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hose Bur youre BRAINS— AND You Dail Orga Central he-Cod (Section of the Communist International) 4 bial NO) orker unist Party U.S.A. Entered Vol. VIII, No. 218 ee at New York, N. ¥.. under the act NEW, ‘THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1931 Union Scabbing Rey. Norman Thomas, “socialist” candidate for President of the United States, and—so we are told by the N. Y. American of Sept. 8—“an American Federation of Labor man,” is quoted by that paper as adding that he cannot work with “the Communists” in the Paterson silk strike. His quoted words are: “We cannot work with the Communists because they are al- ways ready to sacrifice union interests to party interests. Every- timing they do is pointed toward ultimate revolution. The A. F. of Ys workers, on the other,hand, are simply interested in better working conditions.” First, let us explain to the workers what the Rev. Thomas means by ‘we” and “the Communists.” The National Textile Workers’ Union or- ganizes silk mill workers whether they be Communists, republicans, democrats, anarchists or misled voters for Mr. Thomas’ fake “socialist” party. If there are Communists in its leadership it is because the work- ers of all these political parties or no party have found that Communists do not betray their struggle as does the A. F. of L. but do fight militantly for the workers’ interests. Mr. Thomas’ “we” takes in too much territory. Real workers of the A. F. of L. do work with the National Textile Workers’ Union, which unites all honest workers, but Mr. Thomas and Mr. Muste and other A. F. of L. traitors to the workers are not honest workers, and the N. T. W. U. correctly opposes allowing such’ snakes to get or keep any position where they have a chance to betray the struggle. But see what the “socialist” Thomas says about the terrible Com- munists and the splendid A. F. of L.! Everything the Communists do “js pointed toward ultimate revolution,” while the A. F. of L. “on the other hand,” says the Rev. Thomas, “socialist” candidate for president, is interested “in better working conditions.” The “socialist” leader, Thomas, has clearly, if we take his own words for it, given up all pretense of aiming, at. “ultimate revolution,” for ac- cording to his own version he is a self-confessed counter-revolutionary because he says he is working for something which he “on the other hand” declares is against “ultimate revolution.” Of course no Communist puts “better working conditions” as contra- dictory and opposed to “ultimate revolution,” because Communists know tinat the struggle for “better working conditions” is a harmonious and essential part of the struggle for “ultimate revolution.” Therefore, Com- munists fight just as stubbornly for “better working conditions” as they do for “ultimate revolution.” ‘We would not, therefore, characterize the fake “socialist” Thomas, as he himself does as a counter-revolutionary because he fights for better working conditions, but emphatically because he does NOT fight for better conditions. And since he identifies himself with the A. F. of L. leaders on this question, he is the “tail that goes with the hide” of the whole fascist officialdom of that organization of betrayal. Proof? Here it is! We quote from the N. Y. Times of Sept. 7: “The American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, at an emergency convention here today, voted to recommend to its 20,000 members . . . temporary wage reductions ranging from 30 to 50 per cent.” No, workers, this is not speaking of an employers’ association con- vention! But the A. F. of L. “union”—mind you! The “union,” mind you, the A. F. of L. union leaders, of which the “socialist” Thomas spoke so bravely as “interested in better working conditions,” take the wage- cutting campaign out of the hands of the employers and themselves cut wages—in half! And under what extraordinary excuse! The Times quotes the union * officials as giving their reason as the following: “The wage cut is deliberately designed to cause a widespread revolt among non-union workers in all sections of the country,” for—according to this upside-down “logic”—“the new scale was so low that should non- union mills attempt to lower their own wage scales further the time would be opportune for calling of a general strike in the non-union mills in an attempt to place the entire industry on a union basis.” Wonderful! The A. F. of L. cuts wages, the Times tells us, “from 30 to 50 per cent” because, if we are to believe Mr. Thomas, the “socialist,” it is “interested in better working conditions”! The A. F. of L. demands that its rank and file members scab on