The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1931, Page 1

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Fav) Gaberatur Cenbere pet rertt es Section of the Communist ee eee ) Vol. VIL, No. 189 Saas recedes noted 3p Orem fey NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1931 Ot OO Price 3 Cents { —s PROTEST CHICAGO MASSACRE THROUGH eet et The War on the Chicago Workers 4 Ree Chicago Tribune, organ of the biggest and greediest capitalist dic- tators of Illinois (the big bankers, steel] magnates, meat packers, coal operators, landlord-speculators), has discovered that the present struggle of the Negro and white workers of Chicago against the starvation and eviction from their homes—is an ‘“invasion® by a “foreign enemy!” Threatening open military war against the workers of Chicago and par- ticularly against the Negro workers of the South side, they call it a war of “national defense”# When workers refuse to let their class-brothers be thrown out of their homes, the Tribune says “The Communist regime centered at Moscow has declared war on democratic America and this invasion should be met and de- feated.” What! “Moscow”! “American democracy”? All Negroes and all white workers should stop and think over this, Of course the Chicago Tribune is trying to conceal the brutal bloody tyranny over the workers and especially the Negro workers—right here im Chicago. These conditions are native to the brutal capitalist dictator- ship, and out of these conditions arises the struggle against them by the party of the American Negro and white workers. The truth is that at the same montent that Negro workers are being shot down on the streets of Chicago, the Wall Street government of the United States is feverishly preparing for imperialist war—especially a war for the desttuction of the workers’ government, the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. Such a war would be in fact a war against the working class of the whole world, and in fact a war against all of the oppressed and subject peoples (Negroes at home and abroad, the colonies, China, eto.) It is all a part of the class struggle. We thank the dishonest, reactionary Chicago Tribune for admitting that the war of Chicago police against Chicago workers, black and white, ts a war by capitalists and against the workers and the oppressed Negro people. Exactly as the war they are planning against Soviet Russia will be a war by capitalists and against the working class and oppressed. peoples, It helps to open the eyes of the masses when a foolish liar léts slip a fragment of truth.- ‘The workers understand better when this capitalist organ calls the eviction of hungry unemployed families “democracy.” It is capitalist “democracy”! The workers understand better when our enemies describe: the refusal to permit. unemployed workers to be thrown out of their homes as “Communistic activity!” This is, truly, Communist activity. No other party but the Communist Party fights for the working class and the-Negro masses. Of course it is only a capitalistic lie and an effort to make a plausible excuse for war upon the workers’ and farmers’ government, when the Chicago “Itiburie “says “that “Mostow” (by which they mean the- Soviet: government) is “invading” or in any way taking part in affairs in this country, But, even in tHeir lying, the Tribune editors betray the fear of their class that the American workers, and particularly the Negro workers, are rapidly developing toward an understanding of the fact that they must fight every inch of the way for their day-to-day needs, and furthermore that they can be freed only by overthrowing the capitalist imperialist jim crow rule of this country and establishing the freedom of the working class through the American workers’ own soviet power. Of course it will come to a dictatorship of the working class ‘*he most advanced form of real democracy that has ever existed—tr zmocracy of the working people against the capitalist class dictator) of “demo- cratic” starvation, “democratic” exploitation, “democratic” unemployment, “democratic” eviction, “democratic” lynching and “democratic” jim crow tyranny. Already we see the connection that the capitalist class itself is mak- ing between its present murderous warfare against the Chicago workers and its warfare against the striking coal miners in southern Illinois! The’ Capitalist authorities of Chicago claim to have discovered a “connection” between the “plot” of the Chicago masses to prevent eviction of unem- ployed Negro families on the South Side of that city—and the refusal of the southern Illinois coal miners to starve while they work in the scab mines, ‘And while the capitalist police shoot down Negro workers in Chicago, other officers of the capitalist rule are shooting down the coal miners of Kentucky for daring to strike against starvation! Let the workers all—Negrovand white—see the wide international connection of all their struggles—the need of fighting together, shoulder. to shoulder, black and white, against every eviction of an unemployed family—and for their world-wide emancipation! o MASS ARRESTS ORDERED IN HOPE TO HALT STRIKE, Picketing