The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1931, Page 1

7 Rush Funds, Must End Slump; ‘Daily’ Tag Days Begin Friday! Tomorow marks the beginning of the nation-wide Tag Days to save the Daily Worker. For three days in every city| of the country, thousands of volunteers |the past two weeks has brought the e| will collect from house to house, in the|Daily face to face shops, in the streets and wherever the workers gather. successful Tag Days can avert this aster and keep the Daily Worker alive! The Tag Days come at an unusually;This means that every critical time for the Daily Worker. with disaster. Only| dis- that every workers’ give all possible aid. worker, every San -Francisco, . Pittsburgh, The|reader must put all his energies into the| Buffalo, Boston and Baltimore plans have tremendous drop in contributions during |dtive during the next few days in order|been worked:out to enlist broad ma: that the $35,000 may be raised; it means|of workers in the, Tag Day collections.|live until the Tag Day funds begin to organization must) Every city, big or little, must do likewise!|come in. |Tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday the en- lout tomorrow’s issue. | The Tag Days must make up for the tire country must be flooded with collec- |slump in the drive! In New York, Detroit, tors and thousands of dollars raised to|Daily to inspire and lead them in their|Worker, 50 E. 13t» St., New York Cit Cleveland, | jin the Tag Days The striking prevent suspension! We need money TODAY to get| miners Mass participation;struggle. must be the slogan! give it to But the Daily Worker must continue to| The Sc Daily if t | Tag Days, must have the/and rush you can give it to them. Only you, fellow-workers, can them ottsboro boys must have the hey are to gain freedom. Only Collect on the and dig into your pockets today your contributions to the Daily “TM STARVII ral Cu wes Foe, 2] 1 Per fe Mol ie “foe | FRIUAT: VATE PROPERTy VkKGER | QUIET PR TLL %y, 2) PANE Dail Central rah D eh (Section of the Communist International) unist Porty U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second: class matter Vol. VIII, No. 152 at the Post Office .¢53—21 at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 _NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1931 erry EDITI ION Price 3 Cents WIN FIRST STEP IN FIGHT ON UMW-BOSS SCAB PACT Protest Against ist the Slaughter of Striking Miners On Union Square at 5 'y M. Tonight! Holes In the “Hoover Boom”/TENS QF THOUSANDS OF MINERS READY FOR PITTS- BURGH HUNGER MARCH ov must pay homage to the flood of propaganda of the new “Hoover Boom” that has sent stocks up—though not so far—on every stock exchange of the capitalist world. But all this fuss does not answer the questions: Does Hoover's “Plan” solve the crisis in Germany? Does it solve the world crisis? Workers must not forget the complications of the German crisis, where the present sharpness is caused by a reparations payment crisis on top of the economic crisis. Even with the reparations burden removed, the economic crisis remains. ‘The crisis in Germany is not the same as the immediate post-war crises, where the very machinery of production was in part destroyed, and where there was a crisis in trade (1922-23) by reason of the collapse of the currency. The crisis is now an over-production crisis, an accu- mulation of commodities for which there is no market. Wednesday’s papers quote Bruening as declaring that the recent “Emergency Decree” which robs the German workers of their last crust, will still be enforced! Against this decree barricades have already been \raised in the streets of Germany. Bruening adds that the millions “saved” by postponing reparations fpayments must be used “otherwise” than to relieve the burden on the masses. That is, in paying interest on enormous loans made by Wall Street to private firms, cities and the Reich government of Germany. Between 1924 and 1930 these totalled $1,216,000,000. And undoubtedly further loans are to be made as an auxilliary to Hoover’s Plan. No one can borrow themselves out of debt. ‘The Hoover Plati thus relieves only the big capitalist class of Ger- many from immediate bankruptcy, while not relieving at all the burdens on the masses, particularly on the workers, while it places Germany more than ever in the grip of Yankee imperialism as a field of conten- tion with the other imperialisms—a tool, servile and dependent, of im- perialist war plots against the Soviet Union. As the Soviet press states, “The proletarian revolution remains the sole hope of the German masses.” But does Hoover’s Plan mean a “solution” for the crisis in the United States? “Will “prosperity” now come back? And the answer is: abso- lutely not! Police Chief Pate. tak to “to Stall Off Huge Hunger | Parade of Miners and Famities | Start to Pittsburgh Demanding Unemployment Relief From Many Points, June 30th ¢ PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 24.