The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1931, Page 1

canes & | they struck it was because they actually felt that they may as well starve WORKERS! DEMONSTRATE C! AUGUST FIRST! TF I CAN THANE Fis \ Senr TH TH Famivies. / WE'LL PEAT BoTH HONGER AAD! The MINE owners Entered as second-class matter at Vol. VIL, No. 178 at New York,'N, ¥., under the act of March 3, the Post © <w NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931 SS CITY EDI’ rd = The Negro and August Ist | ‘This is a short reminder: Every Negro of the working class, and every Negro (including in- teilectuals.and members of the middle class) who is sincerely devoted to the struggle for the freedom of the Negro people as an oppressed tminority—every Negro except those upper and middle class “leaders” who make a well-paid profession as agents of the white ruling class among the Negro masses: Must take part in the great demonstration on August First against imperialist war! Everyone must remember the particular interest of the Negro people in the question of imperialist war. Remember the Jim Crow regiments, the persecution of Negroes drafted into the world imperialist war, the Brownsville, Texas outrage when Negro soldiers were stood up against the wall and shot or sentenced to long prison terms, the lynching of black soldiers in {iniform, the fiendish colonial slavery of the Negro people of Haiti and other Latin-American countries to the Wall Street imperial- ists, the Yankee warships now making war for imperialist “white su- premacy” in China, the enslayement of Porto Rico, and of the Virgin Islands, enslavement of the Negro masses wherever the “Dollar Demo- cracy” of Yankee imperialism reigns! Bear in mind the present terrible slavery of the Negro people in the Southern States of American im- perialism, as well as the persecution of the Negroes in the Northern cities. Remember that this is all a part of capitalism—now woven into the fabric of this imperialist “demecracy.” Remember that today Negro tenant farmers and share croppers are being hunted down like wild animals in the State of Alabama ‘with the full approval of the Wall Street government at Washington. Remember that the. lynching, organ- ized murder and peonage that the Negro people live under in these United States are an integral part of the system of American imperial- ism that is now preparing to plunge the masses into another world slaughter to preserve the same system of imperialist jim-crow slavery! Remember that the present Hoover plan for a criminal imperialist war for the destruction of the Union of Socialist Soviet, Republics is a plan to drown in blood the greatest triumph of the working class and exploited peoples of all history. Hoover's war against the Soviet ion will be a war against the oppressed “races” just as much as is the present, shooting of Negro share croppers in Alabama. ‘The demonstration of August First is not a pacifist demonstration. Tt is a fighting demonstration against imperialist war. It is a fighting demonstration against capitalist slavery. It is a fighting demonstration in defense of the colored colonial slaves of Wall Street imperialism, whether these be in Alabama, Haiti, Nicaragua, or in the Philippines. The demonstration cn August first is a fighting demonstration. to gave the lives and liberties of the nine innocent Negro boys framed up. and sentenced to death at Scottsboro It is a fighting demonstration against the white ruling class terror against the Negro share croppers of the South. It is a fighting demonstration for equal rights and self-determination for the Negro people. It is a fighting demonstration for the solidarity of the Negro and white workers. The demonstration against war this year is the greatest demonstra- tion for the Scottsboro boys. ‘This is 2 reminder, not only to the Negro masses that they owe it as a duty to their own cause to participate in the demonstration of August first—it ds also a reminder to all members and functionaries of the Communist Party and all of its Districts, in all of, the 175 cities in which the demonstrations will occue on August First—to_see to it that the Negro masses are drawn into this great demonstration by scores and tens of thousands. One of the measures of the success of the August Figst demonstra- tion will be the number of the tens of thousands of Negroes participating. One of the measures of success of the fight to save the lives of the nine Scottsboro boys and to combat the murderous terror against the Alabama share croppers, will be the degree of participation of the Negro masses in the August First demonstration. August First must be made the greatest demonstration of the Negro masses All