The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1931, Page 6

Page Four Telephone Algonquin e Daily Worker, 50 East 15 except Sunday, et 30. East 56. Cable th Street, New York, N. ¥. “DAIWORK." aWorker’ » Tepe pynict Party USA ail everywhere: On of Manhattan and SUBSCRIPTION RATES: nx, New York City. yay year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting. Boroughs Foreign: one year, $8; six. months, $4.50, ———————[—SSSSS Ss iene August 1st Demonstration in)“ S" ne the Pittsburgh District as By CARL PRICE. in the N.M.U. ve in the coal Ne, Bentleyvill been called by the st unemploy- of the bosses on will empha- ent. Thou- ing miners e demands on Au- evictions of unem- i ff of gas, heat yed miners, insurance for both and the immediate inty, state, and national unemployment relief mployed miners and their r marches which were held Pittsburgh, demonstrated ployed miners in the mass 1 in the coal fields. monstrations this year will of thousands to dem- of the unemployed and strik- 8 gle against starvation. The unémployed workers of Pittsburgh have already de ed their solidarity with the The Unemployed Councils of gh are picketing the scab employment Pittsburgh, which are trying to ship » tothe coal fields. Several times in the two weeks, large numbers of unemployed ers have demolished employment agencies nsur: ed workers of Pittsburgh are be- tant struggle for their demands. Fr Kearns, secretary of the Unemployed Council of the Hill Section, Pittsburgh, and George Brown, young Negro worker, are now held under $10,000 bond each, because they took part in preventing sheriffs from evicting an un- ‘© family on the Hill in Pittsburgh. r ed with rioting and inciting to t, felonious assault, resisting an officer, an@ disturbing the peace. Recently in McKees Rocks, workers prevented an eviction and organized an Unemployed Council right on the spot. In the Pittsburgh August First demonstration, to be held in West Park at 2 pm., the unemployed workers of Pittsburgh will pot only demonstrate their solidarity with the striking miners, but will ldemonstrate on behalf of the 120,000 unem- boloyed workers of the city, against evictions, "against the corrupt Mellon-Kline administration in Pittsburgh, ich has shut off all relief, and is picking up workers on vagrancy charges, and — { ar for the immediate release of all arrested. un- workers, who picketed scab agencies, nd prevented evictions, for social nd for immediate appropriation of relief by the City Council. insurance, | Demonstrations will also be held in such steel | as Ambridge, McKeesport, Monessen, etc. al thousand steel workers in the Pittsburgh have been laid off in recent weeks, and are being cut in steel plant after steel tow Sev D wag plan plant In Monessen, & few days ago, thousands of workers stormed the steel mill there when 4 spread that a few jobs were available, and fought with the police who tried to drive them from the unemployment agency. The contrast between the conditions of the | workers of the Soviet Union, and the Pittsburgh , comes out clearly this August First. In the Pittsburgh District—starvation, wage- | cuts, speed-up, unemployment. In dinner buck- ets, dry bread and potato peelings, or nothing. Young workers slave in the mills and mines without schooling. Children are without even rags to wear or shoes for their feet. Foreign- born workers are threatened with deportation when they rebel against starvation. workers are Jim-Crowed and threatened with lynching when they demand full equality. In the Soviet. Union there is the six hour day for min- ers, seven hour day for other workers, five day week.| In the Soviet Union full equality for all workers, Negro, foreign-born, etc. In the Soviet Union constant shortening of hours, increase in production, increase in wages, schooling for all children and young workers, constant bettering of living conditions, no unemployment. The preparations of the bosses for war are manifest in the Pittsburgh District. The Hoo- ver conference with the U.M.W.A., the large State Police force of the Pinchot-bosses goy- ernment, the use of courts and injunctions against the strikers, the program of further wage-cuts and starvation and unemployment are a part of the preparations for war. The workers of the Pittsburgh District have felt the full weight of the economic crisis. The bosses are trying to starve the workers so that the bossses may keep their profits. They are starv- ing the workers so as to compete with the bosses of other countries. They are spending billions for war so they can attack the workers’ govern- ment of the Soviet Union, at the same time they deny the unemployed and strikers, social in- surance. A new day has dawned in the Pittsburgh Dis- trict. The workers are engaged in mass struggle under the banner of the Trade Union Unity League: They are waging a bitter struggle against the UMWA, the bosses’ government, the coal operators, the other bosses, for the right to live. They are struggling for the demands of the unemployed, the strikers and the part time workers, ‘They are struggling against the attacks of the bosses” government, for full equality for foreign born, youth, women, Negro workers, and in de- fense of the Soviet Union, the land of the workers, This is the meaning of August First this year in the Pittsburgh District, Negro | By BURCK War Preparations