of Dye Shops Goes On Despite Terror PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 6—Mass arrests of the picketers of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union and tightening of court procedure against them began this morning as a result of the militantly successful picketing being conducted by the National Textile Workers Union. At the Colt Dye house 54 strikers were arrested on the technical charge of failing to; walk ten paces apart. They were railroaded out of the police court where Recorder Joel- son has been following the clever policy of dismissing the arrested Pickets after they have been reinoved from the picket line and in this way crippling the picketing with the min- | imum of antagonism being aroused among the strikers. They were trans- ferred by the request of the chief of police to the criminal court where a more hard boiled judge, Kennedy, will deal more stringently with the, strikers, This is the result of a gencral thove on the part of the mill owners to take the strike cases out of Joel- son's jarisdietion-and-piace them in~ to a court where heavy jail scen- tences and fines will be imposed. Thirteen of the strikers got $5 fines. | Fred Biedenkapp, leader of the strike, got a fine of $50 and the rest suspended sentences. Appeals are be- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Depositors of Bank of U.S. Prepare for Aug. 15 Despite Ban , NEW YORK.—Commissioner Mul- rooney refused the United Deposi- tors Committee of the Bank of the United States a permit to hold a mass demonstration before city hall, August 15th was reported yesterday. While Mulrobney did not give a clear reason for this arbitrary deci- sion, members of the committee said that Tammany feared the demon- Aroused Masses Preparing for Huge Demonstrations on Aug. 22 Against Boss Terror NEW YORK.—With mass indignation sweeping the coun- try against the brutal murder of three Negro workers and wa shooting down of scores of white and Negro workers by Chicago bosses and their police, the workers are grimly push- ing their preparations. for huge militant demonstrations stration would expose the connections between prominent Tammany lead- ers and the swindling bankers who ruined the Bank of the U. S. Depositors Demand Demonstration. At many open air meetings last night in all the boroughs small de- positors were unanimous in the opin- ion that a demonstration should be held, despite the high handed pro- hibition of it Mutrooney. Many worker depositors pointed out, however, at the open air meet- ings held in the Bronx and Browns- ville, that the masses of depositors cannot put their faith in any Tam- many court ard that preparations {UMW Uses Plans to Push Strike to Other Fields Are Showing Progress; Mass Picketing Continues Central Rank and File Strike Committee Dis- cusses Chief Tasks of Strike Heroic Strike of Starving Miners BULLETIN, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 6.—Some of the bakeries which | were helping out in relief here are now clamping down, and it is getting harder for the miners to carry on their struggle against hunger. This makes it more important that help come from the workers in other sections of the country— and that this help come quickly. Some workers have asked why relief should be concen- trated on the striking miners, with workers starving in other parts of the country. The miners are in the forefront of the struggle against hunger, carrying on a battle against - of the bosses. The miners are the front ranks of the American working class at this time, hitting at wage slashes and starvation. All help must be concentrated here, to help these workers who are carrying on the brunt of the fight. If they are beaten back, the entire American working class will be beaten back. If they win a victory, it will be a victory for all workers against hunger. For this reason all aid must be rushed to the miners to help them keep up their heroic struggle. Send all funds to the Penn-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Room 205, Pitts- burgh, Pa. A als (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 6.—The Slovan mine near Burgettstow tried to reopen today with constables, deputies and 16 state troopers held in readiness to smash the picket line of over three hundred. . Constables attacked first arresting three women. Pickets rescued the women. Troopers, of whom six were mounted, they, clubbed the picket line to pieces. the. But a few scabs entered the mine. dé ss Arrest 3 Workers. ‘The struggle started when police tried to drive everybody from the public road. Katherine Vysocki, Mrs. Petra Walivick, and George Pasnickos were arrested after picketing. | Other warrants are new out. The Barking mine of the Hillman Coal & Coke Co. tried to re- open this morning with a heavy guard of state police with a few scabs and a good picket line stopped them. . . . PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 6—The Central Rank and File Strike Committee of the National Miners’ Union, meeting Wednesday in Pittsburgh*with the single order of business: “The strike situation and Immediate Tasks,” heard delegates report today with consigerable satisfaction that the Second (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Ala. Bosses Tie Negro Child to Tree; Riddle Him with Bullets Sheriff Makes No Arrests, But Tries to Justify Frightful Crime By Lies About “Attempted Rape” as 16, was tied with a rope and dog chain to the trunk of a tree...ie was then ‘riddled with bullets. 