The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1931, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1931 e Five IN THE COAL FIELDS TENS OF THOUSANDS IN TREMENDOUS DEMONSTRATIONS JULY 9 FOR RE- LEASE OF 9 SCOTTSBORO NEGRO BOYS Raise Thunder of Protest Against Lynch Ver- dict and General Imperialist Oppression of the Negro Masses—Defy Police in Barberton aa TAG DAYS JULY 25.26 1500 | HALF DOLLARS NEEDED IND. W. re {CUNTINUED FROM PAGR ONE) our strength. We must defeat these manouvres of the bosses and their lackeys in office by building our pro- “test ever greater and crystallizing it into organizational form.” Herbert Newton, for the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, stressed the intolerable conditions under which workers are exploited in Bar- berton’s industries. Jennie Cooper, Cleveland District Organizer of the IL.D., reviewed the significance of the July 9th protests against the Scottsboro outrage. The meeting unanimously supported the mass fight to save the 9 Negro boys, and the struggle a the paveiking miners. Mrs. Narre apes at Cleveland Meet. CLEVELAND, July 10.—Scottsboro- Barberton protest meetings were held throughout the district, special suc- tess being registered in Barberton, and in Cleveland, where Mrs. Mamie Norris, mother of Eugene, one of the Scottsboro victims, spoke, The speak- ers also included William W. Wein- stone, who came to Cleveland from the coe strike Lag 8,000 In Two Teaneusee nce in Detroit DETROIT, July, 10—Six thousand workers demonstrated before the City Hall here for two hours. Sixty per- cent of the crowd were Negro work- ers. The crowd shouted for the re- lease of the nine boys, and carried banners denouncing the co-operation with the Southern boss lynchers of the Northern capitalists and the NAACP leaders, Mrs. Mamie Norris, mother of one of the boys, was cheered for several minutes. A resolution demanding the unconditional release of the boys was unanimously adopted. Two thousand workers participated at the same time in another demon- stration in North Detroit, with ban- ners demanding freedom of the boys, death to the lynchers, and denounc- ing the boss terror against the Negro and. foreign born workers, pe Br ae 2,500 Join Protest In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July, 10— Defying the attacks of the police who broke up a demonstration at Turk and Market Streets, 2,500 workers rallied round the Scottsboro Defense demonstration three blocks further at Seventh and Market Streets. The demonstration demanded un- conditional release of the nine in- nocent Scottsboro Negro boys, de- nounced race and national oppression and supported the demand for full equality of the Negro masses, with death to the lynchers. The workers pledged support to the fight to repeal the Criminal Syndical- ist Law, and for the demand for the release of Mooney and Billings and the Imperial Valley prisoners, and all class war prisoners. They pledged to demonstrate on August 1st, against imperialist war and for thé defense of the Soviet Union. The demonstra- tion closed with the singing of the Internationale. eee Huge Demonstration in Chicago CHICAGO, July, 10.—Two huge de- monstrations were held here July 9, for the release of the nine Scottsboro boys. At Washington Park, thou- sands bi colored and white workers 9 the fight to free the At Union Park, there was also boys. another large crowd of white and col- ored workers. The crowds at both meetings una- nimously denounced the Scottsboro outrage, the national oppression of the Negro masses, and demanded death to the lynchers. The workers unanimously voted to support the fight to save the boys, and the strug- gle. of the striking miners. They cheered the denunciation of the traitorous leaders of the NAACP, and pledged themselves to build block and neighborhood committes, and to take up the question of Scottsboro defense in their organizations and in the churches, To Work Out Common Program In the Fight Against Starvation (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) et line of 450 massed at Mine No. 8 of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. here this morning. After the first big break yesterday in the plan of the company, Governor Pinchot and the United Mine Workers of Ameri- ca to smash the strike in the Termi- nal mines first and then in the rest of the fields, the deputies have in- creased in number and arbitrari- ness. This morning deputies drew a deadline on the road at Coverdale, barring the pickets from even a sight of the shaft. It is hard to tell, therefore, how many went in, buf the rumber is