The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1931, Page 1

oe ee tee nll, Bi DEMONSTRATE TODAY AGAINST J m ney URDERER PRINCES the-CoRmunist Party U.S.A the Communist (Section of International) Vol. VIII, No. 87 at New York, N. Entered as second-class matter Norker aan) at the Post Office eS ¥., ander the act of Murch 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931 CITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents NEGRO WORKERS SENTENCED TO DIE BY LYNCH COURT Workers, Negro, White! Stop the “Legal” Lynching of Nine Negro Boys in Alabama! A T Scottsboro, Alabama, the southern white ruling class is now engaged in lynching 9 Negro boys from 16 to 20 years of age. The lynching is carried on in “legal” form in the courthouse, while outside of the courtroom an armed mob organized by wealthy “leading citizens” of that com- munity and supported by one thousand soldiers of the Ala- bama National Guard*are “superintending” the lynching of these defenseless boys. : There have been ten “illegal” lynchings in the United States already this year. The present lynching of 9 defenseless boys is no different from any other brutal murder and burning on a public square, except that a pre- terise is being made to go through all of the “forms of the law” but with the open understanding—known to every member of the mob—that the same results will be attained—the swift and sure death of the victims without the slightest shadow of a real defense. Only: about three weeks ago these Negro boys were arrested and al- ready eight have been convicted at lightning speed amidst the cheers of the mob, and condemned to death. The lynching of the ninth boy is now proceeding, with the helping of the judge, of all the state's officers and the so-called attorneys for the defense. If the prisoners were wealthy southern white “gentlemen,” they would have been given ample time, even to the extent of many weeks or months, to prepare their defense. But these boys are members of a race and class which are considered only as material for exploitation of their labor by the idle parasite class which rules the South. Therefore they are given no real. chance to defend themselves. Their attorneys are appointed by the same court which has already guaranteed to the mob the “same re- sults” as would be obtained by a public burning on the city streets. Some of the defense attorneys are reported to haye declared themselves in favor of speedy execution of the boys whom they are supposed to defend. The Communist Party of the United States calls upon all workers and all exploited farmers in the vicinity of this legal lynching and through- out the. whole country and the world to rally to the defense of these yoys of our class and to stop the “court-house lynching.” The reason for this murderous treatment of working class boys is not far to seek. The parasite landlords and capitalist classes of the South are uneasy because they see a movement of awakening amongst the Negro and white workers of the backward southern communities. The capitalists and landlords fear that this movement of organization will destroy the basis of their super-exploitation of southern labor, agricultural and industrial. The Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party are suc- ceeding in awakening thousands of Negro and white workers to under- stand the need of organizing militant trade unions and their own working class political Party, the Communist Party, to fight for the interests of the working class, black and white. In the present terrible suffering of 10,000,000 unemployed workers and their families in this country, white and Negro workers can find no way out of mass hunger except by organ- izing together in unemployment councils (as they are doing) and com- pelling relief at the expense of the capitalist class. The parasite landlords and capitalists of Alabama know that the uniting of Negro and white workers on an equal basis in revolutionary trade unions will be a long step in breaking the power of the parasite classes of the South. The southern ruling class therefore proceeds to whip up at every op- portunity the wildest hatred against the Negro farming and industrial workers. They preach and publicly encourage in their newspapers the sys- tematic and open murder of Negro workers. of “rape” is attributed to the Negro race by the cultivation of hysterical lies, without any possibility of defense. They try to enlist the white workers in their beastly lynching crimes, knowing that with the working class divided into black and white, the workers of either race can never effectively oppose the peonage and wage slavery under which they suffer. ‘The mass murders with stake and rope which are the classic “institu- tion” of the southern ruling class, have aroused so much scandal that in several recent instances the lynchers have sought to attain the same results by these