The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1931, Page 1

Say Big Boy SurPose WE ) BEGIN tis Y, GWO (Section of the Communist International) a orker Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 181 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 <p> NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents —— ALL OUT AUG. 1 ON UNION SQ. AGAINST WAR, WAGE CUTS! Daily Worker Readers’ Tasks on August First - several hundred larger cities there will be huge anti-war demon- strations on August First. Hundreds of thousands of workers under the leadership of the Communist Party in a united effort with hundreds of workers’ organizations will prepare and organize these demonstrations. The daily circulation of 40,000 copies of the Daily Worker is preparing the toiling masses for the great International Day of Struggle against imperialist war. Every Daily Worker reader becomes an organizer for August First. The Daily Worker, however, reaches almost 2,000 cities and towns in this country. In hundreds of mining camps, industrial towns and farming centers where there is no Communist Party or other revolu- tionary workers’ organization, the Daily Worker readers are the rifost advanced, intelligent and militant section of the working class. We call upon the readers of the Daily Worker to undertake the re- sponsibility of preparing and organizing a demonstration or a meeting against the war danger on August First in those centers where the or- ganized revolutionary movement has not been established as yet. Bring all readers and supporters of the Daily Worker to a small meeting in your house. Arrange for a special bundle of Daily Workers. Select a city park, square, street corner or a hall for the August First demonstration. Order some anti-war pamphlets from the Workers Li- brary Publishers (50 E. 13th St., New Work City). Decide to put out @ mimeographed or printed leaflet for the meeting. Paint some posters announcing the meeting. Select the best speaker or several speakers for the meeting. Each of the readers knows from 10 to 50 other workers. Invite these and have them invite others to the meeting. This meeting can be made the nucleus or the starting point for the organization of the revolutionary labor movement in your town. There is enough anti- war material in each issue of the Daily Worker to make a speech, the same material on the basis of which you conduct hundreds of discussions with your fellow workers. Daily Worker readers on August First as on May First can be the organizers of hundreds of meetings and demonstrations. Inform the Daily of your plans and your results and if you require further assistance or information we will connect you with the nearest Communist Party organization. War Against the Workers [TH the announcement of wage cuts for 250,000 steel workers by the U. S. Steel Corporation and the statement of the Hoover govern- ment approving wage cuts—with the excuse that they are “temporary’— the capitalist war upon the workers has become open. Gone is the capitalist disguise of “maintaining wages”! Where James A. Farrell, president of the U. S. Steel Corporation only two months ago (May 23) “denounced cut in steel wages as cheap business”—now, on July 25, the U. S. Steel is putting over a wage cut on a quarter of a millfon workers! More the railroad companies are preparing, behind a cover of a plea for higher freight rates—a wholesale wage cut for the railway workers! What has President Hoover to say to this? His approval is con- tained in she letter answering Congressman Francis B. Condon of Rhode Island, who wrote Hoover in alarm at the “serious disorders” that had followed wage cuts in the textile mills. Hoover turned Condon’s letter over to Secretary of Commerce, Lamont to answer, and Lamont, with some word twisting, gives wage cuts the blessing of the federal government. ‘True, wage cuts have been ‘going on since the crisis began in 1929, and during 1930 the American workers got $12,000,000,000 less wages than they did in 1929, But in November, 1929, Hoover called bis conference to “maintain prosperity” and received the promise of President Green of the A. F. of L. for “no strikes” and the pledge of the capitalists for “no wage cuts” for retaining workers in employment. The Daily Worker at that time warned the workers of the wage cuts and mass dismissals that were to follow, and characterized the A. F. of L. “no strike” pledge as flagrant betrayal of the working class. ‘The Lamont letter endorses wage cuts, on the excuse that the capi- talists “are faced with the prospect of closing down . . . or seeking tem- porary wage reductions,” flatly reversing the 1929 Hoover Conference. Evidently Hoover and Lamont did not intend that the letter be published, because on Tuesday the White House tried to sneak out of