The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1931, Page 1

RE COMIANTTEE GIVE You A PLATE oF Dail Central l er Norke nuit Party U.S.A. Bats Section of the Communist eal ee WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Kntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, THURSDAY. S$ SEPTEMBER 3, 1931_ CITY ExirrioN Tn <= Price 3 Cents Vol. VIII. No. 212 “Rays of Sunshine” ou example of the campaign through the capitalist press to spread the lie that the unemployed have been and are “adequately” aided by local relief, appeared in the World-Telegram of New York City on Sept 2, wherein the editor calls attention to what he calls “rays of sunshine.” In his paper of Sept. 1, an edit and Thoughtful” repeated the lie of orial under the headline “Healthy Hoover that: “The public health has apparently never been better than it has been over the last six months.” The World-Telegram editor then Ye that death and sickness “were all | the winter of full employ serious books.” So the headline ent in 1928 and 1929.” referred to the book publishers report that people are reading “Healthy and Thoughtful’—which he goes on to mouth over the Hoover less in the winter of 1930-31 than in To pile things on, he “more might have amended at least by saying—‘“and hungry.” But if the readers of the World-Telegram were thoughtful, they’ would The hospitals have been runniyg 2 have noted on page three of the very same issue of that paper, the re- quest of the hospital commissioner Greeff, for’ more funds to keep up Yeasons: of New York City, J. G. William the hospitals, giving the following 5 per cent above their capacity for eighteen months and the pres beat will be called upon to even greater degree in the winter. ‘The unemployment situation is responsible for the tremendous burden thrown on the department in caring for the sick poor. The hospitals of the department have been filled to over capacity during this entire year in ¢: aring for a daily average of 17,331 patients, as compared with 13,945 for the year 1929, and 15,495 for the year 1930.” We do not expect, of course, th: at the World-Telegram editor will correct his misrevresentation, because it is a conscious and deliberate attempt to bolster up Hoover's lie which also was deliberately aimed to defeat unemployment relief and insurance at the cost of the capitalist government by pretending that the “local relief” the past year was "ade- quate to maintain public health.” That the World-Telegram, one of the Scripps-Howard chain, delib- erately supports this pretension and thereby the campaign against un- employment insurance which it is supposed to support, is an example to workers of the two-facedness and demagogy of the so-called “liberal” press. The hospital records of New York City are no more damning to these Nars than are records from other cities, and readers of the Daily Worker are rejuested to send in’such local items, along with accounts of suicides and starvation of jobless workers in their localities, so that we may con- front these liars with proof of their ployed. deliberate starvation of the unem- But more than ever is it necessary to organize the unemployed ‘around the demands for at least $150 each for Winter Relief, for imme- diate aid to’the penntless and starving, and for unemployment insurance. Coal Bosses Chip in to Big Fund ‘To Fight Reds’ in Field Miners Carry on Campaign to Force Township School Boards to Provide Clothing: and Food to Children SCOTTDALE, Pa., Sept. 2.—Inside information on a meet- ing held last week by the superintendents and directors of the H. C. Frick Coal Co.,at the company’s main office in Scottsdale, Westmoreland County, indicates that this meeting appropriated $500,000 to lend to other smaller companies in this region “to fight the Reds.” By that they mean, © to fight the National Miners’ Union, which is gaining headway in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties. ‘The Frick Co, is a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corp. It has 69 mines in 19 counties of Penn- sylvania. Formerly it employed 36,000 miners, but now because of closing town mines, especially in the coke region, it employs only 12,000. Fight for Relief. AVELLA, Pa., Sept. 2—The cam- paign to force the township school boards of Pennsylvania to provide clothing and shoes and other ex- penses for the hundreds and thou- sands of miners’ children who would otherwise not be able to attend school has made great progress in this section. Under the leadership ef the women’s auxiliaries of the Hold Paterson For Unity National Miners’ Union, a Parents’ Committee of ten has been created. This committee met Monday and de- cided to call a mass meeting in Avella on ‘Wednesday at 4 pm. at the Carnival Grounds. A similar committee is calling a mass meeting at Studa, nearby, at 5 p.m. on Thurs- day. These mass meetings will elect committees to go to the school board of Cross Creek Township, which in- cludes Cross Creek, Studa and parts of Avella, and demand meals, cloth- ing and shoes for school children of the miners. They will also demand that the township pay the $1 fee collected of each child for vaccina- tion. The Studa teachers have already got an inkling of this demand, and have notified the children that “If you can’t pay the dollar, probably (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Mobilization Despite Police PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 3—Tak- ing every advantage of the critical situation created by the AFL, every possible pressure is being brought against the strikers in order to de- moralize them. The police and the AFL 'prepared a trap for the meet- ing which had been called last night for the purpose of mobilizing for the unity conference on Friday. ‘The meeting was scheduled for a vacant lot, outside the strike head- quarters, which had been rented for the occasion. Although no permit is needed for such a meeting when the workers arrived they found the place surrounded by a cordon of po- lice who prevented the swarms of workers from entering. The attempts of the committee to put up the plat- form were blocked by the police. The preparations of the police were made for the purpose of maneuvering the United Front General Strike Com- mittee and the NTWU into turning the mobilization for unity into a free speech fight. The Strike Commit- tee and the NTWU decided that at this time it was more important to bring the call for unity and for Fri- day's conference to the workers than to stage a froe specch fight. The meeting was held at the Turn Hall where the mobilization for the conference was carried through and the AFL and the police were exposed to the strikers as the agents of the bosses in the attempt to prevent the unity of the workers, The NTWU hes decided that it will test the right the workers to free speech and to mblage ip the streets of Pater- (" rs son and in this private lot. At the meeting in the Turn Hall, John J. Ballam, national organizer of the NTWU and candidate oi the CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) BUTTON MAKERS STRIKE PAY CUT Girls Resist 20 P. C. Wage Slash The workers of the Metropolitan Button Co., most of them young girls, refused to accept a 20 per cent wage cut and declared the shop on strike under the leadership of the Indus- trial Union. A meeting was held in the office and a committee elected to present the demands to the bos- ses. The workers decided not only to refuse to the present wage cut, but to demand the wage cut that we car- ried thru a few weeks ago, also the recognition of the committee. The unity of the workers made the bess realize that the workers are de- termined to fight. The boss was ready to withdraw part of the wage cut, but this was rejected by the workers, who are determined to fight until they get back their old wage. All active workers employed in that section are called upon to as- sist these young girls on the picket line tomorrow morning. FREE MOONEY, DEMAND AT SEPT. 7 MEET Mass Protest and Pressure Must Free Mooney Calls Fight For To Demonstrate On| Solidarity Day “We class-war prisoners look be- yond the stone walls that hem us in, and what do we see going on in the ‘blessed freedom’ of the capi- talistic system outside? In every city, famine-stricken thousands, young and old, in want of their daily bread.” This is what Tom Mooney, oldest and best known of labor's prisoners, writes in a recent letter to the Inter- national ,Labor Defense from his prison cell in San Quentin peniten- tiary, California. It is to raise a mighty demand for the release of Tom Mooney, and of all Class-war prisoners, the liberation of the imprisoned coal miners in Harlan, Ky., and the Scottsboro boys that a demonstration will be held in Starlight Park, 177th St. and West Farms Rd., on Labor Day, Septem- ber 7. The “Solidarity Festival’ has been arranged by the Workers Interna- tional Relief for the purpose of aid- ing the striking coal miners of West- ern Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia and their starving families. The Mooney demonsiration is being arranged by the International Labor Defense in connection with the “Sol- idarity Festival.” “{ hail you from the cell into which I was cast fifteen.years ago, the victim of a frame-up instigated to halt my activities as a militant organizer.” “So Tom Mooney continues in his letter tothe IL.D., which has been the spearhead of the militant Ameri- can working class in its fight against capitalist terror everywhere. Yesterday seven left wing unions endorsed the “Solidarity Festival” and pledged the attendance of the thousands of their members at the Mooney demonstration on Labor Day, September 7. This included the Nee- dle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the Food Workers Industrial Union, the Marine Workers Industrial Un- ion, the National Textile Workers Industrial Union, and_ others. The demonstration Monday will demand not only freedom for Mooney but also for all class-war prisoners whose lives are being smothered in the bosses’ jails. And writes Mooney: “My own case has not suffered from want of protest, but I hasten to tell you how glad I am to see that the other militants in jail for fighting for their class are not be- ing forgotten.” The unemployed will join with those workers still holding jobs at the Mooney demonstration which at the same time will aid in the relief work for the striking and starving miners. “In every city,” writes Mooney, “famine-stricken thousands, young and old, in want of their daily bread. Sheriffs and deputies putting poor families out of the house and home for failure to pay rent. Working class mothers being carried to mad houses after breaking under the strain of hearing the whines of their hungry children.” And Mooney concludes on this note: “Hold your heads high, comrades, and be of good spirit, for the seed you cast has taken root, and the day is approaching when the world shall see it blossom into a new epoch of working class triumph.” All She Has to. Wear to School For days she stayed in the bar- racks with a blanket around her— no clothes. Other children marched on the picket line, but not until the shipment of clothes from the Penn- Ohio-W. Va.