The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1931, Page 1

YTHAK OF ATE MIAN VOTING WORKER. a~ De MONSTEATE fMAyI*' yietme Pasa) a kee, aoe wee | ) al Central _ GS ecihiizo Vol. VIII, No. 91 at New York, N. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office « ander the act of March 3, 1879 no} ——— Ni unist the Communist ™ 2 Interna orker U.S.A. Porty tional) NEW YORK, WEDNE SDAY, APRIL 15. 1931 CITY EDITION The Scotsboro Case Stop the legal lynching of 9 Negro working-class boys! Demand a new trial before a jury composed of workers, at least half to be Negroes! . Equal rights of Negroes in all courts! The National Guard is a tool of the land owners and tapitalists! . * . An armed volunteer guard of Negro and white workers to defend the prisoners against these lynchers! . * . Landlords are inciting the starving white tenant-farm- ers and share-croppers to lynch Negroes; the Jandlods and capitalists and not the Negroes, are starving the tenant- fermers, both white and black! Ps . . Demand immediate cash relief for starving farmers and unemployed workers—Negoes and whites equally! Demand the confiscation of the land fom the landlords fur the Negro and white tenants and croppers! Negroes can never get “justice” in the courts of the white capitalists and landlords! Demand the right. of self-determination for the Negro people—the right to a Negro state in the Black Belt! * * . Dewn with peonage, Jim-Crowism and persecution of the Negro people! For full equality! * For a fighting alliance of the oppressed Negro people and the oppressed white workers and tenant farmers! Stop the lynching of 9 Negro working class boys! * * * Death to lynchers! Your Delegates! Workers, it is your delegates who are leaving tonight for the Land of Soviets! Coming out of the factories and from the farms of this capitalist country, they are leaving as your representatives to the May Day celebration at Moscow, capital of the Workers’ Government! These 29 representatives of the American workers and farmers, are going to see for themselves the accomplishments of the revolution led by Lenin; -‘Phey- ave~goimg to see and compare these accomplishments with the conditions you endure here in capitalist America. And they shall report back to you when they return! Workers, these delegates of yours, will be saying farewell in New York at Irving Plaza Hall tonight, just before they go to the steamer Europe outward bound for Europe and May Day in Moscow. They will carry the story of your struggles here to the workers and farmers who have already thrown off capitalist rule. They will tell the workers of the Soviet Union on May Day, that here in America, the workers are striking and demonstrating against capitalism on May First! ‘That the farmers are joining the struggle! This is your delegation, workers! Give them a rousing send-off— and tell them you await their report! Tell them to let the Soviet workers and peasants that you will defend the Workers’ Fatherland from im- perialist attack! That you will strike and demonstrate May Day! Monarchy Ends; Misery Continues IHE political crisis in Spain has resulted in the resignation of King Alfonso 13th and, apparently, the end of the Bourbon dynasty. Press reports state that, following Sunday's victory in the elections, by the var- ious elements demanding a republic, the King resigned rather than “throw the country into virtual civil war.” Still, if all reports are true, it is only the figure head of feudalism, in the form of the detested monarch, which is gone. There remains the economic basis of feudalism strongly rooted in the land-holding system, in which three and one-half million impoverished peasant holders are subjected to robbery by the nobility, with its three hundred thousand enormous estates, and its large financial interests, interwoven with the interests of the capitalist class. With the leadership of Spanish capitalists, who are aided by the “so- cialists,” and in the absence of a Communist Party sufficiently rooted in the masses, the present movement apparently goes no further than sub- stituting the dictatorship of a king for a dictatorship of the capitalist class under the familiar guise of a republic. The role of the social fascist “socialists” is most interesting. When in 1923 Primo De Rivera established fascism, under which the king was pro- ,ected, the “socialist” party was the most loyal collaborator with fascism, especially in organizing joint commitiees of workers and capitalists in the factories. They were the most industrious stool pigeons for the dictatorship ‘of capitalism, upon which base stood the fascist Rivera and King Alfonso. But fascism could not solve the economic crisis which not only set in motion theantagonisms between distinct elements of the ruling class, but gave no solution to the poverty of the peasantry and the starvation of he proletariat. Neither did it solve the legitimate demand of Catalonia for national independence. Neither are these questions solved by a so-called “revolution” which