The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1931, Page 1

=———— Turn Out For the Big Picnic bel il WORKERS " of the TUUL, Sunday, Aug. OF THE WORLD, 2, at Pleasant Bay Park C e af 1. TTE! ae Section of the Communist International) Det eaneice Sere ee as dew NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11,1931 CITY EDITION Price 8 Cents oe, VIII, No. 184 "WORKERS! ALL OUT TO UNION SQUARE AT 1:30 P. ML. DEMAND WAR FUNDS FOR RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED! the Streets Against War 2go today, the imperialist World War broke out with the declaration of war by Germany upon Russie. Before it closed over four years of human slaughter had massacred 10,000,000 men on the battlefields and brought death by famine and disease to over 20,000,000 non-combatant men, women and children. While in every land the war profiteers became fat and powerful, suppressing the workers’ struggles for higher wages with “patriotic” fury, while the war left a ghastly harvest of mutilated, crazed men, a genera- tion of rickety children and the robber “peace”—yet out of the ruin and slaughter arose the great historic victory of the world’s working class— the Soviet Union! Workers, you who are old enough to remember, must recall those days of August, 1914! You who were too young to remember, must learn! Remember how the war came “suddenly’—to millions—yet how it hed been prepared’ through years of “pacifist” talk, of “no more war agreements,” of endless “peace treaties” and “disarmament conferences.” Remember how the capitalist diplomats lied! How, behind the pre- tense of fighting for “democracy,” for “suffering Belgium,” for the “fath- erlend” ruled by Keiser, Czar and capitalist, the capitalist class that ruled each country was throwing its working class into the hell and earnege of battle to fight for the imperialist aims of secret treaties, 2 redivision of colonies and markets still guaranteed by the Verseilles “peace”! Remember how the Second “Socialist” International, whose leaders had become corrupted by opportunism during the “peaceful” years, be- trayed the toiling masses and in each country went over to the side of the capitalist war makers, bectme cabinet ministers and war mongers during the war—and at its close, when he disillusioned masses in des- perate civil war tried to overthrow capitalism—acted as butchers of the revolutionary workers! Where today is the “democracy,” the “freedom” and the “country fit for heroes” for which you fought, workers? Millions axe unemployed and starving here in America, 2 “victor” of the war, the richest country of the world! ‘Yet the capitalist government is spending billions for war and war preparations, while it rejects your demand for unessnloy- ment insurance! After the. war was over, Woodrow Wilson admitted that it was “a commercial end industrial war.” But did yoy, the American workers, win anything from it?..Today, in addition to unemployment, millions of you are having your wages cut! The U.S. Steel Corporation, which only four years ago paid its stockholders a 40 per cent dividend .in stocks, is now preparing to cut wages of 250,000 workers! Everywhere the wage cut war is on against the workers, in the coal mines, textile mills, fruit canneries, on the railroads! Today, again, there is endless “peace” talk! But behind it is feverish preparation for war! Imperialist America has “broken its isolation” from European effairs and is neck deep in war intrigues, secret diplomacy, and is leading the other cepitelist governments in war plots against the Soviet Union! American imperialism, with its 10,000,000 unemployed, its brutal capi- talist dictatorship against the working class, its wage cuts and hopeless starvation for those who toil in city and on farms, fears that American workers will follow the example of the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union, where by revolution capitalism is overthrown and under a Work- ers’ and Farmers’ Government the toilers are building their own so- cialized industry, without unemployment, with wage increases, the seven- hour day and their own Government to crush all who seek to restore capitalism! ‘Today, the same vile and lying propaganda is whipping up “war sentiment” against the Soviet Union as filled your ears before America entered the last war to insure the safety of $4,000,000,000 invested in Allied victory by Morgan's Bank! American imperialism demands a redivision of colonies and markets from its rival imperialisms. It hopes to plunder the vast riches of Soviet territory by leading a joint imperialist attack. U. S. Brigadier General Holbrook, speaking at Camp Dix only a week ago, gave a liar’s excuse for U. 5S. armed attack on the Soviet Union by saying that “Russia is already at war with us.” Workers, only your militant mass protest will halt the murderous hand of the war-makers! Let them know that the workers will turn imperialist war into civil war! Let them know that you will defend the Soviet Union! Onto the streets today in mzss demonstration to voice your protest! Build the T. U. U. L. Rockefeller family, rich beyond dreams, has cut the wages of its Colorado. coal miners! Cut ther down about $1.27 a day! Perhaps Secretary of Commerce Lamont