The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1931, Page 1

Special Wire: Statement of the Communist Party of Germany Extra: | Dal ibe Entered as second-class matter at New York, N. ¥., under the Vol. VIII, No. 170 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, Central Ong Party U.S.A. UNITE! (Section of the Communist International) ait fot, oe ss NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931 ee ee Price 3:Cents “REVOLUTION Tom Mooney Appeals to the Revolutionary Workers California State Prison, San Quentin, Calif. July 6, 1931 To the Communists of the World, Dear Comrades: I HAIL you from the stone and iron tomb into which the master class of California cast me fifteen years ago because I, too, persistently shouted out the grievances of the proletariat. Fifteen years in the malarial atmosphere of a dungeon have im- paired by health, but my spirit is still aglow. I hold by head high before the enemy, and keep my teeth set against him defiantly. The agents of capitalism in this stone hell may one day have it to say that they witnessed the dissolution of my body, but they shall never be able to say that they observed any cooling of the flame of rebellion within me while I lived. ‘A man can think and see more clearly in isolation and stronger than éver before I feel the necessity of broadcasting the rebel yell of the proletariat: “Workers of the World, Unite! chains, and a world to gain!” I am in jail because I voiced that sentiment fifteen years ago while trying to oyganize the slaves of the United Railroads. And it was a detective employed by that corporation who framed my arrest and sub- psequent conviction on a charge which lacked the slightest foundation of fact. ‘Though they have bound me round with steel and stone, my tongue vemains free so that I can send pealing over the grim jail walls shouts of encouragement to my revolutionary comrades of all nations. “yOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS!” How true that rings today when we observe the widespread misery created by capitalistic greed. Millions of unemployed wage slaves are . Insane asylums give up the shrieks of proletarian mothers who bri under the strain of hearing their children cry for bread and the cupboard bare. Banks and chain stores are doubling their guards in the faces of starving wage- earners growing daily more desperate. Penitentiaries are crowded with workingmen forced to resort to what the masters call theft as a means of feeding their young. The capitalistic world today is a seething hell for the proletariat. Prison fare is lean, comrades ,and jail beds hard, but countless work- ingmen enjoying capitalistic “freedom” in the United States and else- ‘where are tot as well off as the so-called felon in the matter of food and shelter. Amalgamate all the prison wardens of the world into one huge man, have this towering giant of a jailor stana up before the famished mil- lions of the “free” proletariat shout, “Come unto me all ye who are hungry and houseless and X will give ye bed and board! You'll do better in than out!” ‘That is the sum total of what cepitalism has done for mankind. ‘The drums of the revolution grow louder apace. I hear the fanfare coming over the hills; it penetrates into the depths of the prison. And I say to you, carry on, comrades, carry on. Fifteen years imprisonment is a bitter dose, but it is easier to en- dure when I am told that workingmen the world over have interpreted my punishment as a major expression of master class barbarity. If I have come to symbolize militant labor being flayed by masters fearful of the voice of the agitator as a menace to their greedy dom- inance, if my continted imprisonment on a framed charge has enabled the workers to sound the depths of capitalistic villainy, then my suffer- ing has not been in vain. But I do not wish to die in jail. I have a message for the prole- tariat of the world and it will sound clearer without the interference of granite walls. I want the satisfaction of confounding the sleek labor politicians of California who have been parties to my contigued imprisonment and have boasted that I will never get out unless I accept the shackled freedom of parole. I want to tell the world by word of mouth all I know about these corporation tools cloaked as labor leaders as I have largely exposed them in my latest pamphlet, “Tom Mooney Betrayed by Labor Leaders.” I want to devote the remaining years of my life to untrammed activity among the working class with an eye to the final conflict and the ineviteble birth of a new social order. ‘My petition for a pardon is soon to be presented to the