The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1931, Page 1

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VIII, No. 166 SECRETARY OF CHINESE COMMUNIST PAR Bit Protest Mass Murder in China American Imperialism Guides the Assassin's Hand! ‘HE American-financed Kuomintang dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek, whose hands reek with the blood of hundreds of thousands of mas- seered workers and peasants, has just taken another life, a life that was priceless to the toiling masses of China. The secretary of the Communist Party of Chine, Comrade Hsiang, has been executed at Shankhai. Against this tragic episode in the struggles of our brother Party \ = <== sa —————SSS—————E——————————————————— Te at New York N. ¥. ender the act of uercn sins NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Ly i | | i i | | | BEAT BACK SCABS IN MILL STRIKE Strikers Take 6 Away) from Police; State of China, against the white terror and the mass physical destruction of thousands upon thousands of Chinese workers, American workers, the Communist Party, the International Labor Defense, the revolutionary unions of the T.U.U.L., must rally mass meetings of energetic protest! American imperialism, with its loans and its gunboats and land- | ing parties, has been and is the most outstanding imperialist criminal conspirator with the savage Kuomintang generals in slaughtering the revolutionary masses of China. American workers must speak! American imperialism with its naval forces doing police duty for the has repeatedly and still continues to fire upon the forces of the Chinese Soviets, carrying on a war of armed interven- tion without a declaration of war, and in support of the blood-scaked dictatorship of Nenking, a regime that is Every possible force of protest must a. ention and the wholesale massacre of Chine: Nanking “government,” American workers must speak! int by the servile tools of Wall Strest! have raised their voice against Secretary Doak s Communist student, Li, to the same fate as Com! their voices now against the bloody crimes czainst the Chinese masses! In every neighborhood throughout America a meeting of protest be held! Militant demonstrations of prot Revolutionary workers ictorious advance of the Chinese Soviets, ese toilers, and the armed intervention of U. S. forces in China mist iy aS consulates! of vi the Chi, to every factory, shop and mine! Expose the Hoover government as accomplice and principal supporter Demand the recall of U. S. soldiery and Expose the hypocricy of Hoover’s pretended moves for “peace and disarmament” Kuomintang assassins of the Chinese toilers! Demand that the supply of of the Kuomintang hangsmen! naval forces from China! munitions, of loans and “advisers” cease! Let the assassins hear the protest the Chinese masses! | ized to stop this armed workers and peasants Every honest intellectual, those who the young Chinese ide Hsiang, should raise es must be made before lust carry the message the mass murders of while he guides the hand of the to the bloody Kuomintang generals t of the American masses! Bosses Admit Dogskin Shops Crippled; Picketing Organized Fur Workers to Hold Mass Meeting Wednesday te Spread Campaign Thru Industry NEW YORK—In a statement which appeared in the Women’s Wear Daily today, the bosses of the Fur Trimming Association corrobo- rated the statement issued by the strike committee of the dogskin workers and the Needle Trades ‘Workers Industrial Union that the strike has paralyzed the industry. However, in this statement the boss- @ attempt to create the impression that they are stocked up and are not with the strike. This state- i ‘is contradicted by the numer- ous applications for settlements which have come in to the office of the union. Picket Demonstration Yesterday. An effective picketing demonstra- tion was carried through yesterday which brought down a number of ether shops that did not answer the original strike call. In the early af- ternoop 2 check up showed about 130 shops on strike, involving about 100 workers. Strikers Organize Ranks. Meetings of the strikers yesterday ‘were of an organization character. A roll call was taken early this morning and the strikers organized according to buildings and blocks. