The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1931, Page 1

| x “Vol. VIIL No. 187 LUX, a deadly contagious disease known to flourish in tropical countries where intense | hunger, overwork and rundown condition is suf- fered, is spreading in the coal fields of Ken- tucky. In one day six died of flux in Evarts. At least two dies every day. “Some of our most active me sick with the disease right nov rites Caro- line Drew from the stricken area. “Two almost died a couple of days ago. Most of the work- ers here live on nothing but some kind of grass— I don’t know what you call it, and green apples.” While the disease germ has not been isolated by doctors, who say that no exact cure is known, it is known that this infection of the intestines 4s contagious and that it can be avoided if nour- ishing food is eaten. rganizers are @ small beginning. = “Hunger Brings the Plague One soup kitchen is set up in Wallens Creek. Another must be opened immediately in Evarts. Then a third and a fourth must follow in quick succession if this plague is to be stopped. Many children were fed at Wallens Creek by Pennsylvanja-Ohio-W e s t Virginia~Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief Committee. The relief committee ex- Plains that all foods are divided between all the strike sections, and urges workers everywhere to send more funds than ever now so that the plague can be checked in Kentucky without starving out the other strike fields. should be sent to the central relief headquar- ters in Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh. “Every time I see the babies, it just makes me choke, and the But this is vation exi: conference Funds like hell against these conditions. is absolutely new in the struggle, as are the other women in Kentucky. “Get some Eagle brand milk and some Klim you know I have seen lots and I’ve been hardened,” Caroline Drew says in a letter sent to the relief headquarters in Pittsburgh. “One woman told me that she lost two chil- dren within the last eight months through star- vation. One was five months old and the other 13 years old. the strike came on, and that proves that star- ted before‘the strike. kitchen committee. You can see that one died before She is on the She -is a delegate to our and is determined to fight Of course she Aug. 2 milk here right away,” she continues. der now when I thik of the arms of one baby I took from her mother for a little whtie yes- I felt if I squeezed him hard, those little because the arms were so skinny and I felt that the arms and legs would bend because the bones were so soft, terday. arms would break, babies and children—to say other folks that are coming down must be fed! The mothers are too nurse the babies. much worse. sibly can. just got to manage, I know that there's a lot of tuberculosis in Pennsylvania and West Vir and I know how things are there, but this is Please send all the food you pos- Stretch things to the limit. We've got to stop this I shud- plague from s First the mach were used against the tle. The striking at Black Mountain and ammuhition away/frc You've izer's home. This terror ne guns and miners took Defense secre ginia, | other organizers w sedition. Another organize! mited, the deputies raided still can guard against and still spread their strike to the Kentucky Strike Fields; Rush Relier At Once! the battle is won The gunfire the miners are able to protect themselves from, but the onslaught of flux they need your help to fight off! t Miners’ Union al for solidarity rifle gh-powered in pitched ded themse y machine guns the soldiers, In the | a de man om. local here issued to workers every+ ‘These battles through there one union man and 12 | where Send all you can to the relief head- nothing of the deputies were killed. Over a hundred 2 | qu n Room 330, 799 Broadway, New York. with flux, | jail today as a result, and th e we needed help so badly! We're do- starved to | to come up soon. Then the Int | e work in spreading our strike. We're London owards Virginia and Tennessee. after 2 pulled our state. But don’t let this flux children must be saved! And wa Ss we win our strike against one of us will be swept a the m this plague! Pee Ger ABeur. WHo If on JauR) Central -Conm oe of the Communist ech j.aWorker . fruit Party U.S.A. WORKERS THE WORED, UNITE! Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 2 Ss NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931 CITY EDITION se 3 Cents 3 DEAD, SCORES HURT IN MASSACRE BY CHICAGO COPS e Protest the Chicage M. an | Rigs police of the Chicago bankers, pork packers and landlerds Monday * fired with riot guns on the unemployed workers of that city. Three Negro workers are murdered by the Chicago police! Many are wounded and dozens are thrown into jail! ‘The workers are learning from bitter experiences that the eviction and deliberate starvation of one “friendless” Negro worker is an insult and a blow at the whole: working class, black and white, and must be fesisted in the interest of all. ‘The solidarity of our class, as expressed in the Unemployed Coun- ceil of Chicago was expressed by the heroic defense of this Negro un- | Rose Warrick, by thousands of fol- | ‘The inspiration and leadership of employed working woman, Mrs. lowers of the Unemployed Council. the 10,000,000 unemployed workers in this country by the Communist. Party and our Party’s unqualified insistance upon the taking up of the cause of the Negro by the whole working class—our Party’s leadership in the struggle against starvation, the struggle for unemploy-nent insur- ance and against evictions—has inspired the Chicago workers to this heroic stand. At the cost of the blood of our class, the evictions of the unemployed, Negro and white, have already been stopped for the time being. ‘The cold-blooded massacre of Negro workers was not an accidental {ncident. This is not even the outcome of the general brutal attitude of the Chicago capitalist class police flunkeys towards the working class and the Negro people. This was a deliberate, planned murder. With hundreds of thousands o® workers out ‘of employment and literally starving, the wholesale eviction of these workers from their homes was undertaken by the authorities for the benefit of the parasitic landlords. As a matter of defense of the lives of their wives and children, the workers under the leadership of the Unemployed Council resisted these evictions. Masses of workers came to places where working class fam- ilies were evicted and carried the furniture back into the houses. It was human life against the dirty dollars of the landlords. A few days ago a group of landlords, especially those interested in the South Side segregated district where Negro workers are herded to- gether like cattle in lousy tenements and charged double the rent charged to whites, decided to call upon the city government to evict unemployed families and to use force and violence against all who objected. This meeting was held at a law office at 446 E. 47th St., Chicago. A repre- sentative of the National Avsociation for the Advancement of Colored People, Hénry W. Hammon, attorney for its Chicago branch, participated, and the decision was made to call upon the police “for a vigorous and organized prosecution of all those who participate in restoring the fur- niture of evicted tenants.” The N. A. A. C. P. lawyer and the others present declared their purpose of obtaining police action especiaily against those who defended tenants on the South Side of Chicago, the Negro section. It is therefore deliberately that Police Lieut. Hardy went at the head of a large force of uniformed thugs equipped with riot guns to the home of Rose Warrick for the purpose of shooting down the followers of the Unemployed Council who were in the act of returning Mrs. War- rick’s furniture to her flat. It was deliberately planned murder. The dirty dollars of the land- lords against the lives of the working class. It was deliberate murder planned by the city government of Chicago. It was deliberately planned and sponsored by Mayor Cermak and author- ized, and official instructions given to the uniformed gunmen whom the Chicago workers have learned to know as heartless watch-dogs of the capitalist lass. But even the cold-blooded murder on Chicago streets has not ttr- vorized the Chicago workers, Negro and white! The capitalist class thugs learned a lesson on Monday! They learned that the Negro workers of Chicago, and the white workers as well, standing solidly together are determined no longer to be helpless victims of the criminal class which rules and exploits them. Before the blood of the working class martyrs had dried upon the street, thousends of Negro and white workers made & mass demonstration in protest against the murder. Bigger struggles are ahead. Already the intimation is that the capi- talist government of Illinois will send troops to Chicago to shoot down the workers, to strengthen the reign of terror and to accomplish the break- ing up of the organizations of the working class which have dared to Sigh for their right to live. The finest courage and the finest cag ability of our class are now being tested in Chicago. The masses of Chicago must now gins out—Negro and white—by scores of thousands to express their protest against this massacre. ‘Whether the police murderers will now try to prohibit our class from burying its dead remains to be seen. But whether or not, the funeral ofsthe three martyred Negro workers must be the affair of the whole mass of hundreds of thousands of Chicago workers, Negro and white. ‘The funeral of our brothers must be a mighty fist of the working class in the face of the murdefous capitalist class which assassinated them. ; ‘We demand that criminal responsibility for the massacre be placed upon the Mayor and Chief of Police of the city of Chicago even before it is placed upon the uniformed gunmen who fired