Aid to the Striking Miners we the famous “Hoover plan”—both of them—and the failure that has resulted, are pushing the imperialists ever nearer to a new and more terrible world war, a war directed first of all against the Soviet Union, under the Hoover plan of “maintaining prosperity” put out after Hoover’s “conference with business and labor leaders” in 1929, a capi- talist war against the American working class has long taken its toll of misery and death. ‘The miners have borne the brunt of capitalist attack, even before “prosperity” fadéd in 1929. Already since 1927, when the Western Penn- sylvania miners wére completely sold out by the United Mine Workers (U. M. W. A.), these miners have been slowly starving to death. When striking as starve while working at wages which had been cut time and again. That they are making a fight both obstinate and heroic is clear to all, So clear, indeed, that the mine operators are greatly disturbed at the rejection by the miners of the treachérous U. M. W. A. which re- entered the mine fields only to find that the miners have gone over to the revolutionary union, the National Miners’ Union of the Trade Union Unity League. The operators, who thought they were “through with unions,” now are trying their damnedest to bring back the U. M. W. A. traitors, Lewis and Fagan, and force the miners to accept them by force of hunger. A letter from an operator, published in the N. Y. Post of July 21, reveals how the mine owners the Us MW. A as 9 cotnpany ition. This operator is quoted as “T have about reached the conclusion that I prefer to deat with 2 good union. The only way to solve the wage problem is to put all competitive fields under a well-managed union. There is a great danger that industries other than coal are already infected with Communism, and the sooner this tendency is headed off the for the United States of America, even if it requires the of the ‘United Mine Workers to throw the National Miners’ out of the mines.” 5 this mine owner wants is a “good” union, a “well-managed” union, that will serve all mine owners as a fascist organization to strangle this strike—arid other strikes—of the miners against wage cuts and starvation. This feécist organization should be the basis, in this scoundrel’s opinion, for similar fascist “unions” in “other industries.” i ld R. | STRIKE HOLDS FIRM; HIT TERROR Report More Out At | Shawsheen in Am. Woolen PUTNAM, Conn., July 23.—M. Salz- berg, whose silk mill here has been struck solid by the 300 workers or- ganized in the N. T. W. U., is again calling for conferences with the strike committee will be finally decided on by the mass of the strikers. * « 4& LAWRENCE, Mass., July 23. - The delegation of the Weybosset strikers from Olneyville received the informa~ tion here today that the weavers of the Shawsheen village mill of the American Woolen Co. went out on strike. This report has not yet been verified. The Shawsheen mill was | the only one of the string of A. W. C. mills in the Lawrence vicinity that did not strike last February. Ac- cording to the report the weavers went out against the speed-up. PAWTUCKET, R. I, July 23, Preparations were made by the Royal strikers to. send a mass delegation to the mayor to demand that the rights of the workers to strike, picket, and assemble be recognized. The mass delegation will also score the policy of the city administration which spends thousands of dollars for police to. break strikes, but does not give 2 cent for unemployment insurance. A united front conference of all work- ers organizations leading to demon- strations in Pawtucket and Central Falls on ue has also been de- cided on. e delegation will visit the mayor on Friday. * PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 23. — A delegation of Weybosset strikers visited the board of public safety of the state of R. I. and demanded that the rights of the workers to strike and picket be recognized. The Oiney- ville police under the direction of Captain Kelly had been dispersing the-picket lines under the orders of A. H. Eddy, resident manager, A. W. C. The pretext used by the police was the fake bosses’ vote held in Li- brary Hall last Monday. The mass! pressure by the strikers forced the Police to change their mind on the question of the strike “being all over.” ‘The state board of public safety was forced to recognize the rights of the workers to picket and to declare that the strike was still in effect. More moves will be made to take away the workers’ rights. SCOTTSBORO PROTEST MEET IN PROVIDENCE. PROVIDENCE, R. I, July 23. About 1000 workers, Negro and white gathered in mass meeting Wednes- day night at Gay and Willard Ave. to demand the immediate