The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1931, Page 1

ego Viele ‘(Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, ITE! = Vol. VIII, No. 183 Entered as second-class matter at at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 the Post Office NEW YORK, FR IDAY, JULY 31, 1931 CITY EDIT! = “Blessed” Bankers and “Holy” War 'YMNS of praise now filling the capitalist press for the American and British bankers, who, it is said, have “agreed not to withdraw further short-term credits” from Germany, must be put under the general head of “hokum”, along with all the other plans for “saving” Germany. It is merely putting a good face on the faci of the bankruptcy of German capitalism as acknowledged before the “agreement” by none other than Mr. Knickerbocker of the N. Y. Post in that paper of July 29. Since | Knickerbocker was one who was most elated at Hoover's first “plan,” his gloomy present statements are more worthy of attention. What he says, boiled down is, that: | “Since July 13, when the German banks closed, there have been received from foreign creditors calls on $125,000,000 of loans and credits. These calls have not been satisfied and cannot be satisfied according to German financial authorities. There are still $1,200,000,000 worth of short-term credits in this country. For at least three months none of these can be repaid. In fact, many Germans take the standpoint that short-term crediis can never be repaid.” So, workers, understand that the blessed bankers have “agreed” not to withdraw short loans to Germany, for the good reason that they can- not. More, Knickerbocker goes on to say that, if these bankers had per- sisted in mot “agreeing,” that: “German financial and industrial organs have joined in the demand that the German government bow to the inevitable and announce a moratorium. This, it is pointed out, need not be done under the ominous name of ‘moratorium.’ ” A German governmental declaration of a “moratorium,” would be -® declaration of bankruptcy. That is why it is called “ominous,” and that is why, under a different name, it is now represented as a “bankers’ agreement” not to withdraw funds—which cannot be withdrawn. But that this will “save” Germany is fantastic! Workers will still wonder, however, why so many diplomats and bankers have had to meet in Paris, London and Berlin to arrive at such a simple, although ineffective—result. The reason is that there is far more than “inoney matters” being discussed. What was Germany to be “saved” from, in the first place, if not from Bolshevism? And why was Bolshevism threatening Germany, if not for the fact that the German masses, bedeviled with taxes and with wages cut to starvation level and unemployment mounting, have before and near them the example of the revolutionary overthrowal of capitalism by the Russian workers and their victor in assuring employ- ment, ever-rising wage standards, the seven-hour day and security to all who toil? The imperialist maneuvers led by Hoover to “save” Germany, were war moves against both Bolshevism in Germany and in the Soviet Union—and there has been no “moratorium” on these war moves. With complete justice,*the “Izvestia,” organ of the Soviet Government (quoted in the N. ¥. Times of July 30) brings out the “persistent reports in various European quarters that one of the conditions to be imposed on Germany in return for financial aid will be control over her foreign trade credits, particularly in regard to the Everyone who is not a complete fool knows that the Hoover Gov- ernment proposed embargo on Soviet trade was made as an attempt to whip other capitalist governments into line; that this was the ‘basis on which Germany was to be “saved.” Since armed warfare is merely the extension of economic war when economic measures no longer will suffice, a seeming failure of economic and financial measures of the Paris, London and Berlin confabs to get a united capitalis}.embargo against assurance of peace, but a serious threat that armed warfare ag@inst the Soviet Union is nearing. Workers, do not be deceived by the pleasant lies about the “saving” of Germany or the pretense that the growing fascist repression against the rising revolutionary wave of the German workers has “nothing to do” with imperialist war plots against the Soviet Union! propaganda attack in all the capitalist press against the Soviet Union is exactly the same as that which preceded the last World War! Onto the streets August First to protest at the imperialist war Prepare to strike against wage cuts! ployed starvation and capitalist war upon the American workers! makers! Soviet Union.” Soviet trade, is by no means any The furious Protest against unem- Miners and Families Facing - Brutal Terror; Rush Relief BULLETIN XSpecial Telegram to Daily Worker) TAMPA. Fia., July 30.