-Kentucky Striking Re- lief Committee, 611 Penn Aye., Pitts- burgh, Pa. came to camp, was she able to go out into the open. Her father is striking for better condi- tions, against the starvation wages that keep him and his family hungry and literally naked. Support his fight, and the struggle of thousands of other striking miners. Send your donation today! On to the Miners Relief Festival at Starlight Park, September 7. PARADE TONIGHT FOR INTL YOUTH DAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Many Other Events Are Scheduled NEW YORK. — The young and adult workers from all parts of Man- hattan will parade to Columbus Cir- cle tonight, at which point they will demonstrate against bosses’ war. The demonstration is being held by the Young Communist, League Interna- tional Youth Day United Front Con- ference, representing twelve organi- zations. The purpose of this parade and demonstration is to mobilize the workers of Manhattan, young and adult, regardless of race or creed for the city-wide demonstration to be held on International Youth Day, September 8, at Rutgers Square (E. Broadway and Norfolk Sts.) at 7:00 p.m. Illuminated by many roman eand- les and torches the parade will march north on 8th Ave. to 39th St., west on 39th St. to 10th Ave. north on 10th Ave. to 57th St., and then east to Columbus Circle. The following demonstrations are scheduled to prepare for Interna- tional Youth Day: September 3—At 7 p.m. at the cor- ner of 29 St. and 8th Ave. September 3.—At 7 p.m. at Rutgers Square (E. Broadway and Norfolk Street). September 8—At 7 pm. All out for International Youth Day, Rut- gers Square. Sport Events On September 5 at 3 pm. there will be the open street run of the Labor Sports Union —starting from Seward Park (Rutgers Square on East Broadway) and continuing throug’) Norfolk Street to Stanton Street, where the route turns East to Pitt Street to Hamilton Fish Park. Frem Hamilton Fish Park the route continues on to 7th Street into Ave- nue C and then turns up to Avenue B to 15th Street, where it turns up to the East District Office at 2 West 15th Street. The feature will be the short CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Bennett Gov’t Moves to Outlaw Communist Party of Canada (Spec. Telegram to Daily Worker) ’ TORONTO Canada, Sept, 2—The first round of the court battle in the move of the Bennett bourgeois gov- ernment to outlaw the Communist Party because of growing unemploy- ment, mass starvation and the suc- cessful worl: of Communists among the unemployed was held here tedey. Hundveds ‘of workers attended the trial while additional hundreds were forcibly ejected by police and detec tives who were mobilized in full force, Tim Buck, Tom Ewan, Sam Carr, John Boyeuk, A. T. Hill, M. Bouce, Tom Cacic and Mike Golinski, lead- ers of the Communist Party of Can- ada were arrested August 11 after = series of raids and charged with be- ing members of “unwaful association” were committed to trial to a higher court. M. Popovich, a leading member of an Ukrainian workers organization, was arrested today and charged with others. Protests against the plot of the Bennett government to crush the revolutionary movement have come in from tredes and labor councils, from reformist unions and from min- ers locals through the entire country. Demonstrations in all industrial and farming centers against this rul- ing class outrage shows the tremen- dous response of the Canadian work- ers in defending their class party. Defense funds are ‘pouring in daily with local unions taking a’ prominent part. STUR MINE RELIEF AT STARLITE PK Wm. Z. Foster Will Speak At This Giant Affair Express. Solidarity Sept. 7 to Be a Day of Demonstration The huge demonstration and fes- tival to be held on Solidarity Day (Labor Day) under the auspices of the Workers International Relief will be addressed by William Z. Foster, who will come in from Pittsburgh for the occasion, it is announced by the Workers International Relief. More than 20,000 workers are ex- pected to attend the demonstration of solidarity with the thousands of striking miners and textile workers and with the scores of class-war pris- oners who are now languishing in jail because of struggle against the capitalist system of robbery and star- vation. Solidarity Day will also be the oc casion for a militant protest against the framing and imprisonment of Tom Mooney and a demand by the thousands of workers who will attend the meeting for his immediate re- lease, as well as that of all other po- litical prisoners. By demonstrating on Solidarity Day, the workers of New York will show their unity with the textile workers and miners now engaged in bitter struggles against. starvation. The struggle of these strikers is the struggle of the entire working class. Every worker in New York is called upon to express his solidarity with the workers on Labor Day a day which is now used by the capitalists and their agents, the A. F. of L. la~ bor