The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1932, Page 3

DA ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932 Wage Ihree Will Defend Socialism With Our Lives, Say Workers in U.S.S.R. Construction Workers Write of Rise in Living Level Since Revolution Lived on Bread and Water Before 1917; Now Workers Get Good Wages and Food Dear Comrades: We, construction workers, send you our hearty, revo- lutionary greetings, At a general meeting we decided to describe to you our life before the revolution and our life and work now. Before the revolution of 1917 the peasants had very Fascist Army Being Organized by Father Cox in Pittsburgh Out of the inocent jobless move- ment started by Father Cox in Pitts- burgh at the time when the Na- tional Hunger March was sweeping the country there is developing a fascist movement to fight working- class struggle, Recently the “holy father” stated to a leading writer that his purpose is to keep the jobless from revolting against starvation. Now he an- nounces the formation of a “Blue Shirt” army under the guise of a convention to nominate him for president. ‘The announcement was made at a large meeting in a Pittsburgh air- field. Cox boasts that a million men attired in blue shirts will support his nomination in August. Cox de- claims against the capitalists but little land. A family of 8 had from 2 to 3 acres of very poor Jand. They worked with wooden plows on their narrow strips of land. Their bred lasted them only until October or Novem- salutes their government and urges the wealthy to join his movement. The hypocrisy and danger to a real ber. There were very few schools and even those were for the use of the landowners, priests and the rest of the tzarist pack. Illiteracy ‘was wide spread. We lived in pov- erty and hunger. We are unable to describe the misery of the peasants at that period. At the same time the landowners of the surrounding estates were rolling in luxury. For a day’s work of 14 hours the} landowners paid the workers 20 to} 30 copecks. The parasites, the :Priests also lived on our labor. They had land and employed farm workers. ‘They also did not forget to take our | bread, money etc. The priests kept on persuading us not to be envious of the rich, to work with the sweat on our brows, in or- der to get bread for ourselves and wealth for our exploiters. For this | life of poverty on the earth they promised happiness in heaven and if stock and collectivized it. Those that had nothing also joined us. We all work together for one cause and all have equal rights. Every one’s stock is estimated on entering and if at any time one wants to leave the kolhoz he can do so and fight for unemployment insurance AZVESTIA BLAMES JAPAN FOR WHITE he gets the money for his stock and implements. The management of the kolhoz | sends out the members who are not | needed in the kolhoz, for construc- tion work, where we already work more than a year. In the summer our collective numbered about 600 workers; we have a little less now. Public Dining Room. We work 8 hours a day on progres- sive piece work basis and earn on the average from 4 to 5 rubles a day. We have a public dining room and a | GUARD ) ATTACKS Says Japanese Seek to) | Enlarge Military | Conflict | The Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” | yesterday bluntly charged the Jap- | anese imperialists with inspiring the | attack by White Guards in Man- churia on Soviet citizens and the of- | fices and Soviet manager of the | Chinese Western Railway. 36 Cuban Writers Send Protests JAPANESE TOOL ito Alabama Governor Against [SES SOVIET SOIL Scottsboro Lynch Verdicts Join World-Wide Mass Fight to Save Innocent Boys, Seven of Whom Are Sentenced to Burn NEW YORK.—A group of 36 writers and newspapermen of Havana, Cuba, yesterday cabled the following protest against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts to Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama: “The undersigned, writers and newspapermen of Cuba, by this cable message present to you their most fervid protest against the vio- lation of justice to the Scottsboro boys» victims of teh racial and so- cial prejudices, Their massacre would constitute a shameful injury to the legal procedure and an out- rage to humanity and civilization a nd an indelible blot in the history of Alabama.” Among the signers of the protest are the following noted Cuban} writers: Ofelia Rodriquez Acosta, | Manuel Marsal, Jorge Manach, Fran- cisco Ichaso, Ramon Vasconcelos, | Raul Ortega, Ricardo illares, Rafael | Suarez Solis and Fernando Rivero. This protest by a group of Cuban | intellectuals is another example of | the extent to which the struggle of the world warking class for the re- lease of the Scottsboro boys is suc- | ceeding in exposing the brutal char- acter of the imperialist oppression of the Negro masses and rousing the in- dignation of various groups in the face of this hideous frame-up of nine innocent Negro boys. From Europe have come protests from various intellectual groups as May 13 well as.from tens of thousands of workers in Germany, France, Swit- verland and other countries. Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann are among the German intellectuals who have vigorously protested against the lynch verdicts. In the Soviet Union, millions of workers and peasants have registered their firm solidarity with the oppressed Negro nationality and with the mass fight to stop the legal murder of the Scottsboro boys by the Alabama ruling class. Panama Workers Send Protest. In Panama, Central America, white and Negro workers have rallied to the fight to save the boys. Several demonstrations have been held. On seps Park at Panama City, under the auspices of the Panama section of the International Red Aid, the fol- lowing protest cable was adopted, to be sent to President Hoover: “Panama and Canal Zone work- ers protest the electrocution of the Scottsboro Negro boys and ask clemency.” From all over the world the thun- der of protest is rising, with the world working class demanding the unconditional release of the nine in- nocent boys, seven of whom already have been sentenced to burn in the electric chair on May 13. The work- ing class demands unconditional re- lease, not clemency. The boys are innocent. The working class must not permit the Alabama lynch bosses to murder these boys or to brand the April 6, at @ mass meeting in Les-| TO STIR UP WAR Tries to Link Up Soviet Union With Ma’s Sham Fight | The Soviet Government yesterday | demanded the recall from Blagove- shehenk, Siberia, of the consul of the Japanese puppet Manchurian gov- ernment, The Soviet Government charged that the consul had abused | the privilege of coded telegrams by | sending to various parts of China| and other countries appeals signed by Gen. Ma Chen-shan. | | The sending of these telegrams from Soviet soil was a deliberate at- tempt to involve the Soviet Union in war with Japan. It was intended to | give the impression that the traitor Chinese Gen. Ma was operating from | a base on Soviet soil in his latest sham manouver of “fighting” against his Japanese masters. ! | ‘This is the same Gen. Ma who last | December sacrificed the lives of thousands of his soldiers in a fake “resistance” to the Japanese—a “re- sistance” that was aimed at furnish- | ing the Japanese with the pretext to | send troops into Heilungkiang Pro-| | vince toward the Soviet border. Sell the workers’ own pamphiet “Unemployment Relief and Social Insurance” in our May First cam- paign to mobilise them for our program. Two cent pamphlet. Gov't Official Admits Move to Regulate Capitalism Fails Official acknowledgement that the movement to organize international capitalism through Cartels in lead- | ing industries has failed is given by Louis Domeratsky, an official of the U. 5. Department of Commerce During the years of “prosperity” the steel magnates of the European nations attempted to form this un- ion of the industry in order to keep prices up and regulate production. This was an attempt to “plan capi- talism.” The same was done in the sugar, nitrate and copper industries. But the laws of capitalist society. of dog eat dog competition worked against this movement and Mr. Dom- eratsky, commenting ont the fate of the various cartels, says: “The Continental Steel Entente is still kept alive by provisional ex- tensions, but there is practically no attempt to enforce its provi- sions; it is considered too import- ant to be utterly abandoned, but all efforts to place it on a more | permanent basis have so far failed and its present influence is nil. “The renewal of a few of the less important cartels ean hardly be | considered as proof of the vitality | of the international cartel move- | ment, although some of its Europ- | ean exponents are still advancing | its claims as a factor in the solu- | tion of the outstanding, inter- | European economic problems.” And so dies another frantic ate tempt of the capitalists to save theme selves. With the cartels go the glor- ious theories of socialists and rene gades from Communism that “in the new era capitalism is able to rise above the Marxian theory of caple talist over-production and crises.” Steel Workers Urge Nat'l Guards to Support Miners YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—The steel workers of Youngstown, in declaring their solidarity with the brave min