The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 1

) ; # DO YOUR PART IN THE MINE STRIKE! RUSH RELIEF NOW! Order to help the miners win on June 27th and pledged every support to the striking miners. They protested against the murder and shooting of strikers. They exposed the strike-breaking activities of the United Mine Workers and laid plans for immediate sending of relief. A conference was held yesterday at the Workers Center, 1652 N. 12th Street, where ) support of the their battle. In Detroit, Michigan, the auto workers, facing wage cuts and mass unemployment are respond- ing. They know the fighting of the starving miners is the fight of every worker. The Trade | Union Unity League has isssued a call for tag other food for the miners who are fighting star- vation. The National Executive Committee is | not stopping there. They have pledged to raise $6,000.00 and to raise it in a hurry. An appeal has been isssued to all branches of the Interna- Don’t fail the 40,000 striking miners at this crit- ical moment. Send them a crust of bread so that they can continue the fight against starva- tion! , country-side dry of relief support, The bulk of | the strike relief aid must now come from the outside, from workers everywhere who realize, even though they themselves are unemployed, even though they themselves have had many wage cuts, that the striking miners are in the front of the severe class battle raging in the Behind the strong defense cf a wall of armed police, the Allegheny County Commissioners in i Pittsburgh refused to listen to the relief de- mands of 20,000 who demonstrated on Tuesday. | Striking miners who had not, eaten that day | | | Knowing that a quick response is necded to | help the £9,000 striking Pennsylvania and Ohio tional Worker Order. The National Executive walked to fight for unemployment relicf. They | | are still fighting for this unemployment relief as | Ynited States. The fight of the miners is the | ™ners In their strike, the International Workers | Committee authorized Comrade Salzman, Gen- | days, which have just concluded, for miners re- | plans for immediate relief to the miners were well as facing the gunmen on the picket lines. | sent of every worker. Order lost no time in sending its contribution | eral Secretary of the Order, to bring $2,000.0¢ to | lief. The funds should be pouring in soon to | worked out. ; The food supplies grow smaller. In some places | for relief. $2,000.00 has already been sent to the meeting of the Central Strike Committee in | help feed the miners while they strike. Workers everywhere! Do your share! Rash there are none. The miners have drained the | Immediate relief is the crux of the strike. | the strike relief committee to buy bread and | Pittsburgh yesterday. He will also pledge the | One thousand Milwaukee workers assembled | funds for strike relfef! Se ~ eee ee a = a ——= ee ; | \ al tin 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 Orge pnchiae of the Communist dagarnstionel) ork y, Wo Party WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered an second: clans matte pe Vol. VIII, No. 158 at New York, N. ¥,, under the act of March 3, 1874 at the Post Offier giip—21 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931 CITY 5 DITION Price 3 Cents THE TRUTH ABOUT HOOVER’S WAR PLAN EXPOSED Hoover Plans Civil War On German Masses, Imperialist War On Soviet Union DEMONSTRATE ON AUGUST FIRST! IN close connection with its imperialist moves in Germany, the Wall Street government of Hoover has just made a fresh and more open move to establish an economic bloci:ade against all products of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. This war-like blockade is intended as a further step in the preparations for military intervention—for open imperialist war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The call of Hoover's Treasury Department for an economic blockade claims to base itself upon the existence of “forced labor” in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. This is slanderous war propaganda. It is a lie fostered by the parasite class of a country in which the working class is held in wage slavery, where workers are shot down on the streets for daring to organize and strike, where more than ten million workers and their families are starving in unemployment, where the poor farmers are oppressed by the bankers and trust magnates. It is directed against the only country in which the workers are the masters of their own destiny and are realizing the aim of the working class of the whole world —the liberation of the working class from capitalist wage slavery and the building of a higher form of society—that of socialism. ‘The im- perialist economic blockade, as a move in the direction of war, is di- rected to the immediate purpose of wrecking the, Five-Year Plan, and “to weaken the defensive power of the Soviet Union against military intervention. The announcement of an intended blockade of Soviet products fol- lows in the footsteps of Hoover’s moves with regard to German repara- tions. One step is linked with the other in the International offensive of capital to throw the burden of the world economic crisis upon the shoulders of the working class, to overcome the sharpening antagonisms in the capitalist slave system by destroying the Soviet Union. Poe mae Trembling in the fear that the German masses will not