The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1931, Page 1

Dail Central IN Orga e . & orker unist Party U.S. (Section of the Communist International) A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered Vol. VIII, No. 182 second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 <Ep>2s NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3:Cents SMASH THE WAR PLOTS! ALL OUT ON AUGUST Ist! Mass Trial of Mornis Aiullquit at Central Opera House Only Soup for Lunch “Socialist” Scouts for Capitalist War 1 tase Vienna congress of the Second “Socialist” International is in ses- sion, with the main aim of preventing a working class revolution in the capitalist countries, and urging all capitalist governments to unite for armed intervention and war against the Soviet Union. The way this counter-revolutionary program is presented to the work- ers who still follow the “socialist” traitors, is to picture the capitalist governments who aré responsible for the last world human slaughter as cooing doves of peace, while pretending that all the danger of war comes from the Soviet Union. An example of this kind of “socialist” war scout- ing for the capitalists is the editorial that appeared in the May 17th issue of the “socialist” paper, the Jewish Daily Forward of New York, entitled “Capitalism and War Danger.” After commenting upon the heavenly desire for “peace” shown by the International Chamber of Commerce, it draws the conclusion that because capitalists do not “want” war, there is no war danger from the side of capitalism: “The overwhelming majority of the representatives of merchant and finance capital in all countries are now opponents of war: . . . The claim of Moscow that the capitalists of the whole world with Hoover at the head are supposedly preparing a new war, is simply ridiculous. . . . No person in his right mind would dream to state that the two strong- est capitalist countries, America and England, are now looking to cook up a new war... . Also in Germany,” etc. But the “socialist” Forward does find a war danger, and continues: “But fascism and Bolshevism . - . are really a permanent danger for peace.” Having thus opened his mouth to speak supposedly in equal condemnation of fascism and Bolshevism, the Forward editor carefully avoids saying anything against fascism, but proceeds with full steam ahead to lie about the Soviet Union. “Moscow now has the largest standing army in the world and the Soviet Government is continually manufacturing more munitions and various poison gases. The Soviet Government is the only government which does not cease injecting itself into the internal busniess of all countries . . . Bolshevist militarism really represents a great danger for peace.” “4 How like unto two peas in the same pod is the above to the anti- Soviet war speech of U. S. Brigadier General Holbrook, made to the veterans of the 78th Division at Camp Dix on July 25th: “Jt is well to remember that the political power in control of Russia has declared war on the United States. Russia is evidently preparing to fight the world. . . . She is building great munition plants and cre- ating the greatest war machine the world has ever known. . . . Foes of the recent conflict will work together against the common enenty for the preservation of our governments, our homes and firesides and our religion.” The “socialist” editor and the U. S. Brigadier General see eye to. eye on the source of the war danger. But both are silent on the fact that the Soviet Union at the first “disarmament” conference it was al- lowed to attend (1927) proposed that every warship be sunk and every soldier. demobilized—and that this real and complete disarmament pro- posal, and all the~partial disarmament proposals rnade by the Soviet since that time, have been ignored by the capitalist governments as though they never were made! They have even ignored the anti-dump- ing agreement or “economic armisticé” offered by Litvinoff at the Geneva conference in May! But neither capitalists nor their “socialist” servants have failed to prepafe in every way for war against the Soviet Union. It is a bold lar who can deny that England, France and the U. S. A. have not spent countless millions of dollars to arm Finland, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Rumania to the teeth against the Soviet, Union! Other millions have gone to spies and sabotagers. within the Soviet territory, and of these spies the Second “Socialist” International has furnished a large number. Fume and fret as they may, the American “socialist” party who aided in financing these criminals, cannot truth- fully deny the confessions made by their agents who were caught and tried this year in Moscow. A few extracts from these confessions are enlightening: “Dan (a Russian “socialist” leader living abroad) commissioned me to inform Sher that both party and sabotage work would be fin- anced by the organization abroad.”