The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1931, Page 1

See TNL ANE TS TEL TTT TI PT he~ = [*) dau at New tlie) N. Y¥., under the Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office act of March 3, 1879 Seeing Thies AST Saturday, readers of the morning papers were given a special treat by noting that “Success of Relief Is Seen By Hoover.” It appears that, in order to make medicine for another and worse winter of forcible starvation of the unemployed, it was necessary to show—even by forged evidence—that the unemployed fairly thrived on starvation last winter. In no other way can workers understand the hypocrisy and hum- buggery of Hoover's assertion that public health was “better” last winter than ever before! This is simply flying in the face of facts—the ob- viously inspired and utterly false “statistics” furnished by the bootlicking Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to the contrary not- withstanding. “Idle Six Months—Ends Life,” a headline on an obscure page in Monday’s N. Y. Times, is a present duplicate of thousands that appeared every month since unemployment became acute. From numerous sources, the Daily Worker has been informed that scores of suicides occurring weekly and even daily in New York City’s tenements and rooming houses, are never reported, not only by the press but by the Health Service. Perhaps these are not “people” to capitalists, who always refer to “people” and to “workers” as two distinct things, and thereby the death rate per thousand is not changed when a dozen desperate men and | women jobless end their lives in cheap rooming houses in hundreds of cities. How else could they fail to increase the registered death rate? And Surgeon General Cummings’ report, as we say undoubtedly twisted to conform with what Hoover wanted, would have us believe that work- ers’ babies ge: elong splendidly without any milk or anything else to eat! Repeatedly, during the past winter, the New York hospitals reported a great increase in sickness, and charged it to increased poverty. The same could be said of all other cities, not to mention the “thousand deaths a day” admitted by Senator Caraway on the floor of Congress. After all this, the workers, who see these facts around them in daily life, are told by Hoover that starvation is an excellent thing for their health! Is it not strange that the capitalists, who gorge themselves with the best and richest foods, do not foreswear their food and riches, and avoid sickness and death? To place the question this way exposes at once the stinking hypocrisy of Hoover and his whole gang! Workers, you must understand this hyocrisy and tear away any il- lusion your fellow workers may have of what Hoover's “relief” scheme means. It means to kid the unemployed with words instead of feeding them with food. It means that the suffering of last winter is to be mul- tiplied and starvation is to be made an official system, forced upon the penniless and jobless. It means that, to protect the billions of profits your labor has piled up in the bank accounts of a handful of multi- millionaires, millions of workers are to be forced to go without any real relief as best they can! Hoover's “relief” is no relief. It is a defense against the mass de- mand for unemployment insurance at full wages, paid entirely at the expense of the capitalists, for all unemployed and part-time sufferers from unemloyment, and administered by the workers themselves—not by | grafters. This is the demand of the Communist Party—and of no other political party. Further, the Communist Party demands at least $150 for Winter | Relief for each unemployed worker, from whatever agency they can force | it to be given, and really adequate immediate relief to all who are hungry. Of course, neither these nor any other demands proposed by the Com- munists, will be won without a struggle of the workers. The rich are not hungry, nor do they have trouble paying rent. Hence it depends upon the workers and upon their militant mass fight against all local, state and federal capitalist. government and institutional resistance, as to what is won, or to what degre2 the starving and homeless are to be victimized by Hoover and other brass-faced hypocrites. Join the Unemployed Movement, workers, and fight persistently on all fronts against starvation! Let the capitalists and their hypocrite president know that you will not be fed with words! WAP BIG BRONX Write L. Thompson in Washington, Pa. Jail CAMPAIGN IN THE ELECTIONS, Conference Fri, Aug. 28, to Rally Workers’ Support BRONX, N. ¥.