The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1931, Page 5

} P| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK SATURDAY, MAY 9; 193 1 PITTSBURGH, BUFFALO MUST BREAK SILENCE ON DISTRICT PAGES Minneapolis page, changed from friday to Saturday, will be distrib- uted to the following territories: Min- neapolis, 300; St. Paul, 250; Duluth, 100; Superior, 50; Mesaba Range (Virginia, Chisholm, Hibbing), 100; Hancock, 100; Irohwood, 50; Negau- nee, 50. Minneapolis District.(No. 9) to be commended upon its initiative and concrete work in pushing the Daily Worker. In addition to effective Daily Worker leaflet. mentioned in our column of May 7, we received copy of Daily Worker Bulletin No. 1, issue of April 23, sent-to all section committees and Daily Worker Agents. “One of our most important tasks is getting the Daily Worker into the ranks of the workers, and above all into the ‘ranks of the Party mem- vers.’ As our Daily grows, so will our Party grow in power and influence. We must set up a figid apparatus which will accomplish the building of a powerful mass press.” District then proceeds with plan for this apparatus, including Daily Worker Committee and Daily Worker Agent for both District and Sections; for the Units, Daily Worker Agent, Red Builders Clubs, ‘Worker Corres- pondents. Broadcast Worker Coapsspondences Incidentally, the effectiveness of worker correspondence~“it realized only when the editions in-which they appear are sold in thé specific loca- tions to which they réfer.. When a story on some local burtiing situa- tion is sent in, send an order along with it and spread the paper over the town. Workers will be convin- ced the Daily is alive to their pro- blems, will be encouraged to write more, Cost, lc per copy, to be sold for 3c. We prefer advance payment, but where impossible, send order and pay at end of sales, Following suc- cessful May Day meeting in Asbury Park, N. J., comrades there ordered 100 copies of issue carrying story. Don’t let a good story die—broad- cast it! Along with subscriptions which, in- cidentally, being paid-in-advance, help put the Daily Worker on a more stable foundation, financially, come sentiments expressing satisfaction with the paper. (We'll print criticisms when we get them — and we want them, too!) From Elkland, Pa., Louis M. writes, “Might be a little late but ean always find a dollar for our pa- per. We need it bad. It is our loud speaker.” In the lumber regions of Oswego, Ore. H. F. tells how he “bought a copy of the D. W. It is the paper for the workingmen. In this section of the lumber industry, speed up and reduction in wages are manufacturing distress. Can't find employment in the woods, only in the bread lines. Send me the Daily for six months as soon as you get this $3.” And Peter M. of Arnold, Pa., along with a dollar he “had a pretty hard time getting” for renewal, sends this inspiring message: “I want to let you know that I joined the Com- munist Party since the last time I wrote.” SEIZE 100 INN. J. FOR DEPORTATION 1b bs) Born Woman De- ported GLOUCESTER, N. J. May 4— More than 100 workers-were crowded in the filthy immigration station here today, awaiting deportation, as the result of raids by immigration agents on militant’ foreign-born workers on Delaware River boats, Sixty-four of the “workers were seized in a tour of dredging machines on the river between-Palmyra and Gloucester. . =f. WASHINGTON, May"#—An Amer- ican woman worker «and. her three young children were “@éported to Canada because.the wo! ied. a Canadian worker in Detroip-and so “lost her citizenship.” ‘The woman, Mrs. Lillfsn Larch, had lived in Canada forsfome time before the death of her husband. Her children were born in Canada. The deportation wasi"carried out with only twenty-fout ours’ notice, according to the National Woman's Party, which is prot ticular deportation dictment of the inequalities remain- ing in our national ItW as between native born men and women. Chicago District Is Grooming Up for Big Track Meet;:May 10 WAUKEEGAN, Ul's=The Chicago district of the Labor Sports Union has arranged a track meet here for Sunday, May 10, Men-@nd women athletes will take part im the special events in hai age Sparta- kiade, ‘The women's foatuisevents will in- elude the 50 yard dash; the high jump and the basket ball farthrow, ‘The meet will beSfollowed by a dance in the evening at-the Workers Hall. The Vilnis and Finnigh girls are preparing.to put forth their best for- ces for these events.:.... A Spartakiade ediiéational outing will be held Sunday, May 17, in the Brookfield Forest Preserve on Sunny- \side Ave, and 28th St.;-Chicago sub- 2% REDUCTION To orry AND UNION WORKERS "Have Your Eyes iéiamined and Glasses Fitted by WORKERS MUTUAL - OPTICAL CO. ‘ander personal supervision of DR. M. HARRISON Optometrist- i 715. SECOND AVENUB Corner 13th Street NEW YORK..CITY “Opposite New York anc mar Infirmary Telephone Stuyvesant 8830 Cuiturai League of Chicago Holds First Affair on May. 9th