The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1931, Page 1

er {7 INTER Nestions Dail Orga Central — ae (Section of the Communist International) Entered as econd-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y¥., under the act of Mareh 3, 1879 1931 Vol. VIII. No. 211 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, September 8th---Youth Day 'N America, even more than in Europe, the revolutionary organizations of the working class have failed to realize the deep importance of win- ning the youth of the working class to their side of the class struggle. ‘The result is seen in the relative weakness of the revolutionary youth movement compared to the considerable influence wielded by the capital- ist class among the youth of the working class by means of the Y.M.C.A,, the swarm of sport organizations, Boy Scouts and so on, not excluding the fake “socialist” movement which plays a role of sidetracking the working youth from class struggle. It appears that the revolutionary workers do not fully understand that the inner changes in industry, rationalization and simplification of productive processes, have resulted in youth—both boy and girl workers— occupying a great position, a huge and growing percentage, among the workers. Yet these youth workers are almost invariably discriminated against, paid less for the same work, worked longer hours and speeded up even worse than the adult workers. When unemployed they are denied even the crusts of “charity” given adult workers, though in many cases their labor is the sole support of a family. ‘This is twice-over true of the young Negro workers, whose oppres- sion forces them in greater numbers and at earlier age into industry, while they are vilely discriminated against, and—as we see in the Scotts- boro frame-up, the Negro youth is subjected to murderous persecution as a part of the national oppression of their people. ‘ Above all, the youth is the especial victim of the imperialist war- makers, and the revolutionary youth have an equally special duty in coun- teracting their influence. The anniversary of the founding of the Young Communist Interna- tional on September 8, 1919, is a fitting time to sharply point out the shortcomings of the whole revolutionary movement in neglecting the task of winning the working class youth to their own class side of the class struggle, and to initiate an energetic correction of this remnant of op- portunist blindness toward youth problems. It is absolutely the duty of adult workers to inspire all young work- ers, first of all their own children—to unite under the banner of the Young Communist League. It is their duty likewise to initiate and guide the Youth in struggle for special youth demands—equal pay for equal work, no discrimination, the right to vote for youth of 18 or over who are engaged in industry, etc. Immediately, today, all forces should be rallied to support the de- monstrations against imperialist war and for the Youth Program of the Young Communist League on International Youth Day, September 8. Make the millions of young workers part of the struggle against wage cuts, imperialist war and for unemployment relief! ternational Youth Day! All support to In- The Fight for Filipino Freedom ECRETARY OF WAR HURLEY landed yesterday in the Philippines as an omissary of the same capitalist imperialism which exploits and starves American workers. His mission has more than one aim, but all fit in with the interests of Wall Street, Only the foolish believe that Hurley was sent by Hoover merely to offset the demagogy of Senator Hawes of Missouri who recently did himself proud by posing before the Filipino masses as a “friend of freedom”, while in his own ‘state police club starving unemployed work- ers and the small farmers suffer hunger unrelieved by the state they are taxed to support. ‘What worries Washington is that the Filipino masses, led by the Communist Party of the P. I, showed by the tremendous demonstrations at the time of Hawes’ visit, that they are increasingly in the mood to themselves physically enter the fight for independence. And it becomes more and more difficult to explain to the Filipinos the “benefits” of American domination when, in America itself, millions of jobless are starving and their protests are met by empty promises and blackjacks. The demonstrations for independence arranged to greet Hurley are taken seriously by the Filipino masses, who have been tricked for decades by imperialist promises of independence being “granted”, promises upon which the native bourgeois politicians have induced the masses to rely. These bourgeois misleaders, some of them now pretending to be very “left”, are still seeking to sidetrack the masses from entering on a path of mass struggle that will attain independence in the only way it can be attained—by armed revolt and an expulsion of every imperialist force together with those native traitors who as capitalists and landlords are openly or vecretly in alliance with the oppressors of the Filipino nation. Hurley, the°U. S. Secretary of War, may have some “sweet words” for such traitors, but the interests of American imperialism in the Far East, against not only England and Japan, but against the Soviet Union and the Chinese Revolution, indicate that the net result of his mission can only be a more brutal persecution of all who stand unflinchingly for independence and thereby undermine American war preparations at U. S. imperialism’s strongest war base in the Far East. * It was for this reason that the Ozaristic rule of the American gov- ernor-general has recently broken through all “democratic” pretense and outlawed the Communist Party of the P. I, arresting and jailing its leaders by the hundreds. ‘The Communist Party of the Philippines looks to the revolutionary workers of the United States and first of all to our own Communist Party, to rouse the American masses to mass anger at the common oppressors of both the Filipino and American masses. Particularly have the Communist Party organizations along the Pa- cific Coast of the U. S., a primary duty of building a revolutionary link between the Filipino immigrant workers and the revolutionary movement in their homeland. Further, they have the duty, just as all Communists have concerning the Negro, in springing at the throat of American chau- vinists who seek to discriminate against and terrorize these Filipino work- ers who have immigrated to America. ‘The lessons of class solidarity of both American and Filipino workers against the bosses who exploit both must be sharply brought forward to enlighten those native American workers who have been filled wity chau- vinist race ‘prejudice in the interests of the bosses by such traitors to the’ working class as the A. F. of L. leadership with its immigration restriction program and discrimination against the darker races. Each case of chauvinist terror against the Filipino workers must be the immediate object of mass protest and enlightenment led by our Party, as only by such action can our revolutionary duty be done and the oppressed masses in Philippine Islands be brought to understand that they have allies in the American working class—thus raising the influence of the Communist Party of the Philippines and defeating the. Filipino bour- geois “nationalists” who try to get the masses to depend upon such hypo- crites as Borah, Hawes, et al. ‘ Build the unity of the oppressed Filipino masses and the American workers! Fight the bosses who exploit both the immigrant and native workers! Aid the struggle for Philippine indepehdence! RED SHIRTS IN INDIA GROWING Tribesmen Against British Imperialism Acocrding to the reporter the Red Shirts present a better military pic- ture than a year ago and apparently are well drilled. All northern tribes showed great sympathy with the movement. ‘Th:t the Red Shirts have passed to active work against British im- perialism is indicated in the follow- ing report. “The Red Shirts recently have The growth of the Red Shirts, an organization of young tribesmen in the north of India, sympathstic to the Soviet Union and opposed to British imperialist rule in India is causing worry in imperialist quarters according to a cabled report to the New York Times from Simla, India, confined themselves mainly to pas- sive obstruction of the police and taunting troops on the march by sneers, insults and concerted shouts of ‘Long !fve revolution!’ This has an excessively irritating effect on the men, especially om Indian sol- diers * MACDONALD ADVISED AN ‘OPPOSITION’ Told Labor Members| Of Gov't to Stay | In Party Prepares for Fascism “Equal Burdens” Re- sults in Attack on Dole BULLETIN LONDON, Sept, .