The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1931, Page 1

nl The campaign to Worker is being continued till July 19. After a careful examination of the financial condition of the Daily, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. has decided to take this step as the only way of pre- venting the suspension of the leading organ of the American working class. The results of the drive thus far are ican working cl save the Daily | | | | | proof of the devotion of the workers to the paper that is the living voice and champion of their struggles. sults are a victory for the entire Amer- ss and a smashing de- feat for all the enemies of Communism. They justify our conviction that prole- tarian energy, enthusiasm and sacrifice will make possible the raising of the full $35,000 by July 19. Since the drive was started on May dispensab: These re- | The strik Daily speeded u with new Union—tl 20 history march agair marches wit the Scottsboro boys sharpens, and the lead thousands. The war preparation: y has proved ten-fold the in- lity of the Daily Worker. ing miners and their families st hunger, and the Daily them. The fight to free s the vanguard, rallying new p, the capitalist press i attacks against the Daily Worker Soviet ne smashes re ng (Section of the Communist International) “Vol. VII, No. 159 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 PINCHOT'S TROOPERS BREA Smash This Lie! In Buffalo last Monday, John Hughway, a War Veteran, father of two babies, jobless four months and desperate, stole some bread, and was arrested, photoed, finger-printed and held for larceny. “In Detroit, June 19, Mamie Noboschik, mother of six, whose husband worked -at Ford’s only three months last year, was jailed for felonious assault because she became angry and hit a cop at the Welfare Station when being thrown out after “Welfare” had told her to get relief from Ford and Ford had told her to get relief from “Welfare.” Within a stone’s throw of the White House, at the City Garbage Dump of the national capital, seventy mien and boys, jobless and starv- ing, live in wretched hovels built of tin cans, boards and refuse. BUT “Especial care is taken to provide for the President's table food of which he is known to be fond. On a recent’ four-day trip the juice of thirty dozen oranges was provided for the President's car.—From the N. Y. Times, June 25, 1931. QUCH are a few examples of the hel of misery, starvation, suicide and and poverty (but not for the rich!), which unemployment and the refusal of Hoover’s government to give a red cent in either relief or un- employment insurance, is inflicting upon the working class of this country. Yet what are -the capitalists doing about it? By a dastardly con- spiracy amounting to deliberate murder of great masses, even the mis- erable doles of relief, which some small percent of the jobless got through the past winter, was brutally cut off by the “Welfare” and “Charities” of the city governments of all great cities of this country. By on understanding among the editors of all capitalist papers, unemployment hb: golished by silence. The starvation -of great masses is smugly denied. Charity has ceased tobe “interesting” to the | upper classes. Apple selling is no longer- a romantic calling. Beggars are told-to go to “authorized agencies.” . And there they are told to go | away and: die somewhere else, out of sight. x The damnable effrontery of this tribe of well fed-parasites would make | any worker's blood bo'!! Fed like a king at the expense of the nation, Hoover, speaking. <i ‘lanapolis, coolly rejected the demand for unem- ployment come y 2 would mean"at, least life to thousands and tens of thousands of workers and their“wives and children who are dying by inches and resorting to suicide in vain desperation. Hoover, and the whole capitalist class for which he speaks, has sen- tenced thousands upon thousands of weak women and helpless children to | death! What we witness is wholesale cold-blooded murd And fat, fed and complacent, these murderers wiil remain unless and until the workers unloose the ‘ftiry of revolutionary mass action at these criminals! Who will organize them? Who will lead them? Really to aid them, to mobilize them for struggle against this crew of cut-throats? the Communists can do that. But what are the Communists doing? Are we, Communists and all revolutionary workers doing enough? Enough continuous day to day work, organizing neighborhood branches. fighting for this or that