The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1931, Page 1

FOUR MINES ON STRIKE IN NORTHERN WEST @ STR RR (Section of the Co IN ~Communist Party ’ 4 ee mmunist International) orker U.S. A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 240 Entered as second: matter at at New York, N. Y., ander the act the Post Office <@zpers of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents More Capitalist Than : Capitalists ERE and there, some capitalists—in fear of “something worse”—are beginning to admit, in part, the inevitability of unemployment in- \ surance, 'Thus the N. Y. Times of Sunday, Oct. 4, says: “There must be some form of unemployment insurance... . | Voluntary and sporadic effort will not serve. The whole-body of workers in state must be protected. Only the state can undertake such an enterprise. Reluctant as many are or were to admit it, it is likely that the contribution of the state wilt have to be added to those of the employer and employe.” Now, workers, of course you should understand that: First, merely » because the N) Y. Times says that that this does NOT mean that it will be. fight for it. unemployment insurance “must be,” No, indeed! You will have to Second, even those few capitalists, like the Times, who advance this idea, do so\only because they figure that unless the capitalists put over THEIR kind of unemployment insurance, which—please, note!—makes the-workers pay PART, you will fight for the Communist demand that the capitalists pay the ENTIRE COST of unemployment insurance. In fact the concession of the Times, ineffective and hesitant though it is, is a sign that YOUR FIGHT for the Communist demand is having some | vA effect. But the leaders of the American Federation of Labor, in convention | at Vancouver, B. C., are more capitalistic than the capitalists! “Unemployment insurance . It says: . . would be... unsatisfactory to American working men and women.” Did they ask you, workers? Of course not! And are you contented ENGLISH ¢. P. GAINS 1,200 \Leader of Jobless Jailed for Month By MacDonald (Cable by Inprecorr) LONDON, Oct. 5.—During the last three months the Communist Party | won 1,200 recruits, including 500 in the Lgndon district. Fine organiza- tional progress is being made every- where. The printer of the Daily Worker was committed to trial at the Cen- tral Criminal Court on charges of conspiracy and inciting to mutiny. Bail was allowed. In the meantime, printer’s censorship of the paper was established according to the terms of the bail, . | NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—In order to ; crush the militancy of the workers the MaeDonald Government has Had NEW MEMBERS Is) |2,000 Meet .Sunday an | BULLETIN .. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. West Virginia strikers have elected a strike committee of 15 and a relief committee. Starvation is already prevalent. These strikers will need relief at once. Rush funds and food to Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia- | Kentucky Striking Miners Relief at 611 Penn Ave., Room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa. ra eres FAIRMONT, W. Va., Oct. 5.—Four mines struck in the northern West Virginia field this morning under the jleadership of the National Miners Union, following the mass meeting of 2,000 miners at Scotts Run yesterday in which teh strike vote was taken. The strike is against the 25 per N ational Miners Union Leads FightonUMW Cut 25: Per Cent Slash; d Vote Strike Against Pickets Marching jcent wage cut ordered at a confer- 5.—The | ence of the United Mine Workers and | operators last week. U.M.W.A, Cut Wages. ‘The United Mine Workers of Amer- ica came into Scotts Run and Fair- mont fields three months ago, and made agreements with every operator who would deal with them, t0 give the operators a wage cut from 38 cents a ton to 30 cents, in return for the operators’ collecting a check-off of “union dues”.to be sent directly to the district office of the U.M.W. The U.M.W.A. also promised further re- ductions every 90 days. At the end of the first 90 day periqd a joint con- ference of the U.M.W.A. officials and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) to go on starving with your wives and babies because the capitalists throw you on the streets by millions with no security of even a little food, | shelter and-clothing? Of course you arg not! Would those of you who | are rank and file members of the A. F. of L. be “unsatisfied” if