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Increase Miners Reliet—Support |" except) Sagas New York, N. at 50 East DAIWORK." oA | Daily Nat’ ae Relief Cont. of W.LR. By MARCEL SCHERER, Nat'l Sec’y W. rike of the 40,000 min can do gn. Our duty to go out this wide to But w we have done t been suffi- cient to take care of the nee the hundred thousand their wives and children. To- there comes a desperate call One nes need a ral organ parts of the coun ility for o} on, bran n has the res} st possible uni- ted front for {. The miners and textile workers are str ng against starvation. This means that as soon as the strike struggle be- gins that workers are without food and ry weapon for a strike g textile strikers in Pat- and Rhode Isle The re- the W.LR. is an indispensable les of the wor are active in the send delegates in or nt conference. consider _ task of. best ign, the relief s! to build up this im This conference wi tile strikers and the pullding of a mass mem- p into the W.LR. and a collective mem- ip through the affiliation of trade unions s organizations. s National Conference a success all of our relief work from Doubling the relief col- time will make the Na- erence a real live tor for aid to the W.LR fighters—f the miners and In organ: army of relief help to organizing an who can textile w rom th mass relief we build relief—the Workers the or iod of asing strike d the attempted smashing blows of ild the unity and solidarity ass to help every fighting sec- tion. Join in the relief campaign for the fighting | the W.LR. We must immediately develop this mass re- | into a powerful m Nef organization. We must build the W.LR. in | Partic: e in the campaign for the National order to give added strength to the miners’ | Conference for Strike Relief. Extend the Fight- fight. Not only for miners is’ relief needed, | ing Front of Working Class Solidarity. Conti the F ight Against By CYRIL BRIGGS. I yesterday to stamp out the rent IN their le for the right to exist, the strike which Communists have been foment- Negro and white workers of Chicago are ing in the south le colored district. rapidly realizing the nature of the class for The Chicago Daily News reports Judge, Pad- operating against them. Théy now know that the police massacre of unemployed workers on Monday, August 3, in which four Negro workers were murdered and scores of Negro and white workers wounded, was planned at a meeting of white and Negro landlords and their class allies. Present at this meeting were local leaders of the National As- ciation for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple and a representative of the Chicago De- fender. This meeting demanded the use of drastic measures by the police against the work- ers resisting the eviction of their fellows. The police responded with riot guns and machine guns and the bloody massacre followed. The workers met the murderous police attack with heroic resistance. Because of the flaming indignation of the masses the bosses were forced to stop the eviction campaign—‘“for the present.” In a futile attempt to placate the anger of the masses and divert them from the necessary struggle against starvation and evictions, the bosses and their social fascist and Negro reform- ist agents began smearing the horizon with so- cial demagogy. THtse few workers who were deceived by these fakers were quickly unde- ceived a few days later when the Chicago News flaunted the threat across one of its pages that “Evictions Will Go On Despite Riot Outbreaks!” This provocative policy of continued evictions of the starving unemployed masses was evolved at a meeting of the Chicago Real Estate Board on August 5. At this meeting the United States Government was represented by federal agents in Chicago! The Chicago city government was also represented, Mayor Cermak having dele- gated Assistant Corporation Counsel Joseph F. Grossman to cooperate with the landlords in drawing up plans against the working class. And represented also were those instruments of capitalist class justice, the “impartial” (!) courts! Acting Chief Justice Frank M. Padden of the Municipal Court and Albert J. Horan, Municipal Court bailiff, were present to pledge their support to the new attacks on the workers. In its issue of August 7, one of the Chicago boss papers reported: “The resources of the municipal government den as assuring the landlords that: “The Municipal Court has no option but to operate under the law in these premises. If an acute situation prevails on the south side it is a matter solely for the charitable and social agencies of the city to settle. Whatever is done to alleviate the situation must be ac- complished by private initiative. This representative of the capitalist courts then proceeded to further clarify the pesition of in questions poising human lives against the