known to be smaller than yesterday, when 400 out of 600 quit. ’“ This morning the pickets saw 52 men with miners’ clothes on leave the patch and go away, apparently leaving the mine. A method is being worked out to picket all roads to- morrow morning. Men are quitting daily at Pitts- burgh Terminal No. 4-at Horning, not far from here. There is intense dissatisfaction among those working at the results of their pay slips. One slip shows (and this is an average of the rest) thet the man loaded 492 cwt. or something over 24 tons of coal in three days. For this he was credited with $11.07 by the company. But then, the company took away. checked off, the following charges: Company store, $6.05; smithing, 8 cents; rent, $1.70; doctor, 40 cen! explosives, $1.27; lamps, 60 cent dues for the United Mine Workers, 5 cents; charge for checkweighman, 22 cents—which left the miner just ‘exactly nothing to show for his work. ‘Furthermore, the miners feel very uneasy about that $1.70 charge for rent. There is no house for which]. rent is charged at that rate. What the company did was to add up all the other charges, see what was left, and then turn that over to “rent.” If the man had made $15 they would thave taken the whole thing too. "There is no pay for dead work, no supplies furnished, and one man found that the weights on his three cars of coal all he could mine in two days, ran as low as 3600 and that the highest was 4400, for cars that . he knows hold 8000 pounds. In Horning the U.M.W.A. organiz- ers have been fired by the company —just what this tactic leads to is not understood yet by the miners, But they know it is part of some compli- cated trick. _ BURGETTSTOWN, Pa., July 9.— Yesterday when the picket line was formed at Bulger Block mine here, a seabg picked a fight with one of the pickets. He wielded a pick on the striker, and went down before the rush of the rest of the pickets. In the general fight that followed, the pickets drove the whole night crew of 12 scabs, the two owners of the mine who were present, the superin- tendent, and all the foremen from the scene. : . 8 8 McKEESPORT, Pa. Twenty men were taken from “The Helping Hand,” a flop house and charity. part of the general city wel- “e svstem in Pittsburgh, and sent through Star Employment Agency on Ave., to scab in the Versailles mine near here, of the Hubbert Min- ing Co. were told there was “lots of work,” and were not told the miners were on strike. They were promised 38 cents a ton or $3.75 for day work. When these men reached the mine, they found themselves almost pris- oners. The company has a big searchlight at the entrance to the bunk house, trained on the road, and armed deputies stand guard. The imported men were told that no one knew what they would be paid; they were told this by the bosses in the mine. Then they found that they got no pay for rock, that the two wag- ons they could load of coal brought them about 60 cents a day, that they had to pay $12.50 for their bunks, at the price of the tools they worked with was checked off their wages, etc. The pickets, men, women and chil- dren appealed to them and argued with them. On July 8, in the morning, seven quit; at night five more quit, and ‘this morning three more. Four depu- ties also quit. This morning four state police escorted two scabs into the mine. During the night three shots were fired. A fat man, without creden- tials but suspected of U. M. W. con- nections brought unlimited liquor, and got the owner of the garage where the Pennsylvania-Ohio strik- ing miners’ relief station is located, drunk, so that he ordered the relief to vacate. « 8 McDONALD, Pa. July 9.—The United Mine Workers of America has opened a speakeasy in the Belgian Hall here and gives out a large amount of free booze, and money, too, it is suspected, to any who will promise to scab. The U. M. W. seems to have largely abandoned its attempt to bribe strikers with food, cand is trying more than ever with moonshine. es hee ae VESTABURG, Pa., July 9.—James Mades, the deputy who shot the strike organizer, Topolsky, twice for trying to talk to a man on the Vesta Coal Co, patch, has quite a reputa- tion. He is an ex-convict, having served ten months in Edensburg, Pa., on a white slavery charge. He has a. criminal record from Alabama, also wen fae 8 Some disagreements have devel- oped among operators at the Hoover coal conference in Washington, ac- cording to a Scripps-Howard News- paper Alliance telegram from Wash- ington. The story reads: “Government officials today are discouraged over the prospect of successfully intervening in soft coal strikes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and other states. “Their efforts to bring a settle- July 9. —|ment between miners and operators “Baby will die if we don’t get some milk for him, John.” Crisis in Germany Grows Worse; Failures Increase; Wall St. Admits War Is Brewing $50,000,000 Wool Firm Bankrupt in Germany; ;————____| Conditions of Masses Grow Worse; Peele NEW YORK.