The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1931, Page 1

Lawrence Sellout Plottedat Secret Meeting in Boston by U.T.W.O | Plaza, Boston, with promin- ent American Federation of .Labor officials, among whom were State President James T. Moriarity, Secretary Rob- ert J. Watt and others. The same source states that Ger- man, vice-president of the U.T.W., was there also. Plans for a “settlement” Strike were discussed and th The Daily Worker has just received, on unimpeacheable authority, the following in- formation which has already been confirmed by the latest developments in the Law- rence strike: 1) Governor Ely held a se- cret three-hour conference last Thursday at the Hotel — following conclusions were reached: 2) Strikers are to be forced back into the mills with the wage cut in effect. 3) A commission of five, two “albor” men and an “im- partial” chairman selected by. the other four, to be appoint- ed to conduct a survey and decide whether a wage cut is of_ the | | | | justified. If the finding is in favor of the workers, the old wage cut is to be resto date of going back to If the result favors the the workers are to continue on the job with the wage cut. 4) The A. F. of L. and U.T.W. fakers accepted this plan and it was immediately submitted by the Governor to re Liic | the mill bosses who still have it under consideration. 5) Governor Ely informed labor misleaders that if the mill owners agree to the | strike- breaking plan, he | wants the union fakers to | call as big a meeting as pos- | through the ‘‘arbitration’’ sible of the workers on the | method of putting the wage | Lawrence Common. The Goy- | cut ove ials and Governor ernor proposed that he go to |.Lawrence to address the strikers, and urge them te accept the sell-out. Gorman, Watt and others will also urge them to accept, and a vote will be taken to rush red to work. mills, | | | WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail (Section of the Communist International) 4 NOD orker unist Party U.S.A. VOL. VIII, No. 264 Catered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act March 3, 1870 <aBe2 EDITI == 8 "NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1931 Sonne Price 3 Cent = BRITISH PRESS SAYS “WAR ON SOVIET UNION IS COMING Fight Une mployment, Wage-Cuts! Vote Communist Today. | / » Negro and White Workers---|MASS HEARING ON, Don’t Let the Negro Hating UNEMPLOYMENT U. §. SENDS U.7.W.-Ely 10000 PICKET Pact Basis of Imperialists Store Wheat For Attack on U.S.S. R. Gov’t Suppress the Liberator! government has struck another savage blow at the masses! ‘The Post Office department ras decreed the Liberator, the organ of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights shall be denied the right to the U. S. mails as a means of driving it out of existence. ‘The Post Office Department named the issue of June 27, which was devoted to the call for the defense of the Negro boys framed up at Scotts- | boro, to prove that the Linberator is so hated by the ruling class that it | must be suppressed! ‘The ‘government controlled by the organized finance capitalists and trust heads and hun for them by the war-mad engineer at Washington has become freightened over the tendencies among the masses. And espe- cially they are uneasy azout recvent dviopmnts among th Negro workers and exploited farming population. So deeply concerned are these “Simon Legrees” about the “dangerous” drift of the Negro population that the U.S. War Department. has..for several months been occupied with the disbanding of regiments of Negro soldiers, transforming the remaining Negro troops into labor battalions and stopping all recruiting of Negro soldiers. Feverish préparations for war are now being carried on by the United States Government. Hoover as the agent of Wall Street is bend- ing his foreign policy to the purpose of becoming the leader of a group of imperialist powers for a war of extermination against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which is also to be a war for the conquest and dividing up of China—another “inferior people”! The slave drivers are fearful of the probable actions of enslaved black men conscripted for a world-wide war against the ‘inferior yellow” Chinese workers and peas- ants, against the black populations of the West Indies and Nicaragua, against the increasingly rebellious brown men of the Philippines—and against Soviet Russia, the only power in the world in which the “inferior peoples” have attained freedom. Not alone the federal government, but also the city, county and state governments of this land of jim crow capitalism are now engaged in the most active offensive against the Negro masses that has ever been