The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1931, Page 1

_ The appeal from the striking miners from Harlan County, Kentucky, rang through the conference hell in Pitts- burgh, Wednesday night “Brothers! We're calling to you to- day—we need. help! Our women and children are starving! Our strike is twice as old as yours. We've pulled in our belts as far as they’ll go—and we keep on fighting! The United Mine Workers of America won't give us a penny’s worth of relief. They starved some back to work us still out, and eain’t stand a’goin: him. spread our strike a! win with 4 ‘tinhorn’ carrying a rifle over Just a little relief—and we'll Tennessee and Virginia—and we'll sure “We want real organization,” another Kentucky miner said. ganize Harlan County solid into the Na- ‘Give Us Cne Meal A Day and We Wi 4 a but there’s plenty of a Kentucky miner ig to scab, especially tiona] Miners Union, and we’re standing four-square—even though we've had our bloody battles. Our women folks is with us too, even though they’re aw- ful hungry, with not a drop of flout in the shack. My wife says, ‘If you scab, ll over Kentucky, into | I’ll never bake you another batch of bread!’ “Tf youns give us one meal a day, we're a'go over the top!’ ‘We mean to or- The striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virvinia gave THEIR answer. What relief there is, they pledged to share with the heroic Ken- tucky miners. What is YOUR answer? Do you know what these heroic miners have done in their struggle against starvation? First they faced the company gunmen. And the miners held solid. Then the sheriffs and their Another mi Ww automatics, 300 were captured fro the weeks grew si with machine guns, rifle, gas bombs little childre and all the weapons of trench warfare. to work miner and 13 gunmen fell wire; 132 were ar Then came hunger. ger spread into weeks of hunger. y9: e in battle. | hung with barbed | rested; machine guns, | Ibs. of ammunitions | m the “tinhorns.” | | Send us one meal a day, and we're a going over the top On the Kentucky changing into a strong offensive. T strike will grow! This the Kentuck ners are determined to do! end all you can today! hat “‘one meal a da as front, retreat The days of hun- And At least +} Then came the first ; J and must be sent into deputies. Not a break in the line! Then | break in the ranks. Those who had the | every striking camp! Help the Penn- the ‘tinhorns,’ the militia, came armed | biggest families, the most hungry and | sylvania-Ohio Stri ing Miners Relief fe Re n, were starved back | Committee'do this, by sending YOUR contribution to room 205, 611 Penn Ave., | Still the miners’ line held firm! One But this retreat was only temporary! | Pittsburgh, Pa Election Campaign Rally This Sunday at Pleasant Bay Park. WORKERS THE I All Out for the Red OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Picnic! : (Section of the Communist International) Wee Oe ter at the Roar Fs ae Sy Vol. VIII, No. 172 Ghee Som es codes ths ak dae G sw<aas NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DEPUTY SHERIFFS MASSACRE NEGROES IN ALABAMA Defend the Negroes from Massacre in Alabama! Negro and White Workers and Farmers: Negro workers and tenant farmers are being hiinted down and mur- | dered by wholesale in Alabama for daring to protest against the frame- ‘up of the nine innocent boys at Scottsboro. One Negro worker, Ralph Gray, shot down on the street at Camp Hill, Alabama, was later murdered in his bed by officers of the law as fhe lay mortally wounded. Several other Negro workers have been shot, according to latest reporta as this paper goes to press. » The sheriff's posse is now hunting and shooting down Negroes in several towns in thas section of the state, as well as raiding and shooting Negro tenant farmers in their homes. vais In defending themselves from the murderous assault a number of ‘Negro, workers are said’ to have fired upon and wounded a sheriff and his députy who were attempting to kill them. For this resistance to murdér, many Negro workers are now in prison where it is likely they will be murdered by officers of the law or by manufactured mobs with the connivance of the officers. This. outrage is not a “race riot” as the capitalist newspapers an- nounced it to be, and as the white ruling class would like to make it appear. » This js a deliberate massacre—the turning loose of bloody mass ter- ror against the oppressed, jim crowed and exploited Negro people, not by spontaneous mobs, but by the deliberate action of representatives of the ruling class, county