The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1931, Page 1

_ City Hall to put the demands of the Central Orga ee | rke (Section of the Communist International) arty US.A. OF WORKERS 'HE WORLD, UNITE! ~~ Entered aa second-cl: 1s matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1877 =: —=s Vol. VIII, No. 213 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931 __ CITY EDITIO. “Bank of U.S. Plot” j ssgetesss T ATTORNEY CRAIN, making a statement on the exception- ally “fair” report of Mr. Seabury, so “fair” that although Crain was held guilty he was acquitted, hinted at a “Bank of U. 8. Plot” being back of the charges against him. We recall Mr. Crain chiefly as the Tammany politician who owns the naughtiest leg-show theater in town and as the Tammany official who hailed the railroading of the Unemployed Delega- tion of March 6, 1930, Foster, Raymond, Amter and Minor, as “the mest important judicial decision in ten years.” However, it is common knowledge that the looting of the depositors’ money in the Bank of U. S. has been and is tangled up with factional quarrels among the looters, almost if not all of whom are part of the Tammany ring. We do not forget that the wife of Max Steuer managed to get a huge sum out of the bank after it was officially closed the night before Mr. Broderick, the State Bank Examiner, took it over. Broderick himself has played the game of evasion and subterfuge, and there is a maze of mysterious dealings the aim of which is to keep the hundreds of thousands of small depositors, a large percentage of whom lost their life savings, quiet, while further Tammany maneuvers are carried out to conceal the guilty and to get the depositors accustomed to the idea that their money is lost forever. Thousands of these small depositors are unemployed workers who, because the Tammany thieves looted the bank, have been evicted from their homes and left penniless and starving. The Tammany machine which rules the State of New York's government, including the State Bank Examiner, kids along these small depositors who suffer untold miseries, while these Tammany office holders take trips to Europe and live on the fat of the land. In view of the growing number of bank failures, it is a fully justified demand of the depositors of the Bankof U. S.—and all other banks for that matier—that the State, which is clearly responsible, assume that responsibility and make good the savings of the small depositors—giving them a preference over all other claimants, including the swarm of exorbitantly paid lawyers, private detective agency guards, and other parasites who have been allowed by Mr. Broderick to live upon the corpse of the defunct bank. Therefore the demonstration of the Bank of U. S. depositors at the City Hall this Saturday at 12:30, deserves the full support of all workers, especially small depositors of that and other banks which have likewise went into bankruptcy. Either State supervision of banks demands that the State guarantees these small depositors, or it means nothing more than a trick to help the looters get hold of these depositors’ money. “Pharaoh’s Business Cycle” ER the above title, the N. Y. Times of September 3 attempts edi- torially to do what Otto H. Kahn recently failed to do—that is, to set forth “proof” that capitalism is “not responsible” for the economic crisis, and, therefore, not responsible for the starvation of millions of workers. If these apologists for capitalism can convince the masses with this argument, they naturally hope that the masses will accept starvation as “inevitable” and will not listen to the Communists who say that capi- talism must be overthrown if the masses wish to live. The N. Y. Times editorial contends that capitalism is not guilty of _the “business: cycle”, because—lo, and behold!—Pharaoh also. had a “business cycle”, yet that was before capitalism. Of course this is a ridicuolus comparison—as we will go on to prove. Yet we cannot, like a dilletante “socialist” such as Heywood Broun, take for granted that plain’and straight-thinking workers take N. Y. Times editorial solémnities as “spoofing.” As capitalism grows more degenerate and crazy, the apologists for it are forced to rely upon ever crazier apologies, and it is quite appropriate that fake “socialists” are so completely servile to capitalism as to apolo- gize for its apologists. However ridiculous it sounds, the following is what the N: Y. Times said: “The same maladjustments, the same succession of glut and dearth, of feast and famine, characterizes every other economic system that man lived under before he discovered capitalism.... There were no factories or capitalists in Egypt when Joseph made the first recorded attempt at coping with the business cycle by laying