The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1931, Page 1

FEE GEN. HOLBROOK SAYS U.S. WILL MAKE 250,000 Steel Workers Face Pay Cut Around August F irst™ NEW YORK.—Tens of thousands of workers in the United States Steel Corporation, will get their wages; slashed, according to an announce- ment in the Journal of Commerce last Saturday. Around 250,000 work- ors are directly affetced The United States Steel Corpora- tion was represented through its striking and has kept to his scabbing } policy. Now the U. S. Steel Cor- poration will cut wages, reducing the standard of living of its thousands of slaves to below the present starva- tion level. | United States Steel Corporation workers have already had their wages | cut in round-about ways, through | intensive speed-up, increase in hours, | as well as the stagger system and | part time employment. Now there will be direct wholesale wage} slashing | The present action of the United | States Steel Corporation, a Morgan | president, James A. Farrell at Hoover's “gn strike, no wage cut” conference in November, 1929 and declared it would not cut wages during the present crisis. Green promised to keep the workers from & Co. concern, which is in close connection with President Hoover, is extremely important as it marks a new wave of mass wage cuts in all basic industries. The Journal of Commerce in its headline announcing this huge wage cut says, “U. S. Steel Directors Agree on Wage Cut,” and then goes on to say: “A majority of the board of di- rectors of the United States Steel Corporation now believe that the time has come to make a moderate reduction in wage rates, it was learned in a well-informed quarter here yesterday.” This recalls the lying statements | ef the President of the United States Steel Corporation, James A. Farrell, | when on May 22nd, he said the United States Steel Corporation would not cut wages. At that time Ferrell berated other steel companies for cutting wages. The New York Times of May 23 reporting the incident as States Steel Corporation, in a scath- | ing exten neous address at the thirty-ninth general meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute at |the Hotel Commodore yesterday morning. Mr. Farrell asserted that jit was ‘pretty cheap business.” William Green, president of the A. F. of L., has often praised Farrell and the policy of the United States follows Steel Corporation in squezing profits “Wage reductions on top of part- | out of its workers without a general time employment by some of the |open wage cut. Green has helped the | large companies in the iron and steel | United States Steel Corporation in its industry were denounced by James| present plan of cutiing the wages A. Farrell, president of the United|of thousands of workers. The United States Stee! Corpora- | on has been starving thousands of miners in the bituminous coal fields | and is now bringing the steel workers | a down to the same level of starvation | on the job as well as by wholesale | layofis. e el workers must plan a} West Virginia. Act now against the They must join forces | wage cut! with the miners who figh' This wage cut will probably go st the starvation policy of the| into effect on August Ist, the day steel corporation. the Communist Parties and revo- Steel workers! Organize mill com-| Itionary unions throughout the world are calling on the workers to |mittees! Prepare to strike! Leriaera tae i: The wage cut will be publicly an- |, ainst wage cuts! Line Eanes - ve mighty demonstration gainst wag ui against the war preparations, at sda er @ ti _~s i : nounced on Tuesday, after a meeting | metal workers Industri against wage cuts, hunger and of the Board of Directors of the | affiliated to the revolutiot Trade | misery. US. Steel Corporation in Wall St.| Union Unity League which is The steel workers should join Dividends will be considered and and there will be a cut in dividends On the excuse of this cut, the big steel corporation will slash wages. the strike of the textile workers in| their forces in a protest against Paterson and Rhode Island, and| wage cuts and the war prepara- which leads the strike of the 40,000| tions of the steel masters. All out miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and| on August Ist! (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second-class matter a’ at New York, N. Y., under the act it the Post Office of March 3, 1879 Vol. VIII, No. 179 “NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1931 Fifteen Years Ago---and : Today IFTEEN years ago today, Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were thrown. into prison.