The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. AILROAD NEGRO fu TEXAS FOR. LIFE JAIL TERM uror Swears Man is Innocent HOUSTON, Tex. he newspepers during the middle # June ran articles describing the ttack of a white woman by a “sooty lack Negro who had a thin scar n the right side of his face.” This | rticles was accompanied by the creaming headline “NEGRO BRU- fALLY ASSAULTS WHITE WO- TAN: FLEES; + and described ll of the intimate details of the ssault, Following this, there was intense | ctivity on the part of the police, ho let up on their beer drinking i games long enough to fill the | \ with “sooty black uring a period of 10 suspects” were “third Negroes.” days, 147 degreed” nd paraded before the heretofore irtuous one to determine their re- mblence to the supposed attacker. hese figures, (gathered from the apitalist press) are for Houston lone; but a imilar program f intimidation was carried out in very burg and hamlet of the great ommonwealth of Texas; it is not range, however, that the “culprit” 1 ncovered reveport—a ome 250 miles away—and con- to Houston for a speedy Lad no scar ucted trial.” This particular Negro n his face and differed in many espects from the original descri ion of the attacker. But by this me we suppose the lady had grown ired of viewing “sooty black Ne- roes,” and hearing and reading of hat had transpired in her bedroom bout 3 weeks before; therefore, hen faced by the Negro. imported Shreveport, hi rom That’s woon, sobbed: into she went »” and a The trial was just another one f those far a Negro worker soel vine erie! ruling-class “just- The prosecution pleaded for electric chair. Somehow, the ‘y went wrong—and the defend- nt got life in the state “pen!” Since the trial we have talked to ne of the jurot radical,” named arrol who owns a printing plant ere who swears that the defendant -the man whom he helped send to he “pen” for life—is innocent. This confession came about when leaflet to e carried a Red Day e printed. He would not print it ecause “it suggested social equal- y” by the joint activity of the Com- .unist Party and the American Ne- ro Labor Congress in the affair. fter blowing off at length in de- mse of his “radicalism” and de- ouncing the present institutions, he eclared, “We must keep the nig- ers in their places” and that under rcumstances would he, directly r indirectly aid a cause that had he least suggestion of radical inter- iingling, Thus’ we uncovered other example of Southern justice | it applies to Negro workers. We might add that the Negro in ie South is fast finding his place: iat of a class consctous worker ighting his ruling class enemy with very ounce of energy und the anner of the Communist Party. ‘IND NEW PLOT OF POWER TRUST r0v’t s Complicity is Indicated WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—A secret emorandum has come to light here | irporting to have been for circula- on tives and stating that the Federal »wer Commission’s activitism if irried on, avorably quoted.” The disclosure was made anony- | iously, and no indication of the au-| iorship of the document was men- oned by the government. Observers | * the situation point to the possi- ity that government officials ymselves may be involved in the | wer trust’s activities, as was a | osed in the investigations several | onths ago. Verification of this possibility was en in the fact that one of the gov- | nment_ officials, Major-General | len E. Edgerton, acting head of the ower Commission, ent, and the activities it reveals. dgerton said he “doubted its (the ,emorandum’s) authenticity in the ght of the obvious incriminating atements it contained.” XAMINE CALENDAR CHANGE. LENINGRAD, (By Mail). — A recial commission of the Academy * Sciences of the USSR has con- dered the League of Nations’ aterials on the proposed reform of ie calendar. The commission has ome to the conclusion that these terials have not been sufficiently ypared both from a scientific as- and from the standpoint of the iminary. coordination of the pro- ‘red reform between the different ations, GET YOURSELF A COSTUME AND A TICKET FOR THE - MOONLITE CRUISE (By Mail).—| among power company exec- | “may have dangerous ef- | ets on our stock values now 50 | attempted to | inimize the importance of the docu- | Wall Street trains them young as cannon fodder for imperialist war. To arouse interest of youth in military aircraft is one of the | main parts of this plan. RACE HATRED IN DYE WORKERS OF BOY SCOUT CAMP NEWARK IN RALLY DiscriminationAgainst Many Attend Anti-War \Negro Youth Rampant Meet Near Factory American imperialism, operating) PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 2—Over in the ranks of the Negro youth) 300 workers of the United Piece through the boy scout movement, is| Dye Workers participated in a mass illing its influence on them through | meeting for the Defense of the So- s blind racial prejudice. viet Union at noon today in front Racial discrimination in the sum- of the factory. Many more work- mer camp of the scouts at Treasure|ers came to the windows of the Island, near Philadelphia, is illumi-, plant to listen to the speakers anu nating. receive the leaflets. The situation reached a climax| Nat Kaplan, New Jersey organ- the past Sunday when charters of |izer of the Communist Party, was “The bosses are nine of the largest troops of the the first speaker. Negro scouts were returned to the| Using the Chinese war lords to make Soviet Union,” said Kap- Philadelphia council of the imperial- Wat on the Sovie ist movement by a certain Dr. A. R. The United Piece pie pomes:| Burton, who is the recognized head Support this war Decee ey can | of the Negro scouting