The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1931, Page 1

The Nanking government, puppet of of Wall Street, has murdered Comrade Hsiang, secretary of the Communist Party of China. Only the Daily Worker ‘carried this Only the Daily Wall Worker exposes the frightful terror | that has already slaughtered tens of news. thousands of Chinese workers and peas- | ants and rallies the American workers | to fight for the overthrow of the bloody tools of American imperialism. masses and exterminates bullet and sword, and it plunders them also with “silver bullets’”—cash—to buy up gen- erals, whole armies, the well-known method of in order to main- es with “ ese mas — Hsiang and thousands of other heroic fighters for the liberation of the Chin- silver bullets’ struggle against the: of your tain its stranglehold. own! 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VII, No 167 TAR Entered as second: class matter at the Post Officer at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 <B>: NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1931 = —SSS— Se Norker Ed RMunict Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, TENABLE! C ITY EDITION Price 3 Gomis NATIONAL MINERS’ CONFERENCE TO MEET JULY 15-16 U.S. Workers to Protest Murder of Hsian The ‘Masses Pay! 'HE marvelous “war debt plan” of Hoover, which has become ever more entangled by negotiations until Hoover himself doesn’t know whether if is “effective” or not, is not only failing to save German capitalism from collapse, but is loading the toiling masses of both Germany and America with burdens—and in the case of the German workers with utterly intolerable burdens. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce of July 9, editorially declares that the Bruening government of Germany has a “hard task” because it “has to make the German people realize that a moratorium on reparations does not relieve them from the necessity of continuing to make heavy sacrifices in order to maintain budgetary. stability.” Chancellor Bruening himself recently stated that the hated “Emer- gency Decree” must be enforced regardless of the moratorium. This outrageous “Decree” is enough itself to provoke mass revolt; the Ger- man capitalist class is freed by it from paying taxes, while wage cuts and taxes are piled upon the already starving workers. By this “Emergency Decree” the right to strike is abolished! Forced labor is established by denying all relief to the unemployed adults’ unless work is performed! In a hundred and one ways the workers’ living con- ditions are savagely slashed, while the capitalists are given hundreds of millions! But if the American workers and toiling farmers think tha they are not. involyed in this, they should be disillusioned by the statement. of Bainbridge Colby, formerly U. S. Secretary of State, wlio in’ speaking at New York July 8, declared: . “The moratorium has been hailed with loud hosannas by the bankers, and naturally se, because they find that the American people have become involuntary contributors to the stability of German credits and obligations in which the bankers are -beavily involved. There ts no suggestion, however, of any moratorium in'relation to the obligations that are held by the bankers. On the co ‘y, the American tax- payer is called upon to shoulder a very considetable burden in improv- ing the prospects of our bankers for their ulfiqate realization of their loans to German industrialists and municipal! ” But, as the Daily Worker and the Comimunist press generally predict- ed, against the idiotic paeans of praise for Hoover ascending from the bourgeois press, the moratorium maneuyre of Hoover only worsens the situation it was designed to “help.” If Hoover boasted that his plan was a “success” because his first announcement sent, stocks up, what now will he boast of when they fell rapidly when the “agreement” was signed? In fact the situation in Germany is described as “tottering” by the conservative German journalist, Karl H. Von Wiegand, writing in N. Y. Ameri of July 9. “Germany is tottering,” is his opening line. And after telling how the German public “is largely ignorant of the financial " becauife “the press is cooperating to put a good face on the situ- Von Wiegand says that “one of Germany’s largest banking in- stitutions is near failure,” while the failure on July 8, of the North German Wool and Textile Company, with debts of $50,000,000 “was an- other staggering blow to the German financial world,” and that as a last desperate move Reichsbank president Luther is rushing to London to try to borrow $355,875,000 to forestall collapse, since withdrawals from the Bank “are mounting almost by the. hour.” These withdrawals, made by New York and London bankers, were the precipitant of the collapse which was