—While Chief of Police Walsh of Pittsburgh and Director of Public Safety James Clark play a game of pass of the Unemployed Council here and the com- mittee on unemployment of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee of :the striking miners, as to whether the great Alleghenny County hunger march will get a permit to con- centrate in East Park, the various localities continue to per- fect their plans to do just that. © Yesterday the N. M. U. strike com- mittee for Avella section established the buck and evasion in regard to the demand) fe | One:must at once dismiss all the capitalist press jabbering about the “psychological effect” as so much rubbish and nonsense. Again, is it not ridiculous to claim that, if Germany does not \pay the United States, this means “solving the crisis” both in Germany and the United States? The economic crisis, the over-production crisis remains in the United States just as it remains in Germany. And just as in Germany, the capitalists of America are throwing and will continue to throw the bur- den upon the workers: More wage cuts, taxes, direct and indirect, upon the masses. more unemployment, more And this again will cut down the possibility of these masses to purch*se the over-produced com- modities, sharpening the crisis and intensifying class struggle. Thus, leaving aside the sharpening of inter-imperialist rivalries al- ready spoken of in this column, the boasted “Hoover Plan” cannot pos- sibly “solve the crisis” either in Germany or the United States. Instead, the masses of both countries face further attack, and must reply to it with organized class struggle. and more immediate danger of war, Instead, the masses face a new particularly against the Soviet Union, and must reply to it with a tremendous Anti-War demonstration on August First! Send Delegates to Anti-War Conference Tonight! Answer U.S. “5-Year Plan” For War A United Front Anti-War Con- ference will meet Thursday, June 25, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., at 7 p.m. All work- ing-class organiaztions are’ urged to send delegates to this confer- ence, which will be a rallying of the workers of New York for the mass demonstration against im~ perialist war on International Red Day, August 1. The names of all delegates should be sent to the Communist Party, 35 E. 12th St. eee tie WASHINGTON, June 24,—Next Tuesday the United States Navy will conclude what it calls a Five- Year Plan for war preparations in aircraft armaments. There will be @ wa rdemonstration at the Ana- costia Naval Air Station. The U.S. Navy then will have on hand, ready to plunge into war, 1,000 fighting anes. ‘This so-called five-year war pro- gram was begun in 1926 and grows out of the Washington conference for “Limitation of Naval Arma- ments.” The Navy has been scrap- ping its old planes and building newer, up-to-date fighting, bombing and other war planes. Land armaments are not lagging in the rapid preparations for the next world war. At Aberdeen, Md., Major General George V. Mosely, " Deputy Chief of Staff, and a score of high officials of the U. 5. army observed a demonstration of a new || kind of tank to increase the effi PE eneenter yy ciency of the army in war. It is much more powerful than any tank used in the last World War. Hun- dreds will be built immediately for the U. S. Army. While millions of workers starve, the capitalist government goes ahead spending billions for. war. The Com- munict Party is calling on! every worker to answer these war prep- arations by rallying to the anti-wor demonstrations throughout the coun- try on August Ist. Demand the war funds be turned over to the unem- ployed in the form of unemployment insurance! New Series Begins In “Daily” Friday Districts! Sections! Units! A new series on War Preparations Against the Soviet Union by A. Bittleman, begins in the Datly Worker Friday, June 26. Extra bundle orders must be wired im- Mediately to the National Office in time for the first articles, Dis- tricts must start