The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1932, Page 3

a 0) TOM MOONEY FRISCO WORKERS DENOUNCE W AR,} LYNCH VERDICT Demand Withdrawal | of Armed Forces from China The anti-war demonstration held before the Japanese Con- | sulate in San Francisco took place last Saturday, April 9, | not on April 6 as was erron- eously reported in yesterday’s Daily Worker. Among the 1,000 workers who took | part in the demonstration were many Negro, Chinese, Filipino and, Japanese workers. The meeting in front of the Japanese Consulate building was addressed by Japanese, Negro, Filipino and white lrevolu- tionary leaders, who were thunder- ously cheered by the demonstrators in their exposure of the anti-working class character of the robber war against China and the growing war provocations agains{ the Soviet Un- ‘on. t The speakers also exposed the| frame-up of the Scottsboro Negro | boys, the continued imprisonment of | Mooney and Billings, the savage ter- ror in the coal fields, the jailing or deportation of militant workers as part of the bosses’ war and hunger offensive against. the working class. ‘The police-thugs were present in large numbers, but so great was the militancy of the workers that they did not dare to molest the demon- stration, either at the Japanese Con- sulate or along the line of march. Banners and slogans denouncing the robber war on China and the Scotts- boro lynch verdicts were cheered by shousands along the line of march. Resolutions were unanimously adopted demanding the withdrawal of all imperialist armed forces from China, and denouncing the an. nounced plans of the Japanese and other imperialists for armed inter- vention against the Soviet Union and its successful Socialist construction. A resolution demanding the imme- diate release of the Scottsboro boys was adopted and ordered sent to the governor of Alabama and the Ala- bama Supreme Court. Recruit New Forces with May Day Issue Tom Mooney’s life was saved by the mass demonstrations of the workers of Russia in 1917, Help the! Daily Worker to rally the workers of America to mighty mass demonstra- tions to force the release of Tom Mooney, to force the release of the Scottsboro boys, to force the release of all class-war prisoners. Send your half dollars at once to build a strong financial base for the workers’ paper. Send your contribu- tions to enable us ¢6 spread the story of boss terror and boss war plots to the workers of America. 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Get orders from your friends, from your shopmates, from your neighbors, Spread the Daily Worker May Day “PAGES FROM By ROBERT MINOR ECAUSE of the mass demand for the release of ‘Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, and because the ruling class has to use diplomatic means to pacify, de- ceive and defeat such movements—the “Mooney Case” has become “respectable.” Some of hangmen of Tom Mooney in particular and of the working class in general are now “for” Tom Mooney as a means of covering their anti-working-class crimes, and as a means of retaining faith of the masses, and as a means of making it easier to keep Mooney and a thousand other working- Even a Tammany mayor, with the blood of a dozen murdered strike pickets dripping from his hands, made a wild dash to Cali- fornia to identify himself with the Mooney case at a moment when the exposure of his crimes became class fighters in prison. most dangerous. But this “respectability” of the Mooney case does not mean that Mooney will be freed. trary, out of it arise some of the from maneuvers by “respectable” supporters of capi- talism, to whom the carcass of a dead Mooney would be more aceptable than a liberated the revolutionary ranks of labor. And now the socialist party is “for’ Mooney—cfter a fashion. Let us examine this. If we are to and Warren Billings out of prison, eye-lash that has any bearing upon this case must be carefully scrutinized, and every possible support must be welcomed, consolidated and utilized, and every move of an enemy repelled. Not only those who agree upon the revolutionary attitude towards capitalist parasitism (and who look upon the overthrow of capitalism and the struggle for the free- ing of Tom Mooney, the framed-up children and other political prisoners as being insep- arably bourid up together, and the liberation of Labor’s prisoners as a by-product of revolutionary struggle)— but also the support of those who view, must be fully utilized to give greater