The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1931, Page 1

‘ . ‘ vin B) Se peens, * in Our Fignt Against riunge eads mer s l or va Z : i nearad {ets right to take into the mine. | mines get together and alto-|had plenty practice how to “My mister says we might | our strike. If the Commu- |low dogs on your neck and the|help, so if you'll stick with us A miner’s wife writ That’s why we're striking. j gether picket one mine, then|stretch a little a long way, but| just as well jump in the Al- | nists that read this all get | kids erying and hungr. Of|and send what you can to help “My father, grandfather iisgot me apesial a fi .|the next after that onc is pulled| we need more food. legheny River if we don’t win.| to helping with relief, you'll | 4.) .c, most of us would fight|in our big fight now, send % and now my mister and two mee bie SROCIe: reason 10r') solid, and so on $o the next. It| “With more relief we could|It would mean a killing hunger| run us to victory. and die before going scabbi Se Ponhes Ohi West boys are all mine My sending this: to the Daily | sure looks like business. 1 go|jhave everything hereabouts|to go back. But we’re not say-| ‘I'm writing to you to help| sven if there is not a biteof y . une bya oe a grandfather don’t work any | ‘Y° rker to write it oe the | on the picket line all the time}out solid and not a load of coal|ing we won't win. We’re aim-jus win our Bipieeand sit Weliice: ‘Bikuany aint like that irginia-Kentucky Striking more, but all the t were | Paper, because it’s the Commu-| and cook tn the relief kitchen.|coming to the tipple, and win|ing to not stop fighting until/have more relief it’s easy to|\ay, they got sick ones and Miners’ Relief Committee. Tts working until the strike and ee that PRUE The other | you see we also got the job of|sure. I thought maybe if 1) we do. Thats why we need|get the mines shut down. It’s|jots of kids or something address is 799 dway, New together they didn’t earn|P@pers write lies about OUr|feeding our own and them|wrote and told how it is with |help so bad. just knowing that the minute| : York City, word the enough so I could feed the fam- strike. |that’s coming out, too. Wejus, you’d print it and more “The bosses’ papers say |the strike begins in another} “We're going to win this| speaker says is Solidarity, ily decent and fix dinner buck- ‘Now we're having lots of|stretch the vitles. and we’ve|would know to help us to win.| the Communists are running | mine, it’s evicting, and the yel- | strike And I’m writing for| That’s what we want.” é OF THE WORLD, ae, ist D U.S.A pias Down and we en’ I un arty je awe ° ort hal @ . (Sectidn of the Communist International) is == —— ———— == = —= SS == =—==5 Vol. VIL, No. 185 Entered asx second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Ce MASS PROTESTS DEMAND WAR FUNDS F the People” Says Was A Communist Before But Is A’ Better Communist Now, Noted Writer Says : Put the Communist Party 3 on the Ballot RKERS who have been waging a struggle against the starvation and war program of the bosses, will haye an opportunity to strike a blow against their tormentors in the course of the election campaign in the next few months, In scores of cities and counties in all parts of the country, the poli- tical tools of the bankers, manufacturers and public utility corporations in whose interest the hunger program is being put into effect, will appear before the workers to secure support for their program of mass starvation. Politicians of the capitalist parties, who have ordered their hired thugs to club, ride down, shoot and gas the unemployed workers and strikers, will suddenly manifest great interest in the “welfare” of these very work- | ers. Election time is coming. Every known form of trickery will be re- sorted to in order to confuse the workers with demagogy, with fake issues, and lying promises. The republican, "democratic and socialist will not only use the election campaign as a means of retaining imme- diate control of the machinery of government, but also to poison the minds of the masses with anti-working class propaganda. The discontent of millions of workers who will be entering the third winter of destitution at the very moment when the elections take place, can and must find expression in the elections. The hundreds of thou- sands of workers who have demonstrated before city halls, county court houses and state capitols for unemployment relief and social insurance, maust be afforded the opportunity to utilize the election campaign as a further means of demonstrating determination to fight for and secure such relief and social insurance. must not be left with only an opportunity to choose from one or another group of strikebreakers when they go to the polls. ‘The election campaign this year