The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1931, Page 4

ed by Address and m1 the 1 7th ith Day. t imperial- workers perial: conference to map out Lenin War”, and called for a struggle against the i trayers of the working class, the socialist lead- ership. As part of the struggle against the im- perialist war, the conference set aside a day on which the youth of the world would be called to rate against the imperialist war. This vas called International Youth Day. This ls out as one of the best traditions of the youth in the struggle against imperialist war. Today, the militant traditions of the Berne conference and International Youth Day have been inherited by the leader of the world toiling youth, the Young Communist International. International Youth Day has become a day of militant struggle for millions of young workers throughout the world. Capitalists Prepare Youth for Cannon-Fodder More than at any time since the war the young workers are face to face with the immediate danger of war. Eight hundred millions of dol- dars are being spent for war preparations in the U. S. All agencies for militarizing the youth are being rapidly enlarged (army, navy, national guard, C.M.T.C.). The largest dirigible in the world, the Akron, has been launched by the U. S. The capitalist youth organizations are carrying on large-scale recruiting campaigns for winning over the youth. The 4-H Clubs are giving prizes in many localities for the best essay against the Soviet Union. The recent “Y” Congress tried to cover up its role under a cloak of pacifism. They endorsed the stand of Hoover on “disarmament”, which in plain words means a support of the American capitalist war prep ions. _Kameke. one of the German delegates to the “Y” Con- gress left for Germany with instructions from the Uo | | the “YZ” Jea “Y” leadership and the National Ci Fed- eration for the forr f a world-wide or- ganization an aniza- tion whi the various govern- ments on the Soviet Union. jons are sports and larg- Kers are realizing that is directed mainly against the Soviet Union. Conditions of The conditions Youth Growing Worse. he young are grow- ily. Over 3,000,000 young No relief is being given ‘Ss are to them by er Not even a few pennies out of what is being given out by welfare bo. and ¢! y institutions are be! given the unemployed you! certain places of Northern uced a system ing the least bit of wo! In the shops, wage-cuts are re- ady very low wages of the young ninations and lynchings of Ne- like wild fire through- ini? South. Struggles of the young t these intolerable conditions are themselves in the presence in the mining and n the ever-increas- young workers. iscri are spread out North ing p cipation of the 3 day, at 50 East } SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DALWORK.” By mal” everywneré: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1;-excepting Boroughs ew York, N. T. of Manhattan and Bronx. New York City, Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.50 By BURCK g on a war-preparation | uth in demonstrations | and struggles against unemployment and for Ne- | gro rights. The bosses in order to prevent mili- tant struggles of the youth against starvation and in an attempt to create a docile working | class for use in war, have let loose a most vicious terror campaign against the youth (Scottsboro, murder of young miner, Wm. Simons, holding of Keith on charge of criminal syndicalism; Mine- rich facing 15 year sentence for activity in min- ing strike, etc.) Demonstrate on International Youth Day! International Youth Day of this year will un-- furl the banner of struggle against imperialist war and for defense of the Soviet Union, against wage-cuts, for immediate unemployment relief, against any and all forms of oppression of the Negro youth. This day cf struggle will demand “Not a cent for imperialist war—all war funds for relief of the unemployed!” This day will ring out throughout the length and breadth of the country, will reach into 120 cities, into the heart of the most important industries and farm- ing localities. In 1915 there was a very small revolutionary youth movement functioning very weakly. Today there is the powerful Communist International and Young Communist Interna- tional leading the struggles of the world toiling youth against capitalism. At the time of the Berne conference the working class had no fatherland. Today the working class rules vic- toriously in one-sixth of the world, the Soviet Union, and is threatening the rule of capitalism important factors will add tremendous strength 9 International Youth Day of this year. Hail International Youth Day! All out to the demonstr: ns! International Youth Day--Some Important Tasks By JOS. ROBERTS This year for the seventeenth International Youth Day meetings have been arranged in 122 different cities in the country. This was due to the increased activity of the Y.C.L. and made