even the unorganized workers! ‘And when shops that have agreements at higher scales with the N. T. W. U. try to cut wages and the N. T. W. U. workers strike, the A. F. of L. will furnish scabs at reduced wages and thus “place the entire industry” on a scab basis! Workers will understand now, why the Communists call the A. F. of L. leaders “fascists” and the “socialist” party a “social fascist” pace- maker for them! Alabama Bosses in New Attack on Scottsboro Mass Defense With 26 Lynchings So Far This Year and the Negro Workers Being Sold For as Low as $2, Boss Tools Prate of “Cordial Relations” DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 9—Side by side with a news re- port of Negro workers being seized in the South and told for as low as two dollars to employers seeking cheap labor, the Detroit Independent, a Negro reformist paper, publisher this week an appeal from a committee of Negro toadies and their —— white masters for “the pre- STEEL CO. FIRES —[rmonious vetstions” which they 150 WORKERS allege as existing botween the No Relief Left For white master class and the frightfully oppressed Negro masses of Dusquene Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent.) the South. Like a similar appeal issued by the traitorols leaders of the NAACP, the present appeal is directed especially DUQUESNE, Pa., Sept. 9. — The Carnegie Steel Co. has laid off 150 more workers. Unemployment is very great in the city now. The un- against the growing mass movement employment relief agency was organ- of Negro and white workers in de- fense of the nine innocent Scottsboro ized by the Carnegie Steel Co. and it issues the orders for relief to a Negro boys facing electrocution in Alabama on a trumped-up charge of few of the jobless. ‘The agency refuses to give aid to rape, foreign born workers, to single men, With 26 lynchings so far this year, and 44 laet year, the appeal brazenly and to Negroes. The capitalist can- didate Moore, who is running for quotes #wo unnamed Negro Uncle Toms aS declaririg “that they had Director of the Poor in Allegeny County and who works in the relief never known relations more cordial than now.” Of the white boss and agency said that he si tired of fill- ing out applications for relief be- Negro Uncle Tom members on the committee, the appeal says: “No man or woman spoke ,however, but felt confident that the two races in the South could not be alienated.” cause there are no funds left for relief anyway. The Negro workers in Dusquesne are hit the hardest. Many of them do not even get one meal a day. Attacks Mass Fight to Free Boys The appeal attacks the activities One young girl, 21 years old, came to the agency with her two little struggle against the legal lynching of of Negro and white Communists who children to get shoes for tiem. Moore are leading the fight for the release of the nine Scottsboro boys, for the told her to get in,line and wait, She waited from nine in the morning to abolition of lynching and Negro op- four-thirty in the afternoon and pression and for unconditions equal rights of the Negro people. The sign- then Moore threatened that he would have her locked up if she did not ers of the appeal see in the mass leave, the Scottsboro boys and the general boss lynch terror a menace to the whole vicious system of white “dom- ination” and ..egro suppression, of unemployment and mass starvation (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CHILE MASSES International Youth Day _ Celebrated Thruout Land | | By Thousands of Youth TURNING TO COMMUNISTS Gov't. Still ‘Fears Up- rising of Rebel Sailors MoreWhiteguards Arm Communist Press Grew And Spread Quickly NEW YORK—A strengthening of | of different camps, marked several of the gatherings. | | Police Unleash Terror Against Viale Workers in | Los Angeles, California |__ PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Mass meetings in six different places in the striking coal district marked the celebration Day. | and Bridgeville. of International Youth | Meetings were held in Pittsburgh, Lan- sing, South Burgettstown, Avella, Coverdale; Football games between young workers, mostly miners, | After | the white guard~ armed bands in | the games, speakers for the Young Communist League and| Chile, with news seeping through that the Chilean government is still | nervous about the action of the re- volutionary sailors, shows that the news of the decisive end of the naval revolt and the uprisings of workers in support of it, is mainly govern- men‘ propaganda. An Associated Press report from Santiago, Chile, for instance, de- clares: i “Chile (that is the white guard government) was trusting in the earstwhile rebels of her Navy to