The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1931, Page 3

WORKERS CONTINUE PROTESTS DATLY WORKER. AGAINST VICIOUS LYNCH VERDICT N Y United May Day Conference, Pittsburgh and Chicago Mass Meetings Join Demands for New Trial-of Negro Youths Nine days from the May Day dem- anstrations against starvation and boss terror and for unemployment relief and insurante sees increasing determination on ‘the part of the working “elass to émash the vicious lynch verdict rendered against nine Negro youngsters by the Scottsboro, Alabama, boss court. < Monday night in New York City, thé New ‘York United Front Confer- ence, with:727 delegates present rep- resenting 101 working-class organiza- tions vigerously condemned the frame-up and conviction of these innocent youths, eight of whom are sentenced to die in the electric chair on July 10. The conference thunder- ously cheered the slogan THEY SHALL NOT DIE, and unanimously adopted a telegram of protest to be sent to Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama, at Montgomery, Ala., and @ resolution condemning the frame- up and “trial.” The resolution de- clared in part: “We New York workers demand unconditional, immediate release of Scottsboro nine. Legal lynching per- petrated by your court is part of whole system of Southern ruling class of lynching, discrimination and most fearful exxploitation of white and Negro workers. “We hold you, your courts and of- ficials of Alabama directly respon- sible for attempted legal murder. We call upon white and Negro workers everywhere to organize and rally their forces and demand that the nine Scottsboro victims shall not die.” In ‘Pittsburgh, a mass meeting to send off the Hunger Marchers to Harrisburg denounced the lynch ver- dict and unanimously adopted a resolution, a copy of which was sent to Governor Miller of Alabama, de- manding the immediate release of the nine frame-up victims and a new trial with a jury of workers, half negroes. The meeting denounced the open co-operation with the southern boss lynchers by the Pittsburgh Courier and the rest of the Negro reformist press. A report was made at the meeting of a conference with Editor Vann of the Courier, in which he stated that he would have to have more facts before he could believe that the boys were the victims of a frame-up. It was also reported that Rey. Payne of the Bethel A. M. E.| Church, had refused to allow a} speaker from the League of Struggle | for Negro Rights to present the facts | of the case before a meeting of his| Christian Endeavor Society. This re- fusal was made in face of the fact | that the members of the society have | previously heard and approved of the program of the L. S. N. R. in- fighting | to save these innocent boys from the electric chair. | Another resolution denouncing the | lynch verdict and demanding the re- | Tease of the youths was passel at/| an Icor mass meeting Sunday night | in Pittsburgh. | Mass meetings of Negro and white workers, held within the past two| days in the following cities, also joined in the denunciation of the lynch verdict and demanded a new trial for the Scottsboro victims: Sioux City, Iowa; Negaumee, Mich.; St. Louis, Mo.; Ecoarse, Mich.; Al- bany, N. Y. Most of the meetings | were under the joint auspices of the | ILD. and the L.S.N.R. At a meeting in Chicago Friday night, under the auspices of the L.S. N. R., the police “red” squad, tried | to terrorize the workers in order to| prevent their protest against the | Scottsboro lynch verdict. | A protest mass meeting has been called under the joint auspices of the I. L. D. and L. S. N. R. for tonight (Wednesday) at the Pythian Temple, | 2008 Wylie Ave, Room 5, when/ speakers will outline the steps taken for the defense, and expose the! treachery of the Negro reformists | who are openly aiding the southern | boss lynchers in their attacks on the Negro masses. In Chicago, a mass meeting has been called for tonight, at Forum Hall, 322 E. 43d St., to mobilize the white and Negro workers to the de- fense of the nine Scottsboro victiMs | and for a gigantic May Day protest | demonstration against the whole boss | system of starvation, wage cuts, lynch and deportation terror, war preparations. Show Up Hoover Role in War Against (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) answers the armed struggle for in- dependence with a promise of “a swift end of Sandino