The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1931, Page 1

Dail Central U WORKERS OF THE WORLD,) UNITS gs sue ‘(Section of the Communist International) ~* Vol. VIII, No. 194 5 ok rr weohaeeging re ~ eee NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents The Revolutionary Upsurge! In Cuba and the Role of The Communist Party ever deepening crisis and the sharpening terror of Machado in Cuba is producing widespread revolutionary fermentation among the workers, peasants, and the poor population of the cities. The revolu- tionary upsurge in Cuba is rising. ‘The bourgeois opposition to Machado, which consists of the Con- servatives (headed by ex-President Menocal) and the leaders of the Nationalist Union (Mendieta, etc.) are trying to utilize the revolutionary fermentation among the masses in order to secure some more concés- sions for themselves, not for the masses. ‘The bourgeois opposition would even like to secure power and become the government of Cuba provided this could be achieved with the collaboration of Yankee imperialism and without a revolution of the masses from below. At this moment, the capitalist press of the United States ts reporting armed clashes between the “nationalists” and the forces of Machado in various parts of the island. Rumors of an impending “revolution” against Machado, ‘have been circulating freely for the last several months. These Tumors were being spread even at the time when the bourgois opposition and Machado wre negotiating a peace pact under the guidance and pressure of the Yankee Ambassador, Guggenheim. It seemed as if this “weapon” of spreading rumors about impending revolutions was being used by both, Machado and the opposition, in order to frighten each other into accepting Guggenhéim’s proposals for “peace” before the masses rise up against both of them and, under the leadership of the Communist Party, establish a Workers’ and Peasants’ Government in Cuba. Information is still scarce on the extent of the present armed move- ment against Machado. But the character of this movement, as far as the leaders of the bourgeois opposition are concerned, is quite clear. The bourgeois opposition has ordered the “revolt” in order to forestall and check the maturing revolution of the masses from below and for the purpose of securing for themselves better conditions of “peace” than Machado. was willing to offer in the course of the negotiations. ‘There can be no doubt that the revolutionary upsurge of the masses in Cuba is rising. This could be seen in the militant struggles of the unemployed workers and semi-proletarians during the month of May in all parts of Cuba, especially in the Eastern provinces. These struggles were led by the unions and the Contmunists. The same is shown in the May’ Day demonstrations. Especially was the rising curve of the mili- tancy of the masses shown in the August First demonstrations, the pres- ent strike of ths street car men in Havana and in the 24-hour political mass strike on August 4th. This political mass strike, In which par- ticipated net less than 100,000 workers even according to the capitalist press, was a demonstration against the Machado terror, against Yankee imperialism and in support of the striking carmen. ‘The strike of the street earmen and the political mass strike hare placed the working class of Cuba and the Communist Party at the head of the revolutionary movement of the toiling masses against Machado and Yankee imperialism. These struggles are receiving wide support not only from the working class but also from the poor population of the tities. These strikes are not only mobilizing the working class for the anti-imperialist revolution but they are also rallying the city petty-bour- geoisie ina, wide revolutionary anti-imperialist united front headed by the workng class and led by the Communist Party, tending to arouse also the peasantry for the fight. ‘The leaders of the Nationalist Union, who are part of the bourgeois opposttion against Machado, fear and hate this revolutionary anti-imper- lalist unived front more than they fear Machado and Yankee imper- falism. Hence, their readiness to participate in the negotiations with Guggenheim and Machado (March-April) for the working out of a “peace” pact of the exploiting classes against the exploited masses under the hegemony of Yankee imperialism. Hence, their tacit support of the bloody Machado terror against the trade unions and the Communist Party. Hence, their readiness to sell themselves to Yankee imperialism to serve in the same capacity as Machado is serving today—as the hhangmen