The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1931, Page 3

Page Three DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1931 ~~ FOREIG -BORN WORKER egro Boy Writes Mother From Jail Ask Fight For Life [IN ELLIS IS Conditions In Detention Prisons Comparable to Those of Many Workers Beco Cynical Treatment from Authorities Daily Worker: I was held for two months on strike against starving wages. Then they dropped my case. They set me free. They say th am I anyhow? We are going nothing against you, you haven’t got nothing against us, have And «....yes, sir, I said. After they set me free, they want to be good to me? Why, I am in this country for you? fifteen years, I have been only years. Now they want to be good to me by not deporting me, or because I still have some more energy to give to them. / They closed me in a prison for two months, where the eatable food was only boiled potatoes and where I could never see a ray of sunlight, but only damp air, same as thou- sands of other toilers. And for many workers who are closed in there for deportation, smelling the swampy air of the Hudson River—the treat- ment there is not different from that of a New York flophouse, which you all know. The only difference is that if you got some money then you can buy something different, that is, not boiled potatoes. You know they cannot lose their habit to speculate even on human misery, they don’t even let you rest.in the night time, as those wards keep on inspecting the rooms always, but . . they're afraid of losing their job. Some job! Not Permitted to Speak. We cannot speak to anybody while we are eating. They give us only ten minutes, but they are afraid to lose their job! Do you need a doctor? Yes, was the answer one night of @ man who was with me for less than two weeks. He was very sick, as his stomach, ulcerized by the star- vation, bothered him more than usual; he could not eat- the food, without nutrition and spicy, allowed | TELLS OF TREATMENT LAND DENS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) a week for working night and day Send Fas for Ads, Greetings Starving Old Man Is Floated’ Out of Town: Tax Workers for Fund IMPERIALISTS HOLDING FAKE MEET ON AFRICAN CHILDREN vis) Immediately for May 1 Issue; Red Builders Activity Grows BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 13— When the court told August Widmer, aged 71 and without any means of AT GENEVA DURING JUNE in a “white folks” home. So Andy | and Roy Heywood, who palled to- gether, decided to go to Memphis to | look for work. Andy’s aunt lived | |there and she would support them | |until they would perhaps find jobs. | Flophouses me Sick and Receive in that direction. Then came the | | arrests, | The nine youths are in constant | | danger of being lynched. Their food | and bedding is not fit for pigs. The bosses’ newspapers are all excited that they dare raise their voices |against .being electrocuted for a |crime they did not commit and on |the word of two notorious prostl- | tutes. From investigation in the neigh- | borhood I learned that the two white | \girls, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, are well known as prostitutes in that | New York. in Ellis Island Prison for being ey want to be good tome. Who to set you free, we haven’t got working and starved for fifteen So they hopped a freight headed |Day edition of the Daily Worker. Only two weeks remain for Party Members and sympathizers to make a thorough canvass, of workers’ homes and workers’ organizations for greet- ings and advertisements for the May This year it is doubly important that great masses of workers be reached for participation in May 1 demon- strations, and the Daily Worker must prepare to print thousands of extra copies for this purpose. May Day greetings from individual work- ers (at 25 cents a name) and ads from mass organizations, accompa- nied by liberals sums, should pour into the office without further de- lay. Every Party member, sympa- thetic worker and reader, is also urged to secure as many ads from dealers as possible at $2 per column sas N. Y. Red Seller Shirley Otis, N. Y. Red Builder News Club. Started with 15, now livelihood that he.would have to go to jail or stop begging, he chose jail rather than to starve. So, their bluff being called, the city authorities here put him on a bot going to Seattle —where he will have to go on begging of course. The local press claims the executive secretary of the Community Fund is elated at her success in accumulating $3,172, 35 for the fund. She was par- ticularly proud of the fact that none of it came out of profits. The em- ployees of the Pacific American Fish- erles had to dig up $700 of it; $300 came from visiting nurses; and a committee “organized 27 of the lar- from salaried employees $1,271. The Normal School teachers had to give $61, and the public school teachers’ tax resulted in $173—and so on. The ger firms including banks” to take) League Against Imperialism Calls On Negro Organizations to Aid in Exposing Deceit- ful Gesture of Oppressors keys Behind Move Have Back- ing of Imperialist Governments and Will Defend White Man’s Rule in Africa BERL: ae, Education and Child Labor. Against Imps Child Marriage. Independenc rnational Secretariat of one toe > Against Imperialism is u : campaign of exposure jpzposing ‘8 fax ypocritical maneuver jeace on aces end ges the African organizations, Lane articular, to immediately for= by the immigration authorities. But the doctor!. Ah! That humanitary | service, however they call it, that }man was there not to be cured, but to be deported. The doctor, him, the member of the humanitary ser- | vice, could do nothing for him .. . jthat man is still there, and is still | |sick. Will they finish to insult our |misery and even our spiritual inde- | |pendence by making us believe that | | they are taking care of us with their |sweetly hypocritical, cynical pre- | sumptions faces and voices? And then cautiously keeping away | |and making us die if in case we) ,really need something? If in case | |we really need some assistance? | |Damned, how can those authorities | |be all the same? What the hell,| | they do not want any trouble in tak- | jing care of us toilers. Their duty is jonly to make the racket and graft | FOR 9 NEGRO BOYS. [on our name. We got to be taken | | (fight and supported by those who | don’t wait for us to die before giving jus any relief with the excuse of in- | | vestigating things that they never in- | | vestigated. They just want us todie | |so we won’t be able to trouble them | {any more after they have weakened jour physical and moral system and | |speculated on our health in shop |speeding-up, too many hours of jwork, small pays and high living | | standard. | . —An Italian Worker. Force Sick Marine Workers To Work In Marine Hospital (By a Worker Correspondent.) New York. I am a seaman and have been on the sea for about 13 years. I have been working on ships carry- ing the American flag for ten years. On the last trip, which was with the Standard Oil Co, of New York, I was hurt. I have not been able to work for the past three and a half months, During this time 1 have been getting treatment out- side of a hospital. I had asked the marine doctor to take me to the Mbhrine Hos- pital, but he refused. I told the outside doctor to take me to the hospital because I couldn't stay on my feet any longer. This doctor told me to come the next day and said that he would have a special- ist examip~\ This specialist examined 4.) _.0 gave me a note ; the Mar ine Hospital on Staten Ayand. I was taken to the hospital and was bedridden for five days: Since the hospital is short of workers they make those sick workers mop Kiagly Takes Side Contractors Agains' Brooklyn, N. -Y. Dear Comrades: - “We were a group of four parquet floor scrapers. We are members in the carpenters’ union that went up to the N. Y. District Council of Car- penters and Joiners of America to complain that the sub-contractors, or, as we call them, “lumpers,” in the parquet floor, machine scraping in- dustry are continuously cutting our wages and that they have black- listed us on account of belonging to- an organization that was founded by the parquet floor workers scrapers. Make Demands. This complaint. was told to Mr. | Kiagly, the president of the District |, Council, and we also told Mr. Kiagly ‘phat we are all family men, in that ve have children to support. We jisked him to put us on to work for « couple of days on certain jobs vhere there is floor-scraping, and jwhere we know that the men work- ing there did not get union wages, My. Kaigly told us that he can’t do anything to the lumpers, because these people have invested money in machinery, and, if you can’t get any work, get out of the line! We told Mr. Kaigly that it is against the constitution of the Car- penters’ District Council that lump- | ers or sub-coutractors exist in the trade, He told us that those lump- ers are all union men, that they earry cards and you can’t prove they are lumpers. Now, we can clearly the floors, wash the dishes, fix up beds, etc. The nurse told me to mop the floors, and after I had mopped them for two days I was told to clean the doctors’ office. 