—Statement of Petunin, Feb. 19, 1931- “Abramovitch (a Russian “socialist” leader who often visits the U.S, A. to get funds and is supported by the “socialists” here) raised the question of sabotage and intervention with extreme energy and determination. He pointed out that a decision had been reached with regard to giving financial support.”—Statement of Gromann, Dec. 25, 1930. “Every party group was to strive to carry out sabotage in one form or another, apart from the normal party work.”—Statement of Salkind, Dec: 4, 1930. 2 “This (referring to 2 document) was the instruction for the adop- tion of the tactic of sabotage and the support of intervention.”—State- ment of Sukhanov, Jan. 22, 1031. ‘Workers, these are the “socialist* scouts for capitalist war against which the workers of the whole world’ are coming into the streets on August First to protest! Every day brings nearer the newgworld slaughter! The attempt to destroy the Soviet Union again as tried to do at the end of the last imperialist war! Out on the streets on August First to warn the war makers to hold their hand! Out on the streets to demonstrate your will to defend the Soviet Union! English Workingwoman Tells Lady AstorTruth About USSR states. ‘The letter said that Lady Astor NEW YORK.—An English working woman, who went to the Soviet Un- jon five years ago, when Lady Astor challenged her to go to the country of which she was so much in favor, on Tuesday wrote a letter to the same Lady Astor who is now in Mos- cow visiting the U.S.S.R. with George Bernard Shaw, saying she never ‘wants to return to the land of Brit- 4sh capitalism and misery. The let~ ter which was published in the Sov- iet press says: “My comrades helped me by taking care of me and my children,” she wrote. “There is no reason which could hiduce me to leave Russia to go to my old fatherlnad, where as 2 widow I could afford only a miser- able living for my children, Here they receive an education. Ihave been given every opportunity to earn for myself and maintain my chil- dren. This makes me happy and satisfied.” She said Soviet Union was going on the right way and that the fate ‘of the workers was better than that of millions of unemployed in cépi- jtiadios powntries, including the United might be interested in knowing what an English working woman thought of the Soviet Union. She told the “lady,” who has been playing all sorts of antics in the Soviet Union, not to lie when she returns but tell what she saw. JEWELRY MEN WIN A STRIKE NEW YORK, — Calling jewelry workers to a mass meeting last night at Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. and 42nd St. ab 6:15 p. m. @ leaflet issued by the Jewelry Workers’ Industrial Union, told of the victory won by workers in the Reiner and Berkow shop. “After one week on strike with picketing every day, Reiner & Berkow was compelled to take the men back without discrimination, no piece work and with the wages agreed on before the strike! Solidarity of the GROWS IN | i |Strike Committee Hits, SILK STRIKE Mayor’s Committee PICKETING Try Hillquit for Plotting To Attack Soviet Union Bedacht Will Prosecute Yellow Second Inter-| national and Socialist Party for Part in Capitalist Intervention Plan SRE Se ie ee | Tonight at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave.,| Strike-Breaking AFL Keeps Workers In 50 Jailed On Lines at! Boss’ Orders PATERSON, N. J., July 29.—Mass picket lines. under the leadership of the United Front Committee and the National Textile Workers’ Union, have been active in front of many shops here, both last night and this morning. They were able to pull out 60 girls at the Colonia Throw- ing plant. The new strikers showed tremendous enthusiasm, singing and shouting the slogans of the strike. They mobilized the children of the strikers and all marched to the Strike headquarters at Turn Hall. When 40 workers of the Taylor & Fried ribbon shop walked out at 10 a.m. this morning, under the notion that the A. F. of L. had called them on strike, Burger, organizer for the United Textile Workers’ Union, an A. F. of L. organization, told them to go back to work “if you want to.” He tried to discourage the workers from going on strive and forced most of them to go back. bm t Yesterday ev the A. PF. tf bs. textile unions arranged for an open- air meeting of its members on a piece of property owned by the Work~ man’s Circle at Carroll St. and 12th, with Ludwig Lore, Musteite faker, and other A. F. of L. betrayers as speakers. A “professor” of Brook- wood College spoke. Many of the workers demanded unity of the rank and file to win the strike, interrupt- ing the speakers’ blah. After the meeting the speakers asked for “volunteers” for picketing; only a few score workers responded. Right following the closing of the A. F .of L. meeting the workers re- mained and J. Lubin, secretary of the General Strike Committee, and Lina Chernenko spoke, calling on the workers to unite for struggle on a united front basis. The workers cheered them. When