possible by the co-operation from the Party in certain districts where meetings were arranged by the Party even though no Y.C.L. existed there. This should pave the way for the rooting of the Y.C.L. wherever the Party is established. ‘These demonstrations will be widely popular- ized through thousands of leaflets, that have been issued to the unemployed youth, the young workers in the shops, to those on the farms and special appeals to the workers children all of whom together with the adults are feeling the bitter effects of the starvation program of the bosses, the speedup and wage cuts. This year’s campaign for LY.D. has been bound up with the everyday struggles of the youth, for instance in Chicago the Y.C.L. and the youth in an unemployed branch held an effective demonstration of 500 in front of a Y.M.C.A. that evicted jobless young workers for ent of rent. The officials had to use demagogy and were at least forced to open the swimming pool and gym for the use Bosses Prepare New Horrors for Young Workers WALTER TRUMBULL FHE War Department recently demonstrated its latest weapon, the phosphor bomb, which beats anything before devised for the murder of workers. The new bomb, upon ex- ploding, releases burr Phosphorus over a wide area and immediately sets afire anything within that area. The liquid fire used during the last imperialist slaughter was a plaything as com- pared to the new weapon. Workers in the nex War may escape shells and bullets and may even escape the poison gas and disease germs that are to be used against them but will still have to face the prospects of being burned to death. ‘The Young Communist League calls upon all young workers to make this International Youth Day a challenge to the war mongers and a de- fiance of the plans for new imperialist wars in which the youth are to provide from their ranks, the sacrifices in blood, agony and horrible death. Added to the starvation that follows unemploy- ment, the fake Hoover Relief and the lowered weges for those who are still working, wr are to be called upon to murder young workers «” other countries for the profit of Wall Street. We are to burn and be burned. We are to fill the ranks of imperialism’s armies that profits may go for the owning class. Young workers everywhere are called upon to make tais International Youth Day definitely record the unwillingness of the youth to fight another imperialist war and to record our de- termination to convert any imperialist war that the war mongers start into a civil war for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Soviet Government. Turn the imperialist war into a civil war for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ Soviet government in the United States, ee (he Soviet Union, the workers’ father- fand against inopertalist abtagh, aay . i) Seemnmeietanernen athe at | That means that all necessary of unemployed free. This event was connected up with the mobilization for International Youth Day. The Y.C.L. issued 20,000 open letters to the membership in the Y.M.C.A. exposing their * recent congress, its objective being to capture and win the youth for capitalism and away from struggle. In Worcester the New England Y.C.B. district organizer is held for criminal anarchy for speaking at a Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. The campaign for his unconditional freedom will be also used to popularize International Youth Day. In the mining strike many militant young strikers were jailed and now face long jail terms, Tony Minerich, Leo Thompson, Stella Rasefsky and others. The killing of Wm. Simon, 16 year- old miner and the struggle for existence among the miners are the issues around which the young workers in the mining area will be mob- ilized for International Youth Day. In the tex- tile strike the young workers are being mobil- ized for International Youth Day as a day of struggle against the wage cuts and speedup. Another feature of this year’s International Youth Day will be the children’s demonstration of unemployed workers where together with the backing of the parents and unemployed branches demands will be presented to the local boards of education. These demands will be from the children themselves for clothes to wear to school, free food to the children of unem- ployed, free school supplies, free car fare and other immediate demands of the children, Thse demonstrations will be organized and led by the Young Pioneers, but they need the active sup- port of the Party, the parents, the unions and Workers International Relief and especially the unemployed councils should be the backbone of these demonstrations for children’s relief, The demonstrations are called for Tuesday, Septem- ber 8 during the day time and should be made a big issue in. the city or town Some International Youth Day meetings are being well prepared for, still it is in place to emphasize the need for impressive meetings. arrangements to