The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1931, Page 5

WORKERS! NEGRO AND WORKING CLASSIN MIGHTY PROTEST Demonstrate May Day Demand Release! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) have not raised a whisper to save the lives of these nine framed victims of Alabama boss law. Negro Workers Send Protest The First Baptist Church of De- troit, sent the folowing telegram to the governor of Alabama: “Governor M. M. Miller, State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, “We, 600 Negro workers, assembled in our Congregation of the First Bay tist Missionary Church of Detroit, condemn the conviction and attempt to electrocute nine young Negro work- ers in Scottsboro, Alabama, on the charge of supposed rape of white girls. We demand that you release these workers at once and we hold you responsible for their safety. (Signed) Rey. J. S. Scotten.” The folowing protest was wired by the first Baptist Church of Ham- tramck, Michigan: “The first Baptist Church of Ham- tramck protests against the frame-up of nine young boys in Scottsboro, | Alabama, and the attempt to legally lynch them. We hold you responsi- | ble and demand their immediate and unconditional release. (Signed) Chairman, First Baptist Church of Hamtramck.” Many Organizations Join Protest Protests were also. sent yesterday by the Federation of the Workers League of Philadelphia and the Phil- adelphia branch of the Freethought League of North America, American section of the Proletarian Freethought International of Vienna, and the | Youth Section of the International Workers Order. | A protest was also sent by the Uni- ted Front Conference for National | Youth Day held April 13 at 35 Fast | 12th Street and representing 54 dele- gates from 11 youth organizations with a total membership of 3,000 young workers. A resolution de- nouncing the frame-up and death | sentences was also sent by the} “Young Worker” conference in De- troit, with delegates from the follow- ing organizations, Young Commun- ist League, Young Liberators, Young Jewish Workers Club, Junior Icor,| Red Star Athletic Club, Unemployed | Council No, 6, Unemployed Council | No. 4 and Harmonia Singing Society. | Rochester Workers Join Denunciation | Rochester, N. Y. workers in mass _ Meeting April 14, sent the following protest: “Hundreds Rochester workers as- sembled mass meeting vigorously pro- test legal lynching nine Negro youths | 150 Marchers Leave Pittsburgh Today; Local Marches Begin PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 17.—In|as well as in the hunger march on answer to the continued lay-offs | Washington on April 18. throughout the mining fields of A delegation of workers from the Western Pennsylvania, which are | steel mill and from the aluminum usually followed by wage-cuts, the|plant of Andy Mellon have been thousands of unemployed miners are | elected from the surrounding mining electing delegates to take part in the | towns, which include Arnold and hunger march on Harrisburg, in| Parnassus. There are 8,000 unem- which the National Miners’ Union, | ployed workers in New Kensington as well as the Unemployed Councils, | alone. are taking the leading part. In} The Unemployed Council of New Avella, whene another mine recently | Kensington is organizing a struggle shut down and where seven mines | against the attempt to evict two un- within an area of four miles are | employed families of New Kensing- working from one to three days a/| ton on April 21 by sheriff sale. week, the workers are conducting a Ne hunger march to Washington, Pa., . 50 From Chester. the county seat, under the auspices} CHESTER, Pa., April 17.—The of the National Miners’ Union. | Chester delegation of hunger march- Yesterday 500 unemployed miners | ers will leave Monday morning fol- met in Avella at the meeting called | lowing a mass demonstration to be by the National Miners’ Union to | held at Third and Market Sts. at protest against the conditions of|9 a. m. Thirty delegates have been starvation to which they have been | elected already. A total of fifty are | | for the date indicated. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY. APRIL 18, 1931 WHITE! Use This Map to Order May Day Editions Pick out your state on this map and order your May Day edition Large bundles $8 a thousand. for individuals, etc. 1 cent per copy. must be paid for in advance or they will not be shipped. DOWN TOOLS age Five V MAY DAY! HOWAT SESSION Tash Hurls Program of Struggle Into Melee ST. LOUIS. Mo, April 1 Tash seized the floor at the Howat “National Convention of the Reorgan- , {ized United Mine Workers of Ameri- 'ca” here yesterday, and to the delight ‘of miners in this vicinity, threw into ‘the confused, chaotic and jangling “convention” the clear cut program lof the National Miners Union, Tash exposed Lewis and Fishwick, as ene- mies of the coal miners and mere jagents of the operators, and tore the |mask off Howat, who is the leader of jt convention. Tash showed that |Howat is only a disappointed faker, jeager to sell out, guilty of many treacheries in the past, and with no program for the miners. _|on the miners to organize united front Small bundles Rush your orders, All bundles He called} {from the police commissioner. subjected by th ecoal barons. One | hundred and fifty of those present | were Negro miners, who