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FORGERIES B aily = ay LWomnens{ oF THE WORLD) anit Woh Enteree as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. » AVorker under the act ef March 3. 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sund Company. Inc,, 26-2N Union Square, ny by ‘The © daily Publishing New York City, N. ¥.<2>>01 _NEW bss WEDNESDAY, MAY ve Vol. VI., No. 370 Judge Lynch in Texas RADITIONAL American lynch law has given a dramatic expres- sion of itself in Sherman, Texas. A wild mob, intent upon burn- ing an accused Negro, accomplished its end by burning down the | Court House itself, including the Negro imprisoned therein. This is a characteristic American event. The United States will | be known in history as the country which burned Negroes, just as the | land of the Czar is known as the country which organized pogroms against the Jews. Typical, also, is the fact that in the “struggle” between the mob and the officers of the law, no one was seriously hurt. It was a very, friendly kind of “struggle,” with more than usual gentleness on both sides. The only victim was the Negro, who was left locked up in the burning building. Following this horrible murdery the mob proceeded to burn down | hundreds of Negro homes, the inhabitants of which had fled from the town in terror. A farcical “investigation” is under way, which is also typical, and which will resul in nothing but a hushing up of the whole affair. | Such incidents have been going on for generations. No group or sec- j tion of the ruling classes, North or South, has ever set itself seriously to abolish these barbarisms. Lynching is an established institution in capitalist America. It | can never be abolished, except by breaking the power of the capitalist class, which instigates and protects the lynchings and the lynchers. The capitalist class cannot abolish lynching, because it bases its rule upon a “gentlemen’s agreement” with the white ruling class of the South that the constitutional enfranchisement of the Negroes shall not | be enforced. In order to keep the Negro disfranchised and outlawed, in violation of the law, Judge Lynch must be called in and given a permanent job in capitalist society. Only the revolutionary working class struggle, including the unity of white and black workers, can abolish the historical crime of lynch- ing. Only the Communist Party really organizes and leads a struggle for the complete social, political, and economic equality of the Negroes. |. Only the Communist Party calls for the organization of self defense of white and black workers, to answer the lynchers with blow for blow. Only the Communist Party raises the demand for self-determina- tion for the Negroes in those sections where they, are the majority of the population. Negroes must organize and fight, hand in hand with | the white workers, under the leadership of the Communist Party. Soviet Congress in China NNOUNCEMENT that on May 30th, the first Congress of Sovi in China will take place, marks a historical step not only in the development of the Chinese Revolution, but also for the entire anti- imperialist movement and for the world revolution. Ever since the breakdown in 1927 of the Wuhan “left”? Kuomin- tang government and the uprising in Nanchang, headed by Ho Lung and Yeh Ting, the revolutionary armies which broke away from under the control of the new militarists have been operating in various sec- tions of central and southern China. Under their protection Soviets | of workers and peasants have been set up, the local exploiting classes | have been driven out, and the life of the masses has been reorganized. | Many of these local Soviets, especially those in the districts of Hai Feng and Lu’Feng, in southern Twangtung Province, were close to the séa coast and the main arteries of communication, and yet protected themselves against the militarist armies for more than a year. Even | s ‘Negro Members Ready, jeourt |them on the street. when these were overthrown, the armies of the revolution were not | destroyed, but merely driven into t! At no time since 1927 has there been absent the rule of local and | district Soviets in some parts of China. authority of the New York Times, by the Soviets comprises the larger lation of more than 30,000,000 people. Province alone is about 30,000,000, living under the Chinese Soviets must be much larger than the New York Times estimate. From China comes the news of 14 red armies operating against | the militarists and exploiters in the Soviet districts. are under the command of Comrade Chu-teh. All over the world, the workers and the oppressed peoples will join together in one mighty shout: Long live the | Long live the Chinese Revolution, under the leadership of ‘the viets! Communist Party! TEXAS RANGERS LET NEGRO BURN Mayor of Sherman Has Praise for Them- SHERMAN, Texas (By Mail).