CHICAGO, Ill—On Saturday, May 9, a large affair is to take place at the “People’s Auditorium,” 2457 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago. The pro- ceeds of this evening are to go 40 per cent to the Communist Party, 10 per cent to the Young Communist League, and 50 per cent of the organ- ization sponsoring the program, the Workers’ Cultural League of Chicago. The Workers’ Cultural League was established a few months ago, and is striving t ocarry on revolutionary cultural activity on a large scale. It is composed of representatives of various proletarian cultural groups. As May 9th is its first affair, all workers should come to it. Tickets are 40c. in advance, 50c. at the door. ELECT NEGRO TO MOSCOW SOVIET Padmore Honored by Russian Workers MOSCOW, May 8—George Pad- more, Negro worker from the United States, has been elected a member of the Moscow Soviet. The workers of the Palace of Labor, the headquar- ters of the RILU, and the various unions of the Soviet Union, parti- cipated in the elections, which took place at a mass meeting of over 17,000 workers, In his speech of acceptance, Pad- more pointed out that his election to the Moscow Soviet was not only an expression of faith in himself, but a symbol of the profound internation- alism of the Soviet proletariat, and an answer to the enemies of~inter- national working class solidarity who, like the American chauvinists expel- Jed from Soviet Russia, have at- tempted to intorduce the poisonous imperialist ideology of race prejudice in the workers’ fatherland, He ended his speech with the slo- gans: “Long live the Soviets of workers and peasants—the bulwark of the Soviet Union! Forward with the Piatiletka (Five-Year Plan) in four years! Long live the solidarity of the international proletariat! Long live the world October!” Phone: Lehigh 4-1812 Cosmopolitan Hardware & Electrical Corporation Tools, Builders’ Hardware, Factory Supplies 2018 2nd AVENUE CORNER 104TH STREET NEW YORK CITY The DAILY WORKER Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to Advertising Department 50 East 13th St New York City NEW STAR CASINO—S: DEBATE ~ WM. Z. FOSTER vs. A. J MUSTE ‘ Trade Union Unity League <! vs, Conference: for Progressive Labor Action Sunday, May 10th, at 2:00 P. M. Adinission 502. -Fecerved Section $1 00 Ausvices of John SHOPS Wedoleriast i -woph Wig ‘Tohcol. Page Five Member of N.A.A.C.P. Denounces Refusal of Its Leadership to Join United Front to Save 9 Boys NEW YORK, May 8, 1931 (CNA) A rank and file member of the Nai’l Association for Advancement of Col- ored ePople has addressed an open letter to the editor of the “Daily Worker,” sharply attacking the lead- ership of the NAACP for its “sinister inaction.in the case of the nine black boys who are in the shadow of the electric chair in Alabama.” The writer, in donating to the defense of the Scottsboro boys, bitterly criticizes the national office of that organiza- tion for refusing to join the united front of all forces for the defense, as proposed by the ILD which is handling the legal appeal of the boys. The name of the writer of the letter is withheld at his request, although the Crusader News Agency has con- firmed his identity and standing. The text of the letter follbws: New York City, May 5, 1931. Editor of “The Daily Worker,” 50 East 13th St., New York City. Dear Sir: I am among those Negroes who have been supporting by membership covering several years and by fre- quent financial contributions, an- onymously and otherwise, the Nation- al Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I have done so on the ground that the organization was rendering the Negro race service of a sort that it needed and that no other organization was able to give, namely, it addressed itself to injus- tices of a purely racial nature that affected Negroes regradless of their class affiliations. During my long membership in the NAACP I have, very naturally, not always agreed Brands as “Sinister” Attitude of Leaders in Scottsboro Case; Rank ahd File Revolt Grows Against Attempts of Walter White, Others to Disrupt Defense with its policies but felt that I could not expect it to go the limit in some matters. However, its sinister inaction in the case of the nine black boys who are in the shadow of the electric chair in Alabama until the radical demonstrations and other “unre- fined” and “disrespectable” demon- strations of Communists and work- ers had forced its hand, and its very obvious desire to rob the Interna- tional Labor Defense of its deserved credit for exposing the monstrous attempt on the part of the white ruling class in the South to sub- stitute the court room for the “rope and faggot,” have driven me to the conclusion that the organization has outlived its usefulness. The fearless and humane attitude of William Pickens deserves the unqualified en- dorsement of every Negro, especially those who like myself are members of th NAACP, Pickens has shown himself a man and your paper did a good piece of work when it published his letter, for it revealed to the public that at least one prominent member of the organization was willing to FIGHT and “CLOSE RANKS” this time not as Du Bois did during the World War to protect the millions of Wall St., but to save the lives of nine, defense- Jess human beings. Since the NAACP SOCIALIST POLICE CHIEF SUSPENDS “ROTE FAHNE” Many Hurt in Rote Front Demonstration (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, May 8.