and his bandits.” This means open war against the heroic workers and peasants of Nic- aragua who are now more than ever determined to carry to a successful end their struggle for liberation. The pre ents in Nicaragua point tow... a new healthy turn of the oppressed people in their fight for national Uberation and against imperialist exploitation. The wage workers of the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company and the lumber and railroad workers of Puerto Cabe- zas and the surrounding district, driven by starvation to which they are subjected under the miltary rule of the National Guard and the Ameri- can marines, have decided to join in the struggle against their imper- Jalist oppressors. The system of peonage kept by the imperialst fruit companies is throwing the agricul- tural workers into such deep misery that it is no more an accident that in Honduras also the Indiian peons. are taking up arms against the exploi- tation of the United Fruit Co. While Mr. Stimson establishes a “new” policy for the “gradual with- drawal” of marines from Nicaragua and “non-interference” in the coun- try, battleships and war materials are being rushed to Puerto Cabezas and Bluefields in an attempt to crush the revolutionary movement of thé Nic- ararguan people. At the same time a war atmosphere is being created in the bight States against the “hor- rors of the Sandinista .” ‘The present upsiirge of the Nicarag- uan,masses in an armed struggle ex- tending itself into a wider ares. than heretofore-can’ be eéxplainéd by the deepening of the econoniic crisis in the country and by the further pen- etration of the United States fipere ialists. Reports From Many Cities Show Large May 1 Meets (CONTINUED EROM PAGE ONE) pat eaten ht (1) Workers Center, Lagrange and Monroe. St.; (2) Stricher Sts.; (3) Second and Euclid Sts.; (4) Junction and Woodland Ave.; (5) Vance and Division Sts.; (6) River Side Park Monument. An indoor May Day celebration will be hedi in the evening at the Rot Davis Building. : 6 6 Montana Workers Get Ready BUTTE, Mont.—Open air meetings are held every day in preparation. for May Day. On May Day there will be a parade through the main business district and then an open air dem- Nicaraguan People. In the face of this it is the duty of every anti-imperialist to extend full support in every possible way to all imperialist forces in Nicaragua now fighting with arms. All support Should be given to the Army of Liber- ation under Sandino, And above all support must go to the workers of Puerta Cabezas who are and will be real allies of the Nicaraguan peas- ants. in the anti-imperialist struggle for the liberation of the country. While Sandino and the Army of Liberation carry on the fight for na- tional liberation, it is our duty to Support them inspite of Sandino’s past vacillations and his lack of a clear anti-imperialist program. We must denounce his representative Dr. Zepeda who again and again pro- Pose peace between Sandino and American imperialism. And we must demand of Sandino a categoric an- swer as to his representative's de- Clarations. In fact the last analysis we of the Anti-Imperialist League re- iterate our belief that the workers and peasants will take the leadership in the struggle now going on in Nic- aragua as they are the only force capable of fighting till the bitter end for national liberation. The Anti-Imperialist League of the United States calls upon all its affil- jated organizations to support actively the present struggle in Nicaragua in the form of mass protest meetings against American marines’ interven- tion. In every city in the United States we must organize united front committees which are to initiate a campaign of material support for the anti-imperialist forces in Nicaragua. Demand Hands off Nicaragua! Down with the murderous attacks of the Hoover Stimson government against the Nicaraguan people! Long live the struggle of the Army of Liberation! Long live the struggle of the work- ers of Puerta Cabezas! ~—Anti-Imperialist League of U. S. the May Day demonstration, ag seme . * Demonstrate in Stockton, Calif. STOCKTON, Calif.