The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1931, Page 2

*. plood of tens of thousands of Negro Page Two ~___ PATTERSON EXPOSES TERREL---“ELEVATED BY BLOODY HANDS”, Working Cl s Leader, Former N. Y. Attorney, Repudiates Statement That He Would Speak At Dinner for Boss Tool Has Nothing in Common With Terrel, Other Supporters of Oppressors of Negro Nation, | He Tells Local Lawyers NEW YORK.—Nailing the We re- the local Negro Lawyers’ t he would be one of . dinner for Judge on, D. C., Com- 2 on sent a letter diation to the Negro reform- reading in par Rejects Bribes of Imperialists. unqualifiedly that) dudge Terrell as} Il in common | Judge honored” while | Washin P. to s! gard ing at ed to his t party which, head a the government ss during ape of Haiti, dorsed and con- rape and has sta-| in Haiti that the y be carried for- government of dollar dic- | blood of the exploited and oppressed roops of which toda i bloodedly n . V and pes sants whose | ng nee, has “non | ¢ | ‘ool of Oppressors, | rulers with ublican party leadership} ~ one moment to throw of Jim Crow | of the Negro} r mothers) wh r “democrac, ds Terrell a bloody | 1k a toll of f the | of men and to the work- | rvation, dis- proyocating in} jal mongering, mur- lying press the “race g ast St. Louis and nd by provocating an edented wave of terror} mob vi nce that reaches a today in the already prepared | iynching—a bloody holi- Negro boys in Scots- nine boro, Alabama. gro’s Enemies Are Terrell’s Benefactors. of bloody landijords and ustrialists has since the unted in the face of the masses the open secret that h, 14th and 15th amendments Federal Constitution, amend- | which purport to bring the | of citizenship to the Negro| ses, aye but drops of ink upon a} ap of paper. This elass through | overnment has but recently | ough its Jim Crow and lynch sup- ting leader, Hover, flung into the es of the Negro masses of the 1 Islands with the most cruel 'y of their plight, the evidences of their poverty, of the poverty brought about by its own-greed and rapaci This ruling class which has no morals, no ethics, no shame and no honor, regards the Negro and white masses as but a labor force from which untold millions can be wrung by starvation and super ex- ploitation, ig Judge Terrell’s bene- factor. Hands That Elevated Him Red With Workers’ Blood. It has spread the nauseous lie of white supremacy in order to main- tain a division of the working class, to delude and misguide the white workers and thus to perpetuate its rule over the toiling masses, a rule of unemployment, starvation, misery and privation, This is the ruling class which “ele- vated” Mr. Terrell to a judgeship. The hands with which it raised him to the bench are dripping with the and white workers. I want the Negro masses to know that I have nothing in common with What’s On— - WIR and Rehearsal At 131 W, 28th St, at 8 p.m, An English Speaking Branch of WIR been organized in the West ieeting wil be held 5 Grand Concourse, x Workers PATO’S Bakery 676 Allerton Avenue High Grade BREAD, ROLLS CAKES Telephone: OLINVILLE 2-5685 | of “Solidarity,” farce, Judge Terrell or those whose pleasure | itis to “honor” him. Our interests center at different social poles. I) stand in the ranks of the revolution- ary workers of America, Negro and white. I stand in the ranks of those | revolutionary toilers who over the} Jength and breadth of the world are | rallying in revolutionary class soli-| darity under the banner and leader- ship of the world’s Communist Parties and the Communist Interna | tional, for the destruction of that} social order that thrives on the life masses, | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931 HE ADV NTURES OF BILL WORKER — ———— - SThat’s Where He Belongs— {1s } LL Take A SHORT CUT "THROUGH THe =| To Cemereiey So I wont MEET A Remon strana ete SS IKILLED & AUNTING You DISCHARGED (AY HUSBAND, AND WE HLS WIFE ANID. E Curent Died TARVED we Feoze 2 DEATH Ryeeae To DEATH THAT YOu MIGHT BE We OF HUNGER Fae wore SHOT p> Lies IAND CLucBen iy 2) BY Your Pon “CE IDIED DIN } / | tHe ACTORY , aes nt: Peofits | For You HAIL RECRUITS AT COLISEUM |Great Crowd Pledges to Save Negro Boys NEW YORK.