The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1931, Page 3

DETROIT WEEKLY PAGE REVIEW ED; CHESTER, PA. INCREASE NOT BASIC We congratulate the Detroit Dis- trict on its first issue of the weekly page (April 24), which contained ar- ticles on real forced labor in Detroit; two mass meetings of worker depos- itors of bank crashes in Detroit and Hamtramck; the report of the May Day Conference’ which 186 delegates from workers’ organizations attended; announcement of the Metal Miners’ Convention May 10 where basis will be laid for building National Miners Union in metal mining territory. One feature was a vivid article on ex- periences of a comrade spreading literature in Negro workers’ neigh- borhoods. We suggest more articles reflecting local conditions. A doubly effective May Day mobilization . will be achieved by thorough circulation of this first district issue. We anti- cipate quick response tb the Daily Worker on the part of Detroit work- ers, who should be encouraged by the comrades to send Worker Corres- Pondence for future weekly pages. Detroit conditions offer good oppor- tunity for direct correspondence from the shops. Steady, Rather Than Spectacular! Big increases are always welcome, especially when there's a basis for it. But spectacular orders are not what we're after. Last week, C. Cho- ma boosts Chester, Pa., bundle by 100. Today we received an order to cut by 100. Cemrade Choma is not responsible. “We must seem to you like jump- ing kids,” he apologizes. “But this is because our Party membership has not carried out the proposal of the D. W. Committee; that every member take 5 copies a day for sale and for getting subs. Only four showed up Sunday. So must cut off 100.” Sug- N. Y. Hackman Writes of Day’s Work New York City. Daily Worker: The daily views of a hackman: Take cab out at 6 a.m. Cruise up and down Park Ave., for an hour. Corners are parked with 5 or 6 cabs waiting for @ 50c. call (commission 20c., plus 10c. tip, equals 30c.). Every time the doorman whistles, the hack men, watch eagerly, hoping it’s a call, but they are often mistaken, be- cause it is a private car and chauf- feur that he is calling. The doorman quickly opens the door, bows to the madame, grabs the small package she carries and tucks her warmly into the car. Half of the hhackmen on the corners get tired of waiting and pull away empty. I cruise up and down Riverside Drive and Park Ave. The corners are also jammed with cabs. I take a chance of getting a ticket and also park on one corner. After wait- ing there about two hours a. woman comes out of a swanky hotel, the doorman preceding her with 33 suit- cases, She gets in and asks to be taken to Grand Central in a hurry, having only 10 minutes to make a train, After breaking all speed records, I get there and am rewarded with the exact amount on the clock, 60 cents. Wilmington and Baltimore Flops Disease Bearers ‘ ‘Wilmington, Pa, Daily Worker: . I was in the flop-house in Wil- mington anl found conditions there terrible. While sleeping on the cot it was full of bed-bugs and lice. Dirty and rotten towels are handed out. Towels hang on the r six days without being changed. ere is no soap. They turn us out in the cold in the mornings without breakfast. In the Baltimore Flop, there is a big stiff for a superintendent. He California Worker Receives Deportation Notice Kerman, Calif. Daily Worker: Just a few lines to let you know that I am going to be deported. As jt have not had work for nine months, Tam Uving over at my father’s little ranch. I haven't lived here for seven years, being married. But my wife left me because I did not believe in religion. But now I get a love letter rom “Fight With Children,” Says Working Wife Bronx, N. Y, Editor Daily Worker: I am the wife of a worker and was trying to explain to my neighbor abo ¢ working woman) how import. ant it was to g@out and demonstrate om May First. She asked me if T would send my ‘hild to workers’ demonstrations when re grows older and if I will allow iim to remain out of school on May "iret. I answered “yes” and she looked t me in surprise and said: “It is langerous to send a-child to Lapel tions. It is the mother’s to children and not allow them child, ae gest to D. W. Committee either to enforce decisions or not make them unless there is reasonable certainty of putting them through. More orders pour into the Daily Worker office—modest at the start, but with possibilities for increases. W. A. Carpenter, Clinton, Ind., wants 15 a day, having 12 customers Ex- pects to spread sales in Terre Haute in order to dispose of bundle. Three comrades get total bundle of twelve in Muskegon, Mich. “We are going} to try to build up circulation for the D. W. beginning with 12 a day,” writes John D., promising regular weekly payments. Peter Kraus, Utica, N. Y., orders 5 for S. L., who will “try to sell the Daily Worker and get sub- scriptions.” Newton Falls, O., turns over new leaf. “We were getting 5 Dailies in this town before, but did not have the right man. Will try and sell them again,” writes Daniel K. W., reordering 5. HOLD YOUR CONTACTS! Betty P., Cicero, UL, euts bundle because “I