The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1931, Page 1

ae eee en se ee te et — oe ee pe. 5 Ss SPSe1+;ao Baseeroriarrtre rfoear1eor Fame | AMERICAS GREATEST TOMS ORATOR ~ AS Noy THus FAC MADE AN ORE TLOM ONER TH Toma OF smote, WHo ‘(Section of the Communist International) OF THE UN WORKERS WORLD, LTE! e Vol. VIII, No. 154 Entered as second-class matter at the Vost Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1931 ~ CITY EDITION rete nang Price 3 Cents KEEP MINES SHUT DESPITE U.M.W.-PINC Pinchot---Strikebreaker! MASS PROTEST |: Geyer PINCHOT of Pennsylvania has signed three supposed “labor” bills, two of them supposed to be “against injunctions” and a third one providing that deputy sheriffs must be “residents for one year” and have no “criminal record” for ten years. About the last one mentioned, we don’t imagine that the miners will be any happier for being shot and clubbed by a guaranteed “moral” deputy that any “immoral non-resident” deputy. Pinchot’s “guaranteed- by-law” deputies are just as ready to shoot and club in the interests of the mine owners as any other kind, as they are doing today. Capitalism produces them like maggpts. More, the companies have no r estriction on the plain gunmen they hire, and if there were any. such restriction, the operators in Pennsylvania as elsewhere, control the local sheriffs and can get any “rule” or “law” | winked at. Sheriff Cain of Allegheny County is just one example. Still more, Pinchot’s pets, the State Troopers, which Pinchot tries to make appear as “better” than deputies, are doing any dirty work left undone by the company gunthen. This was proven at Wildwood on Wednesday and Thursday, when 15 State Troopers openly aided the deputies violate the law of the State by breaking into miners’ houses, searching them and stealing anything they wished, not to speak of arresting miners because they are strikers. But the two laws supposed to be “against injunctions” will certainly prove most disillusioning to those miners—and other Pennsylvania work- ers who may still be fooled by the political faker, Pinchot. The first of. the two laws is, to begin with, of little consequence, as it merely “limits the life” of a temporary injunction and some other little frills about the “employer posting bonds to recompense the workers en- Jained for any loss or damage” (Quotation from Pittsburgh Record). By no means does it forbid an injunction being issued, and what chance has a striking miner to prove that he has been damaged in his “property rights”? He has no property! In many countries, even in old Russia under the Czar, strikers had to be paid wages for the days they were on strike when they won their other demands. That was some real recompense. But this fake “labor Jaw” gives the workers nothing and only pretends to protect them from capitalist courts, ‘the evils of which cannot be abolished until capitalist government is abolished and a workers’ government established. The other “labor law” which Pinchot boasts of is the ‘worst of all. Under the disguise of a jury trial for all persons charged with violating an injunction, what actually will take place will be a jury approval of the injunction, which will get a new authority because a jury backs up and enforces thé_ihjunction, which.a judge has already declared; in-the interests of the employer, to be law. Under capitalist class rule of govérnment, the courts are to protect capitalists against workers, and labor history shows that when vital in- terests of the capitalist class are at stake, a jury trial is utterly no pro- tection to workers on trial. Look at Sacco and Vanzetti, or Tom Mooney and Billings! Look at the thousands vf cases of pickets sent to prison! Pinchot’s law only tries to get around the justified hatred workers have for injunctions by putting a halo of a jury trial around an injunction judge’s head. It is merely a deceit to make workers believe that they are dealt with “fairly,” even though they are jailed by injunctions and their strike is broken by injunction. ‘The miners should not be surprised at Pinchot’s trickery. Certainly he has shown himiself, to be on the side of the mine operators by his attempt to force the miners to accept the traitorous U.M.W.A. with its | Lewis, its Fagan, and its scab agreement. and sell out. By coming out with these fake “labor” laws, Pinchot hopes to.make the miners trust him ‘and accept the U.M.W.A. and its scab agreement. Striking miners must learn that Pinchot’ is the chief scab-herder in Pennsylvania today; he is the one who is trying to breathe life into the stinking corpse of the U.MW.A. The miners will learn, if they do not already know, that with the capitalist class in control of the government and its-courts, no law will protect their interests, and that the fight against injunctions of the ca- ,Pitalist courts is won only by mass defiance of the injunction on the picket, line! Scottsboro Boys Subjected To Ghastly, Brutal Torture ° _ By Ala. Prison Authorities CHATTANOOGA, Jurte 26.