The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1931, Page 1

eet | | Before the strike, children azound the pit mouth of the Hillman mine in Webster, Pa., begging bread out .ef the miners’ dinner buckets when they came out of the mine Although their fathers worked ten, twelve and fourteen hours a day, their paychecks couldn’t buy enou: to go round. crowded solid. at night. | er’s head was split was shut down! helped do that job. for that extra piece Committee after | | and clubbed by dep | gh bread | | Today, the Hillman mine is struck, The pickets that closed down the mine were bombed with tear gas Children and women the headq uties until one min- | —“We'lls open—but the mine They were fighting of bread! committee of gaunt, Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee but we need relief bad! can hold out depends on whether you can send us something to eat. to and from the picket line, | every morning, and it’s hard doing it on | hungry, but determined miners come to | uarters of the Pennsylvania- tay out and fight this through How long we We walk 25 miles an empty stomach. The wo children can’t hold out unless t bread!” WHAT IS YOUR ANSWE miners MUS' starvation! V miners don’t ask you to marc picket lines with them into a bullets, tear gas, bombs, clubs, black- win their strike against Il you help them? jacks, arrests and t on terms and depor' men and hey have The striking miners ask you for am- The munition! Bread is the Pennsylvania-O The | Relief Committee h on the | strikers and their f: storm of | contribution TODA 611 Penn Ave., hreats of long pris- tation.... Send y how smal our contribution! No matter 1 your town it, organize a com- mittee and write for suggestions how ammunition! Help | to work. Get your organization to do- hio Striking Miners | nate a large sum! feed the 40,000 BUT ACT TODAY! TOMORROW amilies! S your | MAY BE TOO LATE! HELP THE Y to its headquar- | MINERS WIN THE FIGHT AGAINST Pitts burgh, Pa STARVATION! IVE CoT A DoLLAR IN Wi “THIS HAND) FoR “THE [sai WoRkER CUT THIS Picture OUT 4 y Do As Junioe& ASKS PIN ADoLAR INTHIS HANI) AND fee) 'T Yo The Y Dairy SA Worker Dail Central Ong y ‘(Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII, No.163 Entered as second-class matter at at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Mareh 3, 1879 the Post Office Pp NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931 _ CITY EDITION | Mine Strike Front Broadens heroic battle aaginst starvation being waged by the coal miners is * broadening and deepening. The following facts characterize the broad class nature of the struggle: 1, On Monday the miners in Kanawha Valley, southern West Vir- ginia, began to walk out of the mines, joining the movement of their 36,000 brothers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and northern West Virginia, who have fought since May 26, under the leadership of the National Miners Union. The Kanawha miners, numbering 23,000, have begun to move, overcoming the paralyzing influence of their Musteite leaders. 2. The capitalist press proclaims the strike-breaking role of the A. F. of L. and its affiliate, the United Mine Workers. Thus, on July 5, the Associated Press sent the following wire over the country” from Pittsburgh: Z “Officials of the United Mine Workers of America say the National Miners Union is led by Communists, and they have tried to break the strike sponsored by the National Miners Union.” 3, The Washington administration is following up the Pinchot State governmental strike-breaking moves by some broader ones of its own. Secretary of Commerce Lamont has Washington July 9, to work out a striking miners and their wives are called the biggest coal capitalists to national strike-breaking plan. The sending a delegation to Washington to picket the conference in protest against starvation and police terror. 4. The “socialists” have recognized the failure of their direct at- tempts to destroy the National Minegs Union. ‘They have now worked out a new plan, by which they hope to accomplish this indirectly. The Rev. Norman Thomas has issued the slogan: Union away from the Communist leadership.” the Hoover-Lamont strike-breaking "tionalization.” “Take the National Miners ‘They are preparing to join conference as a “step towards na- 5, The Central Rank and File Strike Committee has called the miners of all other fields to send rank and file delegates to hold a joint meeting in Pittsbrgh on, July 15 to consider their joint problems and work out a united front program of action. Against the strike-breaking conference of Pinchot-Hoover-A. F. of L.