activities in| @uickly turn the dyes you use a Philadelphia. your work into poison gas and make Twelve out of twenty troops/ bigger Profits as a war industry. among the Philadelphia Negro !he Soviet ea pal ies and a asants’ ¢ ry, where the work- scouts have already disbanded fol- Peasants’ country, where tne ox ence Tagial Giscrimination @t good conditions, while the bosses : |who are making war against the Negro youth have been awakened/q = Ini Ped th thane: to the basic hatred of the Negro in|s°Vct Union give you the m is ‘ she rf ble wage of 40 to 45 cents an hour, a anon imperialist organiza-| tie 22 to 14 hour day and the speed- | ‘ions. The Negro masses in this part of} Pike Pippon of the National Tex- the country are aroused over the in-|+ije Workers Union then spoke in cident, which is goading them on to | Italian, calling upon the workers to further concerted action against ra-| join the union, fight for better con- cial prejudice. ditions and defend the Soviet Union. | Denied Camps. | While John Pippon was speaking | Camping privileges on the Dela-| to the workers in Italian the police | ware river island were first denied|arrived, All efforts of the police | to Negro scouts in June of last year,|to break up the meeting were of when several members of troop 32/no avail. The speakers used the top were barred from participation. Dr.|of a small truck for their plat- Burton attacked the action of the | form and the police could not reach Philadelphia council as “un-christian-| them. The meeting was continued | 4 like” ete., ete. \for a fat ne ue Ee ie ee n discussi: he spli : as.| Tived and was finally closed by the a Hae See at ehieeeL [first speaker amidst the cheers of | phia council, admitted the receipt of | the workers. the returned charters. His brilliant explanation of the matter was as follows: “There is a total membership of about 14,000 scouts throughout the city and in view of the small minority repre- ented by the protests, the matter to be one of little import- ie ment of the boy scouts? “When we made our ruling we did| it with the idea that segregation acted for the best interests of all concerned. The situation is not a important as it appears,” the head! of the Philadelphia council continued. The importance of the matter lies in the fact that the vast masses of Negro proletarians have received another lesson teaching them that only within the ranks of the Com- munist Party do they find racial move-! equality which they deserve.—C, FE. ance. Would Hide Seriousness. One of little importance? With 12,000,000 Negro proletarians being shown the bare-faced hypocrisy of the “idealistic and patriotic” Take Your Vacation --at-- | Tel: Wingdale 51 50 New Bungalows in Process of Completion. A New Pump Just In- stalled. |dock Lake, Wi | discussion, LEGIONAIRESIN KENOSHA ROUSED OVER PIONEERS | Communist Camp Ex-|, cites the Jingoes CHICAGO, Aug. 2. — Kenosha county in Wisconsin is all excited these days over the discovery of a “nest of baby reds” in their midst. Milwaukee and Kenosha reporters have discovered the Workers Inter- national Relef Pioneer Camp at Pa ‘onsin, where chil- |dren from the mine fields of south- ern Illinois, from the steel region of Gary and Calumet Lake, from the | proletarian neighborhoods of Chi- cago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis go for periods of two weeks to be} \trained in the understanding and | dustry, 138 million roubles |participation in the class struggle. The days of these young fighters in the class war are spent in study, handwork, and sports. They live in a colony of fifteen tents | with a huge dining hall, all on the banks of one of the, finest small lakes in the famous lake region of Wisconsin. Ethel Beran, an experi- enced camp director who has been a proletarian shop worker since she was twelve years old, is at the head} of the camp. Eva Stolar is in charge of education, Marvin Barry of sports, | while Mor: stein assist in the carrying on of the program of the day, The curriculum of the school at the camp consists of the study of the history of the labor movement, |of the theories of the conduct of the class struggle, and of immedi- ate working class movements in America. There is daily swimming, and hikes to the rest of the coun- tryside occur weekly, The American Legion of Wiscon- sin, together with the county and state newspaper forces, are carry- ing on a campaign to “rid the coun- tryside of this Communist menace.” They search in vain for points of attack, but the best they can find are such things as the fact that the children enjoy absolute equality with | the leaders of the camp and that all nationalities and all races are included in the camp. ‘Ruhr AntiFascists Win Fight with Police Who ‘Are Led By Socialist (Wireless By “Inprecorr’”) ESSEN, Germany, Aug. 1.—The Anti-fascist organization, the “Ruhr- wacht” is growing by leaps and bounds throughout the Ruhr district. The social democratic police presi- dent, Luebering now declares the, Ruhrwacht represents the illegal | existence of the Red Front Fighters League, and will be suppressed with | every force of the state. The first result of this order was a brutal police attack against the members of the Ruhrwacht yester- day. The workers resisted, and saved their red flags, in the fighting in Essen, Dortmund, Gelsenkinchen, and |other industrial towns. IMPERIALIST APPOI THE HAGUE, August 1- Evans Hughes of the United States was appointed by the Permanent Court of International Justice today as judge to succeed Viscount Finlay, of Great Britain, whose term has expired, NTED is Fein and Nathan Gold- | Charles | SATURDAY. MILL STRIKER TELLS STORY OF = _ LIFE IN SOUTH Fake