The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1931, Page 1

| GE HERE WHen THede ~ ARE ANY BANK FaLuedy Carrranisr Eptrore (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! _Vol. VIII. No. 202 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 ‘NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DEMONSTRATE TODAY AGAINST TERROR, | Remember Sacco and Vanzetti ‘OUR years ago the capitalists of this country murdered Sacco and Vanzetti -These two workers had commited the “crime” of being mili- tant fighters for their class, especially in trying to rescue another foreign- born worker from the clutches of the United States Department of (capitalist) Justice, whose agents murdered him. He, an Italian worker named Andrea Salsedo, was found May 3, 1920, shattered to bloody fragments on the sidewalk fourteen floors below the window of the U. S. Department of “Justice” in lower Manhattan, where he had been held for two months, illegally of course, under torture of the Third Degree for some fantastic charge still hidden in mystery. Sacco and Vanzetti, simple workingmen, had interested themselves in his defense, so the government murderers wished to—and finally did— murder them also, Workers should remember this, when apologists for the capitalist dic- tatorship try to picture the Sacco-Vanzetti case as “out of the hands of the federal government” because it was formally a case handled by the State of Massachusetts. Further, a former agent of the U. S. Depart- ment of Justice, admitted not long ago, that the agents of the Depart- ment in Massachusetts had positive proof that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent of the crime charged against them (a murder during a hold-up), had, in fact, the confession of the real criminals, but were ordered to suppress this information by the Washington Government. But the capitalist class of this country was determined to murder these two obscure workers, in order to establish by terror a fear in the minds of the working class of strikes or any other struggle against the dictatorship of the capitalist class, a dictatorship that workers should not challenge in action, however much they may be allowed to listen to empty pretensions about “democracy” in theory, v4 ‘The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti caused a gigantic wave of anger to sweep the working class of the entire world. While it did not save their lives, it did tear away the illusions of millions as to the bloody and brutal fact of capitalist dictatorship and set hundreds of thousands of workers on the path of understanding that to end such domination of a parasite class, the working class must unite in a fight for power, a strug- gle to establish a working class dictatorship such as has freed the toilers of the Soviet Union from the barbarism and blood of capitalist and land- Jord rule. Neither did the murder of these two workers succeed in terrorizing the workers. Nor will any persecution or terror succeed in stopping the stuggles of the working class against wage cuts, for social insurance and food to the jobless. The workers will demonstrate today throughout the land not only in remembrance of Sacco and Vanzetti, but in militant demand that the capitalist class release all prisoners and intended victims of its terrorist dictatorship. They demonstrate under the call of the International Labor Defense, the shield protecting every worker active in the struggle against capitalism. The workers today will thunder their demand for the release of the nine Scottsboro boys and the intended victims of the Southern landlords who fought against peonage and forced labor at Camp Hill, Alabama; for the freedom of Mooney and Billings, the release of the union organ- s_ sentenced. to 42-year terms for organizing a union of Agricultural Workers in California, for an end of persecution and terror against strikers in mines and textile towns, for an énd to the deportations of foreign-born workers, a cessation of police murders of the unemployed. Onto the streets, workers, to protest the crimes of the capitalist dic- tatorship! To remind the capitalist class that its days of savage powet are numbered! 2 “Voluntary Americanism’--- and Involuntary Starvation be) appointment by Hoover of Walter S. Gifford, wage-cutting presi- = dent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., one of Morgan’s bank’s holdings, supposedly to “relieve unemployment,” has been hailed by the president of the National Association of Manufacturers, John E. Edgerton, and the program of involuntary starvation of the unemployed announced at the same time by Hoover, is declared to be an expression of “voluntary Americanism.” Since the National Association of Manufacturers has long been noted for its “open shop,” speed-up and wage-cutting program under the name of “the American Plan,” it is fitting that a Hoover plan to starve to death as many unemployed as will stand for it would be hailed by the NAM. president as “Americanism.” But why it should be “voluntary” is another question. Last year, Hoover set up a socalled “Emergency Committee for Em- ployment”—please get the “for’—but far