—Thousands of work- | ers, many of them those who had} taken the long march from Madison Square to Eighth Ave. to Union Square, some of them the needle workers who had been picketing, marching and fighting since 7 a. m. still found energy enough May Day| night to fill the big Bronx Coliseum | three-quarters full and cheer the May Day speakers there. All paid ed:nission, The main feature was the formal acceptance into the Communist Party of a large number of new recruits. Negro and white, men and wo. they filed upon the big stage until it was full, and heard District Or-| ganizer Israel Amter recite the du- ties of the Communists, to be ever in the lead of the workers’ struggle, | never to flinch and always to main-| tain discipline and courageous ini tive. The new recruits themselves applauded the outline by Amter of their duties, and the huge crowd gave them a rousing welcome. Scottsboro Mother Speaks. | Chairman Patterson, a Negro worker, introduced Mrs. Patterson, the mother of one of the Scottsboro defendants, and the crowd stood spontaneously and sang the Interna- tional in a thunderous chorus, end- | ing by applauding. Solidarity. Mys. Paterson spoke yery briefly. stating her hope lay only in the united support of Negro and white workers, and ending, “Please save my boy!” After a moment's silence, the whole crowd swung into the chorus all standing again. | William Z. Foster, delivering the main address, began by accepting in| the name of the Central Committee of the Communist Party a sculptured bust of Stalin, presented by the John | Reed Club, and made by Adolph} Wolfe. } “Some day,” said Foster, “the| workers will put ropes around the necks of the statues of the bour- geois generals and politicians which | stand now in public places, and pull | them down, and put up instead the products of proletarian art.” Foster characterized the three meetings in Union Square as “really but two demonstrations, one by the workers, and the other, fascist and socialist, against the workers.” He pointed out that this, the biggest May Day demonstration ever held in America, would look small in com- parison to the mass movements which’ are soon to come. His speech was one filled with expectation of vic- tory, and the mood’ of the crowd was the same, ‘There were other speakers, and the evening ended with a pageant on the struggle against the profit system. “The Mikado” Opens Tonight. At Erlanger’s ton Aborn will present the Civic Light Opera Company this evening in the first of a series of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, “The Mikado,” at Erlanger’s Theatre. Each production will continue for two weeks. Among the well known Gilbert and Sullivan players are Howard Marsh, William Danforth, Frank Moulan and Herbert Waterous. The role of Yum Yum will be played by a Japanese prima donna, Hizi Koye, “Her Supporting Cast,” a comedy oy Harold Sherman, which Philip Gerton is presenting tonight at the Biltmore Theatre is another play of stage life, and has but four charac- ters in the plete, Mildred McCoy, Jack Hartley, Dodson L, Mitchell and Otto Hulett. “Rhapsody in Black,” Lew Leslie's Negro revue, opens at the Sam H. Harris Theatre this evening, with Ethel Waters as the star. The music and lyrics are by George Gershwin Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. The delayed opening of “Betty F Careful,” is set for this evening : the Liberty Theatre, Willis Mr- well Goodhue is the author of thi |no excuse, and without reasons. |a thousand joined the ranks of the | in the painting department told the | | boss the only time they will believe it The Boro Hall Unemployed Coun-)p. m a puliee held us back at 8th Ave. cil with 75 in line, included Mrs.| and 16th St., without reasons. Pappa and her three children, an un-| Passing the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, aders shouted, ‘Down with company | unions.” A street cleaner saluted the Red | Flag on Union Square. The Young | Pion eers were an inspiring sight as Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League|they entered Union Square. The marched around Madison Square,|™0st effective placard ever seen on 3,200 strong and went with the par-, the Square was that of the Spartacus lade from Madison Square to 39th | Club. The mass of placards on the St., and 7th Ave., turned to 8th Ave.