-U. M. W. A. and “socialists,” with their demagogic slogans of “organize the industry,” “nationaliza- _ tion,” ete., the Pittsburgh Conference will organize the strike of the masses of miners and the support of the entire working class, the only foree which can squeeze concessions out of the blood-sucking coal capt- talists. * * , ‘The tasks of the coal strikers and their leadership are clear. Hold fast the strike front! . Strengthen the Strike Committees Organize the National Miners Union! and picket lines! Expose the dem- _agogy of the strike-breakers from Pinchot to Hoover, from UMWA to ~Norman Thomas! Spread the strike! Establish a strong united front! "The task of all other workers is, first of all and AT ONCE, SEND HOOD AND MONEY TO: PENNSYLVANIA-OHIO RELIEF COMMITTEE, - Room 519, 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. ‘Wim the strike! All supgort for the striking miners! The Struggle in Venezuela the capitalist press is filled with attacks on the workers’ dic- mention one of»the most terrible lism and its For 20 years, W tatorship in the Soviet Union, their columns rarely if ever even capitalist tyrannies on earth—the servant, Juan Vicente Gomez, dic- feudal assassin ruled as “president” of what is gupposed.to be a “republic,” enriching himself and his clique from bribes of Yankee—and British—concession hunters; building up from among the brutal native feudal chiefs and a circle of “intellectuals” an apparatus of espionage and persecution against the workers that makes the least sien @aws in pursuit of any Venezuelan flees to foreign lands. In to let one of his underlings, one Juan Bautista Perez, of protest punishable by death and which extends its murderous revolutionary worker or student who 1929, Gomez, after twenty years of rule, thought it a good joke be “elected” by his well-tamed “congress.” Elected to serve until 1936. But now he tired of the joke and his “‘congress” asked Perez to resign, which he did, and Gomez is “ There emerging f1 “retirement.” The discontent from the always starved masses. joubtedly, some other reasons for the bloody Gomez economic crisis has produced more The Communist Party of ‘Venezuela was recently formed, about two months ago, and rallied. the best and bravest of workers and students behind its banner, although forced under the terror, to remain illegal. “Scarcely had the Party been formed and issued its literature openly challenging the apparatus of terror, than the whole machine of persecu- tion was turned against it and everyone suspected. Over a thousand workers and students were thrown into prison. < Into one prison, the “Rotunda,” a prison wherein the cells are kept constantly in motion like a squirrel cage, a prison where hundreds have been killed: and tortured by the barbarous means of twisting the sexual organs, hundreds of new victims of the dictator, Gomez, have been thrown. ~ ‘This will not solve the crisis nor feed the starving masses from whom further revolutionary action will certainly come. But today it is the duty of all American workers to raise a voice of angry protest at the terror in Venezuela! Demand the freedom of those imprisoned! Expose the hypocrisy of Yankee imperialism which is “horrified” at a dictatorship only when it is) @ workers’ dictatorship which it cannot make any money out of, while for. imperialist profits it covers up the workers of Venezuela! in silence the savage terror against MELLON WAR DEBT MOVETO HIT WORKERS |Patched Up At Last Moment Is Full of | Conflicts Push War On Soviets | Countries | Statements by President Hoover | | indicate that the imperialist powers | | have patched up an “agreement” on | | the plan for a year’s postponement of war debt payments. The plan it- self contains sharp conflicts, and was put together at the last moment. | A great many questions are still left | open to be discussed at an interna- | tional conference of “experts.” The conclusion of this agreement, | so widely heralded by Hoover as a} “prosperity” move, will be accompa- | nied by an attack against the stand- ard of living of the American work- ers. There will take place a con- solidation of the capitalists in their wage cutting drives against the workers. The American workers will be speedéd up to make up in profits for the $350,000,000 postponed in war debts. There will be a general, wide- Spread attack against the American workers all along the line, The agreement itself, in the words of Raymond G. Carrol, New York Evening Post, Paris correspondent, contains enough dynamite to blow itself to pieces. He r out. the differences of Belgium and Italy “all is dynamite to be