The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1931, Page 5

\ i | D AILY WORKER, SCOTTSBORO BOYS, THEIR PARENTS AND KILBY “JAIL, WHERE THE GRIM KILBY PRISON, KILBY, ALABAMA, where the nine in- nocent Negro children are confined as International Labor Defense wages fight to smash attempt of Alabama landlords and capitalists to railroad them to the electric chair two notorious white prostitutes. on the frame-up of “rape” against chair on July 10, lynching. EW Y ORK, SATURDAY. ae Page Five All but Roy Wright have been sentenced to burn in the electric following a murderous frame-up and courtroom Reading from left to right the boys are: Andy Wright, 17; his brother, Roy Wright, 14; Haywood Paterson, 17; Eugene Williams, 14; Willie Robertson, 17; Olen Montgomery, 17; Clarence Charley Weems, 20; Ozie Powell, 14, Scottsboro Defense Conferenees May 23. Buffalo, N. Y., at the-Michigap Avenue “Y.” May 24. Chicago—Forum Hail, 43rd St. New Orleans, La—dAt Marine Workers’ Hall, 308 Charles St. Charlotte, N. C. Hall nto be an- nounced. Rockford, Ill. .Mounced. Youngstown, O., at 334°E. Fed- eral St., at 2.30 p. mo" Rockford. Ill. at Viking Hall. 104-7th St at 2 p. m. Milwaukee—At Labor Temple, 808 Walnut St., at 2:30 p. m. Philadelphia, Pa. At the Knights of Pythias Hall, 19th and Lom- bard Sts. 323 «—E, Hall to be an- May 26. Washington. D. ©.,° Galilean Fishermen’s Hall, 320'F.St., 8. W. at 8:30 p. m. i May 27. Pittsburg, Pa—At the Pythian Temple, 2011 Center ‘Ave. So. Norwalk, Conn., at 12 So. Main St. % May 28 Minneapolis, Minn._ Hall to be announced, . Boston, Mass.—At the Cairo Hall, 528 Massachusetts “Ave. May 29.. Cleveland, Ohio, at.Spiro Hall, 3804 Scoville Ave. - ~ St. Paul, Minn. Hall to be an- nounced. Duluth-Super, r, Minn... Hall to be announced. 6 May 31. Phettanioga:: Tenn.—Hail to be announced. Newark—At 90 Ferry St., at 2:30. p.m. Elizabeth, N. J, Hall'to be an- nounced. St Louis, Mo., at Hibernian Hall, 3619 Finney Ave., at 2 p. m June 2 Hartford, Conn., at 27 Albany Ave. : June 4 Stamford, Conn., at 49 St. 4 Pacific June 5. Springfield, Conn. New Brunswick, N. J—At the Workers’ Home, 11 Plum St. at 2:30 p. m. Indianapolis, Ind—aAt.Odd Fel- lows Hall, 53014 Indiana Ave., at 7:30 p. m. Baltimore, Md.—At>_ Galilean Fishermen’s Hall, 411 W. Biddle St., at 8 p. nt. Gary, Ind. —At 2 p.m. Hall to be announced. June 6 Chester, Pa, at Lithuanian Hall, 4th and Upland Sireets. June 7 Danbury, Conn, at 14 Ives St. Gary, Ind. at Croatian. Hall, 23rd and Washington St., at 2 p.m. June 12 New Haven, Conn., at’ 36 Howe June 13 . NOTICE OF WARNING Towa Official STATE OF IOWA, ; Poftd....... County To. As. Broaks. and fami}; You are hereby notified that 1 Form, 1915, No, 249. Sections 5315 and 5 Je 2745 Aves Ne you are not a resident of Pattawattamie: ....... Mrs. Oxie Walter Whi Jose} cepting Ste Norris, wrote Ozie 18; she was with the NAACP. -Township ‘ County; and as you have, or it is presumed you may apply to said County for aid and support, you are therefore hereby notified to take your departure from this County, and return to the place of yout settlement, as.,...... Potrewaitamis,...... Papen county will not be responsible for your support. Given under. OUT. hand. 8 .. this This notice may be served upon order of the Trustees or Board of Si sworn officer, it must be verified by affidavit. This is the sort of “notice of warning” that is sent to the jobless of Towa as soon as they become actiye in the movement for unemployment relief. not even have to wait until the jobless person actually asks for relief.. “may apply for aid and support”, Many have received such notices, although actually residents of the county. This is an order to the order to get out is issued. get out of the county, and does If “it is presumed” that he One is the case of Thomas Burke and family, 1317 Ave. J., Kane