|Square was like a white and red aoWn to. Union Square in military|Cloud and appealing to the working formation, | Olas, Fur workers turned out over 3,000 e. Post Office, over | Be At the Eighth Ave. Post Office, over} os. working hours an joined te ranks of the T. U, U. L. Clothing workers turned out 1,000 under T, U. U. L, Jeadership. employed family which was refused relief from the Boro president with The Food Workers’ Industrial Union had from six to seven thou- sand strong in the march, parade from the sidewalk. The par- ade line was two miles long. foag All workers clubs came out in full} ~ At 5:05 p, m. force-6,000 to 10,000. | jammed anor ting clubs not in yet, The Young Pioneers were very ac-| march continued. A cadet of St. tive with literature, and slogans were | Francis Xavier, at 16th St. tried to very well received by the masses. | beat-up a Negro but was repelled. by Over 5,000 needle workers turned | other comrades, out, including fur workers. Motor-| The W. I. R. chorus was a feature cycle squad working very good in| with its songs, also the Freiheit } Contunetion with the parade. 3:55 | Gesangs Verein, BED CO. WORKERS | FINE MEETING FIGHT WAGE CUT IN ASBURY PARK Mass Picketing On-At Greenpoint Co. NEW YORK.—The workers of the spring department of the Greenpo’ Metallic Bed Co. are well organiz and are ready to fight the 25 per cent wage cut. Beginning with tode mass picketing will take place, A meeting in front of the factory will be held. The strike committee issued other leaflet, calling upon ers from the other depa join the strike. As soon as the f leaflet was distributed and picketing started the boss got scared. He went from department to department tell- ing the workers that their wages will not be cut, The workers, however, will not be fooled by the empty promises of the boss. The workers | ‘olidarity ae: Negro. and White Workers ASBURY PAR! N. J., May 3— One hundred seventy-five workers, 75 | yor cent of whom were Negroes, gath- d at Marrons Hall here on May an- other workers’ organizations were heard with enthusiasm. It was the first May Day meeting ever held in Asbury Park and was) arked by militancy and enthusiasm | expressed by the workers present, especially the Negro workers, the governor of Alabama demanding | the immediate release of the nine| Negro workers awaiting the electric | | chair in Scottsboro, Ala., on a frame- is when he will AR st Neel, Hae cit to: Whe.| {up charge. A resolution was also workers from the spring department. | The strike committee in its leaflet | crass ‘war prisoners, the par-| the Square was’ Speakers from the Communist Par- | ty’ International Labor Defense and | A telegram of ‘protest was sent to| adopted demanding the release of all! also exposed this trick of the boss. ‘The New York local of the Metal Workers Industrial League is: lead- ing the strike. Most of the strikers are young workers and are deter- mined to fight the wage cut. The rest of the workers are in sympathy with the strikers, with the possibili- ties that the rest of the workers will | The chairman of the meeting was Simon. Speakers were R, Edwards (Negro) and James Sepasy. A large collection was made for the | class war prisoners and sent to the ILD. A number of Daily Workers \and Labor Defenders were sold, and | after the meeting, the workers eager- go out on strike during this week. ly inquired when more meetings would be held. GORKY’S “CAIN AND ARTEM” AT CAMEO TODAY. The second film of the Russian repertoire week at the Cameo Thea- tre will be Sovkino's production of “Oain and Artem,” which will play today and Tuesday. It is screened | from the powerful novel by Maxim | = GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! PRE RR BERR NE NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX \Sidelights o on the May Day _|SCOTTSBORO CON- ‘United Fruit Co. Ships Guns Demonstration in New York) FERENCE MAY 17 Against Workers. in Honduras Stop Legal eee | Organize Defense! | | NEW YORK.