The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1931, Page 1

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Vill, No 153 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, the Post Ufficr gyp>21 of Murch ¥, 1879 JUNE 26, 1981 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MASS PICKETING KEEPS UMWA SCAB-PACT MINES SHUT A “A Voice from the Tomb RESIDENT HOOVER'S trip to the middle west was a daily jump from tomb to tomb, It is symbolic that, while in the Soviet Union nearly each day sees the working class dedicating new factories to so- cialism in a country without unemployment and with the 7 hour day, in the United States, with unemployment and wage cuts affecting mil- lions, the president of the nation flutters about the country dedicating and re-dedicating tombs. Hoover's speech at the tomb of President Harding could not avoid what the republican party has for 8 years tried to avoid, and what the democratic party as an accomplice in capitalist robbery could only speak of in hints. We refer to the criminal record of the “Ohio Gang” which in governmental loct, cold blooded murder and sexual debauchery eclipsed even the annals of the French monarchy and the incestuous papacy. No one needs to t: e Communist testimony for proof. “The Strange Death of President Harding,” by Gaston B. Means, who far from being a Communist, is one of Congressman Fish’s “red investigators,” is only one of several books recommended for thcse who may have a remnant | of respect: for capitalist government. This, and Nan Britten’s book, ‘The President’s Daughter.” while not advised for minors, should be on the shelves of every patriot who is fearful lest the spread of Bolshevism “break up the home” and “ruin American morals.” Together with “Revelry,” by Charles H. Adams, a book revealing how billions of dollars in natural resources were looted by the “Ohio Gang” and their pals, make up a choice reference library for anyone who wishes to know what Hoover was trying to cover up with his speeches from tomb to tomb. Poison seemed to have been a fad with the “Ohio Gang” when any- ene was to be bumped off, although Jess Smith was shot as a hurry-up job. The then Attorney General of the United States, who kept hun- dreds of workers in prison for “sedition,” has never been charged with murder. Sudden and mystertous death was the portion of not only gay girls, enticed to amuse the “great,” but the great themselves. ° Harding died, but the manner of his death has never been adequately explained. Likewise, Harding’s personal doctor, Brigadier General Charles Sawyer, mysteriously “died,” and several others “committed suicide” or just “died.” ‘The stench of the Harding regime cannot be downed by fat-head, | disinfectant remarks about Harding's “dim realization” that he was sur- rounded by a bunch of thieves and assassins with whom he was a jolly good pal. fact that both of these very parcel of the same crowd. Compared to the “Ohio Gang,” Rasputin and | the Borgias were rather decent. | It comes with poor grace from the lips of a Hoover, to say that, | “There can, be no man in our country who, either by his position or his | influence, stands above the law.” t 1 Certainly i. is hypocrisy to say so while Harry Daugherty sat beside Hoover on the platform at Harding’s tomb; while Albert Fall is still out of jail from a mere one-year sentence; and more particularly while 40.000 miners, striking against starvation, are being jailed by injunctions arfd shot down by police; while even the ¢ity of Springfield, where Hoover spoke at Lincoln’s tomb, witnessed the outrageous beatings and arrests of unemployed workers the day before. All this palaver of Hoover about “liberty” and “law” cannot conceal “from the workers the fact that the working class has no liberty and that the law of capitalist government is against the workers. The workers | {ll,learn from the contrast between Hoover's speeches and the facis of capitalist rule, that capitalism and crime are one and the same thing. and that corruption and crime can only be* burned out by the fire of proletarian revolution! Nor can the speeches of Hoover and Coolidge conceal the | respectable boiled-shirts were part and The Spanish Elections - ov Sunday the Spanish elections take place, there being about 605 caft- didates contending for the 470 seats in the national parliament, the “Cortes.” Of these candidates, 33 are of the Communist Party, the Monarchist Party has only 10 candidates (showing that their cause is senting reaction). But reaction in a concealed form is represented more broadly by the it in the present government, namely, the “Republican-Sccialist alli- ance.” The “Right” has 120 candidates and the fake “Left,” in which the “socialists” »zcdominate, has 104. The task of the Communist Party of Spain is to tear the mask off this concealed reaction. This is facilitated by the tolerance, amounting to a support, of the monarchist bandits by the government of the capi- talist-“socialist” bloc, by the numerous massacres of workers and peas- ants who are demanding that the government which their uprising put into power on the heels of Alfonso’s departure, give real improvement of the miseries they endured under the monarchy. Instead of a bit more bread for the workers, land for the masses of Jandless peasantry from the industrial capitalists and the feudal land- owners, striking workers and starving peasants have been shot down by the government in which the Minister of Labor (Largo Cabellero) and other cabinet members are so-called “socialists.” The oppressed na- tionalities in Cataluna and Viscaya remain oppressed. Further, the King and his tribe were aided to escape from Spain with their loot of millions stolen from the masses. Berenguer, the mi.i- tary dictator for Alfonso, was freed by a “trial” in which the judges were old monarchist generals, genera!s which still rule and starve the ranks@of the soldiery while filling their pockets with graft. And the “republican-socialist” government, far from attacking the ancient twin of the monarchy, the Catholic church, with its big landed estates robbed from the peasantry, guarantees its property and sent the murderous Civil Guard to shoot down the workers who protested at the open armed preparation of the monarchist-Catholic bandits to reestablish the monarchy. “The Civil Guard wili-know how to protect and save the Republic,” said the “socialists” in the government, the Civil Guard which is every- thing that the Czar’s Cossacks once were, a specially paid and trained corps of murderers of workers and peasants. The Comn. ist Party of Spain in the present election is doing more than just “run. office.” It is exposing to the masses that this is not their governmeht, but that of their exploiters. And the Communists call not only for votes, but for the disarming of the reactionary forces and the arming of the workers; for factory committees and soldiers’ councils; for peasant seizure and distribution of the land, abolition of tne downtown section called by Sec- church privileges and all church land to the people, for Soviets of Work- ers.and Peasants, for a Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic! These are the issues raised by the Spanish Communists in the pres- ent election. But however the votes go, these issues will be determined outside of parliament, by the action of the toiling masses. | Mass participation will make the Tag Days a suc- ‘All Out for the Tag Days! Collect Today, Tomorrow, | Sunday to Save Our ‘Daily’! All out for the Tag Days tomorrow end Sun- day! today, Workers in every city must during these three days | put all their efforts into the task of collecting funds to | save the Daily Worker from going under. Thousands of | dollars must be raised to keep the Daily alive, thousands | of dollars to keep the Daily fighting for the striking min- | ers, for the Scottsboro boys, for all workers, Negro and | white, native and foreign-born. YOU TOO MUST DO | YOUR SHARE! | The New York District especially is depended on to | furnish the Daily with the fighting funds that it needs so badly. The New York workers have done splendid work, but the slogan: “Double the Quota by July 1” must | be realized in fact during the next three days, if sus- | | pension is to be avoided. | | BUT NEW YORK ALONE CANNOT SAVE THE | DAILY WORKER! If, after all these efforts, we fail to | | raise the $35,000 and the Daily is forced to suspend, the | | workers will know what districts are to blame. Next to | New York, Districts 8 (Chicago), 7 (Detroit), 6 (Cleve- land), 3 (Philadelphia) and 13 (California), which ate the largest districts and are far behind their quotas, are | | looked to for the funds to stave off disaster. BUT | | EVERY DISTRICT, EVERY CITY MUST TODAY, TO- | MORROW AND SUNDAY BE FILLED WITH AN ARMY OF COLLECTORS FOR THE DAILY! \ | cess. And every cent collected must be sent in.at once! | Money collected must he sent in at once! Money collected on coupon books that is now lying in workers’ pockets must be sent in at once. ALL OUT FOR THE TAG | DAYS! AND SEND FUNDS TO THE DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY! . . . Volunteer collectors are wanted in the New York | District. They should report at the stations listed else- | where in this paper. | ‘Arrest Active Miners | State Troopers ia) Deputies Search | Miners Homes Describe Deliberate Murder of Pickets PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 25.