The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1931, Page 3

” 1 Ww DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1931 ~ First May Day Demonstration Was General Stike in U.S.A. By VERN 8MITH The demands of May First, partic- ularly as they center around the shorter work day, and the events which caused that particular date to be selected by an International Work- ers Congress in Paris, in 1889 to call for international demonstrations on May Day, ere of American origin. Though the AFL refuses to recog- nise the First of May as Internation- al Labor Day, and celebrates the first Monday in September instead, and more than. that, unites with the.cap- italist government to try and turn May. First. into ca capitalist social workers’ Roliday called “Child Wel- fareDay,” the AFL itself had some- thifig: to do with the events that made that day International Labor Dar When the APL was just getting started, and seemed to be losing out to another organisation that has since died, the AFL placed itself at the-head of the eight-hour day move- ment by hinting ina resolution that there should be a general strike for this demand on May 1, 1886, The workers took the AFL up on the matter, end pulled off a strike of ueariy half a miilion workers on the ‘date set, Says Trachtenberg, in the pamphlet, “The History of May Day.” Center in Chicago 1 “The strike center was Chicago, where the strike movement was most widespread, but many other cities were involved in the struggle on First. New York, Baltimore, Wash- ington, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, 8t. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and many other cities made a good showing in the walkout. The characteristic feature of the sticke movement was that the unskilled and unorganized workers were drawn into the struggle, and that sympathetic strikes were quite prevalent during that period. A rebellious spirit was abroad in the land, and bourgeois historians speak of the “social war” and “hatred for capital” which was manifested dur- ing these strikes, and of the enthu- siasm of the rank and file which pervaded the movement. It is estim- ated that about half of the number Ambridge Pipe Ambridge, Pa. Comrade Editor: In a few lines I would like to write about the conditions in my depart- ment, the pipe shop. We have dif- ferent wages, such as 35 cents and 46 cents an hour. Some. of us young workers get only 35 cents an hour while doing a man’s _ job who used to get 46% cents an hour, The boss figures he can pay uS youngsters less so he can throw the men out on the street. The bosses of the National Electric Co. are very clever in making more profit, We work different hours here. Some work 103-4 hours and some work from 6 in the morning to 6 at night. But this is not all. We work- ers are not allowed to sit down even New York City. Daily ‘Worker: A girl applied for work at the Hel- litzer Bros, garment factory at 550 Seventh Ave, The forelady, Mrs. Brown, gave her a job at $20 a week, tiough the union scale is $26. She worked at different things, but on pay day she was given only $15. Conditions in this factory are very bad; the girls are sped up, abused, and are not allowed to talk to each sther. It is supposed to be a union Landlord Fails to E (By a Worker Correspondent.) New York City. To the Daily Worker: As I was out of work for practi- cally seven. months and had become behind in my rent, the landlord had tiven me @ dispossess in November. { went to the relief agency at the Journal building, to the police sta- tion, but they didn’t help me, I was rent to a Catholic organization, I gave them a labor debt of $30.50 chat a boss had beat me out of and which -the- Catholic man said he ould coliect. But he didn’t collect it, so I called on the Unemployed Coun- q They went, to court with me and aresented a petition that we be al- ‘owed to remain in the house until March, When my trade picks up, signed by everyone in th6 house. After this ~ ‘us ten jays more and then another five days o stay in the house. _ € On the day. we. were to be evicted he Une yed. Council demon- trated im Pront of the house and | of workers who struck on May First |, were successful, and where they did not secure the 8-hour day, they suc- | ceeded in appreciably reducing the hours of labor. “The May First strike was most aggressive in Chicago, which was at that time the center of a militant Left-wing labor movement. Although insufficiently clear politically on a number of problems of the labor movement, it was nevertheless a fighting movement, always ready to call the workers to action, develop their fighting spirit and set as their goal