The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1931, Page 1

} | wae NEW YORK.—In an editorial en- titled “The Russo-American War,” written on the day of the most criti- eal meeting of the leading imperial- ists in Paris, where an anti-Soviet war front is being hammered out, as well as an attack on the German masses, the Sunday News, begins to lay the basis for mass propaganda for a war against the Workers’ Re- public. In a clever fashion the editorial always insinuating war against Rus- sia must come says “We do not want it.” The first paragraph of the editorial reads: “Don’t bother trying to think what war is referred to in the title above. This war hasn’t happened yet. God willing, it never will. But we be- lieve it is perfectly possible. Some of us might even live to see it. Millions of people now, in one part of the world and another, are en- gaged in a new kind of fight.” The editorial seeks to draw the masses into a war spirit against the Soviet Union. Written precisely at the time the anti-soviet war front is being prepared with the help of Wall Street shows how rapidly war is approaching, The editorial realizes the difficul- ties of drawing millions of unem- in the ken over So the It begins to exposes that ers will bro: ast when this | breaks out—as they are doing every day in pointing out the war danger. — EXTRA! Eye Witness Account of Camp Hill, Alabama, Massacre Da Central eS of the Communist ttt) | r Nor! + ES Rfrunict Party U.S.A. (against th |torial decl Soviet Un: res, “agit and destroy com munism of the ur inticipat- the complant d the mi jus that we were simply keep the Fords and some | rich.” They answer that capitalism is thi better system and th teh fight to preserve capitalism t the workers | i er rihen who want k must wo! ployed | ho received wage | be | {found for them. Their answer is aga “War!” War st the Soviet Union! And to |forward this war they begin a lying | campai, against the Soviet Union. the war preparations against | the Soviet Union! All out August 1 Jon anti-war day! Defend the Soviet Union! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 173 Entered aa second-class matter at the Post Officn at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 Ss —— War Threatens the Soviet Union (DER. the title—“THE RUSSO-AMERICAN WAR’—the N. Y. Daily News of July 19, publishes an editorial, the text of which is a studied attempt to conceal the American plots against the Soviet Union which the title used reveals. In this titlk—“THE RUSSO-AMERICAN WAR’—the News blurts out in the one line, the fact of the war danger, the direction of that danger aimed at the Soviet Union. It is one more proof of the prepar- ations for war with which every imperialist government is now busy. In Paris where the diplomats of the Versailles victors and the Ver- gailles victims are gathered since Friday, in London where they will ‘again gather today in an effort to resolve their rivalries, they are prepar- ‘ing for war against the Soviet Union! ‘Why? Because to keep the dragon of world imperialism from immediate dissolution, it must gorge itself on more victims; the rivalries between the imperialists for markets drive them inevitably to seek a “solution” on the basis of re-conquering for their capitalistio overproduction, the enormous market which the Bolshevik Revolution tore out of the clutches of world capitalism, one-sixth the land area of the globe and 160,000,000 -people whom capitalism cannot exploit while the Soviet Power lives. ‘The N. Y. Daily News editorial tries to justify capitalist war on the Soviet Union in advance. It says that: “If we got into a fight like that, agitators would tell us that we were simply fighting to keep the Fords and Rockefellers rich.” ‘The Daily News tries to “explain” that such “agitators” would be wrong; that America would fight for “individualism,” though it fails to mention that “individualism” means capitalism and capitalism means hell for the toiling masses. But that the war will be for capitalism is admitted in another paper, and cites Hoover himself as an authority. In the N. Y. Times of July 19, Walter Duranty, who was present at Versailles when the Allies enforced their robber “peace,” it is stated, in regard to the present crisis ix Central Europe: “No less an authority than Mr. Hoover himself expressed to the writer during the peace conference, the opinion that the post-war re- construction of Europe would be difficult if not impossible, while Rus- sia remained ‘closed’—in other words, while