The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1931, Page 1

es = = 4 re Pes, 0 wan s af 1 in a 10V8 gue 1as- itive 1 of way nies -the and ipon. ters ork- ¥ i: (Section of Entered an second-class matter at the Vost Office <ay-21 at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 A Challenge of Class Murder “If you want to make of this, a Sacco-Vanzetti case, then we accept your challenge and we'll show you our American colors.” As- sistant Prosecuting Attorney Beery, Paterson, New Jersey. * * . yon. this is the insolent voice of American capitalism, snarling with bloody fangs over the dead bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti, as it thrusts its claws deeper into the throats of the five silk-mill strikers of Paterson! r “Our American colors” have flown before over the massacre of the miners’ wives and children at Ludlow and Cabin Creek! They have fittingly decorated the railroad trestle where the Anaconda Copper Com- vey gunmen hung the broken and dead body of Frank Little on August + 1917! “Our American colors” unite the capitalist class, both north aL ‘south, in the attempt to legally lynch the nine Negro boys at Scotts- horo! Truly did Samuel Johnson declare that “Patriotism is. the last refuge of a scoundrel’—only in the cases of Assistant Prosecutor Beery, it is the first refuge as well as the last! And well it might be, because the outragagms frame-up against these five workers of Paterson has nothing to hang its case upon but the most reactionary appeal to so-called “American patriotism.” And for what? Por the “crime” of striking and picketing! These are no longer rights to American workers! This is the decree of “Jersey justice”—class justice, the justice of the class which murdered Sacco and Vanzetti and which now, in the interest of the silk mill owners are trying to send five strikers to their death! The voice of Assistant Prosecutor Beery speaks for the textile bosses! It threatens death to all workers who organize and strike! The penalty of striking against wage cuts is death in the State of New Jersey! This is the meaning of Mr. Beery’s challenge, his boast of “Americanism.” It is, incidentally, a fine corrollary with the hypocritical ery about “forced Jabor” in the Soviet Union! To strike is punishable by death! Death in the electric chair! This is the challenge of American capitalism, workers, and you must take up that challenge and fling it back into the faces of the bloodhounds of the textile barons! All aid to the Paterson defense! the fate of Sacco and Vanzetti! Workers of the entire world, let the den of capitalist wolves at Pater- son, New Jersey, hear your protest at the cynical savage who sits in the prosecutor's chair and gloats over the dead bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti! Who dares to threaten the lives of five strikers! U.S. Steel and Anti-Soviet Liars is axiomatic th atnot all prostitutes wear dresses. Hence, it is not Surprising that Mr. Knickerbocker, correspondent of the N. Y. Post, who won the Pulitzer Prize for counter-revolutionary propaganda with one series of articles in which—despite all the hostility of their tone— he could reveal neither “forced labor” nor “Soviet dumping,” neverthe- less now comes forward with a new series of articles to frighten the American masses with “the menace of Russian trade” and freely uses the charge of “dumping” to put it over. J Most unfortunately for ‘this prize liar, when his-first article ap- peared on Monday, the stock prices for U. S. Steel on the Wall Street Exchange sank below par of 100 for the first time since 1924—and this, remember, although the Soviet exports not one pound of steel. ‘The effort of this and other liars to convince the American workers that Soviet production and the Five-Year Plan of socialist construction is somehow to blame for the economic crisis of capitalism and the misery of the unemployed, must be exposed for the ‘counter-revolutionary war propaganda against the Soviet that it is. The Soviet does not export steel, but there is a crisis in capitalist steel trade. The Soviet does not export rubber, but rubber is a drug on the market in all capitalist countries. Literally tens of thousands of auto workers are jobless in Detroit alone because autos cannot be sold, yet the Soviet Union is not exporting autos, but is, on the contrary, America’s best market for auto sales. Not even the most shameless liar of the capitalist press cam say that the Soviet Union is “dumping” railroads, but the stock of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for example, fell below the price of 1901 on the Stock Exchange in Wall Street on Monday! In the absence of any possible influence upon American steel pro- @uction by supposed Soviet “dumping,” let us examine briefly its con- dition. A capitalist humorist recently said that U. S. Steel stock in the first quarter of 1931 earned only “a cup of coffee”; namely, 5c per share. Of