—The unem- ployed army has again broken all records in size here, There are now 2,733,782 registered out-of- work, This is an increase of 14,406 over last week. For the past few months there has been a tremen- dous rise in the number of jobless in Britain. * ‘That MacDonald deliberately ad- vised the creation of a so-called op- position of the Labor Party, to put up a smoke screen against the action of the entire Socialist leadership in helping the bosses’ attacks against the workers, as well as to keep the workers from putting up a sharp re- sistance and going over to the Com- munists, is definitely shown in the latest capitalist cable dispatches from London. Ramsay MacDonald, | head of the new national coalition against the working class, met with the present leaders of the “opposi- tion” and advised them to take the step they are now taking in putting up a sham opposition. Plan Fake Opposition. The New York Times‘ dispatch from London, confifming this fact, (CONTINUED fN PAGE THREE) STRIKE ENTERS ITS THIRD DAY Nine Shops Already Out As Pickets Mass Solidly Four additional upholstery shops yesterday joined the first five that walked out Monday in a strike called by the Furniture and Upholstery Workers Industrial League, against the worsening conditions in the trade and the series of wage cuts instituted in the shops. All shops were picketed and the strikers manifested a good spirit. The policy of the league and the pro- visional strike committee is to spread the strike, especially in the bigger shops. Strike headquarters have been es- tablished at Ten Eyck and Lorimer Sts., Brooklyn. ‘ ‘The Women’s Council has already become involved in the upholsterers strike by serving sandwiches to the pickets in the morning. An appeal for assistance on the picket line from all workers was made by the provisional strike committees. TWO MORE SHOPS JOIN STRIKING BATHROBE WORKERS Two new shops came down on strike yesterday making the total number of shops 21. A meeting of strikers was held this afternoon which was addressed by Ben Gold. In his remarks Gold spoke of the conditions in the bathrobe trade, tue need of spreading the strike, espe cially to the Brooklyn section. All bathrobe workers are called to Militant Unions Back Mooney Demonstration At Mine Relief Meet Pledge Attendance of Members at Labor Day “Solidarity | Festival” | Affair Will Also Aid Struggle of Coal Miners in Penna. and Ohio Responding to the announcement that New York workers will raise a demand for the immediate release of Tom Mooney and all other class-war prisoners on Labor Day, September 7, at Starlight Park, 177th St. and West Farms Road, seven léft wing unions yesterday voted their support to the demonstration. The demonstration for Mooney is being held Monday in connection with the ‘Solidarity Festival’ arranged by the Workers International Relief for the relief of the striking min- ®ers of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West TO N. Y. WORKERS TO SPEED RELIEF Workers Union, the Shoe and Lea- ther Workers’ Industrial Union, the Building Trades League, the Marime Workers’ Industrial Union, the Food Workers’ Industrial Union and the Office Workers Union, were among | with’ liose™ New Sie Is Coming soon; Increases Need for Relief PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 1—The following statement was issued today by the National Miners Union and the Central Rank and File Strike Committee: “Workers of New York: the strik- ing miners ask you for food! “The strike of the miners is going forward. The form of the strike has been changed; the fight is now for local demands; it is now a struggle of the men in the mines in unity ‘who never stopped pick- eting—but it is as it was in the be- ginning a strike against starvation by the masses of miners and by their women folks and their children. “These masses are starving. They are being evicted. Women and chil- dren are hungry. The need for relief for food, clothing, tents shoes—and for funds to buy these necessities— is greater than ever before. “A great new, ‘broader strike is coming soon, and this will increase the need for relief, for the men who work are starving as they work. “We are sending William Duncan, a miner straight from Harlan County, Ky., to speak to the workers of New York. He will tell you at the great Solidarity Day mass meeting at Star- light Park, September 7, of the heroic battle waged by the Kentucky miners a ssuch organized terror and de- HEE eacvotion as was never a The Kentucky miners are. ing the National Miners Union by thousands while gunmen rgid and murder and the courts plan mass slaughter of 36 miners in the electric chair. The miners of Harlan county carry on their struggle while children die daily of starvation di- seases. “Workers of New York! This fight is your fight, the first battle against the wage cutting campaign of the bosses. Fill Starlight Park with thous- ands of New York workers on Sep- tember 7, and show your solidarity with the starving, fighting miners! Mobilize all your fellow workers to stp_ort the Workers International Relief and the campaign for food for the striking miners! Secretary National Miners Union FRANK BORICH, VINCENT KEMENOVICH, Sec'y Rank and File Strike Co. Seviet “Forced Labor”-—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents the picket line tomorrow