have rallies from different sections of the city to the main demonstration and from there an organized parade through a good workingclass section. This being in the evening there should be plenty of special torchlights, carricatures of the local politicians and fakers and using this demonstration as a strong election rally for the Communist Party. The children should be a section and a big one at that, with all possible organizations and clubs marching in groups and under their own banners. These demonstrations should not take on any forms as some of our meetings do—loose and disorganized—as these wi not appeal to those that we want to reach. finally the whole organization of tne meetings and parades must net organizational results. Squads of comrades must be assigned for the sole task of making connections and getting recruits for the ¥.C.L. There should be many adults taking part and this should be done for the Party. These meetings should be a good means to sell literature and especially popular- iz our Young Worker getting those 25 cent trial subs, selling pamphlet literature, etc. The seven= teenth International Youth Day should mobilize larger sections of the working class and its youth to struggle against war, hunger, wage cuts and speed up. At the same time strengthen the ie Ped and its influence amongst A Young Miner Writes of Conditions in the Mines T the time of the strike I was employed at the Duquesne mine of the Duquesne Coal Co. and was getting 30 cents for loading a ton of coal. I think it best to describe the conditions as they existed before and at the time of the strike. We were continually receiving wage cuts, at an average of three weeks after the first cut from 52 cents to 45 cents then to 40 cents then ‘ | again to 30 and 10 cents in a single cut. in the other five-sixths of the world. These two | Of course the day men were cut in proportion from $5 to $3 a day for skilled labor. The highest I was ever able to make in two weeks was something like $50, that was when we were getting 52 cents per ton and my last pay was less than $20 for the same amount of work. The cutters on this mine worked night shift so when I cleaned up early I had to walk through mud knee deep and over stones and under loose rock along the main way. The cars at this mine are three ton cars and if we received 40 hundred weight per car we were doing good. I managed to do it but it was rare. So then in one day I would load five of these cars and the next day all I did was to load from two to four cars of slate for nothing. I had to shoot this slate down several times before it could be loaded so then my powder expense ran high on that work and I had to work in smoke caused by the blasting due to improper ventilation. So then it is evident that if I loaded five cars every weight I made $3 every second day, then of course came my expenses such as: carbide, powder, etc. I think that I wasn’t doing bad since other loaders were making less, hardly more. ‘We who are on strike are determined to fight je to a finish but we can’t fight if other workers don’t help us out by collecting food, clothing and money and sending it to the Penn-Ohio Relief Committee at 511 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa, Comradely, A Young Striker. The Pennsylvania National Guard Prepares for Strike Duty OMETIME ago an article appeared in t he Erie Dispatch-Herald stating that one of the most important problems to be studied by the National Guard at their summer training camp in Mt. Gretna, Pa. will be the defense of the southern border of the Penna. state line. At this time the Young Communist League is- sued a leaflet to the Pa, Nat. Guard, 112th in- fantry exposing this statement. It explained to the Nat. Guard thatit is in Southern Pa, that the miners are on strike against starvation and that the government is planning to. mobilize them for strike duty. The Young Communist League called upon the Nat. Guard to refuse to be strikebreakers, that instead they should help win the strike by sending down to the strike stricken area money, food and clothing. ‘This call to the Pa. Nat. Guard has been sub- stantiated by a news article which appeared in the August 4 issue of the Erie Dispatchc-Herald. One of its subheadlines was: “Warns Guards May Be Called For Strike Duty.” “Addressing about 200 officers last night, the governor said he would not hesitate to call out the guard if any disturbances in the mining areas of Pennsylvania warranted such action,” is Pinchot’s statement, The Young Communist League of Erie has isssed a leaflet to the -112th Infantry, one of. the troops reviewed by Governor Pinchot, again calling upon them not to use their guns upon the working class, not to be strikebreakers. Fellow National Guardsmen! The strike of the miners is your strike. It ts a strike against starvation. Many of you are unemployed and you are forced to wait three months for your drill pay. ‘The