The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1931, Page 1

TAG DAYS ALONE CAN'T SAVE ‘DAILY’; SPEED AID! The Tag Days are over. The pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters collected by workers throughout the country are not yet in. In a few cities the Tag Days were|Money must not be postponed, thus cutting down the receipts. |lection boxes or in offices. But whatever the results of the Days, thousands of dollars will still be|Tag Days. We are needed to save the Daily Worker. Friday|every reader who was not solicited Fri- our telephone service was disconnected. The Tag Days are over, but the finan-|YOUR CONTRIBUTION TODAY! cial crisis in the Daily Worker is not. Tag/many workers were not reached on the allowed to lie in col- Moreover, appealing directly | jday, Saturday and yesterday: SEND IN The regular collections must continue. t all the readers of the Daily Worker have contributed, and not all the fellow workers and friends of our readers have contributed. are far behind—only about $3,000 raised of their quota of $10,000. If some immediate action for the Comrades, the danger is gr received and there is little likeli The fraternal organizations from going under. TURN member of a fraternal organiaztion, get they will be enough to keep the Daily IN YOUR you are a Daily! eat! |GANIZATIONS TO |SION BY RUSHING TO THE DAILY W hood that COLLECTION BOXES! AND GET YOUR FRIENDS AND OR-|N The}. ’ results of the Tag Days have not yet Beenie Seen eae 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY! CONTRIBUTE} DO ‘4 ker office, SUShEN TODAY) AT ONCE FUND ORKER |yot them. All workers with collection boxes in the ew York District should bring their LIKEWISE!|>oxes directly to the district Daily Wor- 50 East 13th Street, fifth floor, They will receive receipts with ~~. c|the number of their boxes to be turned in 50 EAST to the stations or units from which they Workers! The striking miners look to you for help to win their heroic strike! Rush funds for relief to the Penn.-Ohio Striking 799 Miners’ Relief Committee, Broadway, Room 614 Dail Central , (Section of the Communist eee) tal omer OF THE WORKERS WORLD, UNITE! SS Entered an second- cluss matter at New York, N. ¥., “Vol VIII, No. 155 under the act of March 3, 1879 at the Post Office pu _NEW YORK, MONDAY ’ JUNE 29, 1931 _Price 3 Cents BS: G ai Plans Embargo on All. Soviet Go Goods by Jar Jan. 1 Doak Discovers the Mine Strike ECRETS OF LABOR DOAK has discovered the mine strike. Con- siderably late. it is true, but still he has officially noticed that there is a strike. But there are reasons, and every miner, indeed every worker, should und nd the reasons why Doak only now has found out there was a strike in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. So long as the miners did not strike, Doak did not care a damn what conditions they were suffering. The mine owners could do what they wished, cut wages time and again, speed up the coal diggers to life-wrecking pace, rob them at the scales, refuse to pay for dead work, force them to trade at company stores and generally treat them worse than slaves—and Doak nor any other government official, including the fake “liberal” Pinchot, paid not the slightest attention. But the miners struck. What’s more, they struck under the leader- hip of the National Miners’ Union. Even yet, so long as the strike re- mained relatively small, and the mine owners, with the help of Governor Pinchot, believed thoy could break it with the scab union of the U. M. A, aeat was silent. He knew nothing about any “trouble.” But now. . Now Doak writes a letter. and gives it out to the press, a Jetter sent to Congressman Campbell of Pennsylvania, the meat of which states: “I have beeu hoping the operators and miners could suggest some definite program whereby the government might be helpful in this dis- tressing situation.” So, after all, Doak had known about the strike for some time. He should have known, because a “conciliator” from his Department of Labor visited the N. M. U. office in Pittsburgh on June 9, and declared: “My check up of the strike field shows that 95 per cent of the miners are for the N. M. U. There is no denying this.” But the effort, the united effort of the operators and Pinchot, to compell the miners to follow the U. M. W. A. into a betrayal, a scabby company union “agreement” at a wage cut, was still depended upon to break the ‘strike—so Doak said nothing. Doak only “breaks into print about the “distressing” sjfmation, when | it appears that the.U. M. W. A. cannot make their scah. “agreement” work; when John 4. Lewis, the unspeakable scab herder president of the U. M. W. A. ask Hoover to call a conference of “miners and oper- ators.” Naturally to help Lewis, Fagan and