course, this is reckoned without taking into account the “water” in stock valuation. However, the corporation paid a dividend in that quarter of $1.75. How did it do that? Firstly, by throwing huge numbers of workers unemployed into the streets; secondly, by speeding up those left on the job; thirdly, by cutting wages; fourthly, by paying out of its cash reserves which were fattened by the kindness of Mr. Hoover and Secretary Mellon in refunding in- come taxes, Compare this, workers, with the distribution of “profits” from the operation of Soviet State industry during the past economic year (1929- 30). Of these profits 11 per cent went to improve the living conditions @ the workers, in housing, etc. (this is in addition to the wage in- creases Which have been made continually). 20 per cent of the profits went as income tax for the support of the government, and the balance, or 69 per cent, went for the development of the industries that are owned by the workers—namely, for socialist construction. It is the duty of every revolutionary worker to explain this contrast of the accomplishments of Soviet industry in its material benefit to the Soviet working class, as against the starvation by unemployment, the age cuts and misery inflicted upon American workers by capitalism, ‘ch is attempting to put the entire burden of the ca; 273 on shoulder of the workers. More, it is the duty of every worker to explain that all this pro- anda about the “Red Trade Menace” is to divert attention from the robbers of the workers and to incite them to make war against Soviet. Union, the first Workers’ Republic. Expose the anti-Soviet 8! ARREST PICKETS IN BREAD STRIKE Demonstrations Will Be Held in Answer NEW YORK. — Two strike pickets, Mrs. Sylvia Gorelick and Mrs. Sarah Gross were arrested yesterday in Save the Paterson strikers from ing release through the efforts of the International Labor Defense. An open air protest meeting was held last night, to line up the whole community of working class women for a fight to the finish to cut the price of bread which is higher in this neighborhood than elsewhere, The United Council of Working Class Women which is leading the strike has issued a call to rally all forces for a demonstration. FORGE STRIKE BETRAYED BY “SOCIALISTS” ishode Sheriff Assists Scabs; Press Denies There Is A Strike Milwaukee Leader Lied Socialists; Sends Son to Scab In Plant MILWAUKEE, Wisc., May 18.— Ladish Drop Forge strike was broken by the hiring of a hundred scabs, and the scabs and the company had the full support of the s ocialist party sheriff and the socialist press. Nine tenths of the working force came out on strike against a ten per cent wage cut, and against the terrible speed-up system. A socialist saloon keeper in Cud- ahy, named Houdek, sent his son to scab, and when the workers protested to him, he told them the men should not have struck, they should have gone to see the governor, who would have helped them! Outlied All Others. The official policy of the capitalist press was to minimize the extent of the strike. Thus the “Journal” of Milwaukee said there were 12 men on strike against a ten per cent wage cut. The “News” said 60 men were on strike and 100 were on the picket line. But the Milwaukee Leader,” official organ of the socialist party beat the capitalist press in lying against the strikers. The “Leader” had a headline May 12, about the picketing was: “Cudahy Workers Ask Protection From Com- munists!” The Leader's article said: “Two employes at the Ladish Drop Forge Co. plant at Cudahy com- plained to the police today that they had been threatened by Communists, and requested protection. They said that last week five Communists.... threatened them with their lives. They declared the Communists de- manded they go on strike. Officially the company said the dissatisfaction among the workers is confined to 10 per cent, and that a strike is not pending. The distirct attorney re- ferred them t osheriff Al Benson.” Knew the Facts. When this article appeared, the strike had been going on for five days, a “Leader”) reporter had visited the scene three days before, and talked with the strikers. He knew that 150 men were out at the time he was there, and he told them they couldn’t win the strike unless the A. F. of L. led them. The fact that the workers turned down the A. F. of L. and the socialist party probably had something to do with the out- rageous lying and Ibaor treachery in the socialist party press. The socialists denied there was a strike, and the socialist sheriff Al Benson is used to break it. Ecottsboro Defense Developments 1, All nine boys join parents in restating their endorsement of I, L. D, as the only organization charged with their defense in Ala- bama courts. 