The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1931, Page 3

ry f DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 1931 lege Three 25,000 GLEN ALDEN STRIKERS BLOCK MALONEY SELL OUT PLAN {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) meeting to return to work on Mur- ray’s proposal to go back first and discuss terms later. At the mass meeting Maloney is forced to answer the charges of the Unity Committee that he is planning to sell out the strike by selecting a committee to negotiate with Murray. Maloney and Tomichek are, with others, a clique nominally in oppo- sition to Lewis, Boylan and the whole UMW international and District 1 offices. But they fight only for the wnion jobs, not for the miners and the Unity Committee-never lets them forget that they sold out the Glen Alden strike this spring through just such a deal with the Lewis officers as they are plotting now. Lewis Plotting International President, John L.| Lewis, of the "U.M.W.A. made -a} secret visit to Scranton, from Wilkes Barre. ‘ A local capitalist paper pub- lished the fact that he was there, and also-gave out the information | that “The insurgent group (Maloney | & Co.) is understood to have asked | Murray to arrange a conference in which district officials and the coal company officers would take part.” Negro Worker Shot Down by Birmingh (CONTINURD FROM PAGE ONE? had nothing to say “except that I am innocent.” The Grand Jury is also rushing through the frame-up of Peterson in connection w:"h the shooting of the two women i: order to aid the de- fense of Dent Williams against the | manslaughter c. arge with which he will be faced shi uld Peterson die. It has develope ; that the so-called identification of Pt erson by Nell Wil- liams, sisted of one >f the dead wom- en and who was pre ‘ent at the shdot- | ing, is limited to th : “identification” of Peterson's hat as ‘he hat worn by the slayer of the twc vomen, Nell, Williams’ des: iption of the | hold-up man has beei so conflicting | and confused that she ; ate has found it necessary to drop the .ersonal iden- tification and concentré ‘e on the hat worn by Peterson at the time of his arrest. So weak is the case against Peter- son that the boss press in -working am Boss Near Death up sentiment against him has been forced to drag in the supernatural, publishing a silly statement by the) father o fDent Williams that the dead Williams girl appeared in a vision to her brother, in which-she told him that Peterson was the hold-up man, and asked him to avenge her. Should Peterson die, he will make the fourth murder victim of the Bir- mingham police and bosses in the ter- ror against Negro workers here since the hold-up and murder of the two society women. Two other Negro workers were shot down by police. A Negro. woman “worker , was also murdered and her body left on the street. Scores of Negro workers have been arrested and beaten up and the homes ,of many searched for Commu- nist literature. The local boss press reports the re- ceipt by Commission President Jones of a jrotest of the frame-up and shooting of Peterson from the Inter- national Labor Defense. JEERS FAKERS WHO ATTEMPT BETRAY (Continued from Page 1)” ganizations, are working frantically to crush the strike, or, as they say quite openly, to keep the leadership | out of teh hands of the National Textile Workers Union. ‘The strike, which started Monday by a walkout of 7,000 at the Wood and Ayres Mill, under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union, rapidly spread despite all ef- forts of the mill. bosses and their union leadership to stop it. When the workers learned that a wage-cut was to come for all of them on Oc- tober 13, they immediately declared themselves for strike action and moved without the “sanction” of their misleaders, following the slo- gans of the National Textile Work- ers Union, which called ie a Pape front. | 1 . . 2 LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 6.—The Pacific Print Mill joined the strike 1,500 strong on Tuesday afternoon, | making the total on strike up to that time 20,700. This is the biggest tie- up of the textile. industry in this | | town and vicinity for the past 20 years, The partially successful strug- gle in the American Woolen Com- pany last February of 10,000 workers laid the basis for the present strike. The same militant workers who fol-~ lowed the leadership of the N.T.W.U. at that time too kthe leadership in mobilizing the rest of the workers under the slogans of the N.T.W.U. ‘Wednesday will be an important day for the consolidation, of the strike. The misleaders of the A, F. of L., working in solidarity with the Citizen’s Committee and the mill owners, will try to take over the leadership of the strikers on the City Common on this day. Before Monday they were saying “No strike.” Now that the strike is on they are saying: “We will declare the strike as Officially existing on Saturday, and propose arbitration as the meams \ of smashing it.” The A. F. of L. \ intended to put over a fake vote in the City Hall under the auspices of the Citizen's Committee and the company bookkeepers