seen since “slavery was inscribed upon the banner of revolt” by the Southern | Confederacy. Against a background of economic crisis, of unemployment and ruined agriculture, the bloody tide of lynchings is rising. Lynching and sharper discrimination are being stimulated by the capitalist press, the church, the “reformsts”. and the instruments of government itself. ‘The sentence to death of nine innocent Negro boys within 72 hours to the tune of a brass band, not alone to terrorize the Negro masses of share croppers, but also to attract trade to the town, has become an example that has startled the world. Three Negro workers are shot to death in the streets of Chicago for daring to protest against the eviction of an unemployed Negro woman, and before that blood is dry, two more are shot to-death in Cleveland.. Throughout the South the massacre of the Negr sharecroppers at Camp Hill, Alabama, is followed by an epidemic of cases of frame-up, lynching and individual murder against the Negro workers and tenant farmers, while the capitalist press spreads the wild insane propaganda of “rape” to stimulate the murderous orgy. The “Negro, reformist” newspapers in many cases cold-blood@ily join in the baiting of the Negro masses, as in the case of a spokesman of the “Na- | tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” the Pittsburgh Courier, which branded the nine innocent Negro children at Scottsboro as “boy rapists.” The forces of the ruling class, together with their obedient servants, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Socialist. Party and the American Federation of Labor, are not wor- ried about the murders of Negroes. They are worried only by the grow- ing determination of the masses to resist this bloody orgy of terror. Oscar DePriest, the Negro congressman from Chicago, who is no more than a flunkey for “white supremacy” imperialism against the Negroes, after “extensive travel over this country” and “study of the political, civic and social status of the Negro,” recently wrote: “In all of this experience I have sensed serious and deep seated dissatisfaction among all classes of Negroes in every section of the country.” : ‘The Hunger Marches which are developing in all parts of the country will converge upon Washington on December 7th to make their demands upon the Wall Street congress for relief from starvation—and this Hunger March is the center of the nightmares of the wealthy parasites. ~Not least of all they fear the black faces that will appear en masse mingled with their white brother workers in this: Hunger March. The solidarity of the Negro and the white is a terrible omen for American capitalism. ‘They know well that this solidarity is the result of-the leadership of the Communist Party. . . ° ‘The Liberator as the organ of the LSNR is recognized as a “danger- ous” leader of this movement among the Negro masses, and it supports fearlessly the Communist program, especially centering upon the program equal rights and self-determination for the Negroes. ‘The Washington “dicks” read closely every line of this paper. Know- ing that the Liberator had just announced the launching of a drive to secure @ mass circulation among Negro and white workers, the Washing- ton government officials attempt. to forestall this drive by shutting off the paper from the mails and stifling that dangerous voice which calls for the fight against enslavement. ‘ ‘The attempt to suppress the Liberator might be regarded as a jim- erow move of the capitalist government. White workers are not sup- posed to care about the suppression of the aper fighting for Negro rights. . But the white workers under the guidance of the Communist Party will show otherwise. And we know that this is only a beginning. Today it is the Liberator. Tomorrow it will be the other militant papers of the working class. What will be our answer to this tyrannical degree of the jim-crow capitalists at Washington? ‘The answer of the Negro and white masses must be to spring forward Be the defense of the courageous fighting newspaper, the Liberator. ae Yy ns ‘ THIS THURSDAY ‘City Officials Are | Challenged to Be © | Present NEW YORK.