halted but slightly and tem- porarily by the first announcement of Hoover's “plan.” What now can he done, when Hoover's “solution” has not only failed, to solve anything, but has worsened the crisis? When it has involved the entire world financial structure in inextricable complications that bring the rival imperialisms to the very brink of war! That war is hourly more near, while the impoverished masses of Germany are driven deeper into misery out of which there is no escape but by proletarian revolution! That war is just as near to the American masses who in the midst of unemployment, wage cuts and a heavier tax burden than ever before, find that the Hoover “solution” for the world crisis throws them directly into the whirlpool of approaching war! America has broken from its “isolation” only to be thrust into the cannon’s mouth by the Quaker president spokesman of Wall Street! Not a solution of the world crisis, but a still greater crisis! Not a guaranty of peace, but a certainty of war! Out onto the streets on August First, workers! coming imperialist war! of the capitalists! MASS PICKETING INDOGSKIN FUR STRIKE TODAY Knitgoods Workers Strike Shop Protest against the Demand unemployment insurance at the cost Demand an end of hunger, misery and war! The number of strikers, including the unemployed, has reached close to 800, involving 128 shops. This means the complete standstill of the indus- try. More than 30 applications for settlement have already come into office. The settlement committee contemplates beginning settlements some time next week. Three coat shops were settled dur- ing Saturday. The strike of the dog- skin workers has inspired the work- ers throughout the entire industry Despite the half holiday, strike ac- tivity among the dogskin workers was in full force. Workers reported on the picket line early in the morn- ing and later to the strike headquar- ters, A meeting of the strike committee was heid to make preparations for a huge picketing demonstration on Monday morning in answer to the threats of Stetsky to send out his hired gorillas against the, strikers. It is planned to bring out thousands of fur workers, both those on strike as well as those workers in the other branches of the trade who are pre- paring to join the ranks of the strik- for a struggle against the bosses and company union. Last night at the meeting of Lo- cal 3 of the fur dressers, Kaufman and his henchmen were unanimously repudiated by the workers present. The Industrial Union calls on all needle trade workers to report to the office of the union at 7 o'clock Mon- day morning. A call for the Cooper Union meet- ing, to be held on Wednesday at 5:30, has been issued by the union and the strike committee. It is ex- pected that the fur workers will re- spond by the thousands and the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) DEMONSTRATE IN NEW YORK WED. AT CONSULATE Mass Protests To Be! Held Thruout Country NEW YORK.—The workers of the! United States will join with the Chi- nese masses in denouncing the mur- derous terror of the Kuo Min Tang | hangmen who have just added to! their crimes against. the Chinese | workers and peasants the murder of | Comrade Hsiang Chung Fa, secre- | tary of the Communist Party of| China. The murder of Comrade Hsiang, foremost leadet of the revo- lutionary messes of China, takes} place at the time when Chiang Kai | Shek is making a closer alliance with Wall Street. In New York City a demonstration will take place before the Chinese Consulate, Cooper Union Sq., on Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock. Other demonstrations are being arranged | ~ throughout the country. “Comrade Hsiang Ching Fa’s whole life was devoted to the revolutionary movement. He was born in Hupeh Province, where he worked as a boat- man along the Han River, near Han- kow. He organized the Boatmen’s Union. Later on, he became a seaman working on the steamboats in the Yangtse River. He was also a metal wotker in the Han-Yea-Ping Steel Corp. He was always an agitator and or- ganizer, and was considered one of the best orators in the ranks of the workers. He traveled so widely that he had an extensive knowledge of the labor and peasant conditions in va- rious parts of China. In 1925, he joined the Communist Party of China, and became one of its best fighters and leaders. In 1926, he was elected as one of the dele- gates from Hupeh to the First Na- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 'THREE) ‘Rhode Island Textile Sirikee Strong; Mass Picket Today Federal Government Rushes In to Aid Scabbing By De portations; Masses Break Through Police Lines to Close Mills BULLETIN. BOSTON, July 12.