The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1931, Page 1

Worker Denies Self Food to Save ‘Daily’; W “Tt went without lunch for Daily,” writes M..H. of Philadelphia. the Daily is not yet saved. three days| yourselves, comrades. {n order to save us this dollars for the)tough summer months.and we've got to that the Tag Days |go over the top with the $35,000 drive if|a grand flop or the money is lying around] about $80,000 that has been contributed jour fighting Daily is to continue to live| somewhere—while th ly Ss N r a aga taste ty ie ots efestr ices workers!ecq re ied Mae, ee eta or ooree ite here—while the Daily fights for|thus far, the New York district has raised have been making to save the Daily. But|the teacher, leader and organizer of th Don’s fool) American working class. 4 as) We're entering the On 8.81 ca far from the Tag Da: Tag Day funds are coming in so slowly | ly me from the N $1,777.55 has been received s, of which $],- w York District. Most of the districts outside of } must either have been| York are doing little. er half. Only two weeks drive concludes. lov Of the total till July 19 These great cla ew of must be w ation than w the D the when the need of ing much to save Aa Dow to iq Every Taina & THe WORLD, For you, Tewbome HOOVERS eee Te S, Geamanitis Ni ° Conueondst| ma Fuee eucy —£ (Section of the Communist International) ttles that strike, Daily, eeks of action! Thejnow ig waged fight nd rialist war) | Clubs! ords f the burn- We've done so we can’t slacken ail 50 E. 13 Put the drive over the top! th St. Are You Doing? Ar- range affait organize Daily Worker Speed Tag Day other contributions to the Daily funds and Work New York City! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VI, No. 160 = Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 Su LN EW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1931 CITY EDITION ee, Price 3 Cents ‘STRIKING MINERS MARCH ON ST. CLAIRSVILLE, 0), JULY 6 Pinchot’s Promises A Lesson in Capitalist Government Peer ants workers may be starved by unemployment and robbed of bread by wage cuts and speeded up to life-wrecking pace—pbut the government remains quiet. Only when they strike against wage cuts and Starvation, does the government whose head is Pinchot, suddenly come to life. Not only in the mine strike! In the textile strike at Allentown, Pinchot is also butting in, after the strikers have been successfully mass | picketing, much to the disgust of the traitorous U.T.W. and against its instruction. ‘ Pinchot has called a “conference” with the U.T.W. and the mill owners, exactly as he tried to do with the miners, and in the meantime he “suggests” that the strikers should go back to work while he arranges “arbitration”—namely a sell out. Pinchot, the supposed /liberal,” promised before election to “abolish” the Coal and Iron Police, whose brutality has won them the name of “Cossacks.” Pinchot was elected. But it needed a lot of pressure on him in the present strike until he acted—not to “abolish” the Cossacks, but merely to change them from Coal and Iron police into deputy sheriffs. The law creating the Goal and Iron police still remains on the books, and all that Pinchot did was to revoke their State commissions, whereupon the same police simply became deputy sheriffs, just as the Daily Worker last week prophesied. Pennsylvania has a nice new law. also, supposedly “against” injunc- tions. But it only “limits” injunctions, it doesn’t prohibit them; in fact it really gives them legal sanction (a1 4 even if it did prohibit injunctions every miner in Pennsylvania knows th. the judges are owned by the coal operators and would jail worker for picketing any how). And the fact remains—a fact any miner can see—that laws enacted by the capitalist 2 spain supposedly to “help,” the workers, have no effect, because, under injunctions, miners are bei jailed for picketing in the strike. “But the most outragedtis: tr Hsy is that about the “fairness” of the State Troopers, for whom Governor Pinchot is directly responsible. Much has been said by “‘liberals,”- who have illusions themselves about the role of the capitalist government, about its “neutrality” and so on, to create the same: illusions among the workers, especially about Pinchot, one. of these “liberals” own kind. In the Nation, a New York “liberal” organ, dated July 8, an article by Frank Butler, describing the cold-blooded murder of strike pickets by deputies, ends up with some kind words for the State troopers. These State Troopers are pictured as being some kind of frost-bitten angels who Sep partial” and only enforce