—Saying that a “Eu- ropean war” was “probably averted,” @ confidential letter, issued privately by one of the leading Wall Street financial services, gives some of the inside happenings in the Hoover- Mellon war debt negotiations. While this financial service takes it for granted that. the crisis has been alle- viated somewhat, latest news from Germany published by the New York American on Thursday morning shows that the crisis in Germany is worse than ever before; that the war danger is greater. The an- nouncement of Hoover and his fi- nancial backers is an attempt to cover up the conflicts and drive to war of the imperialist powers. Karl H. Von Wiegand, correspon- dent for the Universal Service, in a dispatch to the New York American, starts out by saying: “Germany is tottering!” He goes on to show the whole financial and economic struc- ture, despite the Wall Street help. is sinking into bankruptcy, with the masses going deeper into misery. “Behind the calm, outward as- pect of the government and econ- omic picture today (June 8),” writes Von Wiegand, “bank and industrial heads are discussing des- perate measures to bolster up the Reich’s economic and _ financial structure.” He explains why Herr Luther, president of the Reichsbank, is rushing to London, pleading for a loan of $250,000,000. The $100,000,000 loan from the Federal Reserve Bank had little effect on the collapsing German financial structure. At the last moment, under threats of all kinds, the Reichsbank (central Ger- man bank) was able to get $118,- 000,000 from the leading German capitalists. This helped not at all. Thinks It’s Too Late. Von Wiegand says that leading capitalist politicians in Germany ask the question: “Has France's 17-day delay since President Hoover an- nounced his moratorium and war struck a snag yesterday when four- teen operators, representing most of the biggest producers in the nation, informed Secretary of Commerce Lamont and Secretary of Labor Doak that they would not confer with the miners. “Many of the operators held that little could be accomplished by a national coal conference at this time, Lamont and Doak said in a joint statement last night. “The attitude of the operators was so discouraging that when the con- ference adjourned after a four-hour session Lamont announced that the operators would not be recalled to Washington. Individual operators, speaking for themselves, said they had no intention of conferring with the miners.” ‘The strategy of the operators seems to be to crush the strike directly first, and, if possible, root out any form of unionism emong the m'»- ers, They discovered that their fake “concessions” through the U.M.W.A. was not fooling the miners. i i WHEELING, West Va., July 8— The Wheeling Daily News, leading local paper, states in the main story in its issue of July 7: “Perhans no labor strike in the history of this section has found “Tottering,” Says Von Wiegand debt suspension plan brought Wash- ington’s action too late to save the German Republic?” He also tells of the bankruptcy of the leading wool concern, the North German Wool and Textile Co., with $50,000,000 involved. This news is not published in any other metro- politan capitalists newspaper. This large concern is connected with over 20 banks, all of which face collapse. Besides, many of the other leading banks in Germany are on the verge of toppling over. ‘The Reichsbank, according to Von Wiegand, is in desperate straits. He points out that the situation in Ger- many is much worse than it ever was heretofore, with the Hoover ac- tion having an opposite effect from that which it was intended to have. The startling inside story of the Hoover action is sent in a letter from one of our readers, showing how Wall Street viewed the possible revolutionary action throughout Eu- rope. This information, he says, is sent out by a well-known financial service: eh eS “Probabilities Chart.” “PROBABILITIES CHART: In view of previous statements that the Hoover proposal probably averted a European war, it ought to be said that there was drawn up by Ameri- can officials in Europe, prior to Hoover intervention, a ‘probabilities chart,’ a sort of hypothetical map- diagram, which undertook to show graphically