—Negro and white delegates from a number of dress shops, laundries, machine and other shops and different workers’ organ- izations will gather on Friday, Aug. 28th, at 569 Prospect Ave., to work out a plan, how to carry on a wide militant campaign in the support of the Communist Party in the coming aldermanic and assembly elections. The Election Campaign gCommit- tee of the Communist Party of the Bronx prepared thirteen organiza- tional proposals for the consideration of the delegates, which when ac- cepted and carried out, will help to mobilize tens of thousands of workers for thé fighting program of the Com- munist Party. Four headquarters have been opened in Brownsville for the elec- tion campaign. These are located at 105 Thatford Ave., 412 Sutter Ave., 313 Hinsdale Ave., and 261 Utica Ave. ‘The quota in the signature collec- tion drive is 2,000 signatures a week for three weeks. The activity in the section will have to be stepped up sharply since only 400 signatures were collected last week. Every class conscious worker in Brownsville should respond for the collection of signatures for, if the pace of last week is kept up the sig- natures necessary to put the party on the ballot will not be collected in time. ® Tn order to discuss ways and means to inerease the tempo of the collec- tion a special election campaign con- ference will be held Thursday at 105 Thatford Ave. at 8 p.m. All of the executives of all working class or- ganizations in Brownsville and East New York are urged to attend this meeting. N. Y. Bank Closed: Jobless Face Hunger NEW YORK.—The Queensboro Na- tional Bank at 108rd St. and North+ ern Blvd., in New York, and its branch at 108th St, near Corona Ave., went bankrupt Tuesday. Hun- dreds of small depositors are de- prived of their funds and many of them are forced to go hungry as thev are jobless, © WASHINGTON, Pa., Aug. 25.—Leo Thompson, organizer for the Na- tional Miners’ Union, who has been in the Washington County, Pa., jail for over a month, with prospects of remaining there at least until No- vember when the grand jury meets because bail cannot be raised for him, calls on all comrades to write to him, Letters should be addressed to Leo Thompson, County Jail, Washington County, Pa. YOKINEN PROTEST MEET THURSDAY Gov't Trying to Rush Deportation NEW YORK.—Workers of New York will protest this Thursday eve- ning the new attempt of the U. S. government to rush through the de- portation of August Yokinen. Yokin- en has been ordered to report to Ellis Island this Friday for deportation to fascist Finland on Saturday. The protest meeting will be held at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St., near Lenox Ave. All workers are urged to turn out to register their protest against this attempt of the government to punish Yokinen for his action in repudiat- ing the race hatred poison of the bosses and supporting the struggles of the Negro masses, Yokinen, who has lived in this country for many years, was not molested by the gov- ernment until a few months ago when expelled from the Communist Party for white chauvinism, he re- pudiated the boss poison of race hatred and promised to conduct him- self so that he would be worthy of re-admission to the Communist Party, which carries on a relentless struggle against all forms of race hatred and prejudice. Refuse to Serve Negro Worker at Mt Carlos Restaurant NEW YORK.—-In line with the vi- cious boss policy of discriminating against and degrading Negro work- ers, the Mt. Carlos Spagheti: Pl. at 206 E. 14th St., refused service to a Negro worker and a white fellow- worker who was with him, Workers and their organiz~ are urged to take cognizance c. this policy of discrimination on the part oi this restaurant. USE BRITISH CRISIS TO HIT U.S. JOBLESS M’Donald Out To Save Capitalism At All Costs | Unite Against Workers | Basic World Crisis Is Growing Worse President Hoover is now using the attack against unemployment insur- ance and wages in England directed by the “Socialist” Ramsay MacDon- ald, as a weapon in forcing hunger onto the American workers. The creation of the “national non-party” government to enforce a lower stand- ard of living on the British workers, with the aid of the outstanding labor party leaders, is fully approved by Wall Street and Washington and is regarded as a valuable aid in attack- ing the growing demand for unem- ployment in the United States. Attack U. S. Workers, ‘The New York Times, whose Wash- ington news bureau is in close touch with the Hoover administration, de- | clares: “With the Hoover administration fearing efforts in Congress to establish the dole system next win- ter for the American unemployed, there was some satisfaction here today that the dole had demon- straicd imperfections in the British S. Kt is believed this may prove to be a powerful weapon in admin- istrat’en efforts to hold off the dole in this ccuntry.” In order to give the British capi- talists a breathing space in which to perfect their attacks against the workers, the so-called opposition Torces in the labor party, now led | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) HOOVER GOVT SAYS NO FUND: FOR JOBLESS AID Sifford Plans Terror and Forced Levies WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.