the workers called for mass picketing, the whole meeting responded, over 500 joining the picket lines. This morning the picket lines were in fine shape in every single section, About 15 shops came oue, all under the leadership of the National Tex- tile Union. They elected the neces- sary rank and file committees to conduct the strike. - At 10 o’clock today there was a mass meeting at Turn Hall. The hall was filled to overflowing. The workers were called again to go to the picket line at lunch time. At the Rosn & Son Mills police arrested around 5 Opickets. The boss claimed that there was no strike and de- manded the police arrest the pick- ets. The cops obeyed. Today there was a secret meeting of Mayor Hinchliffe’s committee with the bosses and the A. F. of L. fakers to break the strike and pre- vent united action of the rank and the strike through mass the mass meeting of front a delegation of 15 with Biedenkapp as the and they presented the demands of the strikers to the mayor's committee. They told the mayor's no agreement be- A. F. of L. fakers would be by the United Front Strike Committee. Mayor Hinchcliffe has been in- structing the Police recorders (po- lice judges) to inflict severer punish- ment on pickets and strikers ar- rested, in an effort to break the strike. At 10 a.m. Thursday there will be a@ mass meeting of strikers at Turn Hall, to conclude drawing up the de- mands of the various departments of the strikers. men in the shop has definitely shown the boss that he cannot break the Shop Committee! “Fellow Jewelry Workers: The militant program of Shop Commit- tee, shop struggles and shop strikes and active support on the picket line is the fighting policy of the Jewelry Workers’ Industrial Union. Morris Hillquit, rich corporation lawyer and leader of the! American “Socialist” Party and of the Second International, will be placed on trial by the Communist Party of the United States before a revolutionary mass-tribunal on a charge of plotting and organizing military in-© Tonight HOOVER LIES ABOUT - WAGE SLASHING AIM OF WALL STREET GOV'T. Ul. §. Steel Corporation Starts Wage Slashes for the 259,000 Stee! Workers iRailread Brotherhoods Try to Tie the Hands of Workers | tervention against the Soviet Union. The trial will begin promptly at 8:30 and workers are urged to come on time. The basis of the charge against the leader of the American “Social- ist” Party and of the Second (inter- vention) International is Hillquit’s suit in an American capitalist court on behalf of a band of formep, Czar- ist oil-magnates with the purpese of establishing their “legal title” vo the oil industry of the Soviet Union. The suit is to lay the “legal” and “moral” foundation for a military interven- tion against the workers’ fatherland. On behalf of the Communist Party of the United States, Comrade Max Bedacht, member of the Central Committee of the C. P. U.S. A., will conduct the prosecution against Morris Hillquit, the American “So- cialist” Party and the Second Inter- national. Comrade Bedacht has an- nounced his intention to cali as wit- nesses for the prosecution a number of ‘orkers from shops and mines as well as some of their leaders, among them Richard D. Moore, Louis Hy- man, R. Saltzman and others. The American “Socialist” Party has not had the courage to accept the challenge of the Communist Party to send Norman Thomas or Louis Waldman to defend the inter- vention acts of Morris Hillquit before tke proletarian mass tribunal. Un- der the circumstances the defense of the “socialist”. leader will be en- trusted to one of the audience. The mass trial tonight at Central Opera House will be the last mobi- lization rally for the great anti-war demonstration to be held on Satur- day afternoon, August 1, on Union Square, It is important that ‘l active workers be present at the mass trial, where final arrangements |for the Union Square demonstration | will be announced. PINEVILLE, Ky., June 29.—Another car was dynamited | Black and white miners fight side by side in the National Miners Union strike in Western Pennsyl- vania. A bowl of soup is the little one’s meal. Scene at Cedar Grove barracks. Rush relief to the Penn- Ohio Striking Miners Relief Co: mittee, 611 Penn Ave., Room 2 Pittsburgh, Pa. iRIVER WORKERS TIE UP VESSELS | IN BIG STRIKE Kentucky Operators Unloose ypytu testing strike Terror Against the Miners Editor, Crawford’s Weekly Shot By Ambushed | Gunmen at Pineville Against Wage Slash STOCKTON, Cal. (By Wire) —The river workers have struck 100 per cent on all boats on which the 35 per cent wage cut has been put into effect. Boats are tied up.in San Francisco, to Help Government Cut Pay As August First approaches—the day of workingclass mobilization against war, hunger jand wage cuts—the capitalists threaten the American workers with a new wave of pay slashes. Millions of workers now face reduc- tion of their already low standard of living. Wage cuts, unemployment and the prospect f war! These are the realities that face every |worker in the United States on this August First. . Against the war preparations we must mobilize for a huge demonstration this Satur- day, in Union Square, 1:30 p. m. All out! Fight against the war preparations and all “that goes with it — Canonsburg Iron | wage cuts, hunger, un- | Workers to Strike kaweestin’ _ Against Wage Cut, roa eer WASHINGTON, July 29.