fakers, for the advancement of class collaboration doctrines. The W. I. R. declares that Labor Day must be a day of demonstration against this program of the bosses and their agents, declares that it must be @ day of solidarity for all members of the working class. The program that has been drawn up for Solidarity Day is one the most. interesting ever presented in New York by a working clas organization, the W.LR. announces. In the after- noon there will be continuous enter- tainment on a huge open-air stage in Starlight Park. This entertainment will include the drawing of cartoons by well-known revolutionary artists, sports under the direction of the La~ bor Sports Union, a skit by a well- known actor now appearing at the Roxy, @ children’s manolin orchestra of sixty, a chorus of 125 singers, a concert singer, accordian players and a five-piece string orchestra. In the evening program, which will be held in the Bronx Coliseum, ad- joining Starlight Park, there will be a rendering of Soviet folk songs by a concert singer, a chorus accompanied by a 50-piece orchestra, a Caucasian dancer, a pageant under the direc- tion of the Dramatic Bureau of the vorkers Cultural Federation, a man- dolin orchestra, and well known speakers, including Comrades Foster and Will Weinstone. UPHOLSTERERS IN INITIAL VICTORY Win Demands, Sign Up Shapiro Shop NEW YORK.—Scoring their first victory in the upholstery strike, strikers of the Shapiro shop, Brook- lyn, won their demands and signed an agreement with the boss. The twenty-three workers in the shop won the following demands: Week work instead of piece work, a 40-hour week instead of the usu- al unlimited hours, $1 an hour minimum wage representing $3 to $8 increases and recognition of the Furniture Workers = Industrial Union. Shop control, the hiring and discharge of workers will be through the shop committee of the union. Eleven shops are now out and the spirit of the strikers is good. All workers feel they can win the strike and gain better conditions. Already several other bosses are talking com- ing to terms with the strikers, Become a Union. Demonsirating its ability to organ- ize and lead struggles the Furniture Workers Industrial League yesterday changed its name to the furniture Workers Industrial. Union. The policy of the union is still that of spreading the strike and sign- ing up shops when the bosses accede to the strike demands. Postpone Harlan Trial 3 Months; Miners Tell of Murder; Need Relief EVICTED MINERS’ FAMILIES VEED TE Sheriff Dumps ‘Furniture’ of| 6 Miners’ Families on Road PITTSBURGH Pa Sept. 2.—Sirens shrieked in the early morning as Sheriff Cain of Allegheny County left Pittsburgh to evict 6 striking miners’ families from, the patch at ‘San Diego where they had lived through long years of faithful service to the Pittsburgh Coal Co., which pays Andrew Mellon a good profit, although it cannot pay its miners a living wage. The household goods of the six families were removed from the shacks by the sheriff’s deputies and dumped beside the William Penn highway as an ad- @- vertisement that the coal miners of Western Pennsylvania do not make enough to pay rent—two piles of old furniture, covered with ancient car- pets. Despite the evictions, the min- ers are grimly determined. “A better picket line from now on,” said John Andrews, the first inter- viewed. “For nine years I lived in that shack, and worked for the Pitts- burgh Coal Co.” Andrews’ chickens were not evicted. In fact they were ord2red to leave them behind. He says he will go into the patch tonight and add them to the stuff on William Perin highway. Alongside Andrews’ furniture lie the household goods of John Sparlo. Sparlo worked for Pittsburgh Coal for eight years, before he was set out on the highway. His stove was broken by the deputies, so it cannot be used. Jars of fruit, shoved care- lessly into a box by the deputies, were smashed in handling. So much less for the family to eat this winter. On another highway, a mile in the opposite direction from the Andrews and Sparlo families, lies the furni- ture of three families. Sudden squalls of rain drench the furniture and families. Six children, the oldest twelve, the youngest about two, sit stolidly on one pile of furniture, eating pears taken from the orchard of an ex- miner who quit the Pisley mine in the strike off§27, and has been try- ing to make a living on his farm since. He has a small wason mine on his farm, but he quit working it when the present strike; began. The children wore all the clothes they owned. They did their best to smile for a photograph, but the smile was not very happy. There they will sit, beside the road, drenched by squalls and steamed by the August sun, till relief arrives to ‘house them in tents. Six families that refuse to pile up profits for An- drew Mellon and the Pittsburgh Coal Co. The other two families were car- ried to a different highway. All came from the same patch, but they were scattered over miles of terri- tory—and there they attract more attention from passersby to S| Deputies Riddle Miners With Bullets Defense Needs Funds Boss Reporters Spreading Sheriffs’ Lies All the syndicalism cases of Jessie Wakefield and the criminal Harlan miners have been post- Poned until the November term. The court convenes again on No- vember 24. The same bond of $10,000 is still in force. of the coal bosses and their court is to hold the defendants, evidence is available to convict and they fear a growing mass pressure. The scheme as no The cold weather is coming and the prisoners’ children will freeze and starve if not helped. Rush funds to the International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., Room 430, New York sy HARLAN, ike: Sept. 2.