The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1931, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co. 1afh StFeet, New York City. N. Y. ‘Telephone Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York. N. ¥ Page Four lgonquin 7956-7. Inc., dally except Suvday, at 50 Rast Cable: DAIWORK.” Yorker’ Porty US.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: «By mall everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs ‘ef Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctly. Foreign: one year, 88+ siz months, $4.50. Miners’ Relief Will Help Win the Strike Against . Starvation M HERE at this meeting of the women’s auxiliary with my three little children, one five, one three, and one sixteen months. husband told me to be sure and come, because we could not stand being hungry any longer. Before the strike my husband had black bread for breakfast. took black bread in his dinner bucket, and had black bread for supper. We never had anything to put on the ki bread. Yet, my husband was working hard every day in the Kinlock mine “Then we are robbed in the company stores. They charge us 8c a 1b. for sugar, 60c a lb. for butter. $1.20 for a bag of flour, everything is double the price. They pay us with company money. They rob us in every way. They rob us in the weight of the coal, in the pay and in the company stores. “We could not go on any longer. We mean to stick in this fight. I can't go on the picket line because of the 3 little kids, but my husband | is always there. He stayed on the line all last night ‘help all I can. We can’t starve any worse now than when we were working because we know that now all the workers will help us. Their wages are being cut too, and they know this is their fight as well.” So spoke a young miner's wife at the meeting of the Kinlock Women’s Auxiliary. There were no longer any pay days for the miners before the strike began. Instead of pay- days they got slips of paper on which there are nothing but naughts. One miner in Creigh- | ton showed a pay slip for one days work sho ing 67< earned, 44c for deductions, and 23¢ for | wages. A high wall surrounds the company patch at / the Kinlock mine. Here the workers are kept like slaves. There is no running water and often the pumps are not working, or the water is full of sulphur. Most of the miners, living on the hill, have to ry water from the creek. There are no baths in the miserable grey shacks. Everywhere the coal dust has settled thick and can’t be removed. One of the older women at the meeting had heard some young women in another camp com- plain that she did not want her husband to strike because they had to pay up their furni- ture. This older woman said she had been-mar- ried 10 years and had not yet been able to pay for hers. A neighbor had to come to borrow a broom because she never could afford to buy one; another neighbor had to borrow a wash kettle because she could not save up enough to buy a kettle to wash the clothes in. The kids clothes have been patched so many times they are nothing but a mass of patches. The children in the mine camps never get any milk to drink or eggs to eat. Some are pudgy fat as they got nothing but potatoes, bread or maccaroni to eat for months and years. The food their mother: e forced to feed them will never give them strength and health. In many mines hundreds of miners have had to appeal to the salvation army for beans while they were at work, because they did not earn enough even though they were working. The day after the workers walked out of the Newfield mine, little children were hunting for crust of bread in the garbage cans. This made the relief committee realize that food was needed at once. The miners are sending committees out among the farmers, who are themselves im- | poverished. and to other workers, and are ap- pealing to the workers all over the country to help them. They are fighting against starvation; they are fighting for a chance to live; they don’t want their children to die of hunger and ask for relief to be sent immediately to the Pennsylvania- Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Room 519, Pittsburgh, Pa TOP—Group of miners from Cannonsburg, part of the 15,000 miners who marched on the Washington, Pa., county seat and demanded relief for Other demands included free food for children, their starving families. no evictions, free all imprisoned miners. BOTTOM —A truckload of miners from Brownsville, historic scene of many | a miners’ battle with police, on their way to Washington, Pa. ere Se To Noble Sparks of June uate st Hyland + County of the same being known and at Montour #4 april, COUNTY OF 5 pentioned en 4th June Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of 2a Notary Fublio dreds of miners’ families New