The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1931, Page 1

| Fight Against the Murder of JAIL KENTUCKY ‘Daily, Central Org 4 ay e-C> OF. unist Porty U. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 190 Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931 50,000 NEGRO AND WHITE TO HONOR M CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ASSACRE VICTIMS “Send Us 30 Tents and Food and We'll All Strike” Mckinleyville, Pa. Miners Write ‘Workers’ Babies! Activize the Unemployed Councils! WORKING class family on Staten Island with ten children, the father unemployed, one baby slowly dying of starvation. No concern of the law. It is not against the’ capitalist law for workers’ babies to die of starvation. But—a prosperous real estate man could not collect his rents. This is the concern of the law. Vincent Paul, rich landlord, appealed to the law, and a capitalist judge, court bailiff and police got busy. For it is the greatest concern of the law when rich men cannot collect more dollars. ‘Those who cannot pay rent to the landlords must go out. The tenant who could not pay the rent to the wealthy man, Vin- cent Paul, was Henry Breuers, the unemployed working man on Staten _ Island with ten children, one baby dying of starvation. The law, at the service of the landlord’s rent, put the jobless worker, his wife, the ten children, the dying baby on the sidewalk. So Theodore Breuers, ten months old, a working man’s son, a work- ing woman’s baby, died on the sidewalk. . It is not against the capitalist law for workers’ babies to die of starvation on the sidewalk. : But the working class is learning to call it murder. We call it capitalist class murder. ° | In Chicago, the unemployed daughter of a 72-year olé Negro wo- man could not pay the rent to the landlord. The real estate, gang of | Chicago, together with the representative of the N.A-A.C.P., called upon | the law to defend the double rents charged to Negro tenants in the | segregated district. When thousands of workers under the Chicago Un- eniployed Council eame to protest—the police fired with riot guns, killed three Negro workers and wounded many. Double rents must be paid by Negro tenants when the rich land- lords demand it. It is the capitalist law. It is not against the law to murder Negro workers who interfere. ee In Camp Hill, Alabama, where the share croppers organized a union to oppose the swindling of the white landlords and fight starvation— the rich white landlords appealed to the law—as they had been advised | to do by William Pickens, the Negro renegade and field secretary of | the N.A.A.C.P., in a public. speech at Chattanooga on*June-7. (“Let the white people of Alabama and of the South sit up and take notice: This Communist sapping through the densely ignorant portion of the colored population...” etc.) The white ruling class “sat up and took notice” of the share-croppers’ union organized by the “densely ignorant portion” —the enslaved share-croppers—and the sheriff's posse fired upon a meet- ing of the share-croppers union, killing a poor Negro share-cropper. It is not again the capitalist’s and landlord’s law to kill Negro tenants. The white ruling class must receive its toll of all that can be ground out of the labor of the enslaved share-croppers. It is the law of “white Supremacy.” Out in the coal fields the children of coal miners are dying of the “fux”—the disease of starvation—because their fathers cannot live from the wages paid by the capitalist mine-owners, thousands more of lives are snuffed out as 4 matter of course, while the gunmen of the cap- italist law proceed to evict striking miners from homes that are owned by: the coal companies—the landlord employers. It is the capitalist law. ‘Ten million and more American workers, Negro and white, with many millions more of their families, are starving, being evicted. They gre shot by dozens, and jailed. by hundreds when they. dare to protest. It is not against the capitalist law for workers to die; it is against the capitalist law to protest. . | ] | | | | | | . . But out of the chaos and misery of this capitalist slave oligarchy— | tm the city where the idle wife of a capitalist parasite carelessly leaves | $200,000 worth of jewelry in a taxicab on the same day when evicted workers’ babies die on the sidewalk of starvation—can come and will come the mighty power that will bring a change. Organization of the masses of the working class!