ad- here to their surrender pact, but she was also keeping her powder dry as she brought the last of them to port for punishment.” The fact that some sort of pact was made is news and the further fact that the government is uncer- tain up to this date what the sailors may do gives the lie to most of the government ensored news. The government is still arming the exploiters and their lackeys, 10,000 of whom are reported already in a quickly mobilized force. More news, also, is leaking out about the widespread activity of the Communist Party which the govern- ment is attempting with all its force to smash, The New York Times cor- respondent reports that while at- tempts were. made to subdue. the. navy, the workers were rallying to the Communist Party, which grew tremendously in influence. The cable goes on to state: “While these operations were going on, however, Communist agitators were busy spreading propaganda and organizing strikes. Their activ- ity left behind a new crop of daily newspapers, brought into existence, the government asserts, for the pur- pose of spreading misinformation and creating Communist sentiment. They specialize in sensational ar- ticles, alleged to be of revolutionary inspiration. “Publication of these newspapers has been ordered stopped, under the twenty-day proclamation of a state of siege which enabled the govern- ment to deal with agitators while the rebellion was in progress. “All last week there was, it is as- serted, a constant menace of a seri- ous Communist rising. To counter this and to aid in combatting the mutinous sailors if necessary, the government called for civilians to undergo hasty military training. Thonsands volunteered and 10,000 were accepted and equipped with rifles and ammunition.” The Pittsburgh meeting at Center and Kirkpatrick streets, was attend- ed by a large crowd. The police at first denied a permit for this meet- ing, buf at last an oral permit was given, Turner spoke for the Na- tional Miners Union at this meeting, and Norma Martin for the Workers International Relief and the Penn- Ohio-W. Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Committee. Comrades Eva Ress_and Ann Allen spoke for | the Young Communist League and Ben Carruthers, Negro, for the Com- munist Party. He presented the el- | ection program of the Party. | A large number of Negro workers | atterided the meeting and labor fol- | lowed the organizers to the Workers Center, to tlak about the anti-Jim Crow Struggle, especially at the Highlang Swimming Pool. The function of the conservative Negro press in the class war and the fight against Jim Crowism was shown WORKERS EXPOSE ROOSEVELT BILLS Demand Insurance) Measures for Relief ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 9—Hearing on Unemployment Bills were held in Albany today. William Patterson, representative of the Communist Party, and John Ballam, of the Trade Union Unity League, John Sealess of the Unemployed Coun- cil and Keller of the Workers Inter- national Relief exposed the bills, in- cluding Governor Roosevelt's fake $20,000,000 “relief” proposal. In a series of talks at the hearings these workers’ representatives showed up the nature of these capitalist meas- ures which are not intended to offer any relief whatever for the unem- ployed, but are designed to keep the workers from fighting for real un- employment insurance. They de- manded that a bill be passed provid- ing for immediate aid for the job- less, as well as for unemployment insurance, to come from taxation of the rich, and to be supervised by a workers committee. They showed that the policy of Roosevelt was the same as the fascist proposals of the American Federation of Labor and of the Socialist fakers who do not op- pose the bills. Leaders of American Legion Join Attack on Unemployed The American Legion is enlisting its entire power in the attack on the working class, which is being led by the Gifford Committee. The Le- gion has called a conference of the governors of all the states, of the mayors of the fifteen largest cities and of many other cities, and of the leaders of the American Federa- tion of Labor, to be held in Wash- ington on Sept. 14. According to Ralph T. O’Neal, na- tional commander of the Legion, the American Federation of Labor and the United States Chamber of Com- merce will have officers and commit~ tees present at this conference to give “advice and information.” The advice and information which will be given by these agents of the capi- talist class will be on the best meth- ods to be used in preventing any relief from reaching the masses of the unemployed. They will advise the Legion on the most effective ways it can cooperate with the