—The socialist po- lice chief of Berlin, Grzesinski, yes- terday suppressed the Rote Fahne} for 15 days in connection with a lead- ing article on the second anniver- sary of the prohibition of the Red Front League. Thousands of workers demon- strated in the streets in the working class quarters on the anniversary of the prohibition and demanded its withdrawal. Demonstrations were particularly large in Wedding and Neukoelln where collisions occurred with the police. Fifty-two arrests were made. Many workers were in- jured. Four police were injured. The police were unable to prevent the demonstrations, The Fascist Kollatz, arrested in connection with the murder of two Reichsbanner workers (members of| the Republican army) on the first of January was released on bail. He attended a fascist meeting where he was welcomed with tremendous ap- plause, Plan toEnd Emergency Work in Providence If Not Too Much Protest PROVIDENCE, R. I., May 8.—The “Emergency Unemployment Commite tee,” which has been keeping about 1,000 of the several thousand jobless here on $15 a week work, met last week and announced that its funds would be exhausted after June 13, and the men would be fired. The chairman said. “Continuation of the committee’s work will depend on the public demand for it.” GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! NEVIN BUS LINES 111W. 3ist (Bet. 6 & 7 Avs.) Tel. Chickering 1600 PHILADELPHIA HOURLY EXPRESS SERVICE $2.00 One Way $3.75 Round Trip Chicago ..........$19.75 Los Angeles ...... 55.50 Pittsburgh ... 9.50 Washington 5.50 Baltimore 4.50 Cleveland ..... 12.50 Boston 4.00 Detroit ........... 15.50 St. Louis -........ 22.50 Lowest Rates Everywhere Return Trips at Greatly Reduced Rates “MAINE TO CALIFORNIA” J. E. ALBRIGHT & CO. ADDING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS Sold, Renteds Repaired, and Bought Agents for all makes portables 825 BROADWAY, NEW YORK (Between 12th and 13th Sts.) ) Algonquin 4528 was willing to “close ranks” and “forget grievances” thirteen years ago in the interest of the country why is it not ready to join a UNITED | FRONT or close ranks, fight in the interest of the race and its integrity against the charge of rape? Apparently the NAACP believes in discrimination for it not only sought but obtained the aid of a great Amer- ican radical, an avowed agnostic, a man who fought for Haywood, Petti- bone and Meyer years ago in Colo- rado, a man who is alleged to be an anarchist in his views, Clarence Dar- row, in the Sweet case in Detroit, yet it is now too respectable and soli- citious of the feelings of those who tule America that it refuses to iden- | tify itself with Communist ‘workers who started the fight to save thi nine friendless boys who were rail-/ roaded to the electric chair, I wonder if they who pretend that they are carrying on the glorious, traditions of the Abolitionists would have supported John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Lundy, Fred Doug- less, Sohourner Truth, Gabriel, Nat Turner and the rest of that noble and immortal army who fought against slavery? The trouble about the Negro is that he is too damned conservative. He seems determined to prove himself less than the half- a-man he was described as by Miss al in your Scottsboro victims of race hate and class justice. Were it not for the protest at the fate of Mooney made by Lenin in Russia fifteen years ago he would have been forgotten and murdered under forms of legality. I say to you: Rouse all the people! - Make the {case a national issue! If necessary, make it international. Get millions | of class-conscious radicals to demon- strate at American Consulates and embassies in every great city of the world! We may not save the boys, but we can develop hostility against their murderets and create a strong pre- sumption in favor of their innocence. As a genuine testimony of my in- $10. for terest I enclose’ my check’ for Five dolla the ILD and $5 the “Sout, Worker that ageous little paper that is carryi cou on the work of the Abolitionists in the very heart of the South. | Ignore the NAACP officialdom those who at the time bartered the ! wrorigs of @ people for a mere mur- derer’s uniform during the war while arguing about the difference between I will close with a final expression done for the nine boys and remind the NAACP that: “They enslave their children’s chil- dren who make compromise with sin.” Yours sincerely, A Negro, ILD Wins Two Important Points in Fight to Save Lives of 9 Scottsboro Boys (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) broke up a meeting called to protest Scottsboro court lynch verdict. The police prevented workers from entering the hall engaged for the meeting. When the LSNR and ILD secured another hall, the police drove the workers out of this. The workers however, insisted on demonstrating their indignation against the Scotts- boro frame-up, in spite of the police terror and a meeting was held on the streets. The cops then beat up several of the workers, and attempted to ar- rest the leaders, but the workers Communist Party, a vigorous protest was made against the legal lynching of the nine Alabama youths. A tele- gram of protest was sent the Ala- bama governor. Cee | HANCOCK, Mich., May 7. — Han- cock workers joined their voices to the thunder of protest against the planned legal massacre of the nine Alabama youths. A telegram of pro- test was sent to Gov. ‘B. M. Miller of Alabama. SALT LAKE CITY, May 2—Work- showed such fierce resistance that/ers of Salt Lake City gathered in the they finally Goatsted. . Protest mace Pour In. MAYNARD, Mass., May 8.—A tele- gram of protest was sent the gover- nor of Alabama by. the members of the National Textile Workers Union together with the membership of the local I, L. D, WATERBURY, Conn., May 7. — The Waterbury Lithuanian “Sviesos” Sick and Death Benefit Society sent a telegram of protest to the gover- nor of Alabama. Sage eee) ANACORTES, Wash., May 5. — At a joint May Day demonstration or- ganized by the Trade Union Unity League, the Unemployed Councils and the Washington district of the Czechoslovak Workers House, Inc. 347 EK, 72nd St. New York Telephone: Rhinelander 6097 FIRE SALE CLOTHING Slightly Damaged By Smoke SUITS OF WORSTEDS CASSIMERES MATCH YOUR SUIT THE SQUARE, INC. 5-7-9 Union Square West Between 14th and 35th Streets Next to Amalgamated Bank Take F.-M.-T, or Texingon Ave. Subway to Lith St, Union Sq. Station CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultura! Activity Proletarian Atmosphere 317 & WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGE?T, BEACON. N.¥ | PHONE 73) i NITGEDAIGET | May Day demonstration here strong- ly denounced the frame up of the nine Negro boys. A telegram of pro- test was sent the governor of Alabama demanding a new trial for these in- nocent boys, with a jury of workers, at least half to be Negroes. Only the organized power of the working class can save the politica] prisoners! FOREIGN LEGION SOLDIERS F OR SOVIET DEFENSE Greet American Revo- lutionary Workers A soldier in the Spanish Foreign Legion in a letter to the Daily Work- er, greets the American workers and calls for a fight against capitalism under the leadership of. the Commu- nist Party. His letter follows: “Dear comrades: We wish to send our greetings and best wishes to the Daily ‘Worker which leads the fight for the emancipation of the workers under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party in the U.S. A. We can- not write more for there is a great chaos on accounts of the transforma- tion from: the Monarchy into a bour- geois republic. Next time we will write more. “All power to. the. workers! “Proletariat of the work, unite! Let us fight and work together, workers of all lands, and then we will win. Soldiers of the Spanish Foreign Le- DANCE AND CONCERT FOR THE SCOTTSBORO AND PATERSON CASES SATURDAY AT 569 PROSPECT Violin Soloist, Russian MAY 9, 1931 AVE., BRONX, N. Y. Duet, Saxaphone Soloist Installation of the Second Branch of the Young Defenders ADMISSIO: IN 35 CENTS Auspices of the Sacco-Vanzetti Branch of the I. L. D. MAY FLOWER BALL given by the HARLEM PROGRESSIVE YOUTH CLUB NEW HARLEM CASINO 116TH STREET AND LENOX AVENUE SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 193. Music by the Famous Harlem Negro Orchestra Jazz Band ADMISSION (including wardrobe) 50 CENTS ALL WORKERS’ CHILD REN FOR KINDERLAND If the parents decide to send their children to camp for a summer vacation, the ideal place to send them to is CAMP KINDERLAND, under the auspices of the International Workers’ Order and the ~“ schools’ of the International ‘Workers Order F Prices are very much reduced. thi is years A third joo than. last year. The best accommodations for children and adults. ‘The camp will be open June 1, For information at the office, 14: Square, Room 603. REGISTER NOW! DON’T WAI 3 East 103rd Street or at 32 Union rT! Ovington, one of the white directors of the NAACP. For my part you cannot be too} efforts to save the} their captain’ salary and that re- ceived for ing editorials about “Close Rar ’ and appeal again and | again directly to the membership. of my appreciation of the good work | eee ORGANIZED 1981— Reserves on Decembe: Benefits paid si | Death Benefit: $4,399,910.97 Total: | both classe: i CLASS A: 40 cents per month—De; at the age of 44. | CLASS B: 50 cents per month—Death Benefit $550 to $230. Parents y insure their children Death Benefit according to age $20 to Sick Benefit ald from the first da. $15, respectively,*per