Russia remained Bolshe- vist” * Workers! Understand that the war-makers are feverishly making efforts to unite, to compromise their own quarrels—at the expense of war upon your standards of living here and by war upon the Soviet. Union, the First Workers’ Republic! CALL FOR NATL SILK STRUGGLE 89 at Paterson Meet Represent 46, 678 Silk Workers Work Out Demands for All Loeal Stikes tional conference of silk workers, called by the National Textile Work- ers’ Union, was held here for the purpose of uniting the silk workers all over the country on a militant policy for the struggle. There were 89 delegates present, representing 46,878 workers in the industries from the following cities: Allentown, Pa.; North Hampton, Mass.; Putham, Conn.; Pawtucket and Central Falls, R. I.; Paterson and Passaic, N. J. Rank and file members of the United Textile Workers, an A. F. of L, union, under the control of mis- leaders, and from the Associated Silk Workers, a Musteite union, were present. It was decided to bring together | the struggles of the National Textile Workers’ Union, in various parts of + Unify Present Strikes| PATERSON, N. J., July 18—A na-|~ thousands of miners. against evictions the miners need In an effort to break the strike the coal companies are evicting Not even the usual legal rigamarol is followed as the coal companies own most of the houses the miners live in. furniture is thrown on the road by the company gunmen. these gunmen have robbed the scanty clothes of the miners. The In some cases To fight Rush your contribution now tents. to the Penn-Ohio Strike Relief Committee, 199 Broadway, N. Y¥. Rally Miners for Big Mass Demonstrations On Aug. 1; | Mass Picketing On Today: Sheriffs, State Troopers Continue Terror In Mine Fields, But Strikers Force Back Scabs; —e “CITY EDITION — Price 3 Cents | ‘Eye Witness Tells « of Police Attack on Alabama Croppers Police Followed ‘the At Attack By Breaking Into|“Discover” F ” Fake Plot -|Homes and Beating Up Families—Gray Shot| Down in Cold Blood While Defenseless in Bed | (By Telegraph to Daily Worker) ATLANTA, Ga., July 19.—“Terror cannot smash the union,” today declared an eyewitness to the battle at Camp| Hill, Alabama, when Negro croppers, members of the Share- Croppers Union, militantly defended themselves against a mur-| derous attack by Alabama police, sheri and deputies. “The landowners would not fight@ so viciously,” this eye-witness andj load with Sheriff Young and Deputy participant continued, “if the union Wilson passed Ralph Gray ee the were not. for us. We had already road, stopped and opened fire on won our first demand for food ad-| hee iene AB at aes ected ey vances by a wide distribution of ‘The | ‘@ntly returned the fire, but his shots Southern Worker and by a show of| Were ineffective. A Negro cropper Jour strength af over 800 members, | C@tTied Gray to his home, where the This demand was won after the| Sheriff later found him and mur- landowners and storekeepers had de- | dered him in cold blood while Gray cided that no food advances would | ¥aS lying injured and defenseless in : bed ven us between July 5 be given us between July 1 and AU-) “ere was no fight at Gray’s| st 15. | Cas next demands we were fight-|)ouse #5 reported in the capitalist | ing for was for cash settlement as “‘Gone to cut stove wood’” quoted Workers! Strike against wage cuts! Demand unemployment insur- ancg! And come onto the streets on August First in protest at the war being prepared by capitalism on the Soviet Union! Workers! Defend the Soviet. Union! Must Have $5,000 More to Put Over Task of “Daily Worker” READEDS: Though the $35,000 mark has about. been reached, the seriousness of the financial situation in the Daily Worker, especially acute during the SUBWAY MEN GET PAY CUT ON AUGUST ist NW YORK. — A wage cut has been handed 10,000 workers on the B. M. T. subway lines in order to keep up the profits of the stockhold- ers. The wage cut goes into effect on August First. ‘The company {s announcing the wage cut says that the company union approved of the reduction. The company union approved, but being a union which serves the company, the men were not called together to vote on the new agreement; it was put over directly by the company of- ficials. The cut which is different for each worker, averaging around 10 per cent, saves the company half a million a year. This money is turned over to the parasites who own the stock of the company, while the men and their families, already underpaid, must eat Tess. In some