rights of property owners. He de- clared: ‘We must discriminate between the needs of the poor and the rights of the property owners. The latter must be safeguarded and the poor will have to be cared for through some other relief channel than the halting of evictions where no rent is paid.” To hell with the workers! Let them starve! Let them die of exposure! Throw them into the streets! Let their children and babies lie on the cold sidewalks! But—safoguard the property “rights” of the bosses! That is the verdict of capit mi! But the workers will not accept this verdict of the bosses and their courts! They will re- fuse to have their homes broken up and their children dying of exposure. In Chicago and throughout the entire country they will rally to the militant leadership of the Communist Party! ‘They will continue to fight for the demands for which their four martyred fellow workers died on Monday, August Workers! Negro and white! Organize into the Unemployed Councils! Build Tenant Leagues! Resist the eviction of unemployed workers! Fight against starvation and evic- tions! Demand immediate unemployed relief! Fight for social insurance to be paid by the bosses and their government and to be admin- istered by the Negro and white unemployed workers themselves! Continue to forge a fight- ing alliance of Negro and white workers against Jim Crow capitalism with its starvation pro- gram for the workers! On with the fight against starvation and evictions and for a workers’ and farmers’ government in the United States! | | / | | 4 mai? jorker Pee US.A. “THAT'S ALL T CAN a FOR You!” PARTY LIFE Conducted by the Org. Vept. Central Com- mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A. | | | Kentucky Miners Call For the Communist Party By DAN BROOKS and CAROLINE DREW DREW ENTUCKY is a maze of political intrigue. This political intrigue has taken the place of the one time clan fighters. Everything is cen- tered in and around the Republican Party. Hiram Brock has been the senator of this par- ty’s ticket for the past twenty years. He is an out and out operators’ man. On August ist the Republican Party primary elections took place. The line up was Combs against Brock and others for minor offices. Fvery miner seemed to be involved in this elec- tion. Even those who showed the most class consciousness in the present struggle. These workers are confused. They feel they must get Brock out at all costs. They don’t see that any candidute on the Republican Party ticket will represent the operators. Votes were openly bought at 50 cents and $1 each for Brock. He had at least five runners at each election station. But it is safe to say that Brock was denending more on stealing votes as 4n the past, then on the bought votes. Brock was shaking hands with every one the morning of election, and telling the miners they would be sorry if they did not re-elect old Brock. One miner asked him if he was senator today. He answered that he was. Than this miner wanted to know if he had anything to do with the law today and he answered he had. Then the miner greatly shocked Brock when he asked him how in the hell it came about that he never tried to stop the damn bunch of lawless thugs who were loose over Harlan County. Brock whis- pered something about not knowing that he was talking to a Red and walked on. In the last congressional election at a camp ealied Three Points the miners went into the mine and were not allowed to come out to vote. ‘The payroll of the coal company was taken and every man at the mine was voted a straight Republican tickeh They even gave the mules a ! vote, listed them as Dick, Tom, etc. At Lynch 2,800 votes were cast in the last county elections for the Republican ticket. The company and not the miners in the camp did the voting. The company, in an attempt to cover up their methods, gave 20 votes to the Democratic nominees. Mr. Creech, owner of the Creech Coal Co., de- cided that the miners should work on August 1st this yegr, in order to keep them from voting against Btock. This mine has not worked on Saturday for the past few years. Joe Cawood, one of the men arrested and charged with murder, ran for sheriff against John Henry Blair, in 1929. Blair stole the elec- tion and has since been out to get Cawood be- cause he knew too much, Cawood is not a miner but one of the old settlers who inherited many acres of land in this country. Like some of the other settlers who have leased their land to the coal operators, he is sympathetic to the miners. There have been many instances where coal companies have tried and succeeded in getting injunctions against lessees and kept them away foun the camps and from talking to the miners anc their families. ‘The Harlan County area is a new development. Seventeen years ago the railroad was finished, the mines were opened, and the “foreigners,” as