mass volume Also petty-bourgeois elements, bour- | capitalist society—against Bolshevism. defeat and destroy the revolutionary trade unions to the demand, geois liberals and working-class elements who still | think only along the lines of bourgeois liberalism— | the support of all these must be sought and utilized to give additional weight to the united front of struggle for teh release of our work- | ing-class fighters. So let us examine the attitude of the socialist party, which is now in the process of making certain maneu- vers in relation to the Mooney Case. Of course the main concern and activity of the socialist party now is to fight against the fast-in- the most active a hold upon the On the con- greatest dangers living fighter in get Tory Mooney every turn of an struggle for the Editor's Note.. The Socialist Party is MAKING MANEUVERS IN REGARD TO} THE MOONEY CASE. Facing contradictions between its claim to be a party of the | working class and its increasing role in the present economic crisis as a fighter against | every interest of the working class—its role as strikebreaker in the mine fields, the tex-|f} tile fields and the needle trades, its treacherous support of the police against the unem- ployed and its hardy concealed co-operationwith the police and capitalist prosecutors in present-day arrests and jailings of militant workers—the socialist party leadership is reaching for new means of securing the confidence of the working class. Among its ef-|}) forts are—pretenses of building “also” unemployed councils, and, among other things, |}, maneuvers to make itself appear as a “defender” of the most famous of American labor's \f) living martyrs—Tom Mooney. It is common knowledge around the Mooney Defense Committee headquarters in San Francisco that the socialist party natioyal office has put an ultimatum to Mooney— that if he will refuse to associate himself with the International Labor Defense they are willing to make Mooney their vice-presidential candidate, but that if he ‘drop” his case, The author of this series, Comrade Robert Minor, member of the Central Com-\}) mittee of the Communist Party, personally knows more of the Mooney case than any other man. Tom Mooney writes in his recent pamphlet of how Minor rushed to San Fran- cisco and took over the leadership of the defense: “For two long and discouraging years Minor exposed the frame-ups. His meager wages ,.. barely kept him alive, the ‘labor leaders’ vilified him, his co-workers on the Defense Committee slackened up their efforts, some quit altogether, but Minor kept plug- ging away. His tremendous efforts during the darkest days of the Mooney-Billings case need only be contrasted with the tactics of the labor leaders’ who obstructed the defense, to indubitably damn then.” From “Tom Mooney Betrayed by Labor Leaders”—by Tom Mooney. does not they will public way, in the being knocked on on framed-up mur stand on the Moon | ‘When the Moor leaders was first a built Defense orga letters to organizati tive Committee of individually, to set The answers to answer, constitute What was the ge party cast a cold ai To the direct offic’ they made no re} leadership of the N. guise over a funda Scottsboro Negro | — do not take this | capitalist state ai affiliated to the broadest possible minority groups, unemployed move! Brownsville Miners Break Through Operators Terror in Militant Anti-War Meet Defy Thugs and Yellow Dogs; Hold Militant Meet; Protest Jailing of Borich BROWNSVILLE, Pa., April 12.—For the first time in | many months the workers of Brownsville, Pa., succeeded today in breaking through the terror of the coal operators and their Jocal political lackeys and holding an open air anti-war dem- onstration. Despite the presence of numerous coal company thugs from the various mines in the vicinty of Brownsville to spy on the meeting and report any miner working for their com- panies attending the demonstration. defied the yellow dogs and the More than 100 miners coal operators and came to the demonstration, listening. attentively for two hours to the speeches of Mike Vukovich, district organizer of the NMU, and’ Robert Pace, organizer of the Com- munist Party, sub- indoor meeting in the court house in the evening, Speakers representing the Com- ‘The workers assembled voted &|munist Party and the Young Com- resolution of protest to the governor of the state of Alabama, against the vicious frame-up against the nine Negro Scottsboro boys, demanding their freedom and pledging active support to the mass defense cam- paign, A resolution of protest was also voted to be sent to Governor Pin-~ chot, of Pennsylvania, protesting against the arrest of Frank Borich, national secretary of the NMU, de- Mmanding his immediate release. .'