2. United Front Scottsboro De- fense Conferences scheduled in 26 cities. Several already held. 3. More Negro papers come out in support of united front defense policy of the I. L. D. 4. Committee of writers, artists and intellectuals join Theodore Dreiser and Lincoln Steffens in front of the Weiss Bakery at Middle Village, Brooklyn, at the provoca- tion of Mrs. Weiss, wife of the own- ev. Mrs. Weiss is lining up the gangsters and the police in an at- tompt to intimidate the women who went out on strike one week ago against the high price of bread. Whe nthe picket line yesterday morning was stronger and larger than ever, with men as well as wom- en, Mrs. Weiss called in the police. ‘The women were held at the Long Island Gty, Jail op $500 bail await- New Wall Street Crash NEW YORK. — That the crisis grows steadily sharper was shown again yesterday by the drop in steel which fell to 99. At the beginning of this year steel sold for $152 ¢ share; last year it’ was $242. Thic shows a decline of about 66 percont This also means that the bosses will take advantage of the situation with a more vicious drive to slash wages and pus the whole burden of the crisis on the backs Nah ais work- ing class. i support of I. L. D. fight to save these boys. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931 Norker frumist Party U.S.A. NOOO the Communist International) CITY EDITION Scottsboro Boys Join Parents In Again Endorsing the ILD Call On All to Rally in United Front Campaign Behind IL D in Fight to Save Their Lives CHATTANOOGA, May 18.—Kilby prison authorities tried to deny permission to the pa- rents of the nine Scottsboro boys to see their sons when the parents national Labor Defense attorneys abama prison determined to stop the betr: arrived with the Inter- at the Al- al of their children engineered by Walter White, national secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., in co-operation with Chattanooga preachers and Ku Klux lawyers. Only after the most vigorous protest by General George Chamiless and Joseph Brodsky, I. L.@ D. attorneys, did the warden permit the parents to see their sons, al- though some of them live 500 miles from Kilby prison and had seen their sons only once before since their ar- rest. Although both the boys and their parents have time and again em- phasized their acceptance of the at- torneys of the I. L. D. and their repudiation of the Ku Klux attorneys the N. A. A. C. P. leaders and the boss lynchers are trying to force tpon them, the warden at first re- fused the I. L. D. attorneys permis- sion to see their clients. Finally permission was given to both the I. L. D. attorneys and the parents to see the boys for seven minutes, in the presence of the warden and an armed gurd. Boys Join Parents In Support of I. L. D. After a talk with their parents, the boys countersigned the statements is- sued by the parents a few days ago AFL SELLS OUT CAR STRIKERS BY ‘ARBITRATION’ U ses “Conciliator” Wood; of Shoe Fame ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 18. — The street carmen’s union (A. F. of L.) officials are already selling out the strike against wage cuts due tomor- row. The membership voted over- whelmingly to strike. But the offi- cials of the Amalgamated Assrcia- tion of Street and Electrical Railway Employes have accepted the offer of Mayor Neun and U. S. Labor Dep- artment “Conciliator” Charles Wood, to leave it all t oarbitration, This Wood is the notorious government strike breaker who ordered the New York shoe bosses to lock out their men and break the contract with the Independent Shoe Workers. Union. The A. F. of L. officials have al- ready postponed the strike itself from tomorrow to an indefinite time, and left “final action,” until May 31. Meanwhile the “arbitration” swindle gets under ‘Way. Nothing To Arbitrate At the union meeting held last week, after the leaflet of the Trade Union Unity League has widely dis- tributed and well received by the street car men, the officials were forced to make a statement that there is nothing to arbitrate, and there could be no talk of arbitration. After th® acting mayor called the conference, while preparing all the forces to break the strike, they were overjoyed with the opportunity to ar- bitrate all questions. The Transportation Workers In- dustrial League of the Trade Union Unity League calls upon the street car men not to permit their offi- cials to sell them out, but to or- ganize committees in the barns and lead the workers into struggle against the wage cut. Soviet Union Strives for Peace Despite Provocations Scouting all the lies of Soviet “dumping” and pointing ott that de- spite repeated provocations of the capitalist powers the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics is straining every effort to prevent war and to advance the standard of living of the masses, Walter Duranty, New York Times Moscow correspondent, devotes a long dispatch on Monday to the attempts of the capitalist states to form an economic bloc against the Workers’ Repub‘ic. Duranty, commen.’ 