as a meays of preventing the strike. But the work- ers voted with their feet, by striking. The N. T. W. U. calls upon the workers to demand rank and file and N. T. W. U. speakers for Wed- nesday’s Common mecting. Call Mill Conferences, In the evening on Wednesday the N.T.W.U. is calling the preliminary mill delegate united front confer- ence to elect the rank and file lead- ership of the strike. «This prelimin- ary conference will then organize a bigger conference for Saturday aft- ernoon. The N.T.W.U. and the rank and file committee not only calls upon the groups in every department of the American Woolen Co. mills, the Pacific mills and the Arlington mills to elect delegates to this con- ference, but invites delegates from the unstruck mills and shops as well. ‘The workers in unorganized depart- | ments must get together in groups and elect delegates to these confer- ences so that their departments will be represented on the General Rank and File Strike Committee.” All strikers, regardless of what union they belong to, non-union workers, office workers, skilled and unskilled, employed and unemployed, regard- lecs of their nationality, political or relizious beliefs, are urged to or- ha against the Me aaa the leadership of ‘ | | Se: IS mittee in order to win the. strike,” declared the N.T.W.U. yesterday. At the same time the N.T.W.U. is call- ing upon allworkers to join its ranks as the permanent industrial union in the mills, so that the gains won in | the strike can be maintained. How Strike Was Called, ‘The strategy worked out by the N.T.W.U. in the calling of the strike worked successfully, The strike started in’ the Wood Mill on Mon- day, where the united front Com- | mittees of Action, organized by the workers and led by the members of the N.T.W.U., went from department to department, calling the workers out. From there it spread to the other A.W.C. mills and then to the Pacific and Arlington mills. According to capitalist press re- ports, 600 workers walked out on strike in the Royal, Worsted Co., Ames Worsted Co., “and the U. 8. Bunting Co. in Lowell, Mass,, near here, on Tuesday, against a proposed 10 per cent, wage-cut and forced the companies to immediately rescind the wage-cut. Five hundred hosiery workers of the Propper-McCallum Co. in Northampton, Mass., are on strike against a wage-cut under the leadership of the A.F.F.F.H.W. union, according tothe capitalist press re- ports, On Monday, when Bramhall, can- didate for Mayor on the Communist Party platform, demanded from the City Council the right to use the Lawrerice Common for N.T.W.U. meetings and for election rallies, he of the mill owners and a member of are Citizen's Committee, that they would only allow their friends, the U-T.W., to use the Common for meetings, Watt, an official of the C.L.U. and the State Federation of Labor, de- clared that he was still ready to break the strike even if his efforts to prevent it did not succeed. “We are still ready to sit down with the employers and try to bring about a peaceful solution to this trouble,” he said. But teh workers are demand- ing that only their rank and file strike committee shall have the power to negotiate with the employ- ers for a settlement of the strike. The N.T.W.U, is holding regular strikers’ meetings at the Lincoln Court Lot and calls upon all dele- gates to the United Front Mill Dele- gates’ Conference to get in touch with them at the Union Hall, 234 Essex St., for detailed information. _In the meantime all New England towns are being urged to rush strike and relief funds to the W.LR., 151 Washington St., Boston, Mass. eo 8 8 Follow N.T.W.U. Slogans. LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 7.—The announced 10 per cent wage-cut for the 25,000 textile workers, effective Oct. 13, has already been answered with strike. This is the answer, of the workers to the mill owners and their agents, the U. T. W. officials, to prevent a strike on the basis of a fake vote in City Hall to be counted by the company agents—the Citizen’s Committee. The workers responded to the call of the N.T.W.U, to “De- mand, not a cent off our pay! ganize to strike against the wage- cut! Form a United Front Commit- tee of Action in every department— in every mill! Join your own fight- ing union, the N.T.W.U.” Over 2,000 strikers voted to be on the picket line Tuesday morning, to keep any scabe out and spread the strike, The vote was put at the mass meeting of the N.T.W.U. in Loncoln Court Lot, where W. T. Murdoch, national secretary of the N.T.W.U.; Edith Berkman, Lawrence organizer, and Bill Sarti, youth organizer of the union, spoke. The remarks of ahs Kaplan of the eos ee wes told by Alderman Carr, a tool Or- | y, Cleveland Beverage Workers Rebelling Against A. F. of L. Rebellion of Cleveland beverage workers against their A. F. of L. company controlled union is indi- | | cated by an admission by the A. F. L. | that “some unknown miscreants have put stickers on the Coco Cola adver- | tising signs stating that the‘firm is| unfair to organized labor.” The Cleveland Federation of Labor, true to the bosses, call the workers