began to work and am unable to go to the factory where I sold for six months. Tried to get someone else, but could not get anyone.” Should send out general alarm at possibility of losing valu- able contacts built during these six months. We disagree with state- ment, “There is not a single person in our unit to take my place.” Con- tacts are not every-day achieve- ments. They require weeks and months of steady work. Achieve- ments such as this are endangered by failure to appear at factory gates, stoppage of sales, Unit must realiz> once of continuing factory contacts, and appoint new + D. W. seller, I cruise around some more, and pass the fur market at 29th St. and Seventh Ave., where I behold the! same daily sight. Crowds waiting | around hoping to find a job that! does not come. The same thing ex- ists at the cloak and suit market. I find that the 3ist St. and Seventh | Ave. breadline is expanding arery day. T next cruise up Fifth Ave., watch- | ing all the entrances of the better | department stores, hoping for a call | to come out, The cops keep chasing | the hackmen off every other corner. The hackmen curse the cops~(to themselves) and tell each other how | poorly they’ve made out. I finally | get tired of cruising and park on some corner where there is no of- ficer. * _ After ten minutes an officer asks me to produce my license. I explain to him that I’m not allowed to cruise or to park, what was I to do? He advises sw!!ing apples, after he has already chased all apple venders off the avenue. I firmly resolve to help knock the corrupt system of government here. Yours for a workers’ and farmers’ government, —J. M. puts the best stuff on his own table. ‘The beds here are also full of bugs and lice. Hot water and hard bread for breakfast. Water for coffee. This is called the “Friendly Inn” flop- house. Fellow workers! ‘The only way to do away with these conditions is by joining militant organizations! Join the unemployed councils, join a mili- tant union that is affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. J. M. are usually called bums. The letter says: “You are hereby advised that this office is in reciept of departmental formal warrant directing your de- portation to Russia, However, the warrant of deportation provides that you may be permitted to depart vol- untarily, or ship one way without expense to the United States, to any country of your choice. . . This priv- ilege, however, will not entitle you to reenter the U.S." No matter where I'll be, I will fight for my rights to live. —A, P. “You said it was the duty of a mother to protect her child. Can-a mother under the capitalist system protect @ child against starvation? And’ if the father and mother work day and night, in order that the child should | * have what he needs, and then when he grows up the capitalists make a war and send him to be killed for their profits, how ean a mother then protect her child?” Therefore, if a mother loves her vit is her duty to join along with her children with the miliian workers in the Communist Party anc TUUL and fight against this system and prepare @ better life for her chil- ve —R. F. 1934 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK FRID AY, MAY 1, Child Welfare! The top picture shows the coming seneration of youngsters in the So- viet Union, playing in an our-door gymnasium, growing up healthy and strong; no’ child labor and no starving children in the USSR. The lower picture to the right shows how they got their start, fine, clean modern nurseries, where their mothers leave them during the day while they go about their work. When the day is over, they take the baby home. This is how the Soviet Union, where all workers celebrate May 1 as International Labor Day, takes care of its children, Now see the lower left hand pic- | ture; it is a breadline for starving | children in New York. In addition to being forced to stand in line for milk and soup, because their in USSR! parents‘were out of work for many months, some of these children were beaten up by the Salvation Army officers to keepthem sub- missive. And this children’s bread line ts in the United States, where the government is fighting hard, to | change May First into “Child Wel- fare Day.” Did you ever hear of Pare Three Children’s Bread Lines in U S A; Clean Frée Nursery aiid Park Gymnasiums such hypocrisy! The best Child Welfare day ac- tivity, if you really want to do something forthe children, is to come out in mass demonstrations on May First, celebrating it as In- ternational Labor Day—a day to demand unemployment relief, and to denounce the whole capitalist swindle} PUSH FiGuT IN| SCOTTSBORO CASE Demonstrate May 1st Against Lynching (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) pressed workers. Throughout the country the de- mand will be militantly raised for the freeing of these boys, for death to the lynchers, for unconditional equality for the Negro messes, for the right of the Negro majorities of the Black Belt, of the West Indies, of Africa, to determine and control their own form of government. sient Sear LOS ANGELES, April 30—In a drive to mobilize ‘the young workers, Negro and white, for the defense of the mine innocent colored boys sen- tenced to burn in the electric chair this coming July 10, the Los Angeles Branch of the Young Liberators to- night sent/a telegram to the student body of Tuskegee calling upon them to protest this frightful outrage against the oppressed Negro nation. The telegram reads: - “We, the Young Liberators of Los Angeles, desire to know your attitude in the case of the nine innocent Ne- gro youths framied-up and con- demned to legal lynching. We call upon you to join the growing mass protest and struggle to save the lives of these boys.” The Young Liberators at the same time sent a protest to Gov, B, M. Miller of Alabamo at Montgomery. rebar tees *NEW YORK.