The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1931, Page 1

Cie EXTRA! Turn to Page 3 for news of the murder of 15 German Com- : munists during the voting on the Prussian Referen- dum Sunday Dail Central Org (Section of the Communist meee Worker Raunict Party U.S.A. Vol. VIII, No. 191 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 <a>as NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1931 WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ UNITE! , 2 CITY EDITION” Price 3 Cente 9 —— ——- ——>>SS>———— 110,000 TURN OUT FOR FUNERAL OF MASSACRE VICTIMS PICKETING KEEPS _ MINES ‘SHUT DOWN Hoover Moves Against Unemployment Relief ESIDENT HOOVER is holding a council of war against the unem- ployed at his Rapidan Camp. He has mobilized the leading forces of the bosses to act against unemployment relief, against ae eee ones and for wage cuts. Senator Roberts of Rhode Island has just returned from Europe where he studied the unemployment insurance schemes, particularly of Germany and England. His whole purpose was to furnish the American bosses with ammunition in the fight against unemployment insurance.~ Hoover's move for “unemployment relief” is a major move against any unemployment relief for the jobless. Next winter will be a frightful one for the workers. One capitalist charity agency said there will be twice the demand for relief with but one-half the usual sources for supplying it. Hoover now admits the bosses have a big task on their hands, and he is moving every force he can to stop the growing demand of the workers for unemployment insurance to be paid by the government, through levies on the bosses, through transferring the war funds to un- employment insurance. i For two winters the American workers have suffered the effects of the economic crisis, but we get the admission from Hoover and his associates, Julius H. Barnes and Silas H. Strawn, that the coming winter will be the worst in American history. They know it will mean inten- sified struggle for relief and that is why they, are mobilizing their ma- chinery for attack against the workers, Hoover’s move is a recognition of the continuing and deepen- ing economic crisis and a confession that all his previous state- ments about returning prosperity were lies. There will be a new wave of repression, already foreshadowed by the Camp Hill massacre in Alabama, and the slaughter of the three Negro unemployed in Chicago. Hoover's purpose in “coordinating” the city, local and federal “relief” agencies is to unify and extend the campaign of repression and terror, now going on against the native and foreign born. workers. Hoover hopes to prepare alibis to Congressmeri for voting against unemployment relief. He is adopting the fakery of the democratic Senator Wagner, whose talk about “unemployment insurance” is of the same stamp as that of Hoover’s. Wagner has been playing with the misery and hunger of millions through his hypocritical promises which now merge into the “Hoover campaign: against. unemployment insuraace, Along with the attacks against the workers, in the form of wage cuts, legislation against unemployment insurance, we see an increase in war preparations. Not content with’ the $700,000,000 spent last year for war armaments, the Navy Department, with Hoover's approval, will get $129,000,000 more for battleships and bombing planes. Admiral Moffat in launching the navy dirigible Akron, which costs tens of millions, says-- the coming Congress will provide money for other and more powerful fighting airships. There are plenty of millions for war preparations, for the next capitalist slaughter. Hoover can no longer cling to his lies about the ending of the crisis. We now have an admission that the crisis will be worse this winter and a warning tigat the bosses will use every means available to stave off unemployment insurance, unless forced by a militant, well organized working class to grant it. How tens of thousands can be rallied for struggle against evictions and for unemployment relief is strikingly shown by the Chicago Unem- ployed Council, which rallied the Negro and white workers of Chicago despite the vicious terror. The Unemployed Councils must begin organizing now to face the situation of the coming winter. Its present strength must be increased ten times; its organizational firmness must be strength- ened to meet a sharper situation, a capitalist class intrenched for struggle, as well as to rally the new millions of starving unemployed in a determined fight for relief. This is the lesson from Hoover's Out To Win! press reports that Pennsylvania coal operators are requesting the federal government to take over their mines on the excuse that “the business doesn’t pay,” can be put down as 99 per cent publicity hafum aimed to counteract the demands of the striking miners. While not a word is said in these reports