who | |are beginning to fight against the sell-out A. F. L. “miscreants,” deny that they have ever heard of bad conditions among the beverage work- ers, but they can’t rub out the tell- | tale stickers by denials. RESISTANCE TO PAY CUTS IS GROWING (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED | headed ‘by the notorious faker Capt. William A. Maher. The bosses in-| sist on an agreement with a 10 per | cent_cut, while the men have voted | enthusiastically for a general strike. | ‘To wear out the men, Maher is “ne-| gotiating” while cuts are put into ef- | fect. The men here and there go out | on strike. * Packinghouse Slash MILWAUKEE, Wisc., Oct. 7. ~ More than 800 workers employed by the Plankinton Packing Company of Milwaukee received a wage cut of 10 per cent on October 5. The workers are very sore about it. There is strike sentiment in évery department. The truckers are making about $18 to $20 a week and the trimmers from $14 to $16 per week. ‘The workers are forced to work at neck-breaking speed for 9 hours per} day. The Food and Packing Work- ers Industrial League of Milwaukee issued a leaflet to the workers in the plant, calling upon them to or- ganize and strike against the wage | cut of 10 per cent. » 8 * . Tacoma Wage Cuts ‘TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 7. — Wage cuts in Tacoma’ are spreading. The latest is the~10 per cent slash in the Tacoma smelter. The company said it “regretted” to cut wages, us- ing statements very much in line with | those of the A. F. of L. officialdom. At the same time the Tacoma papers announce that Guggenheim, the lead- ing owner of the copper trust, said that profits would be paid on stocks and bonds at all costs, even at the cost of further wage cuts. to support the Lawrance strikers on | Sunday, a day before they struck, was greeted with tremendous applause. Cheering and shouts of “Strike, strike,” rang throughout the lot in response to the question put by Berkman: “What is your answer to the wage-cuts?” After the lot meeting over 200 workers crowded the N.T.W.U, of- fice, signing up in the union, par- ticipating in department meets and in a youth meeting. The youth meeting decided to not only fight for the return of the wage-cut, but to formulate demands for the young workers in the mills. ‘The police,as the: tools of the mill owners, and the representatives of the capitalist city government have already started their strike-breaking work. When teh mass picket line paraded from tHe Wood and Ayer mills to the Washington mills a large force of police under the direction of City Marshal Timothy J. O’Brien,/ dispersed the workers, The walkout of the night shift in this mill was the workers’ answer. Samuel Bramhall, candidate for Mayor in the local elections on the platform of the Communist Paty, which he has endorsed, has been taking an active part in the strike preparation meetings. The platform of the Communist Party makes the central issue in the elections the need for organizing the strike against wage-cuts and winning relief for the unemployed workers, The City Coun- cil has turned down the demands of Bramhall and a large delegation of workers that the N.T.W.U., the Communist Party and other militant workers’ organizations be given the right to speak on the Lawrence Com- mon. The workers are determined to Mooney Will ta Fred. iy the Working! ‘Akron Tag Days for CRISIS | SHARPENS: MORE BANKS Class, Not by the Friends of His Jailors (CONTINUED FRUM PAGE ONED murderer of Tom Mooney? Older responded by printing an editorial praising the appointment of Fickert by Rolfe. ‘The present trend of events shows only too glaringly the bankruptcy of the policy of depending to the slightest degree upon men and groups whose class associations are with the same groups within the ruling class who directly sent Mooney to the death cell. Some who will be on the platform at the San Francisco demonstra- tion are closely connected with Governor Rolfe of California who is today the immediate jailor and torturer of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. But the theory of this demonstration is that these very connections will improve the chances of Tom Mooney—in other words, that the leader~ ship of the movement for Mooney’s release is best to be left in the hands | of those who are most closely and personally connected with the ele- ments who are keeping thesé class war prisoners in jail. This theory is, of course, fatal. The working class will free Mooney only against his jailors—in strug- gle against and over the heads of the “liberal” friends of the jailors! The differing aims and differing class objectives of this group of men, if allowed to shape the movement, will shape it into its exact op- posite as far as the liberation of the working class prisoners is concérned, Dependence upon them would sap the strength of the movement by which results can really be obtained for the release of class war prisoners—the militant movement of the working class itself—and would merely build up the “liberal” careers of gentlemen who, no one will deny, are sup- porters of the capitalist