York City. You are hereby notified and required to quit, surrene der, and deliver up quiet and peaceable possession on the » 1Slof all those certain premi Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company This notice 1s given you under the terms of ard in compliance with a certain lease wade between Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany, lessor, and yourself, lessee, dated the - 19ab STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Y fy Before me, the undersigned authority a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally appeared + who being duly sworn according to law, de- poses and says that he served the foregoing notice on the above nant by heading him said quit notice and making known to him the contents therof Notice” issued by the Pittsburgh Coal Company. once to these evicted miners and their families. rushing funds to the Miners’ Relief Committee, Room 614, 799 Broadway, TCE June 4, 19 3h er 15th day » in the Tosnship of Washington an@ State of Pennsylvenie, designated as heuse and lot No. 155 lst day of PITTSBURGH COAL Pimdieh + 193L The mine bosses in an attempt to break the strike are evicting hun- from their homes. The above is a typical “Quit Relief must be sent at Help win the strike by Registration ot the Cannon Fodder -The Michigan Alien Registration Law Is A War Measure. By B. SKLAR. state of Michigan orders the registration | Not only to put hundred workers in that state at the automobile kings and the brutal h they control; not only in or- ‘or. espionage, black list and are new wage cuts. The | is also essentially a war meas- of the mercy powe ate b: tion law net forget that when the American plunger this country into the wer they found it necessary, at that | s—me, to register the cannon fodder and the | registration was made obligatory for all persons of the military age, native born Americans not excluded. On the basis of the experiences gained in the course of the war the imperial- ists and the government of the bosses decided to improve upon the first imperfect method of registration. It is therefore not an accident that the first projects for the registration of “gliens” originated in the after war period. At the very beginning these projects for the reg- istration of the aliens contained the finger printing feature. This is because registration by name still leaves a possibility of escape for the perspective victim of the war slaughter. Finger printing provides an unmistakable meth- od of establishing identity. Of all the capitalist countries America achieves the distinction of being the one that is en- deavoring to place millions of its population on par with criminals. As yet the registration is applied only to the foreign-born but this is done only to facilitate the passage of the measure. Having established the precedent it becomes comparatively an easy task to extend the reg- istration under “war emergency” over the native born population as well. If at the beginning the registration bills were not pressed it was not only because of the wide spread opposition to them by the workers but also because the capitalist class did not see the immediate necessity of applying them. But the increasing danger among the imperialist vul- tures caused by the sharpening of the crisis and rst of all the feverish preparations by the cap- italist powers (especially the U. S. A.), prepara- tions for the war against the Soviet. Union, drives the ruling class towards the adoption of ener- getic steps in order to put over the registration laws. In resorting to such action in order to pass the registration bills the Hoover government is making a clever maneuver. It intends in this manner to weaken the opposition to such bills because then this measure assumes a local char- acter. Yet they attained the very same aim that would be achieved through the passage of the law in the congress. The registration of the foreign-born is being éstablishéd through the passage of the law in one or several states and then facilitates immeasurably the extention of he law upon the entire country and the entire population during the time of war through the ruling of the central government. It therefore becomes of the greatest importance to the work- ers not only to prevent the spreading of the Michigan registration law upon other states but also to compel its withdrawal in Michigan in order that no such law should exist throughout the territory of the United States. We repeat, to permit the existence of such a law for one of the states means the facilitation of the capitalists in the militarization of the workers during the war. The character of this law, its significance as a measure of preparing the intervention against the Soviet Union is con- firmed by the composition