the boss had to pay you regular wages when he gives you no work? Is not, in fact, such unemployment insurance the ONLY way to make the capi- talists give you work—or pay the cost of turning you out? Certainly! Why, then, do the A. F. of L. officials say that unemployment in- | surance would be “unsatisfactory” to you workers? And turn around | and “demand” that the bosses “furnish work”—with no effort or power to make such a “demand” effective? The reason is, workers, that these A. F. of L. officials are fascist scoundrels, who are more zealous on behalf of the Bosses than even | gome open capitalist spokesmen! To such capitalists as the N. Y. Times, who are getting afraid of revolution if the starving millions are not fed, the A. F. of L. Says: “Be more courageous! Give the workers nothing! Let them starve, while we will do our part by keeping them fooled into thinking that, our ‘demands’ that you ‘give jobs’ amounts to something.” Workers, did you ever see such hypocrites! Such scoundrels! More than ever, strengthen your fight for unemployment insurance at full wages, at the entire cost of the capitalists, administered by the workers! U.S. Engineer Gets Award in U.S.S.R. for Successful Work |the traitor role of the Labor Party ee one of the leaders of the National os ie on Unemployed Workers Movement, Wal Mis.cabetyr Hannington, thrown in jail for a month. The Unemployed Movement has been leading the workers in the recent demonstrations in Glasgow | and other cities in Great Britain. ‘The workers in Battersea prevented | two Laborites from holding a meet- | ing they had planned Sunday .in | order to deceive the workers about | HARLAN, Ky., Oct. 5.—Enraged because another Harlan-Evarts con- ference was successfully held, the mine owners’ deputized thugs went on another rampage and raided the re- lief kitchen at the Harlan swimming WORKERS’ ART TO BE FEATURE in the present attack of the British capitalist class on the workers. | As part. of. the capitalist attack on | the workers Cardinal Bourne, Arch- bishop of Westminster and head of | the Catholic Church in Great Bey'| tain, attacked the Soviet Union as being the cause of the demonstra~ tions of the British workers by the tens of thousands against the hunger budget of MacDonald. In his attack | on the Soviet Union he said that | Russia was “the greatest danger to | the civilized world.” The British [).47 ¢ ° workers are learning that while So- ‘4 reiheit GesangVerein cialis is being bullt in the Soviet and Ukranian Chorus Union and the conditions o! e | * workers are steadily improving the | Among Attractions British workers must fight against aR: The accomplishments of workers “We'll Kill Every God Damned Man, Woman! and Young ’Un” Shouts Operators’ Gang OF D.W. BAZAAR the continued attacks of the capital- ist class to keep. from starving. The Soviet Supreme * Economic Council has awarded an American mining engineer, H. J. C. MacDonald a prize of $7,500 for his work in con- nection with the development of the metallurgicyl industry in,the Séviet Union. His. ystem has been in use in . the Ural an’ Altai mining organiza- tions on colored metals for three years and the Supreme Economic Council now proposes to install this method in all enterprises dealing with nonferrous metals and iron and steel. Large economies have resulted from MacDonald's methods. Mac- Donald, formerly a mining engineer of Denver, now holds a leading posi- tion in the mining industry in the Soviet Union. MacDonald in accepting the-award stated that the success of his meth- ods had been due in large part to the splendid cooperation he had received from the workers and technicians in the Soviet Union. “I am naturally grateful for the honor, but of course the work for which it is bestowed would not have been possible without the co- operation of the Russian officials and workers with whom I am asso- ciated.” MacDonald is entering the fousth year of his work in the Soviet Unten. House-to-House Drive in Red Election Campaign, This Week NEW YORK.