— Additional details of the burning to death in a vault of the county court house here of George Hughes, a Negro, by a lynch gang Friday aft- ernoon connect more’ closely the Texas Rangers and the police with / the murder. | Hughes was on trial, charged with an attack on-a white woman, at the time the crowd of lynchers gathered. The trial was a rail- goaded affair, with the jury se- lected in a few minutes, but the first witness of the prosecution was on the stand when the trial was’) interrupted, and word had been! passed around that there was no veal evidence against Hughes. Leave Hughes to Death. At 1 p. m. Judge Carter stopped the trial, when it became fairly clear that conviction would result in a legal scandal, and proposed a change of venue, The crowd then made its attack, and the deputies and Texas rangers locked the Negro in the court house vault. The build- ing was set on fire and the ‘roop- ers calmly Walked out and Jeft the Negro locked in the vault, knowing that he had not-a chance in the world to live throygh the fire. Governor Moody now denies that he ordered the troops not to shoot it the lynchers.. -But there are many who saw Captain Frank Hamer, in sommand of the rangers in the court house, receive, the message, and neard him turn and say gleefully to Judge Carter: “This means that the mob will get the Negro.” Moody Prefers Legal *~ -*«r, Moody himself; in his statement washing his hands of the killing, sxeuses the lynching of the Negro, wrejudging him guilty, and only! he interior. We learned recently, on the | that the territory now being ruled part of four provinces with a popu- | Since the population of Kiangsi the actual size of the population | The red armies nese Congress of So- | iRousing Tag Days to Aid “Daily” New York City and. surround- ing territory, Brooklyn, Long Is- land, New Jersey, kers, will experience an inyasion of com- | |rades and sympathetic workers in a mass collection to aid the Daily Worker. How strong will this invading force be? Will it be large enough to actually col- lect a fund of money that will help lift the Daily Worker out of the serious financial situation it: is in? These questions must be asked now, today, because Friday, Sat- urday and Sunday the invasion begins. If we secure a maximum mobilization, we will, in these three days, help the Daily Work- er out of immediate danger of suspension, and have enough money left to assist in its regular publication for the week to come. Party members especially must show a loyalty that is expected from Communists. Shops where the 100,000 May Day Daily Work- ers were distributed must be visited. House to house canvas- sing must be had. Everywhere, where workers are to be found, the need pf the Daily Worker must be explained. The workers will give. What we need is enough collectors for all the workers who are ready to give. & “The crime for which the Neg was lynched at Sherman was a bru- tal and atricious one. The intima- tion of the mob by its act that he would not have been speedily tried and legally executed under the or- ders of a constituted courtris a libel and slander on the citizenship of Sherman and Grayson County.” Mayor Eubank of Sherman issued a statement praising the 50 tr and deputies in the court house for not driving the lynchers back «iti bullets. “Good judgement ws used‘ in not firing on the crowd,” he says. a eee Morrow in N. J. Against the Wall Street candi- dates for U. S. Senator, the Com- |munist Party has nominated Dozier \Will Graham, a Negro worker, for {the U. nate, Graham, who is jfacing a jail sentence of 15 years jon the charge of sedition, because lof his active participation in the organization of the unemployed, is ithe candidate of the Party of clas |steuggle, against the segregation | Labor awe, With Four (and oppression of the Negro masses | by the ruling class. Graham runs directly against one jof the most prominent figures of | American imperialism, Dwight W. | Morrow, partner of Morgan of Wall |© | Street, and U. S. ambassgdor to /census takers, IN