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon shop and building chairmen met to work out plans for the strike. The meeting was ad- dressed by Sen Gold and Louis Hy- man. The mecting decided to organ- ize’ effective picketing for Saturday and Sunday in order to prevent any of the employers from doing their ‘york during these two days. The strike in the dogskin line has had a very good effect on the work- Showing his responsibility for the| ers in the other shops. A number of important coat shops came down on strike and settlements were made with some of the manufacturers in which they granted increases of from five and ten dollars to the workers. A settlement committee of the dog- skin workers has been organized and will begin to negotiate settlements next week. The strike committee sent an open letter to Mthew Woll exposing his treacherous activities against thefur workers during the past four years, | present chaotic conditions and pro- testing against his efforts at the present time to interfere with the ef- fective strike of the workers. The fighting spirit of the fur workers is increasing from day to day and the campaign promises to spread out to every cornerd of the industry. Mass Meet Planned. A mass meeting of fur workers is being arranged for the coming Wednesday at Cooper Union where @ full report will be given on the campaign and plans presented for extending it throughout the entire industry. Fur workers are called upon to re- port on the picket line in front of the striking shops this morning and Sunday. A huge demonstration is planned for Monday morning. While the strike struggles conduct- ed under the leadership of the Nee- dle Trades Workers Industrial’ Union are spreading, the company union in all branches of the trade is disinte- grating. Cops Come In PAWTUCKET, R. I., July 10—The afternoon picket line before the Gen- eral Fabrics Mill, had to defend themselves from a handful of scabs who threatened to beat up some pick- jets. The police who rushed to the |aid of the scabs got the worst of it in the fight that ensued. Unverified | reports state that three or four pick- ets were arrested, we oe State Police Called In tant action of the striking mill workers in various parts of Rhode Island yeached a high point on Thur. sday, when the strikers at Central Falls battled police and firemen who were protecting scabs and attempted to scatter the picket lines of the} strikers. The strike of several hun- dred against wage cuts at the Central Fabrics Corporation mill here is un- der the, leadership of the Nations! Textile Workers’ Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. “State police and firemen aided lecal police today,” says an Associa- ted Press dispatch from Cantral Falls, “in a fight with striking mill wor! and ‘sympathizers hurling stones During the disturbance one police- men was beaten and six or seven per- sons arrested were taken away from the police by the strikers.” Tear gas;bombs and streams of water were used against the strikers. The struggle started when the bosses ——— some scabs into the mills. When scabs came out, the strik- ers pickéted the mills, and the polic> tried to smzsh the picket lines. The workers resisted and the police got the worst of it. Seven strikers were arested, but the strikers took the ar- rested from the police. Only one young worker, Otto A. Hall, 17, was held and charged with “inciting to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ® Miners Need Tents Three thousand eviction notices have been served on the striking miners, The hired thugs, police and sheriffs club the miners, their wives and children, and say: “Go to work or you will be evicted to- morrow.” Fellow-workers! must not go jthey win their demands! They |can only continue their fight if every class-conscious worker comes to the support of their desperate struggle. Money is needed at once to buy tents for the miners! Rush funds to DSTRICT PENN-OHIO STRIKING MIN- * RELIEF COMMITTEE, 799 way, Room 330, New York. ‘BIG JULY 9 MEETS HELD INN. Y. €. | Demand Release of 9 Scottsboro Boys — YORK.—Over 500 workers, 5 < @ént of them colored, defied | the heat Thursday night to attend the Scottsboro protest mass meeting tat St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St. ees mecting was marked by a fine ““g t, with many workers taging the floor to denounce the -up of the Alabama bosses against the nine working-class children. One of the. most militant speeches of the evening was made from the floor by Mrs. Marshall, a colored worker and the mother of t children, whose recent eviction attracted the attention of the Har- lem Unemployed Council. Mrs. Mar- shall praised the Communists and the Leagie of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense for their activities in de- fending the boys, and sharply criti- cized the whole attitude of the N. A. A. C. -P, and other reformist organ- izations. She also told the audience of the activities of the Communists and the Unemployed Councils in de- fending her family and other work- ers from evictions, and urged the workers to line up with the Commu- nists in the fight against unemploy- ment, against evictions and for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. \ i} | | TY EXECUTED e WALL STREET IS BACK OF HIS MURDER Demonstrate ‘Against This Attack at Consulates BULLETIN NEW YORK—A mass demon-.