The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1931, Page 1

HOUSE FRIDAY, SEPT. 18th ELECT DELEGATES TO C. P. RATIFICATION CONGRESS, CENTRAL OPERA Dower Dome Yaar mtu WUT You Loyal looye | PROFIT Ame CAN, MIE KIDDIES WAN'T MILI = (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 220 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879 <5 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents_ FIVE NEGRO MINERS IN KENTUCKY INDICTED FOR MURDER Coalition Government CSS BECK of Pennsylvania, “pointing,” so states an edi- | torial in the N. Y. Times of Sept. 9, “to the state of public affairs and the grim economic prospects of the Winter,” demands something in the U. S. Congress which he calls “coalition leadership.” ‘The Times itself expresses some worry over what Congress will do “if put under powerful outside pressure,” and quotes with approval Con- gressman Beck's suggestion that what is needed is—‘a coalition leader- ship with some fair-minded and outstanding man as Speaker, who will guard against raids on the Treasury.” The “outside pressure” mentioned is, of course, the insistent demand of the millions of unemployed and the employed who know that any hour may see them, too, jobless and starving, for unemployment insur- ance at the cost of the capitalists and their government, for real relief instead of endless false promises always brought forward under new and glittering disguises. ‘The effort to set up, as a dam against such “powerful outside pres- | sure,” a “leadership” that amounts to a coalition government, is very clearly a move to defeat what slight remnant of the “popular will” which “democracy” is supposed to make effective through elected representa- tives of the capitalist political parties and is a move toward fascism. But the Times editorial consoles Congressman Beck. While pointing out that the necessity of next year’s election, when capitalism again figures to give the workers a chance to “choose” between a capitalist republican and a capitalist democrat for president, requires caution in making the capitalist identity of these two parties appear too clearly before the workers whom they mean to trick, the Times declares: “If next Winter certain emergencies arise which will impress Congress as being commensurate with the exigencies of a war, tem- porary cooperation may be obtained.” So the Times foresees something possible next Winter “commensur- ate with war,” and assures the capitalists that when such a situation “arises” all capitalist Congressmen, republican, democrat and “farmer- labor” will doubtless cooperate to support capitalist ruthlessness against the starving masses. Under “powerful outside pressure” the Borahs, LaFollettes, et al., will have free rein to emit all the demagogic speeches about “feeding the starving” that they wish, but—when the starving who are NOT fed, create a situation “commensurate with war’—all these capitalist con- gressmen will be found “cooperating” to suppress the starving masses by brute force and violence. ‘The Times -has excellent precedent for its assurance. Democratic and republican congressmen alike cheered the Washington police who, armed .to the teeth, have gassed, clubbed and shot at many delegations of unemployed workers who merely approached the White House or the Capitol building demanding real relief, although the U. S. Constitution is supposed to guarantee “right” to do so. * Cities under democratic administration have clubbing unemployet*meetings as those under republicans, while the fake “socialists” in control at Milwaukee and Reading have distinguished themselves as being perhaps a shade more bloodthirsty against the work- ers than the other capitalist parties, while in New York City—although the “socialists” are not in the administration—Norman Thomas showed his approval of the. savage beating given unemployed spokesmen before the Board of Estimate last October, by excusing Mayor Walker's order for the workers‘ to be slugged, and wearing a broad smile while the ‘Tammany thugs were spilling the workers’ blood. Another sign of capitalist coalition is the withdrawal of republican opposition in ‘the N. Y. Legislature to the fake and inadequate “relief” plan of Governor Roosevelt. After submitting counter proposals, the republicans, under lead of Macy, who gets his orders from Hoover, are withdrawing them. The “socialists,” while again not in- official position, propose from outside a number of measures that sound “very radical” but are merely demagogy to get the workers to place them in power so they, too, may withdraw them in case of “emergency commensurate with war’—exactly as have their fellow “socialists” in Germany and England. Workers must remember that the Second “Socialist” International, of which the American “socialist” party is a part, in February of this year adopted “very radical” resolutions upon what policy all “socialist” parties should follow. Among these are: 1. “Struggle against the reduction of wages and for their increase.” “Shortening hours of work . . . the five-day week... .” 