will now “explain” this by saying that the “poverty-stricken” Rockefellers are “driven” to do this or “fece the dire alternative” of throwing more men jobless onto the street. The U. S. Steel Corporation has not refused to cut wages of its 250,000 workers, in spite of all the lies of the capitalist press to that effect. Its directors are declaring that this wage cut will “be taken up at the next monthly meeting.” In the coal mines, the railroads, the tex- tile mills, everywhere, the workers face a savage drive on their wages! ‘The American Federation of Labor, speaking through Bill Green, has betrayed the workers by the “No Strike” agreement made with Hoover in November, 1929, and done nothing while the total wege pay- ments of the workers of this country was cut 25.7 per cent since June, 1930. Only now, when the whole working class is beginning to resist wage cuts with strikes, does Green come forward with empty demagogy about “resisting” wage cuts. Even where the A. F. of L. is forced by the workers to lead a strike, it leads the strike to betrayal. See Danville, Elizabethtown, Marion, etc., ete. The workers who are members of the A. F. of L. must be organized undey independent, revolutionary leadership for struggle against the united front of fascist bureaucrats end bosses. The Trade Union Unity League must not only carry out this task, but organize the unorganized millions for struggle. Only the leadership of the revolutionary unions of the T. U. U. L. will bring to these workers the chance of victory. Build the T. U. U. L! Onto SEVENTEEN years y . The march will be preceded Downtown Workers to ta dassseatcunen at th St. and Ave. A from 12 noon to 1 p. m. The March to Union Sauare Ee eee te ae *3 march for Anti-War Meeting | cir touow ave. A to 14th St. and then west to Union Square. Work- The United Front Conference 1s mobilizing the workers of lower|° Of ese Steerer Daas se Ménhattan to participate in the)™arch to Union Square, Saturday march, today, 12 noon, to Union| noon, HEAR FOSTER SPEAK AT THE ONE BIG TUUL PICNIC AT PLEASANT BAY PARK TOMORROW, _ sical entertainment, — ed AFL LEADERS MEET BOSSES FOR SELLOUT Police Get Orders to Use Terror On Picket Lines PATERSON, N. J., July 31—This noon the leaders of the Associated Silk Workers and the United. Tex- tile Workers. met in the Chamber of Commerce office with the repre-~ sentatives of the Cemmission Manu- facturers’ League of America to cuss ways and means of betraying the strike of the silk workers. Th meeting was called by the Mayor's | Committee of Labor Conciliation. While the representatives of the A. F. of L. unions criticized the bosses eg not being well enough organized a bosses’ association the secretary | ot the Mayor's Committee in 2 pri- vate inter’ y told the real purpose of the meeting of the fakers and the bosses. Prepare Fer Sell Out. The Rev. C. F. Scudder, the secre- tery, stated that he hoped thet the bosses would grant some of the de- mands of the A. F. of L. union since | | | | } then they could break the National | ‘Textile Workers’ Union and call off the strike. Holderman of the A. F. of L. union stated that what they wanted was that “the industry must be stabil- ized” and complained that the man- ufacturers were not better organized. Matthews, another faker from the A. F. of L., demanded the same im- provement of the manufacturers’ organization. The Paterson Evening News states that “the first step in the present situation, Matthews contended, was to creaté an organization of manu- facturers under some sort of bond that will make them live up to any agreement they may make with the workers.” A. F. L. Organizes Manufacturers. The A. F. of L. is not interested in organizing the workers into a militant union in order to fight for decent working conditions but to or- ganize the bosses so that they can sell out the workers more easily. This was recognized by James Wilson of the Chamber of Commerce who said at the close cf the meeting that, “The meeting had served to show that a genuine spirit of get-together was evident and that the situation was hopeful of 2 proper and peace- ful solution.” The “proper and peaceful solution” is the sell-out within one week that Holderman has promised the bosses. The workers on strike understand the role of the A. F. of L. unions. When the Associated, the United Textile and the Muste Conference for Progressive Labor Action called their “mass” meeting this morning at 9:30 only fifty workers were in the hall at 9:45, and the leaders had not arrived as yet. More Police Terror. The police have been given in- structions to increase the terror against the strikers. As part of this increased terror they gave two Ne~ gro workers the third degree lest night in the jail. These two Negro workers, William Goldstein and Col- umbus Vane, whe were not’ strikers but sympathizers, were arrested in retaliation for the beating which one of the cops got when he tried to break into @ picket line two days 2go. This morning. the two workers who are being defended by the In- ternational Labor Defense were re- ferred to the First Criminal Court and held on bail of $1,500 and $1,000. Young Workers Outing. Young workers of the United Front will hold a swim at Butcher's Pond, Garrett