The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1931, Page 1

‘(Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD,) UNITE! Entered as second-¢inas matter at at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 <Eqpe2s Vol. VII, No. 164 the Post Office NEW YORK, THURSDAY, _SULY. 5; 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents BIG BREACH IN UMW-TERMINAL SCAB PACT AS 400 QUIT Smash Scottsboro Frame-Up. Demonstrate July 9th! Beene the desperate attempts of the Alabama bosses to carry through their legal mass murder of eight of the nine innocent Scottsboro Ne- gro boys; against the betrayal of the boys by the traitorous NAACP leaders and other Negro reformists who are working hand in glove with the social fascists and the Southern boss lynchers against the mass fight to free the boys, the workers of the United States will take the streets again on July 9 in militant, determined protest against this frightful frame-up and to demand the unconditional release of these innocent | working class children. The boys, all but one of whom are still in their teens, were taken off a freight train at Painted Rock, Alabama, on March 25 by an armed | posse looking for another set of colored workers who, in self defense, had beaten up a number of white men traveling on the same freight. ‘To avenge this attack on white “supremacy” and to further terrorize the frightfully oppressed Negro masses, the boys were framed-up by the Alabama bosses and their courts on a charge of raping two white girls who were traveling with the white men. The two girls. who happen to be professional prostitutes, were forced to lie against the boys, even though they at first stated the boys had not molested them. The nine children were rushed to trial a few days after their arrest. The “trial” was deliberately set for local fair and horse swapping day as an added incentive for the surrounding population to spend their money with the Scottsboro merchants. Within 72 hours and in a tense lynching atmosphere, with an armed | mob of 10,000 surrounding the court house, eight of the boys were rail- roaded to the electric chair. In the case of the ninth, 14-year-old Roy Wright, there was a mistrial. The bosses are still planning to re-try this boy. ~ In spite of the action of the attorneys of the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in taking an appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court against the lynch verdict of the Scottsboro boys, the eight condemned boys are still held in the death cells in Kilby Prison, Montgomery. They are being subjected to the most ghastly torture. chair has been moved in a position directly in front of their cells. They hhave been forced to witness the electrocution of a Negro worker and have been told “it will be your turn next.” Information has been deliberately withheld from them of the stay of their exécution brought about auto- matically by the appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court. Letters from their parents have been kept from them. They are denied the right to private interviews with their parents and their attorneys. And, significantly, while their parents and the attorneys they endorse have the greatest difficulty in getting to see the boys, the prison authorities have given free access at all hours of the day and night to the traitorous leaders of the NAACP who are doingtheir utmost to confuse and intim- idate the boys.into accepting their Klan attorney, Stephen R. Roddy, for their “defense.” Negro and white workers! These boys are innocent! Demand their unconditional release! Smash the Scottsboro frame-up! Smash the lynch- ing terror and national oppression against the Negro people! Demand the removal of the eight boys from the death cells! Demand @ stop to the ghastly torture of the boys! Demand that they be permitted to receive visitors and have private interviews with their parents and their attorneys! Demand the dismissal of the charges against Roy Wright! Demand a change of venue if he is retried and a jury of workers, at least half of them Negroes! Demand the right of the parents and the boys to decide the question of their defense! Support the demand of the parents of the boys that the NAACP leaders stop hamstringing the defense under the pretense of “defending” the boys! Death to the lynchers! Down with the capitalist system and its op- pression of the Negro people! Fight for unconditional equality of the Ne- gro masses including the right of self-determination, the right to form and control their own government in the Black Belt, with confiscation of the land for workers, white and colored, who work the land! Greetings to the Youth Convention! = of the most important tasks for the revolutionary movement in the immediate future—as part of the task of winning the majority of the working class—is the winning of the working youth. The young workers form about one-third of the workers of the United States. Without the young workers there can be no real live revolutionary movement today. The young workers feel the weight of the crisis even more than do their older brothers. They