3. “Unemployment insurance” and for its “widening to include per- sons employed on a short working day.” ‘These are supposedly binding on all “socialist” parties, and are much the same as proposed ‘by the “socialist” party of America. But what do “socialists” really do when they get into power? In both England and Germany (in England before the fall of the recent “labor” government) the “socialists” in the governments have supported and even initiated wage cuts, longer hours, and a restriction instead of a “widening” of unemployment insurance! ‘These are facts open to all the world and they cannot be refuted! But these fake “socialists” invariably try to excuse such dirty treachery by chattering about “emergency” situations. Some “emergency” always appears which calls upon these scoundrels to give up “temporarily” the most solemn promises they hold out to workers to get their votes. ‘Thus, the American “socialists” have excellent precedent for making “very radical” proposals to relieve the unemployed, but when they get into government positions, for abandoning them all to save capitalism from an “emergency.” Thus, also, the Times could speak just as con- ®iiently of a coalition to defend capitalism against the starving masses f the “socialists” were in Congress as they do now over the prospects of ® “temporary cooperation” of other capitalist parties to carry on a war of force and violence against the starving masses this Winter. ‘The workers. should learn the lessons from Europe and take steps to meet the capitalist program of starvation and violence. The unemployed must be rallied in far greater masses behind the Unemployment Councils, the employed myst be shown how their interests harmonize with the de- mands of the unemployed, and all together must fight in overwhelming numbers for Unemployment Insurance’ at full wage rates at the cost of the capitalists and their government, for immediate and adequate relief to the destitute and for a cash Winter Relief of $150 each for every ANOTHER NEGRO WORKER KILLED been just as bruta} in 2. FARMERS IN MINN: HUNGER MARCH, 21ST \Duluth Workers To) Meet Farmers In Solidarity Conference on the 13th | Demand Cancellation of Debts, Mortgages DULUTH, Minn.—On Monday, Sept 21, hundreds of farmers from all over St. Louis County, Minnesota, will come marching down the Miller ‘Trunk highway into Duluth, to pre- sent their demands for immediate relief for the poverty-stricken farm- ers to the County Board of Com- missioners’ meeting. The call for the Farmers Hunger March, the first of its kind in the Northwest, was issued by the St. Louis County Com- mittee of the United Farmers League, the fighting organization of the toiling farmers. ‘When the farmers march into Du- luth, they will be welcomed at Court House Square with a demonstration of thousands of unemployed workers (CONTINUED O7 BAKERS STRIKE DESPITE TERROR Meet Today at 2 p. m. At Headuarters NEW YORK.—After threatening the strike pickets with the policé, the M. B. M. Bakery mobilized gangsters with the aid of the A. F. of L., and PAGE FIVE) | made an attack on the picket line Friday. Despite this, picketing is going on more militantly than ever. The bosses are beginning to realize that the workers in the neighborhood are with the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union that is leading the strike. They are refusing to patronize this scab shop, with its rotten conditions. The bosses are asking for an in- junction in an effort to smash pick- eting. Nevertheless, the — striking bakers are continuing their open air meetings, strike propaganda in the neighborhood and picketing. Today at 2 p. m. a special mem- bership meeting of all bakers will be held at 5 E. 19th St., union head~- quarters, and a full discussion of strike plans will be taken up. CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 11—Tom- my Gray, one of the remaining six Camp. Hill croppers held in jail, has been released. Tommy Gray is the brother of the martyred Ralph Gray who was murdered by Tallapoosa, Ala., landowners in their attack on a meeting of the Share Croppers Union. In their efforts to terrorize the Ne- thrown into jail on charges ranging from conspiracy to murder the land- owners to rebellion. As a result of the energetic defense policy of the International Labor Defense and the protests of millions of workers throughout the world, the frame-up against the croppers is slowly crum- bling. In a letter received by the Southern gro croppers, scores of croppers were |; Camp Hill Cropper Free As Frame-Up Crumbles Brotherof Martyred Ralph