The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1931, Page 1

DAILY WORKER-FREIHEIT-YOUNG bi hacen BAZAAR CONTINUES TONIGHT AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! = Dail Central rok, vee Section of the Communist International) orker Prices Cut to the Bene ae All Out to the Bazaar Tonight And Tomorrow Emtered as second-class at New York, N. ¥. under ae VIII, No, 244 matter at the Post Office the act pf March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931 CITY EDITION. Price 3 Conts PROTEST MURDER OF 2 NEGRO WORKERS N CLEVELAND An Attack on All Workers 'T IS NOT an accident that at the same time a savage wage cut offensive is made against the working class, at a time when the capitalist class and its entire governmental machine is determined to force the unem- ployed to starve rather than yield one cent from their billionaire profits or take one cent from the speeding preparations for war—that repres- sive laws disguised as “mere” alien registration are being pushed, and in Michigan already enacted. is From the mining region of Michigan, an editorial in the “Iron River Reporter” gives all workers, workers throughout the United States, a hint of how interested the capitalists are in forcing through this law tha supposedly affecs aliens only, ih in reality strikes at all workers, both alien and native-born. ‘The “Iron River Reporter” in its issue of Sept. 25, under the headline “ALIENS MUST REGISTER,” is very insistent that this particular law, among all the thousands of Jaws that are ignored and unenforced—be enforced. “That registration is mandatory cannot be stressed too strongly,” says this editorial bootlicker of the mining companies, and adds as if inspired by official authority: “It is highly probable that this oversight (the lack of enforcement.— Editor, Daily Worker) will be corrected within the next few weeks and that a general call for alien registration will be issueti.” “There are a number of aliens in Iron County, and the new law is of vital interest here,” it is declared, although it does not explain WHY and TO WHOM the enforcement of this outrageous anti-working class law is of so hugé “vital interest.” Yet it should be clear to all workers that it is of “vital interest” from the viewpoint of the editor of the “Iron River Reporter,” to his master, the mining companies. And why is it of interest to them? Why if not that it is a means to aid the bosses break strikes they fear will break out against wage cuts? ‘Why if not that the capitalists hope to use this law against the demands of the unemployed for food and shelter? ‘We repeat the warning we have previously given to native-born work- érs: This so-called “alien” law is AGAINST YOU, TOO! First, will it not weaken any strike ef yours, if your foreign-born fellow workers are terrorized by threat of deportation, which is implied in their forced registration? Secondly, when a mass of workers are on strike, the police and state troopers who invariably try to break strikes; will arrest native-born as well as foreign-born and, by forcing them to PROVE that they are . native-born, will virtually and with equal effect register you native Amer- ican workers also—and use the pedigree you are compelled to give, to blacklist you as well as weaken the strike by “eae you for “investiga- tion.” It is neither an accident that the “Iron River Reporter” attacks the Communist Party ih the same which attacks the working class. ‘The Communist Party is the leader of all workers in defense of their class interests. The Communist Party fought against this anti-working class law before its passage; and it warns workers everywhere, as well as in the State of Michigan against this and similar attacks. ‘The Communists throughout the country have the duty of building the Councils for Protection of the Foreign-Born to aid the fight in Michigan; and in Michigan. the Communists not only should build this_ organization everywhere, nxplaining to the native-born that: the law injures’them, also, but should also use the provisions of the initiative and referendum to create a huge movement for repeal of this “Alien Regis-. tration Law.” ON: PARTY REGISTRATION No Special Machinery To Be Established. ~ ‘The district organizations of the Party are already proceeding with measures to put the Party registration into swing. Many districts have already arranged for meetings of functionaries where the political sig- nificance of the registration is to be explained and directions given on how to carry it into effect. At the same time we hoticé a tendency in several districts-to estab- lish extra machinery for the carrying