leaves the property relations exactly as before, which retains the peas- antry subjected to the landlords and the banks, which leaves the factories in the hands of the capitalists and the power of government in the hands of the capitalist class, upon....be it noted....an “agreement” with a king who “resigns,” and does so “upon conditions.” The inter-relations of capitalism with feudalism is thus given expression as a “gentlemen's agreement”—against the masses. It is quite fitting that the “socialist” party, which supported the mon- archy and supported fascism, should now—driven by continuing mass dis- content—breathe dire threats of a general strike against the monarchy in order to cover up with this bluster its support to capitalism in the form of a “republic,” which it sets as the aim, and beyond which it declares the masses must not go. ‘The masses voted for a republic because it was represented to them as a solution fro their misery. But their misery will continue and even increase. The landlords and the bonholders still,remain upon their backs. And only when the whole of the toiling masses of city and country are Jed worward by the Communist Party of Spain, in the fight for a Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Government which can only be obtained by the forcible overthrow of capitalism, will the Spanish masses reach a solution to the problems whieh set them in motion. How soon this may #6 depends upon the Spanish proletariat, and its vanguard the Communist Party of Spain. KING ALFONSO OUT; FEARED REAL REVOLI Bosses and Socialists Unite to Save the Landowners Masses Drive Forward Communists Call for a Toiler-Peasant Regime King Alfonfo XII, the latest cables from Madrid say, has resigned. Thru this act the capitalist newspapers try to make it appear that a bourgeois demacratic republic is about to be proclaimed in Spain and that mat- ters fill be settled “peaceably.” The resignation of King Alfonso | followed municipal elections through- jout Spain which gave an overwhelm- | ing majority to the Republican forces, | | showing the revolutionary temper of | |the masses. The elections came aft- | jer a whole series of general strikes ni which the revolutionary working | |class forces were coming more and more to the forefront. ‘ne Republican bourgeoisie, with the aid of the socialists, had repeated conferences with King Alfonso in or- der to arrange a settlement thereby avoiding a mass uprising and saving the basic structure on which the mon- |archy rested—the feudal landowners and the grip of the Catholic church. Niceto Alaca Zamora, leader of the republicans, with full approval of the socialists, held many conversations | with the king. After these conversa- | tions the king said he would resign | provided certain terms were agreed | | to. The Communist Party is calling |upon the masses to continue to fight | for their demands, to expose the | formal sesignation as not a comple- | tion of the bourgeois-democratic rev- olution, but an attempt to. stave it |off and keep the feudal elements in | power through other and republican forms. The Communist Party of Spain is calling upon the Spanish workers to fight against the absolut- ist monarchists, against the bour- geois republicans and against the al- lies of the bourgebdisie, the social fas- cists and anarchists. The program of the Communist Party of Spain | around which it is rallying the mass- jes, regardless of the formal resigna- | | tion of the king, declares for the fol- | lowing demands: “For a general wage increase! For the seven-hour day for industrial workers, for the six-hour day for | miners and young workers! For the introduction of social insurance at the cost of the employers and the state. For the immediate expropriation of all big landowners and the Catholic church. Abolition of all church priv- |ileges, expulsion of the religious or- ders. Complete independence of the national minorities in Catalonia and in the Basque provinces up to sep- aration from Spain. Evacuation of Morocco and of all colonies. For the overthrow of the monarchy not in workers or by the formal resignation of King Alfonso, but by the estab- lishment of a workers’ and peasants’ government!” UNEMPLOYMENT IN GERMANY Berlin reports state that on March | 15th Germany had 4,980,000 unem- | ployed, as compared to 3,041,000 in | March 1930, and 2,484,000 in March, 1929. Differently than in the United | States, the German government pays unemployment insurance, which while 2 Unemployed Kiil Selves; No Food HAGERSTOWN, Mr.,, April 9— Albert Baker, 46 year old unem- ployed worker, committed suicide here by hanging himself in a shed at the rear of his home. He could not bear to see his ten children beg for bread every day. The police say he killed himself | |] because he “worried over unem- ployment.” eay ee NEW YORK.