—Tampa workers are making liberal re- sponse to appeals for funds for the striking coal miners. Donations, including twenty-five dollars were contributed today by the Tampa Bakers Union. A general collection will be made ‘in all tobacco fac- tories this Saturday. Pe tear PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 30—Big German police dogs have been brought by the state cossacks and deputies to break the picket lines in the Brownsville section. “Yellow dogs and four-leged dogs,” the strikers call the deputies and the hounds. A year ago, the Saturday Evening Post printed an enthusiastic article telling how these dogs’can be trained to “deal with the reds.” Today, the dogs, trained to be as vicious as their masters, stampede the picket lines, snarling, snapping and chasing the,| women and children especially, who are fighting for the very right to live. “We've declared war against starvation,” one rank and file lead- er of a picket line said grimly, “and I reckon we'll have to learn to take care of them dogs just like the soldiers got around the poison gas.” Tear gas—gunfire—clubbings—hor- ses’hoots trampling—and the trained hounds, With the second offensive in the coal fields to spread the strike and close down those mines work- ing with a few scabs, comes an, in- tensified offensive from the yellow dogs—more terror! Scme five mines were shut down ‘completely in Eastern Ohio this Monday, among them the Braley mine to reach. West Virginia, Cen- tral Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Wesy- ern Pennsylvania are all wound up for quick action. Westland, scene of last months’ massacre, where deputies shot from ambush upon miners gathering for a picket line, is again a centre of activity. From all the mines in the section, ttuckloads of pickets come, camp at midnight in an ecdjoining field and picket the mine at dawn. Wildwood mine will soon be closed a hundred per cent, the miners promise. * Wildwood has set up a soup kitch- en right in the field where the pick- ets camp. But food is needed to feed the hundred of pickets and their families, All through the strike region, the need for relief is terrific. The min- ers, their wives and children must have at least one meal a day! And this means food for every two hun- dred thousand! And as the strike spreads the number increases. The job of every worker is to see that this food is provided! The Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee calls upon you to send your donation today to their central headquarters, room 205, 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Cash must be paid ‘for food, other- wise it cannot be procured here. What is sent into the field one day is determined by the amount you send the day before. Truckloads of food arrived here today from Cleveland, Gary, In- diana, Detroit and Chicago, Many truckloads of food and clothing were taken from the freight today, that came direct from New York. Col- lect food! Collect funds to buy food! 75,000 Ford ‘Workers Will Lose Their Jobs on August Fiysd R.1. STRIKERS STAND FIRM FOR DEMANDS Weybosset Workers Vote Down Bad Proposal PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 30.—The Weybosset (A.W.C.) strikers meet- ing this morning voted down the proposal made by some workers to elect a small committee which would ask the mill manager if he was ready to meet the Strike Committee. “Our strike is standing solid,” said Walter Plante, chairman of the Strike Committee. “We should turn down this tactic because it may make the company think that we are weakening.” “The company will enter into a conference with elected representa- tives of their workers only if we stand solid in the strike and show no signs of weakening. You have one committe now that everybody trusts, don’t elect any others,” said Chris the loomfixer. This policy was adopted amidst great applause, ‘The report of Mart:n Russak, N.T, ‘W.U. organizer, that the attempt to make the workers in the Blackstone, Mass. mill of the company do scab sample work was prevented, was greeted with an ovation by the strik+ ers. ‘Thémass meetings every evening on the lof back of 1755. Westminster Street has a regular attendance of from 300 to 500 strikers and sympa- thizers. The poor farmers in the vi- cinity are coming to the aid of the! strikers by donating food supplies to the strikers’ relief store. Strike funds are needed more than ever freim all New England towns. Rush | them to N.T.W.U., 1755 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. | PUTNAM, Conn, July 30.—William L. Talbot, a member of the state leg- islature and a tool of the mill own- ers is working here to demoralize 1 the Bloom mill strikers and divide; their ranks on the “red issue.” The | strikers have continuously reaffirmed | their support of the leadership of the NT.W.U. 200 GIRLS WIN STRIKE ON WAGE CUT IN BKLYN Many Join Industrial Needle Union NEW YORK.