morning. The coordinating committee of the Pan-European Commission of the League of Nations, which met yes- terday, with all European countries participating, took as the sole topic of discussion the economic non-ag- gression pact which Comrade Lit- vinoy, representing the Soviet Union, had proposed in the May meeting of the TZuropean Union Commission. The Soviet proposal provides that economic discrimination against any one or few countries be definitely prohibited. The immediate reaction of the various countries was to post- pone discussion on this point again until the distant future. The Italian representative =ccommended that it be referred back to the commission per copy. Read it—Spread it! Try to Shelve Soviet Union’s Economic Plan ait Geneva for immediate discussion and action. The German representative “pre- ferred the slower course” of referring it to a special committee, while the French representative urged the “still slower course” of leaving it to the League's Economic Committee. Due to the great prestige which the Soviet Union enjoys among the working masses of the entire world, who recognize in the Soviet propo- sals a real attempt to better the conditions of the working masses, the statesmen had to give the proposals a “favorable reception in principle.” ‘The proposals were referred to a sub- committee, which may include them, the militant organizations to go on record favoring the immediate liber- ation of Mooney as well as all other class-war-prisoners and pledging the support of the thousands of mem- bers of their unions who will parti- cipate in the demonstration on La- bor Day. The movement for complete and unconditional amnesty for all class- war prisoners being pushed forward by the International Labor Defense received a sharp impetus with the release from San Quentin penitenti- ary of Frank Spector, one of the Im- perial Valley defendants, who was originally sentenced to serve three to 42 years for activity in preparation for the-strike of the Southern Cali- fornia agricultural workers in May, 1930. The I.L.D. had carried on a tireless campaign for his release as well as the other seven Imperial Val- ley defendants. “The textile workers, who them- selves are encountering the vicious terror of the boss class, will ener- getically support the renewed drive for the release of Tom Mooney and the other class-war prisoners,” de- clared James P. Reid, president of the National Textile Workers Union. “The same frame-up machinery whichg railroaded Mooney is being used to hound and jail militant work- ers who are fighting the bosses in their drive to slash the wages and intensify the killing speed-up of the textile workers.” Statements issued by the heads of the other militant industrial unions, all affiliated to the. Trade Union Unity League, urged mass support for the campaign to free Mooney and urged all New York workers to at- tend the demorstration at Starlight Park on Labor Day. A varied program is promised, in- cluding games under the direction of the Labor Sports Union, indoor and outdoor dancing, continuous enter- tainment on a huge open-air stage, a concert by a five-piece orchestra and a pageant staged by the Work- ers’ Laboratory Theatre. GREEN SAYS WAGE CUTS. NOT SO BAD Tries to Minimize Pay | Cuts As Bosses Drive On Steel Wage Slash Soon AF. of L. Acts to Keep Back Strike Struggles WASHINGTON, Sept. — William Green, president of the A. F. of L., following the Hoover policy is doing all he can to minimize in the minds of the workers the virulence of the wage cut drive now going on. He deliberately does this in an article in the September issue of the “Amer- ican Federationist” in which he tries to prove that wage cuts are not so important and are nowhere near as big as in 1921. This is in line with Green's protection of the U. S. Steel Corporation, which he says will not cut wages. That Green is merely following the policy of attempting to ward off strikes while wages are slashed whole- sale is shown by the fact that wage cuts have been going on in nearly all industries and are now pending in the basic industries, particularly steel and railroads. The leading cap- italist newspapers declare wage cuts are coming soon in the steel industry. The New York Times of Aug. 21 says” “Salaries of officers and office clerks have been lowered, and other operating costs cut (in the steel in- dustry) while there have been ru- mors of imminent reduction of wages among the mill workers.” In the Journal of Commerce of Aug. 31 is even more definite in declaring wage cuts in the steel industry will come soon. Julius I. Bogen, financial editor, writes: “In well informed quarters it is indicated now