—In order to win the workers who have signed petitions to Join the “Vote Communist Clubs” now being organized in each Assem- bly District, preparations are now going forward for the house to house canvass on October 10th and. 11th this Saturday and Sunday and again on October 2t4h and 25th. The Party platform is to be sold ‘and election campaign coupons dur- | ing this house to house mobilization. All working class organizations, fra- terial bodies and clubs are urged to ‘give the’maximum support to this city-wide agitation to win the work- ers to vote Communist. At the same time as this drive goes forward, the sale of the Party Platforms must be Last Call! All greetings, ads and Red Honor Roll lists for the Bazaar Journal must be in the office of the Bazaar Committee NOT LATER than tomorrow (Wed- nesday) night. Speed it up comrades! Don’t hold the above mater- ial in your pockets! NATIONAL PRESS BAZAR COMMITTEE pushed in shop, factory, at union meetings and on the streets. Platforms and election campaign coupon books can be had from the District Campaign Committee at once. No less than fifty thousand Party platforms can be sold through this special mobilization drive. Workers’ organizations are urged to | start révolutionary tition to see which can reach the’ largest number’ of workers and sell the largest num- ber of Communist Party platforms for the election campaign, The Communist Party looks to the revolu- tionary unions, to the mass organ- izations and workers’ clubs to make this a record-breaking drive both in the sale of Platforms and in the sale of coupons, The el lon campaign coupon stamps sell for 10, 25 and 50 cents and there are five dollars worth of stamps to a book, . Preparations are also under way for the organization of a special Women’s Conference to draw in in- dustrial women and gain their sup- port for the program of struggle of the Party in this election. The spe- cial Women’s Conference on the Election Campaign will be held Oc- tober 10th at Irving Plaza. Workers’ organizations: and workers in. shop and faétory are urged to elect dele- 4 sates immedlately. ag Bourne tried to make the workers believe that the demonstrations of tens of thousands of workers in Glas- gow day after day was the result of work by the Soviet Union. «polshevikis are working every- where as skillfully and secretly as “possible, and mischief has already een done beyondecalculation. Bri- tain now has a large number of unemployed, and the Bolsheviki have an unprecedented field in which to work. “Catholics must realize that au- thority must be respected and that no good purpose can possibly be served by following the methods which have brought Russia to a state of utter degradation.” The British workers are learning that the only way out of the crisis is a determined struggle against the entire system of capitalist exploite- tion. It is the Communist Party of Great Britain that is leading the workers in this struggle agains’ the attacks of the capitalists on their living standards. | 3-Month Old Baby Comrade Williams Has No Money for Burial NEW YORK.--The starvation pro- gram of the bosses took another working class victim with the death Saturday of starvation and lack of medical attention of the 3 month old child of Comrade Henry Williams militant Negro worker. Comrade Williams has been out of work for the past 23 months, and denied relief by the boss charity racketeering agencies. His wife and child have been going hungry for the past 3 weeks. Learning of their condition, several comrades came to the atd of comrade Williams but be- fore comrade Williams could get medical aid for his baby, the child died, one of the countless working class children murdered by the ca- pitalist system. i ‘The dead baby is lying at the home of comrade Williams, who has no money to pay for a grave and its bugle! y a Dies.of Hunger, j and revolutionary artists in the field | of art will be spread out in magnifi- | cent array in the booth taken by the | John Reed Club at the Daily Worker- Freiheit-Young Worker bazaar open- ing this Thursday night at Madison Sq. Garden. Every night of the bazaar, which will continue through Friday, Satur- day and Sunday nights, will have a special feature that you won’t want to miss. The Freiheit Gesang Verein will open the bazaar Thursday night with the singing of revolutionary songs, On Friday night the Ukrain- ian chorus will be heard. The Labor Sports Union will have exhibitions throughout the) bazaar, And every night will be a grand dazzling fair, a vast jungle of bar- gains providing ‘rich game for bar- gain hunters. Clothing and jewelry and groceries and everything else of- fered in the biggest department. stores will be on sale at prices re- duced by one third and more. So ecme early and get your pick. And there will be dancing and mu- sic every night till daybreak, Comrades, you have today, tomor- row and Thursday to get your tickets PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 5.