about the strike, it may be taken for granted that the reports indicate that the operators are feeling seriously hit by the strike. There is no doubt but that the oper- ators have been astonished at the strength of the National Miners’ Unions and the strike solidarity it established between the Negro and white miners, ‘The miners, who struck against starvation and have heroically car- ried on their struggle against a united front of operators, police, sheriffs, and the ‘treacherous U. M. W. of A., certainly have every reason to tighten up their battle lines and stay out to win. More than ever should the miners strengthen their union, the N, M.’U,, by themselves, the rank and file of the strikers, taking full charge of all its functions, its activities and organization. ‘The miners understand by now, if they did not understand before the strike, that the N. M. U, is not the same type of organization as the U. M. W. A., with its corrupt Lewis and Fagan bureaucracy bossing— and betraying—the rank and file from above. The N. M. U. has given the miners new faith by its stressing the need for solidarity between Negro and white workers, where the U. M. W. A. has betrayed both by playing the bosses’ game of race prejudice, The miners have every need now and from now on, to strengthen this solidarity, for it is one of the most important bases of keeping up and strengthening the picket lines, of extending the strike to more mines. And more than ever, it.is necessary to have all strikers clearly under- stand that their strike will be won on the picket line—by firm and disci- Pplined mass picketing. An army which holds together and moves in organized, disciplined ranks—is never defeated. Neither can the miners be defeated if they act as one, solidly and firmly organized, self-disciplined and united under their own democratically elected strike committee. While the miners have need of consolidating their fighting front, of more than ever taking the union and strike activities into their own hands and enforcing the mass discipline of their own rank and file, all workers everywhere have the imperative duty of asd all possible relief to these heroic fighters. ~ The strike is ata stage\where relief 1s most decisive and {mportant. No matter what you and your organization has done before—you have not done enough—and in most cases far too little has been donc. Rally all relief possible—and as rapidly as possible! The miners are out to win! Help them! ey |MILL STRIKERS PLACE DEMANDS BEFORE GOV. CASE They Demand Action Against Police Terror Right to Picket Mills (Special to the Daily Worker.) PROVIDENCE, R. I, Aug. 9.—A delegation of one hundred textile strikers of this state crowded the of- fice of Governor Norman S. Case on Friday afternoon, demanding action against the police terror, the right of workers to picket the Royal Mill in Pawtucket and General Fabrics in Central Falls. The strikers de- nounced the strike-breaking activi- ties of the police, state troopers and immigration officials. James Reid, president of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union; Pra- ger, International Labor Defense or- ganizer; Russak, N. T. W. U. organizers; strikers and bandaged victims of po- lice brutality, all spoke. ‘The governor evaded the issues raised by the strikers and refused action on the basis of conducting “a quiet investigation.” eee eae PAWTUCKET, R. I, Aug. 9.—Be- cause some scavs were beaten up by unidentified persons, the police here have started a new series of persecu- tions of the workers. According to the reports in the capitalist press, the police will try to frame-up some of the strikers of the Royal Mill with responsibility for the attack. The Royal Strike Committee on Thursday planned their strike ac- tivities as usual, raising relief, house- to-house work to consolidate the strikers, etc. Over 200 workers at- tended the strikers’ mass meeting on Thursday night on Woodbine lot. ie ge PROVIDENCE, R. I, Aug. 9.— About 150 to 200 workers listened to the report of the National Textile Workers’ Union Thursday night on the Weybosset strike. This strike was brought to an end on Aug. 1 through a sell-out engineered by Chris Dansereau, loom fixer and lo- cal organizer of the strike. Just be- fore the mass meeting the Weybos- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Anna Burlak and Mar. >! ° Strike Shows N New Vigor But Need for Relief Grows | With Spread of Strike UMWA Scab Agreement in Pittsburgh Ter-| minal Coal Area Is Crumbling | | | Mines Ready to Close Down Any Day; Sheriff) in Washington County Enforees Hunger PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 7.