The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1931, Page 1

“LL SEND US. FoLDIERS To! KILL THE tocey "MACHADO Hoove Central (Section of ive Communist International) UY, G_WO orker Party U.S.A. OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! _ Vol. Vil. ered ns second-class matter at the P. NEW YORK, "MONDAY, AUGUST. 24, 1931. ary EDITION a a sobrice: 3 Cents 250, 000 STEEL WORKERS T0 GET 15 PERCENT WAGE CUT Steel and Railroad Workers! Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts! “A general reduction of wages in the steel industry of from 10 to 15 per cent is considered likely in the near future, perhaps next week, according to reports in Wall Street.”—N, Y. Evening Post, Saturday, Au- gust 22, - “Stocks today came under the influence of nervousness over the immediadte effect of wage reductions in the steel and railroad industries, and other basic lines.”—Wall Street Journal, August 21. * . . 'HE above are not merely “rumors,” as proven by the fact that only last Tuesday, 2,000 workers of the U. S. Steel Corporation“at Monessen, Pennsylvania, were handed a wage cut ranging from 10 to 20 per cent. The U. S. Steel Corporation has already begun its wage cutting drive! Let that fact sink in. And also let all workers temember that the Daily Worker—in the face of a ‘flood of lies in the capitalist press, just one month ago warned that the supposed “refusal to cut wages” by the U. S. Steel, then being praised by hypocrite Hoover and the lying capitalist press, was a lie, that U. S. Steel WAS preparing to cut wages! Let the steel workers realize that only the Communists told them the truth. Further, the steel workers were warned that they should organize to strike against the wage cuts. This still is their only hope of defeating the drive of the steel barons to reduce their wages still further, down to coolie level, to utter starvation. | The U. S. Steel Corporation does not “have to” cut wages. In its ‘Treasury there is $600,000,000 of reserve funds, piled up from past profits wrung from the sweat of its 250,000 workers. Only four years ago, it distributed a 40 per cent dividend in the form of Steel stock, upon” which stock it now wishes to pay dividends by starving the workers! The greedy audacity of the capitalists knows no limit! The steel workers, in fact, already have a big wage Seduction, as admitted even by the N. Y. Evening Post of August 22, which said: “Steel wages, in fact, have been drastically reduced by the decrease in hours worked—slashed more than half.” Now, without. the slightest assurance that this “part time wage cut” will be modified in the least degree, the steel workers are attacked with a direct cut in the wage scale! And all this, in spite of the demagogy of President Farrell of the U. S. Steel Corporation, who on May 22— three months ago—“denounced wage cuts as cheap business.” Steel workers! Answer the call of the Metal Workers Industrial League, already issued to your fellow workers at Monessen! Form your own rank and file elected—Shop Committees! Prepare to strike! Defend the bread of your table, the lives of your women and babies from the greed of the parasite stockholders of U. S. Steel! Organize and strike against wage cuts! > . . And what about you, railroad workers? The Wall Street Journal, quoted above, already takes a railroad wage cut for granted! The rail- roads haye been cleverly preparing the way for a wage cut for months. They have asked for higher freight rates, making the excuse that, if they are not granted these, they “must cut wages.” That is pure bunk, as you railroaders snould know. Railroad stock is fairly dripping with water, with billions in imaginary “stock values” which the companies want to pay dividends on, and they intend to pay dvidends on these false “values” out of your hides! The wage cut in Steel or any other excuse will be used to “justify” it. Your own “Brother- hood” officials are helping the companies to cut your wages by standing for “increase in revenue of the railways.” Be warned in time, that your Brotherhood officials will finally betray you by this collaboration with the bosses, with the infamous Watson- Parker Law, forcing you to accept compulsory arbitration. Be warned that only by electing your own rank and file Committees, that must take all strike action and negotiations out of the hands of the officials of your Brotherhoods, can you defeat a wage cut and defy the Watson- Parker compulsory—forced labor—arbitration sell out! . - . ‘Wage cuts in steel and railroads mean wage cuts for you, too! You, too, must prepare to struggle! Organize Shop Committees elected by all, to take charge of the struggle. And now, today, not only organize for the future, but for the immediate strike relief of the Striking Miners—battling in Pennsylvania, Ohio, ‘West Vir- ginia and Kentucky! 