The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1931, Page 1

\ (“'T KAow Your WAG ae aie abe? SUFFERED To, = WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ~ (Section of the Communist International) p= Se SESEANS™ Vol. VIE, No. 188 at New York, N. Younder the ect of March 3, 1570 <E>o# NEW YORK. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ts | PROTEST FRIDAY AT MASSACRE OF CHICAGO WORKERS Miners rs from m Three St States Meet Despite Terror Solidarity of Black and White in the Chicago Fight Against Starvation FIER the slaughter of last Monday, the Chicago workers, under the “* Unemployed Council, continue as courageously as ever the struggle against starvation—the struggle for unemployed religf and against evic- tions. Demonstrations on the streets and in the public parks of the city continue unabated. 50,000 leaflets distributed Tuesday and Wednesday in the working class and Negro sections of the city by the Communist Party district committee have spread 2 further call to action. The Com- munist Party leadership and inspiration of the struggle is unquestioned by friend and foe alike. Meantime the South Side of Chicago is garrisoned in military fashion by 1,500 police with riot guns and tear-gas bombs. The uniformed watch- dogs of the bankers, steel kings, pork packers and landlords are guarding thé Chicago stockyards in the fear that the hundreds of thousands of starving workers may be tempted to raid the enormous stocks of un- marketable food What are the tactics of the capitalist government and police in this hig struggle against the masses of Chicago workers? Their object is to break up the organization of the movement, to isolate the active and conscious leadership of the masses and then to crush all with even more unrestrained terror. They aim to break up the Unemployed Councils, to smash the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and to proceed then to the wholesale throwing of families of Negro and white unemployed work~ ers into the streets, filling the jails with those who protest and driving thousands out of the city. They know that in every struggle of the work- ing class today, in every struggle of the Negro masses today, there can be only one Isader—-the Communist Party. Knowing that only the Com- munist Party can be the guiding force of any effective resistance to their eviction and starvation.prograth, the plan is to iry to isolate the Com- ‘ Party and to paralyze it by means of autocratic police raids and arrests, and then to proceed unrestrained with the eviction and starva- tion program. How does capitalist government expect to accomplish this? The police tactics are to use every device to drive a wedge of separa- tion between the Negro and white mzsses. Everything that can Wp devised by the foul underworld of the police stool-pigeondom, white gangsters and Negro renegades interested in the jim crow rents of the segregated dis- trict, is to be used to bring this about. Mayor Cermak, under whose orders the massacre of Monday was carried out, telephoned by long dis- tance from his summer home to what are called the “Negro leaders’— the small business parasites who feed from the trough of the white master class and who live directly upon the segregation and double rents of the Negro masses—to give these Negro renegades the white ruling class orders on how to disrupt and defeat the movement against eviction. Around the jim crow real estate gang is centered a large part of the tactical plans of those who murdered three Negro workers Monday, As we have already pointed out, onjy last Friday the Mid-South Property Owners’ Association, formed of many real estate firms interested in segregation and double rents for Negroes, including Henry W. Hammon, attorney for the Chicago branch of the NAACP, also the manager of the Chicago Defender, two assistant state’s attorneys, and others laid’ the plans for the massacre of Monday. The massacre thes included the murder of the three Negro workers was the first step in carrying out the plan of the capitalist city government. As the next step the police courts were to proceed to give heavy prison terms to those workers, Negro and white, who interfered with the profits of the cockroach real estate owners by moving the furniture of evicted workers back into their homes. As the NAACP real estate gang expresses it, the courts were to give heavy prisan terms to such workers as “house-breakers” and “for contempt of court.” This second step has becn interfered with and held up by the un- expected heroism of the Negro workers who did not quail before the po- lice terror. Workers must not and will not hesitate now to make still more solid this temporary victory in postponing the eviction program. To defeat the tactics of the jimcrow capitalist bosses more masses must be brought out! Better organization work must be done! The whole movement must be raised to a higher and firmer plane of organization; scattered forces and careless organization cannot win this fight. Above all, the next tactical objective of the enemy—the separation of the Negro and white masses on the color line—must be defeated! The unity of the Negro and white workers must be maintained at any cost. The mass funeral of our martyred dead brothers must be made the finest expression of this unity and determination of the Negro and white workers to win our struggle together. HEROIC FIGHTERS ON MINE FRONT MUST HAVE RELIEF TO CARRY ON STRUGGLE Deaths from Flux Average Two A Day As Acute Starva- tion Rages In Strike Area Adopt Scale of Demands and Plan New Conference to Spread WALLINS CREEK, Ky., Aug. 5.