and oppressors of the Cuban masses. In seeking to forestall the maturing revolution of the masses, the leaders of the Nationalist Union, as part of the bourgeois opposition, are also aiming to strengthen themselves against Machado in order to secure the recognition of Yankee imperialism as the possible next government of Cuba. To achieve this end, these leaders of the Nationalist Union, jointly with the Conservatives, seem to have resorted to some sort of armed demonstration against Machado, after the failure of the “peace” negotiations which broke down under the pressure of the deepening crisis and the growing revolutionary upsurge of the masses. But the rank and file following of the nationalist leaders is either potentially or actually revolutionary. This following comes from certain sections of the peasantry, from the revolutionary part of the student youth, from poorer sections of the city petty-bourgeoisie and certain elements also from the working class. To what extent the nationalist leaders will dare at this time to entrust arms to their rank and file followers, and to call them forth to armed struggle against Machado, it is impossible to say on the basis of (CONTINUED OD PAGE TBRER? Mooney Calls for Fight to Free Class War Prisoners Demonstrate August 22! Victim of California Boss Frame-up Scores A. F. of L. Leaders for Betrayal of the Workers—Defends Scottsboro 9 NEW YORK.—Vigorously supporting am- nesty for all clas swar prisoners and express- ing his regrets for not exposing the fake labor leaders long ago, Tom Mooney exposed the mil- itant fashion the A. F. of L. leadership in a letter to Tom Mann, the veteran British labor leader who is an old friend and comrade of the imprisoned California militant. The letter was written on the eve of the anniversary. of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti when millions of workers throughout the world under the leadership of the International Labor Defense will protest on Aug. organizations mobilized their forces for the anniversary of Sacco .and Vanzetti on Aug. 22, demanding the immediate release of all imprisoned workers and the cessation of the ter- ror let loose by the ruling class in this period of depression. “Thousands of workers are being imprisoned in all sections of the country.” is the statement issaed by the Nationa Office of the ILL.D., dict and the thousands of workers sentences for loyalty to their The demonstrations on Aug. turn into a demand for a amnesty for all working- class prisoners. In his letter to Tom Mann, Mooney expressed his regrets that “so many OUTOF UTW- | ASW CREW Strikers Parade to Show Determination to Carry on Fight Relief Need Urgent Workers Greeted By Striking Miner PATERSON, N. J. Aug. 12.—All day Wednesday between picket duty, all the strikers were feverishly busy for the preparation of the youth parade planned for Thursday after- noon which is to ‘be a show of strength and @ demonstration to the whole of Paterson of the determina- tion of the Paterson strikers to at- tain rank and file unity over the heads of the officials of the A. F. of L.-Associated who are keeping the workers divided. This unity is es- sential particularly at this time, in view of the increasing terror of the ments being made every day by the leaders of the A. F. of L.-Associ- ated. ‘These fake settlements are en- raging the workersas a very appar- ent move for unity on the basis of rank and fiie settlement by the shop workers themselves is developing. Union Band to Lead Parade. The union band of 32 pieces will be a feature of the parade. A spe- cial youth section with special youth demands according to shops, with special bicycle squads of young workers will head the parade, with the Pioneers ‘following. Every et- fort is being made to mobilize the women, not only the women ‘in the industry, but also the wives of the striking workers to take part in the parade. The parade will be started by a mass meeting at Ellison and Cross Sts., at 3:30, with prominent speak- ers, an will march through the mill and workers’ section of Pater- son. A series of open air meetings is being held throughout the city to mobilize for the parade. Trucks with banners and slogans with the strikers’ demands will travel throughout the city. Every effort is being made to mobilize every silk worker with his entire family and his neighbors to show the city of Paterson the solidarity of the work- ers and their determination to de- mand decent working and _ living conditions. Expose Fake Settlements. The strike hall this morning was packed with many workers being forced to stand. Every point of the program of unity addressed to the rank and file of the A. F. of L.