—A strike of 200 girls of the Diana Mills, underwear manu- facturers was won under the leader- ship of the youth section of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. When the bosses handed the girls, most of whom are under 21, a wage cut of 35 to 50 per cent, the workers went out on strike. They elected a rank ‘and file strike committee, conducted militant picketing, and won their strike. The demands finally agreed to by the boss were: with- drawal of the wage cut; no discharge; recognition of the shop committee; no fines (the workers used to be fined $1.00 for. coming late and for da- mages); no standard of production, that is, no speed up. Over 100 girls Joined the union. ‘When the girls returned to the shop the boss once more made an effort to demoralize the ranks of the strikers by sending down two of the active strikers. He was immedi- ately informed that the discharged girls had the backing of all the workers and that the strike would be declared again. The girls were reinstated atid are back at work. The workers have learned a valu- able lesson in this strike. Despite the short duration of the strike, the company union throvl i*- of losel 62 attempted to step inte to situation in order tue ey « bosses put through the wage cul The militancy of the girls defeated both the boss and the company union agents. The girls returned to the shop inspired and ready not only to make their shop @ real organized ‘They are needed in the mine fields wiea, @apaidered & very difficult today as never before, ary A * shop but to assist in organizing the other girls in the neighborhood. \ | |hour day with wages constantly in- District Demonstration Demonstrations in state governments for armame: Strike Committee, leading the 40,000 miners. The strike committee after distribution of leaflets issued by the - Nation-1 Union and the| iMeial ‘\/czkers lnadustrial League, calling August 1 demonstrations in twelve mining and steel centers, turned its discussion on the central | district demonstration in Pittsburgh itself. | The strike committee empowered | | the executive committee, which ‘meets | tomo! , to select a strong dele-| | gation of striking miners to appear | at this demonstration, and to >ring it greetings of the, strikers. ‘The striking miners realize very | "Well that they. work-in a war'industry’; | that the campaign to enflave | them to the operators and the UMW | is a campaign to solidify the rear when war starts. They refuse to be made pawns in such a game. They know very well too that the war) plans of American imperialism are directed against the Soviet Union, and that the Soviet Union is the one country where miners have the six- creasing and living and working ‘ton- ditions constantly improving. They see very plainly that war on the) Soviet Union is war to enslave the | workers to such conditions as are spreading disease, death from hun- ger, misery and terror against the | miners, through the coal fields of the Youth Anti-War Parade Tonight NEW YORK—Tonight the young workers of the East Side will parade under the leadership of the Young Communist League Anti-War Con- ference, in protest against the bosses’ preparations for another war All young workers are called upon to be present in Tompkins Square, Seventh and Ave: B, where the dem- onstration and parade will begin. The line of march will be up to 11th St. with banners and placards show- ing cartoons of Hamilton Fish and characterizing “Peace Pact” faxces It will then wind east on Ave. C tnd then south to Suffolk St., where the parade will march along Division into Seward Park. Here the final mass demonstration will be held. All out on Union Square August Ast! DADEVILLE, Ala., July 30.—The International Labor Defense ex- pects to have most of the jailed Camp Hill Negro croppers out on bail by Aug. 1, international day of protest against imperialist war preparations and against the bosses’ lynch terror against the Negro peo- ple. As a reslut of the absence of any evidence to substantiate the lying charges of county officials and N. A. A. C. P. leaders that the croppers were plotting the murder of county officials, the prosecution was forced Jast Tuesday to ask for a month's postponement of the preliminary hearing. Judge Oliver admits that the charges against most of the crop- pers have fallen down and plans to release them on small bond. The latest plan of the landowners and | munist Party, Worke ® Striking Miners Support Aug. Ist Demonstrations Against Imperialist War Demand War Billions for Relief of Unemployed; Central in Pittsburgh; Many Mine Strike Area PITTSBURG, Pa., July 30—August First demonstrations against imperialist war, and a campaign through mass meetings and leaf- lets to demand for relief of strikers and jobless the billions now scheduled by the national and mts, occupied much of the at- tention of the meeting yesterday of the Central Rank and File struggle against starvation of. making arrangements for the United States. demonstration will take place at West | Park at 2 p. m., with the workers of the other sections of the city marching to the park in a body. Carl Price, district organizer of the Com- will be a principal speaker. MERGENTHALER WORKERS T0 BE LAID OFF TODAY, | —— ‘Called to Join Huge B’klyn' Rally Tonight BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Workers of \the Mergenthaler Lynotype Plant will be laid off from their job on Friday, July '31, for an indefinite period of time in spite of the announcement that the plant will re-open at the end of August. The mass lay off of 1800, workers from this plant after forced to work part time since January further adds to the misery of the workers in Brooklyn. ‘The Mergenthaler workers are cal- led to answer this lay off at the huge Anti-Imperialist War Demon- stration which will be held at Grand Street Extension and Havemeyer St., Brooklyn, Friday, July 31 under the auspices of the Communist