The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1931, Page 1

- PROTEST THE MURDER OF COMRADE HSIANG! ALL OUT WEDNESDAY, 4:30 P.M. AT 8th ST. & 4th AVE. (5 000 HALF Dotter ee Lorne “START Tear 1 Doran § 8 We Wc Date : (Section of the Communist International) —EdRmun Norker WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 168 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. X., under the set of March 3, 1879 <«@-. NEW beseaairas TUESDAY, SULY 14, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents EPORT MOBILIZATION FOR WAR ON GERMAN MASSES ® Rushing Into War! | Lop aetse and.detailed reports from Europe state that France is mob- ilizing troops on the German frontier—in case of “disorders in Ger- many.” The closing of the Danat Bank in Germany and the apparently impending collapse of the whole German financial structure, is also reported to have roused even higher the wave of struggle among the German masses. Measures of the nature of an open dictatorship, fas- cist in character, to be carried out by the Bruening government, whose whole historic role has been the introduction of fascism, are hourly, rumored. The pevspective is explosive, an immediate nearness of imperialist war against which Communists haye continually warned, war which is inevitable under imperialism, and made a thousand times more inevit- able in the immediate future by the collapse of the Versailles “peace” treaty of plunder ahd the revolutionary upsurge of the toiling masses upon whose shoulders’ the burden of imperialist plunder is laid. In London, the famous “Hoover Plan” ts already noted as a failure. In Paris, it is spoken of in the terms—‘Not only has nothing been done to forestall collapse, but things have continually been done to precipit- ate it.” The American capitalist press is striving mightily to lay the blame for the expected catastrophe upon France. But America in its first intervention with the Hoover “dar debt” plan, was pldying no higher altruist game than attempting to guarantee the Three Billion Dollars invested ii. Germany by Wall Street and to bribe Germany to break its renewed Rapallo treaty with the Soviet Union and enter the anti-Soviet front under Yankee leadership. France is no more and no less imperialistic and implacable, and has out-maneuvred America in the so-called “war debt” negotiations to the extent that French diplomats at the moment have the deciding word as to the fate of Germany. And France, in the words of the Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Times of July 13—“emphasizes the impossibility of her intervention to prevent a German collapse, until the world is reassured as to Germany’s intention to take ‘the definite political steps for which France has been asking.” The Paris paper “Le Figaro” underlines “the connection between Germany and the Soviets,” says the same correspondent, and attacks the Soviet-German peace treaty of Rapallo, which it calls a “revenge treaty.” “Finally,” says the Figaro, in words which amount to a demand for Germany to break off peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, “It is but a few months after evacuation of the Rhineland by French and at the moment when with the assistance of Washington and London the end of reparations and the continuance of financial advances to the Reich is imposed upon France, that the same treaty. of revenge is renewed a second. time.” As the Daily Worker has previously pointed out, the German masses face intensified misery, starvation and hopeless slavery from either or all of these imperialist “saviours.” Where Paris pointed out that London and New York bankers withdrawals of”eredit brought Germany to the brink of collapse prior to Hoover's proposal, now London and New York are claiming that French withdrawats have brought about the catastrophe which was signalized by the Berlin bank closings on Monday. In Hoover's first proposal,#he pretended that Germany was to be “saved” from a dictatorship from either the “Right” or the “Left.” Now, however, the reported gigantic loan from American banks can only | be based upon German capitalist guarantees that an open fascist dic- tatorship be establishetl against the revolutionary masses. It can only mean new burden added to the Young Plan upon these masses, new burdens and a fascist dictatorship to be established in Germany with the aid of the treacherous “socialists.” These American loans can only come from the profits sweated out, of American workers, and robbed from them by unemployment and wage cuts. Both German and American workers have a common interest in fighting against the Young Plan and the war makers. The fact remains that the Pravda im comment on Hoover's “plan” spoke the truth in saying that the only way out for the German masses is the proletarian revolution. The American capitalist press is playing up this “Communist danger.” Certainly the German masses, driven by their “own” capitalist class into a hopeless sea of misery in compliance with the demands of the Versailles victors, will not forever submit to enslavement and op- pression. ‘This was emphasized by Comrade Thaelmann, of the Communist Party of Germany, in his speech on May Day this year: “On the First of May, 1929, when some of you fought of the