Gray Threatened With Death By Alabama Landowners District of the I. L. D., Tommy Gray writes: “I am out of jail at last after be- ing there nearly two months. They are trying to make it hard for me to live here. They have stopped letting me have anything to eat be- cause I stand in defense of this movement that they put me in jail for, They may kill me but I mean to die in the defense of the move- ment. On Friday night when they took me to jail, Ranzie Brown beat me on the head with his fist be- fore we got to jail. He said he was going to kill me like they killed my brother.” It is thought here that all but one of the defendants has now been re~ leased. Steps are being taken’ to check. up immediately, Fake “Cordial Claiming the existencé of the ‘ the southern and white ruling class and the frightfully. oppressed Negro masses, these tools of the bosses ac- cuse Negro and white workers of “en- dangering” these’ relations by their indignant protests against the hide~ ous Scottsboro lynch verdict which sentenced eight children to burn in the electric chair. Among those prat- ing most loudly about existent “cor- dial race relations” are the mislead- ers of the NAACP. An example of these “most cor- dial relations” was given here a few days ago, when rich white farmers, envious of the progress made by Ed- ward M. Johnson, a Negro farmer, ambushed him as he drove home and tried to murder him. The same men, about five in number, later invaded Johnson’s farm, looted it of its ma- chinery and equipment and burned his two-story barn. Johnson, who is himself a rich farmer has decided to sell out and move, The terror against the Negro mass- es, of which Scottsboro has become After 2 conference with President Hoover, Senator Reed openly de- clared Thursday that the United States must prepare for the next war to the extent of billions of dollars of armaments. The occasion for this open admission of war preparations was the declaration of Reed, for the administration, that the veterans should not be granted the full pay- ment of the face value of the war veterans’ adjusted compensation cer- tificates. Reed pointed to the next war in the following words, “It is up to the veterans as to which war we are going to pay for, the fast one or the next one.” The United States must now, says Reed, build up the navy to the Lon- don treaty strength. The Hoover ad- BY BIRMINGHAM, ALA, POLICE BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 11.— Another Negro worker has been murdered in the police and boss terror directed the pretext of attempting to solve the hold-up and murder of two so- ministration wants the veterans of the last war to starve, and so refuses them the payment of thelr compen- sation, in order that the United States can prepare better for the Union by sending its chief officers to participate in the war garhes of the French army which will take place between September 12 and 16, Gen- eral Douglas McArthur, chief of staff of the U. 8, army, arrived in Prance with a group of high army officers yesterday to participate in the war games which “will serve to test all the newest methods applied to land warfare.” Sixty thousand troops who will take part in these war mane! Sen. Reed Demands Greater War Preparations by U. 8S. the chief points of the games “will be the use of commercial airplanes for the first time for military pur- General McArthur is taking pert im these games so that the United States will be better prepared to par- ticipate in the attack of the capita]- ist powers on the Soviet Union. This is the “next war” that Senator Reed says the United States must prepare for. CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 11—Michgel seven-months-old « infant, have had wage cuts or unemployment are suffering from the same disease: “Starvation and malnutrition,” can only be guessed at from the increas- Us Ong of 'ing death role of workers’ childrens Relations” Cry Exposed by Murderous Terror Lynch Verdict Against Scottsboro Boys Only One Instance of Wide-spread Attacks on Negro Masses MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 11—In their traitorous at- tempts to wreck the mass defense of the Seottsboro Negro boys, Negro-toadies of the boss class are brazenly trying to cover up the raging boss terror against the Negro masses. ‘most cordial relations” between | SCENE ELEY RASA ATRL RR ES a world-wide symbol, is not confined to Alabama. In Pulaski, Virginia, a boss mob terrorized the Negro popu- tion for four days following a fight between a white mgn and a Negro worker, who dared to defend himself. In Lincoln County, Georgia, two Ne- {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BKLYN IN DANGER OFF THE BALLOT Need Help; Arrange Red Sunday Sept. 13 BROOKLYN, N. Y¥.