it by the ridiculous trick of a statement saying that: “No member of the administration has expressed the view that the policy of the administration in advocating maintenance of wages should be changed. It has not been changed.” By these weesel words, saying that the administration “advocates” the maintenance of wages, Hoover expects to escape from the plain meaning of the Lamont letter approving of “temporary” wage cuts, on the excuse that the impoverished capitalists can’t help it. Yet the U. 8. Steel has $600,000,000 yet idle in its reserve. It has been paying as large dividends as before the crisis in spite of less profits, both by getting huge tax refunds from the U. S. Treasury and by throwing workers out fo starve in the streets while it speeded up the ones remaining at work. With the announcement of a wage cut for 250,000 steel workers, the Stock Exchange price for U. S. Steel began going up. And in steel and ~ railroads, as well as in textiles, only the “serious disorders” of strike actlon—over which Congressman Condon became alarmed—will defeat the war against the workers. But where is President Green o‘ the A. F. of L, who was only a fortnight ago posing as “standing like the Greeks at Thermopylae” against wage cuts? His words are empty and worse than worthless, a demagogic covering up of collaboration with the bosses against the workers. Only the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League have been, are and will continue organizing and leading the workers in strikes against wage cuts. Workers should learn that this war on the working class is part _ and parcel of the capitalist war preparations against the Soviet Union ‘and the imperialist attack on the revolutionary workers of Germany. Stimson, on leaving Berlin, praises Germany for its “vitality” founded on the new wage cuts against the German workers. War on the workers is the capitalist “solution” of the crisis at home and abroad! Organize and strike against wage cuts! Demand: unemployment in- surance! Rally from the factories, shops and mills on August First to protest against imperialist war! To warn the capitalists that you will defend the Soviet Union and your wage scale! 110 W. 116th St., 15 W. 126th St. Bronx: 1610 Boston Road, 569 Prospect Ave., 2700 Bronx Park East. Brooklyn: 1844 Pitkin Ave. 140 Neptune Ave., 1565 St. Mark's ‘Ave., 118 Bristol St., 48 Bay 28th St., 2480 65th St., 61 Graham Ave., 73 Myrtle Ave., 1373 43rd St, 764 40th St., 2006 70th St. Newark: 90 Ferry St. Passaic: 39 Monroe St. Paterson: 205 Paterson St. New Brunswick, 11 Plum 8t.; Yonkers, 252 Warburton Ave Bring All Relief to ’* Penn-Ohio Miners Relief Stations As a consequence of the closing of certain Penn.-Ohio Striking Min- ers Relief Committee depots and the opening of many new ones, the Re- lief Committee has issued the fol- lowing official list of all Penn.-Ohio Relief stations in New York: Manhattan: 11 Clinton St., 347 E. Tand, 350 K als, 27 E, 136th St, EXPOSE AFL FAKERS IN SILK STRIKE More Workers Follow United Front Committee Show Up AFL Call Cops Beat Up Striker; Workers Resist * NEW YORK.—Police attacked the picket line of hundreds of pickets of the National Textile Workers’ Union, which is leading the strike of silk workers in Paterson, N. J., at the Phoenix Mill on Van Houten St., yesterday. The workers resisted the police, one cop getting a black eye. Three pickets were arrested for as- sault, according to a capitalist news agency. Jack Verner, 38, Paterson worker, who was arrested and severely beaten by the cops in the police sta- tion. ‘The New York Evening Post re- port from Paterson says that the U. T. W. and A. 8. W. officials “could not estimate” the number coming out on the “strike” call of those organ- izations Tuesday morning. The same capitalist source says that “a num- ber of strikers who walk out today will follow the leadership of the United Front Committee.” The Post report also says: “About 500 of the workers at. the, meeting walked out before it ad- journed. and a number arose and demanded why their leaders had ‘called a strike in the newspapers’ and then convened them to ratify the action.” hae ate PATERSON, N. J.—A delegation of 25, elected by the executive commit- tee of the general strike committee, went to the membership meeting of the Associated and United Textile Workers, which are now affiliate! with the A. F. of L., to propose a united fight of the silk and dye workers of Paterson under one strike leadership. The meeting was held at the Carpenters’ Hall, with no more than about 200 members present, this including a large number of cock- roach bosses. The entrance to the hall was barred by guards and in the hall were detectives to take care of “disturbances.” A large crowd of strikers, who had (CONTINUED 03 PAGE THREE? The same agency tells of} eS Buffalo Mine Company Patch in Canonsburg, Pa. Miners are strik- ing against living conditions like these. Tents are needed urgently. Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pitts- place from this patch. burgh, Pa. Cut in Hoover Gov’t For Pay Steel, Railways g FARRELL DENOUNCES Many evictions have taken Rush relief to Penn- Miners in Central Penna. Back United Draw Up Demands at Conference In Prepara- tion for Strike Action PITTSBURGH, Pa., July striking miners picketed the Harmarville Mine this morning and pulled out another hundred miners. were left promised to quit tomorrow. u Allegheny County, 14 deputies and 11 state police drove women and children from the picket Diana Frocks Girls Strong in Strike BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The strike of the Diana Frocks, 1660 East New York Ave., involving 200 young girls, continued yesterday with greater determination and militancy on the part of the workers. A meeting of the mass strike com- mittee, representative of all the var- ious departments, was held in the morning where the following de- mands were formulated: Withdrawal of the wage cut; recognition of the Shop Committee; equal division of work; no discharge; and other im- portant demands. The boss, realiz- ing that the girls are in earnest, was ready to withdraw 15 per cent of the wage reduction. However, the girls are determined to carry on the fight until they have won complete vic- tory. Ben Gold, secretary of the Indus- trial Union, was greeted with en- thusiasm by the strikers when he addressed the meeting this after- noon. Picketing will continue in front of the shop until all the demands of the workers have been granted. Workers’ Mass Jury to Try Hillquit on InterventionCharge Tomorrow at Central Opera “Socialist” Party Challenged to Send Thomas or Waldman to Defend Czarist Activities of Millionaire “Socialist” Leader NEW YORK.—The three thousand workers that are expected to jam the Central Opera House to the doors tomorrow evening will be the jury to render a verdict in the case of Morris Hillquit, oil investor, rich corporation lawyer and leader of the American “Socialist” party and of the Second International. Hillquite has been placed on trial before a revolutionary mass tribunal by the Communist Party of the United States on a charge of plot- ting and organizing military inter- vention against the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics. The basis for the charge against the intervention “socialist” is Hill- quit’s suit on behalf of a group of Czarist oil barons to establish their “legal title” to the oil. industry of the Soviet Union. The establishment of this “legal title” would then serve as a “legal” and “moral” basis for a military intervention against the Soviet Union for the purpose of re- storing teh capitalists and landown- ers to their former power under the Czar. Comrade Max Bedacht, represent- ing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, will be in charge of the prosecution. The American “Socialist” party has been challenged in an open letter by the Communist Party to send Norman Thomas or Louis Waldman to defend the in- tervention activities of Morris Hill- quit. It is almost certain that the social-fascist leaders will not have the courage to appear before a work- ers’ jury to defend the intervention acts of one of their colleagues, and in this case the defense will be en- trusted to one of the workers in the audience. Putting Responsibility Up td Rival Chiefs, He Calls It “Cheap Business.” Front Program SELLING OUTPUT AT A LOS 28.—Four hundred and fifty Yith Prospect of Not Even Earn-j ing Preferred Dividends He Urges Stabilization. The few miners that Chief deputy Coffee SCHWAB SEES AN UP SWING en euaneeci Se line. They retired to union property 70 feet away and led in singing. Snyder, the alleged accomplice of Patrick Murphy of Little River, Tex., who was shot and killed by Pat Fa- gan, says he has a brother who is president of the UMWA local at Bridgeport, Ohio, and says Turnblazer will youch for him. Fagart now ad- mits giving Snyder money a week before. It now looks like a fight among the UMWA gang over money or booze. The jury in the case of Mike Zar- karaskas disagreed at St. Clairsville yesterday and the prosecutor post- poned other cases of arrests on the Provident picket line. He Declares Inventories Are Overs Liquidated, but. Fear Retards Business Recovery. en IE Wage reductions on top of part- time employment by: sonis of the jJarge companies in the iron and ste! industry were denounced by James A. Farrell, president of the Upited States Steel Corporation, in ie a od@Fe yesterday lech was somewhat at vari- ince with the address of Charles M. Bchwab, as president of the institute. The chairman b (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) WAGE CUT LIARS EXPOSED — Here are two clippings from cap- italist newspapers that tell a story every worker should pay attention to. Wage cuts are coming down Communism Is Only Road Out of Chaos Says Shaw in Talkie NEW YORK.