heartless and hypocritical pretenses of a “legal” pro- cedure which, in swiftness, brutality and ignoring of the rights of the defendant, are no different from the most cold-blooded “illegal” lynching. The terrorization of the Negro working class and tenant farmers, which has continued ever since the end*of the Civil War, has the same | purpose as slavery—cheap labor power, peonage and a docile working class. The terror is directed chiefly against Negro workers and tenant- farmers, share-croppers, etc. But also it is directed against white workers wherever the white workers show the slightest tendency to resist the exploitation of the greedy southern bosses. The murder of the textile strike organizer, Ella May Wiggins, at Gastonia, and the murder of five textile strikers in Marion, S. C., and the recent kidnapping and attempted lynching of two white organizers, Coder and Hurst, at Dallas, Texas, are evidence that the southern ruling class directs its crimes clearly against all of the working class who resist their exploitation. The Communist Party of the United States calls upon the white workers of Alabama, the white workers of the whole South and the whole United States to make the cause of the Negro workers their own cause. We call upon both Negro and white workers to unite and to rally to the defense of these 9 Negro boys who are being lynched in Scottsboro. ‘The Communist Party calls upon all working class and Negro organ- izations to adopt strong resolutions of protest, and to wire these to the governor of Alabama and to the Daily Worker. But wires to such capi- talist officials alone will do no good, you must organize at the greatest possible speed mass meetings and militant mass demonstrations against this crime. Let the southern ruling class know that the working class will not tolerate further continuance of their bloody crimes against our class! Certain “reformist” organizations, claiming to represent the interests of the Negroes, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the Urban League, etc., are, in fact under the leadership and control of middle class reformists who, we are perfectly aware, cannot be depended upon to rally those organizations in defense of these helpless boys of Scottsboro. These reformist leaders can be expected, as usual, only to betray the Negro masses, and in this case it is easy to betray by pretending to believe that these foys are getting a “legal trial,” whereas these reformists claim only to be “against illegal lynching.” The Communist Party calls upon the rank and file members of these organizations nevertheless to give their support to the campaign to save these defenseless Negro boys. ‘We demand a united front of all working and farming masses of this country to stop the legal lynching at Scottsboro, Workers, black and white—organize monster mass meetings, militant demonstrations! Let the southern ruling class know that we will tolerate their asin against our class and against the persecuted Negro race no Jonger! Zhe death penalty for lynchers! Stop the legal lynching at Scottsboro! Mirage ‘ss. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, : ‘Qj COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. 5. A, — x > > ® SHOW UNITY Case Stirs Mass Resentment; ILL. D. Rushing Attorney To WITH JAPAN Start Appeal Proceedings Wires Alabama Governor and Trial Judge Wherever possible the stigma | Fight Deportation of Kenmotsu NEW YORK.—Prince Takamatsu, brother of the Mikado of Japan, spe- cial envoy of the Japanese imperial- ist government to the United States imperialist government, is arriving today at 3 p. m. on the Cunard liner, Acquitania. He will land at Battery | Park, Pier “A” to be received with | open arms by the secretary of war, a committee of bankers, and repre- ; Sentatives of the Federal Government. Watch the press for possible change of time! The workers will also be present at Pier “A,” Battery Park, this after- noon to remind the prince that his hands are still red with the blood of militant Japanese workers and peas- ants shed by the vile imperialist gov- ernment of terror, that he represents. The New York working class will re- mind the prince and his admiring American bosses and bankers that one thousand Japanese workers are in jail today, facing death for the crime of belonging to militant work- ing class organizations. The mission of this imperialist butcher is to speed up the war plans j against the Soviet. Union, to- unite | with the Wall Street imperialist gov- |ernment in a new drive to crush the | Chinese revolution. The corrupt and | grafting Mayor Walker will receive this mass murderer of tens of thou- sands of colonial workers and peas- ants in Formosa and’ Korea on the steps of the same city hall from which he directed the brutal slugging of the unemployed. The honor guard of this imperialist envoy to the United States will be the same Tammany