The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1931, Page 1

ELECT DELEGATES TO C. = . RATIFICATION CONGRESS, CENTRAL OPE é TRA HOUSE FRIDAY, SEPT. 18th FoR JOuR Lovet. Seevicé IN KICKING THe Worwmen OF ENGLAND IN THE DOLE, IM TH Face ANd THert AGAIN AN THe CPawTy = LIKE FS Tue focieisT etl LEADER Irwin pene Tie, gi. (Section of the Communist International) orker mmunist Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, _UNITE! Entered as second-clai at New York, N. Y., Vol. VIII, No. 225 der the a matter at the Post Office px act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER | 18, 1931 ‘CITY EDITION ALL OUT SAT. IN SOLIDARITY WITH BRITISH SEAMEN Fight for Free Food, Clothing, for Workers’ Children! i Lae strike of the school children in Haysboro, Pa., for free food and the struggles that are being carried on in the Pittsburgh district for free food and clothing for the miners’ children are exposing to all work- ers the réal starvation conditions of the millions of children of the un- employed. part time and striking workers and their willingness to fight for their everyday needs. by the Board of Education that this year they will have to pay their own carfare to and from school, walked off the street car, painted signs on cardboard with slogans that they were on strike because, as their slogans read, their parents had no work, no money, working class answer. In the mining section, the undernourished, clothingless children of the miners who are fighting together with their parents on the picket line against* starvation conditions are continuing their fight in the schools. In Avella, Pa., when the committee of children and parents presented the demands for free food and clothing to the school authorities and threat- ened with a strike of the children from school, the five schools in the town agreed to give free milk and peaches and crackers to the children every day. Through strong organization and a readiness to fight for their demands these miners’ children have won concessions from the boss class. In New York three huge demonstrations and picket lines are being d for Friday, September 18th, in front of the Borough Halls in klyn and the Bronx and the Board of Education in Manhattan. The Red Hool: section of Brooklyn is the deonest hit by the raging disease of Infantile Paralysis. Mass meetings are being held throughout the city in rr? ction for the central picket line in front of the Board of Education. The brazen demagogy of the federal, state, and school officials was never more apparent than at present. All the famous demagogues and liberals like Pinchot and educators and health commissioners, etc., are spitting out philosophic utterances, rules of health, etc., which are meant to divert the children from struggling. At the same time these dema- gogues starve the miners into submission, club the unemployed at dem- onstrations, they express their “understanding and sympathy for the chil- dren of the workers.” For instance President Hoover's notorious mouth- ing about the golden “Child Health Day” is entirely in keeping with the five million undernourished sick children in the United States for whom he has nothing to offer but further starvation and the famous charity of the boss class. Commissioner of Health Wynn of New York comes out with a hypocritical “Ten Rules of Health for Children,” which say: “The child should Have “plefity of nourishing food and the growing child needs more food than the adult. He should have a nourishing breakfast and a glass of milk. At noon he should have a filling lunch- eon. At his evening meal he should be able to eat the same dishes as the rest of the family eats plus a glass of milk.” What hypocrisy! How many children in Red Hook, Paterson, New Jersey, or in the mining fields can have this food| which is so necessary for the child's health? How many deaths from infantile paralysis are directly due to the half starved condition of these workers’ children? Hundreds upon hundreds. And Commissioner Wynn, Hoover and the test know that very well. Commissioner Wynn knows very well what is necessary for the health of the child but only the working class can force the carrying out of these rules by an organized fight of both parents and children in each and every school.. Only the workers’ might can stop the crazy dumping of car loads of food and milk into the ocean | while workers’ children starve. Only organization and sharp struggle will secure for the workers’ children a betterment of their conditions. The only organization that carries on a relentless every day fight for the every day needs of the workers’ children in the schools and elsewhere is the Young Pioneers of Amrica, The measure of success of our struggles can only be judged from the masses of children that must be recruited in the Y.P.A. during this fight, and by the number of parents’ organizations, “the backbone of the children's struggle” that will be formed. Broad United Front organizations in