—George Bernard Shaw, foremost English playwright and author, visiting the Soviet Union, following a speech in which he urged the British work- ers toi follow the example of the Soviet workers, made a talkie on now fast. The capitalist press said the Hoover government and Green of the A. F. of L., who were work- ing together, were against wage cuts. They said Farrell of the U. S. Steel was against wage cuts; Green said the same thing. Look here! Here is the story on Moy 23, Lenin. He said, among other| | telling about Farrell of the U. St. things, the following: Steel being against wage cuts. “Our present civilization is Next to it is a story that ap- peared on July 25th showing up the lie! The Daily Worker warned the workers about this at the time. Now it is coming! Now is the time for action. Organize and strike against wage cuis! All out on Au- gust Ist in the anti-war demon- strations—join the protest against the bosses’ war preparations rd their moves for wage cuts. reaching a point where its prede- cessors had failed and degener- ated. “Again and again men of the human race have tried to get around this corner and have all failed. “If other countries follow the method of Lenin we shall have a new era, we shall have avoided the collapse, and failure that overtook previous civilizations and we shall have a new history, a history of which we now have no conception. “If the future is with Lenin I zan only rejoice, but if the world zontinues on the old path we shall NEW RELIEF DEPOT. The central depot of the Penn-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee for New York City has been changed to 20 St. Mark’s Place. A new depot has been added to those already in operation. Jt is located at 19 W. 129th St. ‘eave this earth with a heavy deart. Ala. Bosses, Lacking Evidence Postpone Hearing of Croppers DADEVILLE, Ala., July 28. — The preliminary hearing in the attempt of the Tallapoosa landowners ana their courts to frame up the Camp Hill croppers has been postponed for a month, The postponement was made at the request of the sheritf and solicitor Mullins who could fur- nish no evidence to back up the ly- ing charges peddled by themselves and the leaders of the N. A, A. P, that the croppers had been con- spiring to murder county officials. The determined attitude of the defense, which is being conducted by attorneys for the International Labor Defense, the same organiza- tion which is defending the Scotts- boro boys, and the rising mass pro- tests throughout the country were additional factors in forcing the landowners and thelr state agents to C.| Judge J. Percy Oliver. and for the right of the croppers to sell their cotton where they saw fit. The union has over etght hundred members. While there are few white croppers in the district where it operates, a number of white crop- pers are in the union. Investigation by representatives of the I. L. D. has revealed the fact that the body of Puddy Davis was sunk in an artificial lake of the Alabama power conmpany on July 17, the night following the murder- ous attack by landowners and police on a meeting of the Share Croppers’ Union. Davis was one of the five croppers whose disappearance Chief of Wilson had cynically “explained” in the language of the fascist thugs that “they had gone to cut stove wood”. The I. lL. D. and the Share Lies of CountyOfficials and NAACP Leaders Exposed ask for a postponement. The at- torneys for the I. L. D, opposed the postponement, but were overruled by Defendants Declare Purpose In Court The defendants, who have heroical- ly withstood the tortures of the third degree in refusing to name other members and leaders ‘of the Share Croppers’ Union, declared in court that the organization of the union had been begun to secure better con- ditions, to fight against the stoppage of food allowances by the landown- ers between. July 1 and August 165, (OONTINVED ON PAGE THREE) A majority of the bo of the United St naiderable disesreegen| to have existed gove Wy within the wt s A | Croll and Pace Urge ell asserted that | | mittee of silk workers of | resentatives exposed the role of the 9 Pe STEEL DIRECTORS Also Seen—Ends Differ- ences in Board eat’ inva ut Ws, especially within tnd ee and reduced living cost ALLENTOWN MILL. "STRIKERS GREET PATERSON REPS Strikers to Take the Strike in Own Hands (Special to the Daily Worker) ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 28.—Upon the demands of the strikers, at the only open strikers’ meeting Sunday, June Croll and Robert Pace, repre-| sentatives of the United Front Com- Paterson, | were given the floor to speak. The| attempt of Case, secretary of the| shop chairmen committee of the U.