The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1931, Page 1

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You have made real | fornia), which next to New York have | cases not been solicited. Unless this | Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New But whatever money has been collected | The money that has been contributed | sacrifices and have done your utmost | been depender on to raise the largest | work is done and done at once, no mat- | York City! se wo = om Workers! The striking miners look to you for : help to win thelr heroic strike! Rush funds i O a ‘ke B WORKERS for relief to the Penn.-Ohio Striking OF THE WORLD, Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Party U.S.A. UNITE: Broadway, Room 614 e a (Section of the Communist pe, ) : late a " = ox so Vol. Vil, No 156 Entered ss second-class matter at the Pest Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 eet ~NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1931 Price 3 Cents - MINERS IN MASS HUNGER MARCH ON PITTSBURGH TODAY Fight the War Danger! Defend the Soviet Union! | Behind the screen of pacifist words, first at the recent Geneva Conference, later concerning Hoover's war debt ‘plan,* world imperial- ism is preparing for armed intervention and war on the Soviet Union. It is now clear that the contest between France and America is for leadership in the imperialist attack. Leadership is sought, not for glory, | but for loot, loot expected to be won by tearing the Soviet Union in | pieces and drowning resistance in blood. It was for leadership that Briand played the fox at Geneva, isolating | the United States with tall talk about “peace.” He even went so far as | to “accept” publicly the proposals for economic peace offered honestly | and sincerely by the Soviet in Litvinoff’s speech—but privately said he | did so only for the sake of appearances. | It was America’s desire and necessity as well, to counter-attack in | the contest for leadership, that led to Hoover's “war debt” plan which places France on the defensive inside the imperialist camp. And Hoover's plan clearly and unmistakably is directed against the Soviet Union. England, under the guidance of the “socialist” imperialist MacDonald, plays “neutral” in the contest, but maintains itself always ready with an excuse for war on the Soviet Union and has plans already drawn | for seizure in that war, the Soviet oil fields of Baku as its loot. But every imperialist power is in agreement with the others on war upon the Soviet Union, war aimed to wreck the Five Year Plan of so- cialist construction, war to destroy the Soviet Government and put out the beacon light which inspires the workers of the capitalist world to resist wage -cuts, unemployment and starvation by strikes and ‘revuit. “The Second “Socialist” Internatfonal is soon to meet in conference at Vienna, Austria. And this band of “socialist” servants of capitalism meets with the main purpose of preparing, if possible, the minds of the workers to listen to the “socialists,” for war against the Soviet Union. In preparation for this Vienna conference of “socialist” lackeys of imperialism, Freiderich Adler, Austrian “socialist” leader, has written a programmatic article, which pretends that the war danger threatens only from the Soviet Union! | Yet these “socialist” scoundrels cannot refute the cold facts proven | in the Moscow trials of the “Industrial Party” and Menshevik plotters, that the Second “Socialist” International was—and is—deeply engaged in conspiracy with the French General Staff in plots to sabotage Soviet thindustry within Soviet territory and to influence the workers outside | the Soviet Union with lies about “ferced labor” and so on ,to support | imperialist war against tha Soviet Union. The American “socialist” party, which heavily financed the sabotage | wreckers and spies inside the Soviet Union, is sending a delegation to the Vienna conference, headed by Morris Hillquit, who but a week ago | entered suit in the U. S. courts in behalf of Russian capitalists whose | oil lands in Czarist Russia were seized and nationalized by the Soviet | Revolution. “The two largest claimants,” said the N. Y. Times of June 21, “are the I. Piteoff Company and M. Salimoff & Co., the former having had one-thirtieth and the latter one one-hundredth of the oil produc- tion prior to the Soviet confiscation of the private h oldings.” More, the “socialist” leader Hillquit, says the N. Y. Times mentioned, acts for these overthrown Russian capitalists—‘on the ground that the Soviet seized the fields illegally in 1918 and never has been the righful owner.” The legal suit is against the Standard and Vacuum Oi] Com- panies, because they have bought the oil “stolen” by the Soviet Revolu- tien from these Russian capitalists, who claim value of the oil bought as “stolen property.” Hillquit tries to excuse