—The enlarged session of the National Ex- ecutive Committee of the Trade Union Unity League adjourned at 11 p.m. last night after two full days’ of discussion and decisions affecting the basic tasks of organization in the heavy industries and among the un- employed. A draft program of organization work was discussed, amended and adopted, Sunday's meeting devoted serious consideration to a fighting program for the millions of jobless who will die of starvation in droves this winter unless mass pressure can win relief for them, * Struggle of Jobless ‘The main report on unemployment organization was made by Alfred Wagenknecht and on. the basis of this report, a program was adopted. A series of city, county and state hunger marches and demonstrations, s Thugs Raid Harlan Relief Again; Send Food!) pool. On a previous raid, these thugs | murdered a miner here. \ ‘This time they swooped down upon the kitchen committee suddenly and | chased them out of the county. | The thugs were especially after one miner who had witnessed the previ- ous shooting and murder. They threatened to kill him, but fortunate- ly he escaped. | “we'll kill every god damned man, | woman and young ‘un Red!” the | thugs shouted. The company gunmen directing | their activities toward destroying the | |relief kitchens, especially since the strike broke out in Straght Creek. | They greatly fear that the strike will | | spread all through the region, When- | ever a group of miners—or even their | womenfolk—get together, two or more | in any house, the thugs are right on the spot and hound the known union | and auxiliary members. In spite of this, regular union meetings and\sec- | tion’ committee meetings are ‘held | regularly—mostly in the woods, drilled into the thugs by their boss- es, the operators, who know the sta- tegic value of relief in a strike. But the Penn-Ohio-W. .Va.-Ky.y Strik- ing Miners Relief Committee and the Workers International Relief are de- thugs do, the strikers and their fami- lies will be fed. The relief commit- tee calls for help—funds to, buy food should be'sent to room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. if you haven't already done so, to send in the money for sold tickets, and to send in your greetings for the bazaar journal. The Daily Worker is engaged in a mighty struggle against the bosses’ wage cut drive, and needs every ounce of your support. Pittsburgh Decision in Sharp Contrast With AFL Treacheries - going on together with the organiza- tion of unemployed councils will lead to a great national hunger march on Washington, December 7. Hunger demonstrations demand unemploy- ment insurance, relief amounting to full wages to be paid throughout the period of unemployment, relief for part time workers to make up their full amount’ of wages, struggle against forced labor as exemplified in Detroit, Buffalo and elsewhere; food, clothing and fare for school children, no evictions, no shutting off of gas and electricity, etc., from unemployed workers, supplying by the city of pub- lic buildings for meetings and shelter VIRGIN MUSTEITESIN SELL OUT OF HOSIERY MEN Officials Who Vote fox the Pay Cut Try to Miselad Strikes Strike Still Goes On |8,000 Boston Workers Hit Pay Cuts BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 5. — Eight thousand workers gathered at the Parkman band stand on Boston com- mon yesterday, then marched singing and cheering to Charles Street de- monstration against wage cuts, The mass meeNng and parade were held despite the refusal of a permit by the city authorities. This demonstration, calling for or- ganization and strike against wage cuts, was organized by the Commun- ist Party. Robert Minor, Edith Berk- Party Membership Meeting ia | | | A very important general mem- bership meeting of the Party will| | |be held at Central Opera House, | {67th St. and Third Ave, on| | | Wednesday, October 7, at 8 p.m. | |sharp, at which a leading member | of the Central Committee will | |Speak on the present situation, | | particularly in relation to the wage | cutfing campaign and the growing | unemployment. This meeting will | be very important, in view of the | | deepening crisis, and the necessity of every Party and YCL member | being fully informed as to our | tasks in this situation. | All Party members should be | present. The meeting will start at \8 o'clock sharp. Bring along your membership card. COMMUN: | District Secretariat } WRITERS’ GROUP GOING TO HARLAN; ‘DREISER TOSPEAK ST PARTY OF U.S.A.