Party Section Six. At this demonstration the Com- munist candidates in the local elec- tions will expose the Hoover staiva- tion plan, as it affects the Mergen- thaler workers and workers from other plants such as the Gem, Kay- ser Textile workers and others. The Friday evening demonstration will serve as a mobilization of the Brooklyn workers for the monster anti-imperialist war demonstration, to be held on August Ist at Union Square at 1:30 p. m. J. Louis Engdahl, Communist can- didate in the 7th Congressional Dis~- trict, Anthony Bimba, Communist candidate in the 14th Assembly dis- trict and Domenick Flaiani, Commu- nist candidate for the 13th Assembly district, will address Friday’s demon- stration at Grand Street Extension. I.L.D. to Bail Out Croppers; | TS Demonstrate August 1 Landowner Boasts of Lynching of Five Croppers county officials (in most cases one and the same) is to concentrate their frame-up attempts against the most militant of the croppers. Dis- trict Solicitor C. H. Vann Vann has announced that Grand Jury indict- ments will be brought in against a picked number, prosecution of, whom will be pushed. His confidence that the Grand Jury is composed of the landowners clique which controls the county and is out to smash the Share Croppers’ Union and force the croppers to work for them for noth- ing. Admits Lynch Atmosphere. ‘Tacitly _ admitting the lynching Pay 35 STRIKING SILK PICKETS ARE ON TRIAL A. F. of L. Meet Is Big| Flop, Paterson | Sheet Admits | Will Carry Strike to’ Victory’ —NTW PATERSON, N. J, July 30.—A monster mass meeting was held here tonight at 7 p. m. at Cross and El-| lison Sts., on a private lot near Turn Hall. At the time the Daily Work- | er went to press the meeting was | still on. Rudolph Katz, leader of the | “The Pittsburgh | 1913' silk strike, I. Amter, one of the | March 6th unemployed dstegation, | | and Ben Gold, National Secretary of | ole Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- | j trial Union, were scheduled to speak. | | The statement of the commission | manufacturers in this morning's | press, the secret meeting of the Mayor's Conciliation Board and Mr. | Holderman’s statement that this strike will not last more than one | week, are all indications that the sell-out 4s prepared by the bosses land the A. F. of L leaders. ‘The | United Front General Strike .Com- | Milttee states in the name of thou | sands of rank and file strikers that |the workers will prevent the sell-out | planned by the labor fakers, that} | there is only one power that can and | | will make settlements and that is representatives, the General Strike | Committee. The wage scale and | cussed and adopted by the rank and | file strikers will be presented to the | manufacturers within a very short) time. The General Strike Commit- | tee refuses to recognize and will re- pudiate any settlement proposals that are not arrived at directly be- | tween the strikers themselves and | the manufacturers. | The mass meeting repudiated the ers, will result in larger and more) militant picket lines until a complete victory is won and the demands of the strikers granted by the bosses. A large number of the night shift of the Wiedemans Dye plant, one of | the largest dye plants in Paterson, | came out on strike today. aeocetite PATERSON, July 30.—Unable to rally the workers for its program of sell out, the A. F. of L, meeting here set for 9:30 this morning was a com- plete flop. The failure was so strik- | Textile Workers and the Associated | Silk Workers to arouse the workers that the Paterson Evening News re- marked as follows: “Less than fifty strikers under the A. F. of L. banner were coun- ted at 9:30 this morning at the Roseland ballroom, the hour set for the first mass meeting of the | | | | | | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) spirit pervading the landowners and police of Tallapoosa County, Judge Oliver refused to release any of the defendants on Tuesday on the grounds that they would be in dan- ger from the mob of 500 outside the courthouse, Aware of the furious indignation which has swept the working-class as a result of the brutal murder of Ralph Gray in the landlords-police attack on the share croppers’ meet- ing, Judge Oliver was not anxious to further feed that indignation in the white heat of which a fighting alliance of white and colored work- ers is being forged against Jim Crow capitalism and its savage murder of workers, ‘The jailed croppers have welcomed the defense of the International La- | CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | | Ea Red Cross, Which ing and the inability of the United | | Price 3 Cents ALL OUT TOMORROW! DEMONSTRATE AGAINST WAR! te rvEN Wight Mass Turnout on Union Sq. Saturday 1:30 Prisoners Tortured bitter Winter Ahead for Workers, With Wage Cuts and Unemployment Growing Acts in Workers; Hoo Saturday, greater struggle than ever before the capitalist class. All workers’ o: All workers should be in the demonstration at War, Says It Will Net Feed ver Lies Again Union Square om August 1, 1931, 1:30 p. m., in protest and in preparation for against the starvation program of ganizations, unions, fraternal bodies and clubs should be in the demonstration in a body, to rally in united struggle of Negro and white workers in defense of the workers’ father- land, the Soviet Union, and of th conscious workers should line up tion campaign to place the Communist Party candidates on the and to bring a smashing defeat to the reactionary parties, inclu the yellow socialist party, in the government. All cut om Union Square Satur e workers’ struggles here. All class behind the Communist Party elec- coming elections to the imperialist ‘day, August Ist, and then forward to support the greatest election campaign carried on in the city of New York. WASHINGTON, July 30.