The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 1

s TH Liana | Tt Way of Dntered as second-c at New York, N. ¥ “Vol. VIIL. No. 204 at the Pont Office Dail Central Orga unist bh a) ¢ Section of the Communist International !) orker Party U.S. WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ _UNITE! A. Ps of Mareh 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, _AUGUST 25, 1931_ _orry EDITION eee reer a _ J SEFice 3 Cents The King’s Desire---Also | the Bankers’ ONDON reports state that it was “the King’s desire” that the “socialist” MacDonald head the coalition government that has taken over contro! from the so-called “labor” cabinet, and that the king obtained the con- sent of the Tory leader, Baldwin, to work “under” MacDonald in the coalition—or so-called “national” cabinet. But it must be noted that Sir Josiah Stamp, director of the Bank of England, saw the King before George the Fifth made up his mind on this point, and the banker was later in constant contact with MacDonald, no doubt assisting him, also, to enter a coalition with Tories and Liberals. Thus it must be understood that Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Second “Socialist” International, of which the American “Socialist” Party is a part, is openly lined up with the bankers and the monarchy, where before he has managed to mask his social imperialist and social fascist role behind the supposed “control” of a “labor” government. Actually, there was a coalition government all the time of the “labor” regime, except in the name. The “Labor” Party held the reins of British imperialism only upon sufferance of the other capitalist parties, particu- larly Lloyd George’s Liberal Party. And from this fact, the so-called “socialist” regime of the “Labor” Party was no less imperialist and capi- talist than any other capitalist government. Under the protection of a “labor” government, the capitalists could easier cut wages—and they did cut wages of hundreds of thousands. With a so-called “socialist” as premier, British imperialism could more easily mask its massacres of the oppressed Indian people with soft words about “eventual” independence. The capitalists could—and already have —tut down unemployment insurance, thrown tens of thousands entirely off the benefit list and sent thousands to death by starvation. 8 Naturally, such convenient servants as these “socialists” are held in high regard by the British king and the British bankers. And now they are to be given charge of still more open attacks on the (British workers. They are to “save” Britain from the financial crisis. Incidentally, it is an ironical commentary that the British banks, which along with American banks have posed as the “powerful” saviors of Germany, are themselves facing collapse. It only remains for the same inevitable sickness to lay hold of the “powerful” American finan- cial structure to put the finishing touches on the ridiculous pretense of the monumental jackass in the White House that his marvelous “plan” has “saved Europe.” But to continue, the “saving” of British finances is to be accom- plished apparently by carrying through the recommendations of the Economy Commission which the “labor” government appointed last March, and against which the so-called “opposition” in MacDonald’s own party seems to have delayed its furgso long as to prove that their present indignation is only shadow boxing. While there is no question but a deep wave of hostility is rising MACDONALD GOV'T RESIGNS, FORMS COALITION TO CUT JOBLESS RELIEF AND WAGES “National Non- Biriy. Govek Givetunieal’ | to Slash Down the Workers’ Living Standard Deep Crisis Developing As Masses Threaten to Resist Capitalist Offensive In an atmosphere admittedly more tense than during the last World War, the Mac- Donald labor government resigned Monday with the avowed intention of helping British capitalism carry out its smashing attack against the British workers and to forestall the onset of the worst financial crisis ever faced in Britain. What is called a “national non-party” government, com- posed of the Conservative, Liberal and Labor Party leaders, has been formed under the direction of the British bankers. Through this means, the British cap!- INFANT DIES OF talists hope to carry out their plan of cutting down unemployment in- surance, putting over a drastic wage cut, instituting a tariff which will raise the cost of living in England, and. thereby the hope to end the sharpening financial crisis. For some time MacDonald, under instructions of the leading London bankers, has been holding cabinet | meetings in an effort to get the en- STARVATION IN PITTSBURGH, PA. Little Girl Killed Pick- IN THE ii NER » RELIEF KITCHEN IN HENDERSONVILLE, PA. For the daily plate of soup, the children gather at the door of the relief kitchen long before the time for feeding. Notice the eagerness with which this boy goes after his soup. The next “shift” is awaiting its turn. It’s a wonderful thing, that plate of soup and the slice of bread that goes with it after a morning of picketing and activity around the camp. ‘The children know why they can’t have more now. They're on the ‘fighting line of the struggle day after day, working to win this strike. And on the picket line they face the armed deputies, their tear gas and terrorization, just like their fathers and mothers. Even the sitstoaaid | gnaws, and they have no shoes and hardly enough clothes for covering. | The kids say: “Stick it out, dad! We got to win!” Help their fight! bowl with food! Tuberculosis is spreading in the northern fields. Flux is ravaging the Kntucky fields —starvation brings them. Send all the money you can to the Penn- Ohio-W. Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief Committee, Room 330, 799 Broadway, New York, N. Y., so Help fill that that food for these gallant young} fighters and their parents can be sent into camps where they are fighting for local demands. Make at Jeast one meal a day possible! Steel Trust S lashes Wages a BROOK COUNTY HUNGER MARCH SMASHED BY 100 STATE TROOPERS Official Permit Fails To Prevent Attack On March farch Led By National Miners Union “#™*~ Py es \Prosecutor Admits Planned Assault; Roads A Are ae © Busses Searched x WELLS BURG, W. W. Va., Aug. 23.°— = Ths Brooke County hunger march on Wellsburg, for which thousands of miners and other work- ers had mobilized, was smashed by nearly @ _ i hundred state troopers, who occupied the town of Wellsburg before the march arrived, then charged down the road to where it was assembling on a hillside on the road ta Follensbee, and violently dispersed each little group as it a rived at the concentration point. The power of the workers never had a chance to materialize, as they were scattered by, aes ~® sections, GOVT || AILS 3 MINE The road to Wellsburg was blocke i] aded by troopers and every bry searched for literature, leaflets, ete, ORGANIZERS T0 HELP COAL BOSSES All Face Threat of as it came along. The prosecutor openly announced in the newspapers that: “The march is prohibited because it is @ National Miners’ Union march. If the organ- ization sponsornig it were the United Mine Workers of America there tire Labor Party membership in par- would be no interference.” ; iament and-in the cabinet to agree among the mass of British workers against the whole “Labor” Party, this so-called “opposition” of that party's parliamentary group and the lead- ers of the Trade Union Congress is merely a social fascist. maneuver of these scoundrels to mislead the angry masses and by wordy “opposition” within the “labor” ranks to constitute an obstacle, that might block the masses from going over to the revolutionary leadership of the Commu- nist Party of Great Britain. What are the economies proposed by the Economy Commission, on | the basis of which this over-rated “split” has taken place, between Mac- Donald and these fakers of more “left” pretensions? The economies call for a saving of some $482,500,000 in the yearly budget, mostly by cut- ting off unemployment insurance by 20 per cent, by abandoning maternity and child welfare and health expenses, and wage cutting the rank and file civil servants and soldiers and sailors. But not a penny is to be taken from the gigantic sum of $1,514,750,000, of “interest on debts” that go to bankers! Nor the $548,175,000 going to arm the army, navy and air forces for war against the Soviet Union! Thus let it be clear that the “socialist” MacDonald is openly insisting on protecting bankers and war-makers and attacking the workers. But what does the social fascist “left” of the British Trade Union Congress propose in supposed “opposition” to MacDonald? Their main proposal is that Britain and the League of Nations, together or separately, should “raise prices”! And this preposterous if not impossible “remedy” —which would certainly cut the real wages of workers by making every- thing they buy cost more—is the “best” thing the “left extremists” can think up! As in-Gérmany and here in America, all these proposals of cdpitalists and their “socialist” servants, will not only fail to solve the crisis, but will enormously worsen the conditions of the working class. And the British working class will, soon or late, free themselves from the illusions spread by these “labor” demagogues of both “right” and “left” and follow the lead of the Communist Party of Britain into revolution. SOVIET WORKERS IN MIGHTY PROTEST ON SCOTTSBORO OUTRAGE Demand Release of 9 Negro Boys—Langston Hughes and Claude Mackay Join Mass Fight to Smash Legal Lynching NEW YORK.—Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, two of the most outstanding Negro novelists and poets, have joined the National Committee for the Defense of Polit- ical Prisoners, which is co-operating with the International Labor Defense in the fight to free the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. Eight of the boys were railroaded to the electric chair on a frame-up charge of rape. The I. L. D. is fighting the convic- tions. In the case of the ninth boy, Roy Wright, there was a mistrial at the original trial. The Alabama bosses are planning to put him on trial again within a short time. ‘The National Office of the LL.D. has issued the following report on the agitation and protest meetings which are sweeping the Soviet Union in condemnation of the Alabama court lynch verdict: “As soon as details of the Scotts- bor frame-up were received in Mos- cow the thousands of MOPR (Inter- national Red Aid) groups in the shops, factéries and mills began to arrange protest meetings. One meet- ing of about 10,000 people was held at the Park of