set Of at the forthcoming conference of experts.” That the Hoover “pl ‘: had no effect thus far in vack| the skarpening of the Id eco- nomi¢ crisis is shown by the latest. reports from Europe. In Germany the Reichsbank is now in the deep- est crisis within the present period. In Barcelona, Spain, the foremost bank with $37,000,000 assets crashed. Leading banks in nearly every Euro- pean country face bankruptcy. The Hoover “plan,” even if put into full| effect, will not ease the burdens of the German masses. As now worked out it increased the Young Plan yoke giving French imperialism a tighter yoke on the German rail- ways, as well as attempting to insure the entire system of the Versailles treaty. It gives the United States a greater hand in Europe and hege- mony in the anti-Soviet war front. Along with the reparations con- versations, Wall Street has been strengthening the countries which will be used as a base in the war on the Soviet Union. A report in the Journal of Commerce, which does not appear in other capitalist papers, states that the Federal Re- serve System, cooperating with the Bank of International Settlement, has granted a loan of $20,000,000 to bolster up fascist Hungary; that similar loans will be made to Poland, Jugo-Slavia,Austria and other coun- tries in the anti-Soviet alliance. In his statement announcing the “success” of the Paris negotiations, Hoover again brought up the ques- tion of armaments, indicating that Wall Street would insist on gaining out of its $350,000,000 expenditures at least world supremacy in war ar- maments. Order Evictions for Sth St. Rent Strikers NEW YORK.—Striking viciously at the tenants of 334 East 8h Street and 331 East 8th Street, who had or- ganized to demand lower rents and repairs to their apartment, many court Judge Genung of the East Side Court at 264 Madison Sb., d them to move by tomorrow Tam- | the court. Usually, five days are lee tenants as days of grace to | pay rent. Conditions of the apartments the |tenants were living in are typical of the Bast Side. Leaking roofs, one toilet for two families, unpainted woodwork, defective plumbing and \exhorbitant rents go hand in hand, in this neighborhood. | Tenants in the block are incensed | against this vicious decision against the tenants struggling for a decent | living and propose to put up a stiff | fight against the threatened evictions the rent was paid. A fine cf of the tenants. $5 additional would be imposed, upon An open air protest meeting will be h tenant if he failed to do so,/held at sth Street and Avenue C to “Sasiciea of) mohbbee the oahu RABBIS GLUT THE MARKET LONG BRANCH, N. J.—‘An over- supply of rabbis” was the plaint of a Jeremiah at the 31st convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, held here. gle against the savage decision of boss courts, and spread the rent strike. Last night six hundred men and women filled the whole block on East Eighth Street demonstrating against the eviction of these workers. The chief of police himself directed the activities of the score of police who were mobilized by the lay at demonstration, elim RAIN Crisis Worse In Many | | and Prime Minister Laval of France | | Price 3 Cents Y Answer HooverMASS DELEGATION OF War Plot-Rush MINERS TO PROTEST AT 15,000%Dollars GOV'T SCAB MEET, JULY9 The Daily Worker is the | ” generosity, that smashed through all the sob-stuff about “America’s etc., and exposed Hoover’s plan to postpone reparations and war debts payments as a move to bring Germany into line and weld together the anti-Soviet front. Today, tomorrow and every day, while the capitalist press pours out a flood of lies that are calculated to make you Fifteen thousand half dollars—15,000 answers to Hoover’s moratorium-war move against the Soviet Union! only English-language daily and millions of your fellow-workers willingly fight in the coming war against Workers’ Russia, the Daily Worker | casts a great piercine light on this international war con- spiracy and rallies the workers to demoxstrate against it on August First, rallies them to defend the fatherland of all the toilers. against imperialist war! THE DAILY WORKER LIVE! the 35,000 drive over the top, cuts, against the lynching of victory in the mine strike! Act today! Speed your Daiy Worker, 50 E. 13th St., Tag Day funds and other contributions at once to the How about it, fellow workers? Millions for the capi- talist press out of the bosses’ pockets, millions for the new imperialist war—answer with 15,000 half dollars for the workers’ Daily, 15,000 half dollars to carry on the fight NEEDS THIS MONEY TO The Tag Days were a flop, but if 15,000 readers wrap a half dollar each in a piece of paper and mail it to the Daily, then we'll make up for the flop, we'll put | we'll save the Daily Worker, | | save it to keep on leading the fight against imperialist war, against deportations, against starvation and wage the Scottsboro boys and for | half dollars and turn in all New York City! monstrating jobless and workers at| City Hall at 2 p. m. yesterday, a de- | vacation the finance committee will S Board of Aldermen Motion to preparations Co Kill. Demands of the Jobless NEW YORK.