The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1931, Page 1

YOuR Rover RIQHNESS I'v Riyed wire LORD Mayor sav €R - T Wourp FAI uacesT ORDER. Joxeu Teer You LAT. GREENSY) Beye, = IN ITs ~Li (Section of the Communist International) he—EdRMauniet Porty U.S.A. oe, P. RATIFICATION CONGRESS, CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE FRIDAY, SEPT, 18th WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ UNITE! Entered as second-class rantter at at New York, N. Y., under the act Vol. VIII, No. 223 “- the Post Office <2 of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 193 CITY EDITIO. sa ‘Price 3 Cents N Hoover Consults With His Masters HROUDED in the ‘secrecy that clouds everything going on in the pres- idential mansion, Hoover has just held a conference with his bosses. Monday night the bankers from all over the country, attending the regu-» lar quarterly meeting of the Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve System had dinner with their man in the White House, and stayed with him until 11.30 p. m. to tell him what to do next. It was said at the White House that, “no particular matters, except general business and banking conditions’ were discussed. That is, nothing but the question whether this or that million of workers should be thrown out to starve this winter, nothing but the question of whether to cut wages everywhere and at once or by degrees, nothing but the questions of how to fool the starving masses if possible @ little longer, nothing but the question of how to suppress the growing | resistance of the workers to their program of hunger. “Mr. Hoover has been interested primarily recently in bolstering the confidence of the public and it is assumed he stressed this matter to the bankers. Administration officials have taken the view that the necessity for unemployment relief has been emphasized so much that the situation may have assumed undue seriousness,” says the inspired capitalist press comment, . And that means, that the bankers decided to go on with the game of trying to say there is no immediate danger to the lives of the masses and that they decided that whatever happens, no relief must be given. Starving millions are needed to put through the wage cutting program. Hoover meets with the bankers, meets them at a banquet, to listen to their orders deciding the fate of those who have no dinners, no break- fast or supper either. While these bankers, masters of industry and of the lives of the working class, thus issue bunk against “undue seriousness,” they announce day by day and week by week in their own circles, through the financial papers their own class reads, that the crisis grows deeper, that it as- sumes catastrophic forms, that the starved masses of workers grow very restless, “\.. It is almost needless to say inct signs of any revival in trade still continue conspicuously absent,” says an editorial in the last issue ot tho Financial Chronicle, announcing “steel production has suffered a further decrease the present week, the steel mills now being amgaged to only 28% per cent capacity.’ The bankers worry: “Many ne¢ws items from other parts of the county told of similar speeches and addresses, all preaching the doctrine of discontent if not of revolution,” says the paper. And it considers the fact that the “impending deficit in the Treasury is likely to be increased in the sum of another $2,000,000,000,” as sufficient reason for starving more of the workers to death. “Profits first, no matter how many workers you kill!” is the slogan of those who met Monday night with President Hoover. This alone is proof enough that Hoover is not the president of ee people of the United States—he is the president for the rulers of the United States, the executive officer and mouthpiece of the bankers and corporation heads. When the masses starve, Hoover does not consult with them, he consults with those who profit on their hunger, he plots ways and means to keep the jobless quiet while they perish. Only the bankers fear that these masses will not be quiet, that they will speak in. great demonstrations, that they will demand the right to live, will demand unemployment insurance and relief, and will hold the bankers and big bosses and Hoover and his government responsible for the death from starvation of their families, that they may even turn Communist, This is what the bankers fear! Keep that fear alive in the hearts of the big businessmen. Build the Unemployed Councils! Prepare bigger demonstrations! Let the hungry children march on the state capitals! Let school children march on the school boards and demand shoes, clothing and food! Let the men and women, Negro and white, native and foreign born, young and old, go in