cases the hours of the men are reduced, and their wages cut, In all cases, motormen get their ‘wages cut through a cut in a monthly bonus. A bonus of $5.00 was paid for lack of accidents. Now this “bonus” is cut in half. The bonus in reality was a form of wages, as admitted by the company. The New York Times, commenting on the “bonus” cut says: “The halving of this bonus, it was estimated, would cut the wages of all motormen, trainmen and conductors, excluding subway and elevated mo- tormen, by one cent an hour.” The wage cut of the B. M. T. work- ers goes into effect on August Ist, when huge demonstrations will be ’ the country, including the projected Paterson silk strike, in a united struggle. The Paterson silk strike is to start shortly. A committee of 18 was elected to investigate conditions in the dis- tricts, and to work out specific de- mands for the various localities. John Marsh, of the Allentown United Textile Workers; Jack Sta- chel, of the National Committee of pera the Trade Union Unity League, and summer months, compels us to con- | John Ballam, of the National Com- tinue the drive in an effort to raise | mittee o fthe National Textile Work- an extra $5,000. Otherwise we will; ers’ Union, were among those wio not be able to carry on. Thousands | addressed the conference. of workers have responded magnifi-| The committee of 18 elected are cently to our appeals and have dem-/| to get in touch with the silk work- onstrated in a concrete way their} ers all over the country to prepare devotion to their fighting Daily.| for a national silk strike. The gen- Their response, the sacrifices they] eral demands adopted by the con- have made, prove that the Daily is| ference are as follows: in fact the workers’ paper, loved by . them, looked to by them for leader- eae Rta) ek eee ship, a necessity in their struggles. | (4) minimum wage scales; (5) against But trying days are ahead of US.| speed-up; (6) no women on night ue pave * bevansbra stad of ee work; (7) the withdrawal of all in- 500—and no fun cover le~ ies spite the Seine ae the Lanai d se) Rs lap else ato sand more half dollars enable i ‘ x the Daily to survive this difficult] 7y‘ons, (1? the night to organize summer and grow. Most of the dis- s tricts have not yet reached their Rescue Fellow Strikers from State Cops SLOVAN, Pa., July 18.—A youth meeting of 200 young miners and girls from miners’ families was held here last night. They went ahead and organized a youth section of the local of the National Miners Union, electing Zolinko, chairman, Pate financial secretary, and a girl for recording secretary. The Youth promise to see that@ every one is out on the picket line here Monday morning. CANONSBURG, Pa., July 19. Harry L. Cook, burgess of Canons- burg (an office similar to mayor) was announced as chairman for the meeting the U. M. W. officials Fagan and Murray to be held here Sunday. Cook has been active in strike- breaking before. About two weeks ago he had all the collectors for the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee rounded up, tool their credentials away and gave them to the United Mine Workers. oa sity BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 19.—All preparations are made for the mass march of unemployed and striking miners of Jefferson County on Steu- benville, Tuesday morning, July 21 The hunger marchers will present demands to the county authorities for cash relief, for milk for babies and food for other children, for no evictions or shutting off of light or other services in homes of unem- ployed and strikers. They will de- mand the release of prisoners ar- rested for strike activities, and will demand the removal of the armed forces of the state and of the opera- tors from the strike area. A mass picket line at the Provi- dence mine turned the scabs back while the Belmont county sheriff and his deputies were present The sheriff was personally in charge of arangements to sce that the scabs got into the mine Vigorous picketing last night at the Warwood mine, near Wheeling, W. Va., drove the scabs out in spite of attacks by Wheeling police who used (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) and seventy-five cents bus tax for| three months school. In spite of our being made to pay a bus tax no bus has been furnished “On Wednesday night we held our regular union meeting in a vacant house near Camp Hill, Alabama, with eighty members present. Shortly | after the meeting opened we were raided by Sheriff Young and 20 arm- jed deputies. Copies