* 6 KANSAS CITY, April 12.—A packed all day program of mass pro- tests and demonstrations against im~- perialist war and for the defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union featured Antiwar Day in Kansas City. Starting with an early morning demonstration of over 1,000 workrs at the gates of the Ford factory, and Winding up with an indoor meeting of over 500 workers, the Anti-War Day activities in Kansas City in- volved at least 3,000 active partici- pants, and reached tens of thousands of workers with propaganda. At 12 o'clock about 650 workers as- sembled at 17th and Paseo for an open meeting to start off a parade. The parade got under way at 1 o'clock and led by a truck carrying an electric chair with a Negro boy hooded and strapped, symbolizing the boss terror against the Scotts- boro boys. Jess Hollins, wife of a framed-up Negro worker lead the parade passed down 18th Street, the most congested thoroughfare in the heart of the Negro section, then turned on Trost Avenue, another busy street, up to 12th Street, and then on 12th Street to 12th and Pa~ seo. Here a spirited, militant dem~- onstration of close to 2,000 workers took place from the top of and the War Memorial. Fourteen workers signed up for the Communist Party. The crowd was addressed by an ex- service man, Negro workers, youth workers, and a speaker for the Com- munist Party. The police were out in force, but the militancy and dis- cipline of the crowd, forced them to adopt a ‘hands off’ policy. rie athe: WILLISTON, N. D., April 12— Workers and farmers of Williams County demonstrated here against Order bundles for the May. Day Daily Worker} imperialist war and the Scottsboro lynch verdicts on April 6. Two meetings were held, an open air meeting in the afternoon and an munist League exposed the propa- soive the crisis, do away with unem- ployment and raise the price of wheat and other commodities. They pointed out the inevitability of wars under capitalism, the sham of the “disarmament” conferences and the “peace” pacts and the necessity of doing away with the criminal capi- talist system. ‘The following resolution was unan- imously adopted and ordered sent to the governor of Alabama: Governor B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala. We the farmers and workers gathered at a mass meeting in Williston, N. Dak., protest against, the decision of your lower courts to execute seven innocent Negro boys on the basis of the flimsiest evidence. We demand a new trial for all of the boys with Negro and white workers on the jury and un- conditional release for these vic- tims of class justice. —Al Boss, Chairman, rae es MINOT, N. Dak. April 12.—An Anti-War demonstration was held | here on April 6, on an open lot, with | about, 30 Oworkers and farmers tak- | ing part, after being refused a per-| mit to hold street’ meetings in Minot, by the Board of City Commissioners, When Comrade Andrew Ombholt, District Organizer of the Communist Party and Communist candidate for governor of No. Dakota appeared be~ fore the Board to get a permit for the meeting he was told: “You are against the government and should not have that right.” The police dep’t was given orders by Police Commis- sioner LaFluer, the so-called pro- gressive member of the Board to see to it that the City Ordinance against street. meetings was enforced, join- ing with the republican gang in re- stricting free speech for the workers of Minot. i Defying the terror, the workers of Minto paraded from the Workers’ Center to the meeting place, with placards displaying slogans oalling for the “Defense of the Soviet Union,” “Use the War Funds to Feed the Jobless,” “Stop the Terror Against the Chinese Masses,” “We Demand the Release of the Scottsboro Boys and Tom Mooney.” A truck load of workers paraded up and down Main ganda of the bosses that war will! creasing revolutionary current in the working class. The socialist party is against all “subversive” move- | ments. The main thesis of the socialist party is for | the defense of capitalist ““democracy”—to protect the | nd the existing order of Jim-Crow It fights to Trade Union Unity League, to root out, expose and expel from the old-line trade unions all revolutionary workers who work in the “left wing” to fight against the Unemployed Councils, to prevent the building of a mass base to the ment which is inevitably under Red leadership, and especially to fight tooth and nail against the organization of a mass movement of | struggle for Negro rights and particularly for the saving of the Negro boys framed up at Scottsboro, Chi. War Vets to Hold Huge Bonus Parade Saturday CHICAGO, Ill.