The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 1931, Page 1

} GERMAN Today the Daily Worker calls you to support our hero- ic German comrades and to defend the workers’ father- land, the Soviet Union, which is in the direct line of the im- perialist attack, aimed at sian workers, gan not only both the German and Rus- international working class. The Daily Worker is the or- ican working class, but of the workers battling capitalism aimed at the of the Amer- throughout the world. Keep the Daily fighting! contributions are a blow at the imperialist intervention- ists, a blow in defense of the Soviet Union and the revolu- tionary struggles of the Ger- | Your | man workers. Don’t delay! Arrange affairs to put the | Spend | two hours today collecting on | ~~ your coupon books and then | Worker beyond the danger- turn them in at once, whether not, to | Daily Worker with hal drive over the top. they are filled or THe STRIKING MINERS EVICTED From THEIR tomes Neen Tent, 4N) Food. SEND HELP To Pa. OHIO. WEST VA. 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OF THE WORKERS WORLD, Vol. VIIE, No. 169 mote a3 second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥,, under the act of March 3, 1879<@gg26 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1931 _ === CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents * eet Protest Murd oe Tae The Menders of Humpty Dumpty THILE every capitalist and “socialist” paper in the United States was singing praises to Hoover in the latter days of June for his mir- aculous moratorium that was going to “save” Germany and “solve” the whole world crisis at the dirt cheap price of $350,000,000, the Daily Worker from Jnne 22 onward, has been warning that not only was the “war debt plan” no solution, but that it would worsen the crisis. The days of miracles are past for decaying imperialist capitalism. The collapse which the imperialist powers attempted to avoid is hourly maturing. What was it that the capitalists feared, and against which Hoover conjured with the boasted “psychologieal effect” of Stock Ex- change advances? It was set forth in a confidential letter sent by a certain authoritative firm of “business counselors” to corporation ex- ecutives, and it gave a list of “probabilities” sketched by American di- plomats in Europe last month, these probabilities being foreseen if some- thing was not done to prevent them. This list of probabilities were: “1) Collapse of Austria; 2) Complete smash in Hungary; 3) Declar- ation of national bankruptcy by Roumania; 4) Financial and economic failure of Germany; 5) Fascist seizure of power in Germany; 6) Form- ation of Bolshevik Government at Vienna; 7) Communist control of Hungarian and Roumanian governments; 8) German fascist regime a failure and Communists in control; 9) Revolutionary movement spread- ing to France; 10) Revolution in India; 11) Establishment of Communist government in China; 12) Grave civil disorders in the United Kingdom.” Not a pleasant perspective for world capitalism! Yet it was not written. by Communists, but by American diplomats, and it was this information, the “business counselors” add, which “reviewed at the White House, led to immediate action by the President.” Yesterday, however, the N. Y. Journal reported: “Financial panic spreads (from Germany) to Rumania, Austria and Hungary, where large banks closed their doors. In Germany the Bruening Government, which from the first has played the role of introducing fascism under the pretense of fighting it, @ pretense enthusiastically supported by the social-fascist “socialists,” is rapidly making steps to an open and undisguised fescist dictatorship. The occupancy by police of the Commimist printing plant and the forbidding of mass meetings of workers in Berlin and Hamburg are signs of this. From its taking of power in March last year the Bruening regime has, of course, consistently followed this path of fascist develop- ment. The American capitalist press, which all of a sudden discovers a peril worth an eight column headline when yesterday fascists and Communists clashed in Berlin and the police killed one worker, have been silent hitherto on the continuous fight the Communists have been waging against fascism not only in the “national socialist” fascist party of Hitler, but also the fascism of the Bruening government and its most loyal supporter, the social fascist “socialist” party. From January 1, 1930, to January 1, 1931, the struggle of the revol- utionary workers of Germany against fascism had resulted in 76 workers being killed by fascists or the police, 5,800 wounded, 10,900 arrested, and 1,600 held as political prisoners. In January this year, 19 more workers ‘were murdered. ‘These figures give the measure of the resistance of the toiling masses of Germany, led by the Communist Party, to fascism. The Communist Party of Germany will continue to lead these masses. It has steeled itself in struggle and trippled its membership in the course of several months. The Communist Party of Germany will not fail in its duty. When ft has won the majority of the working class it will raise the banner 9f struggle, the banner of social emancipation and national liberation 6? the toiling masses against the German capitalist class and the imperialist robbers of the Versailles “peace” treaty. The imperialists, the Hoover government, the Hitlerites—all are erying for a fascist regime of terror against the German masses! French troops are mobilized to march into Germany against the German mas- ses! War alarms sound from Hoover’s “move for peace”! Out on the streets all workers, on August First, to protest against the nearing new World War! : Afro-American Advises Its Readers I.L.D. and L.S.N.R. _ Alone Represent Scottsboro 9 NEW YORK.