release of the 9 innocent Scottsboro boys. Ray- mond and Kominsky spoke. The whole Negro section here is agitated against the vicious system of lynch- 1914-18. The Central Committee tire Party. The Central Committee this mobilization order. Overcome the Lagging Behind! To all Party Committees; mimittees, Unita at 9 oe In the past week has appeared @ slackening of preps arations for August First Anti-War Demonstretions. This dangerous lagging occurs just af. the moment when the war danger takes on more concrete forms than cver since It is caused by organizational weakness in the Party’s work. At the same time the resp the masses to our slogans is growing by leaps and bounds, It calls upon every commiiice and every anit to immediately undertake a thorough end searching cheek. up on the execution of all decisions and plang fc for mee mobilization on August First. In the week remaining we must revive all ears tei tenfold energy, follow up every detailed plan, place per- sonal responsibility upon particular comrades for the ex- ecution of each concrete task, and activize the non-Party, mass organization as never before, every Committee and unit for the thorough execution of CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C-P.U.S.A, yeness of sounds an alarm for the en- demands an accounting from Preliminary Hearing for Negro Croppers Tuesday ; Big Demonstrations Aug. 1 International Working Class to Protest Mur- derous Landlords’ Terror and Demand the Release of Croppers, Scottsboro Boys CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July24—For the second tine workers are out in ‘ : within the short period of a few weeks the eyes of the working class of the whole world will be focused on an Alabama boss court as 60 framed-up Negro croppers come up for a prelim- ing and discrimination thousand miners joined the funeral march at the burial of William Si- mons, 16-year-old miner who was shot down by a mine boss recently. Over 4,000 attended the mass funeral. Simons was a member of the Youth Section of the National Miners Union and a membedlige the, Young Com- munist League. Miners, young miners, women children from all sections of bie ohio coal region gathered ‘at Tiltonville and marched over two milés in the blazing sun to the cemetary. ‘The procession was led by young workers and children. Chandler, Harvey and Siver were the speakers . The answer of*the miners is already clear: They have strengthened their fight and spread it ever wider! But the workers of these “other ‘mdustries” must rally to their support, must back up these fighters on the class war front who are striking against starvation. Every aid, every penny and loaf of bread that can be spared by any worker outside the striking coal fields—or in them, as well—must go to feed these fighters and their brave women and children! It is a fight against starvation, againct fascist “unions” ruled by the capitalists! Remember the miners when you demonstrate against capitalist war on August First! Capitalist war is always war upon the workers! Down with capitalist war! Win the strikes in the mines and the textile mills! All ald to the battling miners! ALL WORKERS OUT FOR THE STRIKING MINERS’ RELIEF TAG DAYS, he at the miners rally attended by over 4,000. The miners declared: their de- termination. for a more intensive fight against starvation and the ter- ror of the bosses." They enthusias- tically greeted the call for greater struggle. ’ . BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 24— The most intense indignation of the striking miners in Eastern Ohio over the murder of 16-year-old William inary hearing next Tuesday. TRY TO MURDER ILD ORGANIZER) Coal Thugs Dynamite Car Used by London HARLAN, Ky., July 24—In an ef- fort to eliminate the International Labor Defense with its militant class struggle defense policy from the Harlan strike, coal operators had the Ford car of one of the ILD. organ- izers dynamited yesterday. The car, which Comrade Jessie London used to get about the district to organize defense for the scores of strikers arrested by the operators’ police and deputies, was standing in front of the house where she is stay- ing. Only the fact that Comrade London had not come out of the Bouse as quickly as the operators thugs expected her to, saved her from being murdered. being shielded by the police and the prosecutor, is not made less by an- Only a few weeks ago the in- ternational) workitig class was await- ing the decision of the Scottsboro lynch verdict judge on the motion for ne wtrials in‘ the case of the 9 innocent Scottsboro boys. Tuesday's hearing. will take place in Dadeville, the county seat of Tal- lapoosa County, Alabama. The ar- rested