| They were charged with setting off a bomb on San Francisco’s streets as an anti-patriotic act against a “Preparedness Day” parade, one of hundreds held in 1916, to “prepare” the minds of the masses for America’s entry into war in 1917. Mooney and Billings were held guilty by the capitalist press. They were framed up by the capitalist courts. They were betrayed by the servants of capitalism who led the American Federation of Labor. Today, every worker knows they were innocent of the crime charged, but were buried alive because they were organizing the street car men of San Francisco to resist wage cuts—because capitalist war against what- ever “foreign foe” is invariably accompanied with capitalist war against the workers in this country. Fifteen years ago, only the revolutionary workers rallied to defend Mooney and Billings. Only the mass demonstration of the Russian work- ers before the U. S. embassy at Petrograd, conscious of their inter- national class duty in the hour of their own revolution in 1917, caused President Wilson to “investigate”. Hoover’s “Wickersham Commission” hhas repeated the farce. Mooney’s release depends more than ever upon the protest of masses The capitalist press is busy endorsing new frame-ups as the capitalist war makers prepare the minds of the masses for a new world war. The A. F. of L. supports the coming war as it supported the last war, and is betraying the workersto-wage cuts, the™mines, in the textile and steet mills even more openly than in the last war. Let every worker rally his shop-mates to demonstrate against war on the streets of this country on August First! And let the Voice of each worker ring out so the ruling enemy class may hear: Down with the jailers of Mooney and Billings! Down with capitalist war! All war funds for the unemployed! We will strike against wage cuts! ‘We will defend the Soviet Union! ‘We demand freedom for Mooney and Billings! “Socialist” Intern’l Congfess Defends Dying Capitalism (Cable by “Inprecorr) VIENNA, July 26.—The first work- ing session of the Fourth Congress of the Second International opened here today. There were two colonial guests present, otherwise no dele- POLICE ATTACK — BRONX ANTI-WAR STREET PARADE 500 In Line of the March Prepare for August First BRONX, N. Y.—Rallying 500 work- ers in the line of march, Bronx workers held an anti-war demonstra- tion here Saturday, July 25, at 138 Brooks Ave. Assembling at 139th St., the pa- rade wound up |Prospect St. with many following on the sidewalks. ‘When a Negro worker commenced to open the meeting at its stopping point, a police sergeant gave the signal for an attack upon the work- ers, “Let's start some fun and kill a couple of them.” This brutal attack was met by the resistance of the workers. One ‘woman worker had 12 teeth knocked out when she resisted an attack upon herself. Meetings to rally the Bronx work- ers for anti-war day, Aug. 1, will be held at six places. Another meeting will be held at 130 Brook Ave. Workers Held on Ellis Island .Send . Aid .for Heroic Striking Miners NEW YORK.—Sixteen workers, held on Ellis Island for deportation, took up a collection for the starving miue strikers. Destitute after being exploited by American capitalism they gave what little they could. The total collection amounted to $2. This they sent with a letter of solidarity for the miners to the Daily Worker: “Editor Daily Worker: “Dear Sir: We, deportees from gates of the colonia! peoples were present. Imperialist flags of all the nations were displayed on the plat- form. Emile Vandervelde opened the congress, referring to the intended congress of the old International which was to be held in Vienna when war broke out, smashing the International. He attacked dictator- ships, particularly the proletarian dictatorship in the Soviet Union and praised the democracies of Great Britain, France and Belgium. He declared thanks to the “socialists” of the new democracies growing up in Germany and Austria. Defend Reparations System. Vandervelde regretted that the London conference of imperialists disappointed the socialists’ hope that finance capital would assist Ger- many out of its difficulties. He also defended the reparations sys- tem and express petulance with America, stating that it was the chief gainer. He justified British and French armaments by pointing out the existence of America’s arma- ments. Vandervelde referred to the German danger declaring that the fears of the allies were understand- able because’ Germany's capacities for war is greater and would be tre. mendously increased by “secret al- liances,” meaning the Soviet Union. At the conclusion of his speech he indulged in the usual anti-war phrases declaring that the next war PAWTUCKET MILL STRIKERS DEMAND RIGHT TO PICKET Demonstrate Before Mayor’s Office as Committee Goes in PROVIDENCE, R. I. July 26.