masses to the seats of city, county, state and national government—the government of the bosses, of the bankers who swill banquets at the White House, and demand the food they need to keep alive! Vote Communist in this election! BRITISH SAILORS RESENT WAGE CUTS; NAVY ORDERED TO PORT The sailors of the British fleet have already indicated their dissat- isfaction with the MacDonald wage for plant deterioration which virtu- ally offsets the increase in the in- come tax and gives the manufac- cut program and as a result the At- lantic fleet exercises have been sus- pended and the fleet has been or- dered back to England. The British Admiralty states that the fleet has been ordered back so that an “in- vestigation” can be made. This “in- vestigation” by the MacDonald gov- ernment will be an attempt to throw the militant leaders of the sailors into jail and to terrorize the rest of the fleet. The wage cuts in the fleet under the new budget were di- rected chiefly at the worst paid workers in the fleet, the great mass | of the ordinary sailors. The Admir- alty was forced to give out the news of the rebellious tenrper of the sail- ors but has censured all further de- tails of the reasons for calling back the fleet. The capitalist class of Great Brit-! ain and its National government un- der the leadership of MacDonald, the Socialist, is preparing to follow up the hunger budget with further at- tacks against the workers. Irame- diately after the passage of tne “eco- nomy” bill Monday, MacDonald ap- pointed a sub-committee to take up the question of increases in the tariff. The government is not satis- fied with having cut severely into the living standards of the British workers thru the new budget but it is now preparing to put thru a tariff which will raise the price of every commodity that the workers buy. Following the example of the Brit- ish government, the Ulster Parlia~ ment in Ireland will meet on Sep- tember 22 to consider how to balance its budget at the expense of the workers. It was clearly stated Mon- day by the Minister of Labor in the Ulster Government that the dole would be cut as in England. The fact that the entire weight of the increases in the new budget are at the expense of the workers is again confirmed in the publicity is- sued by many British municipalities which are asking American manu- facturers to locate plans there. The municipalities point out, according to the New York Times, that “in the pew Snorion budget there is a new liberal allowance to manufacturers turers an advantage over importers or British selling agents for goods made in America.” Even the slight increases at the expense of the cap- italists in the budget are here re- veajed as amounting to absolutely nothing because thru other provis- ions for increased depreciation charges which they are allowed to make their income taxes will be ac- tually reduced. Reduction of taxes for the rich. Hunger taxes for the workers. This is the MacDonald pro- gram, The attack in Great Britain has not only spread to Ulster, but the British cotton «manufacturers in Lancaster are proceeding with’ their plans for a terrific speed up of the workers, The New York Evening Post of September 14 reports these (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) YOKINEN HEARING SET FOR TUESDAY Workers ~ Must Stop Deportation NEW YORK.—The hearing of August Yokinen, the militant Fin- nish worker whom the Department of Labor is trying to deport to fas- cist Finland, was postponed yester- day till next Tuesday, Sept. 22. It will be held at 10 a. m, in the Uni- ted States District Court in the Old Post Office Building, Park Place and Broadway. Mrs. Carol Weiss King, attorney for the New York District of the International Labor Defense, will defend him. a Yokinen is being persecuted be- cause several months ago, at a mass trial’ arranged by the Communist Party, he repudiated the poisonous race prejudice that had been in- stilled in him and has since carried on a struggle for full social, economic and political equality for the Negro people. All workers should support ul fight of the to haye him. COAL MINERS PICKET AS THEY STARVE | Renton Children Sick) From Lack of Food; Rush Relief! ‘Guns. Bombs Menace! Pinchot’s Milk Only for | Voting Towns | KINLOCK, Pa. Sept. 15—The crowd milling in front of the Kin- | lock Mine gate is the picket line that | has marched morning and evening | from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and from 2) pm. to 4 pm. during the strike. | There was a time when there were | | 5,000 on the picket line. It stretched for a mile on either side of teh en- trance, down along the ten-foot wire fence, past the barracks and the re- | | Het station, where it doubled back | | and went