—Henry Wagner, an aged unemployed worker, killed himself by taking gas at his home at 88 43rd Ave., Jamaica. He could not get work or bread, MASS MEET TONITE Show Solidarity With Workers in USSR NEW YORK. — The workers of New York will give their answer to the latest attacks on the Soviet Uni- on by the American engineer, Wil- liam H. Grady, at the stirring mass farewell to the May Day delegation to Soviet Russia tonight at 8 o'clock at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. The farewell will be a mil- itaont demonstration for the support and defense of the Soviet Union| against all attacks. ‘FOR MAY 1 GROUP While Are A Concrete Proof of Treacherous Co- Speakers at the meeting will be William Z. Foster, national secretary | of the Trade Union Unity League; | of the San Francisco truck drivers R. Gonzales, delegate of the agri- cultural workers of California, operation of Negro Reformists and their Press with Southern Boss Lynchers! Here’s How Most Import- of Negro youths in their current is- sues, Reading left to right: “Troops t Stake Girl Hoboes,” is the head of a 3 inch |story in the New York Amsterdam News and that paper’s support to the |southern slave drivers and lynchers. Frank Palmer, manager of the Fed-|ant of the Negro Reformist papers} The Chicago Whip and The Negro erated Press; J. E. Snyder, delegate | Treat Frame-up and Death Sentence| World are among scores of Negro | reformist papers which altogether Jignore the frame-up and planned Negro World and Chicago Amsterdam News, Pitt BIRMINGHAM, Al Young Negro workers week in Scottsboro A,la rising protest of the working XPOSES U.S. BANK SWINDLERS Is Threatened With WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents 9 NEGRO YOUTHS GREET ILD AID; DENOUNCE TRIAL AS FRAME-UP ® re 'Resisted Attempts of Seven sap ea of & Negro Youths Off Moving Freight Train; Defeated Whites Retaliated With Fake Rape Charge To Demonstrate May First Against the Legal Lynching of Negro Working Boys White Men to Thhow Them Marderous Frame-up and Death Sentences Ignored By Whip, Soft-Pedalled By the sburgh Courier, Others a., April 14.—The eight sentenced to death last bama, were interviewed last night by Allan Taub, attorney for the In- ternational Labor Defense. viewed Roy Wright, the 14-year old defendant for whom a mistrial was ordered by Judge A. J. Hawkins as a result of the Taub also inter- clas against this mass frame- up and legal lynching. All nine young workers welcomed the aid of the International Labor Defense. The nine youths, none of whom are over 20 years of age, unanimously denounced the trial as a frame-up. They de- clare that they had a fight with seven white men on the freight train on which they were all “bumming” their way. The white men tried to and | Guard Trial of Boys in Alabama” is| legal murder of these nine youths. Negro and youth delegates. John J. Ballam, national secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union, which | has organized the delegation, will be chairman. After the meeting, the delegates will be given a sendoff at the boat, thethe Europe. As they must leave early, the meeting will start prompt- ly at 8 o'clock. Replying to the attacks on the/ Soviet Union that the American min- | ing engineer, Grady, made in yes- terday’s New York Times, John J. Ballam, national secretary of the F. S. U., declared: “The attacks of Grady and his wife will be recognized by all work- | ers and friends of the Soviet Union | for what they are—part of the cam- paign to stir up popular sentiment against the first Workers’ Republic | as a preliminary to an armed im-} perialist attack. Grady says: ‘The Russian miner lives on cabbage soup.’ That is lie number 1, In addition | to cabbage soup, he gets meat, pota- | toes and other food products. He) says the Russian miners are ineffi- | cient, because they ‘are weak from | hunger.’ That is lie number 2. The Russian miners get plenty to eat,| so they cannot be weak from hun- ger. Shoe Pickets Defeat Gangsters; MeetThurs. NEW YORK. — Gangsters beat up an active shoe worker, Alexander | Chamer, on the picket line at the'| Fifer Shoe Shop yesterday. When} they tried to do it again in the eve-| ning, they found the pickets had organized for trouble, and the scabs | and gangsters got the worst for it. | An important membership mvet- | ing. will be held tomorrow at Union | headquarters, 16 West 2Ist St., of | | | | jinadequate, helps keep the jobless | alive. the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union. headline of 10 inch story in Chicago} Also, while scores of working-class Defender, which gives illusion of “fair organizations and workers mass meet- trial” and “protection” by the Na-|ings are thundering their protests tional Guard; “8,000 Whites See Rape| against this ghastly, Trial” in caption of a 4 inch story|frame-up, there has been not one in the Afro-American which peddles| word of protest from the National the boss lie of rape against the 9] Association for the Advancement of | youths; “9 Indicted for Rape in Ala-| Colored People, the Universal Negro |bama,” heads an, 8-inch story in the | Improvement Association, the Urban | Pittsburgh Courier, which also peddles ; League or any of the hundreds of or- lie of guilt; “Nine Men, Accused by ganizations controlled by the Negro |reformists who thus as frequently in rt | the past, again expose themselves as PROTEST MEET IN) traitors to the Negro masses and be- trayers of the Negro liberation leaders! Join the mass revolutionary HARLEM FRI EVE, “sec workers! Repudiate the mis- | *s struggles against lynching, against Stop Legal Lynching’ | boss persecution of Negro and foreign of 9 Negro Youths born, against starvation and for un- employment relief and insurance. De- NEW YORK.