the “law.” “But it is admitted that the State Troopers arrested the miners whom the deputies failed to kill at Wildwood. And Thursday, at the Pittsburgh ‘Terminal Company’s mines, these State Trooper representatives of Gov- ernor Pinchot, broke’ up the picket lines, forcing the picketing miners off the highway where they have a perfectly legal right to be, and brutally drove them into the houses with threats of violence. * ‘The miners will understand from all this, that not only do the op- erators own the sheriffs, but also own Governor Pinchot and his State ‘They will understand, these striking miners, that any capi- talist government, even a “liberal” one, will defend capitalist interests against the workers. And they will understand, also, that it is neces- sary for the toilers of the nation, if they would ever be free, to ultimately overthrow capitalist rule and establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Not Peace--But War! [JOOVER: proposed his “war debt moratorium” with a great beating of drums about “peace”: peace, blessed peace, would result. So the papers of the capitalist class howled on every page. An end of the secret diplomacy has not yet been reached, but al- ready the workers can see two major war threats and intensified an- tagonisms coming out of Hoover’s “move for peace.” The anger of French imperialism cannot be concealed at the attempt by ‘American imperialism to take away reparations loot in behalf of Wall Street private investors in Germany and rob France of her present lead- ership in the war front against the Soviet Union. The N. Y. Times of July 1 prints a London dispatch quoting an “official of the British Government” as terming France a “shylock” and bitterly condemning France for its rejection of the “Hoover Plan,” but criticizing America for not “putting on the screws” earlier. France is “defying the whole world,” says this British Government spokesman. At Srance’s refusal, the American imperialist government is show- ‘mg. deepest resentment, scarcely hidden under a lot of palaver about “courtesy” and “cordiality,”, while the capitalist press is attacking France with extraordinary sarcasm, worse if possible than the French press uses against America. ‘Thus, workers should understand that the very moves to solve the antagonisms between the rival imperialisms, only intensify these antagon- isms and bring nearer the ultimate war between them. But workers should also remember the reason why Hoover is trying to bring “peace” among the imperialist powers. Congressman Beck, former Solicitor General of the U. S., after a talk with Hoover, openly thas announced, that peace among the imperialists would not “solve the crisis” unless these imperialists unite in hostility, an embargo against Soviet goods and necessarily, we must conclude, armed warfare against the Soviet Union. And workers should be warned that régardless of the refusal of France to accept the “Hoover plan” on debts, that “plan” is already pro- ~ posed to be carried out “without France.” Thus it must be clearly un- derstood that the further development of the “Hoover Plan,” the second part of it, open mention of which is avoided in the capitalist press, the part which is aimed at the Soviet Union, will be carried on whether France js willing to yield anti-Soviet leadership to America or not. _ And this is more important to France than the German reparations ‘because more loot is expected out of seizure of Soviet territory than two Germanys put together. And France will go along, whether in the lead or not, because all imperialists agree as against Bolshevism, and all, when pressed further by their own collapse, will seek to solve all prob- lems by war on the “common enemy”—the Sovietsr : “Thus we see that every “peace” move of imperialism only brings war nearer and makes it more inevitable. Thus we see that the chief dispute between imperialists 1s not who should lead in making peace, but in making war. In making war on the Soviet Union which all ‘hate ‘equally. This should be made clear to every worker who may be deceived. ‘by the “peace” demagogy, and every vorker.should: be rallied.to the anti- en dampanetaations ep August-Birey ja) FH"! rit ny ¢ ‘Wilighe Miners in Hunger March On Petisbureh. Strike Relief Comes Too Slow! Striking Miners Must Eat Now Miners Need Tents As Evictions Continue to| Mount; Need Relief for Victory NEW YORK.