— With the dead still unburied and the wounded lying in the hospitals from Monday's and Tuesday’s mas- sacre of strikers, with 75 state police) and hundreds of deputies “yellow | dogs” of the coal companies crowded into the five towns where the United Mine Workers were doig their share of the strike-breaking, as the mur- derous deputies have done theirs, the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company failed to get a corporal’s guard for its re-opened coal mines today. ‘Thousands turned out to picket in Mollenauer, Castle Shannon, Cover- dale, Horning and Avella. Men, wom- en and children massed around the company property and out of 2,500 miners on strike, not over a few doz- en went in to work under the United Mine Workers of Amercia scab agree- ment. | Every effort has been made to stompede-these strikers back to work, The Pittsburgh capitalist press printed big stories yesterday; ‘“Ter- minal Mines Re-open; 2,500 will re- turn to work,” but even this strike- breaking trick failed. Huge mass meetings yesterday rallied the masses of strikers fo rthe picketing. Today the papers are lying again, | saying that a thousand returned to work. This story rouses satirical | Workers of New York to Answer Lynch Verdict Judge In Huge Demonstration Sat. Parade Will Start at 4 P.M. as Workers Mobilize to Demand Freedom for Nine Innocent Scottsboro Negro Boys NEW YORK.—A mighty protest and a demand for the |release of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys will be the answer of the workers of New York, black and white, to the refusal of the lynch verdict judge to grant a new trial to these in- necent working class children who are oeing railroaded to the jelectric chair. Rallying tomor-¢ row, Saturday, to the ghee |at 1:30 when the workers will march ers will march through the | lagi streets of Harlem and demand | a halt to this legal lynching. ‘Tomorrow a great protest demon- stration and parade, arranged by the Scottsboro United Front Defense “Only the joint struggle of the Negro and white workers can save the boys,” declares the call for Sat- urday’s demonstration. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 'THREE) MASS PICKETING _ IN BREAD STRIKE NEW YORK, N. Y.—The strike of the worker consumers on 180th St. between Arthur .and Prospect Aves. for the 5c a pound bread is entering into its third week. The bakery own- ers, who could not break the strike with the aid of the American Fed- eration of Labor and Amalgamated Food Workers Union gangsters, the police and the Tammany judges, now use another method. The Specialty Bakery Owners of America, an or ganization of the bakery owners, de- cided to force all bakeries in New York, which sell the bread for 5c a pound or less, to raise the price to 8 cents. They did this in order to fool the workers consumers and “convince” them that they cannot produce cheaper bread than 8 cents @ pound. The workers will not be fooled by |the latest maneuver of the bosses. | Road, 2700 Bronx Park East. | Get Permit for Pittsburgh | Hungermarch of ' Thousands ‘Isste 100,000 Leaflets to Allegheny Coal and Steel Workers to Join in Mighty March Demanding Relief PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 25.—A permit for| the Pittsburgh hunger march, in which tens of thousands are expected to participate, was granted. The marchers will assemble in West Park, not East Park, as previously announced. The route of march is from West Park over the Manchester | Bridge, along Duquesne to Sixth; over the Bridge there and | back to West Park. Calling on the miners and steel workers in Allegheny County to march to West Park on Tuesday, June 30th, at — —- -41 p. m., when tens of thousands of | i striking miners and their families | ‘Stations in Tag Days | | re expected to march on Pittsburgh | from surrounding territory to de- |to Save Daily WoOrker) |riaia unenipleyment velier and tn protest against the murder of strik- | | ing miners, over 100,000 leaflets have | | The following are the stations | for the Daily Worker Tag Days: |" Section 1—142' X. | rn been.issued by the Central Rank E. Fourth St., 11 saci ee ie | and File Strike | Committee of the | a Eadwen: | | National Miners’ Union Section 2—64 W. 22nd St. 30:|| The leaflet reads W. 29th St., 16 W. 21st St., 331 W.| | “Thousands of miners in and 28th St. | }around Allegheny County are on | Section 4353 Lenox Ave., Fin-| | strike against starvation, against | | nish Workers’ Center, 1666 Mad-| | wage cuts, against cheating on| jison Ave.; Jewish School I.W.O..