3 on harges of dumping, Staics: “But the Soviet Union is not so stubborn and wicked 2s its detrac- tors assert—nor so foolish, The Kremlin (Soviet Government) wants to raise living standards here and is determined to raise them, come what may.’ It does not want to Aeep them at their present level in: ‘ eet Bere ihe 2 the order ‘to ruin capitalism by unfair competition.’ ” In view of the deliberate and lying attacks against the Soviet Union now being published in the New York Evening Post, the following points in Duranty’s articles are im- portant and give the lie to the Knickerbocker “red horror” tales: “Strange as’ it may sound, the Kremlin, despite all the accusa- tions of cruelty at home and knavish tricks abroad, is fantas- tically idealistic in its desire to improve the lot of the common man not only in Russia but throughout the world, and with that central aim it prefers peace and agreement to war, which always, everywhere and throughout all time inflicts the greatest suffering upon the com-. mop man.” unreservedly endorsing the Interna- tional Labor Defense and its defense attorneys and denouncing the ef- forts of Walter White and others to hamstring the defense and help rail- road them to the electric chair. ‘The boys complained to their pa- rents that they were constantly be- ing threatened and coerced by the prison authorities and other police agents in the effort to force them to turn their defense over to the N. A. A.C. P. They said that Wal- ter White and several preachers and Ku Klux lawyers had free access to their cells practically all the time. This is in sharp contrast to the efforts of the warden to prevent their parents and their attorneys from seeing them and clearly reveals the anxiety of the Alabama bosses to eliminate the I. L. D. from the de- fehse. The Alabama bosses quite clearly realize that the I. L. D. policy of mobilizing the white and Negro Masses in support of its legal de- fense is making it more difficult for them to carry through their mass legal lynching of the nine boys. Denounce Unauthorized Collection. The parents and the boys signed a joint appeal to the workers and all sympathizers to support the defense campaign of the I. L. D. They de- nounced the unauthorized raising of funds.by the N. A. A. C. P. leader- ship, pointing out that not one penny of the money so far collected by the N. A. A. C. P. leaders has been turned over to the I. L. D., the only organization authorized to carry on the defense. Before leaving their sons the pa- rents warned them against the meth- ods of Walter White and his preacher and Ku Klux lawyer allies and told them to talk to no one and to sign no statement except for the I. L. D. The parents returned to Chatta- nooga last night to aid in the prep- arations for the United Front Scotts- boro conference here on the 3ist. {ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) ONLY MASS FIGHT CAN STOP EXILE OF T. LI TO DEATH Chinese Alliances in Pledge of Struggle NEW YORK.—Hitting at the teal purpose of refusing “voluntary de- parture” to T. H. Li, Chinese student now on Ellis Island awaiting exile to his death in China, the All-Amer- ica Alliance of Chinese Anti-Imper- jalists have issued the following statement: “The deportation of and the re- fusal to grant voluntary departure to 'T. H. Li by the American government means that the American imperialist government, together with the Wall Street bankers consider that those who oppose their bloody rule of death and starvation deserving of nothing Jess than death. For Li’s deporta- tion to China means sure execution at the hands of the tool of American imperialism, the Chiang Kai Shek government, “The All-America Alliance of Chinese Anti-Imperialists, of which T. H. Li is one of the founders, calls n all Chinese workers to unite with the American masses in their com- mon fight against imperialist oppres- sion and for the support of the revo- jutionary movement in China, and other colonial countries. “Only the workers can save 'f. H. Ti from deportation to his death, Every support should be given to the International Labor Defense in its efforts to step the deportation of Li to China. “The Ailiance pledges its full sup- port to the Scottsboro Negro victoms of lynch justice, the Serio and Ka- matsu cases of persecution of foreign born, and to the victims of the Pater- son five who have been framed un for strike activities, “The Alliance also pledges to in- tensify its activity among the Chinese workers to participate in all the struggles of the American workers for freedom.” Who Is Behind Graft and Gunmen In U. S? Why did Governor Roosevelt of New York first promise to “in- vestigate” Tamany graft and then quickly kill the mild charge? The answer to this and many other puzzling questions on graft and gangsterism in the United States || will be given fully in a pamphlet serial to be run in the Daily Work- er beginning Monday, Do not miss Monday's which will contain the first ticle on a complete epose of wor | NEW FAKE RELIE 1 AS JOBS DECREASE and gangsters in the United