new governor of California, James Rolph, Jr. I feel that this petition should be preceded by 2 special publicity campaign to direct the pressure of public opinion in my behalf toward the governor's office at Sacramento. My Defense Committee at this time is badly hampered by lack of funds. Recently the work of my defense headquarters came to 2 complete stop because the treasury was empty. Money is urgently needed for printing, mailing, stenography and general office overhead. In this emergency I am asking you, comrades, to help me fin- ancially. Give whatever you can, and without delay. I am facing an opportunity which may or may not bear fruit. But without money I can not make the most of it. Fifteen years in an iron trap! Consider the misery I have endured for my loyalty to the proletariat. Am I not entitled to all the financial aid you can give me at this late day? Fifteen years of isolation in a fog-draped penitentiary. Count the bleak days, the black nights, the years of toil uncompensated, the wrack of constant survelliance, the ever-present feel and sight of stone and fron, the fangs of injustice biting into the heart! And the constant parade of corporation agents and their allies, the labor politicians, in high carnival before my cell door, so to speak. I repeat, do not let my defense treasury remain empty. Send on some money so that my committee can continue to carry on. Carry this message from me to all your friends and get them to help you raise funds. The need was never so urgent. Please let me hear from you as soon as possible. ‘with bes’ wishes to all my militant comrades, I am, eek a Yours for a better day, TOM MOONEY. or was warned that a repetition of his action would lead to a similar deci- sion, You have nothing to lose but your Meerut Prisoner Put Back in Jail; Sent Telegram to Union (Cable by Inprecorr) LONDON, July 14.—The govern- ment applied to the high court at Allahabad, India, yesterday for the cancellation of the bail of Hutchin- The capitalist press is conceal- ing the most vital news about Germany. Only the Daily Worker IS ONLY HOPE” SAY GERMAN COMMUNISTS 600 Delegates from All Coal Fields Open Nat'l Miners Meet CALL FOR STRIKES ON NO WAGE PAYMENTS; FOR FREE FOOD FOR JOBLESS Demand Guarantee of Deposits of Small Depositors;' Confiscation of Money of Rich | Socialists Support Bruening Fascist Program; Commu- nists Demand End of Fascists BERLIN, July 15.—The Communist Party issued an appeal last night in connection with the crisis, analyzing the situation and point- ing out that the only solution is the seizure of power by the workers under Communist lead- ership. The appeal set forth the following demands: Confiscation of the banks, industry and lan of the Young. payments and repudiating capitalist debts; the arrest and trial of all capitalists responsible for the financial crisis; full guarantee of all small deposits; confiscation of all STRIKE MEET IN PATERSON FRI. Foster, Hope, Gold, Di Bartelo Speakers PATERSON, N. J—A mass meet- ing of the textile workers of Paterson will be held at Turn Hall, Cross and Ellison Sts., tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. The main speaker of the even- ing will be William Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, who just returned from the coal fields of Pennsylvania where the National Miners Union, through the Central Strike Committee, is leading the strike of 45,000 miners in Penn- sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The other speakers will be Ben Gold, secretary of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union; Cecil Hope, prominent Negro labor leader, and Frank Di Bartelo, Italian labor lead- er. The workers of Paterson, forced by their miserable conditions in the dye shops and silk mills, have de- termined to fight alongside of the textile workers of Central Falls, Pawtucket and Allentown. Friday night will be a.big mob- ilization meeting for the general ; stoppage deposits exceeding twenty thousand marks (about $4,760); the immediate opening of all factories; confiscation of all food. supplies, clothing, ete. for distribution among the masses; confiscation of all large houses .so as to provide homes for the unem- ployed; mass strikes against non-pay- ment of wages: increase of unem- ployment and social welfare rates; withdrawal of all emergency decrees; abolition of police terror and with- drawaa of all prohibitions and the disarmament of all fascists, and con- cludes with the following slogans: “Down with fascism, capitalism, the Young Plan, Bruening and ‘social- ists!” “Long live the Revolutionary United Struggle for Socialist Ger- many!” Collissions occurred yesterday Hamburg between unemployed work- ers and the police. The murderous order of the Minister of Interior Severing to shoot at sight again bore fruit when a worker was shot dead, with many wounded. Referring to the financial situ- ation in Germany in the press, in a conference with Jacob Goldschmidt. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) strike. All workers, men and women, must not fail to attend this meeting. Vote strike against the miserable conditions. Prepare for the strike call, to be issued by the provisional united front general strike commit- tee. All out tomorrow night! Boss Press Admits Storm of Protests Sweeps World Against Legal Lynching. of 9 Negroes NEW YORK.—The militant protest of the international working class and sympathetic groups of scientists and son and Nimbkar, Meerut prisoners, on the grounds that they sent a telégram to the Trade Union Con- gress containing revolutionary greet- ings. “The . government lawyer claimed that this constituted a breach of bail conditions which was absten- tion of political activities. Nimb- kar also is with speaking at is giving the important facts and the vital news about the powerful Communist Party of Germany, which is preparing the whole toil- ing masses for revolution. Expose the censorship of the capitalist press! Tell everyone that only the Daily Worker has told the truth of the Hoover “Plan”, and is the, writers against the Scottsboro boss court lynch verdict have again broken through the conspiracy of silence by which the northern capitalist press have tried to aid their southern class brothers in carrying through this murderous outrage against the Negro ‘The New York Times yesterday carried a dispatch from Birmingham, Alabama, in which it clearly admitted the vast extent of the international protest movement initiated by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense as part of the fight to free the nine innocent Negro boys and smash the lynching terror against the Negro people. Eight of the nine boys were sentenced to burn in the electric chair at the original “trial” in Scotts- boro, Alabama, at which the “de- fense” ‘attorney, Stephen R. Roddy, helped the bosses in railroading the boys to the chair. In the case of the ninth boy, 14-year-old Roy Wright, a mistrial resulted. The Times dispatch states in part: “Letters, telegrams, radiograms and cables from all parts of the world and from persons in all walks of life protesting in behalf of eight young Negroes sentenced to death at Scottsboro continue to pour in on Governor B. M. Miller. protests were Albert Einstein and Theodore Dreiser.” In every country of the world, the workers and peasants and groups sympathetic to the working class, are preparing gigantic protest demon- strations for August First when to- gether with their resistance to the preparations of the imperialists for war against the Soviet Union, they will raise the demand for the uncon- ditional release of the nine innocent Miners Are Donating Half Dollars; What Are You Doing? New Castle, Pa. Dear comrades: “Here are four half-dollar contributions attribute three of them to our fighting miners. The Daily Worker must live!” Cc. CN. The starving miners are helping the Daily Worker! They are sending half dollars. And you? Another letter: Gladwin, Mich. “Dear comrades: “Enclosed find $1 while my wife and children go bore- foot and undernourished in this land of plenty.” And another, with $1 donation from a group of workers: “Dear cumrades: “Enclosed find all we could muster. Not one of us is working, all out of work and nearly all breadliners.” R. E. J. And from Toronto, Canada: “Herewith is my answer with two weeks pay, $10 for the striking miners.” N. T. G. Workers, wha are you doing to help the Daily Worker? You have contiibuted already? Contribute again! Send half dollars! Pledge a regular weekly or monthly sum to the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund (use coupon on page 3)! The workers whose Jetters—all received in a single day’s mail—are quoted above are starving, but they have said: “The Daily must live!’ Say the same with half dollars to- day, speed them to the Daily Worker, 50 —. 