Mountain, Sunday, August 2. All young strikers ere in- vited. The young Textile Pioneers will give an entertainment to other youngsters in Union Hall, 205 Pat- erson St, at 11 a. m, Saturday, August Ist. A special mass meeting of women workers and strikers’ wives has been announced for Monday, August 3, at Turn Hall, 7 p.m. It is hoped that all classes of women will attend to hear the speakers and enjoy the mu- reli My etl ing to get pact scabs to run thelr: mines where miners went Yack under A little tent city is springing up in| mine, but hasn’t made much head-| fake agreements, and new mines clos- Coverdale, Pa., near the Pittsburgh | ‘Terminal Coal Co., mine No. 8. The tents were sent out from the Penn- sylvania-Ohio Striking Miners’ Relief Committee headquarters at 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Hundreds of other families are housed in barns| and garages and even stables, while larger members yet have “moved in” with other families. Today, Mrs. Fannie Liown, active in the women’s auxiliary of the Na- tional Miners Union, was thrown out of her house with her little children. “Do your best about getting a tent for us, but we're sticking anyway- Fine chance my man scabbing!” On the sides of the state highway running between the Atlasburg patch ‘and the Carnegie mine there, furni- ture from six company houses was strewn about this morning. Clothes were hurriedly thrown into blankets and knotted up. Even the dishes couldn't be washed before the dep- uties began throwing things out of the windows. The company is try- way. A committee from Wellsburg, W. Virginia waited in the relief head-| quarters in Pittsburgh all day today for the shipment of tents due here from New York City. Almost a hun~ dred eviction notices have come due here already. Van Voorhies, Pa. also has the) beginnings of a tent city. But over| night, open air colonies develop. It} isn’t usual to look out of your window and see a coal fire burning in a| stove parked right on the roadside and your neighbor’s children sleep- ing around the evicted furniture on the roadside. Then the eviction com- mittee jumps into action to find a roof for them before the rain starts again, or get a tent if nothing else is available. More tents are needed immediately to cope with this situation. Deputies are evicting one family after another now because they see the mass pick- eting growing stronger every day and real inroads are being made in those ing down. In Eastern Ohio, five mines were shut down Monday morn- ing. The eviction is one of the stan est weapos in the hands of the oper- ators, and they use it as much as they can to try to break the strike. Hunger and terror are the other strong weapons. The Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee is sending tents as rapidly as they can get them into the strike area. Also truckloads of food are dispatched to the strike sections as often as the relief’s re- sources allow. But more tents are needed badly, as well as food. And the relief com- mittee urges all friendly organiza~ tions to raise funds, procure tents and food, and send them to the New York City headquarters, at 799 Broadway, Room 330, so that the | miners will not be starved back to work. Tells of Robbery and Murder of Croppers; Demonstrate Today! BALTIMORE, a 31.—The vie] cious hypocrisy of the Alabama boss lynchers and the leaders of the N.A. ACP. in attempting to drag in the issue of Communism os a justifico- tion of the murderous lendowners’ terror against Negro croppers and their union at Camp Hill, Alabame, is thorough!y exposed by Meldon Saulsbury, @ reporter of the Afro- American, the story of whose per- sonal investigation of the Camp Hill terror appears in the July 25 issue of the Afro-American. Mr. Saulsbury’s article graphically exposes the horrible conditions un- der which the Negro croppers are forced to exist as a result of their robbery by the white landowners who resort to the most murderous terror to force the croppers to work their lands for little or nothing. Mr. ‘Sauls- bury who was mistaken for 4 preacher by both the white and col- ored people of Tilapoosa County in which the outrage against the Negro croppers occurred, gives the follow- ing report of his investigations iin {story in “Afro-Ameri- can Gives Lie to Ala. Bosses and NAACP “I met and talked with people from the top to the bottom. No one hes been encountered who has ever seen &2 Communist in this section, black or white. The Communist thing is all manufacture. There is no such person here nor has there been. Worker Tells of Boss Terror. “Here is the story told by a plain black woman who lives not far from the court house. She is far and awey the most intelligent individual I met here. “*You see, reverend,’ she said, ‘it is cotton chopping time and the buckra he no chop cotton. For the last two years they paid six bits the day for choppin’, that is, they prom~ ised but few of ’em paid in full any~ body who worked for them. ““This year they are offering fifty cents 2 day for men and forty cents EB SPSS OL esa nyo A day for women to “chop cotton and you must find your own grub. Gray Guarded His Family. “Ralph Gray, a hard-working black man, lived just down the road there. He owned the little shanty