case, rallying the mass in ever greater numbers for relief and unemployment insurance? No! We are not doing enough! We are becoming “lop-sided” again, forgetting to use the Scottsboro channel of mass contacts to build the Unemployed Councils, or of the miners’ relief campaign to build Unem- ployed Branches. But unemployment cannot be “dropped.” To “drop” it is to aid the social-fascists betray the unemployed and to be objectivley assisting the bourgeoisie in its cynical sentence of death against the jobless, Hoover comes back to Washington from the Mid-West trip, “cheered,” it is said, “at reports that employment is better and breadlines are abol- ished.” It is all a lie, a pretense, a hypocrisy! Except that breadlines are “abolished” and starvation is established! But Hoover smirks at all the mass suffering! Let the workers die! What does he care, so long as they die quietly, without demonstrating, making a noise about it, threatening to storm the gates of power! So he goes on with the Naval Program of $1,000,000,000 for more warships! Workers! This must“not go on! ‘This lie must be smashed! This murder exposed! August First is coming, the day when all workers pro- test against capitalist war. Let every worker prepare himself and his * fellow workers, to make the very stones rise up and demand “Down with capitalist war! All war funds to the unemployed! Unemployment In- surance at the cost of the bosses and their government, administered by the workers”! Socialists Back Hoover’s War Plan Against the Soviet Union NEW YORK. — Praise for the Hoover - Mellon - Morgan plan of smashing the revolutionary opposi- tion of the German masses to the ism throughout the world rather than permit the masses to overthrow cap- italism, So delighted is Thomas with P Only | Young Plan yoke, imposing further ‘wage cuts upon the workers of Ger- many and the U. S., as well as the other important section of this plan, war alliances against the Soviet Un- jon was unstintingly meted out by Norman Thomas, leader of the So- cialist Party of the United States. ‘The Reverend Thomas, in a speech before the Union Theological Semin- ary, told his féllow sky pilots that he is for Hoover's plan. In fact, Thomas boasted, the Socialists ad- -vocated just such a plan thirteen years ago. He didn’t say anything, however, about the Socialist Party of Germany putting the Young PI over on the German masses and now working with Morgan and Mellon to keep it clamped down through the socalled year’s moratorium. “I think that Hoover's debt plan 1s one of the very few intelligent, forvard things he has done,” Thomas Hoover's plan that he devotes a good part of his special column in the last issue of the New Leader to it. The same issue of the New Leader at- tempts to apologize for the too open alliance of Morris Hillquit, another socialist leader, with the czarist, an- ti-Soviet forces. Now Thomas OK’s Hoover in his war plans against the Soviet Union. The first task of the socialists throughout the wolrd is to Save capitalism, the system of ex- ploitation and robbery. To do this best they help advance the war pre- parations against capitalism’s worst enemy—the workers’ republic. | That the war against the Soviet Union is rapidly maturing is adinit- ted by Robert ©. Lee, former Com- mander in the United States Navy, and now head of the Moore & Mc- Cormick steamship lines. He has just returned from Russia, Former Com- mander Lee says that “Lithuania, said. In other words, Thomas. in line | Finland. Msthonia and Poland ell ap- pear to have the fear of an im- pending war,” These are, the. coun-. with the Socialist International ap- proves the strengthening of imperial- Striking Against W age Cuts, Speed- A small section of 1,500 strikers of the Royal (Pawtucket, R. 1.) and General Fatriés (Central Falls, R. 1.) mills assembled in a mass meeting on Sunday, June 28. The near the Royal mill. The workers of the National Textile oWrkers’ Union. cut and speed-up. Leaders Are mecting was held on an open lot are striking under the leadership The strike ts against a wage ickens ant Other NAACP ; Exposed by Workers in Boston Meeting BOSTON, July 2.