1 was disgusted and I told the nurse that I came to the hospital to be | treated and not to do work and | that I wasn't capable of working, being too sick to stand on my feet. I told them that if they needed — workers they could call the Sea- men’s Church Institute, where there were 15,000 seamen out of work and who would only be too glad to do work. The next day the doctor asked me how I felt. ¥ told him that I felt very weak and ill. The doc- tor, however, said the he was sure I felt fine. He gave me a discharge slip and I am still too ill to work. Fellow-workers, in this society one can expect such treatment. Let us join in solidarity against this _ miserable condition, organize a T. U. U. L, read the Daily Worker | and join the Communist Party. | —A SEAMAN, s With Floor Scraping Sub- it the Floor Scrapers see that Mr. Kaigly is helping these Jumpers to organize in an association |to protect them by making them all | unoin men, Mr. Kaigly is also supporting and helping the Jumpers to cut our wages. Where the union scale is $13.20 (on paper), the men are working for $7 a day and down. We came across a certain handscraper that was sent out to scrape borders on a one-fani- ily house in Flushing. He made only $3 a day. Deducting 40 cents for car-fare, his wages amounted to $2.60 a day, This is the situation that the par- | quet floor serapers are faced with. | We have to fight the lumpers and the big bosses, who are supported by the carpenters’ union and Mr. Kiagly. We, the parquet floor scrapers, have formed an organization of all ma- | | force the District Council: - (1) The immediate abolishing of all lumpers in the parquet floor in- dustry. (2) To enforce union conditions and union scale of $13.20 a day on every job. (3) To strike against wage-cuts and blacklisting of members of our organization. It is the duty of every scraper to go into a fighting organization of this kind and to fight the lumpers, the big bosses and the N. Y. Dis- trict Council, with Mr. Kiagly at its head. —IJ. 0. Sacramento Worker Victim of Cheap Graft Sacramento, Calif. Daily Worker: The General Manager of the Northern Electric Co, told a Sac- ramento worker that he could get a certain job in Motens, California. He gave the worker a pass on the tiain. When the worker went to inquire for the job, the foreman, J.T. Thompson, told the worker he could start next day. Mean- while he was told to pay $1 for room and board. The next day the worker did a day’s work and was told by the foreman that his job was done and there was no more work to be had. He gave the worker $3 for the day, out of which he took $1 as an en- trance fee for insurance, leaving the worker $2, which was used to. get him back to Sacramento. All workers, demonstrate against such graft and fight for unem- insurance. ployment 3 —A WORKING FOOL, section, where they have plied their trade for-a number of years. Andy’s mother, her eyes red from weeping, showed me this letter from the Scottsboro jail: “Why I am sitting down, think- ing of no one but you, mama, “They didn’t give me a fair trial. They are going to kill us for noth- ing. You know I would not do a thing like that. They got me all for nothing. “When they move me I will write back to you, “From your son. “Scottsboro, Ala.” KASSAY APPEALS ANDY. care of by our own authorities and| (conTINUED FROM PAGE OND) | {act that “now the Club passed a gro youths be saved. The workers must act quickly. No fight is too strong for the permanent liberation of all workers from the chains of the capitalist slave system. Work- ers! Build a strong International Labor Defense! Smash the legal lynching of the Alabama Nine!” Throughout the country working- class resentment is piling up against this outrageous frame-up and at- | tempted murder of working class | youths. Protest wires and resolu- tions are being poured in on Gover- nor Miller of Alabama, demanding a stop to this mass murder. The following telegram was sent Gov. Miller last night by the Na- tional Committee for Protection of , Foreign Born: “Governor B, M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala. “In the name of 500,000 organized workers and farmers that are affil- iated with the movement for the Pro- | tection of Foreign Born we protest strongly against the frame-up of eight young Negro workers and their railroading through the courts to burn them in the electric chair. “We demand the immediate release of these eight Negro workers. We call upon all workers, foreign born and native, white and Negro, to join in solidarity against lynching of Ne- sroes, against discrimination and against deportation.” Protest wires and resolutions have | been sent the governor by workers mass meetings in New York. Cleve- land, Detroit, Chicago and a num- ber of other cities. Scores of other protest meetings have been called. The May Day demonstrations which are being. prepared on a gigantic scale in nearly every city of the land will also give voice to the indignation of the wroking-class against this brazen frame-up and death senten- ces. In Chicago on April 12, a United | | Front May Day and Youth Day Con- | { | inch, Every renewer