where he wes killed, and has been refusing to let his girls and wife go where he was not wanted. (Gray was murdered in his bed by landowners and police—Ed’ Daily Worker.) “In fact, since they been paying so poorly he has been going over the line in Georgia with his family and leaving the boy st home to care for the pigs end chickens and cows. Sheriff a Land Owner Boss. “‘Last Monday Sheriff Youn Ralph that he and his fam) wanted to chop cotton on his farm. You see the sheriff and the judge and all the men up town there in Dadeville is all farmers, but none of ‘em works on their farms. they gets the work down by ‘frauding the col- ored people out of their labor. They lock our men up on trumped up (OONTINUED ON PASS TWO) | States, through its foremost leader, RALLY 10 THE DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AS SOCIALISTS AID WAR Wage Cats Go Into Effect Today for Hundreds of Thou- sands of Workers Bosses Spend Billions for War But Give Not One Cen' for Relief Fight for Unemployment Relief! Today millions of workers throughout the world, beset by hunger, unemployment, smash- ing wage cuts in the capitalist lands, will-march under ‘the revolutionary banner of the Com- munist Parties in a mighty protest against the war preparations of the imperialist powers In New York the workers will rally in Union Square today at 1:30 p.m. Preliminary meetings are being held at special points, in- cluding Madison Square and 7th St. and Ave. A. The workers will then march to the central mass rally at Union Square. The socialist party in the United $100,000 from the czarist lend ownsrz Morris" Hillquit is helping, the cap!|'to appeal to the AM@MCED courts, end talists prepare for war against thé Soviet Union. Hillquit is obtaining | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) 2,000 Calif. Cannery Workers Out on Strike for Wage Raise SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.—San Jose workers went out on strike yes- terday morning. The California Packing Corporation No. 3 plant is completely shut down; in California Packing No. 4, part of the workers are out. Many more canneries are coming out. More than 2,000 are 7 striking. ie strikers are demanding 40 four and five miles from cannery to cannery pulling the workers ott. At California Packing No. 4, the bos- ses locked the workers in. Picksie fought the police, and are deter- mined to stop the bosses from trick~- ing the workers. A mass meeting of 3,000 workers was held at St. James's Park. Sixty- five per cent of the workers are centsan hour instead of 30; time and aehalf for overtime; equal pay for equal work; free transportation by canneries for womeh workers; no discrimination against active work- ers for the union; reistatement of all workers fired through union activity; recognition of the union. men, and 75 per cent are between the ages of 16 to 25. The capitalist. press is denouncing the strike as 2 “Communist strike,” and ts trying to get the workers to go back to work. Four workers were arrested on. the picket line. The strike is led by the Agricultural Cannery Workers In- dustrial Union. There are 6,000 workers involved in 16 canneries. ‘The strikers paraded through the streets of San Jose, walking between Mine Deputies Shoot Gas and Bullets At Pickets in Trucks Stopped By Barriers on Way to Harmarville Where Miners Threaten ‘Tie-up DENVEE, Col, July 31—In August the Rockefeller interests which own the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. will cut the wages of its coal minsrs 20 per cent. The C. MJ& L is the biggest coel company in Colorado and’ thousands of workers will be affected. On June 2 ‘the Rockefellers de- clared they were “against wage cuts” and now they prove it by slashing wages. Other mine companies have announced they will cut wages The Rockefellers declared they are prepared to call in the state militia te help them cut wages. This recalls the Ludlow massacre when Rockefeller called ah od wrath ren duathaibe uA aah igre gerne eon PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jay 31 —Three truckloads of pickets from New Kensington and one from Wildwood are approach- ing Harmarville this morning on inside information that the mine would be struck solid this morning. The first truck was ordered to halt by ten deputies a mile and a half from the mine, but ran pest. It was then@————————————____— ordered to halt by ten more three fate, but the pickets gethered around hundred yards nearer the mine, bi ran pest end was then halted by a barricade of cars across the road near Cheswick manned by twenty- five deputies and twelve state troop~ ers with Sheriff Cein seid to be personally in charge. ‘The truck tried to run through the| ‘The Vesta 6 picket line continually barricade, but wes halted by tet®tgsoys phot prety ag nee) gas and seven shots fired by depu-| shut down on’ Saturday. If it ties. The sixty pickets on the truck/ not, the will camp were forced off at the point of a At gun and searched, abused and driven down the road one way while the truck driver was driven up the road the other way. They were also gassed | is expected to shut down agein after dismounting the truck because they were singing. td s geet is BS Pes The other trucks met the seme i