must be made the means of further consolidating the forces of fhe employéd” and unemployed, the Negro and white, the native and foreign-born workers and poor farmers for the struggle against capitalism, the program of mass misery, war, and terror and all agents and representatives of this program. Regardless of the labels and phrases that may be used in order to conceal the anti- ‘Wétking class character of the capitalist parties and candidates, the workers must be aided in recognizing these as deadly enemies against | whom remorseless struggle must be waged on every front. The revolutionary workers, members of the Communist Party and of all other organizations that are based on the class strugglé} have the imperative duty to bring before the workers in every community where elections take place the only program and candidates that represent the interests and needs of the toiling masses. Only the Communist Party, which leads the daily struggle of the workers for unemployment relief and insurance, against wage cuts and speed-up and against the imperialist war plans of the ruling’ class, can represent the workers,in the elections. Only by voting for the program and candidates of the Communist Party can the workers advance through the elections the aims for which they must fight in strikes and demon- party political racketeers | The miners, textile and other strikers, | e THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE “IN UNION SQUARE IN MASS ANTI-WAR MEET WORKERS PLEDGE TO DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION AGAINST ARMED ATTACK OF IMPERIALISTS NEW YORK.—Fifteen +” | | | | , workers demonstrated for three hours Saturday after-| ‘noon, August First, in Union Square against | | imperialist war preparations and the war of | terror now raging in the United States against | the working class. A unanimous vote to defend the first workers’ republic, the Soviet Union, against the intervention plans of the imperialist bosses was passed by acclamation, the huge crowd thundering a roar of approval for a resolution | calling for the defense of the Soviet Union. t if * ‘The demonstration was marked (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Aug. 2—Bernard Shaw, the world famous writer on his re~ turn from Moscow, stated to Polish foreign journalists that he was de- lighted with the Soviet Union and that he was a Communist before but after his stay in the USSR he be- came a@ still better Communist. So- viet Russia is the greatest actual fact, Shaw said. The Five-Year Plan will be absolutely realized if even belated but this is not important at all in view of the colossal schemes. In answer to a question of an American journalist on forced labor, Shaw said labor was nonsense. “There's no forced labor in Soviet Russia,” he replied. “There's forced labor only in that talk about forced | vie | the Western countries where workers give up the product of their labor to others, while in the Soviet Union the workers personally use the prod- uct of their labor. The greatest suc- | cessful experiment is being carried out in the USSR, I mean collectivi- zation which turned a chessboard |consisting of small private impover- ished households into an enormous | complete area and it is bringing colossal results. The USSR went even further. The class of backward peasants is disappearing, giving room to the organized labor collective, The Soviet government is the only gov- | ernment working in the name of an ideal chosen by the nation and the | nation works for its country, while | Western rulers chiefly work for fill- ) ing up their own pockéts.” strations. The task of placing the candidates of the Communist Party on the ballot, despite every obstacle which the ruling class has set up in order to prevent this, must be regarded as one of the most important tasks confronting every revolutionary worker, (whether a member of the Com- munist Party or not) at this moment. This must become an integral part of every struggle and every activity in which we engage at present. It must be followed by an intensive campaign which results in the elec- tion of workers’ representatives and the strengthening of the forces of the working class during and after the election campaign. It’s time that we vote as we fight—class against class! Striking Miners Protest War Danger in 16 Meets; Steel Workers Take Part Solidarity of Negro and White Workers In Anti-War *. Fight Shown In Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH Aug. 1.