32 of the bullets entered his body. HAYNESVILLE, Ala., August 6.— Riddling his body with bullets, Ala- bama bosses lynched a Negro child ‘New Tactics In Effort to Break) against the boss terror on August 22. ‘These demonstrations demand the release of the xine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys, eight of electric chair ‘They will celebrate the vic- achieved in the forced release of of the Camp Hill Croppers, and ‘raise more militantly than ever the demand for the release of the rest of the croppers, and the demand for the right of the croppers to organize “to resist the robbery of the landown- ors. These ‘demonstrations will de- nounée the frame-up of Mooney and Billings and their imprisonment for the past 17 years, and will demand the release of Mooney and_Billings and the seores of other class war prisoners held in the dungeons of the bosses for no other “crime” than that they were active in the struggles of the working-class. This is a crime in the eyes of the capitalist exploiters! Two additional Negro workers have been murdered this week—lynched by’ the Southern bosses. One in the state of Louisiana, another—a mere child—in the state of Alabama. In Chicago, the white and Negro workers showed their readiness to siand together in a united fighting front against the boss terrorism and starvation, Negro and white workers, ———— fighting side by side, heroically de- fended themselves against the mur- derous attack of the police. Demonstrations of thousands of workers held since the massacre show the white workers of Chicago, rallying in thousands to the call of the Communist Party for defense of the Negro masses. This has the boss~ es worried. It is this growing unity of the white and colored workers, this rising mili- tancy of the working class, this de- termination to fight against starva- tion and evictions, to fight against the persecution of Negro workers, to fight for full equal rights for the Negro people and for social insur- ance for the unemployed, that Amer- ican Jim Crowism is now exerting its power to crush, Negro and white workers! Rally to the fight against boss terrorism! Or- ganize mighty demonstrations for August 22. Build a fighting alliance of Negro and white workers against Jim Crow capitalism! Demand the release of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill victims, of the Negro and white workers being framed up in Chicago, of the militant leaders of the strik- ing miners, of the striking textile workers, of Mooney and Billings and all class war prisoners! Demonstrate August 22! Down with boss, terror- ism! Smash the lynching terror! should go ahead for the mass dem-| near here yesterday. The boy, whose onstration, permit or no permit. NEW YORK. — Four New Jersey banks, with over $11,000,000 in depo- sits closed their doors on Thursday, following the closing of four New York Banks on Wednesday, with de- posits of over $15,000,000; There is a big increase in bank failures, particu- larly in the important industrial sec- tions. Among the New Jersey banks that crashed was the Jackson Trust Co., Jersey City, with nearly $2,000,000 in deposits. Thousands of workers and unemployed lose their savings in this crash and,face acute hunger. An- other to close was the Bergenline Trust Co, Union City, as well as the Union City National Bank, with over $1,500,000 in deposits. Anxious thousands thronged the New York and New Jersey banks to- day pleading for their money, many saying they could not get food with- out it, The armed police in front of the banks just laughed at them and ordered them to move along. « age is given by the capitalist press 4 New Jersey Banks Crash; | Bank Failures Show Rise An indication of the big rise in bank failures this year over last is shown by the Federal Reserve Bank reports. In 1931 thus far over 680 banks crashed, with more than $455,- 000,000 in deposits involved. This is twice as much as last year, the worst year in American banking history. ‘|The number of bank failures has been steadily growing for the past ten years. During the present crisis they jumped up sharply, with over 1,200 banks closing their doors. If the bank crashes for the coming months keep up as they have in the past six months, the bank failures and the amount involved will far exceed 1930. Millions of workers suffered in the bank crashes during 1930 and 1931, the big bankers, robbing millions, as in the Bank of United States, getting off with light sentences—which they are not yet serving-@hile unem~- ployed workers who take a crust of bread are either killed or sent to prison for long terms. Although the boy is admitted by the press to have been only 16 years old, and most likely was much younger, the Alabama bosses are using their usual lie of “atempted rape” to justify their cold-blooded murder of this working