—The appeal for relief for the 40,000 strik- ing miners is being responded to—but not quickly enough. | Conferences are being called, the need of the miners increases every day. | evictions. /out. Tents are needed. The miners face starva-* | tion or being forced by hunger jand the gunmen back to the |mines. Food will save this situation. Showing up the increased evictions, | j |the Workers niternational Relief in| | a statement, issued at Pittsburgh | says: “Our answer must be to provide | tent camps to house the miners and their families and to keep these | workers active in the struggle. Food To Make Demands for Relief at City Hi Hall Tues. | Unemployed Councils ‘to Lead Demonstration | of the Jobless At the meeting of of the Board of Alderman which will take place on Tuesday, July 7th, at 2 p. m, at City Hall, a delegation elected by the Unemployed .Council will be present to make demands upon the city for immediate relief. This delegation is made up of men, women and chil- dren, Negro and white, representa- tive of the battles that are being carried on in the working class sec- tions of the city against starvation, evictions, high rents, shutting off of gas and electric, high cost of bread, gypping nsurn hue agencies, and against dist tion in the giving of jobs f against Negroes and forei | workers. ‘Thousai of workers in the Bronx, Harlem, Mid and Lower Man- hattan, Williamsburg, Brownsville, and Boro: Hall Sections will assem- ble under the leadership ‘of the re- spective branches of the Unemployed Council dnd go as a body to City Hall and demonstrate their support of the demands that their delegation is making on the inside of the Board of Aldermen. Sam Nesin, secretary of the Unemployed Council of Great- er N. Y., has addressed a letter to Joseph V. McKee, the president of the Board of Aldermen, informing him of the coming of the delegation and demanding that the delegation be given the opportunity to present the demands of the million unem- ployed workers of New York City. This demonstration must receive the solid support of every working class organization and all workers em- ve \ piglet well gf he Eee but they must act quickly as There are more Food in many places has run is also vitally necessary. Respond A oiay ths need is here now—help |the miners win their struggle against starvation and mass er * # AVELLA, Pa., July shi Leaks and his wife, accompanied by another | striking miner of Avella, walked 22 |-miles on the blistering roads in the | worst heat Pittsburgh has known this | year, to raise relief for the hungry strikers’ families in Avella. They were particularly eager to get med- | icihe for one child whose body was covered with black sores—a disease | similar to pellagra in that improper |food is the cause. They brought | back what food they could carry and joer. in their collection boxes to | buy a little more food. But the med- | icine they could not get. | The mother of the sick child and | seven other young ones, all gathered ‘around the little pile of, furniture | that had been thrown out of the company-owned shack, said that her children had not seen bread in five keeks. Dandelions sooked in water jand heavily salted is the only dish on which thousands of strikers’ fam- iliés are living. Throughout the country workers are organizing into into branches of the Pennsylvania- Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee and raising funds to send to the central office, room 517, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh. But thus far these funds have not been enough to care for more than a small per centage of the 40,000 hungry families whose wage-earners are now striking for a living wage. More funds are need- ed immediately and Alfred Wagen- Knecht, relief secretary is sending an urgent appeal throughout the country for help. By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER At the last meeting of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee, National Miners’ Union, a decision was made to invite to the meeting of the Strike Committee, on July 15, representatives from all the impor- tant coal fields of the country, for a joint session. . The. purpose of this meeting is to work out a national program of de- mands, to strengthen the local strikes and other struggles of the rank and file miners, and unite them into 2 unified national movement,:and to develop a united front to carry on this general struggle successfully. i | miners’ demands were refused. While Mellon, who controls the money interests of most of the ‘mine area now on strike, is in Paris paving the way for war on * Soylet Union, thousands of striking miners and steel workers marched on Pittsburgh, June 30, and demanded relief for their starving families. The answer of the Pinchot machine was the same that Hoover has often given to unemployed workers when they demanded relief. The LEWD. Attorneys ‘Prepare Plans for Defense of Roy Wright Whose Trial Nears of Scottsboro Boys by NAACP Leaders— : Wants Negro Masses to Have Faith | in Boss Lynchers’ Courts CHATTANOOGA, July 3.