the shots. We demand the immediate release of the workers who have been thrown into jail by the police murderers. The working class must uphold its right to defend itself against the murderous attacks of the police. We demand that the evictions of Mga workers be stopped and not be resumed. ‘We demand full rights of Negro and white worker. to organize and hold meetings without police interference. We demand relief for the unemployed! capitalist starvation. We call for the solidarity of Negro and white workers! The white parasites who murdered three Negro workers on Monday would like nothing better than to start another race war by inciting degenerate elements of the white population into violent acts against Negroes. The whie workers must fight for the Negro workers’ rights! We ‘demand the removal of the uniformed thugs and dicks from the district. We call upon the white workers of Chicago and everywhere to come Social insurance’ against N.Y. Workers to Protest Police Terror Friday MINERS COME 0 RELIEF HEADQUARTERS, URGE AID —— Hold Spontaneous Meet In COMMUNIST PARTY CALLS Chicago Right Ajter Attack City Government Forced to Order Stop to Evic- tions “For the Present;” Plan Arrest FOR STRIKERS # AMILIES Deputies Attack Strikers On Way to Coverdale; and Harmarville Mines Husband Gets Head Battered, Wife Has Wrist Brooken By Cops; Their Children Need Food PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 4.—Deputies again attacked striking miners who were going to Goverdale and Harmarville to help the local miners picket these key mines Jacob Bosalach, togther with forty others from Bridgeville parked their truck and walked in a body to join the Coverdale line a hundred yards away when the @ - deputies ordered them to return. Bosalech, the most outspoken mili- tant was grabbed by the deputies and taken to the county jail at Pittsburgh. When released here, he saw a striker who had been arrested this morning at Harmarville and charged with reckless driving, with his head battered and an arm broken. His wife, a mother of six children, the youngest five months old, had her wrist broken by the police. They were beaten when police stopped them while driving towards the mine to join the pickets. The wife had been released. Her children and thousands of oth- ers need food. Today many com- mittees came to the Penn-Ohio Re- lief Headquarters asking for more relief for the families of the miners who have recently joined the strike. While making a strong effort to send more food into Kentcky in or- der to check the spread of starva- tion—disease, flux, {s taking a heavy toll. The committee urges workers to send immediate contributions so that the food supply for Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, and West Virginia fields need suffer no diminishing. Many camps are only receiving three meals weekly and this must immediately be raised to one meal a day. This is possible only if all workers co-operate and scrape every penny available. Send all contributions to Penn-Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 7199 Broadway, Room 330, New York. Now is the time to spread the strike and this can be done if relief is sent to the striking miners. MEET FOR MINE, TEXTILE RELIEF Perth Amboy Tag Days To Support Strikers NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 4—A mass meeting to rally support for the striking textile workers and miners will be held this Friday, August 7, in the Ukrainian Hall, 59 Beacon St. Textile and mine strikers will ad- dress the meeting. A musicale pro- gram has also been arranged. Perth Amboy Tag Day. On Saturday, August 7, there will be a tag day in Perth Amboy for the striking miners and textile work- ers, All workers who possibly can should come to Perth Amboy to par- ticipate in the tag day. Report to 308 Elm St. Rally to the support of the striking miners and textile work- 40,000 HAVANA WORKERS OUT IN GENERAL STRIKE Bloody Machado Set for More Terror Associated press dispatches from Havana, Cuba, declare that 40,000 workers walked out on a 24-hour gen- eral strike to support the strike of 2,500 street car men Who are fighting against wage slashes. The general strike started at midnight on Mon- day, and is scheduled at last at least until midnight on Tuesday. The Cuban National Labor Con- federation is leading the strike, and the strike was called under pressure of the militant workers within this organization. About 30 unions are taking part. * The strike of the streev car men on the Havana Electric Railway Company, a Wall Street owned util- ity, in which President Machado has heavy interests, is a struggle against actual starvation. In-an effort to break the strike Machado, through Dr. Zubizzareta, Secretary of the Interior, is massing the police and soldiers for a bloody attack against the strikers. The signal for the attack is shown in the announcement of obscure “bomb explosions” that have noth- ing to do with the strike, and whiclr just as likely were set off by Ma- chado’s agents as an excuse for slaughtering strikers. The Havana Electric Railway Company attempted to run the cars with scabs, but thus far the workers have prevented them. Protest Scottsboro and Camp Hill Attacks on August 22 NEW YORK.