every school of all children willing to struggle for these demands, with the Pioneers playing an active part in these organizations, will win better conditions for the workers’ children. The parents in the neighborhood of the school must organize into Working Class Parents’ Leagues. Joint meetings of parents and children will cement the ranks of the workers and fight better for the demands presented to the Board of Education. ‘The fight for free food for the workers’ children is part and parcel of the fight for Unemployment Insurance. Because the bosses are bent on refusing any sort of insurance, to the unemployed worker, any» sort of security from starvation, it is of tremendous importance that the tight for free food and clothing be a fight of both the employed and iemployed workers throughout the U. S, A. Build Unemployed Councils. Fight For Unemployed Insurance. Organize and fight for free food and clothing for workers’ children! Build a mass Yonng Pioneers of America! Build working class parents’ leagues! Demonstrate before the Board of Education Friday, September 18th, at 12 p. m., for free food and clothing for the workers’ children. Show Solidarity Sept. 26-27! W lice! present form of the strike of the Western Pennsylvania, Eastern hio and West Virginia Panhandle coal miners is something new in the history of American labor struggles. The National Miners Union discovered after leading for ten weeks a heroic struggle of 40,000 men fighting against starvation, that its organized forces were too weak to continue the struggle in that form and that a period of struggle around individual mines and companies for local demands was necessary. This means that the strike goes on, and that the essential strategy is the uniting of the men starved back to work and those still on the picket lines for the fight for the local demands, of which one of the most important is “no discrimination.” The union, built in the mines by this combined struggle, will then be immensely stronger and better pre- pared for the next wide-spread struggle, which can not much longer be delayed. It means that the National Miners Union becomes the first mass revolutionary union in a basic industry in America, But this whole program is threatened if the flow of relief to the men still out of the mines is slackened. The policy of the companies is to blacklist these men, to prevent their organization continuing, to prevent their forming an organizational unity with the men in the mines. The fighting power of the men not in the mines depends very much on more relief. It is therefore the duty of all workers, everywhere, who have profited by the miners’ strike—first great sharp resistance to the country-wide campaign of wage cuts—to rally to the Workers International Relief which leads, particularly through the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia-Ken- tucky Striking Miners Relief Committees, the campaign for miners’ re- lief. All out to help collect for the miners on Solidarity Days—Sept. 26 \ and 27! You are fighting for yourselves when you fight for the miners! The children in Haysboro, when they were told | no fare—no school, a fitting | “If Mooney Died, Hacaty ‘Cas An effort by state aia to deal out savage punishment to Tom) Money for Mooney’s recent deunciation of | former Governor C. C. Young in the California | close to a) | decision to kill Mooney in prison was revealed to the Daily} ‘Supreme Court, which | Worker yesterday. |months ago of the share of the ie movement in the frame-u DEMONSTRATE TO GET FREE FOOD FOR CHILDREN | | |Three City Meetings | | At 12 Noon Demand | Free Necessities All workers and workers’ children are Called upon to demonstrate today, jat .12 noon, for free food and cloth- i | ing ‘for the school children of the | unemployed workers. | Three demonstrations will be held | |in New ‘York. The first will be at | | 12:30 before the Board of Education, | | 59th St. and Fifth Ave. All workers | | of Downtown and Harlem are urged | to attend the picket line that will be | formed there, | The workers of Brooklyn will dem- | onstrate before the Boro Hall, at Court and Fulton Sts., at 12 noon. |In the Bronx, a mass meeting and protest will be held in front of the |Boro Hall at Tremont Ave., just | above Third Ave. Delegations of par- ents and children will call upon Boro Presidents Hesterberg and Bruckner, and demand that free food and clothes be distributed to the school children immediately upon the open- ing of school on Tuesday, the 22d. Undernourished Children. The opening of the new school term places before the working class parents the problem of providing their children with food and clothing while at school. Where will the un- employed parents get the money to follow out Health Commissioner Wynne’s “Ten Commandments”: “Give the child nourishing food, warm clothes, plenty of milk, etc.” Fake relief promises have been all the city acthorities have given the unemployed and their children. Now is the time