The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1931, Page 1

Warr | ex “Ee Us5p Dail Central Orga (Section of the Communist iutcinahiebe: 1) by Norker ne-SSYmauniet Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 161 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office <n at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 187 NEW YORK, ‘MONDAY, J LY 6, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MINERS TO GO TO WASHINGTON TO DENOUNCE SCAB MEET Jobless, Mine Strikers March on St. Clairsville, Ohio, Today tee | Capitalism’s Defenders R. KNICKERBOCKER, he of the Pulitzer Prize for anti-Soviet jour- nalists, has contributed, in the N. Y. Post of July 3, an article con- taining a paragraph which should be embedded in the amber of history. Under a headline which says “Berlin Rejoices As Crisis Fades,” a “fading” and a “rejoicing” that is in fact without basis, this prize capi- talist press correspondent launches into a celebration in the following terms: “The Hoover Plan has shown the revolutionaries and all types of sceptics, the depressed and the doubting, that capitalists possess the intelligence and courage to unite in defense of the present re- gime, and that, the capitalistic system will not perish for lack of defenders or lack of faith.” Since Mr. Knickerbocker in his articles against the Soviet Union has been bemoaning the lack of unity among capitalist governments, it is natural that he write enthusiastically about the supposed unity attained by the Hoover Plan, which is at bottom an anti-Soviet war plan. And quite correct’ he calls attention to the fact that capitalism will not be without defenders. Workers should remember that! And they should also take notice of the fact tivat the so-called “socialists” are among these defenders of the capitalistic system! With the same enthusiasm as Mr. Knickerbocker for the Hoover “plan,” Norman Thomas, “socialist” leader, speaking at the Union Theological Seminary in New York on July 2, spoke up in defense of capitalism as follows: “I think that Hoover's debt plan is one of the very few intelli- gent forward things he has done. The collapse of Germany . . . threatens the collapse of all Europe, or even all of Western civilization.” By “Western civilization,” of course, this “socialist” means capitalist “civilization,” with its 35,000,000 unemployed, mass misery and enslave- ment of the toilers to a handful of idle parasites. ) With all the other foes of the workers, with all the enemies of the Soviet Union, with all the other “defenders of capitalism” mentioned by Knickerbocker, Norman Thomas, leader of the American “socialists,” unites his “Hurrah” for Hoover as a saviour of capitalism. Revolutionary workers do not believe, however, that capitalism is solving the basic problems of its decay by the Hoover Plan. No sooner had Hoover “convinced” France and reached an agreement, than Great Britain objected to the modified “agreement” reached with France! But Mr, Knickerbocker orrect in saying that capitalism is not lacking de- fe And the “socialist” party is one of its most eager defenders! The world congress of “socialists” soon to meet at Vienna, will lay plans how best they can serve capitalism by participation in the war plots against the Soviet Union as did those “socialists” who confessed in the Moscow trials to sabotage and spying for what Norman Thomas calls “Western civilization.” And against these war plotters all workers should demonstrate on August First! Help Smash Hoover’s Strike- Breaking---Send Relief Now! PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 5—Mine strikers in Pennsylvania and other states are being chased out of the company houses. There is a verit- able flood of evictions now. This is to terrorize the few who have ‘been driven back to work, as well as an effort to break the militancy of the strikers. The bosses know the men have a problem with their families on the road'and without food. The single men sleep under trees. The married men say. “We want to stick it out and never go back until we win, but if we only had a tent.” ‘The miners themselves, every moment they get off the picket line, go out to dig up relief. They hold affairs in the company towns. They get a few cents from the store- keepers, some food from the farmers. But the sources of relief in the mine country are running dry. They must have relief from the outside—from the workers everywhere who realize that the miners are not fighting an fwolated battle against a few mine q@perators, but a class battle against the mightiest bosses in the country —Mellon, Morgan, Hoover, Lamont, Doak, Lewis—men who cut the wages of all workers. In the Avella mining section the miners got 25 pounds of stale bread and a few pounds of stale meat. This was distributed among 200 miners. Now it’s gone, and they have noth- ing to eat. It is not unusual to meet workers who have not gotten out of their clothes