—To mobilize addi- | tional masses of white Negro workers | | for the struggle to save the lives of the nine innocent Negro youths be- ing railroaded to the electric chair in Alabama, the City Council of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights is sponsoring a united front confer- ence in this city on Sunday, May 11. A call has been sent to many or- ganizations, urging them to send delegates. Workers are urged to see | that the question of the Scottsboro defense is taken up in their organ- izations, clubs, churches, etc.,, and that delegates are elected to the con- | ference which will be held in the Finnish Workers Hall, 15 W. 126th St. Where organizations have not received an official invitation, work- ers in those organizations should still bring up the question and insist that the conference be supported and that delegates be elected to it. Eight of the nine boys have been | sentenced to burn on July 10 on a} brazen frame-up charge on which | they were railroaded through the Scottsboro boss court. The Interna- | tional Labor Defense is filing an ap- peal for a new trial in the case, but the southern bosses will go through | | with the legal lynching unless the entire working-class, Negro and | white, are mobilized behind the de- | mand for a new trial and the smash- ing of the frame-up. : ER eae The Sacco-Vanzetti Branch of the| I. L. D. is holding a concert and| | dance Saturday, May 9, at 569 Pro- spect Ave., to raise funds for the Scottsboro Defense. The entertain- | ment will consist of a saxophone solo, | violin solo, and a duet in Russian. | Admission will be 35 cents. The new- | | ly organized branch of Young De-| fenders will be installed at the dance. | oe ye | I L. D, is continuing its open air meetings to rally support for the | Scottsboro and Paterson defense | campaigns, A meeting will be held this Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at 10th St, and Second Ave. | The branch is also staging a so- cial and dance this Friday evening at 257 E. 10th St. Admission 35 cents, | | so by Mayor Russel and as a result | | 3 (By a Worker Correspondent) | iaeaing” We belts, the company neh NEW YORK.—On Sunday, the/ needed a few workers and the first | Phone Stuyvesant By RYAN WALKER PEAKING OF GRAVES - HERE'S Marre o TN John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES 4 place with atmosphere r where all radicals meet ) 02 E. 12th St. New York United Fruit Co. ship, Musa, sails] in line got the jobs. The others got with her forward hold loaded with] only sores and tired backs for their ammunition for Tela, It is ad-| long wait. Hundreds would be turned dressed to the Minister of War, the| away by the company “guards.” dummy agent of the Fruit Co. ‘The English, American and Cas- The ammunition is being sent to| tillary (the wealthy Honduran plan- the puppet Hondurian government, | tation owners) treat the rest of the tool of the United Fruit Co., to be| native population, which is mainly used against the rebelling workers | black, as slaves, When the big tour- Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bot, 12th apd 13th Ste. Strictly Vegetarian Food and peasants. At the same time,) ist ships come in the white office marines-and gunboats are in Hon-| workers and plant managers attend durian waters to help the fruitcom-| the “formal balls” along with their pany against the masses. superiors, but the native workers are At Tela, Honduras, when the ships | left in their hovels. of the Great White (Terror) Fleet! The United Fruit Co. owns the come to the dock in the afternoon | town. The streets, outside of a few lines of starving workers used to| small shops, are merely rows of sa- form at the end of the pier for the| loons and dives, The “gentlemen” | — | next day’s work. Some of the more have their American Club to get fortunate ones were clothed in filthy | drunk in. For years there has been unrest’ among the workers. Soldiers were | always on duty at every vital spot. Now