The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1931, Page 4

Daily Control ey Worke ‘ Nee [ Jsmist Party Ge . everywhere hattan an® Bronx SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, $6; six months, $3; New York City Foreign one y two months, Tr. $8; —~ $1, excepting Bordughs six months, $4.50 ntel ‘national i Youth Day-- 1915-and Ivo! of the Soviet ith day orig- the midst t a time ughtered profits was highly ap- thruout the alist Youth move- ik de Man of Belgium, letely to the aid of his against ctions of the wings were led and other se left uthenbe a Conference of dele- evolutionary youth groups of ed in Berne, Switzerland, to nst the imperialist war. red “war ag: lecided on a day of militant r to be held in September own as International Youth one of the outstanding inst the last war outh are face to face with an- war. The situation has changed tremen- since the days of the Berne Conference. cialism being built over one- ld’s surface, the Soviet Union. its war preparations for an Whereas in organized international iggling- against the cap- italist war. today we have mighty Communist and Young Communist Internationals, These organizations are the revolutionary inheritors itions of the Berne Conference. They en their metal in the struggle against ist war, in their everyday lead- Tuggles of the workers of the in their buildihg of a new system in the oin. It is necessary at present when ership of the st out the words of Comrade Lenin: “The war must be carried on now, st system is shaking. In the Uni- ates 3,000;000 young workers are unem- @ young workers as yet in the shops a ig wage-cuts and speed up. The cap- are not giving a cent of relief to the loyed. Their solution to the crisis is war, e destruction of the Soviet Union, for crushing the inspiration of all oppressed and exploited peoples, Against this policy of the capitalists the young workers must declare their readiness to defend the Soviet Union. Not a cent for imperialist war—all war funds for the relief of the unemployed, is the slogan around which millions are rallying. International Youth Day of *this year serves as the occasion of mob- ilizing the young workers, who will the very ones called to fight in the imperialist wars struggle against imperialist war. This day of struggle raises all the immediate problems of ,; the young workers and must be used to develop the struggle for the demands of the youth. International Youth Day in the U. S. this year will be much different from that of previ- ous year. Last year several demonstrations were held in but a few states. This year there will be close to 120 demonstrations in 28 states, | many of them taking on the form of demon- strations and parades. For the first time In- ternational Youth Day will penetrate into 5 southern states. Demonstrations on I.Y.D. will be held in the heart of the mines and textile struggle. International Youth Day this year will be a big step in the struggle against cap- italist war, for defense of the Soviet Union, against wage cuts, for immed.-te relief, for the release of the Scottsboro boys, for the freedom of the Harlen miners facing death sentences, against all discriminations of the youth. Inter- national Youth Day of 1931 takes on flesh and blood and becomes an integral part of the every day struggles of all workers in general, the youth in particular Demonstrate September 8! Hail the Fighting Day of the World Toiling on Internationa! Youth Day. d with the immediate danger of war, Youth! Ha ave the Scottsboro Boys the Right to Say Who ‘Shall Detend Them? ‘DON’T COVER THE EARTH, BUT WE SHINE IN OUR CORNER.”—Old Iromsidi ee eee Dalles that is owned and » You shoulr support it. -DALLAE, TEXAS, SATURDAY AUGUST 22, 1931. Bueceasors to Denleon,, Texas, COMMUNISTS ANDN.A.A.C.F SCRAP OVER SC’BORO CASE By O¥RIL BRIGGS rT secompanying release sent out by Walter White, national secretary of the NAACP., tefis its own story as to who is trying to tangle. snd hamstring the defense of the nine innocent Beottsboro boys who are facing legal lynching in Atabama, he Dallas Gazette in publishing White's re- ease correctly emphasizes the fact that the Seottsbore boys are opposed to the persisten at- temps of the N.AA.C.P, to impose its defense Pdlicy upon the boys and their parents. The Ga- sette’s headline reads: "Prisoners Are Opposing the N.A.A.C.P.” ‘Have these boys and their parents the right te decide who shall defend them? They have time and again declared their choice of the In- ternational Labor Defense. They have repeatedly shown that they realize the importance of a mass defense movement to back up their defense in the hostile courts of the Alabama boss lynchers. ‘Have they the right to choose their defense? ‘They have time and again told the N.A.A©.P. to either co-operate with the I.L.D. or keep their hands off the case. Have they this right? This question is again sharply placed before the working class, and especially the Negro masses, by reason of the continued attempts of N.A.A. ©. P. misleaders to disrupt the mass defense which alone can free the boys. In his release, Mr. White admits that the per- ents and relatives of the boys are opposed to his traitorous gang. Then why do not the N.AA, isleaders respect the oft expressed wishes arents that they stop meddling in the jam Pickens also admitted this oppo- is Chattanooga speech several months In that speech he accused the Communists. having “kidnapped, corrailed and fenced ” This was an- 220. of e@round the parents of the boys. other way of admitting that the parents would have nothing to do with the N.A.A.C.P. traitors end their Ku Klux Klan lawyer, Stephen Roddy. The NAACP. misleaders have tacitly admit- Control Commission Decisions BUFFALO, N. Y.