— Presi- dent Hoover’s Organization on Un- employment Relief, whose main ob- ject is to refuse relief and terrorize the unemployed fighting for unem- ployment insurance, went into action today. Under the leadership of the wage-cutting expert, President Gif- ford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., a campaign to make the usual charity work do as relief was started. Gifford in a public statement issued yesterday said that no greater amcunt of “relief” than that required last year would be asked for, and that most of the funds would be gotten through “collec- tions,” that is, by forced levies on those still at work. That the Hoover government in- tends to cut down all public build- ing projects, as well as to refuse any form of federal relief was the state- ment made by Representative, Wood, chairman of the House Appropria- tion Committee, after a visit to Hoo- ver at Camp Rapidan. The main Purpose, Wood pointed out, is to re- lieve the rich of any further taxa- tion and to put greater burdens on the workers. Wood went on to say: “The next Congress will greatly re- duce appropriations. It will be nec- essary to scale down everything and omit many projects.” War funds, however, will be in- creased, HELP FILL THE BUCKET! NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUC oe unist Party U.S.A. : see: (Section of re Communist 2 ee GIVE THEM ONE MEAL A DAY WHILE THEY’RE FIGHTING! Sickness among the children in the coal fields is spreading alarmingly; tuberculosis is common. That’s why the advice of Dr. Mary S. Rose, pro- fessor of nutrition, Columbia Univer- sity, that “good nutriton” is the an- swer, was read with great interest, in the strike camps. “What is the essence of a nutrition program for the elementary grades? To have every child know the im- portance of milk for growth, the ne- cessity of fresh raw food every day for tooth health,. how to choose a good breakfast, a good lunch and a good dinner, according to his age and resources.” “Oh,” the kids say, choose them easy.” Dr. Rose continues, “In the report issued by a joint*committee of the National Educational Association and the National Medical Association, a very few simple rules faithfully prac- ticed will go far toward insuring good nuttiton for most chidren: 1) A glass of milk at every meal. 2) At least two kinds of vegetables “we could every day—if possible two besides po- tatoes with emphasis on green ones. 3) Raw vegetables or fruit at least once a day, preferably two or three times. ) A whole grain cereal or whole wheat bread at least once a} day. 5) Some hard bread to chew every day. 6) A glass of water be- tween each two meals, as well as on | arising in the morning. “To this should be added for all} children who cannot have bright | sunshine directly on their skin for a considerable period every day, a tea- spoonful or two of cod liver oil as further tooth and general health in- | surance.” One miner told the kids to be care- ful to pick two kinds when they go | out to pick grass for the day's meals. | At least one of them should be eaten raw, with a dressing of creek, water. The grass should be green—that is very important, according to Dr. Rose, But the easy part of it is the glass of water between meals. The only feouple is that it might mean one glass of water every other day. | Sounds swell on .paper—but the |miners and thelr wives and their children, too, know they can only get it by putting up a good stiff fight! | And every member of the family is |in the fight today! And meanwhile these children ask |you to help give them one meal a |day. They have almost forgotten | what milk tastes like. Help fill their | dinner buckets! Send your donation to the Penn-Ohio-W. Virginia-Ken- | tucky Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee, Room 330, 799 Broadway, New | York City. Rear . | urrevantans PICNIC FOR MIN- RS' RELIEF PITTSBURGH, Pa.—A picnic for miners’ relief will be given this Sun- |day by a group of Lithuanian work- | ers’ organizations. It will be held at Milaskio Farm, near the McNary sta- tion, on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. The Charleroi car goes directly to | this station. Delegation of Jobless Beaten On Capitol Steps in Albany City Cops Line Steps As State Troopers Are Held In Reserve Near By NEW YORK.—An unemployed delegation representing 1,600,000 unemployed of New York state which went to the Special Session of the State Legislature at Albany, when at- tempting to enter the State Capitol with the demands of the unemployed, was beaten up and not admitted to the Capitol. For the first time in the tory of Albany, the city police were lined up on the steps of the Capitol to prevent any delegates from entering. When the delegation mounted the steps of the State Capi- tol, a Negro woman and two other workers led by Comrade Tomash, head of the Unemployed Councils of New York, were thrown back and beaten up. Inside the State Capitol there were mobilized the State Troopers, whose intention was to repeat the activities of the state troopers against the hun- ger marchers last February. Governor Roosevelt, the State Fed- eration of Labor as well as various other organizations which are pro- posing fake measures of relief which will not help the unemployed over a week or more, did not dare allow the unemployed to present their own demands. Open air meetings have been held in Albany during the last weeks in spite of the terror of the police who declared that such meetings will not More Indictments in Drive to Burn Fighting Harlan Miners Int'l Labor Defense Calls for Sharp Fight