Culture and Rest. Meetings were held in every big shep and factory. Resolutions of protest were unanimously adopted and cabled to Alabama and the I. L. ) Many mee. _s were 2‘so held in (i > villeges, Red Army units and in schools. Groups of scientists, writers, etc., issued appeals in con- nection with this case. Some street demonstrations were held in Mos- cow. A pamphlet, “The Alabama Hang- men,” is on sale at all news stands and book stores. In one of the Mos- cow theatres, where Eugene O’Neil’s play, “All God’s Chillun Got Wings,” is played, the performance was stopped to permit a speaker to ad- dress the audience on the Scottsboro case. A ringing resolution of protest was passed by the audience. In addition to the Scottsboro case, the murder by the Chicago police of three Negro unemployed workers thoroughly aroused the Soviet work- ers against the lynchers. “The Russian workers, after cen- turies of oppression by the bloody Tsars, have learned to hate and fight their oppressors. They ex- ‘pect white workers in the United States to follow their example and join hands with the oppressed Ne- gro masses, as well as the other races and nationalities in the United States’ colonies, in the struggle for the overthrow of all oppressors and lynchers, Russian workers have learned by centuries of experience that the only success- ful way of fighting the enemy is by united action of all workers and poor farmers of all races and na- tionalities.” MORE IN PRISONS As a result of the deep crisis in Illinois, states a report of the wal- fare department of the state, the number confined to prisons and re- formatories has greatly increased — almost 12% in 1930-31. The number of inmates in July 1, 1930, was 10,280 In July 1, 1931, 1¢ was 11,460, In the other state institutions there is @ corresponding increase to the bank‘rs’ demands. While they were ready to do this, some pointed out it would be impossible to rally the workers behind this open be- trayal. Hence, the MacDonald government resigned only to merge with the ex- press purpose of lowering the stand- ard of living of the British workers in a drastic effort-to save British capitalism. Enemies of U.S.S.R. The heads of the new government are Stanley Baldwin, conservative leader, and the most vicious enemy of the Soviet Union in England, as well as an open advocate of wage (CONTINUED ON PAG BEDACHT SPEAKS AT FSU MEETING Prepare To Send 25 Delegates to USSR ‘The New York Local of the Friends of the Soviet Unoin will open the campaign to send worker delegates to the Soviet Union with a mass meeting at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, on Friday, August 28, at 8:30 pm. In all twenty-five American work- ers are being sent as delegates to the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Rus- sian Revolution. These workers will investigate the conditions of the Sov- jet Union at first hand and will re- port their observations to the Amer- ican workers on their return. ‘The speakers at the meeting will be A. A. Heller, who has ‘recently returned from the Soviet Union, au- thor of “Industrial Revival of Soviet Russia,” and of another book soon to appear describing his ten years activity in the Soviet Union, and Max Bedacht, author of “Anti-Soviet Lies and the Five Year Plan,” and editor of the monthly “Communist.” ‘There will also be a program of con- cert features supplied by the Work- ers Cultural Federation. Invite all your friends and fellow workers to come to this meeting. Help destroy the lies of the en- emies of the U.S.S.R.! Spread the truth about the U. S. 8. R! Defend the Soviet Union! GE_THREE) ing Serap to Get Few Pennies PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Little seven- months old Michael McNulty, rear of 1016 Carson St., died of starvation before his father, an unemployed worker could find a job. Six other children in the family are all suffer- ing from malnutrition. City Physician Dr: Evans wrote on the report “Death due to starvation and malnutrition.” McNulty had been unemployed for more than a year and during that time his family had been living on dry crusts, eS les ew JAMAICA JOBLESS A SUICIDE QUEENS, N. Y.—Six months un- employed, Alex Barron killed himself by hanging at his home 184-06 Hill- side Ave., and was found dead by his wife, Madge. . ETNA, Pa.Little ta Novosel was killed by a train while picking scrap iron on the railroad to get a few pennies to help her father and mothe:, The little girl had been collecting junk to sell to buy a bit of food for hersix little brothers and sisters. URUGUAY JOBLESS FIGHT FOR RELIEF A crowd of more than 500 unem- ployed workers stormed the Proyin- cial State House at Fray Bentos, in Uruguay, according to cable reports to the New York Times, when the President of the provincial council refused to live up to his promises for relief. Police fought the unemployed for two hours. The jobless were not successful in forcing their way in the State House. ‘The cause of the demonstration, as explained by the Times is as follows: “The President of the Council had promised the unemployed that if the Legislature approved the project for establishing a vehicle tax a certain part of the funds collected from this tax would be devoted to public works, on which the unemployed would re- ceive work. The Legislature ap- Proved the project but the Provincial Council appropriated the funds for other uses.” Paterson Strikers to Send Delegation to Allentown Workers Take Up House To House Collection In Campaign For Relief PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 24.