and state officials of Alabama. This is the fesult and continuation of the conspiracy of the white ruling class of Alabama through its courts and officers of the law to murder the nine innocent Negro boys, 13 and 14 ta 20 years of age, who were recently framed up and: Sentenced to death on false charzes of “raping” two white prostitutes at Scottsboro, Alabama. ‘This murderous action of wholesale murder against the Negro people is 2 part of the age-old enslavement of the Negro masses. It is white rul- ing class terror intended to smother the movement for saving the lives of the Scottsboro boys, to Smash the growing unity of Negro and white workers, to break the rising réyolutionary spirit of the Negro masses and to force them back into com} submission as a helpless slave class liv= 7 ing under conditions of peonagé in towns and on the farms for the profit of the wealthy white capitalists and landlords who exploit them. It is a pert of the enslavement of the whole Negro people in the black belt who are denied all rights of citizenship, all rights as human beings, and ruled by the wealthy white capitalists and landlords without the right of self- determination. Capitalist newspaper reports openly state that sheriff's posses are raiding and firing upon peacable meetings of Negroes gathered together to protest against the Scottsboro legal murder of Negro children. The offi- cers seek to justify their murderous attacks on the ground that “speeches advocating social and political equality” were made at these meetings. But the full truth is not told without openly branding white and Negro: agents of “white supremacy” who have deliberately incited this crime against the Negro masses. The official leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People must be openly branded as having deliberatedly called for, incited ard advocated exactly the murdero— terror which is now following its bloody course in Ala- bama. An agent of the NAACP, a Rev. J. R. Bowen of Chattanooga, act- img for the NAACP, solicited the police of Chattanoga and of Birmingham to raid and break up meetings of Negro workers protesting against the Scottsboro frame-up of Negro children, and 11 delegates to the All-South- ern Scottsboro Defense Councils at Chattanooga, were thrown into jail at the instigation of this agent of the NAACP. Mrs. Janie Patterson, mother of Roy Patterson, one of the innocent boys framed up at Scotts- boro, was forcibly ejected from the recent NAACP convention at Pitts- burgh and two others were thrown into jail by the police at the deliberate request of the NAACP officials as a reply to Mrs. Patterson’s request for the right to speek at the convention on behalf of the framed up Negro * LAW GERMAN COMMUNISTS | Fierce Collisions In Many Cities; Cops Kill Worker Streets Are Torn Up BERLIN, July 17—The Bruening government is continuing its sys- tematic campaign of suppression of the Communist Party press. The Leipzig police has prohibited the Arbeiter Zeitung, a Communist daily, for four weeks. Th¢ Halle police prohibited the Communist . daily, Klassenkamipf, for two, months, Fierce collisions occurred yesterday at Gelsenkirchen which developed PITTSBURGH, Pa. arrived at the National ference just concluded retary of the National Miners hour-long opening address that TRY 10 QUT-\United Front Miners’ Meet Drafts Program Of National Struggle Elect Committee Representing All Districts to Carry Out Measures to Strengthen Fight Against Hunger In Coal Area “Program of Unity and Action” and in a set of general demands for all the coal fields. The program was proposed by Frank Borich, national sec- and determination never slackened from that point on. The program, freely amended as to details and elaboration Hoover Chained Worker to Stake WASHINGTON, Ji ver, who is now pre} ne: ir to obt m is exposed as a bitter e the Chinese worke: American workers just. isstied entitles Go-Round.” A sta’ book referring to Hoover Once expounding hi (Hoo- ver’s) views on labor troubles to a friend, he to!d how he had al- chaining , July 17.