bar- rieades at Wedding and Neukoeln, we told you that the hour had not yet come. Now we say the hour may soon come when the standard for battle will be raised; and we shall then know what-to do!” He closed with a call—“for the great struggle for free Socialist Soviet Germany.” Workers of America should understand that the French mobiliza~ tion of troops on the German frontier means war, war not upon German capitalism, but upon the toiling masses of Germany, whose only way out is and will remain the proletarian revolution. American workers should understand that the same reason which makes all imperialisms strive to turn Germany into an active foe of the Soviet Union impels them to welcome a fascist dictatership in Ger- many and prepare for armed intervention against any proletarian revo- lution in Germany. Equally, any war upon the revolutionary workers of Germany would mean a simultaneous imperialist attack upon the Soviet Union. Workers, capitalism is rushing headlong into war, dragging with it the lives of millions of toilers, your life, and those of your dear ones) Workers, the Communists have repeatedly warned you that only your fiercest mass protest could make the capitalist war-makers hesitate! ‘The proof is before you that imperialist war is hourly nearer! Prepare, workers, in your factories, shops, in mine and mill, to demonstrate on the streets on August First against imperialist war! Down with the war-makers! Down with imperialist war! Defend the revolutionary workers of Germany! Down with the “socialist” serv- ants of imperialism against the German masses! Down with the Young Plan and Hoover's support to fascism in Germany! Defend the Soviet Union from imperialist attack! Score Vicious Frame-up of Nine Scottsboro Negro Boys NEW YORK.—A detailed report, directly accusing the prosecuting attorney of framing the nine Scottsboro Negro boys, has been made by the American Civil Liberties Union, which instigated an investigation by Hollace Ransdall, formerly on:the staff of the Baltimore Sun and the Economic Library at Columbia University. Miss, Tansdall_ spent considerable 1 ue in Alabama interviewing 1':e two professional prostitutes involved in the case, Judge Hawkins and other officials and citi- zens in Scottsboro. The report will be issued in full next week by the International Labor Defense. The report is a complete vindica- ro of the position of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights that the boys are innocent and were the vic- tims of a murderous frame-up Ccon- cocted by the Alabama bosses and their state and court machinery. It will not be popular with the leaders of the NAACP who have several times come out in defense of the Alabama bosses and their State and have ac- (CONTINUED UN PAGE THAR conditions, e- BIG BANK FAILS AS WHOLE SYSTEM NEARS CRASH; ALL QUT AUG. 1 Strike Committ . NEW YORK.—Nin ee in Rhode Island Defeat Sell-Out Move! Jail 9 In Pawtucket Picketing; Reject Bosses Trick to Get Men to Go Back to Work Under Old Conditions e Workers were arrest- Industrialists Call for Fascist Bloc to Rule Government Against Workers More Bank Crashes Expected; Socialists Do Not Want Workers to End eee ed at Pawtucket, R. I. yesterday morning as crowds of pickets gathered in front of the Royal Weaving Co., where 1,300 workers are striking, according to an Associated Press dis- patch from Pawtucket. “The first disturbance occurred when (Cable By BERLIN, July 13—The Inprecorr) collapse of the Donat Bank (Darmstaedter und National Bank) caused runs on other banks despite the government’s taking over of full guarantee to meet the bank’s liabilities. The stock market closed down for two days in order to prevent the world from witnessing the catas- FUR WORKERS’ MASS MEETING Gold Will Speak at Cooper Union Wed. A huge mass meeting of fur work- ers has been arranged by the Needle Trades Union and the Rank and File United Front Committee for Wednesday at 5 o'clock at Cooper Union. At this meeting Ben Gold and the leaders of the United Front Committee will report on the num- ber of shops that have be de- clared on striké for July raises, the number of settlements, the condi- tion of the strike in the dogskin line, the new campaign of Matthew Woll against the campaign of the fur workers for union conditions, and the new fake peace maneuvers of the | bankrupt Kaufman-Stetsky clique. There will be a report on the last meeting of the bosses’ association and the plans for spreading the struggle for July raises throughout the entire industry. The meeting on Wednesday will report definite results and will adopt plans for spreading the campaign throughout the entire industry. Furriers Report On Picket Line. ‘The fur market today was ascene of one of the most enthusiastic dem- onstrations ever carried through by the union. Thousands of workers re- sponded to the call of the Industrial Union and carried through a picket- ing demonstration which showed in no indefinite terms where the fur- riers stand. The threat of the Stetsky-Kauf- man clique to send out their gorillas on the market proved an empty boast. In face of the thousands of workers who came out in support of the dogskin strikers, the gorillas were afraid to show their faces. A huge demonstration and open- air