of the Southern Worker and a few pamphlets were | seized by the police. The speaker | was arrested. Only one cropper was} armed. This worker held back the armed thugs of the Sheriff and es-! caped “The homes of many croppers were broken into after the meeting. | An entire family was beaten, the wife suffering a fractured skull “Ralph Gray who was present at the beating protested against the| brutality of the sheriff and his gang. “While there was no meeting on Thursday night, several carloads of deputies and landowners rode past meeting places firing guns. A car- quotas. Every district must com- plete its quota! The fraternal or- ganizations must complete their quota; Many coupon books, with the money collected on them, are still outstanding. All coupon boo%s, whether filled or unfilled, and ail _ money must be turned in at once to « jon.” ‘. ‘. ins placa’ they wane? gaits trees! ‘Dear Union,” writes a little This means Tag Day money, too! gil from a Pittsburgh Ter- Give some of your time and en-|minal Company patch, “Can I ergy to the Daily. Spend a few| belong to the Miners’ Children hours during this week collecting halt) qi “any |more because my dollars from your friends and shop- mates. Spread the Daily Worker|daddy went back to work. My Clubs as permanent organizations} ma aint talkin’ to him no more Fintraat ales or te pike but he says he can’t see us WWiRaES: Aivatige picnics and: other kids living on grass and: being affairs for the Daily! throwd out without no place Daily Worker Management to go at all and not do nothing Committee. about it. But my dad he says held in Union Ssuare against the bos. | he’s all for the National Min- ses’ war and against hunger and wage ers Union but he aint got no cuts, The B. M, T. workers should|heart to see us hungry. join in this demonstration to rally “Us kids says we don’t care their forces for a strike against wage ; cuts, This is only the beginning. In|We don’t say nothing about putting over this wage cut, the B, M.|eats and we'll pick mustard T. bosses are laying the ground for|}greens and the other kids further and sharper cuts. Only ac-} showed me where to get dan- tion by the workers now will stop 4 ‘di ” leylines and Ma’ll cook it and All out on August 1st to Union a hegiat ‘aaa asia’ then the releef will give us n the day the wage cut goes into ah fect! Strike against wage cuts! food too if they got. enough for “Dear Union,” Writes Miner’s Child, “Send A Tiny Bit of Relief So We Can Win the Strike” Father Forced Back to Work But Mother and Child Want to Stay On Picket Line and Fight With the Union The Pennsylvania - Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee passes this letter on to you. Hundreds of them come every day, asking for relief, for tents. Today twelve truck- loads of food were sent into the strike camps. Fourteen tents received from Philadel- phia, Detroit and Akron were everyone. “Ma is ashamed to go to the ladees agzilary speakins and she cries. Please, if youns will have some place for us to sleep dad he will come out agen. We just will make him and hes feeling with the strike so it won’t be hard if youns send a tiney bit releef so we show dad and he will see we dont have to be starving like|&2serly stn by i a score of families who will ang bien Sanh crowd into them. More food “And can I please go to the club and sing songs and cheer on the picket line like the girl who was out here says? Please is needed! More tents needed immediately! All the miners ask of you is are starved into scabdom! Send your contribution today, so that the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee will be able to send food t» still more strike camps, into Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvunia. The strike is spreading! If you will sup- port the strike by sending re- lief, the miners say they will fight this battle against star- vation to the finish! Send your contribution to room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Take part in the tag days in your city! Organize tag days if you haven’t done so yet, and daily house to house collection of money, food and clothing! Never was the need so great! bread for their children! answer me. Yours truly, ASAT tee Don’t allow the miners to he Mary.” The striking miners ask you the cotton is picked; our right to “ sell to whomever we please, nine| PY the capitalist press from Chief of months of schooling for our children | Police J. M. Wilson, is in reference and free school bus. We are now|‘© four missing