opens a new account \if he subscribes before May 1, These are the terms to stimulate the drive for 1,000 new yearly subscriptions or |renewals by May Day, in order to put the Déily Worker on a more solid | financial basis and to insure its con- | tinuance in printing. Red Builders Pick Up. Baltimore, Md., Red Builders break ‘a month’s silence, announcing re- |organization. Eight members now | functioning. A. Colbe, secretary, con- | fesses: | “We fell asleep for a while, One of our best sellers, Comrade Davis, got a job, Then there was a lot of bad weather and our sellers were afraid to‘wet their toes (you see, the toes are sticking out of the shoes).” We sympathize. Sales have im- | proved, partly due, we think, to the sells 50 daily. (Looks like a million- are’s. shack, but that’s only the 10 | | cent photographer's backdrop.) morians; also to Michael Petruska, | Cleveland, Ohio, whose selling point | is the Public Square. Utilize rainy days for building delivery routes, |talking to workers’ families, ac- | quainting them with revolutionary | unions, unemployed councils, thereby |doing more for the movement than getting rain-soaked and pneumonia. | Fred C. Hunt, Jamestown, N, Y., uses bad weather as an explanation for |“not being able to get out, having |the papers pile up on our hands.” | Plenty of unemployed workers and | their families to canvass in James- town, too, Fred, rain or shine. How- ever, glad you're taking steps, via conference to put Daily on a stable basis. Toledo, Ohio, organizes a Red Builders’ Club “to increase the cir- culation in this section.” Clark Har- rington writes: “All sellers, corre- spondents were present. City was |divided into different sections for jwork. Raise of 40 made in bundle | order.” | Good example of “Daily” as or- | ganizer is seen in Bethlehem, Pa., | |where, according to R. W., “an or-| |anizational committee of unem-| | ployed workers, several women work- ers, Negro and young workers, num- | bering between 10 and 15, was formed |in a home in the same neighborhood ; We've been concentrating on with Dailies.” They expect a regular Daily Worker agent in charge as soon as |this committee is formed for this neighborhood unemployed council, |motion.” No checkers allowed be- | tween 11 to 3 p. m, Violators will |be expelled and ostracized. Colbe, | Thomas, Brown, Williams, Holloway, | Hynes, Scott, McCallum now com- | prise the club, receiving 200 a day. |“Going to have a blowout Saturday, | April 18, at 9 S. Greene St.” With |present rejuvenation the Club should | spread out beyond street corners and tackle factory gates, metal plants, mail order houses, not forgetting to issue a leaflet drawing others into the Club. On the Job—Rain or Shine. “Bad weather” offers best oppor- tunity for house-to-house sub can- vassing, and suggest this to Balti- Condemned Youngsters Tell Own | Story of Arrest and Frame-Up. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 2 room by the sheriff and a deputy, | Pe cea | brutally beaten up and told that if! cross ties just as the freight was pul-| y. didn't get up on the witness Ung out of Cattanooga. They were| stand and swear all the others were on this car until taken off at Paint guilty, he would be beaten again and Rock. Their car was near the end) turneq over to the I; vai 5 | lynch mob wait- of the 49 car freight. They noticed | ing outside the jail several others on the train, including | I. L. D. Must Have Funds. six or seven white boys on one of the/ ‘The International Labor Defense | first cars, but saw no fight and no | yi engage the best available legal attack. |ers, and calling upon all workers and | entert; |apolis Sunday evening, May 3, and |take part in a demonstration before | Saw Fight Between Colored and White Men. Olin Montgomery of Monroe, Geor- gia, who had been staying with a/ cousin in Chattanoga, caught this | train to go to a free clinic in Mem- phis. He is suffering from serious | eye trouble, He got on an oil tank| and was on it until taken off at Paint | Rock. | Ozzie Powell was also riding by | himself and knew nothing until} hauled off the train by the white| mob, The four boys from Cattanooga, ference, representing 27 organizations | Roy Wright, andhis brother Andy, vigorously denounced the frame-up.