—Hoover, the chief liar of the Wall Street gov- ernment in Washington today came out with one of his crassest lies, de- claring. that the capitalist govern- |ment which is now trying to break — | 88 strikes against wage cuts, does not By EDITH BRISCOE. CANONSBURG, Pa., July 29. The Budke mill of the Canonsburg at Wallins. Bruce Crawford of Norton, Va. and editor of Crawford’s Weekly, was shot in the leg by ambushed gunmen today. T'wo more houses were searched yesterday and a min- imum of thirty gunmen arrived. There have been many open threats and the new tactics are not to jail the miners, but to shoot them down. Po ae BELLEVILLE, Ul, July 29—An ‘Trotzkyites, renegades from the Communist movement, vers in the A. F. of L. The sect of] although | Coato and Stockton. The demands | have been granted and the union recognized until a conference of all| workers and boat owners which will) be held Sunday, August 2, The rank |Fagan out of Canonsburg on July 19, and file strike committee will fight! anda number of them have been ar- | all conciliation or lock out maneuvers | rested for fighting in support of the | of the bosses. \minere | The Marine Workers Industrial | The Amalgamated Association of | Iron and Steel Co. is right in the mine strike area. Many of the steel} workers go on the miners’ picket lines | Many. of them helped to run Pat} excellent conference with delegates from 17 mining towns met here Sun- day at the call of the Miners Na- tional Unity Committee of Action, set up by the national miners’ con- ference wheih met in Pittsburgh, duly 15-16. The Bellville conference reviewed the situation in southern Iilinois, and found that the miners are prac- tically unanimous against the Lewis and the Walker state administration of the U.M.W. They are, to some extent, in the control of a local faker, named Edmundson, who is probably a Lewis agent. At least this Ed- mundson was a commander of U.M. ‘W. gunmen. and led the attack at Hancock for Lewis. But so great is the fury of the miners against the betrayals practised on them by Lewis, thta Edmunson has to pretend to fight both Lewis and Walker. There is no doubt also that Edmundson has connections with the Musté movement, the so-called “Progres- sive Labor Action” group of mislead- weak and usually not active in the present struggle, support Edmund- son insofar as they are active at all. Edmundson calls his movement “The Rank and File Movement” and publishes a demagogic paper, “The Rank and File Miner,” but because of his unsavory past, and because of his refusal to either send delegates to the National Conference in Pitts- burgh, or to support the strike of 2,200 Orient No. 1 and Orient No. 2 strikers at West Frankfort, he is be- coming a suspicious character in the (CONTINUED, ON PAGE HIVE) | Union is spreading the organization and the ranks of the strikers are | being solidified. The policy of the strike committee is to broaden out the struggle into a general strike of all the riverboats if necessary Strike in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—After sev- eral weeks preparation the rivermen have gone out on strike under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union against a 35 per cent wage cut instituted on June Ist. Be- Sides the actual cut of five cents | | | tried to force the payment of wages for time of handling cargo only, thereby making the rivermen travel- ling longshoremen. The strike called on Monday, July 27, tied up all boats affected 100 ner cent forcing the owners to come to terms. The de- mansd of the strikers are: wages to be 40¢ per hour day time (7 to 12 and 1 to 6); 50c per hour overtime until last landing. Negro Reformists Uphold Lynch Justice and Incite Boss Terror CHATTANOOGA, July 29.—Fear- ing the rapdi growth of the united front mass movmeent of Negro and white workers in defense of the Scottsboro boys and the arrested Camp Hill, Alabama, Negro croppers, the Southern boss lynchers are des- perately mobilizing the whole gang of Uncle Tom leaders with which the Neogre People, like other oppressed nationalities, are afflicted. The function laid down by the bosses for these Uncle Toms is to hamstring the defense of the Negro victims of capitalist justice, defend the white ruling class responsible for the per- secution of the Negro masses and up- | princi hold the frightful imperialist oppres- sion of the Negro People as the best possible thing for the Negro. This traitorous function the Uncle Toms | are gladly. if not ably, performing. Negro, White Workers» Give Answér August First! In addition to