18th St., New York City. P. S—Turn in all coupon books! Rhode Island Strikers Thwart UD. 6. Strike-Breaking Move Dep't of Labor Sends in Weinstock But Strike Committee Warns Workers and They Stay Away to Prevent Sell-Out BULLETIN Ann Burla: s arrested here today and was held.for federal! immigration authorities, although she was born in this country. The International Labor Defense is working for her release. ‘The strikes are all going strong here, and the workers in Central Falls are entirely behind the National Textile Workers Union, despite the terrorism of the bosses and their police. The General Fabrics Strike Committee last night rejected the strike-breaking federal “arbitration” commissioner, Anna Weinstock and the Citizens Committee, which has now been broken by the solidarity of the workers behind the National Textile Workers Union. The Strike Committee has set Friday as the date for a conference directly with the management which today intimated defeat and the possibility of opening negotiations with the workers’ Strike Comm‘tice Friday. The Royal strikers are mobilizing for mass picketing against the tremendous police terror. All week the police, with shotguns in hand, have kept the workers half a mile from the mill, pérmitting no pick- eting. Great mass picketing took place today at the Weybosset mill in Providence and the Bloom mill in Putnam, Conn. The night shift at the Bloom mill in New London, Connecticut, struck today. The whole mill of 690 is expected out soon. The workers are joining the National Textile Workers Union by the hundreds. PROVIDENCE, R. I. July 15.—Before Miss Anna M. Weinstock, socalled arbitrator of the United States Department of Labor, who has broken strikes before, came into the Rhode Island strike situation, the Strike Committee of the General Fabrics Co., the Royal and Weybossett mills had decided not Scottsboro working class children. (CONTINUED O03 PAGE THREE) UNITED FRONT OF ALL MINERS BEING BUILT TO SPREAD STRUGGLE Foster Calls on Miners to Come Out on Aug. Ist im Demonstration Against Boss Wars Borich, Chairman, Shows Need for Persistent Fight Against UMWA Strike-Breakers PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 15. — Six hundred delegates from coal fields all over the country met here today in a National United Front Con- ference. The hall, filled to overflowing, was decorated with slogans reading: “Fight Starv- ation and the § of the United Mine Workers rike-breaking of America!” “Release all prisoners!” opened the sessions. He was GOV'T TRYING TO BREAK RD. STRIKE Police .Open Fire. On Strikers WHITE PLAINS.—The Musteites and their ally, Judge Lynch of the Rotary Club, having failed in their attempts to betray the strike of 1,000 road laborers here, the Fed- eral Government has stepped in with the threat of deportation against the most militant cf the strikers. Agents of the Department of La- bor arrived on the scene shortly af- ter Louis F. Budenz, of the Confer- ence for Progressive Labor Action. had tried to fool the workers on the role of the Government by assuring them that the Department of Labor would not permit itself to be used against workers fighting against mis- erable conditions. Following a conference of the con- tractors with the city authorities the boss press promised “new develop- ments.” These came in the way of the arrest by Federal agents of 30 laborers for deportation. The gov- ernment drive against the strikers is to be continued, according to the Yonkers Daily Press which carries the headlines: “Federal agents to round up aliens. Rioting is general. Strong methods advocated. Drive begun to clean out flop houses. Crow- bar and axes will be used today in round-up of alien strikers.” The Government's attitude is plainly shown to be that so long as foreign born workers can be forced to accept starvation wages, they are all right. But the moment they join the struggle against the bosses starv- ation program of unemployment, wage cuts and part time, they be- come dangerous and are to be de- ported. Ks part of the boss terror against the strikers, the local police chief has ordered his men to use machine guns against the strikers. Yesterday one striker was shot down and sev- eral others were brutally beaten up (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) Wm. Green Pleads With Bosses to Prepare Against Great NEW YORK—In one of the most frantic appeals ever made by a lead- ing strike-breaker, President Green of the American Federation of La- bor in a speech before the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association Convention on ‘Tuesday pleaded, virtually on his bended knees, for the bosses to do something to pre- vent the impending struggles of the workers, not only against wage-cuts, but against the capitalist state. Realizing that the workers, 10,- 000,000 of whom with their families face the bitterest winter ever looked forward to by the American workers, on the bosses to find some out or see the crash of the Fears Workers -Will Put Up Real Fight Against Mass Starvation of work. This is the notorious