that it is only a mat- ter of weeks before the steel indus- try will launch a determined effort to get back on a profit making basis through a downward revision of wages, arranged in such a way as to work a minimum hardship on employes.” Colton Shoe Shop Strikes at Pay Cut (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 1 One hundred shoe- workers at the Colton shop went out on strike to- day against a ten per cent wage cut and for the reifstatement of two discharged workers, one'a Negro A successful picket line was im- mediately thrown around the shop and no scabs got in. The militant action of the workers is forcing the boss to consider withdrawal of the wage cut. The strike is under the leadership of the Shoe Workers Industrial Un- ion. Only a few members of the union worked in the shop prior to the strike. AFL Refuses PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 2.—The A. F. of L. leaders have again re- buffed the attempt on the part of the National Textile Workers Union (CONTINUED UN PAGE THREE) to bring about unity among all of the workers in order to win the strike. Last night the UTW strike committee refused to hear the dele- gation which they had invited to their meeting. This committee went to the membership meeting of the A. F. of L. unions last Thursday to bring to these workers the need for unity among all the strikers. At this meeting where the sell-out was plan- ned the leaders of the A. F. of L. leaders refused to let the delegation from the NTW appear before the strikers but told them to come in- stead to the strike committee meet- ing Monday night. The NTWU did not reject even this chance to make their appeal for rank and file unity to the strikers under the leadership of the A. F. of L. un- ions. When the delegation appeared at the A. F. of L. committee meet- ing last night they found the com- mittee, which i8 composed salely of officials of the unions and contains not a single rank and file member, surrounded by heavily armed police and plain clothes men. These thugs were used to try to intimidate the Rank, File Unity Delegation Hear NTWU tee refused to allow the entire dele- gation of fifteon to enter. Refuse to Hear Delegation The UTW insisted that only five of the delegation should enter the hall. They did this in order to be able to CITY EDITIC WORKERS HE WORLD," _UNITE! OF Price 3 Cents JessieWakeftela Faces Trial in Harlan Today Miners Not Intimidated By Thugs and Company Gunmen; Relief To Continue; To Fight Terror Murderous Attack On Miners Aims To Cripple Defense Of Imprisoned Strikers BULLETIN. Jessie London Wakefield, International Labor Defense organizer in Harlan, Ky., has been informed that her trial on the charge of criminal syndicalism comes up Wednesday. The prosecutor is demanding that she be tried first in an effort to cripple the entire work of defense by railroadin~ I the International Labor Defense representative in Harlan. With the terror and repeated jailings on criminal syndicalist charges, the coal operators, their courts and sheriffs are doing all they can to hamper defense work. Funds are desperately needed. Aid must be given to the families of the jailed miners. All workers should respond immediately. Send your contribution to International Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, New York City. Organize protests and send protest tele- grams to Gov. Flem Sampson, Frankfort, Ky., demanding the freedom of Jessie Wakefield and the imprisoned mine: PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 1.—Bill Duncan, passing through Pittsburgh, on his way to New York to speak at Starlight Park on Solidarity Day, September 7, said that the two strikers who were assassinated by deputies were guards at the Penn-Ohio Relief Kitchen in Harlan. The shooting oc- curred after he left, but Duncan said it looked to him that a score or more of armed thugs surrounded and attacked the kit- to i {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Ala. Bosses Delay Scottsbare Action Hoping Workers Forget CHATTANOOGA Ala., Sept. 1. — In the hope that the stormy protests of the working class will subside if the attempt to legally murder the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys is not pushed for the present, the courts of the Alabama bosses are marking time in the Scotsboro care. It is understood here that the Su- preme Court of Alabama will not re- view before next January the evid- ence, proving a frame-up filed by the International Labor Defense in its appeal against the death sentence of the eight boys convicted in the orig- inal farcical “trial” at Scottsboro, This definite policy of delay is also being carried out in relation