much longer endure the crushing slavery imposed upon them by the Versailles Treaty ? | Demonstrate Aug. 1! WAR DEBT in Where Are Tag Day CLASH IS) Receipts? Rush Funds! SHARPENING | Imperialists . Prepare | For New World | Slaughter Go On Making Heavy War Expenditures On July 1, when the Hoover one- year Gebt postponement pian was to go into effect, the conflict between the United States and France was| sharper than ever. Bitter speeches | were made in the French Senate | against the Hoover plan, and Wall| | Street's attempt. to domineer in Eu- rope, thus squeezing the French im- perialists to a second place. Thus far the temporary Anglo-U. S. agreement against France is achieving the purpose of smashing the French leadership on the Eu- ropean continent. Mellon is still in Paris attempting to patch up a truce. Senator Jouvenel in a bitter speech | Where is the Tag ie iay money? Tag Days were held in enough cities to have raised thousands of dollars for the Daily Worker, but so far only $978.10 has been received. Of this, the New York Dis- 123.03 has come in the country, chiefly Connecticut. Hee The Daily Worker is in a critical sit- uation. The drive must be intensified and | trict has contributed $854.07, while only from other parts of from Cleveland and | | Put the drive over the top by July 19 must all the Taz Day funds turned in AT ONCE! | be the slogan—a slogan of action for every worker, every reader. Into action to save | 50 E. 13th St.. N. Y. C.! | | the Daily! Speed funds to the Daily Worker, Royal and General Fabrics |20,000 IN PITTSBURGH DEMANDING JOBLESS RELIEF PLEDGE TO CARRY STRIKé OF MINERS TO ViCTORY _ how Com Ure |March S /Ringing Cry for Bread | Issues from Vast | Parade Commissioners Lie Now Shows Solidar- of Jobless and Employed PITTSBURGH, July the | County Commissioners the mass resentment to their barring the 196 members of the hunger march de- | legation elected by 20,000 workers. | employed and unemployed, es well as | strikers have issued an absurd story |to the press. They say -they were | waiting at the court house but the | committee went.to the wrong build- \ing but were -directed right by the [patie at the, County Building, but could not find the court house. The facts: are; the police barred | the workers from both buildings and 1.—Today seeing Be: aaa Sireck, Young Plan, dhe imperialist, statesmen of the world; |e ee wee ges Biates for, Its) | shoved the Committee down the side- and the Wal : secret. conversations with the Ger-| t | ANSpiri past both buildings and pre- are rushing from conference to confexence to find a means of strengthen- | mans since aeitey end tha sudden| i ri es nhs ire or ers: lneweee Ghatereede ing the Bruening Soe means. to pines ps Li mote Te- | announcement o fthe Hoover propo- | Ea hid 4 the G ti masses to the plunder policies of Interna- | sistance of the German toiYing Pp Bs sal: Meanwhile, all the conflicts be- | Silk Workers in dihiode Island Talking Strike | | PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 1.—Afler tional and German capital and to finance the shooting down of the ex- pected German revolution. Hoover’s call for a “holiday” on payments on inter-governmental debts has been heralded by the capitalist ee bl a gant relief to bee! it will be based on the unity of in- PAWTUCKET, R. I., July 1—The strikes of the 1,500 ers with their women folks and chil- crushed and exploited German masses. It has been called a move for | terests of the imperialists against the! Bie avons ° ~ . re af rae 7 a as n ; rkers in the Royal and General Fabric mills is havin; dren arrived at West Park early yes /the establishment of peaceful relations between the nations. And the | Soviet Union and for war aaginst the 5 f id effect th ‘i ‘ ea dust: hen Th s a terday afternoon, militantly ’ singing German Bruening government is trying to palm it off upon the masses | yggp, . a profound efiect on the whole silk industry here. ie WOrk” | ring. Later when they pa~: as a blow struck “against” the Young Plan. This is a lie. The Hoover Holiday plan is an offensive against the working class of Germany and the workers of the United States. It is a means by which to save the billions invested by Wall Street in the enslavement of the German working class. It is an attempt to fasten the slavery of the Young Plan more securely upon the German masses. At the same time it is a moye of the imperialist United States govern- ment to take the leadership in the plan for a united capitalist world war against the Soviet Union. " The news dispatch (suppressed in most newspapers) quoting Mellon as saying his mission to Europe concerned two things, “disarmament and common action against Soviet policy,” is false only insofar as it called war preparations “disarmament.” His mission is preparation of a general war of capitalist powers against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and civil war on the German working class. In connection with the Hoover plan, the fascist head of the German government promises “to cooperate politically . . . to the pacification of Europe” by the use of fire and sword against the German workers, and to enter the ovalition of imperialist nations “to aid in the construction of a bulwark of peace and order in Europe’—that is, for military intervention t> ¢>-‘rov the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. It is not an accident that