—The District Control Com- mittee of the Communist Party in Buffalo, N. Y., hes expelled P. Glazerman (Glazer) as an un- reliable individual, who has previously, according to his own edmissions, been an “operator” for a Private detective agency, who has misappropri- ated organization funds, and who is strongly stus- pected of being a stool-pizeon tall, stockily built, about a pointed nose and s opportunity to spread uarming rumors, assumes militancy of a provo- eateur type, and tries to bring about conflicts with the police, whith he himself manages to avoid All workers’ organizations are warned against him. * New York, Aug. 1 14—“So much hes- tility and race hatred have been of the governor and other Alabama officials,” reported Walter White, wh returned today from Alabama, “that’ the task of saving the lives of the eight boys sentenced to death at Scottsboro is today infinitely more difficult tg combat than originally. “The minds of some of the-parents and relatives of the boys basesbaes so poisoned against exery organize- tion and individual not Communist that they are unable under present circumstances to realize the grave danger in which these threats are placing the boys. “For example, I learned in Alabama that one of the mothers was brought to Kilby prison recently by Comnmun- ist agents and that she stood in the foyer of the prison peony ge and somes have been convinced by the Comanane iste that the N. A. A. C, P's busiwecs is that of getting Negroes electroce 41 instead of saving them, ee ted this opposition to them on the part of the parents by refusing the floor to mothers of the boys at several mass meetings and at the N.A.A. C.P. conference in Pittsburgh. White admits that one of the mothers of the boys has publicly denounced him for his traitor- ous alliance with the Alabama bosses in the at- tempt to crush the mass fight which alone can free the boys. He neglects to add, however, that all of the nine boys and all of their parents and relatives have joined in this denunciation. He justifies his meddling in the case against the wishes of the parents on the lie that the parents are too ignorant to know their own mind, that they are misied, that their minds are poi: soned, etc. He also peddles the boss lynchers’ interpretation of. the protests of the working class against this dsmnable outrame as “threats against the lives of the governor and other Ala- bama. officials.” “But the workers will not be deceived by the lies. of Walter White. The question before the working class is the mass fight to save and free the Scottsboro boys and the support of the par- ents and their boys in tehrietaoin shrdlu nunun ents and their boys in their unanimous choice of the International Labor Defense as the or- ganization which shall conduct the defence | | | | = =a t | | | | District, Section, and Unit Literature Agents See that you are supplied at once with the- ‘ollowing literature for current campaigns: FOR SOLIDARITY DAY—September 7 Work or Wages, by Grace M. Burnham Lo Social Insurance, by Grace M. Burnham 10 History of May Day, by Alexander Trach- tenberg 10 Race Hatred on Trial. 10 Graft and Gangsters, by Harry Gannes +10 Lynching Negro Children in Southern Courts, by Joseph North 05 Little Brothers of the Big Labor Fakers by William Z. Foster 05 The Frame Up System, by Vern Smith 10 Tom Mooney Betrayed by Labor Leaders 10 For INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY—Sept. 8 Youth In Industry, by Grace Hutchins .. ... 10 No Jobs Today, by Phil Bard 05 Life In the U. S. Army, by Walter Trumbull .10 For the UNEMPLOYMENT CAMPAIGN Fight Against Hunger . 