almost to Parnassus and | doubled back again. Then it lasted | all day, and at night it picketed the | roads to Kinlock and stopped scab | trucks. | Kinlock still pickets, tall miners, | short miners, Negro miners, whitc | miners, native Americans, South | Slavs, Poles and Russians marching together. Guns and Bombs. The “state's” cossacks sit around and watch the picket line. “We gotta protect our job,” says the “state.” ‘The snarling plug-ugly back of the (CONTINUED 0% 100 STRIKE IN INDIANAPOLIS Fight Will Go On in Spite of Attacks INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The bosses | here are showing their fear by sharp- ening their attack on the wrokers. When 100 workers from the Sears Cabinet Works, many of them girls working for’84 cents an hour walked out last week against the “group sys- tem,” a new wage cutting scheme, Police squad cars were parked all around the place to terrorize the strikers. Comrade Lewis who started to speak to the strikers was imme- diately arrested. Leaflets are being scattered throughout the plant to bring out all the workers to fight this new drive against the workers and to win despite police terrom. Another arrest was made this week. Comrade Gross who was speaking at an open air meeting for the League of Struggle for Negro Rights was hauled down and jailed together with Comrade McCoy. They were fined $50 and cost in the charge of va- grancy even though both workers are employed. The ILD is appealing the case. The workers here are realizing that this is the time to organize and stand against the attack of the bosses to fight against wage cuts, to fight for unemployment relief. Street meet- ings here will go on despite all police terror. 3 yAG TURER) Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. Jailed Harlan Miner’s Children Are Starving Live On Weeds Because Father Is Union Man;| Send Funds to Defense to Save Their Lives HARLAN, Ky., Sept. 15—Even when Roy Taylor was working in the | mines of the Harlan-Wallins Coal Co. his eight children, all under 12} years old, were undernourished. Now that Roy Taylor has been thrown in the Harlan County dungeon for or- | ganizing miners in the National) | Miners’ Union, his wife and his eight | children are starving to death. Roy's children are starving be- cause their father is guilty of the | “crime” of “possessing prohibited lit- | erature.” A copy of the Daily| Worker, which he was reading in his home, is sole evidence» against him. | During the two months this miner | has been in jail, his family has been | living on mustard greens and polk | salad. Polk is a weed growing in the Kentucky mountains, edible but | devoid of nourishment in the spring and poisonous in the summer, Green apples and green berries supplement this diet, From eating this kind of “food,” Roy's eight children have become listless and glassy-eyed. Their arms and legs are soft-boned spindles. Some of them are too weak to walk. If relief does not come for Roy's children soon, they will die. Exam- ining physicians at Wallins Creek say these children must have milk. The fight in Harlan County is against starvation. JOBLESS IN | FRISCO MET WITH CLUBS Mayor Rossi Promised | Reply to Demands; They Got It | 1000 March;10000 Meet Unemployed Answer By Endorsing “Reds” SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Sept. 15.— Horse and motorcycle police charged |into and clubbed a thousand unem- | Send money for milk and food for | Ploved workers yesterday at 1 p. m.| Harlan strike prisoners’ families at | when they marched to the city hall once to the Kentucky Miners’ Aid, in care of International Labor De- fense, 80 E. 11th St., Room 430, New York City. these children from starvation! MASS CONGRESS WILL RATIFY COMMUNIST CANDIDATES. aaazics which took: place yesterday excluded the “Communist Party because the requirements of the capitalist state are such as to place every obstacle in the way of a working class revolutionary party from getting on the ballot. The great obstacle is to collect the necessary quota of signatures in all Assembly districts. The goal must be for all workers and working class organiza- tions to overcome these obstacles to enable the Communist Party to get on the ballot permanently and to participate in the primaries here- after, The Mass Ratification Congress which will be held this Friday eve- ning, September 18, is a rallyin call to all workers in shop, factory, mass organizations and unions to make this mieeting a monster demonstra- | tion of strength in support of the j only revolutionary party, the Com- munist Party. Organibzational pro- posals for conducting the campaign will be presented to the delegates and included in a resolution for adoption by all organizations represented