—The following pro- test was sent to the governor of Ala~ bama today: “We, the 500 workers assembled at the May Day conference of Coney Is- Jand denounce the frame-up of,nine Negro youths at Scottsboro, Ala., on the same old story of attacking a white woman, We demand the un- conditional release of the nine youths.” A mass meeting of Negro and white workers at Ambassador Hall, in the | Bronx, unanimously adopted a reso- lution demanding the release of the nine boys, The resolution was tele- graphed to Gov. Miller. The meeting wos wider the joint ausric’s of the Steve Ka‘ovis Branch of the Inernat:onal Labor Defense and the Lee Mason Group of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and was addressed by Richard B, Moore, and Joe Gaul of the national (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED destruction of our form of govern! ment.” But you must remember that in 1926, the Bolshevik grapes still looked awfully sweet to Mr. Fish, who was willing to risk the sacred institutions of his country for some nice orders, This, although up to that time the ungrateful Bolsheviks gave him not a smell of business in appreciation of his “treason to God and Country.” There came a time when the Fox— Mr. Fish—lost patience with Soviet grapes. In November 1929, came the stock market crash in Wall Street, and in one stock gambling account alone,.which the Fish kept with Lee, Higginson and Co., he lost $1,650,000. G-o-n-e! Just like that!. And it appears that this broker- age firm of Lee, Higginson and Co., was lacking in all sentimentality to- ward Mr. Fish and kept demanding more margin on his stocks, the price of which kept sinking, It also ap- pears that this brokerage firm is connected with and controlled by the Chase National Bank, the financial depository and agent of the Soviet foreign trade organizations. And now, with his paunch suddenly emptied of hard-won Yankee grapes, the Red Grapes of Soviet Russia looked both sweeter—and_ sourer! Immediately, on March 5, 1930; the Fox—Mr. Fish—introduced his reso- lution to investigate the activities of Amtorg, the distributors of Soviet grapes in the United States. More, like Mickey Mouse, rather than a wise Fox, he began throwing bricks at the Red Grapes, now look- ed upon as altogether sour. Possibly he wanted to hit the Chase Bank, | one of those capitalist concerns’ who, for the money there is in it, do busi- ness with the Soviet “on thd same basis as other countries”—as the foxy Mr. Fish himself once recommended. In any event, of course, what Mr. Fish thought about it in 1930 would have been as unimportant as what Mr, Fish thought about it in 1926, had it not, been that the Executive Committee of the American capitalist class, which is otherwise known es the United States Government, office of the I. L. D,, Carl Hacker, district LL.D, secretary; and W. E, F, Welsh, of the city committee of the LS.N.R. givon consideration to the fact that | the Soviet grapevine is furnishing an inspiring shade for sweated American | workers, and these American workers are tiring of wage slavery and are} turning to the Communist Party for | the only real way out. | Anyhow, had it not been that | American capitalism as a whole had wanted it, and President Hover ap- proved it, the second Fish Commis- sion demanded by Mr. Fish, would have been as unknown as the first one. But Hoover was making the preliminary propaganda for an at- tack on the Communist Party. He) was preparing for the most gigantic | attack on the workers’ standard of | living in U. 8, history, for drastic country wide wages cuts, He was pre- paring to frustrate the resistance of the workers to Wall Street's starva- | tion program by attacking and at- tempting to silence the only leader- ship in a fight against this program, the leadership of the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions, So the Fox was allowed to run hith- er and yon, everywhere yelping) against the Soviet, against the Red| Grapes that now are—to Mr Fox Fish | —but poison berries and sour as yin- egar. When Boris E. “skvirsky testified before the Fish Committee, he men- tioned the fact of Mr. Fish trying to get Soviet orders and gonig to} Moscow with that nefarious inten- tion. But Mr. Fish quickly changed | the subject, and later had the state- ment removed from the record. In fact, Mr. Fish removed from the rec- ord everything which he did not like. ‘The moral of this fable of the Fox | and the grapes is this: Would Mr. Fish, if ho had recelved some nice | contracts before 1926, be the same | sour-grape red-baitey that he now is? | Fight tynching. Fight deporta- on of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for Protection of foreign born. Advertise Your Union Meetings flere, For Information Write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department 50 East 13th St New York City The Fox and the Grapes—or How Ham|BERLIN WORKERS) Fish Became Head of the Fish Committee MARCH MAY DAY: \Police, Troops Called To Industry Centers (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, April 30.