his help to Russian counter- revolutionists on the ground that, because he is a lawyer, and such suits are “the general practice of the legal profession” (New Leader, June 27), it is alright for him to help counter-revolutionists as a “socialist.” Every worker should arouse his shop mates to the outrageous hypocrisy of the imperialists and their “socialist” assistants in preparing war upon the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union proposals for total and _ even partial disarmament were rejected by the imperialists. The Soviet Union refused to be provoked into war when America with the Kellogg Note, tried to incite war in the Chinese Eastern dispute in 1929. Lit- vinoff's offer of economic peace further showed that the Soviet and only the Soviet is earnest and honest in the desire for peace. But the imperialists do not and cannot desire peace. Imperialism can not live without war. It cannot endure the lessons of revolution’ and victorious socialist construction in the Soviet Union to inspire the workers in the imperialist nations to fight capitalim’s attempt to cut wages and solve the economic crisis by starvation of the masses. Every worker in America, must be aroused to the immediate danger of war against the Soviet Union, fatherland of the world proletariat! + sorer And every worker should gather his shop mates around him to come onto the streets on August First, international Anti-War Day, in militant’ | protest at the imperialist war plotters who are. making ready to start, a | new world slaughter! Bosses Order Mass Evictions In Effort to Crush Coal Stri PUSH ANTI-SOVIET WAR PLANS; WORKERS MUST ANSWER ON AUGUST 1 |James Beck Calls for International Economic Conference for Anti-Soviet Embargo French Imperialists Join Wall Street in Effort to Line Up Germany Against USSR Further startling proof of a deliberate plan to organize \leadership of the Wall.Street |plan made public by James M. | of the United States and at present republican representative pave seamen aaa: ARANETA BOSSES TRY OUT WAGE SCALE AT 15 CENTS AN HOUR KENOSHA, Wisc., Sune 29.—An at- tempt by local bosses to exploit the misery of the unemployed workers by forcing down wages to 15 and 20 cents an hour resulted in a near riot yesterday. More than 500 unemployed workers |had answered an advertisement for | men to wreck a building at 919 South | | 16th St. There they were offered 15 cents an hour for laborers and 20 cents for carpenters. The union wage rate for laborers is 75 cents an hour and for carpenters $1. The workers became so incensed that the boss fearing for his hide disappeared from the| scene in a hurry. = Another near riot occurred on the same job a week ago when the Bad- ger Furniture Co., which is building a new structure on this site, first tried to force men to work for these starvation wages. of how the bosses are using the pres- ence of a jobless army of working | class to semi-starvation level. All workers, unemployed and employed | must unite to resist these attacks. Join the Unemployed Councils! Rally to the ‘struggle for social insuramtce and immediate relief. |a united capitalist attack against the Soviet Union’ under the government is contained in a Beck, former Solicitor-General from. Pennsylvania. Beck’s plan, published in yesterday’s capitalist papers, calls for the |convocation of an international economic conference whose chief purpose is to be the organiza- tion of a united economic and mili- tary attack against the Soviet: Union. It is of the greatest significance that Beck's plan follows directly on the heels of Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon’s statement in Europe that his mission there was to get the Eu- | ropean powers to join in a boyeott aaginst the Soviet Union. As a mat-| ter of fact, Beck's plan had been pre- | viously discussed with President Hoo- | ver and therefore both Mellon's and| Beck's statements are really the state- | ments of the Washington govern- ment. Directly in line with the Mellon- Beck-Hoover anti-Soviet plans, the/ French imperialists are demanding | that Germany should refrain from) extending loans to the Soviet Union. | This is admitted in the report of Beck’s plan in the New York Herald| Tribune of June 29th, which says: “Mr. Beck’s plan, which had previ- ously been laid before President Hoo- ver, assumed some significance on the score of its reference to the Soviet, for information from France indi- | cetes a disposition there to demand a | tee that remitted German; This is only one of many examples ames : funds will not be lent to Russia.” One of the purposes of Secretary Mellon’s mission to Europe was to prevent Germany from concluding a new trade agreement with the Soviet Union, and France has joined the Wall Street government in exerting (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 24 Delegates Pledged Aid in Fight to Free Scottsboro 9 DENVER, Colo., June 29.