croppers and is a forced to pay five dollars school tax| Slang Phrase or password of the | Blac! Fascisti meaning that the ‘four croppers were taken for a ride and murdered “Gray’s house was burned to the ground on Friday morning.” STARVING MINERS IN OKLA. FIELDS MARCH FOR FOOD Starving miners of Henryetta, Okla., organized a hunger march to grocery “es and demanded food, according to an Associated Press dispatch from that: city. Driven by hunger and without militant leadership the miners let themselves be led by a preacher. Fearful of the growing militancy of the miners, Governor Murray “pro- mised” them aid. He told them to go back to work, though the miners can find no jobs, but he undoubted- ly is trying to arrange for the miners work at the lowest starvation wages ever offered. To prepare plans against the hun- gry miners, officials of Murray and Henryetta City, Oklahoma, have ar- ranged a conference. They know that the miners who have been given nothing but promises will come back more determined than ever to fight rather than to die of hunger. FOUR MORE BELIEVED DEAD; SIXTY HELD IN JAIL ARE BEING FRAMED; BLOODHOUNDS USED TO HUNT LEADERS leaps Fought Back Mil- itantly When Fired On By Pr Police ‘Rally to Their Defense; Demonstrate Angust 1! CAMP HILL, Alaba- ma, July 19. — Four other Negro croppers are believed to have been murdered by the police during the murderous attack ‘on 2 meeting of the share croppers union last Thursday evening, at which Ralph Gray was seriouslv wounded and later trailed to h¥ home by the police and shot dow1 in cold blood while being atendec in bed by a doctor. Sixty croppers have been arreste( and are. being framed-up on variou lying charges because the -.Negro croppers dared to defend themselves when police suddenly and without warning. began to shoot up their meeting. Charges of assault with in- tent to murder have been preferred against five of the imprisoned work- ers. Twenty were charged with con- spiring to commit a felony, seven with carrying concealed weapons. Other croppers suspected of being members of the Share Croppers Union are being hunted down by over 400 armed deputies, with blood- hounds. Several of the potice murderers. including Sheriff J. Z. Young, were wounded when the Negro workers returned their fire. The battle is said to have lasted for several hours. Behind the attack on the croppers are the same murderous Alabama bosses who framed-up and are at- tempting to railroad to the electric chair the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. The attack is aimed at crushing the organization of the croppers and of silencing the protests of the Negro masses against the Scottsboro outrage. In order to justify the vicious po- lice terror against the Negro crop- pers, the bosses are now pretending to have “discovered” a plot against Sheriff Young. Coming to the de- fense of the police murderers, Solic- itor General Mullins attempts tc make out that the murder of Gray ouside the meeting place by the sheriff's posse thwarted the “plot” to murder Young. Mullins gives his cue to the boss press as follows: “There is no doubt in my mind NEW, YORK.—Behind the scenes in Paris, where the leading imperial- ist powers are discussing the Ger- man crisis, there is developing the sharpest conflicts yet to crop up since the Hoover plan was an- nounced. The capitalist press ts not reporting the truth of what is hap- pening as they do not want the work- ers to know how severe the conflict is and how close war is approaching. The Saturday papers announced that if an agreement on Germany was reached by the United States, Britain, France and the other powers at Paris, the London conference of so-called experts would not be called. Now it is definitely announced there for solidarity in their struggle! mat R NM NARE i ETE HE Cert will be @ meeting at London, This (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) German ‘Aid’ Parley Charged With War; Demonstrate Aug. 1 signifies that the Paris conference has flopped. It shows that the dif- ferences between the imperialists a: well as the conflict between France and Germany have been sharpened On Sunday the United Press in. dicated that the whole question wa: charged. with dynamite. A para- graph from the United Press cable from Paris read: «France, it was learmed in semi- official sources last night, will de- cline to participate in the London meeting unless an accord in prin- ciple on the central European ecri- sis is reached today.” The French insist on their de«