thugs who prey on innocent women and are so effective in breaking strikes, in clubbing the unemployed. While the American bosses greet the Japanese princes, they deport Japanese workers to long prison terms in Japan. Yesterday morning, | the Department of Labor denied yol- untary departure to Sadaichi Ken- | motsu. Kenmotsu was arrested at a demonstration in 1929, and though he | is in the country legally, the courts | have ordered him deported into the | hands of the class that the Japanese princes represent, Demonstrate your solidarity with the struggling workers and peasants of Japan! Smash the war plot against the Soviet Union. Demand the im- mediate release of all political pris- oners in Japan. Protest the murder of Yamamoto and Wattanabe and | thousands of Japanese workers. De- forces from China. Demonstrate your hatred and scorn! Drive the prince out of the country! pie ROSES BOOKS WANTED Albany has opened a Workers’ Center Bookshop, but has no books, nor the money to buy any. Any com- rades wishing to help a struggling young Center on its feet, send used Bookshop, 971-2 Hamilton St., Al- bany, N. Y. WORKERS SCOTTSBORO, Ala. on frame-up charges of rape, five This makes a total of eight given range in ages from 16 to 19, . the Governor of Alabama and the ing to the electric chair. B. D. AMIS, Pre: . SCOTTSBORO, Ala., Apri | Alabama bosses and their cour | the trial to a speedy end i an ‘RED CANDIDATES IN JERSEY VOTE Call to Speed Taking of Signatures NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., April 9. —An enthusiastic mass meeting in |the Communist election campaign was held here last night, with sale | of literature and Daily Workers, and | collection of signatures to put the state candidates on the ballot. On April 12 elections are to be held | for five city commissioners here. The | Communist Party has already filed | candidacy for two of these offices. | Communist candidates are Joseph | Toth, and Elizabeth Berduk. Sunday there will be a city wide election campaign conference of de- legates from workers’ organizations and workers’ groups. It will be held at 3 p.m. at the Workers Home. Communist candidates are being run in a number of New Jersey mu- nicipal elections, for commissioners in Trenton, mayor and commissioners |run candidates, and a hot fight is mand the immediate withdrawal of | CxPected; in Passaic, Hoboken and all Japanese and American armed | Bayonne, for commissioner. In the following counties: Union, Essex, Mercer, Hudson, Passaic and Bergen, there are Communist candi- dates for general assembly and for the board of freeholders, In the state election, John Ballam is running on the Communist ticket for governor. The state campaign committee is making every effort to have the drive state candidates on the ballot speed- ed up. throughout the country of working-cl legal lynching of nine Negro youths being carried out by the ———dastardly |in Linden, where the socialists also | Workers Will Hold Them Responsible for Safety of Attorney and Defendants Communist Party Denounces Trial as Legal| | Lynching, Calls on Workers to Raise Mighty | Protest; League of Struggle Starts Campaign | BULLETIN, April 9.—With two juries on the job to rush through the mass legal lynching of nine Negro youths being tried here more were sentenced to death today. the death sentence. The iatest five The following telegram of protest against the bosses’ program of legal lynching for nine young Negro workers now on trial in Scottsboro, Ala,, was sent last night by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights to trial judge: “The League of Struggle for Negro Rights vigorously protests the deliberate frame-up against the nine Negro youths and their r: This organization of ten thousands member- ship demands that you stop this legal lynching and holds you respon- sible to stay the hands of the lynch mob. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, LEAGUE OF STRUGGLE FOR NEGRO RIGHTS, ident.” ailroad- 9.—V th the rapid growth protest ninst the rts, the local bosses are rushing effort. to. stop publicity on this crime against the working class. Not satisfied with one boss |jury, the court yesterday ar | ranged for a second jury. Two of the young workers were sentenced to death in the electric chair on | Tuesday. Another was sentenced | yesterday afternoon, and two juries Were out last night “considering” the cases of the remaining six, One jury had the case of five, four of whom are 17 years old, the fifth 16 years old. The second jury had the case of 14-year old Roy Wright, for whom the State fearing the rising wave of | working class protest, has agreed not | to ask the death penalty, | Three Sentences. The two workers sentenced on ‘Tuesday are Charles Weems, 20; and Clarence Norris, 18. Haywood Pat- terson, 17, was sentenced yesterday | Sentence of death for five of the re- | maining six is a foregone