—William C. Murdoch, organizer for the National Textile Workers Union, and an active leader in the Rhode Island tex- tile strike, who was arrested for deportation by Federal authorities, has disappeared. His whereabouts are unknown, and it is expected that the government is rushing him out of the country even without the slightest formalities. The International Labor Defense has instituted an immediate investigation to discover Murdoch’s whereabouts and to halt this deportation. There is a possibility that Murdoch has been taken to New York by the Federal authorities. NEW YORK.—National Guardsmen. are being mobilized in an effort to break the Rhode Island textile strike led by the National Tex- tile Workers Union, aecording to the latest telegraphic reports to New York capitalist newspapers from Providence. State troopers have mounted machine guns on the mills of the General Fabrics Coporation in an effort to cow the strikers and rush in scabs to put over wage cuts. Arthur C. Cole, of the Rhode Is| were being mobilized for breaking, but the men themselves said they were told to be ready to be shipped to strike areas. Joseph Ott, manager of the Royal Weaving Co. plant, where it is re- ported 1,300 are on strike, said he would not try to open the plant with scabs on Monday as originally planned. Mass picketing is being prepared throughout the textile strike zone in Rhode Island. os 8 3,000 Demonstrate at Central Falls. PROVIDENCE, July 11.—In the evening of the demonstration of 3,000 workers at the General Fabric Mill a defense meeting of thousands of workers was held a few blocks from the mill, demanding the free- dom of the three workers held for {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Detroit Jobless Demands Show Up Murphy As Bankers’ Tool DETROIT, Mich., July 12. — Fed- eral authorities are coming to the aid of Mayor Murphy whose unem- ployment relief scheme has com- pletely broken down and who now seeks to deflect the militant fight of the unemployed against the closing down of tie municipal lodging houses and the cutting off of 75 percent of the relief given until a short while ago. The charge is that Mayor Murphy has been “threatened”. Murphy himself was forcel to deny he had been threatened. Neverthe- less, the federal dicks seek to keep the workers from fighting by arrests and deportations. The statement presenting the de- mands of the unemployed to the Common Council on July 8th, by the delegation of the Unemployed Coun- cil and the Trade Union Unity Lea- gue, elected by the unemployed work- ers pointed out the following facts: “The present city government and all of its departments are working feverishly to put into effect, President Hoover's program of wage cuts, speedup and ‘the stagger system; thereby, shifting the whole burden of the economic crisis upon the shoulders of the working class. This is also the program of the bankers, the millionaires, the financiers, who are piling up their fortunes and lux- uries at the expense of the mass ex- ploitation and mass hunger of the working class. Hundreds and thou- sands of Ford workers lost their say- ings and homes, while at the auc time, Henry Ford made a net profit of $55,000,000, General motors Cor- poration piled up a profit of $124,000,- 000 in 1930, while the workers in the auto plants of General Motors were subjected to increased lay-offs, wage- (CONTINUED ON PAG THREE) strike- 4 Adjt. Gen. land militia denied that then men 8,000 MINERS IN BRITAIN STRIKE Demand Eons Hours; No Wage Cuts (Cable by Inprecorr) LONDON, July 9.—Eight thousand miners struck yesterday at West Fife against the continuance of the eight-hour day and the old wage agreement. ‘The strike followed the call of the revolutionary United Mine Workers of Scotland, which is leading the strike. The reformist union telegraphed its members, urging them to scab by continuing at work pending nego- tiations. Nevertheless, the strike is spreading today at Lanarkshire. Pickets are out, mass meetings are being held, strike committees have been elected. The spirit of the strik- evs is magnificent. The aim of the steko is the seven-hour day with- ou' wage-cuts ORGANIZE FOR WAR PLANES DETROIT, Mich. — The General Motors Co. has taken steps to re- organize its aviation unit and place it on a footing allowing war time production. Fokker airplanes will be the standard make. | | tempts of the American imperialists ng SWISS WORKERS DEMAND RELEASE OF SCOTTSBORO 9 Hold Demonstration in| Zurich Before U.S. Consulate GENEVA, July 12.