The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1931, Page 1

| f Pong LM, NCO unist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) VII. No. 200 at New York, N. "“ontered au second-class matter at the Pi Y¥., under the act of Mar. Office 1879 EBB 25 —— Vol. NEW. YORK THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1931 Give Aid to the Harlan Front YNCH law justice has gone into action against the coal mine strikers of Harlan County, Kentucky. Not since the days when the two Italian workers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti went to trial for their lives before the infamous eourt of Judge Webster Thayer at Dedham, Massachusetts, has a court of capitalist class justice been turned into a fortress of such an exten- aive scale, Within this judicial stronghold Judge D. C. Jones, himself heavily interested in coal properties, declares all workers fighting against wage cuts and starvation and for living conditions constitute a “criminal ele- ment” who can not expect “justice” in a Harlan County Court, and the prosecutor declares that, “We've got to put the cold chills of steel down the backs of the criminal element of this county.” ‘These are the judicial assassins in the service of the great coal barons having profit interests in Harlan County and in Kentucky—the Rocke- feller Consolidation Coal Company, the United States Steel Corporation- controlled United States Steel and Coke Company, the Peabody Coal Company of bloody history in Illinois; the Wisconsin Steel Company, the Commonwealth Edison and other Insull interests. Behind their guns and tear gas these judicial lackeys betray their fears of aroused labor. They cower before the militant miners of Harlan County and plan to remove the trials, except one, to come other county devoid of mine workers’ militancy and discontent. A hundred miners and their sympathizers through mass arrests have been thrown into the festering fastness of the Harlan County jail. But the lackey judicial lynching mob of the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Insulls and the Mellons dare not move for a mass trial. They try to carry through their planned murders individually, exactly as the infamous courts of Massachusetts started out in the killings of Sacco and Vanzetti. Like all lynching mobs these would-be assassins try to hide their crimes in darkness. Newspaper workers are kidnapped on the steps of the court house and given the “mountain air” in the form of bullet wounds, shot at and wounded in the open streets in broad daylight as in the case of the editor of the Crawford’s Weekly, Norton, Virginia, or thrown into jail on so-called criminal syndicalism charges. ‘The Harlan front blazes today as one of the most important centers of struggle of the whole working class. It links the northern with the southern struggle, for the unity of Negro and white workers, the native with the foreign-born, raises the right to organize, to strike, for self- defense, against lynching and Jim Crowism, the right of speech, press and assemblage. Victory in Harlan is crucial to labor’s whole struggle. ‘The International Labor Defense raises the protest against the plan- ned lynching of the 30 coal miners charged with murder at Harlan as one of the leading demands for Sacco-Vanzetti Day, August 22nd. But this is also a day to day struggle in the courts, relief for the prisoners and their large number of dependents, the wives and children on the outside in the mountains facing hunger and death. Funds are neede in the struggle, desperately needed. They must come from everywhere. Let the flood of donations grow. Mail all con- tributions to the National Office, International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 E. 11th St., New York City. Help the struggle on the Harlan front. Chief of Army Staff Says War Must Come Soon for Profits NEW YORK.—Capitalism inev- itably drives to war, is the admission made here over the nation-wide radio hookup of WABC Tuesday by Colonel William K. Naylor, chief of staff, Second Corps Area. “We must not forget,” said the colonel, pre- paring his hearers for the coming war, “that wars are caused by com- mercial rivalry generally, by hope of financial gain, or by fear of finan- cial loss.” This is an open admission that wars are made by capitalists in their fight for profits and that the talk about “defense of the father- land” is only hypocritical camou- flage. American imperialism, said Nay- lor, needs a bigger army and navy, and is building it, and all the talk of the pacifists is a lot of bunk be- cause, he adds, they overlook the basic causes which