The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1931, Page 1

pouldrebam ash RNS RA I (GHEE Te Dace | \AND You CAN Keer } |CAPITALIEM IN { {Power A irre Ci uncon au Seciauisy” AA CDR ese: on NOD (Section of the Communist International) mmunist Porty U.S.A. 8 2 OF Vol. VIII, No. 192 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New-York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 Pca) EW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1931. WORKERS 'HE WORLD, UNITE! ~ CITY EDITION = When Black and White ‘(UNS FAIL T0'Cops Use Mur March Together g yess biggest demonstration ever held by the working class in the history of Chicago was the funeral demonstration of more than 100,000 in honor of the three dead Negro workers, murdered by the police in the massacre of August 3. r Let the working class in its present moment of deepest suffering and greatest need of action for relief, think over these facts 1, The working class cause rises to its highest strength when black and white march together. © 2. The first demonstration of masses of white and Negro work- ers for the solidarity of black and white—is the biggest demon- stration the workers ever had in the city. 3. This is the first proof that masses of white workers, when .. given honest and bold revolutionary leadership, will turn out in the largest numbers when the main issue before them is the de- fense of Negro workers and solidarity of black and white! . It is reported that as many as 20,000 white workers, organized under the banners of their organizations, came over into the segregated Negro section of the South Side to march shoulder to shoulder with 30,000 Negro workers in honor of the three Negro martyrs of the struggle against the evictions of the unemployed. 4. When the solidarity of Negro and white workers is boldly proclaimed, as in this case, the workers of Chicago accomplish one of the biggest and most effective demonstrations against unem- ployment and evictions ever had in the United States—and one that ranks with the biggest protests against starvation that have been held in any-country of the world. 5. The success is due to the fusion of Negro and white work- ers on the principle of solidarity. 6. Compare this to 1919, at the time of the stockyards strike, when the capitalist class of Chicago was able to smash the begin- nings of Negro and white solidarity, by turning loose the race riots of 1919, which paralyzed the labor movement for twelve years and turned it into the direction of fascism. é ‘The Chicago workers rave raised their whole struggle against starva- tion to a higher plane by this magnificent demonstration of solidarity last Saturday! But—just because the struggle is raised danger point comes now, from: (a) Attacks which will be made with redoubled force and ingenuity from all the enemies (black and white) of the Negro people and of the working class, and (b) Possible failure on our part to consolidate organizationally the gains which the workers’ cause has won, and to push on to further action. The Chicago workers, and the masses of Negro population, are in desperate need—as are the workers in all parts ofthis country of 10,000,000 unemployed. Many things must be fought for in order’ that our class—particularly the wives and children of unemployed workers— can live. This winter will-be the worst hell of suffering for the workers and laboring farmers ever known up to this time in’ thé cruel history of capitalist slavery. How can concessions be won from the unwilling hands of a cold- blooded Wall Street dictatorship which has billions to spend on criminal war plans but not a cent with which to save the victims of its own greed? How can the lives of our children be saved from death by starvation and cold and the diseases that strike down the children of our class while the children of rich parasites remain healthy and sound with warm shelter and good food? How about the unemployed Negro workers —the worst sufferers of all—paying two dollars of rent for each dollar a white tenant pays, crowded and starving in the foul air of unheated jim-crow flats—what will become of the unemployed Negro worker and his family this winter? Have the brave Negro workers—Gray, O’Neil and Paige—died in vain? Or have we, the workers, black and white, learned from this: Divided we are weak, united there is no force that can in the long ron defeat us! Let the mass funeral of our dead comrades be the beginning of the organization of the masses of Chicago workers! Do what Gray, O'Neil and Paige (if they were elivé) would have you do: Organize the Unemployment Councils! Organize the League of Struggle for Negro Righis! Organize the International Labor Defense! Organize in trade unions under the Trade Union Unity League! Join the Communist Party! Negro and white workers, unite! A Workers’ Delegation to the Soviet Union HE enemies of the Soviet Union and of the American working. class have begun a new offensive against the Soviet Union. Matthew Woll organized a committee of 100 black-reactionaries with the avowed special purpose of mobilizing forces for attacking the