| Haywood Patterson, and Eugene wil- | In Detroit, a “Young Worker” con- | liams had been friends for years, were | chine scrapers and hand scrapers, to | ference, with delegates from 9 organ- izations unanimously adopted a reso- lution demanding unconditional re- lease for the framed youngsters, and pledging full support in the fight to smash the frame-up and legal lynch- ing. Another meeting of young workers in Detroit, addressed by William Nowell, of the League of Struggle for | Negro Rights also went on record against the legal lynching and pledged full support in the defense of the youngsters. In the South, too, the white and | Negro workers are mobilizing to fight against this vicious frame-up. The League of Struggle for Negro | Rights is holding many meetings, one | of which was held two nights ago in a Negro church in the mining camp} at Powderley. The Communist Party is holding demonstrations in several southern cities. Thousands of leaflets exposed the frame up and trail are being distributed. Every effort is being made to mobilize the workers, white and Negre, for defense of the nine youths and to smash the legal lynch- ing set by the bosses for July 10. All of the families of the boys have been interviewed and have welcomed the entrance of the LL.D, into the case, | | | Detroit Prepares. DETROIT, Mich—On April 19 a united front May Day conference will be held here at 1343 E. Ferry, where all workers’ organizations are urged to send delegates. There will be a mass open-air “demonstration and parade on May 1, beginning at 12:30 p.m. The parade will start at Ferry ' and Russell and at 2 p, m, there will be a@ demonstration at Grand Circus Park. In the evening at 7:30 p. m. there wlil be a mass in- door meeting, concert and celebra- tion at Danceland Auditorium, all unemployed, and decided to seek | jobs on the river boats at Memphis. | They got on an oil car together near | the end of the train. As the train | was leaving Stevenson, Ala., moving slowly, they saw twelve or fourteen colored men and six or seven white men fighting on a car near the front | of the train. The white men were forced off the train. As the train slowed down for a grade between Stevenson and Paint Rock the 12 or 14 colored men also got off. Being completely innocent of any crime, none of them made any attempt to leave the train and were sitting on the same tank car they had boarded in Chattanooga when the train was surrounded by a heav- ily armed mob at Paint Rock. Girls At First Denied Boys Attacked Them. The nine boys, the only Negroes left on the train at that time, were brought together and shown to the two girls, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, who at the time declared that none of these nine‘ boys had done anything to them. Only under pres- sure of the lynch mob in Scottsboro did the girls finally agree to accuse them of rape, being prodded especial- ly by the state solicitor, who kept saying, “Go ahead and say they did it; that boy attacked you, didn’t he?” etc. Boys Beaten To Force Confessions. ‘The nine youths were beaten twice in the Gadsden jail before the trial in efforts to extract “confessions.” In spite of lying reports given out by the sheriff to the capitalist press, no confessions were made. The nine also refused to follow the advice of the crooked boss lawyers appointed to “defend” them to plead guilty and beg for life imprisonment. Ft On the night of the first day of the tial, befoe any of the defendants LIN ALL US. CITIES: talent and immediately file notice of appeal in all cases. Defendants themselves and families of four from Chattanooga have formally approved and given full support to the pro- gram of the I. L. D, for a fight to save the lives of these young. work- ers. Funds are urgently needed for this purpose, and the I. L. D. appeals to all working class organizations, to all workers, to at once rush funds to help defeat this attempt to legally jynch these working class youths. Funds should be sent at once to the national office, at 80 East 11th St., New York City. PREPARE FOR MAY Intense May Day preparations are | going on all over the United States. United Front May Day conferences have been held in many cities, pre- | paring the basis for a mass struggle against unemployment and wage cuts; for unemployment insurance and for the Defense of the Soviet Union. | | ST. LOUIS, Mo,—Widespread prep- arations are being made by the work- | ing class organizations here for the May Day demonstration. Speakers that appear before organizations are greeted enthusiastically. When the May Day committee appeared before the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Local No, 2229 the membership enthusiastically supported the dele- gation as against the representative of the District Council who tried to scare the membership that these del- egates are Reds, etc. Workers Expose AFL Jim Crow This local is a Negro local and the membership threw in the face ot the representative of the district council, that when they had a banquet or- ganized some two months ago, the members of Local No. 2227 were eject- ed from the hall, although it was organized by the Maintenance of Way locals of which they are part. Conference Held on April 19, 2 P.M. All delegates that have been elected are asked to send in their