drive to war. Colonel Naylor stated these causes could not be wiped out. The colonel is frank in” admitting that the American workers willsoon be plunged into another world slaughter for “commercial rivalry and financial gain”—that is, to help enrich the capitalists of the United States, This means that only with the overthrow of capitalism will the basis for wars, as admitted by the colonel, be destroyed, and not until then. Paterson Strikers Protest Police Brutality Aug. 22 PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 19—The workers and strikers of Paterson will demonstrate Seturday, August 22, against the brutal police attack on the strikers in the parade last ‘Thursday and, in solidarity with the workers throughout the world, for the release of all political prisoners. ‘The demonstration will take place at the City Hall Plaza and is being con- ducted under the joint leadership of the International Labor Defense and the United Front General Strike Committee and the National Textile Workers’ Union. At the meeting of the Taxpayers League last night a motion was adopted censuring traffic officer Peterson for having caused the at- tack on the workers at the parade. ‘This motion was made by Charles Silverman, counsel for the League, who complained that as a result of the display of news reel pictures of the vicious attack Paterson was re- ceiving a great deal of unfavorable publicity throughout the country. ‘The Taxpayers League while trying TYNCH MOB OUT IN LOUISIANA Negro Framed-up On “Rape” Charge BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 19. — A sheriff's posse has ordered all Ne- groes to leave the town of Denham Springs, La., under threat of a whole- sale massacre, Theo rder follows an alleged at- tack by a Negro on a white woman. Ellis Smith, 25-year old Negro work- er has been arrested an a “confes- sion’? extorted from him by third degree methods, He is being held in the East Eaton Rouge jail where last night a crowd of leading citizens gathered to dema:d his to. The o-t8 to avoid the bad publicity from beating up of workers has put the blame on Peterson, a single cop, when it is known that the attack was a planned one on the part of the police force under the direction of the silk bosses. Thirty-six workers in the National Silk Throwing Co. plant on Dale Ave. went out on strike today. A,coupte of weeks before the strike started the boss laid off all the workers. He called them back to work with a 25 per cent wage cut, which meant down to $8 a week. The werkers refused and came to the NTWU for leader- ship. A meeting of the shop was organized and = tiizicen workers joined the union, They drew up their demands and refuse to go back to work without the recognition of the NTWU. Holdeman Wants “Peace.” According to this morning’s press Holderman of the UTW-Associated made the following bid for peace with the bosses, that is:a sell out: “We want peace not now, but for- ever. But we want peace with honor. We all know that strikes have been too many in the past and I am sure we all hope to find some way to cur- tail them in the future for the city at large.” The A. F. of L. unions want peace moc on the workers’ demands but “with honor,” that is, on th> bosses’ wage cutting and speed-up terms. There have been “too many strikes in the past.” The workers have struck for their demands against such agents of the bosses as Holder- man, Dudenz and Co. Holderman openly admits that they want to find some way besides the strike. He is trying to prepare the strikers for an arbitration scheme. At the beginning of ‘the strike the UTW-Associated misleaders were ready to use the arbitration scheme with Mayor Hinchcliffe but the mili- TO PROTEST IN STREETS, SAT. To Hold Separate Demonstrations Thruout City NEW YORK —This Saturday, August 22—Sacco Vanzetti Day—is a day of world wide mobilization of the toiling masses to demonstrate against boss terror and for amnesty to all class war prisoners and the release of the Scottsboro Negro boys. In New York City there will be demonstrations in every section of the city. The hour and place of these demonstrations are given be- low. All workers, Negro and white, youth and adult and women are urged to turn out in masses in sup- port of the demands of the demon- strations and in the fight against boss terror. Workers! Defend your right to or- ganize to fight against starvation and evictions! Smash the boss ter- ror against the working class! De- mand the release of Tom Mooney and all class war prisoners! Demand the release of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill Negro victims of Jim Crow