the other U. M. W. A. traitors put over their “agreement.” It is this “conference” which Congressman Campbell asks and what Doak mentions that the “Government,” that is to say, Doak, help.” But he will not help the N. M. U., although his own representa- tive has reported that 95 per cent of the miners are for the N. M. U. Doak has played, is playing and will continue to play the strikebreaking game of the U. M. W. A. Every miner will understand that! Nor will oDak, who has become, in his few months in office, in- famous as an enemy of the foreign-born workers, as a prize deporter of militant workers, enter the mine strike for anything “helpful” to the miners. Even now, Doak’s deportation agents are holding for deporta- tion more than a score of rank and file miners who went on the picket line. Any interference of the federal government will not be directed to help the miners win their strike, but to break their strike by intensifying the threat of deportation against the large number of foreign-born strikers. But just as mass picketing will smash any injunction, so will it smash the intimidation of “Deportation Doak.” The miners can have but one answer to the attempt to shove the U. M. W. A. down their throats along with a scab agreement! That answer is, spread the strike! Intensify the mass picketing! And all workers must rush relief to help them ‘win the strike! R.I. Strikers Demonstrate for Support of Burlak On Trial PAWTUCKET, R. I, June 26.— While 1,000 textile workers demon- strated outside the Eleventh District Court House in Central Falls, Ann Burlack, organizer of the National every angle, withstanding the vicious grilling by the prosecuting attorney who was aided by the judge, the judge refused to hear any more de- fense testimony. The state wit- “might | ‘Textile Workers’ Union, went on trial today. Burlack was arrested last week on a frame-up charge of as- saulting a scab, Since then the tex- tile workers of Central Falls and Pawtucket have demonstrated their indignation at the vicious attempt of the bosses to railroad the union or- ganizer to jail. The picketing of the City Hall and the police headquar- ters by the workers for the last few days culminated today in the trem- endous outpouring at the Court House, Attempts by squads of police called in from nearby cities to dis- the masses of workers failed completely in the face of the mili- tancy displayed. Aided by the International Labor Defense, Burlack conducted her en- tire case without the use of an at- torney, She was prepared to put on the witness stand twenty workers who were on the picket lines and had geen everything that happened at the mill door at the time the scab, . Louise King, says some one threw . at her. After six workers haa iccenee repr on nesses, scabs, bosses and police, con- tinually contradicted themselves but were helped out by the judge who is known as an attorny for the mills where the workers are on strike. When the workers crowding the courtrom began to show their anger at the frame-up the judge called state troopers into the court to act as “additional court officers.” He found Burlack ‘guilty” and con- tinued the case until July 10, when he will impose sentence if Burlack continues to serve as a militant strike leader. He threatens to sen- tence her ‘to pay a $500 fine or serve @ year in jail unless she “gets out of town” before July 10. The masses of workers paraded back to their strike headquarters de- termined to fight the bosses’ attempt to break the strikes at the Genera} Fabrics Corporation and the Royal Silk mills by framing-up the union organizer. Burlack will speak on July 3 at the huge protest meeting being arranged by the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union and the newly- formed branch of the International Labor Defense. ‘MUST ANSWER WAR MOVE ON AUGUST FIRST Complete Secrecy On War Plans Ordered By War Devartment | Hanis fot Armaments None for Unemployed Workers’ Families BULLETIN. 1 According to a United Press dis- patch from London, the British capitalists will probably follow the U. S. in placing an embargo on Soviet goods. In order to main- tain the social fascist face of the Labor government, the embargo drive is being started by the “op- position” parties. When the time comes the Labor Party can fall into line while trying to deceive | the workers that in order to main- | tain power, it must grant, some concessions to the other capitalist | parties, | Plans for an “iton Clad embargo against all imports from Soviet Rus- |sia” have been developed by the U. | S. Treasury Department, according to a United Press dispatch from Washington last Saturday. The Treasury Department plans to put | the embargo into effect on January | 1, 1931. This embargo is admitted to