—A vicious campaign of per- secution and terrorization against the eight Scottsboro Negro boys in Kilby Prison was revealed last Sunday when the parents visited their boys. The boys are confined in the death cells. They told their chair had been meved in « >>| ARMED OKLA. MOB HUNTING NEGRO sition ‘directly across the hall from their cells where it is in Threats Lynching for Self-Defense full view of the boys every hour of the day and-night. The ‘Warden continually calls their at- tention to it, and tells them that it will be their turn next. ‘To further terrorize the boys. and |the protest against the legal lynch- | break their morale, less than a month ago a Negro worker was elc- trocuted in full view of the boys. Directly after the electrocution the ‘Warden came to the boys again with his. ghastly joke that it would be their. turn, next. Sucha method of torture has rarely been equalled even in the long history of the crimes of the master class against the ‘ workers. ; This revolting torture is part’ of the: extensive campaign of. terrori- zation directed against the boys in the effort to force the boys to sign statements which would give control of the defense to the NAACP. Jeaders who are working hand in hand with the Southern lynch bosses to crush the growing mass movement of white and, Negro workers to free the boys. The parents have several times asked the N.A.A.C.P. to stay out of the case unless they could co- operate with the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle —_— OKLAHOMA CITY, June 26—An armed posse of the “best citizens” is hunting for Filmore Davis, a Ne- grc worker, in'an effort to lynch Davis for the “crime” of defending himself when viciously attacked by an undersheriff and deputy. Davis defending himself killed un- dersheriff Guy M. Jarvis and wound- ed Deputy George Gender yesterday noon when the officers started to beat him up while arresting him on fake charge of stealing gasoline. With the usual pretense of ‘the southern bosses and their state gov- ernments of “insuring fair treat- ment,” ete, Governor W. R. Murphy of Oklahoma has ordered out two National Guard units of 140 men to help the hunt for the Negro worker. Soviet “Forced, Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents Dor com Read itBpread ith TODAY AGAINST | LYNCH TERROR |Negro, White Workers | | |To Demand Freedom | | Of Scottsboro Boys || Demonstrate in Harlem, Support Mass Fight To | Free Nine Innocent | Children \| NEW YORK. — Workers of New York will take the streets of Harlem today a mighty demonstration | against the Alabama boss court lynch | | verdict condemning the Scottsboro Negro boys to the elec- | tric chair. Rallying to the defense of the nine boys, framed-up on a fake rape charge and railroaded to | the electric chair in a farcial “trial,” thousands of workers will march | through the streets of Harlem in mil- | itant protest against this hideous frame-up and legal lynching of work- j ing class children. From over New York the workers will come. Negro and white, native and foreign born, employed and un- employed, working youth and work- | | ing adults, they will mobilize at 130 | Street and Lenox Avenue at 4 o'clock | this afternoon. Many working-class | organizations will participate. | “From 130 Street and Lenox Axe., the workers will march up Lenox | Avenue to 140th St., west to Eighth | Ave.; south to 135th St.; east to) | | Seventh Ave.; north to 144th St.; east to Lenox Ave.; and north to | 146th St. At Lenox Avenue and 140 Street a big protest meeting will be held with prominent speakers ad- | | dressing the workers and giving a history of the Scottsboro frame-up, | | | the forces behind it, and the neces- sity of mobilizing the workers, white | | in innocent ast 2 | Tag Days for ‘Daily’ Biggest Successful Tag Days will save the Daily Worker! Wipe out the bad records of the past! \ j ; Today and tomorrow must be the big- gest of the three days. Today and tomor- row must see the largest number of work- ers on the job collecting to save their Daily. We have fallen so far behind (about $11,600 short of the $35,000) that only the Tag Days can save us. If the Tag Days fail, the Daily will be forced to suspend. BUT THE TAG DAYS MUST NOT FAIL! Workers of New York, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, the Daily Worker looks to you especially to raise the funds to keep the Daily going. The striking miners, the Scottsboro boys look to the workers of the | | entire country to keep their fighting champion alive. Ont on the streets today and tomorrow! Collect from house to house, at shop-gates, wherever workers gather! Fill up your boxes and turn them in at the place you got got them from. BUT TURN THEM IN WITHOUT DELAY! Make the Tag Days nation-wide dem- onstrations for long life of our Daily! and colored, for the mass fight alone can stop the bloody fascists hands of the Alabama bosses and free the boys. All workers are urged to join . ranks of the marchers and support ing of these boys. Support the mass | fight to save these innocent chi |dren! Demonstrate in Harlem today! | Several meetings will be held in the downtown section at moon to} rally the workers for the demonstra- tion in Harlem. There will