capitalism! Defend the unity of the Negro and white workers! Support the struggle of the Negro masses! Demonstrate Saturday! See page 3 for the points of dem- onstration, 5) CONEY ISLAND FAMILIES THROWN IN THE STREETS Gas Co. Agents Routed By Aroused Tenants; Worker Is Suicide Five Coney Island families were evicted yesterday on 29th St. between. Railroad Ave. and Mermaid Ave. The furniture of these unemployed work- ers who could not pay rent was thrown into the streets and families grouped around it, helpless and look- ing on in despair. A gas company agent was set upon by residents of a tenement on Mer- maid Avenue near the movie house when he was about to shut off the gas of one tenant. He was chased from the building. worker, name unknown, committed suicide in a house on Mermaid Ave. He was despondent because he could not secure work. ‘ SHOE WORKERS DEFEAT PAY CUT AT GIANTEL (9. Boss Forced to Recog- nize Shop Committee NEW YORK.—The boss was forced to withdraw a fifteen per cent wage cut and recognize the shop convynit- tee with whom he is to setile all shop grievances and disputes about prices at the Giant Shoe Co. The firm is also obligated to rec- ognize the right of the workers to belong to the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union under whose leadership the strike was con- ducted. ‘The boss tried all methods to break the strike, from hiring scabs to mak- tancy of the workers on the picket lines prevented them from proceed- ing with that plan of open sell-out. of lynching were freely expressed by the crowd, A CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ing frame-ups on the strike com- mittees, but he failed. The shop stood solid behind the Union and the Committee. ‘The strike lasted for about 2 weeks and now the workers are returning to work as good and proud Union men. The strike at the Glenmore is now going on the sixth week. The a terhpts of the boss to’ break the re of the strikegy with underworld tac- tics and strMe breakers ws mic) without success. The injunction hear- ing was at an end last Monday and a Court decision is forthcoming. Re- gerdless of the decision the fight will go on. Tho Shoe and Leather Workers Indust-ial Union is now circulating a call to all shoe workers to come on the picket line at the Glenmore. The Union also urges the workers to respond to the cail for a strike Relief and Organization Fund. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of (he revolutionary pzess. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle, ‘NY. WORKERS Senator Yates Robs Relief Fund for Orgies;? Here Is $819 Check Jobless Did Not Receive The above check of the Depart- ment of Treasury, State of New Jersey, is made out of the mistress pendency relief” act of the State of New Jersey. The capitalist news-- papers are trying to hide the thou- of Senator Yates, to buy her dia- monds and jewelry. It comes out of the “model” old age and “de- sands in graft taken by capitalist Politicians from the meagre unem- ployed and old age relief funds. Republican Senator Yates of and Jobless Funds for Orgies “Model Law” Was Easy Pickings for the Capitalist Politicians While Many Thousands of Aged Workers Starved Funds which were supposed to go to the unemployed of New Jersey as well as to the eld ~~ i cit workers—thousands of whom are on the verge of starvation and have been re- fused any relief whatever by the New Jersey | capitalist politicians—were spent freely in providing luxurious | apartments, flowers, candy, jewelry for the mistress of State Senator Roy F. Yates, New Jersey Republican leader. It is only by accident that these facts were ever revealed. Yates and his mistress, Ruth Jayne Crammer, got drunk, he threatened to leave her, and she shot @ N.J. Robbed Old Age Pension The same evening an unemployed | and wounded him. At first the capitalist news papers began to print a few of the facts in their stories. Several.of them repro- duced checks from the commission to study pensions and refief dependency made payable to R. N. Cranmer. One check was for $319. How many thou- sands of dollars Yates spent from the so-called “pension and relief” will never be known because the cap- italist papers are acting in unison to kill this damning news. Yates has made many statements in the capitalist press against the “Reds” as “home destroyers,” and as “violent leaders of the unemployed.” Whenever the Communisis of New Jersey led demonstrations of the un- employed demanding relief, Yates was among the loudest ordering that they be beaten and jailed. All the while, Yates was having official checks made out, depleting the so- called relief fund, so that his mis- tress could squander thousands. The capitalists do not want the 10,- 000,000 unemployed to know the facts —that the capitalist politicians do not only graft out of so-called “regu- lar” government funds, bot take all they can get from the measly “dona- tions” made to pension and relief. A careful examination—which, of course, will never be made—would undoubtedly show that in New Jer- sey, and in every other state in the United States, the capitalist politi- cians who rant against the militant leaders of the unemployed, who or- (CONTINUED O8 PAGE TERRE) SOVIET WORKERS OVERSUB- SCRIBE LOAN MOSCO™’.