-The Commu- nist Party in Williamsburg is running the danger of being kept off the bal~ lot unless every class conscious work- er will give a hand in collecting sig- natures. Collection of signatures is being done every day. Bunday the Communist Party sec- tion has decided for a Red Sunday when every worker, Party and YCL members and members of trade unions and fraternal organizations are called upon to report to the cam- for Election Campaign work. The following headquarters are be- ing kept open every day from 6 p.m. and on Saturday at 1 pm; Sunday morning from 9 a.m. on. The Communist Party, Williams- burg Section, appeals to all workers to help put the Party on the ballot by collecting signatures. Baby Dies Because Mother Was Starving; Suicides Show Increase Woll Praises Murphy Hunger Regime E s OF BEING KEPT) 5000 DEMAND CASH RELIEF INMILWAUKEE Socialist? Sheriff’s Po- lice Are on Hand to Intimidate Crowd Supervisors in Ruse Refers Demands to a Sub-Committee MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 11.— Five thousand workers demonstrated outside the offices of the County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Sept. 8 as their delegation presented the following demands for immediate relief of the unemployed: 1. That every single unemployed worker recéive a meal ticket to the value of $5 each week and $2 for room rent, 34 White, Negro Workers to Be Tried in Nov. Unity ‘of Negro and White Miers Rouses Fury of Coal Bosses Operators to Use Stool Pigeons As Witnesses Against Miners NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Harry Oliver, Gan- zie Banks, Andrew Hinch, E. Phillips and Floyd Murphy, Negro miners in Harlan Coun- ty, Kentucky are awaiting trial in the loca) 2. That forced labor in the county should be abolished, where- by those unemployed worker on city and county jobs have the cost of relief deducted from their wages at many times its actual cost. The cash payment of wages to all workers on city and county jobs. 3. That the County Board of Supervisors go on record endorsing an Unemployment Insurance Bill on a statewide scale that will pay $12. per. week to each unemployed worker with $3 additional for each dependent. While a delegation of 15 workers presented the demands to the County Board, 5,000 workers listened to the speakers on the Court House steps, | cheering and applauding the prog- Yam of the Unemployed Councils. Despite the support of the workers to these demands the County Board arrogantly refused to listen to the demands and referred them to a sub- committee, The Court House was filled with city police and with deputies of the “Socialist” Sheriff Benson who were there to see that the workers would Starve and be forced to work for a few scanty crumbs on the county jobs. The workers gathered at the Court House, refused to be intimi- dated by the police and promised to continue the fight for their imme- diate demands. They pledged to meet the “Socirlist” Sheriff Benson at the workers’ homes when he comes to evict them, to carry on the fight at the relief stations, to build up the Unemployed Branches in every section of the county and to force the bosses to pay Unem- ployment Insurance to the starving unemployed workers. Many applica- tions were gotten for the Unem- ployed Council and considerable county jail with 29 other miners on charges of first degree murder as the result of the strike in the coal in- dustry where gangsters imported by the coal operators under direction of the local police have been killing miners and dyna- miting the relief kitchens as well as the prisoners’ relief station set up by the International Labor Defense. Mrs. Jessie London RELIEF DEM ANDS “© Wakefield, Kentucky degsniser of the MADE ON LLOYD ‘One Thousand Jobless Pack Into Offices; | Present Demands (Telegram to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 11— The Unemployed Councils here or- ganized a hunger march to the | Lloyd Committee offices (in charge | of local city relief given to limited | number of families) yesterday and | Put the following demands to the | committee: Fifteen dollars cash for each unemployed worker and $1.00 ad- tional for each dependent, weekly. One quart of milk daily for each worker's child; free rent, gas and electric for the unemployed. A total of 1,000 workers invaded the Lloyd Committee offices. A com- | mittee of seven presented the de- mands, a list of ‘needy cases, and demanded to see Mr. Lloyd im- mediately. Arrangements were made to see him the next day at 2 p.m. All workers are to come again to back up the delegation’s demands. Workers literature was sold. Present were promised relief by Saturday, Denied Relief, N. C. Negro j|down by the Welfare Bureau and drives workers to suicide, Matthew A. F, of L. and vicious enemy of the Workers Are Ready to Fight NEW YORK.