The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1931, Page 1

\ AN LAW y ELECTRO Wie YAE anne oe Bae -& Dail Central Ora ‘(Section of the Communist SL eaeee Norke: Rfaunict Party U.S.A. WORKERS @F THE WORLD, UNITE! Ven rAy Vol. VIII, No. 175 Entered as second. class matter at the at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879 Post Office JULY 22, 1931 CITY E DITION Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, PATERSON SILK, DYE WORKERS’ GENERAL STRIK The German Crisis and Its “Saviours” 'HREE weeks and a half ago Hoover “saved” Germany! Only now, however, the servile “thanks” given by the Bruening Government to Hoover for this “salvation,” has turned sour. Then with Reichsbank President Luther on his knees at the Basle “Bank of International Settlements,” Germany was going to be “saved” over again by the BIS. allowing Germany to keep for a while longer the $100,000,000 it recently borrowed. This “salvation” was followed | by the collapse of the Donat Bank and the outbreak of panic. On Tuesday, the N. Y. World-Telegram, managed to squeeze in a hopeful headline: “Bankers Begin Hoover plan” over a story from Basle that began by saying—‘“The Hoover Plan was made effective tday, when the council of the Bank of International Settlements agreed on a method by which Germany's unconditional Young Plan annuity may be made to the bank in monthly installments. Germany will pay 41,666,666 Marks tomorrow, etc. That “tomorrow” came saying: “Officials of the Bank of International Settlements said this after- noon that so far Germany had paid nothing of the amount due from her today. Directors of the bank appeared disconcerted by the failure to But there came also from Basle, a dispatch —— KEEP MILL CLOSED IN R. |. STRIKE Vote to Stay Out On Strike; Reject Fake Vote Boss News Agency Admits Attack on Croppers Aimed To Smash Their Union World-Wide Demonstrations August First to Protest. Murder of Croppers and Frame-Up of Scotts- boro Negro Boys NEW YORK.—Open admission that the mur-| 1,500 Miners March on Steubenville fo “NO LOOM MUST TURN, ALL OUT’ Fakers Fearful, Plan! Strikebreaking for Bosses TODAY for Relief 5,000 Back Up Demands of Miners; United Front Meets Push Action Program To Hold United Front | Confer ence in South ‘6000 TAKE PART __INMASS MEETING SS a Illinois, Sunday then West Virginio has ordered|F'irst of ile Kind In receive payments. The bank had decided that Germany must pay the ‘ i . A ‘ i ait | 2.000 National Miners Union appli- | i dio io Marks. << Bintion: had ineivacted Ker banik-40 oolledt het part Police Attack Pickets/derous police Teak i: weak SS croppers|To March to Halls | cation blanks and thousands of | Steubeny ille of the payments and reloan it to Germany. . é ; around Camp Hill, Alabama, who dared to pro- co | copies of strike literature for the} 2 oogt Crea This paying and reloaning is some of tha “simple international Strike Solid; Very Few ° * + Q_| Pursglove mines which are owned ad ps ¢ . bookkeeping” which Hoover said, after France first knocked his “plan” Return th Work test against the Scottsboro legal lynching, was Si neatly Pod 8 by the Taplin interests, who ere |e sone BS eer per on the head, would be the “final step” in “saving” Germany. aimed at smashing the union of the croppers|@!. Vay; Enc peedup |also the owners of the Pittsburgh |" se benville this morning to But when Wednesday the 15th came, Germany did not pay until j Terminal Coal Co. mines here. | (rthouse Square. Joined by 5,000 BULLETIN. and crushing their resistance against the robbery of the big PATERSON, N. J., July 21.—A call The United Mine Workers of Am- after nightfall, and only after a tremendous lot of international tele- yi + A A . eubenville workers eeting was phoning, during which the bankers were putting the boots to Germany. | weve ong rae aapely 21-The| landowners and storekeepers is contained in an Associated) tor a general strike of all sitk and| erica made a scab agreement at the |, eee estan Peper The bankers at Basle were “disconcerted.” And Wednesday's dispatch | V°2>oSset Mill was Kept closed de-/pro<< dispatch from Camp Hill. The dispatch, which was|dye workers in Paterson beginning| Pursglove Terminal mine: near) (1. taeosiete. all Aik ths : spite the company announcement ‘ ab 8 o'clock Wednesday morning| Pittsburgh. ‘The UMWA