—Workers here are called to rally at Washington Park at 12 noon May Day to partici- pate in the May Day celebration. a 4s being intensified here every i Plan May Day in St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Twenty warking class organizations, including one A. F. of L. local’participated in the May Day united front conference here, A large representative committee was elected to carry through the final Preparations for the largest demon- strations the workers in St. Louis have ever held on May Day. + 8 NEW HAVEN, Oonn.—Fourteen Na To the ‘left, shacks in which the Russian miners had to live in the time of the Czar, and of the capitalist Kerensky government. the workers’ revolution, the miners no longer havé to support a crop of rich idle owners ahd have had built with the product of their labor the comfortable, light clean residences to the right. Barn-Like Structures U S Miners Live In American Miners Fenced Out of Their Homes In these barren buildings, the miners’ families had to double up, four or five families to a house. They could not afford more room on the few days’ work a week they got—or no work at all sometimes. This is the way U. S. miners live; compare it with the Soviet Union miners’ houses. r eas Note the resemblance of these a cm houses in which American miners live to the huts used by the Russian miners before the revolution. And | even out of these poor homes, the company barred the miners who struck, and built a high board fence to keep them out. | MACDONALD TON. Y. Red Builders In GREET ALFONSO Provisional Gov’t Is Preparing Suppression The provisional government of Spain is consolidating its forces and trying to dispel the ‘revélutionary sentiment of thé masses so it ‘can preserve the feudal property rights of the big landowners and the Cath- olic church. The New York Times reports that “perfect, order prevailed, not only in the capital but through- out Spain on the first Sunday after the establishment of the republic.” King Alfonso is reported to be leaving for London where he will be greeted by the British Labor Govern- ment. The French police have warned him that his life is in “dan- ger” in Paris. meetings have been arranged for May Day in this district. demonstration will take Central Green 12 noon. There will be a parade to 12 Temple St., after the demonstration. In the evening there will be a meetinf at Labor Ly- ceum, 38 Howe St., 8 p.m. Other meetings in the district will be held as follows: HARTFORD.—Sorner Capital and Lawrence Sts., at 12 noon. Evening meeting, Lyric Hall, 593 Park St., 7.30 p.m. BRIDGEPORT. — Washington Park, 2 p. m. (line of march not yet set). Hall meeting after demonstration. WATERBURY.—Soldiers and Sailors Monument, 10 a.m. March to hall at 12 noon. NEW BRITAIN.—Winter, Hartford Sts., 4 p. m. SPRINGFIELD.—In Star and 8 p. m., 841 Dwight St., Victory Hall. SO. NORWALK.—North Main and Ann Sts., 5 p.m. Evening meeting, 7.30 p. m. at 12S. Main St. DANBURY.—Cornor White and Ives Sts., 6.30 p.m, Evening meeting, 32 White St., 8 p. m. STAMFORD.—At 5.30 p. m. in fac- tory district. Evening meetinf 8 p.m, The Following Indoor Meetings Will Be Held NORWICH.—Hiberian Hall, 99 Main St., 7 p.m. PORTCHESTER.—Finnish Workers Club, 42 N. Water St., 7.30 p. m. TORRINGTON.—Star Hall, Franklin St., 7 p.m. ‘WESTERLY.—Finnish Workers Hall, May 2nd, 7.30 p, m. PLAINFIELD.—Cooperative Hall, 7 Pp. m,, May 2nd. * 11 PROVIDENCE, R. I—Thousands of leaflets have been issued calling the workers to the May Day demon- stration here. ‘The leaflet, in part, reads: “We call upon all workers in Prov- idence and vicinity to join together in mass demonstration of working class solidarity on May Day. All out to Memorial Square (behind the Central Post Office) at 1 p.m, Down tools in the shops, mills and factories, and come to the May Day rally!’ In the evening at 8 p. m. there will be an indoor meeting at 1755 West- minister St. For full political and social rights and self-determination for Negroes! Against imperialist wart SR dl : a dal. The Nfw Haven | place at} front of Post) Office, 2 p. m. Evening meeting |e" John, Wels, Quire tackle Read- | 1 | There’s not much time left for those individual greetings (25 cents) from workers, Party members, sym- pathizers and their friends, to be pushed into the Daily Worker for May Day! Only a few days, too, for collective greetings from units, sec- tions, ‘districts ‘and larger ads from fraternal ‘ofganizations, trade unions, workers’ clubs! Tack a generous sum to your greeting and shoot it in by air mail to the Daily in time for May Day distribution of the four editions: Pacific Coast, April 24; Midwest, April 