—Negro and white murderous | Deportation | NEW YORK—Immigration au- thorities are now working with the |bany crooks in the United States in jan effort to keep the 400,000 small depositors from organizing to get | their deposits back in full. After a meeting of the United De- positors’ Committee at Irving Plaza |Tuesday night, Greenberg, one of | the speakers, was approached by an |immigration inspector and ques- tioned about his citizenship and whether he was a “radical.” The meeting was called to discuss the so-called “Rosoff” plan. Green- |berg said the workers must put up a militant fight to get back their full deposits and not to be further swindled by those responsible for the bank crash. For this reason he was threatened with deportation. monstrate May First! workers will unite this Friday night at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St.; | in a militant protest against the frame-up and planned legal lynching of nine young Negro workers in Scotsboro, Alabama. The meeting, which is one of a series being held throughout the country to mobilize the masses to stop this outrage, will be under the auspices of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. William Patterson, former Negro lawyer in Harlem, who has just re- and Socialists; For To March from Madison Sq. To Un ion Sq. on May Day | way to a free county hospital to get Struggle on Unem- ployment and Against Wage Cuts turned from a three and a half years’ stay in the Soviet Union, will ex- plain how under workers’ rule the question of the minority nationali- ties has been solved and the murder- ous programs against the Jews, which were a feature of Tsarist capitalism, replaced by working-class solidarity and extension of the right of self- determination to all minority na- tionalities in the Soviet Union. Com- rade Patterson will speak on the sub- ject “Can Negroes Obtain Complete Racial Equality in the United States as Jews and Other Minority,Groups Have Done in Soviet Russia Under the Communists?” NEW YORK.—The New York Uni- against hunger, wage-cuts and speed- ‘ted Front May Day Conference call| UP for unemployment insurance, and upon workers to mobilize at Madison Square, 23 St. and 5 Ave. May First, and march from there to Union Sq. The New York United Front May Day Conference, composed of dele- gates from over 300 working class or- ganizations, in a statement issued yesterday, calls upon the New York | working class, Negro and whtie, native and foreign born, workers ex-service- men and working class members and followers of the socialist party, to an- | Swer the provocation of the police and Socialists, to mobilize in a struggle In Alabama, where the magnates of the United States Steel Trust have formed a “holy alliance” with the slave-driving white plantation own- ers for the most. shameless oppres- sion of the toilers, black and white, the ruling classes and their agents, the A. F, of L. fakers, are preparing a mass state lynching of nine young unemployed Negro workers, from the ages of 14 to 20. The present lynching does not dif- fer in substance from any of the hideous murders of Negro workers directly at the hands of a lynch mob. Only, in this case, the lynchers have clothed themselves in the garb of boss class legality. The lynchers make up the jury, one of them is a judge, others have adopted the role | of prosecuting and “defense attor- | neys.” This hideous mockery is ex- posed by the bosses’ court itself, which beforehand promised to the Warns Only Mass Pressure Can Put Stop to Scotsboro Outrage—Calls for Mighty Protest of Negro and White Workers and Building of Gigantic May Day Demonstrations secured from “illegal” lynching. 16 Lynched This Year—6 “Legally.” Already this year, eight Negro and two white workers have met horrible deaths at the hands of the bosses’ lynch mobs, Only a few weeks ago six starving Negro workers were legally lynched in South Carolina. This new outrage is taking place in surroundings of the most frightful | sufferings of the masses of Negro and white workers all over the coun- try. In the South, particularly in| Alabama, through which runs the Black Belt, the offensive of the white ruling classes is taking particularly pression of the Negro toilers. Tens of thousands of workers are unem- ployed and starving, drastic wage- cuts and speed-up have been estab- lished in the steel mills, lumber camps, etc. Misery and ° poverty stalks the countryside. Diseases of under-nourishment are