miners from other sections of Kentucky who came to work are called, came in. The mines were opened by the U. §. Steel, Insular Coal Co., controfting the Southern Coal Co., and Kentucky Utilities, Thos. A. Edison, Peabody Coal Co., one of the largest coal com- panies which has mines in Illinois and West Virginia, Sackett, Coal Co., connected with the Portland Cement Co., Andrew Mellon owns mines and also owns and controls all the Gulf Filling stations in the territory. _ These millionaire companies opened most of | Comparing Two Open-Air | Meetings By E. STEVENS (Buffalo). HS Open air meetings which were held in the Buffalo District within the last few days in preparation for August 1st deserve a bit of attention. Let's compare them here. Niagara Falls Meeting. Three Young Commu- nist Leaguers went from Buffalo to Niagara Falls to help in the collection, speaking, sale of literature, etc. About 200 workers were there when we arrived. The local comrade (a Buf- falo colonizer) spoke for about 20 minutes, then one of our comrades took the box. This com- de svoke very bricfly, dealing most of the time with the literature we had on hand—urging the workers to buy it. Then the main speaker was introduced who spoke for nearly 1 hour. The crowd swelled to well over 400, While the main speaker addressed the workers the first one went around in the crowd very quietly and sold every bit of literature we brought with us—33 Browder’s pamphlets, 20 Young Workers, 9 “No Job” pamphlets, 15 New Pioneers. The comrade also reported that she could have sold at least twice as much if she had it on hand. The last point the main speaker hammered away on was the need of organization, also that after the meeting the speakers will remain to talk to the workers individually and take their names. The workers were asked to vote if they want a collection taken up—$4.25 was collected. The meeting adjourned after the main speaker to allow her to speak to the workers interested in giving their names. 27 names of children and adults were taken. Result of this meeting: (1) All literature sold; (2) $4.25 collection; (3) 27 contacts made (some of whom are chemical workers). Syracuse Meeting. 200 leaflets’ were dis- tributed a day before the meeting. Half an hour before the meeting started there were around 12 dicks and cops on the spot, about 200 work- ers and children; by 8 p. m. when the speaker started the meeting the crowd swelled to well over 600. However, the comrades here were not on the job. There was only one speaker, who spoke for 45 minutes. After that the meeting adjourned. Not a piece of literature sold, not a contact made, nor was a collection gathered. The comrades’ main excuse was that this was one of the biggest open air meetings they saw and it was so pecked and crowded that they couldn't move around in the crowd. All our comrades, therefore (about 10), stood through the entire evening, listening to the speaker, in- stead of mingling with the crowd, and when the speaker had to leave (for another meeting) all the comrades left with her. One was a good organizational meeting, the other a poor pro- paganda meeting. these mines for war production. Since the war, closed up camps, broken down houses are uncom- mon sights. These companies use this field for open shop labor, and for the purpose of lowering the stand- ard of living of the workers all over the country. They tell the unionized miners they cannot compete with the Kentucky fields when actually they own both. The Kentucky coal operators association do not use state police, coal and iron police or yel- low dogs, as in other fields, they get the sheriff to deputize all the thugs they need. The most notorious characters are part of their forces. Men who have killed upwards to six or ten men. This association operates in three states, Ken- tucky, Tennessee and Virginia. They import thugs and professional gangsters from other states. ‘These thugs are moved from mine to mine at the will of the association, and from state to state. Whenever a miner is heard to talk about a union, thugs are sent to terrorize and kill. The miners in this section realize very well that the government is openly and brazenly own- ed, controlled and run by and for the operators. They never heard of the Communist Party be- fore this struggle and looked for friends of the working man. Now they say to hell with friends for votes, give us the Communist Party. We want to-get rid of this operators government, | roming election iy | » | fore the fourth anniversary of the legal mi everywhere: One year, $6; six ytenths, $3; Manhattan and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: New York City. Foreign: two, months, $1; excepting Boroughs one year, $8; six months, $4.50, By BUECK edie Bs Terror in the Coal Fields and _ August 22 By BARBARA RAND. 