up enough grain in the’ seven fat years to carry the country through the succeeding seven lean years.” The N. Y. Times editor “forgets” something—just a “little thing.” This “little thing” is the historical fact, certainly known to him, that today there is no “dearth” of food and other things! There is no “fam- ine”. because crops. fail—but because there are “too much” crops harvested! Perhaps Heywood Broun, who is expanding his “socialist” bootlicking to capitalist editors from the World-Telegram to the N. Y. Times, may say this is another case of subtle irony, and that what the N. Y. Times editor really wanted to say was that under another “Joseph”—Joseph Stalin—the “business cycle” has been completely eliminated because Jo- seph Stalin at the head of the Russian working class first took thought that it was necessary to overthrow capitalism, and therefore that the N. Y. Times no longer supports Tammany and capitalism, but has invented @ secret way of supporting Bolshevism without letting workers in on it. Certainly the editorial is a joke. to any revolutionist—but Broun doesn’t qualify for that, and undoubtedly ‘took seriously some additional false comparison of the Times, which goes on to say that: “...in the even more primitive economic system of pastoral Canaan, where Jacob heard there was corn‘in Egypt and asked his sons why they sat there hungry and did nothing. And in the civilization that preceded the pastoral, in the hunter-fisher system, which is the earliest on earth, there were Winters when the buffalo did not come and the herring did not ran, and entire populations perished miserably.” Therefore, the conclusion of the N. Y. Times: What if millions of workers “perish miserably” now? No matter, it cannot be helped! The exact words of the Times editorial being: “Tt is a rhythm and pulse and tide inherent apparently in al! nature.” So capitalism is not guilty; it is “natural” that workers starve to death. But again we must remind the workers that all this is a dirty lie! When Jacob was in Canaan there was no corn, the crops had failed. hut today there is an abundance of wheat, corn, cotton, meat, milk, veg- etables—everything necessary to the life of millions of the unemployed and their families; yet the unemployed and their families are starving! Why? We Communists say because of capitalism. But the Times turns to past ages when there were shortages of “buffalo” and “herring”, to meat and fish. Is there any shortage of meat and fish today, in the midst, of the worst crisis capitalism has experienced? No, there is an “over- preduction” of meat and fish! But millions of workers starve because— not because there is really “too much’—but because capitalism forbids them to eat that meat and fish and bread and milk! While millions starve: butter is used by farmers as axel-grease, milk is poured into the rivers and sewers, wheat rots in mountains in Kansas and in the bins of the Farm Board which makes no move.whatever to follow Joseph’s example, and which asks that one-third of the cotton be plowed under while millions face a Winter without clothing. What stands between the starving millions and this bounty of food is capitalism! What these million masses must. and will do, soon or late, is to overthrow capitalism. Otherwise “entire populations will perish miserably"—not because they wait for “buffalo” that do not come, or “herring that do not run—but because they—the masses—do not fight! But they will fight, and the N. Y. Times and all other apologists, will find that out! Demonstrate For Funds Recovery NEW YORK.—Following a series of open air meetings in all boroughs of the city, the United Depositors Committee of the Bank of the Uni- ted States is completing preparations for 2 mass demonstration Saturday, September 5, at 12:30 p, m. before small depositors of the closed bank to the city authorities, % The move made to pay 30: per cent of the lost deposits Wecen as one to forestall action to fight for the full deposits. The money will be sent to the clearing house and the loans taken by depositors will be the first lien to be written off. The re- mainder will be distrbiuted and ac- cording to the intentions of Tam- thany and the bankers this will set- tle the matter as far as they are con- SMALL STEEL MILL STRIKES HERALD MORE Metal League Calls On Strikers to Elect Strike Committees PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 3—Two small strikes in steel mills in suburbs of Pittsburgh may mean the begin- ning of a vast strike movement, for the whole metal industry is throb- bing with the resentment of the workers against the speed-up, the un- employment and the wage-cuts. Five hundred young workers struck Sept. 1 at the McKinney Manu- facturing Co. plant at Penn Ave. and Chateau