for two or three days at a time—picketing night and day, and spending’ the rest of the time look- ing for food. Nor is it unusual to meet miners who have not eaten for a day or two. Every worker must respond now! Tents, food, clothing and shoes are needed to win the strike! The miners are now beset not by the gunmen, the coal operators, the Pihchot gov- ernment and the UMWA, but by the Hoover government as well. To meet these added forces, they need food and tents. Rush funds immediately! Back up: the battle of the 40,000 miners. Send your share right now to Penn-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, Room 519, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Oversubscribe Second. Five-Year Plan Loan (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.—On the ini- Mative and upon the demand of’the workers of the largest plants in Moscow, Leningrad, Ukrainia, Urals, etc., and caught up by the toilers throughout the country, the Govern- ment issued on June 6 a decree pro- viding for a second issue of the Five-Year ‘Plan-in-Four loan under the name “Third Decisive Year Five ‘Year Plan Loan” for one billion, six hundred million roubles (about $800,- 000,000). ‘The previous loan “Five Year Plan in Four Years” was issued last year for 850 million roubles and was over-subscribed, reaching one bil- lion hundred twenty million roubles. Over-subscription Again. Subscriptions for the present loan “Third Decisive Year Five Year Pian” is progressing still better; in the first twenty days, that is from June 10 to June 30 subscriptions pce to 1,081 million roubles against 369 million roubles in the| Kharkov gee of the.Five Year Plan in cd Aran -foshe. panne. period Just year, The new loan like last year's goes fully towards Socialist construction and raising the material cultural standards of the toilers of the USsS.R. Subscribing to the new loan at a Bolshevist tempo the millions of workers and peasants demonstrate their boundless faith in their Soviet power and Communist Party. TWIN CITIES PROTEST MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—On Thurs- day, July 9th, a protest demonstration against the legal lynching of the nine Scottsboro boys, will be held in Min- neapolis under the joint auspices of the Communist Party and the ILD. In St. Paul, a similar demonstra- tion will be held on July 9th. ‘On the same day a big Amnesty delega- tion from all over the state of Min~ nesota will visit Governor Olson. COMPLETE KHARKOV TRACTOR « PLANT. KHARKOV, U. 8. S. R. — The Kharkov Tractor Plant with an ai Pawo ennui sub ip to mab off! will be started next Bering under the t SPREAD THE WOMEN TAKE BIG) PART IN STRIKE Pittsburgh Conference Spurs Auxiliaries PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 5—The finest, most militant and concretely organizational conference of working class women, the American labor movement has ever known was held day afternoon when the Women’s Auxiliaries of the National Miners Union held its conference at the Workers Center in Pittsburgh. “You can't run a train without tracks,” one miner’s wife said, call- ing for a clarification of the tasks of the Women’s Auxiliaries and con- crete suggestions for carrying them out. Laying the “tracks” was the job accomplished at this conference. This organization today issued its first regular membership cards and adopted measures to build the wom- an’s auxiliariesin the-mining-eamps on a permanent functioning basis. An executive committee was estab- lished and Helen Lynch of Carnegie elected president. The main report by Mary Smith was enthusiastically adopted. The conference was followed in the evening by a woman’s mass meet- ing to mobilize the women of Pits- burgh to cooperate with the Penn- sylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Re- lief Committee in collecting food and | money to buy food and tens for the | striking miners. | Speaking of the hunger in the coal | fields,, one woman said, “The best meal we had in months was the buns and coffee on the picket line.” With 40,000 or more strikers’ families to help, the relief committee has not yet been able to care for more than a fraction. “When we went on strike a Week ago Monday,” Mrs. J. C. Jones, Ne- gro woman from McKinleyville, W. Va. said, “Mr. Thomas, the store Manager closed down the store for as long as the strike. He threw into the creek all the steaks and pork chops and things. How many of us couldn’t get a dollar in the office while our husbands were working! Now he threw all that away and got guards to keep us from getting into the store and from eating.” Mrs. Jones made a stirring appeal for re- lief to be sent into her part of the strike field. Of the 75 de.egates representing 33 towns and about 45 mines, all stressed the crying need for imme- diate relief. They told how far they made what they had at their dis- MARCHERS DEMAND RELIEF; WOMEN ORGANIZE TO HELP | Committee is energetically pushing MINE STRIKE (Thousands 0 of Jobless and Mine Strikers to Take Part BRIDGEPORT, O., July 5.