— Diamond, | Taylor and Provence mines have been shut: down entirely. Active picketing stopped the attempt of these mines to run. At Hendersonville mine, where 150 were working, active picketing yesterday and today (August 7) cut the number down to 38. At Winstead mine, which fever was on strike, a strike has ares Twenty-five walked out today and the rest will come our. : -vy-iive tore came out at Col-@ United 60,000 March Behind ° ie Bodies in Chicago a \Fight Jobless Relief Demand UNEMPLOYED THIS WINTER TO STAVE OFF UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE WASHINGTON, August 9.—For the past few days, Hoover in his cool Rapidan camp and Green, and the executive council of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor in their luxurious ho- tel suites in the boss summer resort at Atlantic City, have been planning to enforce hunger for the 10,000,000 American unemployed. Both enemies of labor, the capitalist government and the A. F. of L, officials, they agree fully in their fight against un- employment insurance or any form of immediate relief the lier's mine, West Virginia, and there are now left only 15 in this mine. At McKinleyville, the miners have sent word that they will all come out if they can be provided with only 30 tents for evicted families, and with some food. The whole Pittsburgh Terminal system, which is based now on the scab agreement with the Mine Workers, is crumbling. The Sensible tactics of the strike com- mittee and the pickets at Mollen- auer, which included the division of families of those who went back to work among the pickets for house (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Southern Bosses in New Frame-Up of Negro Toilers; Workers! Protest Aug. 22! Fight Terror Against Negro Masses! Demand Freedom of Scottsboro, Camp Hill Victims, Tom Mooney and all Class War Prisoners! CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 9. — Enraged at the growing success of the revolutionary unions in uniting white and Negro workers fo com- mon struggle and for support of the defense of the nine Scottsboro boys and the Camp Hill croppers, the mill owners of Greenville, S. C., have again launched their terror against the militant workers. Mobilizing their white robed ku klux klan thugs the mill owners led The sight of children that look like skeletons, whose arms you're afraid to touch for fear they'll break is incentive for a militant fight against starvation! The sight of chil- dren, sons and daughters you've raised, dying of flux—another name for starvation—is enough to put irorr into your will! The fight against starvation is a bitter fight, a deter- mined fight! The miners are strik- ing against starvation and their wives and children down to the very babies are in the fight. Conditions in the mines that the miners are striking against? Just one glance at the shacks whole families crowd into, shacks much worse even than the bleak, broken- down company houses in Pennsyl- vania towns is enough to tell the story. All through the coal fields of Ken- tucky, one rarely sees a miner wear- ing a full suit of clothes. Overalls, patched and patched again is usually the only garment he has to wear. Underwear costs money that very few can afford. Even shoes are a luxury. ‘ ‘The miners of Kentucky just as the miners of West Virginia, Penn- sylvania and Ohio are waging bitter war against starvation! Extreme ter- ror is directed at them from every quarter. With a price on their heads, with bands of gangsters imported from Chicago, Insull's home town roving up and down the green hills of Harlan, dynamiting, looting, destroying—all to defend tthe profits of Insull, of the Paisleys, Rank file organizers are working at a feverish temro, building the Na- tional Miners’ Union, tightening up the machinery of organization, Coal Miners Fighting for Lite; But Need Reliet to Win spreading into Tennessee and Vir- ginia, It is a heroic batile in a tense battlefield. It is a battle that workers everywhere must support if it is to be won! Relief is what the miners ask of you. Help them wage their battle by sending something te feed their children, Stop this plague that is wiping out large numbers of militant miners, their wives and children! Help them ‘fight against starvation by sending every Penny you can possibly raise to the Pennsylvania - Ohio - West - Vir- ginia~-Kentucky Striking Miners Re- lief Committee, 799 Broadway, New York City. Food ig needed desper- ately. Send all you can today. an attack on the home of the local organizer of the National Textile Workers Union. Finding him out, they wrecked his home and took away literature and all personal be- longings. The Greenville boss papers have gleefully reported the attack, lyingly asserting that the organizer was escorted out of town by the bosses mob. A fhe same time, the police and bosses of Birmingham, Alabama, are using the shooting of three society women by an alleged Negro bandit, as a pretext lor a campaign of ter- ror against aff militant Negro work- ers in the city. The boss papers openly admit that the campaign is aimed