U.S. S. R. Almost at the same moment that Woll announced his committee, Morris Hillquit of the socialist party filed suit on behalf of former czarist oil owners to seize Beku oi! shipped to foreign countries. This action was follow by the raids conducted by the Argentine government on the Soviet trauing agency in Buenos Aires in-an attempt to provoke a concerted attack on the First Workers’ Republic by the imperialist powers. All these actions are accompanied by a flood of lies concocted by professional lebor haters and hypocrites detailing invented brutalities, Barbarism, etc. ‘The American workers should know the truth about thé situation. ‘The great material and cultural progress made under the Five Year Plan for the construction of Socialism should become known to every worker. More—against these attacks of the enemies of the U. S. S. R. the Amer- {ean working class should join in a powerful demonstration of solidarity with our brothers in the Soviet Union. To get a first hand report to tie closer our friendship with the Soviet Union workers, a delegation of 25 American workers is invited by the Central Council of the Trade Unions of the U.S.5.R. ‘ ° The 25 delegates will include 6 miners, 8 metal workers, 6 chemical workers and 5 seamen. Each one of these basic categories of workers is deeply affected by the crisis. The conditions in these industries are characteristic for the entire economic structure. All have suffered wage cuts and increase of hours. All have tremendous unemiployment. The miners are at every moment being murdered for rising to speak up against the misery which is their lot, and as was their lot even during the so-called prosperity of previous years. The chemical workers and seamen are in those industries most directly affected by the imperialist war préparations. No workers in the U. S. are as limited as to so-called liberty as are these. The meeting of the U. S. Steel Corporation was ominously non-committal on the prcnosed 10 per cent wage cut for steel workers. : o In the 15,000 miles which the delegation will cover they vill witness the contrast between the rising standard of living which goes hand in hand with the growth of productive forces in the Soviet Union and the falling st-ndard of living which goes with increase of production in the United States and other capitalist countries. Mr. Woll and 100 little Wolls will have to work double ft to invent a new crop of lies to counteract the report of these firsf-hand working class investigators. Such delegaticns made up of intelligent workers can prove great factors in cementinz the bonds of friendship between the workers of the Soviet Union and those of the United States. It can break down the border barriers set up by capitalist government to keep workers separated and help to unite workers in common action against imperialist war. We wish great success to the drive to achieve it. Six thousand dojlars are needed for fares between the U. 5. and the USSR borders. Within the Soviet Union the delegates will be the guests of the Central Council of the Trade Unions of the USSR. It is to leave October 1th. All who can help either in the choosing of the delegates or with funds are invited to get in touch with the United States section of the Friends of the Soviet Union, 90 B. 11th St., New York City. to a higher plane—the COW SILK | STRIKERS 12 Pickets Arrested, | Others Beaten By Cops | ‘Hit Fake Settlements \Intensify Drive For United Frqnt |. PATERSON, Ny J., Aug. 10.—This | Monday morning, always a crucial day of every week of every strike, finds the ranks. of the Paterson strikers firm. The picket line show- ed an accumulated militancy in the face of increasing terror of last week and the p5lice retaliated with a growing violence. For the first time during this strike a gun was drawn on the pick- eters. At the Streng dye shop 150 Ppicketers tried to rescue a worker grabbed out of the line by the po- lice, when another cop drew his gun and held the crowd back. Within two minutes the place was swarm- ing with police officers and detec- tives. The arrests began. First tie children were pulled ou tof the line, then the women and the young picketers. Twelve in all, including two Pioneers, were arrested, while many others were badly mauled '; the police. Sixteen were arrested at the same shop on the morning picket (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) PUTNAM STRIKERS FIRM IN DEMANDS: ENTER 5TH WEEK Vote Unanimously to StaysOut Until De- mands Are Granted By BARNEY CREEGAN N.T.W.U. Organizer. PUTNAM, Conn. Aug. 10 (By Mail).