—Letters of invitation | | to the public officials have been sent | jout by the Downtown Unemployed | Council to Mayor Walker, assembly- |men, and heads of charity institu- {tions and heads of city departments | to attend the mass public hearing on | the extent of unemployment and destitution among . workers in. the lower Manhattan section of, New York. These officials were challenged to appear and defend their handling , | of the unemployed situation in that ‘section of the city. All newspapers were also invited to send representa- tives. A delegation of workers from the | free city employment agency will pre- |sent an invitation to the Commiis- | sioner of Welfare Taylor plus the de- |mands of the unemployed for jobs, | immediate cash relief and unemploy- | ment insurance. The delegation will , {be elected by a mass demonstration | \of unemployed at Lafayette and | | Leonard Streets, Wednesday, Novem- ber 4th, 12:30 p. m. The delegation | will consist exclusively of workers | who apply for jobs at the city agency. | Dozens of workers from the blocks, | | breadlines, flop houses, registration | lnes and the city employment agency socialist construction in the Soviet Union at | have already signified their willing- | \ness to te&tify at the public hearing. | Henry Rosenlicht, an unemployed ex- | \serviceman who applied for a job at | Rise In Prices of Wheat and Od Due to War Demand; No Economic Ba The sudden rise of the price (of. wheat and oil in the past several weeks in the absence of favorable economic conditions is the result of the buying of these war commodities in preparation for the attack against the Soviet Union. The capitalist press is trying to “explain” the rise in the price of wheat through the statement that Soviet wheat sales have been stopped. Actually the. Soviet Union sold 25,000,000 more bushels in the three mohths of July, August and September of 1931 than in the same amount of 1930, when 14,000,000 were sold. * After the plans had been made for the attack on the Soviet Union in 1930 by the imperialists, as revealed in the trial of the “Industrialists” sis for Increase in Moscow, the Farm Board of the ‘United States started buying up wheat in huge quantities in order to be prepared for the war. After the re- cent Hoover-Laval conference it was Teported that the United States was selling a latge amount of wheat to France. This is to be financed by the Federal Reserve system since the French impe lalists demand this as a part of the war agreements. ‘The present rise in the prices of wheat and vil occurs at a time when there is absolutely no economic basis for such an increase. Thé markets of the world are glutted with both com- modities and the basis for the present tise in the price is the-plans for war. the plans for the attack on the Soviet Union, Admit Huge Growth In Soviet Production NEW YORK.—The tremendous advance of a time when the entire. capitalist world is in the grip of a terrific crisis is sharply brought) | the American Legion, and was of-/Out in yesterday’s dispatch to the New York| | fered employment for 14 hours a day | at 2 dollars, and was threatened with | Times by its Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty. Figures included in the dispatch show an.amazing growth in produc- jail by the American Legion when he |refused this slave . offer, will be | tem of the capitdlist government and | among the witnesses. The entire sys: |their agency in driving the unem- tion jenterprises and a steady rise | states: |...“During October the Putiloft | | ployed workers to mass starvation.| plant produced 2,245 tractors in | disease and death will be exposed at | twenty-five working days, while the | the hearing. J. Louis Engdahl, Na- | Stalingrad plant made 2,300 Inter- | tional Secretary of the International | national-type tractors, slightly sur- | Labor Defense, will be judge and | passing its monthly program. Yes- |chairman of the hearing. The jury| terday thé Amo plant at Moscow will consist of representatives of trade | unions and other workers’ organiza- | tions. A worker from the unemployed council will act as prosecutor. All |the Tammany Hall, Republican and Socialist grafters are invited to de- ;fend themselves. All workers are urged to attend. All unemployed and employed of the neighborhood are re- | quested by the unemployed council to produce testimony of cases of destitu- | tion and suffering of workers and their families, | |riving Dec. 7, for the mightiest na- A 5 . tional struggle for unemployment re-. Unit Meeting’s Will lief and unemployment insurance yet mobilized in this country. Be Held Tomorrow | | ieee eoarntiong we necessary to feed and cloth the hungry marchers to prepare against the terror; to pro- vide trucks ‘and sleeping quarters. Many of the thousands of unem- ployed who will take part in. this Thousands of unemployed work-, ers, from all parts of the country, will march to Washington, D. C., ar- Due to the Election Campaign all unit meetings in New York City will take place. on Wednesday night instead of Tuesday. a blow against their enemies! Utilize the very attack against the Liber- ator as a means to stimulate the mass campaign to defend and support the Liberator! Make this victous blow