27; Eastern, April 29; New York City and Northern New Jersey, April 30. Tell workers in your shops, your neighborhood, your mass organiza- | tion what the Daily Worker is doing to mobilize thousands of workers to | Down Tools and Demonstrate May 1, and ask them to greet the Daily Worker! Red Hot News From Red Builders, N. ¥. Red Builders smash previous records with sale of 8,448 last week! Prize-winning, reddest Red Builders |Comrades reporting these should not | who helped push figures up, are: Barnes, 600; Diamond, 565; Field- berg, 358; Ruderman, 328; Baldwin 324; Risco, 300; Pederson, 290; Mar- ino, 251; Stein, 250; Rees, 250; ratti, 235; Henry Lipkin (Bronx), 222; Al Lipkin, 205; Holowchuck, 181; Wint, 158; Weinryt, 158; Merchant, 152. Seven recruits joined at last Jamboree. Minneapolis whips 5 sell- ers into shape, organizes News Club. “First task is to sell all the Dailies piling up,” writes W. B., section or- ganizer. “Send cards and D. W. aprons to Comrade King, secretary.” Reading, Pa., reports slight slump, selling only 1,200 copies last week, when some red builders got jobs. Feno, Schultz, Taylor, Plantus, Wes- ing’s bundle of 300 a day, 375 Thurs- day special page, sell over 30, en- titling them to D. W. aprons. Frank Quire, secretary, claims original Ryan Walker cartoon for selling 500 copies. By return mail, Frank! Dayton, Ohio, plans issuing mimeographed leaflet to unemployed to form Red News Club, writes Mary Jacobs. Leaf- let should emphasize Daily Worker program for employed fighting with unemployed, pointing out vital work sellers,carry on in spreading the rev- olutionary press. Further north, Toledo Builders report lively meeting, where “members - brought. up. inter- esting points on’ how to boost: the R. B. N, C."" Bring these points out in open for broadcasting, Toledo. “Red Cartoons go to Comrades Fisher, Harrington, McFarland and a D. W. apron to Fisher, who sells 65 a day,” writes Ed Martin, tem- porary secfetary. Contemptuous aloofness’ and a lofty superiority toward carrying on Daily Worker activity prevails among the Party members in Man- ville; R. I. According to Nick Wor- zella, Seemingly the only circulator of the Party press, the “Party members want only big names, say they are busy with ‘bigger things,’ The Daily and_ other literature jis too small to bother with. They have been working to organize the Trade Union Unity League, for last six years, but no concrete action taken to push the Daily.” Same situation is revealed, to some extent, in Wheeling, W. Va., where once 35 workers read the Datiy Worker, now only 5. “Seems impos- sible to get help from Party mem- Highest Sale, 8,448 N. ¥. PRIZE WINNER Jack Baldwin, six weeks the N. Y, Red Builders’ Club. For- merly linseed oil pressman, metal | polisher, rubber worker, service- man, Now Daily Worker seller, hits 50 a day, | bers to get Daily going. Take no | interest at all,” writes H. A, who | consequently orders bundle stopped. | give up effort in behalf of Daily. | But it is up to the District to insist upon Party membership ac- | tiviey supporting drive, filling as- signments for mornings, evening house to house canvassing with sample copies first, followed by s ond visit for subs or deliveri District Bureau and Party mem- bership must wipe out such flag- rant indifferenc to one of the most principal campaigns of the Party at present, and chief mobilization method for May 1 demonstrations! May 1 Demonstrations Start Hunger Marches (CONTINUED FROM ¥ GE ONE) through Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Hunt- ington, Marion, Muncie, Anderson, and reaches Indianapolis, the state capital, in the evening, and they demonstrate with the Indianapolis workers before the state house at 4 p. m. on May Fourth. (eta ans Indianapolis Demonstration, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 22.— “Starvation stalks the state,” the ‘Trade Union Unity League points out in leaflets calling all workers to wel- come the hunger marchers as they pass through the various towns, and to back up the demands to be pre- sented to Governor Leslie on May 4, when the marchers lead a great mass demonstration in front of the state house at 4 p.m. on May 4. Relief and Insurance. The demands are: 1, State appropriation of enough money so that the Counties can pay $25 a month cash to every un- employed worker, without discrimi- nation. More for large families. 