Congres- man James M. Beck speaks of the Hoover war-debt holiday as accom- panied by an agreement of the capitalist powers to place an embargo against trade with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. It is signi- ficant that a famous capitalist correspondent telegraphs from Europe about “reports from London that as a part of the price for ‘being saved’ Germany may be required to enter the western front against Russia,” and points out that Hoover’s proposal of a “debt holiday” for Germany is hastily made just when the renewal of the treaty of non-aggression between Germany and Soviet Russia had been arranged but “has not yet been signed.” me a cw The world economic crisis which has struck Germany with special severity has sharpened the crisis in the Young Plan, a plan of slavery by which the German masses were already being crushed. ‘The German working class is rising against its capitalist exploiters and their agents, the Bruening government, which is loyally supported by the Hitler fascists and the social democrats. It is rallying around the banner of the Communist Party whose program of national and social liberation is winning over wide masses, is drawing the social democratic workers away from the influence of their treacherous leaders, is bring- tng the exploited peasant masses into the fold of the revolutionary Com- munist movement. The Bruening government, aided by th social democrats, is shutting down the revolutionary press, is shooting down demonstrating unem- ployed and employed workers, is taking steps to outlaw the Communist Party. At the same time that the Bruening government issued a plea for, the modification of the Young Plan it issued a dictatorial decree which will extort from the messes of the German workers over one billion marks for the benefit of the German capitalists and for the intetnational bank- ers and trust magnetes, Morgan é& Co.. and the Mellon interests. The German messes are putting up the most heroic struggle against this de- wee. They ere nathering their forces to defeat this robbery and to break the chains of the Young Plan. Tt is to help in the crushing of the Communist Party and the revo- lutianary trade union movement, to stem the tide of revolutionary strug- SAREE or abe tween the imperialists: are being | sharpened jbasically. At the same time, if an agreement can be forced The whole Versailles treaty is. in) the sharpest crisis since the close of | the world war. The economic crisis, | despite Hoover’s attempt, is getting | worse and the conflicts arising out of an attempted “agreement” will | sharpen them further. War and reparations are’ closely interlinked, with the conflicts grow- ing sharper every day, and the im-/ perialists driving to war. War debt payments, though the verious capitalist powers complain about'them, are just a fraction of the | budget as compared to the military expenditures for the next war, the New York Nation, shown in a spe- cial editorial. They give the follow- ing facts on the heavy war expendi-/} tures: “Belgium debt payments to the (CONTINUED GE THREE) Seeing Militancy o {Pawtucket Struggles ers of other mills are beginning to talk strike to defeat their own grievances. effort to curb the militancy | of the workers. The rank and | |file strike committees of the; struck mills and the oil set up a joint organization commit- \tee last night to help spread | strike. This committee will consist | of the strike representatives, the rep- resentatives of the other silk mills | preparing to strike, the unemployed | workers and the representatives of | the striking wives. On the General Fabric picket line | this morning the police were down in great numbers, but failed to in- timidate the pickets. The picketing | in the eye has so far Vita ge Hoover Pledges To UMWA and Coal Bosses WASHINGTON, July 1.—Presi- dent Hoover has now stepped in to lend the support of the federal gov- ernment to the strike-breaking ac- tivities of the United Mine Workers, the Pinchot. government of Pennsyl- vania and the coal company gun- men. The apeal of John L, Lewis, president of the U. M. W. A. to Hoover to rush in and help the U. M. W. A. break the strike of 40,000 miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union, has been answered. Addressing Lewis, Hoover declares his approval of a “conference” of coo’ pperators and miners similar to the secret one called by Governor Pinchot, the U. M. W. A. andthe Pennsylvania operators, which re- sulted in the wholesale scabbing ac- ivities of the U. M. W. A. in a fran- tic effort to emash the strike, Hoover declared that the govern- ment stands ready to help the scab- iMag efficials.of the U. M. W. A. He has aati the: bapa pine of 208 She Rare Scabbing Aid merce to handle the strike-smashing activities. Coming at this time, the Hoover message to Lewis is a powerful at- tempt to break the strike just when the miners are redoubling their ef- forts to win their fight against star- vation, The Hoover-Lewis action will be followed by greater terror by the company gunmen and greater seabbing efforts by the U. M. W. A Against this united front of all the | bosses, their government, state and federal, along with the U. M. W. A. the workers must come to the sup- port of the striking miners. Relief is immediately necessary. Hoover is preparing to use the cen- tral government machinery to add| move terror against the miners. The } miners are fighting .as they never fought before. But they must get} immediate help from workers every- where. Reiief must be sent them immediately. Do your share! Send} you contribution now’ to the Penn- Ohio Relief Committee, 611 Penn Yesterday the police came down in full force to the Lorain mill here in any ] any scabs from going in, though the | power house men, maintenance men fixing the mill chimney and watch- men are still on the job. This means | that about 10 workers out of 1,000 | are Beene te PUNE Rel: in the Royal. DEMAND JOBLESS RELIEFAT CITY, HALL, JULY 7th Unemployed Families | to Mass There NEW YORK—Thousands of unem- ployed workers, mothers and chil- dren will be at City Hall on Tues- day, July 7, when a delegation elected by the Unemployed Council of Greater New York will go into the meeting of the Board of Aldermen to protest against the cutting off of the measly relief that has been handed out to starving families at police stations and at the breadlines. ‘The delegation, which will be com- posed of members of the Unem- ployed Councils and starving Negro and white mothers and children will demand immediate relief. They will demand that the thousands of evic- tions of the unemployed families in the city of New York be stopped. One of the important demands will be the unconditional release of work- ers who have bene arrested for re- sisting the throwing of workers’ fam- ilies into the streets. Leaflets are being issued for this demonstration. Canvassing of neigh- borhoods and open-air metings are being organized in support of this demonstration, The Unions and Leagues of the Trade Union Unity Council are making a special appeal to the workers in the shops, mark- ets. locals and day rooms to dem- onstrate their solidarity with the de- mands of the unemployed on Tues- Berlin Wiekers rs > Baath U.S. Consulate Windows In Scottsboro Prote st NEW YORK.—International working class protest against the legal lynching of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys has again broken through the American against the mass fight to boss press conspiracy of silence save the boys. The New York Times was yesterday forced to print a dispatch from Berlin of a demon- >- stration of German young workers | Arrest 21In Boston . in front of the offices of the Amer-| ican Consulate General. Several windows were smashed and demands thrown into the offices denouncing | the Scotsboro outrage against the| Negro people and demanding the freedom of the nine innocent work- | ing class children. Tre demonstra- tion was led by the Young Commu-| nist League of Germany. Police ar- rested several workers. The Times dispatch also reports a wide-spread agitation in the Ger- man Communist press against the death sentences against eight of the boys. It says: “They are fervently appealing to Reds everywhere to have the vic- tims of judicial murder, asserting that the Negroes are wholly inno- cent of the crimes for which they were sentenced.” The ‘i'imes then adds its own vici- ous boss version of the frame-wp, de- claring the boys were sentenced to death “for attacks on two white or: t CoDigaian: RAG Sih Raburn Pm | Gay. duly. %..ab 2 Ba at. Ciy Needle Strike; One | More Shop Comes Out BOSTON, Mass. July 1.—-I, H. Feingold, organizer of the Needle Workers’ Industrial Union, together | with 20 strikers of the All-American Garment Co., were arrested today for violation of an injunction issued | against the union by a Boston judge. | Mr. Bearach, leader of the “social- | ist” parity of Boston, together with the Amalgamated officials, were in court and demanded that the in- junction be issued, In spite of this terror, a new shop, Lipzin of 61 Essex St., Boston, came down on strike. struggle. One way of defending the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced. Labor,” by ag Bea Boston workers appeal to the New | York workers for assistance in this | |hours of walking on ‘steaming high- | ways under a broiling sun, 20,000, hunger-driven miners and steel work- |and chee: | radea through the streets of Pitts- the end cf’ the parade was (CONTINUED ON | burgh, PAGE THREE) ELLSWORTH MINE DESPITE TERROR Rank and F File Strike Committee Meets PITTSBURGH, Pa. July When the pickets at Ellsworth attacked by company gunmen id three seriously wounded, only 62 Out | of 1,100 men scabbed. The National Miners Union hete was informed that the strike of the coal miners in the Orient mine ip Illinois is a strike against starva- tion and not for division of work, The company proposed to fire 1,100 men and 2,200 men struck. + ‘The Central Rank and File Strike Committee of the Pennsylvania, a - | Ohio and West Virginia Strike is now meeting fi bie * Try to Force Men” to Scab. . DAISYTOWN, Pa., | last gesture of their career as a and iron police, a whole swarm of them, together with mine bosses swooped down on the patch here immediately after the Hunger March left Daisytown and were well out of who remained behind that they sign papers promising to return to on the morrow or face ii eviction. ‘The women gathered together im= mediately and refused to let the po- lice throw their furniture on the road. But the company police fell upon them viciously with clubs blackjacks, smashing up the and children. as well as the fi j ture, ‘Tomorrow, probably, these voal and iron police will ‘be ee July 1—As a } ove 6 |veach, They demanded of the'mine -~ tis