at the Liberator result.in the stim-_ ulation of the campaign to build the Liberator into a big mass organ of the struggle! White and Negro workers! Get in touch with the Ieague of Struggle for Negro Rights in your city or town, and mgke yourself an active, militant agent, not alone for increasing the circulation of the Liberator, but also to join in the struggle for those causes for which the ‘Liberator fights! Build up in every neighborhood and town branches of the LSNR, centering around the defense and support of the Liberator, And—last but not least—remember that the Communist Party, the Party of the Negro and white working class, is\the real leader and in- _wirengthen if forthe tighy splrer ofthe whole struggle. The Party back the Liberator and the League of Strugrle.for Negro Rights with its whole strength! Draw Negro work- ers by hundreds and. thousands into the ranks of the Communist Party to sy industries, the completion on schedule of gigantic | in the wage scale. Duranty completed the program of its first | month's work of seventy-five 235 | ton trucks, the first five of which have just made a successful test trip to Leningrad in heavy weather conditions,. The daily production “OBSERVER” TO WAR ZONE Japanese Transport More Troops Into Frontier Area Hold War Conference To Establish Cordon Around USSR The Japanese imper- ialists are trying to hide their military moves under the spreading of rumors that the Soviet Union has reached an.agreement with the Chinese general: They are moving large detachments northward and westward to- ward the Soviet Union frontier. The British imperialist press is most in- terested in reporting the details of these movements in order to divert empire toward an anti-Soviet attack immediately. The correspondent of the British “Daily Express’ reports that the Japanese troops are being moved | with “extra caution”—they are being moved cautioosly to hide the fact that | they are war moves of the greatest | significance. These war moves are being covered as far as possible | “under strict censorship on news dis- patches.” respondent reported further that “all Japan feared a clash with Soviet | Russia was inevitable and that Japan | would not heed the League of Na- | tions demand to withdraw occupation | troops by Nov. 16.” The United Press correspondent (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Open Drive for Food, Clothing and | Trucks for National Hunger March march are without shoes that willsto Washington. last for more than a few days; they ate without warm coats and under- tlothhing to face the bitter cold trip. | Trucks are needed for the trip. The collection of clothing and food for hunger marchers must be- gin in, each city, and special de- pots must. be established to insure the .rapid progress of the marchers The Unemployed Council's Com- mittee for the National Hunger March and the Workers Interna- tional Relief are calling for the im- mediate mobilization of all forces tor collections and contributions to make the march successful. In every city headquarters must be opened where CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Kentucky Miners Organize For Strike on Starvation ‘ HARLAN, Ky., Nov. 2.—Fifty min- ers, representing mines in Pansy, Ca- wood, Evarts, Wallins,,Coxton, Har- lan, Elcombs, Creach, Dayhoite, and Blackstar sections held a National Miners: Union conference in Herlan County and reported that 75 per cent of the miners. waat an immediate strike, A great txfority of the min- ers are alrcady members of the Na- tional Miners: Union. ‘Thousands of miners in this sec- tion of. the coal country, where ter-| ror is rampant, have been organizing | against the worsening conditions. Harlan County, where many miners have been murdered, 1s controlled by the biggest coal operators in the country, the U. S. Steel Co., Peabody, Insul, ete. The latest meeting of the National Miners Union in*the heart of this) coal mining section shows that the miners are preparing for a new strug- gle under the leadership of the Na- tional Miners Union, the united front of the Japanese and | g thé United States against the British | The “Daily Express” cor- | Lynch Col IN REPLY TO | In Lawrence, Mass., the ex- | . Spe , , . r @ | ercise of the basic rights of the bg oo ae ie 2 E jworking class to organize, | Sell-O t Pl ss |strike, picket and assemble are| eu hes ans eing met with a demand for 4,000 Hear Foster the blood of organizers and the most | Police Try to Break active strikers. To defend these | jfighters is a sacred working class | j duty. i 4 x S | 23,000 Lawrence textile workers | Line by Arrests | have be | n on strike for four weeks. | | Less than one {hundred strikers [Pov gone back to work as this 1s en, (Special to the Daily Worker) LAWRENCE, Mass., \\ sot even the whir of one toom ean | NOV. 2.