— Masses of veterans of the last World War will demonstrate and parade in Chicago Saturday under the leadership of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League to demand immedi- ate payment of the tomb- stone bonus. The war veterans demand that the government pay this money at once, not as a charity dole, but as back pay which is due them. Today the American Le- gion, which betrayed the vets at the Detroit Conven- tion, is lined up solid with the bankers, bosses and gov- ernment and through the newspapers is making the claim that the vets do not need the bonus that they do not need relief from star- vation, The Legion through this stand has proven that it was organized by the bosses to stop the vets from fight- ing for their demands. Repudiate the Legion! Demand full immediate pay- ment of the bonus! All out to Union Park, Ogden Ave. and Randolph St., Saturday at 3:30 p.m. 3 | , Which also is inevitably under the Red leadership of the Communist Party. And our main interest in regard this present position. Let us look into the past record in Billings was in every step a desperate | Officials. It must not be forgotten party in its activities in the Mooney Case, is with But also let us look at its past record. eis of the socialist party and its leading figures—back to the beginning of 1916, when the fight battle against the police and against the trade union socialist party. fa Hungarian lan to the socialist | % ; socialist | ye had been obli the Party by the the Mooney St Patsy OOP |: ee and in the for Mooney and oughly hated by and often bloody that the Mooney | Case arose from and was the first incident of the flood the Alabama bosses to legally save the boys and against the na- tional oppression and economic rob- bery of the Negro masses. The meet- the national office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which is de- fending the boys: “We protest the legal murder of the Scottsboro young Negro work- ers, we demand unconditional re- lease, and freedom of Mooney, Bil- lings and all political prisoners.” The following resolution was cabled to the Alabama Supreme Court by! 800 Soviet students: “We, the students of the Tech- nical School of Highways of the | City of Cosmodszayanisk (800 stu- dents) protest against the death sentences given the seven young Negro workers who have been sen- tenced to die on May 13, 1932. This | act of terror against the proletariat will cement our determination to struggle against our class enemies. “Consomol Ogranization.”. . . It is not known whether the cable- gram was delivered by the telegraph companies which have been refusing | of terror that the ruling class inaugurated in the summer of 1916 in preparation for entering this coun- try in the World War. To be for Mooney then, in any | ‘Soviet Workers and Students Protest Against Scottsboro Lynch Verdict Decisions Foreign Young Workers in Leningrad Join Soviet Youth in Demonstration; 800 | Students Wire Protest | ing sent the following cablegram to! | however, that “the message is in Rus- became one ‘of my duties on behalf of the ha: tive Council of the American r and to all prominent leaders of these organizatio In my letters I repeatedly hammered upon statement that Tom Mooney was a revolutionary t union leader in good standing as a member of t In fact he branch in San Francisco to avoid being expelled fron revolutionary views. the rising young Left Wing fighters in the soc But our press publicity and the letters that I to socialist leaders encountered a bitter opposition of an underground form. (Tomorrow's instalment will tell of secret le sent out by the socialist party bureaucracy war | against any defense of Mooney.) summer of 1916, S a matter of the head, shot, jailed or ind der chart Where did the socialist party and its various leaders ney Case then? + Gaga's group of left wing trade unio rested at the end of July, 1916, it nization, to write a great masi ions, including the National Execu the socialist party and the E: Federation of forth the situation and to demand that