from delivering any “employ- ment,” its efforts were 90% directed to spreading hot air, to “pointing with pride” to isolated cases where some worker got a job—while being blind as a bat and silent as a clam when hundreds of thousands were discharged—and to issuing advice to workers on “How a Family of Seven can Live on Forty Cents a Day”’—and so on ad nauseam. Now this sickening hypocrisy is given up for a new and more sicken- ing dose of pretensions. There is no more promise ‘of “employment.” ‘With millions more being thrown on the street jobless, this pretense had to be given up. Now the hypocrisy is that “local agencies” are able to give “adequate” relief. The effrontery of Hoover, who expects the workers to believe such rubbish is beyond all measuring. Everyone conversant with facts knows that “local agencies” are not only “unable” to give “adequate” relief— most of them stopped relief during the summer on the excuse that they had no more resources—but they are unwilling to give any real relief to the millions of starving. The capitalist class IS able to give relief, but it does not intend to give it, and will not give it unless compelled to do so by the mounting wave of anger of great masses who refuse to starve to death amid bound- less plenty. The N. Y. Times dispatch from Washington on Friday, admitted that —“Just how the advisory committee is to function and what it is to do OUT ON THE STREETS! DEMAND AMNESTY FOR CLASS WAR PRISONERS! Working Class of the Whole World to Protest Murder and Railroading to Jail of Militant Workers, Deportations Prisoners Who Were Punished for Working Class Activity NEW YORK.—Sacco-Vanzetti Day demon- strations will take place today in all sections of the city. The demonstrations will not only commem- orate the 4th anniversary of the murder of these working class fighters, but will raise the banner of pro- test and struggle against the growing boss terror and perse- cution against the working class, against the attacks on thé Negro people and the foreign born workers, against the Scotts+ boro legal lynching, the Camp Hill, Alabama, massacre of Negro croppers, the Chicago police-@ ea mew = = PPHOLSTERY MEN workers, the growing murders and railroading of militant strikers in the coal fields. In the Bronx, the demonstration Demand Release of Tom Mooney and All the Class War |. | will begin with a parade at 18th St. and Prospect Ave. at 6 p.m. with the workers marching to Washing- ton Ave. and Claremont Parkway. In Harlem there will be two par- | ades with a main demonstration at Mount Morris Park, at East 125th St. One parade will begin at 100th St. and Second Ave., marching to Fifth Ave., and 133th St. and then to Mount Morris Park. There it will be joined by @ parade which will begin with a meeting at 140th St. and 8th Ave. In midtown Manhattan, a parade will start with a meeting at 12:30 at Bryant Park, 40th St. and 6th Ave., marching to Madison Square. In downtown Manhattan, a mass meet~ ing will be held at 7th St. and Ave. B at 2:30 p. m. with a parade, end- ing at Rutgers Square with a dem- onstration. In Brownsville, a parade beginning with a meeting at Pennsylvania and Sutter Aves, at 2:30, will end with a demonstration at Saratoga and Pit- kin Aves, In South Brooklyn, a demonstra- tion will take place at Court and Carrol Sts., beginning at 2 p.m. In- formation of other demonstrations is given in the August 22 calendar on another page. All workers are urged to turn out and demonstrate their indignation against the boss terror and their demands for amnesty to all class war prisoners, for the release of the nine Scottsboro boys. Smash boss terror! Demand amnesty! Demonstrate to- day! 134th St. TENANTS BLOC EVICTIONS Lead by “Unemployed Council NEW YORK.—Following its suc- cessful action in preventing the evic- tion of Mrs. Doctor, a colored unem~ in a practical sense are yet to be worked out.” That is, there is no Drow, gram to actually do anything FOR unemployed relief, but, there are plenti- ful declarations about what should NOT be done; the same dispatch stating that—“Whatever the final plans worked out by Mr. Gifford... they inevitably will follow the general policy of the Hoover Administra~ tion that actual relief of the unemployed is primarily, a local respori- sibility.” And Mr. Gifford announces that his committee will only “coordinate” local appeals—hastening to add that—“This is not a suggestion of a national fund.” So the Hoover program is to “coordinate” the starvation program of all “local agencies” and pretend that starvation multiplied by arithmetic is “adequate relief.” Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, champion of High Tariff that’ is taking about $1,000,000,000 a year out of the workers and farmers for the benefit of the corporations, also adds a solemn judgment against any federal government relief, by asserting that unemployment relief must be left to “the workings of natural fortes”—a discovery that of course does not apply to tariffs! . 