—At the end of the fourth week the strikers of the Salzberg and Bloom silk mills are still stand- ing solid in their demand for the 48-hour week and increased piece and time rates. The several conferences between the employers and the strike com- mittee of the two mills have shown the workers that only their solidarity and their will’to win, together with continued mass picketing can win the strike. On Tuesday, Aug. 4, a committee of ten elected from the Bloom strike committee met the employer. The demands were submitted and. turned down, the bosses’ only offer being that the mill would reopen under the conditfons prevailing at the calling of the strike. ‘The comumittee wes unanimous in rejecting this offer and a mass meeting held immédiately after the conference decided by acclamation to continue the struggle. ‘This meeting was attended by the State Labor Cpmmissioner Tone. Whatever the intentions of Mr. Tone, he did not dare introduce any issues designed to split the ranks of the workefs. This is the result of the National Textile Workers’ Union, continued campaign against the in- terference of professional strike- breakers of the type of Anna Wein- stock, who recently was given the cold shoulder by the Pawtucket silk strikers. a The Salzberg workers’ strike com- mittee met the boss on the following day, Aug. 5. The boss refused to grant the demands and the commit- tee reported to the mass of strikers, who voted unanimously to carry on the fight until the demands are won. State Labor Commissioner Tone was in Putnam on this day alsoand tried to insinuate himself into the conference, but did not succeed. The joint strike committee of the workers of both mills is functioning well. The picket line marches be- fore the mill gates three times per day. So far the police have been wise enough to leaves the pickets alone. This is undouBtedly due to the workers’ enthuscsm and the mass nature of this activity. The success of the strikes now be- | used primarily against militant | rs oe * Barbaric torture, unrivaled| Wickersham nort| even by the bloodthirstiness of| N Or tli a M ce oe EY medieval executioners, torture uluines iMethods of Boss Thugs | workers by capitalist police A i thugs, was revealed in the lat- | and On Picket lines. The| est section of the Wickersham| World Telegram, however, ad-| report on the “lawlessness in| mits this: BS | law enforcement” made public| ‘Strangely enough,” the yesterday. | Telegram states, ‘the inves- | bs tigators discovered that pro- | fessional criminals rarely | figured in these secret in- | quisitions (torture. — Ed.) The report as quoted in the} capitalist press conceals the fact that these methods have | been used primarily against! the poor, foreign-born, Com- | workers arrested in demon-| munists, Negroes and sim- strations, in eviction cases, | derous Torture Against Workers, Report Shows chief sufferers.” | | | | | The report quotes Mayor} | Walker, who stated that for “suecessful police work” the best means to be used was the night-stick. ‘The third de- gree,” states the report, “is; widely and brutally employed | jin New York City,” and sub- Call On All Str stantiates this fact with the} statements of a number of former United States and District Attorneys. Brutal Third Degree Methods. The report gives a summary } (co ilar sroups constituting the STRIKING MINERS NEED TENTS Evarts, conter of the flux plague, a kitchen that feeds close to a thou- Striking miners at Coverdale, Pa., who have been evicted from the com- pany patch shacks by the infamous Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. of which Mellon is a dominant figure. They are carrying on a heroic fight. But they must have tents, food for themselves and their chil- dren and the widest support of the workers of all other industries. Do your part today, contribute your share to the relief fund of the fight- ing miners. sand strikers and women and chil- dren was established. The Wallins Creek kitchen has been functioning for almost three weeks, although the deputized gunmen who rove through the Kentucky hills in heavily ar- mored cars openly threaten to de- molish the relief stations. Groups of miners are constantly on guard. A third kitchen will be opened next week in Kentucky. Every ef- fort is being made by the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio-West Virginia~Kentucky Striking Mine! *’ Relief Committee to A second relief kitchen was opened in Harlan County this week. In raise enough money to open it the early part of the week. The funds sent by workers to the central head- quarters, Room 330, 799 Broadway, N. Y., will decide just when the kitchen can be opened. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, Sher- iff Seaman of Washington County closed down three relief stations in the Slovan region on legal techni- calities. Today all the kitchens will be re-established in larger quarters. Food must be sent out to these and other camps! This intense struggle against starvation must be sup- ported! Are you supporting this fight?.. Send every penny you ‘can! iis Negro Murdered, 3 We. in Birmingham Polic. Terror; Workers! Protest August 22! BIRMINGHAM, Ala., August 19.