—Angered at the open betrayal by the N.A.A.C.P. leaders of the mass fight to free the nine inno-| cent Scottsboro Negro boys, scores of Boston workers, Negro | |and white, on Monday evening invaded a meeting held by the | | N.A.A.C.P. traitors in a fashionable Back Bay church In an effort to strengthen ® the prestige of the completely discredited toadies of imper- ialism at the head of the N. A. A.C. P., the boss class Negroes of this city had made careful prep- arations for a mock “protest” meet- ing. In order to discourage the at- tendance of Negro workers it was held in the famous “millionaires church”—the Mount Vernon Con- gregational on Beacon St. Fearing that some workers might attend even at that the N. A. A. C. P. lead- ers had their police allies on hand to intimidate the workers. Brazenly citing the praise of the Southern boss lynchers for Pickens’ service to these murderers in his at- tack on the defense of the nine boys, the chairman introduced William Pickens. Pickens, following the tac- tics he had pursued last Sunday in a meeting in New York at which Mrs. Wright, mother of two of the boys. was denied the floor by the N. A. A. C, P. leaders, attempted to take up th etime of the audience with his usual clowning and funny stories. He grew serious only to de- fend the attorneys in the original “trial,” Milo Moody (bless his heart, said Pickens) and Stephen R. Roddy, the Klan attorney who aided the lynch court in railroading the boys to the electric chair and is now en- dorsed by the N. A. A. C. P. Before the chairman could close the meeting, Negro and white work- ers began demanding the floor to ask questions. The chairman, But- Jer Wilson, local N. A. A. C, P, head, called upon the police to clear the hall. Defying the..misleaders and their police, the workers insisted on rermnining and denounced the treach- ery of the sponsors of the meeting. tries the imperialist will use as the driving wedge against the Soviet Un- ion. America is taking the leader- ship with the Socialists doing their share, ‘i Dernonstrate against the imperial- vst War, ‘Hyra oul ia amasses on ugust 1, Pickens and Wilson then tried to pacify the joining vestry. All of the workers, however, including many who were first becoming aware of the treach- ery of the N. A. A. C. P. leaders, insisted on following them. The meeting continued in the crowded vestry with Pickens closely guarded by police and N. A. A. C. P. bour- geoisiec. Workers, who had heard Mrs, Ada Wright on her recent visit here, took up her vigorous denunciation of the N. A. A. C. P. and her clear-cut en- dorsement of the International La- bor Defense. They demanded that Piekens explain his sabotage of the defense campaign. When Pickens tried to defend the boss courts which railroaded the boys to the electric chair as “neutral institutions,” there were loud cries of “Shame on you, Pickens,” and “You've sold yourself for a job!” Escorted by police, Pick- ens was hurried from the room to escape the wrath of the workers. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JU indignant workers by | calling a few of them into the ad-| re C 3 Men Told | 5 by usiness GIN PA! Bes Bit Zz =m July 2.—Hoover has beén working for some time in an, effort, to sh the strike of 40,000 miners in Penh ‘ania, Ohio and West Virginia, recent informa- tion issued from the White House | shows. Secretary admitted that he I helping United Mine Workers scab in en asked to end th le 1 under the ting the labor he said he | to work wh U. M. W | difficulties out of However, greater pians are being made to call a conference of the coal operators, the U. W., Hoover, Doak and Sei of Lamont soon. is an al efforts to bo activitic: hout the s' area has failed and thi Sharper ta are necessary. Doak’'s statement dec “hoped matters would emselves within the day This explains, also. the drive of Governor Pincho} Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. mines, where the U. M. W. A. is doing its danmndest to break the strike b; a policy of scabbing. In answer to these efforts of the coal operators and the government to smash the strike, the workers must increase their orts to win. Solidarity will wi Relief is ni sary immediately, as the miners are redoubling their efforts to gain a victory despite the terror and the | greater forces coming int othe strike- | breaking activity. Rush relief! Smash | the alliance of the bosses! Forward ‘to vietory of the miners! 5 missioners to the sever Y | Sixty troopers against the pickets at the! DAILY WORKER. nent of ment of ainst the | the toi Cheeney a nev and ram of | st this r figk Worke been 1 saved ; vet yet ative and foreign- splendid 1 given their iting pa the Daily V the ners, The campaign to save the} y, Ne- | Daily must go over the top! Hundredd nN, | of Daily oWrker Clubs must be org: Redouble efforts, ans > capitalist offensive, give power struggle of the working clase | rally to save the Daily Worker! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, ind poor f f thi | tant organ countr the Dz pennies to to ized! your orker every is. situation er, Commu- ever) acts af aa i COMMUNIST PARTY OF U.S.A, WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! co. tere. ae ae Price 3 Cents NAL PICKETING SPEED PREPARATIONS OF NATIONAL MEET OF MINERS JULY 15 TO RALLY N.Y. Post Admits UMWA Scabs at Coal Bosses’ Behest to NEW YORK.—More adm in the Penns: | | Post. | A-dispatch from Cleveland, jdated. July 1st, from a Staff. Cérrespondent of the Post aft- {er explaining why. the oper- ators deal with United Mine Work Officials, when the miners wh heartedly support the National Min- ingly ed Mine Workers now are organizers for the at work attempting to organize, with the official sa on of the oper- ators, to prevent the spread of the radical National. Miners Union.” “Mothers and children, including infants in arms, haye been taken off the picket lines and lodged in jail ‘to be held twenty-four and forty- eight hours without charges being against them, and then released.” appropriated by the County meet the emergency. “To meet the emergency” means the hiring of gunmen to shoot miners. thousand dollars ere readily available for this purpose, but not one cent for the relief of the thou- sands of unemployed and starving miners. The New York Evening Post, as mi be expected, is silent on this point. However, they cannot hide the mass starvation of the miners and j admit wages, where the miners get tion minimum. jer support They plead for great- to the strike-breaking | socialist Party do in Harlem Hold-Up | Just as Police Cominissioner Mul- | Tooney put on a gang of “police cops’ Defeat Efforts of National Miners Union to Lead 40,000 Strikers to Victory; Terror Described re deliberately attempting to revive the vania, Ohio and West Virginia strike in order | PITTSBURGH July | , to scab and defeat the struggle of 40,000 miners agai ‘tion are published in special articles in the New York “PENNA. STRIKERS thousand dollars have been | Com- | 21 counties to} work at all, are far below the starva- | United Mine Workers, just as the} |\“New York’s Finest” | | to impress visitors to New York, the | sejj-out, SUPPORT FOR SPREADING MINE STRIKE Women Confer to Build Auxiliaries on July 3 Need Tents At Once Bosses’ ey Can't Shake Faith in N. M. U. S10 ns that the mine operators | Jnited Mine Workers starva- : ! tae /2.—Pennsylvania state troopers under instruc- ‘tion of the faker Gov- ‘ernor Pinchot, who re- peatedly declared he would “allow | Peaceful picketing,” are driving the strikers off the picket lines at all the Pittsburgh Terminal Comcoalemines near here. "The men are being chased into their houses by the state troopers. Trick Workers To Stop} pineot, the mine _ operataen their courts, through injunctions, and Mass Picketing | the seabbing United Mine Workers PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 2.—The | of America, are concentrating on the United Textile Workers’ Union lead- | Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. mines ers are in conspiracy with Governor | "2? wes “ te be ae x es a | rom the latest action ot Pinchot against the 7,000 Allentown | troopers it ts clear that Pibdhne aan The strike is actu-/ instructed them to smash the picket ally on the eve of a sell-out by lead- | Jines in an effort to break the strike ers of the U. T. W. who succeeded | and to set up the United Mine Work- in fooling the Chairmans Committee | rs bees of the boveie fa y Pars aye | ing the ers starving. cf 43, officially in charge of the | Pe epee ae rapidly nce strike, to discontinue mass picketing throughout the entire 70-mile strike without the approval of the strikers. | front. Families are thrown out om This agreement was reached be-/| the roads. Men, women and children | tween the U. T. W. leaders and the / sleep in the open rather than have chief of police of Allentown last | the men go back to the mines at the Tuesday night starvation pay. It is now the policy of the operators to evict a miner im- mediately when he goes on strike, or after the company gunmen fail | to drive him back to work. To meet this new mass eviction UTW,PINCHOTPLOT ‘SELL-OUT OF 7, textile strikers, In the. meantime, Governor Pin- chot is calling a conference for Fri- | day night of five reresentatives each of the kers and the manufactur- ers. Pinchot, in a letter, has al- ready exosed his strike-breaking in- | threat the miners must have tents tentions. He suggested that the| ‘to live in. This form of relief is now strikers go back to work pending a | just as necessary as food. All workers later hearing by an arbitration com- | are urged to rush funds in for tents mittee. | immediately, to send tents in which The main policy of Pinchot andj the miners’ families can live after the U. T. W. conspiracy is to sell| they are evicted. Funds and tents out the strike before the Paterson | Should be sent to the Penn.