—On August. Ist, jivher Tnillions of workers throughout the world under the revolutionary working class leader- |ship protest and organize against war prepara- tions, 75,000 Ford workers will be thrown on the streets to starve. mobilize against war and the w with wa, DYNAMITE, RIFLES USED IN TERROR AGAINST MINERS M. U. Oraganizer WALLINS, Ky., July 30. — Armed thugs hired by Sheriff Blair and the coal operators grow more desperate as the days pass and they cannot get the NMU oreanizers. Four cars con- taining sixteen thugs raided the house ‘Jail ILD Organizer | in Harlan, Ky. | | HARLAN, Ky., July 30.—Jessie London, local organizer of the In- ternational Labor Defense, has been arrested in Harlan and is | held on charges of criminal syn- |dicalism. This follows the at- | tempt to murder London by dyna- | miting her Ford car a few days | ago. | of Secretary Cawood of the N. M. U. local last night. Fould of the U. M. WwW. A. in a leaflet said, “That's good.” They were searching for the NMU charter and literature. They all carried high powered rifles and surrounded the house. The chief slugger, H. C. Moore,,imported from McRoberts, Kentucky, was formerly night watchman for the Consolidated Coal Company, uses the whistle sys- tem to give his orders. Thugs dynamited the home of Al- ford, NMU organizer, at three oclock this morning, shattering all the windows. All the miners are protesting this thug rule by increased determination to have a successful conference on August 2, and ask the working oless of the entire country to” protest against this terror and support their struggle against starvation. Threats have been made against the Wallins Creek Kitchen Defense Corp. on guard day and night. Over one hundred have been fed yester- day. Over four hundred were present at the meeting held at Evarts Wed- nesday called by the Womens’ Auxil- a kitchen. At least two die-daily at Evarts i This August First, the day the Com. the strikers themselves and@ their! munist Party in hundreds of cities in the United States will armakers, against hunger, wage. complete set of demands as * dis-| Cuts and starvation, there will be thousands who will be faced ge cuts and unemployment. —~» War maneuvers and unemployment | hunger and wage cuts—go hand in jhand. To increase their profits the | capitalists are preparing a new war- |@ war against the workers at home {in the form of wage slashing, lower- | ing their standard of living. and a war against the workers in the So- | viet Union, the land where the work- strikebreaking maneuvers of the ers rule. Cay i kh 7 2 : i} i} 3 pitalism is seeking new strikebreaking A. F. of L. leaders, | E ~ | markets, new colonies for greater will strenghen the unity of the work- | Dynamite Home of N.| profits. The growing, sharpening economic crisis is driving them to war with express-trd@in speed. | At the same time, the conditions | of the workers grow worse. During | July, according to William Green, president of the A. F. of L., whose Officials are the chief scabs, over 175,000 workers lost their jobs- Green usually understates things of this | kind, to help out his boss, Hoover and | the Wall Sreet government. The | actual number of workers who lost | their jobs during July is closer to a | | quarter of a million. | Green, who thinks there are 3,- 200,000 out of work now, says there | will be 7,000,000 and he cannot re- | frain from saying this will be a hor- | rible winter for the workers. Using | Green's figures for the increase in | employment by the winter, it looks |as if there are going to be around | 12,000,000 workers who will be forced |to face starvation unless they fight | under revolutionary leadership. | The capitalist newspapers say “Mr. |Green is worried about the situa- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “DAILY” NEEDS SOME | VOLUNTEERS TODAY: | Stenographers, Typists, etc. who have an hour or two to spare during the day are needed in) the Circulation Department of | the Daily Worker where their help will be very much appreci- ated. Quite a bit of correspond- | ence has accumulated as result of the $35,000 Drive and the Daily Worker will be grateful for any | assistance rendered. Come to | 35 E. 12th St., 8th floor. | from “flux”, another name for starv- ation. The children are most af- fected. Eagle Brand milk is urgent- ly needed for the children, because the mothers cannot nurse their bab- ies because of starvation. Robert, Childress and Turnblazer, UMW fakers, stated that the UMW |iary which elected delegates to start | Relief Committee is through with Harlan County because the miners there were reds. 1