-As- sociated was met with tremendous applause. The contrast between the method of settling of the NIWU and of the A. F. of L.-Associated and today. Here are the fake set- tlements in three of the A. F. of L. Associated shops: At the A. & B. Shop, the night shift was not informed of any set- tlement whatever. The day shift started working at 7 a.m. Where is the eight-hour day? The capitalist paper, the Morning Garrison & Son shop by the UTW- shop knew nothing about the so- CONT! DON PAGE TY oO ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 12. — Again mouthing phrases about “resisting wage cuts,” the leading of- ficials of the American Federation of Labor, meeting here, continued their policy of scab herding for Hoover and the leading bosses to help put over new drastic wage cuts, The A. F. of L. executive council in session here after it went on rec- ord against unemployment insurance passed a resolution saying “it is the unflinching purpose of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor to stand resolutely” against wage cuts. How “resolutely” the A. F. of L. officialdom is standing against wage cuts is attested to by the $12,000,- 000,000 wage cut the American work- ers received in 1930, and the wage cuts now pending on the railroads; the wage cuts in the steel industry; are inclined to center their attention upon my case and overlook the many other class war prisoners held by the masters in their jails that’ it is good to witness the International Labor “and thousands are being deported, some to a certain death at the hands of the fascists and imperial- ists. Wherever a strike takes place, or any activity whatsoever against ei demanding liberation for a feet thee t, the ‘thie "5 % police are ever ready with guns tian, the I, L. D, and all its affiliated the wage cuts in the coal and tek- tile industries, and the wage cuts in the building trades without strikes being called against them by the of- ficialdom, Those who issued this statement were William Gieen, Frank Morri- treas- SCORE SELL- ‘Campbell Family Will Fight to’ « A Finish, But they Need Relief Show Your Solidarity “NO RELIEF 6 NMUin Mass With Striking Miners PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug, 12.—“I've got to get the hang of these crutches so I can get back on the picket line,” | |'Tam Campbell, striking miner from Pa., said today when he tried to walk for the first time, in the West Penn Hospital. George, his oldest son, stood close by, anxiously watching him take his first steps. “Doesn’t seem like the same legs that walked those twenty- odd miles into Pittsburgh on that hunger march just a little ways back.” ‘Two weeks ago, all fourteen Camp- bells, from Baby Viona up, joined their fellow-workers and walked from. Library to Coverdale before Library, was clearly brought out yesterday dawn to help picket the mine there. Just a little way out a spotlight was suddenly thrown on the group from a yellow sport roadster. It was too dark to see who was in it. The pick- ets continued on their way. Just a few miles outside of Cover- dale, the roadster overtook them, swinging from one side of the road to the other. “I’m going to kill one of you s of b——— this morn- ing!” one man shouted from the car. “They were going about 50 miles bell recounted, “and trying to bust hus voc, wecng us into the fscacte. MY was walking a little \@head. The car turned in sud- denly—ssome fellows jumped into the fence. My Aunt Lilian wasn’t fast enough, so the ¢ar smacked her and then hit my pap. ‘Then they turned off the lights and just burned up the road. “Then, you know, we took him to the rélief in Pittsburgh and yougot pap in the hospital,” George con- cluded, ‘The fourteen Campbells live in a thyee-room house fn Knothole. Most of the little ones have no shoes. That is why their youngest are kept off the line in bad weather. But from the baby up, every one of the family is active in the fight. George is youth organizer of the National Miners Union in the Library sec- tion The children are active mem- bers of the Miners Children’s Club. Every one of them is active in the strike against starvation, determined to fight it through to a finish, That's why Tem Campbell! is so eager to get FOR JOBLESS” an hour, zigzagging,” George Camp- | 4 | Striking carrying his baby on the hunger march to Pittsburgh June 20. the “pang of his crutches” sos that he can get. back ia the struggle. And there are thoussands of other familles just like the Campbells. To help these determined fighters wage their battle, food is needed. At least one meal a day for every strik- ing miner, every child and every women! This must be provided! And you are called upon to help make it possible! Money is needed desper- ately to buy food. Send all you can today to the Pennsylvania-Ohio- ‘West Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Committee, Room 330, BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 799 Broadway, New York. Birmingham Police in Vicious Attacks on Growing Unity of Negro and White Workers Search Negro Homes for Communist Literature —Order Arrest of White and Negro Communist Leaders 12.