these workers haye jjoined in | a revolt against this tyranny and) corruption. garments and carried a rag to sleep on, but others wore their only rags and. lay upon the hard cement to wait 12 and 14 hours in order to earn a few cents for, maybe, three hours’ work. With the new speed-up HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant | 1600 MADISON AVENUE | Phone University 5865 JADE MOUNTAIN American and Chinese Restaurant Open 1l_a. m, to 2 a, m, 197 SECOND AVENUE Between 12th and 13th Street {Olympic Strikers Picketing Strongly; Begin Fourth Week DEMONSTRATE IN BEASON, N. Y. NEW er OR the fourth week |Five Arrested Because | sicoszer st, the strikers and othe | j rohi | workers from shops in the same trade, Meeting Pri Prohibited are picketing full foree,. The first BEACON, N. Y. May 3—The| strike relief was distributed ‘Satur- | United Front May Day Committee | day, the workers in other shops pobe'| refused to yield the right of speaking| tributing ten per cent from their in the strects when. ordered to do| Wases to this relief fund. The bosses, are declaring their un- some 1,500 (by capitalist press count) | dying love for individual strikers and trying to draw them back, but all know that this means nothing. The ‘The demonstration was attacked by | Sttikers are determined as ever to go the police, including state police, | back altogether, with a victory, or’ whom the mayor afterwards warmly | Pt at all. thanked for their readiness to smash he workers demanding unemploy- | ment insurance. Arrest Speaker. The crowd was listening to the first | attended a May Day demonstration at 5:30 in Bank Square. five were spirited away to two dif- ferent jails while the crowd was Tushing toward the officers. They local authorities try to make out that | Where the best food and fresh Concoops Food Stores The Steve Katovis Branch of the | speaker, Lillian Gilbert from Camp | Nitgedaiget, when motorcycle and} other police potinded suddenly on the | speaker, seized also four other mem- bers of the committee: Fred Capuani, Matilda Steinberg, Helen Fein and Costas Dritsas, and flung them into a Fishkill Electric Railway Co. bus. ‘The bus appeared, as if by prear- | the police were rescuing the speakers from a patriotic and pro-capitalist citizenry, but the crowd was largely made up of workers, who were trying to hear the speech. The arrested workers were released Saturday morning in custody of the I. L, D,, to appear all on charges of | unlawful assembly and Dritsas on a —— We Invite Workers to the charge of assaulting a policeman. rangement with the police, a the | AMUSEMENTS | TODAY AND TOMORROW Dynamic, Over powering RUSSIAN REPERTOIRE WEEKig | MAXIM GORKY’S “CAIN AND ARTEM” “Gorky’s Characters Live Again... . Tense, 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook $215 BRONX, N, ¥. Two Great Soviet Films Gottlieb’s Hardware 119 THIRD AVENUB Stuyvesant 5074 All kinds of ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Near 14th St. ?? DAILY WORKER. Gorky of the same name, On Wednesday and Thursday, oy Shanghai Document” will be shown. The picture was taken by a special | > expedition to Shanghai by the Sov- | | kino of Moscow. | NAZIMOVA IN “CHERRY | ORCHARD” AT CIVIC REPTRTORY Sits 8 | Alla Nazimova will appéar as guest | ipso Open Dally | artist at the Civic Repertory Thea- | | sie. am | tre for two special performances of | | Bird’ price 25e| “The Cherry Orchard,” this evening, Entire Week EDNA FERBER’S Great Novel Cimarron aH greo's Eacept 5un., Hol, and on Thursday matinee, The cast r With will also include: Jacob Bansan| | FRANK RICHARD DIX Paul Leyssac, Donald Cameron and Prospects lois IRENE DUNNE, Miss Le Gallienne, Miss Le Gallienne || All Week-— | IAT BLUS TAYLOR Pinova aio WM. COLLIER, JR. Packer & Hall and 45,000 others NEWARK—THEATRES LITTLE THEATRE “sian x's NOW PLAYING FIRST NEWARK SHOWING! The Marvelous Sovict Film “CHINA EXPRESS” A Benlibtie Episode of the Revolution in China OnE VY SOVKIN % Enacted by an Emin at Cast ‘of Soviet:and Chinese Players SE EERO BERR Uta ApDED “LOST GOD. 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