not only the immediate im- provement of their living and work- ing conditions, but the abolition of the capitalist system as well. “With the aid of the revolutionary labor groups the strike in Chicago as- sumed the largest proportions. An 8-hour association was formed long in advance of the strike to prepare for it, The Central Labor Union, composed of the Left-wing labor | unions, gave full support to the 8- hour association, which was a united front organization, including the unjons affiliated to the Federation, the K. of L., and the socialist labor party. On the Sunday before May First the Central Labor Union or- ; ganized a mobilization demonstration which was attended by 25,000 “On May First Chicago witne ® great outpouring of workers, laid down tools to the call of the organized Iabor movement of the city. It was the most effective dem- onstration of class solidarity yet ex- perienced by the labor movement it- self. The importance at that time of the demand--the 8-hour day— strike gave the moveme: political meaning. This significance was deepened by the developments of the next few days. The 8-hour move- ment, culminating in the strike on May First, 1886, forms by itself a glorious chapter in the fighting hi: tory of the American working class. million workers started by a one-day and the extent and character of the} significant | Carry on the struggle these half | ‘AMBRIDGE FIRES ‘WORKERS; REFUSE “BONUS” GRAFT Lose Half ‘Wages; Do 8-Hr Work in Five Ambridge, Pa.. Daily Worker: ‘The American Bridge Co., a sub- sidiary of the U. S. Steel Corpora- tion, located in Ambridge, is one of the most crooked organizations ex- isting today, For the last 8 months we have been forced to work only 5 hours a day, not for resting, but be- cause they take away a half day's wages and the bonus, Besides this, we are forced to do 8 hours’ work in five as a result, which is a slave- driving, brutal way of treating any worker, The so-called bonus system is nothing more than another form of the worst kind of speed-up. A worker thinks that he is going to make a few collars extra, but when you get your pay you don’t find the promised increase. However, if you don't make the so-called bonus, you are fired and another man takes your place. The superintendent of the mill gives orders that no one is to put down his tcols on the com- pany’s time, but that he will give the notice on his own time. He fired those who tried to do ti, | ‘The workers of the American Bridge Co. and the workers of Am- bridge are urged to join the Metal | Workers’ Industrial League, which fights against these slave-driving tactics. —J. R. ‘YOUNG WORKER IN Big MAY 1 ISSUE | | | | Features for the First Workers Get 35c An Hour for Two Men Job AFL Allows Garment Factory to Break Wage Scale strike on May First this year, and demonstrate against capitalism—for Unemployment Insurance! Anniversary Number May Day, 1931, marks the first anniversary of the Young Worker, the official organ of the Young Com- munist League, as a weekly, Be- | Worker has actually become a paper for a minute. If we do and get} of struggle for the working youth, caught we are fired immediately. We | the bosses’ government has selected must keep on working and not think it as one of the papers on which of speels, | to begin its campaign of terror, As Our boss always yells out at us| a result the Young Worker has been “Hurry up” and all the time he is | banned from second class mail. In standing by our machine holding his | spite of the added difficulties of watch and timing us to see if we| having to send the paper through are working fast enough to suit him. | first class mail, which adds to the As a result there are plenty of ac- | financial burden, the Young Worker cidents like chopped up fingers, cut | is still going strong because of the hands and often fingerless hands, | Support that the workers have given This is what we workers get for | it since the ban, slaving to make a living. ‘We only work three days in a week. I guess our factory is just as bad off | as other factories are. | Workers, let’s not wait for the last | minute, but prepare ourselves to fight | these rotten conditions by joining the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. —¥F. H. ‘The anniversary May Day issue of the Young Worker will be a special 16-page edition, sparkling with in- teresting articles of the life of the working youth, Every article in this issue will be a feature article, every | picture and drawing will be original and taken especially to make this the best issue the Young Worker has | ever put out. William Gropper, world | famous artist, writes for us “May Day | in the Soviet Union.” ‘Forty-Five | Years of May Day,” by Mac Weiss, | tells the story of May Day, illustrated | with actual photos of the leaflet pat | out by the Chicago workers afterthe ; Haymarket massacre. We are also shop, but when girls complain to the union about conditions they are told that the union can do nothing for them, The bosses discriminate against | colored and foreign-born workers. | workers. One Italian girl, a cutter, is paid | first time. with the story of the murder of the These are printed for the Walter Trumbull con- cause of the fact that the Young} producing a capitalist paper of 1886 | only $12 a week, although the union scale is $20. These are the tactics in all the shops where the A. F. of L. union is supposed to do something for the workers. Workers—join the fighting T. U. U. L.!| —A Worker. Vict Jobless Worker stopped the eviction. The same morn- waiting for me at the police station. The relief man told me to use it for my rent, but I spent it for food for my family. ‘The next day © messenger from the Catholic organization came to me, and said it appeared bad for me, for the meeting made it look as if I might be a Communist. He said he would pay one month’s rent for me, but told. me to have nothing to do with the Communists. The landlord tried several times to get us to move into a smaller house, but we refused to move into some dog shanty. The next morn- ing he was forced to give me a job in order that I could pay rent. “The Catholic organization again called on me and tried to get me to move out, so the landlord could get me fired off the job and put one of his faithfuls in my place. But we stayed in the house and the landlord was forced to keep me in a job. --H. M. ing I was notified there was a check | | tinues his intensely absorbing article | on the U. S. army. All this for a nickel! Buy your | copy! Rush your order for bundles | to Young Worker, Box 38, Station D., N. Y. C, Special price 2 cents in bundles, “AMNESTY MEET DEFENDS ALA. 9 Denounces Terror Against Workers STAMFORD, April 26—At an am- nesty meeting held Tuesday night at the Workers Center, Stamford, nearly a hundred workers, Negro and white pledged their support to the nine Negro youths about to be legally lynched in Scottsboro, Ala. A tele- gram of protest was despatched to Governor Mille or Alabame, demand- ing the stoppage of this boss murder, and holding him responsible for their lives, Nat Richards, just released from the Hartford County jail, through the intense activities of the ILD and under one year’s probation, was the main speaker. He will also address Last day preparations for monster |May Day demonstrations cannot be effectively organized without the best marshaling force of the working class, the Daily Worker. Last day mobilizations in the shops and fac- tories, and among unemployed work- ers, cannot be successful without the widest distribution of the best or- ganizer of workers’ struggles, the Daily Worker. No rallying of Negro to save the nine Scottsboro Negro youths can be successfully achieved without a broad circulation of the only daily paper which fights against legal lynehings, the Daily Worker. ‘These opportunities for gigantic mass demonstrations yet remain for those districts receiving the Eastern and New York City May Day editions: Dists. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 15,16. There is still time to grder extra bundles of copies for closer contact with masses of workers still in the shops and those unemployed. Still time—but not too much. Wire your orders im- mediately! District, Single Orders. Orders from the large districts are as follows: New York, 60,000; Phila- delphia, 30,000-35,000; Detroit, 15,000; Chicago, 8,000; Buffalo, 8,000. Chi- cago shows poor record. A larger district than Philadelphia, 1t should order 35,000 instead of as small an amount as Buffalo. Individual extra orders, though smaller, indicate action. B. H. of Newberry, Mich. orders 100, as does 8. N. of Iron River, Wis. ‘Thomas E. M. of Wynndell, British Columbia, sends 60 cents for 20 copies “to pass around amongst several people who should like them,” he writes, J. L. G. in Salt RUSH ORDERS FOR TWO MORE MAY DAY SPECIAL EDITIONS and white workers for mass protest | , Lake City sends for 200. The | Menahga Co-operative Society in Menahga, Minn., orders 100, and the Bulgarian Macedonian Work- ers’ Educational Club, who sent us a@ $15 donation, promises an order as soon as the club mects. D. W. Los Angeles Conference. Rose Spector, Los Angeles repre- sentative, sends detailed financial | statement showing illuminating rec- | ord of activities of units, including | subs, renewals, daily sales, loans, lit- | erature. This is valuable check-up for sections, and suggest this method | be more broadly used. Los Angeles section will hold a Daily Worker Conference Friday, May 15, at 120 Winston St., at 8 | p. m., “to discuss ways and means | of strengthening the Daily Worker and placing it in the hands of every English-speaking worker in South- ern California,” popularizing the meeting with ri\imeographed leaflet | to sympathetic organizations and individuals, that bombard the enemy with rey- olutionary literature. | Unlimber your guns, boys. Up and at ’em!” says Salty Dick, N. Y. Red Build- ers, who sells 100 a day. Built good route in Negro and white workers’ neighborhood, and is telling them all to come out together on May | Day! NEW YORK.—With increasing vigor and determination workers throughout the country are thunder- | ing their protests against the hideous frame-up and planned mass murder of nine Negro youths in Alabama and rushing the preparations for tre- mendous May First demonstrations against the Scottsboro lynch verdict and all persecution of Negro and for- eign born workers, against starvation, | wage cuts, growing mass misery, and imperialist preparation for war on | the Soviet’ Union. In New York City, a mass meeting of 700 white and Negro workers on Friday night protested the murder of these’ innocent Negro boys, On Saturday, a parade in Harlem brought out hundreds in protest. we OKLAHOMA CITY, April 26—A mass meeting of white and Negro workers here denounced the bloody intention of the Alabama landlords and capitalists to legally lynch nine innocent Negro children, The meet- ing unanimously adopted a telegram to Gov. B, M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala., demanding a new trial for the youths with a jury of workers, av least half of them Negroes. hae MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 26.— |The following organizations yester- | day wired protest to Gov. Miller: Minnesota District Convention of the Women’s Sections of the Finnish Workers Clubs, with 186 delegates representing 52 organizations. Women's Section of Finnish Work- ers’ Club of Palisades, Minn.; National Conference of the Work- ers’ and Farmers’ Co-operative Al- Hiance, held in Superior, Wisc. A number of mass protest meetings have been arranged by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in co- operation with other organizations. ee a YOUNGSTOWN, 0., April 26.— Two outdoor meetings protested the | Scottsboro legal lynching and sent protest telegrams to the governor of Alabama, Another meeting is being held tonight. These meetings are also preparatory meetings to mobilize the workers in gigantic protest on May First, when we will demonstrate in the streets and on the square of Youngstown against lynching, wage cuts, and for unemployment insur- ance. MADISON, Wis.--A protest meet- ing held under the auspices of the International Labor Defense sent a telegram to the governor of Alabama vigorously protesting the court room lynching of nine innocent Negro boys planned for July 10. eek CLEVELAND, O., April 26.--In mor bilizing the 's behing the de- fense of the nine Scottsboro victims of boss court lynch verdict, the Inter- national Labor Defense and the Workers in Many Organizations, Cities Join Scottsboro Protest: from the Serio mass meeting in Rochester. Niagara Falls had a big protest meeting which also sent a telegram of protest. So did a mass meeting in Endicott, N. Y. Many other organizations, among them Negro organizations, have joined the protest against this outrage. Two mass meetings are being held | in Buffalo on Wednesday, April 29, at Liberty Hall, Jefferson and Bristol | Sts., and in the Ukranian Home, 215 | Military Rd. | A house to house canvas has been | arranged from May 17 to 23, and al | demense conference is being sched- | uled for May 24 in Buffalo. 500 IN WAUKESHA » DEMAND RELIEF \City Council Has to} Listen to Them WAUKESHA, Wisc., April 26—Last Tuesday night, at 7:30 more than 500) unemployed workers presented de-| mands for free food, clothes, free rent |and for unemployment insurance of $15.00 a week for each unemployed worker and $3.00 additional to each dependent. | The demonstration was called by the Unemployed Council of Wauke- sha, which is affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, Wisconsin sec- tion. “This unemployed council was just organized a few weeks ago, with help of Milwaukee workers. When the City Council opened its regular meeting at 7:30 p. m. more than 300 unemployed and employed workers jammed the halls of the City Council, ‘Waukesha has only a population of 17,000, but