—One Ne- gro worker has been murdered and three crit- ically wounded as a result of the savage lynch terro rlaunched by the police against Birming- ham Negro workers under cover of the hunt for a Negro bandit who is supposed to have been responsible for the hold-up and shooting of three society women here a few days ago. One of the women died, and the Birmingham boss press has been frothing at the mouth and deliberately whipping up lynch sentiment aSainst the Nesro workers. The police have furthered this sentiment @———~— ———————______— by making wholesale raids and ar- up Negro militants. Workers’ homes rests of scores af Negro workers, are searched for Communist Iitera- Both the police and the boss press ture. Among the militant -workers are feverishly attempting to connect|#!Tested so far are Eugene Braxton, the hold-u with the growth of Com-| John James, and David James, three munist influence among the Negro|0f the most militant Negro leaders masses of Birmingham. In their Seem: wholesale arrests of workers, the o- lice are making every effort to frame ‘THREE (CONTINUED ON PAG A SECOND SHOE SRIKE DECLARED NEW YORK. — The Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union declared the shop of Giantele Shoe Co., 138 W. 25 St., New York City on strike yesterday against a 15 per cent wage cut. ‘The boss told the workers that ei- ther they accept his terms or quit} the shop. The workers answered this challenge with a strike. Pickets were placed in front of the shop in the morning as soon as they left the shop. This shop has a well organized shop committee which is leading the strike. The demands of the workers are: 1, Withdrawal of the wage cut. | 2. Recognition of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union, and its shop committee. | 3. No speed up. The firs hearing for an injunction against the strikers at the Glenmore shop comes up today, but the strik- ers are determined to win the strike regardless of all difficulties. Berlin Police, Under Socialist Chief Shoot Down Workers; 2.Captains Killed ® (Cable By Inprecorr.) Over 9,000,000 Vote for See bnie to the austin] Dissolution of the in the plebiscite for the dissolution of the Prussian Diet from 8 a. m. Prussian Diet crously against pedestrians. until 5 p. m. was comparatively quiet yesterday. Thousands of armed po- They Rote Fahne, the Communist news- paper, was prevented from appear- ing by detaining the delivery cars. Thousands of police reinforcements were sent into the neighborhood. Armored cars with powerful search- light and machine guns and pistols ing carried on under the leadership of ‘the National Textile Workers’ Union depends greatly upon the support of the workers of all indus- tries. Support the N. T. W. U. Strike and Relief Fund, All con-| tributions, food, cash or ciothing should be sent to N. T. W. U. head- quarters, 17°55 Westminster St. Ol- neyville, R. 1 - lice patrolled the streets, but the masses gave them no excuse for large scale actions. In the evening, when the results began to come through. the streets becente more crowded. A certain liveliness began. The police started to disperse even the small groups of workers in front of newspaper of- fices awaiting results. The usual meetings at which the results are announced by lantern. slides were prohibited. About 7 p.m. police near Lieb- ‘necht Houce, the headquarters of che Communist Party, proceeded rig- frequently fired on as well as clubbed workers. At 8 p.m. a sixteen-year- old young worker, Gerhard Bolle, was killed and other workers were wounded. The .Communist Party headquarters were surrounded... The police repeated their action of May Day, 1929, when they opened fire de~ liberately murdering many workers. ‘The police charged into Buelow Square in a semi-circle, shouting: “Clear the street! Close the win- dows! Lights out!” During the tumult two police captains were killed and a police sergeant seriously wounded. A special edition of the « were sent to the scene and fairly heavy shooting took place, lasting till 11 p.m. Sporadic shooting took Place until 3 am. ‘The police occupied Libeknecht Housek, ‘Communist Party ' head- quarters, detaining everyone on the premises. The occupation continued until today. Monday's Rote Fahne was prevented frog appearing. Strict martial lew has been estab- lished in Buelow Platz and neighbor- hood houses are being searched. ‘The FOR DEFENSE OF KY. STRIKERS king Miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and and the Alabama Bosses (“Smash the Murder Drive of the Kentucky Coal Barons Asainst Qur Fighting Comrades” PITTSBURGH, Pax August 10.—Following the description by Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners U port, cf the terror and nion in his general re- starvation in Kentucky mine fields, and of the attempt being made to railroad Kentucky miners to the electric chair, the Western Pennsylyania District Convention of the National ¥ arranged for a series of mass : s Union meetings throughout the strike area to mobilize defense for the Harlan County miners held for trial Ausust 15 on murder charges. CALL SMALE U.S. BANK DEPOSITORS TO MASS PROTEST Will Rally At. City) Hall On Saturday NEW YORK.