'HE biggest murder trial in labor history opens in Harlan, Kentucky, exactly one week be- der of Nicola Sacco and ‘Bartolomeo Vanzetti, when workers the world over will protest under the leadership of the International Labor De- fense, the bosses’ terror. Instead of two men, thirty-eight are charged with murder, and the lords of the coal fields are preparing to burn them to death.” Over a thousand miners, women and even their little children, have been arrested in the strike fields of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. Here 40,000 coal miners’ are striking against starvation. The hysteria created during the days of the Sacco and Vanzetti trials, the war-time atmos- phere of Boston, the grim threat of the machine guns mounted on the embankments of Charles- ton prison before the shoe maker and fish peddler were electrocuted—these are multiplied many times over in the strike flelds today. The policy prevailing in the coal fields is one of deliberate assassination. In Ohio, William Simon, 16-year-old striking miner, member of the National Miners’ Union, was murdered by a mine boss. Simon was sitting by the roadside, not participating in the picketing at the time the gunman took aim and murdered him, Everybody knows this, but the district attorney refuses to prosecute. Seven other miners were shot in Bradley and one in Yorkville, Ohio. Every organizer is arrested on sight and charged with crimrinal syndicalism. There was not a single picket line in Ohio that the “law” did not attack—bomb, club, trample- down with their horses’ hooves, or fire into. In Wildwood, Pennsylvania, Peter Zigaric was murdered by deputies from ambush. Eleyen other strikers were seriously wounded. The miners, together with their womenfolk and chil- dren were gathering about 500 yards away from company property, preparing to picket the mine when the deputies opened fire from ambush. As the unarmed workers flew in all directions, a storm of bullets followed. “All’s fair in war!” is the position of the coal operators and their gun- men. And war it is, with no possible weapon overlooked. Ke And who is charged with Zigaric’s murder? ‘The yellow dog who fired the fatal bullets? That would not be compatible with capitalist justice. ‘Tom Myerscough, an organizer of the National Miners’ Union is charged with manslaughter and held on high bail. It is established beyond any doubt that Myerscough had no weapon in his possession. But this is merely a detail. Leaders of the miners are shot down, jailed on any and every charge the “law” hits upon, from murder, sedition, “banding and confederating,” and arson, to disorderly conduct and “speaking against the police.” The day after the deputies held a meeting to determine policy, they swooped down upon a large number of miners gathering in Arnold City, Pa., to march to the Pricedale mine some miles away. The deputies attacked suddenly, first eonfusing the workers with gas bombs thrown in quick succession. Then, as they ran from the stinging, sickening, blinding gas, four leaders were deliberately picked out and shot in the back. One was the president of the local National Miners’ Union, another was the secre- tary of the Rank and File Strike Committee. But the miners aren’t the only targets of the yellow dogs. Mike Filipovich, 40-year-old store~ keeper at Arnold City who had given the use of his basement to the strikers to use as their relief headquarters, was roused by the shoot- ing and came out on his porch half-dressed. The chief deputy walked close to him, and shot four bullets into his body. “Don’t shoot in here —you'll kill my wife!” were the last words Fili- povich ever spoke. This was nothing short of assassination. Many ex-servicemen say they were fooled into fighting for the bosses in the World War, but it seemed that the time was ripe for a fight in this country to wipe out the rule of work and starvation and unemployment and starvation. The Communist Party should make prepara~ tions to have candidates on the ballot in the gun eed ve ‘When committees of miners go to government officials to demand that this terror cease, that the wholesale evictions be ended, the answers are all substantially the same. “I can do noth- ing for you,” Governor White of Ohio says. When the striking miners asked Gifford Pin- chot, “liberal” governor of Pennsylvania, for the use of the national guards’ tents that are lying unused, Pinchot replies in a speech before the national guard that the troops will be sent into the coal fields if there is more “trouble.” The coal miners, betrayed down into the very depths of degradation in 1917 by the United Mine Workers of America officialdom, are fight- ing desperately against starvation, struggling for union conditions, 55 cents a ton pay, for a check-weighman of their own to stop the com- pany from cheating them on weight, for the