—With sentries outside and around the hills to give notice of the attack, with a group of seventy gunmen armed with machine guns, rifles, auto- matics, and clothed in shiy' trating across the creek for’ the attack, with four-fifths of Strike > of jail, eoncen- in Chicago, who took part in dignation at this deliberate oloyed family. night! All Out Against Murder of Unemployed Negro Workers NEW YORK.—On Friday night in all parts of the city and district mass protest demonstrations will take place against the vicious murder of three Negre workers tion of an unemployed Negro woman. workers will rally in tens of thousands to express their in- workers who protesied against the eviction of an unem- Every worker should rally his shop mate | and every unemployed worker he can get in touch with to take part in these demonstrations. The demonstrations which are under the leadership of the Communist Party, will be participated in by the Unemployed Councils and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. an effort to prevent the evie The New York slaughtering of their fellow All out Friday NTWU Picket Lines Bring 6 | | | | 6,000 NEGRO AND WAITE. WORKERS IN SECOND HUGE PROTEST AT MASSACRE | Negro Masses Solidly Behind Cintainaiit Fight Agatnall CHICAGO, murdered workers, of Chicago. throughout the district. Evictions and for Unemployment Relief eaflets Issued: Scores of Meciings Called ce Riot Propaganda of the Capitalist Prees | BULLETIN. .—The mass funeral for the working clacs victios of Monday’s massacre by the police wil! probably take place this Friday. Arrangements have already been made with the families of two of ths A wave of mass indignation is sweeping the working class Aistriete Meetings of white and Negre workers are hetng held Protest demonstrations are also being arranged all over the country. the delegates absent because gunmen in cars equipped with machine guns had intercepted them on the way—miners from three states held a district conference of the National Miners PREPARE TO KELL | t= owe tire «anus ou JOBLESS, GREEN ‘They adopted a scale a 200 Dye Workers into Strike! Associated, A. F. L. Union Will Start Sell-Out | With Todays Settlement Proposal PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 5.—The silk strike has spread among the dyers. A good preparation brought the workers at Streng Dye Shop, employing about 200 workers, out this morning, in response to the picket lines of the National Textile Workers’ Union and United Front General Strike Committee. White and Negro workers of Chicago! Make the mass funeral of the martyred Negro workers the biggest demonstration of working class solidarity, the fight against starvation, the fight for Negro rights! ‘Workers of other cities! Organize demonstrations of fighting solidag- ity with the heroic Chicago workers! Trade Union Leaders Arrested in Shanghai; Face Death at Hands of Chiang Kai Shek SHANGHAI, Aug. 5.—The office here of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, the center of the revo- jutionary trade unions of all Pacific countries, has been raided by the police of the International Settle- ment, and its leaders arrested. Although the International Settle- ment is legally foreign territory, un- der a foreign commission headed by an American, the police of‘ the Set- tlement have turned the arrested leaders of the Pan-Pacific Trade ‘Union Secretariat over to the hang- men of Chiang Kai-Shek. These leaders, now threatened with death, are now going through the farce that Chiang KaiShek’s government of murder calls a “trial”. But the fate of all revolutionary workers who fall into the hands of these mass murderers surely awaits them unless mass protests are heard from all over the world. * T.U.U.L. DEMANDS RELEASE. ‘The National Committee of, the} ‘Trade Union Unity League, affiliat- ed section of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, yesterday issued the following protest at the Shang- hai arrests and threatened execution of the Secretariat leaders: ‘ “Again the imperialists, who re- tain the foreign concessions and ex- tra-territoriality in China under the pretense of assuring inhabitants. of such areas as the Shanghai Inter- national Settlement freedom from persecution by