} stration in New York to protest the execution of the Secretary of the Communist Party of China, will take place at the Chinese Con~ sulate, Cooper Union Square, on Wednesday, July 15, at 4:30 p.m. | a ae SHANGHAI, China,. July 10— | Comrade Hsiang, Secretary of the | Communist Party of China, was ex- ecuted today on the order of Chiang Kai Shek, bloody tool of Wall Street | in China. The execution of Com- rade “Hsiang, foremost l¢ader of the} fevolutionary workers and. peasants of China, takes place at the time when Chaing Kai Shek is making 2 closer alliance with Wall Street. The arrest and execution of Com- rade Hsiang, taking place at this time, shows the direct responsibility of the Wall Street bankers in the murder of this revolutionary worker. Comrade Hsiang was president of the Hupeh Federation of Labor and had a long history of struggle in A GROUP OF STRIKIN' was shot and killed on Jur who attacked the mass wood mine of the Butier Co: been three killings in the as & In the se Labor Federation and was one of the organizers of the first big rail- road strike in China in 1923. The strike was directed against the war striking miners. Inste with the United Mine ment, three new min lard, Wu Pei Fu. The majority of is we > ma, 3 of ma the strike leadership was executed at this week, by masses of ah the time, but the strike marked the Even the Pittsburgh T beginning of the downfall of Wu Pei Fu's reign. ‘The blow struck against the Com- munist Party of China by the exe- cution of the secretary of the Party, as well as the murder of thousands of members and other revolutionary workers, is a blow against. the Amer- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) No. 8 mine is almost compl Ot to the pickets promise. the picket lines to come And as the miners tell new. victories, they draw notch of their belts of th in anoth NEW YORE. — — Demonstrations | against the Scottsboro bosses’ court | lynch verdict railroading eight in- nocent, Negro boys to the electric chair and threatening another with life imprisonment took place thru- out the country on Thursday, July 9, the eve of the day originally set by the Alabama bosses and their courts for the mass murder of these working cless children. Tens of thousands of colored and white workers and sympathizers par- ticipated in these demonstrations, carrying to new high levels the strug- gle against the legal lynching of the boys against the rightful persecution of the Negro people of which the lynch verdict is a part. The dem- onstrations served to rally additional masses to the fight to free the boys and helped to lay the basis for the larger demonstrations on August Ist against imperialist war and the Scottsboro frame-up. While reports have been received from only a few cities so far, these reports give a good idea of the success and scops of the demonstrations. ey Barberton Workers Defy Police Terror BARBERTON, O., July 10.—Eight thousand colored and white workers @successfully demonstrated here this evening for the release of the Scotts- boro victims and in protest of the murder by the Barberton police of Colored and white worker of New Haven demonstrating on July 9, as part of the nation-wide protest demonstrations that day for the demand for the release of the nine innocent. Scottsboro Negro boys. [ens of Thousands in Tremendous Demonstrations : uly 9 for Release of Nine Scottsboro Negro Boys. Louis Alexander, an unemployed Ne- gro worker and leader of the Unem- ployed Council. The demonstration was a tremen- dous victory for the workers, occu ring after two previous demon tions had been broken up by and blackjack attacks by police a: Legion, thugs in an effort to the protest against the pol of Comrade Alexander lynching planned by bosses. As a result of the flaming tion of the workers, Gov: has been forced to order an tigation of the gas attack and bea ings of June 28. The Grand J) also conducting hearings on 1! tacks, and has been forced to ise an investigation into the poll murder of Alexander J. Louis Engdahl retary of the Internatior Defense speaking at the dem tion, pointed out that while berton city administration and the Chamber of Commerce had not at- tempted to interfere with Thursday's meeting, the workers must have no illusions “regarding the Grand | hearings, the Governor’s inv tion and the fact that we are hol this gigantic demonstration here to- night unmolested. Our safeguard is national (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) e the revolutionary working-class movement. He was a delegate to SANS ae