through of the registration. The directions of the Organization Department, corresponding with the line followed by the Central Committee, does not call for extra machinery. The registration is to be carried through in the districts by the Organ- ization Department, in the sections by the Organization Department of the section and in the units by the Unit Buro, The registration is to assist in the establishment and functioning of these departments, and therefore the setting up of additional machinery will only block the func- tioning, formation and consolidation of such rene eae where they do not already exist. i If special machinery is to be established in the Unit. Buro it will not facilitate the carrying through of the registration in the quickest pos- sible time and will tend to take away from the Unit Buro the task of mobilizing the entire unit for the mass work, which fs the biggest task to be achieved by the registration. Only for visiting comrades who are absent from unit meetings do the directions gf the Organization Depart- ment call for the special designation of comrades for this work. This is done because we wish to draw the members of the unit also into the direct work of registration and because comrades in the units know personally most of the comrades who are absent and passive and thus it establishes the best approach for the visiting of these comrades and establishment of their reasons for non-attendance and passivity. All districts are directed to follow this line on the registration and the directions contained in the editorial in the Daily Worker and those given on the following day. ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT, C.C. MORE DRESSES AND SUITS ON SALE AT BAZAAR TONIGHT The. Daily Worker-Freiheit-Young Worker bazaar started off with a pang last night. Many articles changed hands at low prices, and tHiere was music and dancing and a good time was had in general. But the big nights of the bazaar time in history that such a collec- tion has been gotten together, and it should prove a thrilling sight for every class conscious worker. On Saturday night will be held the grand costume ball of the ba-|_ zaar. This will add new color to the | - colorful booths. Sales of tickets in dic&te that a tremendous crowd will be on hand, and the night will go have been ordered for tonight and |down in history as the grandest and there will be more remarkable bar- | gayest and most colorful affair ever for MORE STRIKE IN LAWRENCE; RAP SELLOUT State, Bosses and UTW Combine for Fake Arbitration Unity Session Today Will Elect a General Strike Committee LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 9.—Two hundred more textile workers joined the strike toddy, walking out of the Stevens Mill, North Andover. The National’ Textile Workers Union denounces*the attempts of the | United Textile Workers Union to sell out the strike of 25,000 workers, fighting a wage cut and tying up the Lbiggest mills in Lawrence and sur- rounding territory. ‘The U.T.W. plan is to hold a fake arbitration conference with the em- ployers. The U.T.W. arbitration board meets the bosses Tuesday ‘The answer of the Lawrence work~ ers is to speed up preparations for the United Front Conference, to be held tomorrow, at 2 p.m., at Franco- Belgian Hall, 9 Mason St. At this conference the National Textile Workers Union will urge that the workers elect a general strike- com- mittee themselves, to lead the strike against wage cuts andy against sell- outs. The employers fear this denitaceans so much" that they arrested three workers today for distributing the conference leaflets at.a meeting called by the U.T.W. As all indications show that the employers and the U.T.W. plan a quick sell-out, the National Textile Workers Union is concentrating more forces in Lawrence. { At the U.T.W. meeting for Arling- ton mill, the chairman refused to recognize rank and file nominations for the committees. Oe Se U.S. Jails Berkman. ‘The capitalist press here states that Edith Berkman, National Textile Workers Union organizer in the strike of 25,000 Lawrence workers, has been taken to an immigration detention station. Yesterday’s reports told of the mayor of Lawrence interviewing the U. E. assistant district attorneys and requesting that her bail on the immigration charge filed against her ‘at the time of teh previous strike, months ago, be rescinded, so she could be in jail instead of leading the present struggle against wage cuts. ‘The papers also state that the Mas- sachusetts State Board of Concilia- tion and Arbitration has arranged with the owners of three big Law- rence mills and Robert