conclusion. Juries Prejudiced. Both juries are made up of Negro | hating business men and plantation owners. Though the nine workers are Negroes there is not a single Ne- gro on the jury. Though they are workers there is not a worker on the jury. This is what bourgeois de. ocracy calls trial by a jury of “one’s peers.” The jury in the case of the first two to be sentenced to death were out only 50 minutes. They not only brought in a verdict of guilty, but they brought in a recommendation for death in the electric chair! Lynch Atmosphere, The trial is being staged in a tense lynch atmosphere and as an added attraction for the fair now going on, and which, with the promise of or new books to Workers’ Center| for collection of signatures to put |@ ™mass lynching, has brought over 5,000 additional people into this town (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) TRYING WM. PATER | Negro ‘inilitant worker, Who jus returned from the Soviet Unio: and will speak at the mass protes meeting tonight at St. Luke's Hall, W. 130th St. PROTEST LEGAT LYNCHE CSTONITS “Tero, White Workers To Hit Frame-Up NEW YORK.—A mass meeting in | Harlem tonight will protest the legal |lynching of the eight young Negro | workers who have just been senten- ced in Scotsboro, Alabama, to death in the electric chair on a framed-up charge of rape. William L. Patterson, former Har- lem lawyer, who has just returned from a three and a half year stay in the Soviet Union where he studied the question of the national minor- ities who, oppressed under the Czars. were given the right to self-determi- | nation by the victorious proletarian | revolution, will be the main speaker. | His subject will be “Can the Race oyalty Movement Solve Unemploy- | ment Among Negroes?” Patterson is at present Negro Work Director of | District Two, Communist Party. Other speakers will be I. Amter, district organizer, District Two, Com- munist Party, and Sol Harper, active revolutionary worker, This meeting will be the first of many to be held throughout the country in vigorous mass protest | against these legal lynchings. All | workers must join in protest against this outrage. All are urged to attend | tcnight’s mass meeting which will be at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th Street, at 8 o'clock, All Out at 5 p.m. Today to Smash Injunction At the Jerry Dress Company! Rally In Masses! NEW YORK.—Today, at 5 p. m, the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union calls all workers and un- employed workers, and particularly all needle workers, to a mass picket demonstration at the Jerry Dress Shop, 500 Seventh Ave, This outfit] Bremner Dress Shop, 370 W. 35th St. eting for several weeks and yestarany| , ___Impertant Meeting, noon served additional boplee af the] A series of important meetings for court writ on the pickets there at} eedle workers are being held during that time. The duty of picketing the next few days. The United Front the Jerry Dress, therefore, lies on all} COMmittee of the cloakmakers calls workers who want to save the righty & meeting of all in the trade at Ir- to strike and to picket, Only by! }iNe Tisza on Saturday at 1 p. im. mass violation of these arbitrary |. 2) abs ane Rank and File slave laws, the injunctions now used ine je calls. a similar meeting in almost all New York strikes, can oily Fea bi ieee ty: their use be discouraged. Miscad Monday evening, in Webster Hall, Picketing will also take place)this| the very important shop delegates morning, as usual, at Needleman é& gouncl of the N, T. W, I. U, goes ' ts Jersey City Police Inspector Tells Strikers At Fur Shop He Is Settling Strike For The A.F.L. and Will Not Permit Picketing into session, and the order of. busi- ness will be a report on organiza- tion work in all the needle trades, the nomination of executive and paid officers of the union and plans for mobilization of a great demon- stration by needle workers, as part of the demonstration of all workers }on May 1, * 8 6 JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 9— Workers at the S. K. & S. fur dress- ing shop on Logan Ave., here, have been on strike for 12 days seipst @ 10 per cent wage-cys The International Fur Workers’ Union (A.F.L.), like a good company union, has been trying to supply the scabs, but not very successfully. They haven’t a single member among the strikers, but want to settle the strike. Yesterday the fur workers, led by the N. T. W. I. U., and by its or- ganizer, Langer, were holding a meeting at noon near the shop. In- spector Woll of the police depart- ment, with Moe Harris, agent of the company union, came down with cops and tried to break up the meeting | and failed, However, Woll notified the workers that he was trying to settle the strike for the A. F. of L., and that, if he succeeded, picketing would not be permitted, Finally, the police ar- rena Langer, charged him with dis- o1 ly conduct, and he is now held Qn $200 bail, ae os aaa DEMONSTRATE ON UNION SQUARE MAY 1! POLICE TOBAR WORKERS Police, Socialists and Fascists Grouped Around Veterans of United Front To Occuay Sx Foreign Wars Form sare All Day ny Mulrooney Admits United Front Committee | Applied First But Breaks Promise To It May First Is International Day of Protest | Against Cavitalism; What Hove Pa Aud Yellow &>-"- NEW YORK.