2 All told, the Hoover program of “voluntary Americanism” {s a plan of involuntary starvation of the workers, And the workers, employed and unemployed alike, should throw the Ie back into-the face of the hypocrite in the White House. ‘The workers must organize more firmly and tm greater numbers than ever to demand real rellef and not empty words, for unemployment in- surance and a genuinely adequate sum of money for Winter Relief— 4 demand that can only be won by militant struggle, but one that must be won if thousands of Jobless and their loved ones are not actually to starve to death this winter. Join the Unemployed Councils! Fight: aguinst: starvation? — aad ’ uf ployed woman, and her three small children of 110 W. 234th St., the Har- lem Branch of the Unemployed Council proceeded to organize the tenants in the house, In this it was also successful, and |the organized tenants held a meet- ing at which a resolution was adopt~ ed to call a rent strike should the landlord of the house persist in evict~ ing unemployed workers. A state- ment to that effect was served on the landlord, with the result that the landlord attempted to compromise with a two weeks’ extension. The Harlem Branch will hold an- other block meeting on 134th St. be- tween Lenox and 7th Ave., this Sat- urday evening at 8 p.m. At this meet- ing the workers will take up the question of developing the struggle against the increasing evictions of unemployed workers by white and Negro landlords in Harlem. One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per cope, GO OUT ON STRIKE Demand Minimum Wage, 8-Hour Day NEW YORK.—The workers of thé | Milgrom Upholstery Co, walked out on strike this morning after the boss has discharged one of the work- ers as a result of a dispute about the prices on the job. These workers were working under the piece-work system, worked all kinds of hours and the most they made out was $23 to $25 per week. At the shop meet- ing on Thursday these workers de- cided to fight for better conditions, and the following demands were put to the boss: 8-hour day, 5-day week; $1 an hour the minimum wage scale, recognition of the union and the shop committee, control of the job, and one week's trial. All the men are out and they are determined to give this firm a good fight. This strike is a result of the or- ganizing campaign for a_ strike against the miserable conditions, ex- isting in the furniture shops of New York, initiated by the Furniture Workers’ Industrial League. * All members of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial League are asked to come to the picket line on Mone day morning, 7:30 a. m. to the Mil- gram shop, 56 Scholes St., Brooklyn, hear Lorimer St. We will have @ mass picket line that morning. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press, by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. Two Steel Companies Cut Workers’ Wages, One Lays Off Half MARTINS FERRY, O., Aug. 20. —The Wheeling Steel Company cut wages ten per cent in all its plants. Both the hourly and day men are affected by this cut. A mass meeting will be held at Riverview Park north of Market Street Bridge in Steubenville on Saturday night at 7 o'clock. The Weirton Steel Company laid off half. of its laborers put~- ting the remainder on ten hours work at eight hours pay. The Metal Workers Industrial League is calling upon the workers to or~ ganize and strike against wage cuts. It is preparing a mass tri- district conference at Pittsburgh on September 27. POLICE, THUGS ATTACK NEGROES IN PITTSBURGH Try Bar Negro Toilers From Using New City Pool PITTSBURGH, Aug. 21.— Negro workers trying to use the city’s new $200,000 pool in Highland Park were again attacked last night by white thugs and police. A score of Negro youths had en~ tered the pool when they were set on by several hundred white hoodlums under the influence of the vicious boss poison of hatred and supported by the boss police and ‘courts of this city. Although a large number of po- lice were on hand they followed the policy laid down by the city author!~: ties: that they could not, protect the Negro workers. Wher the Negro workers fought back against their as- sailants, the police joined the thugs in their attack on the’ Negro workers. This is the third attack on Negro workers since the opening of the pool, On the other octasions, police arrested only the Negro workers. Four of those arrested were sentenced in the bosses. court to $25 fine or 30 days in jail on the charge of “incit- ing to riot.” At a mass meeting held here last Tuesday under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, several hundred white aad Negro workers protested the discrimination and ter- ror against Negroes at the swimming pool. The Negro and white workers of Pittsburgh must at once organize strong defense corps which can pro- tect the Negro workers in the exer- cising of their rights. POLICE PLANT “DOCUMENTS” IN THE GERMAN COMMU- NIST HEADQUARTERS (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Aug. 21.