—a program of action—and the building of the workers’ revolutionary Party of leader- ship to fight against thiscapitalist slavery—to fight for the lives of our class—these are already at hand! Already the Unemployed Councils of the workers of Chicago have, with the very first beginnings of the real carrying out of the program, already put a niomentary stop to the evictions of workers in Chicago. In all of the cities and towns and industrial centers—and beginning even in the Southern agricultural regions of Negro slavery—the workers, black and white=are learning by bitter experience and by the enlightening | yeyolutionary leadership of the Communist Party. : But the lessons of each case of capitalist brutality—each case of eviction, starvation and murder—must be spread fast and far. The working class must build still faster and stronger its organs of struggle against slayery and death of the capitalist dictatorship of this country. The coming winter will in all likelihood be the most teg- rible that has ever been passed by the American working class- The | struggle must be strengthened and increased in tempo. Build the Unemployed Councils! Fight for social insurance! Fight for immediate relief for the, unemployed! Fight against eviction—the murder of working class children! one World-Wide Demonstrations ‘August 22, Sacco-Vanzetti ‘Day, Against Boss Terror As a result of the militant fight NEW YORK.—At the call of the tional Aid, millions of work- throughout the world are pre- to make Sacco-Vanzetti Day, Aug. 22, a day of world-wide pro- test against the raging boss terror, against the working class and for release of the nine innocent ttsboro Negro boys and of the amp Hill croppers still held in jail ‘n Alabama, for the release of Tom ” ey and Billings and of all class if Cepeaoners in America and other Japitalist countries. | In the United States, conferences pave been called by the Interna- jonal Labor Defense in scores of ties, to organize the Aug. 22 dem~- trations in this country. In New led by the International Labor De- fense, the landowners’ courts of ‘Tallapoose County, Alabama, have been forced to dismiss the charges against 20 of the arrested Negro croppers, Wholesale arrests of crop- pers were made following the land- owners and police attack on the Share Croppers’ Union. In that at- tack several croppers were wounded and their wives and children beaten up. One cropper, Ralph Grey, was murdered in his bed by the landown~ ers and police, who looked on him as @ leader of the croppers in their fight against starvation and land- owner robbery. » Several of the croppers are still ork City the demonstration will be| 4m Jail, with the landowners and id in Union Square, _ 7} (CONTINUED QW PAGE FIVE - NATIONAL MINERS UNION LEADERS Criminal Syndicalism Charge Against 4 (Special to the Daily Worker.) WALLINS, Ky., Aug. 7—Jessie Wakefield, district organizer of the International Labor Defe-we, has been rearrested, as were. Arnold Johnson, representative of the Civil Liberties Union; Jason Alford and Bill Duncan, both local strike lead- ers. All are being held on charges of criminal syndicalism. Thugs are still raiding the houses of the workers and destroying and confiscating guns and pistols used in protection of the striking miners. They also took shot guns, some which were twenty years old and had been used for squirrel shooting. ‘The Evarts National Miners Union kitchen was opened on Wednesday. It fed four hundred on the first day and five undred on Thursday. Help is needed desperately to carry on this work, as‘ thousands in Evarts are de- pending on this kitchen. Rush help to the Penn-Ohio-West Virginia Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee, 611 Penn Ave. Room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa, MORE FOOD SENT TO MINE STRIKERS) Workers Int'l Relief In Active Drive With the delivery of a large truck- load of food to the'striking textile workers of Paterson, New Jersey, the | Workers International Relief has sw- ung into the task of supplying re- lief to workers on the textile strike front. "The W.LR. has also established a soup kitchen and relief store in Paterson and is pushing ahead with plans to widen relfef activity in the three districts where textile workers are out on strike under the leader- ship of the revolutionary National Textile Workers Industrial Union. The children of the Paterson strik- ers will be fed today at the soup kitchen. Today also the Penn-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee in conjunc- tion with the W.LR. is holding a Tag Day in Perth Amboy for the relief of the striking miners and tex- tile workers, Every worker in Perth Amboy is called-on by these two organizations to extend every effort in support of these strikers who are now in the front line of the fight for better con- ditions. Rush funds, food and cloth- ing to the Penn-Ohio Striking Min- ers Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, Room 330, New York City. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF. HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! IWO Mobilizes For Signature Drive \.The drive to collect 35,000 sig- natures to place the Communist Party candidates on the ballot will be pushed forward this Sun- day August 9th when the Inter- national Workers Order member~ ship throughout greater New York turns out in the house to house canvass in behalf of their own organization and to.assist the Communist Party place its candi- dates on the ballot. The TWO is the first mass organization to mo- bilize its entire membership for this task, and the Communist Party District 2, looks to all other working class organizations to fol- low this example as quickly as possible to fill the quota of 35,000 names which must be asstired be- fore the Party can enter its can- didates in the Municipal Elections, help now in the collection of sig- natures. All workers should re- port at the IWO. DISTRICT COMMITTEE of the COMMUNIST PARTY—Dist 2. U. S. Engineer Cooper Confers With Com. Stalin MOSCOW, Aug. 7.