| | GROWTH IMPORTS man, Nat Kaplan, Harry Canter and | Dawson spoke; Reed was chairman. | er ae Hosiery Officials Betray | READING, Pa., Oct. 5.—As a re- Dinner Friday Before They Leave | Dreiser | NEW YORK.—Theodore | sult of the betrayal of the hosiery | and probably John Dos Passos will be workers by Edelman, Holderman and | among the group of writers present | other wage cut officials of the Am- | at a dinner to be given Friday night, erican Full-Fashioned Hosiery Work- October 9, at Teutonia Hall, 158 | ers Union, the bosses“of the Berk- | Third Ave., to a delegation of promi- | shire mill and other mills in Read-|hent novelists and journalists going ing and Berks County have started | to Harlan, Ky., to break down the | “wall of silence and gunmat terror | | thrown aroynd the Kentucky coal (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) strike. . U Ny PREVENTS | The writers’ delegation is being 2 We | formed by the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prison- ers, Room 430, 80 E. 11th St., which includes among its members, Dreiser, Lincoln Steffens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dos Passos, Harry Elmer | FROM THE SOVIET 3: Burton Roscoe, Franz Boas | |and Malcolm Cowley. The commit- | * + | tee is co-operating in the Harlan Will Mean Slump m thiné situation with the International Machinery Exports From United tSates | Labor Defense which is organizing (Cable by. Inprecorr) | defense for mners held for criminal | syndicalism charges arid allegedly |framed accusations of murder. | The National Committee in 5,000 STRIKE IN LAWRENCE; | | AIT PAY CUT |Strike Led By National Textile Workers Union Picket Other Mills. |General Wage Cut for | All Mill Workers LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 5.—Five thousand workers in the Wood Mill ) Struck at two o'clock today against. | wage cuts. The strike is under the |leadership of the National Textile | Workers Union and the United Front | Committee. The textile :bosses last week annownced that on October 13, | there would be a general wage it for all Lawrence textile“workers. B | number affected is around 20,000 to 25,000. The various A. F. of L. fakers and other union misleaders outside of the National Textile Workers Union talked about “resistance to wage” cuts, while they negotiated with the bosses. The National Textil2 Work- efs Union called for a united front and immediate action ‘The 5,000 workers inthe Wood Mill! were the first to respond Picket lines were formed at the Ayer Mill in Lawrence preparing to call the workers out against a wage cut and against the proposal to de- lay through arbitration of the A. F. of L. 3 NEGRO WORKE ON DELEGATION TO THE SOVIET UNION Delegates to be Given Mass Send-off Qct. 14 NEW YORK.—Three Negro work- MOSCOW, Oct. 5.—In_ connection with the complaints of the Wall | Street Journal about the crisis in the @/ ers have been elected members of | statement issued today states that | the American Workers’ Delegation to | Harlan County officials have sup-/| Soviet Russia that will sail Octobsr |pressed all news about the “gunman |14 to attend the 14th Annive The importance of relief has been termined that, in spite of all the terror” to which miners are subjected. | Celebration of the Russian Revolu- Four reporters were driven out of the | tion. The delegation is being or- county, two of them after being shot | ganized by the Friends of the Soviet jin the leg, ‘according to the commit- | Union, 80 East 11th Street, New York “Last year the exports of agricul-/tee: and even the reporter of the | City, as an expression of solidarity tural machinery of the United States | New York Times had to escape to| between the American masses and were exclusively to the Soviet, Union | Chicago before venturing to send out | the workers and peasants of the U. which purchased three-fourths of the AS ee aid . is Ai aim £ ee It will consist of 14 workers writers’ delegation to expose strong- | from the metal, marine and mining aig oe eelcutvare) machen oF arm censorship of news in Harlan | industries and! five fraternal dele- je United States... The obstacles | Gout as well as “starvation of the | gates. A mass send-off for the dele- which have been raised by the United | miners, suppression by bullets and/| gation will be held in New York American agricultural machinery in- dustry, and the construction