be “the most drastic of its kind in history.” The Treasury Department’s plan is one of the most important steps in the whole series of the Wall Street government's war preparations against the Soviet Union. It is a continuation, hut this time on a gen- eral basis, of the previous attempts at. the embargo of individual Soviet pro- ducts. This latest move comes at the very moment that Mellon is tour- ing Europe to get the capitalist countries “to join us in boycotting the Soviet Union”, as the New York Evening Graphic reported on June 18. The embargo will be carried out under the lying cry about “forced la~ | bor” which has already been used in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) POLICE ARREST 6 A F of L Instrumental in Leading Attack ei —— NEWARK, N. J—Leather goods workers, striking five of the biggest leather shops here. had hardly had a chance to throw picket lines about the shops yes- terday when police pounched upon them and arrested six, workers. It was established that. they were ar- rested at the behest of the A. F. of L. delegate, They are held without bail. ‘ ‘ Gus Kreuzbainer, Dan Schuzree, Essie Bloomen, Sylvia Bloomen, Mildred Cchulman and Mrs. Shuz- ree were the workers arrested. The strikers have spread the strike to include the Lefkowitz Bros. shop in New Brunswick and Newark strikers will help picket the shop there. A meeting of Newark and” New Brunswick strikers will be hell Monday, 6 p. m. at 11 Plum St., New Brunswick. Sachsen th 4 4 |“For the Solidarity of Foreign Born, | Negro and White Workers;” “Smash | Color Line—Equality For All;” “Free | Bosses’ | “Fight Against ® 5,000 Protest Scatuuboro Frame-Up in Harlem; Parent _ Exposes NAACP Tens of Thousands of Negro Workers on Sidewalks and at Windows Cheer and Applaud Slogans Demanding Freedom of 9 Innocent Boys NEW YORK.—Five thousand white and Negro workers paraded throug! h the streets of |Harlem Saturday afternoon in militant pro- test against the railroading to the electric chair of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. The boys are the victims of a murderous frame-up on the lying charge of raping two white prostitutes who were forced by the State to falsely testify against them, after first denying the boys had molested them. The marchers, lead by two bands, carried hundreds of pla- cards denouncing the frame-up of the boys, calling upon the Negro and white workers to unite ine a fighting alliance to free the boys. Some of the slogans read: “Smash tthe Legal Lynching of the Scotts- boro Boys;” “Death to Lynchers;” Harry Norrington All Political Prisoners;” “Smash the Eviction Campaign;” Stop} the Murder of Striking Miners;” Imperialist War;" “Defend the Soviet Union.” | Workers Cheer Mother of 2 of the Boys. At 146th Street and Lenox Avenue, | where the parade wound up with a meeting and demonstration, the/ crowd had grown to 7,000. Here the workers were addressed by Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scotts- boro victims—Roy 14 and Andy 17. Mrs. Wright, introduced by Cecil Hope, was cheered for several min- ptes. Briefly and simply, Mrs. Wright told the story of the arrest and frame up of the boys a few hours after they had left their homes in a hunt for work. She told of their families starving and the boys begging to be allowed to go to Mem- phis and other points to seek work in an effort to help their folk. Speaking with the passion of a mother whose sons are in the sha- dow of the electric chair for a crime they never committed, Mrs. Wright ORawn FROM * LIFE” Gore WHEELING wih. ‘U. M. W. of A. Field organizer, holds meetings only in center of town with ample protection by arm- | ed official gunmen. Claimed he once gave starving miner two-bits. Attendance at his meeting Wheeling was 50—including arm of the law. in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) UMW- Boss Terror Fails to Drive Ohio Miners Back > | declared these crimes would be laid | BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 28.— Tony Minerich, Secretary of the Ohio-West Virginia Strike Commit- tee and Leo Thompson, National Miners Union Organizer, were re- leased from St. Clairsville jail today under ten thousand dollars prop- erty bond each. When Mrs. Land, International Labor Defense attor- ney, applied for a reduction of bond, Judge Harry Tyler raised the bond of all fourteen criminal syndicalist cases from six to ten thousand dol- Jars each. Police terror is increas- ing sharply as preparations go for- watd for the mass hunger marche on St. Clairsville on Monday, July 6th, demanding release of all ar- rested, protesting mass arrests and police terror. Arrests Continue. Six women were arrested at Dil- Jon Mine No. 1 this morning, Two were arrested at the Bradley picket