Shown in “Labor Fact Book” thas background of preparations for imperialist war and the approaching atfack on the Soviet Union by the capitalist powers is given in the Labor Fact Book just issued’ by: Inter- national Publishers. The book devotes one of its most important chapters to a factual de- scription of present-day imperialism, the foreign investments of the United States and Great Britain, and the growing imperialist rivalries. The method used in this book fs to give in the briefest possible form, often by means of tables, the essential facts about a vast array of subjects of the most immediate importance to the workers in this period of sharpening class struggles: bofh in the United States and abroad. ‘Thé belief of Labor Research Association, which prepared this volume, is that the present work- ing class movement must go forward armed with facts, figures and reliable information about economic, social and political matters. Especially does it contend that the working class vanguard must possess concrete and pre- cise data on the economic crisis, imperialism, the danger of war, the distribution of national wealth and income, lynchings, injunctions, union organization, the business connections of capi- talist party leaders, the betrayals of the “so= cialists” here and in other countries, farm mort- gages, state police, sedition laws, anti-labor leg- islation, speed-up methods, the Soviet Union, employers’ welfare tactics, deportations and the persecution of foreign-born workers. These are only a few of the hundreds of topics discussed briefly in this handbook for workers. Special and original features of the book in- clude an analysis of the finance control of the House of Morgan, a list of significant court decisions affecting labor, an historical sketch of famous frame-ups, a list of important strikes in the United States since 1870, a description of the major policies of the American Federation of Labor, a table om the income groupings in the United States :&ewing the increasing con- centration of wealth and financial power, a list of the high salaries of trade union presi- dents, and a summary of legislation affecting workers especially youth and women workers. The book exposes the operations of Matthew Woll’s National Civic Federation and’ its’ well- financed attacks on the Soviet Union. It shows the connection between the A. F. of .L. and the U. S. War Department. It reveals the weak~ nesses of the I. W. W., and the treacherous methods pursued by the socialist. party in its vote-catching campaigns to spread reformism. No such book as this has evet before béen issued in the English language. It is printed in large type easy for workers to read. It carries a full list of references to standard volumes to lighten the task of the labor research student. Like the other volumes prepared by Labor Research. As- sociation comprising the Labor*and ‘Industry Series of Injernational Publishers; it carries a full index so that all topics are readily found. No worker should be without this book. It is now off the press and sells in a paper bound popular size—224 pages—for only 85 cents. Copies may now be secured from Workers Library Publishers, 50 E. 13th St. New York City. A WAR VETERAN’S CALL AGAINST WAR ARTICLE I ‘With all the war preparations going on at the present mo! t it is quite certain that the talks of peace will soon be replaced by the talk of the glory of “dying for one’s country.” Let those who are the in- tended victims of such propaganda be told by those ‘who experienced these glories in the last war, who ‘were exposed to them for months and years. There are millions of war veterans the world over ‘who can paint with the colors of reality the glories of “dying for one’s country.” These glories then will take the form of drowning in the mud of the trenches and in the swamps of the battlefields. These glories will be reduced to being burned or suffocated in liquid flame and poison gas attacks; they will be drawn in the form of being torn to shreds by shrapnel, only the lusky ones being killed completely; they will take the form. of mass starvation of old men, of women and children in concentration camps; they will look like mass infection by poisonous diseases and deadly germs. Thousands upon thousands of Serbian boys herded @s prisoners must still remember how, shackled on hand end feet, they were exposed to a killing blizzard as a punishment for some infringement of the rule in the prison camp; they may have taken a dry crust of bread to still their hunger; they may have fished a “bone out of the garbage dump of the guard’s kitchen; their hunger may have caused them to eat the soap given to them for washing. They will still remember jhow thousands upon thousands died in these camps of Cholera or other epidemic diseases. They may still re- member the deadly regularity with which the stretchers ‘tarried out of the mass bunk house every morning at six o'clock the prisoners that had died during the night. ‘They will still remember how those dead were stripped of their clothes, their identity fixed on a tag tied to thieir toes, they remember the clothes flung to the re- maining ing to cover their nakedness. They may still remember how these rows of dead were practically ows of skeletons, who had been starved into resistless victims of any illness or disease that may attack