| T. Ww. down. | The call for unity with Paterson | and militant mass | picketing was | warmly greeted. The Paterson rep-| to deny the floor was booed | United Textile Workers and the As- sociated Silk Workers officials in Paterson, as well as the role of Moser of the Allentown A. F. of L. organization atempting individual settlement with the Canova mill be- hind the backs of the workers. Call For Mass Picketing. Croll and Pace called on the strikers not to depend upon the 32 shop chairmen who have become the mouthpiece of McDonald of the U. T. W. but to turn the committee into a mass committee by electing three additional shop representatives from each shop. They were enthus- iastically applauded. | Kelly, vice president of the U. T. W., was hissed and booed for at- tacking unity with the Paterson strikers. ‘The Rank and File Committee of Strikers issued a leaflet calling upon strikers to guard against the sell-out being carried out by officials through the shop chairmen’s committee by increasing the representatives to three, to vote against a second con- ference with Pinchot and to conduct mass picketing to stop scabs. The strikers seem determined to take things in their own hands and to continue the strike in unity with Paterson. Brooklyn Italian Club in Anti-War Rally BROOKLYN, N. Y. — Wednesday, July 29, at 8 p. m. the Italian Pro- Jetarian Workers Club of Williams- burgh, will hold an Anti-Bosses War Rally in the Italian section of Brook- lyn at Central Avenue and Starr St. Over 500 leaflets have already been distributed for this rally. Among the speakers there will be Comrade Domenick Flaiani, section 6 organizer of the Communist Party and candidate for the 13th assembly district. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for ft ‘ 4 | namely that Hoover fully | per copy. To Take $39,000,000 From Wages to Give to Parasites AFL PLANS RAIL PAY CUT Workers Must Organize Now for Strike! NEW YORK.—Wage jeuts are flooding the jcountry, smashing |down the standards of jliving of the American workers, the Department of Labor admits to the organ of the big bankers, the Journal of Commerce. Just at the mo- ment when wage cuts crop up for 250,000 steel workers, for 1,200,000 workers on the railroads, for millions in other industries, Hoover comes out with a declaration that the gov- ernment will help the bosses and the American Federation of Labor to put over the wage cuts A special dispatch from Washing- ton in the Journal of Commerce on Tuesday confirms what the Daily Worker published a few days ago. approved the Lamont letter stating the gov- ernment would further wage cuts to keep up the profits of the bosses. The Journal of Commerce says: “Writ- ing apparently with the knowledge and approval of the President, Sze- retary Lamont’s statement is con- sidered as virtual abandonment by the administration of further efforts to maintain wages.” The same paper says this comes at a time when “there have been numerons cuts in many industries, officials of the La- bor department admitting that the pay cut movement is spreading rap- idly.” The new flood of wage cutting fac- ing the entire working class comes on the eveof the August Ist demon- stration against war, against star- vation, wage cuts and unemploy- ment which the bosses force on the workers. The cutting of wages and the war preparations go hand in hand, ‘The bosses prepare for war for new markets, new colonies, greater profits at the expense of the workers. They cut wages for the same purpose—ta keep up their pro- fits at the expense of the workers. The United States Steel Company THREE) Soviet “Forced series in pamphlet form at 10 cents Read edi aiee it! TO COLLECT FOOD RELIEF IN BRONX To Cover Groceries and Workers’ Homes A mass collection of food will take place tomorrow in the Bronx under the direction of the Pennsylvania- Ohio Striking Miners’ Relief Com- mittee, Room 330, 799 Broadway. A large truck will leave 2700 Bronx Park East at 10 a.m, and will tour grocery stores and workers’ homes in the district. Every worker is urged to donate as much food as he can to the striking miners. Thousands of these miners are starving. Their wives and children are pleading for bread and milk. The thousands of evicted miners need tents almost as badly as they need food. The mine region is filled with miners and their families sleéping and living in the open. If it could be realized how badly these miners and their families need food, relief would pour in to the Relief Committee's offices much faster than it is coming in now. The 40,000 miners who are fighting a bit- ter fight against the coal barons and their allies, the government and the Police, are in desperate need of re- Hel rety dy a at