—Fifty- three delegates representing 23 or- including 5 A. F. of L., attended the local United ont Scottsboro Defense Conference called to support the mass fight to free the nine innocent Negro boys being railroaded to the electric chair by the Alabama bosses and their courts. Besides the delegates there were present over 100 visitors from various union and fraternal organi- zations. PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 29.— Mass evictions of miners are being resorted to by the operators in an effort to break the coal strike, The blows are coming down heavily—the UMW in league with Governor Pin- chot and the armed company killers, and now evictions. In Richeyville, every miner that strikes is evicted. ‘There is no ceremony about evictions in this company “patch.” The thugs com in, throw the furniture out, beat up the miner, tear up his clothes. In one case they tore the clothes off the back of a miner's wife. y Evictions are mounting up every- where. Still the miners fight on. They need tents now as well as food,| William Tanner, chairman of the Some of the miners help take oare | Mooney-Billings Conference and a of the evicted families. But as the | delegate from that body, was elected evictions increase this procedure can- | chairman of the Conference. William not take care of all the evicted min- | Dietrich gave a short talk, reviewing ers. Tents must be rushed in by |the Scottsboro frame-up and stress- workers from other parts of the| ing the necessity of a united front of country. This matter cant wait. The | all, @orces interested in saving the miners, their wives and children | boys, He exposed the traitorous at- can’t sleep on the highways ahd/tacks on the defense by the leaders picket the next day. They can’t be)of the N. A. A. C. P. without food and shelter and be ex-| In the discussion from the floor pected to face the fat, sleek, well-|the “Socialist” Party delegates fed thugs of the coal companies.|thoroughly exposed themselves, Al- Rush in funds for tents! This must | though they had never lifted a finger be the answer of every worker to the|in defense of the Scottsboro boys wholesale: evietion of the miners. they intimated that the entrance -of the International Labor Defense and the Communist Party in the case would prejudice the Governor and the judge, as if the boss lynchers could do any worse than burn the 9 boys, which they had already ar- ranged for when these organizations challenged the legal lynching of the boys. They said they were ati the conference only as observers, al- though they presented credentials at the door. They were. ably answered by Soltis of the Trade Union: Unity League, and other delegates who took the floor. A strong resolution was. adopted condemning the legel lynching and endorsing the mass fight. policy of the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro) Rights. An Executive Committee of 23 was elected to further organize the mass defense of the boys. A telegram of sglidarity was sent ?) | Thugs Try to Drive |Men Back to Mines At Point of Guns) PITTSBURGH, June 29.—Dep- aty sheriffs, gunmen, thugs are knocking upon the doors of the company owned shacks in which the miners live, point their guns | 4nd club the miners and even | their wives. At all hours of the night and day tliese thugs say: | “Go to work or you'll be evicted | tomorrow.” ‘The ‘miners on strike against starvation in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia issue this call | for tents. Many have already been | evicted. Many hundreds have re- | ceived eviction notices. All workers and sympathizers, all camps and co-operatives that | have tents in storage, or know where to get tonts, should gather them AT ONCE and ship them to} Pittsburgh TODAY. If at all pos- | sible pay expressage or fast freight charges in advance. | Help Get Tents at Once! | Help Win This Strike! Pennsyl- | vania, Obio, West Virginia Strik- ing Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Contributions to purchase tents can also be sent to the above ad- caress. 3 DEAD, OVER 50 | HURT IN STRIKE PITTSEURGH, Pa, June 29,— Three killed, over 50 seriously in- jured and some dying, 550 arrested | to date in the coal strike area! Official terrorism, including jail-| ing, beating, gassing and shooting to) kil, heightens daily in the coal |. strike area as the strikers, their | wives and children continue to mass | at daybreak to picket in the face of | the machine guns, tear gas, | paid deputies. The toll so far reaches, the in- vestigators of the International La- bor Defense, as well as of a commit- | tee of nationally known writers, in- | cluding Theodore Dreiser, John Dos | Passos, and Mary Heaton Vorse, the| following: Dead: Three. Dying, or seriously injured by gun shots: Nineteen, including a boy of 15 whose death is momentarily ex- pected. Arrests: 