St., North Side, Pitts- burgh, against a 5 per cent wage- cut. These young men and girls had been working for 18 cents an hour up to 21 cents, the most that was paid. Metal League Busy. The strike is at present in the hands of the foremen of each de- partment, who all got a 10 per cent cut. But these bosses are in the process of selling it out, and the Metal Workers’ Industrial League is rushing in the effort to organize the rank and file for a real struggle un- der their own strike committees. Leaflets are being distributed by the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, calling on the strikers to take the direction of the strike into their own hands, ‘The other strike is at McKeesport, where the night shift of about 50 men in the Fort Pitt Steel Castings Co. walked out Sept. 2 against a 10 per cent wage-cut, the -third such cit in two months. This plant, though small, is right next door, to the enormous National Tube Mills and is itself a subsidiary of the Mc= Keesport Tin Plate Co. The. mili is tied “up by the strike of the night shift. Today the superintendent called the men of his plant together and told them: “We.don’t like to give you this cut, but we are acting on the orders of the U. S. government itself, which has instructed that wages be cut in all mills throughout the coun- try!” National Secretary John Meldon of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, with Organizers Joe Dallet and Frank Hill, were at the strike scene a. few hours after the men walked out. They called the strikers together for a meeting, organized the picket line for Sept. 2 and urged the strikers to select their strike com- mittee to lead the struggle. Worked On Short Time. The Fort Pitt men, like the work- ers in other McKeesport plants, have been working only one of two days a week. Work is heaped on them till now one man is doing the work of three. None of the shifts is work- ing full-handed, but the men are speeded up until they do more work than a full crew. Laborers work 13 and 14 hours a turn. Before the cut, laborers got $4 a day. This is being cut 15 per cent and the family must line on $3 or $6 a week. So bad are the conditions that re- lief must start as soon as the strike starts. Several workers said they have hardly a loaf of bread in the house, although they have worked every time the foundry worked inthe last six months. Communists File Full Slate in Four Connecticut Cities NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 3.— The full slate of Communist Party candidates have been filed in the municipal elections in New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport and. Waterbury, the four largest cities in Connecticut and the centers of war industry. Extra difficulties were put in the way of collecting signatures. Twenty-two hundred signatures were filed, WOUNDED MINER NEAR DEATH IN N. Y. HOSPITAL Calls On “Workers ‘to Spur Relief Aid to Struggling Miners Adolph Walters a miner, who was shot on the picket line in Pennsyl- vania, fighting against starvation and for a militant union, is today in @ critical condition in the Morrisania Hospital, New York. A bullet lodged in his head and there is little chance of recovery. An operation will be performed but it is of such a serious nature that the operation may not Prove successful. ‘When Adolph Walters came, to New York 2 days ago, he wanted to go out with the other miners on the trick to eS o-c air meetings. He cu. “n> matter what will happen to me, we must continue our fight. I am not the only victim of the thugs, and the miserable conditions. Hun- dreds of children die every year from tuberculosis and diseases caused by undernourishment. If the workers in New York City and throughout the country will support us with a min- imum of ‘relief, we will keep up our fight. until we establish a union fe will protect. our interests.”- "The workers. of New York must answer this murderous. attack on Walters and other militant strikers with intensification of relief work, and with turning out en mass on Solidarity Day at Starlight Park. Boss Courts Return 25 New Indictments In Harlan Cases Search Miners’ Houses Wm. Burnett’s Case Due Nov. 5 HARLAN, Ky., Sept. 3—The kill- ing of deputies and miners in the Evarts battles, which followed a re- vival of strike activities in this coal field last spring and efforts of local authorities to discourage organiza- tion, has brought the indictment of 51 union sympathizers for murder, most of them on three counts, and indictments continue to pile up. Twenyt-seven new indictments of all kinds were returned August 25 (two of these for murder in the same kill- ings of last May) and seven in labor cases August 26, The Louisville Times of August 26 stated that 131 people had been in- dicted