The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1931, Page 1

CS TTT TIE ET IE EIT RII — * emerson (Section of the Communist Inte v2ational ) eC dAmumiet Party U.S.A. OF THE WORKERS WORLD; UNITE! — ———— ‘Vol. VIII, No. 174 Entered asx second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 PATERSON TEXTI With Bill Green at ‘Thermopylae “Here we stand like the Greeks at Thermopylae. We budge. The American Federation of Labor will not stand a reduction of wages, and we are going to oppose it with all our might and vigor.” * refuse to 'TH the above brave words William Green, President of the A. F. of L., brought applause from the hand-picked list of delegates to the In- ternational-Longshoremen’s Association (I.L.A.) »convention at the non- union Hotel Victoria in New York City last Wednesday. But we have some questions for Mr. Greeti: Have wages of the A. F. of L. rank and file workers been cut since your “no strike” promise to the bdsses in’ November, 19292 You know they have been cut! Then tell us, Bill Green, just where the A. F. of L. has stood against these cuts “like the Greeks at Thermopylae?” Is it not a fact, you fascist scoundrel, that you have not only dis- couraged strikes, but have done your dafndest to break strikes against wage cuts, both of A. F. of L. workers and workers led by the revolut- ionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League? You cannot deny this fact! The workers of Marion, Elizabethton, Lawrence, Allentown, and last but not least of the mine fields, will fling the lie into your face if you dare to utter it! What, then, is the reason for your demagogic hokum, Mr. Green, about “standing like the Greeks at Thermopylae against wage cuts’? There are two reasons: First, there are so many workers, even in the A. F. of L., who are looking for leadership in their rising wave of strike resistance against wage cuts, and are finding that leadership in the Trade Union Unity League, and the revolutionary party of the workers, the Communist Party, that you are forced to “talk radical” to keep any sizeable number of workers deceived. Secondly, your mock “heroic” stand—in words—against wage cuts fas meant to justify an increased membership dues tax upon the workers in the LL.A. in order to pay a heavy increase in salaries to their burea- cratic official machine headed by Joseph P. Ryan, whose “sacrifice,” quite unlike the sacrifice of the Greek commander Leonidas at Thermopylae, is not at all the losing of his head, but on the contrary, a very pleasant living at the salary of $8,000 a year! ‘There is one fitting’ comparison tq Thermopylae. The Greek soldiers there were killed to the last man defending Sparta against the Persian enemy, And. the very.A. F. oft. workers of the IL.A., whose strikes agains wage cuts the A. F. of L. had betrayed in Galveston and in New Orleatig, are well compared to the Greek soldiers who fell at Thermopylae. _Bésides this, we must amend your historical reference, Mr. Green, ‘and add that the longshoremen and other A. F. of L. workers whose strikes against wage cuts have been betrayed by the A. F. of L. leaders, are further well compared to the heroic soldiers who fell at Thermopylae, be- cause—like these sqldiers—they were deliberately sent to death by the Spartan rulers (Ephors), to whom you and the other treacherous leaders of the A. F. of L. are well related in historical analogy. But not for long, Bill Green, will even the A. F. of L. rank and file workers, who are suffering from terrific wage cuts and the ghastly hunger of unemployment, who are driven mad by speed-up because of the “touching collarboration of you and your kind with the bosses, stand for your treachery and betrayal and deceit. These longshoremen of the I.L.A. are already turning to the revo- lutionary “Marine Workers Industrial Union of the T.U.U.L., which is one reason you had to bluff. The coal miners of America, led by the National Miners Union of the T.U.UL., and the textile workers, led by the National Textile Workers Union, of the T.U.U.L., are already sounding the call to battle for the entire working class against wage cuts and unemployment! ~~ only—freed from the A. F. of L. agents of the bosses in the ranks of the workers—they will not be sacrificed to treachery as were the Greeks at Thermopylae, but will rise stronger through every struggle and even through temporary defeat, to their ultimate and inevitable victory! mS Miners in County Hunger March at Steubenville, O. day, from Adena, Piney Fork, Dillon- vale, Bradley, Smithfield, Yorkville, Rayland, Brilliant, Mingo Junction. No permit has as yet been received, but it\is planned to hold a meeting on the steps of the court house. The commissioner told the com- mittee that, no foreigners or non-resi- dents of the county would be permit- |ted to marek. a Strikers. Two hunt strikers on the picket line at Tiltonville, were gassed this morning, thrée women were severely clubbed and ‘a’ number of arrests made during a battle with deputies. BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 20.