—The policy of vici- ous and persistent misrepresentation pursued by the misleaders of the, N. A. A.C. P. in connection with the Scottsboro case received a severe set- back last week as the Baltimore Afro-American, one of the most in- fluential Negro newspapers in the country, editorially informed its read- ers that the N. A. A. ©. P. has no standing in the Scottsboro Case, and that by virtue of the authorization of the nine boys and their parents the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights are “the sole legal representative in the case.” The editorial points out: “They have secured the signat- ures of the accused boys and their parents so that they, the Reds, are the sole legal representatives in the case, The N. A. A. C, P. may only co-operate with the permission of the Reds. [t's in court with no clients.” In spite of this fact, so clearly brought out by the Afro-American, the leaders of the N. A. A. C. P. are still collecting money in the name of the boys, without their authorization and in face of the most vigorous pro- tests of the boys and their parents. This action of the N. A. A. C. P. lead- ers is deliberately aimed to divert funds from the defense, .@nd has been branded both by the parents and the boys as part of the traitor- ous attacks by the N. A. A. C. P. up- lifters and their Klan attorney and ally, Stephen R. Roddy, on the de- fense of the boys. Parents Denied Floor at N.A.A.C.P. Meetings The editorial also takes cognizance of the: fact that parents of the boys have been denied the floor at sev- eral meetings held under the aus- pices of the N. A. A. C. P. It says: “And finally, the Reds have so manouvered the situation that the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) COMMUNIST PARTY er of Hsia WORKERS CLASH WITH Police Who Aid Hitlerites BULLETIN As we go to press, capitalist press dispatches from Berlin reported that a proclamation announcing preparations for a nation-wide strike throughout Germany has been issued today by the German Communist Party. The purposes of the strike were stated to be: First: to enforce confiscation of savings deposits in excess of 20,000 marks (about $4,760). Second: to insist upon_security for small depositors in banks. Third: confiscation of million- aire fortunes. Fourth: enforcing of resumption of work in all industries, regard- less of considerations of profit. Fifth: distribution of free food and clothing to the unemployed. Sixth: inmediate disarmament of Adolph Hitler’s “Storm Detach- ment” of fascists and also of the “Steel Helmets,” nationalistic or- ganization. . (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, July 14.—Severe clashes between workers and fascists took place in Neukoelln, a section of Ber- lin yesterday evening. The polié arrived and took the part of the fas- cists. They used clubs against the workers and then drew their re- volvers. One worker was shot to death. This worker was the first victim of the Socialist minister Sev- .ering’s encouragement to the police to shoot more frequently. The police confiscated the organ of the Communist municipal frac- tion. Yesterday evening police oc- cupied the printing plant of the Communist Party. They announced the occupation would be continued until further notice. All demonstrations and open air meetings were prohibited by the pol- ice in Hamburg and Leipzig. Wee le NEW YORK.—Cables in the cap- italist press here tell of the sharp- ening of the crisis in Germany as virtually all banks were closed and a “financial” dictatorship ordered by the Bruening government. Along with this, new fascist measures were taken by the Bruening government against the workers in the face of the rapidly sharpening crisis. The Socialist Party of Germany has come out in favor of the new dictatorship and urges the workers to “remain (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) * the Dep ® NEW YORK.—The workers of New York will demonstrate today in flam- ing pretest against the murderous terror of the Kuomintang tools of U. S. imperialism against the Chi- nese masses. In a militant demon- stration at 13 Astor Place, n. B’way, at 4:30 this afternoon, workers will denounce the recent murder of Com- rade Hsiang Chung Fe, Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and the hundreds of “executions” of mili- tant Chinese workers and peasants by which the imperialists and their native tools are trying to stem the revolt of the starving Chinese FASCISTS | One Worker Killed By err He PREPA RES GENERAL STRIKE ‘ . 4:30 Today g! All Out to 13 Astor Pl. (Top)—Two State police at machine gun, mounted on top of General Fabrics Mill, Central Falls, R. 1, where 1,300 workers are striking These gunmen have been ordered to shoot strikers. (Below)—Tear gas bomb attack at same mill. police and bosses in an effort to Every form of violence is used by the aaginst wage cuts. against picket line break the strike. 