—A total of ten \b d in thecit y of Lawrence—the {thousand strikers pi¢k- ter of the woolen section of the| : . le industry and the stronghola|¢ted this morning as of the American Woolen Company— “By ty by |the giant of woolen textiles. | follows: Fifty five hun | ‘Three times, in the course of the |Gred at the Wood Mill, five |four weeks’ strike of 23,000 Lawrence | hundred at the Ayer Mill; two ‘textile workers, the officials of the| thousand, at the Washington |“United Textile Workers” (American | Mill and two hundred at the | Federation of Labor), Gorman and) i i S, 5 | Riviere, and the local and state fea. |r ington Mill. These are all eration of labor officials, Moriarity| strive picket lines directed by the and Watt, have tried to sell out the | tniteq Front Rank and File Strike ; | Committee, with no A. F.. of L. ‘Three times, with Governor Ely and | badges or leaders present. the mill owners, they have conspired} Two hundred pickets with leaders to cajole and drive the workers into | wearing.badges of the American Tex- the silent mills—at a 10 per cent re- | tile Workers Union picketed the em- ployment office entrance of the Pa- A : jelfic Print Mill. Three times they have failed. | The picket formation at the Wood Three times the National Textile | Mill was much better than ever be- | fore, with a solid line of 600 march- |ing in twos before the main en- "en ee | [trance on Union St. At about 7:30 Workers Mass Forces | |hundreds of the strikers who are gc- mas: OSS LYNCH | customed to picket along Merrimac to Smash Boss Lynch| Threat in Lawrence St. in disorganied fashion were ral- sei | ied in lines by twos by the United LAWRENCE, Mass. Nov. 2—Five | | Front tank and File Strike Commit- hundred strikers at Lincoln Court | | *@ Captains. Many uniformed police meeting today voted in favor of | basa present. O’Brien with a squad picketing the “Leader,” the paper | |°f detectives which printed a two column edit- orial Sunday calling for the lynch- | ing of Communists and other mili- | tant strike leaders, .Jim Reid, Ann | Burlak and Conroy, of the National | |Board of the National Textile Workers Union will speak here at Lincoln Court at 2 o'clock Tuesday. ee Ys NEW YORK. — Immediate re- | sponse of the workers here against | | the Iynch teror proclaimed by the | | Lawrence mill bosses throogh the | Lawrence Sunday “Leader,” which openly called for the shooting of militant strike leaders and Com- nunists, was expressed in three im= | |portant meetings on Sunday. | | The International Labor Defense | Plenum voted to rally immediate support to the Lawrence strikers in their defence against the new | wave of lynch terror, At the Workers’ School Forum, | | where a resolution was adopted by | 600 workers backing up the strug- gle of the militant Lawrence strik- ers and their leaders against the murderous threat of the bosses, the workers contributed $19.90 for telegrams and other defense ex- penses, Three hundred workers at’ the Marine Workers Industrial Union | Form also responded with imme- diate action, preparing to mobil- ize all their forces behind the Lawrence strike, against a sell-out by the A. F. of L, UTW mislead- ers, and against the threatened wave of lynching. duction in wages. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) interfered. with the picketing of the. Ayer Mill and. tried to prevent the picketers marching past the gate, but the line grew so |large it flooded past the gate. O'Brien stopped a girl picket cap- jtain on Merrimac St. before the | Wood Mill and put her through an inquisition as to her nationality, age | and address and threatened arrest if she was ever seen again. O’Brien and his police drove thousands of ,Wash- ington Mill pickets out of line and across the street. These pickets |formed a new line there and both | sides of the street were picketed. There were practically no scabs at any of the mills. ‘The following were pulled out of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Cook, Miners’ Sec’tary, Dies After Operation LONDON, Noy. 2—Arthur Jay | Cook, Miners’ Secretary, died today at the age of 45 after a throat opera- |tion. He formerly declared himself |e humble disciple of Lenin and fought beaucracy as a left winger. He was bitterly opposed and slandered. Later when he: was threatened with the loss of his job, he joined hands with bureaucracy and fought against revolutionary |movement, Bureaucracy and the coal owners now jointly are honor- ing him in death. Give your answer to Hoover's’ program of hunger, wage cuts and _ persecution! _ : 2