States, written by Harry Gannes. Here is the story of grait and Surveys Fan Appeals, gunmen from Tammany Hail to ||”, : : the White House. To Cover Multiply Unemployment is increasing every- MASS PICKET NG where. The Philadelphia Feder: Reserve Bank yesterday admitted a decline of a fraction of 1 per cent amount of work far below what it was this time last year and still more below what it was in 1929 in April The situation is so generally bad in New York that the Community Councils have appealed to Hoover to “use your personal influence” to start the $2,000,000,000 government build- | m. “With private business still suffering under the weight of an economic depression, the Councils feel that every possible effort should | be made to stimulate public enter-| FABRICS SCABS Force Wool Trust to General Conference PAWTUCKET, R. I., May 18. — A mass picket demonstration at Gen- eral Fabrics mill began at five a.m. this morning and lasted three hours. Ae ee et Out. The) prise,” they say. ‘Their appeal is in strike stands solid. The workers are| Vain’ as events have proved militant and determined to win 4 Another fake “relief” program, There was an enthusiastic packed mass meeting of workers from many mills Sunday. coupled very lik with a scheme to lie still more about the extent of the unemployment crisis, comes from The National Textile Workers Un-| New Haven, where private agencies ion and the strike committee is rais- | yj) begin a “survey” today. The ing funds for the strike throughout} “survey” does not even promise any the entire Blackstone Valley by means of daily mill gate collections. The committee appeals to the N. T. W. and Trade Union Unity League | “survey.” districts to watch the newspapers for ads about “weavers wanted to leave town,” and to investigate and omrerecnwens | ARE CUT FROM eae 10 T0 60 P.C. The workers in the Weybosset mill of the American Woolen Co., led by More Answers to Lies of Hoover the N. T. W., forced the company Saturday into a conference between Reports of wage cuts mount up. the president and general manager of the American Woolen Co. and de-; The day after Hoover's lying state- ment about “no wage cuts” a flock legates from the workers of A. W. C. mills in Rhode Island and Massa- of additional wage slashing reports are published by the Department of relief, but will be the basis for re ommendations to the state. Only 15 field workers will be used on the chusetis that were cut twelve and a half per cent. A general grievance committee has been formed by the workers led by the N. T. W. It represents the May-| Labor. nard Mill, Waybosset, Manton, and] an associated Press dispatch’ from National-Providence mills in Provid-| washington on May 16 states: ence. This committee will mect the A. W. C. officials in the Weybosset mill tomorrow morning, and present de- mands for restoration of the cut, and local grievances for each mill The time of the conference was set by the workers. There will be a general meeting of A. W. C. workers tomorrow right after work, in Providence, to hear the report of the committee. RAPE-MAD BOSSES LYNCH WOMAN Negro Mother Denied Them Her Daughter FRANKFORD, W. Va., May 18.— Because she objected to the white bosses of this town taking her daugh- ter for “joy rides,” Mrs. Jane Wi: “The Woman's Bureau of the Department of Labor today mad+ public a report that the clerical or white collar worker in New York must have had to adjust her life during the last year to a lower standard of living in order to make her reduced earnings cover the necessities of life.” Wages of woman workers, the De- partment of Labor reports, have been cut from 10 to 60 per cent, in all lines of work. On the same day, the World-Tele- gram reported that unemployment is growing worse, with wage cuts in- creasing. Commenting on a survey made by the Girls’ Service Friendly League, this capitalist sheet writes: “Employment conditions are be- coming worse and the average in- come of wage earners, according to a new survey by Stella Minor, di- rector of the Girls’ Survey Friendly League, has dropped from $5 to $4 per person a wee! “Odd jobs have become normal 50-year-old Negro woman, was bru-| employment for girls and their tally lynched by a boss mob on May 9.