system. Tammany Hall can, it is true, all the better utilize the “liberal” and “pro-labor” reputation of Frank Walsh that is built up in this way, as in the case of Walsh’s present appoint- ment as attorney for. the State Power Commission; and the gains in Hearst circulation for the debauching of the working class with Hearst Propaganda will doubtless be substantial. But the release of labor's class war prisoners is not promoted by sap- ping all the strength and militancy of the working class organized move- ment for their release, and putting in its place the “respectable” move- ment of the friends of Mooney’s jailors, Mooney has declared in recent months, and truthfully, that the bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor is directly responsible for the deliberate frame-up. Mooney made one mistake in this. De- ceived by superficial appearances, Mooney spoke of certain members of the ruling bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. as “exceptions” who were his “true friends,” such as Ed Notkels, secretary of the Chicago Federation ruthless anti-labor force in the whole world today—is now making use of those members of William Green’s fascist bureaucracy who pose as being “true friends” of Green’s enemies. Even the arch-enemy of the workers, Paul Scharenberg, leader of the California A. F. of L., is now posing as Mooney’s “friend.” The California State Federation of Labor, at its recent convention, while hypocritically going through the form of demanding the release of Mooney and Billings which they had to do be- cause of the mass movement in favor of their release, at the same time savagely attacked the whole of the organized defense of Mooney and attempted to seize control of it for the purpose of exterminating it. The A. F, of L. bureaucracy is attempting in other ways through its agents who pose as “true friends” of its enemies to obtain control of and to extinguish the mass movement of which they know can not only upset their crime against Mooney and Billings, but also can “help upset their whole careers of treason to the working class. Communist Party speakers will not be-on-the platform at the Audi- torlum mass meeting in San Francisco on October 11th. The Communist Party does not take responsibility for the trend of the movement as ex- pressed by the spineless and contemptible editorial of Older praising the giving of political plums to Fickert, the would-be murderer of Mooney, nor responsibility for other evidences of the bankrupt policy there put into effect. f But the Communist Party does emphatically take responsibility for the most energetic building up of the mass movement of the working class to compel the ruling class to release Tom Mooney and the other class war prisoners, There will be terrific struggles in America this winter. Not only unemployment relief but also the release of Mooney and other class war prisoners can be a by-product of this struggle. In these struggles the working class will fight not only against the master class but also against their contemptible agents, the reactionary Sig a L, officialdom, the Socialists and the liberal bootlicking Olders, and Place the demand for the immediate release of Tom Mooney and all other class war prisoners high on the banners of struggle this Winter! INTRODUCE FASCIST DECREES TO % ~-CRUSH GERMAN COMMUNISTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) party has been teh chief factor in | introducing the attack on the workers | and in paving the way for the pres- | ent dictatorial deorees. This was re- tion, wage cuts of officials and state employees. It also entitles the un- employment’ insurance ‘authorities to pay one-third support in food, in- stead of cash, according to the dis- cretion of the authorities, Post before the recent government was kicked out of office. of Labor, etc. The A. F. of L, bureaucracy—the most reactionary and | Ported two days. ago by the New York | The whole Bruening cabinet re- signed. Hindenburg has entrusted Bruening to form a new cabinet at his own discretion without particular party affiliations. Pa ees NEW YORK, Oct.. 7.—The forego- ing extreme fascist measures have been put into effect for the purpose of crushing the rising resistance of the masses of German workers against the hunger measures of the capitalist class, The measures are pointed directly against the Commu- nist Party and-other mass organiza tions supporting the Communist Party In its leadership of the work- ers in struggle against wage cuts and cuts in relief, Chief in the attack on the workers have been the “socialists”. Even be- fore the present government fell the capitalist press realized that the at- tack on th workers would mean the win the right of free spéecii in the present strike struggle. ‘The preliminary United Front Mill Delegates Conference will take place Wednesday night. The hall will be announced later, Joe Hill Branch ILD Demands Release of wholesale renunciation by workers of the Social-Democratie Party for the Communist Party, The Social-Demo- cratic workers are beginning to real- ize in millions that the “socialist” “The weakness of the present Government in making a stand | against the immediate tactics of the radicals is the situation of the Social Democratic Unions, which include in their ranks the majority of German working men. The latter have made promises which they cannot fulfill. In fact, the exact opposite of that which was prom- ised has come about. Directly, ir- respective of its necessity, the al- Hance of the Social Democratic Party, essentially the political man- ifestation of the labor union move- ment, with the Bruening Govern- ment has brought only lower wages and less satisfactory working condi- tions to the working man.” JOB PLACEMENTS DROP CHICAGO, Ill.