5,000 Resist Cops in Militant Paterson Mass Demonstration worker freed himself but was ar- rested later on the street. Walking Fred Biedenkapp and Sophie Melvin, | near him was Sophie Melvin, leader are being held for $6,500 bail as the| of the National Textile Workers’ result of a police attack on the| Union. The cops, recognizing her, | Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration yester-| immediately arrested her although ; day. The police started the drive | they had no charge to prefer at that against the militant workers of Pat-| time. erson in the morning when at 10 2.| The cops then dispersed the work- psiiets babies re deigear eine ers, Four hundred of the workers don, ant eismal charge being preferred against them.| Went to the Turn Hall although no ‘The police stated that these three announcement had been mane. * workers would be held only until! collection was taken for funds for after the demonstration, but ‘after! pail and $310 was raised. The arrested workers, Gordon, the demonstration the police held them on the framed up charge of Gardner and Weisman, were bailed out on $100 bail each. The strike distributing leaflets, Although the demonstration was! leaders and the other workers are being held for a total of $6,500 bail. scheduled to start at 1 p. m. there were about 5,000 workers waiting at | Fred Biedenkapp is held under $2,500 bail and the other four workers the City Hall Plaza at 12 o'clock. under $1,000 bail each. ‘The police of Paterson were out in full force and had even drawn in| ‘This demonstration shows that the cops from the surrounding towns to! sik bosses and their police thugs are determined to deprive the Pater- break up the demonstration. For twenty minutes before one o'clock | <n sik strikers and other workers of the city of every civil right they Workers of all industries! PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 23.—Five workers, including the strike leaders, the workers marched back and forth before the city hall in picket line 21. supposed to enjoy under capi- formation. talism. The cops are using every At one o'clock several workers | means in their power to deprive the lifted Fred Biedenkapp on their Paterson strikers of their militant shoulders and he began to speak. He leaders. had only uttered the words, “Fellow . workers, this demonstration is being] ‘rhe .N’T.W.U, is growing rapidly. held to commemorate the murder of | Over 1,900 strikers have already en- Sacco and Vanzetti,” when he Was voted in the union and 1,100 more | pulled down by the cops te are coming for their books. is 100 MINERS INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Court Machinery Prepares To Railroad Them Free Boss Gunman in in wishes. 05 Free Strikers WASHINGTON, Pa., Aug. 23.—The grand jury of Washington County, a coal operators’ instrument for strike- breaking, has been grinding out in- dictments all last week. With sav- age haste they have brought in “true bills” charging riot, incitement to riot, assault and anything else they can think of, against over 100 miners arrested on the picket line, Eagerly and vindictively, the whole court machinery of Washington County prepares to bring them on trial, almost in masses, this week. The following have been indicted Ayg. 24: Charles Krumble and Dewey Vukas, for “aggravated assault and battery.” These were arrested in Avella section. Peter Ugren and John Balch, also for “aggravated as- sault and battery.” Then there are the Canonsburg cases, also on trial Aug. 24, where the United Mine Workers of America, best strike-breaking tool of the op- erators, is the complaining witness, because miners’ defended their union and themselves against a meeting of U. M. W. district president Fagan’s thugs. In this group, Leo Thomp- son is charged with “conspira rioting and assault and battery.’ Thomas Boich is charged with “con- spiracy, rioting and aggravated as- sault and battery.” The following among the Canonsburg defendants are charged with “conspiracy”: Mike Turk, Louis Fazzio, Anna Rasefski. ‘The following Canonsburg cases have the charge of rioting: Anna Rasefski, Julius Hollis, Mike Turk, Pete Wag- ner, Steve Savor, Louis Fazzio, Ed- gar Jones, Henry Stark, Will Mc- Queen, John Zigon and Stella Rasef- ski. The next day, Tuesday, Mike Kola- rik is placed on trial for “aggravated assault and battery.” ‘Then on Wednesday the operators plan to bring on trial Adcéa Getto, Joseph Getto and Mike Tarzas for “inciting to riot” and various other things. On the same day they will try Jo- seph Andrews on charges of “fel- onious assault, pointing firearms and assault.” Then, on Wednesday, also, they will bring up for