— Three hundred strikers of the Royal Weaving Co. marched to the City Hall at Pawtucket today at three o'clock with the demands for the right to picket. They protested against the visits of the police and federal authorities. They demanded the withdrawal of the “shoot to kill” order and demanded the stopping of police intimidation of workers. They presented a demand for the use of the armories and other public build- ings for strikers’ meetings. Among the other demands was the’ following: The money that is now being used to crush the strike should be turned over to the unemployed for unemployment relief. The strikers. are standing solid. There will be more mass picketing on Mofhday. The strikers here sent greetings to their fellow-workers in Paterson who are spreading the gen- eral strike in the silk industry. A broad united front movement is be~ ing organized against brutality lo- cally and in the state. This miner’s child wants shoes so he can march on the picket line. And he wants food! Rush relief to the Penn-Ohio-West Virginia Strik- ing Miners’ Relief Committee, Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Miners from Picket Lines to Go to Washington; to Expose Hoover-Lewis Scabbing Central Rank and File Strike Committee In Meet Discuss Gov’t Move In Strike Is Effort of Big Bosses to Force Starvation Onto Striking Miners and End Strike | BULLETIN. A delegation of 50 Ohio miners leaves Monday morning for Colum- bus to picket the State House and the Governor's mansion. Eight mass meetings are being held today at Warwood, Fairpoint, Dillonvale, Wells- burg, Adena, Yorkville, Maynard and Moundsville. The meeting at Moundsville will also take a strike vote on striking that section, . PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 24.—The Miners National Unity Committee of Action, the executive body formed by the Na- tional United Front Conference of Miners held here July 15-16, today definitely decided on sending big delegations of striking and employed miners, elected from the various localities, to Washington to demand that® * the government and the ovr-/ TRY TQ DISRUPT sentatives of the rank and file TAG DAY FOR MINERS RELIEF miners and not the strike breaking machinery of the operators, | . . . Police and “Socialists” Attack Collectors the United Mine Workers of Amer- | ica. The representatives of the min- ers will serve notice on the operators and the Hoover-Mellon government at the joint conference of operators and U.M.W. bureaucrats which Presi- dent Hoover has now authorized his | the struck area, secretaries of Labor and of Com- merce to call, that the miners will never recognize the Lewis controlled, cperator controlled U.M.W.A. as their spokesman, that they will never rec- ognize any agreement that the Lewis geng and the operators put forth, that they will meet any such agree- ment with the greatest resistance. The delegations sent by the miners will come from the picket lines of from the United Front Committees now rapidly springing up in all parts of the coal fields, and the National Unity Com- mittee of Action invites all rank and file groups, even though not affili- ated with Unity Committees yet, to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Jail Wagenknecht; Try to End Strike by Blocking Relief BULLETIN. IDGEPORT, Ohio, July 26.— Rol Sivert and Rompa of the Natic Miners Union were arrest- ed on the highway yesterday charged with criminal syndicalism. Bail was set at $10,000 today. ree: mate 4 PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 26.—‘“This is,.war,”, Donald Hart, assistant dis- tri ;, attorney of Washington County ‘the International Labor Defense eset f@ Bloom, who protested the high set for Alfred Wagen- knecht; relief head, as an attempt to would not break the International. After weak applause, the “socialist” mayor of Vienna, Seitz, followed. Bored delegates left the hall in droves resulting in hardly a quorum present to vote on the alteration of the agenda whose second point now reads: the situation in Germany and Central Europe and the struggle of the workers for democracy. The speaker remains Otto Bauer. \ DeBrouckere will speak on disarm- ament. Commission sessions will be held Sunday and Monday morning. The next plenary session opens Mon- day at 3 p. m. Room 204 at Ellis Island, send you $2 as a little help for the heroic struggle of the miners of Pennsyl- yania, West Virginia and Ohio.” _ cripple relief ‘and starve the miners back to work. 4 Wagenknecht was arrested on Sat- urday while speaking at the Meadow- lands National Miners Union con- ference on the relation of relief to the strengthening of the picket lines when state troopers and detectives invaded the hall. All delegates were forced to remain seated and the meeting proceeded while state troop- ers blocked the doorway and began questioning the miners near the doorway. Wagenknecht informed the meeting generally that no delegate need give information that might re- sult in his arrest or break up the conference. Immediately the troopers swarmed down the aisles. Robert Kirkpatrick, sergeant of the troopers, shoved his club into Wagenknecht’s stomach, A Jong argument ensued over Wagen- knecht’s right to inform the strikers of this legal right. When he got the worst of the argument, the sergeant of the state troopers terminated it by arresting Wagenkencht on the charge of obstructing legal procedure, but the miners refused to allow the conference to be broken up and busi- ness proceeded. With the united front movement to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Torture Negro Croppers in Jail; Hearing Tues.; Demonstrate Aug. 1 DADEVILLE, Ala., July 26.