at breaking up the growing influence of the Communist Party. The Birmingham News, under the caption “On What Hateful Bread Does Communism Feed?” attempts to interpret the hold-up as an out~- come of Communist teachings and declares: “Southerners and all Americans whatsoever who understand the in- equalities of races — Southerners who are white afd Southerners of dark skins as \well—must by every means possible land out of the soctal body this infamous and unnatural teachment.” ‘The Negro Uncle Tom reformists immediately responded to the rally- ing cry of the News for a united front of “all Southerners and all (CONTINUED PAGE THREE unemployed outside of the existing ¢—— starvation charity. Hoover listened to a special report made by Senator Herbert of Rhode Island on unemployment insurance in European countries. Previously the Wall Street president announced that the only form of insurance he favored for the unemployed was that to be taken up by big’ corporations, which would mean a wage cut with- out any relief whatever to the job- less. .A statement issued by the pres- ident, declares he has talked over the plan of fighting unemployment in- surance with “labor and financial” leaders. The “labor leaders” fully approve the hunger project of the bosses and go even a step further to keep thé workers from fighting for real relief at the expense of the bosses. Green, Woll Eat Plenty A stavement issued by the executive council of the A. F. of L. in Atlantic City, where Green and Matthew Woll eat the most luxurious foods and drink the best wines, tells the unem- ployed “there seems to be little hope for anything (for the jobless) short of a vast destitution.” And to rem- edy this, they go on to say, the unem- ployed should not try to force relief from the bosses, but should struggle for—beer! The statement against unemploy- ment insurance, which the fat boys of the A. F. of L, call a “dole,” says: “Whatever drastic action may be required this winter to provide honorable sustenance for a prob- able 7,000,000 uncmployed,” the re- port declared, “we believe your executive council will agree that the United States must not be forced or fooled into the adoption of the dole, of anything of that kind, whether by that name or under some masquerade. In our campaign we have . consistently held that the industrial mechanism of the nation is responsible for the condition and must be accountable for the remedy—not merely relief, but remedy.” “The “remedy” they offer is legal- izing of booze. The only remedy for unemployment is the overthrow of capitalism, and the A. F. of L. of- ficialdom designedly attempt to keep the workers’ mind off their real task by telling them to fight for booze. The argument of the A. F. of L. (CONT BD OF PAGE THNER) Barbaric Terror Revealed In Government Deportation Report The tenth ai of the Wicker- sham Commission which was made public Saturday contains a mass of material showing the vicious attack on the foreign born workers by the Hoover administration. The report was suppressed for over two months, since its completion on May 27, in order that the attack on the mil- itant foreign born workers could be speeded up and thousands more could be deported without stirring up the militant resistance of the working class. In characterizing the deportation of the Hoover government, the re- port admits that “unconstitutional, tyrannic, and oppressive Hole agit have been used to Senor = Doak Calls f for More Vicious Laws Against Workers born workers. As the capitalist class has denied the workers their con- Stitutional rights of free speech and assemblage by smashing up demon- strations so have they broken their own laws in every respect in the at- tack on the foreign workers, ‘The report as far as made public is in itself a means for covering up and strengthening the deportation campaign. The report makes not one reference to the fact that he acme gr ® portations as a strike breaking club over the workers suffering wage slashes and the most brutal speedup. In the textile strikes in New Eng- land, the Department of Labor has used this to try to deport such mil- itant leaders of the workers as De- vine, Burlak and Berkman. In Paterson at the beginning of the silk strike the capitalist press itself made public the news that government agents had been sent in to” help break the strike thru deportations. | to In the White Plains road workers’ strike the government sent 18 strik- ers to Ellis Island for deportation. ‘The report makes not one word of 20,000 BANK OF U.S. DEPOSITORS DEMAND MARCH To Make Second Fffort To Get Permit For A Demonstration NEW YORK.