The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1931, Page 1

WANTED: 15,000 SHOCK TRO OPS TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER The Daily Worker needs 15,000 workers|about $2,000 has thus far come in. We|How ‘many will make this a real demon-|pared, badly carried out and gave veryjisn’t absolutely destitute can spare a half|you have to do is drop a 50-cent piece in to contribute half dollars to put apse must make up the difference by mobiliz-|Stration of mass support of our Daily—ipoor results. There is still Tag Dayldollar. Fifteen thousand half dollarsjsome paper and send it in. Turn in the peer coven abe: TOP) By esuye | ing immediately an army of 15,000 fight-|* pene on gies wall Bere smashing | money outstanding and EVERY CENT|means 500, enough to save the Daily|Tag Day funds, collect all the money on place the paper beyond the danger point.|..< ¢or the Daily Worker—15,000 workers|2!OW at Fish, Woll, Hillquit and the entire| OCT ap - : > : . : ) r—15, workers east PAR ieee aera 3 OF IT MUST BE TURNED IN AT ONCE;|Worker and keep it going duting thelthe coupon books, keep up the fight This money has been made absolutely | no will fight not with bullets, but: with labor-bating, anti-Soviet crew? : vE5! : 4 | ys ooks, keep up the fight to necessary by the failure of the. nation-| 59 cent pieces s This is an emergency call, comrades.|but even with this outstanding money, |tough immer months ave: thas Dally Be masks ail “fundwiae wide Tag Days. We expected at least! ; There can no longer be any doubt of the|the Tag Days will be far below what we| Everybody into action! Join the shoc e to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., $10,000 from the Tag Days; actually only} How many will join the shock troops?|fact that the Tag Days were badly pre-|expected them to be. Every worker who|troops in the Daily Worker campaign! All!New York City! \ AUG! Orxke ope oe \ | Mes OF THE WORLD, REMEMBER “THE 4 § >) U Ss A ATE, Py geen a ‘the-Communist Porty U.S.A. UNITE! ATE, PieoTesT AnD a ab) € MEN STRATE MAINE T Tea TRee Fae trorceds : : ; Puabt (Section of the Communist International) = - 2 = SEE atiaineeeneemeemeeemeesees ~ “= sae Entered as second: class matter Vol. VIII, No. 162 at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 at the Post Office Capitalist High-Mindedness 'HE DAY on which the Farm Board announced that it would sell a “limited” amount, that is to say 5,000,000 bushels of wheat a month inside the United States and that it would sell an unlimited amount on the international market for what it would bring, certainly about half the price paid for it, we got a clipping from the Houston, Texas, “Chro- ni¢le” of June 26. It was an editorial entitled “Shall We Defend Our Own Welfare?” | ‘and was an attack on the Soviet Union, which the “Chronicle” insists, in | the absence of all proof to the contrary, is “dumping” In an effort to bolster up such nonsense, the editorial said that “The British, French and American governments are not engaged in international trade.” No? Then why is the Farm Board dumping wheat in the world market? Why is there a “commercial attache” in every U. S. consulate in every country? Why is there a Department of Commerce? Why all the open talk of rivalry between U.S, trade jand British trade in Latin America and China? es! Oh, these are only private traders, whom the government is “helping,” the Houston Chronicle replies in effect. (Leaving aside the Farm Board). All right, but who are these private traders? You coal miner of Pennsylvania, you textile worker of Rhode Island, you lumberjack of Oregon; you workers, employed or jobless anywhere in America—are YOU engaged in international trade? No, you're not, eh! Then who is? The answer is simple: The big capitalists! All right. Now let's see what the Houston Chronicle editor really wants. Hé says: “Are the so-called capitalistic nations to sit idly by under such con- ditions? Are we to be allowed to do nothing to protect the position of our private traders? Are we to depend for our defense solely on the high-mindedness and humaneness of the Russian dictators? They (the capitalist nations) must either protect their system or see the establishment of Communism in their own borders.” It is clear that the editorial, instead of bearing the title: “Shall We Defend Our Own Welfare?” should bear the title: “Shall the Workers Defend the Capitalists’? =. hat is the question, workers! The question in every war, and most especially is it the question confronting you today, when the whole Amer- ican capitalist press is filled with propaganda against the Soviet Union aimed to get your consent, your help as a soldier or a worker supplying war materials, to a