— Steubenville authorities are prepar- ing for an armed attack on the hun- ger march to Jefferson county which takes place tomorrow. Mayor Conley interviewed the hun- ger march committee regarding a “permit for the march today and de- ‘glared war on the hunger marchers. ‘He refused a permit for the meeting stating, “No god damn marches or »meetings will be held in this town. I run this town. No constitutional tights go. If you march in here to- morrow morning we are prepared and will give you all we've got.” ‘The committee informed the mayor| Follo the picketing of three the march would be held. ~ | hundred. ers at the Blaine mine is es 8 6 this , the sheriff engaged re- BRIDGEPORT, July, 20-Every-|Tulting deputies, off the streets of thing is set for the hunger march on | >*!dgeport., Steubenville, Jefferson County, to- day. | Arrest Eighteen} pickets; women, weré arrested following the battle by ice deputiesiat, Warwood, West Vi , on Friday -are now charged with violation. of the Red- man Act, iheiting it, banding, 1s) / y ras five picketing at the” Providence mine forced scabs to turn back while the Belmont County: shé person- ally protected them: Mass picket lines were formed at Warwood,:and Cos- mines, ere |and confederating are held un- etre one and the sobs were | der $5,000 bail, with a possible pen- Tear gas an wn »were | alty of ten years. used by g police When‘the| Section conferences of the National Miners Unign are being held throughout the area, electing com- mittees and officers, preparing to carry out the program of the Pitts- burgh National Conference. In preparation for the August 1 anti-war demonstration, 25,000 leaf- lets have been issued by the Commu- nist Party, National Miners Union and the Metal Workers Industrial League. Two main demonstrations will be held in Wheeling and Steu- indignant miners attempted to take away those arrested. State police were called. The Redman ‘Act is to be used against the arrested. The broken ranks of the United Mine Workers of America are joining the National Miners Union. At Ben- wood and Hichman mines mass pick- eting turned the scabs back. One miner was ‘arrested. Ab Warwood a striker was evicted , (tom his home at the point of a gun. ‘The mi: massed and stopped the | benville. “evictions, the constable being forced nae ah We ad to carry the furniture back into the} TILTONVILLE, Ohio, July 20.— house, Striking miners marched to the jail aha aaed teday demanding the release of the . BRIDGEPORT. “1 wemen, protesting against. to 6 en ung ae ngs 4 Iccal vomens’ | iing 6,000 miners, REPUDIATE UMW: PLAN STRIKE ACTION: SMASH FAGAN SCAB MEETING TO MEET AGAIN 0 SUNDAY, JULY 26th: Twenty Quit At Castle| Shanon Night Shift PITTSBURGH. Pa, July 20.— Three hundred and fifty miners from 16 central Pennsylvania mines, in- cluding the Sagamore and neigh- boring struck mines, nominally un- der the leadership of the United Mine Workers of America leadership, met at Hagers Hall, Woodvale, a suburb of Johnstown, yesterday in the first district United Front Con- ference along the program of the National Conference held in Pitts- burgh on July 15 and 16. Represent 6,000 Miners. The district conference, represent- repudiated the United Mine Workers of America and adopted the program of the Na- tional Conference and elected a pro- visional executive committee of 19 which met following the conference. The committee is working out de- tails of a plan to hold mass meet- ; ings and -local .conferences_in all mines during the week t6 prepare strike action and to prepare a bigger united front conference on next | Sunday at 11 a.m., standard time, at the same hall, to formulate the strike demands for Central Pennsyl- vania. Foster, Price and Mills will be speakers. Thousands of leaflets are being distributed throughout the district this week. Thousands Ask Cards N.M.U. Intensive organization of National Mine Union locals is going on, thou- sands of application blanks to join the National Miners’ Union being requested by the miners of Central Pennsylvania. The conference showed the tre- mendous impression made by the Na- tional Conference at Pittsburgh. It showed the high prestige of the Na- tional Miners’ Union, because of its j leadership of the tri-state strikes, where 45,000 miners are carrying on a militant battle against starvation. 20 Quit At Castle Shannon. Twenty more quit at the night shift at Castle Shannon, in the Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Co. Mine No. 2 on Saturday, because of increased work for which the miners are not paid, through the removal of snap- pers, who are men who bring the ropes to couple cars. Moverich is being held on deporta- tion charges for “conspiring to break the laws by organizing relief collec- tion in Pittsburgh,” and the police have threatened to arrest the union and relief leaders on the same charge. NEGRO WOMEN ORGANIZING CHICAGO, Ill.—Large numbers of Negro women workers are joining the fight against starvation and ex- ploitation out at Washington Park. Hundreds of workers gather nightly. Block committees are ized by the women. are joining the Leag workers for struggle agains the ruling class. The First Tent In The Strike Fields. Striking Miners Relief Committee, Pay aes 5 2,000 Miners Smash | Scab Meet of UMW In Canonsburgh | CANONSBURG, Pa., July 20.