they take a stand, these letters, and the failure an illuminating chapter in the history of the American labor movement neral character of the answers? Ce eer The National Executive Committee of the socia ind fishy eye upon the Mooney case ial demand that they take a st ply. Unofficially interviewed . E. C. was unwilling to be quote but hinted that they “could not afford to have any- thing to do with it.” quit bureaucracy had set itself to clean the ‘ of red out of the socialist part It was the year when the H put ing up the r tionary, dark-minded, anti-socialist Allan H. Be: as presidential candidate of a program of capitalist | conservatism, patriotism—and a thinly “pacifist” dis- mentally militarist chauvinism as, He was a mer nguage branch of the social iged to transfer to the Hungar! California officials because of his Tom, in other words, was one of A. F. of L., and was alr y the California party bureauc Protest demonstrations against the murderous attempt of murder the Scottsboro Negro boys continue with increasing tempo thruout the wohle world. Yesterday a large mass meeting of foreign and Russian young Communists in Leningrad, Soviet Union, expressed mil- | itant support for the mass fight toe Supreme Court and the governor on the grounds that the Alabama at- | torney general has ruled that any | protest against the lynch verdicts is| “illegal and obscene.” The attorney | general threatened to cite the tele-| graph companies fod contempt of| court. The protest is published, however, in Russian in the lynch} bosses’ paper, the Jackson County | Sentinel (published at Scottsboro, Ala.) with the cynical caption: “Far-Away Russia Sends Mes- | sage; Looks Like Alphabet On Spree,” The lynch bosses’ paper admits, sian but it is.easy to see by certain words in it that it pertains to the Scottsboro case and death sentence of seven Negroes. If any of our read: ers can handle Russian, send us a translation and we'll publish it next week,” The national office of the ILD an- nounced that it has called the bluff of the lynch bosses and has sent them @ translation. MOONEY DENOUNCES ROLPH'S THREAT TO DELAY RELEASE} (MOONEY STATEMENT) “I am either guilty or not guilty.” “Why all this controversy about parole, commutation, ete.? If 1 were guilty of the dastardly crime which I was charged with commit- ing (and for which I was framed in the foulest manner by the most despicable perjuries in American history), I should have been hung fifteen years ago. But they did not dare hang me, because they feared the consequences of hang- ing an innocent man, I am either guilty or not guilty. And not a shred of evidence remains to prove me guilty.” Mooney then referred to the statement appearing in a San Francisco newspaper on April 6 which read: “It is no secret that the governor's advisers fear the ef- munist League and the United Farm. ers League, Andrew Ombholt spoke for the Communist Party, Fred Dal- ziel for the Young Communist League and R. W. Dalziel for the United Farmers League. Bill Free- man, District Organizer for the Y. C. L. was chairman, ear SEDRO-WOODLEY, Wasb., April 12—Over 100 workers stended the anti-war demonstration: here on Ap- Stree with placards, and shouting of slogans against war. The demonstration was called by the Communist Party, Young Com~- ril 6, Resolutions against the robber war on China, and against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts were unan- imously adopted. fect of Mooney’s release under present economic conditions.” “If that is their attitude,” said Mooney, “what a travesty on jus- tice! Am I to be held responsible | for ‘present economic conditions?’ According to this version—and it is no doubt deeply rooted in the minds of some people—the question is not whether I am innocent or guilty, but whether or not I should be released during an economic de- Pression!” “Where is the justice in such an atitude? Is justice based on the facts of the case on the price of wheat, or on statistics on car load- ings and bank clearings?” “I repeat again that there ts only one question to be decided by the governor and his advisers: Am I guilty or am I innocent? If the facts in my case are considered, there can only be one conclusion: IT am as innocent as a new-born babe of the crime for which I am now serving my sixteenth year in prison.” Jiechi sereretnoninme Twenty-Five Delegates in Warren WARREN, Ohio.