—The “Third and De- cisive Yca>" Loan was oversubscribed in a short time and now totals one billion, six hundred million rubles. ACW Fake Stoppage In Boston To Levy New Assessment 'NTWIU Issues Leaflet fund for orgies, dinners and clothes ' for his mistress and for other things | Proposing Real Action for Concrete Demands "BOSTON, Mass, August 19.—The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, with the consent of the bosses, called a fake’stoppage this morning. ‘The ob- ject of the stoppage is to levy a new assessment on the workers. No demands to the bosses were present- ed, although reductions are made daily. At a mass meeting this morning, Schlossberg acted as a preacher and told the workers to be loyal and pay the taxes. The workers know the main object of the fake stoppage and are disgusted with the Amalgamated maneuver. The Weedle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union issued a leaflet this morning telling the workers the true purpose of the fake stoppage, pro- posing a concrete program of action. A rank and file committee has been organized to carry on the work among the members of the Amal- gamated. JOBLESS WORKER COMMITS SUICIDE SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 19. — Richard Nardi, an unemployed tailor committed suicide by jumping into the Connecticut River from the Hamden County Memorial Bridge. He was about forty years of age. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, 4 UNITE! Price 3 Cents — POSTPONE TRIAL OF 35 KY. MINERS; DEFENSE FUNDS URGENT NOW ‘My Babies Need Milk! So Badiy,” Pleads Miner’s Wife Relief Need Urgent! Strikers Solidarity PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. expect my baby to be born in three weeks, and I don’t have a shirt or a and file organizers since the strike’s beginning, writes to Mary Smith, woman's organizer, who turned it over to the Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ken- tucky Striking Miners’ Relief Com- mittee. “My shoes and my husband's | shoes and all of our clothes are so threadworn, “What shall we do? I can’t even come to Pittsburgh for meetings any more, because I have nothing but an old gingham apron I got from my mother-in-law, the only thing that will fit me at present. “Dear comrade, I make my plea to same cause, to help me in my dil- emma now (it must be immediately) so that I may force my ordeal with less worry on my head and more strength in my body. “My children won't be able to go no clothes and shoes, and they are strength and mentality. Since the beginning of the strike we all have been very active members of the union and done our best. My hus- band and I go on the picket line every day. I do my best with the auxiliaries, but picketing and going| from one striking camp to another wore out all the things I got. “We don’t know what it 1s to have some soup or coffee with milk in it for our three little children, all un- der six years, My babies need milk | so badly, and bread, too. And we need clothes so badly. My size is 42 | now, and shoes 514; my husband, 42 shirt, trousers 37, shoes 812; Walter, age 5, size 8 suit, shoes 11; Tommy, age 4, size 5, shoes 11; Junion, age 8, size 5, shoes 7—and some sort of a layette for the baby. “This letter has been so terrible to write, because I have been trying to | keep quiet about my trouble because the fight is too important to talk about such small things. But with my baby coming so soon I can’t help it. Writing this leaves me pretty well exhausted and spent. I am sure that this is the longest thing I ever wrote in all my life and this life of mine has been pretty active all the time. “As soon as I hear from you and (CONTINUED ON PA THREE) Bruening to Cut Pay of Civil Employees (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Aug. 19—The reduction of Berlin civil service employees sal- aries by fifteen per cent has been fixed for October 1. There is great indignation amongst the lower offi- cials and employees affected by this reduction, The highest salaried of- ficials, magistrates and directors are not effected by this cut. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 19? Clavie Patterson and Mrs. Mamie Williams, parents of two of the Scottsboro boys on their return yes- terday from = visit to the eight | boys in Kilby Prison, Montgomery, denounced Walter White, of the n.| A. A. C. P. for his persistent attempts to coerce the boys into ignoring the | wishes of their parents. The boys reported that White had again visit- ed them last week on two separate occasions. “We told him that we want the International Labor De- fense to defend us,” the boys told Mr. Patterson and Mrs. Williams. It has been definitely established that the firm of Fort,, Beddow and/| Ray dronped out of the case coast fell in~ the failure of the efforts of White to have the boys sign retainers. With | Rocdy going violently insane, the N. A. A. C. P. misleaders are not only witheut c) ents but without attorneys in the case. Roddy was taken by his Scottsboro 9 Again Defeat NAACP Treachery---Workers Protest Aug. 22 Demand Release Boys and All Class War Prisoners father to an insane asylum in Mis- souri followinc his attempt to kill his wife, The National office of the ILD de- clared yesterday: “The Scottsboro case is now def- initely established on a world-wide scale as an issue of the utmost im- portance. Millions of workers and their sympathizers are protesting this attempt to legally lynch nine Negro children on the usual frame- up charge of rape. Thousands of Negroes have been legally lynched by due process of law since the Civil War. Legalism has never saved a single life when it was to of the South to put to death a Ne- | gro, A new era has arrived in the lives of the Negro and white work- ers who realize that only militant mass protest, backing legal defense, can ever stay the bloody hands of the murderous white ruling class.” Again on August 22—this Satur- day—the international working class will take the streets in militant de- mand for the unconditicnal release of the Scottsboro boys, for the re- lease of Tom Mooney and all class- war prisoners and in protest against the growing boss terror against the working class, against the murder of strikers in the mine fields, the mas- sacre of Chicago unemployed workers on August 3, and the massacre of the Camp Hill Negro croppers. Negro and white workers! on the streefs August 22! All out Demon- Ask Workers ’| 19.—"I} diaper for it,” a miner's wife who} has been one of the most active rank | you because we both work for the} to school this fall, because they have | losing weight all the time and losing | \Communism Spreads| | Throughout Europe, | | Says Hearst NEW YORK. “The German dam against Bolshevism is| broken.” Thus begins the start- ling story cabled from London on Tuesday to the International | News Service by Otto B. Tolischus European director, The Interna- tional News Service is a Hearst | organization. Tolischus, sensing the collapse of capitalism, is attempting to arouse the | | ate war ag: | | He says: | “Broad streams of || ogy pouring through huge gaps | and winding through the mani- fold phases of German life are | beginning to lap the shores of England, | “This the appalling but world-historic truth dawning upon Europe and the world. | “This is the reason that the | | British government has pro- claimed a national emergency | and called statesmen of all par- ties to help ramify the bulwarks and erect a new line of defense against the Red tide by stabil- izing finances through common sacrifices as in time of war.” Commenting on the breakdown of capitalism, Tolischus writes: “The revolution initiated by the challenge of Bolshevism to capitalism or what Count Key- serling calls ‘Privatism,’ is in- tensified by the breakdown of capitalism, which must face the charge of millions. of) hungry amid the greatest abundance of | goods in the world’s history.” TO HIT MACHADO TERROR IN CUBA INPROTEST TODAY New York Workers To Pledge Solidarity With Cuban Workers NEW YORK. — Section 1 of the Communist Party and the Marine Workers Industrial Union calls on all the workers of downtown New York to rally at noon today in mass demonstration in front of the Cuban Consulate at West Street and Bat- tery Place to protest against the murder and jailing of militant Cuban wo:!:crs by the bloody Machado gov- ernment. During the recent strikes and the present widespread revolutionary up- heaval in Cuba, thousands of Cuban workers, including many Commun- ists, have been jailed, murdered and subjected to the most brutal torture by the Machado ruling