—Tomorrow morning, May Ist, the trade unions will demonstrate at the Lustgarten. In the afterncon there will be a Com- munist demonstration. Most facto- ries have decided to participate in the Communist, march, There will be six processions to the Lustgarten where a mass meeting will be held. In the evening there will be revolutionary indoor meetings throughout all parts of the country, Yesterday night ten Communists putting up posters were arrested, All police. leaves have been cancelled, | Tremendous preparations are being made. The Reichswehr are reported to have been drawn to all neighbor- hoods of industrial centers. The Palestine Communist Party has issued a May Day manifesto in Arabic and Yiddish appealing to the workers and peasants of both nation- alities to unite against imperialism. The situation in the Soviet Union is contrasted with that of the capi- talist countries. The manifesto ends with fighting: slogans against Zionist and Arab landlords and imperialism. Yesterday the Socialists voted with | the capitalist parties in the Prussian Diet (Parliament) against the Com- munist proposal to withdraw the ban on demonstrations, The police chief yesterday in- formed the Communist Party that objection to parades marching away from the Lustgarten'‘after the dem- onstration was now withdrawn. The Anti-Imperialist League has issued a fervent protest against the massacre of prisoners which is being organized by the Nanking govern- ment. It points out that the massacre is the bgginning of a new frightful wave of terror as the result of the failure of thé Nanking armies, The appeal calls for instant mass protest movements throughout the | whole world against the wholesale slaughter of revolutionary workers peasants and soldiers. Only the organized power of th working class can save the politica’ prisoners! Ss NATIONALIST SOLDIERS IN HANKOW, HONGKONG MUTINY; IMPERIALISTS RUSH GUNBOATS; Storm French Barricades in Hankow, TO CRUSH UPRISING But Chiang Kai Shek Commandant Apologizes and Promises Punishment for Troops Cropping through the meagre news about Communist advances in China is the fact that a revolutionary senti- ment is seething throughout all of China. The most significant reports in the past few days are the clash between Nanking rank and file troops and French imperialists in Hankow and the mutiny of a whole regiment stationed in the Hoifung-Likfung area with the express intention of joining the Communists. The news of the mutiny accidental- ly leaked out at Canton. The New York Times news dispatch from Honkong relates: “It appears that twenty-six ring- leaders entered the headquarters of the commander and his staff and Killed three officers and wounded others, the men’s intention being to join the Communists in that region.” All-imperialist forces are rushing more troops to Hankow ag a result of the Nanking regime and the French imperialists over threats of the French invaders to shoot Chinese soldiers. The Chinese soldiers belonging to the Fourteenth division, were trans- ported from Wuchang to Hankow to of a serious conflict between troops | help keep down a threatened upris ing of the masses. .Many of the soldiers have strong..anti-ijmperialis sentiments, and when they were driven away from the French conces. sion they returned with greater forces and began tearing down the barri- cades that the French had put up. For a while it appeared as if a bloody clash would follow. .All imperialis soldiers were called. on “to stand to” for the slaughter of the Chinese. Gunboats are being rushed to Hankow on the fear that the Nanking troops | will rebel and join the fight againg, imperialism in Hankow, The situation, according to capite. ist press dispatches, “was saved,” by the Chinese commandant apologiz- jing and promising to punish the troops who dared challenge the im- | perialists. “This he did,” according to the cable from Hankow | The incident will have its effect on | the Nationalist troops,:composed for | the most part of pauperized peasants | and starving workers: The spirit of | the soldiers in tearing down the | French imperialists’ barricades shows that the revolutionary spirit is crop- ping up in the ranks of Chiang Kai- shek’s army. CHATTANOOGA, April 30.