—Pittsburgh, cen- Wal headquarters of the coal strike, saw 2,550 workers gather in West Park to add their voices to the protest against war. Here the demonstration was called by the Communist Party with the National Miners’ Union, Metal Workers’ In- dustrial League, the International Labor Defense and the Un- employed Councils participating. The coal miners did not come into Pittsburgh, sixteen demonstrations being held throughout the strike area. The demonstration gave a strong promise ¢é-—— of solidarity with the strikers. struggle for the workers you will “We are proud to say that, the FSiapony aaa any Lg Se Sod Communist Party has supported Dan Lane, striking Negro coal this strike in the coal fields.” Carl miner of Cedar Grove, was chair- Price, district organizer of the Com- munist Party, said. “Any party that. doesn’t support the strike and throw all of its forces into the struggle to help win it, is not a workers’ party.” “Many of the leading organizers cre Communists. Members of our Party are active on the picket lines, in organizational work and are in the jails,’ he continued. “If we have a steel strike here, it will be the Communist Party that will again play a leading part in heiping the workers win their struggle. In every man, Tom Myerscough, secretary of the United Front Miners’ Movement, was given a big ovation, Myerscough is out on heavy bond and charged with “manslaughter” in connection wi the murder of a striking miner at Wildwood by a deputy sheriff. Cheer Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union was men- tioned, tremendous applause broke loose and one worker shouted out” “Three cheers for the Soviets,” and the hurrahs rang through the park (CONTINUED OF PAGE THREE) Lo a ke “COCTALIST” COPS | with the utmost, militancy and en- thusiasm and with many colorfut banners and slogans. Some of the INGERMANYSHOOT WORKERS AUG. i Demonstration Against ‘War World-Wide Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Aug. 2.—Anti-war dem- onstrations were held yesterday, noon and evening, despite the “so- cialist” police chief's prohibition. A large number of armed police were concentrated at all likely meeting places. Police in tenders patrolled the streets continuously. The first Serious collision occurred at Frank- furter Allee where a big demonstra- tion was being held. When the po- lice met with resistance, they drew revolvers and fired. Two workers were wounded and one policeman shot through the back, obviously by one of his own companions, as the workers were in front of the police during the entire occurrence. The police then retired to await rein- forcements. A huge force of police later cleared the streets, batoning brutally, chasing the workers like rabbits even into houses. Big dem- onstrations were also held in Moabit, Wedding, Neukoellen and Alexander Platz where the windows of the po- lice presidium were broken. A surprise demonstration of one thousand workers was held within the banned mile at the corner of Friedrich and Leipziger Sts. Later the wounded policeman and worker both died in the hospital. The Nurembeg police occupied the Party offices hoping to prevent demonstrations. However many oc- curred, with much batoning . and much literature distributed. A big demonstration was held in Leipzig despite the police batoning. Several arrests were made, The Halle demonstration was at- tacked. The police fired, wounding several. The police were also in- jured. Illegal demonstrations were held in Hamburg and the police fired wounding two workers, also a ten year old boy and old lady. Demonstrations were held in all big towns throughout Germany. To- day’s Rote Fahne has been confis- cated, the reason being unknown, aoe e PRAGUE, Aug. 2—Demonstrations and meetings were held throughout Czechoslovakia, despite their prohi- bition and occurred in all industrial towns. The mass meeting at Bru- enn was dispersed by police batoning and nine workers were arrested. A large demonstration was held at Si- lesia. b BUCHAREST, Aug. 2.—The police attacked all demonstrations@yester- day making 1500 arrests, | Camp Hill Frame-Ups”; slogans read: “Fight the Destruction | of the Workers’ Fatherland”; “All Wer Funds for the Unemployed”; ; “We Fight for Bread and Against Armaments”; “Smash Hoover's War Plot Against the Soviet Union”; “Fight Against Discrimination Against Negroes”; “Save the Scotts- boro Boys”; “Smash the Scottsboro- “Death to Lynchers”; “Smash Doak’s Deporta- tion Terror”; “Help the Striking Miners”; “Smash Stagger-Wage Cut System”; “Down With Wall Street Terror in China”; “Free Haiti and the Philippines.” One particularly graphic poster depicted the news item of a few days ago of a starving woman found eating grass in Central Park, and carried the legend: “Hoover's Pros- perity—Starving Woman Found Eat- ing Grass in Park.” Another de- picted a representative of the church with the slogan, “I am for god, for capitalism and for sale.” Numerous rank and file speakers and district leaders addressed the huge crowd. They spoke from a large main platform which had been specially erected for the occasion. A loud speaker magnified their voices. Its effectiveness was marred to some extent, however, by several factors, one of these being the massing of the banners and placards directly in front of the loud speaker. Pete Slomsky, a miner from West- ern Pennsylvania told about the her- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) “Wages Must Be Cut Quick” Says Hoover Sheet in N.Y.C.) Owen D. Young, American Woolen Head, and Armour and Co. President for Wage Slashing to Keep Up Profits NEW YORK.