week, for the fil another forty weks, Sick for another forty week: For further inform: Secretary, or to the Financial Sect WORKMEN'S SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT -FUND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Main Office: 714-716 Seneca’ Ave., Ridgewood Sta., Brooklyn, N. ¥ Over 61,000 Members in 348 Branches $15,176,529.98 Workers! Protect Your Families! In Case of Sickness, Accident or Death! Death Meucit according to the age at the time of fuitiautivy in one or Benfts for women: $9 per week for the first forty weeks: fon anply at the Main Office, Willlam Spahr, Nai INCORPORATED 1899 r 31, 1929: $3,158,239.43 ince its existence: Sic Benefit: $10,776,¢19.01 ath Benefit $355 at the age of 16 to $175 nee vase of death up to the age of 18. $200, ¥y of filing the doctor's certificate, $9 and rst forty weeks, half of tbe amount for $4.50 each a) ‘ies of the Branches, Support Wall were called Colorums, They were held in, virtual slavery, Their lands were stolen and their living made unendurable, When they organized nearly a thousand peasants, men and women, to fight against the land- lords, the Philippine constabulary was sent in and a pitched battle resulted Three of the constabulary were killed nd six of the peasants met death hands of the protectors of the landlord’s slave-system, For a long time the American im- perialists in the island, together with such bourgeois leaders as Senator Roxas, tried to state that the Col- orums were Communists or religious fanatics who were not fighting for any real demand. During the trial the fact was brought out clearly that the Colorums were not Commynists, but they were impoverished peasants who. were fighting against miserable conditions imposed upon them. They were catholics, but not religious fan- atics. Both men and women. took part in the fighting and put up a brilliant struggle. Two of the Colorums, Cesareo Abe, and Pedro Kalosa, were given life imprisonment—the heaviest sentence ever meted out here in the Philip- pine Islands on a “sedition” charge. An American, and a Philippine judge—symbol of the unity of the Wall Street and the Filipino petty- bourgeois tools of Wall Street—hand- ed out the sentence. Thirty seven men were condemned to a term of 17 years in prisons. Two boys were sentenced to 14 years each in prison. A huge wave of protest against these vicious sentences is spreading over the Philippine Islands. The lead is being taken by the Communist Party of the Philippines which itself has been driven underground by the arrest of 23 of its leading members. The Proletarian Labor Congress and the Peasants Confederacion is organ- izing the workers and peasants to de- mand the release of the Colorums, and is carrying on a campaign to exposé the role of the imperialists and their supporters, gion who are sympathizing with the Soviet Union and are ready to defend it against all attack of the imperial- ists.” MANILA, Philippine Islands—By the combined of the American imperialists and the native bourgeois sup- porters, 41 Filipino peasants have received heavy prison terms for the uprising in Tayug, Pampanga of January 11, The men and women who took part in the peasant uprising 41 FILIPINO PEASANTS GIVEN HEAVY JAIL TERMS FOR FIGHTING AGAI SLAVERY, ROBBERY OF THEIR LAND Labor and Peasant Movement in Philippines Aroused; Filipino Petty-Bourgeois Lackeys ST Street Terror efforts 193 INTRODUCE 3-DAY WEEK IN SOVIET UNION INDUSTRY Exceed U. S. Electric Output in 10 Years Many factories in the Soviet Union are going on a three-day week 7'> according to an Associated dispatch from Moscow dated May 7. The factories going. on the three- day week give the workers one day off in every three. Hours are short ened and at the same. time produc- tion is kept up At the same time G. I. Lomoff president of a committee for the pre- paration of a new 10-year electr ation plan, reported that the Soviet ion in the next ten years will ex- ceed the electrical output of the Uni- ted States. The Associated Press gives the report as follows: “Lomoff predicted that in that period the Soviet. Union will have surpassed the United States in elec- trification projectsunder the new plan which will go into operation early next year. “The first ten-year plan originated by Lenin is practically completed so far as total kilowatts is concerned, he said, but in some centers the schedule fell far behind. That plan called for 1,750,000 kilowatts, with thirty dis- trict power plants, The total was at- tained, but certain shifts in the schedule gave the agricltural aveas only 50,000 kilowatts, whereas a mil- lion had been assigned to those dis- tricts. “In the next five years, Lomoff said, Russia expects to exceed the United States with production of 10,000,000 tons of oil, 450,000,000 tons of coal and 60,000,000 tons of pig iron. “These figures sound fantastic,” he said, “but they will be found to be of solid substance. 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