credential to the May Day Commit- tee, 1601 Franklin Ave. We also ap- peal to all working-class organiza- tions to raise finances in order to beable to issue sufficient leaflets for | of June, money is to be an “emergency char- ity fund” and will give soup to a few of the large number of jobless here. CALUMET SECTION MOBILIZES MARCH Gary Jobless Councils Hold Mass Meetings GARY, Ind., April 15—Preparations | for the Indiana Hunger March are going ahead full speed in the Calu-| met section. The unemployed coun- cils of Gary, Hammond and Indiana | Harbor are holding mass meetings | and pushing work to build the coun- cils and rally the unemployed and employed workers. The delegates will|,.... eae f be elected by the councils and then Sie iiseriay endorsed at the May Day demon- | year of the Five-Year strations. Many Negro workers will against war dang take part. ucation of the wor! edi The plan calls for an auto caravan| 3, the Chil posed fo low Or MOSCOW. — Prep May First celebr menced. in Moscow the m= slo under the the production the dec r 1any factories s] k brigades of ten cars leaving the Calumet sec-| with the name “Mayday” are being tion on May 2, and passing through |formed. In view of the fact that Michigan City, Elkhart, Fort Wayne, |/tne May First and the second anni- | Huntington, Marion, Anderson, and versary of the socialist competition then to Indianapolis. Stops will be/ movement fall at the same time, made in each city to hold meetings, there will be a shock brigade reviey |distribute literature, and make con- the w nd factories. The May jhections. A squad is going out next nay celebrations have ben legally | week to distribute leaflets announc- | fived to extend over the 1st ; F and 2nd ing the coming of the hunger march- | o¢ May + On these two days mass a ainments will be given every- farmers to join in. where in Moscow. All the theatres, Cut Off Relief. cinemas, and cir in Moscow give The delegations will reach Indian- | frog performances for the wor! very to its Berlin offices, 24, Fried- Berlin SW-48, Germany, carefully prepared documents wing the real effect of imperial- ‘xploitation and oppression upon child population of Africa, A also be ‘sent as a pro- save the Children Inter- nion, 331 Quai du Mont va, Switzerland, ue points out that “All ry, philanthropic and ations supporting this have the backing of the various imperialist governments in whose interest lone the conference s being convened. It is necessary for us to point out that the only inter- est that the imperialist governments have in “saving” the children of rica is to obtain cheap labor for ploitation of the resources of ast continent. It is also clear that an attempt will be made at Ge- neva to make ouf that the rule of t white man is necessary to save the African children. For this pur- Pp they will point to child marriage and other native customs as being the real cause of the high infantile mor- | tality. The League, Against Imperialism and for National Independence is one of the organizations carrying on a revolutionary struggle for national independence for all oppressed na- tionalities and subject peoples in Africa, Asia, West Indies, etc. It has affiliations throughout the world and is one of the instruments through which the white workers in the im- perialist countries are being mobil- ized for support of the revolution- ary struggles of the colonial peoples, the governor’s office on Monday. Their demands will be that Governor | Leslie immediately act to provide the counties with money for immediate | relief of the starving thousands of Indiana unemployed. All the coun- ties of the state are cutting down| on the miserable $15 a month in| ment pay the rent of unemployed to 42 and 28 y n California pris- | workers, pay gas, light and water | ons for organi cultural work~- bills, furnish meals and milk for the|ers, issued a militant appeal and children, and pay unemployment in- greetings to the toilers of the world surance of $15 a weck to every un-/on the occasion of the International employed worker out of taxes on the| Working Class Holiday, May First. rich, The message issued through the In- | Local Struggle, jternational Labor Defense is a stir- | The demand Which is being fought|ring appeal to all the workers to | for most by the unemployed councils | unite in their strugeles against the of the Calumet section is for $25 a ruling class and greetings to the mass- month in cash to be paid imme-/|es on their holiday from all “work- diately to every unemployed worker. | ers now in prisons” and “we pledge This demand is getting wide support | that no amount of persecution will by those who are sick of starving on|dampen our spirit, and readiness to the miserable rotten groceries now | rejoin the fighting ranks of the mass