Gifford Committee to spread the Hoover stagger system of wage cutting, on how to force workers to scab on strikers, and on how to act as a strong arm force against militant workers. It is for this reason that the Le- gion will offer its “full strength and influence” to “Hoover's unemploy- ment relief organization and muni- cipal, state and other governmental agencies. ‘The conference called by the Amer- ican Legion indicates that in addi- tion to the demagogy of the A. F. of L. leaders the Gifford Committee is preparing to make use of the fas- cist activities of the Legion for the purpose of crushing the militancy of the jobless workers through terror when it is necessary. The working masses must rally against the attack of the Gifford Committee on their living standards and just as deter- minedly against the attack that the leaders of the American Legion is preparing. NEW YORK.—From Chicago, one! of the leading industrial centers in the United States, we yet some offi- cial data on what huxger and star- vation is doing to the health of the working class. Recently Hoover said that “the health of the nation is improving.” The same idea was echoed by Dr. Stewart Hamilton, superintendent of the Harper Hos- pital in Detroit. He attributed this “health” to the fact that people were “eating less.” Here are what the official figures and declarations show in Chicago, which gives a good cross section of the American working class. The others, spoke emphatically the importance of youth in modern industry and in the class struggle. © | to these Negro workers by exposing | the demands made in the swimming | pool case by the local Negro paper, | the Pittsburgh Courier. The Cou- | rier, after several riots in which the white police ganged up with white | hooligans to beat up Negro bathers | (OONTINUED ON PAGE THREE? PLAN ELECTION TAG DAYS AT. CONF. TONIGHT Mobilize to Speed the | Collection of Signatures The misappropriation of funds | supposedly voted for the relief of | jobless workers in Richmond will be | in the forefront of the Election Cam- paign issues under the Communist | Party banner. Tonight the organization confer- | ence of all working class bodies to prepare for the Communist Party | Election Campaign Tag Day will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Workers | Center, 35 E. 12th St., Room 206. All workers in shops, factories, unions, fraternal bodies and the mass or- ganizations should send delegates. Delegates are requested to bring with them their orders for the necessary | material, tag day boxes, coupon | books and credentials for the Tag; Day, which takes place September 19 | and 20. Delegates should also bring with them pledges of money voted | by the respective organizations in support of the Election Campaign, also the names of delegates elected | to attend the ratification mass con- | gress which takes place Friday, Sep- | tember 13 at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave. The Party will run candidates in Richmond for the first time and calls on all workers and working class organizations to support the drive to collect the necessary quota of 1,700 signatures in order to place the Communist Party candidates on the ballot in the First Assembly Dis- trict. Mobilization for the collection of signatures to enable the Communist Party to get on the ballot must con- tinue at top speed. Workers should report at the following stations for this proletarian duty: Campaign Headquarters Manhattan: 143 E. 103 St.; 142 E. 3rd St.; 132 E. 26th St.; 301 W. 29th St.; 19 W. 129th St.; 134 E. 7th St.; 151 Clinton St. Bronx: 2700 Bronx Park East; 569 Prospect Ave.; 2061 Bryant Ave.; 1622 Bathgate Ave. Brooklyn: 61 Graham Ave.; 1373 43rd St,; 118 Bristol St.; 105 That- ford Ave.; 313 Hinsdale St.; 412 Sut- ter Ave.; 261 Utica Ave.; 48 Bay 28th St.; 799 Flushing Ave.; 46 Ten Eyck St.; 118 Cook St.; 1373 43rd St.; 2006 70th St.; 2931 W. 28th St. Queens: 3187 32nd St., Astoria, cio Rosenberg. Yonkers: 252 Warburton Ave. at 6:30 a. m. for committee work at strike headquarters. Chicago Hospitals Crowded with Workers Diseased f Chief Physician Says’ Worst Is Yet To Come Chicago Daily News reported a huge overtaxing of capacity of the hos- pitals due to hunger. It said: “Emmett Whealan, president of the board of county commissioners, made a thorough survey of condi- tions at the county hospital today and found overloading, due to econ- omic conditions.” That is, Hoover would have the workers think that IM’DONALD | the rom Hunger CALLS FOR FASCISM Workers Demonstrate As Parliament Opens Up Many Clubbed, Jailed “Opposition” Slings Its Fake Phrases (Cable by Inprecorr) LONDON, Sept. 9.