—Col, Hugh L. Cooper, president of the Amer- ican-Russian Chamber of Com- merce, was received yesterday by Stalin with whom he conferred for an hour. Col. Hugh L. Cooper of the H. L. Cooper & Co., consulting en- gineers, is the chief consulting engineer of the Dnieper River hy- froelectric power plant. Col. Cooper was the builder of the Muscle Shoals plant in Alabama. The Dnieper plant in the So- viet Union will be the largest hy- dro-electric plant in the world with an ultimate capacity of 750,- 000 h.p. The cost of the plant is $10,000,000. It will serve an area of 70,000 square miles and a population of % million persons. The plant is 200 miles north of Odessa and in the midst of a vast mining, agricultural and in- dustrial area. It was started in 127 and will be finished in May, 1932, one year before the sched- ule, ALLENTOWN SILK STRIKERS PLAN SPIKE SELLOUT Fight to Oust-the UTW Misleaders Is Sharpened (Special to the Daily Worker) ALLENTOWN, Pa., Aug. 7.—United ‘Textile workers shop chairmen, fear- ful of the growing: revolt against the UTW misleaders, met yesterday un- der the protection of the police. Wadsworth and Daugherty, shop chairman and loomfixers representa~ tive respettively, both elected by the workers, were voted out’ of the shop chairmen’s committee by UTW sup- porters because they were leading the fight to oust the UTW strike break- ing officials. ‘That the strike sell-out is planned by the UTW misleaders for the week end is known in all sections of the city. Strikers are rushing their plans to smash the sell-out, oust the United Textile Workers and take leadership in their own hands for a fight to win the conditions they are striking for. Starving Family Is Evicted; Young Child Dies of Starvation NEW YORK.—On the day Hoover planned action against the unem- ployed the family of Henry Breuer, an automobile mechanic, out of work since April, was evicted. 'Breuer’s family of ten children have been hungry and underfed| for a long time. When the court officials put the furniture out on the sidewalk, Mrs. Lena Breuer took her. children out. She laid the’ youngest on the doorstep. When she had all her fur- niture thrown out she went back to pick up her child, She found it dead—dead of starvation!. The other nine children of this family are hungry. an. starving, This is’ what faces millions of families throughout the United States—evic- tions and death from hunger. The children, being the weakest, feel the pinch of hunger sharpest. ay AFL Heads, Hoover Aides, Admit More Jobless in the Coming Winter NEW YORK.—Two anti-working- BOMB HOME OF SYMPATHIZER IN PA. STRIKE AREA Threaten to Burn the Furniture of All Evicted Miners PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 7—Last night the house of Alex Roman, NMU picket at the Warden mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. was bombed at Blythedale. The house was destroyed and the neighboring house of post- master Frank Vittori was burned and blasted but not destroyed. Vittorl, was on the comittee which several days ago protested to the Elizabeth Township Comissioners against their making a former coal and iron policeman named Dalton a special deputy. The injured are Angelina Vittori, wife of Vittori, who was knocked un- conscious and probably. paraysed and Anthony Vittori, their son, cut by glass, and Alex Roman cut by glass. The McKinleyville’ mine sends word: “Send us thirty tents and food and we will all strike.” Fifty five more struck at Colliers and only fif- teen are left in the mine now. Furniture of evictéd miners at Wellsburg was seized and stored in the city storage at a charge of fifty cents a day. The mayor says if it is not paid for within a month he will order the furniture burned. “PRAVDA” SCORES ARGENTINE RAID Planned By Imperial- ists and White Guards MOSCOW, Aug. 7.—Exposing the lying statement of the Argentine po- lice who allege that among the doc- uments siezed during the raid on the” Soviet . trading company in Buenos Aires recently, the Yuhzam- torg, there was a document showing that “propaganda” was carried on by the Soviet trading agency, “Pravda” says: “The Argentine raiders, together with their imperialist inspirers and technical executives in the person of the Russian white guards, fulfilled all procedure suitable for sych. occa- sions. First outrageous raids, and arrests and rayaging, then ‘docu- ments’ appear. “The new, false documents created in the bosom of the. secret police in Buenos Aires are neither original nor rich in fantasy.” Protest Police Murder of Three NEW .YORK.