—General George W. Chamlee, leading Chattanooga attorney and chief of counsel for the| International Labor Defense which, with the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, is defending the nine Scottsboro boys, is Inter-Racial Commission Fakers Join Betrayal, pushing ahead the preparations for the defense of 14-year-| expected to this month. . Roy was the only one of the nine boys not railroaded to the electric chair in the original “trials” in Scottsboro, Alabama. In his case, the State Prosecutor asked for life imprisonment “on account of his youth.” How hypocritical was this gesture is shown by the fact that of the eight boys condemned to burn, one is of the same age as Roy, and another still younger, only 13 years old. The case resulted in a mistrial when 11 of the jurors, under pres- come up (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) old Roy Wright, whose trial is ¢ NEW SOCIALIST CITY BEING BUILT IN FAR NORTH. A new socialist city to accommo- | date a population of 25,000 is being built on the Kola Peninsula near the Arctic Circle. It will be known as Khibinogorsk, and the. construc- tion will cost 25,000,000 rubles. For- merly only a few hundred natives lived there. The economic basis for | the new development will be the extensive and valuable apatite (phos- phate) deposits at Khibinsk, the ex- ploitation of which was begun last year. Read the Labor Defender on the miner’s strike. National Conference July 15th to Unify Miners’ Forces for Struggle @ram and real leadership. Necessity ~ Emphasized By Action of Hoover ‘The great importance of this con- ference is indicated by the fact that practically in every district in the coal industry the workers are con- ducting strike or other movements not only against the coal operators, but also against the U. M. W. mis- leadership. This indicates a situation of discontent and revolt amongst the miners throughout the entire coal in- dustry, and also shows the need fot | giving the movement. a definite prog- ‘The necssity for the proposed joint meeting, is further emphasized by the activities of the Hoover Govern~ ment in the coal industry. Doak and Lamont, of the Labor and Commerce Departments respectively, are now proceeding to organize a get together of coal operators and the U. M. W. A. ‘The purposes of this combination are already plain—to trustify and ratio- nalize the industry at the expense of the workers, and to entrench the U. M. W. A. so that the workers may be forced down still more into slavery conditions, ‘The Pittsburgh papers, which close- (CONTINUED ON PAGH FIVE) 200 TERMINAL MINERS WALK OUT; MORE QUIT IN OHIO: DEMAND RELIEF Permits Granted for| Hunger Parade; Hold Meets | Arrest 4 Th I h_Dillonville 11, 000 Pickets At Elm |Grove Turn Back Seabs | WHEELING, W. Va., July 3—Three | mines of the Peabody Co. in Rock- ing Valley, with approximately 400 | men struck yesterday. The Small | Shick Mine near eBilaire struck yes- | terday, and the Hinchman Mine on | the West Virginia side is expected be strike Monday. Fifteen arrests took place at | Adena and Dillonville this morning. | Six were arrested on the picket line j@nd nine were arrested in homes j after a battle with special deputies. | In the Gaylord mine 50 men | working since the strike quit yes- | terday when assessed 50 cents a day to pay armed guards. The new Laf- orty Mine where 300 struck and | which is now manned by a special | force of 100 Ku Klux Klan elements, | well armed, and sworn in as depu- | | |and have made coal production im- | possible. At Dillon Mine No. 2 one |fan house burned last night, catch- jing fire from overheated bearing {machines in charge of a strike- breaker. The capitalist press blames the strikers. | A number of West Virginia mines, where armed guards and a few im- ported scabs were stationed, were re- | ported under rifle fire ‘from the hill- | sides yesterday. Twenty mass meetings were held jover the week end in preparation | for the Hunger March to St. Clairs- | ville, Belong County. | The Eastern Ohio Section of the Communist Party issued a leaflet | calling on all workers to join it and | Prepare for the anti-war demon- stration on August Ist. BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 3.