The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1931, Page 1

f “RELIEF IS THE BACKBONE OF THE COAL STRIKE!” RUSH FOOD TO THE MINERS NOW! Do your nhate : A The miners are not eating and must get food but do not wait. to keep up their fight. Send i t now! Workers! The striking miners look to you for help to win their heroic strike! Rush funds for relief to “the Penn.-Ohio Striking Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, Room 614 Dail Central y, (Section of the Communist International) Norke he-Cod Rinunict Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second. class matter Vol. VIII, No. 157 at the Post Office at New York, 8, ¥,, ander the act of March 3, 1879 NEW bshdnakis WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1931 CITY EDITIO: COUNTY REFUSES Uniting for War on the Soviet Union INCE June 22, when the Daily Worker warned that the Hoover “war debt” proposal was a, clear proof of the U. S. taking leadership in the imperialist war plots against the Soviet Union, still further proof has been given. At that time, we called attention to the unwary words of Secretary Mellon in England, words suppressed by most capitalist papers of this country and published so far as we know only in the Cleveland “Plain Dealer” and the N. Y. “Graphic” of June 18, to the effect that his mis- sion was concerning two things: “Disarmament and common action against Sovie* policy.” We pointed out that Hoover's influence was being used not only to “save Germany from Bolshevism,” but to impress Germany into the war front against the Soviet Union. Remission of reparations payments and a huge loan constitute the bribe (with possible secret understandings as to restoration of the Polish corridor). Bankruptcy was the threat if the offer were not accepted. On June: 23, Chancellor Bruening gave sufficient proof of accep- tance of these American political proposals, in a radio speech printed in the N. Y. Times of June 24. He said: “We are ready to cooperate poiitically with all governments to effect a solution of those questions which are salient to the pacification of Europe. The greater the alleviation of economic and social distress under which the German nation is suffering, the stronger will be the nation’s ability to aid in the construction of a bulwark of peace and order in Europe.” It is understandable that the German chanceYlor would have Ger- many remain a “bulwark of peace and order’—which in capitalist lan- guage means a bulwark of capitalism, but the significance of the offer to “cooperate politically with all governments” to “solve those questions salient to the pacification of Europe’—cannot be exaggerated. It is important to note that at the first breath of disagreement in France, the German “socialists,” always advocates of German unity with Germany’s imperialist oppressors against the Soviet Union, rushed an emissary to France to urge the French “socialists” to withdraw the ob- jections they had made in conformity with their own imperialists, to the “Hoover plan.” That France, which at Geneva merely pretended to “accept” the Soviet proposal of a pact for economic non-aggression, is being forced to yield the leadership she formerly claimed in the anti-Soviet plots, and induced to go along under American leadership. is appearing from under the cover of the secret diplomacy now busily carried on by Mellon, Stimson and Hoover. The Paris correspondent of the N. Y. MHerald-Tribune, Leland Stowe, in that paper of June 29, states that “in addition to technical obstacles,” France is raising “political questions as to how Germany is going to spend the money she saves temporarily under the Hoover plan.” And the leading “political quesion” raised, is—will Germany “make loans to Soviet Russia.” And the correspondent from Washington of the same paper declares: “Germany, if it were invited, might not be opposed to giving some assurances to France with regard to its future adherence to the Young | Plan and such other guaranties as would increase the French feeling of security.” This Washington correspondent, Albert L. Warner, blessing to such a develonment, by stating: “In Administration quarters it was indicated that any such assur- ances which might promote friendship between Germany and France would be welcomed at Washington and had@ already been considered.” That such an anti-Soviet understanding between France and Ger- many has not only been “already considered” by Hoover, but has been one of the basic aims of the Hoover Plan, is confessed by the same cor- respondent’s officially inspired dispatch in his comment on the proposal by Congressman Beck, formerly U. S. Solicitor