~— The Federated Press reports that unemployed Negro workers are being denied even the meager relief furnished to white un- employed workers in Morganton, N.C. The town has a population of praise Mayor Murphy of Detroit (who incidentally is in New York visiting the dives, speakeasies and swell then went home and killed them- selves. The latest victim of the Murphy hunger regime is Walter Kobyliniska, whose body was found hanging in the rear of a barn, For this system of “relief” that Woll, one of the chief scabs in the Soviet Union has this to say: 8,000. Although no. less than 350 Negro workers are totally unem~ ployed, no colored person is allowed to enter a soup kitchen. The Negro workers are reported to be forming an Unemployed League and to be turning to militant meth- ods of struggle against the brutal starvation policy of the white ruling class. One Negro worker to whom the Federated Press representative spoke, said, when asked what they did last winter: “When the white fords told us we couldn’t get in the soup house me and about 15 others started to sell- ing moonshine, But every dog- gone one of us was caught and sent to prison, and our families were that we couldn’t help belageput in this here world no more than we’ns can help being out of work now, and if they don’t help us this win- ter, we’ns are just going to take our guns and get it ‘cause they will get us anyhow.” established himself not only as a national humanitarian leader, but he has won for himself a warm spot in the hearts of the wage earning class, “Mayor Murphy through his lead- to. wngmployment -reliet aap election day.’ “* no matter what may happen op next OFFICES, PHILA. LL.D., is still in jail, held on a crim- inal syndicalist charge for conducting |the defense and prisoners’ relief | work among the miners. Her Ford car, carsying food and clothes for | the prisoners and their starving wives |and children, was dynamited by the |Coal operators’ thugs. | The various trials for murder, |criminal syndicalism, and banding }and confederating have been as- | signed to three counties, some of the jeases being scheduled to go to trial |on September 14 in Mount Sterling | County, where it is rumored on good authority that the prosecuting attor- |ney is anxious that the trials should jopen immediately, before the defense | has developed its mass campaign and | prepared the legal side of the case. |Meanwhile, the presiding judge, |Shackleford, is strongly urging a | general “investigation” of all militant activities in the miners’ struggle in | Kentucky. The International Labor Defense |announced today that beside Frank- jlin Reynolds, who will defend the miners, Leo Gallagher, well known labor attorney of California, who has defended numerous labor cases, will arrive shortly in Kentucky to act as one of counsel for the defense. Because of the terror let loose by (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘POLICE THREATEN UPHOLSTERERS IN |PICKETING MARCH Workers of the Trade Shop Want to Strike, Says Committee BROOKLYN, N. Y.—A Tammany Policeman fired three shots in the air in an attempt. to terrorize sev- enty pickets of the Furniture Work- ers’ Industrial Union, before the Trade Upholstery Shop, on North Ninth St. yesterday. The approxi- mately fifty workers of this shop had told strikers thew were willing to go on strike. The bosses had the police patro: the district to attempt to intimidate the strikers who paraded past the Trade shop, calling upon the work- ers to strike, Then it was that the cop fired his gun. But the workers marched on fearlessly and passed the Marion shop in the same neighbor- hood. ‘The captain of Precinct 92 stopped I next war, the attack on the Soviet | had been without sufficient food to 3. joints) the number of jobless suicides | Jeft to do the best ” th hing Istery strikers against militant Negro workers and members of the Com-/|union. nurse him properly, herself suffer- In Detroit increase. eric mehee hate Siteniied!bothats romear ee pes Aoprnidic Bie eee ht after b tote "The Ouited Fo a te eiaaiane sriteee obtained — The Daily Worker now adds the /do this winter, he replied: and threatened to arrest all the Char] orton di e last: nig! eing ed u) e openly pre- | been e father name of another worker to the many Aye ips orton died her Le P| paring for the atteck on the Soviet|a part-time “job,” and before -he ‘Unemployed, Kills Self eres t Coatealk hs wees Cured ag oe te ome: awead | See heed oe oa eas, eee the Trade shop again. He also threatened to beat up the workers so arrested. The Furniture Workers’ Industrial League has issued an appeal to the workers of the trade and all uphol- stery shops to join the union and strike for better conditions. Carpenters’ Local 2090 after hear~ ing a striking upholsterer donated” $20 for relief. , Monday morning, 6:30 a. m.*, will be featured by mass picketing before wv “ly, sengsal bi sons