05, Out of a Job, by Earl Browder 05 | | 20,000,000 Unemployed 0 50,000,000 Unemployed 05, | Also Work or Wages and Social Insurance | For the ELECTION CAMPAIGN | | Why Every Worker Should Join the Com- | mun'st Party 05, The Heritage of Gene Debs, by Alexander Trachtenberg 0 American Working Women and the Class Struggle 05, Revolutionary Struggle Against War vs. Pacifism, by Alex Bittelman 05 Also your local Election Platforms, “Out of a Job”, “Fight Against Hunger”, “Graft and Gangsters”, “Race Hatred on Trial”, “Lynching Negro Children in Southérn Courts”, “Work or Wages”, “Social Insurance”. THE SYSTEM OF STARV ATION Negro Retormism Desperately Fights tor Its Economic Interest By WILLIAM L. PATTERSON [O one can deny that the Negro reformists are traitors to the liberation struggles of the Ne- gro masses, but this is only because these strug- gles run counter to the interest of the Negro reformists. While the Negro reformists struggle against revolutionary nationalism, they are the formulators of the policy of ghetto national- ism. In order to protect their own economic po- sition and class interest, they are forced to strug- gle desperately against the rising tide of mili- tancy in the ranks of the Negro masses. Let no one think that the Negro reformists of the tribe of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloréd People, the De Priests, Motons, John- sons, the Vanns, Abbotts, Cobbs, and the rest,are merely unscrupulous betrayers of the liberation struggles of the Negro masses. The struggles of these masses are revolutionary. The Negro bour- geosie has long since deserted the path of revo- Tution. These tools of American imperialism have concrete economic interests of their own to pro- tect. Their attacks upon the only defenders of the Negro boys in Scottsboro, their frenzied attack upon the Communist Party, the vanguard of the Negro and white workers, their bitter denuncia- tion of the developing mass resistance of Negro and white workers to the intensified exploita- tion and oppression is the more desperate be- cause it is as well a defense. This attack con- tains all the elements of a desperate defense, a defense of the segregated districts, their special field of exploitation; a defense of their own eco- nomic interest The immediate economic interests of the Ne- gro reformists do not extend beyond the pale of the Negro ghetto. This fact is at once a great weakness and at the same time the source of their greatest strength, The necessity that forces the American ruling class to separate Negro and “Forced i By FRANK HENDERSON (Recently returned from the Soviet Union with the sport delegation of the Labor Sports Union to the Berlin Spartakiad) [ Wa atotes sao) is exposing the Soviet Union. So I will make it my task to expose the attitude of the Bolsheviks towards sports and physical culture, This is not a difficult task because all one needs to know is the attitude of the Czar towards physical culture and the present atti- tude of the Bolsheviks. During the time of the Czar nobody was forced to be healthy. In fact. it was quite a very common thing for a Rus- sian to die of tuberculosis, lumbago, and the like. To say nothing of the pleasures of starv- ation which came on a mass scale and as re- gularly as the seasons of the year. Always the nobility boasted that the existing sport insti- tutions were only for the rich. A condition which closely resembles the United States of to- day—of discrimination and Jim-crowism against Negroes; high fees and dues for membership into boss-controlled sport organizations; and the payment of graft to city efficials for the use of public sport facilities. In St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) and Moscow there were no sport places for the work- ers. But today under the whip of the Bolshe- viks, government decrees demand the erection of new stadiums, sport fields and swimming pools. Rumors have it that many Leningrad workers are forced to ice-skate even during the hottest of summer months. In Mcscow I found workers taking hot Russian steam baths—the kind that makes you clean. Thousands were swimming and bathing in the Moscow River. Others were forced to go rowing in boats which were placed strategically along the river bank. But I could'not believe what I saw. I therefore plight of the workers forced into physical cul- ture activities. He boldly verified everything, stating coldly that. sports, recveation, rest homes. havideue heal nd hygiene are just as impor- asked a high government official regarding the . Health” tant pillars of the USSR as steel mills and the Red Army. But to facts. The bourgeois and social-demo- cratic press can live without them but darn if the revolutionary press can. History tells us that about ten years ago there were still many greedy neighbors on the Soviet frontier who wanted to get into the country badly. To keep out those who wanted to get in the worst, the army and navy had to be build first. The farm- ers needed ploughs, :« the industries received attention for many years. Matters drifted thus to about the year 1924-25, until the Bolsheviks gave serious attention to sports. What has hap- pened in the few short years since is very con- vincing, In Moscow about the year 1917, when the Czar left on his vacation (forced!) there were some 15 sport places exclusively for the nobility. Today the Bolsheviks have established, and so near the factories that the workers cannot avoid them, some 76 ice-skating rinks, 31 stadiums, 412 sport fields, 116 gyms, 35 swimming pools, 145 shooting galleries, and numerous physical culture parks. In St, Petersburg the nobility only indulged in vodka bouts so we have no figures as to