ers who are fighting aga: sta: tion in the Ohio coal fields, issued a call yesterday to members of the National Guard to take the side of the miners in their struggle and re- fuses to act as tools for the Good- year Rubber Co. The call to teh soldiers said “Are you, a worker in uniform, going to help maintain hunger and starvation? Are you going to shoot Chicago Workers to March | down your fellow workers? Are you going to fight on the side of hunger and scab conditions? “Guardsmen! Workers! Don’t fight against the striking miners. Refuse to leave on this mission of death. Write a new page in the history of the Youngstown National Guard by refusing to supoprt scab and hunger conditions in the mine | fields. Tell your officers to go to hell with their death orders to ; Shoot down your fellow-workers. | Down with the bosses’ program of | terror, hunger and war. “Guardsmen! Stand on the side @ poor fellow dared to express his house for the workers. . We get mat- “The Japanese militarists,” Tzve- Negro people as a race of rapists. of the working class. Saye the |he was immediately aah es the He Se ee sage sstia said, “are seekg to enlarge hata rornere! Bally to ae ce | miners, their wives, mothers and [pet tote pce, ws pun prion | Yerl0us newspaper, magaines,| {He frme of the miliary cont noenenit Hod wenmanions’ IN Huge Parade on May Day, ‘+: 0 » ss sever soa les , ” ” ! st | - ' u and sentenced to hard labor, etc. All| books. ‘These days we will have a| !, Manchuria, Rush funds to the Scottsboro De- | jootiate | starvation! Don’t shoot down your power was in the hands of the priests and capitalists, landowners. Lived on Bread and Water. As a result of these conditions, we, poor, peasants, were leaving our homes and families, in order to look for work in other districts. But also there we could not escape the land- owners, priests and capitalists. The contractor paid us for our work mis- erable pennies, not more than 50 co- pecks a day. In the summer we worked from sunrise till sunset. The contractor tried to pay us as little as possible, in order to fill up his own pockets. The food was bad. For breakfast bread and water. For dinner and supper: sour cabbage soup and pooridge. That was all they gave us. It is impossible to describe all. The thought of the past brings a feeling of horror, A worker of our collective tells us, that in 25 years he worked for a contractor, he was not with his family even 3 years. He worked all the time to keep his family from starving while the contractor was getting rich on the labor of the workers. Destroyed Parasites. ‘The October Revolution destroyed these parasites. We are free now. ‘The land was taken away from the landowners and priests and given to the peasants. On this land we are now organizing large collective farms. ‘The small, narrow strips of land we united into large collective fields, where tractors and various agricul- tural machinery are used. We col~ lected all our implements and live No Pay for Dead Work (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The men are working only two or three days a week. On March 16 @ 16 per cent wage-cut took place. There is no pay for dead work. When the pit boss finds any dirty coal in any of the ears the loader is laid off for two radio set up. We attend lectures on different subjects and also courses for improving our technical knowl- edge. We have a wide-spread net- work of schools of various kinds, which are open to all the workers, technical schools, higher technical schools, universities, etc. No Unemployment. Unemployment has been liquidated, there is work for everybody who want to work. Work is paid for very well. Children of school age go to school. At present we work enthusi- astically on the fulfillment of the 5- Year Plan and the building of social- ism in the Soviet Union. In conclu- sion we will say, that the gains of the October Revolution we will never give up and we will never give back the power to the capitalists. Every worker and peasant will give his life for the new order and achievements of the October Revolution. Our hearty greetings to the work~- ers and peasants in other countries. We-wish you great success in your struggle with the capitalists and ex- ploiters. Dear comrades, it is our strong conviction that the time is near when the workers the world over will de- stroy all boundaries and will unite into one family of workers. Long live the toilers of the whole world! With comradely greetings, Chairman Dvorov. Secretary Shuraey, (Signatures of 24 workers.) in Pittsburgh Mine In order to make between $2 and $2.50 a day the loaders are compelled to work ten and twelve hours a day. In addition to deducting for all sorts of things, the company also takes off from each pay $1 for church and $1.50 for unemployed. relief. The miners are naturally up in arms against such conditions and “These Japanese elements cannot evade responsibility for the latest White Guard attack.” As further evidence of the war inciting policy of the Japanese im- perialists, “Izvestia” pointed out that the Japanese bourgeoisie was delib- erately misleading public opinion in Japan with a campaign designed to | place the Soviet Union's peace ef- forts in a false light. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Tribune reporis a huge con- centration of Japanese troops near Harbin. The concentration is being carried out on the pretext of “anticipating” an “attack” by the Japanese tool Gen. Ma, who is now engaged in a sham manouver of “fighting” against his Japanese masters. Harbin is on the Chinese Eastern Railway, --A Tokyio dispatch to the New York Evening Post reports that Japanesé | military experts have “interpreted” the action of the Soviet Union in strengthening its border forces “as a clear indication that Russia expects a clash with Japan,” As if the Jap- anese had not shown by the con- centration of troops on the Soviet border and their own admissions of their robber appetite for Soviet ter- ritory thet they intend to attack the Soviet Union! ‘The dispatch quotes the Japanese Foreign Office as fol- lows: PLANNED BY NEW ZEALAND TOILERS, Barbed Wire Put Up In Effort to Stop Demonstrations A general strike to force the government to take back the 10 per cent wage-cut for civil em- ployes is being considered by the workers of New Zealand following a week of militant battling with armed forces. Meanwhile police and British sailors patrol the streets, not allowing any gtoups rof workers to get together. Barbed wire entanglements are being put up in the streets by the police, Hundreds of workers have been arrested for taking part in the un- employed demonstrations and po- lice of Auckland are said to be looking for a prominent Commu- nist leader, REFUSE PERMIT TO PHOTOGRAPH “Our military experts estimate that, the Soviet forces on the Manchurian frontier between Vladivostok and Manchuli now number nine divisions, a total of 70,000 men, with the strongest concentrations in the Pog- ranichnaya and Manchuli districts, where there are two divisions each. “The experts assert the disposi- tions clearly indicate the Russians are expecting a clash with Japan. Although they are of a defensive nature, they are capable also of assuming the offensive.” This is both an admission that the WRECK OF RAID We Don’t Want Pub- licity, Police Declares KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The definite tieup between the masked gangsters who raided the Knoxville headquar- ters of the Workers International Relief, the city authorities, police and mine and mill owners becomes increasingly clear with the revelation days as 4 punishment. If it is found second time the loader is fired. To every cut of coal the company are to fight against them, Pera Editorial Note:—The U.M.W.A. strengthening of the Soviet border | that Director Anderson of the Knox- forces are of a defensive nature and| Ville police refused camera men per- @ preliminary preparation by the mission to photograph ‘wreokage of Japanese to charge the Soviet Union| *he raid. Anderson stated “We don’t takes off five cars of dirt with no pay. The loaders must carry dirt from the room necks at least 80 feet with no pay. The loaders are com- pelled to search for rails and tires all over the mine, although it is against the law for a loader to carry rails and tires. ‘There is also no pay for crossbars since last December. ‘The miners have to clean the place before they shoot coal. Often the loaders are compelled to clean the place with & broom. has some sort of an organization in the Central Penna District. For years the U.M.W.A, did nothing to organize the miners against the batl conditions. When ever the miners atetmpt to strike, like they did in the Cassandra Mine of the Hughes Coal Co., the U.M.W.A, officialdom declares the strike “an outlaw strike.” The National Miners’ Union will proceed to organize the miners for a fight against the above conditions, Gary Steel Workers Gary, Ind, T am one of the workers who have been laid off from the U. S. Steel Oo, in Gary, Indiana. When the workers who have been laid off go over to the Gleason Re- lef Station, which is run by the U.S. Steel on money from workers’ pay, these workers are altogether refused any relief. Those who are given re- lief have to work for it. We have to work on the city parks, which are supposed to pay cash wages to work- ers. But we workers have