| | weight. They are fighting for the} | 143 E. 103rd St.; Harlem Prog.| | right to live, for a standard wage- | | Gauth Club, 1492 Madison Ave scale of 55 cents a ton, pay for all} Esthonian Workers’ Club, 2336| | deadwork, recognition of the union, || Third Ave.; Hungarian Workers’ | etc. The unemployed miners are | | Home, 350 E. 81st St.; Czechoslo- | | taking an active part in the strike | vak Workers’ House, 347 E. Tand | because they know that this strike | Section 5—1622 Bathgate Ave.,| | jis also a strike against unemploy- |569 Prospect Ave. 1400 Boston | | | ment. “The bosses have brought all their | | agencies into play to try to break the strike. The county deputies of Al- legheny County are shooting to kill) Section 6 (Brooklyn)—61 Gra-| ham Ave., 46 Ten Eyck St., 80/ Cook St., 73 Myrtle Ave. | Section 7 (Brooklyn)—1373 43rd | |on the picket lines. Scores have| St., 140 Neptune Ave., 48 Bay 28th | |been wounded and one already | St., 764 40th St., 3228 W. Second | | killed. Many are in jail because they fought against starvation. Hun- dreds have been ordered evicted from St. | Section 8 (Brooklyn)—1565 St. | Perth Amboy—308 Elm St Elizabeth—106 E. Jersey St. Section 12 (Yonkers)—252 War- burton Ave. | of workers will gather in Pittsburgh |next Tuesday to present demands on | the County Government. Our wives | and children are hungry. being slugged and shot. threatened with evictions. We are| Marks Place, 118 Bristol St. 541) | their homes. The U. M. W. of A. Vermont St. || scabs, the Pinchot State Govern- Section 10 (Newark) — 121) | ment, and the County Government | Springfield, 90 Ferry St., TUUL; | | have been brought in to try to force | 520 West, S. Slovak Hall; 5 Bel-| | the men back to work under slave mont, I.W.O. Center. | conditions. | Section 11 (Paterson) — 206| | “rhe enemployed miners and the | Market, 205 Paterson St., Pater-| | strikers must unite on June 3t0h, in | son, N. J. | united struggle, together with the| Jersey City—302 Hudson, Work-| | unemployed steel workers in the ers’ Center. | fight against starvation. ‘Thousands | | | We are Committee, will be a fighting chal- lenge to the murderous plans of the southern bosses and their courts and will show the determination of the workers of New York to prevent this frightful crime against the working- class and the oppressed Negro Peo- ple. Gthering at 4 p.m. at 130th St. and Lenox Ave., with a large number of militant organizations participating. the parade will march up Lenox Ave. to 140th St. west to Eighth Ave., south to 135th St., east to Seventh At; north to 144th St. east to Two hundred sixty-five function- aries of trade union, educational, fraternal and affiliated organiza- tions, met last night under the aus- pices of the Penn,-Ohio Striking Miners’ Committee at Manhattan Le! Ave., and north to 146th St. 46th St. and Lenox Ave. a big protest meeting will be held, at which prominent speakers will rally the workers for active support of the fight being initiated by the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights to free the boys. The demonstration will be preced- ed by several open air meetings in tion 1 of the Communist Party. One meeting will be held at Jackson and Monroe St.; another at Lewis and Delancey St. These meetings will start at 12 o'clock noon. and. adjourn Lyceum, Jack Stachel, of the National Min- ers’ Union Strike Committee, de- scribed the splendid fighting spirit of the men on the picket lines. The women trudge to the picket lines in their bare feet for miles, in order to help the men in their fight. Dave Smith, one of the nine min- ers who arrived from Pittsburgh Tuesday night, told of the miserable living conditions of the miners, He said that he received 18 cents for mining a ton of coal. The miners are kept in constant debt to the companies for the rent, and for the Relief Must Be Sent to Mine Strike ics Zone At Once! Strikers Need Food “Demands: Ten dollars a week for each five dollars additional for each de- pendent. 2. No evictions of unemployed or strikers. Free gas, light and heat |supplies for which the company stores charge about twice as much as other stores do. “Most miners’ children have forgotten the taste of milk,” he said. “They don’t go to school because they have no clothes to wear, and the truant officer comes around anyway and wants to know why they stay away. All us miners feel we got nothing to lose, and a world to gain, and that’s why we went on strike with the N.M.U.,” he said. Jack Steuben of the TUUC out- lined a concrete plan of action for every working class organization to mobilize every member into the re- lief campaign. Only in this way can a constant stream of relief be sent to the miners, which will act ‘as ammunition with which to carry on their brave fight against starva- for unemployed and strikers. 