class child. In this attempt to justify their crime they are ably seconded, as usual, by their’ tools in office. Sheriff Mead- ows, while making no arrests in the case, has rushed to the press with the tale that te boy, had “accosted” and 11-year old white girl as she was walking from her home to a grocery store. It is with this same lie_of “rape” that the Alabama bosses are at- tempting to legally lynch the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, eight of whom have already been railroaded to death sentences in the bosses’ court at Scottsboro, Ala. Negro and white workers! Protest the murder of Negro workers and their children! Organize huge mass demonstrations for August 22! Rally to the defense of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill victims of Jim Crow ca- pitalism! Protest the massacre of workers by the Chicago bosses and their police! Build a fighting alli- ance of white and Negro workers! Smash th*e. bosses’ lynch terror! ‘NY WORKERS 10 PROTEST CHICAGO MASSACRE TONITE, Hold Meetings All, Overthe | Sey | NEW YORK.—Protest meetings | and demonstrations all over New York on Friday night will denounce | |the police massacre of unemployed workers in Chicago, three | Negro workers were murdered and scores of white and Negro workers in which injured by machine guns and riot guns. | iD In Harlem, white and colored workers will unite at St. Luke's Hall, | 125 West 130th St., in protesting this | outrage against the working class. | Several open air meetings in the sec- tions will precede the St. Luke's meeting to mobilize the workers for the latter. In the midtown section, Section 2 of the Communist Party is leading a demonstration of white and Negro workers tonight at 48th St. and 10th Ave. All workers in this territory are urged to come out and protest the police massacre of Chicago workers. The ‘Chicago workers have. lost three workers, but they have fdréett the bosses to stop evictions. The Communist Party of Brownsville calls upon the Negro and white workers to demonstrate against these mass murders, to demand all war funds for the unemployed. All ‘out to Howard and Dean Sts. this evening, at 8 o'clock BROOKLYN.—A band of white hoodlums instigated by the landlords at the corner of So. 2nd and Whythe Ave., stoned the houses of several Negro families last Saturday, Sun- day and Monday night. All windows of the houses at 71 and 73 So. 2nd St. were broken. One stone almost killed a baby of one of the Negro families living at 73 So. 2nd St. The police, always working with the landlords and lynching mobs instead of preventing this out- rageous assault upon these working class Negro families, went over to the Negro workers living at these two houses, and gave an order to them that, they “could not stay at their door steps.” The police ordered them to “move on or get inside of the house.” The Negre workers refused to obey this officer of “law and or- der” and 8 Negro workers were ar- rested, among them one Negro woman. The case came up before the court this morning and all of them were discharged. Friday night under the auspices of Communist Party, Section 6, three mass protest demonstrations will be held against this outrageous assault upon these Negro working class fam- ilies and against the police massacre of Negro workers in Chicago. The Protest Demonstrations will be held at Varet and Graham Ave., So. 2nd and Havemeyer in Williams- burgh and Fleet and Myrtle Ave. in Boro Hall, at 8 p. m., Friday, Aug. 7, 1931. All workers are called upon to turn out in protest against the outrageous murder of the Chicago Negro workers. Navy Gets $129 WASHINGTON, August 6—On the day that Secretary of the Navy Adams announced a naval arms con- struction program for 1932 of over $129,000,000, Henry Morgenthau, for- mer U. S. ambassador to Turkey at Bowdoin College called for war against the Soviet Union. Morgenthau said armament should not be reduced or stopped. “The world should not disarm at the present time.” The reason for this, said Morgenthau, is that the arms will have to be used against the workers’ republic. Another speaker who followed Morgenthau, BE. W. Rankin, said the same thing, even more emphasis. While Hoover announces @ new ,000,000 More For War; Jobless, Nothing UT CITY TODAY MINERS NEED RELIEF FOR “SECOND OFFENSIVE” =r) 7,000 in Meet Wednes Murder PLEDGE FIGHT ON EVICTIONS: Score Negro Pastel for Cop Whitewash Wednesday night 7,000 Negro and! white workers again assembled in| Washington Park to protest the mas sacre. The crowd was addressed by Emil Gardos, of the Communist | Party; Matthewson, of the Unem ployed Council; Ware, one of the Negro leaders of the Communist Party, and others. This huge mass | = | demonstration vigorously condemned | the Negro renegades who are co-oper- ating with the city hall in the a tempt to whitewash the police mur- | der of the three Negro workers and the’ wounding of scores of white and Negro workers. This is the third huge- demonstration held in as me: days in spite of the police atvempt to | prohibit the meetings of workers. Furthering the boss attempt to whitewash the police, District Attor- | ney Ditchburne has prefered charges