—The police have been forced to release Sam Weisman, James Gardner and David Gordon, who were arrested arrested Saturday prior to the dem- onstration and who were then let out ‘on bail of $100 each. The charges on which they had been held of dis- tributing leaflets were a plain frame- ‘up. The strike leaders who were ar- rested are still being held under the excessive bail of $6,500. Fred Bieden- kapp, the first speaker at teh Sacco- Vanzetti demonstration at the City Hall Plaza, is being held for $2,500 bail, while the four other workers, Sophie Melvin, Solomon Gross, Jacob Shafter and Al Samuels are being held under $1,000 bail each. The court will accept only cash as bail and late yesterday these workers were still in jail. The International Labor Defense is endeavoring to raise the required bail. The charge against all of them is inciting to riot and Biedenkapp is being held on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) In Gary Plant 10-15 Percent, Metal Workers League Calls Workers For} United Action Against Hunger Wages The wages of the steel wor! kers in the plant of the United States Steel Corp., at Gary, Ind., have already been cut 10 to 15 per cent in the drive of the steel trust on the wages of the 250,000 steel workers. The 2,050 workers in the hot mill department of the tin mill have had their wages cut from 10 per cent to 15 per cent. At open hearth furnace 5,300 workers have had their wages cut from 10 to 14 per cent, Slaggers’ wages were cut 10 per cent, first helpers 14 per cent, second helpers 12 per cent. These wage cuis are only the be- ginning of the campaign in the en- tire industry, and the financial writ- ers of the bankers openly state that the drive in the steel industry is the front trench of the fight to slash wages in all basic ndustries during the coming months. The Metal Workers Industrial League is rallying the workers of Gary and of the steel industry as a whole to fight against this wage cut- ting campaign of the bosses. In a leaflet callng on the steel workers to join the Metal Workers Industrial League they point out that, “The U. S. Steel Co. has plenty of money which we made for them. Be- sides the millions of dollars which each of the stockholders have gotten in dividends, the company has a sur- Plus of $450,000,000 on hand. In cash alone they have $188,000,000; this is enough to pay us full wages for a year!” Steel workers, throw back this at- tack on the living standards of your familes by a unted defense. Organ- ize committees of action in every shop. Rally your fe!ow workers to beat back this hunger campaign on the part of the bosses. Join the Metal Workers Industrial League, 1800 Adams St., Gary, Ind. Ford Plans New Slashes In. Wages Of Auto Workers Adds Forced Labor to Hellish Speed-Up Inj} Attack On Miserable Living Conditions Henry Ford is starting a vicious wage-cutting and forced labor cam- paign in his factory at Iron Moun- tain, Michigan, under the pretext of having every married worker in his factory raise a garden. Ford warns the workers that they will have to raise their own vegetables for next winter if they hope to, keep from starving. “Next year every man with a family who is employed at the plant will be required to have a garden of sufficient size to supply his family with at least part of its winter vegetables,” Ford said yes- terday. In other words, workers in his plant can expect to have their wages cut so low that they will have to depend on these vegetables to keep them- selves and their families from star- Ford is using this hunger plan as an attack to prevent the workers whom he has hired from demanding immediate relief and unemployment insurance, He says that those work- ers who will be affected by his plan “will be benefited far greater than they would be by unemployment in- surance.” He does not say that the hunger plan is for those who are working at hunger wages in his fac- tory and that for those whom he has fired he offers nothing but starva- tion. “Those who do not comply with the rule will be discharged,” is open evidence of the most vicious form of forced labor yet put into practice on a wholesale scale. Ford, who has become a symbol for the most hid- eous and grinding speed-up in the capitalist world, is now forcing his workers to spend the energy they have left after he has driven them for a day to the utmost on his speed belts,: in planting : gardens to’ keep ‘of'Tom' Mooney, the Imperial Valley from starvation. This is the forced labor of American capitalism which is trying to use the lying slogan of “forced labor” to start an attack on the Soviet Union. * With this plan Ford will cut the market of the truck farmers in the middle west sharply. Hundreds of more farmers will be forced into bankruptcy as the result of his plan. For years this speed-up driver has been preaching the necessity for a large market among the farmers. And now he openly convicts himself as a brazen liar. For months the capitalist relief agencies and city of- fictals have been subjecting the un- employed workers to forced labor. Ford carries this form of exploita- tion still further by driving those working in his factory into forced labor. Deportation CHICAGO, IIL, Aug. 24.