have been especially exploited in the Avella section. The speakers included Vin- cent Kamenevich, district secretary of the National Miners’ Union, and Ben Careathers of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. A resolution was passed protest- ing against the attempted legal lynching in the most recent attack of the Southern bosses against the Negro workers of Scottsboro, Ala. Thenicc:is <lso took last-minute Preparations for large delegations from Avella to participate in the hunger march on Harrisburg which leaves on the morning of April 18, expected to be in line when the ac- tual march takes place, A council is being organized among a group of farmers in a nearby town. A group of farmers will represent this council at Harrisburg and will march along with the industrial workers on the 93-mile stretch to Harrisburg. Special concentration will be made in Lan- caster on the way. The council succeeded in stopping | another eviction of a Negro worker. | Members of the council organized the neighborhood where the eviction was to take place, In another eviction case the land- lord, with the help of the local po- lice, succeeded in having three mem- bers of the council arrested. Prepare May Day in Detroit; Grand Cir- ‘cus Park Ts Refused DETROIT, Mich.—Preparations are now in ful swing to stage the biggest demonstration on May First the city ever saw. Ninety-three working class organizations have already been lined | up, Many more are expected to send delegates to the April 19 May First | United Front Conference. In many haye been set up to make prepara- tions for May Day. The original plans for the May Day demonstratoin were to march from the Workers Home on E. Ferry and Russell, with banners and brass bands, to Grand Circus Park, where | the demonstration was to be held. As | customary, @ permit was requested The Police commissioner replied that he had nothing to do with issuing per- | Circus Park, permit or no permit. ‘The newspapers nevertheless carried announcements that the Communists accepted Cass Park as the place for their May First celebration this year. A denial was issued to them, giving the true facts, but in regular yellow journalist fashion, they ignored them. The committee next went fo the mayor and demanded a permit either for the Grand Circus Park or Cadillac Square. The mayor said that he per- sonally had no objection to the Grand Circus Park, but would have to con- fer with the police commissioner. He Promised a definite reply by Monday, April 6, but failed to give an answer so far, though more than a week | organizations May First Committees | passed and several attempts have The | been made to see him since. capitalist press, ignoring the state- ments of the Communist Party on the demonstration, again carried an announcement of the “Communist time stating that it was scheduled for Cadilac Square. In this manner the capitalist press is trying to con- fuse the situation, while the author- ities are holding back on the ques- tions of a permit in order to hold up demonstration on May First” this | ‘May Day Editions of Daily: coe Will Carry Ads, Greetings of ‘Many Workers’ Organizations | Workers’ Solidarity, will be greeted | campaign, a district: page should by thousands of workers in the Daily | Stimulate sales resulting in regular Worker. Workers in shops, and un- | Toutes; should introduce district cam- employed workers; Party members, | Paigns to workers, bring them nearer sympathizers, workers in fraternal | to our revolutionary unions, unem- and other mass organizations who | Ployed councils, etc. sent in their greetings (25 cents a Seattle in coma regarding dis- name) will have their names printed | trict page, despite our repeated at- (unless we are requested not to) in| tempts plus persistent efforts of the May Day edition going to the Frank Sellman in Spokane, whose Soviet Union, and read by thousands | letters to Portland, Seattle, were of workers in the United States.| completely ignored. District can- Mass organizations will send their! not afford to do without weekly own greetings to the Daily with May | page as aid to mobilize workers Day ads accompanied by substantial | for struggle in shops, together with sums, not forgetting to urge mem-| unemployed workers, bership for individual greetings, and Light On Chicago Red Builders. secure ads from local storekeepers Bill Browder, district Daily Worker ($2 per column inch). Send both before the following dates to insure | rep, reports slump in Chicago’s News Club, due to 3-month incarceration | appearance in the May 1 issue: | Dists. 12, 13, 18, 19, April 20. Dists.| of secretary Lambrow, lack of ex- |7. 8, 9 10, 11, 17, April 22. Dists. | perience in new secretary. True, 1, 2 (up-state N.Y. only), 3, 4, 5, 6,| there have been several bundle re- 15, 16, April 24. New York City and | ductions,” he writes. (Still another Northern New Jersey, April 25. from Nucleus 303, cutting from 25 to 10, Bill.) Points out objective is “to Send greetings to the Daily Worker Stabilize, pay regularly, increase and this May Day! Let this be your contribution to a country-wide cir- | sell,” and proves it by shooting $439 during one month. | culation of the May 1 issue for mighty mass demonstrations. Send| Albany Red Builders hit low-water mark of 100, add 20. “Church is | your greetings NOW! | Detroit Takes Page—Seattle Sleeps, | Sermonizing on the Daily,” says Mike | Pell, counteracting it with snappy Detroit lines up for District page, | combination Red Builders’ leaflet beginning April 24, based on four | ang lecture on ‘Trade Union Unity columns weekly, with extra order League leaflet, which should knock | of 2,000 at $8 per thousand, over | o al jousand, over- f 7 those. 