NEWARK PUT OFF TO MAY 19 Communists 1 Nominate) Defendant for U.S. Senate Workers Crowd Court. Call for Survey |Political Reasons All His Lying BULLETIN. MILWAUKEE, Wisc., May 13. —All the workers convicted here facts accumulate NEWARK, N. J., gro and white workers today | gether with Graham and who will izing and struggle on the part Court, where the trial of nine wor May 19, are running as Communist | ers charged with sedition was post-| Party Congressional candidates in | poned until May 19. Every inch of |the sixth, eighth, ninth and tenth space was occupied, many workers | congressional districts. standing or sitting on the window Morrow) the. Wall: Stiset choice s. When Simon Fisch, the prose- | for senator, has just returned from ing attorney, asked for the post- | rondon, where he has been helping Ponement and it was granted By to prepare for the next imperialist | Judge Van Riper the workers fol-| 2» for more profits and again: lowed the defendants out of the ithe: Bier ‘cai: ; eae owded sround |tte Soviet Union. SORE SRE cho |talist candidates have similar rec- | The Commu- lords to their credit. The workers were arrested Feb- | nist Party platform includes the de- ruary 11 when they were addressing | |mand for work or wages, unemploy- a meeting called to fight against/ment insurance, 7-hour day and unemployment. They are held un-|5.day week, aoniplate social, econ- der heavy bail and if convicted can} omic and political equality for the be sentenced to terms ranging from |Negro workers, the 5-cent fare 7 to 15 years. jagainst the proposed fare increase | Last Thursday. when the arrested | of the Public Service, the defe’ workers appeared in court here to/of the Soviet Union, against child | plead, the indictment was changed. }Jabor and government support for Originally it accused the defendants |the children. of advocating violence against the Be ie at police. The new indictment charges QI, MAGNATE HELPS the workers with assaulting the po- MILITARIZE k? lice when the latter broke up the NEW YORK.—Edward §. Ha.’ unemployed meeting. ‘Try. to, Separate Thoma. |ness, Standard Oil capitalist, has of- | The prosecuting attorney will de- | |fered to contribute $1,000,000 to the mand a separate trial for each of | 's1 000,000 Boy Scout fund for mili- the nine workers, it was learned to-|tazization of the children for war (Continued on Page Three) {purposes. |other fake promise of reli surveys of the situation, none |take place for months. les for federal {no jobs to give them. Lie to Save System. Meanwhile, Da the crisis, employment, yesterday legtee to. (Continued on Page Three) Davis Says D Don’t. Ask) for| In spite of deliberate concealment loyment figures by the were sentenced to from three to | Mexico, |show that the numbers of jobless six months each. Albert Heder, Morris Langer, ;2T°w daily. 8 he ta Dominick Flaiani and Samuel D. Le-| The situation .is becoming May 13,—Ne- ; jvine, all facing sedition charges to- grave, and the prospect of organ- crowded into the Quarter Sessions |he tried by the capitalist court on|the unemployed so feared by the | plutocrats and their agents who sit } jin the United States Senate, that it | made another attempt yesterday to |soothe the starving jobless with an- ane: third of Senator Wagner’s useless measures was adopted by 34 to 27. It sets aside $4,000,000 to make |which by the nature of things will It also pro- employment of- fices—in the face of figures show- ing that the present employment of- fices have a flood of applicants, h' Secretary of Labor s, trying to give an alibi for| his outrageous lies about the end of | contradicted openly and sharply by. the state figures on un- indicated that the Hoover policy of saying the crisis was nearly over was re- jquired by high poliical consfdera- | |tiohs, which he thinks all support- | ers of the present social order should “In times of unemployment like’ we are passing through it would} appear that these situations are tco More Opportunity--More Dangers | 1930 « M there $5 a where ex: countries, CRIPTION RAT Bronx, New York City and 1 Price 3 Cent ‘SEDITION CASE ‘Communist on SENATE HUSHES \Comitictinion By MEN IN HIGH PLACES SMIMEES min >: 1% Neeate FAKED RELIEF As Jobless Grow the Wagner Bill Passes; IN ANTI-SOVIET PLOT, IS STIMSON ADIWISSION Much Seurrying of White Guard Rats as Daily | Worker Exposes Name. of Forger Union Drive from shops met yes 'terday in two y enthusiastic and practical