line. Two are held at the Steu- benville jail on charge of assault and battery with intent to kill as a re-~ sult of a fight with scabs at the Bainbridge maine yesterday... ‘These scabs are U.M.W.A. men. The U.M. W.A. signed an agreement with this mine, but the mine is still struck without one miner working Com- pany guards of Bradley No. 1 are invading company houses, slugging and clubbing men and women in an attempt to drive the miners back to work by force, Despite the worst kind of terror- ism the picket line has kept all but 30 out of 450 miners on strike. This morning the picket line pulled out 15 more, leaving only 15 working this mi Deputy sheriffs have erected a chain across the county road leading to the Bradley Mine in an attempt to stop the picket line, Picket lines smashed through the chain to the mine. U.M.W. Scabbing. The U.M.W.A, has again tried to send Piney Fork No. 1 miners back to work, but only 40 out of 650 have returned. Mass evictions from com- pany houses are going on at Provi- dent, Fairpoint, Piney Fork, Brad- Jey, Dillonvale and Warwood. Forty- eight notices of evictions were served BARBERTON POLICE CLUB Murderers “of Negro Viciously Attack Protest | Meet Strike at Unity Scores of Arrests As Workers Militantly Fight B Back (Special to the D Daily Worker) BARBERTON, Ohio, June 28— Five thousand workers demonstrating in Lake Anna Park, here tonight against the judicial exoneration of the police murderers of the Negro worker, Louis Alexander, were attack- ed with a wave of tear gas let loose | from bombs exploded by thugs and | gangsters and plain clothesmen, while uniformed police looked on. | Jennie Cooper, Cleveland district organizer of the International Labor | Defense, who sought to open the | meeting as chairman, was badly gas- | ed. The throng was unable to stand its ground as the noxious tear gas filled great sections of the park and the neighborhood, even seeping into adjacent homes. Efforts on the part of workers to stop the letting loose of the tear gas bombs resulted in hand to hand struggles in which several. workers were arrested. J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the International Labor Defense, who had come from the Pittsburgh coal strike area to be the main speaker, declared there would be a state-wide mobilization of labor pro- test, not only against the anti-labor barbarisms in Barberton, but also against the wholesale arrests in the | eastern Ohio coal fields. Engdahl directly at the door of the state ad- | ministration of Governor White, that | places its stamp of approval on the anti-labor warfare, no matter in which section of the state it is taking place, in the Belmont County coal fields, in Barberton or Youngstown. Pe ie An Associated Press dispatch pub- lished in Sunday’s New York Herald Tribune, admitted that the meeting | in Barberton was attacked in the most brutal manner by the police. Capitalist press reporters from Ak- ron, who were likewise clubbed were told by police officials: “You had no business in Barberton, but came here at your own risk,” showing that the attack had been prepared before- hand. No sooner had Jennie Cooper begun to speak, the A. P. dispatch states, than “she and her listeners began choking from tear gas, Witnesses said they saw men in uniform hurl the bombs and Akron detectives said Barberton police asked for some bombs.” today at Piney Fork. The local strike committee are leading mass resistance to these evictions, Albert Schaffer, secretary of the Provident Strike Committee, and Mrs. Schaffer were arrested today and held at St. Clairsville on a charge of inciting to riot for resist- ing evictions. Protest meetings to demand the end of police terror, withdrawal of armed forces from the strike area, release of all strikers held in jail, will be held tomorrow at Wells- burgh, West Virginia, Yorkville, Fairpoint and. Piney Fork, Ohio. These meetings will also mobilize the strikers and unemployed workers for Rally for Huge Hunger March casworkersett 4 © FOSTER RALLIES STEEL WORKERS Thousands Join March | on Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, June 28.