—Several | sand workers demonstrated outside of Parliament yesterday evening against the National Government Surging crowds filled the surround- ing streets. Hundreds of mounted police failed to drive back the crowd despite repeated charges, clubbing workers. Seventeen workers were arrested. Many were taken to the hospital. The spirit of the workers was magnificent, the running fight lasting for three hours. The demonstration was organized by the Communist Party and the Unemployment Committee. A depu- | tation of workers elected at a mass meeting was refused permission to put its case before Parliament. omen Speier 3 “Socialists” Call For Fascism. NEW YORK.—While police club down unemployed workers in front | of Parliament Ramsay MacDonald, “socialist” premier, comes out for an open fascist dictatorship. Following in the footsteps of the | | Bruening regime in Germany, which has the endorsement of the socialists, the National Government, through MacDonald is asking Parliament to give -it dictatorial powers so that it can put over any slash in unemploy ment insurance gr wage cut it thinks necessary to save capitalism in England. The proposal of MacDonald was | that-in. order to put through the “national economy bill,” the details of which he refuses to mention until the dictatorship is established, that aetciaert (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE? MORE BATHROBE SHOPS SETTLE The following bathrobe shops set- tled with the Industrial Union this afternoon: Enrico Golato, 222 Green St.; Perri Angiolillo, 316 37th St., Brooklyn; G. Pardi, 63 E. 8th St.; and Domenico Petti, 552 W. Broad- | way. | The settlement of these shops on the basis of improved conditions is | having an encouraging effect on the | other bathrobe workers who are daily | joining the ranks of the strikers. One, a very large shop in the indus- | try, was declared on strike today. | A meeting of the remaining strik- | ers was held this morning and they | greeted with enthusiasm the report | of the strike committee about the | settlement of the shops. SATY EDITIO a WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Mine Relief a eC Question c~ Life or Deaur Miners Families Living in Tents Must Have Blankets for Cold Autumn Nights Refuse Bribe of Capitalist Politicians for Elections, Though Starving PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. § |bor Day week-end we made a special visit to the tent colony at Coverdale and at mines in the Library we have 24 families living in tents. we have three families and at In some cases as many as six people live in a 6x8 tent, 3 lenauer No. 3 three. cooking, sleeping and eating in weather the tents leak and the beds become pools « All their clothes are soaked and the bedding is i UPHOESTERS IN FOUR VICTORIES AS STRIKE GROWS AF of L Loeal Donates $5 in Solidarity With Strikers NEW YORK.—With four of the fifteen shops that went on strike the first week of the upholstery settled and union demands won, the struggle against. bad conditions the shops inues to spread. strike Of | the two hundred and fifty workers that struck seventy are back at work having won a 40 hour day, week work stead of piece work, $1 an hour nimum wage and recognition of > Furniture Workers’ Industrial W-ion. The nine strikers arrested last week ot the fi gation of the bosses will be tried September 23rd. Another striker was arrested yesterday and brought before Magistrate ‘ky was held in $1,000 bail on “disorderly conduct.” Especially vi- cious was Ma te Brodsky against the fact that the striker is a member of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union. when Brod Relief Plans. The Workers In ational has taken the first step to establish a relief kitchen at strike headquar- ters at Ten Eyck & Lorimer Bror n. Workers of the Globe Upholster- ing shop, members of Local 76 Up- holsterers, A. F. of L. organization, | ed $5 as an expression of their idarity with the strike. The strike committee calls on all furniture workers to aid the uphol- sterers ond report Thursday morning do! so) ——_——- —-— —_—-® ere old a in| Relief | Sts., | N.C. Workers Demonstrate Against Oscar De Priest CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 9—One hundred Negro and white workers | demonstrated here last night against Oscar De Priest, Negro landlord and congressman, who was brought here by the white ruling class to aid the local Uncle Toms in betraying the struggles of the Negro masses. The demonstration took place in front of the First Baptist Church, where De Priest spoke to a small group of Negro reformists, together with a couple of white representa- “overloading” of the hospitals is due to improved health. From the medical superintendent