2. Counties pay rent, gas, light, water, coal, clothes and medical care for the unemployed. Also hot lunches, milk, books and clothing for the children of the unemployed in the schools. 3. No eviction of workers who can't pay rent. No foreclosures on farms, houses, cars, furniture or any other belongings. ee 4. No discrimination against for-. eign-born or Negro workers. 5. $15 @ week unemployment in-, factory sales; street corner sales, | In Indiana and Ohio 2 NEGRO BOYS | per aT aS | Victims of Court Room | Lynching WINDSOR, Mo., \"bosst | April+'22—Local S and their hehchmen aré pre- paring to lynch Uhel Richatdsofi'and | Emmett Gallie, two young Negro vic- tims of a court room ly: who are under sentence of de . The two youths were tried last January in a tense lynch atmosphere | with a mob of 2,000 surrounding the court house. Mg of the mob carried ropes. The attorney of the boys, | Frederick Wessner of Sedalia, was re- | | fused access to, his clients until 20] | minutes before the trial started. Here, as in Scottsboro, the boss court was | | in full co-opers tion with the lynchers and the verdict was simply a lynch- j ing in another form The two youths were accused on| | the flimsiest evidence, of the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Neiman, an elderly | widow. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has | sent a “warning” to the same State officials who carried through the le- gal lynching, that a plot exists to stage a mob lynching. with the two| | youths as victims. As in the Scotts- | boro case, the NAACP has no ob; -tions to a legal or court room lynch- ing, but is asking the boss lynchers | of this Missouri town to please pre- vent a mob lynching. Fight tynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born, Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born. surance for every unemployed worker, $3 additional for each de- | pendent. The money to be raised by a special tax on all individuals and corporations having an income of over $5,000 a year. Indiana is a big steel center, and the T.U.U.L. reminds the starving, unemployed, or (if they still have | jobs), speeded and wage-cut workers |in the steel mills that the U. S. Steel Corporation made $104,000,000- last year. More thousands of workers in In- diana are being fired every week. Wage cuts and part time work are common. City relief for the unem-| ployed is being cut off in one place | after another, Charity measures in- tended to keep the jobless alive and quieted for a few months are coming to an end. Banks are failing every- where, and the workers lose their life savings. Correct Dangerous Bladder Cata rrh eee Burning passages, painful elimina- tion, night rising may be the warn- ings of a serious sickness which may affect your entire health. Take steps at once. GetSantal Midy from your draggist. For half a century, it has | been prescribed by doctors through- | out the world for rapid relief, t P: Pre. | press IN SOVIET a ees MINERS WAGES RISING UNION AS THEY FALL IN U.S. A. Fine Miserable Company New Homes Being Built Contrast With Shacks in America Speed-Up in American Mines, Unemployment, Long Hours- On / Associated talist institu- | tion) ca the Soviet | kers were increased by ap- ly 6 per cent, that no un- at all e the same that 11,000 triking American miner the m but ege of to n right The Philad Co. in ea: ad proposed a pt Coal » down some more of leave the men who| in mir ick for the c that district alize the ide one miner part of work, le $b or instead ided, for e di work of two Tens «of the * Unit are have had“no income for even for periods of one mon or two years As for y word miners of t Wilkes-Be wage increases! wa: On that received that 2,700 ton Coal Co., near . had been out of in two: collieries of r for hat 1,600 miners of another ry of that had worked only 19 days d that the company pro- >=cuts fr r them. 60 Per Cent Cuts. Wages of Ame n miners have fall 0 to 60 per cent on the | the last two years. | of them get no wages at all. | Even of the cut wages, most of them | get an age of one to three days’ | a week | 1 th pesed over $5 a day f on off ave! goes an increase in the | nited States of gang labor on ma- | chines, under a furious speed-up, of | ling weights of coal, of | in the amount of labor| h has to be done without any | all. strike of 20,000 employed by the Glen