—Lee Fleener, . dep- uty sheriff in Harlan County, has been “in- dicted” for the murder of Joe Moore, miner, the night cf Aug. 30, and for the shoot- ing at the same time of Jeff and Julius Baldwin. Fleener posted a total of $10,000 bonds. Julius Baldwin is still living, but some of his brains have been. shot out and doctors say his case is hope- less. Fleener refuses to talk to reporters. Sheriff Blair tells the press that as Fleener drew up in a car before the pavilion which is used as a miners’ relief center, the three men appeared in the doorway and opened fire with- the |out warning, and that Fleener, un- treatment Pennsylvania reserves for | harmed, emptied his gun in reply. striking coal diggers. In past weeks, adds the sheriff, of- As this is being written foyr tents|ficers have frequently searched the —all the Penn-Ohio-West Virginia- Kentucky Striking Miners’ Committee can raise now—are be- pavilion for firearms and have found Relief | and confiscated some. Jeff Baldwin, shot from the back ing piled into a truck and rushed |in the shoulder, as his shirt showed, into the Santiago region. More tents|told a different story to Federated are needed now! Send your donation TODAY so that more tents, and some food, too, can be sent to these 33 people—all militant fighters for bet- ter conditions—who are crowded to- gether under their few sticks of fur- niture on the open highway, in the pouring rain. Section 1 Mobilizes For First Cleanup on Election Signatures The most important mobilization of Party members and mass argani- zations who support the election campaign of the Communist Party in Section One, will take place on Thursday night, September 3rd. This will be shock, troop mobilization for work—the final collection of signa- tures to place the Communist can- didates on the ballot in the 6th and 4th Assembly Districts. All comrades will meet and then go out from the Section headquarters, 142 East 3rd Street, between 6:00 and 7:00 p. m. The Section Committee calls upon Press as he sat in the hospital beside his dying brother. “My brother Julius and I were sitting in the dorway in- side the building,” he said “when the law came up and stopped in front. Then they pulled out and went down the road a piece and turned back. “Meanwhile another car with a man and woman went in the house at the far side of the hill and my brother and we ment out to see what they was doin’. By that time the law had got back and they stop- (CONTINUED ON PAGE BANK DEPOSITORS TO PROTEST , SAT. Demand State Guar- antee Fund Recovery NEW YORK. — Depositors of the defunct Bank of the United States will hold a demonstration before city THREE) the members and sympathizers for | hall, Saturday, September 5, at 12:30 a 100 per cent turnout. Investigator Admits Fram2-Up Character of Scottsboro Case NEW YORK.—The full report of Miss Hollace Ransdall's investigation of the Scottsboro case for the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union has been issued in mimeograph form by that organization. Miss Ransdall, who vis- ited Scottsboro, Ala., a few weeks af- ter the trial made a thorough inves- tigation into the case, interviewing officials, local people and the two girls on whose unsupported and con- flicting testimony eight of the nine boys were condemned to burn in the electric chair. Her findings com- pletely upholds the position of the Communist Party that the Scotts- boro case constitutes one of the most flagrant cases of nationa] and class oppression. , Wile Favsdell says. “It is no exaggeration certainly | Parkway, to call this a legal lynching. “In the Scottsboro case, it is crystal clear to an unbiased out- sider that the persons concerned did cruel, unfair and unreasonable things... . “The record of the trial and per- sonal interviews later show that the two young women who broug:t the charges of rape against the nine Negroes said things that fitted to- gether so badly as to indicate that they were deliberately giving un- truthful evidence.” Girls Forced to Lie On Boys. Miss Ransdali supports the conten- p.m. in a demand for a state guar- antee of the return of their deposits in full. Open air meetings will be held thruout the city during the week to prepare for the main demonstration on Saturday. The following oper air meetings will be held: Washington Ave. and Claremont the Bronx, Wednesday evening, 161st St. and Prospect Ave., Thursday evening; 116th and Madi- son Ave., Harlem, Friday evening, Speaking in the Bronx depositors of the bank showed that the thou- sands of eviction notices were served in the Borough included many de- positors who lost their money in the crash. The United Depositors Committee, leader of the movement for the re- covery of the small depositors funds, issued a call to all unemployed work- ers and depositors of other bankrupt banks to join in the p? enh tion against the swindle perpetrated tention of the International Labor |98@inst the small depositors and to | (ONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) MONEY. . + demand immediate recovery of the