4) ” ene Daily Worker isatinacy ‘ings out s jose “opium! campaign to some extent. Should lose no time popularizing weekly May Day, symbol of International ; advance in Boston since beginning of | on the basis of the immediate griev- ances in the mines, and urged them to clean out all connected with the |Lewis, Fishwick and Farington cliques. He urged that a rank and file committee run the convention and establish a united front with the Na- tional Miners Union. Only 96, | ‘The official credentials committee | report of this convention” shows only |96 delegates, representing 59 locals and groups. Many of the delegates jare really handpicked Howat hench- men, representing nobody. A fight |took place over the attempt to seat | William Daeck, a petty leader from | southern Illinois, as a “delegate from West Virginia.” In spite of Frank Kenney's promise to send 75 delegates |from West Virginia, there are not enough here to make a showing. The | Howat group shoved Daeck in by a (roe of 63 to 12. | Winegar, Indiana delegate, spoke, attacking Howat’s speech and his al- liance, and supporting the National Miners Union proposals for rank and |file committees, and a ‘united front jof the miners themselves through |their own committees with the Na- tional Miners Union. Howat spoke again, attacking the N. M. U. and try- jing to evade and squirm out of the | charges flung at him, | The Trotzkyites issued a statement {mildly criticizing Howat and Muste, |who is present, and making no at- tack on the Howat program or be- \trayals, The Trotzkyites favor the | founding of a new union at this con- vention. Jerry Allard, Trotzkyite, represent- | ing a non-existent local, made a dem- agogic speech partly for Howat and | partly for the N. M. U. | The discussion is continuing, many delegates opposing the new union idea.. Confusion and _ vacillation characterize the gathering. >) a2 Says Communis Provisional Government of Spain | Wants “Quiet” to Defeat Aim Revolution and Protect Landlords of t Party Alone Can Or- ganize and Direct Mass Struggle Against | the Old Regime in New Disguise (Cable By Inprecorr) ' PARIS, April 17.—The Communist |Party of France sent a message of | gretings to the Communist Party of ; Spain. The message points out that | King Alfonso has been overthrown | but that capitalist exploitation re- | mains, The masses must struggle for | a workers’ and peasants’. republic un- der the leadership of the Communist | Party. . Pravda On the Revolution NEW YORK—Cable reports from { | Madrid state that the provisional gov- | ernment is working frantically to dis- pel the revolutionary temper of the | masses so that it can proceed with | | defeating the aims of the revolution. | | Jules Sauerwein, correspondent of Le | ‘GREET GORKI ON 63RD BIRTHDAY |Letters Pour In From Factories | MOSCOW.— Maxim Gorki’s 63rd birthday has aroused many expres- sions of enthusiastic recognition among the workers of the whole So- | viet Union. ‘The press published numerous ap- peals, letters, and greteings, coming |from every part of the Soviet Union to congratulate Maxxim Gorki. The | workers of the great factories join in messages of appreciation and en- couragement. The Pravda publishes @ number of articles by leading Party jcomrades, including Pieck, Cachin, and Yaroslavsky, devoted to the revo- lutionary work of the great writer. One of these “Pravda” articles em- phasizes the significance of the en- thusiasm wtih which Maxim Gorki's birthday has been celebrated all over the country. It points out the many meetings held in the factories, col- lectives, and high schols, at which the workersand students have dem- onstrated the extent of their sym- pathy with their friend, Maxim Gorki. This upsurge of greetings to Gorki is the enthusiastic upsurge of the millions working for the advance of | socialist construction, is the utterance |of the masses who are willing and |ready to overcome all the obstacles lying ni the path of the building up of socialism. * 8 | Matin, Paris, in an niterview with President Zamora of Spain states that Zamora is working overtime to di: sipate the revolutionary force of the masses, A leading editorial in Pravda, Mos- cow, comments on. the downfall of Alfonso. According to Walter Du- ranty, N. Y. Times correspondent in Moscow, “Particular emphasis is put on the words of Gustave Herve, ‘It is not so far as they think from Madrid to Moscow.’” Peasants Are Serfs Pravda points out that 76 per cen’ of the Spanish peasants own bare! 7.5 per cent of the land, which is concentrated in the hands of the rich proprietors, as was the case in Ru: Sia. There are 3,000,000 peasants er tirely without land in Spain. The conditions of both the working and Peasan’ masses has been frightful as @ result of the world economic crisis. Socialists Betray Pravda goes on to say that the republican and socialists are doing all they can to prevent the workers and peasants from