to work here eight days a month for two baskets of groceries which are worth i to be given 30 cents an hour, which would make $19.20 worth, groceries a month. We are not only cheated out of our labor, but we are forced to live on a starvation Desperate for Food any relief and that he should have spent tat money carefully. Any worker getting one day’s work in two weeks in the mills gets no relief whatsoever. Those workers who ing one and two days ployed steel workers should get to- gether and make the force them to pay our rent and our children shoes and clothing. workers should do the same thing that I did—that is join in with the unemployed workers into the Unem- ployed Council at 1814 Broadway and fight together for more to live on. JR. On May Ist the Rus- sian workers will cele- brate the triumph of Socialism. Demonstrate against the bosses who with the offensive, in the war which the Japanese are now clearly pre- pared to begin, SHERIFFS BEATEN, TRYING TO STOP FARMERS’ MEET Farmers In Illinois Protest Low Price of Milk CHICAGO, April 14.—More than 1,000 farmers of McHenry County battled with the deputy sheriffs when they attempted to prevent a demonstration of the poor farmers who were protesting against the low price for milk, A number of deputy sheriffs were beaten up by the farm- ers. The milk trusts are paying the farmers $1.56 for 100 pounds of milk. The farmers demand a minimum of $2 per 100 pounds as paid by some of the milk companies. ~ ‘While the farmers are receiving a & g i 5 i iL 828 Pa g 5 2 rice of milk is exception- hicago. It sells for 12 5 a aghe i i want any publicity on this.” ‘Under the pressure of crystalixing anger of the Knoxville working class the “Knoxville News Sentinel” has been forced to extend its demagogic role into an attack against public officials for “allowing such things to take place.” As a result the admin- istration has been forced to adopt a Policy of “toleration,” fearing that further persecution of the Workers International Relief workers will lead to further exposure. In the meantime the conditions of the workers here and across the bor- der into Kentucky grows more des- perate. Tihe Pineville Welfare ‘League, central boss “charity” organ- ization has sent out a statement that all county “relief” work closes down today. The several hundred hand- picked unemployed out of the thous- ands who have no work are now cut~ off the lists. The\work here must be immedi- ately strengthened with the solidar- ity support of workers everywhere. The thousands of coupon books now in the field must be pushed so that the thousands of blacklisted miners can weld the fight for unemployment insurance with the struggle to solid- ify and spread the National Miners free milk be dren in the schools. fense Fund, Room 114, 80 E. 11th St., to finance the fight to the U. S. Supreme Court. Back the fight in the courts by your mass protests Only the united mass fight of white and Negro workers can save the boys. CHICAGO, and fifty two hundred and thirty working class organizations in a conference | here made final preparations for hundred delegrates representing NL—Three portant news items appeared in the press today in connection with the | strike. The National Miners’ Union | wishes to state its position on each | of them. ‘The government is definitely step- ping in to break the strike. Just as in the past, the government is show- ing its colors by taking the side of the coal operators. The government is particularly concerned to break the strike at the Somers Mine, owned by the Goodyear Rubber ©o., because the Goodyear has large orders from the government to be used for war purposes. We thus see that the at- tempts to break the strike is def- tions. Planning to Raid N.M.U. Headquarters. As part of the atetmpts to break the strike, the coal operators, through their government agencies, are plan- ning a reign of terror against the National Miners’ Union forces. The newspapers today openly carried the news that a raid is planned upon the N.M.U. headquarters. Although this strike is officially led by tpe U.M.W.A., nevertheless, the enemies of the strikers fully realize that the National Miners’ Union militant strike policies have struck deep roots amongst the mass of strikers, Since the beginning of the strike the N. M. U. continued to bring their real militant policies to the miners. Its members are taking an active part on the picket lines. The N.MLU. has exposed, and will continue to expose, the false strike issues raised by the U.M.W.A, officials. ‘The strik- ers, though formaily accepting U. M. W. A. leadership, are in fact fight~ program. This is the reason for the intended attack upon the National Miners’ Union. | Cinque Attacks Mass Picketing. ‘The third important news item is the fact that John Cinque, the sub- district U.M.W.A. president, at a con- ference with the staet representa~ tives, desclaimed responsibility for the huge fass picket lines that took place the past couple of days at the Somers Mine. The wolf has dis- carded its sheep's fur. This atitude on the part of Cinque means nothing else than an invite- tion to the government forces to stnash the strike through @ reign of terror. , It means laying the basis initely linked with the war prepara- | Attack on Miners Part of Goodyear War Preparations: PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Three im-) for the betrayal of the strike. This| position taken by the U. M. W. A.| leader of the strike is quite in ac-| j cord with the silence maintained by | | the scale committee as to what. “really” tok place at the Zanesville | meeting of the scale committee. | The only report given to the strik-| | ers by U. M. W. A. officials is that | the U.M.W.A, agreed to allow the {operation of mines producing {for public utilities, They say nothing as | to the program in forcing the coal | companies to withdraw the wage-cut. | It is clear that the coal companies | have demanded too higr a price for | granting the U.M.W.A. the “check- off.” The U.M.W.A. officials are be | coming frightened of their own shad ows. They realize that it is not so easy to fool the miners. The miners are striking against the wage-cut, no | | matter how hard the U.M.W.A. offi-| cials will try to supplant this strike | against the wage-cut. The official-| dom also realizes that it has under- estimated the strength of the Na-/ tional Miners’ Union. They will soon | realize that by trying to prevent N. M. U. representatives from speaking | at the strikers’ meetings they cannot blind the eyes of the strikers from | seeing their demands. The National | Miners’ Union will continue guiding the strikers in their present struggle for their immediate needs, and will | continue exposing the U.M.W.A. of- ficialdom whenever they thake any the Chicago May Day Demonstra- tion. The major features of the dem- onstration will be the struggle against war, the Scottsboro cam- paign, the election campaign and the struggle for unemployment in- surance. Most of the details for the dem- | onstration were worked out at the conference. The workers will gather at Union Park at four p. m. Here a mass meeting will be held. The workers will then form into lime and at 5:30 and march north to Lake St, west to Ashland Ave., north to Chicago, west to Western, south to Van Buren and east to the Ashland Auditorium. The conference greeted enthus- iastically an invitation to Wm. Z. Foster to speak at the meeting. Sixty May Day meetings have been arrarged throughout the Chi- cago district fellow-workers in overalls! Sup- port the glorious strike of the miners against starvation! “This is the sincere appeal of the Steel workers | you.” of Youngstown to This call was issued by the Metal | Workers Industrial League of Youngs- town, Ohio. lOn May Ist the Ameri- can Workers Started ithe Fight for the 8-- ‘Hour Day! On May Ist Demonstrate Against | Wage Cuts and Unem- | ployment! : INTO THE STREETS ON MAY DAY! aig, With the MAY DAY 3 The May Day Daily ‘Worker, with its eight pages of important news, greetings, atetmpt to betray the strikers. National Miners’ Union, Ohio District, realized by every worker. ing in line with the N. M. U. strike | Robert Sivert, Dist.’ Sec’y. MAY a. pay “= Buttons Through your District Office Send Money With Order 20.00 Per Thousand COMMUNIST PARTY, U P, O. BOX 87, STATION NEW YORK, N. ¥. 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With the assistance of workers everywhere there is no ‘Season why more than 100,000 copies, paid for in advance, cannot be circulated into every workers’ neighborhood, factory, shop, mine, ship, farm! Blanks for greetings are all out and are on the way to every branch of every mass organization in the country. If your branch has not received some, let the National office know immediately. In fact, greetings and some commercial ads have started to come y edition in for the May Da contributed. More than branches! More than 30 Finnish branches have 20 TUUL More than 25 Ukrainian clubs! unions! More than 25 IWO But the language organ- izations are not doing as weil as they should, particularly the Jewish! WORKERS! SEE THAT YOU ARE DOING YOUR DUTY, INDIVIDUALLY AND IN YOUR ORGANIZA- TIONS, FOR THE MAY DAY ISSUE OF THE WORK- ERS’ NEWSPAPER! ONLY THE WORKERS CAN SAVE THE DATLY WORKER! ONLY WORKERS CAN REALIZE THE IMPORT. ANCE OF THE ROLE OF THE DAILY WORKER, AND ACT ACCORDINGLY!