of the elements which spread it; various patriotic organizations (Amer- ican Legion, Daughters of the American Revo- lution, etc.), the fascist leaders of the American Federation of Labor, the White Guardists, etc. All of them see that the registration carries no fear for the loyal, honest citizens. That it is only aimed against the criminals and the bol- sheviks. All of the elements hostile to the work- ers; all the conspirators of intervention against the Soviet Union are for the registration. Workers, organize the struggle against the abominable law! Let us not permit its putting into practice! Let us rally for the defense of the Soviet Union. Register for Correspondence Courses By A. MARKOFF. (ORRESPONDENCE courses are new in our Party; we are just making the first steps in that direction. Yet it is one of the most im~ portant means of propaganda, a very effective medium of spreading the theory of Marxism, Leninism, the revolutionary weapon of the class struggle of the proletariat. The Communist Party of Germany, in addi- tion to the many schools where Communist edu- cation is given to hundreds and thousands of workers, has introduced correspondence courses with success. Even in the Soviet Union where literally thousands of schoois of all grades are at the disposal of the Communist Party, they louna it necessary to use the correspondence course method, due to the fact that a large number of workers are prevented from attending classes either because they live far from the center or because of their work, such as night workers, etc. Our Party made great progress in the direction of organizing schools in many districts and many workers are trained in the theory of the class struggle through those schools. But our work in this field is greatly limited, first be- cause of the inadequate number of the schools, secondly because the schools which we have are situated mostly in large centers, Many of our own members living in small towns are actually deprived of the chance of getting a systematic Communistic training. The developing struggles bring hundreds of workers into the Party, and many thousands fall more ‘and more under the _ influence of the Party. ‘The interest in Com- _ munism is growing. How are we going to bring to these workers the theory of the Communist _ Movement? The correspondence courses will solve the problem to a great extent. While the regular attendance of classes at school has its advantages since the personal contact with the instructor is preferable, the correspondence courses give the opportunity to workers to study, whenever and wherever pos- sible. They are not limited to any particular time and place. Many members of our Party compain that on account of their many activities, they are un- able to devote even one evening to school. The correspondence courses provide the means for such comrades to acquire the necessary train- ing. The need for this method was proved by the great number of inquiries which came to the Workers School from almost all parts of the United States and Canada. But while the inquiries were many, the number of subscrip- tions are very small. This probably can be explained by the lack of publicity in the Press, ‘These courses must be popularized. Our press can only give us a limited space for publicity. It is therefore incumbent upon our , District committees to popularize these courses ‘through the Party apparatus, such as our fractions, in the unions, mass organizations, workers’ clubs, etc, These correspondence courses will also serve as a means of contact with the workers, a medium for the popularization of our Itier- ature, press, etc. The workers school is ready to offer corres- pondence courses in three subjects, namely, Fundamentals of Communism, Political Econ- omy, and Leninism, beginning July, A bulletin giving detaed explanations regarding the pro- gram, fee, etc. will be mailed’ upon request. All inquiries should be addressed to Lie Workers School, 35 BE. 12th St, New Yorr Party Life Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com- mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A. Forging Ahead at Council Bluffs By P. C. Quite a bit of activity is going on here in Gouncil Bluffs, Iowa. We are continuing the gathering of signatures on the petition demanding the removal of Mary Lawson for her abuse of the workérs who come asking for aid. We are also carrying on a fight on the issue of the police and firemen’s pension fund, from which the city is buying machine guns, gas bombs, shot guns, etc. We have se- lected a committee to appear before the city council on this quéstion, and it is becoming a wide-spread issue. So much so that we get re~ ports that some of the aldermen are beginning to squirm. The new budget 1s coming up for