country is the Daily Worker. It is especially now, when the whole capital- ist press is united in a campaign of lies and slander to prevent the working class from learn- ing the truth about the Soviet Union, to prevent them from hearing of the successes of the Five- Year Plan, and prevent the unemployed from or- ganizing and fighting for unemployment insur- ance and immediate relief, that the Daily Worker stands out as the most important means of reach- ing the workers with the truth about the sys- tem under which we live. We, the five Paterson workers, framed up on a murder charge as a result of our militant | struggle against wage cuts, have our own ex- perience as members of the National Textile Workers’ Union, of the roles the Daily Worker plays in helping, stimulating and organizing the fight against frame-ups. Despite the bad finan- clal condition of the Daily, we received copies of our paper every day that we were in jail, and - Daily in the columns of the Daily Worker we saw that it serves the working class. Fellow Workers! At a time like this to allow the Daily Worker to discontinue would be the greatest crime against the interests of the work- ing class. We appeal, therefore, to every com- rade and sympathizer to do his utmost to col- lect. funds and to increase the Daily Worker's circulation so that our paper, backed by the power of the organized working masses, shall be able to lead these masses in their day-today struggles for immediate demands and so to the final emancipation of the working class. H, GERSHONOWITZ B. LIEB. L. BART. A. KOTZUBUCK. L. HARRIS. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A. P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. i Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. es; Name .. Address CHY sscecvesccecsecepecccesces Btls seeseeeeee OCCUPALION ..sesecrerescccecrererses ABO sreeee -Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, P, O. Box 87 Station D, New York City. 4 Gallons of Beans Canned Each Minute by Con= yicts.” Who's using convict labor? From Manchester, England, by the Associated Press of June 18, comes the news that Poland is dumping tweed suits into England at a price of $2.26 each. Who's dumping now! ay ee nae Remember reading, back about May 6, of the big fire which destroyed the armory at Buffalo? The police blamed it on the “reds,” raided the Communist offices and made a great fuss. Fish, wired an “opinion” from somewhere that “no doubt it was the reds.” Well, a military board had ten hearings to determine the cause of the fire, and has decided it was accidental. And, do you know, it hints that the fire probably was caused by the Amer- ican Legion, which was using the armory that night as a drill and evidently got careless with lighted cigarette butts. "Tain’t right for the Legion to go around burn- ing up armories that the workers will need some day. Party Life Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com- mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A. Improving Party’s Language Work By H. P. (Greek Buro). OME of our language buros are completely iso- lated from the District Committees of the Party and no connections exist between these bodies whatsoever. As a result, many elements who have turned against the Party, and conse- quently been expelled, are continually agitating against the Party in the respective language field. The workers who cannot learn through other sources (but could learn through their language buros) fall into a trap and are misled, many times drifting away from the Party. I believe that this state of affairs is harmful to the Party and must:not be continued. It un- derestimates the role of the language buros and of the language press. It gives a chance to all anti-Party elements to agitate freely against the Party in the respective language field with- out danger of being exposed, Furthermore, it underestimates the importance of the language buros of the Central Committee. I do not know whether this situation exists in any other language field, but it does in the Greek Fraction. The District Committee, through the language department of the Cen- tral Committee, must be in constant touch with all problems having language importance, This will also help to a great extent to check the growing underestimation of the role of our language press, In the trade union field, the Party's Greek organ carries too little material, This is due to the fact that the Trade Union Unity League looks upon the language press as something not important enough to be considered in build- ing the T. U. U. L. unions and leagues. In the food industry there are many thousands of Greek workers and particularly in the Food Workers’ Industrial unions and leagues, but in spite of this the Empros does not carry any articles on the policies, activities or any other phase of union work—al¥hough the Empros bases itself mainly upon the food workers. The paper, of course, is also to be blamed; but mainly the blame must go on the shoulders of the Greek comrades (and there are many) in the Food Workers’ Union, second to the Party fractions as a whole, and to the T, U. U. which takes no measures whatever to change this situation in spite of the fact that it has been repeatedly notified by the Empros and also by the Greek Buro itself. Such a practice does not help in building the T. U. U. L. unions when the basic “Transmission Belts to the Masses” are left out of considera- tion. Pee, eens (The next Party Lite Column will carry an article on the work of the Unemployed Council at Council Bluffs, Lowa.)