capitalist war on the Soviet Union! ‘Your reply must be decisive, workers, to the question: Will you defend “your own” capitalists, the ones who rob you daily and starve you with unemployment when you no longer can produce profits? Or will you defend the Soviet Union, where the workers rule, where there is no unemployment, where there is the seven-hour day and five-day week, with wage raises and social insurance—security for those who toil? ‘There can be but one answer by any worker conscious of his class. He or she will openly declare: I will defend the Soviet Union against capitalist war! And I will come on the streets August First with masses of other workers and farmers to show the capitalists that I will fight againss them and not for them if they attack the Soviet Union, the Jand of all workers! For a Six Page Daily! | did workers realize how very difficult it is adequately to present all issues of interest to the working class within the space allowed by four pages. In fact, with the enormous growth of working class activity throughout the world and the growing activity of our own Communist Party, it ‘3 parctically impossible. Each day, we who actually put the Daily Worker together. are faced - with a heartbreaking task of selection, not between “good” and “bad” | articles or items, but selecting from those which are all good, and im- yortant, but some of which simply cannot be printed, those whose print- ing is absolutely imperative. ‘We would still have to select even if we had six pages, but certainly a great many more important articles would be printed. Think of it, workers, an invoice taken one day recently, showed that on that day— and it is practically the same every day—no less than 150 news items we prepared had to be left out! More, there were some 80 additional ar- ticles of the kind we print on the back page, also left out! We would print more about the Soviet Union, of China, of the many struggles in foreign lands and in your own city, if we had six pages. But while finances make it difficult even to print four pages, you are deprived of this betterment of your paper, the Daily Worker. But you, and only you, the readers of the Daily, can correct this shortcoming! You can push the Daily Worker campaign for $35,000 over the top, by not only donating yourself, but in getting others to contribute! \ Get your collection list, or box—and especially those coupon books— busy! If you really put effort into it, you will not only save the Daily, but put six pages in it everyday! Cone aa) ‘To show how badly we are off for space, let us inform you that we had this editorial written long ago and published it in the National Edi- tion on June 25, but did not have space to put it in the City Edition until today! Help us overcome such handicaps by giving us enough to publish six pages! NEW YORK, TUESDAY, J ULY 7, 1931 CITY EDITION TO DEMAND RELIEF FOR: N.Y. JOBLESS Demonstration at 2 p.m. at City Hallto | Back Up Demands | Noon Day Meets \$15 a Week Minumum Relief Weekly for | Jobless Families NEW YORK.—Following up their) | letter to the Board of Aldermen.| who will meet today for the last | time this summer, the Unemployed | Councils of Greater New York will back up the demands for immediate relief of the more than 800,000 job- ‘1ess families in the city by a mass| demonstration at City Hall at.2 p.m. | today. | Preliminary open-air meetings | will be held in all sections of the! cities and working groups will con- | verge on. City Hall to back up the demands of the committee that will call upon the Board of Aldermen. | Demand Relief. Listing the demands of the unem- ployed workers, the letter sent to | the Board of Aldermen stresses the | growth in starvation, malnutrition, evictions and growing misery of the jobless who have no visible means of support. Te nds are: 1. Immediate cash relief of $15 per week for every unemployed werker and $3 additional for every dependent. This fund to be met by immediate appropriation from the city budget»of $700,000,000 by taxes on corporations and reduc- | tion of high salaries of city offi- cials and judges. This relief to be distributed to all unemployed workers without discrimination against Negro or foreign-born, young and adult and to be con- tinued pending the passage of the federal Unemployed Insurance Bill proposed by the Councils of the Unemployed. In crder to assure the honest administration of this fund a com- mission elected by the workers from the shops and councils of the unemployed to administer same. 2, Seven-hour day, with no re- duction in pay, on all city and private work. 3. No evictions of shutting off of gas and electricity of unem- ployed families, 4. Free fare, food, milk and clothing to be supplied to children of unemployed in public school buildings. 