—Backed by 6,000 de- tance to the aldermanic chambers, | Since the aldermen are going for airs will make it possible for the Pennsylvania-Ohio RELIEF AT ONCE west Virginia miners to win their strike against starvation. In letters sent to the Daily Worker, miners tell how: their families have been living on coffee been evicted and forced to live on | clothes. or water and bread, how they have the open hillsides and wear tattered Demand Rel July 9 Demonstrations to ease of the 9 Innocent Scottsboro Boys Go to Washington to Show Up UMWA and Boss Tactics Try to Dodge Miners Jail Miners at Night to Stop Mine March BULLETIN. Latest reports from Washington shows an effort to avold the pro- test of the their families. Statements inspired by Lamont and Doak claim that off There is even starving miners and the conference may be called at the last moment. some talk in government circles @ervizg that the conference was allied at all. PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 7— | Pennsylvania mine operators are answering Hoover's call for a coaj conference to smash the struggle ¢ 40,000 miners fighting against hun« ger. A strong picket delegation among the miners and their familiq will go to Washington to proted against this action of the Hoovel government which is working i harmony with the United Mine Workers of America scab outfit, and the Pinchot gunmen forces. A statement issued by Secretary of Commerce Lamont shows an effort | to sidestep the protest of the strik- ing miner’s representatives in Wash- ington. He has announced that on- ly coal operators will meet with the mpleted in Many Cities for Na- tion-Wide Protest Against Murderous Frame- Up of Boys by Alabama Bosses NEW YORK.—Preparations for the nation-wide demon-| trations on July 9 against the Scottsboro boss court lynch} legation headed by Thomas Doherty | not meet this summer and the move verdict railroading eight innocent Negro children to the elec- sought entrance to the Board of Al-| to refer it to that committee was un- | tric chair are proceeding in many cities, north and south. dermen to place the demands of the | unemployed and protest the cessa- | tion of the little relief hitherto given. | Resorting to slick demagogy, Al-| derman McKee, chairman of the/ Board of Aldermen, motioned to refer | the demands of the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York for) unemployed relief to the Finance| Committee where it will be summar- | ily pigeon holed. Keep Out Delegation The delegation after having more | than half their number lopped off | by the police were refused admit- | derstood by the Tammany politicians as being tantamount to shelving it. 2,000 In Line Two thousand jobless workers were in the two lines of march that con- an estimated crowd of six thousand. marched up in good the demonstrators Broadway and Park Row, order and discipline. The delegation, forcibly kept out (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) These demonstrations will increasing terror against the Negro people, of imperialist preparations for an attack on| |verged on city hall where they were the Soviet Union, and on the | joined by other thousands making eye of the day originally set| for the mass murder of these nine | Carrying banners demanding relief,| working class victims of capitalist | justice. | The demonstrations will reiterate the demands for the release of the nine boys, for the removal from the | death cell of the eight condemned take place on a background of ® | boys whose case has been taken to | the Supreme Court of Alabama by the attorneys of the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The dem- onstrations will raise anew the de- | mands for the release of 14-year old | Roy Wright, the only one of the} | nine not receiving the death sen- | tence in the original “trial.” | Several meetings are arranged in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 3,000 Unemployed Storm Detroit City Hall As Murphy Cuts Relief at Bankers Orders BULLETIN. “Detroit today faced a crisis in its unemployment relief