the studies of sports under the Czarist re- gime. But today we find some 27 boating houses, 16 swimming and sun-bathing places, 27 stadiums, 60 football fields, and 200 sport fields. As I continued my investigations I found that the whole country was gradually being forced into physical culture and s>orts. Even in fac- tories during working hours fifteen minute rec- reation periods have been established, I aso learned that sports were mixed up in some way with that dreadful Five Year Plan. One athlete, just before he took a plunge into the Moscow River from a ten foot diving board, told me confidentially thot after the Five Year Plan there would be tens of thousands of new sport places for the workers thruout the Soviet Union. Tt is plainly “forced health.” By BURCK white workers and to incite the one against the other has laid the cornerstone for the segregat- ed Negro districts. Segregation at least assures a measure of separation off the job. Outside of this Jim Crow district, the white rul- ing class reigns supreme. It could well reign su- preme on the inside if it chose to deny finan- cial backing to the Negro capitalists, but to Ne- gro business it grants concessions, not such con- cessions as would permit Negro business to grow to any considerable size to become a threat or menace to it even in “nigger heaven”, but con- cessions, loans, mortgages, economic “peace”, all of which are bribes to Negro capitalism.. These concessions come to Negro “leaders” when the rising tide of militancy among the Negro masses threatens to overrun the wall of prejudices cre- ated by the lies of bourgeois educators, “scien- tists”, preachers and labor fakers, between the Negro and white workers and to mingle with the wave of revolt within the ranks of white labor. The Negro reformists are allowed by big busi- ness to live if they will ruthlessly stifle the mili- tancy of the Negro masses, if they will help smash the growing unity of the massés of both groups. The smashing of this unity would be a vital blow to the struggles of the Negro and white workers for liberation from thé starvation program of the bosses. This developing mass movement spells death to the Negro ghetto and the Negro ghetto is life to Negro business. That the Negro reform- ists can, through this betrayal of the revoluticn- ary liberation struggles of the masses, protect their own paramount economic interests and the interests of the white ruling class is a source of strength to them in their bickerings. It is on this basis that they can bargain for concessions. The resistance of the Negro masses to their deepen- ing misery is a factor with which the Negro bourgeoisie can maneuver. For this purpose, at the period of America’s entry into the world war, Du Bois called the Negro masses to “close ranks” in support of American imperialism. No one was more aware than Du Bois that the bloody struggle was pre- pared and forced upon the workers and toiling masses in order that Africa might be redivided, the strength of German imperialism broken and the loans of Wall Street to French and Eng- lish imperialists saved. Du Bois knew that the Negro masses could only lose nationally and in- ternationally through a war between the slave holders. But he was fighting them for conces- sions for Negro business as he is fighting now. Tt was to the economic interests of Negro capi- tal to sacrifice the Negro masses in a war be- tween’ the capitalist states. It will be to their interests to draw the Negro masses into the next war to save capitalism. The existing crisis strikes Negro business a desperate blow. Seven white and Negro banks within the black belt of Chicago have failed. Many banks in the Southern states have failed, dealing capitalism a body blow. The decreased buying power of the Negro masses, suffering terribly from mass unemployment and wage- cuts, heightens the pressure of the crisis upon the Negro bourgeoisie. These Negro masses con- stitute its only market. Its efforts to save and to strengthen its mar- ket becomes franti¢. On the one hand. the Ne- gro reformists cry aloud to the Negro masses to exhibit “race loyalty,” in other words, to give them full support. In the same voice, they rave against unity between Negro and white work- ers, they denounce mats struggles as a means of alleviating the misery of the Negro masses, although they themselves only receive conces- sions from the ruling class when they are strug- gling to stem the growing spirit of revolt. among the masses. On the other hand, théy hold their meetings with the agents of American imperialism (Roosevelt, Rosenwald, etc. at the Pittsburgh N. A. A. C. P. conference) (the Negro Business Men's League conference in New York with many heads of big business présent). At these meet- ings, the plans for heading. and beheading’ the Scottsboro defense, the share-croppers’ move- ment are worked out. Walter White, who yes- terday was supposed to have a price on his head in the South, today has full entry into the prison ) 2 Bebfea. | By JORGE