J. Watt, sec- retary treasurer of the State Federa- tion of Labor, for “arbitration.” This is evidently only part of the sell-out scheme. EMPLOYMENT IN CLEVELAND DROPS 17% IN A YEAR Employment in Cleveland during September dropped 5.7, to a new low of 75.6. This represents a 17% drop inthe number of jobs since last Sep- tember, when the percentage was 92 per cent, Though there was slight increases in téxtile, lumber, paper, and printing industries, this was off- Coal Miners Sstarve ;Wait Freight While| Carloads of of Potatoes | PITTSBURGH, | Pa. Oct. 9— The following telegram was re- ceived at Relief headquarters here today from Minnesota: “We are rapidly collecting pota- toes, but have no money for the freight to send them to the starv- ing miners. Iron River has 40,000 pounds waiting, so have Beraga and Mesaba Range section, and Duluth has a carload waiting of potatoes and staple vegetables. The farmers are willing to give a great deal of potatoes but funds are needed for freight. Telegraph your reply immediately. Can you pay expenses of freight? What shall we do with this food?” The relief here has no money available to pay for the carloads of potatoes coming, nd the min- ers are starving. It calls for im- mediate donations of money to bring the potatoes here, where the need for them -is tremendous. Don't let. the food He idie while starvation sweeps the strike fields. Send funds to Pennsylvania-Ohio- West Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa. WOMEN'S WORLD CONGRESS OPENS Clara. Zetkin Receives Tremendous Ovation BERLIN, Oct. 9—The World Con~ gress of Working Women opened here today prior to the Eighth Con- gress of the Workers’ International Relief. Delegates from the. entire world are present. The vetéran women’s leader, Clara Zetkin, was carried into the hall amidst tremen- dous ‘cheering. Despite doctors’ or- ders, Comrade Zetkin addressed a, few words of greeting. Traute Hoelz answered in the name of the Con- gress. | Lena Overlach greeted the Congress in the name of teh German Communist Party. Harry Pollitt spoke in the name of teh executive of the Workers International Relief. Members of the presidium aré Clara Zetkin, Ram Perth, Indian delegate, Baker, Negro women dele- gate and the Irish veteran, Madame Despard and others. The morning session was occupied with the report of Traute Hoelz, on the capitalist world crisis and the role of the working women. Eve- i} ning qs. ore taking place to introduce the delegates to the Ber- lin working women. ‘The Youth Congress of the Work- ers International Relief also opened today. WAGES CUT IN LEADING WAR” INDUSTRY Many Pay y Slashes to Follow Oct. Ist Campaign Steel Mill Cuts Pay Du Pont Makes 20% Slash for Workers NEW YORK.—A new flood of wage cuts, following the October 1 cuts that effected over. 5,000,000 wérkers are now being announced. The latest and most vicious cut is that of the power chemical trust, the EH. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which on November 1 will cut wages 10 per cent, but will go on the five-day week, thus adding another cut, totaling at least a 20 per cent pay cut for all workers. The American Rolling Mill Co. has cut wages in varying amounts. The Atlas Powder Co. has cut wages 10 per cent for all its office workers, effective November 1.. This will be followed by a emiar, cut for all fac- tory workers, Reading Socialists Get Machine Gun ie READING, Pa. Oct. 7—Refusing the unemployed workers and their families any but the scantiest charity relief, the socialist administration here is preparing. for the coming winter by adding six shot guns and one new machine gun to the police arsenal. The socialist chief of police, Sche~ rear made little effort to disguise the purpose of the recent purchase of arms, The Reading Times of Octo- ber 5 reports the socialist police cap- tain saying, as he fondled the new weapons at police headquarters: “Come what may we're ready for anything that happens. If there are robbers, we can fight them with their own medicine. If‘ there are “riots, we can take care of them with the machine gun. No matter what comes, we're ready for it.” The city tration which boasts such leading socialists as James Maurer, Mayor Henry Stump and others recently reclared that the city “can do nothing for the unem- ployed.” 1,500 War Vets Mass Picket City Hall in Relief Fight NEW YORK.