—The police have evacuated the Karl Liebnecht house after eleven days accupation. They assert that they have confiscated in- criminating material. Although the seafch was unsupervised, the police probably: deposited this material. Buelow Sa. is still occupied. € \ triking Sound the Alarm! Signature Drive Must Go Over the Top! Only 2 weeks are left to September 6th. By that time a minimum of 35,000 signatures must be collected to place the Communist Party candidates on the ballot and yet we are nowhere near that goal. danger of failure is so real that we sound the alarm to all workers, Comrades, sympathizers! Help us turn the danger point. You must collect at least 2 signatures a day now—at once—every day, to place the} Communist Party candidates on the ticket. Many workers are under the impression that we have plenty of time to accomplish this task. We have only 2 weeks. Time enough, if no stone is left unturned by Unions, Workers’ Fraternal Bodies, Workers’ Clubs, Workers in Shop, Factory, Store and Office, for all workers") organizations to answer the call to action. Never before have workers been so ready to sign Communist petitions and to vote for Communist candidates. The third year of crisis we face this fall, means another winter of desperation, hunger, unemployment, mass misery for the one million jobless of New York and 500,000 heads of families. Who fights against the hunger system of the bosses—only the Com- munist Party. Who fights all battles of the workers against the bosses’ Party. Who fights for immediate relief for the starving jobless of New| York and of the whole country—only the Communist Party. Who fights for the unity of Negro and white workers against the lynch law and terror of the boss class—only the Communist Party. It is your turn now to see that every move of the reactionary triple alliance of demo~ crats-republicans-socialists to prevent the Communist Party from get- The | | plans to make the workers pay for the crisis—only the Communist| ! ting on the ballot—is smashed. boroughs of New York. Communist Party candidates must be placed on the ballot in all To every worker, every Party member, we sound the alarm. Collect two signatures a day from now until September 6th. Over the top with the signature drive by September 6th. COMMUNIST PARTY, DISTRICT 2 DISTRICT SECRETARIAT, NEW YORK CITY. Crisis Report A report issued by the National Industrial Conference Board, a man~ ufacturers’ research organization states that business conditions dur~ ing the summer have “declined more than seasonally” and that industrial conditions are now at the very low- est, on a par with those of last win- ter. The figures indicate that this is putting it very mildly. The steel industry is now 35 per cent below that of last summer, which was al- ready a period of crisis. The build- ing industry is 24 p.c. below last July. ‘These industries are recognized as the gauge of industrial conditions throughout the country. And it is always these industries which are the first to reflect any possible pick~ up. During the past few weeks the eepitalist press has been carrying stories of business starting to fm- prove. This report spikes all these lies and shows clearly that the cri- sis is deepening and that the com- ing winter will be the hardest that the American workers have yet had to face, Deepens Shows 60 Exploiters and A.F.L. Strike — - ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Follow- ing up his selection of Walter S./ Gifford, president of the American ‘Telephone and Telegraph Co., an ex~ perienced wage-cutter and represent~ ative of the powerful Morgan bank- ers as head of the Hoover commit- tee to fight unemployment insurance, President Hoover yesterday ane nounced the appointment of 60 more leading bankers, and A, F, of L. leading strike-breakers to serve with Gifford, Hoover in appointing the 60 lead- ing exploiters and their labor lieute- nants to prepare for attacks against the unemployed and starving work- ers this winter put in a prominent position the officers of the American Legion. The fascist forces’ on Hoo- ver’s unemployment committee are especially strong, indicating the line of attack against the unemployed, Gifford’s company is one of the most responsible for the speed-up during the present crisis that re- sulted in greater unemployment. During the height of the crisis thou- sands of girls were fired in al} the telephone companies controlled by breakers to Attack Am.: Telephone Fires Girls, Slashes Wages the ‘American Telephone & Tele- graph Co, new equipment that meant more speed up was installed. It is estimated that one-sixth of the unemployed, girls. in'New York City were fired by the Gifford, company. Besides, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has set the line for wage cuts and speed up, On August first wages were slashed in the Bell ‘Telephone laboratories of the Am-~ Telephone & Telegraph i Unemployed tee” to protect these heavy profits of the bosses and keep back, with the help of the A. F. of L. leaders, the demand for unemployment in- surance to come out of the profits of the big companies such as the above, A glances. at the outstanding In- dividuals among the 60 on Hoover's unemployment committees shows what the workers may expect, There are an outstanding number from the war industries such as Pierre, Du Pont, billionaire war munitions man~- ufacturer; Bernard Baruch, finan- eler for the Wilson administration in ‘the