5. Free fares and Iunch to be (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Why the coal strikers make good fighters. This young miner is de- termined that his wife and their baby shall not have to suffer as their parents have, under the starv- ation wages of the coal operators. ‘HUPEH RED ARMY CAPTURES MANY TOWNS IN CHINA Nationalist Threat Is Proving Fake NEW YORK.—Greater advances are being made by the Red Army under the leadership of Comrade Ho Lung in the Western Hupeh Pro- vince, according to a special cable dispatch by Hallett Abend, Shanghai Correspondent, to the New York Times. The report of the latest, vic- tories of the Red Army in Western Hupeh Province follow the state- ment that Chiang Kai Shek has launched_an army of 100,000 soldiers “to crush the Reds.” Avend reports that the Red Army led by Comrade Ho Lung “is storm- ing town after town in the area be- tween the Han and the Yangtzse | Rivers (west and northwest of Han- kow.) “Repulsed at Yunyang, be marched southward and captured the im- portant market town of Fanghsien, then turned northeastward and captured Shihwakai, thirty-five miles south of Eaohokov. e is now besieging Kucheng, which is only ten miles from Laohokow. If Ku- cheng falls, Laohokow will become untenable, and he is expected im- mediately to advance on Siangyang- fu (an important city thirty miles | southeast of Laohokow).” SYRACUSE A JIM CROW UNIVERSITY. SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Syracuse Uni- versity had declared itself against) the admission of Negro students in| a letter the dean of the College of JOBLESS! WORKERS! ALL OUT T0 CITY HALE TODAY 2 P. Strike. Spreads; Miners oe s Hawkins Negro Mine Organizer Barely | Eseapes Shot | 100 Out at Terminal Organizer Shot In Leg and Chest by Sheriff PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 6. — In-| creased sentiment for strike is being expressed among the men who went | back to work at the Pittsburgh Term- | |inal Coal Co. mine No. 3 at Mol-| | lenauer today when pickets appeared. | | The strike is spreading in theBrowns- ville section where the Walnut Hill Mine shut down completely and the! Albany Mine closed, with 68 striking. The mine operators answered the | spread of the strike by more shoot- | | ings toda. | Deputy Sheriff John | Meadows shot Mike Topulsky, or- | ganizer for the National Miners/ | Union. Topulsky was shot in the leg | jand arm at Fredericktown. He is now | lin the Washington Hospital The | sheriff's excuse {s that Topulsky was | trying to escape after arrest. John | Oliver, Negro miner, was shot in the | chest at) Smithton by Constable Dan | Douglas and his son. The excuse | was that Oliver was trying to enter \a Pittsburgh Coal Company store. | Deputy sheriff's standing near Ves- |ta Mine No. 5 saw Ike Hawkins, Ne- gro miner and district chairman of the relief committee, three men and) jone child driving on the public high- | way and fired several shots at Haw-/} |kins. One bullet missed Hawkins | by inches, and tore a three-inch hole jin his auto. 200 LAID OFFIN BYERS PLANT Metal League Calls Meet for Wednesday PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 6. — On duly 2 over 200 men at the Byers plant (metal workers) received the following notice: “Due to a change in operating practice, you will not be required to report for work Monday, July 6. As soon as business conditions warrant, | we will advise you when your services | will be required—A. M. Byers Co.” | ‘This layoff comes after years of} | | cuts, and a fake bonus system. The Metal Workers Industrial Lea- gue calls a mass meeting Wednesday, Home Economics sent to a Negro mother. } duly 8, at 7:30 p. m. at Workers | Center, 2157 Centre Ave. { Miners Need Food, Clothing, Tents to Win the Strike Evictions Multiply; Friendly Farmers Donate Land, Bat | No Tents on Hand * PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 6—Funds are desperately needed, not only for food for the strikers but to maintain the picket demonstra- tion. The coal fields are not like textile towns or the industries of the cities. They are broken up into sections and scattered mining towns, with distances of ten, fifteen and twenty miles, over which large bodies of men must be moved for the various concentrations. In the beginning of the strike, the miners and their fam- ilies took these enormous marches with splendid spirit. It was nothing for a thousand pickets® to march ten miles to the mine and tires—there must be a little money ten miles back again. The splendid | for gas and oil. spirit is still there, determination is} The picket lines are necessarily there, but the shoes have worn out./Smaller than before. Besides wast- These men and their families must | as* of shoes and tires, there is fa- have more shoes, or must be able to |tigue biting into the hunger-week- re-sole those they still have. |ened bodies of these heroic strikers. |The smaller lines are being rapidly rendered more effective by better or- ganization, by building up a system Concentrations over larger distanc- es were at first made by borrowed | cars and trucks. The cars and trucks | Relief Need Desperate (County Commissioners Refuse Jobless Demands “Go to Poor House!” 