there are more than 2,000 unemployed. A committee of 15 was present to demand the floor, Brink, from Milwaukee, spoke at Jength on the unemployment situa- tion. Although this town is a strong- hold of the American Legion and other patriotic organizations, the members of the City Council didn’t | dare refuse the floor. The spokesman of the unemployed, after presenting | the City Council with a copy of the demands, pointed out that in Waukesha the little relief of grocer- ies given to the unempioyed was cut! in half on April 1, and that all those | workers getting relief are forced ta| slave for the city at no additional wages. This was branded as nothing mor or less than forced labor. ‘The answer of the City Council was study, sympathy and that’s all. However, the unemployed are or- ganizing fast, Already the Unem-| GERMAN JOBLESS Yankee “Civilizers” Enslave CLASH WITH COPS; Nicaraguan Masses; Fill Jails MANY ARE JAILED BrueningHas Stronger Reactionary Program (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, April 24,— Unemployed fought today with the police outside the Parliament at Wellington. Po- lice clubbed the workers, while the latter stoned the police. A section of the demonstration rushed past gates, others climbed over the wall, attacking the police in the rear. Many were arrested, including a member of the deputation which was to inter-| view the labor minister. ates 36 Seven delegates, elected by British factory workers, left London on the Soviet ship “Kooperativ” yesterday, to p pate in the May Day cele- brations in Moscow, Railwaymen at Nineelms depot of have ended a_ successful Five hundred of them s in South Bertin, against the reaction- ary Bruening government. {Police jclubbed and arrested many women, | | Police] confiscated all Communist! petroit will gather for jmewspapers in Ruhr yesterday, be-| to Grand Cireus Park, jcause of articles dealing with the Hamm _ bloodbath. Weltam Abend reports that the Bruening government has drawn up a sweeping reactionary program with the intention of carrying out the pro- gram with emergency decrees. |The program includes: First, increased du- | ties on foodstuffs and agrarian prod-} ucts, etc.; second, changes in the un-| employment insurance, which extends | the waiting period ten per cent, and| the} How ern American officials in North-, ‘agua are paid $700 a month | to organize the Nicaraguan police | force to terrorize the workers is told in a letter received by the Daily | Worker from Nicaragu: | A Nicaraguan worker, writing to| inform the American workers about | the conditions imposed on Nicaragua | nills owned by Yankee ‘civ- ilizer In the San Antonio mill mo. an 600 workers toil for 30 to 60 cents a day, “The port and customs house of Corinto, which is the most important port on the Pacific Coast of Nicara- gua, is supervised by Americans, The dock workers and longshoremen re- ceive a wage of 25 cents a day. The 15 sugar by the American imperialists, states: y PEALE boss of the docks, who is known as “The police force in the north- | capta these workers of 50 per western part of Nicaragua has been! cent of their wages; that is, the recently reorganized. American of- fioials supervise it. T vise ‘the jails.: These Americans re- | ceive a salary of $700 per month. The Nicaraguan teachers get $15 to $25 & month, s finally receive only 12 cents The letter goes on tell about the jails being filled with peasants. These peasants are accused of being Sandinistas because they are fight- “In Chinandega there are about | ing against the robbery of their land. “May Day Marches Planned in Scores of Cities by United Front May 1 Conferences —_—_ { (CUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Labor Sports Union and other young workers are being called on to gather at this place to prepare for the march | to Ferry Hall, where the workers of the parade | The youth and children will march | with their own banners in the pa- rade, All young workers and work- ers’ children should come out to the Workers Hall on May First, 11.30 a. m. The May First demonstration in Detroit will be used also to prepare for National Youth Day in Youngs- town, Ohio. a tase March in Linden, N. J. on May First, from 15th St. and Wood Ave., to Elizabeth Ave., down Roselle John Porter, New Bedford, Mass., aaleiclay acninee thaicod Ey oy | St to George Ave., and along that starting with 25, now increased to | Yesterday See oe eteriorating | on the evening of May First through- | street to the Workers Center at Fern 50, which “I sold within three blocks | Works conditions. The company! out the District, Bt. and in abovt three hours.” He orders | fited all the strikers, whereupon the | Sica | a Tee sholo stat e it ¥. ilizi 100 extra for May Day. “I hope to! Whole slatf of the 'Nincelms depot Detroit Youth Mobilizing More Ghicage District Dénaehatralions increase to 75 within a week's time. |Sttuck Today the coi y withdrew} DETROIT, Mich.