meeting was held at noon hour. In line with the statement of Mat- thew Woll, the strike-breaker, his lieutenant, McGrady, appeared in the market today and was booed and hissed by the thousands of workers who carried through a wonderful demonstration and open-air meet- ing, pledging their loyalty to the In- dustrial Union and their determina- tion to fight the bosses as well as their agents, the McGradys and Wolls. | ai ‘ Clgak gnd. Cutters Meet Wed- nesday hp After Work. A meeting of cloak and dress cut- ters has been arranged for Wednes- day, right after work, at the office of the union. The meeting is called for the purpose of discussing the present situation confronting the cutters and’ outlining a plan for a camnaign to improve the copgitions of the workers in the trade. Tuckers, Pleaters and Hemstitchers Meeting Thursday. A membership meeting of the Tuckers, Pleaters and Hemstitchers will take place on Thursday, right after work, at the office of the union, 131 W. 28th St. Since the branch has been organized great progress has been made in lining up mem- bers. At this meeting the plans for the coming season will be definitely discussed. Strike of Knitgoods Workers In Goldworm Co. The strike against the Goldworm Co. is in full force. The strikers are out 100 per cent on the ‘picket line and are determined to carry on the struggle until they win union trophic fall in stocks and bonds. All the banks are already unable to meet the full demands of their depositors. They announce that if the run continues at the present strength they must all close their doors. A demand for a general mor- atorium (stoppage of payment on all debts) has been raised. On Saturday alone the Reichsbank (central bank of Germany) lost one billion gold marks (about $250,000,000) through The telegram reads: PROVIDENCE, R. I., Ju Fabrics Co., Central Falls, which has machine guns mounted on its build- ings, tried to break the strike by arbitration of a so-called Citizen's Committee. A reactionary on the strike committee by the name of Frank Faber was used in this sell- out move that failed. That this at- tempt to break the strike has been smashed is admitted by the capital- ist press. The Boston Sunday Globe dispatch from Central Falls says that the strike committee members Stayed away from the conference called by the so-called Citizens’ Com- continuation of the flight of capital. Today the government issued an emergency decree taking over the liabilities of the Donat aBnk, intro- ducing measures against the flight of capital, founding of a liability pool of the big banks. The Reichsbank reported that it had decided t6 go below the legal gold quota covering treasury notes. Collapse of further German banks is expected. The danger of infla- tion is acute. The government needs an immediate loan of at least $250,~ 000,000 in order to meet the liabilities on the 15th of July. The government issued an appeal to the German people admitting un- reservedly the existence of a catas- trophic situation but calling on the people to maintain level heads and not to intensify the difficulties of the situation bq a panic. The socialist central newspaper, “Vorwaerts,” is intent only on pre- venting the workers from making dif- ficulties and appeals to the workers who have bank accounts not to em- barass the banks by “exaggerated de- mands,” because “the interests of the proletariat demand that the present crisis be not extended.” The Deutsche Allgemeine eZitung, organ of heavy industry, demands the formation of a national concen- tration cabinet (of fascist forces) for the “salvation of the people and the fatherland. “The fire must be ex- tinguished immediately,” it says. “Vacillation and hesitation are fatal.” . NEW YORK.—Mobilization for war by French imperialism against the German masses and against the So- viet Union, in the face of a deep in- tensification of the general crisis of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Anti-War Conference in Bronx On Friday NEW YORK. — Many shops and workers’ mass organizations will be represented at the Bronx Anti-War Conference, to be held on Friday, July 17th at the Bronx Workers Center, at 569 Prospect Ave. at 8 Pp. m, At this conference definite steps will be taken to organize Anti-War Committees in the shons, factories mittee to break the strike. “The conference was called off by 6 p. m., after the ‘committee of three’ had waited for three hours for a quorum of the strikers’ committee to ap- pear.” The strikers did net go to the scab outfit : “The committee of three,” was composed of Frank Faber ‘and two officials of the Polish-American Cit- izens Club which arranged a con- ference with the police and Supt. Manton of the Company yesterday morning where the sell-out was hatched. The papers announced: “A Committee of the Polish-Ameri- can Citizen’s Club, headed by Pres- ident Joseph D. Koslowski, was in conference at 3 p. m. with a strik- ers’ committee in a neffort to wrest control of the strike from the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. The strike delegation included Frank Faber.” All the efforts to “wrest strike (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MAKE ROTTEN GYP AGENCY DISGORGE UL: Helps \ Worker to) Get Back Money NEW YORK. — The