last World War, and Edward N, Hurley, Secretary of War. While the Hoover government pre- pares for war against the Soviet Union, the same individuals who will profit prepare for war against the unemployed, Others on the committee are Wil- liam Green, and Matthew Woll, both favoring wage cuts, and both of whom have declared emphatically against unemployment insurance to protect the profit fo the Gifford PATERSON YOUTH CONFERENCE TO MEET TONIGHT To Draw Plans For Spreading Strike In Dye Houses PATERSON, N. J—The ‘Youth Committee of the United Front Gen~ eral Strike Committee is calling = Youth Conference to convene Satur- day, August 22, at 5 p.m. at Turn Hall to take up demands for the wage scale and conditions of work for young workers. On the first day of the strike four throwing plants answered the strike call. The young workers went out determined to smash the worst slave dens in the whole silk industry. Some boys and girls in these plants were getting as ‘low as $3 and $4 for a 54 hour week. Max, the boss in the Colonial Throwing, boasted that girls would work for 50 cents a day. To~ day the workers in the Colonial have the boss begging to them on their knees. In the Fred Hall Throwing Plant the girls gained @ dollar increase and the 8-hour day. In the Victory and in the Colt the workers gained a 10 per cent increase in wages, Although there have been several gains made in the strike, many prob- lems have arisen in the strike which concern the young workers, New demands must be worked out on the basis of a broad discussion. Plans for spreading the strike, espe~ cially to the throwing plants and dye houses, must be taken up. A Cen- tral Youth Committee will be elected by the conference to lead and direct and carry out the tasks that confer- ence works out, ADDRESS CHANGED FOR BROOK- LYN MEET. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—A meeting of the Brooklyn section of the Commit- tee for the Brooklyn during National An} Protection of the Foreign as for the open air demonstrations and meetings which are to be held in j-De-| Tungchow, south of FRAME-UPS Miners Need Relief Now More Than Ever, CommitteeWarns |Strike Leaders Say. Critical Situation Not Realized /RUSH RELIEF NOW iNew Forms of Strike to Develop New Struggles PITTSBURGH, | Pa.. Aug. 21.—The Central Rank and File ‘Strike Committee at its full meeting Wednesday, August 19, authorized. the is- | suing of the foll6wing state- ment because of the critical situation in regard to relief. “The Pennsylvania-Ohio-W. Virginia Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee reports to us thatthe quan- tity of relief donated to the strik- ing and starving miners is not suf- ficient. The hungry families in the coal fields have already. felt. this in the form of starvation. Unless relief increases it will mean the death by starvation of thousands of mén, wo- men and children who are now fighting hard in spite of hunger to carry out the new policies adopted by the Central Rank and File Strike Committee. These néw tactics are designed to draw into strike struggle for local demands the great masses of miners who have been driven back to work by terror, and to win important local demands and to es- tablish the National Miners Union 4s a@ powerful organization in the coal fields. “The need for relief NOW is not only not less than it was before the decision for the new tactics, but it is much greater. Not only are wo- men and children being starved to | death now if relief fails them, but | the successful continuance of the struggle in its new forms will be seri- ously hampered by any slackening in the donations throughout the coun- try. “The striking miners appeal to the working class of the whole country! “Remember that the miners’ strike is your fight—it is the first heavy blow struck at the nation-wide cam- paign of wage cuts in all industries. “Do not believe the Hes you may see in the capitalist press about the strike being ended. The strike fs NOT ended! The strike has taken certain new forms, in which the heed of relief is much greater than ever before. Relief is needed to’ carry blacklisted men, who are the best fighters of our union and in’ the strike — until the strike movement itself can force the companies to take these men back into: the ‘industry. Relief is needed for the masses: who had gone back to work, and who now come out to fight for lotal de~ mands, because of the united front built with them by the strikers. Re- lief is needed for the great new struggles which loom inthe near future, “Send relief! Build the relief com- mittees, collect funds and: food, in- tensify all relief activities, now more than ever before in the struggle! “Send all donations to,the Penn- sylvania-Ohio-W, Virginia-~-Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., Roons 205." Manchurian Troops Mutiny in-Peiping According to a Japanese préss dis- patch from Peiping, two battalions of Manchurian troops holding the Southwestern gates of the former capital city mutinied and left their posts. The mutiny is described as being led by Communists, The mutiniéd troops are reported to be marching toward , where they are giving. ~ <