3. Free food for all children of the unemployed and strikers. Free milk for all babies. 4. Immediate withdrawal of all armed forces, state police, county deputies, UMWA _ gangsters, etc., from the strike area. A spontaneous collection resulted in $133 in cash and pledges on be- half of the organizations of several hundred dollars. John Pomfort, the 17-year-old child miner, addressed the member- ship meéting of the Office Workers’ Union, at which $17.10 was collected for miners’ relief. The Food Workers’ Industrial Union in New York has already sent one and a half tons of food for the miners and more will be sent Satur- day. The Union has also levied a re- lief tax of 50 cents per member. The miners must have relief if the strike is to be won, Workers! Show your solidarity with the 40,000 strik- ing miners and their families. Rush food;-clothing ormioriéy to the Penn- Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 6 tion, OB Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 5. Immediate release of all ar- rested strikers in Allegheny County. 6. Abolition of the injunction against the striking coal miners. The right to picket, to strike, and to meet. 7. No discrimination against Ne- gro, youth, or women workers or foreign born workers, in giving out of jot Expose the lie about the Scviet Union—Spread Bedacht’s pampr.- let “Soviet ‘Forced Labor’ ”—96 pages, 5 cents. \) « ) lit to the Workers bibra:: my P. O. PINCHOT’S TROOPERS HELP SCABS, CLUB STRIKING MINERS State Troopers Seize Zigareec’s Body for Secret Burial Hold Mass Funeral NMU Demands Armed Forces bids PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 25.— Thousands again picketed at the Pittsburgh Terminal Mines, where Pinchot, the bosses and the U. M. W. A. are attempting to break the strike through a scab agreement. Only 200 scabs got in. Some went in to get their tools and came out. Yesterday 32 did this. A squad of state troopers yester- day pounced on John Cosick, whose only offense was that he had or- dered scabs off a friend’s property in Coverdale, The troopers knocked Cosick down and clubbed him re- peatedly as.he lay on the ground while other strikers were held off with machine guns. Cosick was then fined $50. He was given no trial and no bail by the company squire (police magistrate)} «aanmed’ Popp, at Castle Shannon. Cosick is in jail now. Tom Phillips, chairman of the lo- cal strike committee and a member of the Central Rank and File Strike Commitfee, was arrested on no charge whatever on the picket line. He cannot be found. His where- abouts are not known to any mem- ber of the Strike Committee, and, | in view of the brutal assaults made on the arrested miners, it is feared he is seriously injured or even worse. Frank Borich and Vincent Keme- novich, in the name of the National Miners’ Union, issued a statement today, protesting against the Civil Liberties local office here, appealing to Pinchot to send a whole force of state stroopers to the strike area to “prevent violence.” “We repeated the demand,” says the National Miners’ Union state- ment, “that Governor Pinchot with- draw all armed forces, including troopers who protect United Mine Workers scabbing.” Twenty state troopers yesterday, without authority, took the body of | Zigaric, who was shot in Wildwood, Pa., by coal company gunmen, and not even the nearest relative, a sis- ter, Amelia Kovacewick of Wood- Jawn, Pa., was notified, and buried it in the Servian Cemetery at Wood- Jawn in an effort to block the mass funeral arranged by the union. The mass funeral of Filipovic, a strike sympathizer killed at Arnold | City, Pa., will take place at 1 pm. | tomorrow in Arnold City. ‘1,000 STRIKE IN PAWTUCKET MILL |Mayor Flees Before 2,000 Demonstrators PAWTUCKET, R. I., June 25.—One thousand are now out at the Royal Mill here. Mass picketing. pulled out all the departments today and the mill is now completely struck. Twelve hundred workers met at a great picket demonstration at noon today. This afternoon the Royal and Gen- eral Fabrics strikers, together with hundreds of additional workers formed a combined march on Cen- tral Falls City Hall through Paw- tucket and Central Falls where 2,000 demonstrated demanding the re~ moval of all charges against Ann Burlak who goes on trial tomorrow. The mayor fled, The workers will demonstrate at the trial. A general strike movement is developing at the Blackstone Val- lishers,-P. 0. Box 148, Station D., New York City. ley Mills. NEW WAR SERIES STAR TS TODAY! MA