pay | A Little Comparison Sir George May, who is head of the British Economy Commission that recommended a cut in unemployed benefits, was “playing golf” while the capitalist government was changing front, and the N. Y. Times of August 25 tells us the following story about him: During the war the Chancellor of ihe Ex- chequer asked Sir George how much money he had in American securities. “Forty million dol- jars,” Sir George replied. “May I have them?” the Chancellor asked. Certainly,’ was the reply. Once he signed a check at his office for $T5,< 000,000, then went out to a restaurant where he was not known. When he found he had not a farthing to pay for the meal, he had a time convincing the waiter that he work out his” bill. Now, that was in the N. Y. Times of August 25. But in the Times of the 24th. we found the following: “The proposed cut in the unemployment dole would affect, roughly, 2,500,000 men and women, The present weekly scales are: For the unem- ployed man, $4.25, with $2.25 if he has a wife and 50 cents for every child; for the unemployed woman, $3.75.” yy Mac~ away anything from a Rptaiiet checks offhand for $75,000,000. No. must be equitable and just.” says th cialist,* so he clips off 37 cents from of the Mnenployed: pee No Third eee Remember how dispatches came ro! the day after the Wickersham Commission ped the police on the wrist for “third degree~ ing” prisoners. Not a police official in all the United States would admit it S an avalanche of “denials.” ‘Well, we picked up the N. Y. Times on Wed- nesday, and saw that over in New Jersey the mothers of two 17-year old boys say that when Police Chief Wolcott Tilton of South Belmar, locked up their sons on a charge of robbery, —‘the boys bore no marks, but that later, in the jail, their swollen faces and bruised arms gave evidence of a beating.” ‘Then, on another page, we saw that down in Washington, D. C., itself:—One man who is un- der arrest said that a detective bras! oie a handful of hair from his head in an make him confess a shooting.” that ig in slap New York City, of course. knows no such thing as police brutality. The last reiutaticn of it was the deliberate, cold-blooded muzder by police of a taxi driver whose car was comman- dereed by holdup men at the point of a gun. No doubt but that life is uncertain in New York, but when Wm. Randolph Hearst, who knows something about murder, and the Amer- ican Legion, Police Commissioner Mulyooney and the A. F. of L. officials, all get togetier at a meéting and pledge to “fight gangsters.” well, honest cifizens had better take to the hills if they can survive the laughter 26 szeing such @ lot of gangsters promise to “wine ct" gan- sters. in which Roddy, the N. A. A. C. P’s EKlu Klux Kian lawyer, has helped the landlords and bosses of the South to throw the Eccttsboro boys. .Walter White, Pickens and Du Bois are speken of with high praise by Klux Klan press of the South, especia County Sentinel in Alabama nooga Defender. for their ¢stez against Communism. The open collab: the officials of the N. A. A.C. P. with ers of the Scuth stinks to high heaven. but ‘it is in the-interests of Negr $ and the white ruling class, In it are slities for smashing the struggles of the Neg-o r gether with the white workers against tion conditions, against lync lence. segregation, Jim Crowism and di: ination But there-4s algo a grave danger i for Negro reformism. The can see the hypocrisy of their « But the readiness of the Negro masses to strugzie be crushed: Thé-masses must be reassured th capitalism is their salvation The Negro “lead- ers” must save the ghetto, the source of their own profits. “They must help to save capital- ism, the source of the Negro masses’ misery There are great points of difference between the white ruling class and the Negro capitalist group, but these differences fade into the back- ground before the threat of the Negro masses to revolt and before the growing untiy of the Negro and white workers. These movements are a menace to the rule of the capitalist class regardless of color. These movements 22> a menace to the ghetto nationalism of the Ne- gro reformists. The liberation of the Negro masses spells death to Negro business. The in- terests of Negro capital, therefore, today coin- cides with the interests of the white ruling class. This is.the reason for their united front at Scottsboro,“ Camp Hill and Chicago; their treachery to thé revolutionary movement of the Negro masses is only an expression of their loy- alty to. ghetto nationalism and their own class interests. The Negro reformists are trait- ors, but not to their own economic interests. .Workers! Join the Party of. Your Class! Communist Party 0.8 A P. O, Box 87 Station D. New York City” Please send me thore information on the Cum. munist Party. WORE oieda es teaaseceaccesccccncessesbeotsaue oy. Sas ci Mewts Lt QCCUPEHON .nssceccsceseercceecnsss ALC co ccece Mau this-to te Centra: Ome Communist Party, P.-Q@. 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