trial on “inciting to. riot and riot” charges: Anton Zilich, William Diehl, John White, Sam Betts, Dominick Dellapine, Silvio Di Nino, Leo Dellapino, Albert Brunn, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) and ordered to stand trial Monday, | «| Monday, Aug. 17, the day when the TYLERDALE MINERS’ CHILDREN COMING TO THE SOUP KITCHEN FOR THEIR FAMILY’S SHARE oy the grown folks, but it’s especially bard to see tuberculosis worm its way into the children’s little bodies, and it is spreading with terrorizing rap- Idity. Food is needed! Every day the children come to the relief kitchen with buckets to get their éamilies’ share of what food there is. Local telief committees, elected by the strike committee, scour the neighbor- ing towns, raising relief. But that is just a fraction of what they need. Together with what the Penn-Ohio- West Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief Committee sends in, the kitchen just about manages to provide a bucket of soup or a pot of cab c2 cur fathers!” is the demand of the Taylordale miners’ children. And ‘they have seen to it that nobody has. The Washington Gas and Coal Co. mine near Wash- ington, Pa., is closed down 100 per cent. This week the striking miners will send a committee to the opera- tors presenting local demands for a settlement. And everybody—from the children to their grandfathers— are determined to win these de- mands, More—they KNOW they'll win. 4 The children are very active on the picket line. So are their mothers— marching side by side with their men folk. And they have held their lines solid. The hardest part of it, though, is going hungry. It’s bad enough for Bie beans or potatoes for every family once a day. Sometimes it’s a mighty slim meal. The children have almost forgotten what milk looks like. Taey need nourishment! and evening, these children march on the picket lines, defying the sher- iff's orders and the deputies’ terror. Sometimes dogs—specially trained German police dogs—are brought on by the deputies to snap at the chil- dren’s bare feet and terrorize them. They are in the battle! Send them something to eat! Collect food, or money to buy food—send every penny you, yourself, can spare. The ad- dress is Room 330, 799 Broadway, New York City. New Police Terror Threatened Against Chicago Unemployed Governor Emmerson Has State Police in City To Reinforce Local Police Murderers CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Reports coming in to the Unem- ployed Council indicate that the city government, with the support of the state police, is preparing an other massacre of the unemployed. Beside Strong police ceeren ts, trying to break up the FOR SHOE STRIKE 150 state ord are id readi- ness to “shoot to kill’ in case All Out Monday at 7i in Morning! the unemployed will again re- sist,—as happened on August 3, These state policemen were brought in on NEW YORK.—ThHe strike of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Indus- Governor Emerson Emergency Com- mission had its meeting. They were (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) misery of the thousands of Chinese workers and peasants who face fam- ine and disease as the result of the flood of the Yangste River, the United States Navy is sending more warships up the river. The American fleet is being sent up the Yangste, according to admissions of the Asso- ciated Press, for the purpose of strengthening the forces of the Na- tionalist butchers against the work- ers and peasants who are starving by the tens of thousands, and who will be driven still more to revolt. “In addition to protecting American lives and property, however, the fleet of- fered its assistance to the Chinese authorities,” the A. P. dispatch ad- mitted. While the rich Chinese landlords and business men are going to Shanghai on the river boats, the tens of thousands of peasants and work- ers are being left to starve and die rested. The workers imine: | of shop 17etings are being held daily | formed their lines and for at the union hall and Turn Hall. tmigutes they continued thetr’ picket- Many stops have set up United’ (ng. Front Shop Committees and fighting Then another worker was fake settlements of the} could cops of we ko we Ker a” up, but before he speech, —motore throvgh the mass ineked the workers wig him and this w .T.W.