scale in the | County Commissioners, 2 oo (ak! f age a i‘ ie ultimatium of Mayor ° continued thus: “Confusion prevailed regarding the German payments and two view- points existed. The first was the Anglo-German interpretation that that it would reopen today, on the basis of a fake vote that only four- published in yesterday’s New York Evening Post, declares: “Thirty-four Negroes arrested in connection with efforts was issued by the United Front Gen- eral Strike Committee and the Na-| of +. the sglove mines is 30 cents a ton., % ‘ march and meeting Pursglove miners are joining the | the would be broken up by all forces at : teen decided to stay out. The real! of Tallapoosa County authorities @— 5 4, ane | wats M s Uni $s esult of ie Hace plan er suspension of all payments today. The second, workers’ vote ‘showed 469 for strike| to break up ‘the share croppers’ leegi mena Workers Union, 205 a onitad cea at of| 1 of the city and county. eld by the French, possibly supported by Italy, was that Germany must | ang 49 agaipst until noon yesterday.| Union’ were in, jail today on the a a S Ju 2D 26) . i 3 r meeting is the first of pay and the money would be immediately reloaned to her.” i i 9 The call addressed to all “dye | ference lit n the i ry of Steuben- The “ ditional” i edaitinalty black {ack Mass picketing was broken today| charges ranging from conspiracy to | 2 2 Sunday the Southern Illinois | n th Pe Re beberalbe peaea was finally blackjacked out of Germany |by a huge police line. Forty who| murder to carrying concealed wea- : . ee silk workers, ge wOMeD, ipciavont district conférence’ wil! onghold of the Wheeling eee aetEg Grea eng caNEA TPR, aGaIVGG yy PER HE NE ee ree oe Mn oe ele cag agri nel ee 0 Aid the Miners er CaN eae gecgey oi take place at Bellville, TIL, cr ‘Sb | gereaN ee ie continuity o: le Young mn as desired by France. But it also | noon picketing. The strike is stand-| bor Defense and Police Chief J. band weavers,” says: Strike! A t ou. ont a sale ae siete Vite it possible started a new argument as to whether the whole Young Plan should be | ing solid. M. Wilson of Camp Hill engaged in out! The time has come. No loom | Louis ie ‘ - tines will & hela | meeting. r. meetings will be held | scrapped, the Hoover Plan having failed to stop “all” payments, as it supposed to. Thus, after all, the famous “Hoover Plan” not only has all capitalist diplomats and bankers quarreling over what the hell it means, but the further it has gone the deeper and more catastrophic the crisis it was supposed to “solve.” And from this new muddle,-we are asked to believe HE Sgt ie PROVIDENCE, R. L, July 20—On Sunday the workers of the Weybosset Mill overwhelmingly defeated the at- tempt to sell. out their strike. The Olneyyille Businessmen’s Assoc., and Stations in New York, B’klyn., Elsewhere Forty thousand striking miners and their families are looking to the a duel of statements.” As a result of this brazen terrori- zing of workers who dare to organ- ize to resist the robbery of the rich landowners, one Negro cropper is dead, murdered in his bed by the | swer with our best weapon.” must turn. The bosses have driven us to hunger and now we will an- It is expected that 20,000 workers will be affected. Fakers Active Stout i fas ance marchers paraded name of the Miners National Unity | 22 impressive demonstration with Committee of Action | workers on foot from 5 a a hone The seventeenth warrant has been | ™Unching dry bread as they walked. issued in Canonsburg as the result | The County Commissioners reiter- ated their proposal to the hungry that the London’ conference ‘of “experts” to be followed by a joint pow- T t a : jerica: “New wow of these “experts” with the diplomats, will “really” solve something. are phot ncoren sd Police, five were wounded, four are eer wre Dak scutes asoe The Joint Board of the Associated | of the breaking up of the scab meet | workers to send their children to the Workers should think how muuch trust they should have in “bankers,” |move to sell out the 600 ‘strikers (missing and are believed to have| ‘ion smne children are actually| pn WOTERS met last might and) of the UMW ao cat erticiaie ot |Poorhouse and referred them back experts” and “diplomats”—in the leaders of the whole world capitalist |-rhese reactionaries announced that | 2¢e Wnehed