at the meeting. The Mass Congress must | also serve to mobilize the workers of | New York to go out on the streets Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20 and to raise $15,000 with which to conduct the most energetic campaign that has yet been carried | out in the New York district. A feature of the ratification meet- ing will be the presentation of a ban- ner to the section which has fulfilled | its quota of signatures and is now | izations are urged to turn in to the District Campaign Manager, Comrade Harriet Silverman, not later than } Thursday, the address. of their head- | quarters which are to be used as Tag Day stations. Also the names of all-delegates to the congress. Smash the fascist alliance of the bosses parties. Make the ratification meeting a tremendous turn out of workers from shops and working class organizations. All workers organizations are re- quested to call off conflicting “pieet- ings and to come in a body fo the Mass Ratification Congress at Cen- tral Opera House Friday Evening, September 18. Bakers Picket Bronx ‘Shop Despite Police Attacks and Arrests) Despite continual arrests, striking | bakers of the shop at 716 Burke Ave. the Bronx, picket the place undaun- ted by the combined boss and police attacks. All baker members of the Food Workers Industrial Union vol- unteer for picketing. Two bakers, Schlef and Kop were arrested upon the instigation of the boss, but when brought before the magistrate’s court could not place his | charge and the magistrate was forced to dismiss the case. One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the Workers must help save | | to receive the answer promised them on their relief demands presented on August 28th. “Come back and T'll give you my answer,” Mayor Rossi told the repre- sentatives of the thousands of job- less and starving workers here, when, | over two weeks ago they brought act- | ual cases of workers’ families living | }in destitution and urged free milk for the children, housing, immediate relief, unemployment insurance, no evictions, etc. Yesterday ten thousand workers | milled around the city hall for an | hour and a half, and booed the police and cheered the marchers as the capitalist city government “gave its answer.”—dry fare—“fed ‘em the stick,” when the thousand marchers |appeared. The city hall was sur- rounded by heavy police squadrons all afternoon. ‘The police were booed | by the masses gathered there when | |. went into action. | Among the marchers beaten up| were ten whole families. Fifteen per- | sons were severely: injured by the po- | |lice. One of thos? badly hurt was a | \ six-year old child. | Twenty of the marchers were ar- rested and are to go on trial this morning. | The Council of the Unemployed has | | answered this latest provocation with | |a declaration that it will enter the | | election campaign fighting the Rossi | machine and supporting the Commu- | nist candidates. Paperhangers Shop | In Phila. On Strike; | TUUL Union Leads Demonstrate For Kentucky Miners Thurs. ganizer, on Arrival in New York Newspaper Woman Writes of Growing National Miners Union Despite Vicious Terror ‘ 4 NEW YORK.—Mrs. Jessie London Wake« field, Kentucky organizer for the Interna< tional Labor Defense, who has just been -re- leased from jail in Harlan, Ky., after being held six weeks on a_ criminal syndicalist charge, will arrive in New York City at the Pennsylvania Sta- tion, Thursday, September 17, at 7 p.m. Workers who have been reading about her sturdy fight to help the embattled Harlan county miners in their struggle with coal company; | gunmen, are preparing to give her a mass reception at the “station. Mrs. Wakefield’s Ford car } |was dynamited because she was ( " |carrying food to starving miners children and wives, and organizing | them for defense of the miners held av if on death charges in Harlan jail. veg ae |respondent sent by the Federated ‘ ¥ ; Press to Harlan County, Ky., writes Bosses Try Use A.F.L, |as part of a news article released by Union to Prevent ee: baptchearcans Militant St¥uggle “The union idea is hard to kill in | Harlan County, Ky. One soup kitch- en has been blown up, two men liv- The Organization the Laundry Committee of jing at another were killed by a dep- called a mass meeting of all laundry | Workers Union has | workers to build up a union in the industry which will be a union to fight for the workers’ interests and not in the interest of the bosses and | the racketeers. The mass meeting | will be ‘held Thursday,’September 17 | at 8:30 p.m, in the Ambassador Hall, Third Ave. near Claremont Pkway in the Bronx | The Greater New York Laundry Workers Union, Inc., has been sold out by the racketeers and their of- fitials, Brooks and