Murder Charge Million | Roubles in Industry In the USSR for 1930 Invest 3,070 The Presidium of the Supreme Council of National Economy of the USSR has approved the plan of in- vestments in industry ‘of the USSR In all it is proposed to invest in capital construction in industries of the USSR 3,070 million roubles against 2,000 million roubles in| A oainst McLaughlin AO BReoiee ee Me Nee ak Wee aie | ne erie The investment in metallurgical in- By LOUIS MacLAUGHLIN dustry .will amount to 440 million) I was born in Atlanta, Ga. on roubles against 261 million roubles! August 25, 1906. My parents were in 19 9. In the engineering mill workers, my father being em- | | dus ry it is proposed to invest 278 million roubles against 184 million ployed by the Fulton Bag Mills. When I was severi years old, my roubles in 1 ). In the coal min- parents moved to La Grange, Ga. ing industry, 230 million roubles! My father worked in the Hillside against 166 million roubles; in the oil Mills during the six years we lived industry, 230 million roubles against 215 million roubles; in the chemical industry, 205 million roubles against 187 million roubles; in the lumber in- against there. I was 13 old when we moved to Augusta, Ga. where I went to work in the spinning room of the Augusta Cotton Mills as a sweeper. I worked here about a year and then | 73 million roubles; in the textile, 200| went to Columbia, » where I million roubles against 170 million worked as a twister “hand in the roubles, ete. Olympia and Duck Mills. I lived —-—— in Columbia about 4 years. Leaving Columbia, I ia to NYA DOES Winnsboro Cotton Mills. y s later I came to Gas This was in the early summer ' months of 1928. I worked for about six months in Loray going from there to High She I came back to work in Lor in Vose, Communist Ar tist March and was still working when Long Active in Party the N. 1. W. U. called the strike. I “ “came out with the rest of the | WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, 2— workers and was always willing to Comrade Frederick G. Vose, whose do my share to help win the strike. remarkable cartoons have frequently I was made a picket captain and appeared in The Daily Worker and | often acted as chairman at meetings. in Red Cartoons, died at his home I often spoke at mass meetings. I | at 634 Fourteenth St., N. E., Wash- had never been in any big strike be- ington, last Tuesday afternoon, at fore led by,this union, I remembered the age of 42. His widow and two/|that the A. F. of L. union, the little chilren survive him. He had U W. had led strikes in Loray been principal of the Washington and Columbia. I was in Columbia | Workers’ School since it was and was one of those that were be- | founded. ed by these fakers when they Comrade Vose was a native of away with our dues and initia- Houlton, Me., and was admitted to The N. T. W. U. did not the practice of medicine years ago. us to pay big dues but wanted so passed an examination as|US all to become active and help ‘opractor and was exception- Win our strike and to build a strong ally well informed in all branches | union in the South. That is why I of therapeutics. For the last few joined the N. T. W. U. and did| years he had worked as retoucher everything I could to build it. That for a photographic firm in Wash-| is why I am in jail today, ington, photography being the oceu- WISE! GET YOUR TICKET R LUMBER E aEOEE Bhounted this export year (fr you CAN AVOID June 1, 1928 to June 1, 1929) t 7 0 mil.r., against 95 mil.r, in 1927- This year have been exported 900,000 standards of sown materials, against 560,000 standards in 1928. The export of veneer amounted to 90,000 cubic meters, aganist 45,000 cubic meters in 1928, the e: balances—1,200,000 cubic against 120,000 metehs ir 1928. port of cubic Could any person give information as to the Finnish children, who have been taken from Children’s Home four years ago, to th Home, and according to information receive ed into different families. The children are 18, WALTER, age 15, and a girl, HILDA, ag all members of one family. Their present except that the oldest now uses the nam If anyone knows anything about these addresses, please write to the following ac ODERENA Ww. H MINE S. Box 2 On The Road To off Bolshevization the mith an | press! 4 handbook, for ever) Communist WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 12 NEW YORK CITY erican (1) Important excerpts Sixth C, I. Cong ) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention he (3) The Address to the mbership 5th St. DISCOUNTS OFFERED ON QUANTITY ORDERS! pation of his father and brother. His; BE interneship as a medical student was IN ADVANCE FOR THE | spent at the City Hospital, Port- MOONLI CRUISE. land, Me., and he was later on the & staff of the General Hospital at Boston. | Comrade Vose’s membership in the Communist Party dated back several years when he was living in Massachusetts. In 1927 he was elected president of the Washington chapter of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism and took an active part in its work. He was also a member of the Washing- ton Open Forum and of the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws. | All his life Vose was a’ brave, un- selfish, modest and consistent cham- pion of the working class. His bril- jiant mind and his generous heart were freely at the disposal of the proletarian cause and of his com- jrades and friends. Augus Daily Worker 7 » LN y El picnic The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial began July 29! Twenty-three _ Fast 1th Street, New York, | (i ara workers face electrocution or prison terms! 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