—The police terror against i Republican Chairman} ‘ || tions everywhere. the Negro workers of Birmingham is now frankly directed at smashing the growing unity of Negro and white workers and depriving the working class of the revolutionary leader- ship of the Communist Party under which this unity is being Call, announced a settlement at the Associated. One worker from this achieved. This attack on the reyolu- tionary party of the working class was at first carried out |under the pretext of hunting AFL Exec. Council Acts to Aid Wage Cut Campaign of the federation: Frank Duffy, T. A. Rickert, Matthew Woll, James Wilson, John Corfield, Arthur O. Wharton, Joseph N. Weber and G. M. Bugniazt. Everyone of the foregoing has done $$ -_______—_— for an unidentified Negro who is al- leged to have held up three society women. One of the women was killed and the others wounded when they resisted the demands of the hold-up man to hand over their valuables. With this hold-up as an excuse, the Birmingham bosses and their police launched a brutal wave of terror against the Negro workers. Two Ne- groes were taken out of their beds and shot down a short distance from their homes by the police. A Negro worker getting off a freight train was murdered by railroad dicks, his companion narrowly escaped the same fate and was wounded in the leg.. Scores of Negro workers have good strikebreaking work for the bosses. When Secretary of Commerce Lamont issued his statement favor- ing wage cuts, on orders from Hoo- ver, Green and the other members of the executive council were “not in” and refused to say anything about it. The resolution of the A. F. of L. executive council is in full keeping with the policy of Hoover — that is, to talk against wage cuts but to act in favor of them and thereby keep the workers fooled so that they will not take active strike steps against wage cuts. The only strug-"> that has been undertaken against wage cuts, such as the coal strike of 40.000 miners, the textile strike in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, has been under the initiative and leadership of the revolutionary trad= the Trade Union “Unity League as well as un- been arrested and subjected to the most brutal third degree methods. Hundreds of homes have been search- ed for Communist literature. Negro workers on the streets have been stopped and searched. SAYS HOOVER _Fess Says No Insurance ane ae More Are Starving Big Increase Shown in Unemployed Army WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — More | Proof that Hoovxer and the leading capitalists in Washington are prepar- | ing for a furious drive against any | form of unemployment insurance was | contained in a statement made yes- | terday by Senator Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee speaking for the president. Senator Fess said that Hoover knew this winter would be worse than ever before for the jobless, with more facing starvation; but that Hoover | would work out some “plan” that | would eliminate unemployment. in- | surance, making the workers depend- ent on the usual charity organiza- “We shall use every means,” said Fess emphatically, “to avoid a fed- | eral dole.” By “dole” Hoover and | his fellow exploiters mean unemploy- | nt insurance. Instead, Fess said, Hoover we. “‘udying” the unemployment prob- “m and within a month would is- ve some “plan” by which the Fede: cvernment would “work with the lo- 1 charity organizations.” On the same day that Fess made | his statement, Senator John J. Blaine of Wisconsin asked that a special ses- sion of Congress be held to take up| the question of unemployment. Hoo- | Blaine insists that a special session taken against the unemployed to keep them from becoming rebellious against capitalism. | . That there is a tremendous Increase in unemployment, exceeding all pre- | vious figures, was the gist of a report made to Hoover by his ‘emergency committee on unemployment. This committee'which has repeatedly mini- mized