considera- tion by the council, and we have put up a de- mand for a special appropriation of $100,000 for the relief of the unemployed. Our own unemployed council meetings are growing. We have won quite a bit of prestige in that our fight has forced the county to stop refusing food. Now we are raising a demand for increase of the rations. We are speaking before some of the local unions lining them up on the questidn of the unemployed councils, and for the program of the Trade Union Unity League. We have taken defi- nite steps to organize a railroad local. We have also succeeded in organizing a committee in one of the laundries where a strike is possible any day. We also have another committee or- ganized in a fairly large factory here. At our last meeting Mr. Shultz of the Central Labor Union came up and asked for the floor. Of course we took the occasion to expose the A. F. of L. With about 300 workers present we carried on a discussion lasting about three hours. Only two workers left during the whole meet- ing. The rank and file participated very actively and defended the position of the T. U. U. L. with considerable understanding, There were about fifty railroad workers present, most of | | | them employed. They were so favorably im- ‘ Warning Against Spies and Un- trustworthy Elements UDOLPH MAKI (Alias I. R. Heines), of Han- cock, Mich., a miner of Finnish nationality, whose photograph appears herewith, has been exposed and expelled by the Communist Party organization of District 9, as a stool-pigeon for the Copper Trust and a traitor to the working class. * RUDOLPH MAKI (Alias I. R. HEINES) Copper Trust Stool-Pigeon He was previously active among the metal miners of the National Miners Union in Han- cock Section, and he attended a recent con- vention of these miners, after which a number pressed that arrangements are now being made for us to send a speaker to their next meeting. We have already received invitations to speak from the Machinists’ and the Tinners’ locals, and also from a group of farmers about ten miles outside of Council Bluffs, These farmers arranged a meeting on their ov~r initiative. We have now started selling the ~aily Worker on the streets. We have been sel.:ng all the copies we get, and intend to increase the bundle order to fifty. The party unit now has nine members, the average age of whom is about thirty. All of them are very interested in the work, all study- ing and are rapidly becoming conscious of their role as the vanguard of the movement in Coun- cil Bluffs. of the delegates were fired by the company, and it appeared at the company was in possession of other information, which pointed to Maki as being the company informer. Subsequent investigation proved these sus- picions to be correct, and when Maki saw what was coming, he disappeared together with his wife, who was also connected with the treach- : ey ae RCBERT HICKS, of Indianapcls, Ind., hs been exposed by the Communist Party organ- ization of District 8 as a stool-pigeon for the Employers Association of Indianapolis. He is a degenerate drunkard. While intox- ieated, he has spoken about his conhections with the police. Not only that, but it was es- tablished that in a court case against him for driving while drunk, the lawyer who defended him received his pay from the Employers As- sociation. He is about 34 years old, very tall (about 6’ 2”) and heavy (about 235 lbs.); he is fat and flabby in build, and while he has big jowls, his other facial features are small. oo eee OTTO THERKELSON, of St. Paul, Minn, jeweler and sign painter of Danish nationality, has been expelled from the Cemmunist Party for absconding with organization funds. Since then he has appeared in Chicago and disappeared again stealing $5 from a worker who had befriended him. He is about 28 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches tall, slim, about 145 lbs. in weight, and has dark blond hair and blue eyes. at ie GODFREY, of St. Paul, Minn., cook by trade, has been expelled from the Communist Party for absconding with about $20 of organization funds. At the same time, because it is be- lieved that he did not do this with premeditated intention, the condition was attached that he may re-apply, if he would immediately present himself to the Party, recognize the imper sibility of his conduct and pledge restitution of the money. CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S.A. * The ‘Daily’ Must Live! Many Workers Send Last Pennies The Daily Worker has received | hundreds of letters since the cam- paign for funds started that show} how devoted the American workers | are to their fighting paper. We wish we could publish all these inspiring letters, but space limitations make it | possible to print only a few. Below are several