by the landowners and tarnte? eitabegram fom. ‘te took up the question of calling a Murray and other scab officials of | ® the State government, One com= class, which, having brought about this ungodly confusion and disaster, | they would take a vote on returning their police agents, and scores of dtrike ee gion reads. strike on Weé@uesday at the a the UMWA Were to. speak. Thomp- | missioner asked permission to speak expect the toiling masses of Germany to be “peaceful and orderly” and | to work Monday, “at the request of | TOPPers are being railroaded to jail Tis Each ONY Aiciking: Mined time that the United Front ‘Sat! son of the National (Miners Union | at. the meeting Paiieihe: Warten wait for these insane thieves and parasites to figure out something new |a committee representing the non- ialueriar Save a ees oat the site” onicaltthe ‘calla an every Tae Syotnenicn te esibe the have re Sta whom warrants | ¢ od. He was told by Bill Calvert, in the line of robbery and deceit! union element o: ikers.” The | 0st vicious frame-up Charges. . a : 7 ge | irman of the committte. “This Not the bankers, but the German masses will settle this crisis. The | press ee iat wir One| Preliminary Hearing Monday! hepcag ei yr rea rere ene See silk and dye} (Additional News on Page 3) | SPST Oey, If you want to German masses, with the example before their eyes of victorious socialist construction, no unemployment, rising wages, the seven-hour day and bread and freedom—in the Soviet Union, are preparing, under leadership cials of the Weybosset Mill would be in the polling place to see to it that the workers had “a fair vote.” The arrested croppers are to have a preliminary hearing next Monday in the Camp Hill, Ala., boss courts. The International Labor Defense and ing in the tag days for miners’ re- lief next Saturday and Sunday. Call at the following depots for The overcrowded meeting held by the United Front general strike com- mittee on Friday night and the make a speech, organize a meeting yourself. The speakers |What the Paterson | | Silk Workers Are . | were Sivert. Bohus, of the powerful Communist Party of Germany to settle accounts once for TI i ittee in its meet- 4 eae are = of thea d 28 all cee the mighty blow of revolution! ity Ge Beta AEs tinucsaeAEs nis the League of Struggle for Negro| collection boxes for the tag days.lrapidly spreading sentiment conv- | | Striking for Today leete perpen a SO et that this was a fake vote which| Fights are defending the croppers| All out next Saturday and Sunday | vinced the fakers of the Associated [eee pen ‘Dadiessot. the: Wes would be taken and counted by the and are sending counsel to Camp} to collect funds | for fighting miners | that their talk about there being no | SAGRREON IN. 90 Oit2L=| Unity eae a ee ee ANTI-WAR MARCH (RUSH THOSE HALF) zct “sexsi [is ar crac. acs Sina ere wii te || vanenson x. i, rotons Sy m2 joe same organizations that are defend- all nonsense. All Paterson has been ie following are aperee: | | woman, and Harvey for tt the company move by taking a real New York—799 Broadway, 16 W. keyed up only waiting for the vote mands adopted by the Pater- | munist Party. | The demands for | | D IL workers’ controlled vote on Sunday|imé the nine innocent Scottsboro/ 21st st, 131 W. 28th St, 196 E. Broad- ; som workers, ‘The thousands of raieaixte bes IN BRO \f T. LL RS T DA on the question of standing solid in | POYS- Way, 143 E. 108rd St.. 11 Clinton St.,| for general strike, | workers who will come out Wed-||\..° or gig weekly for five depend- the strike for the return of the 12%| World-Wide Demonstrations August| 350 E. Bist St, 301 W. 29th St., 110] Especially among the right wingers | |nesday in answer to the call for| | 1°! ° loyment dheurance,: aie = : aoa per cent wage cut. On this basis the First. W. 116th St, 15 W. 126th St., 353] in Paterson, Socialist and Socialist | |a general strike here here in the | | ("tS MHcmPlernlls OU Sten in Preparation Need $5,000 to Go Over] following statement was issued by| In the meantime, protests from | Lenox Ave. Labor Party, there has been the| | sil industry will fight for these| | (‘'C1,°. war prisoners, Mooney and the Strike Committee: Bronx—785 Westchester Ave., 830] greatest scepticism as to the power | | demands: |Billings and others, protest against For Aug. 1 Meet