at once to an- nounce the series in every possible way. Continuation of articles is dependent on showings made dur- ing Tag Days, June 26, 27, 28. SPREAD THE DAILY WORK- ER CONTAINING BITTLEMAN SERIES DURING TAG DAYS! WIRE TAG DAY FUNDS! ALSO ‘CRISIS SHARPER SAY CHARITIES Mil eies Hunger During | Coming Winter The workers of New York State can expsct no improvement of the present unemployment situation but, on the contrary, it is quite certain that conditions will become much worse during the rest of the summer and during the coming winter. This is openly admitted in the report of the Joint Committee on Unemploy- ment Relief of the State Board of | Social Welfare and the State Chari- | ties Aid Association which was made public on June 23. The report fur- ther admits that the relief which the state and the charity rackets have been handing out to the unemployed workers has Late wholly “inade- quate”. In order to cover up the absence of any desire on their part to take care of the unemployed workers decently they list a number of failures in their own work. “Failure of proper pre- liminary investigation with resultant duplication of effort; the giving of help to those not actually in need, to the disadvantage of others in real distress but less urgent in their ap- plications, and the waste of capacity for labor by failure to provide work as a substitute for direct relief.” These hypocrites are worried be- cause they did not “investigate” enough before they gave out the mis- erable little they did, because some hungry workers got relief while some who were even more hungry did not ‘Bet anything and because some relief jas given out without the forced labor that the charities now regularly demand as part of their relief. 400 STRIKE IN PAWTUCKET MILL PAWTUCKET, Rhode Island, June 24.—Four hundred workers struck at the Royal Weaving Co. here at 2 o'clock today. The bosses locked the doors of some departments. Mass picketing was immediately begun under the leadership of Russak and Bullak, both of the National Textile Workers’ Union. The whole mill is NT Se anette expected out, ‘Thursday, * bao |a hunger march sub-committee, and made arrangements for all striking miners and unemployed workers in| | that section to meet at Curry at 6| | them will march in their pit clothes | a.m. June 30, and the miners among on the way to Pittsburgh, some of them with arm bands and cans to collect relief on thé way. There will be 5,000 to 10,000 marching in this section. A similar gathering thousands | strong, will be assembled in Kim- |mel’s Grove, Cheswick, at 4 a. m., June 30, to march on Pittsburgh. The Ambridge steel workers will meet at 7 a. m. Tuesday, June 30, to | begin their march on Pittsburgh. They will meet in a vacant lot on) Merchant St., between Sixth and Seventh. There will be a prelim- inary mass meeting there at the same location, June 25, to prepare. Thursday at 11:30 a, m. there will be a mass meeting to plan the hun- ger march from that locality, at the Westinghouse plant gates, East Pittsburgh. Robert Woods, secretary of the Unemployed Councils of Pittsburgh, and Carl Price, chairman of a com- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Inder the cover of “liberal” phra- ses, Pinchot is doing everything to aid the coal operators to break the militant’ strike of the West- ern Pa. miners. CASE OF SIX WHO FOUGHT EVICTION COMES UP MONDAY NEW YORK.—Oon Monday, 10 o'clock, the case of six unemployed and empi, ‘ed workers who were ar- rested last Friday for putting back the furniture of an evicted family at 93 Sheriff street, comes up in the Special Sessions Court. Yesterday at 3:30 pm. the Down- town Branch of the Unemployed Council held a mass open air meet- ing in, front of the house at which the six workers were arrested. They called upon the neighbors to rally to the defense of the members of the Council and the others who were ar- rested. A collection was taken up in the neighborhood for the wife and five children of one of the arrested. A committee of three was elected in the neighborhood to bring this money to the family of the arrested, The workers were all urged to be at the mass protest demonstration against the m urder of the striking miners in Pennsylvania to be held at Union Sq. today at 5 pm. All workers are urged to be pres- ent at 10 o’clock in the Special Ses- sions court when the case of these six workers comes up. | x0V. Gifford Pinchot; Feed Strikers A the 40,000 striking miners. workers can now show with their Time Can Be Lost in Pushing Drive to s Battle Sharpens PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 24.