—The mass protest among the depositors of the Bank} of U. S. expressed on many open The air meetings that were held week has had some results. State Banking) Department, ¥ from the very beginning disregard-d the demand of the Depositors Com- mittee that the Board of Directors be responsible for all the losses, w nevertheless compelled under t! pressure of the masses to begin a civil suit of $60,000,000 against the ferty directors of the Bank. However, it is pointed aut thai most of the directors had ample time to transfer all heir propety to. their wives, so, although enriched by the tmulting of the defunct bank a collection from them at this time hardly feasible. The depositors should insist on their demand that. the State government make good all their losses Decause it is due to the neglect of the State Banking De- partment that all these swindles have been permitted and not check- ed in time. All workers organizations are asxed to appeal to their members ta par- ticipate in the coming demonstra- tion which will be held on Saturday, | August 15, at 12:30 p. m. in front a’ City Hall. During this week mai open air meetings will be held all of New York in front of each brci:ch ef the bank to mobilize the depositors of the Bank of U. S. and of the other banks that have récently closed. CASE OF 5 F.LW.LU. WORKERS TODAY nA ries Frame Militant Organizers NEW YORK.—The case of five active members of the Food Work- ers’ Industrial Union, framed by F. of L. racketeer officials of Local 338 Grocery Clerks on charges of felonious assault will be heard today at Coney Island police court. The five workers, S. Weisman, Irving Bass. L. Mittelman, Morris Gold- mark, and Abe Noyer, had incurred the enmity of Rothberg, notorious racketeer of the food industry, in their activities to organize food and produce clerks, Local 338 officials working hand in glove with Tam- Many politicians had the workers arrested and now it is expected will try to hold them for the grand jury or special sessions to rr them on long sentences Zelgreen's Shuts Up, Zelgreen’s Cafeteria, 34th St. be- tween 7th and 8th Ave., notorious for its fight against the Food Workers’ Industrial Union and the use of po- lice to break the picket lines, has closed down. It is reported that the money the bosses had spent to break the union organization in the place, and the liberal graft for police “pro- tection” contributed to the shut (CONTINUED ON PA! PRREED down, One food worker is still in dail, framed by Zelgreen’s, 4 ‘A } . The lution adopted “On Defense | and Campaign to Save Our Kentucky | Brothers,” is as follows | “Forty miners in Harlan. Kentucky | will be tried for their lives on a charge of murder August 15, i | coal operators’ court, because defended the right to Strike, the to organize, to Picket, beckuse | defended their lives and ¢ 0 their femilies against the > | Murderous attack of the | “amen ef the coal operato: “The National Miners Union calls upon all miners’ and other workers to relly to the defense of our comrades in Kentucky, to support the cempaign C: the International Labor Defense in | behalf of thosé Workérs, by the organ- ization of meetings, mass demonstra - tions, passage of reselytions in local d ell other working class ions, collection of defens> ds on a mazs scale. Further south in Alcbama. nine ent Negro boys are in the sha- ” of the electric chair. Ta Camp Hill, Alabama, where members of a union of Negro and white farm work- ers militantly defended their right to organize and meet against the armed ttack of the Ku Klux Klan, Amer- ican Legion and sheriff's forees, 29 Retain 3 are in jail, a number of | them charged with murder. In Chi- | cago a few days ago, the nolice car- ried out a massacre of Negros and white unemployed workers who were resisting evictions—murdering three and wounding many more, “Throughout the coal strike fields more than a thousand strikers have been arrested. Dozens are still in jail; hyndreds face charges which | carry with them tong. prison sen- tences if convicted. “It is clear that the bosses and their government, the UMWA offi- cials, who deserted anu betrayed the | heroic struggle of the Kentucky min- ers, consider it a crime to organise j and strike against starvation, to or- | Sanize and fight against unemploy- | Ment, against evictions, for imme- | diate relief of the hundreds of thou- | SCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘Suppress Facts of _ Mooney Frame-Up | Wickersham Report | Finds Excuse WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—So clear are the facts of the deliberate frame- up of Mooney and Billings that Pres- ident Hoover has acted with the Wickersham Commission to suppress their report on the Mooney case which at first was given out to the newspapers, The original report of she Wicker- sham Comniission contained some of the details of how the District At- torney and the court acted to rail- road Mooney to jail. It said the ac- tion in the Mooney case “was shock- ing to one’s sense of justice.” But since this tended to expose the as- tion of the capitalist courts against |the workers, the report was cut out | The excuse for this action, as given by the Wickersham Commission, is that it does ,not want to interfere with the actiorl of Governor Rolph who was “considering” the case in regard to a patdon. In order to help the California courts in framing up other workers. the Wickersham Commission decided not to print the facts it had gotten about how Mooney and Billings were railroaded to jail and are still kaps in prison on framed-up a