Chinese militarists, given the lie to their pretensions by turning over the arrested leaders of the Pan-Pacific .Secretariat to Chi-| ang Kai-Shek’s barbarous clutches. The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Sec- retariat, which has existed in China since 1927, is looked to by tens of millions of workers in the Pacific area as their leader and guide in fighting for better living conditions for the toilers of the East, and a weapon against imperialist domina- tion, “The T.U.U.L., which has been af- fillated with the P.R.T.U.S. since its inception, protests at this'attempt to murder the leaders of the workers of the Far. East, and calls upon the whole American working class to raise its voice in protest, demanding that thé government of assassins headed by Chiang Kai-shek immedi- ately release those arrested and now being handed to the savage behead- ers of the Chinese masses through the farce of a “trial”. Workers, dem- onstrate against the murderous im- perialists and their puppet, the Kuo~ mintang government of Chiang Kai- shek!” ” ’ TELLS. BOSSES demands previously worked out by Conditions Will Be the central ‘strike committee, they elected the strike committee which Worse, He Admits NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 5— had beer leading the struggle forthe William Green, president of the A. F. of L., virtually told the bosses and their government to arm and pre- pare to kill off hundreds of unem- ployed this winter. Green, speaking before the Massachusetts Federation of Labor, declared that unemploy- ment is growing worse and will be severer this winter than last. He said he expected the hungry men would not accept their lot quietly, and, to meet thisesituation, Green advised the government to be pre- pared. ‘Though he did not mention the killing of four Negro workers in Chi- cago, Green had this case in mind when he told the bosses they better be prepared for the worst this winter. He did not say a word against the Proposed wage-cut of 10 per cent for 250,000 workers of the U. S. Steel Corporation, nor against the wage ‘| slashing of the railroads to effect 1,200,000 railroad workers. Green's solution” for unemploy- ment was more “study” by Hoover and the bosses to provide a “way out.”. At the same time he warns the state and federal police forces to arm to the teeth against the un- employed, because Green knows that the new millions of hungry added to the 10,000,000 now unemployed will not sit by and see their families starve to death this winter. ILD PREPARES AUG. 22 MEET Scottsboro Mother to Speak Tonight A conference will be held tonight at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. by the International Labor Defense in order to mobilize the workers for the August 22 demonstration. Mrs. Powell, the mother of one of the in- nocent Scottsboro boys, will be one of the speakers. A program of activ- ities will be adopted. August 22 is the commemoration of the murder of Sacco and Vanzett! four years ago and is the day of international strug- gle for class war prsoners. The meet- ng wil start at 8 p, m.- . VOLUNTEER TYPISTS WANTED IN “DAILY” The Circulation Dept. of the Daily Worker is badly in need of several volunteer typists to help get out a large volume of corres- pondence, bills, etc, If there ary any comrades who can spare an hour or two on this work, please come up to tke 8th floor, Cireu- lation Dept., 35 E. 12th Street. last few weeks to sit until another’ conference can be héid. They were addressed by local leaders: Alford, Lindsey, Drew and others, practically all of whom have watrants out for them, but who haven't been arrested |' yet because the Kentucky miners don’t want them arrested, and take measures to prevent any such arrest. ‘There will be another full conference within a month. ‘The delegates were fed a meal by the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Vir- ginia-Kentucky Striking Miners’ Re- lief Committee at the kitchen estab- lished recently in Wallins Creek. There is acute starvation in Harlan County, making it harder to stand against the terror; something new in tHe way of terror, several times worse than the famous Gastonia terror of 1929. Hundreds of cases of Flux ex- ist. Deaths from Flux average two a day. Flux is a disease, which, ac- cording to local physicians, comes from trying to livé entirely on green stuff, grasses and green fruit picked in the woods. Addition to the diet of starches, proteins, fats and sugars will prevent it. It is certainly up to the workers of other parts to contribute this food, to keep the heroic miners of Kentucky alive while they fight (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PROTEST MEETS INN. J. FRIDAY Workers “ Roused By Chi. Massacre NEWARK—The workers of New Jersey will hold several demonstra- tions Friday night to protest against the murderous police attack against Chicago workers, in which three Ne- gro workers were