—The young work- it aes The Daily Worker saves me a lot of Completely their objectionable in-| ers in Detroit will gather on May| CHICAGO, Il.—The following are Pee Ate Fah ceatice. ter. welstrlctlons ala vfrelnstaled We Glace ce i ee ae j additional cities where May First speakes for me.” Promises help in | ™issed strikers. | Grandy, corner of Hendrie, 1000 | eneeen aca be held in ‘the | starting Red Buliders’ Club. Yesterday evening there were} 2. ™. The Young Communist L , a aura | “The Red Builders are the guns {spyontancous women’s demonstrations| YOUE Pioneers, sport clubs of the CHICAGO HEIGHTS.—Indoor meeting at Central Hall, 123 , 15th St., 7.30. Speakers: Poindexter, Tay- lor. Be ry CICERO.—Indoor meeting at Odd Fellows Hall at 1 p. m, at 56th Ave. and 2th t. Speakers: Wangerin, Ga- | sunas, | ce nice | SPRING*FIELD.—Reservoir Park, at2 p.m, ah eee Corrections ROCK ISLAND.—Workers Hall, 712 Eighth St., at 7.30 p.m. Speaker— Hammersmark. LINDEN, N. J.—The Linden, N. J., makes the length of the support.de-|May First. Conference is preparing | @4R¥—Turner Hall, 14th and Wash- pend on how long workers have con-| for an open air meeting and parade | "Ston St. at tributed to the fund; third, radical} cuts in other social services, as pen-| sions, workers’ accident insurance, ex- soldiers’ allowances; fourth, direct. or indirect wage cuts for the lower and middle officials of the government! fifth, the introduction of the 40-hour week without compensations in wages. In addition to these, the goy- ernment intends to make the Reich- stag give the government greater in- dependence, thus strengthening the power of President Hindenburg. The government also intends to create a reactionary second chamber, with the power of vetoing Reichstag bills. Down Tools May Day Says Labor Defender in Excellent New Issue The May Day Labor Defender is a splendid edition, with a cover design which is one May First poster, with “Down Tools” prominently displayed, | and a mass demonstration. with plenty of placards: “Work or Wages,” “Defend the Soviet Union,” “Build the I. L. D..” “Join the Communist Party,” displayed above heads of the crowd. “Judge Lynch Goes to Court” is the leading article, by W. L. Patter- | son, and headed by a half-page pic- | | INDIANA HARBOR.—At 4 p, m 8p. m. cae, es Latest USSR Census | wating and Pennsylvania—at. 7.30 iS hows Population Is»: m. at Yowana Hall, Broadway and Increasing Rapid y| MOSCOW.—The first congress of the reorganized Metal Workers Union | which has 800,000 members, has been opened here. Four hundred’ thirty delegates are present. Amongst the | delegates are reprentative of the-Ger-| |man and American workers engaged \in the Soviet engineering industry. In the first session of the congress the reports from the factories were heard. ‘ALBANY WORKERS HIT LYNCHING iDemonstrate on, May Day ALBANY, N. Y., April 24—Albany | police attempted to break up a street | meeting called here last night by the | Trade Union Unity League to protest |the legal murder of the nine Negro ouths in Alabama. | The workers militantly defended ture showing the nine Scottsboro vic- | their right to free speech and use of tims, with a thick bellied militia of-|the streets and insisted on voicing ficer and a squad of militiamen with | their protest against the murderous rifles standing over them to see that | court room lynching planned by the | Int'l Labor Defense Adopts Sentenced Cal. Workers - amnesty meetings in Bridgeport on Thursday and in New Haven on Fri- day night, also other cities in Con- necticut during the next few weeks. League of Struggle for Negro Rights | ployed Council has over 40 members with the co-operation of scores of |in good standing and we expect hun- white and Negro organizations have} dreds more to join soon, Brink named May 2 to May 8; Scottsboro/warned the city government that if Defense Week. Street and indoor} they fail to act to feed and clothe SAN FRANOISCO, Calif—The , defense of the Agricultural Organ- tussian Section of. the MOPR has | izers of Imperial Valley now serving ent a communication to the Inter-/in San Quentin and Folsom prisons tational Labor Defense of California | and have adopted them as_ their District, offering co-operation in the! charges. Worker Finds Only Party Is the Communist Party ih Sioux City, Towa. rally Worker: After 31 years of struggling