—“Wages will have to come down,” cries the Hoover-supporting New York Evening Post, and, what is more, they will have to come down quickly. This paper, whose edi- torial policy coincides with the wishes a “We a per cent cut for the miners in A report just issued by the De- partment of Labor in Washington |says that payrolls in manufacturing industries dropped 25.7 per cent since last June. An indiction of what the workers have to face is given by a report of the famous German capitalist, Dr. Herbert Mayer, who said that the present world economic crisis would last until 1940. Dr. Meyer also said that wages are dropping twice as fast as prices, loading heavier and heavier burdens onthe back of the working-class. That new wage cuts may be ex- pected in all of the leading indus- Washington and Wall Strect administration, says: know that wages will have to come down... . The only fly in the ointment is that reduction may be too slow.” However, Rockefeller responded the next day with a 20 Colorado. > —-- tries is shown by a survey of leading capitalists made by the World- Telegram. * This paper tried to get them to come out against wage cuts. How- ever, Owen D. Young, chairman of the General Electric Co. board, re- fused to say anything about it. He is for wage cuts and would not make a statement against them. 'T. G. Lee, president of Armour & Co., stated that cutting wages isthe exclusive business of each company. L. J. Nash, president of the Am- erican Woolen Co., said: “Have no (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Protest Negro Persecution in World-Wide De NEW YORK.—Defense of the Ne- gro masses and unconditional release of the Scottsboro-Oamp Hill victims of the Alabama bosses was a major demand at all August First anti-im- perialist war demonstrations through- out the world. Demonstrating their hostility to the capitalist starvation system, to imperialist war prepara- tions, to the bosses’ intervention plots against the Soviet Union, millions of workers in the capitalist and colonial countries, and in the Soviet Union, peldged their militant solidarity with the oppressed Negro masses in the fight against American ruling class terror and Jim Crow capitalism. While a number of demonstrations against the Scottsboro boss court lyneh verdict had occurred previous- ly in various European countries, Au- gust First saw the international work- ing-class for the first time taking the streets jointly with the American workers to protest the leval lynching of the eight innocent Scottsboro boys and the murder and frame up of | World’s Workers Hit Scottsboro-Camp Hill Terror Negro croppers at Camp Hill, Alaba~ ma. It was the first day of interna- tional protest against this outrage against the Negro people. It was the third instance of nation-wide pro~ tests in the United States. In the mass fight to free the Scotts- boro-Camp Hill victims of Alabama boss justice there can be no let-up, no period of trustful waiting on the class justice of the Alabama Supreme Court or any other boss court. It was the bosses courts which in the first place framed up the nine inno- cent Scottsboro boys and railroaded them to the electric chair in a farc- ical trial in early April. It is the bosses courts that are now busily helping the Tallapoosa County, Ala- bama, landowners in their efforts to monstrations * framing up the most militant of its members. The fight to free these victims of Jim Crow capitalism must be waged relentlessly. To permit that fight to die down for a moment would be to play into the hands of the Ala~ bama boss lynchers and their tools the misleaders of the N. A. A. C. P. Again on August 22, the workers of the whole world are called to mob- ilize for gigantic, demonstrations on the fourth anniversary of the state murder of Nicola Sacco and Barto- lemo Vanzetti, not only in commemo- ration of the martyrdom of these two Italian workers at Boston, Massachu- setts, but in protest against the death sentences imposed on the eight Negro boys at Scottsboro, Alabama, against the murder and frame-up of Negro croppers at Camp Hill, Alabama, and for the liberation of all class war prisoners, This world protest 1s being or- ganized by the International Red Aid, of which the International Labor De- smash the