-Associated against betrayals | of A. PF. L. leaders and have decided to continue the fight until the bosses ompelled to give in to all their ods: 1 > hold- e This & \ of disease. Thousands upon thou- sands who escaped the floods will starve. Typhoid, typhus, cholera, smalipox and other diseases have al- ready broken out on a mass scale. The Nationalist agents of the imper- ialists are reported to be making “ar- rangements” to help the starving masses. But following the practice of the Hoover and other capitalist U.S. Gov’t Rushes Gunboats To Crush Chinese Masses Under the pretext of aiding the; first going to conduct an “investiga- governments the Nationalists are trial Union against a 15 per cent wage cut at the Glenmore Shoe Co., 221 Powel St., Brooklyn, enters the 7th week with the workers solid in their struggle. The bosses have resorted to all means of breaking the strike: gang- sterism, professional scabs and in- junction proceedings, but in spite of all this the strikers are firm. The union has issued a call to all shoe and sympathetic workers to | rally to a mass picket demonstration, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Monday at 7 o’clock*in the morning. tion” of the misery of the masses, The Associated Press reports that, “No attempt to evacuate the destitute Chinese is likely until government Mine Camp Under} Siege; Terror Rages in Harlan _ Trial PINEVILLE, Ky. Aug. Deputy Sheriff Smith, lieutenant, when the militia was in Harlan, yesterday ran over and killed the six year old daughter of J. Asher, a miner. Smith was speeding his car recklessly, but was not arrested. 23.— former Camp of Molus, near Harlan; was under siege last night and to- day machine guns are covering all the roads and hills around while thugs break into every house in town in an effort to find literature and men. The Criminal Syndi- calism case of Preacher Martin, who has been active in relief work, begins tomorrow, also the hearing for the change of venue in the murder cases, a Every day—morning | | ministration made a few ME BY U. §. STEEL CORP. OPENS DRIVE; ALL BASIC INDUSTRIES ‘WILL FOLLOW; STRIKES LOOM ‘Wall Street Paper Says Pay Cut Wil Will Come Next Week; Bosses Fear Strike Workers Must Organize to Strike Against Capitalist Offensive On Their Living Standards percent, to affect every dustry will be put into ,the next week, accordin right lies. The bosses prepared the paign by cutting sz Oust Right Wing and Mus teite Officials NEW YORK.—Aat a special mem- ational Pocketbook Workers’ Unic held Thursday, August 20, at Stuy- | vesant High School, the workers by a vote of 545 to 278 decided to oust the right wing-Musteite administra- tion. The motion was made by the rank and file committee. ministration to forestall any further action on the part of the workers made a motion to adjourn the meet- ing, to which the workers answered with a powerful roar, “NO.” Break Up Meeting. After their second defeat the ad- unsuccess- ful attempts to break up the meet- |ing, but when a very popular rank and filer made a motion to imme- diately elect a rank and file commit- | tee of 25 to take care of the election of a new administration, they threw | the motion maker from the platform | and started general slugging of the rank and file leadership in the midst | of which they turned off the light | and broke up the meeting. | The workers realized that. the ad- ministration was attempting to stay in office in spite of the opposition | of the overwhelming majority of the | membership. | The Next Step. ‘The Rank and File Committee | later issued a statement outlining | the next step in the fight to elect an administration responsive to the | 4 Sees (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 4,000 Detroit Demand That Evictions Stop DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 23.—A’de- monstration with about 4.000 work- ers was held here in front of the City Hall on Friday, August 21, at 2 pm,, against tthe police brutality and the clubbing of wrokers, and in a fight against evictions. A delega- Big Demonstrations On Sacco Vanzetti Day Against Terror (Special to the ke Daily Worker.) STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Aug. 22.— Over two thousand workers demon- ctrated Saturday at River Front Park against wage-cuts, for organization into the Metal Workers’ Industrial League and in protest of capitalist terror, honoring’ the memory of ‘o and Vanzelti and in protest nst the Scottsboro and mine ter- All Class War Prisoners at the Sacco-Vanzetti and Amnesty | Day demonstration because he read parts of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. He was held on $1,000 bail on the charge of “crime against the government.” The bosses an- nounced their intentions of breaking up the meeting in the metal trades controlled Morning Telegram, saying that “police will prevent a meeting of the I. L. D, on this common this afternoon if it develops that it is for the purpose of commemorating the murders of Sacco and Vanzetti.” Be- Many Sign Up. / ‘The spirit of the metal workers was rae and many took application 8, some signing them right at the barvionad ee Hcueane. Mass., Aug. 23.