—Over twenty thou- sand dep ws participated in the thirty mass etings that were held during last week in all boroughs of Greater New York. Masses of de- Positors have stormed with protest, when learning that Police Commis- sioner Mulrooney contemplates to re- fuse a permit for our demonstratior at the front of City Hall on Satur- day, August 15, 1931. Some deposi- tors attacked the members of the committee for being too mild and lenient and on many meetings reso- lutions were passed to hold the dem- onstration even if Commissioner Mol- rooney will not issue a permit. This question will have to be decided Monday night at a large meeting of the committee of 25 to be held at the Hias Building, 425 Lafayete St. To Make Second Demand. In the meantime the Executive Committee made an arrangement ‘to see Mr. Corrigan, the assistant to the mayor, and rrcuade him to ask the responsible authorities not to refuse the permit. The committee will re- mind Mr. Corrigan, that at the be- ginning of January, 1931, at a con- ference in City Hall held with our Committee of 25 he said: with you that they (directors Bank of United States) crooks, and their place is in jail, and I will give any assistance that my office’ permits me to help you rouse the city will do anything possible to get your money back.” From the demorstration in City State Banking Department, where the delegation will present the fol- lowing demands 1, Workers and small depositors should be paid out first and in full. 2. The prosecution of the guilty officials in the State Banking De- partment. 3. The State Department guarantee all the deposits small depositors. 4. Prosecution and immediate ar- rest of entire Board of Directors of the defunct bank. should of the 5. To assess the Board of Direc- tors with the full losses of the de- Ppositors, and to assess the stock holders with the par value of their shares. A call has been issued to many labor end benevolent organizations to participate in our demonstration. Depositors of %ther banks are urged participate, and it is expected that this demonstration will be the big- gest that New York has seen. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOC- VER’S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, “I agree / are a bunch of | Hall the depositors will march to the | | | for Buaee to Aid Houter NEGRO, WHITE UNI 'WALL STREET PRESIDENT PLANNING ATTACK ON scourtn | to cover Te IN MIGHTY MASS *' DEMONSTRATION V ictim Foun$ PLEDGE FIGHT ON EN TIONS, STARVATION ? BULLETIN CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—To the Gli of the police massacre victims %& new added a fourth, Frank Arms strong whese body was identified yesterday at an undertaker’s pare lor. 1 The police were strenuously trying tp this fourth marder. The discoviry of the body confirms the rumors that several additional 5 workers were killed in Monday’s massacre. These rumors will be investigate. Comrade» Armstrong v.15 also a” member of the Unemployed Coun- peil, The Council is arranging for | Bhis funeral. The capitalist press is trying to ‘ight lie. The body of Paige hae Iso been identified. CHICKGO, A Aug. 9.— Sixty thousand Negrc and white workers marched Saturday in the mass funeral for two of the three unem- ployed Negro workers murdered last Monday by police at the behest of the white and Negra landlords and N. A. A, C. P, leaders of Chicago. The three workers were killed when police fired into 2 crowd of working-class men women and children who were protesting the eviction of an agec unemployed Neegro woman. Scores of white and Negro workers were wounded by the murderous Police gun fire. The murdered workers are Abe Grey, member of the Commu« (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 20,000 New York Workers Protest Chicago Murders NEW YORK —Twenty thousand the public opinion against them, and | Negroeand white workers demon- strated @last Friday night in the | streets of Harlem against the shoot- ing down and murder of unemployed workers by the Chicago bosses and their police last Monday. Six open-air meetings were held in the section, as follows: 129th St. and Lenox Ave., 130th St. and Lenox Ave., 13th St. and Fifth Ave. 132nd St. and Seventh Ave. 117th St. and First Ave., and 86th St. and Lexing- ton Ave. These meetings were ad- dressed by several speakers from the Communist Party, the Young Com- munist League and other organiza<« tions. Speakers included Sam Nes- sin, Sol Harper and Edwards. After the demonstrations, 400 workers gathered in St, Luke's Hall, in spite of the terrific heat and the rain, for another meeting. 6.0, ae KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 9.—Over 500 white and Negro workers rallied in two street demonstrations Thurs- day night to protest the murder by Chicago police of three Negro work- ers and the wounding of scorer Negro and white workers. About 300 workers turned out for the demonstration at 18th and Paseo, in the heart of the Negro section, and about 200 at 13th and Summit. At both meetings, the workers unani< mously adopted resolutions of pro« test to be wired to Governor Emere "2 Se Ae ae