—Federal authorities have gone into action to Lelp the South Iliinois coal operato-s against the National Miners Union Joe Tash, Lednicky of the Nations] Miners Union, and Zip Kushinsl youth organizer, were arrested tod at Carlinville on federal framed- charges and taken tc Benton, Frank- lin County jail, where all face depor- tation, though Lednieky and Kush- insky are native-born The ILD demands that they be transferred froin the Benton jl to St. Louis, as ctlier NMU members have been tortured in this prison. This has been refused. Cash bail is demanded fr each. This is an attempt on the part of the operators, Doak and Lewis, to drive the NMU underground and thereby to be in a better position to betray the miners. The NUM calls on all workers to send wires of pro- test to the Franklin County, Illinois, jail, and to Doak, secretary of labor, protesting against these arrests and demanding these workers be released or transferred to St. Louis. U.S. Steel Wage Cut May Come’ This Week WEW YORK.—That action to cut wages for all steel workers woud be taken Tuesday, or very soon there- after by the United States Steel Cor- poration, which would then be fol- lowed by cuts in all other basic in- ec, was the main topic of the stock market Monday. The New York Evening Post, a Hoover paper, confirming the fact that wage cuts are pending in the steel industry and on the railroads declared in its financial section as follows: “Persistent reports that the Unit- ed States Steel Corporation would announce a general reduction in wages, as an emevgency measure, after the scheduled meeting of the finance committee tomorrow, were believed to have some foundation, and it was assumed that such ac- tion would stimulate the movement for lower pay scales in other branches of the industry. Discus- sion of the wage question revived suggestions that the railroads would begin negotiations for read- justments along this iine as soon as a decison had been reached on ther application for a 15 per cent ad- vance in freight fates. Amnesty Drive Is Speeded by Big Sacco -Vanzetti Meetings Chicago, San Francisco, Demonstrate For the Release of Class War Prisoners SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 24. One thousand workers at Embarca- dero—in the state of California— where more than 25 class war pris- oners are held behind the bars—de- manded the immediate release of all jailed workers and the repeal of the infamous criminal syndicalist law on the anniversary of the mured of Sacco and Vanetti. Defying the police, whose officials repeatedly threatened to prevent the demonstration, the workers raised sharply the demand for the freedom ’ prisoners and all class-war victims. Frank Spector, one of the workers jailed as a result of the Imperial Val- ley strike in 1930, was recently freed following tremendous working-class protest. He is soon: leaving on a nation-wide tour as part of the gen- eral amnesty drive being conducted by the I. L. D. * . CHICAGO, IllL—Eight thousand workers, on the fourth anniversary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) A permit had been issued in Wells- burg several days before the march. However, following on the Wheel- ing conference of mayors and opera- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PARADE IN BRONX SAT. IN DEFENSE OF FOREIGN BORN Workers to Dem on- strate Against Deportations NEW YORK.—The Internationa Workers Order, the International La- bor Defense, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Prospect Workers Club, the Middle Bronx Workers Club, the Spartacus League, the Women's Councils, the Young Pioneers of America, the Working- men’s Benevolent Society and a number of other workers’ organiza- tions will demonstrate under their own banner and with their own bands under the leadership of the Communist Party on Saturday, Aug. 29th, for the protection of militant foreign born workers against the persecution and deportation of these workers. The gathering point is 156th St. and Prospect Ave. and the time is 6 Pp. m. This will be the first torch parade this year that will draw the attention of tens of thousands of workers on the line of march from 156th St. to Wilkins and Intervale Aves. Fifty thousand printed leaflets are being spread all over the Bronx to mobilize the workers for this huge demonstration, 3,C00 IN AMNESTY DEMONSTRATION IN THE BRONX Hit Boss Terror and Legal Lynchings NEW YORK.—Over three thous sand Negro and white workers par- ticipated in the demonstration held in commemoration of Sacco and Vanzetti in the Bronx Saturday, Aug, 22nd. About 1,000 workers heard the speakers at 180th St. and Prospect Ave., from where a march took place to Washington and Claremont Parks way. Six hundred participated in the march and over 2,000 workers were present at the mass meeting at this point. Many workers joined the Interna- tional Labor Defense and contributed for the defense of the political prisoners. ‘The police first wanted to prohibit the march, but when they saw that the workers were determined to go ahead with the demonstration ag planned, they changed their minds, The parade was led by the band of Workers Defense League ow 1 ee ARR MGA AB CRY