—Over 1,500 ex-serv- icemen rallied yesterday under the leadership of the Workers Ex-Serv- icemen’s League and marched in mass picket formation for four hours around City Hall demanding imme- diate relief and full payment of the ‘Tombstone bonus, At 10:30 the veterans arrived at City Hall Park, which was sur- rounded by a heavy cordon of foot set by less jobs in iron, steel and j and mounted police to keep the vets automobile plants. out, despite the fact that the Board Negro Cotton Specialists Going to the Soviet Union A group of 12 Negro cotton spe- ranged for the workers’ delegation Cialists, the first of its kind to be|on Monday, October 12, at 8 p.m. in FE; Canadian delegate is James B. McLachlan, a militant min- er, who has just been elected by the miners of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. to enter the park and hold a meet~ ing in front of City Hall steps while a committee from the demonstration presented their demands on the floor of the Board of Estimate. Only committee was per- mitted to go through the police lines. They proceeded at once to the Board of Estimate chambers where they of abuse, handing out relief chiefly to “handshakers.” The committee also pointed out that the Legion did. not ‘represent the rank and file Of | verey © | | JAPAN'S PLANES BOMBARD CITY; WAR SPREADING Mass Piincrat Pedcay ad U.S. MOVES T0 City Government Theis Aes Armed Thugs into Negro Section Wounded Workers Held in Jail; Denied Hospital Treatment CLEVELAND, 0., Oct. 9—With mass an- ger rapidly mounting against the brutal police | murder of two unemplo} Tuesday night when p yed Negro workers last | lice fired point-blank| into a peaceful meeting of unemployed work- | ers protesting evictions it is expected that thousands of Cleveland workers will march on | Saturday in the mass funeral for the two mar- tyred working class fighters. In addition to the murder of John Grayford and Edward | Jackson, four white and Negro workers were critically wounded by the police fire- Mass pressure has forced the police to recede from their ied of denying a permit for the ma a suspension of traffic in the block at (CONTINUE s funeral and to order th Street and Scoville Five Mines Striking In Straight Creek, Ky. Two Relief Kitchens Established Need More Food; Miners Join N MU; CARY, Women Unite Ky., Oct. 9—The strike in the Straight Creek, Kentucky, region has spread to the Cary Glandon a nd Fordew mines thus covering the Straight Creek hollow. The strike at Caroline and Coleman strong. All these mines are the walk-out: Caroline. It is next planned to mines is still going set up a kitchen at Cary. A minimum of 1,300 men and their families now need food | in this region. Va.-Ky. Striking Miners Relief Com-¢- mittee, 611 Penn Aves; Room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa. Women in Action In the secluded Straight Sreek Hollow, women are for the first time being brought into the struggle. | Thirty joined the Women's Auxiliary | of the National Miners Union at the | first meeting. But when knowledge spread as to what it is all about, 54 Joined the second meeting. ‘The Women’s Auxiliary is already getting to.work. Five women were elected to the strike committee at the Caroline mine and five on the relief committee there. A local organizer writes: “the men here are organized 98 per cent, and See no reason why the women aren’t.” Having a meeting here tomorrow. i ee Into Mingo Hollow. PINEVILLE, Pa., Oct. 9.—Strike sentiment is growing in the mines of the Mingo Hollow, south of here Send funds and food to the Penn.-Ohio-West (Straight Creék Hollow is north of| Pineville, both hollows are in Bell, Ky., adjourning Harlan county on | the west). A 5 per cent wage cut, the latest of a whole series of slashes, was the Jast straw, About 600 miners are | involved. At a meeting in Mingo Hollow of 20 local leaders, it was revealed that 60 miners at the Chanoa mine al- ready walked out, tired of living on} promises, and demanded the pay the company owed them. For three months the miners have been promised pay “next pay day,” and allowed to draw scrip (for com- pany store credit where prices are sky high compared with privately owned stores) to the amount of $4.00 a week for married men and $3.00 for single men. But last week even this stopped. The operators were too sure of being able to keep the men in peonage. Kentucky Miners at the Mooney Conference Sunday NEW YORK.