croppers will be defended by attorneys of the International Labor Defénse and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the two organiza- tions which are conducting the de- fense of the Scottsboro victims. On Thursday, July 16, the land- owners and their police made a mur- derous attack on a meeting of the croppers union, murdering Ralph Gray, a cropper, wounding four oth- ers and making wholesale arrests of all croppets suspected of being mem~- !bers of the union. Five croppers are still missing and are believed to have been lynched by the police and the landlords. The arrested croppers ‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) No race hatred in worker’s Rus- sia by Patterson, in July Labor Defender. his daughter and ten of his “official family” are going on 4 grand spree FROM STEEL WORKERS—Gary U. S. Steel Corporation workers send their share of relief by truck to the striking miners. Many of the miners are fighting against the U. S. Stecl Corporation which owns mines. Unity of the workers will win the strike! Send relief now to Penn-Ohio Striking Miners’ Relief Committes, Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Strikers Must Solidify Ranks PATERSON, N. J., J strike called by the U and the National Text cording to the latest ch The strikers are beginn ganize their forces, under the a] al workers who come out r join the union and solidif: BRONX WORKERS) ‘IN oF ly t the Mass Meeis and Follow the Bronx Parad BRONX, N. Y.—A mas stration, followed by 2 m take place today in the B 3 pm. at 138th St. and Bro organized by the United Front A: ‘War Committee, led by Section of the Communi: the Pa The thousands | demonstrate thei against the im tions and for | Soviet Union, ers, men and and chi demo Negro and white wo: women, young wor: all will be there at tt ‘The demonstration was prepared by a conference, a number of open- air meetings, thousands of leaflets and shope gate march will be led by the band of the Workers’ Defense League. A mass meeting will be & Id at the Brook Ave. and at the end of the march at, 161st St. and Prospect Ave All workers are urged to partici- pate in the demonstration 4,000 At Funeral of Murdered Miner Pledge More Determined Fight to Win Strike Victory WHEELING, W. Va,, July 24—Two>Simon by a mine boss who is now|nouncement that nat Governor White,@in Clevelend, with special boxes at the grand opera, with a “Governor's Night” at the opera, and the most labor hating companies buying whole blocks of tickets for their stockholders This pleasure jaunt, which the Cleveland papers describe in detail as involving a military escort by the aristocratic “Cleveland Grays” regi- ment, and “all the color and panopy of such a state occasion” is an open flaunting of the governor's contempt for the starving thousands of miners in his state. It is a glorying over th- murderous campaign raging against the miners, in which deputies have shot ruthlessly into picket lines, have gassed and clubber and arrested hundreds. It is a sneering answer, because of its expense, to the de- mands for bread of thousands of miners, who hunger marched during th las Workers’ Unien in Order to Push Through to Victory tile Workers Union to push the strike through to victory. The | and elected a chairman who was | U. and solidifying their strike ranks, -| e defense of the! tion. Members of mass organiza- tions, shop committ d shops will participate in the demonstration j j and march. start of the march at 138th St. and | and officers to join in the festivities. | unemployed and on strike. | few days to the county seats of Bel- Bronx—785 Westchester Ave. 830 mont, and Jefferson Count: Westchester Ave., 2109 Arthur Ave. Do your share to win this fight] 1400 Boston Road, 2700 Bronx against hunger! Send relief now to! Park Hast. the Penn-Ohio Striking Miners’ Re-| Astoria, L. 1—23-78 Steinway Ave. | lef Committee, 799 Broadway. N. Y Newark, N, J.—90_ Ferry St SUC ei adele aareap san yo Met eA Seca | . ara the National Textile uly 24, —Over 3,000 silk) shops in the general silk, t Committee | Union, ac-| nited Fron ile Worker eck-up today. to realize that they must or- de p of the National Tex- o battle are learning they must ir ranks against the bosses and | their agents in the United Textile} Workers and Associated Silk Workers. ing is spreading and in | iow closely the U. T. W. and A. 5. r rking with the bosses and } as well as the mayor gives In two ‘shops, Brown and) er, the bosses: were actually | iting for these scab outfits. The | own tried to get workers» ister in the A. S. W. Ovet 1 in the shop, went out on strike | Inesday under the N. T. W, | leadership. They came to the strike j er of the A. S. W. He tried to confusé the workers, so. on Thurs- | hen the workers met again they | agreed to join’ the N.