—Final preparations have been made for the mass hunger march tomorrow, Mon- day, July 6, on St. Clairsville, county seat of Belmont County. Thousands of unemployed workers and striking miners have been mobilized for the march. Several meetings were held today at Dillonvale and Fairpoint, in spite of the murderous terror of the coal operators and their gunmen, support- ed by the state and county authori- ties. As a result of the militancy of the unemployed and the strikers a per- mit has been granted for the hunger march and the mass meeting in Clairsville, which will follow. Demands will be made for im- mediate relief for the strikers and their families as well as for all other unemployed workers of Bel- mont County and for the turning over to District Miners’ Relic? | Committee of the $35,000 appropri- ated recently by the Belmont County Commissioners for hiring deputy sheriffs for duty in the strike area. The demonstrators will also demand ‘the immediate release of all strikers arrested and the re- | peal of the criminal syndicalist law under the provisions of which close to 20 strikers are held under | high bond. The determination of the miners not to do business in Bellaire on ac- count of the oppositton of the city | government to the strike has forced | \the fakers to grant a permit for a tag day for strikers relief. | The District Sthike Executive its efforts to spread the strike move- ment and to prepare for the election of delegates to meet with the Central Rank and File Strike Committee of | the Pennsylvania, Ohio and West) Virginia strikers in a national min- | ers’ conference. The conference will | be held in Pittsburgh, July 15 and| 16, It will work out plans for soli-| darity of all strikers and struggle on | the demands of the miners in all the | coal fields. Rank and file organizing delegations have been sent into the Rocking Valley field in Ohio and in- to both the northern and southern | West paki tele hg | BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 5—| Three mines in Pomeroy in the Hock- | ing Valley, Ohio, struck July 2nd. The Schick mine, a small one, near Bellaire also struck yesterday. This | brings out over 400 men. The Hinchman mine in West Vir-| giina is expected to strike Monday. | 15,000 Half Dollars By July 19th! Demonstrate || Mass Support of “Daily”! Fifteen thousand half dollars by July 19! Fifteen thousand half dollars that will || save the Daily Worker and put the drive || over the top! Fifteen thousand half dol- | lars that will be a real mass demonstration of support of our fighting Daily! | e don’t ask how much you have con- tributed already or whether you have con- tributed at all. All we ask is: Have you a half dollar? If you have, wrap it in a piece of paper and mail it to the Daily Worker TODAY. This is an appeal to all readers. In ad- dition to the workers who buy or subscribe to the Daily Worker, there are many more who read it. The Daily is passed from hand to hand and reaches tens of thou- sands. Every worker reading this appeal, take out a 50-cent piece (if you’ve got it), || wrap it in this copy of the Daily Worker || if you have no other paper, and send it in. It’s simple; Don‘t~bother with stamps or money orders. Swell the ranks of the half-dollar con- tributors! Rush your four bits and all other contributions at once! Speed the Tag Day funds. The address is: Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th a New York City. | i{ Nation-Wide Protests July 9 Against Legal Lynching of Nine Scottsboro Negro Boys BULLETIN NEW YORK.—An Associated Press despatch from Berlin reports the formation of a committee to aid the mass fight to free the nine framed-up Scottsboro Negro boy) The committee was formed by Professor Alfonse Goldschmidt, traveler and noted lawyer. It has many Prominent scientists, authors and public men on it, inciuding Prof. Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, George Ledebour. Another Associated Press despatch, this time from Moscow, re- ports the prote’‘> of five members of the Academy of Science of Lenin- grad against the ...me-up of the boys. The despatch states: “The academicians declare the penalty unjust and a symbol of class discrimination in America.” One of the academicians, S. Derjavin, is reported to have said that the execution “by American imperialists of their unfortunate prey from | the exploited class must create a strong protest all over the world.” | The despatch also states that a flood of protests is pouring in from all parts of the Soviet Union. . NEW YORK.