—Continuing their bloody terror against the Negro masses, the bosses staged another lynching on Tuesday. This time it was in the state of Louisiana, 35 miles from the city of New Orleans, A mob of business men and plan- ters simply entered the jail at Pointe- a-la-Hache and took their victim out. Of course, the jailers and the sheriff cannot identify the mem- bers of the mob, At about the same time this was occurring, the police and capitalist of Militant Leaders NEW YORK.—On Friday night in all parts of New York City and Dis- trict, demonstrations will be held by the Communist Party in cooperation with the Unemployed Council and League of Struggle for Negro Rights, to protest against the murder of the three Negro workers by the police of Chicago. This is regular Tammany police methods. The workers of New York remember the police murders of Gonzales and Levy, and earlier of Katovis. The attack on the unem- ployed workers and those whose wages are so low that they cannot pay rent, is becoming so outspoken that the workers all over the coun- try are being aroused. he bos ae CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—Immediately after the massacre of Negro workers by police 5,000 white and Negro workers held a huge protest demon- stration in Washington Park. This demonstration was a spon- taneous reaction against the police terror and the police did not dare to molest the demonstrators. After a conference of police heads and Negro reformist traitors with Mayor Cermak, the police declared that such meetings are dangerous! and are to be suppressed. ‘The conference also decided to take action against the unemployed | and workers generally, in view of the | intense anger of the working class as a result of Tuesday's massacre. | The city decided to stop evictions, “for the present.” This is an at- tempt to pacify the masses and ex- poses the lies of the police that they are not responsible for the massacre. Later announcements from the City Hall indicate that local police and United States authorities will | attempt to arrest all white and Ne- gro Communist leaders in Chicago, | in an effort to deprive the masses of | militant leadership. ‘Twenty-one | workers have already been valtiayael| and are being held for trial in an} attempt to frame-up defenseless and | | innocent workers, in order to justify the massacre. The coroner’s inquest | will take place tomorrow morning. | Arrangements have been made by the Communist Party to make the| funeral of the murdered workers a huge mass demonstration against the | police terror. | N.T.W.U. Prepares to Strike Every Dye Shop In Paterson Workers Slave 12 to 14 Hours Daily Amidst Poison and Heat PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 4—While the ranks of the silk workers striking under the leadership of the National Textile Workers and the United Front General Strike Committee are holding solid, the walkout of 200 dyers and dye workers of the Colt Dye Shop, a branch of the Associ- ated Piece Dye Works, is a signifi- cant beginning, together with the strike of part of the Weidman night shift of the catnpaign launched by the National Textile Workers to fie up the dye shops. This concentration of striking ev- ery dye shop in the city by the mass Picketing of Weidman’s and the strike at the Colt will, within one week's time, it was announced with confidence by the National Textile Workers Union, result in a general movement among the dye workers. Organization of the forces of the National Textile Workers Union in International Red Aid! Calls For World Wide Demonstrations J., were busy whipping up lynching sentiment against Negro workers on the pretense that a white “girl had been held up and robbed by a Negro. In Chicago, on the same day, po- lice armed with machine guns staged @ massacre of unemployed colored and white workers who were gemon- strating against the eviction of an the dye plants is being perfected now for a general concentrated attack on this strategic point of the textile in- dustry. To Concentrate on Dye Plants, A very spirited general mass meet- ing of the United Front General Strike Committee was held today. The National Textile Workers strik- ers renewed their determination to concentrate on the dye plants where the terrible exploitation of the work- ers, the 12 and 14 hour shift in ter- rible heat with the poison ges eat- ing into the very bones of the work- ers, without any sanitary or health protection facilities, with the crush- ing speed up and miserable pay, makes the situation ripe for mili- tant strike action, A special committee of the United Front General Strike Committee is ap (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) workers