| families feel ‘as if they were perched The bosses dragged her into the| on the top of a volcano,’ the report woods and strung her up on a tree. | stated.” Her body was found Sunday morning ioe sarteiecian May 10, by a small white boy. She Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day to day struggles. had been taken from her home about 9.30 p. m. while she was cooking dinner, 672 War Planes Over Dayton; Bosses Call for War on USSR Russia On Monday, when the United States War Department concentrated 672 fighting planes at Dayton, Ohio, for the largest air war maneuvers ever planned, the New York Times carried a report from Paris stating economic campaign of against other countries.” ‘To prepare for this war against the Soviet Union, thé American imper- jalists are massing their fighting planes at Dayton, Ohio, The cost of these few day's manetvers ‘will be]. that the leading imperialists there were preparing for a world imperial- ist block for war on the Soviet Union. The Paris dispatch stated: “In some quarters (in the finan- cial district) the opinion is posi- tively expressed that the drift of things will make necessary a union of other European states to fight Bolshevism in every way, and dis- approve the present program of supplying the Moscow Government with the capital and personnel which is utilized for organizing the over $3,000,000—while not er provided for unemployn « relief for the American workers. after a few days’ gyrating at Dayton, the planes will cover the country to stir up war feeling and to prepare for war, At the same time, General Douglas MacArthur, chief of the general staff of the U. S. army, reports that the army is being mechanized for mod- ern warfare. This requires many hundreds of millions of dollars which the bosses readily find for their war Preparations, WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNETE! Price 3 Cents MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYED DEMAND EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE MAY 27 i Seow Trick - to Evade Hunger Marchers; Tell of Misery State Doe s Nothing Relief Cut Down In Detroit by $400,000 DETROIT, Mich, May 18.—The Detroit city welfare committee boasts that it has cut “expenses” by $400,- 000. They did this by reducing the family allowances to one-half what they were; a family of six children now gets $5 a week. In April they stopped giving out coal. The “Wel- fare” claims “conditions are bette now,” which is a statement » lies in the face of the facts Fisher Eody Plant No. 18 hes re- duced its working time from 45 te 23 hours a week, and M Bods sends its men home at In reaction against ti growing starvation on and off job, the East Side has six new unemployed and they have packed of both Neg i te Money hunger and provisions for The Trade Union Unity League and Unemployed Councils have sent an has been collected for the march on Lansing, May 2%, the marchers open letter to Governor Brucker and the state legislature, scoring the legislature for its plan to shorten its sessions so as not to be in Lansing when the hunger marchers The open letter says: Demand Spee: “The Trade Union Unity Leegue and the Unemployed Councils, to- gether with all affiliated organiza- tions in the name of the unemployed masses of Michigan, demand that if the state legislature is not in session when the hunger marchers present the demands for immediate unem> ployment relief and unemploymer{ insurance on May 27, that you b charged with calling a special ses: sion of the state legislature to dea with no other matter than the issue of unemployment and relief to tie millions confronted with starvation.’ NEGRO PAPERS RALLY TO UNITED FRONT DEFENSE CHICAGO, May 18.—With an edi- torial praising the work of the In- ternational Labor Defense in rush- ing to the defense of the nine Scotts- boro Negro boys, the “Chicago World” this week joins the united front movement to save the lives of the nine young victims of the fright- ful frame-up concocted by the mur- derous Alabama capitalists and land- lords. The “Chicago World” is ap influential Negro paper published in this city. In its editorial on Scotts- boro it declares, in part: “People have said and done many things against the Commu- nists in America, you may not agree with them, bat you will have to agree that they are right in try- ing to prevent the judicial massacre of eight youths accused of raping two white prostitutes, “To them alone belongs the credit for starting the movement to thwart the horrible murder of eight youngsters still in their teens by the state of Alabama. The gov- ernor of that state has refused to intervene, despite the fact THAT the boys say they are innocent, he has washed his hands, and the state of Alabama intends to crucify the boys.” In its current issue the “St. Louis Argus” (St. Louis, Mo.), continuing its support of the International La- bor Defense, adds its voice to the de- mand for a united front to save the boys. ‘The “New York News” and “Har- Jem Home Journal” continues its at- tack on the treacherous policies of the National Association for Ad- vancement of Colored People leader- ship with an editorial in its cur- rent issue, which declares, in part: “The N. A. A. C. P. has been re- leasing statements as to its defense of the nine doomed boys, Dean Pickens proclaims that the I, L. D. and its Red associates are hand- ling that defense. Read his words. read the records of the assoctation relative to Johnson and Pickens, The facts tell who told the great big falsehood.” In San Antonio, Texas, the “Register,” a Negro paper, has en- dorsed the united front Scottsboro defense campaign and is giving it ite ERE 2 ate