are generally disciminated against in the ques- tion of unemployment relief under the slogan of “heads of families fet relief—none other.” The bosses use the inexperienced, unformed young workers to replace older workers—at much lower wages. The army traps many of the working youth. Prostitution is taking more and more young girl workers who rust sell themselves or starve. Child labor is definitely on the increase. Particularly are efforts being made now to poison the vouth—which does not know the horrors of the last World War—against the Soviet Union, the workers fatherland, in preparation for a war of intervention. Against all this the revolutionary movement has, as its main in- strument for leading the struggles of the working youth and winning the working youth for Communism, the Young Communist League. The Y.C.L. in the recent months has become far more active than ever be- fore in the struggles of the workers. Particularly have they helped to mobilize the youth in the Rhode Island textile strikes and in the miners strike. Nevertheless, the growing militancy of the Youth has not been reflected in the Y.C.L. The Y.C.L., which should be much broader and larger than its political leader, the Communist Party, is still a small organization that is as yet basically isolated from the masses of Amer- jean young workers. The first few steps that have been recently made are just the beginning. These must be continued and speeded up and the Y.C.L. built into a.mass league of struggle that will be a real leader of the working youth in the struggle against the offensive of the bosses, ageinst the danger of intervention in the Soviet Union, for equal rights and self-determination for Negroes, and against all the special oppression which is the lot of the working youth under capitalism. In this task every adult worker must feel a definite responsibility. ‘The Party assigns some of its best comrades to the work of helping to lead the youth movement. However, this is not enough. Every Com- munist, every class-conscious worker, must make it his task to help to build a stron; Young Communist League in the United States, and rally thie young workers around their specific youth demands. Communist Party members. particularly, must fight the tendencies to ignore youth questions and to “overlook” special youth demands, for it is only by these special youth demands that the toiling youth can be mobilized for the struggle. ‘The coming Convention of the Young Communist League, to be held on July 19, 11 and 12, in New York City, is of the greatest importance for the entire workingclass. Every class-conscious worker will have his eves focused on the convention, on its deliberations and its decisions. Every worker must help carry out the decisions of this 6th National Con- vention of the Young Communist League. Particularly must revolution- ary workers help the Y.C.L. to cerry out the slogan of “Equal and sur- ACONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) The electric | | International Protests NEW YORK.—In scores |streets today to demand the | Scottsboro Negro boys! up and the whole boss system ¢@ with its murderous terror and |persecution of the Negro | People. These demopstrations occur 8 SCOTTSBORO | MEETS TONIGHT court and Judge Hawkins’ denial of the motions for new trials for the | Demand Release of 9 Negro Boys NEW YORK—Today is* the day originally set by the Alabama bosses for the mass murder of eight of the \9 innocent Scotisboro Negro boys. | On this day throughrout the country, workers, colored and white, are again reiterating their at this hideous frame-up and their demand for the unconditional release of the boys. In New York City, there will. be eight meetings tonight for the de- fense of these working-class victims of capitalist justice. The two main meetings will be at the St. Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th Street, in Har- lem, and at the Ambassador Hall, 172d St. and Third Avenue, The Bronx. Colored and white workers will attend both these meetings to push the fight against the legal lynching of the boys. There will also be several open air meetings in the Bronx and in Har- lem to mobilize the workers for the two meetings. Members of Section Four are urged to be at the new at 6 o'clock. Brooklyn workers will have three indoor meetings, at 1662 Bergen St., corner Rochester Ave; at 61 Graham Ave; and at 382 Cumberland St. All workers are urged to attend these meetings and join the mass fight which alone can rescue the Scottsboro boys from the murderous maws’of the Southern boss lynchers. Workers, colored and white, unite in the fight to free the boys and to smash lynch law, Jim Crowism, and Negro oppression! Dogskin Workers to Strike Thurs. NEW YORK.