of trac- tors in particular, the Pravda writes: of Soviet merchandise into the United States naturally limits the possibility of the Soviet Union to | purchase goods in the United States. The United States has exported $70,- 000,000 worth of goods to the Soviet Union while the Soviet exports to the U. 8. A. have amounted to only $5,- 000,000. Under these circumstances the further development of Soviet purchases in the United States is impossible and the agricultural ma- chinery industry of the United States 4s confronted with the prospect of losing the most important market for its agricultural machinery.” Trade Union Unity League Maps Campaign. for Jobless Struggle cS of the jobless, etc, ‘The organization of the unem- ployed is to penetrate the smaller towns and the neighborhoods of the large cities, and great emphasis is laid on local demands, and gathering of facts on specific cases of actual starvation and evictions, etc. The un- employed councils investigate and ex- pose the increase of unemployment, the cutting off of relief, the use of forced labor by state and city relief agencies, overtime, bad conditions, and low pay by such charitable agen- cles, etc. Contrast With A. F. L, This fighting program contrasts sharply with the unemployment de- cisions announced today by the Ex- ecutive Council of the A.F.L. to be submitted to the convention of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) States authorities against the import | dynamite of all their union activity, | Monday, |and the squalor and disease of these |100 per cent Americans’ lives.” Writers who have already consent- led to join the delegation and who | will be at the dinner include, besides | Dreiser: Lester Cohen, poet ‘and journalist, author of the industrial novel, |“Sweepings”; Samuel Ornitz, author of “Haunch, Paunch and Jowl,” edi- tor-director of the Macaulay Publish- ing Company, former editor of Mac- |fadden Publications, now with Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Holly- wood; Josephine Herbst and Edward Dahlberg, novelists; and Anna Roch- ester, coal expert, author of “Labor and Coal.” Paanes. STRIKE NOW IN Call to Picket Axel’s; Victory in 2 Places NEW YORK.—The workers of Axel Bros., 21 West 46th St. came down solidly on strike yesterday noon against starvation wages under the leadership of the Jewelry Workers’ Industrial Union. ‘The Bernstein shop of 36 West 47th St. settled their strike against discrimination with all the men back and improyed conditions in the shop, after 4 days on strike. The JEWELRY SHOPS October 12, in Cooper Union. 1 One of the colored delegates is a | marine worker, Morris Wikman, of | New York, a member of the Marine | Workers Industrial Union. Another is J. W. Jones, of the Upper Monan- | gahela bituminous coal district of | Pennsylvania, who was elected by the striking miners. A: third is a Gary, | Ind., steel worker whose name is not | yet known. : | The delegates will spend about five | weeks in the Soviet Union, visiting |the chief industrial and agricultural @reas and observing the great pro- gress that is being made under the Five-Year Plan of Socialist Con- struction. The Negro delegates will be given special opportunities to study the situation of the formerly ~ oppressed national minorities and to | compare the freedom they have won ith the persecution of the Negro ‘e in the United States. | 714 delegates will comprise four | marine workers, three steel workers, | one die-maker, two Ford auto work- ers, one metal, one anthracite and two bituminous miners. The five fraternal delegates have been elected by the Bulgarian, Hungarian and | Polish mass organizations. The dele- | gates will carry with them thousands of greetings from American workers and sympathizers which the Friends of the Soviet Union is now collect~ ing. Each greeting costs 25 cents } (10 cents for the unemployed), and | Should be sent-to the’ F.S.U., 80 E. llth St., Room 221, New York City. Fabricant shop of 125 Canal St. settled without a strike for.increased ity with the strikers—come on the wages and union agreement on Sat- ' picket line, especially at 21 West urday. Rothman & Baden of 66 46th St. Also support the strike of Nassau gave increased wages and S. K. & W. men at 87 Maiden Lane union conditions after 3 hours strike, against piece-work and starvation last Wednesday. wages. All militants report to union Jewelry workers, show your solidar- | office, 5 East 19th St., immediately, ' * « ‘i ee