altogether, but the next day it said only 75 were connected with labor troubles. It is very difficult to get the complete list of names, since this is.a regular term of court and the docket is full of all kinds of cases. Most of the indictments of the last week are for “looting of stores,” criminal syndicalism, “banding and confederating themselves together for the purpose of injuring” some person, and, as it is stated in the docket, “possessing prohibitive liter- ature.” Company-paid deputies sworn to tid the county of Reds are conduc- ting a house-to-house search for literature through the mining camps, and Judge D. C. Jones states the ! Two-Year Old His mother, who is soon to g sick from the same grinding Johnny was born after sands*of other miners. strike. Starvation is what Starvation drove him and hi children on the picket line, bullets of the yellow dogs. of, to build the union, to win Mrs. Love hasn't enough She needs food! Her baby nourishment to build herself her life! She needs food! clothes for her baby, clothes t stormy weathef. Her other too! They need food! died of hunger! Too many by their sides are dying! fight! 799 Broadway, N. Y. City. grand jury will stay in session as (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Succumbs to Starvation RENTON, Pa.—Johnny Love died of starvation today. United Mine Workers sold out his father along with thou- Then followed the two years of his short life—24 months of slow starvation, when the child grew anemic from want of milk. termined to fight with all the energy The relief commitee appeals to you to send funds so that these things can be supplied. Too many babies have for better conditions, too many women who were fighting Stand behind them in their They need your help desperately! can TODAY in money, clothes, food, to the Penn-Ohio- W. Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Committee, September 7 to help raise relief for the stri Bosses and Tools in Drive on Scottsboro Mass Defense CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 3—Under ® Miner’s Child|| ive birth to another baby, is hunger that killed her baby. the last strike, when the | Then came the his father struck dgainst. s wife and all four of their to face the gas bombs and That is why they are de- are capable their demands! strength to walk any more. is coming soon, she needs up so that she can fight for | | She must have a doctor, o keep her warm in this raw, babies are wan and anaemic militant miners, struggling Send all you All out to Starlight Park, ng miners To Expose Mooney Betrayers atSolidarity Meet for Mine Aid How so-called “friends of Tom Mooney” conspired to aid in the suppression of the Mooney section of the Wickersham re- port will be exposed at the monster demonstration on behalf of Mooney and all other class war prisoners to be held at Star- the pretext that the mass fight to free the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys is endanger- ing the fictitious “good race relationships” be- tween the Alabama boss lynchers and the frightfully oppressed Negro masses; the white and Negro re- formist tools of the ruling class are continuing their vicious attacks on the mass defense movement which alone can save these working class children from the legal lynching decreed by the Alabama boss courts. This attack on the mass defense movement is proceeding at the same @- i oP th nN —+ i time that the bosses throughout: the |'"@ militancy of the Negro masses is endangering these fictitious 62 STRIKERS IN PUTNAM JAILED HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 3.—Po- lice terror in Putnam, Conn., strike is increasing. Barney Creegan, .Bill Siroka and sixty strikers were arrest- ed recently. Judge Geisler and Prosecutor Johnson are very vicious. The right of picketing has been denied. City Mayor Richards, Police Com- missioner Dean, bosses and ‘courts are trying to break the strike and the "National Textile Workers Union. ‘The International Labor Defense is mobilizing for defense to smash the terror in Putnam. light Park, 177th St. and West Farms Rd., on Labor Day, ~®September 7. Labor Day, blessed by the bosses and utilized by their labor lieutenants as a day for doping the workers with capitalist propaganda, will this year be vitalized with a mass demonstra- tion in Mew York whose echoes will be heard throughout the land. Described as a “Solidarity Festi- val,” the Workers International Re- lief is arranging an all-day program at Starlight Park this coming Mon- day for the purpose of aiding the striking, starving miners and their families. Waging a bitter struggle against the powerful coal operators, the miners of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio are meeting hunger and want. Scores of miners and