of the Cook County Hospital, Dr. Karl A. Meyer, we get a more har- rowing story. First of all, Dr. Meyer said that one of the most outstand- ing causes of the overfilling of the hospitals “can be traced to actual underfeeding and poor housing con- ditions,” ‘The hospitals 1n Chicago are so crowded that sick workers and their children are being turned away. Dr. Meyer reported that 600 children (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) tives from the Chamber of Com-~- merce, who were present to see that their lackeys did a good job. Under the slogan, “White and Ne- gro citizens must unite to fight Com- munism,” De Priest called upon the Negro business men and preachers to close ranks with the white master class and the K.K.K. for a united fight against the workers and their militant leadership. In order to bar the workers from the meeting, admission to hear De Priest was fixed at 75 cents, De Priest knows that the Negro and white workers of Charlotte are well aware of his treacherous role in congress, where, as a Negro capital- ist, he stands against everything that would benefit the working class. He knows that the workers are aware of his eviction policy against unem- ployed Negro tenants in his build- ings in Chicago, and of the police massacre of Negro workers resisting the eviction of a 72-year-old Negro woman. That is why De Priest and his backers set the price of admission far in excess of what the impov- erished workers of Charlotte could pay. That is why they had carloads of police stationed around the church to protect him against the anger of the Negro arid white workers who, in spite of the traitorous tactics of the Negro reformists and the murderous terror of the white ruling class, are uniting, under the leadership of the Communist Party, for joint struggle against starvation and for uncondi- Over the La- other At Coverdale At Mol- No. 8 we have section. the same small space. In Tr te! of ft je some of them bu The tents are not waterproo relief committee proofing material. We to patch the tents them. We want we must get zations and individual comrades in fixing these tents The strikers need blankets, for it is cold in tents these autumn days, cold and wet families the children are In one tent the whole family will increase annot buy water- not afford In many THREE) Noulens and Wife Face Death at Hands of Chiang Workers Must Demand Release of Two (CONTINUED ON PA BERLIN, Sept. 9— Seeking new victims for S murderous terror against the working class, the Nan- king Government has arested Com- rade Noulens, Secretary of the Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, to- gether with his wife. Both workers are threatened with court martial and death and are daily subjected to ill-treatment and torture by the Kuomintang hangmen of imperialism. Noulens and his wife were arres- ted by the police in the International Settlement, which is under British control, and who deliberately turned |them over to the Kuomintang hang- men. Responsibility for their fate rests ultimately with the “socialist” leader, Ramsay MacDonald and his colleagues in the late British Labor Government. The news of the arrests and ill- treatment of Noulens and his wife has aroused a furious storm of pro- test from the international proletar- iat. Huge protest demonstrations have been held in Berlin, Paris and other cities. Hundreds of working class organizations have adopted protest resolutions denouncing the arrest and torutre of these two work- ers and demanding their immediate release. In Germany a b:g group of leading writers cabled Madame Sun Yet Sen, calling upon her to denounce this latest outrage. A special protest tel- egram was also sent at the same time to the murderer Chiang Kai- Shek, demanding that a deiegation of lawyers and representatives of the Bureau of the International Jurists Conference be permitted to attend the trial. The League Against Imperialism, the Workers Internaticnal Relief and the International Red Aid have, as a matter of course, placed themselves at the head of this vigorous protest movement. ‘These organizations call upon all workers’ organizations thru- out the world to join the protest against this latest outraee of the im~- perfalists and their Chinese militarist tools against the working class. tional equal rights of the Negro masses. The demonstration against this rotten tool of the class enemy was one of the most enthusiastic held in this city. Banners were displayed with slogans as “We Fight De Priest and all landlords”; “We Demand Free Rent for Unemployed Workers!” “We Demand Adequate Relief and Unemployment Insurance!” “We Fight for Equal Rights for the Ne< gro People!” 4