Thousands of workers will demon- strate on Saturday, July 25, at 3 pm. at 138th St. and Brook Ave. against imperialist war preparations and for the defense of the Soviet Union. This demonstration is prepared and organized under the leadership of the Communist Party, by a United Front Anti-War Committee elected at a United Front Anti-war Confer- ence held on July 17, where 65 or- the Top What will be your answer to the New York Daily News? This gutter-sheet, owned by the powerful McCormick interests in Chicago, in an editorial in Sunday's issue, calls in unmistakable terms for a war against Soviet Russia. The Daily Worker on Monday ex- posed this editorial, which was print- ed on the very day that Premier Laval of France and Chancellor “Smash the bosses’ fake vote! Stop the sell out! Stand firm for the 12% per cent wage cut return; for no discrimination and for the recog- nition of the Mill Committee! “Fellow workers of the Weybosset Mill: “We, the Weybosset Mill workers, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) workers and their organizations throughout the country are pour- ing in to Chief of Police Wilson of Camp Hill, Ala., and to Governor Miller at Montgomery, Ala. The workers of the whole world stirred to burning mass indignation by the hideous boss terror against the Negro people are preparing for (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Westchester Ave., 2109 Arthur Ave. 1400 Boston Road, 2700 Bronx Park East. Brooklyn—962 Sutter Ave., 61 Gra- ham Ave., 127 Osborn St., 1844 Pit- kin Ave., 1373 43rd St., 140 Neptune Ave., 48 Bay 28th St. Astoria, L. 1.—23-78 Steinway Ave. Newark—90 Ferry St. “Goose Egg Pay Checks” Show Fight of the general strike committee to call a strike. The meeting, however, convinced them that a strike was definite in Paterson and therefore @ group of these right ,wingers went up to the Joint Board of the Asso- ciated and proposed that the Asso- ciated call a strike on Wednesday. When they arrive at the meeting of the Joint Board, they were told that the Joint Board also was considering it, A delegation of the workers went to a meeting of the general strike committee only to find that it had just adjourned after it had unanim- ously voted a general strike Wed- 8-hour day and more pay! | Living wage! Abolition of the fine system! | Against the speed-up system! | For unemployment relief and insurance at the exense of the bosses and their government! Equal pay for equal work for | men, women, negroes, and young | wo: No discrimination against strik- ing workers and union members! Recognition of the mill com- mittees and the Union! Union Price list for all crafts will be published. | the massacre of Alabama Negro share croppers, against the legal lynching jof the Scottsboro boys were unal- | mously adopted at the meeting. WILLIAM SIMON, '16-YR. OLD MINER KILLED BY SCAB | weniaztions were represented by 75| Bruening of Germany came to R N ITTSBURI ly 21.— legal i Smash all tricks and promises|| PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 21. Jock, If the : Sa ee een cn,|te cuntensane oo sae] ON Hunger; iners Need Relief Now rer sri itcce |e staat whi Sin» lg workers wl the Associated and U. .T. w.||member of the National oe will participate in this demonstra- | *#54ine that means slavery for the ve Me tai tis ney ane| | Strike! 2 Union was shot and killed late yes- tion’ will demand that all war ap- propriations shall be turned over for the immediate aid of the unem- ployed. The police department of New York did not answer as yet the re- quest of the Anti-War United Front Committee requesting a permit for a demonstration and parade. This in- dicates that they will refuse a per- mit and try to make it impossible for the workers to stage a demon- stration. ‘A Permit or no permit the Bronx workers will demonstrate on July 25 at 3 p.m. at 138th St. and Brook Ave. Brownsville Anti- War Conference The Brownsville United Front Anti-War Committee has called a conference of all working class or- ganizations of Brownsville Thurs- day, July 23, at 1844 Pitkin Ave., at 8 p.m. The conference will lay the plans for mobilizing the workers of Brownsville for a mighty demonstra- tion against war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The demon- stration is planned for Thursday, German masses and war against the Soviet