—Immediate relicf must be rushed to The best expression of solidarity that all the fellow workers now facing death, mutilation or hunger and starvation in the mine fields, is immediately contributing to the relief érive carried on by the Workers International Relief. There is no time to lose. Every minute counts. While a whole truckload o’ food arrived yesterday from the workers of New York, with Mike Obermeier, leader of the Food Workers’. In- dustrial Union, this is not enough. It shows the workers are already responding, but the response must be increased a hundredfold to help win this strike. A couple of cops tried to stop the truckload of foot! asking, “What the hell have the workers of New York to do with sending food to the miners—why don’t they mind their dwn business?” The police are angry at any sign of solidarity of the workers: They know that relief will stiffen the militancy of the striking miners. In Cleveland the workers held a relief conference Monday night. || Trucks will be loaded with food at the Public Square on Saturday, June /round 21th. miners. Every worker must do his share tion in immediately to the Pennsy! other stations. All Cleveland workers are urged to bring food there for the Committee, 799 Broadway, Room 614, New York City. Rush food and clothing to the miners in this strike. Send your contribu- Ivania-Ohio Striking Miners’ Relief See page 2 for Mine Stri Mass protest meetings have been arranged in all parts of the country to protest against the murder of striking miners in Pennsylvania by the c ompany gunmen and to de- clare solidarity with the 40,000 strik- ers who are putting up 2 militant battle against starvation. ee an The Communist Party and the all workers to voice their protest against the murderous terror that has been launched against the heroic Pennsylvania - Ohio- West Virginia mine strike by demonstrating today (Thursday) at 5 p.m. in Union Sq. Bullets, tear gas, clubs, terror of (Special to the Daily Worker) CHATTANOOGA, June 24.—Judge A. E. Hawkins yesterday denied’ the motions for new trials for the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys, eight of whom were sentenced in his court in early April to burn in the electric chair. General George W. Chamlee, at- torney for the International Labor Defense, which has charge of the defense of the boys, immediately filed a notice of appeal to the Ala~ bama Supreme Court. Filing of the notice of appeal automatically stays the execution of eight of the boys which was set for July 10. In the meantime, the International Labor Defense attorney is trying to have the eight boys remoyed from the deatlt cells in Kilby Prison, Mont- gomery, where they have been con- fined. Demonstration in City Saturday. ‘The mass fight to save and. free the boys will continue with greater force. This Saturday, the workers . pof New York, white and Negro, na- Fight to ‘Save Scotts- boro Boys Continues With Greater Force tive and foreign born, will take the streets of Harlem in a monster dem- onstration of protest against this frightful crime which the Alabama bosses are attempting to carry through against the Negro people and the entire working class. “The demonstration will start at 4 p. m., with a parade from 130th St. and Lenox Ave. The workers, many of whom will march behind the ban- ners of. their organizations, will march up Lenox to 140th St., west to 8th Ave., south to 135th St., east to 7th Ave., north to 144th St., east to Lenox Ave., and north to 146th St. At Lenox Ave. and 146th St. a mass meeting will be held which will mark the high point of the demonstration. Among the many organizations supporting the demonstration is the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Indus- urday* ” N.Y. Workers Demonstrate Saturday Against Boss Court Lynch Verdict trial Union which has just issued a call to all its members “to partici- pate in the demonstration under the banner of the union to protest and to fight against the sending of the nine innocent Negro boys to the electric chair.” Throughout the country similar demonstrations are being prepared to answer the denial by Judge Hawkins of the motion for new trials for the nine innocent boys, and to intensify the defense movement by drawing more and more masses into the mass fight which alone can save the boys and smash’ the murderous frame-up of the