Unemployed Council forced another boss racket- eering employment agency to dis- gorge yesterday when an unemployed worker appealed to the Madison Sq. Unemployed Council for aid in get- ting back ten dollars which hadj been extracted from him. "The worker had visited an employ- ment agency at 846 Sixth Avenue in the hunt for work. The agency tak-| ing advantage of the desperate need of the worker and resorting to the usual practice of the agencies, forced him to pay ten dollars for the pro- mise of a job. The worker after) spending time, carefare and shoe leather, found that he had been sent out on a wild goose chase, that there was no job available at the) address to which he was sent, and the agency had not been asked by anyone at that address to send them @ man. Returning to the gyp agency, and and tenement houses of the Bronx.demanding the return of his money, the police broke up a crowd of 300 persons who attempted to conduct a mass meeing in an adjacent field.” . the General 13.—Yesterday 200,000 FILIPINOS DEMAND FREEDO! IN STORMY MARCH Growing out of what the Filipino capitalist leaders tried to limit to a tame parade to greet Senator Harry B. Hawes of the United States, turned into a mighty demonstration of the masses for independence for Wall Street in Manila Sunday. Police estimate between 150,000 and 200,000 took jart in the dem- onstration, the lergest ever held. Three policemen were beaten by the crowd when they tried t6 interfere with the demonstration. The wrath of the Filipino masses was expressed against the Wall Street military rep- resentatives at the Army and Navy Club. When the U. C. army officers tried to shove the Filipinos off the lawn of the exclusive military club, the Filipino masses retaliated by driving the officers back. In the scuffle Capt. Fred Adams of the thirty-first U. S. infantry was hit on the head. Another person was hurt ly The army officers appealed to the police, but were told the police were helpless against the masses. This huge outpouring shows that the Filipino workersand peasants are | not following the leadership of the capitalist politicians who want to | sell-out “completely to Wall Street. | The masses are for action and more | than ever before are following the | leadership of the Communist Party | of the Philippine Islands. This is | recognized by the Wall Street gov- ernor-general, Dwight F. Davis, who in his latest reports refers to the | growth of Communism. Commenting | on this report. the New York Times says: “He reports that Communist agi- tators, financed by the Moscow gov- ernment, are active in the islands, and says that, while their efforts meet little response in Manila, they | find more sympathetic ears in the rural districts where the situation | ‘requires careful watching’.” 500 In Washington Protest WASHINGTON, D. C., July 12— |Five hundred colored and white | workers demonstrated here on July | 9th, against the Scottsboro boss court llynch verdict. he was told “nothing doing.” The worker then appealed to the Madison Unemployed Council for aid, and a committee of 12 or 15 was organized | to accompany him back to the agen- cy. He got his money back. Or- ganization and militancy did it! NATIONAL MINERS’ MEET T0 OPEN TOMORROW; 40,000 FAMILIES NEED RELIEF NOW vita a tants "| MASS PICKETING ste | PULLS OUT MORE rain is coming down in torrents. But | the picket lines were marching—men, | Jnited Front Program women and _ children, in the Masontown area On the state highway, Atlasburg patch, some thrown out of the company house | lay about, deserted. Mother. father | and the children were out on the| picket line In Cannonsburg, farther down the line, many more were evicted. Hun- dreds received notices. John Perch, the father of 8 little children, re- outside the falo mine patch. His arm was hurt in the mine several months ago, and is still in a cast. “I was lucky to borrow 50 cents for fare to send my sister to have his arm dressed,” his wife said today. “Me and the children would be starved to death today if it weren't for what youns send out. But I’m scared sick of John’s losing his arm if it aint dress¢d once in a while, so blood-poisoning won't set in.” “And do youns think there'll be tents for us to move into when they throw us out of the patch?” Hundreds have been arrested through this region, and the coal op- erators are trying to evict children and household goods while the father or mother are in jail. The Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Vir- ginia Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, sent food into the jails, then truck- loads into the strike zones. Funds on hand were stretched and stretched so that as many of the 40,000 strik- ers’ families as possible could get something. What About Tomorrow? Tomorrow, there will be more Picket lines, and the strike will spread to more mines—and there will be more evictions And tomorrow thousands of fam- ilies will need bread, and hundreds a place to live. Every day counts now! This is the crucial period of the strike! See that your contribu- tion is in the mails tonight! Every worker must support the strike against sarvation! Remember the address: 611 Penn Ave., Room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa SAY WORKERS DON’T SOAP (By a Worker Correspondent) MARION, Ohio.