the unemployment problem, ly- ing about the number of unemployed, now cannot hide the huge increase. They point out that the New York| City Employment Exchange shows a/| rise in those asking for jobs and a| drop in the jobs. There has been an| increase of 21:18 pc* cent of appli- cants for jobs, anda drop of 8 per cent in available jobs. The ratio of | applications to jobs rose in one week to 1,667 applicants for every 100 jobs as against 1,502 in the previous week. GOING TO WORK WITHOUT SHOES. MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — Miners without shoes are working in the mines at Osage, a mining town near here, where the miners are organ- izing, preparing to strike. With din- ner buckets holding nothing but water—water sandwiches, the min- ers call them—they are working for starvation wages. While the strike is spreading the Penn-Ohio-W. Vir- ginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Re- lief Committee calls upon workers everywhere to send all they can so that relief can be sent into strike camps, to strengthen the strike. Send your contribution today to Room 330, Fight to Save 30 Ky. Miners CRS TRIAL OF STRIKERS FRAMED-UP ON MURDER CHARGE TO COME UP THIS WEEK AMIDST TERRIFIC TERROR NEARLY A HUNDRED STRIKERS HELD IN HARLAN JAIL; PLEDGE TQ MAKE FIGHT INTERNATIONAL, IF NECESSARY HARLAN, K August 12—“To all oux comrades behind the prison bars of capitalist Injustice,” begins a letter adopted at the last meeting of the General Strike Committee of the National Miners Union, Kentucky-Tenneg- see-Virginia district, to the approximately 30 miners wwhoss trial on charges of murder will come uv this week. These miners are part of nearly a hundred arrested because minera defeated a. murderous attack of machine gunners, deputized mine guards, upon the Black Mountain strikers at Evarts sev- Proderick In Last ver is against any special session, but | be held if adequate action is to be! |timid of the depositors, tions for the demonstration at 12:30} ‘Hemnt to Betray Small Depositors Temonstrate Saturday, | August.15, at: Noon at City Hall NEW YORK.—After more than a vear of misleading promises and brazen lies, the state banking de- partment with Joseph Broderick + its head, is now attempting to cover up its protection of the bankers of the defunct Bank of the United States, by another series of promises to recover 30 per cent of deposits for | the more than 400,000 depositors. | Coming at a time when already more than 20,000 depositors are preparing for a mass demonstration at ‘city hail, August 15, this is clearly in line with the past efforts to continually string along the depositors on false hopes Prepare Demonstration. While Mulrooney is withholding giving a permit for the demonstra- tion purposely to frighten the more prepara- are going ahead, according to the United Depositors Committee. leader of the mass movement for the re- covery of the full deposits of the worers and small business men. Even t'> that Broderic:’s Bank of U. S. for the depositors, since most of the property which could be liquidated has, during the shuffle been trans- ferred in many instances to relatives suit against the or friends of the swindling bankers. | Broderick’s hocus-pocus and costly w eral weeks ago. capitalist press admits | is a rigged up play | It is not possible yet to tell exacily how many will face the electric chair when court con the prosecution amuses ‘it- y Suddenly adding o° subtract- ing from the list of victims it hes in jail the names of those it wishes © send to death But the miners outside, fighting on in the face of starvation and ter- rible persecution, have not forgotten the men in Harlan jai!. The letter yacut them by the General Strike | Committee continues es follows: | “The General Committee: of the ; National Miners Union at its meet- ing August 7, made a motion to éex- |tena greetings to its newly formed j locals, and to the prisoners ni Har- | lan. “We extend our solidarity. | Pledge to do all in our powe: to | arouse the sympathy and support of {all the miners and the working class {of the whole world if necessary to free you all “You are being held for being the jleaders of our struggle. You are |entirely innocent of any crime for which operators’ ‘justice’ is holding you. We were ail betrayed by the UMWA. | “At the beginning the operatars fought even this sell-out organization They thought they could do better by themselves in keeping us ground down and living like slaves. Now they tell us the UMWA is a good clean organization “We know better than to accept | the poisonous ..dvice of the operators