—Wil- liam Z. Foster, leader of the great stel strike in 1919 and now general | secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, to which both the National Miners’ Union and the Metal Work- ers’ Industrial League are affiliated, addressed thousands of steel workers today at Ambridge, rallying them for | the mass march on Pittsburgh for| the big hunger march of thousands | | of unemployed workers and the} Striking miners from all over Al-| legheny County on Tuesday, June 30 The permit, after days of delay and attempts to refuse it, has finally been granted by Police Chief Walsh of Pittsburgh. The workers, unem- | ployed, employed and thens of thou- sands of coal strikers, will assemble in West Park at 1 o'clock Tuesday. The line of march is from West Park over the Manchester Bridge, along Duquesne to Sixth, over the bridge there and back to West Park. The tremendous hunger march will be led by the committee which will present the demands of the| workers to the county commission- ers, and by the strikers. wounded at | Wildwood. if their release on bail | can be secured in time. The whole hunger march is a com- bined unemployment demonstration, mobilization to collect relief for the striking coal miners and a protest | against the injunction of the But- ler Coal Co. and against the mass murde: cf strikers Thousands of striking Negro min- |ers will play a big part in the hun- ger march, which occurrs on the very day that the N. A. A. C, P. traitors open their annual conference in Pitts- burgh with a welcome from the coal mines and their agents. U. €. TO FIGHT HARLEM EVICTION Mother and 8 Children Facing Streets NEW YORK.—An unemployed Ne- gro woman with two children sick in the hospital and six at home is fac- ing evictions this week. The worker is Mrs. Elnore Marshall of 228 West 144th St. On Saturday she turned out to support the mass protest against the legal lynching of the nine Scottsboro boys. At the dem- onstration she told her story to a reporter of the Daily Worker. Mrs. Marshall's husband has. been out of work for 15 weeks. When he did work his wages were so small that the family of 9 could barely skimp along. For the past two a job. The family is forced to pay $40 a month for a railroad flat. With other tenants in the house they are outrageously robbed by the landlord who rarely furnished hot water and keeps the house in a disreputable condition, Unable to pay the revi, they were the Gini a sie on at Clairsville, y 6, on Mons served a dispossess. The court told | vital. months and a half he has trampeu the streets in a vain attempt to get} ounttes ‘Wildwood Strikers Defy Injunction and Terror Mass Picket Today /Protest Railroading of | 50 Strikers PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 28.—Uh- daunted by the storm of lead poured into their ranks last Monday, the miners of Wildwood and the, towns around will continue their strike against starvation by another mass picket demonstration at Wildwood Mine of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co., in spite of the injunction, and exactly a week after deputies killed Peter Zigaric and wounded | twelve others at the same place. The deputies ambushed the pickets and shot them down. A _ miners standing right beside Tom Myers- cough in that picketing last Monday saw a deputy aiming a rifle directly at Tom. The miners grabbed a rock and knocked the rifle out of the deputy’s hands. The deputy -him- self dropped on the ground, grabbed the rifle, and tried again to aim, not at the man who threw the rock but at Myerscough. There is no doubt that the deputies had their orders to kill this section organizer of the National Miners’ Union. Despite the fact that he is a marked man, Myerscough will be in the demon- stration Monday afternoon, if he can be bailed out in time. The picket line will be made up of men, women and children, whole starving communities marching from — | all points to show the Butler Con- solidated and Judge Rowand and the murder conspiracy they: repre- sent, that their court order to go home and starve can not be endured, In this strike, the right to picket ‘The injunction granted ler Consolidated, and already , forced with mass slaughter of ers, prohibits formally the picket, and by its drastic te hibits also the right to right to struggle against conditions, against stark misery. The Central Rank and File Strike Committee at its session here Wednesday repeated its previous declaration that miners cannot rec- ognize any so-called “right” of a court to deprive them of the inalien- h able right to strike, to assemble and — to picket. The picketing Monday is a most determined protest also against the — brutal shooting to death of Poe Zigarie exactly a week before, and the wounding of 12 others, also against the general raids and ar- rests and present attempt to railroad some 50 striking miners to prison on trumped up charges of rioting. YOUNG WORKER KILLS SELF. PHY LPHIA, Pa.—Telling his bre sell his body to a hospital v to pay his debts of $18. An-» fony Wilson, 21, committed suicide uere.on Fridayby shooting himself... die?” ptt days.” The five days will be up this ‘Tuesday. The Harlem Unemployed Council is taking up the fight against this. eviction and will try to organize the tenants in the house snd in the whole block to prevent the eviction of these two workers and thelr young children, Workers are urged ae cae o_o