—Out of 2,290 appli- , cants for work the Illinois Free Em- ployment Bureau was able to place only 663 ory jobs which for the most part are part time. This is a drop of 175 in the number of jobs filled | Miners’ Relief On Saturday, Sunday} | AKRON, O., Oct. 7—The Workers | |International Relief is holding tag | |days for miners’ relief in this city, | October 10 and 11. A permit has been granted Flossie I. Green, chairman of the committee. All workers who | will take part in the collections should be at Workers Center, 9 West | Bartges St., at 8 a.m., Saturday. | LARGE MEETING PROTESTS WAGE. CUTS IN PHILA. Call Workers to Vote| Communist | | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 6.—Ap- | proximately 1,200 Negro and white workers attended the mass demon- |stration held at the Broadway Arena to protest against the bosses present |wage cut drive and MacDonald’s hunger program in England. The | main speaker, Earl Browder, was | greeted with enthusiastic applause | | when he called for much more mili- | | tancy in the present struggle for un- jemployment insurance and against |the bosses wage cut drive. | Other speakers included Woods, or- | |ganizer of the unemployéd councils, | |who exposed. the role of Mackey’s | |fake relief campaign. Olken, candi- |date for receiver of taxes, Nabried, candidate for district attorney, and |Rochester, youth candidate, brought | forward the program of the Commu- | nist Party in the local election cam- |paign. Mac Harris, candidate for | Congress was chairman. A telegram was read from M. H. Powers, Communist candidate for mayor and secretary of the Trade Union Unity League who si at pres- |ent serving four months’ sentence for jactivity in the recent Allentown strike. Powers called upon the work- ers to continue their militant strug- | gle against the starvation program of |the bosses. A resolution was then adopted which demanded the imme- diate release of Powers and pledged | |th workrs to carry out a militant |strugele. | The resolution then called upon the | workers to Vote Communist at the same time that they are fighting these misleaders in the shops. It was also announced-that a mass | protest meeting will be held under} the joint auspices of thé T.U.U.L. ana | | International Labor Defense on Tues | day, October 13, at Boslover Hall, 701 | Pine St. | | | | | Philadelphia Chamber of | bridge & Clothier, Phila CLOSE THRU ENTIRE COU (CONTINUED FROM F& Philadelphia Electri Philip H. Gadee n, John E, Zimmermann, United Gas Improve Harry A. Philadelp! J. Hampton Moore, Atlantic Deeper Wat jon, Herbert J. Tily, president rways 4 L. H. Kinnard, Telephone Company nia. C. P. Vaughan Hood & Company E. G. Budd, president, Budd Manv- | facturing Company. Conrad N, Lauer, president, Phila~ delphia Gas Works Compa pre of P president, Dungan William L. Nevin, John Wana- maker, Philadelphia. G. V. MacKinnon, president, John | fifth ins’ B. Stetson Company ton County in two day Last spring when several- PI h not eve delphia banks failed May | who is one of the signers of the pr sent statement made a. grand st | play by depositing $1,000 in or the banks and telling the small de- positors not to fear for th posits. The workers and ott 8 depositérs now know what a das- tardly lie his statement was then and what a dastardly lie is the pre- sent statement. It is just as much a lie as the statement of Robert La- mont, tha he banking siuation was as “firm as a rock.” The bank failtres is the result « the tremendous sharpening of the economic crisis. The worsening of the crisis brings with it the failure of more and more banks and the at- tempt of the capitalist class to force the terrible burden of the crisis on the working class to an ever greater degree, This must be met by the organized resistance of the working millions thruought the country. At least twenty-three banks |r throughout the country failed yes terday in one of the most sc shakings of the banking structure the present. crisis. ‘The capitalist press has announced that the reason for the present conference of Hoover with the bankers is because of the severe situation of thé banks in the Middle West. The banking situation has been particularly sharp in the West, but banks are failing not only in the West but in the industrial cen- ters of the East. | In Philadelphia three banks with eight branches in addition to the cen- tral offices closed yesterday.. 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