rampant. Death rates are mounting. The ruination of the masses of share- croppers and tenant farmers is go- ing on at an unprecedented pace. These are deserting en masse from the farms, increasing the unemploy- ment and misery of the city workers. In addition to this, the bosses are mob the same results as would be' sharp forms, due to the slave op- making the most drastic encroach- Trade Union Unity League Calls on Workers to Smash Legal Lynching of 8 Negro Youths in Ala. ® ments upon the political rights of the workers in general and particu- larly the Negro workers. Vagrancy laws are being increasingly enforced, |and more vicious laws are being en- acted, directed against the working class and primarily against its lead- ers. Hand in hand with this, the white slave-drivers have unleashed the most merciless terror against the workers. Besides the lynchings, dozens of Negro workers have been brutally murdered by armed police thugs and sheriffs. “ Bosses Whipping Up Race Hatred. The reasons for this new wave of |terror are not hard to find. The growing militancy and determination , to struggle on the part of the Ne- gro and white workers against their vicious oppression, the increasing unity in the struggles against unem- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) chain-gangs are lengthening. New | defense of the Soviet Union, in |mighty numbers on May First at | Madison Square, 23 St. and 5th Ave., 12 noon and join the march from | there to Union Square. The statement calls upon the work- ers to make this May Day, the day of | renewed and intensified mass struggle jagainst the new wage-slashing con- |spiracy of the bosses. May Day be- | longs to the working class. It is the day of International Working Class Solidarity and Determination on May | Day. They therefore organized their allies and lackeys, the socialists, the fascist officers and leaders of the vet- erans of foreign wars, the blood- thirsty ezarist white guard gangs in an attempt to prevent the New York working class from demonstrating on May Day. This insult to the reyolu- tionary fighting tradition of May Day, this dastardly provocation against New York workers was organized by the grafting Tammany police. Workers, young and old, Negro and white, working class members of the socialist party, condemn this act of treachery on the part of the socialist | party leaders. A socialist demonstra- | tion is an anti-working class demon- | stration! Rally on this May Day of struggle against capitalism. Answer the de- portation and persecution of foreign born. Rally in struggle against the fiec "weve of lynchings and dis- € f the Negro masses — employment insurance, mobilize for defense of the fatherland of the world’s working class, the Sov- jet Union. Fight lynching. fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for Protection of foreign born, throw them off the moving train, and the youths vigorously defended them- selves. The white men got off the |train and had them arrested on the |fake charge of raping two girl pros- titutes with whom the white men were | Tiding. | Double-Crossed by “Defense” Attorney | Fourteen year old Roy Wright de- jclared he had been double crossed by Steve Roddy, of Chattanooga, one. of the attorneys appointed by the court to “defend” the youths. Wright |declared Roddy distorted his testi- mony. After sentence of death had beer imposed, the nine boys were removed to Gadsen jail on Thursday, where on denouncing the trial as a frame- up and demanding food they were | taken out of the “bull pen” where they were confined, handcuffed by twos and terribly beaten’ with clubs. Bad cuts are still visible on the faces of several. All of the nine boys were unem- ployed and looking for jobs except Olin Montgomery, who was on his his eyes testeed, and Charlie Weems of Atlanta, who was on his way to a Rally on May 1 to Answer Attacks of Fascists | contruction job. The L L. D. is taking immediate steps to demand a new trial, with Negro workers on the jury. May Day Demonstrations to Protest. In the meantime working class re- sentment against the frame up and planned legal lynching of these work- ing class youths, who were tried and sentenced within 48 hours and whose execution is set for July 10, is rising throughout the country, as the work- ers prepare to make May Day a day of gigantic, militant mass protests against boss terror, against starva- tion and continued lay-offs and wage cuts, against the bosses’ preparations for war against the Soviet Union. The May Day demonstrations will demand unconditional release of these framed Negro lads, as well as a stop to lynch- jing and deportation, and for imme- dfate relief and unemployment in- surance, United Front Formed in Ohio In Cleveland, New York and several other cities protest meetings have al- ready been held of thousands of | workers who have vigorously protested the frame-up and death sentences (CONTINUE! ON PAGE THREE) Send Greetings, Ads for May Day Workers! 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