— Preparations for the July 6 hunger |march of unemployed and striking miners on St. Clairsville, county seat | of Belmont County, was speeded up | today (uly 2) by the meeting of the Osio-West Virginia district strike committee's executive committee. Mass meetings were held today in Piney Fork, Adena and Dillonville, in the Eastern Ohio coal strike area. To- morrow (Friday) mass meetings are | being held in Yorkville, Benwood, | Burton, Bridgeport and Lansing. Sat~ | Providence, Lafferty, Ohio, and Col- liers, West Virginia. Sunday there will be meetings at Dillon vale and Fairpoint. All these meetings, held despite the terror in Eastern Ohio, are the mass preparations for the hunger march July 6. A permit has been granted for the hunger march and mass meeting in St, Clairsville. Speakers at the various preparatory meetings and at St. Clairsville on July 6 will be: Bill Dunne, Frank Borich; Tony Minerich, Tom Jobusxonj"Paul Bohus, ~~ @ft, Bob Siebert, Frank Sepich, vulius Pokart, Rollings and many other lo- cal workers. Four were arrested today on the picket line at Dillonvale, aand all are held on charges of inciting to riot. A picket line of 1,000 at Elm Grove, ‘West Virginia last night turned back imported scabs in spite of state po- lice and special deputies. The District Strike Committee Ex- ecutive Committee is today sending rank and file organizing delegations into the Rocking Valley Field in Ohio, and into both the northern and MINE CONDITIONS WORSE THAN EVER Protest the Pittsburgh Press Lies On Meet PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 3.—Twe hundred men who were working at the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. | mine at Coverdale quit today and came for their cards in the National Miners Union, declaring that the mine conditions and the pay, sinee the fake agreement with the defunct United Mine Workers, eze worse than ever before. The mi:ye tipple af. terwards broke arit"tH® ‘Wwiiole mine shut down. Great dissatisfaction is being ex- pressed among those who had been driven by terror and evictions, and the lies of the United Mine Workers of America, into the Pittsburgh Coal Company mines. ‘The mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Company is where the UMWA, the ‘coal bosses and Governor Pinchot are putting their greatest ens | ties, Mave caved in the main works} fe ai an attempt to force the men back to scab. Mass meetings were held on Sun day throughout the Pittsburgh Ter-~ minal Coal Company towns. The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company mine No. 4 is firing Negroes who re- turned to work but is keeping tie whites. Forty eight are in jail at Terminal Mine No. 3. One hundred who went back to Terminal Mine | No. 3 are on strike again supporting the hunger march and} urday there will be mass meetings at | The UMWA meeting of 200 in Cannonsburg was reduced to 10 when one of the men called out: “All for the National Miners Union leave the room!” The Pittsburgh capitalist press ara boosting a proposed conference called on instructions of Hoover by Secretary of Commerce Lamont, Hoover's instructions to Lamont and Secretary of Labor Doak to call a conference of mine operators, scabs, and the United Mine Workers, were issued to answer .to a letter writ- ten by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, pleading with Hoover to break the strike of the 40,000 miners against starvation. The Pittsburgh papers donot print the statement of the National Miners Union exposing the sscab conference of Lewis-Hoover-Lamont-Doak, but declares “that the miners welconie the federal conference.” A strong committee of the Na- tional Miners Union and the Central Rank and File Strike Committee visited the papers today and warned. them that if the statement of ths National Miners Union was not prin- ted they would consider the Papers as strike breaking agencies and act accordingly. A women's conference is being held this afternoon to plan wider activities of the women in the coal fields. southern West Virginia fields to spread the strike movement and pre- pare for election of delegations ta meet with the Central Rank and File Strike Committee of the Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and West Virginia strike ers in a national miners’ conference to work out plans for solidarity with the strike, and struggle on demands of the miners in all the coal fields, ‘This conference will be held in Pitts« burgh, July 15 and 16, ki The determination of the miners not to do business in Bellaire until the city government. changes its” position to the strike has forced grenting of a permit by the city coun cil for a tag day for strikers relief, The tag day is tomorrow. pyages* Wee rae BET aes ‘ sw oo