to Save Framed-up Coal Diggers Continuing to pile up indictments against the militant coal miners of Harlan, Kentucky, the Grand Jury, now in session there, has just ground out ten more indictments for mur- der, growing out of the dramatic class battle now in progress there. The coal operators are trying des- perately to hustle these workers to the electric chair. According to the Associated Press, there are now a total of 111 indict- monts against the 34 miners singled: out for prosecution on murder charges. The most recent indictments, ‘ which were grouped with 53 less seri- ous indictments, name three miners on three charges each in connection with the clash last Itay at Evarts, in which four were killed. Those ac- cused are Bill Hudson, Jack Smith and Jack Goodwin. Goodwin is out on bond and Smith has not yet been picked up by the coal operators’ dep- uty sheriffs, In addition, according to word re- ceived by the International Labor Defense, which is fighting to save the indicted miners from the electric (CONTINUED UN PAGE THREE) his- @- be tolerated any more. The growing misery of the unemployed and the fear of the coming winter which will be a desperate one, is forcing the un- employed to act. Together with the employed workers they are organiz- ing even more effectively to force through their demands. The state- ment and demands which were to be presented to the State Legislature, will be published tomorrow. Shoe Workers to Meet Today at the Union The Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union has called a mem- bership meeting today at 6:30 p.m. at Union headquarters, 5 E. 19th St. The Joint Council will report on the situation in the trade and the immediate problems now facing the union. A report will be given to the mem- bers about the Glenmore strike which the union is now conducting for, the seventh week. The question of relief for the strikers will be taken up at this meeting. All members must come to this meeting. \ 40,000 Salmon Are Destroyed to Keep Price of Food High Forty thousand fish have been destroyed by canneries in Katchikan Bay, Alaska, to keep up prices while thousands of workers starve. This fact is re- ported by the Associated Press and is published in the Seattle Daily Times of August 15. The salmon which had al- ready been caught were dumped into the bay. Thus capitalism is systemat- ically destroying all kinds of food while millions face hunger and starvation. YOUNG WORKERS WILE RALLY IN HUNDRED CITIES Demonstrate Sept. 8th; Youth Day Against Imperialist War International Youth Day of this year, which is being held on Septem- ber 8 will be the occasion for the largest demonstrations held in this country against imperialist war. Demonstrations will take place in over 100 cities, covering 28 states. Among these are included demon- strations in at least five southern states. These demonstrations will be held in numeyows tn~ns reaching the heart of mining, steel, textile, rubber, chemical and automobile industries. Demonstrations will also be held in several farming localities. There will be a few border demonstrations. From all sections of the country daily reports come streaming in as to the preparations for IYD. IYD will serve as the occasion for mighty demstrations against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, the demand for immediate relief, for the immediate release of the nine Scottsboro boys, against wage-cuts and speed-up. All workers and workers’ organizations should join in the International demonstra- tions being held this year on Inter- national Youth Day. CITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! —= Price 3 Cents_ 18 MINERS FACE RAILROADINGAS PA. TRIAL OPENS Leo Thompson Tried for “Conspiracy” By Jury Picked In Secret; Is Center of Attack U. M. W. Fakers and Gunmen Welcomed In Court Room By Bai liffs to Help Railroad Miners Aug. 25.—The public is being admitted to the trial of Leo Thompson. ene was again arrested and ordered to leave town. Thompson is being tried for conspiracy, unlawful assembly and inciting to riot. He is to be tried on an assault and battery charge later. The prosecution now centers on Thompson and Stella Rosefsky. Chief ‘of Police Addis admitted that the National Miners’ Union crowd was orderly and permission was granted by him to march on the field, When the fights started someone told Fagan that a man had a gun. Burgess of Cooke County, Cannonsburg, said missiles all came from the N.M.U,, but on cross-examination he admitted that he couldn't tell. James Haney, Cannonsburg policeman, testified the missiles were seen flying from both and all directions. All witnesses identified Thompson, Rosefsky, Edgar, Jones and the Negro leaders in the parade. The prosecutors leading witnesses and defense objections were overruled. ASHINGTON, Pa., August 25.