abolition of the company town where the oper- ator is lord, where money used is coined by the operators and not by the U. S. mint, where company stores charge double what other stores charge, where terror is extreme, where a man’s own parents cannot visit him without special tucky—where a man’s own life, the lives of his wife and children are not their own but belong to the operators. The coal miners and their families are striking for the right to live! In Kentucky, an epidemic of flux has broken out. This is a starvation disease, brought about by living on grass and green apples. Over 200 have the disease today and a minimum of two die every day in Evarts. Six died in one day. Many leading organizers are suffering from this disease. Hanging over the steep green hills of Harlan County, Ky., is a charged tenseness—a sharp war-time atmosphere. Boston is a big city, and when Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered, it was done “legally.” Even a college president was brought in to give an added verdict bearing the mark of mock “impartiality” to quiet the ring- ing cries of millions who demanded the freedom of their innocent fellow-workers and still the voices of liberals who demanded a “fair inves- tigation.” Harlan County, however, is a feudal kingdom. ‘The operators make no bones about “demo- cracy.” ‘The mines and the company towns in which the miners live, the streets they walk on, the judges and the police all belong to the monied Paisley interests, the Insulls and other mine owners. And the people living in these towns know they are peons, slaves. That is what they are fighting against! The history of the Kentucky strike is known. A few locals of the United Mine Workers of America, the o1.‘y union the Kentucky miners knew of, were organized. Never did an organ- izer from this union venture into Harlan Coun- ty. Then the operators began to fire union members, giving them ten minutes to clear out of camp. If they owed money to the company store—and what miner didn’t?—the furniture was withheld, for the debtors’ law enforced if there was no furniture, and the miners thrown into jail. i Immediately strike flared up in Harlan Coun- ty. The bloody struggle in Evarts, when the miners defended themselves from the armed at- tack of company gunmen is history. Then fol- lowed the period of martial law. Over a hun- dred leading miners were thrown into Jail. ‘Thirty-eight were charged with murder, and the others with “banding and confederating” and other charges. Then the United Mine Workers of America completely repudiated them. Relief was refused the Kentucky miners. In the other strike regions the U. M. W. A. had already signed scab agreements and together with state troopers invaded miners’ homes, to terrorize them back to work. The district president, Pat Fagan, testified in court against striking miners. After the soldiers left Harlan County, local company gunmen, deputized professional killers, attempted to terrorize the countryside. One striker was found hung from, a high tree with barbed wire. But these gunmen were licked. A big union picnic was held in the last days of duly which the deputies did not dare invade, A state-wide conference of the National Miners’ Union was called, hundréds of delegates elected from mines all through | Kentucky, Tennessee _ fend Virginia |. permission from his superintendent as in Ken- + — Organizational Tasks for International Youth Day By JOE ROBERTS ete years have passed since the first International Youth Day was established at the height of the last world war. On this day the workingclass youth established its tradition of struggle against imperialist war which was raging at that time. The Young Communist International has carried on this fight since its formation and truly upheld the traditions of IYD as a day for the mobilization of large masses of workingclass youth to demonstrate against the bosses preparation for war and the militarization of the youth for this purpose. ‘This year International Youth Day will take place on September 8, at a time when the air is filled with war hysteria. Every capitalist country is arming, militarizing the youth, Spreading war propaganda and anti-Soviet lies with the aim of directing their attack on the Soviet Union, The Youth today is being sharply affected by unemployment, which means actual starva~ tion because of no relief. Those working have to work under speed-up conditions with very little pay. The outstanding boss controlled are ganization, the YMCA is considering very serl- ously how best win the youth for the boss class, ‘The bosses are using their organizations, such as the YMCA, YWCA, Amateur Athletic Union, Congress of Youth, Christian Endeavor and many others to keep the Youth from a united Struggle with the adults against their rotten condiions and for unemployed relief. They