—Poli sists icts To Do It? ice Commissioner Ed- ward P. Mulrooney denies the May Day United Myront Committee the right to demonstrate on ‘ion Square and has en with the ‘Russian. W sent als and fascist-leaders of the e socialist party to give these yuare May in the afternoon. 1—the fascists in the morning and the tered into an agree- Jhite Guardist gen- Vete and ons the use of Union ans of Foreign W: socialists “Chief Inspector O’Brien admitted that the socialist party had asked for a permit for the square - on March 31, and that our demand for Union Square was made on March 16, ind agreed to by Captain Heitzlen tes the May Day United Front Committee. The commiticee had an interview with rooney and says Mulrooney excused himself for the mited front formed between the po- iice depaitiment and the socialist ty on the grcund that Captain Teitzlen had no authority to mak: uch an agreement.” The May Day United Front Com- uittee states: “The case is clear, th olice department, the socialist part und the leaders of the Veterans of ¥oreign Wars uunite to provoke vio- lence against the 300 working-clas: organizations that are preparing thei: demonstration in Union Square May CONTINUED ON ‘ALYN TENANTS FIGHT EVICTION. . Families Summoned to Court For Monday BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Isaac G. Bom- ‘ger of 8 George Street and Joseph raro of 264 Seigel Street, booth ¢ these workers being unemployed nd unable to pay rent, are facing vietion at the hand of the landlord. | Both of these workers have wife and children to support. They were summoned to the Lee Ave. Court GE TWO) | Brooklyn, Monday, April 13, at 2 p.m. | at which court the judge who preyi- | ously ordered the eviction of 43 work- ing class families within one hour and five minutes will issue the order for their eviction at the landlord's request. The Tenants League of Williams- burgh Branch of the Unemployed Council are on the job to mobilize the workers to stop these two evic- tions, On Monday evening, April 13, at 7 p.m, the workers of the surrounding streets, George, Evergreen, and Sei- gel streets are called to gather at the corner of George and Evergreen for a mass protest meeting, and also in front of 264 Seigel Street for the same evening. In 2 leaflet issued yesterday by the Tenants League it states that “The workers and tenants of the surround- ing streets must at once organize in one united front of the workers against the bosses and landlords. Only the unity of the workers and tenants can stop the bloody land- ‘lords to evict workers from their homes.” Workers are requested by the Te- nants League of Williamsburgh to re- port all eviction oases to ~ Avenue, of who have sistant director of the work 6,000 MORE FIRED Ps ae Vir bac) 11.509 NEST So to Bread Lines: No Other Jobs Provided NEW YORK.— £ x thousand men been geting three days’ work a week from the Prosser Com- mittee received thei last pay today, and aow lines. go wit to jgia the bread- Wednesday next week, 11,500 more will get the same treatment. “It will be a great many,” admits R. W. hardship for Houston, as- bureau, and adds: “Some have found at least part-time employment. Many have not.”” These men have been put at work which toward the end was speeded and made harder, deliberately, by the commitee, They have been used in parks, put to cleanirg animals’ cages at the zoo, dismantling an obsolete railroad on Governors Island, spread- ing fertilizer on the island, filling in graves and straightening headstones in the Methodist cemetary, building roads and bridges. It is significant that the Prosser (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BKLYN MAY DAY RED RALLIES SAT. BROOKLYN, N, Y.—Saturday eve- ning, April 11, at 7 p. m., a number of open-air meetings are being held by the Communist Party, Section Six, all over Williamsburgh. ‘The center rally will be held at Grant St. Extension and Havemayer St., where well-known working-class leaders will speak, ‘These meetings are part of the mobilization now going on to rally the workers in Brooklyn for the gigantic May First demonstration in New York, All workers are called upon to join in these red rallies Saturday eve- ning. FRENCH MINE STRIKE Paris reports state that. the coal miners strike in the Pas de Calais region since March 30, is ended. Be- cause nothing is said about the out- come, we suspect the strikers won. Another mine strike has begun in the 61 Graissessac Basin with the miners ora Oe 100 per ona Joy eee