—Jim Grace, one of the outstanding fighters for the Ken- tucky miners, and Asa Cusick, one- armed former police chief of Evarts, Ky., who have just arrived in this city, will be among the speakers at the big mass Mooney-Harlan-Scotts- boro conference tomorrow (Sunday) at 10 am. at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Grace, a former organizer for the United Mine Workers, was one of the first Kentucky miners to leave that strike-breaking organization and has since been one of the most active or- ganizers for the National Miners Union. Fighting relentlessly against the starvation of the coal operators and their terror, he has been one of the most hunted and persecuted union organizers in Kentucky. Two weeks oe: he was kidnapped and se- esos, ete he | mm a handicap, become an active organ- izer of the N.M.U, Both miners will bring a message of struggle to this historic conference whose task it will be to launch a mighty united front movement that will free Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, the 134 Ken- tucky miners who now face charges. of murder and criminal syndicalism, the nine Scottsboro lads, the five Pat- erson silk workers framed-up for murder, as well as all the other brave working class fighters now in capitalist jails. The conference has been called by the New York District of the Inter- national Labor Defense and all revo- lutionary unions, A. F, of L. locals, progressive groups in A. F. of L. un- ions, working class members of the Socialist Party, groups of shop work- ers, wrkers’ fratenal and cultual or- ganizations, etc., are asked to send delegateswons for every & members, pin gf THE SPOILS | Fighting On. Large Scale; Many Are Killed Put Up Native Puppets [Stimson Confers On Wall Street: Moves | NEW YORK.—War is reaching | reat proportions in Manchuria, with the Japanese airplanes repeatedly bombarding cities, killing hundreds of soldiers and non-combatants. The | latest attack, far exceeding any “St thesprevious military actions of the Japanese imperialists jn their drive | to cut off Manchnria ‘from China |and make it a contplete Japanese j colony, is the bombardment of Chen- chow, the temporary ‘capital of Man- |churia and the headquarters of Vive-Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, | governor of China. After repeated. pro: | “withdrawing” troops, 12 Japanese bombing” planes flew from Neweh- wang, also in Japanese hends, and bombarded Chinchow on Wednesday The entire city was virtually wiped out, with hundreds of people killed. | The bombardment lasted for two | hours. There is a steady stream of | workers and peasants fleeing the war zone. Over 300,000 have already evacuated and hundreds of thou- sands more are leaving. Marshal Chang Hseuh-liang, whos: headquarters were this time the ob- Yect of the bombardment, is a’ forme: puppet of Japanese imperialism. In about hundred per cent shut down by | line with its drive to take-over Man- Relief kitchens are set up now in Coleman and | Put! the Japanese imperialists seek | to shatter the forces of Chang Hseuh- | liang, once so faithful a butcher for | the Japanese bosses, baceuse lately | Chane Hsueh-liang has made alli- j ances with the Nanking government | a tool of Wall Street. The Japanese | imperialists, along with their military. drive, are setting up new native rul- \ers, even more pliable in, the hand: |of Japanese imperialism than Chang | Hsueh- liang was. The open war of the Japanese im- perialists, sanctioned by the League | of Nations and its socialist support- | ers, is become so clearly an imperial+ | ist onslaught on Manchuria that the | Tokyo correspondent of the New | York Times exclaims about the dif- ficulty Japan has in covering up its robber aims. This~ correspondent, Hugh Byas, cables: “It will be difficult to reconcile any extension of Japan's military activities with teh government’s pledge to refrain from aggravating | the situation.” : | The sharper struggles for the mas- tery of Manchuria is exposing the hand of Ameri¢an imperialism. Wall Street has quietly been concentrat- ing military forces in Chinese waters to back up its fight for'a share of the coldny that Japan.is seeking to take all for itself. ‘The Jatest mili- tary maneuvers of Japan. is forcing the hand of Wall Street, and Stim- son's “quiet” approach is - breaking down. The war danger is growing. A conference was held Thursday -be- tween Dr, Ying Kwai, acting Chinese ambassador, and Secretary of State Stimson, on the latest military de- velopments, showing Wall Street will take a more open hand from now on as the conflicts sharpen. A Times story from Washington states: “Con- cern is felt here over ‘every new mili~ tary clash in Manchuria, because the situation is admittedly delicate.” It is significant. that no’ other capitalist newspaper, outside of the New York Graphic, carried the ex- tremely important news that the United States navy had concentrated 19 battleships in Chinese waters in connection with the growing war danger in Manchuria. All other-cap- italist newspapers were silent. and government officials did: te saye word sbout it, P * — Ae ANS, we