General, that the Hoover “war debt” plan must be accompanied with an agreement among all capitalist nations to place an embargo against the Soviet Union. The dispatch says: “Mr. Beck’s plan, which had previously been laid before President Hoover, assumed some significance on the score of its reference to the Soviet.” ‘The announcement by the U. S.. Treasury on Saturday, June 27, that it would decree an embargo on all Soviet goods on Jan. 1, next, is the official invitation to all other capitalist nations to follow suit, a testi- mony of American imperialism’s earnestness to the others with whom it is negotiating (pazticularly France) a united imperialist war front against the Soviet Union. And this declaration of hostility was bol- stered up by a United Press dispatch from London, published in the same paper (the N.Y. World-Telegram, June 27), reporting that British im- perialism would “no doubt” also lay down an embargo against the Soviet Union. Workers! With good reason did ex-Ambassador Gerard (the same who declared that 59 capitalists “rule America’), recently assert that the United States is “already at war with Soviet Russia.” With good reason: must every worker be aroused to the speeding prep- arations for armed intervention against the Soviet Union, led by Amer- ican imperialism! With good reason, every worker should feel alarmed at the nearness, the threatening immediacy of war! War against the Workers’ Republic, led by imperialist America! And with good reason every worker and workers’ organization must rally every effort to pro- test against the war danger, in defense of the Soviet Union, in tue nation-wide demonstrations against war on August First! adds Hoover's TO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST CUTTING OFF OF “RELIEF” Jobless to Mass at City Hall on July 7 For Demands NEW YORK.—Yesterday ~ marked the last. day for the little relief that was handed out by the city to starv- ing families at the police stations in some of the neighborhoods. Even this miserable relief and the measly slop that was given to the homeless un- employed at the municipal lodging house has been cut out by the “city f ent that ras appropriated an budget of close to $700,000,000. Eo Ae Baad exit hsade frt B mini Joh Board of Aldermen will meet for the {last time this summer, the Unem- ployed Council of Greater New York will send a delegation to de- mand immediate relief and that the wholesale evictions of unemployed families be stopped in New York City. A series of open air meetings have been planned in every working class neighborhood of the city and leaflets are being issued dealing with the conditions of starvation in the re- spective neighborhoods. Thousands of unemployed workers, their wives and children will assemble in City Hall Park to back up the demands of the delegation. The Trade Union Committees on Unemployment are rallying the workers of their indus- tries in support of this demonstra- tion. EXPLOSION KILLE 3 WORKERS ‘Three workers of the powder plant of the Canadian Industries Co., at Nobel, sixty miles south of Sudbury, killed SPEED A READERS July 19. achievement. from now on it must | | | CONTINUE ‘DAILY’ DRIVE TO JULY 19; | The campaign to raise $35,000 to save | the Daily Worker will be continued till | The amount that has been contributed thus far, about $27,000, is a splendid evi- dence of the devotion of thousands of work- ers of all nationalities, Negro and white, to the fighting organ of the American working class. To have raised this sum in | a period of acute economic crisis is a real But we must go over the top, or the Daily will not survive the summer. the workers engaged in so many struggles, the Daily is more needed than ever before; it must and will be saved! Most of the dis- tricts are still far behind their quotas, but Turn in your Tag Day boxes, send con- tributions, collect among shop-mates and organizations! Don’t delay; rush every cent to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St.. N. Y. C. —Daily Worker Management Comm. CTIVITY With be full steam ahead! World Fight | | Gorky, internationally famous to free the nine Scottsboro bo; frame-up charge. | The appeal characterized the savage railroading of these in- nocent children to the electric} chair as an instance of capitalist white terror and referred to the case as another Sacco-Vanzetti case. The Scottsboro outrage has served | to focus the eyes of the international working class on the terrific national oppresgon and savage terror direct- ed by the American imperialists | against the Negro masses. Before the indignant eyes of the interna- tional proletariat the vicious system of lynch