—At the meeting of dogskin workers held in the office of the Industrial Union today, the workers enthusiastically decided to strike for July raises and general improvements of conditions. The strike 1s called for Thursday morn- ing at 7 o'clock. All workers em- ployed in these shops are called upon not to go up to work and to report to the strike headquarters at 131 W. 28th St. At the meeting the work- ers expressed their determination to put an end to the chaos, the low wages and miserable conditions of the fur workers. ‘While preparations were going on for this strike of the dog -workers, the organization campaign in the other shops con‘inued in full swing. A number of new strikes were de- clared today, while many of those that have been on strike until today were settled, granting increases to the workers. The campaign is spreading out every day. The at- tempts of the company union to in- terfere with the organization of the fur workers thru their fake peace manouevers has failed to have any effect on the fighting spirit of the workers. The furriers recognize that only by fighting under the leadership of the Industrial Union will they win the July raises. All fur workers are called upon to come out in the market Thursday morning to help distribute the strike call of the dogskin workers. . DEMONSTRATE TODAY FOR RELEASE OF 9 INNOCENT | SCOTTSBORO NEGRO BOYS Increase; Workers of Cuba, South Africa, Santo Domingo, Uruguay, Etc. Demand Release of Miners; ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, When it began to pour, the chi 700 WALK QUT IN | the country the workers, white and colored, In militant demonstrations they will | express their burning indignation against this hideous frame- | indignation | of cities and towns throughout will take the freedom of the nine innocent TEXTILE STIRKE Mass Picketin g to Spread Strike | (Special To ‘the Di Daily Worker) | PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 8—700| workers in the Weybosset Mill of the American Woolen Company at Providence struck this afternoon un- | der the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union. The entire | mill has been closed down by the} strike. The workers demand the re- turn of the 1244 percent wage cut. Mass picketing is being conducted | and the strikers are also picketing fen the eve of the day originally set for the mass murder of thee framed- | up innocent working-class children. | While the brutal sentence of mass | murder has been stayed by the ac- ..| tion of the attorneys of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense and the League | of Struggle for Negro Rights in tak- | ing an appeal to the Alabama Su- | preme Court, the class conscious workers. know better than to place their faith in the “fairness” of the capitalist courts. They know that the | Supreme Court of Alabama is as | much controlled by the boss class as the National Providence Mill. This | |is the lower court which framed-up | Mull is the second American Woolen | | and railroaded eight of the boys to | | Co. mill in Providence and the work- ; | the chair. The workers know that} }ers are expected to join the strike | only the broadest mass movement|t0morrow. The strike committee is and a united front of all forces|meeting now and is planning to willing to fight for the boys can| |spread the strike to other American stay. the murderous hands of the| Woolen Co. mills | Southern boss lynchers. | VAS TS | World Wide Protest Against Lynch ‘Deputies Shoot At Verdict. Ohio Mine Pickets | As a result of the milita’ ics | | sone WHEELING, West, Va., July 8— |.of the I, L. ‘D. and the L. 8. N. R. Vee shots..were fired at strikers at | in’ agitating the masses to protest |the Bradley, Ohio, mines when the | against this hideous crime the case | picket lines refused to disperse at! | has attracted world-wide attention. |the order of the company gunmen | In Germany and the Soviet Union! and thé deputy sheriff. Four were) there have been scores of demon-| arrested. One man was jailed for | strations and protest. German work-| “allowing pickets to congregate on ers have demonstrated before the | his property.” The President of the United States Consulates in several | McKinley Hill, West Virginia local | cities. Protests have piled in on the| was arrested yesterday. A warrent | Governor of Alabama from hun- | }is out for the secretary of the local | headquarters, 19 West 129th Street, | for July Raise! dreds of demonstrations and thou-| (OONTINUED OF PAGE | Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents | Per copy. Read it—Spread it! Quarters Needed for Y. C. L. Delegates Over 120 delegates will take |part in the 6th National Con- | vention of the Young Commun- |ist League which is to open on Friday night with a mass meet- ing at the Central Opera House. | Every member of the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League, and of all workers organ- | izations is asked to cooperate with | |the ¥.C.L. in the housing of these | | delegates. | If you can house any delegates | | | get in touch immediately with the | District office of the YCL, 5th | | floor, 35 E. 12th St. Please state | | what organization you are a mem- | ber pf when you write. union Relief Needed Now to Keep Up Militant Fight | Workers! Show Your Solidarity July 8—A five-year-old baby | marched bare-foot at the head of the hunger march alll the way | from Lansing to St. Cairsville, Monday, a distance of six miles. Id resisted all attempts to put her into a