of inciting to riot against Timothy Jones, Marion Watkins and Joseph Gardner, all Negro workers. Charges of disorderly conduct have been made against Villiam Saunders, Barney Bourgshire and Louis TPemmes, the latter a white worker. Fifteen other workers who were arrested on Mon- day following the massacre’ have been released as a result of the firm at- titude taken by the ,white and Ne- gro masses under the leadership of the Communist Party. Fakers Hold Secret Meet. Another secret meeting of the Ne- gro fakers was held with the bosses Wednesday morning in Saint Mark’s Church. At this meeting, the mis- leaders further discussed plans to help the police persecute the arrsted (CONTINUED ©) PAGE THREE) TRY BREAK THE QUENT STRIKE Arrest Three and Hold for Deportation CHICAGO, Illd Aug. 6.—Deporta- tions warrants have been issued for Ivan Ilyevich, Anthony Aimensieictz and Clara Saffern, arrested in Zieg- ler. This is linked up with the break- ing up of the Orient strike. Orient No. 1 opened today under heavy po- lice protection with one hundred men. This is an attempt to break the strike in conjunction with Lewis, the U.M.W.A, and the company. Workers have not yet returned to Orient No. 2. Attempts are being made to break the strike in both mines. “study” of unemployment, the Navy Department announces a concrete program costing $129,385,000 for building new naval armaments. The Hoover government does not provide @ cent’s worth of relief for the un- employed but finds plenty of money to build the following slaughter ma- cheinery: two aircraft carriers; six fleet. submarines; two 10,000 ton cruisers, one with flying deck, and one destroyer. The two aircraft car- riers. lone cost over $55,000,000, enough to feed thousands of starv- ing American unemployed and their families. But the bosses wil! go on spending these millions for war pre- parations unless forced to turn the funds over for unemployment insure ance by the action of the workers. | Angry | of Abe Gray day Hit by Cops 'Bodies of Victims Are Mov ed to Odd Workers Keep Guard Masses Pack Coroner’s Inquest Hearin ng CHICAGO, Ai and of the three Negro by the Chicago bosse: lice in the massacre of last Monday when scores of white and Negro workers were shot down ¢.aile pro testing the eviction of an- uner | ployed Negro worker, were ved this morning m the wi parlor to the Odd Fellow’s South State S This was dune in order to give the enraged white and Negro masses of Chicago the op- portunity to view the bodies of the latest victims of boss terrorism. The mass funeral will take place from the Odd Fellows’ Hall at 2 p. m. on Saturday, marching through the streets of the working class dis- tricts to the cemetery route: In the meantime hundreds of Negro and white workers have been detailed for the Guard of Honor ich will re main with the bodies, di until the time of the r fur To Demand Permit. A delegation has been elected to visit the City Hall to get a permi for the mass funeral. The delegation will demand the right of the workers to follow the bodies in a funeral march. At present, the bosses have large detachments of police surroun- ding the undertaking parlor from which the bodies have been removed. Massacre Was Deliberate. At the coroner's inquest, the In- ternational Labor Defense submitted witnesses and evidence completely establishing the fact that Monday's massacre was deliberately provoked by the police, who rushed up in pa- trol wagons and immediately opened fire with machine and riot guns on a crowd of workers, including many women and children who were demonstrating against the eviction of Mrs. Rose Warrick. The District Attorney was not able to produce a single witness or any evidence what- ever to the contrary, The police who, fired on the work- ers and participated in the mass murders claimed at the inquest that the workers opened fire. They were unable to produce the slightest evi- dence to support this lie. Policeman Fred Graham admitted that he killed Abe Gray. Gray was a mem- ber of the Communist Party. Workers Pack Courtroom. The court room was packed by angry workers. One Negro worker was ejected by the police and beaten up. ‘The coroner’s jury which is trying to whitewash these police murders of unemployed workers was com- posed of three Negro and three white business men, thus further exposing the collaboration of the Negro mis- leaders with the white bosses. At- torneys Bental, Pickler, Tyler and Gallagher, for the ILD. were able to prevent Herbert Turner, president of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, from serving on the jury. They chal- lenged him on the grounds that he was prejudiced against the Unem- ployed Council and its *'struggle against evictions. They further pointed out that he was responsible ng Hall, 3337 for the sentencing to six months in jail of a Negro Communist when previously on a jury. police, supported by the Ne- gro reformist tools of the bosses have terrorized the family of Thom- as Page, the third murdered worker, against having a joint funeral for the three victims, The families of Gray and O'Neil have refused to be terrorized and have already given permission for the mass funeral,