what the outlook for the immediate future then was. It all seems very fantastic but, as it has been filed in the official archives, an epitomization of it may be proper here. The probable course of events was given as follows: (1) Collapse of Austria; (2) Complete smash in the public so whole-heartedly in sympathy with the strikers.” ‘The paper is speaking of the strike in the Valley Camp Coal Co. (owned by Paisley interests, and with mines also at Kinloch and Soudan, Pa.). The West Virginia mines of this company are at Elm Grove, and the strike has been going on for weeks. ‘The Daily News quotes Elm Grove business men as follows: “The truth of the matter is that the people of this community are helping to pay the price of digging coal for the Paisley interests. That is literally the truth. Before there ever was a strike here or any sugges- tion of labor trouble, the Valley Camp miners were not self-support- ing. They have been utterly unable to support themselves upon the wages paid and the work provided. As a result they have not only been unable to take part in the business life of the community, but have ac- tually been objects of charity.” The paper tells how strike-break- ers have been brought in, picked up on the streets of big cities without being told there was a strike, many of the men so hired having never seen a coal mine before, Dozens thus swindled into coming to West Virginia escape from their armed guards at the first opportunity, and Hungary; (3) Declaration of national bankruptcy by Roumania; (43 Fi- nancial and economic failure of Ger- many; (5) Fascist seizure of power in Germany; (6) Formation of Bol- shevik Government at Vienna; (7) Communist control of Hungarian and Roumanian Governments; (8) German fascist regime a failure and Communists in control; (9) Revolu- tionary movement spreading to France; (10) Revolution in India: (1) Establiskment of Communist Government in Ohina; (12) Grave civil disorders in the United King- dom. The ‘map’ hesitated to go fur- ther. It was based on precisely the information, which, later, when re- viewed at the White House, led to immediate action by the President. The possibilities envisioned show the excitement that existed behind the scenes and how thoroaghly fright- ened responsible men in Europe were. A more seasoned view in dip- lomatic circles was that, so soon as the Hitlerites had seized power in Berlin and disavowed all reparation obligations, the French would have moved at once to occupy German territory and war would have fol- lowed. Moreover, the French were confident that they could have handled the situation. .. .” Conflicts Sharpen. More conflicts are breaking through the so-called debt postponement agreement supposed to have been ar- rived at in Paris between the United States and the French governments, after conversations between Prime Minister Laval and Secretary of the ‘Treasury Mellon. It develops now that the basic questions are not at all solved, with a special conference being called by British imperialism in London to talk over other mat- ters. In the umes speculators agreeme plur downward, United had prev dropping Again H of armame: matic langu: States be arms suprer of the United S and England, military bude: Reports from Germany state tha the Bruening gov ent the Hoover war debt a supposed to be in ef “further e greater w workers, ere ting down of u yment relic payments, and other added burdens of the g class. The New York 1 of Com-| inas , headed the an, What?” points out that the economic world | crisis is j 2 p as ever and} that the effect; tinue r living of the wc The conflict American c out more ference of “ex: . to work out the ag n has had no ust-con- | tandar rd of | now that | There is no dor ence will gles. Mea Germany is being inflated being withd bank (cent undermini The $42,000,000 crash: of tk of Catalonia in Sp: will have its | effect on the world cris and in it- self show: had pract on the crisis. uation. | become charges on the community. eas PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 8—A coOmmittee of 18 striking miners, headed by Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners’ Union, walked into the national convention now going on here of the Serbian National Federation. They came to ask this Jugo-Slav nationalist or- ganization for relief for the striking miners, a large percentage of whom are also South Slavs. They found the convention at- tended by half a dozen royal Jugo- Slav counsels, dominated by priests, and pursuing a mad fascist and anti-labor program. The conven- tion simply refused to even give these