class. Air- planes carrying bombs and high ex- plosives have been sent by the Fed- eral government against the workers to spread death and destruction where workers live. All the instrum- ents of force and violence of the Cuban ruling class have been mobil- ized against the Cuban workers to make them submit to the starvation program of the sugar barons and the Wall Street bankers. Under the banners of the Com- munist Party of Cuba and the revo- lutionary trade union movement, the Cuban workingclass are rising up against all the capitalist parties who are fighting for the control of the government and the privilege to fur- ther exploit and starve the workers. The struggle of the Cuban work- ingclass is also the struggle of the American workers. We must show our solidarj"“h the workers of Cuba by @ jut in great num- bers.today m in front of the Cuban Consulate. Demand the release of all working- class fighters! Protest against the murder of our Cuban comrades! || | | t the Soviet Union. xed ideol- TUUC Meeting Hears Mine Strike Report A very important meeting of the TUUC will take place this evening at 7:30 p. m. Comrade Johnstone, who has just returned from the mine fields, will report on the mine strike. Many other important questions are on the the benefit of the white ruling class e strate against boss terras. agenda for the meeting. Editor | | pitalists to immedi-| | Irrial of Burnett || Opened Wednesday | Amidst Terror \Scores Judge Jones | Kentucky Miners In Fighting Spirit BULLETIN. According to capitalist press re- ports from Harlan, Ky., W. M. Bure nett, whose trial opened in Harlan today, refused to accept M. F. Hall as defense counsel because he was retained by the U. M. W. A. | HARLAN, oe Aug. 19.—The trial of Wil- liam M. Burnett, one of the miners charged with murder last May before the 35 others were ar- rested is set for Thursday. The other cases have been put over until next week, as the | State Prosecytor is demanding |a change of venue because of the “danger of mob violence if the trials were held here.” The State Pro- secutor does not want the case held in ahy mining section and does not want miners on the jury. He wants to get a jury that will be sure to railroad the 35 miners to the electric chair on the framed-up charges ; The motion, said Judge Jones, will be heard Monday. M. F. Hall, who is acting attorney for the defense, demanded that Judge Jones be withdrawn as he is closely connected with coal compa- nies, receiving substantial sums of money from the same forces who hire gunmen to kill the miners. Judge Jones said she will try the case, end from the indications he has already given, will do his utmost to repeat the Sacco and Vanzetti case for the 35 miners. 2s ee Kentucky Coal Operators Want Blood (By Special Correspondent) HARLAN, Ky., Aug. 19.—Not sure that their judicial tools will succeed in taking the lives of thirty odd min- ers who face 102 charges of murder. the coal operators have employed a veritable army of gunmen who shoot (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NEEDLE WORKERS ENDORSE PARTY ELECTION DRIVE To Mobilize Needle Workers For the Elections NEW YORK.—The Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union has an- swered the call of the Communist Party and endorsed the Communist Party Election Campaign platform at the last meeting of the Executive Committee. The Needle Trade Work- ers Industrial Union now issues the call to all members in the shops to attend the Election Campaign Con- ference called by Section 2 this Fri- day, August 21, at 8 p.m. at 301 W. 29th St., and requests all union and all open shops to send delegates tc the conference. ‘The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union will shortly announce the general mobilization day for the entire industry to collect signatures to enable the Communist Party can- didates to get on the ballot. Under the slogan of “Two signatures a fay for all workers,” the members of all revolutionary unions must guarantee their part in this drive not only to get Communist Party candidates on the ballot but to elect Communist leaders in the coming elections in all boroughs, In order to make sure that all workers of the Food Workers Union are mobilized in the shops, the date of the Food Workers Election Cam- paign Mass Meeting has been changed to Thursday, August 27. Comrade I. Amter will speak. Work- ers are asked to call at the Food Workers Industrial Union headquar- ters, 5 E. 19th St. for the special Election Campaign leaflet issued by the Union to be distributed in all shops and among the workers genere _ ally in the industry. dn t i