—Rallying to the world-wide fight against the at- to legally murder the nine innocent) Scottsboro Negro boys, thousands of workers demonstrated Friday in front | of the American Consulate in Zu- rich, Defying the efforts of the police to prevent them from reaching the American Consulate, the workers swept. through the . city, shouting their demands for the release of the nine innocent working-class children and angry denunciations of the lynch terror of the United States bosses against the oppressed Negro people. Hundreds of banners called the in- ternational proletariat to defend their Negro fellow-workers in the United States, The demonstration was organized by the International Red Aid, of which the International Labor De- fense of the U. S., which is defend- ing the boys, is a section. Demon- strations have occurred in several German cities and throughout the length nd breadth of Soviet Russia. Scores of leading European scientists and authors, including Maxim Gorky and Prof. Einstein, are supporting the mass fight to save the nine boys. On August First, International Anti-War Day, millions of workers will demonstrate in every country of the world against the war prepara- tions and plans of the imperialists for intervention against the Soviet Union, and for the release of the RANK AND FILE DELEGATES TO ANSWER DOAK-UMW SCAB MEET BY BROAD STRIKE PLAN PITTSBURGH MEET ®? Mine, Delezates t JULY 15th AND 16th Picket Ohio Capitol To ‘Assemble from ‘All| Coal Fields BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 12.— The Ohio-West Virginia district rank and file strike committee, has sent a sharp telegram to the governor of Ohio, protesting the riegn of murder PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 12—The nst the striking miners. The te~ Centra] Rank and File Strike Com-| ‘am recites the long series of mittee is planning on making the two| assaults and shootings, culminating day United Front National Confer- ence of coal miners here, July 15 and 16, the best possible without injuring the picket lines. The various mines in the shooting of five pickets at Bradley last week. The Ohio strikers are sending a delegation of 50 to Columbus to pro- in the Pennsylvania strike area are preparing. to send their delegates to meet with the 200 from Ohio and West Virginia, the 30 from Harlan county, Ky., and big delegations from other centers. This large full session of the conference will ,on the first day, take up all the main problems and decide the basis of the common campaign, the joint demands for all fields, etc. Then the Pennsylvania and Ohio delegates will go home to continue the struggle on the picket lines, leaving their strike executive committeemen and the delegations from distant fields to meet the sec- ond day, in a smaller session, and take up planning of details and or- ganizational technique. There will probably be special meetings of va- rious delegations also on the second day. The conference starts at 11 a.m. Wednesday, daylight saving time. The hall will be announced later. It will be a historic occasion. WASHINGTON, July 11.—Secre- Scottsboro boys. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Evicted Miners Ask for Tima) Strikers Mus CASTLE SHANON, Pa., July 12— The 29-year-old company houses, woolen structures propped up, pat- ched, vermin-ridden, cracked at the walls and hoies in the floors and ceilings, are receiving the first coat of paint in their existence the miners here say. Hundreds of eviction noti- ces have been served on strikers liv- ing in the huts. The company patches with their little shacks huddled together, are built on high step hills on the sides of the state highway, in most Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Co. camps. These patches are monument to the Reading “Socialist” Mayor Orders Cops to Break Mine Strike Meet By J. E. READING, Pa., July 11. — For the third time within the short space of three days, the “Socialist” administ- ration of this city has proven to the workers that it is against the work- ing class, particularly, in this con- nection, against the 40,000 militant miners who are now striking against starvation and inhuman conditions. At City Hall last night the Trade Union Unity League arranged an open air mass meeting, where two miners direct from the coal fields were to tell the Reading workers about the conditions existing in the mining region, of the urgent need that exists for food and clothing. The meeting had been going on for several minutes, when several Refuses Permit for First Time—To Stop Relief police captains appeared, and upon the personal order of Mayor Stump, dragged Comrade Leon Platt, district organizer of the Communist Party, from the stand. Joe Evans, section organizer of the Young Communist League, then attempted to speak, and he too was yanked from the platform and treated to the same way as Platt. Both were lodged in the “socialist” jail over night, and no one was permitted to see them, not even the reporter of the Read- ing Times, a “liberal” newspaper, which carries stories of T, U, U. L, activities because of the tremendous interest which the Reading workers take in them. At the trial