stag- ger system of the bosses, which American Federation of Labor which is trying to stave off action of the Army oy Jobless workers, ° Green’s speech contained some slimy demagogy. He admitted un- employment is getting worse and that the coming winter would: see greater unemployment than ever be- fore. In words, he was against wage-cuts. But, in reality, he ar- gued that it was better that all the workers be employed at greatly re- duced wages than have millions out forces the workers to carry the en- tire burden of the economics crisis through part-time work and reduced wages. Green, of course, would not think of touching the capitalists’ profits by demanding that they pay unemployment insurance. The struggle of the 40,000 miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir- ginia against starvation, and the brilliant fight of the thousands of Next Winter Rhode Island textile workers made Green hot under the collar, With fear and trembling in his voice he pointed out that in carrying on their struggles against the armed forces of the state the workers were en- dangering the “republic” (that is the rule of the Wall St. bankers or capitalism itself). Green went on to say: “It is not good for the republic when citizens clash with the po- lice and the armed forces of the nation as they have been doing in the coal fields and in the textile centers. Evidently there is astate of mind among the masses which (CONTINGRD ON FAGH THANK) “Remove all armed forces from the coal fields!” Frank Borich, Secretary of the National Miners Union, greeted with cheers when he ®referred to the Kentucky delegation, and also when referring to the West Virginia delegation of whom there are 30. Twenty are Negro miners. Borich was unanimously elected chairman. One vice-chairman was elected from each mine district. Those elected were as follows: For Kentucky, Alford: West Virginia, Pringle, Negro; Illinois, Katelli; An- thracite, Womish; Ohio, Sivert; Western Pennsylvania, Kemenovich. The Secretary of the Conference is Tom Myerscough; Secretary of the credentials committee of seven, Wright; chairman of the program and resolutions committee, Bojus. Borich, the chairman of the con- ference, in a speech lasting an hour told of the development of the fight against starvation in the series of strikes this year. He told of the miners eating grass; he said many had killed their families and com- mitted suicide rather than starve to death. “In all the strikes,” Borich said. “The United Mine Workers Union seeks to betray the miners.” He re- ferred to the scab action of the U M W A in Glen Alden and in the present strike at the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Co. mines. He told of the action of Governor Pinchot in the conference called by the governor of the mine operators and the U M W A in-whieh the U M W A came out as the strike- breaking tool of the bosses and their state. Lewis appealed to Hoover to help break the strike, Boris said. He told of the Washington conference in which the U M W A and the oper- ators were called in to break the strike of the 40,000 miners. “The coal industry is a sick In- dustry,” declared Borich. “So is cap- italism sick. But the coal companies are controlled by the big bankers, the big railroads and steel indus- tries, and they can pay out of their swollen profits.” Borich read statis- tics of the huge profits of the com- panies interested in and owning coal mines. “There is only one country where the miners’ conditions are being im- proved,” Borich stated. “That is in the Soviet Union!” Great applause greeted this statement. Borich then outlined the program of the United Front Committee. It was based on a united front strug- gle of all rank and file miners against starvation and against the scab officials of the UMWA. William Z. Foster, general secret- ary of the Trade Union Unity League was the second speaker. Foster saic that the new organization was basec not on surrender of the miners’ rights like the UMWA, but on’ a united front of the miners, not with the fakers. Foster called on all the miners to demonstrate against the bosses’ war preparations on August 1. He pointed out how the war preparations were tied up with the starvation of the masses, wage cuts and speed up to gain new markets for the bosses. He pointed out the mobilization for war by the bosses to crush the rising of the German masses in the event they try to overthrow German capitalism and the unbearable conditions they suffer under it. He pointed out the workers in all capitalist lands were faced with starvation. “We must struggle against war to its early stages,” Foster said. no \ ™