to the delegation, The A. F, of L. commit-| ninth boy, 14-year old Roy Wright, chen at night. These thugs tra guns on rumble seats, raiding, PUTNAM PICKETS, IN COURT TODAY, Int'l Labor “Defense | Defends Strikers PUTNAM, Conn., Sept. 1—The four strikers arrested last week, and the nine strikers arrested yesterday will be tried tomorrow morning in the Putnam city court. The International Labor Defense attorney Watstein of New Haven, Conn., will represent the strikers. To Resume Picketing All are charged with loitering, a technical charge for the picketing, | the s rs conduct before the struck mill here. The International Labor Defense and the Defense Committee of the strikers will meet today. Mass picketing before the struck Salzberg mill will be resumed. A short demonstration occurred around the court house yesterday af- ter the arrest of the nine strikers. 3,000 Berry Pickers Stranded Without a Penny .at .Lansing LANSING, Mich. e than 3000 berry pickers were stranded in Mich- igan without a penny to go on with at the end of the season. Although they had put in the season working they were left here without a place to go to next. They are accused of starting fires so as to get jobs. fight- ing them as this is their only chance for a job. The city pays fire fighters the grand sum of 30 cents per hour MINER KILLED BY TROLLEY COVERDALE, Pa—Paul Paulitch, member of the National Miners Union at Mollenauer was killed Mon- day morning by an interurban car. He was walking down the track to Coverdale to join the picket line at Pittsburgh Terminal Mine No, 8. He was walking because he had no mo- ney for fare. in whose case a mistrial resulted fol- lowing the disagreement of the jury in Scottsboro when eleven jurors stood for the death sentence with ey vel in big groups with machine dynamiting and terrorizing. One drunken deputy careening from side to side on the road killed 2 child who was standing at the side of the road last week He went un- punished. The deputies broke into another striker's home and tore up the garden and ran the whole family out of town. The striker was con- nected with the relief work. The deputies are especially direct- ing their terror towards destroying relief work and starving out the mil tant fighters. More food is needed there desperately as the flux starva- tion disease is infecting scores more of children. It means sure death un- less they are given some nourish- ment. Today’s relief funds allowed foor only for Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia. Food must be sent to Ken- tucky immediately. Rush funds to the Penn.-Chio Striking Miners Relief Commiitee, 611 Penn Avenue Pitsburgh, Pa Poe aie WIERTON, Pa., Sept committee from Col. of the N.M.U. wh from farmers were charged with stealing girl and a man are held in jail. 1—A relief peaches. (Special to the Daily Worker) Word comes from Harlan that Joe Moore, a min w ot through the heart and killed instantly yester- day by a coal company gunman who had been deputized as a sheriff. Julius Baldwin, another miner, was shot t igh the head and his brain splattered on the door-frame. He leaned on his brother Jeff Bald- win who was shot twice in the arm at the Harlem Relief Kitchen of the International Wor s Relief. Dep: uty Sherif Lee walks t street and claims The leaning position of proof of no provocation Fleenor ‘self-defe! Baldwin is Relief Werk Gees Or! The Relief Kitchen will continue despite the terror. Julius was telling Moore and his wife of the genera) committee mecting attended yester- day when a fusilade started. 5t holes indicate more than one sheriff was shooting, while Fleenor claims he was alone in order to cover the part in this massacre of some higher authority. Out on “Bond” An Associated Press dispatch from Harlan, Ky., states that Deputy Sheriff Lee Fleenor who killed Joe Moore was arrested (for appearance sake) and then immediately released on $5,000 bonds. Undoubtedly the bond was supplied through the inter- mediary of the coal bosses. only one juror supporting the fake gesture of the prosecutor of “being merciful” because of Roy's age. That this was a hypocritical gesture is shown by the fact that of the eight condemned boys one was 14 and an- other only 13 at the time of the “trial.” The Alabama bosses, however, are not placing their entire dependence on the foolish hope that the working class will abandon the fight to free the nine boys, but are continuing (OONTINUED 03 PAGR TRAE FIFTY COMRADES NEEDED TODAY Volunteers wanted to help in the election campaign work. Report at 35 East 12th Street, 5th floor in the afternoon, REMEMBER ! Solidarity Day for Miners Relief, September 7th, at Starlight Parkt 4 (