Alden | . has just been betrayed by | the strike tated by the. addition of an extra hour per day of unpaid la- bor to the task of some of the work- ers in one of that company’s mines. in the Coal C the United Mine Workers was pre Which Is “Forced?” And what are conditions like in| the Soviet Union, which Hamilton | Fish and all the capitalist press | scribblers call a country of “forced labor,” “underpaid labor with which free American labor pete,” etc.? c Guenther, coal. mining engi- | nies just back from some time in| the Soviet Union, made a speech at the Co-operative Club in the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, redently. He said: “Great strides have been made to- ward completing the Five Year Plan. The Russian people have been well paid for the efforts and sacrifices they have made, Thatched roof cot- tages are being replaced by modern ck and tile dwellings. Club houses | haye been constructedsin every com- | munity. Their mining’ villages would | do credit to this country. The living conditions are better than ever be- fore in Russian history.” cannot com- | Six-Hour Day. From other observers it develops “Labor (see and Coal,” by Ann | countr, ~All Unknown Now in Russia Rochester, last chapter): In the Soviet Union boys under 18 are not allowed to work under- und. Mine workers spend no more than six hours underground and their actual working time at the face is limited to 5 hours a day, Every un- derground worker has a four-week vacation with full pay, and in case the mine is shut down by an accident n irregularity the worker's lost, is covered by Unemployment ‘ance. vi time Ins The mine worker has freedom to criticize his mine manager and his government. The rank and file use this freedom with vigor and intelli- gence. A coal miner gets his job through the Public Labor Exchange. After a brief trial period he is taken on as a permanent worker who cannot be discharged without due course; al- though he is free to leave his job and seek another if he desires. The miner, like other Russian workers, is free from the three great haunting dreads of the working class under capitalism, for the Soviet Union has a complete system of So- cial Insurance maintained by con- tributions from the industries and providing for old age, sickness or 'y and possible unemployment. ‘The miner is free to enjoy labor- saving machinery. Rationalization in capitalist countries brings speed- up, more intense exploitation and mass unemployment. In the Soviet Union, where industries function in the interest of the working class, tionalization” is shortening the hours of work and raising the level of life for all the workers, Miners work six hours a day un- derground and the 6 hours are reck- oned from bank to bank, including the traveling time from the mine mouth to the face of the coal and back again to the surface. The hours are even shorter if the work is very difficult or if the place is wet, If a mine worker is sick his hos- pital charge is free and he receives 75 per cent of his regular pay if he is married and 50 per cent if he is single. Housing is free for workers in the Soviet coal fields. All light- ing and heating services are free. Work clothes, boots, tools and lights are supplied to the workers by the industry. Restaurants, clubs and | schools are also supported by the administration. The activities are only managed by the workers. Cul- tural activity has increased 54 times as much as in 1923, Wages are higher than any other in the world, including in- surance, housing and work clothes. A systematic increase of wages has been devised in the Five Year Plan. During 1929-1930 coal mine wages rose by 12.5 per cent and @ further increase of 15 per cent is planned for 1930-1931. Improved housing is also raising the miners’ standard of living. Two hundred and fifty mil- lion roubles has been spent for addi- tional dwellings, modern dwellings of a substantial and convenient type. All the housing construction is man- aged by the workers through labor unions. The number of employees has doubled in the last few years and is rapidly growing. Use your Red Shock Troop List every day on your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE TRADE UNION: UNITY LEAGUE RATES: one vear ® #150" EIGHT MONTHS. loo SPECIALRATE 4 MONTS 50? end subs and money to T.U.U.L, 16 w.21 st. NO Namie Address City .... Kind of work you do State