—At a meeting of 300 workers held last Thursday night! by the Hinsdale Block Committee of East New York, a resolution was unanimously adopted protesting the massacre of Chicago unempicyed workers. The resolution was ordered sent to Mayor Cermak of Chicago. It reads as follows: “We workers of East New York, both colored and white, mobilized at an open air meeting held on Wil- liams and Black Avenue voice our protest of condemnation against the brutal massacre of three. uemployed Negro workers and the wounding of 170 ORGANIZATIONS BACK FUNERAL TODAY Birmingham Police in Terror 7000 DEMONSTRATE IN Drive Against Negro Workers Raids and Wholesale Arrests Feature Attempt| to Frame Up Militant Negroes in Connec- tion With Murder of Society Woman CHATTANOOGA, £ Alabama, continue the workers in an effort to the attack on three society women | women was killed, the other tw to wrest the gun from a high wayman. Because the survivor: describe the hold-up man as Negro, .the police have used this a pretext to launch a r of terror against the N Among the scores of work: rested after their homes w en into by the Birmir are several in whose munist literature was fow A these militant Negro workers the lice are now concentrating all their | efforts fora frame-up in | with the hold-up of the society wo- | men. The boss press is carrying on | its usual campaign of inciting to} lynch terror against the arrested} workers. “The Southern district of the In- ternational Labor Defense has a telegram to Chief df Pol: | Duff of Birmingham, vigorously pro- | testing these raids on the homes of | ‘0 wo! nt | ids and arrest of Negro aming up Negro workers, ast Tuesday. One of the by fi o wounded when they attempted ‘o workers and the frame-up ac- ities of the police. The telegram s in part We hold you responsible for the safety of all those arrested in connection with the Williams shooting. We demand the imme- diate cessation of the reign of ter- ror against Negroes in Birming- ham and the immediate withdraw- al of the lynch posse. We demand | the right of the Birmingham work- | ers to defend themselves against lynch mobs and against the shoot~ ing up of Negro neighborhoods. “We warn you against any at- tempt to smash the Communist Party or oter working-class or- ganizations by framing militant workers and using the Williams’ shooting as an excuse. This is the same as the terror in the Scotts- boro and Camp Hill cases against which there has been world wide protest.” “TD RATHER DIE THAN SCAB—BUT THE KIDS,” STRIKING MINER SAYS Strike Can’t Be Won W ithout Relief; Workers! Show Your Solidarity! SLOVAN, Pa., Aug. 7—Rrom the 2i-months-old baby to the 13-year- old boy, not one of the children of Jim Sabatasi, striking miner of Slo- | van, has a pair of shoes. Mrs. Saba~ | tasi walks the highways barefoot if she wants to go anywhere, and so do her ten children. One baby is) deed. There is always sickness in| the family—if it isn’t one, it’s another child. Frequently three or four are sick at the same time. Mrs. Sabatasi diagnoses the si ness as well as any doctor, and she knows the cure—milk for the babies, nourishing food. Mrs. Sabatasi, her- self is suffering with a bad case of asthma. Sabatasi was one of the hundreds who picketed the Langecloth mine here Thursday morning when an at~ tempt was made to reopen the mine. | Deputies and state troopers were also on hand to smash the line and try to keep the pickets off the highway. Not | untli the resetves were called did the police succeed in making arrests. Sabatasi said many workers were | clubbed then. Very few went into scores of white and Negro workers, and recognize it as a crime against ployed then than in the past cold class forces were in conference| season.” ‘Thursday in Washington, D. C., to While Hoover met with. Julius plan action against the demand for| Barnes and Silas H. Strawn of the unemployment insurance and imme- diate relief that is increasing with the rapid growth of the unemployed army. Unemployment will grow much worse this winter, admitted Silas H. Strawn, who met with Hoover. The New York Times, referring to Strawn’s statement in htis respect, said: ' “He stated frankly that he ex- pected to see more people unem- United States Chamber of Com- merce, to work towards the defeat of any unémployment insurance scheme, the executive council of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor met for the same purpose. William Green, who led the fight against unem- ployment insurance at the last American Federation of Labor con- vention, declared unemployment is growing worse and the bosses must ‘be prepared to act against riots and struggles for food of:the unemployed. un son silk workers. the mine. “I've been a union man for over 30 years,” Sabatasi says, “and I don’t Silas H. Strawn, a wealthy Chi- cago lawyer, close adviser of Hoover, frankly said that unemployment would be much worse in the coming winter. No relief was planned, but Strawn said the government had the situation “well in hand.” Barnes said that the United States Chamber of Commerce would issue a “report” on unemployment on Sep- tember 1. Green of the A.’ F. of L. declared the next A. F. of L. convention in Vancouver, B. C., Oct 1, would take up the Western Pennsylvania mine strike and the strike, of the Pater- |West want to be a scab now. I know what it means working as things are now. You make nothing just the same, “But the children—there are so jany children and they all need eats and shoes. The relief sends out all it can, I know, but there are so many of us. I give my share to the kids, but we need more. I've never been a scab yet, and I’d rather die my- self—but the kids!” When all the food is distributed between all the strike camps, there is enough food for three meals a week, But the Pennsylvania-Ohie- Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Committee is urging | workers everywhere to send more; funds and collect more food so that one meal a day can be sent to every striking miner, every child, and every woman. ‘The importance of this relief can not be overestimated, Ike Hawkins, relief chairman says. Workers every- where must be rallied immediately | so that the miners will not be starved back to work! one, and the miners are prepared to fight it through. “And with your | help, we will fight it through!” Haw- kins says. “Send all the pennies and dollars you can gather together! Every penny is so terribly necessary to buy food and tents! Rush what you can to Room 330, 799 Broadway. FASCIST PAPER LOCKS OUT MEN NEW YORK.—The workers in the typesetting room of the fascist pa~- per, Amerikai Magyar Nepszava were locked out on Monday. Their contract had just expired and the owners of the fascist sheet tried to force them to work 7 1-2 hous instead of 6 hours as formerly. They also tried to ‘make them work for less pay as well as longer hours. The workers resisted the demands of the bosses and were locked out. Scabs have been employed. The locked out workers are picketing the establishment of the paper which is located at 9-11 E. 16th St, The battle is a fierce | | WASHINGTON PARK ON THURSDAY PERMIT GRANTED WORKERS RAISE FUNDS FOR FUNERAL _ CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. ?.—Police permission has been secured for the funeral procession which will be held on Saturday, August 8, at 2 p.m. from Odd Fellows Hall, 3337 South State Street. The pro- cession will march south to 47th Street, turn “west at Stewart to Railroad Station where the bodies of Abe Grey and John O'Neil will be put-on the trin to be shipped to their places of birth in the states of Mississippi and Arkan- sas respectively. The United Front Funeral ar- rangements committee — estimates that no less than 50,000 white and Negro workers will be in the proces- sion. A stream of white and Negro workers is constantly moving through the large room in the Odd Fellows Hall to pay tribute to the dead sol- diers of the cl2ss struggle. | On Thursday night more thar seven thousand Negro and white | workeré again demonstrated in | Washington Park, cheering the Communist Party representative and other speakers. | Mayor Cermak called a meeting o} | his cabinet on Thursday night at | Which plans have been laid down to attack the Communist Party, threat- ening the foreign born workers with deportation. Socialists, Negro and white priests business men and police held < meeting to plan methods of socia) dethagogy to win the workers. Ma- thewson of the Unemployed Counci! issued a statement condemning the charges pf. the Corporation Counse! Sexton and te capitalist press that the Unemployed Council is collect- ing dollars from the unemployed workers. The dues ‘in the Unem- ployed Council is one cent. The cap- italist press report this morning that taids have been made on the’ Com- munist Party headquarters. This’ ir false. There were no raids on thr headquarters. (Additional news on page 5) —_—__— CALL NATIONAL CONFERENCE. ON | MINERS’ RELIEF Meets In Pittsburgh on Aug. 28-29- NEW YORK.—A call for a national conference to be held 1 Pittsburgh on August 28th and 29th has been sent to all WIR sections, all the Penn.- Ohio Relief Committees. and all mass organizations which havé’ ited in the relief campaign for the min- ers, by the Workers International Relief, 799 Broadway. The. Workers International Reliei urges. that approximately five dele- gates be sent to the conference from the larger cities and at least one eech from: the smaller cities. The following points. will up at the conference: 1. lief; 2. Textile workers’ a coordinating the ‘relief «campaigns for miners and textile workers in New England, New Jersey, New York and Eastern Pennsylvanie; 3. The need for and the methods of build~ ing the WIR; 4. The relationship of the WIR to the revolutionary unions; 5. The World Congress of the WIR and the selection of an American workers delegation.