—The decisions United Front Mine Con- here are embodied in a! ways found that Chinese coolie to a day in the hot sun cive to good minimum of strike: This i all workers- keep back strikes! To be able to torture more co- Yonial workers as well 2s to g greater profits from the America workers, Hoover is helping his fel- Union. in a powerful searching, struck a high note of militancy [To Stop Strikes bf TERRORIZE NEGRO MASSES "FOR DARING 10 PROTEST " SCOTTSBORO FRAME-UP | orkers Must Demonstrate August First Age's Plans of the Bosses and the War Now Being ¢ @ =) On Against Negro and White Yorkers | CAMP: HILL, Alabama, July 17—A | our terror has been launched by the b \their police here against Negro workers and ||croppers: supporting the mass movement .for }\ the freeing of the nine Scottsboro boys and | organizing to resist the starvation program of the bi into wild Shooting. At eleven o” clock, the whole town was in dark-' ness owing to the gas and: electric light being cut off. Workers tore up of certain points was not changed in «———H———— —____— its main essentials. It points out United Mine Workers officials come that this year is marked by strikes|*" to betray them. .Somctimes, as against both the operators and ths particularly in the Anthracite, the Lewis machine, Gion Alden, Shen-|S‘"ike breakin; crew of the UMW war. low imperialists prepare for a new Fight against these war prepa- rations! All out in the August \the building wl ere the meeting was bei the pavements and erected barri- cades. Forty foodstores wete broken into and foodstuffs cleared away. The police, armed with carbines and grenades cleared the streets, shoot- ing into doors and windows of the workers’ homes. : Further Serious collisions occurred yesterday at Coblenz where lamps were smashed and barricades erec- ted. Twenty arrests were made. Yesterday at Grossgerau near Darmstadt, a fascist storm detach- ment leader shot #nd kiled two un- employed workers and wounded sev~ eral. The police arrested the murder removing him to Darmstadt in order to prevent a lynching. Today the presidium of the Reichstag rejected the Communist proposal to convene the Reichstag in order to deal with the present crisis. The Munich police prohibited the Communist daily, Nue Zeiting, until August 16. The Chemnitz police al- so prohibited the Communist daily Kaempfer for four weeks. Deny Road Strikers Right of Counsel endoah, Hillman Coal, Harlan County and Kentucky; strikes in Illinois and the present tri-state strike. It points*out that these strikes are all parts of a battle against starva- tion, and that. in -every one ‘the PAWTUCKET, R. L, July spoke. camp in attempting to betray the strikers by dividing them through in- dividual settlements with the smaller contracters thus, leaving the em- ployes of the big contractors without a settlement. The A. F. of L. fakers also advocate division of the work- Thousand Textile Strikers Meet to Carry On Struggle Terror Increasing But Strikers to Fight to Fin- nish Against Wage Cuts; Cpen Relief Store In Pawtucket took part last night in an enthusiastic strike meeting. Har- field, of the Trade Union Unity League, Perry and Russak of the National Textile Workers Union, and several strikers Prager spoke on behalf of the International Labor © Defense. works through fake progressives. The program assails the govern- ment conferences recently held in Washington with fake remedies of trustification at the exepense of the anti-war demonstrations. ELECTION CAMPAIG) A AND PICNIC TOMORROW | (CONTL ID ON SAGE FIVE) Red Picnic which texes place Sur day, July 19, at Pleasant Bay Park. Take LR.T. East Side subw: 177th St. Unionport car to la Bus to the park. Register for Election Speakers Class ELECTION CAMPAIGN SPEAK- ERS CLASS begins Monday July 20, 6 p.m. sharp. Class will meet regularly every Monday from 6 to 7 p.m. Unit Campaign Managers and all other comrades who can give time to the election campaign are urged to a d. Instructor—CARL BRODSKY 17.—Over a thousand strikers The Election Campaign Rally and | y to top fire without warning. The meeting w | Scottsboro frame-up end to furth - the plans of the union for resisting the attempts of the. plantation own- ers and the Tallapoosa County Cham- ber of Commerce to cut off croppers from all wood advamces a Negro cropper the police while on way to the meeting and 1 road for dead. Later when lice learned that Gr to get to his home, they went to his| | Latest A home to complete the murder of| ches fror: this worker. Gray riddled by bullets | indicate t by the police, and eight workers were | 2*° work: at his home trying to staunch his wounds were arrested. Not satis- fied with their bloody night’s. work the police have organized and legal- ized a mob of several hundred who are using bloodhounds to hunt down other croppers suspected of being members of the Union. The bloody attack on last night's was more than one Ne- ker was killed in the po- lice attack on a Scottsboro test meetin: in that town. ison declined to give names of the Negroes wounded. but said one was in jail a serious condition. He w committal regardine the foun Negroes. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE? The strikes in the General Fabrics and Royal mills are solid. Every attempt by the bosse$, the police and the United States Department of Major General Should Be Set for War Now CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 17 —Ralph Gray, a Negro share-crop- per was murdered by Sheriff J Kile Young of Tallapoosa County. Camp Hill, Alabama, while on his way to attend a meeting of 2 share Says Factories ‘The white ruling class and the sheriff's posse at Camp Hill, Alabama, are now only following the advice of the renegade Negro, William Pickens, who publicly advised on June th: “Let the white people of Alabama and the South sit up and take notice,” and take action for the suppression of all agitation and organization among the Negro masses for the Scotts- boro defense which Pickens described as “this Communism seeping throvzh the densely ignorant portion of the colored population.” The raiding of meetings of Negro workers and the wholesale shoot- ing down of Negroes is the direct result of the alliance of the renegade leaders of the NAACP with “white supremacy.” WHITE efforts to toad worke: eight hour their union, Labor is hol strikers, has U. S. Continues Raid on Workers . 'S.—Continuing its the strike of 1,000 a living wage, an and recognition of | U. S. Department of 21 strike leaders for deportation. Jésus Blanco, one of the ers into two separate unions in order to smash the industrial union the workers themselves had begun to build up. In line with their jim crow prac- tices against the Negro workers, the Negro strikers are excluded from all agreements by the A. F. of L. fakers, Labor to break the strike, had failed. The workers are standing firm against all interference. The police are continuously hounding the work- ers in and out of the strike areas and off the streets. ‘The terror is very sharp against (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) CHICAGO, Ill, July 17—Declaring that during 52 per cent of its na- tional life, the United States (that is, American capitalism) has been en- gaged in wars, and that wars are more apt to break out now than ever before, Maj. Gen. Frank Parker, commander .of the 6th corps area here, declared that war industries must be rushed to prepare for war. Speaking before the Advetising Men's Post off the American Legion at the Hotel Sherman a few days ago, the Major General declared that plans were made for immediate mobiliza- tion of 2,000,000 men for the next war. To make the war mobilization more complete he urged that indus- tries be drawn into the preparations croppers unjon which has been in the process of organizing in the past few months against the plant ation owners’in Tallapoosa Coun’ The Chamber of Commerce plan- ned to cut the share croppers off from all food advances on July 1 giving a small number of share- croppers the alternative of working in the, sawmills or in the fields with ba ae ranging from $1 to 50 cents a day. ‘This murderous assault upon the Negro people must be stopped by t Say It With Halt Dollars ; 4 The lynchers were after the ite! more effectively than now. * : action of the Noe and NSE pea tcak itl tet: outa and ‘Wholesale raider The main burden of the Major Linieets and leaders of the union The Comm Party Es alana thiemasiven against itsane besihal General's talk was that now during| The union demands that the food # white, stares ene cee ut +4 peace the factories should be prep- | #¢Vances continue until settlement ee een --Smash Bosses’ Attack 22ers LS green Seen se mediately as war might break out vy cash, giving the share- croppers the right to sell. their crop where they see fit, the right of a garden for their home use, and a three hour mid-day rest. The share croppers also protested the murderous frame-up of the nine Scottsboro boys. The southern district of the In- ternational Labor Defense wired Gov. Miller as. follows: “We protest the murder of Ralph Gray, a Camp Hill Negro share- cropper by deputies and demand legro workers and farmers who ed themselves to defend their right to free assembly, are fighting for their most elementary can be fully established in the black .belt only with over- e. white ruling class and the realization of the right of self- determination of the Negro masses. The cause ) the cause of the whole working class! It is the especial duty’ol workérs to come forward in the de- fense of the Negro masses. ‘We call upon the Negro and white workers