killed and scores of white and Negro workers wouhded. In this city, several open air dem- onstrations will be held at 7 o'clock, as follows: West Street and College Place, Broome and Merton; W. Ken- ney and Boyd, with the central dem- onstratiog at Boston and Hamden Streets: 5 The meetings are under the aus- pices of the Communist Party with the League of @truggle for Negro Rights and the Wnemployed Coun- cils cooperating. ELIZABETH—A protest demon- stration against the Chicago mas- sacre will be held Friday night at Bond and First St. at 7:30, with the following speakers: M. Turow, Edwards and Youngblood of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. @ The oné hundred = workers at Kramer & King, part of the Asso- ciated Piece Dye Workers, of which the striking Colt plant is a part, went to work this morning without lunch expecting to strike in response to the picket line. The picket line will be thrown around the plant on Thursday morning when a 100 per cent walk-out is expected. Condi- tions at Streng are terrific, 10 to 15 hours a day, wage cuts from 52% cents to 50 cents an hour, no ventila- tion and heat so intense that the finishing room is called the dungeon. Steam from the vats bathes the workers all day long and smells from the chemicals and foul toilets fill the air, Some work seven days a week and on top of all this, a yelling slave driving crew hounding the workers to a faster and faster speed. Picket lines are now trying to get the rest of the workers out. A‘mass picket line demonstration of 200 strikers circulated through one of the silk sections singing and shouting in an effort to get the last silk shop out solid. Continue Arrests. Arrests continue. This morning two workers were arrested and this noon at the Streng picket line two of the most active picket captains were pulled in. Liss, who was beaten up on Monday at the Doherty and held without bail, was sentenced to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Force Alabama Landowners To Drop Charges Against 20 Croppers DADEVILLE, Ala., Aug. 5.—As a result of the stern fight conducted by the International Labor Defense and the protest of millions of work- ers throughout the world, the at~- tempt of loca] landowners and their courts to frame up 34 Negro crop~ pers has suffered a severe set-back. Charges against 20 of the crop- pers were dismissed today. Several others have been released on bail furnished by the LL.D. Seven of the croppers are still held in jail, however, in connection with the plans of the Tallapoosa County landowners to make an example of the most militant of the members of the Share Croppers Union. These seven defendants are charged with “conspiracy to murder” the land- owners. They are in grave danger of being railroaded to long prison terms or possible death. The croppers were arrested fol- lowing a series of murderous at- tacks by the landowners and police on members of the Share Croppers Union, Because the union was_rally- ing the croppers for a fight against starvation and for the mass fight to free the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys, its meetings were at- Workers! “Figh t for Scottsboro’ Boys! Dem- onstrate Aug. 22! tacked and broken up by the land- owners and their agents. One Negro cropper, Ralph Gray, was murdered in his bed. Five croppers disap- peared on the night Gray was mur- dered. There is every indication they have been lynched by the landown- ers, Chief of Police Wilson of Camp Hill, when asked about these crop- pers gave the sinister answer that “they had gone to cut stove wood.” The militant defense policy of the ILLD., backed by the united protests of Negro and white workers, has borne fruit, The framedup charges against 20 of the croppers have been dismissed. It was this same mili- tancy that forced the removal of the Scottsboro boys from the prison in Scottsboro where, when the bosses found their legal lynching challenged by the working class, the boys were in grave danger of a mob lynching. It 1s only this militant defense pol- icy, supported by increasing masses of workers that will save the remain- ing croppers, will force the Alabama — bosses to free these croppers and to free the nine Scottsboro boys. Again, on August 22, the workers of the whole world will pour into the streets in huge demonstrations for the freedom of these victims of capitalist justice, for the freedom of Mooney and Billings and the many other class war prisoners held to- day in the dungeons of capitalism. ‘The August 22 demonstrations will also serve to rally the masses in pro- test against the raging terror against the -workers, the mass de- portation of foreign born militants, the police massacre of Chicago workers, the brutal murders occur- ring almost daily in the mine fields where the thugs of the operators, aided and abetted by the State po- lice and sheriffs are shooting down Negro and white mine strikers. Workers! Negro and