—The | striking miners of Canonsburg smash- | ed the meeting of P. T. Fagan and Phil Murray so thoroughly this after- | noon that there is no question in} this part of the coal fields about how | the United Mine Workers is regarded. The main significance of the in- cident is that Fagan has three times announced he would speak here, and three times fled the field in fear, | without daring even to try. He has| had the help of the capitalist press, which advertises him lavishly; he has | had the assistance of innumerable state police and deputy sheriffs and gunmen. Fagan’s well based fear made him a laughing stock, and this meeting was arranged on a lavish scale to repair his prestige. The UMW sowed broadcast over the whole country great posters announcing that Fagan, UMW president of Dis- trict 5, and Phil Murray, vice-pres- ident of the United Mine Workers of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE? PUSH FRAME-UP OF S. WEISMAN AFL. Tries to Break F.W.LU. Campaign NEW YORK. — Sam Weisma, ac- tive member of the Food Workers In- dustrial Union, and the object of a frame-up attack by the A. F. of L. Local of the Grocery and Dairy Clerks was served with a second sum- mons charging him with “threaten- ing” Heller, organizer of the bosses’ A. F. of L. local. Weisman is now out on $1,000 bail for tial August 27 at the Coney Is- land Police court as an outcome of a struggle in which F. W. I. U. mem- bers resisted an attack of A. F. of L. gangsters. This second charge against Weis- man is intended to build up a case against him and to railroad him to jail. Three other workers are out on similar charges. The New Paramount Market at Brighton Beach Avenue has signed an agreement with the Food Workers Industrial Union. The A. F. of L. EW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1931 LE WORKERS READY ass Indign ) Massacre (ype > Workers SHERIFF J. KYLE YOUNG Who led the murderous onslaught against Negro croppers at Camp Hill, Alabama. The Negro work- ers heroically defended themselves. Young and one of his deputies were wounded in the battle which fol- lowed. ation Roused in Alabama to Protest Camp Hill Horror August First NOOGA d word has been heard of the four gro croppers missing after Thurs batile between croppers and a fore of police, sheriffs and deputies who 20. launched a murderous terror against asin the croppers in an attempt to si | their union and stifle their prot: | against the frightful frame-up and {attempted legal lynching of the nine | innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. | In view of Chief of Police Wil- | scn’s cynical explanation to the cap- italist press that the four croppers | “had gone to cut wood,” it is felt here that the four workers were mur- dered by the same police forces who | shot down Ralph Gray, another crop- | | per, on the street, and later trailed | him to his home and murdered him |in cold blood while he: lay defense- | Jless in his bed receiving medical at- | tention. The Southern district of the In- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE) others must have tents. and Sunday. struggle against starvation. your help. gang triet to break up the F. W. I. U. organization here. “We Appeal to You!” PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 20.—“Establishing kitchen; must have minimum of two-hundred dollars by return mail. Chiidren are actually starving,” says a telegram re- ceived tonight from Harlan, Another telegram from West Virginia makes demands just as urgent. From western Pennsylvania strike camps, dozens of committees came urging tents immediately. One family of eleven are living under an apple tree for a whole week and it is raining almost daily. They and hundreds of Every New York worker who wants to see the min- ers win the strike must join the Tag Days on Saturday Funds are needed desperately. are actually starving. The striking miners are looking to New York workers who have pledged solidarity in num- berless greetings to conferences to stand by them in their Every worker on the streets must collect all he can and strain every resource to raise funds. Pennsylvania held a conference to spread the strike, but relief is vitally necessary to the life of the strike. Com- rades! The striking miners, their wives and children ask Answer Saturday by throwing all your ener- gies into collecting funds to buy bread for hungry strikers. Kentucky. Thousands Already central Meet of Imperialists on German Crisis Drives to War! Give Answer Aug. 1! NEW YORK—As the Daily|German Factories to] Plan” Worker pointed out yesterday, des- pite the lies in the capitalist press about the harmony of the Paris con- ference discussing the German sit- uation, there are sharp conflicts de- veloping between the United States and France, as well as between France and Great Britain. The Paris conference closed with- out any agreement whatever. The smooth statement of the. German and French representatives are clearly designed to mislead the mas- Rush Funds to the Penn-Ohio | Room 205, 611 Penn Ave... Pitts- | Close, Throwing Out Millions ses, A cable bulletin of the United Press from London reads: “It was disclosed here today that the Uni- ted States may present to the seven power conferencea plan for rehabilitating Germany’s finances directly opposed to the French The French likewise are stressing their differences. The Paris Le >ia- tin, a semi-official