were killed and _ scores wounded when the police fired a volley point blank into the workers. In the meantime, the Alabama bosses are still continuing their mur- derous attempts to legally ®nch the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys and to frame up 34 militant Negro croppers of Tallapoosa County, Ala- bama. These victims of capitalist justice are being defended by the In- ternational Labor Defense, which supported by the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights and the Com- 884 Leoni, N:\ unemployed, Negro worker, Thppe) .. ¢cqyTINURD ON PAGE TWO) _ FOR MASS PROTEST AT FUNERAL OF 3 VICTIMS Police Fired Volley Into Negro, White Workers Protesting Eviction of Unemployed Negro Woman; 3 Cons Hurt As Workers Defend Themselves \Entire Working Class of Chicago Roused by Murderous Police Attack on Negro Warkers—Police Plan More Repressive Measures BULLETIN. CHICAGO, August 4—N. A. A. C. P. leaders and Negro and white landlords and real estate agents are directly responsible for the police massacre of Negro workers here on Tuesday. In a meeting Friday night, July 24, at the office of Hobbs and Grubb, 446 E. 47th Street, these traitors called upon the police to use drastic measures against the white and Negro workers who resist the evictions of unemployed workers, During the previous week several unemployed colored families had been returned to their homes by the Unemployed Councils after they had been evicted. The Chicago Whip, reporting the meeting, says, “The police were condemned for their failure to thwart the efforts of the radica! groups which have been restoring evicted families in the district.” The Whip also reports the following as present at the meeting which conspired for a bloody police terror against the workers: At- torney Henry W. Hammond, attorney for the Chicago branch of the NAACP, Attorney Nathan K. McGill, general manager of the Chicago Defender, Assistant State Attorneys Taylor and Lovelace. Among the real estate interests represented were the firm of De Priest and De Priest, H. F. ee Coleman, Dean and Draper and Kramer. . . CHICAGO, August 4. —Three workers were killed and many “white and Negro workers wounced Tuesday afternoon when police open- ed a murderous point blank fire into a crowd of several hundred workers demonstrating against the eviction of Rose Warrick, an unemployed Negro woman. The workers, who were assembled in front of 5016 S Dearborn St., heroically defended themselves with the result that several policemen were badly beaten up. The wounded ff REESE a RGAE EINE BN OPEL : workers were taken into their homes SILK STRIKER L. D. To Protest Cops’ Brutality PAERSON, N. J., Augu. 4.—The Uenmployed Council of Paterson prevented the eviction last Friday of a striker’s family. The sherrif with one cop had already removed the household effects to the street when J. Gardner and Miller of the Un- employed Council arrived and rallied the neighbors in the vicinity of 141 Godwin Ave. Protests of the aroused neighborhood and threats of 14 ten- ants to pay no more rent during the strike caused the landlord to change his attitude and the furniture was replaced. To protest against the present po- lice brutality against strikers in Pat- erson the International Labor De- fense will hold a mass meeting in Turn Hall, Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 8 p.m. Secretary of the LL.D., J. Louis Engdahl, will address the meeting. Workers of the Berne Silk Mills, Inc., 427 E. 19th St. are called to meet at Section 5 headquarters of the National Textile Workers Union, 18th St. and 9th Ave., Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 2 pm. Of the three murdered workers, Gray was a Communist and John O'Neil a member of the Unemployed \Ccuncil. The name of the third worker is not known. L. The massacre of the workers was under the direct supervision of Lieu- tenant. Hardy, who rushed to the scene of the demonstration with ad- ditional forces and riaot guns and led the police in an open volley of shots directly into the mass of work- ers assembled in front of the building. ‘This massacre of defenseless un- employed colored and white workers protesting the boss poilcy of throwing the families and furniture of unem- ployed workers into the streets has roused the whole working class of Chicago and especially th e Negro masses, The whole police force of Chicago South Side in an attempt to terror- ize the neighborhood. Already, ac- cording to reports, about 30 workers have been arrested and thrown into jail, The massacre of defenseless work- ers in the streets of Chicago was preceded by a reign of terror on the part of the police against the work- ers in different parts of the city. This reign of terror was aimed at. smashing the fight against evictions. “hy, inc, tine tnig: Abia ge hata Acting Police Commissioner John H. sodswericsr® hike basin’ GdleA tue at Alcock threatened the workers with { He