the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Con- PITTSBURGI Pz ference in 1927. He was a memberj __- ” 2 2 * of the executive of the All-China | W ind” is sweepin hing men, RS on the spot where Pete Zigaric , by deputy sheriffs injunction of the Wild- 1 Company. There have Relief Is “the Big Issue e Fields Now July 10. — “Second h the ranks of the id of breaking the strike Workers’ Scab agree- vere closed down solid women and children nal Coal domain is shaken— shut down once more, in spite | of the fake agreement, and the job will be finished tomorrow, inal mines are waiting for g fine out here. We he children are great ket line—we're showing | All we need is re-| I have nine children and e don’t have nothing to eat except when weet relief, and I know every- ody isvtihe same her g how |real hungry we're ts othe: 1g about going on an- mine 20 miles from here to out the Yew workers there. We we're going fine. The| you got enough to roun' it soon. I can't tell you how bad We don’t put no truck king the Red Cross—” s mother of nine just came out where she served a week's/ Not a murmur about hard- ead she says “we're r Only we need relief.” ‘ow relief is the big issue in the | stetke fields! More funds are needed y to buy food so that = will be enough to go round, and Striking Miners Relief Committee be able to send other shipment is camp, and scores of others. Every little bit of*food is made to go far—indeed~ yedtm.. of staryation wages taught the miners how! But 40,000 striking miners and their fam- ilies ask you to help them get that little. Ever: Send your con- the Pennsyl- day counts! TODAY to New York 4 ,|) each for you send some here| so that the Pennsylvania-Ohio | Miners Relief; To Work Out Common Program in the Fight Against Starvation tu M.W. Scab Agree- ments Fail to Keep Men In Pits | Rock Mine ¢ Crew Out Operators’. Meet Breaks Up July 10. formed local of 150 min- jers at Masontown Fayette County, | Marched on the Rocks Mine, and the | whole crew of 75 men struck today. Half of the crew of men at the Providence Mine, in Brownsville, struck today. The rest also will come Six Negroes brought from the | South to Hill Station, who were not | tola of the strike; quit when pickets approached them and told them why they were brought to the mine fields, Twenty-eight men and five wom- en were tried at one time in court after their arrest at Waynesburg. They were arrested after mass raids Twentylone were sentenced to ten days for disorderly conduct, and 5 women, two days for disorderly come duct. Three of the men were held to the higher courts on $300 bail inciting to riot.” PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 9—Re- Ports continue to reach the National Miners Union ' office here of the building up of delegations from the Anthracite, Illinois, West Virginia and Kentucky for thé United Front National Conference of miners, to be held here July 15 and 16. The conference will work out joint demands and a common program of action in the fight of all coal miners against starvation. It will mobilize relief and solidarity for the strike of 40,000 miners now going on in three states The latest is 2 message from Ken- | tucky, that five cars and thirty dele- |gates elected from rank and file | controlled U.M.W.A. locals. and. rank ‘and file committees, delegates elected at a meeting of 300 |representatives of all the U.M.W.A. locals in the wer area, Harlan coun- |ty, are about to start for the Na- tional Conference in Pittsburgh. * * COLLIERS, W. Va., July 9—The | United Mine Workers signed up with the owners of 2 mine at Louise, W. Va., with 50 men. But a hundred marched from the struck mines at fone a five-mile hike, and closed he Louise mine down, 100 per cent, (ssa 8. The rate made by the U. M. |W. was 45 cents a ton. | The Pittsburgh & West Virginia | Coal Co. at Colliers has shown an unusually brazen lust for evictions, | One of the latest to get an eviction |notice is Tom Ralston, who is or- dered to “get out as the company | wishes to take back Possession of the house you. are living in,” although Tom lives’in his own house on his own farm. But with the full armed force of the state back of the company, it is |mot impossible that they will really evict this man. Eviction is the great | weapon of the coal operators in all 'struck areas, and thousands are in immediate danger of having them- selves, wives and children thrown out without a place to take their furni- ture or their babies. Tents must be sent as rapidly as possible to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Room 205. Two pickets were arrested at the | Colliers picketing today. oe: eee COVERDALE July 8.—A pick (CONTINUED ON oN PAGE FIVE) , E, Pa including six ©