Bloom. jThe rack- N.M.U. GROWING Mrs. Harvey O'Connor, special cor- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Police, Socialists Attack Workers At Berlin Debate Workers Enraged As Seores Are Hurt (Telegram to the Daily Worker) | eteers always work secretly for the PHILADELPHIA, Fa., Sept. 15. —| bosses. They went over to them open- |Paperhangers of Altman's shop on} ly now. They broke up the union at Wayne Ave. walked out in strike this| the order of the bosses’ association. {morning against discrimination of | The officials, Brooks and Bloom, were |one of the workers. The strike was| working with the racketeers They called by the Paperhangers and| were ordered not to have any more |Painters Union of the Trade Union | meetings and refused to have one last | Unity League. Picketing has been | Thursday. BERLIN, Sept. 15.—After having accepted an invitation to debate with Communists at a public meeting at Neukoelln and then failed to attend, | the socialist party announced a mass |meeting and public debate with |Communists. The Communists im- | mediately accepted. The meeting oc- |arranged for tomorrow morning to sending shock troops to help out in| workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,” | guard against the A. F. of L. sending the weak districts. _Workers organ- | by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. ‘scabs. NAACP Misleaders Resume Fight On Defense Rights of Scottsboro Boys BULLETIN CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 15.—On | Aug. 27, Fort, Beddow and Ray, attorneys for the N. A. A. C. P., gave formal notice to Judge A. E. Hawkins at Fort Payne, Alabama, of their withdrawal from the Scottsboro case, with the following statement: NEW YORK.—Demanding relief for the million jobless in this city, a parade will be held as a protest against starvation and evictions. The parade was decided upon by repre- sentatives of all the unemployed councils of Greater New York, states Morris Tomash, general secvetary of the councils, ‘The parade will be September 18, Friday, and the line of march will be from Seventh St. and Ave. B. through the East Side, past the homes of the alderman and assem- blymen, and back to Seventh and Ave. A. All unemployed and em- ployed workers are invited to, be in the procession, and as it swings along, it will pick up the crowds sa- sembled at open air meetings which will be held that night in front of the city and state officials’ homes. Organizations which have a large number of unemployed in their ranks Unemployment Parade Thru East Side N. Y., Friday the parade. Among such organiza- tions will be: the Ex-Servicemen’s League, the Unemployed Councils, the International Workers Order, Workers Clubs, the Young Commun- ist League, and the Pioneers, The thousands of paraders will demand: $15 a week for each unemployed worker and $3 additional for each dependant; no evictions; reduction in rent; free gas and electricity for the unemployed workers; free hot Junches and carfares for the school children of the unemployed; free clothing for the children of the job- | Jess; abolition of child labor. ‘The Unemployed Councils have} found that 2,000 families are being evicted every month for non-pay- ment of rent. The courts jail those who protest. The aldermen and as- semblymen turn deaf ears to the erfes of the hungry. Mass demon- strations like this parade are needed to organize the unemployed into a wil cach partiipate in a body 4p, power that canpot be denies sl Ignore Wishes of Par- ents In Haste To Serve Ala. Bosses “Please instruct the clerk to strike our name from the record or make such other memoranda or notices as you deem neces- sary.” The action of Fort, Beddow and Ray followed the failure of the N. A. A. C, P. misleaders to coerce the Scottsboro boys into ignoring the wishes of their parents that the International Labor Defense should have full charge of the de- fense. The above notice was filed seven days after Claude Patterson, father of Haywood, received a letter from Walter White, announcing that Beddow had been “persuaded” to remain in the case, The case of Roy Wright was not called at this session of the court, Solicitor General Bailey, in an effort {o again whip up lynch sentiment against the boys, declared: “Tt don’t know if I can get enough soldiers to protect him.” This is simply an excuse to post- pone the case in the hope that the mass protests of Negro and white workers would die down in the meantime. ON OP ise NEW YORK.