550, of whom 200 have not yet been released on bond. These inelude five children under the age vf 13 arrested at Mollenauer, No. 8 mine. Clubbings and gassings: More than 2,000... | Bail for those arrested has already surpassed $1,000,000, with sueh charges ‘as disorderly conduct requir- ing $5,000 bond. ) The mine-paid deputies, at the gates of mine property, have blazed away on the open highway into mi: of pickets at the uncon- cealed behest of the superintendents. ‘They have hurled tear gas bombs into ranks of women and children almost daily. The imprint of the hoofs of Governor Pinchot’s, “admir- ably restrained State Troopers” are to be found on the bodies of scores of men, women and children. The International Labor Defense has begun a nation-wide campaign of protest, calling upon individual workers, and organizations, as well as all sympathizers to hold mass meetings, send telegrams and resolu- tions of protest to the Pennsylvania’ Governor Pinchot, at Harrisburg, to the 8 boys ‘in the death cells in Kilby prison, Montgomery, Ala.,. “and |S8*Y at this'time, All funds for de- -|fense should be rushed to the Na- and to raise funds critically neces- ae | Forty-five men who were brought PINCHOT OK’S FORCED LABOR AT KINLOCH MINE 45 Men at ‘Kinloch Try to Walk Out But Gun- | men .Stop Them Refuse to B Be Scabs ||2 Bradley Miners Are} Shot on Picket Line | BULLETIN One striker was shot and wound- ed and another severely clubbed with the butt end of a revolver at the Bradley Mine No. 1, at Smith- field, Ohio, according to an Associ- ated Press dispatch from Steuben- ville, The Injuréd men, Stanley Karnick and Gabo Kado, were not given any medical treatment but were rushed to jail. At Etlsworth, Pa., three men and & woman were arrested when they were riding im trucks to go to a picket line. Coal and iron police attacked and gassed the miners and then arrested the men and woman. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 29.—| to the strike area during the last two weeks from Cleveland to scab at the Kinloch Mine, without being | told what their job was to be, though | previously held in the mine by armed force, marc'ied out this morn- ing and demanded that the com- pany pay their fare back to Cleve- land. Deputy sheriffs have them sur- rounded in the company store and are baring all attempts of pickets | to reach them. The forty-five have | patches | tendent is offering $4 and even $10 scabbing. | | company stores are refused it. ‘SHERITES SERVE EVICTION NOTES | Order Miners to Work Or Out of Homes | PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 20.—!} Deputy sheriffs stalk through the} (company villages) serving five-day notices of eviction on some of those not scabbing, particularly strike leaders. In Mine No, 2 at Castle Shannon deputies and com- pany officials went to the cigar owned houses one aft early this morning and asked each man whether he was going to work. In some cases, when the man refused to work, he was ordered evicted and in many he was arrested at once. ‘Troopers and deputies at Mines 2 and 3, Mollenauer, attacked the picket lines and drove all inside their houses excep, a few, who re- mained as picket’. Those driven home were forced to go clear“inside. In various places the troopers told the strikers, “Join the U.M.W. and go to work, or get out of the coun- try!" At Vesta Mine No. 5 the superin- to anyone who will go Eviction results if they refuse. Even those who have scrip (company-is- “750,000 Are Expected At the Pittsburgh Hunger | March Police Chief Threats To Demand Immediate Jobless Relief BULLETIN Mass picketing at the Wildwood Mine, where the miner Zigaric was killed by company gunmen, has been put over until after the hun- ger march. The hunger march te Pittsburgh, at which 50,000 are ex- Pected.to take part, is scheduled dor 1 pm. today, The hunger march will be utilized for a mass mobilization for picketing at this important Wildwood Mine. The hunger march, also, will protest the Wildwood injunction, murder and shootings. la Gees By CARL PRICE PITTSBURGH, June 29.— Today at 1 p.m, unemployed steel workers and the striking miners will march into Pittsburgh from all points .of Allegheny and surrounding countiéé, in @ march against starvation. The cal was issued by the Central Rank and File Strike Committee. This hunger march will mark one of the highest points yet reached in the struggle of the miners in the Pittsburgh distriet. It marks the sued money) coming to them at the Star- vation is the weapon of the boss | unity of the striking and unemployed | Miners, in demands presented to the jcounty and state government. Just | At Vesta Mine No. 5 the deputies | as in the Washington county demon- | simply kidnapped five Negro nriners | stration, where 35,000 workers turned and rushed them in to work. They | out to make demands on the Wash- wanted to quit and join