seizing the land from the big feudal landowners and transforming the revolution into a real overthrow of the old regime Spanish capitalism, says Pravda, is using the Spanish socialists as did German capitalism after the over- throw of the Kaiser—that is, by the socialists becoming the fascists and murderers of the revolutionary wrok- ers. Pravda goes on to state: “The masses are beginning to un- derstand that only a popular revo- lution destroying all the rottenness of middle individualism can give land to the peasants, food te the workers and fredom to the toiling masses.” the editorial continues: “The Comunist Party alone can organize and direct the ass struggle against the old regime in the new republican guise.” War Danger Increased Tzvestia, another Soviet organ, shows the intensiied war danger as the result of revolutionary outbreak in Spain. With the growth of world armaments the danger of war now is much greater than in 1914 and the Spanish uprising, with the attempts of the republicans and socialists to keep back the masses, with their ma- neuverings with the various imperial- ist powers may easily provoke a new imperialist war. the preparations for May First. Up framed in Scottsboro. | mits and referred the committee that Rochester Young Communist League will organ- ize all Negro and white young work- | ers against rotten capitalist system of | which you are part. We demand im- | mediate release of the nine. | “Younz Communist League of Ro-| chester.” | Throughout the country protest | meetings are being arranged by the| League of Struggle for Negro Rights, | the International Labor Defense, and Scores of other class struggle organi- zations. Smash Frame-up! May Ist. Workers attending these meetings are being urged to raise the demand | for protest in their organizations and | to smash through the resistance of the bureaucrats and reformists to this demand. | Workers! Smash the courtroom lynching of nine Negro youngsters in Alabama! Rally to their defense! Send protest telegrams, hold protest meetings! Mobilize the masses for | the May Day demonstrations and struggle against the boss system of | lynch law, starvation, wage cuts, per- | secution of Negro and foreign born, frame up and jailing of militant workers, and preparations for war on the first workers’ republic, the Soviet | Union, | Demand Immediate Release! These boys are innocent. Demand their unconditional release! Demand immediate cash relief for starving farmers and unemployed eee and whites equal- ly Down with peonage, Jim-Crowism and persecution of the Negro people! For full equality! Negroes can never get “justice” in the courts of the white capitalists and Jandlords! Demand the right of self-determin- ation for the Negro people—the right to a Negro State in the Black Belt! National independence of Africa and the West Indies! NITGED AIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION PLAOE OPEN | ‘HE ENTIRE YEAR Bea ‘1 Rooms Heated Mot ‘nly Equiped Sport an Cultural Activity Proletar.in Atmosphere 517A WEER CAME SITGEDAIGEL, BEACON N.Y PHONE 131 VACATION? — Beaviltel Mountain | Views, quiet restiny piace, gocd foud, a8hO0 + Avanta Farm, Ulster Demonstrate to the time of this writing (April 12) | edition by enclosing in old copies Hunger March Attacked in Columbia. | Park, New York. came to see him to the city hall. The | matter was taken up with the mayor's secretary, another conference was held with the police commissioner. This time the police commissioned came out quite openly against grant- ing @ permit for the Grand Circus Park, instead he offered Cass Park, which is out of the way. He stated | quite openly that the businessmen around Grand Circus Park object to Communist demonstrations in the | park, and his duty is, of course, to please the businessmen and keep the workers out of the park. His offer was turned down, the committee told him that the demon- stration would be held in the Grand no permit has been granted for the demonstration. With their tactics of withholding a permit, the authorities instead of hampering, are actually helping to spur on the preparations for a huge proletarian demonstra- tion on May First. Preparations for the demonstration are as originally planned, to proceed with a march from E. Ferry and Russell at 12.30, marching through the most proletar- jan district into the grand Circus Park, In the evening on May First, a con- cert in the Danceland Auditorium will be held with the participation af the Workers’ Choruses. —-Concert at Snorte Cink, in conjunction Tonight given for the Daily Worker | BRONX WORKE('S CENTER 569 PROSPECT AVE!,UE—8:30 P. M. ADMISSION / Excellent program is being given by the W. 1. R., Novy Mir Club, Spartacus Piano, Violin Solos, Singing, Athletics AUSPICES:-—Bronx “Dally Worker Circulation Drive Bureau” and Ball— the / 35 CENTS with all Bronx organizations { in the May Day edition of the D. than paying for additional Air mail greetings from points Rush May Day Greetings Organizations, units, individuals rush your greetings for appearance can, $1, $5, $10, $25 etc. Actual space will be accorded so that most of the money received will remain to aid the DAILY WORKER rather DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13TH STRELT, NEW YORK City AILY WORKER. 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