—The preparations for forcing a new trial of the nine Scottsboro victims are proceeding with Joseph B. Brodsky, ‘attorney for the International Labor | Defense directing the preparations nationally, and with Geo, W. Cham- lee employed by the I. L. D. to fight | the case locally, The repudiation by the nine boys and their parents of the attempt of certain Chattanooga ministers to- |gether with an attorney, Stephen R. Roddy, and the police agent, James, | to trick and coerce the nine boys into | 1. L. D. PUSHING DEMAND FOR NEW TRIAL FOR 9 SCOTTSBORO BOYS Norris recites that Mr. Roddy stated to the court that he ‘was not em- ployed counsel by the defendants.’ “I accepted employment in this case without consulting Mr. Roddy because these are my clients and not his and I have no apologies to | offer. I violated no legal ethics in | accepting employment, in this case, | The parents of the four Chat- tanooga boys have today reiterated | thelr confidence in me as the law- | yer to defend their boys and in the International Labor~ Defense as their friend.” 4 acceptance of defense counsel fay- | ored by the boss lynchers, has not stopped the frantic campaign of the | | bosses to break up the movement to | by the International Labor Defense. In the effort to foist Stephen R. | Roddy, denounced by the boys as a |traitor to their cause, on the nine |framed-up youths, eight of whom |have been sentenced to burn in the} electric chair on July 10, the bosses have inspired Roddy to threaten charges of unethical conduct against George W. Chamlee for accepting the retainer of the nine boys and the I, L. D. When this did not seem to scare Chamlee, the boss newspapers tried to demoralize the boys and their parents by claiming that Chamlee had gone over to Roddy and the other boss agents. Yesterday, Chamlee nailed this lie in the following state- ment to the press, a statement which the Chattanooga Times which has been leading the attack on the I. L. D. | has refused to print. Chamlee’s Statement. “Because of constant misrepre- sentation in the press, I wish to make clear to everyone my exact position in the Scottsboro case, I was employed to defend the nine Negro boys in this case by the In- ternational Labor Defense, the only organization, to my knowledge, taking the necessary steps to defend them. “Also, Claude Paterson, father of Haywood Patterson, had been my client for years and I was requested by him and by the parents of three more of the defendants to defend these boys. Boys and Parents Approve I. L. D. Defense. “AU nine of the defendants ex- pressed to me in Birmingham ail, in the presence of their parents, their approval of my selection as counsel by the International Labor Defense. “Further, I have been designated by both the parents and the de- fendants as the lawyer whom they wish to defend the case in court, and I have on file a contract to that effect. “It is my understanding that no other attorney has ever been em- ployed by either the boys or their parents, Roddy Never Engaged By Defendants. “Mr. Roddy was very legitimately in the case as an appointee of the court, Mr, Roddy, of Chattanooga, went to Scottsboro on the instiga- tion of a group of local ministers and has never, to my knowledge, been attorney for any of these de- fendants. The official transcript of the trial of the case of Weems and save the boys which was launched | All-Southern Defense ‘Conference May 31. | The date of the. All - Southern Scottsboro Defense Conference has been set for May 31,. Delegates are jexpected from numerous labor and fraternal organizations Negro church- es, and other bodies which“are show- ing a keen interest ta ‘the fight to | save the lives of thes逓fiiecent boys and to effect their freedom. The conference Nas‘been called jointly by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the {Thternational Labor Defense but wilt:.be on the broadest possible united front basis of all forces interested in ‘stopping this frightful massacre of nine innocent | colored children oe in foreing their release, Show Up Conditions in Chesehorough Co; Rally for May Day Young Toilers Speeded Up; Double Work; Pay Is Very Low PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—Rallying the workers of the Chesebrough Vaseline Co. for a struggle against piece work and speed up of young workers, the Communist Party here issued a call to the workers to down tools and demonstrate on May First. The worsening condition in the plant is told in the leaflet: “Young people are being forced to do men’s work for one-half men’s pay. The ‘chivalrous’ -. millionaire owners of the plant are making girls do boys work and run two machines for less pay. The bosses, Perchard and Mack, don't hesitate:to- take ad- vantage of girls and boys who have to go to school one day a week. We are forced to do some of the hardest fobs for the smallest pay, 4 and 5 dollars per week. “Tt is time that we all began té put a stop to the piece work, the two machine system and to the bullying of Perchard and Mack. We must get together young workers, adults, girls and boys and form groups with the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, in each department. All the workers must support these groups or committees so that they-can put our demands up to the company and lead all the workers in fights;for better conditions.” REGISTER NOW! PRICES REDUCED! 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