them. ‘They must still remember the beatings inflicted upon the prisoners upon the slightest provocation. ‘The war veterans of the Serbian army, the veterans of the Dvina division, the veterans of the Austrian @rmy on guard in the Braunau camps, the Czech ‘x physicians who served there must still remember all those horrors that were common to‘ all prison camps. ‘The war veterans of the Austrian army must still re- ‘member the chains on their wrists and ankles; they must still remember being strung up on the pole with ‘their hands tied behind them; they must still remem- -ber their exposure before the trenches with chained _ hands with the artillery of their own army firing from behind and forcing their regiments to advance into the shell on the front. They must remember the shootings behind the front of those that were looking for their safety by desertion *or because they rebelled against the orders. They must Fememiber the hundreds of Serbian prisoners, all called “omitatchi,” men and women, hanged in the yards of _the barracks; they must still see their challenging --Wwolees in the Jast torture. They certainly remember “their comrades who were forced to become execution- { E (prs: they must still see their pale, perspiring faces, their Piecn This is the second of three articles written by a worker who spent five years on differ- ent battle fronts in the last war. The articles narrate some of the personal experiences of the writer. The last will appear in a subsequent issue. trembling hands, forced to kill, in order not to be killed themselves. War veterans of the Italian and of the Austrian army, veterans of the battles of the Karst, the Isonzo and the Alps certainly remember the battles in the long summer months, the barrages that did not permit rest, did not permit eating. They will still see before their eyes the thousands of corpses entangled in barbed wire, reduced to a formless mass. They will still hear the lamenting of the wounded during the night, beg- ging for water, calling their mothers, begging for help which the continuous fire of the artillery and the per- fidy of the generals prevented from, being given to them; they certainly still smell the stench that rose from the corpses, spread along the slope of the Sab- ottino and the San Michele, that feared them to put handkerchiefs wetted with camphor to their noses, in order to be able to breathe; they certainly remember the melting of the snow in May which exposed the hun- dreds of decaying corpses in front of the trenches; they certainly still remember the lifeless corpses, the weapons, the barbed-wire entanglements, the position of some of those corpses in the last agony of death. They must still hear the humming of the bullets past their ears, the deafening noise of the horrible explo- sions of the 35 and 38 and 42 centimeter shells, the thunder which accompanied the blowing up of the Col di Lana and the Colbricone which at one blow buried entire regiments. They must still see the rents. torn by grenades in the trenches, the foundation of earth mixed with human bodies, and barbed wire, the thou- sands of grenade holes along the different battle fronts, on the German and Russian front, in the Balkans, in Italy, in France. They will still hear the howling of the bombs dropped by airplanes during the moon-lit nights, the following horrible crashing that reduced to ruins the villages behind the front where the reserves were kept. They certainly see the smoking walls of the destroyed houses, the horses and mules galloping in all directions, the masses of reserves scared, running around, looking for a safe place to hide in the cellars of the destroyed ‘houses, with empty windows like the eyeless holes of a skull, and empty interior. They must certainly recollect the terrible moments of the attacks after three, four days of barrages that completely shattered their nerves, the moments of tet- rible silence that preceded the attack, the whistling by of bullets, the nervous ta-ta-ta-trrrr-ta-ta of the ma- chine guns. They will still see the advance of the de- ploy lines, the mowing down of the first lines, the black clouds of the flame-throwers in front of barbed-wire entanglements, reduced to puddle, with firey tongues breaking through. They must’still hear the screams of these moments. They must still live through the mo- ments of leaving the trenches, the moments of counter- attack, of the clash amidst the ruins of trenches and barbed-wire, the moments during which their senses did not function any more. They must still see the young comrade nestling closely to them, holding his abdomen with his hand, looking at them with frightened eyes, yelling for help and falling down in front of their feet; but must continue, pushed onward by the for- ward-rushing wave,. drunk, dumb-founded, blind. They must still remember that sudden feeling they had of falling because of ‘the weakness in their legs that could not keep them up any longer, feeling that their life was passing, the burning blood on their shoulders that comes from a laceration, and then they fell, heavy Shoes trampling over them, a wave of earth filling their mouths, choking them. Then the storm passes by, the humming of stray bullets passes. And then the silence of death, the night, broken only by the explo- sion of grenades, the lamentations of the wounded around