the demagogy and hypocrisy of the socialists was clear- ly exposed. Only a day before Mayor Stump addressed a letter to the Trade Union Unity League in which he said that no one was required to get a permit for open-air meet- ings. He did state, however, that he “requests that the T. U. U. L. should notify him before they hold meetings, so that he may provide ample police protection.” The T. U. U. L, issued a statement to the ef- fect that such a “request” must be turned down since this forces the (OUNTINUED ON PAGE THREE) t Have Relief! greed of the coal company, and a symbol of what the miners are strik- ing against. To offset the sympathy the sight of them arouses, the com- pany has begun to give them a coat of white at the number two mine, with the cheapest grade of paint available. The company doesn't care whether the paint last a day after the strike is over. But, inside the house, walking from one room to the next, the slope is so sharp, one almost feels he is about to walk on his head. The house sags down, and props are often necessary to make sure the roof won't cave in, and kill the babies, Today, deputies are preparing to throw hundreds of families out of the patch, Furniture is allowed to remain on the public highway only one day and then state troopers store them whereever they choose. It costs the miner $1.00 a day—$30.00 a month—and moving expenses to re- cover his few sticks of furniture from the state. All day, committes of miners have been coming to the Pennsylvania- Ohio Striking Miners Relief .Com- mittee headquarters at 799 ** New York, asking. for ter ber eto butld"batracks. Funds are needed immediately for this purpose. Every penny on hand is necessary for food, but some roof must be pro- vided for evicted families immediately Children cannot be forced to sleep in the fields in the heavy rainstorm that are so frequent here. Evictions have become the big club swung over the heads of the miners by the coal companies, to force them back to work, Tents are needed immedi ately! Send your donation today, test to the state authorities against this~deltbarate, muderous shooting down of strikers atthe order of the coal companies. Delegations of min- ers will picket the state capital and the governor's mansion, The telegram sent to Governor White ci Ohis, given out to tg press, is as follows: Governér White, Executive Mansion :— On the morning of July 8, deputy sheriffs and mine guards at Bradley fired without warning into a crowd of striking miners exercising their right to picket, and wounded five. They followed this ourage by arresting one striker and one sympathizer who had committed the crime of allowing striking miners to assemble on his property. The sheriff of Jefferson County and his deputies deny the shooting and the local press has suppressed the facts. Previous to the shooting, nine guards had beaten one striker almost to death after kidnapping him. The thugs especially at the Piney Fork mines are daily invading homes of miners and terrorizing them and their families. This is the third time we have notified you of the organized atroci- ties perpetrated in the strike area by armed forces for which you are re- sponsible. You have not seen fit to respond. But yesterday according to press reports of your speech to a gathering of lumber dealers, you had the effrontry to ignore the mass starvation in the mine fields, and the terrorism instituted by the armed for- ces of the coal operators and the local government from the first day of the strike against starvation con- ditions, while at the same time as- cribing the trouble in the coal fields to “insidious communistic influence.” That this kind of demagogy may appeal to lumber dealers, but it serves to convince miners that you and your government are the agents of the coal operators, and the apologists for, and protectors of their bruto! army of mercenaries. We now inform you of the decision of the elected rank and file strike committee, to send a delegation of 50 miners and their wives and chil- dren to Columbus, to place before you directly the conditions in the coal fields; and to demand the removal of armed forces, and the release and dropping of all charges against strik- ers and organizers arrested for union and strike activities, and the repeal of the strike-breaking Criminal Syn- dicalism law. ‘urthermore, the strike comunittee, is you of the decision to send ‘watlegation to Columbus, to picket the state capitol and executive man- sion, to bring to attention of the rights in the coal fields to thousands of workers and the existance of mass whole state the denial of elementary starvation enforced by armed thugs paid from public funds. For the District Rank and File Committee, Whitney Nelson, Chairman for dive |urict No, 6, National Miners Union,