-Ohio | general strike starts in the middle of | Striking Miners Relief oCmmittee, 611 July. Penn Ave., Room 601, Pittsburgh, Pa. Rank and file workers have re-| Additional news on page 3. alized the trick of the U. T. W. lead- | ers and are demanding, mass picket-| CUT OFF PITT RELIEF WORK ing in unity with the Paterson work-| PITTSBURGH.—The “Pittsburgh ers. U. T. W. organizers are in the | Plan” that liberals hailed as a pana= , | field working with a rank and file| cea for unemployment will lay off | committee to prevent a possible| the 5,240 men who are working om ‘ charity made jobs. 3 Zeigler, Ill. M i ners Pl e d ge Spanish-speaking section in Harlem | was thrown all astir Wednesday Aid to Fight Against Hunger ZEIGLER, Ill, July 2,—Pledging support to the 40,00 striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virgina, the District Provisional Committee of the Rank and File Committee of Action of the miners in the Southern Illinois fields, has issued an appeal rallying all the miners in this territory against the treacherous, sscabbing United Mine Workers’ officials. “Miners in the Orient (Illinois) mines,” says this appeal, “are tak- ing the same path as the miners in Penn-Ohio-West Virginia, struggling against starvation and the same for- ces which are against the miners there exist in Orient. “The miners of sub-district 9 must join the struggle of the Orient min- ers. They must strike for their own demands and for the support of the strike. We miners, gle can not be led by the fat-bellied officials of the UMWA. We must build our own rank and file commit- tee of struggle. Therefore, we call onthe miners to set up Rank and File Committees of Action, which must organize and develop strikes of the miners and take the lead in the struggle against starvation in Illi- nois.”” It goes on to state that on July 6th a State Convention is called} in Bellville, and it urges miners to elect delegates who will call for a fight against starvation. It exposes the officials of the UMWA as graf- ters and tools of the operators, oak, through bitter | experience, learned that the strug-/} | more than night by a cop in plain clothes, fa- | miliar to the neighborhood, trying to The grocer mauled the cop-robber with a hatchet, despite the cop's equipment of service revolver and blackjack. The neighbors called a harness bull, who came on the scene and, recognizing his fellow cop at such work, ran rapidly away, allow- ing his pal to escape. NEED FOR WORKERS GROW MOSCOW.—So great is the need for industrial workers to man the 500 plants soon to be completed that the Soviet. Govern- ment has issued a decree granting special inducements and privileges “Eyen the worhen and children | Pennsylvania-Ohio to peasants who wish to become fac~ | face them deputies with rifles at Relief Committee, Room | tory workers, \\/riks and kombs that make vou Penn Aves Pitt ‘Miner Writes You A Letter; sen "n’at'o i Se Relief Will Help Win Strike “Dear Friends:— PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 2— A Bentleyville miner writes to you, | “If youns want the working men | to win this strike please send relief so we don’t keep on starving. Fami- lies have babies on the bottle but they can’t get milk for them. We go out at 2 and 3 o'clock in the morn- | ing to picket empty-bellied and I'm telling you straight there’s quite a few families that haven't had a bite since the 20th day of June to the 30 days now. cause we're all out to win this here strike and we mean what we say, come hell and fire, but we need relief awful bad.. i on the job today! branch of Striking Miners Relief Committee in your city or town. Visit all the workers’ organizations —unions oF fraternal. Get your neighbors: 4 shopmates on the job, Send and write for information to Organize a rhe Reainka a De SY What is your answer? Sending your contribution isn't enough, al= though that helps tremendously. Gab the Pennsylvania-Ohio var?” a | ef 1