their families are being evicted each day (CONTINUED ON FAGH TWO? country are increasing their white terror against the Nezro masses and while the Alabama courts are de- liberately delaying action in the Scottsboro case, in the hope that the anger of the masses against thisflag- rant frame -upwill cool them down. Using the argument that the grow- “good race relationships,” the Negro reform- ists, led by the misleaders of the N.A.A.C.P., are frantically working to curb the protests of the Negro mass- es and divert them from the mass de- fense movement. In this connection, the N.A.A.C.P. raisleaders have gone (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE Conterence PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 3.—The mobilization for the Friday confer- ence is’ gaining momentum steadily. There has been a wide distribution of the call for thé conference to tablish unity among all the strikers. The call was addressed to all strikers 5,000 Sailors in Chile Seize Navy and Put : Forward Revolutionar BULLETIN Latest reports from Santiago, Chile, by the United Press report the revolt of the sailors, who put forward some revolutionary working class demands, had spread to include large sections of the army, backed by mass demon- strations and strikes of workers. The United Press said: - “The mutiny developed today into a ‘passive revolt’ backed by the en- tire navy, including many officers, The government aviation force re- fused to attack the rebels. Various parts of the army were affccted by the movement, and it was under- stood the cabinet could not depend on certain garrisons. Part of the coast artillery joined the uprising. “Strong labor factions throughout Chile supported the revolt which was started by the naval forces at Con- quimbo as a protest against pay re- ductions, All street car service in the capital and several other large cities was halted, and a general railroad strike was called for tomorrow. Com- Force Resignation of ‘Cabinet; Demand Land For Peasants; Heavy Tax Levy On Rich For Unemployed; Withdrawal Of Pay Cuts y Workingclass Demands oping along “Communist of the large landed estates. “The position of the’ government, however, was considered extreme. The entire navy went over to the re- vessels at Talchuano naval base cap- tured their officers and marched them ashore at pistol point.” Doek workers at Talcahuano were cooperating with the rebels, italist forces massing 10,000 armed munist groups in all cities urged workers to support the movement. “The revolt was one of the most. inusual in the hisvory, of Latin Aemr- ica,” the Uy P. goes on to say, devel- | volt today when the crews of 15 war! lines," Among the demands are confiscatién | ated that the government has agreed to the resignation of the finance minister and have with- drawn the wage cuts, But the sail- ors’ mutiny grows with the capital- ists fearing there will he formed a united front between workers, pea- sants, sailors and soldiers and the establishment of a workingclass re- volutionary government. The As- sociated Press says: “The new de- velopment complicates the situa- ion and the impression grows that the rebels plan to force thelr own government on the country.” Chai, a 9 NEW YORK.—Five thousands sail- ors in the Chilean navy have revol- ted, seized virtually the entire navy of Chile, imprisoned the leading na- val officers and are putting forward revolutionary working class demands. vice altogether and soldiers of the |They have reepatedly refused to meet regular army were camped in the | with a representative of. the govern- streets.” It is furthermore indic- Schroeder, declaring th treat only with a comm érs atid students. The sailors mutinied Tu: when they were threatened with a wage cut of 30 per cent! The new gov- ernment which came into power as 4 result. of the overthrow of dictator Ibanez, a tool of Wall Street and the American Guggenheim nitrate-cop- Per interests, wanted to ingratiate themselvea with the Yankee and British imperialists, by cutting down wages so that foreign bond holders could be paid. The Communist Party as well as the trade unions have been agitating for a workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment, rapidly winning support among the workers and peasants. From the capitalist newspapers it is clear that the sailors are puting forward revolutionary demands and are led by working class revolution- ists. The facts gleaned from the ca- pitalist news cables show that the leading demands are: 1) Imprisonment and trial of ex- President Ibanez who murdered and imprinsoned many Communist, and ment, Read Admiral Eduardo Von ‘ militant workers and peasants. Workers Mobilize for Unity to Win Strike s of union affiliation, wheth- ure working in settled shops strike, to or ployed file workers from their to the unit are still on all unem worke: membe: and to al rank and The the NTWU. d to elect delege shops and organizations conference where steps n to carry the fol- to establish unity the are will be t lowing poin for © on strug 1. Unity on the picket line. 2 United action to eet the workers and ying wining gle. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) to balance the budget 3) Siezure of the large landed es- tates and turning them to wor and peasants. 4) A comprehen public works vrogrem to provide work and relief over for the unemployed 5)’ Withdrawal of the wage cut for the sailors Thus far all threats by the Cabinet and the War and Navy Departments against the sailors have failed. It is reported that in view of the growing Seriousness of the situation, the Cab- inet of Acting President Manuel Trucco, resigned. The military offi- cers threaten to bombard the navy by means of the air forces. That the workers are rallying to the support of the revolutionary sai- lors is shown by the meagre news which seeps through. United Press dispatches from Santiago, Chile, say: “Communist and labor eircles sym- pathized with the mutineers and threatened a general strike. “A mass meeting led by the Chil- ean Workers Federation met in front of the Congress building and urged a i ee 2) A heavy tax levy on the rich (conTINUED ON PAGE THRED), STRIKE COMMITTEE LAYS PLANS TO BUILD NATL MINERS UNION Prepares For New Strike In Near Future es Form Mine Committees Plan Demonstrationg Thruout Country PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 2—Thé Central Rank and File Strike Com~ mittee, at its meeting Sept. 2, here, re-organized itselt to fit into a most intensive campaign of union build~ ing and preparation for an enormous strike in the near future, as well as to give district leadership to the struggle for local demands now go- ing on. The strike committee found that the principal tasks now are: 1, The campaign to build the union. This campaign is led by the N. M. U. national, district, sub-dis- trict and local organizations, and the strike committee recommended and endorsed organizational forms, meth- ods and tactics based on the experi- ence gained in this strike, and on the very favorable situation the union finds itself in as compared with its situation before the strike. The union has gained thousands of mem- bers and scores of new locals have been created. This very increase in strength raises a problem of func- tionaries. A district school for the training of local organizers and offi- (CONTINUED ON PAGE PREPARE HUGE YOUTH DAY IN N. Y. C. SEPT: 8 TUUL Urges Workers To Participate In Demonstration THREE) As we go to press, preliminary In- ternational Youth Day demonstra- tions are taking place at Boro Hall, Brooklyn, where the police at the last minute refused a permit, and in Hell's Kitchen in New York. On Fri- day the 4th, demonstrations will take place in the Brors, downtown, East New York and Brownsville, which will rally the young workers to the central International Youth Day demonstration. The demonstra- tion will start as a parade at Rutgers Sk. on Tuesday, September 8. A street run, arranged by the Labor Sports Union, will start from Rutgers Sq. The main International Youth Day demonstration will witness one of the most impressive demonstrations in history. Preparations have been made for placards, torches, posters, ete. Many organizations have already endorsed the call for International Youth Day, The Trade Union Unity League, through its district secre- tary, John Steuben, issued the fot- lowing call: “As we approach the 17th anniversary of International Youth Day we are faced with the most fe- h preparations for another world slaughter. Faced with the longest and deepest crisis in their history, the bocees spend millions of dollars in preparations for their slaught covering these prepa all kinds of peace talk as a sereen The Trade Union Unity League workers to participate the stration organized by International ee on Tuesday, Rutgers Sq. E. sections of the Union Unity League to bring this to their respective membershipe and mobilize them through the shop committees, special leaflets, and meet- ings for International Youth Day. TWO BATHROBE SHOPS SETTLE WITH INDUSTRIAL UNION Two bathrobe firms settled with the Industrial Union, granting the workers 10 per cent increase, equal division of work, the right to the job, and recognition of the union, A number of other firms are negotiat- ing for a settlement. The organization drive among bathrobe workers will continue un- til every shop is organized. VOLUNTEERS WANTED To help in the Election Work every day in the afternoon. UNEMPLOYED COMRADES ARE URGED TO COME ‘ 35 East 12th St, fifth flock