law, Jim Crowism, peonage and white ruling class terror against the Negro people stands revealed in| the blazing light of the Scottsboro frame-up and the world-wide agita- tion initiated by the International Labor Defense and the League of | Struggle for Negro Rights. In every European country, the Communist newspapers are devoting columns of space to the exposure of the Scottsboro frame-up and its background of boss terror and na- tional oppression of the Negro peo- ple. Demonstrations against the American fmperialists have occurred before the American conswjates in several European cities. A storm of indignation is sweeping the Soviet Union. In China, the millions of workers and peasants who are supporting the Chinese Red Armies in the struggle | against the imperialists and their native lackeys, are rallying to the world-wide demand for the freedom of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. In India, in South Africa, in every country of the world, the Scottsboro case is serving to expose the frightful crimes of American imperialism against the Negro masses, and to mobilize the international working class behind the struggles of the Ne- gro people in the United States. On August First, the masses of Europe, of the United States, of courts of Alabama on a brazen®— ; of South Africa, etc., will take the | streets apse. eee Ana ti i Sele ae European Group Headed | By Maxim Gorky Calls for to Free 9 Boys | Storm of Protest Sweeps International Work- ing Class Against Frightful Persecution of Negro People By American Imperialism NEW YORK.—A United Press dispatch reports that a | committee of European writers and scientists, headed by Maxim | novelist, has issued an appeal to the workers of the whole world to rally to the mass fight facing legal lynching in the in militant demonstrations against the new war preparations of the imperialist murderers, aimed at the Soviet Union. In all of the dem- | onstrations, the demand will be raised for the freedom of the nine Scotts- boro boys and against the national oppression of the Negro peoples inj the United States, Africa, etc. The Negro masses of the United | | States must support these demon- | of an entire shut-down before the strations, Foree Permit for| Hunger March On St. Clairsville -Terror Increases. Striking “Miner Shot By Company Gun- man | BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 30.—! Mass pressure of the miners forced | the Belmont County Commissioners | to grant a permit for a hunger march | on St. Clairsville on Monday, July 6. A committee of nine, representing | the striking mniers, met with the} commissioners yesterday, and after trying to squirm out of it, the com- missioners were finally forced to al- low the march. Mass meetings for a final mobiliza- tion of the march will be held thru- out the district this week, culmin- ating in a great meeting at the strik- ers’ picnic on Sunday, July 5 at Dillonvale. Frank Borich, Secretary of the Na- tional iMners Union, will speak at this meeting. As the date for the march ap- proaches, the terror is incregsed. Stanley Karuosth, a striking miner, was shot down by William Hollaway, ‘a coal company gunman at Bradley No. 1 mine. Karuosch was on his way to the store at Bradley Monday. | Hollaway fired without warning and | | wounded Karuosch in the leg. When | | Garbo Toth, another striker came! to Karuosch’s aid, he was viciously blackjacked. | While the gunman, Hollaway, who | attempted to murder a striker goes | | free, the two miners were immediate- | jy arrested and lodged in the Steu-| | benville jail. | Yetta Land, attorney for the In-} ternational Labor Defense, will rep- resent the strikers at the hearing to- |day. The Bradley miners will pro- | test against the growing terrorism at a mass meeting in Bradley Tues- day. $5.40 A Week For Woodworkers (By a Worker Correspondent) NORWALK, Ohio. — Norwalk has several small, wood-working shops employing from 50 or 60 to 150 or} 200 men each. Must of them are now working reduced time—and pay. One thet has been going four days a week, 8 hour days at 25 cents per hour, cut on June Ist to three days a week plus a 10 percent cut in wages Men, heads of families now get, in- | stead of $8.00 per week, exactly $5.40 per week, with the further possibility "ast. of August, Brand sth tiedher Mass Ohio March on July FLUS Win LaAFre, FRANKFoRe " PRONIO' cn ow pow HATAM owe WEST VIRGINIA EAST OHIO HUNGER MARCH ON ST. Three lines of hunger marchers will convene Wed { ERAT kl port BELLAIRE —=— SCALE:-9NE INCH To Twenty mces PENNSTLVANIA _—_———| CLAIQSVILCE-JULT 6 at St. Clairsville, Ohio, on July 6th to demand unemployment relief