500 at Putnam Join Rhode Island Strike Police Chief Orders Cops to “Shoot to Kill” In Effort to Break Sirike; “Stand Firm,” Says Strike Committee A telegram to the New York Times from Providence; R. I., says that Chief of Police Charles F. Hill of Pawtucket on Monday in- structed the police to shoot to kill strikers and sympathizers who do not disperse picket lines at the whim of the police. mounted on the roof of the m The police have machine guns ills. “We do not intend to countenance any manufactured trouble here,” said the police shoot down strikers. The same dispatch reports that police forcibly took Anna Burlack, one of the strike leaders and or- ganizer for the National Textile Workers Union, out of Central Falls and ordered her not to return. Ten workers were arrested on Monday for picketing the General Fabrics Company mills. eae aie PROVIDENCE, R. I, July 14— Five hundred workers of the Bloom Silk Mills at Putnam, Conn., thirty miles from Central Falls, struck this afternoon, led by the National Tex- tile Workers Union demanding a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Demonstrate Before Chinese Consulates masses. In Chicago, the workers will demonstrate Friday at 7 p.m. at Washington Square, 930 N. Park St. Similar demonstrations are being ar- ranged throughout the country. The new Workers’ Cultural Fed- eration of the New York District, or- ganized at a conference on June 14, has issued a call to all its affiliated organizations and all writers, artists, scientists and other intellectuals, to participate in the mass protest in chief in giving his orders to, AND PICNIC SUN. Amter to Be Main Speaker NEW YORK.—Comrade Amter, dis- trict organizer of the Communist Party and candidate for Borough of Manhattan, N. Y., will be the main speaker at the Election Rally and pic- nic to be held on July 19th, at the Pleasant Bay Park. This comiag Elec- tion Campaign will be waged at a time of increasing unemployment, vicious wage cuts and the growing bosses’ offensive against the living standards of the workers as part of their preparation for the coming im- perialist war, especially for an at- tack on the Soviet Union. The socialist party has been picked by the capitalist class to stem the rising tide of discontent and militancy of the working class. This rally will be the first open meeting where Com- rade Amter will appear during this election campaign to expose the role of the socialist party in the present fight of the workers against unem- ployment, wage cuts, and the speed up. Thousands of workers are expected at this rally to give their answer to the Hoover War plans against the Soviet Union and to endorse the elec- tion platform of the Communist Party ® Mass Meet Fr Paterson Gen PATERSON, N. J. — On Friday night, 7:30 p. m., at Turn Hall, Cross and Ellison Sts., will be held a gi- gantic mass meeting at which lead- ing labor leaders will speak. Wm. Z. Ff or, General Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, Ben Gold, National Secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Union, Cecil Hope, prominent Negro labor leader and a leading Italian comrade will Protest the Murder of Hsiang and ortation of Machado 7 this city on Wednesday, The Federation points out that among the recent victims of the Nanking government's terror were six young proletarian writers, mem- bers of the Left Writers’ League of China. The John Reed Club is making special posters for the demonstra- tion. Members of the Executive Committee of the Cultural Federa- tion will be among the speakers. Fight Deportation of Machado, ‘The demonstration will also pro- test the decision of the U. S. gov- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 'THREE) i. to Prepare eral Silk Strike speak. This meeting will sound the note for #2 general strike to be called in Paterson. Th a mass meeting held in Pater- son last Saturday called forth tre- mendous applause from the workers each time and general strike was mentioned. The spirit of the meet- ing was especially heightened by the presence of a delegation of 45 Allen- town textile workers who had been on strike for 11 weeks,. Although these textile workers are members (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) RED ARMY MEN IN PLANE CRASH DIE (Cable by Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, July 14. — On the 12th day of July at 6:30 the Ackemma plane of the Red Army crashed near Alabino station, Western Railway, 47 kilometres from Moscow. The oc- cupants of the plane were killed. Those in the plane were; Trianda- filov, Vicechief, staff of the Red Ar- my; Kolenovski, vice-chief of the Red Army machanization and mo- torization department; Arkadiev, member of the staff of the Red Ar- my, two pilots, one observer and two mechanics. | Virginia, opens today at. Jayor Hall, | GATHER FROM MANY COAL FIELDS; STRIKERS MUST HAVE RELIEF QUICKLY MASS PICKETING — ON AT MINE PITS Sheriff Jails Women, } But Force Release PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 14 The United Front National Confer- ence of miners to prepare plans for | action in the coal situation on a na- tional scale in connection with the strike of 40,000 miners in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West 812 Canal Street at eleven o'clock in the morning. Frank Borich, secretary of the Na- tional Miners Union, will make