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Plans, Terror Two Thousand Workers Have Made Application to Join the WORKERS OF THE WORLD, Unemployed Council of Salt Daily Z UNITE! Lake City. Winning AVbrker Are You Central Party U.S.A. Members for Your Council? (Section of the Communist International ) Ent«r<Ml as second-class matter at the Tost Office CITY EDITION Vol. VIII, No. 71 at New York, y„ under the act of March 3, 187® NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1931 Price 3 Cents DEMONSTRATE MARCH 28 ON LYNCHING, DEPORTATIONS For Negro Rights Acquit Walker Amid Cheers or not, OF WORKERS, whether Communists will take notice of the com- PENN. A. F. L HEADS plete hypocrisy of the capitalist class which, with Fish as leader, FRAME-UP unleashing USE chatter about "forced labor"—in the Soviet Union—while the of Northwest Coast Workers bloodiest terror against the efforts of the Communist Party to rally the struggle against peonage FOR COAL masses to forced labor and under which millions STATE PAID of Negroes are suffering in the South. Rallying Workers Forced Acquittal of Young The miseries of the Negro masses, particularly in the South, are in- Communist Held On Syndicalism Charges; PUSH tensified the crisis and the crisis and the TO by generally agrarian especially, WAR AND IRON Paul Munter At Trial of COSSACKS Testifies eeforts the Communist Party to give leadership to the growing strug- gles are met with not only Fish Committee terror and a concerted effort of all capitalist forces to incite white workers against Negroes, but also BULLETIN with Negro bourgeois misleaders, who help reaction by inciting Negro The Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League Portland, Ore., March 22. workers against foreign-born workers and a policy of self-segregation PLANS, Amid the had TERROR thunderous cheers of 200 workers who timed to monopolize the exploitation of Negro workers for the Negro Representatives Out By bourgeoisie. Thrown Governor crowded into the courtroom here, a verdict of not guilty was The increased activity of the Communist Party is revealing much Pinchot When They Expose Scheme returned by the jury in the case of Fred Walker, young Com- Smash Growing Terror hitherto dormant white chauvinism among mass organizations of work- munist chaged with criminal syndicalism. This is a victory PUSH PLANS FOR ers, and even within our Party. If the whole cause of the entire work- ing class, for the Northwestern workers as the state rested their hopes Against Working w’hite as well as Negro, is not to be injured, our Party must Prepare Hunger March to Ffarrisburgh, April take decisive measures to clear away the confusion about and under- on convicting Walker. The International Labor Defense calls MARCH2B MEETS estimation of the importance of the struggle for Negro rights and to 14 to Demand Immediate Relief for a wider mass support of the workers on the Pacific Coast. Class eliminate white chauvinism not only from our Party ranks but also from Thanks were extended to Defense Attorney Goodman for his among Boston ond Detroit the masses of white workers. courageous fight. the It is a fact, proven by of cases, that the white workers U. Frames thousands Governor Pinchot Puts Up Bill lo Pay • • • Latest to Report S. Worker defeat their own struggles when in conflict with the capitalists, by re- Have the State maining under the spell of chauvinist teachings of these same capitalists PORTLAND, Oregon.—On the second day of the trial of At the same time that the working and standing aloof from or in hostility towards struggle Negro For the Strikebreaking Police to Replace the for Fred Walker and Paul Munter, young workers, charged with is preparing to make 28 Hold Kassay On Criminal rights. class March criminal syndicalism for their Communist activities, the state day of national protest strug- The effort of the Communist Party to enlighten the white workers State a and Coal and Iron Police against lynching and deportations, Syndicalism in mass organizations and in general, and to clarify its own ranks, has, a completed its case and the defense witnesses were prepared to gle bosses are feverishly trying to as noted, encountered much confusion and gross opportunist tendencies. take the stand the next day. the smash the growing unity Negro One is the tendency to view the League of Struggle for Negro Rights HARRISBURG, Pa, March 22.