closed automobile. “No,” she sturdily insisted, “we're marching against hunger, so I must march, because I’m hungry and I want lots of things to eat!” This section of the hunger march | passed through company towns where already scores of evictions| have taken place and miners’ fami- lies are waiting for tents to shield | their few household things from the rain. Hundreds more eviction no- tices fall due within the next few |days. In every town, the march swelled in numbers. Even if there weren't a placard to tell who they were, the rows and} rows of gaunt, determined faces, thin bodies covered in clothes so old that they have become colorless, elo- quently told. And the singing and from the spirited lines marching in | the pouring rain told of the miners’ determination to fight to a finish the battle against hunger. But meanwhile the striking min- ers ask for relief. In addition to} playing a leading role 6n the picket lines, the women collect relief in the | nearby towns and farms and run the soup kitchens. But the entire coal area is poverty-stricken and little can be collected there. The Pennsyl- | vania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee is doing its utmost to} send the barest necessities of life to the 40,000 striking miners and their families spread over a 40 mile front. | The donations sent to 799 Broad- way, Room 614, New York City, de- termine how many camps can re- ceive relief. Relief, especially at this point, is of vital importance to the life of the strike. Help the miners win their struggle against starvation! Send your donation octet verse ANTI-IMPERIALISTMEETING JULY 17th June 26.—A ¢all for a preliminary anti-imperialist conference on July 17 at Irving Plaza, has been sent by the | Provisional Committee, elected by a} | joint meeting of the national officers |of the Anti-Imperialist League, and | the affiliated Latin-American, Chi- | nese, and Filipino organizations of New York. | The conference will make prepa- | zation in 1 New York, the home of Wall Street and the very heart of im- perialist oppression before all workers | and sincere enemies of imperialism. | “Workers organizations, and Latin-American Negro white! While fighting against wage cuts, and starvation, against the legal |lynching of the 9 Negro boys of Scottsboro, and supporting the Penn- WASHINGTON Is. Yr. Old Baby Walla 6 Miles 100 MINE STRIKER STRIKERS GO TO ‘in March ‘ ‘Against Hunger” TO PROTEST — HOOVER SCAB CONFERENCE ‘To Throw Mass Picket Line Around Coverdale, Expect | Other Terminal Mines to Strike Again Use Mass Terror Against Striking Miners to Prevent Spread of Strike to Green County | PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 8.—Four hundred | struck today out of six hundred who had gone | back to work in the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal |Co. mine at Coverdale. The remainder told | the pickets they were going in only to get their tools and have been quitting in batches all day. There is a heavy concentration from all around to picket at Coverdale tomorrow morn- jcheering and shouting of slogans| ing and to definitely close the mine then, and ito call out the men at other Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Co. mines. This is the first big breech in the scab contract made by | the United Mine Workers of America. The importance of this latest walkout of miners who were forced into the mines by |the UMWA scab agreement is incalculable. Governor popes | s | forces, together with the mine oper- @— | Z Its Attempt to Deport Yokinen up the UMWA as a scabbing agency. Mass Delegation Goes to Washington. | Over 100 delegates were selected to (. L. D. Calls On Masses Tor high t go to Washington, D. C., in trucks Devision tonight to picket at the coal confer- ence called at the order of Hoover by Secretary of Commerce Lamont and Secretary of Labor Doak. De-! spite the fact that to help the U. M. W. A., Lamont announced the U. M. W. A. would not be represented, | the striking’ pickets will express their | protest against this strike-breaking | NEW YORK, July 8. — August Yo- American | and | ations for August 1 demonstration |sylvania-Ohio miners strike, you must gainst the imperialist war and will| also rally to the battle cry of your organize a permanent branch in New| colonial brothers who are fighting the York of the Anti-Imperialist League. | same enemy, Wall Street imperialism. m4 utionary movements in the colonies, he call states: “The fight against starvation and | war is the fight of all toiling oon in the imperialist and colonial coun- | | tries. The present growing revolu-| |tionary battles in the colonies and | |the increasing bloody interventionist | wars of U. S. imperialism, puts the | |question of organizing a powerful | anti-imperialist united front organi- | \] | | | | , After pointing out the great revo- | | | Elect two delegates to the anti-im- perialist conference on July 17th! “The conference will draw up a program of action and form a per- manant New York branch of the Anti-Imperialist Leauge.” * Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it activity of the Hoover