Alabama bosses against them, All Out On Saturday. White and Negro workers! On with the fight. to save the boys! Smash the lynch verdict of the boss courts! Forge faster the fighting alliance of the Negro and white against the lynch terror of the bosses, against the whole system of starvation, oppression, Jim Crowisr and imperialist war! All out on Sat- Protest In Solidarity With | Trade Union Unity League call on | os kers Tonight every description is the answer of the | coal operators and their agents to the fight of 40,000 miners and their fam- ilies against hunger and for the right to live. Hundreds have been arrest- |ed, two have been killed and many | wounded. The heroic struggle of these huxcry, desperate miners is the struggic cf the entire working class. The terror uiuoosed by the state po- lice and the hirelings of the coal | companies is a terror against the en- tire working class. Every worker who has a spark of class-consciousness in him must be present on Union Sq. j at t he protest demonstration called | by the Trade Union Unity League. Demand a halt to the coal oper- |ators’ terror! Demand the imme- diate, unconditional release of all those arrested in the strike! Smash the injunction against picketing! | Support the fight against starvation | and wage-cuts of the striking miners! N. Y. WORKERS TO ‘FIGHT CHEENY BILL ‘Open Air “Meets to Hit Registration Law NEW YORK.—Extensive prepara- tions are being made by unions, fra~ ternal societies and Workers Clubs to insure a complete success of the series of open air meetings called by the New York City Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born for June 25, 26, 27 as previously an- nounced. ‘The..workers,in these or- ganizations are determined that everything shall be \done to defeat the vicious registration bill passed by the Michigan Legislature and to pre- yent similar laws from being enacted elsewhere. ‘These meetings will also serve as a means to rally the workers in pro- “FIGHT MUST GO ON HARDER THAN EVER” Striking Miners Look to You! Rush Funds for Food! Very Few Scabs Get By the Mass Picketing At Mines Dreiser Comm. Arrives Pinchot Sends More Cops to Break Strike PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 24.—The first in the mass fight against opening ‘the Pittsburgh Term- |inal Coal Corp. mines junder the scab agree- ‘ment with the United Mine Workers of America was won to- day, when a thousand striking miners picketed the Terminal mines this morning at Mollen- auer, Castle Shannon, Cover- dale, Horning, Avella and Large. Out of twenty five hundred Terminal strikers, only a few scabs got in. The Central Rank and File Strike Committee meeting ‘today compli- mented the Terminal strikers and the Local Strike Committees in | smashing, by mass picketing, the attempt to reopen the mines, It | warned, however, that the fight goes on and that even the few scabs that got in must be pulled out by ever larger and more militant picketing. The Dreiser Committee, consisting of a group of artists and writers, who had volunteered to conduct a public investigation of the miners’ conditions as demanded by the Cen- tral Rank and File Strike Commit- tee, began its investigations at 3 p. m. today at its headquarters at. the Seventh Avenue Hotel here by in- terviewing witnesses to the Wild- wood and Arnold city murderous at- tack on striking mine pickets. The investigation will proceed to the field at the scene of the tragedy, investigating the living wage condi- tion of the miners. The Central Strike Committee is also organizing a committee of strikers to join the Dreiser investigation committee. Seventy-five state troopers are stationed in the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co, area. Pittsburgh newspapers have uni- (CONTINUED ON FAGE THREE) TALBOT MILL IN LOWELL STRIKES LOWELL, Mass.—About 250 work- ers of the Talbot Wool Mill, in Biller- ica, Mass., near here, have gone out on strike. The strike is being waged against the speed-up “point system” and for the ousting of the efficiency men, The workers in the finishing department initiated the walk out by refusing to accept the “point system.” ‘They immediately received the sup- port of the other workers. The National ‘Textile Workers Union sent Edith Berkman, organ- izer of the Lawrence district to Bill- erica. The workers, although not rad- ical, had experience with the sell-out tactics of the UT.W. and gladly ac- test against the Scottsboro frameyup. \ a es aps adersit of the