for action! Unless the workers put up a strong fight, our children will be going to school un- derfed and cold. WIN IN EVICTION FOUR ARRESTED Four workers were arrested, one of them severely beaten by cops for participating in returning the furni- tur eof an evicted family. Leo Romin, 546 East 13th Street, unemployed for over a year and his wife in the hospital was evicted with his two small children, The Down- town Unemployed Council, together with aroused workers of the neigh- borhood put back his furniture and then held a meeting outside of the house exposing the fake “charity” of the bosses and calling on the work- ers to organize, It was during this meeting that the cops attacked them, The workers were arraigned in the night court. They defended them- selves cross-examining the cops, Two of them were sentenced to $5 fine or two days in jail. The worker who was beaten up, had to be taken to the Polyclinic hospital and the ase Would End” Was View Of Officials Spector, Prison Mate, Tells of Conspiracy; Mooney-| Harlan Conferences, throughout U S. authorities of Califor- Cr Er | It was learned that after Mooney’s denunciation some officials of the California trade | p which resulted in his impris- ~* onment, followed by Mooney’s ex- posure of the disonest actions of the former Governor and Supreme Court, a definite plan took shape to “break” the stubborn labor pri- soner. It was intended that such physical injury of Mooney was to be brought about as was calculated to Mooney that would bring embarras- ment upon the ring of state officials and labor leaders originally respon- sible for his continued imprisonment. ferences, in which the best method | of “breaking” and silencing Mooney was considered, the question was brought up whether Mooney could survive the physical effects, in his present weakened condition after 15 years imprisonment, of the intended plan to confine him for 60 days in solitary confinement in the “dun- Defense Scores K.K.K. Birmingham Parade as A Lynch Provocation CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 17. —The International Labor Defense here sent a telegram yesterday to Chief of Police McDuff of Birming- ham, denouncing the terrization pa- rade of the Ku Klux Klan lynchers through the Negro section of Birm- ingham. The telegram says: “The Birmingham Post of Sept. 15 reports the Ku Klux Klan staging a masked parade through the Negro sections of Birmingham Thursday, with-burning of fiery crosses. We protest the continued terrorization of the Negro workers. We demand | the right of Negro and white workers to organize. We hold you responsible for the burders and lynchings which follow these provocative parades.” amongst high officials of the state | prevent for all time any actions of | ‘The Daily Worker learns that in| strictly unofficial and personal con- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Communist F Party and) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 17.—A} {mill of the Wheeling Steel Co. of Yorkville, O., was made. This com- | pany cut the day men 10 per cent | a short time ago. The Steubenville | Blooming Mill, where the men are working eight hours, have also cut wages from 60 to 54 cents an hour. | The Metal Workers Industrial | League is holding special meetings in both mills for the fight against Wages; Metal Workers League Calls ls for Fight Mass Conference in n Pittebureh, Pa. Septem-| ber 27th to Mobilize Workers to Seine. | new 6 per cent wage cut in the hot | | this expected by the end of this month Sweeping slashes ar e| |in the United States Steel mills | | | | wage cut. | A mass conference will be held in | Pittsburgh on September 27 to mo- bilize the steel workers for strikes | against all wage cuts. The Youngs- | town section is holding its conference | this week. The Metal Workers In- dustrial League calls for united ac- tion of all steel workers and for building of the steel workers indus- | itrial union. RATIFICATION CON NEW YORK.—Tonight at 8 p. m. 3rd Ave. the public | Conference of the Communist Party will be held. This conference rep- | resenting unions, fraternal organiza- tions, clubs, shops, etc., will ratify the platform cen candidates of ee TO PROTEST GAS, ELECTRIC RATES | AT COMMISSION | Others to Fight Excessive Rates | Today at 8:30 at 80 Center Street the office of the Public Service Com- mission, Room 659, the Communist Party, together with the Unemployed Council and the Tenants’ League of Greater New York, representing | hundreds of thousands of workers | and small consumers of gas and elec- tricity will protest against the recent raising of the rates. Mr. Maltbie, head of the Public |the rates are not excessive. How- lever, it will be clear from the tes- timony to be given by workers and their wives who will be present that the | which made increased profits in 1930 | are simply plundering the workers at Central Opera House, 6th St. and | Ratification | Service Commission, pretends that | the New York Edison