meetings in the headquar- | ters of Needle Trades Workers In-| dustrial Union and made plans for intensive organization work. E street organization competes wi the other to win 800 new mem and establish 15 new shop com ‘th. Commit elected and mach There will be a in Bryant Hall in the near fu jas part of the campaign. y, right’ after work Jon We Trace Link from Yozwa the Forg r to U.S. Move to “Investigate” the Communists { aes A yast amount of scurrying around to find a way out, or the part of anti-Communist bull-shooters who fel! for Whalen’s “documents,” together with a ‘silence which “speaks for itself” loath St. tenia te mieet ines | from Whalen himself: greeted yesterday’s exposure of Whalen’: 39th and 40th § ; complicity in the forgeries. | 4 ift N Ic § At the same time, an impor. TOD OS 1g Ky te ite A © j tant admi as forced ou‘ ate Stimsor to 37th-3 th- so Unemployed workers met yester- of | day afternoon at the industrial union @ hington, that the fed | headquarters, and worked out their STRENGTHENED Amerie nines campaign, electing committees, ete. alae oe oe 4 Today, at 1 p. m. in Bryant Hall Mg sk will be a mass meeting for unem-/Prenarine’ Advance to ployed needle workers, addressed by M Citi ajor Cit Boruchowitz of the industrial union, | An Associated evidence of ¢ sléad poner S on the coming convention of the union, and its drive for member of supposed se despatch yes- A Soviet governmer and what that means to the jobless. terday reports that “Communist ac-| soviet government in the Unite of| ‘Thursday at 7.30 a shop dedegates tivities in Fukien province : ' er council meeting will take up the con-_| steadily increasing and evidence has In_ addition, Stimson admits that this plot (to quote the N. Y. Graphie correspondent to whom it was given), “has been definite- ly connected with certain individ- | been given out that the Reds ap- parently are attempting to consoli- | date their interests throughout Fa- kien, Kiangsi and Kwangtung prov- vention problems and other import ant questions of union program and tactics. Initiate Whole Groups. ue on Hse : seg oe | inces. It is widely believed they are| uals of high place and authority ‘The first of a daily series f| preparing a concerted move against| in the United States. Uy Be ad taiay some major city within that area! That Whalen might be one o : ¥) right alte’ | perhaps Swatow or even Canton.” | these duals” mentioned by ms probable in view ot work, in union headquarters. | al silence which has faller The above report is quoted in full’ § because this plain admission by the Jobless, Employed Shoe ‘capitalist press about the extent and pony en ie the ag oa | strength of Soviet Power in China| has nothing to rather, b¢ Workers Meet Today! oe)" Sniticant. Formerly tha! Will not say But mean while, he ha b — ush. | eanitn ist press refused to report 2 out the activities of the Soviets | in China unless they are connected ’| with some incidents about foreign | missionaries in China. Now, Ch All jobless shoe workers are urged | to report to the headquarters of the | Independent Shoe Workers Union, | 16 West 2ist St. at 2 p. m. today, not-10 a, m. as reported yesterday} Covict activities as euch are being | Don’t Need Stimson’s “Admission, In preparation for its organization | reported. Evidently the movement The Communist Party of th< dive the union calls all shoe work- | has developed to such an extent that| United States does not. y revelations ¢ ers to its meeting at headquarters, tonight at 7.30 p, m. | the policy of maintaining silence 1s| need a: | no more possible, | convii | United States of an gang of anti-Soviet plotters. The | Whalen were produced by him wit! a statement that they were con. nected with information furnishec Barely Saved ‘Daily’ Yesterday While Comrades Offer to Defy Lynchers, pal It in South te We saved the Daily Worker: bates by the gna: est effort. No paper, no wages for the compositors, pressmen and mailers caused a suspension of work until 10 p.m. With the help of a number of comrades who worked diligently from 4 p. m. until 10 p. m. we were <!._- to collect, in various ways, the sum of money necessary to publish. city I go Tom The daily income of the Daily Worker has been very limited for many weeks, due to unemployment, low wages, the effects of the capitalist crisis upon the workers. On the other hand, our comrades have not yet sufficiently activized themselves in behalf of the Daily Worker mass circulation