that are typical of the many we have received. ate ay His Last Dollar Salt Lake City, Utah. Daily Worker:— Enclosed please find a dollar to help keep ‘the Daily Worker from going under. This dollar is the last button I got, but that’s O. K. Clyde McCarty Unemployed SE ee Comrades, We Will Win! Newark, Nog. Comrades:— bd I send to you 25 cents for the Worker. I do not want to see the Worker go down and out, Next time I send you another 25 cents, I am working every other week. I am 73 years old, but able-bodied yet. Comrades, we will win. Daily Worker 50 Rast 15 Th, atrect. Now York, Ys Inclesed you will find 2 cents which 1 am send to the 35000 driv T have 70. cents , an? I an aonding 20 cents ef st , wish I could send more but I am aut ef work. 30 1 have to keep the 60 B to live en till I find a job. ene er sere August and I will be here. August if somebody don’t help me. If I only knew who the LL.D. lawyer when he can get it. sQ3vrnens Pane 12,32) sunt ‘Te the§S50U0 drive cept. Deer Comrades. tor tbe Deily Worker, All hopes be the wainteinence of our fighting working class yaper. Receipt No, ZL. Amount, Willian Howard. Kxnsas City. il next It is the only and am down to my last 20 bucks. I am donating 25 per cent ($5) so I was going to spend this money. hope that workers realize how im- portant a role the Daily Worker plays in their every day demands, so that they wake up and do their share and save the aDily. T have been unemployed for six months. As the fruit season is on now here in California, I managed to get a job and have been work- ing for 15 days. There are many unpaid bills awaiting me, but bills of the Daily Worker are always first and especially now. Sending you $3 for six months by air mail and am sorry can't do more, but am going out with donation and subscription lists and will send you the same in a day or two. —B.D. * “Class-Conscious Irish-American.” Astoria, L. 1 Daily Worker:— Please find enclosed $1.00 to help! that the Daily Worker may not , was here, I could get out at once, | perish, —F. Bandsters Lutes Sih ao ee Me for I am a worker and a fighter gr ngelong anata a be conscious Irish- against capitalism. . ican worker, I hope you will carry ‘on the good she oko pelt tod RY —Michael O'Connell. work on to a finish. A friend of | nes, Gomrades:— ace ae aa mine slips the Daily Worker to me Long Live the Daily Worker! Chicago, Il. Henry Kroner. PRN Stamps and .a Dime From Jail. Dear Workers and Comrades:— I am sending all I have and if 1 was a free man, I would send money. But, dear friends, I found this dime and here is some stamps that might be of some service. I know just how . it is to be framed up and put in pri- son, for that has happened to mé. T have been here ever since last way I get a chance to know what is going on outside among my fellow workers. i NOTE:—We are referring the case of this framéd up worker to the International Labor Defense—— The Editor. Sends 25 per cent of ‘an He Has. Chicago, TI. Comrades :-—~ J have been unemployed 19 months But when I read the Daily Worker, I thought it needed the money more. —Rose Karchefsky, age 9 yrs. ONC at “Dally Worker Comes First.” Sunnyvale, Cal, Dear Comrades:— It sure is sad news to the Amer- ean workers who realize the class struggle to hear that their only Daily that’s fighting for their In- Comrades:— Am sending enclosed money order for $1.00 and heartily wish I could make it a thousand. I feel as if 1 were paying part of a debt that I and all rebel workers owe to the Worker for its steadfast, uncompromising battle for the work- Long live the Dally Worker! terests is in a financlal crisis, 1 Yours for freedom, A Emily Turner, A By JORGE Bee Babson Babbles Babson, the capitalist “economist,” recently said that he “would stake his reputation” on his assertion that “prosperity” was realy com- ing back. “That is,” he added, “in a reasonable time.” The reason he got so positive about it se to “stake his reputation,” is because he sald the same thing before and no “prosperity” showed up. A reader suggests that Babson must have seen “prosperity” approaching through the 200 inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, which blinks things around the planet Betele guese, a couple of billion “light years” away. The same reader (J. M. G.), by the way, in forms us that the popular concept of a judge nowadays, is a gangster with a kimono on, and adds that a priest is like a donkey because his collar is hooked at the back, He says he knows because he is an Irishman. Which seems to indicate that one more Irishman has broken away from Tammany Hall and Cardinal Hayes. Stop This Snobbery! “Comrade Jorge:—The other day you pub« lished a letter and headed your comment: ‘Don’t Discourage Non-Party Comrades.’ You said that Party snobbery was doing a lot to cripple the movement. You have hit upon a very sore spot. Certainly there must be a de- gree of reserve towards new sympathizers and would-be members. (Very rarely, and with sense of discrimination—Jorge). But what we run up against is a barbed wire fence, “Not only is the revolution the property of the Party, but just you try to get a look in on it! I personally know of four intelligent and sincere young workers who did their derndest to work as sympathizers. They joined the John Reed Club, but after six weeks or so they quit, absolutely frozen out. All that time, no one has spoken a word to them. (The Club,with all its virtues, is a poor example, comrade—Jorge). “A relative of mine and his wife are active and earnest Party members. They were more eager to keep us out of the work than get us into it. (How do you mean ‘earnest?’—Jorge). But I could not resist the force of conviction. I read Lenin, I read tie Daily Worker, and my heart went right out to Communism, I joined the School two terms ago, am still there, and gaye all I could to the Daily, the School, the LL.D. I ran into this relative at one of the meetings. I then realized that I had made a | grave social error; I had not asked his per- mission before joining the School, (A nice Communist, this relative!—Jorge). “Party members, if they condescend to talk to you, seem to watch every word fou say in order to catch you in errors and make you feel that you will never be correct. Yet, in my case, I usually found the Daily Worker express the same opinions that I had formed. (We express them again right here in this case, comrade—Jorge). “A young woman, a machine operator, who does daily Party work among her fellow work- ers at the risk of her job, almost wept when also a woman, had a friendly talk with her, cause, she said: ‘Nobody ever talks to each othef at the school or at meetings.’ “Communism must be protected from fakers and faddists, I know. Strangers must not be too readily accepted. Yet intelligent workers anxi- ous to work for the Party and realizing its risks and dangers, should not find themselves in an ice-box. If the Party members keep this up, they will find that they are propagandizing only themselves. There is nowhere a warm and friendly hand. “Communism is a bitter, agonizing strucgle. I know that, a matter of life and death and not of polite grinning and glad hands. But the potential force of the personal element should not be wasted by Party members, should be utilized to draw work and money from us (when we have it). When people become white hot, longing to be used for the advancement of the revolution, and they find no possible inlet to the work—a question mark is all that can ex- press their feelings—Kay Ess.” We don’t have to add anything to tnis, except our thorough agreement, and the observation that this awful disease is more noticeable in New York than elsewhere. Out of town com- rades should get vaccinated before transferring here. Also, would Comrade Kay Ess, please drop around and see us? Don’t Get Stung A comiade whose hindsight was better than his foresight, came in the other day, boiling over with indignation. Not at us, no! But at having been stung for a whole $2.60 by buy- ing a copy of a book called “The Communist Shakes His Fist,” by a gink named Bruce Rey- nolds. After looking the thing over, we agree that he was stung. Of all the tripe about Communism, this book takes the cake. The author seems to have been a busy devil in collecting all the absurd lies, near lies and variations of lies belshed out by the whole school of Fishes big and little. Then he strung these all in a line, with no connection, and calls it a book. Quotations and mis-quotations galore from what Commu- nists said or wrote: “How the United States _— Will Be Captured,” and “Moscow Instructions — by Dictator Stalin direct from his own private fortress” to “Abolish marriage” (which Reynolds obliginglyexplains means “To introduce an open= ly legalized community of women.”) j Oh, yes! This lurid liar has managed to work up quite a fever over the fact that the Communist Party has district organizations, “Moscow Generals have divided the United States into 15 districts,” and he tells all about it, except that we have about four more since he got his information. . : “And Now, Comes, This Other ‘Documént of State’ Direct From Moscow to ‘Russia’s Generals’ in America”—says the next headline, over, the terrible tale that: “In the U. S., a triumvfrate, nominated by Moscow, has received absolu‘e or- ders for revolution.” 3 We through Fish was the biggest jackass in the U. S. A. but this guy Reynolds tries to beat him, The moral is: If you have 2.60, you better donate it to the Daily Worker. in« stead of buying such rubbish,