—Ir- ving Keith was arrested here today Demand Amnesty For. sides Keith, Gilman and Netok were arrested and held on $10 bail each on the charge of “disturbing the peace.” Eight hundred to one thousand workers turned out to the demon- stration and when a vote was taken whether to hear the story about Sac- co and Vanzetti the workers present voted unanimously, shouting yes at the top of their voices. Literature and Daily Workers were sold despite the police ban and police running around in the crowd trying to stop their sale. A protest meeting aghinst the ar- rests will be held on Friday, Aug. 28, | at 7:30 p.m. at Salem Square, Wor- (CONTINUED ON. PAGE THREE) Unemployed tion of 11 went into the Mayor's of- fice, and demanded that he stop the | police department from interfering with the action of the Unemployed Councils on eviction cases. The an- swer of the Mayor was his usual an- swer that he could not do anything, nd that there is a state law whereby the landlords have the right to evict workers from the houses for non- payment of rent. Also, on the cut- ting off of the 18,000 families from the welfare lists, he blamed the City Council; although saying: “I sym- pathize with all the actions of the City Council and the welfare de- partment, It is necessary to econo- mize because the city is broke; but I would have done it in a different | way,” meaning by that he would have cut off 18,000 families from the welfare, and thrown out 4,300 fam- ilies from their homes for non-pay- ment of rent, but would have put @ little sugar-coating over it, Murphy Sneers at Demands He asked Anthony Gerlach, Com- munist Candidate for Councilman in the coming elections on October 6, “what would you do if you would be Mayor and I would come in as a delegation protesting against evic- tions?” Answer given by Gerlach. | “That I would make sure to clean | «co: NUED 09 VAGEH THREE) Pocketbook Makers ship meeting called by the Inter- |‘ After announcing the vote the ad- ° | Steel. A sweeping wage cut of fro om ten to fifteen worker in the steel in- effect perhaps within g to capitalist press re- ports of Friday and Saturday. This shows that the denial of wage slashes which the steel bosses have broadcast during the past three weeks are out- the wor! for wage cutting cam- rs on July 28. The al of Friday, Au- this wholesale wage in the not distant nd the New York Evening Satu August 2 tates place “per- take will af- who on the most Hoover Street the hi has come Vider the 44 mt a reduc- ion in profi Wage Slach Campaign Already On The slashes which the U. Ss. vill be followed by other com- acording to the New York ng Post. The campaizn has al- started in U. S. Steel. On Au- 18 wages were cut from ten to twenty per cent in Monessen Pa of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co., a subsidiary of U. S. Last Thursday the Wheeling Steel Co. cut wages 10 per cent in all its -plants. The Weirton Steel Co. laid off its men and gave the rest an indirect wage. The wage slash in the steel in- dustry is the beginning of the cam- paign along the entire line of basic American industry to save the bank- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE? TA. POLICE, MOB ATTACK NEGROES Drive Many Fimilies Into Swamps DENHAM SPRINGS, La., Aug. 23. —Following an alleged attack on a white woman by a Negro, police and deputies and other thugs terrorized the Negro district of Livingston par- ish, driving more than 300 colored families from their homes to seek refuge in the swamps and forests. The terror followed an order by the sheriff for all Negroes to get out of town. A few day ago a Negro worker, Ellis Smith, was arrested “on sus- Ppicion” of being the unidentified Ne- gro alleged to have entered the home of Mrs. Maribelle Hatchell and at- tempted to attack her. Following their usual custom, the bosses and their press at once began inciting to a@ mob lynching. A mob, numbering more than 1,000 gathered under the leadership of lo- cal landowners and _ shopkeepers. Finding that Smith had been re- moved to the prison at Baton Rouge, the leaders of the mob started their followers towards the Negro district. Warning of their approach had pre- ceded them and all but a few fam- illes had escaped to the swamps ‘Those who had been delayed by the necessity of removing their sick and young children were set upon and brutally beaten up by the mob. Many invalids and young children were trampled under foot. The mob then began setting fire to the de- serted houses, but: this was stopped by the leaders because most of the houses are the property of the saw mill companies by whom the major- ity of the colored workers in this district are employed. The mob then | looted the houses of the personal Properties of the Negro workers,