300 Out In Benwood, West Virginia Mine (Special to the Daily Worker.) | WHEELING, W. Va., July 6. — Six thousand, five hundred workers in the | Belmont County, Ohio, hunger march Placed demands for relief before the | county commissioners. The commit- | tee elected by the hunger marchers | exposed the graft of $700,000 made by officials and demanded that $35,000 | appropriated for special deputies in | the strik area be given to relieve un- employed strikers, | The county commissioners listened to the demands but said ticy would give no help and advise the starving | jobless to go to the poor houses. The Hickman inc, Deiuwvod, West Virginia, waiked out this morning three huadred strong. A strike com- mittee has been elected. The Gaylord mine s out egan, the men refusing to pay fifty cents daily assessment for mine guards. Mass meetings have been arranged in the Cambridge section to spread | the strike. No relief has as yet come from Cleveland for three days. Re- lief is desperately needed. Rush re-~ are still available, but they need new| (conTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Protest Demonstrations All Over Land July 9 Against Scottsboro Lynch Verdict BULLETIN (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, July 6.—The Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Authors issued a public protest against the trial, and proposed execu- tion of the 8 Scottsboro Negroes. Protesting that the evidence showed the innocence of the accused they declare that the verdict is an ex- pression of shameful capitalist class and race ixct: The authors appeal to the German people for mass protest against the proposed executions and demand the immediate release of the in- nocent victims. The statement is signed among others by Bela Balasch, Johannes Secher, Juulian Borchardt, Ladislaus Boross, Ernst Glaeser, Karl Gruen- berg, Felix Halle, Otto Heller, Wieland Harzflede, Albert Hotopp, Aladar Komyat, Paul Koener, Alfred Kurelly, Berta Lask, Kurt Kersten, Georg Pijet, Theodore Plivier, Ruben Wolf, Ludwig Renn, Anna Seghers and Doctor Weisskopf. NEW YORK.—AI!! over the country, the workers, Negro |terrible and increasing speed-up, wage | and white, are preparing to make July 9 a national day of | jmilitant protests against the hideous frame-up against the} nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys, eight of whom were sen- tenced to burn in the electric chair on July 10. In the case (CONTINUED © AGE THREE) Stalin in Speech to Economists of Soviet Union Sets Forth New Methods to Push Forward Victory of Socialism To Create Workers Own Technical Turn In All Tag Day ‘Boxes, Other Funds at Unit Meets Tonite Party members must turn in all Tag Day boxes at their unit meet- Ings tonight, as well as all money collected on coupon books. Unit Daily Worker agents, instead of turning the money over to the stotion agents, should bring it im- mediately after the unit meetings to the district office of the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., fifth floor. The office will be open till mid- aight, DAILY WORKER MANAGZMENT COMMITTEE 2s aR Coal Brokers Fear National Miners Union (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT, Mich.—E. J. Corbett & Co., coal brokers at Fisher Building, Detroit, who represent 42 mines, are saying to the wholesalers that they are concerned over the coal supply situation. They cannot supply any Pocahontas coal at all, except one grade, “mine run.” They also suggested that there is “danger” in the West Virginia coal area, They are explaining to the dealers that this time it is not the United Mine Workers, but that the situation is more “serious,” because the National Miners Union is in it. i. Forces (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 6—Comrade Stal- in’s speech at the Conference of So- viet Economists on June 23rd, con- tained, among other things, the fol- lowing: During the first five months of the current year many branches of industry increased production by 40 tm 50 per cent compared to the same period last year. Others increased from 20 to 30 per cent, while some, including metals and mining, in- creased only six per cent. The backwardness of