—While The same witnesses used by the of and white workers, foreign From the report com- (L. S. N. R.) as a substitute for or a department of the Party, forfeiting state in rairoading Ben Boloff to the native and widespread plans are being made the state LIBBY SAYS WAR born. In the Sou-h, the vicious pic- the leading role of the Party and really withdrawing it from this field. for penitentiary last month were used ing to Daily Work- ture. “The a Nation,” being the Equally pernicious is the view that the L. S. N. R. has no function with one addition, stool-pigeon Jen- Birth of is hunger march, scheduled to arrive here, the revived on an extensive scale. because—according to this view—white workers who see the need for ON SOVIETS IS nings of the Seattle police depart- er from Akron, Ohio, united action of both white and Negro workers is denied, the program str.te capitol of Pennsylvania, April 14th, ment. The defense did not cross- Throughout the country, the whole- on of it is clear that the Fed- of the L. S. N. R., which is broader than that of the Party, is limited, examine either Jennings or O'Dale sale raids and arrests militant the revolutionary leadership foreign workers being pushed and the work in this field given up for a sectarian pose. unions, under the BEING who is Bacon’s chief as they thoroly bom is eral Government, thru of Trade Unity League and the PREPARED by the bosses’ government agencies. These and other errors have contributed to a failure to make a suf- the Union Communist Party exposed themselves to the workers by its secret service department, foreign white work- ficiently energetic fight against white tendencies in the is exposing the fake maneuvers of Pinchot in con- their own testimony. Native born and is up war chauvinistic Governor Negro workers are being working propaganda that they came to light, particularly in mass organizations and But Pacifist Does Not M. R. Bacon, gave his usual con- ers and measure nection with the coal and iron police. for their activities in organ- and furthering the attack in simultaneously clearing them from the Party. An artificial separation tradictory statements and on cross- framed of the issues on Want Workers to Act ize" the for struggle against against the foreign work- of the two was made, injurious to the carrying out of a complete cam- One which Governor Pinchot ran in the examination admitted that he had masses born system of national hatred paign on all fronts, necessary to the end desired of unity of white and last state election was the coal and iron police. He promised WASHINGTON, March 22.—War is been arrested for bootlegging in 1927. the boss ers through what appears to be and Negro workers both inside and outside the Party against capitalism. dining campaign that when being prepared internationally against s This gave the workers a good idea starvation. one of the worst frame-ups the 1 The workers will these at- In another page of this paper will be found the resolution of the elected he see to it that the the Soviet Union, declared Frederick i of just what type of man the bosses answer would tacks against their struggle for exist- ever manufactured by the Central Committee clarifying the tasks and detailing the steps to correct coal and iron police, for so long J. Libby, executive secretary of the ¦ use to trap militant workers. Despite A’LROAD ence, their demands for unemploy- bosses. present shortcomings. As in all Communist work, ‘‘Negro work” is not TRY R used by the coal operators and iron National Council for the Prevention : the fact of “his being the most valu- ment relief and insurance, by pouring secret to be conceived of as merely recruiting Negro members to the Party, but companies to break strikes and in- of War, a pacifist organization, whose ! able witness ever found in Com- Federal service men have (Ham Fish onto the streets on March 28. North a Hungarian worker, in developing mass struggles for Negrt) rights. timidate the workers, would be done purpose it is to hide the war prep- i munist cases jn 1930) arrested Paul F. FIVE MILITANTS I and South, Negro and white, native Kassay, on the framed up Mass struggles, agaiw-fcf-thferwHtr other-fields, are impossible without -iway with. This was swallowed, pacifism. ; i Bacon stil showed lack cf intelligence charge of arations behind the mask of foreign born, they will demon- sabotage concrete issues and partial demands; and likewise make imperative the hook, line and sinker, by the reac- i and could not define revolution, the and of the construction of the After pointing that the strate Saturday against boss ter- navy dirigible inclusion of white as well as Negro workers. tionary labor officials, and, accord- out war: | subject of his study! on “Akron” at the Good- N. J. Workers Facing drive against Union ror and In these struggles, and in those aghinst lynching, for equal rights ingly, they endorsed him. As a re- the Soviet “is Immigration Fascist Called starvation. year-Zeppelin Co. plant, Akron, Ohio. (in internationally directed,’’ Libby goes In every city and town preparations and the Southern "black belt”) for confiscation of the landlords’ land Death Sentence sult of that and other fake prom- The state hurried through things The secret service agents are al- Negro on to say.
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