indi- { capitalism, to eke out an existence, “ave at last {ound ® wolution ot | idueity under this diabolical system | effort to organize and bolshevize the correct program, as planned by the Communist Party and the TUUL. From now on I will put forth every WOT. ae nervy eerehinws \=EB ‘The campaign to save the lives of these innocent jobless Negro young- sters, constituting at this moment the highest point in the fight against ching and the oppression of the Negro masses, will be integrally link- ed up with the important class de- mand for the release of all political prisoners, A resolution condemning the vici- ous drive against the foreign-born masses, and against the mass deport- ations now in full swing was ap- proved by the Stamford toilers and et to Secretary of Labor Doak. This will be similarly, carrigd out. ia other _ ties, meetings will be held on every day and evening of that week protesting the Scottsboro frame-up. Polish Branch No. 1 and Russtan LL.D. branch have arranged a three- act play for Sunday, May 10, at 1052 Auburn Aye., at 5 p.m., all proceeds of which will go for the Scottsboro defense. so. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 26.—An ac- tive United Front Campaign is under way to save the lives of the nine Scottsboro victims. Protest telegrams to the governor of Alabama have been sent by the Ukrainian Toilers, _ Sommmaupist them were t ta “cele- and shelter the unemployed quickly, the unemployed will come back again in thosuends to put pressure behind their demands and force the City Council to act, A> May First demonstration ts plane: 50 PER CENT CUT IN WARREN WARREN, Ohio, April 26.—Workers in the open hearth clipping depart- ment here used to make $7 to $8 per, day. Now he gets $4.50. When the| Greeks and Serbians stayed away on thelr Easter to celebrate, fourteen of they go to the electric chair. May Day as a central rallying point for the fight for amnesty for all po- litical prisoners is the topic of the second article, by Joe Pass, The attempt to frame-up five tex- tile workers in Paterson and kill them in the electric chair is described by Melvin Levy. There are excellently iNustrated articles on the Kassay case, the third degree methods of the police, the wage-cuts, the Port- land criminal syndicalism and de- portation cases, on the suspending of students who edited “Frontier.” ‘The two center pages are filled with pictures contrasting the build- ing of socialized industry in the Sov- iet Union with the breadlines: of the | capitalist: world. Alabama bosses. A patrol wagon which was called to intimidate the | workers, was finally used by the po- | licé to effect a retreat. | The workers endorsed defense work | of the International Labor Defense and pledged whole-hearted support in the mass campaign to free the nine | Negro youths. They also endorsed | the unemployment relief demands of | the T.U.U.L. and the demonstration | on May Day against starvation, wage cuts, boss persecution of Negro and | foreign born workers, and against | boss preparations for war on the So- viet. Union. | | } ANSWER THE SOCIALISTS, PO- | VOCATION! LICE AND WHITE GUARD PRO- | Deodar, re ee Negaunee, Mich., Demonstration NEGAUNEE, Mich—Negaunee workers will demonstrate May First, | starting from the Labor Temple at 2 p. m. the workers will march to the downtown district where a dem- onstration will be held outdoors, After the demonstration a mass meeting will be held at Labor Temple. In the evening there will be a special celebration at 8 p. m., with short speeches, music, a one-act play and other features. Penna. Hunger MarchBoostsDW The Philadelphia District in- creased its daily order by 100 and Trenton bundle to 80, be- cause, according to M. Silver, Daily Worker representative, many hunger marchers are now selling the Daily. The Philadelphia May Day edition, Wednesday, April 29, will include the regular district Page, since copy arrived too Jate to be used for last Thurs- day issue. They order 30,000, Two days left for orders for Eeastern and New York City May Day issues, Rush them in by wire and double the thou- sands of May Day demonstra- tors! NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, ¥.¥ PRONE 73) The Scottsboro 9 Must Not Die THE SHORTEST WAY OUT said the Jackson County Herald of Scottsboro WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST Fight This Legal Lynching WORKERS, WE MUST SAVE THESE YOUNG NEGRO WORKERS FROM CAPITALIST JUSTICE Rush your contributions and collections NOW to the SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE FUND INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, ROOM 430, 80 EAST 11 ST., NEW YORK, N.Y,