whole working class is being forced into starvation. We must support the miners’ strike! Organize yourselves as a body and refuse to do duty in the mining section for strike duty! Do not be seabs! Don’t use your guns upon the working class! Refuse to be strikebreakers! Help win the miners’ strike against starvation! Demonstrate on IYD, September 8th against bosses’ militarism! Demand all military funds Ye ee ree tes the vill at the enemas 5 5 ry second day and they gave me 40 hundred’ Prepare tor International , By. MAX BEDACHT September 8 is International Youth Day. Seventeen years ago this day arose out of the struggles of the proletarian youth against the imperialist war. The revolutionary youth then witnessed the treacherous support which the parties of the Second International gave to their respective imperialist governments. Lead and inspired by the militant actions of Karl Lieb- knecht, the revolutionary workers youth organ- ized its own struggle against the war. To dem- onstrate the international solidarity of the mili- tant cadres of proletarian youth everywhere the International Youth Day was established. Inter- national Youth Day is a monument to the best traditions of the revolutionary proletarian youth of the world. Today we again face a war. Capitalism is arming; it is building war ships; it is construct- ing bombing planes; it is developing new poison gases and liquid fire; it is preparing for war. Hand in hand with these physical preparations goes an ideological recruiting for war. A cam- paign of lies and slander against the Soviet Union is designed to prepare the desired war mania. American capitalism is more and more energetically taking the leadership in this cam- paign against the Soviet Union. The different capitalist organizations are exerting every effort to win the youth, the cannon fodder of the im- pending war, for its support. The catholic church in Detroit recently organized mass prayers for the “poor souls of the persecuted youth” in the Soviet Union. The recent congress of the Y. M. C.A. planned campaigns among the American workers’ youth. Military training is being in- troduced universally into all the schools of the country. The Socialist Party and the Socialist youth movement are covertly and openly supporting the capitalist war program. They are following the lead of Karl Kautsky who lays special emphasis on the winning of the youth for the overthrowing of the Soviets, The official German socialist. youth press openly calls for war on the Soviet Union. The American socialist youth movement is playing a demagogic game. The American young socialists talk of the introduction of militarism into the school as being “contrary to the prin- ciples of our government.” With such phrases they wish to cover the obvious fact that “our” government is the government of the capitalists. With such phrases they wish to fool the work- ers into the idea: that the existing capitalist government, the workers’ government, and that the workers therefore should not fight against it. For the same reason they support that cap- italist pacifist cover for the preparations of a new war, the Kellogg Peace Pact. ‘The war preparations of American capitalism against the Soviet Union are accompanied by a war against the living standards of the Amer- ican workers and especially the young workers. ‘The young workers are forced to set the pace in the most vicious speed-up campaign in all industries. At the same time they are paid the lowest wages, even lower than the already in- adequate wages of the adult workers. But even these wages are being cut.. The unemployed youth are being barred from getting even those few crumbs of relief which are handed out by various welfare boards and charitable organ- izations. The young workers are being run out of the cities. Against the Negro sections of the young work- ers there has been initiated on top of all a cam- paign of intimidation through terrorism. The Scottsboro frame-up is a typical exaonis of this campaign. At this moment, just as seventeen years ago, the problem and duty of the young workers is to organize and to fight against imperialist war, The masses of young workers are increasingly recognizing this. This was shown in the suc- cessful National Youth Day; it is also dem- onstrated in the participation of the young workers in the miners’ and textile workers’ strikes at the present moment. The coming In- ternational Youth Day shall serve as a signal and inspiration for a unified mass striggle for the proletarian youth of the world against cap- italism and against the capitalist war now in the process of preparation against the Soviet Union. The workers throughout the country and espe- cially the young workers must prepare for huge Youth Day The 8th of September must become a mobiliza- tion day of the proletarian anti-war forces. It must become an occasion for the American work- ers to demonstrate their