being handed out. The councils are | es and if need be lay down our lives.” also presenting particular cases to| The Imperial Valley victims now the Township Trustees and demand- | serv ing what are practically life sen- ing immediate relief for them. Many | tences for their loyalty to the work- workers now get relief who were ing class remind the masses that on formerly refused. The councils’ also| this day, May 1: forced the politicians to reveal the fact that grocers were overcharging th eunemployed workers. Shifting the “Millions of toilers in the entire | world will march under their revo- | lutionary banners in celebration of blame from themselves the Officials| this traditional/event. Their steps threaten to arrest some of the! will resound in the cities, town: id grocers, | villages of the proletarian father- A dance and social will be held| land—the USSR—where the masses Saturday night at the new Central) are performing the titanic task of Workers Hall, 15th and Jefferson,| building a new social system on the auspices of the Gary Unemployed} ruins of the unspeakable czarist- Council. This dance will be for the | capitalist rule, which was kicked purpose of raising money for the| into oblivion by the Russian work- State Hunger March. Every worker | ers and peasants, under the im- should attend. Admission 25 cents, | mortal leadership of Lenin and the | | Bolshevik Party. May 1. | ‘The greetings from the California The May Day Committee is plan- prisoners points out that great dem- ning to hold a demonstration at 15th onstrations on May First will be of | and Carr Park and from there march | great help to the suppressed and to the Fraternal Hall, llth and jfighting mas Franklin Ave. At the conference on |and the ma: April 19 at 1601 Franklin Ave. the | lions. final preparations will be made. “Will resound es of India and China, hing steps of the mil- in the Chinese Mobilize for May Day with the DAILY WORKER ORDER YOUR BUNDLE NOW! $8 A THOUSAND ONE CENT A COPY IN SMALL ORDERS SELECT THE EDITION WHICH GOES TO YOUR DISTRICT PACIFIC COAST Edition dated April 24, will go to districts 12, 13, 18 and 19, MID WEST EDITION, dated April 27, will go to districts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 17. EASTERN EDITION, dated April 29, will go to districts 1, 2, (upstate New York only) 3, 4, 6,, 15 and 16. NEW YORK CITY EDITION, dated April 30 will go to New York City and northern New Jersely. For full political and social rights had testified, Clarence Norris, who turned state's witness, was taken into} and self-determination for Negroes? Against imperialist DAILY WORKER 60 EAST 13TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 8 Imperial Valley Prisoners Call On Workers to Demonstrate On May First groceries now handed out. Soup) —— kitchens are closing, Th2 marchers) NEW YORK.—The eight Imperial; and Indian towns and villages will also demand tina ihe govern-| Valley workers serving sentences up| where the rising proletariat is bringing to account the imperialist vultures and their hirelings, the Chiang Kai-sheks and Gandhis. The masses of China are gaining steady victories, though steeped in | blood of thousands of working class martyrs, ready and willing to lay down their lives for their class. The growing influence of the Indian Communist Party is responsible for the unmasking of the present mis- leadership. The Indian masses are beginning to recognize the true role of Gandhi and Co, as enemies of the toiling masses.” ‘The eight Imperial Valley prison- ers call upon the International La- bor Defense and all militant organ- izations to demonstrate on May Day “against the fascist terror which aims to crush the revolutionary leadership of the masses.” The statement con- tinues: “The ILD with all other reyolu- tionary defense sections of the world will on May Day join the rest | of the toilers in the mobilization for the coming bitter strugles, On that day the ILD will fuse yet closer the bonds that unite the reyolution- ary fighter in jails and prisons with the struggling masses outside, It will lead the masses towards bring- ing to a definite stop the lynch- ing and jim crowism against the black masses, the deportation of the foreign born workers and the re- lease of all fighters now behind the bars.” The greetings from the prisoners end with a challenge that on May First the workers of the world wil) serve notice upon the ruling class: “In the United States the work- ers will follow on May Day in the footsteps of the International Pro~ letariat, The numberless millions of unemployed will on this day serve notice upon the American bosses that they will no 7 starve—they will fight for the right to live, for bread and work.” “Long Live May Day! 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