government, in harmony with. the Pinchot, mine- operators, UMWA and the gunmen forces in the coal fields. This con- ference called by Lamont is prelimi- j nary to one to which the UMWA will be invited openly to betray the coal strike. The Central Strike | meeting today adopted ‘a statement which will be issued by the delegation | of striking miners which goes to | Washington. Mass Terror Continues. Following the arrest on Monday night of Moffit, near Waynesburg, 40 State Troopers and all the deputies | of Green County, raided house after house yesterday loading nearly the whole population in trucks and send- | ing them to the jail at Waynesburg. | The total arrests made in these raids are probably over 200. The bosses | are carrying on mass terror in Green | | County in an effort to stop the spread | of the strike. Forty striking pictures of work- ing class struggle in the July Labor Defender. Matthew Woll has organized crusade against the Soviet) Union. The Daily Worker is organizing a Committee of 15,- 000 to save the only English- language daily that fights against the capitalist war moves against the Soviet Union. Matthey Woll’s is a fascist committee, composed of bank- fessional patriots and labor be- trayers. Ours is a cemmittee of workers, 15,000 readers of the Daily Worker who will con- put the $35,000 Daily Worker | drive over the top. ers, notorious exploiters, pro-| tribute a halfudolllar each to;Day money { Are you going fo be one of | a Committee of 100 for a war|the 15,000? Already a tae el iar: of workers have responded to| | our appeals and have sent in their half dollars. More apaaty respond—at once! The Tag Days from Batt we expected so much have oa duced to date only $2,081, 95, | of which all but $375.38 came) from the New York district. | That’s why we must get 15,000} half dollars between now and July 19 or the Daily won't be able to pull through the sum- mer (and. we're sure there must be hundreds of dollars in Tag lurking around | that too!) The Matthew Wolls are 15000 SEDO FoR DALY; Hien Ne ay gS: oy BY Jur 19" SES As somewhere—we've got to get mine strike, in the Scottsboro {case, in the deportation drive, Answer Woll’s War Plots With Half Dollars to ‘Daily Worker’ in the imperialist war prepara- They are in the|tions—everywhere doing the} |slimiest work of the bosses. |The Daily Worker must be) everywhere too, exposing and organizing the struggle against | these worst enemies of the working class. Answer Woll and his Black Hundred with Reon half dollars to the Daily SH dey Demonstrate August First against the imperialist war and demonstrate today | by sending your half dollar to the Daily! Speed all funds— half dollars. Tag Day money, | collections on coupon books, | other contributions to the, Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City, % ~~ Committee | kinen, janitor of a Finnish workers’ hall in Harlem, who was expelled from the Communist Party at a pub- lic trial on March 3 for white chau- vinism, has been ordered deported to Finland by Harry E. Hull, Commis- | sioner General of the Immigration Department at Washington on the ground of belonging to an organiza- tion “teaching and advocating the overthrow of the government by force | and violence”, according to a state- | ment made public by the Interna- | tional Labor Defense. The decision will be appealed to the Federal Courts. The decision ordering Yokinen’s de- | portation reached the offices of | Shorr, Brodsky and King, attorneys | for the International Labor Defense. | The department of Labor rendering its decision states that Yokinen, be- | cause of membership in an organiza~ tion which advocated the overthrow of the government by force and vio- | lence, and because of his belief in | these Principles, should be deported, | to the country of his birth, Finland. At the trial on March 3, Yokinen | publicly admitted his errors and re- | canted. A jury of white and Negro workers found him guilty but be- | cause of his admission of wrong-do- | ing and promise to work for the unity | of Negro and white workers it was | recommended that he be expelled | from the Communist Party with the | right to re-apply for admission after 6 months. Next day the immigra- | tion officials in New York arrested | him for his membership in the Com- munist Party and lodged him in El- lis Island, He was released on $500 bail. When word reached here of the Washington decision, George Mau- rer, assistant secretary of the I. L. D. issued the following statement: “August Yokinen is being déported because of his admission of wrong- | doing when he discriminated against | Negroes. If Yokinen would not have recanted the Department of Labor would not deport him. We slall ap- peal the case.” P. R. R. FIRES 7,000 (By a Worker Correspondent) MINGO JUNCTION, Ohio.—The Pennsylvania Railroad, which, is pree paring to put over drastic wage re- ductions, completely stopped the wages of over 7,000 employees on its Panhandle Division today, July ‘ard, | when it layed them off indefinitely, | Shopmen in Dennison, Canton, Bel |laire, Shelley, Milden, Weirton, Juce (tion and other towns are. “a. a