determination to de- fend the Soviet Union. The militant workers throughout the country must make the coming International Youth Day an occasion to arouse the masses of the as yet indifferent workers to the realization of the impending capitalist ats tack against the Soviet Union. The proletarian youth whom capitalism tries to recruit for its army must be recruited for the army of the working class. International Youth Day must raise demands throughout the country embodying the needs of the, young workers—against wage cuts! Same wages for same work. Not a cent for war pre- parations. All war appropriations for relief of the unemployed and for social insurance funds. No discrimination against young workers in un- employment relief. For the six-hour day and five-day week for the young workers under eigh- teen years of age with pay equal to the pay of the adult worker doing the same work. For the immediate and unconditional release of the nine Negro youth in Scottsboro. For the right to vote for all young workers at eighteen years of age. A Radio Magnate Spends Millions on His Wedding and Gives Ten Per Cent Pay Cut to Young Workers AST week there was a lot of noise made about the wedding of the daughter of Atwater Kent. This ‘wealthy manufacturer spent a million dol- lars on this wedding with a million dollar yacht given the couple as a gift. At the same time the papers were silent about the wage cut of 10 per cent and the big layoff that affected twe- thirds of the workers when the season starte@ three weeks ago, After nine months of layoff, a small percent- age of workers, mostly youth, were called back under a 10 per cent wage-cut, with increased speed-up, and in some cases young workers spending from 7:30 in the morning to 10 o'clock at night at the factory (testers and repair men). Men have been replaced by girls; former petty bosses put on the belt, depriving other workers of the jobs and in most cases one worker doing the work of two and three operations being com- bined in one, allowing bares Se to make. ag of the previous wager; Young workers are used mostly, with the idea in mind that we will work harder and not kick about the wege. The employment manager at Kent's was heard to remark to an older worker in the factory applying for a job for her niece, “Ts she strong?” On time work, last year the girls received 35 cents an hour, at present they are receiving 30. On time work men who were receiving 45 and 50 cents an hour on an average, are now getting 35 and 40° cents an hour, Some married men, with children to support, are making on an ayer- age of $17 a week including overtime. The aver- age wage of the young workers, and the majority are young workers, is from $14 to $16 a week at a neek-breaking speed. Now, the bosses are again initiating their lay- off program. Workers are laid off daily in va- rious departments, with the usual premise of being called back. We are working under the constant fear of being laid off, afraid to work too fast, because there is danger of another wage-cut, and as one worker expressed it, “We'll work ourselves out of a job.” The.workers have paid for a million dollar wedding of a parasite, we have given her a million dollar yacht, out of the 10 per cent wage cut. Our reward in the near future will he, no work with starvation. The only solution for these wage cuts and speed-up with layoffs will be through union or- ganization that will organize the fight for bet- ter conditions. The Metal Workers Industrial League is the organization to which the workers should join for an organized fight in this shop. There are many demands for the workers and young workers which should get the response from all workers in this shop. Form a grievance committee right in the shop or department and get in touch with the Metal Workers League which is located at 2802 Kensington Aye, in Pallagelpgi) _ high oR eA ‘ eo By JORGE ee] Save Us From Our Saviors! “Dawes Says Crisis Will Aid the World,” said a headline in the N. Y. Times of August 28, but in spite of it being good for us, we find the following “remedy” in the next day's Times, suggested by the Amsterdam Economic Congress: “Professor Palyis said inflation may cure un- employment. Dr. Benham of London doubted whether international action identical to na- tional inflation was possible. A little prudent inflation, a sort of ‘world intoxication,’ he said, might deliver prices from their absurd sears dence upon metal.” So! Just a wee, tiny bit of inflation—just. seo drink,” might give capitalist economy a sort. of “high mass” feeling! But if a little inflation. is good, why not go on a regular bat? And this, workers, is the “superior. brains” of capitalist rule which you are taught to respect! rons aes One Poor Woman “Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of the Mayor was to be the guest of Police Commissioner Mulk rooney today on the seventeenth and last ex- cursion of the season arranged by the New York Police Department for poor women and children.”