the opening address. The conference which will last to- day and tomorrow will have dele- gates not only from the tri-state strike area, but from the anthracite, the Hocking Valley in Ohio, the Southern coal fields of West Va., Il- linois, Kentucky and perhaps other fields. This conference will herald the spread of organization over a vast territory, making a base for new spreading of the strike. It will plan future struggles against hunger, wage cuts and the rotten conditions in the coal fields all over the country. The United Front National Confer- ence will surely elect a national united ‘front committee, which will pay strict attention to extending the movement and co-ordinating activi- ties in various districts. This morning fifty women at Cov- erdale who were assembled near the pic'--t line on private property were ordered to cisperse by Chief Deputy Koffee. His rcxscn was “unlawful assemblage.” The wo:nen who were very militant, refused to disperse. Mrs. Campbell of Nutton was arrsted | and the other women charged to | free her and Koffee ordered her re- lease. Strikers found 3 company guards hiding. They heard them say: “Whe the fuss starts, just aim and shoot; they won't know who did it. Unemployed workers picketed the Budd Davis scab agency in Pitts- burgh, smashed the windows and cleared out everybody. ‘No arrests were made. The unemployed also picketed the Starr Scab Agency and made speeches inside and prevented all scabs from leaving. Picketing was carried on at Soho Street where seab trucks were leaving. Several were prevented from going. At the Vesta Mine No. 5, deputy sheriffs, greatly reinforced, drove 45 pickets away at the point of guns and ordered them back into the company patch (company town) when they tried to go on the picket line again. Four deputies surround- ed each house in which militant workers are known to live and pre- vented them from even talking to their neighbors. The local union leader at Busar was arrested on the public highway for “tresspassing.” Squire Rock- ley (police magistrate) at Freder- ickstown, sentenced him to ten days. (Additional News on Page 3.) Czech Red Deputy Jailed for 8 Months PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, July 14.—The Communist Deputy, Com~ rade Major, was acquitted at the trial for armed riot and convicted on the charge of holding an illegal | have Workers Urged to Re- spond at Once The Carnegie Coal Co. believes in kisses. The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation goes in for snakes. Some operators prefer goose eggs. But the coal miners say they all the same sting. And the women folk say all three have the same effect on the company store- keeper. It didn’t matter how much coal you dug. Nor what the expenses were. At the bottom of the state- ment for your two weeks’ pay if you happened to work for the Carnegie mines, you found X X X, three in a row—kisses the miners called them. If you work for the Terminal mines the statement has a crooked lins drawn across the bottom—that? called a snake. And other coal com- panies just draw a picture of a goos' ee But they all mean the same thing starvation. And that’s what 40,000 coal miners are striking against to- day! “They always manage to make it balance,” the miners say, showing hundreds of-statements, all alike on the bottom, no matter how they may vary in the amount of coal loaded “Smoetimes it’s the rent amount that’s different, sometimes they raise the store bill to make it even. They even take off $14.65 for school and head tax, take it right off your pay without bothering to tell you about it.” “Once I thought I had $8 coming to me in a two weeks’ pay,” one miner of Cedar Grove said, “and when I went to the office they just told me it was turned in for taxes. I didn’t have a bite in the house to eat, but that didn’t matter to them. And I couldn't get any scrip in the company’s store, either, so it was just two weeks of being even more empty-bellied than usual.” This is what the coal miners are striking against. Even the children understand this thoroughly. They can tell you just how much Dad loaded and what the company gyped him. But it’s the women who know how best they've had to beg for credit at the company store so that they could have even beans, or a mess of potatoes for supper. THE STRIKING MINERS ARE PUTTING UPAMILITANT FIGHT! WE MUST HELP THEM IN THIS BITTER BATTLE AGAINST STAR- VATION. Send your donation today, so that tomorrow we will be able to send food into more mining camps. Yes- terday’s donations made it possible to send food trucks to 51 strike camps. But there are 90 struck mines that MUST have immediate relief! Hungry miners, hungry women and children are marching to and from picket lines as far as 25 miles, heads erect, singing, cheering—in the face of deputies’ clubs, tear gas bombs, a storm of bullets that have already taken a death toll of three. Help is needed immediately! Food, tents are vitally important! Send your donation, collect money and food from your friends, shopmates, and send it immediately to the Pennsylvania-Ohio-W. Virginia Strik- ing Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa. meeting and sentenced to eight months hard labor, plus two thou- sand crowns fine. A heavier sentence was expected, but the result was due to the pressure of the wide mass protest movement,