them, buried under earth and corpses, ‘They must still remember the terrible moments of the gas attack, the painful breathing inside the mask. They will still see their comrades vomit, open their eyes wide and then stiffen in the last agony of death. They must still remember the air attacks over the trenches; they must still see those airplanes tumbling down, no longer under control of the pilot, crashing to the earth and bursting into flames. They must certainly remember the sticky hospitals, filled to overflowing. They will still hear the lamen- tations of those whose arms and legs were being am- putated. They must hear the screaming of the insane from the pavillion where were kept those whom the explosions of the grenades, the bayonet attacks or the lice have driven crazy! They must still remember some of the hospitals in Austria and Italy where with the thousands of blinded ones from the terrible Karst, where the grenade splinters were multiplied by the splinters of the white rocks, Veterans of all the fronts still remember the tor- menting advances and retreats, the long provision trains stuck in the mud, the lines of fresh victims going to the trench slaughter-house, the lines of stretchers with wounded, going back to the ambulances. They must still remember the officers, hunting for crosses and medals, with their revolvers in their hands behind them, the agony of thirst and hunger. They must still see the corpses flowing down the Piave after the June battle. They must still feel the torture of the Zugna ‘Torta, Monte Corno, of Monte Rovre, of the Grappa, of San Gabriele. * Veterans of the French, English, American, Ge: armies still remember the hell of the French front. ‘They must still see the thousands upon thousands of their comrades spread on the torn earth between the fragments of trenches and barbed-wire entanglements. ‘They certainly remember the tortures of imprisonment. They will remember how they were tormented in these trench-holes, sleeping in the mud, while the corps commanders and division officers, the war prof iteers, the bourgeoisie spent their time at banquets, de« bauching with champaign. They must still remember that while they were facing death, their mothers, their sisters in the occupied territories were forced to seil their bodies for a piece of hard tack to satisfy their hunger and the hunger of their children. They will still remember that, while with ‘weapons in their hands they were in the muddy trenches, their family in the invaded territory was transported into the hinterland like cattle, locked into lurid, unsanitary barracks, where epidemics reaped a terrible toll among their children, where their wives were forced to beg in the neighboring towns. They must still remember how they lost all track of their family, not getting any news for years. They will still remember the censorship of their letters, if they did not praise the war and the “fatherland.” ‘They certainly still see the fields of crosses that sprang from the ground behind the front amidst tree-stumps that even today are reminding them of the horrors of the world slaughter. They will still see these forests of crosses in the north of France, along the Alps, along the Karst, of which today the bourgeoisie of the var~ ious countries are making a vile market of “patriotism.” They must still remember the last days of the war, the days just before the armistice. The disarming of the regiments that were left on the front, to prevent them from following the example of the Russian brothers when they came back home. They certainly remember the trains bursting with their freight of human beings, those trains that were moving at a snail's pace,\and the expressions on the faces of those masses of people that felt like flying to embrace the beloved ones. And the last ones killed in those days, in the days of peace, crushed on top of the trains where they cowered down, or those that stumbled over hand grenades thrown away in all directions in these moments of terrible confusion. Veterans of the world war, who have participated in the insurrection of Cattaro, of Radkersburg, who have participated in the retreat of Caporetto, niust:still remember how they had the situation in their hands for a moment, how they were free. They must still remember how they rebelled against war. Marines of the Cattaro revolt must still see the red flag going up on the “San Giorgio” in front of the mouth of the cannon of the fortresses, Veterans of the Isonzo front remember how at the Piave the regiments that had thrown away their arms were kept back. ' They must still hear the volleys of the execution platoons at Cattaro, after the strangling of the in- surrection by the present hangman of Hungary, the then Vice-Admiral Horthy. They will hear the last yells of those that were executed right in front of the graves that they had been forced to dig for them- selves, their last yells, cursing the imperialist war. Veterans of all fronts, from the Lebanon to Calais, must still have before their eyes these recollections and thousands of others. They must certainly wake up often by a sudden scare in their dreams, when the nightmare of a dream reproduces the horrors of the last war. To remember this, means to realize the need for the most determined struggle against the present at- tempt to reproduce the last imperialist butchery on an even larger scale, TO BE CONTINUED @. ‘The Cops Know Them— Like Brothers Commissioner. Mulrooney of N. Y. City, when he was telling the dance-hall proprietors that they must “clean up” their morals: “There must be no gangsters and racketeers. Wf any night club proprietor does not know all the gangsters and racketeers, the Police De- oe will furnish instructors to point them out.’ = After which,-we surmise, there will be drinks for three, a ee Tie It Outside Some ehap on the Chicago Daily News slipped this one over on the editorial policy of meking Hoover a second Jesus Christ: He said “Moratorium: noun, from mora, probably meaning more; and taurus, meaning bull.” ele “Officiatly Closed” The Bronx Giand Jury has “officially closed” the case of the murder of Vivian Gordon, after five months. of. “constant investigation” since she was found strangled to death after trying to tell the Seabury Committee how the N. Y. Police framed her up. The policemen she accused had an alibi; but the capitalist press never questioned that alibi, though they. seem-all fretted about the one ‘Legs’ Diamond made. ‘ Incidentally, “Legs” was walking around New York City and visiting his friends at the tinse— before his trial—when he was supposed to be securely lJodged-in jail upstate’ and the jail “heavily guarded,” supposedly to prevent his get-away, but Seemingly to prevent anybody finding. out. that he wasn’t there. More, the capitalist press knew he was rumning loose, but didn’t yeep, But the murder of Vivian Gordon and the antics of Tammany police is enough to make ® cat laugh, a ‘wild cat o:, better, a hyena. We recall how ‘District Attorney McLaughlin, who was and is ‘até-high with the World-Telegram, was going ‘to solve the mystery pronto. With the assistance, of course, of Police. Commissioner Mulrooney: - This -last'Wwas‘a neat joke. -“Put a thief to catch 2 thief” might work well sometimes, but when the’ thief you “put” is the thief to bé “caught,” you'te out of luck. But somebody -had to’ be catght. So the clumsy frame-up was rigged up on a couple of.tough mugs who probably deserved death on, general principles but: who never killed Vivian Gordon. A taxi driver the cops Had sothethingon was first beaten into sub- Mission and then coaxed -to testify the tough mugs had murdered her in his car. He ‘event testified that a certain underworld lawyer: named Radeloff had “hired them to kill. But, strange as it may seem, Radeloff was walk- ing around ‘the streets while their trial was going on, and nobody bothered him. : When the two scape-goats were pinched, Mulrooney promoted ' the cops who “appre- hended” them, and no doubt they got a couple of hundred dollars raise in pey. Of course this Pay raise is not revoked mezély’ bec2us> the expected ‘victims were freed by 2 “Not guilty” verdict. Not.at all! And after the prosecutor, t+ press and the police got through damning the jury, the Grand Jury winds up its “tireless investiga- tion” by publicly thankihg Mulrooney! V/hat's the use of having juries if they don’t do what tie police want? All of which does not answer the question as to who did kill Vivian Gordon. We have pointed out before that she was connected with the Fish Committee “investigator” Gaston B. Means, who was acquitted of murdering a woman down South many years ago. The capitalist press hushed this connection up, and also her relations with other “*rominent Politicians.” There isn’t-eany “moral” to this story, only a big stink,-But-capitalist politics has put on the lid. The case ts. “offically closed.” The Police Beerocracy ‘The million dollar brewery with all médern conveniences, located on Tenth Avenue, New York, and finally raided after many efforts by the U. S» “prohibition” agents, must belong to the N. Y. Police Department. At least the police were more careful about shooing anybody away from the property than anyone else,-according to the U. S. agents: Any time they cathe ‘around. within. blocks of the brewery, policemen appeared from all sides, de- manding to-know who they were. The cops explained that there are so fearfully many gunmen-running loose in that part of town that every petson had to show his passport. So the U. S. dicks were stopped, while thse brewery was “cleaned up” and they could find no evidence. But since the republican party is tunning the national government and wants to make life unpleasant for the leading democrats who run_N. Y. City and State, the U. S. agents Persisted. It would make good election propa- ganda -in -1932.to have captured Al Smith's bréwery, you know. ‘Thus perseverance had its reward and by get- ting U. S. search warrants, 400,000 gallons of beer was found in the. spickest and spannest brewery imaginable. But of course the owner- N. Y. police in trying ‘to. get around the story.told by the emissaries of law The N. Y. Post gives'the police alibi in a way that is so deligit- ful that.we must, quote it: “If there was any interference with the of the federal officers been “interfered” with, mn taken to police stations—stations, which the sly beer rackéteers had also a ~ “strategical +measure’—tiis alibt ought to. go along with the one by In- spector Day who, last year giaimed that the workers who were beaten up by cops at a dem~- onstration, had “bumped their lizads against | the pavement themsclves, just fe lay their bruises. to" innocent police,”