—The trial of rab A iets and 17 others started today with selection of the jury in secret, with press and defense witnesses barred, with relatives of the defendants barred, with the Pittsburgh district organizer of the International Labor Defense given five minutes to leave the court house or be arrested, with the only other worker who forced his way into the court room first ordered to leave the court house within five minutes and then, when caught sitting on the lowest step of the courthouse, WIN WAKEFIELD (cr === WOOLEN STRIKE AGAINST PAYCUT But while this was going on, Pat Police Break Picket Fagan, district president of District 5 of the United Mine Workers and Phil Line at Central Falls Mill WASHINGTON, Pa. Gne of the defendants, John Zigon, Murray, UMWA international vice- president, and about 40 of their hired gunmen were welcomed into the court room by bailiffs and attendants, and sat overawing the prospective jury and two or three of the defendants who had not made connections with the ILD and who were being scien- PAWTUCKET, R. I, Aug. 25.—The strike of the 200 workers of the Wakefield Woolen Co., at Wakefield, which broke out today against a wage cut was won in less than 24 hours. The walkout was led by former mem- bers of the Weybosset Strike Com- mittee tifically driven to plead guilty. The General Fabrics mill reopened } suddenly today with 40 imported strikebreakers under heavy police guard. Despite the renewed police terror at Central Falls 200 workers gathered at the mill this afternoon for mass picket line which was broken up by armed police. A bus transporting scabs was stoned. A great mass meeting tonight will mobilize the masses for action to- morrow morning. The ranks of the strik now in the fifth month of the strike, azo solid and firm. German Masses Rally to Communist Party for Coming Struggle (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Aug. 25. — The Rote Fahne appeared today after a fort- night of prohibition. It received an enthusiastic reception, three times the usual edition of the paper being sold on the streets. he Rote Fahne states that during the period of pro- hibition 14,400 new members came into the Communist Party, six hun- dred from Berlin alone, many of them coming from the social demo- cratic party. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 25.—A movement has been started by the Alabama capitalists and landowners for the erection of a “slave monu- ment” to “commemorate” the al- leged “loyalty” of “the slave in the old South.” The movement is spon- sored by the same forces which are now engaged in a murderous terror against the Negro masses, aimed at crushing their struggles against their horrible conditions of mass starva- tion, peonage and national oppres- sion. In the meantime, the police terror continues against Negro workers in Alabama Bosses Plan Drive On C.P. in Attack on Negroes Lynchers Plan Monument to Commemorate “Loyalty” of Slaves Birmingham and has spread to all parts of the South, with many Negro workers being arrested in other southern states “on suspicion” of be- ing implicated in the murder of two Birmingham society women who were killed while resisting a hold-up man. Hand in hand with the attacks on the Negro masses goes the attack on the Communist Party which is ex- tremely distasteful to the southern bosses because of its relentless strug- gle for Negro rights and its successes (CONTINUED ON PAGE AURA a South Slav with an imperfect knowledge of English, was trapped by the flat assertion shot at him in the courtroom full of UMW gunmen: “You plead guilty!” He said yes, but there is every possibility that when matters are explained to him, he will formally change his plea. The other man who actually plead- ed guilty, is Mike Turk, who has been (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ADMIT PLANNING IS IMPOSSIBLE IN CAPITALISM Two important speakers for the bourgeoisie admitted Monday at the Williamstown, Mass., Institute that economic planning, such as the So- viet Five Year Plan, is impossible in the capitalist world. Dr. William E. Rappard of the Mandates Section of the League of Nations stated that “economic planning in the authori- tative Russian sense and liberalism were mutually exclusive terms.” If the “advar:tages and joys of freedom” were to be maintained, he said, there could be no planning. The jobless millions know that already. They know the “advantages and joys of freedom” to starve, to be evicted, to be speeded up ever more in the shops are not possible under a. planned system such as the workers and peas- ants of the Soviet Union have built, but are an inseparable part of “lib- eralism"—capitalist chaos and crisis, Dr. T. E. Gregory backed this up by stating that “to run all industry from one central point was at var-~ iance with democracy.” Planning is at variance with capitalist “demo- cracy”—the ‘rule of the bankers and the capitalists through the exploita- tion of the workers, One of the speakers, Professor Halcombe of Harvard, tried to sub- stantiate these lies by stating that “planning” had been going on for years and years in the telephone and telegraph industries. This “planning” has been going on by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which has fired thousands of workers dur- ing the present crisis and whose president is Hoover's chief aid in the campaign against unemployment re- REMEMBER ! wee Solidarity Day For Miners’ Sept. 4 Starliaht Park | wig aye