—Fifty- five Negro croppers jailed in con- nection with the murderous attempt of the big landowners and their police to break up the Share Crop- pers’ Union have been subjected to the most brutal torture in an effort to make them reveal the names of the leaders and other members of the union. The prisoners have re- mained staunch in defense of their union. They have one and all re- fused to give any information to the landowners’ authorities. It is now definitely established NEW YORK.—True to their anti- working-class role, Tammany Hall and its ally, the “socialist” party, tried with every means yesterday and Saturday to disrupt the Tag Days for Miners Relief held by the Pennsylyania-Ohio Striking Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, near 11th St. Scores of workers carrying collec- tion boxes were hounded and threat- ened by the police and at least ten were arrested, including one young worker who was sent to a children’s detention home. When a group of workers with Tag Day collection boxes entered Ulmer Park, where the “socialists” were having a picnic, they were at- tacked by the “socialists” and, out- numbered a hundred to one, had their collection boxes taken away from them. It is expected that the “socialists” will use the money they stole from the class-conscious workers to buy @ bouquet of flowers for the arch he- trayer of the miners, John L. Lewis. Although hundreds of workers evinced their determination to help the miners in their fight against starvation by collecting money dur- ing the two Tag Days, these work- ers must not think that they can now afford to rest in their efforts. ‘The money collected during the Tag Days is but a drop in the bucket compared to what the 160,000 miners and their families need to keep them from starving Prisoners Stand Firm; Refuse Reveal Names Of Others that the number of the croppers held in jail is 55. Arrested during the reign of terror launched by the land- owners and their police on Thurs- day, July 16, when a meeting of the union was surrounded by deputies and shot up, the croppers are facing framed-up charges ranging from conspiracy with intent to murder to carrying concealed weapons. IUTW PLOTS 10 STAB SPREAD N J SILK. STRIKE United Textile Work- ers, Associated Call for, Sham Stoppage, Tues. | | \Play Mayor’s Game \United Front Comm. To Tackle Dye Houses | This Week | PATERSON, N. J., July 26. — | With more than 175 silk shops out last Friday under the leadership of | the United Front General Strike | Committee and the National Textile | Workers Union, the Paterson silk | strike continues to spread with a/ drive on the dye houses planned for | this week. Simultaneously the officials of the United Textile Workers Union and | the* Associated Silk are working feverishly to head off the general | strike movement by calling a sham stoppage. The purpose of this is to confuse the workers and betray them into the hands of the silk manu- facturers and the Mayor's Concila- tory Committee, all of whom are working hand in hand. Already in many of the mills the bosses are singling out weaker ele- ments and telling them to organize United Textile Workers groups in the shops, even offering them the use of their office for this purpose. U. T. W. Plans Sellout Meet The United Textile Workers offi- cials are calling an indoor mass meeting Monday to line up the workers for their betrayal program. The United Front Strike Committee will organize a demonstration to ex- Pose the alliance between the United ‘Textile Workers, the Associated, the Mayor’s Committee and the bosses in an effort to impede the genuine strike called by the United Front} Conference. ‘The United Front swe Commit- tee will center its eetiwitier on the dye houses this week. Already sev- eral dye houses have sent commit- tees to the Strike Committee urging that the strike be spread to their section of the industry. Mass Picketing Monday Monday morning will see mass picketing before the most strategic mills and the spreading of the strike to other mills where the workers are set to be called out. Six weeks ago when the Allentown strikers’ delegation were in Paterson the United Textile Workers and As- sociated silk officials told them that the Allentown strikers can expect no help from them, that the Paterson workers were satisfied and were not (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) No Action To Punish Murderers of Croppers Although one cropper, Ralph Gray, was murdered by landowners and deputies in cold blood as he lay wounded in his bed and four missing cropprs are