Share Croppers Union by > OR JOBL HUGE ANTLWAR MEETS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY: FOR DEFENSE OF USSR ‘Cops In Some Cities Shag Women and Childven; Many Jailed; Strikers at Protests Many Negro Workers Take Part In Pledge Agamst Rallying against imperialist war. presfara- tions, thousands upon thousands: of workers throughout the United States in scores of dem- onstrations from coast to coast, in the North {and South, massed under the leadership of the Communist Party on August Ist, demanding the war funds spent vy. the government be turned over to the millions of ufemployed for relief, and pledg- ing their support for the defen, The demonstrations took cuts and ‘loss of jobs were the nificant feature of the demons large number of Negro workers at-@—————— tending. \ Beaten, Jailed j In Boston, Los Angeles, and other centers, the police made vicious a tacks eagainst the demonstratio! beating down men, women and c 1,500 Cannery Many Workers Resist se of the Soviet Union. place on the day when wage lot of many workers. A sig- trations in every city was the dren. Dozens of arrests were made In Los Angeles, the arrested workers were beaten in jail. The workers pledged themselves to rally their fellow workers in a mili- (CONTINUED ON PAGE HREE? Police Attack at San Jose, Cal. Pickets Stop Seabs; Police, Legion and Depu- fense, which is defending the Scotts- | The fire department was called out ties Organize (Special to the Daily Worker) | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 2—} The second day of the cannery work- | ers’ strike increased the strikers’ | militazcy here Friday. Bosses are trying to import scabs for the Cali- fornia Packing Cannery No. 4. Strikers stopped the scabs. The | bosses are sending out busses under protection of deputy sheriffs to get | workers at home, bringing them to} the canneries and keeping them | locked up and taking them back} home under protection of the chief | of police of San Jose who claims | that 175 deputies were sworn in, The American Legion have been lined up; all police are on duty and the fire department is used for traffic now. At the California Packing Cannery No. 4 a tear bomb was used in the morning, when the police tried to ar- rest a speaker and pickets. The fire department was called and the fire hose used against the strikers. The Richmond Chase Cannery was surrounded by police and deputy sheriffs and imported thugs in spite of which only four canning tables operated instead of eleven yesterday. A mass meeting of two thousand strikers was held at St. James Park. Noral spoke, and came back after police pulled him down. The strikers decided to go to city jail and e-| mand the release of arrested pickets. Police and deputy sheriffs used tear bombs to stop the strikers from marching on to city hall. The speaker leading the strikers to city hall got hit in the face with a tear bomb and was taken unconscious: to the hospital: In spite of that the strikers marched from all over to city hall demanding the release of the pickets. The police barricaded themselves at police station. Deputy sheriffs and police outside used tear bombs and blackjacks, while the workers de- fended themselves with brickbats. Fifteen hundred strikers stayed at city jail for one hour and a half. Terror Reign The strikers retreated marehed forward again guns and shot in the air. and then Police drev ‘10,000 TEXTILE WORKERS RALLY IN PATERSON PATERSON, N. J., August 2.— About 5,000 workers took part in the anti-war demonstration at the city hall here yesterday. Five thousand additional workers packed the streets, swelling the total to. 10,000 who participated in the demonstra- tion. The streets bordering on the city hall were packed with workers who waited for the meeting to be- gin. More than 300 textile strikers marched from the union hall to the point of demonstration, led by the union band, ‘The police, who have been carry- ing out orders to arrest strikers on the picket lines, also tried to break up the anti-war demonstration through provocations, but although they prevented from reaching the city hall, they failed to disrupt the meeting. Lena Chernenko and Fred Bieden- kapp, who are leading the militant Paterson silk strike, addressed the workers, This demonstration was the biggests-held here since March 6, 1930, Oon Monday, August 3, at 7:30 P.m., & mass meetirig of all women workers and wives. of workers will be held at Turn Hall. Prominent speakers will speak on the conditions of the women in the silk industry and the present strike situation, A very interesting program is arranged: Freiheit Singing Socie- ty, A. T. Williams, Negro singer, N.T W.U. Band, mass singing and other boro-Camp Hill victims, is a section. |and the hose turned on the strikers. numbers, 4