—A call to make July 9 a national day of protest against the legal lynching of the 9 innocent Scotts- (CONTINUED. ON PAGE THREE) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) (CONTINUED ON PAGE, THREE) 4 ‘Three en sources sadist on July 4 that war against the So- viet Union is rapidly being prepared. Two of these high American officials, Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, speaking before the Long Island Chapter of the Knights of Columbus, blurted out the whole plan for war against the USS.R. A similar, but more diplomatic speech was made on the same day by the U. S. ambmassador to France, Wal- ter E. Edge, speaking at a banquet together with President Doumer of France. Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the United States Treasury, now in France forging an anti-Soviet war front, was present. In his outspoken speech, Senator Copeland declared: “If I had my way, I would place an absolute em- bargo against the entrance of all Russian products into this country.” Questioned later what his object was in this proposal he admitted that the embargo was hoped to be fol- lowed by an uprising in the Soviet Union and that then the imperialist 4 HIGH AMERICAN OFFICIALS REVEAL _PLANS FOR WAR ON SOVIET UNION Workers Should Turn Out in Masses August 1 in Demonstration Against Threat of New War ‘then stimulation of counter-revolu- tionary attempts in the Soviet Union, then armed intervention by the im- perialist powers. what they could. Reporting this part of his interview, the New York Times states: “He said that he believed that eventually such a wall (embargo by the imperialist powers) would be erected. This would be followed by an uprising in Russia, and the other countries of the world would then step in and restore order.” More direct statements about war against the Soviet Union were made on July 4 by General Eric von Lu- dendorff of Germany in a special ar- ticle published in Volkswarte, en- titled, “A World War via a Debt Holiday.” Ludendorff, along the line of Senator Copeland and Ambassa- dor Edge, wrote: “The real object of relief to Ger- many and the price to be paid for it It is becoming clearer every day to the workers that the so-called Hoover war debt plan has for one of its immediate objects the forging of an anti-Soviet war front. The im- perialists want to plung® the starv- ing working masses into a war against their brothers in the Soviet Union. The imperialists want to smash the upbuilding of socialism. They find millions for this war pre- parations, but not ome cent for the starving jobless. Demand the war funds go to the unemployed for relief! Defend the Soviet Union which is threatened by that the reference was to that coun-| attack from the bosses who slash | ‘try, was one of the most striking of | wages in the United States and force his address and was interpreted as | 10,000,000 to starve! Turn out in! possibly presaging some proposal for| masses on August 1, International economic action of a defensive char-| Anti-war Day, and demonstrate to camouflage of a preventive war against Russia... .” Ambassador Edge’s speech, which was made after long conversations with the most powerful capitalist in the United States, Andrew W. Mel- lon, was an appeal for a united front with France against the Soviet Union. Commenting on his speech attacking the U. S. S. R. the New York Times Paris correspondent says: “The ambassador's reference to Soviet, Russia, which he did not men- tion by name, although it was clear | PITTSBURGH, Pa., National Miners Union has issued the | BOSSES SEEK TO BUILD U.M.W. TO BREAK STRIKE; MINERS MEET JULY 15 CALL MINERS TO MEET JULY 15TH National Conference to! Plan Struggle July 5—The following statement: “The 40,000 miners on strike against starvation oppose and denounce the fascist national conference on the coal industry proposed by Hoover, the secretaries of labor and com- merce, the United Mine Workers’ of America and the operators. “Instead these miners through their Central Rank and File Committee of | [the National Miners’ Union, have call- | ed their own miners’ national confer- ence, to meet in Pittsburgh, July 15 | and 16. Delegations are being elected from all parts of the coal fields throughout the country, to meet in this miners’ conference with Central |Rank and File Strike Comr which leads the strike in Western |Penn., Ohio and West Virginia “Particularly are the miners of | Southern Illinois (2,200 of them al- | ready striking against starvation), the heroic striking miners of Kentucky, |the intensely dissatisfied miners of the | Anthracite, responding to this call to a miners’ national conference. “In all parts of the coal fields, there | is struggle by the masses of the min- ers against the Lewis machine of the U. M. W. A., which urges the calling of the Hoover-operators’ and U. M. W. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE MOBILIZE UNIONS, THREE) COUNCILS, RELIEF | DEMANDS JULY 7 For Tsineiliate Aid to} Jobless Families; to Fight Evictions NEW YORK— 2K — Mobilizing their forces the Unemployed Councils, the Unions and Leagues of the Trade Union Unity League and other mass organizations are preparing for the demonstration at City Hall on Tues- | day, July 7, at 2 p.m., to present de- mands for immediate relief of the unemployed at the last summer meeting of the Board of Aldermen. With the cutting off of the mis- erly relief doled out by the police department and the curtailment of relief for jobless families by the charities agencies, starvation is sweeping a wide swathe among the 800,000 jobless New York families. Evictions are increasing in all sec- tions of the city at the same time. Women to March. The United Council of Working Class Women has issued a call to its members to participate in the dem- onstration. United Council members will gather at 80 E. 11th St- at 1 p.m. and there march duwn vo City Hall in a body. Unemployed Councils in all bor- oughs are holding open-air meetings, distributing leaflets and mobilizing given neighborhoods for the march on city hall. The Downtown Council of the Un- employed, now removed to 134 E, Seventh St., has already held many meetings in preparation for the July 7 demonstration, Mimeographed leaflets have been distributed, Sheriff and U. M. W. ‘WELLSBRIDGE, West Va., July 2. —The deputy sheriff here rounded up miners wherever he could find acter against Moscow.” i the bosses that you will not stand for by the German people is Germany's} What this ‘economic action” participation in a world war which means, Senator Copeland has already Glearly explained—first. on embargo, | p an imperialist robber war or inter- | them. They thought they were ar- vention in the workers’ Soviet Re- | rested. He took them to the office, public, | “wy ~~ Awhere a v Me MW: Siseues vee Has oe ‘Delegation Fr ‘om Mine Strikers to Hit Seabbing Expose Hoover Scheme Mellon, Doak, Lamont, Lewis Fight Miners NEW YORK.—That it is the main aim of the Hoover-Lewis-Doak-La- | mont coal conference, set. for Thurs- |day in Washington, to set up the United. Mine Workers’ of America as |@ strike breaking agency of the coal operators, is admited in a special story from Pittsburgh published here July 5, by the New York Times | After pointing out that the Lewis machine can be counted on to keep down “labor costs,” and that the coal operators are convinced that they ;must attempt to revive the UMWA in an effort to defeat the strike led | by the National Miners’ Union, this special article says: “The same operators who defeat- ed the United Mine Workers of America in 1927, it is said, would | like to return to the union plan, | as the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, the second largest commercial producer in Pittsburgh, did ten days ago. ; ‘“*Two reasons are given for that | company’s return. Its officials, it is | declared, recognize that a general union agreement in the Pittsburgh field would stabilize production cost and eliminate cut-throat competi- tion and wage-slashing and also fear the left wing leadership of the National Miners’ Union, rival of the United Mine Workers, so much they are willing to forget their old war with the American Federation of | Labor member.” ‘The National Miners’ Union, lead- ling 40,000 miners in their fight | against starvation, has denounced the scab conference of Lewis, the coal |operators and the government as an extension of the strike breaking policy of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., the UMWA and the Pinchot govern- | ment of Pennsylvania. It calls on all miners throughout the country to | send delegates to the confernece call- jed by the National Miners’ Union for | July 15th, in Pittsburgh in order to \earry the coal strike to victory and | plan national action of the American | miners. | Declaring that a “powerful delega- tion from the picket lines of the 40,000 miners” will go to “Washington to denounce this Hoover attempt at strike-breaking, the National Miners’ Union, and the Central Rank and File Strike Committee, issued the fol- lowing statement on July 5th. “A powerful delegation from the picket lines of the 40,000 miners strik- ing in three states under the leader- ship of the National Miners’ Union, will come into the Lamont conference of a score of operators and officials of the United Mine Workers of Amer~ ica when it meets in Washington, D. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREP) UMW Local Adopts Rank and File Strike Proposals CHICAGO, Til, July 5.—Mike Rukiviana, active in the Orient strike, was released under pres- sure of the Orient, southern Illl- nois, strikers. Charges against him were dropped, The Rank and File Strike Com- mittee called a successful protest meeting in Ortent .The United Mine Workers of America local in Orient, No, 1, adopted all the pro- posals of the Rank and File Strike Committee. They elected a broad rank and file strike committee of eleven. ‘The strike committee will call on all locals in Franklin and Williamson counties and spread the strike on the basis of the grievances in each mine, The pro- gram Jaid down at the Belleville mine conference is taking Lacie! eff