—Twenty-five de- ‘tegates representing 16 organizations | with 700 members were present at the United Front May Day confer- ence held in Warren. The conference, the chairman of which was Niemi, decided to hold a| demonstration during the day and) Frisco Bosses Plan 20 Per Cent Pay Cut for Building Trades SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 9.—A wage cut in the building industry has been decided upon. The cut, which amo- unts to 20 per cent, will reduce car- penters’ pages from $9 to $7.20 a day and plasterers’ wages from §11 to| $8.80 a day, Plumbers are almost certain to be affected by the heavy Cut, About 2000 carpenters and be- tween 450 and 500 plasterers are af- fected in the city. A similar wage-cut is expected also in Oakland and the East Bay region. Only a fighting alliance of the white and Negro workers can stop the bloody hands of the lynch bos- When the Winter Winds Begin to Blow You will find it warm and cory ——in—- Camp Nitgedaiget rest fn the proletarian atmosphere rovided tel—you will alxo. find it well heated with steam heat, water and many other im- The food is clean ind especially well For further information call the COOPERATIVE OF FICK 2800 Rronx Park Unet Tel.—Fisterbrook 8-1400 indoor affair at the Hippodrome Hall in the evening, , to transmit protests to the Alabama | | |Son Coal Miners Win Strike; Force Boss| to Take Back C u t| | | CUNNINGHAM, Pa—Sixty| |miners of the Son Mine of Cun-| |ningham, Pa, of the Western Pennsylvania district struck and won their demands from the com-| | pany, | The men struck against a 22 per cent wage-cut, They also de-| manded lowering of rent in the) company houses and recognition | of a mine committee, The men| got back cents on a ton and) compelied the company to lower! |the rent. The company was also| compelled to deal officially with| |the committee of the striking! iners. | || The company gave in to these demands as soon as they found out that the National Miners’ | Union was in the field leading bed | miners in this strike. Before the miners went back to work a local! union of the N, M. U. was organ-| | ized. | Mobilize the workers to fight for unmployment insurance in con nection with May Day. Sell the pamphlet “Social Insurance” by Grace Burnham. Two cents. of | HISTORY OF THE MOONEY CASE be Leader of the first Defense Com- mittee and in the exposure of the San Francisco preparedness day bomb frame-up and the campaigns to free Mooney and Billings in 1916, Since then Comrade Minor has been in the forefront of the long campaign against the conspirators and the A, F. of L. fakers who have aided the capitalists in keeping Mooney in San Quentin prison. ARRANGE MAY Ist MEETS IN CLEVE. Also Warren, 0., Has United Front May Day Conference CLEVELAND, April 9 (by mail). — Ss Tepresenting 118 w organizations of this ty, present at an enthusiastic Uni- d Front May First-Anti War- Scottsboro Defense Conference, held here last night, at the initiative of the Ohio District, Communist Par- ty, US. A Rank and file delegates from the bakers, carpenters, and two painters’ locals of the American Federation of Labor, in spite of the opposition of the A. F. of L. leadership, which uses the September Labor Day, to hide the struggle against capitalist | pleitation and rule which has always | characterized May Day on an inter- | national scale. | The delegates enthusiastically ap- proved the need for making May First. 1932, a day that would honor the memory of Comrade Charles F. Ruthenberg, the first secretary the Communist Party of the U. A., who led a demonstration of 40,- 000 Cleveland workers in Market Sq. on May Day, 1919, against the la imperialist war and for the better- ing of the working and living con- ditions of the workers of this city. by mobilizing even more wrikers for the | demonstration this year | All organizations present pledged support to the second May Day Coer- | ference which will be held on April | 25 af 2536 Euclid Avenue and will take in even more working class or. | ganizations to prepare the greatest May First demonstration yet held here, ex- of | “The Soviet Union stands for peace,” the great speech made by Comrade Litvinov, representative | of the Soviet Union at Geneya, shows the peace policy of the Se viet Union and the war plans of the capitalist nations, One Cent | pamphiet. RALLY THE WORKERS TO FIGHT BOSSES WAR AND TO DEFEND U.$.$.Re AND THE CHINESE AAASSES WITH GREETINGS IN THE MAY DAY Dail orker Pertg USA ALL THOSE CONTRIB- UTING SINCE JAN.» 17 WILL BE THERE! 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