and exploited farmers everywhere to stand firm, to defend their rights at all costs. ‘This assault against the Negro masses is intended to break up the de- fense of the innocent Scottsboro boys, and thus to enable the capitaitsts and landlord rulers of Alabama to proceed with the ghastly legal murder any time. He went on to say: “Preparation and training of our manufacturers in the production of munitions, carried out in time of peace are absolutely necessary if we are to have adequate na-~ tional defense; and this training must not be confined to a few se~ lected manufacturers but must ap- Ply to all those who would be call- ed upon to furnish ‘munitions in the event of war.” — In all parts of the country the Watch Germany! | ; The eyes of both the capitalists and the workers of the world are-on Germany, the capitalists looking with fear, the workers with hope. The most powerful Communist Party in the world outside the Soviet Union, the Party that polled 4,500,000 votes in the last elections, leads the German masses in struggle. And in the forefront, teaching, organizing, and guid- ing them, guiding their struggles, is the central organ of the German Party, the Rote Fahne (Red Flag). In 1918-19 the Rote Fahne led the workers in Worker is doing the same in this country; it leads you in your everyday struggles, fighting on every front, and shows you the path of final emancipation. Today the miners are striking, the textile workers are st ing, today we fight against starvation, the Hoover- Woll-Thomas wage-cut plans, against deportations and imperialist war; tomorrow greater battles will face us. The Daily Worker must be there to lead us! But the Daily Worker can live ONLY IF YOU SAY SO! Let your half dollars talk and ACT! Say what you think of the efforts to save German capitalism Supreme just Close yesterday. dismissed a writ of habeas corpus brought by: the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union’ for the re- lease of Alvarez Gil. The the empty gesture of aotsing phe action of Patrolman Joseph for striking Gil.in the police station. Justice Close declared a policeman had “no excuse” for striking a man x the cessation of terror and murder in police headq Justice Close,| struggle against the murderous “socialist” govern- | and swing it into the war-front against Soviet Rus- | army and navy men are preparini » of these innocent children. We call upon ate ive ef to hold their oe however, » 9ed.with the| ment of Ebert, Scheidemann and Noske. In 1931 the | sla, say what you think of Hoover's 20-year pian for | for Nas while in Pads the Tending is ‘shicecfureale be gem cobra of defense firmly and to proceed bea P ad bigger, dete and | fact, that Witn. ;, -cossack| Rote Fahne féae- “ .. in the fight against the fas- | squeezing the workers, of Woll’s Committee of 100 anti- | imperialists are rx al the anti-|izing against starvation re ‘better stronger organization of a mass movement to save.the-nine innocent vi had fired into the strikers on Tues-| cist dictatorship <oing, financed by American | Soviet war crusaders, of Pinchot’s terror in Pennsyl- | Soviet war front as well as an at-|conditions. We demand ps ight tims x a Seottsboro legal lynching. day, wounding Arthur Rose, a strik-| bankers, the dictatorship of hunger and misery, of war | vania, of Norman Thomas’ strike-breaking! Say it i BS The immediate release of the nine innocent boys. Stop the legal lynching at Scottsboro! : : A new trial by 2 jury composed only of those standing for equal rights. {CONTINUED* ON PAGE FIVE) er. Mayor Fred McLaughlin. publicly. praised McCue for his murderous at- tack on the strikers. : The A. F. of L. have foined with their fellow fakers of the Musteite against the Soviet Union. Fellow-workers, you are now reading the American Rote Fahne! The Rote Fahne helped build the Ger- man Communist Party from a small opposition group into a Party that is followed by millions. The Daily with half dollars today to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th Street, New York City. P. S—Where are those coupon books? Turn them in! Daily Worker agents all over the country must tack on the German masses. Against these war preparations the workers should raise demand: all war funds for the mployed! All out on August 1, td; fight agains’ of Negro and white share-croppers to organize and meet and defend themselves against lynch mobs. We look after this at once! Athe imperialist war hold you responsible for teproristic actions, reported planned against the share-cropners or their leaders.” - i tions, -