program,” says a United Press dispatch from Detroit on Tuesday, “following the City Council’s order closing two municipal lodging houses, where nearly a thousand unemployed men had been sleeping since winter.” The same story tells of the mass demonstration led by the Unem- ployed Councils and the Trade Union Unity Leagues. All the De- troit newspapers carry big black headlines telling of the militant demonstrations. The Detroit Times prints a picture stretching across nearly the entire front page of the crowd of unemployed in front of city hall. eta Maat | DETROIT, July 7—The City Council of Detroit decided that the city lodging houses {must all be closed on Monday morning, The Force Councilmen to K eep Lodgings Open and Postpone Ending Relief for Two More Months; Admit “Crisis” ting down of general relief activi~ ties. They informed the workers that the bankers in Detroit and the bankers in Wall Street insist that the relief of the unemployed work- ers must be cut down over 75 per cent. And, in accordance with this decision, they directed the welfare department and the mayor's unem-~- ployment committee to carry out the program accordingly. Murphy and_ his committee openly stated that they accept the principles of the resolu- tion adopted by the Common Coun- cil, and only raised a few minor questions in opposition to the pro- gram. As soon as thjs decision went unemployment | lodging houses numbering over 2,000 organized a meeting in front of the City Hall, elected a commiltee and interviewed the mayor. The mayor openly stated that he did everything he could, and is in no position to do otherwise. rade Reynolds, Schmies and eight | other workers from the lodging houses (this is the committee which first interviewed the mayor). After receiving the above-mentioned re- ply, the committee went back out before the masses and after the first meeting, in the forenoon, a larger committee was elected and this com- mittee appeared) before the Com- | ‘The committee, consisting of Com- | | in the afternoon. The committee consisted of 15 unemployed from the lodging houses, headed by Schmies. In addition to this, the workers went into the Common Council room and filled up the room, amounting to 1,500; besides the 1,500 on the inside there were approximately 3,000 work- ers on the outside. ‘The Common Council. discussed the general relief .pryblem at the time| the committee got into the Council Room. Everybody of the City Common Council, including the mayor and his unemployment com- mittee, was in favor of cutting down the relief. But it was impossible for anyone of them to talk or proceed any longer, the workers on the in- side did not stand for any speak- ing for the cutting down of relief, And the whole city administration was compelled to accept a decision that the whole problem was to be y 0 SM-RASE IAB) government; though he admits that the conference was called at the request of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. The UMWA scab officials, however, will be called into secret conferences with Hoover, Doak and Lamont. | Deputy sheriffs last night reided |homes of strikers of the Hillman | Coal Company, at the Moffit Mine, ‘Waynesburg, Green County, and ar- rested fourteen men, two women and one girl. They were taken out of their beds in the middle of the night. | The arrests were made in an at- tempt to break up a march planned by these strikers on another mine at ten o'clock this morning. Fagan, district leader of the UM WA scabs in Pennsylvania, for three days in succession has failed to ap~ | pear in his much-advertised, and | thrice-postponed mass meeting as miners gathered yesterday and gave him a mock funeral. The coroner at the inquest of the murdered miner, Zigaric, has now opened his “investigation.” Fifty witnesses, including deputies, com- pany officials and wounded miners, have been called. Paul Borsuk, a miner who was wounded in the foot, limped in to tell his story. He said after he was shot he was taken to the New Kensington General Hos- pital where he was about to be op- erated on when Sheriff Cain himself seized him and took him to the County jail. He was refused medi- cal attention. Only recently was he released on $1,000 bail, Now the New Kensington Hospital refuses to ex- tract the bullet in his foot. The re- lief committee will get a doctor to attend to his wounded miner. (Additional News on Page 3.) MELLON SLICES ANOTHER MELON PITTSBURGH —The Mellon- owned Aluminum Co. of America is seeking a $1,000,000 tax refund. It is a foregone conclusion that the Mellon government will refund the Mellon Co. | Soviet “Foreed Labor"