be aj meeting at Jackson and Monroe streets; another at Lewis and De- GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER’S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! “RELIEF WILL HELP US WIN”, Section 6 (Brooklyn)—6! Gra- ham Ave. 46 Ten Eyck St., 80 Cook St., 73 Myrtle Ave. Section 7 (Brooklyn)—1373 43rd St., 140 Neptune Ave., 48 Bay 28th St., 764 40th St., 3228 W. Second St. Section 8 (Brooklyn)—1565 St Stations in Tag Days The following are the stations for the Daily Worker Tag Days: Section 1—142 E. Third St., 66 E. Fourth St., 11 Clinton St., 196 E. Broadway. Section 2—64 W. 22nd St., 30: eS i Marks Place, 118 Bristol St. 541 Neches St., 16 W. 21st St., 331 W. Vermont St. ba 3 Section 10 (Newark) — 121 Section 4—353 Lenox Ave., Fin- nish Workers’ Center, 1666 Mad- ison Ave.; Jewish School I.W.O., Springfield, 90 Ferry St., TUUL; 520 West, S. Slovak Hall; 5 Bel- mont, I.W.O. Center. lauey. From: these meetings. the| 14% E. 108rd. St.;' Harlem Prog. Section 11 (Paterson) — 206 workers will march to the nearest | Guth Club, 1492 Madison Ave.; | Market, 205 Paterson St., Pater- subway station to take the train for | Esthonian Workers’ Club, 2336 | son, N. J. the demonstration in Harlem. ‘Tui | Ave.;_ Fosnearien,.. Workers Jersey City—302 Hudson, Work- Home, 350 E. 81st St.; Czechoslo- ers’ Center. yak Workers’ House, 347 E. 72nd Section 5—1622 Bathgate Ave., 569 Prospect Ave. 1400 Boston Road, 2700 Bronx Park East. Perth Amboy—308 Elm St Elizabeth—106 E. Jersey St Section 12 (Yonkers)—252 War- burton Ave. —% TROOPERS, DEPUTIES CLUB STRIKERS; | | SHOOT YOUNG MINER ON PICKET LINE; — DREISER DESCRIBES MASS MISERY heriff Cain of Alle-? \| Miners | Arnold City Murders | | | sos, NEW YORK.— Voicing their en- thusiastic support of the great min- ers’ strike in Pennsylvania, Ohia and West Virginia, ten thousand workers who grouped around seven speakers stands in Union Square, yesterday at 5:30 p.m., voted support of the cam- paign for immediate relief of the strikers. “We will fight, but. the working people everywhere must support us,” was the tenor of the message miners fae ne Gey bt assembled workers. Stressing the need of immediate relief, speaker after speaker told of the unexampled heroism of the min- ers in facing, unarmed, the most brutal terror. “Relief can back the miners in their determined struggle. The mur- derous tactics of the coal barons can be defeated” with this call, a young miner summoned workers to swing into the campaign to speed food, clothing and funds to the miners, I. Amter, district organizer of the Communist Party, Sam Nesin, John Steuben, Ben Gold and others were among the speakers, BNE oe DETROIT, Mich., June 26, — In Detroit, the campaign is on of col- lecting money and food for the striking miners. Tag Days are or- ganized for June 26, 27 and 28 for the support of the miners and the Daily Worker. The Communist Par- ty calls upon all members and sym- » ‘Dreiser Brands UMW| | Treachery Against | of Starvation iTells |Denounces Wildwood, | In an attempt to refute Dreiser's | | damning indictment of the A, F. | Of Lo» Wm. Green, its president, in | | United Press dispatch Friday, dodged the main points Dreiser raised about A. F. of L, co-opera~ tion with employers against the workers, its betrayal of the Penn- | sylvania miners and its attempted betrayal of the present strike, All workers, and particularly “he miners, who have been mem- bers of the A. F. of L., are urged by the Daily Worker to send in letters telling of what they have experienced in connection with the points raised by Dreiser and | Green’s supposed answer. | In a United Press interview pub- | lished in today’s New York World- | Telegram, Theodore Dreiser, fore- most American noyelist, has told what he saw in the mine fields dur: ing several days of investigation. | Dreiser heads a committee of € and writers, including John Dos Pas- Malcolm Cowley, Robert W. {Dunn, Mary Heaton Vorse, Frank Palmer and Horace B. Da who are investigating the sta 40,000 miners and their the coal fields of Penns; Ohio, and West Virginia. The com- mittee started its investigation i Pittsburgh on June 24 in conjunc- | tion with the miners themselves. In | his personal survey of the mine field, | Dreiser visited about 15 mines, talk: ing with miners and their wives and | with officials and organizers of the| National Miners’ Union, which is leading the strike. United Front of A.F.L, and Bosses. | Dreiser denounced the scab-herd- ing, strike-breaking activity of the | United Mine Workers of America and pointed out that it is “a posi-| tive fact that there was proposed and | now is being put into effect a close union between the chief corpora- tions, such as power and utility groups and the A. F. of L., to put a | quietus, in so far as possible, on strike and labor troubles and bring about the general poverty of the | rest of the people.” Dreiser's investigation showed that | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) give their whole hearted support to this campaign for relief. The following letter was received in Detroit by a former coal miner from one of his friends in the coal fields: Wildwood, Pa. Dear Sir: Here I-am located in Wildwood and am out on strike. Today, we had a picket line and the police killed 3 men and injured 8 men. June 22, 1931. HOT-BOSS TERROR gheny County be. i auity Flow cin Porth Fitsrne ESPONSIBLE for murderous ambush of the mass picket line at Wildwood, Pa. and the killing of one miner on June 22, in prep aration for the slaughter and as an excuse to attack women pick~ ets, he ordered the women off the line, knowing full well that the miners’ wives would picket despite his edict, 600 MOREIN WEST | VA. JOIN STRIKE (Special te the Daily Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., June 24.