want the youth to be willing fighters in case of war, Our task is to alarm the working class youth everywhere to the imminent danger of another war. To mobilize the youth and the adults on International Youth Day to demonstrate against bosses wars and for the defense of workers fatherland, the Soviet Union. How is to be done? ‘The Young Communist League together with the Communist Party should get the active sup- port of all Youth clubs and organizations, to- gether with the adult fraternal and language organizations. These organizations have a lot of connection with the Youth and can help a Jot in mobilizing larger numbers for IYD. Every sympathetic youth club, trade union, sport clubs and fraternal organizations should issue a cali to the youth around them to take part in the I¥YD demonstrations which must be linked up with the struggle for unemployed relief, against. wage cuts and speed-up that especially affect. the youth, for the release of 9 Scottsboro boys, against the ferror of the bosses (Chicago mas- sacre), International Youth Day should bring for- ward the revolutionary youth movement and be step in strengthening it both organizationally and politically. In the campaign leading up to TYD mass recruiting should take place of young workers into. the Young Communist League, trade unions, unemployed branches, Labor Sports Union, I.W.O. youth branches. Support the campaign Youth Day, September 8. for Internationa! Fight against the pacifist illusions that the bosses are spreading to hide their war moves. Smash the influence of the bosses organiza- tions over the Youth. Then came the force of 70 thugs from Chi- cago, organized under their own commander. This army, dressed in armor hidden under coats, rides through the Kentucky fields shooting, plundering, dynamiting. It is led by a scout car, armed men and machine guns fill it. This is followed by ten others that carry two airplane (Lewis) guns each, so arranged in the rumble seat that they can sweep fore and aft and along both sides. Then the rear guard car fol- lows, also heavily laden with machine guns. This is the usual way this gang travels, accom- panied by local deputies who act as guides. Everybody in Harlan knows of the contract they have with the operators. They boast of it. It provides for so much a day for ordinary ter- ror—raiding of whole communities, searching of houses and destruction of all the miners’ guns and ammunition; dynamiting of houses and dynamiting of strikers’ automobiles. But there was a special bonus for preventing the confer- ence. This bonus they lost. The conference was held with miners’ sentries posted outside and around the hills to defend it. ‘There is a special bonus of $2,000 for the head of Dan Brooks, organizer of the National Min- ers’ Union. Jessie Wakefield is charged with criminal syndicalism. She is the representative of the International Labor Defense which is ac- tively engaged in defending the arrested coal miners. Caroline Drew, organizer of women’s auxilliaries, is also wanted for a similar war- rant, but miners, guarding her carefully, pass her from house to house so that her work can continue. All of the hunted organizers are continuing their work from hiding up in the hills. Even Bruce Crawford, newspaper man from Norton, Virginia, was shot in the leg when he came into Harlan to investigate the situation for his paper. The miners of Kentucky are not nearly as well armed as the thugs. They are handicapped | by intense starvation—the starvation disease, flux, is taking a heavy toll. Even the soup kitchen opened in Wallens Creek must be guard- ed day and night from the thugs. The Har- lan miners are preparing for another tri-state conference. Their courage and determination are enough guarantee that they will succeed in organizing the southern coal fields into the Na- tional Miners’ Union, and win their demands. The workers of the world roused to the de- fense of Sacco and Vanzetti—but too late, Don’t hesitate this time! On August 22nd, Sacco and Vanzetti Day, millions will demonstrate through- out the world under the banners of the Intere national Labor Defense against the terror of the bosses. The 38 charged with murder in Harlan must not be allowed to die! Tom Myerscough, charged with manslaughter, must be released. Be assured, the operators will leave no stone un- turned to break the miners and keep them from organizing. No tertor, murder, dynamiting, massacre, is too much to defend their profits. These 38 heroic miners must not die! With the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti ever before us, we must rally to the defense of these class war prisoners, fnearcerated in the Harlan Coun- ty jail, and save them from the electric chair. This is the job of workers the world over! Dem~ onstrate and protest on Rania 22nd againsb the bosses’ terror}