and their tools. We have already | entrenched our own organization, the | rank and file leadership of the NMU |so that nothing can shake it. | “we pledge ourselves to carry on |the work on the outside and. urge you to carry on where you are. “No prison walls or prison bars are | thick enough to hold back freedom jand truth. We “Fraternally, “General Committee, NMU.” “{nvestigations” that uncovered little, | acted as a smokescreen while this last outrageous act of robbery of 799 Broadway, New York, small depositors went on. DENVER, Colo., Aug. 12. — Gov- ernor Adams and the capitalist news- papers here have cooked up a “red” scare through the usual bomb plot frame-up in order to help the Rocke- feller Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. put ovér its 20 per cent wage cut and to railroad two young workers to jail. On August 8 the Denver Post, in flaming headlines, came out with a Up to a few days ago this was|story about an alleged Communist done under the pretext of hunting|plot to blow up the Continental Oil the man who held up the society/Co. and the Public Service Co, in ‘women. The real purpose of the ter- | Alamosa, Gov. Adams’ home town. ror is now openly revealed. Sheriff |}Gov. Adams, who seemed to be all Hawkins has announced his intention | ready for the “discovery” of the bomb to break up all activities of the mil-|plot, sent two explosive experts to itant workers. The capitalist papers |look over the situation. are carrying scream headlines calliA& | a4. nenver Post starts off its sto- for “the driving out of the Reds.” |. sith the usual le about “what is Alarmed by the success of the|pelieved to be a Communist plot,” Communist Party in combatting the|pyt docs not print one line of evi- boss poison of race hatred and in} dence, as it had not all been cooked rallying thousands of white workers | yp yet. to the defense of the Negro masses ‘To further the frame-up and to and against the Scottsboro legal lynching, the bosses are now seeking distract attention from the forth- to destroy the workers’ organizations oming wage cuts, the National Guard claimed it feared its smmun}. . wouls Colo.Governor Aids Frame-up Against Two Young Workers This they linked up with the arrest of two members of the Young Com- munist League, Mike Schantze and Sol Greenberg, who on June 30 were Jailed for “distributing” propaganda leaflets against imperialist war to the Citizens Military Training School students. They were charged with criminal syndicalism, but now the National Guard wants to manufac- ture more “evidence” to railroad them to jail. In the meanwhile, the National Guard is arming itself to shoot down coal miners if they strike against Rockefeller’s wage cut. The action of Gov. Adams in taking part in the bomb plot scare, charging it to the Communists, shows how ready the state forces, national guard and gov- ernment are to attack the militant workers and the leaders in the fight against wage cuts and starvation, the Communist Party. Every worker must smash this de- liberate frame-up by Gov. Adams and the National Guard, directed not only against members of the Young Communist League and members of BRANDY CAMP. Pa., Aug. 12. '— |A mass mecting held by the Nation- |al Miners Union right in the United Mine Workers Hall here August 9 at {2 p.m, brought 150 strikers from | Mine No. $ here and Elk Mine to- gether, and amidst enthusiasm for |the N. M. U., 41 joined the militant union. The speakers were Charles Krumble and George Anthony. An- jother mass meeting has been ar- ranged in this hall on August 12 at 6 p. m., to which miners from the two struck mines, and from” vari- ous unstruck mines will be pregeft. The struck mines are No. 5 with 200 out, and Elk with 16 out. Those not struck yet are Oyster Plant, 100 now working; Bursendall, with 250; Dagis, 300; Furns, 100; Holywood, 100; Five Points, 75; Williams, 25. In most of the mines they are earning 50 cents to $1.50 a day, which is very little to support a family on. Men, women and children are stary- ing. The meeting August 12 will probably take a strike vote, for all the mines. MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF MIL- LINERY WORKERS. A general membership meeting of millinery workers will be held to- night right after work at Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. and 41st St. The ex- ecutive committee will report on its activities. The order of busineas will be: A report on the situation in the trade; the activities of the trade committee; the organization and the Communist Party, but also election of a mass rank and file-ore eo