— No. 6 mine of the Rail and River Co., employing six hundred miners struck today, following a mass picket | march. Four arrests were made) here. Deputy sheriffs firing guns} and hurling tear gas bombs attempt- ed to stop mass picketing at Pine Fork No. 1 mine. A line of 1,000 broke through and several were ar-| rested. All arrested were held at the Steubenville jail charge of criminal syndicalism. Warrants are out for @ total of 15 in Pine Fork. on a Joe Carr and Steve Perlich, ar- rested last night at Blain are charged with criminal syndicalism, making a total of 17 held at St. Clairsville. The exact number held at Steuben- ville on the same charge is unknown. Preparation 1s under way for a mass march on the Sommer mine, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) “ Join UMW and We'll Free You,’ Arrested Miners Are Told U.M.W. Tries Trickery Barking Miners Stone Fagan and Gunmen BULLETIN Pittsburgh Terminal No. 3 Mine deputies visited every strikers’ house in the patch this morning, arresting all who refuse to scab: One striker escaped and went on the picket line in his underwear. PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 3 Mass picketing keeps the Pittsbutglt Terminal Coal and other) “# closed despite increased terror morning a scab shat. and se, wounded Charges Vargo, a si year-old miner on the picke of the Crescent mine of the\ burgh Coal Company. - Vargé' the Brownsville General Hospital. Vargo’s father was savagely beaten up. Deputies say they arrived after the shooting. At the Coverdale mine of the Ter= minal Coal Company deputies and troopers clubbed 30 miners at a meet- ing on a private farm, The troopers told the strikers, “Get home er get into the mines. Fifteen miners were simply driven out of their homes in Coverdale and are sleeping on the roadside. Chief of Police Zolla, yesterday arrested five children at the Mollenauer mine of the Terminal Coal Co. and charged them with trespassing. The tactics of the troopers and deputies today are to break up ali Terminal picket lines and allow only a few men and no women or chil- dren to picket and are driving all the rest indoors, not allowing them to stand on porches or.street. Guards have been placed at th9 front and rear of homes. Str} leaders are not allowed outside. Many arrests have been made and Squire Popp promises the release of all ar= rested miners if they join the U. My W. A. Company and UMVA agents are: spreading lies and rumors that vari= ous individual strike leaders are sign= ing with the UMWA. They simul taneously are offering a prize of two dollars to every miner to get one striker into the UMWA. They are also sending invitations to various local leaders to come and see Fagan. Invitations are accompanied by $3 bills. The Wildwood mine has not been worked since Monday's shooting. Fif~ ty-one arrested Wildwood miners ap= peared in court today. Two were released and the others unidentified, are held on charges of rioting and MINER’S DAUGHTER SAYS pathizers and all other workers to, We have nothing to eat and no clothes to wear, I would like you to take up a collection for us so that we could live a little better. You know what we are fighting for. Please try your best to help us. ‘We are hungry, and we want to eat. Gc.” All out on June 26, 27 and 28 to collect money for the striking miners and the only english Daily which is the real organ of struggle of the miners as well as all other workers, L ca ed * inciting to riot. They are held at $1,000 bail each, except Tom Myers= cough, who is being held at $10,000. The UMWA is trying to concen~ trate on the Allegheny section center at New Kensington, but in this sec- tion. strikers of the Barking mnie stoned Fagan and two carloads of gunmen out of town.and also smash+ ed their meeting at New Kensington. Fagan is afraid to go on to the third meeting scheduled at Newfields. Ford Colleries Coal Company Cur- tisville miners, No. 2 and 3, partly struck by march from Harmerville and Kinloch, One hundred are out at Mine 2, and 78 at No, 3. .One Hour to Spare. es « Visit the “Daily” The response for volunteer help in the national office of the Daily Worker has been very en~ couraging, Should there be others who wish to join the ranks of life-savers, and who can spare an hour or two during the day for typing, addressing envelopes, in- serting, etc,, we would appreciate their help as well. The address is 35 E. 12 St, on the 3th floor, circulation dept.