—That the N. A. A, Cc. P. misleaders are persisting in their brazen denial of the right of ‘the Scousbore Revs ang ter | to select their own defénse, is shown in a statement just issued by these traitors to the effect that they have engaged Clarence Darrow to work on the case, This is clearly another attempt on the part of the N. A. A. C. P. mis- |leaders to seize control of the ~de- | fense in utter disregard of the wishes | of the boys and their parents. These \ have time and again declared their j choice of the International Labor | Defense as the organization to which | they have entrusted the defense. | Both the boys and their parents. have endorsed the policy of the I. L. D. in rallying huge masses behind the legal defense of the boys in the hos- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | But the workers refused to be sold out and refused to be handed over as victims to the bosses. So the best jelements in the old union immedi- | jately I:*en to organize themselves so that ther> should be a union of, | by and for the laundry workers and not a union for the racketeers and | bosses. | The bosses seeing that the workers | are organizing a union without the | |racketeers and their officials who | completed the sell out are trying to | | bring in local 810 of the A. F. of L.| | wi St veil ie ead. we fie ae od Sseegn 7 reports declare that the hall was only | Commodore, Bronx Home, Fairview, | half full | Starlight and Jerome is still fresh in| The socialist leader Kuenstler |the minds of most of the workers. | spoke an hour practically without in- The Rosenzweig controlled A. F_ of L. |terruption. Neumann, Communist, local 810 is just as bad as the racket- | was subjected to a continual organ- |eer Larry Fay’s gang. In fact, they |ied interruption, catcalling and | wdork together, just as Bloom and | whistling. Neumann, however, per- | Brooks, who, only a few months ago, | sisted and made himself heard. In s | were working together with Rosen- | magnificent speech he exposed the | zweig, and now, after they fooled the | socialist, treachery, concluding with | Workers, are trying to fool them | an appeal to all the socialist workers }asain by handing them over to|to break with the treacherous policy Rosenzweig. They do this because | of the leaders and join the Commu- jthey do not want an organization | nist workers in an open battle with | controlled by the workers, ee curred yesterday evening in the Ber- lin Sport Palace. However, tens of thousands of workers clamoring for admission were batoned away from the building by the police, who in- jured over seventy, because only per- sons showing socialist cards were ad- mitted. This socialist trickery created & tremendous wave of sympathy for the Communist Party. At the last noment a few hundred were permit- ted to enter the hall which then closed, although the bourgeois press All laundry workers are urged to| Kuenstler’s speech was a collection come to the mass meeting. Bring your | of insults and slanders with no men« fellow workers | tion of any political matters such as (Telegram to the Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 15.—No- tice was posted in the local Balti- more and Ohio railroad shops of an indefinite complete shutdown. This |follows a number of schemes in the |past year, variations of the stagger system introduced by the company | with the aid of A. F. of L. offirials. Workers lost three months work in eight months during 1931. | The discontent of the workers is running high. Groups of twenty-five and fifty gather in shops showing re- It the starvation pro- B&O Posts Noticeof Complete Indefinite Shutdown ot Shops | the Bruening dictatorship, emer- gency decrees, etc. During Neumann's speech, the sd cialists who had an overwhelming majority, thanks to the exclusion of the masses, began brutally attacking Communist workers. The drummers | attempted to drown Neumann, toe (sean of Daniel J. Willard, “Doctor |gether with applause and cries. The ;of Humanity”, for the workers. The | meeting ended in great confusion | sixteen official craft organizations of | with over seventy workers beaten, |the American Federation of Labor, | stabbed and mauled, Fight were tak- |with the machinists predominatng | en to the hospital are completely bankrupt. | Outside the hall there were hun- The Natonal Railroad Industrial| dreds of indignant discussion groups League group in the B. & Q:. shops | which condemned the socialists. One together with the Unemployed Coun- | thousand workers marched in proces- cils are mobilizing workers to fight |sion in a nearby square and held a against the layoff and for unemploy- | public meeting despite police prohi- ment insurance. | bition. ‘The police continued clubbing A big noon day meeting has been |throughous the evening, injuring }called for Wednesday at the shop | scores, mamy seriously, Numerows.are | gates, Arlington and Lombard Sts, | reste were mada re Pesdint nh Beyer d ORS 7 Mews’ ten nates hss ead or vahaews 4