Pickens, Walter White, Dr. Stephens, and other N.A. AC.P. réformists, the Southern bos- ses have succeeded in mobilizing sev- eral groups of these betrayers of the struggles of the Negro People. In Birmingham, Alabama, for instance, @ group of Negro preachers, land- lords and other exploiters of their own péople have come out in defense of Southern justice and “American ples.” ‘They have launched a vicious attack against the mass fight lead by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defenseto smash the murder- ous frame-ups against the Scottsboro Negro boys and the Camp Hill crop- pers. A statement signed by these reformists is blazoned forth in the boss paper, the Birmingham Post, under the caption “Negroes Asked to Fight Reds.” Following the nifamous example of the N.A.A.C.P. misleaders, the Bir- mingham group of Uncle Toms has not a sinlge word of condemnation against the legal lynching of the 9 Scottsboro boys, not a word against the murderous attack by Tallapoosa County, Alabama, landowners and their police against the Share Crop- pers’ Union; not a word of condem- nation against the murder of sev- eral of the croppers and the jailing of scores of others in the terror campaing of the Iandowners to smash the croppers’ union and de- feat their fight against starvation. CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) per hour overtime the boatowners | \Iron, Steel and Tin Workers is busy | selling out the steel workers of the| Budke mill. On July 1, the company | | announced a wage cut of ten per cent |In a notice put up at the mill gates | August 8, all the “catchers” helpers (catchers. are those who catch the rolls in the mills) are to be fired, | which will mean twice as much work jfor the catchers. Another condition announced was. the establishment of open shop conditions. The notice | read: “All those who fail to report to | the office on August 8 will be fired.” | This wage cut agects 200 to. 300 | workers. Over half of. them are in |the hot mill, and are organized into |the Amalgamated. The present wages received are such that, the majority 6f the steel workers are actually at the point of starvation. Laborers get $2.70 a day, working just a few | days a week. The workers refused to work under | these starvation conditions. | But the Amalgamated at the very joutset of the wage cut program {showed it would fight to force the workers to accept it. At their regular meeting, these fakers told the men to go back to work and Pypmised to | “settle with the company.” But the |workers realized the fakery of this promise, and stayed out solid. Then the Amalgamated began its usual tricky maneuvers. Another | meeting was held, but the officials |Carefully avoided the question of the strike. When they were forced to take notice of it, they mildly suggested that the workers stay out on Au- gust 8, but made no preparations for picketing. pee The policy of the Amalgamated is to wait and see what the workers do on August 2. They will try to keep the workers from striking as long as possible. If they strike anyway, they will sell out the strike at the first op- portunity, The workers of the Budke policy of the Amalgamated. They are preparing to strike August 8th, in spite of the Amalgamated. The Metal Workers Industrial League is now organizing the Budke mill work- ers for a strike against the 10 per cent cut and worsening of conditions. |the company state at beginning with | mill are aware of the strike breaking | favor wage cutting. The bosses, realizing the tremen- dous response of the workers to ths new offensive of the capitalists, are trying to put their wage cuts over behind a screen of official lies The Hoover statement, which is a | classic_in its bold misrepresentation of the facts, was. issued after the United States Steel Corporation an- nounced the beginning of a. wage cut drive by first. cutting the wages of the office workers, and then foHow- ing this up by slashing the wages of the 250,000 workers in the mills. |. After all the capitalist papers ha¢ |announced that Secretary of Com- merce Lamont, on orders from Hoo- ver, had come out favoring wage cuts | Hoover declared: | “No member of the Administra- | tion has expressed the view or | holds the view that. the policy of | the administration in advocating | maintenance of wages should be | changed. It has not been changed.” | Every worker knows that this is }a lie out of the whole cloth, as wages have been cut in every industry in |the United States—with the help of \the government, through the Depart- (CONTINUED ON PAGE. FIVE) enn ea \(They Would Like! '|To Do It, | But--- They would like to crush the The a Daily Worker. the Fishes, the Wolls, the Hill- quits and their Wall Street masters—how they would like” to do it! But behind the Daily) stands an army of thousands, fighting for the Daily, keeping | it alive and defending it from, attack. é * Your half dollar sent to the! 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