—N, Y, Post August 31. SF gree The Mayor’s “Sober” Tastes Sometimes we feel.so sorry for the editor ot the N. Y. Times that we wish he were put out of his misery, but when we read the edition of August 29th, we were compelled to envy him for his attainment of those heights of stupidity where asininity becomes genius. In an effort to put a false color of dignity and decorum on the didoes Mayor Walker is cutting around Europe, the Times must have gotten a writer even more sycophantic than Heywood Broun to cook up an editorial which opened up by saying:—“Somehow Mayor Walker seems out of place in the gay resorts of the Riviera.” From that opening sentence it got worse and worse. After stating that an Associated Press correspondent travels with the Mayor’s “party,” the scribe gives the following St. James version of what that correspondent actually said was going on at Cannes, France: “The women wear beach pajamas of every hue, with sandals on their feet (A very unusuai place for women to wear sandals, it appears to the Times scribe!—Jorge). Men appear in flannels of red, white, blue and green. To a man of the Mayor's sober tastes this vulgar display must have seemed shocking.” O, yeah! Turrible shocking! But that was on the editorial page, while over on page 15 of.the same paper, the A. P. correspondent mentioned gave the following account of how New .York City’s mayor expressed his disgust. at-such “vul- gar display:” “He was dressed in 2 flashy blue ensemble, which created a nvffd sensation. Everything worn by Mr. Walker except his sport shoes and Panama hat was blue. His trousers were tur- quoise blue, while his hose were sky blue.” And as for his “sober tastes,” the dispatch re- lates that when Deputy Mayor Picaud of Cannes proposed a drink to Mayor Walker as “the greatest wet in America’ “Seizing a champagne sass, Mayor Walker responded:—‘If any proof is needed: ll fur- nish it forthwith.’ Thereupon he put the glass to his lips.” It's mighty hard.to write “sober taste”. edito- rials against a story like that, but the chap on the Times is a glutton for punishment. So along toward the last of his Tammany-ordered song of praise, he got off the following, which is enough to make the Pulitzer prize: “If ever anywhere a man deserved and might attain surcease from the cares. of office and. the vicissitudes of public life, that man was Mayor Walker and that place Carlsbad in the Sum- mer of 1931. Yet our Chief Magistrate spent only a few days there cutting short his pleas- ant stay to resume in the line of duty, what must have been to him the distasteful round of resorts like Cannes and Monte Carlo.” After that, we can only stand in open-mouth- ed awe! As for Mayor Walker, we understood that he was going to Europe to “inspect sewers" for one thing, but it seems he’s jumped into them. And at a pretty cost to. somebody not unrelated to the 1,000,000 unemployed in New York City. The Mid-West Workers’ Track Het in Chicago WORKER sportsmen from Chicago, St. Louis, Gary, Waukeegan, Kenosha and other cities of the Illinois District will compete in a Cham- pionship Track and Field meet in Chicago on September 6, 1931. This meet will be held by the Illinois District of the Labor Sports Union of. America welcoming back the Spartakiad Delegation of the United States, receritly re- turned from Berlin after a successful campaign against the worker athletes representing the other countries throughout the world. Comrade Lehtinen, «a member of the -Waukegan Sports ‘Club, Waukegan, Il linois, and the athlete representing the Tilinois District on the United States team, will compete in some special events, among them being the 100 metre run, the running broad- jump and the high-jump. Lehtinn will also speak on the experiences of the Spartaktad team and on Workers’ Sports in the Soviet Union. ‘The meet is especially significant, since it will be the starting point of an extensive campaign against the bosses’ Olympics, which will be held in Los Angeles next year. The workers are already on the job in smashing the Olympics which is only another means of the bosses’ war preparations. ‘The result of their work ‘s shown in that many crack athletes cf St. Louis, Gary, Wau- keegan, Kenosha, Milwaukee and other cities who formerly ran for the Amateur Athletic Union, the fake bosses amateur ‘organization, have left those ray’s and will compete in the Labor Sports Union Championship meet at Chicago. Similar meets are being arranged. but will be held on a local scale. These meets will take place in Waukeegan, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin and other cities’ of the Tilinois District. ‘The Labor Soprts Union will actively particl- pate in the International Youth Day demon strations. All worker spo-tsmen should be at these meetings on Tuesday? September 8th, that are organized in all parts @f District, ge