for the unemployed miners. The marchers will elect a committee to put their demands to the Belmont County Commissioners. Miners’ Testimony to Dreiéer| Comm. Shows Mass Starvation Get No Clothes for Year; “UMW Sold Me Out!” Dozens of miners testified before the Dreiser investigating commit- tee. They told the stories of their lives, their wages, their conditions, their reasons for striking and what | they hoped to attain. This testi- mony mainly, in the. words of the miners themselves, tells of what the miners have to face and what they | met during the strike. The Daily} Worker has obtained a copy of this testimony. From day to day we will publish excerpts from this compo- | site story of the mass starvation of ® over a year.” The miner was asked if he lived | | in a company town, and this is the | way he described it: those places with a barbed wire fence | around it.” Then he went on to tell about mine conditions and wages “We work by the ton. We are paid 36 cents a ton. When we loaded three tons we got paid for one. We know we were cheated by the weight | of the car. I can measure a car and | tell. You know how many tons you do in a day. You feel you are | gypped out of two tons for every | three you load. “I was a member of the United | Mine Workers and I know they sold me out. “They could not force me into the “Tt is one of | the Pennsylvania miners and the] vu. M. W. bitter struggle against their misery. “The conditions in the mine are, One of the first to speak was/| rotten, and I know because I have George Pomfret, an English miner,| been a miner for 40 years.” who worked at the Kinloch Mine. At this point one of the reporters He had been striking for six weeks present reminded Mr. Pomfret that and went out because he could not | tlio"? was an accident at the Kin- make enough money to live on.| loch Mics hack in 1930. Asked by Dreiser how he lived on | went on to tell about it. his low wages, Pomfret answered: “I | men were killed. The accident was Pinchalll l aungeads of Cops Are Called Out to | Bar March ‘ ove |Force Committee Away Workers Cheer Parade | As It Passes Shops PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 30.—A committee of 25 was elected at a mass meeting of hunger marchers at West Park in which 20,000 partiel- pated. The committee proceeded to the County Biulding to submit a res- olution passed by the mass meeting and to put the demands of the hun- ger marchers. It was met by solid ranks of police barring the entrance to the building, saying to Carl Price, Frank Borich and John Powers, | spokesmen of the committee: “Our orders are to drive you from the building and off the sidewalk. You | cannot see the commissioners.” Police outnumbering the commit- | tee swung clubs menacingly, but did | not actualy strike, but shoulder to | shoulder, shoving with their hands, forced the committee down the side- walk to the corner. ae The committee returned to West Park to report that the county cém- ; missioners were hiding behind a wall \ |of gunmen and refused even to hegr ~ | the demands for relief of thousands |of starving unemployed. The parade from West Patk around the streets to the west was colorful. Hundreds of | banners were carried. Slogans were | shouted. The workers shouted: “Hur- |rah for the National Miners Union! We will win this strike! We demand bread not bullets! Down with the ih- I oy | immensely (CONTINUED ON PAGE iD ON PAGE LLD. DEMANDS - REMOVAL OF BOYS FROM DEATH CBLL _. ‘Denounces Tt Torture Ps The miner | Forty-nine | have to live just on what I can| caused because the mine was not| | rock-dusted, the company did not want to waste time or money pro- tecting the miners’ lives. Showing how the capitalist press | make.” ‘And what do youdo for clothes?” | inquired Dreiser. “I never bought no clothes for | les, Mr. Pomfret told of an incident | NEW YORK.—Mellon's trip to | Europe and the Hoover attempt to forge an anti-Soviet war front are not the only steps being taken by the leading imperialist countries to smash the Soviet Union. In the United States active was prepara- tions with a direct view of a drive against the Soviet Union are going on. These facts are admitted in an article appearing in the June 27th issue of “Liberty.” Under the title of “The Next War,” General Wil- liam Mitched!, who commanded the air squadron of the U. S. army in the last World War, tells of the com- ing world battle against Commu- nism—against the Soviet Union. He bursts the bubble of “peace” talk, saying war is nearer than ever—war against the Soviet Union. The general puts it as a struggle between “east and west,” a strug- gle between Asia and Europe. “Asia (Russia