Jugo-Slav miners the floor. eee Se AKRON, Ohio, July 10. — Several meetings and conferences for miners relief have been held here, George Wagner; one of the striking miners from Ohio spoke about conditions. July 18 and 19th will be tag days for striking miners relief. The fol- lowing relief stations have been opened to collect relief: Workers’ Center, 9 W. Barges St. central station; 405 Pioneer St., Heights: 611 East Avenue, Side, 112 West Dalton, North side; Ukrainian Hall, Corce St. ESS SAE EES Goodyear} of the Chinese w West | WALL STREET IS BACK OF {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED ican work It is t capitalists who t millions of Ame throw 10,000,000 Americ on the ets to sta with Chiang Kai to wipe out the revo ing-class forces in The American w their answer! In United States there diate mass demo of the Chinese with the bloody Chinese workers Down with the Am Starve and bi ers and strike eution of Ch Support the re’ s in fron Down merican wi and order the e: these brothe: Chinese murders Hythe Bank |" lookers gathered tonight at a mass | meeting conducted in a vacant lot near the mill, by the National Textile District Must revs = Day Failures. Days in San Francisco, as as elsewhere, poorly ‘organ- Unemployed € the ‘19th e left on Other distri suit and redeem bitter disappoint- ment of last Tag Days! More ie Rush Half Dollars to Put Drive Over! do not want their | because of pos- in their contribu- tions. tors should ask those who contribute whether they want their names printed. * 8 8 received Wednesda y of the (Ch 0). $8.50 nd $1.50 from District 1 “(Bos- DISTRICT 1 Jersey City A Sympnthizer _.50 _ Batley, HM: Donation S. Baron 1.00 E 00 | R Baron 1.90 | Total 459. ieee ikin, Total DISTRIC New York City: snish Fed. Jw si Chase, P: Cabay, $200.00 umphreys abren hople, ‘Total A. Bissky. Freehold, New 50 nit 4 arian Home DISTRICT 3 Prince- ; plente 14.00 Chicago 50 3.80 1.08 W Eastman, West Allis, Wis. 28 24.5 Phila Total DISTRICT 9 O Corgan, Superior, Win, 2. Superior W A Harju 1. H 'Tianen 1% |B Puchleitner, St. | Paul, Superior 2.00 : Total 8.50 Weldle DISTRICT 10 i re St. Louis, Total 2.00 DISTRICT 7 — earborn,: Mich, Total 2.00 Hichenko DISTRICT 12 Kuish ‘Tacomn, Wash, A Remer Workers 4.75 K Stasik nd, donation 200 detroit, Mich.: Lund B Morla A Sympathizer L Verbank 1.00 | 1 n 1.00 1,00 Tot. to date $31,080.58 SCA B : IN MILL STRIKE: OM PAGE ONE) ce Chief Collette, appealed aid to the state police barracks and Governor Case a detachment in an ef- fort to smash the strike. ‘The AP story stated that “a crowd of 1,000 workers, sympathizers and on at rkers’ Union. Pea ee PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 10.—The first day of the walk-out of the Wey- bosset Mill to the Providence Worsted American Woolen Co.), and 1ed along Valley Street Square epresentative Strike Com- mittee has been elected and has al- tten down to the work of ing the strike. At a special mens’ meeting today, a large num- women strikers added to the e Committee from the various 5. Others will be added as mt meetings are held. cers in Lawrence, Maynard American Woolen Com- 's, are bound to be affect- strike of the Weybosset ber of departr The wo nd other ers in Maynard, met yesterday and decided to present their own griev- jances to the company,. and fight against the 12 and.a half percent wage cut. 6) ee Workers Offer. Bail PAWTUCKET, R. I. July 10.—Sym- pathetic workers came to the N. T. W. U. office today to offer ‘bail for the release of Kazimer Chorzempa, Agnes Szpak and Manuel Francisco, General Fabrics strikers being held now in the East Boston Immigration tation, by the U. 8, Dept. of Labor. These arrests are part of the general police hounding, which is trying to break the Royal and General Fabrics strikes. Strikers are still being called down to the police station daily for questioning. An extra heavy police escort’ suc- ceeded in getting through a small number of scabs into the General Fabrics mill. But this will only re- sult in an increased picket tiné to receive the scabs when. they_.come out. Picketing before the Royal Mill went on the-same as usual today. PAWTUCKET, R. L., July,10—To- morrow Anna Burlak, N. T. W. U. organizer in the General Fabrics strike, goes before Judge Dekter for sentence on the framed-up charge of throwing pepper at a scab. Another worker was arrested today on a@ city ordinance charge of dis- tributing leaflets before the Loraine Mill. No race hatred in worker's Rus- sia by Patterson, in July Labor 400 American Woolen Co, work- Defender. 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