newspaper, goes so far as to™poin out that war is in the offing if the French imper- jalists are not allowed to put over their program, Le Matin says: “Tf, after a few days, it were to be suspected that Great Britain wished to prevent closer Franco-German re- lations at any price, its pacifist pre- {CONTINUED 09 PAGE THRER? ray F Ini TAT | 5 PATERSON Mass Picketing to Push the Workers Issued PATERSO)D P K workers of Paterson are waiting gle against hu will be on t Paterson eS rkers to the starvation conditions in |They will not be divided ac-¢ cording to language, national- ity or creed. Al! will si to- gether and will win together. This determination h>s been} stimulated by the splendid strikej meeting which was held last Friday night, followed by the excellent na- al silk conference on Sunday, when delegates from Pawtucket, Put-| nam, Central Falls and above all! from Allentown demonstrated their | militancy and fighting spir | The Paterson wor! come into, the strike field alongside their broth- ers and sisters in these centers The bosses will learn that the record m workers for fight will} be dimmed, but will level than ever be- of the Pater not only n reach a higher fore The bosses know that the strike | is here. Some of them have already closed their doors, so as not to face MASS PICKETIN IN ALLENTOWN DESPITE FAKERS Strikers Take Things Into Own Hands July 20.—Seven taking Over ALLENTOWN, P: thousand silk things into their own hands. the heads of the officials, there was workers are | ‘no mass picketing today at the Moggio Mills, 3,000 workers rushed down to the mill upon hearing that a handful of scabs were coming out ‘When they arrived at the mill they were met by state troopers. when For the past three weeks no mass picketing had been done, due to an ordinance passed by the city, per- mitting the strike to have not more than ten to fifteen strikers f.cket at a mill. The officials, Mac- Dona:d of the United Textile Union; Steiner and M of the A. F. of L, of Allentown, instructed the work- ers to obey the law and have only} fifteen pickets. Three weeks passed and scabs have been coming into the mills. The strikers then decided to take things into their own hands, | and they were told by the officials that if they behaved themselves the city would permit mass picketing during the week. But when the strik- ers went down to the mill today they found the state militia wait- ing for them. The strikers are very enthusiastic today because of the large delega- tion which has just returned from Paterson, where they saw a mass meeting taking a unanimous vote for a strike in Paterson. Price 3 Cents R STRIKE CALL KE TO UNITE 20,000 FIGHT ON HUNGER IN , N. J. MILLS Struggle to Victory for ; Strike Call to Be Soon The 20,000 silk and dye for the strike call. The strug- he streets, on the picket line. are determined to put an end the dye hou and silk mills. , who will be ng. The manu- New York City also rike, and all their their Bolsheviks, Reds and will not keep the work- ers from fighting. If to be a Bol- shevik is to fight against hunger, say the Paterson silk and dye work- ers, like the workers of all industries, then all of them are Bolsheviks. If he strike-breaking officials of the sociated and UTW think that the rank and file of the Paterson silk and dye workers are to be terrorized by their statements of their being reason” or “basis” for @ strike in Paterson at the present time, they too will be surprised. The Paterson workers will fight this time as never before, for the Paterson workers, as the workers all over the country, are no longer .going to be fooled either by Hoover, Green, Cohen, Matthews or Budenz: they intend to fight against the hunger program of the bosses and their agents, the A. F. of L. officials, and this time, despite all the strike-breaking activities of the Associated and UTW, they will win, Paterson workers! Wait for the strike call. It won't be long now! KIDS JOIN HALF DOLLAR DRIVE TO AID “DAILY” The kids too are joining the half- doller brigade of fighters for the Daily Worker. “I am nine years old,” writes Leon Schwartz of Providence, R. I, “and I read the Daily Worker every day. I like Ryan's cartoons of Bill Worker and I saved fifty cents and I am sending it to you.” We are now on the march toward the extra $5,000. Ten thousand half dollars will do the trick, and if all the money that has been collected on coupon books or in collection boxes were turned in, we would already have a good part of that $5,000. When we originally set the figure of $35,000 as the goal of the drive, we knew this wouldn't be enough, but we set it as the very minimum, realizing how badly hit our readers were. The $35,- 000 have saved the Daily up till now and enabled us to clear off many of our debts, but new difficulties loom during these summer months when the income of every paper drops. If we are to pull through the summer and avoid another acute crisis, an extra $5,000 must be raised. It can be done if every district reaches ite quota. What will be your answer- Turn in al! coupon books, send those half dollars and all other con- tributions flying to the Daily Work- er, 50 E. 13th St., New York City! An Evicted Family! Rush Tents to the Penn-Ohio Striking Miners « Reliet Immediately!