the picket | ington County government. Also im pump guns of armies of company- | | seht out word to the strixers that | lines. standing | they will not seab. This closes the Kinloch Mine. Twenty-five’ strike- | breakers remain on the company | property, all down with the small- pox. The Pinchot government is as- | sisting the Kinlech operators in their | forced labor echeme. ‘the ciate | troopers aid the company gunmen in keéping the 45 men cooped up) in the company store and refuse to Jet them join the picket line. This | is the “impartiality” of Pinchot. The so-called liberal governor who joins in ranting and repeating lies about “forced labor” in the Soviet | Union, blinks at the forced labor at the point of a gun of 45 men at the (CONTINUED ON PAGE ‘THRER) | McKEES ROCK, Pa., June 29.- Mike Olas, who runs a speakeasy at 320 Olivia St. here, has been made a deputy sheriff and has turned his} joint into a scab agency. When he gets a man drunk he loads him into a private car and delivers him to a | coal company. CUT GUARDS SMEN'S RATIONS WASHINGTON, D. CO—Food ra- tions for national guardsmen were ordered cut from 50 cent to 45 cents a day by the Militia Bureau of the | War Department. The guardsmen will be put through | the paces of an intensive training this summer. Boss Press Admits Savage Attack by Barberton Cops BARBERTON, Ohio, June 20.— because several capitalist newspaper reporters. were. beaten up and many private homes gassed in the orgy of police brutality unleashed against a demonstration of workers in Barber- ton on June 26, the boss press has taken up the demand for the oust- ing of Mayor Decker, who ordered the attack. . The dermapistcakion was called by the International Labor Defense to Protest the police murder of C. Louis Alexander, a militant Negro worker and leader of the Unemployed Coun- cil. The meeting was attended by thousands of workers. Jennie Coo- per, district organizer of the LL.D. was the first speaker. She had not uttered half a dozen words when the police, supported by specially depu- epi carne of-the International at 80.E. 11th St..New |. tized American Legion thugs, at- tacked the. workers with gas bombs, Dblackjacks and clubs. ‘The Akron Times-Press, the savage police attack, mits the responsibility of the police for what followed. Its headlines the next day declared: “Police gas starts riot. women, children terrorized by choking fumes.” In its story of the vicious police attack, this paper de- clares: \“With tear gas and blackjacks, Barberton police reinforced by specially-sworn officers Friday night turned the protest meeing of the International Labor Defense at Lake Anna Park into a night of terror for Barberton citizens.” “Residents in nearby were driven from their homes by the stinging fumes of the gas at- tack.” “Screaming women and small children were caught in the me- lee.” Another boss paper, The Cleveland Press, reporting the police attack, declared: “Tear gas bombs had been plan- A{CONSINUBD ‘ON PAGE THESE) streets | | this demonstration, the unemployed jare giving notice that they will not scab on their striking brothers. The unemployed miners are an active |part of the strike, participating on j the picket line and joining in the | hunger marches, together with the | Strikers, to fight for the joint de- mands of the unemployed and the strikers. The hunger march shows that the unemployed miners under- stand that the strike against | tion of 40,000 miners under the lea ership of the National Miners Uni \is also a strike against unemp! ment. Only complete solidarity of the employed and unemployed will win the miners better working condti- tions, and make the fight against wage-cuts, speed-up and unemploye ment successful. The hunger march in Allegheny county takes place in the fortress of the coal and steel trust, in the citae del of the Mellon interests, and fie nance capital in these basic induse \tries. In the hunger march in Pittse burgh, thousands of steel workers from surrounding steel towns will participate in the March. * ( The hunger marchers in Allegheny county will demand $10 a week for each unemployed worker and strike jing miner, no evictions of uneme | ployed or strikers for non-payment of |rent, free food for workers’ children, |free milk for babies, abolition of the injunction, the right to strike, picket, and to meet. No discrimination against youth, Negro, or foreign-born workers in giving out of jobs, and the immediate passage by the state of @ |State Unemployment Insurance Bil, Fifty thousand workers are expecte jed to demonstrate at Pittsburgh, at | 1 p.m., June 30, at West Park—make ing the largest working-class demon= stration ever held by the workers of Pittsburgh and vicinity. The steel workers and miners of the Pittsburgh district are on the march starvation. They are striking back stop wage-cuts, and to wring’ conditions from, tiie howe