Company and | Consolidated Gas Company | FERENCE FOR COMMUNIST CANDIDATES TONITE All Workers’ Organizations To Send Delegates To Central Opera House, 8 p. m.; Great | Campaign For Workers, Jobless Communist Party as the only party fighting for the interests of the working class. The racketeering | Tammany Hall machine and the re- | publicans and socialists, the thieves out of office, who wish*to get in in order to profit by the graft, will be | fully exposed. | The ratification congress therefore | will be the beginning of a smashing [soueeee in New York by the Com- ist Party. It will hear the re- | poe of the Communist Party repre- | | sentatives who will appear before Public Service Commission to lage, against the latest robbery of yaval the Gas and Electric Light Trust Co. | Thousands of workers have signed I perlcice demanding the cancellation of the dollar minimum rate and the |20 per cent reductions on the old | rates. Not only have they signed the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) and small users of gas and electricity. | The permission of the Public Service Commission to these two companies to raise the rates while at the same | time lowering the rates of the big | consumers shows the control of gov- ernment by the trust. | The workers, more than a million of whom are out of work throughout | New York and millions of whom are working part time will protest em- phatically against this procedure and will take the necessary steps in | order to protect themselves from this robbery. All workers should be present at this hearing. Bring along your gas | and electric receipts. Statements of various persons who now hold or did hold high official positions in the capitalist govern- ments of the United States and Ger- many expose some parts of the fev- erish plotting of the capitalist gov- ernments of these countries and of France and England for war against the Soviet Union, Some of the la: test developments are described be- low: . What Navy Is For. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 17.— Captain Dudley W. Knox, U.S. Navy, retired, published in an article yes- terday in the press, in which he la- ments the mutiny in the British Navy, because: “The British Navy is one of the main bulwarks against the threatened Soviet world conquest and the breakdown of our civiliza- tion.” conquest” is, of course, merely the accepted form in which capitalist propaganda refers to the capitalist fourth workers was dismissed, plans for war on the Soviet Union, | ‘This phrase about “Soviet world lu Ss Naval Captain Is Sorry British Navy Is Not So Useful Now | and the expression, ur civilization” is the regular way in which they refer to the destruc- Knox goes into some detail to show | just how very important the British the U.S.S.R, He says: “It is true that other navies are ouelet, notably the navies of France and Italy. But the latter country is one of the few bene- ficiaries of cheap Russian com- modities, and is not likely to upset | the advantageous agreements which she has made with the Soviets to take her manufactures in exchange for the raw materials which must be imported to supply her factor- jes. As for France, she suffers NAA A i “breakdown of | | tion of capitalism. But Captain) navy is in this scheme of war on | capable of blockading Russia’s sea | War Plot Against the Soviet Union Seethes in Four Countries | Soviet “dumping” and moreover her general relations with Italy would normally restrain her from unnecessary provocation in that | quarter. “Consequently it is obviously upon the British Navy that the main re- liance must be placed in this case to furnish the naval power which seems indispensable to the preser- vation of peace in the present crit- ical and highly complicated state of affairs surrounding the Russian situation.” ‘The captain's studious avoidance | of any word as to what the U. S. | mavy would be doing in this war | would be significant. The time has ‘not come, in his opinion, to openly | state that the refusal of the British | | | navy to fight the Soviet Union and | the pairing of the French and Ital- | | ian navies, would leave the job of | | blockading Soviet ports to the Amer- | ican navy, but his article is written | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | | Room 430, New York City. Plot to‘Break’ Tom MooneyThreatened His Life EFFORT TO SILENCE LABOR PRISONER AIMED AT DEATH ‘Wheeling Steel Co. Cuts GOVT THRE ATENS TO USE TRON FIST AGAINST SAILORS; SOCIALISTS ASK PUNISHMENT Communist Party of Great Britain Calls On Workers To Greet Militant Seatien On Solidarity Protests When Fleet Lands BULLETIN. The New York District of the Communist Party calls on the workern of the city to rally in Union Square, Saturday, in militant solidarity demonstration with the British seamen who have by their actions hit a blow at British imperialism. This demonstration will also be a pro- test against the attempts of the Bennett government and Wall Street to outlaw the