campaign. New sub- scribers are coming in altogether too slow. Now we ueed immediate financial assistance to carry us thru a serious crisis. Yesterday the Daily Worker only had $170 on hand to meet immediate payments of $820. From various sources comrades secured the difference but it took until 10 p.m. The Daily Worker reached all cities very late as a consequence. can en;; In the face of these difficulties there come calls from all parts of the country, asking the Daily Worker for assistance to do pioneer work for the Daily Worker in new fields where we have no readers or very few. Si Gerson and Fred Totherow write us from North Carolina. The Southern Workers, Negro and white, in all industries, are insistent upon getting the Daily Worker regularly. Wherever 4 distribution has taken place, the workers are disappointed when our paper does not reach them again the next day. Five To establish regular sales and distribution in the Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Exy- condemning the -lyncherg for not etting the state do it. Says Moody: mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. South, agencies must be established in every city. Un- employed workers must be secured to sell and carry our paper. Fred Totherow writes: “Send me $50 to buy. j f { * an old Ford and $10 to start with aa Iwiliride through =r the South irrespective of the terrorism and bosses’ gangsters and firmly root the Daily Worker in every “No Daily Workers are piling up here. Every single copy is used and we could distribute thousands more. The Southern workers are eager to get the paper and like it. But we must develop forces to sell it regularly.” Party, in many sections of the country. A comrade | with‘an old Ford should take the field among the coal miners in Colorado, among the metal miners in Butte and in the Minnesota iron range, among the steel werk- ers in Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Calumet. In fact, we ought to tinually visiting factory towns, poor farming communi- ties, minin~ camps, etc., building the Daily. t Z i : ‘ " and invites all revolut What city will make it possible to furnish Fred cn fe pate in oak pee | convent’: The col- Totherow, the unafraid, courageous southern fichter, to buy his ok! Ford and start his work for our Daily? ly And w ship jump into action at once so we can safeguard our central organ and build it into the most powerful paper the International revolutionary movement has ever known. It is possible in the United States, the big imperialist country. emergency call for $25,000. Contributions are coming in very slow. Comrades: You will have to act or be re- sponsible for the consequences. How long will it take || 2n{We, (or ublication in the 3 2 $ ry the Agi De ment, Cen- for a large contribution from your city to appear in the ialicouulitis Geena Part | contribution column published elsewhere in this issue? him by “labor leade Among the outstanding “labor ene leaders” who paw the of New Communism is Mat er of the A. F, of | v Civic SEs Nees Ted x on—an ardent Catholic whe outdoes his pope in hating Soviet With Woll in the Nationa. ic Federation is Ralpt its secretary, whose anti vi tation is notorious. In fact he, has written two books against Commu- nism, one of them being, “Why the to.” Johnson writes from Birmingham, Alabama: Whalen was in hington testify- ing to the House Committee, Eas- ley was one of those waiting in the : ‘ ante-room. Another person was the Everywhere the Daily Worker is demanded. We — “stholie ee ah EE ; i : x ently wrote a book agains ie ige in pioneer work which would help build the Soviet Union rehearsing the “re- ligious persecution” bunk, Not only willing, but anxious, as | faithful Catholics and upholders of capitalism against Communism, ndrels have still shadier - One of them is Boris » @ czarist lawyer and rep- resentative in the U.S.A. of Kok (Continued on Page Three) PART! cIP. ATE IN OUR — have an active field agent in every state con- ] | The Central Committee calls upon all members of our Party | umns of the Communist press are pr discussion of ‘the prob- 31 all the cities where we have Party member- zest days have gone by since we first issued our direetly te the p foreign only corre- of the United States of America, 43 E. 125th St. | | | | | | | | E Wor! COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. A. ————— ¥ i b —THE DAILY WORKER.

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