-T. W, U. and elected a new chairman. They know } in this way, by joining the N. T. W.| (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ‘MINERS TAG DAY - TODAY AND SUN. NEW YORK.—Thousands of New Yarkers will unite in a mighty drive today and tomorrow to collect funds for the thousands of striking miners who are facing starvation in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West | Virginia and Kentucky. Many of the miners are eating grass. One striking-mmer dropped | dead of starvation the other day in the office of the Penn.-Ohio Strik- ing Miners’ Relief in Pittsburgh. ‘The miners’ children are crying for bread; most of them have forgot- ten the taste of milk, Every dime collected today and tomorrow means a bottle of milk for @ miner's child. The starving strikers and their families must be fed. Their pleas to the New York workers must be answered by truckload after truck- load of food Get a collection box at one of the relief depots listed below’ and help these heroic miners in the ir battle against starvation. A little leg work today and tomor- | Tow on the part of one New York | worker will save some miner's life. Fill your collectoin boxes—and turn them in on Mondgy so that the funds may be rushed to the relief stations immediately. Collection sta~- tions are located at: | New York—799 Broadway, 16 W. | 2ist St, 131 W. 28th St, 196 &. | Broadway, 143 E. 103rd St., 11 Clin- ton St., 350 E. 8lst St., 301 E. 29th St., 110 W. 116th St., 15 W. 126th St., 353 Lenox Ave. Brooklyn—962 Sutter Ave., 61 Gra~ ham Ave., 127 Osborn St., 1844 Pit- kin Ave., 1373 48rd St., 140 Neptune Ave., 48 Bay 28th St. se | Mine No. 2 record progress not enly | last few day: MASS PICKETING PULLS MORE OUT OF MINES; UMW INCITES ARRESTS 3,000 Out or Strike Now | in 165 Paterson Shops _ be More Miners Ar- ested On U.M.W., Warrant | United Front Meets 350 W estmoreland Miners Hear Kem- enovich Pa., July 24. Five more miners were arrested at Meadowland in connection with the Canonsburg attempted meet of the United Mine Workers that was broken up. The city authorities are working with the U. MW. to frame up miners on “inciting to riot charg es.” Those arrested now are Thompson. baii Queen, Mike T Fadgar Jones and § aged 19. McQueen and Leo 000; William Me- Henry Stacer, by the numbe | drawn out of men they of the mine s, but by the produc of the company, which they serve, because i: addition t amount Of coal (200 tons icks. the coal is loaded in railroad S "that can be counted. On Jul 18, there were 17 railroad cars load ed. On July 20, there were nine. On July 21 there were five, and to- day there were five cars loaded. Thi is an insignificant productior indicates the mine closed down. The compa: y doning its old men, who, for a were tricked. by the United Workers agreement and drive work by the evictions and viole: of the deputies, and is now giied desperately to import scabs fror Pittsburgh. Eleven scabs were brought in teday. MEADOWLAND, * Pa‘>-July 23. — Leo Thompson, section organizer for Canonsburg, and Redman, Negro miner and member of the Canons. burg section strike committee of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee, were arrested here to- day on warrants gotten out at the instigation of the United Mine Work- ers Officials. The arrest is a des- perate effort by Pat Fagan, district president of the U. M. W., te get re- venge against the miners of Canons- burg who repulsed his thugs and beat up Fagan lest Sunday. The . two -miners’ leaders wens seized at a meeting’ here of the Canonsburg section strike conunit- tee A U. M. W. official led five detectives and three state troopers (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Seviet “Forced Laber”—Bedacht’ sesies in pamphlet form at 10 cents fer copy. Read it—Spread it! [Shaw Says British | Should Follow the Example of Soviet (Cable by Inprecers.) MOSCOW, July 24--Bernerd Shaw visited the Moscow Electric- ity works with Lunarcharsky, for~ mer Commissar of Education, te- gether with other Soviet authors. Shaw had a long Severin | with with the Director on the workers’ struggle to carry out the Five Year Plan and shewed greet interest in it. He talked for 2 lenz time with the workers. The I2tter protested against the “forced” la- bor lies of the British press. Shaw replied, “It is a pity there is ns forced labor in England becouse there are millions unemployed.” At the conclusion of his visit he declared he was delighted to ob- serve such enthusiasm, and on hig return to England would try to persuade the. British workers te follow the Russian example. TODAY “AND” TOMORROW!