Communist Party of Canada. The workers of New York will protest the mass murders of the Chilean seamen by the fascist Wall Street government of Chile. From this meeting solidarity greetings will be sent to the British seamen urging them to organize in order to win a real victory against the MacDonald nationalist government of hunger and ry. All out to Union Square on Saturday, September 19, at 2:30 p. m., to demon- strate our solidarity with the British seamen. eters Directly following the “socialist” J. H. Thomas’ statement that he would use the most vicious discipline against the militant British sailors, Austen Chamberlain, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced in the House of Commons that any further resistance on the part of the sailors would be dealt with under the Nav>, Dire‘pline Act. Chamberlain pointed out further that the cuts which had been pat through by the National government had already been decided on by the former Labor government. MacDonald admitted that this was the case but stated that the Labor government had been advised that “the navy would accept the wage cuts loyally.” MacDonald was not opposed to the wage cuts and is not opposed to them. He is disappointed that the sailors did not accept the slash at their living standards “loyally,” passively, instead of going into militant action as they did. Latest reports of the capitalist press point out that the attempt of the British naval officers to get the sailors to return to the home ports was successful only after two hours of pleading with them, in addition to the promises which they had already made to the effect that the ships would not be diverted to any, ateer eBoutae (Cable By. caeeenay Sept. 17—Referring to the mutiny, today’s Daily Worker writes that the Admiral’s statement promising recon- sideration of the pay cuts represents success for the men, but that the fight is not over and suct can turn into defeat unless their action is organized. The sailors must not forget that the cuts were first proposed by the labor government. The Daily Herald, organ of the Labor Party, advises the men to submit their case to a “high court of electors” which, in other words, means to vote the @ “OF UPHOLTERERS’ STRIKE MOUNTING ors ‘and wriies it PESSeIS to con- done insubordination. Marvel Shop ‘Workers Join the Strike; Three ad Danie States Are Still Jailed 16—when, |, NEW YORK.—Twenty-three . up- eee holsterers of the Marvel Upholstering LONDON, The fight against tne cuts rests en- tirely on the proletarian instincts of (CONTINUED “ON PAGE THREE) Harlan Miner, War Vet, Lies In Jail HARLAN, Bill Gibbs came Sept home wounded from France after the World war, | |C- Knickerbocker Ave. Brooklyn, he went back to his mine job in| | Yesterday Joined the general strise the old mining camp at Sunshine, | |Of upholstery workers against the ramshackle suburb of Harlan, All| |¢ve? Worsening conditions in the the while he was.in France Bill | @de ‘ was told he was fighting for free-| | Workers of. the Vanleigh Purnl- April ani ahinceribe ture Co., 115 W. 40th St., walked out | Sust what this “freedom” and | |00 strike against a wage cut of 30-35 | democracy” means Bill discovered | | Pet cent and increase in working | six weeks ago when, after five | | hours from 48 to 54, under the lead- \ership of the Furniture Workers’ In- | dustrial Union. A picket line has | been thrown around the shop. | raids by deputies upon his poverty- | stricken home within two weeks, | Bill was thrown into jail on a} | |charge of criminal syndicalism. The movement for spreading the Bill had National Miners’ Union | | upholsterers’ strike gains momentum | | literature in his home. daily as groups of workers from up- | Meanwhile his girl-wife and | | holstery shops come to the union and ask for aid in organizing and striking their shops. More bosses are now applying for negotiations with the union for settlement The three strikers arrested several days ago on framed charges of felo- nious assault are still in jai in lieu |four children, all under 10 years | of age, are starving in their tum- | ble-down old shack in the mining camp of Sunshine. Bill’s wife, a | | 17-year-old girl, has been driven | | nearly distracted by the cries of | her step-children for milk, Three | |of the children, terrorized by the | | of payment of $4,000 bail for the jnight raids of the Harlan coal] |three. Trial has been set for Octo- company thugs and now starved, | | per 7. have become seriously ill. | Unless Bill’s wife and children get food and milk at once, they | - stand face to face with starvation,|| .'NG@ TRADES FRACTION. | Workers all over America must|| An emergency meeting of the bec to their help. Send money | | Building Trades Fraction will be held for relief to the Kentucky Miners’ | Aid, care of the oer jon Saturday, September :9, ab 2.0m, Spree Defense, 80 East 1ith St, [sharp at the Workers Center. All ‘ | | baaing trades comrades must at- ‘tend, \ EMERGENCY MEET FOR BUILD-