mining, metals, ¢tc., caused many industrial and economic ® leaders, failing to take into account recently the fundamentally changed situation, to continue with the old methods. The first problem is that of labor supply. Formerly labor supply was automatic, owing to the pressure of unemployment and the village class relations. Today unemployment has been abolished, and the class rela- tions in the village altered. The kul- aks (rich farmers) have been de- feated and the peasants given toler- able conditions of existence, assist~ ance and tens of thousands of trac- tors, etc. An organized labor supply must replace the spontaneous, auto- matic supply. This is possible only through agreements between the Soviet eco- nomic organizations and collective farms. Good results in this method have already been obtained. Me- chanization of difficult labor proces- ses must saye labor power quickly wherever possible. | The second ‘problem is that of the stabilization of labor relations; abo- lition of factory fluctuation. For- merly, when labor processes in the Soviet Union were simple, fluctuation could be tolerated. Today the intro- duction of highly complicated labor processes, demanding knowledge of modern technique, renders fluctua- tion intolerable. The chief cause of fluctuation is the ultra-left equali- zation of wages. In some industries wages are so fixed that there is hard- ly a distinction between wages of the skilled and unskilled workers. The result is that the latter showed little desire to qualify themselves for high- ‘er tasks. The old wage system must disappear. Both Marx and Lenin poined out that differences between skilled and unskilled workers would exist under socialism after the overthrow of ca- Pitalism. The differences will dis- appear only under pure Communism. The leading groups of skilled work- ers must be deeply rooted in the fac- tories. The only fashion to obtain this is by increasing wages; by a wage system which gives skill its due. Skilled Workers Must Get Higher Pay For. Work age tional. Working=ondition® must be established unde? ™whieh™ production can be improved qualitatively and quantitatively. Irresponsibility and disorganization are hampering many factories. Insufficient care is taken of mehanical equipment. The rail- ways restored the principle of per- sonal responsibility with good results. Industry must do the same. vidual responsibility, correct labor organization and distribution are ne- cessary. The fourth problem is that of coal and metal supply. Ukrainia was for- Unskilled workers must receive an incentive to rise into the ranks of the unskilled workers. There must be no economy here because this re- presents the chief way of overcoming the fluctuation of labor. Improved living conditions of the workers is urgently necessary despite the great progress already achieved. The third problem is organive-| (GoymauED 0s PAUR JME Indi- | | lief! ‘SPEND $55,000,000 “FOR NAVY ARMS: JOBLESS STARVE (Millions More to Be | Spent for War | WASHINGTON, July 5—To pre- pare immediately for war the Navy Department is rushing through the building of eleven destroyers at the cost of $55,000,000. The contracts will soon be awarded and then new plans for more naval armaments will be presented to the next session of Congress. The Navy Department readily gets $55,000,000 to spend with |@ wave of the hand for war arma- | ments, but the unemployed get not one penny from the Wall Street | government. The new war program for the navy which the next congress will get provides for another aircraft carrier, which alone will cost from $50,000,000 to $60,000,000. It will pro~ | vide for the building of two more | 10,000-ton cruisers at the cost of from $25,000,000 to $35,000,000, and another large cruiser costing around Pratt, chief of operations of the U.S, navy, stated that the navy was go- ing ahead with its plans for building eight 10,000-ton cruisers. A report in the New York Times states that the farm boys in Are | kansas are being prepared for war through the Citizen Military Traine ing camps. On July 3 the first C. M. T. camp was opened with splurge as if war were already her | The Times reporter likened the oponi ing to preparations for the World War, saying: “Moreover, Cam| | Pike, near Little Rock, one of thi nation’s leading cantonments during the World War, has come to life after twelve sleepy years of disuse.” Every war preparation is going on rapidly, with billions being spent, | The workers are being prepared for | war—for the imperialist masters, On August Ist the Communist Party will ‘hold nation-wide demonstrations against the bosses’ war preparations, Join in and fight the war | tions! Al) out Aubust Jsth ~~ A statement issued by Admiral” id