believed to have been lynched by the deputies, the capital- ist authorities have taken no actioh to punish their murderers. Their sole purpose is to break up the crop- pers’ union, punish its members for daring to organize to resist the rob- bery of the landowners and for daring to protest the legal murder of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) -o Workers Must Answer In Aug. 1 Demonstrations GENERAL SPEAKS TO WAR VETS TELLING THEM THEY MUST SOON FIGHT AGAIN FOR WALL STREET SAYS FORMER “ENEMY,” GERMANY, WILL BE DRAWN INTO WAR ON WORKERS’ LAND BULLETIN. On August Ist, at 1:30 p. m, the largest anti-war demonstration ever held will take place at Union Square under the leadership of the Communist Party and the United Front Anti-War Conference. Thi demonstration will be against the threatened invasion of the Sovier Union, for defense of the coming German Working Class Revolution, against unemployment, wage cuts, speed-up, against the persecution of the foreign-born and the lynching of Negroes. o5328 CAMP DIX, N. J., July 26.—‘We must look forward to war against Russia,” declared Brig- 'adier General Lucius R. Holbrook, commander of the First Regular Army Division, in a speech to the largest gathering since the last war of veterans of the Seventy-eighth or “Lightning Division,” at this military training camp here yesterday. General Holbrook, in the most open, public war speech yet made in this country against the Soviet Union, told the Hillquit Trial to Show Role of the “Socialists” Aid imperialist War Mongers Against the Workers’ Republic NEW YORK. — Morris Hillquit, chairman of the American socialist party, will be put on trial before a jury of workers of New York by the Communist Pa:ty at Central Opera House, 67th S: and Third Avenue. on Thursday, July 30, at 7:30 p. m. The crime for wa:eh Hillquit is be- ing put on trie! by the Cemmunist Paily is his be @ the lawyer for the Russian white guards, former owners of the Baku oil fields. Hill- quit declared, before leaving for Eu~ rope, that is was “purely a business matter.” This is a lie — it is a po- litical matter of the highest signif- icance, It is the lining up of the so- cialist party with the imperialists for war on the Soviet Union. The brief that Hillquit prepared for the Russian white guards declares that the Soviet Government “forcibly seiz- ed and maintains” control of the oil fields, and demands their return. Aid War Mongers Hillquit is on trial not only as a person, but as a leader of the so- cialist party and of the Second In- ternational, which is now in session in Vienna, forging further war plans against the Soviet Union and the working class of the world. The leadership of the American social- ist party, Thomas, O'Neal and others, apologize for Hillquit. In the Bronx, where a motion at a socialist party branch was made for Hillquit’s ex- pulsion from the S. P., the entire petty-bourgeois leadership joined the fight to protect Hillquit, The so- cialist party is on trial in this trial of Hillquit, and no “left wingers” in the socialist party will be able to they must forget the bunk they —®were told about the German enemy jand must get ready soon to enter battle against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Follows Stimson Line. Though the most blatant, out- right call for war, addressed to sol- diers and by a high official in the United States Army, General Hol- brook’s speech was not an isolated instance. It follows the call for wat against the U.S.S.R. by U. S. ambas- sador to France, Edge. It takes place on the day that Secretary of State Stimson arrives in Germany to bring German capitalism into the active war front against the Soviet Union. “War Soon.” Without mincing any words, Gen- eral Holbrook told the soldiers that they will soon be called for war. He said Russia would be the “enemy.” After stating that the coming war will attempt to destroy the workers’ fatherland, the general told of the imperialist plans to unite all the cap- italist countries for this war. He said: “We will face a new alignment in the next war. We will forget our foes of the World War and wel- come them as allies.| This is not an alarmist theory.| Foes of the recent conflict will work together against (CONTINUED O8 PAGE THREE) Read the Labor Defender on the miner's strike. gain advantage of this situation. The “lefts” voted with Hillquit in the res- olution on the Soviet Union; the “lefts” are a smoke screen for the damnable, treasonable acts of the so- cialist party against the workers. Max Bedacht, of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, vill be the prosecutor. Norman Thoinas, or if he is not in- clined to defend his fellow-in-arms, Louis Waldman or Jacob Panken, fellow attorneys, have been asked of the socialist party to be the coun- sel for the defense. Defend the Soviet Union! All out at Union Square, August First. at: 1:30 to protest against im war! ares \)