white! Pre- pare the August 22 demonstrations! Raise the question of support and participation in your organizations! Build defense block committees! Or- ganize efense corps of white and Negro workers! Every worker on the street on August 22! Commemorate the martyrdom of Sacco and Van- zetti, murdered by bloody American Jim Crow capitalism! Workers of Chicago! Turn out in a mighty protest at the funeral of the victims of Monday’s massacre! PRES CHICAGO, Aug. 5. oe spite of the threat | of 1,500 cops with machine guns, riot guns and gas bombs in Chicago’s “Black Belt,” another mass demonstration of 5,000 to 6,000 Negro and white workers was held in Washington Park yesterday to proiest the police massacre of Negro workers on Monday. The stock-yards are particularly Heavily guarded for fear the unemployed workers will seize food stored there while thousands here are starving. Three Negro workers were killed and scores of Negro and white workers wounded when police ¢- | fired point-blank Monday afternoon | S3rine tovresist the wholesale eviq into a crowd of workers protesting | tions by which unemployed workeg' the eviction of Mrs. Rose Warrick, | #04 their families are being throw an unemployed Negro worker. This | Ut 0m the streets. wanton police massacre of workers | Second Protest Meet in Two Dass followed within a few days a meet-| “This was the second protest dem- ing of Negro and white landlords, | onstration participated in by thou- real estate agents and a leader of | sands of workers within two days. the National Association for the Ad-| | Asainst the boss threat of race rict vancement of Solored People at which | he Communist Party is organizing a demand was made on the police | Meetings throughout the city at which for drastic action against workers! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THUNED 4 Banks in N. Y., With Over NEW YORK.—Four large banks here crashed Wednesday afternoon, with over $15,000,000 involved. Many small depositors are involved and stand to lose their life savings. This new series of bank crashes in the heart of the financial center of the United States, follows the crash last year of the Bank of United States, with over $200,000,000 involved, in which 400,000 depositors have not yet received one cent of their deposits. Hundreds of cops were mobilized in front of the banks to keep back the thousands of depositors who pleaded for their money. The banks involved are the American Union Bank, 37th St. and Eighth Ave.; International Madison Bank & Trust Co., 147 Fifth Ave; Times Square Trust Co., 565 Seventh Ave. and the Times Square Safe Deposit Co., 565 Sev- SHOE MASS MEET BROOKLYN, AUG.6 BROOKLYN.—A mass meeting of the shoe and leather workers in Lor- raine Hall, 790 Broadway, Brooklyn, ‘Thursday, August 6, at 7:30 p. m., will be held. The importance of organizing the thousands of shoe workers in Brook- lyn and New Yours who are toiling under the most miserable conditions is the order of today. The shoe work- ers ac »a\ing in the shops 50 and 60 hours a week for 22 to 30 dollars. The “Boot and Shoe Union” tries at this moment to fool the workers with the aid of the Lovestoneites in- to the ranks of thé scab agency of the bosses. But the shoe workers in Brooklyn and New York cannot be fooled by these betrayers, ‘The speakers will be Fred Bieden- kapp, Steve Alexanderson, C. Lippa, who was just released from jail for defying injunctions and 8, Ziebel. $15,000,000 in Deposits, Close enth Ave. ‘The American Union was , the larg- est of these banks to close, having $7,000,000 in deposits. Depositors of Bank of U.S. Score Lies: Demonstrate Aug.15 NEW YORK.—While the capitalist press continue their lying prope- ganda about rumored reorganization of the Bank of the United States, thousands of depositors under the leadership of the United Depositors Committee are preparing a mass demonstration August 15, noon, at city hall. There, backed up by the thousands of small depositors who have seen their hard-earned savings go up in smoke the committee will present their demands. Among the most im- portant of these demands are: aa-. sessment of all rich stockholders the amount of the lost deposits, prose- cution of the swindling bankers and their political cronies and the board of directors, state guarantee of the deposits of workers and small busi- nessmen. “The tens of thousands of small depositors are sick and tired of the countless lies told them about re- organization, They see it is but to fool them, kid them along and quiet them. They want action. They need their deposits very badly. Many are unemployed.° Outdoor meetings will be held Thursday to organize for the central demonstration August 15. The fo!- lowing are the meeting places: The Bronx: Claremont Parkway and Washington Ave. Prospect and Longwood Aves. Intervale Ave. and Freeman Sts. Brownsville: Saratoga and Pitkin and Saratoga and Prospect. Manhattan: 3nd Aye. and 10th 5%