Union. Workers, you have shown what the Daily means to you during this, the worst financial crisis in our history. Don’t let the Daily slide back again! A flood of half dollars, plus Tag Day and coupon book money that’s still outstanding, will raise the $5,C00 that will keep the Daily going through these tough summer months. Answer the Daily News TODAY! Answer with half dollars to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Strengthen the fight for the defense of Workers’ Rusisa! Every half dollar is a blow at the imperial- ist war-makers, a blow at Fish, Woll, Hillquit and the entire anti-Soviet crew! Demonstrate August 1! Dem- onstrate now with half dollars to the Daily! Relief Stations To Be Oven to 10 P. M. The following stations of the Penn-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee will be open until 10 p. m, every night except Sunday for the collection of food, money, shoes PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 21.—Pay slips and pay envelopes are piling up in the Pittsburgh relief office filled with the coal optrators’ goose eggs and kisses. Goose eggs and kisses are what the miners call the} 000 and which appear at the bottom of the pay slips. Go into any min- ing camp and dozens of miners ap- proach you, pull their pay slips out of their pockets, as if proof is needed that for months and years they have almost never seen any of the al- mighty dollars coined in the U.S.A. These pay slips are the symbols in this strikt. They unntistakably prove this to be a strike against starvation. Actually it is not neces- sary t oread these pay slips. Go into any mining camp, look at the children, look at the miners’ wives, at the miners themselves; go into any miner’s home and in hundrtds of instances you will not find a pinch of salt. Sit in at a discussion with any of the dozens of relief com- mittees that pour into Pittsburgh from the mining camps and hear their tales about the suffering babies in the camps and hear them plead for any kind of canned miik, eagle brand preferred. letras Babies Krel Without Milk— Starving! dairy farmers found. How will the other babies live? The Women’s Auxiliaries of the National Miners’ Union, which are being» rapidly organized, are giving attention to the strike problems as well as relief problems. Today a phone call from a camp notified the central relief commit- tee that a serious case of child birth had to have hospital attention at once. Problems like this pile up every hour during the day. We call upon you to help settle them to aid these starving men, women and chil- dren who are fighting tht murderous coal operators who are starving them to death. There must be organized in all the cittes, industrial centers, towns, relief committees affiliated with the Pennsylvania-Ohio Strik- ing Miners’ Relief Committee. These women’s relief committees, composed of wives of workers, farmers, women in industry. will readily understand what problems these fighting miners face in their homes. For this gigan- tic strike tens of thousands of Funds must also be collected. Every penny, dime and dollar counts very big at this time in this big strike. The Women's Auxiliaries of the National Miners’ Union calls upon all working women and women's organ- izations to organize the most thor- ough strike relief collections that this country has ever seen. In every few blocks, in every city and neigh- borhood, a relief headquarters must be established, where food can be stored when collected, and all the women in the neighborhood must be organized to make collections day after day. A total of 150,000 miners, miners’ wives and children are now involved in this strike. You can clearly see the gigantic task before us. In the name of all dependents of the strik- ing miners and the women’s auxil~ jaries we earnestly call you to ac- tion. You can effectively help to silence the guns of the blood-thirsty coal and iron police, deputies and thugs, you can help to stop the mur- dering and wounding of striking miners as occurred in Wildwood and Arnold City a few days ago by gath- ering tons upon tons of food, and many dollars, and send them to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners’ General Strike Committee, they are sarly mistaken. These reactionary leaders who have twice blocked unity of the rank and file of the silk and dye workers, rejecting their delega- tion, as well as the joint delegation of Paterson and Allentown and branding the strike a Communist trick, have no place in the rank and file strike committee. Smash Strikebreakers ‘The United Front General Strike Committee has issued a statement saying it “calls upon the rank and file of the Associated and U. T. W. to come out on strike together with the rest of the workers of Paterson and to elect their delegates to the General Strike Committee. March NO COMPENSATION FOR NEWSIES.. (By a Worker Correspondent) HODNO, Cal.