—Right here in Marion, Ohio, the county commis- sioners told a working class family NEED hundreds | strong, and two more mines struck | furniture | ceived his second notice to move out | of the house number 50 in the Buf- | to Spread Strike PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 13.— Three hundred strikers picketed the Pittsburgh Terminal No. 8 Mine at | Coverdale this morning and one hun- dred less went in than Saturday Terminal 8 will again be, picketed | tomorrow. Five striking miners | were arrested at various picket lines. | The Pennsylvanio-Ohio Miners’ Relief sent a telegram to Governor Pinchot today demanding a thou- sand tents for the evicted families, to be taken from the National Guard stores. | By VERN SMITH. | PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 12—A strike of 40,000 miners, fighting star- vation, solidifying their ranks, in- creasing the efficiency of their pick- et lines by better organ- ization which overcomes to a great extent the difficulties of worn shoes, worn tires on trucks and autos used to transport pickets, was described by section organizers of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee here yesterday. The organizers from all parts of the field met in confer- ence on tactics and for an analysis of the situation. They were unani- mous that in every section the strike is progressing better. ‘Three definite gains can be re- corded. First, the attempt to use the United Mine Workers of America as the chief strike breaking tool, on which the operators have based al- most all their tactis of the last couple of weeks, has been severely checked. The collapse of the oper- ators’ conference in Washington is not the most of it. In the Pittsburgh Terminal Mines, where the first at- tempt to use the U.M.W. on a large scale was made, the U.M.W. has been very seriously discredited. The men forced back by terror to work under the U.M.W. contract are coming out again. Many have aleady come out, and the rest will do soon. So ser- ious a problem is this for the opera- tors and the Lewis-Fagan machine, that the announced program of sim- ilar agreements for other companies has not gone through. The capitalist press stories on the first, abortive at- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) that they didn’t need soap. The teachers, however insist that the children come to school clean. By T. H. LI NEW YORK.—Vigorous mass pro- tests will occur in many cities on| Wednesday, July 15 and the rest of this week against the rcent execu- | tion of Comrade Hsiang Chung Fa, | Secretary of the Chinese Communist -| Party, In New York City, the work- Join March of 2 Dollar Drive! The half dolllars are on the march. By the time this week is over we hope there will be 15,000 half dollars march- ing into the office of the Daily. Forward! This will mean: 15,000 workers demonstrating against e friends to join the half-dollar brigade; get -your sens soe to contribute at once. for July 19th. Arrance Daily Worker celebrations Over the top with the Daily Worker drive! Otherwise, the tough summer months will prove a knockout | | “civilization” starvation and wage cuts, demonstrating for release of the Scottsboro boys and-all class war prisoners, demonstrating in support of the striking miners, against deportations and imperialist war. Demonstrate today! Send your half dollar at once! The last days of the Daily Worker drive must be days of intensive activity. All Tag Day funds, all money collected on coupon books, should be sent in and preparations made to turn the books themselves in, Get your fellow workers and blow for the Daily. It is not enough to save the Daily, comrades; we must keep it saved! We must build it into a better and bigger weapon of the workers in their struggles. Make this week the best! Every district that is still be- hind its quota—and that means all distfi¢tS“except 2 (New York) and 17 (Birmingham)—must go after its goal full | steam ahead! Make Woll, Fish, Hillquit, John L. Lewis and | Co. dizzy with rage—demonstrate in masses your support of the Daily Worker with half dollars and more! You know the address: 60 E. 18th St., New York City. N.Y Workers to Protest Murder of Hsiang Wed. | ers will demonstrate before the Chin- |ese Consulate, 8th Street and 4th | Avenue, at 4:30 p. m. Wednesday. |In Chicago, the workers will demon- | Strate at Washington Square, 930 N, |Park Street, Friday, 7 p.m, This latest crime of the Chinese lackeys of imperialism crowns a new | wave of white terror against the ee revolutionary movement of | the starving Chinese workers and | peasants. The Wall StreeteChiang eae coalition maintains its re- ime of hunger and enslavement | wt gunboats and swords in China, A few incomplete statistical reports | will roughly illustrate the extent of the recent victims of in China. For last May alone, the total of imperialist, | arrests numbered 103, and executives including 3 girls, in different According to cities: i, 39; Changsha; 29; Tsing- | tao, Foochow, 11; Hankow, 10; | Keifeng. 9; Rest, 25. According to “crime” committed: Communists, 48; Revolutionaries, 38; Revolutionary students, 15; Strike agitators, 12; Distributing or possea= (CONTINUED ON PACS om -— = i