can be considered a part of it as far as we are con- cerned),”he writes, “is forging it- self a political wntt on the anvil of its wars and revolutions. A test of strength between East and West Gen. Mitchell Asks More Planes For War on Soviets, Navy Builds Them ] Melion Made Fortune in Last Slaughter; Wants Another Europe will feel its first weight.” Then he tells of the sharpening of the war drives, due to the crisis and world unemployment—intimat- ing, but not saying that the upbuild- ing of socialism is a dangerous ‘ex- ample for the rest of the workers throughout the world and the capi- talists must rush their war plans. Then he calls for more armaments, especially gir armaments. As if to answer, General Mitchell, the Navy Department widely cele- brates what it calls the completion of the “Five-Year Plan” for air arm- aments. From Washington comes the news that the 1,000 planes constructed for the next war are just the beginning. ‘The Navy announces that it was au- thorized to build 1,614 fighting planes at a cost of $85,078,750. The work is going on. The navy, army, air forces are being got ready for war— the war against the Soviet Union, |in connection with the shooting of pickets at the Kinloch Mine. (the capitalist reporters) Kinloch after the shooting and I made a statement representing the Kinloch miners. In the papers the | from what I told them.” Frank Luciana told his story | the Dreiser Committee: “I have a family of five children. to ochell. Andrew Mellon, who is one of the | leading figures in preparing the war} When I worked lately I got from| next day it was just the opposite | | tion, They | clares: came to} Youths By Prison Authorities CHATTANOOGA, June 30—The southern district of the International Labor Defense has wired a demand for the removal of the eight Scotts- boro ‘boys in Kilby Prison from the death cells. The wire is addressed to the chairman of the Alabama State Board of Prison Administra~ at Montgomery, Ala. It de- “Since the filing of motion of appeal by our attorneys stays the execution of the eight young Negro _ boys framed up at Scottsboro and now in Kilby Prison, we demand - their removal from the death cells and their right to receive visitors, literature and mail, “We protest denial of these against the Soviet Union, made a fortune out of the last war. Con- gressman Patman, speaking of Mel- jon, recently declared: “Mellon has not served under three presidents. ‘Three presidents have served under him. He doubtless accumulated more money during the world war by rea- son of his country’s misery and mis- fortune than any other war prof- iteer.” Plenty of money for war arma- ments—millions upon millions—but when the unemployed demand re- lief they have been given clubbings and jailings. On August Ist, throughout the world, the revolutionary workers will call upon the working masses to join in a mighty demonstration against | Every worker | the war preparations, should respond, employed and unem- ployed. While rapidly preparing for war the capitalists are cutting wages, throwing more workers into the streets to starve. All out August Ist. Defend the Soviet Union! Demand all war funds be turned over for Ne | $25 to $23 every two weeks. I have a four-room place, for which I pay $25 a month, and I have run up a grocery bill of over $200 and I can’t pay it. Sometimes I eat once a day and sometimes I eat some kind of grass, what you call Italian grass. You cook it good and take a little flour, and that is all.” He told how one of his little girls was driven off the picket line by a deputy sheriff. When asked if he would return to work, he answered: nothing? To the mine I no go.” 20th Woman Poisoned By Radium Work Dies NEWARK. N. J.—The 20th woman worker to die of radium poisoning, Mrs. Irene La Porte, died several days ago, She was employed by the Radium Corporation painting watch dials. The company refused to compen- cate many women who were effected by this poisoning in a trial held seve- ~~ “You think I go in the mine for) rights and other attempts to ter- rorize the boys such as moving | electric chair in a position across their cells, and the withholding ~ from the boys of the information that they are not going to the 4 | chair on July 10.” \| Bring ‘Tag Da Day || Boxes to the ‘Daily’ Today! Lona All outstanding Tag Day col- lection boxes must be brought} into the district office of the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., fifth floor, | TODAY. The office will be open till midnight. Outstanding boxes | are depriving the Daily of fea that are desperately needed to. meet pressing immediate obliga tions. | For emergency needs 44 SS BA te an eS