—Newsboys cannot be classed as “compensable employes” in this state, but are “independent con- tractors,” the supreme court held in reversing its own decision in the case of Claud Ustace, a Los Angeles news- boy. So Ustace will not. receive the $9 a week state compensation previous- ly awarded him by the state indus- trial accident commission for injuries received. Organize, boys, and put your de- mands over! when they go on strike today: to the hall in your section; line up with the fighting silk and dye workers of Paterson. Certainly by now you have seen through the treachery of your leaders who stand in the way of the United Front of the rank and file, Throw these leaders overboard for it is perfectly clear that by breaking the United Front they have prepared to break the workers on the interests of the bosses. Smash their hold and join the workefs on the picket line Section 1—Elliston, Van Houten, Mill, Ryle Ave., Cliff St. and vi- cinity—Turn Hall, Ellison and Cross St Section 2—Railrod Ave., Dale Ave., Bond, Essex, Straight—Un‘-n Hall, 205 Paterson St Section 3—-Market, Broadway, Pul- ton, Putnam, Warren—Workers Cen- ier, 3 Governor St.; Lithuanian Hall, 62 Lafayette St. Section 4—Riverside, Friarlawn, terday at the Gaylord mine near Martins Ferry when three scabs in a machine opened fire while passing through the picket line. Joe Peter- lin, the murderer, was arrested in order to keep him safe from the wrath of the miners. Hundreds of miners demonstrated at the Yorkville jail. The Belmont County prosecutor justifies the mur- der and is all set to release the murderer. The youth committee is mobilizing youth protest meetings calling all young miners to reply with |a stronger participation in the picket lines and a harder struggle against the UMW and operators for their demands. A mass funeral for Simon is now being prepared. At the Graveside Mass committee meeting fifty miners and women are to be elected to picket the Columbus statehousa; and the Governor's man- sion demanding removal of all armed forces, and cessation of increasing terrorism. Two miners were killed and three seriously wounded in the last two days by the bosses’ mine guards. The entire fraternal delegation of . 85 miners from Wellsburg, West Va., to Steubenville were arrested by state July 30. and trousers for the striking miners. Organizations that have not| Central Station: 240 E. 9th St. In one strike section the reliet| women can be mobilized as reliefcol-| Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave.| fighting against hunger and miser-| 6th Ave. 1st Ave—4 Third Ave, | police. elected delegates, are asked to do so] Other Stations: 830 Westchester| committee was fortunate enough to} lectors, going out day after dayinto| Pittsburgh, Pa. These collections} able wages.” Section 5—E.18th, E.19th, Madison immediately. Individual workers| Ave, 237 East 106th St., 11 Clinton| develop a milk route among the| workers’ and farmers’ homes, solicit- | will feed the strikers and their fam- wh To Go Ave. Eastside, Dundee Lake—389 Work should come and help plan the mob-|St., 140 Neptune Ave, 61 Graham| farmers and 15 gallons come in every | ing small storekeepers, etc., storing] ilies and thereby strengthen their raves cd Madison Ave Correspondence: is the ilizetion of the workers in their| Ave. 1844 Pitkin Ave, 48 Bay 28th| few days for the babies. But only| up pounds of food, cans of milk, and] picket) lines and help to win the} The following are the halls the| Iowa, Clay, Bond—Columbie Circle, backbone of the revolutionary preas. house and yicinity. 18th in one or two farming sections are| shipping tons of food to Pittsburgh. | strike. strikers will march to in a body! 103 State St Do your part! ti ne eerie eY st 4 + i 4 ° a3