township,.who has lived in the county a year and a movement for unemployment relief, he got one of these noitces on half. Because of activity in the May sre MASS PRESSURE GETS SOME RELIEF Jobless Force Issue In Council Bluffs (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) from $2.50 a week to $7.50 a week; rent to be paid, the minimum rent to be $12 per month; electric lights and gas and other fuel to be provided by the county; the removal of Mary Larson, an Omaha social worker who is acting as assistant overseer of the poor in Pottawattamie County, be- cause of her insults to the workers when they are forced to ask for re- lief as the result of unemployment. Medical care was demanded for the workers and their children, espe- cially for one family by the name of Eennett, who are very badly off and where the wife is about to have a child in an old shack in the slums of the city. The house is located on 17th Ave. When it rains outside it seems to pour into the house, In order to keep dry it is better to move out and to move in after it has stopped rain- ing. A demand also was made for the relief of the single young workers and also couples who have no chil- New Britain, Conn. June 15 _ Bridgeport, Conn., at 57 Cannon St. anit June 17 -- Gary, Ind.—At Croatian Hall. de NES “SCHOOL DAY AND EVENING Commercial—Secretarial- Courses Individual Instruction Open the entire year 14th St. at 2nd Ave.’ N.Y.C, TOmpkins Squaré 6-6584 Enclosed find ... by July 1. Name ... Address Cut out and mail at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York SAVE THE DAILY $35,000 ccc Daily Worker Fund We pledge to do all in ur power to save our Daily dren who up until now have been re- ceiving no relief. Left Singing. ‘The workers left the county build- ing marching through the city sing- ing “Solidarity” and “The Red Flag.” George I. Papsun, J. Bryant and F. Mills were the spokesmen for the committee, but the whole delegation demanded and got an opportunity to speak. This is what the Board ‘of Super- visors, with the huge salaries and little bit of extra change that they get on the side, want a family of seven children, father and mother, to live on for one week: Three pounds of sugar, three pounds of navy beans, two pounds of rice, two pounds of Prunes, one peck of potatoes, one can of corn (small), one can of toma- toes (small), one can of condensed by raising $35,000 milk (14 ounces), one pound of Oleo Margerine, one pound f lard, necan f baking powder (4 ounces), two bars of laundry, 24 pounds of flour (four to do for one month). Farmers Meet. Eighteen farmers agd 14 workers attended a meeting called by the ‘Trade Union Unity League and Un- employed Cotincil of Council Bluffs. The meeting was at Orchards Heights School House, May 18. The farmers were enthusiastic and formed a committee to call a larger meeting on May 25. Other meetings are scheduled. Speakers are E. Newson and George Papeun. Smash Frame-Ups! COME TONIGHT AT 8:30 P. M. TO THE GRAND Ae EC O R aS Concert for the upbuilding of BIRO-BIDJAN, U.S.S.R. asa JEWISH SOVIET REPUBLIC TOWN HALL 43rd Street and Broadway New York City —PROGRAM— Isidor Belarsky Famous Soviet Basso in a program of exclusive new Soviet workers’ and folk songs “Wolk Mandolin Quartet” 1 R Korenman, Pianist in a program of classical music Soviet Motion Pictures Showing Soviet workers building Socialism and the 5-Year Plan in action —TICKETS—. 75e, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 at Box Office of Town Hall. 66 East 4th Street of the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra | in a program of Mozart and Haydn | $35,000 ‘Daily’ Drive Quotas .in .the District 1 (Boston) . $ 1,000 District 2 (New York). + 10,000 District 3 (Philadelphia) 2,500 District 4 (Buffalo) ... 1,000 District 5 (Pittsburgh) .... 1,000 District 6 (Cleveland) . 2,250 District 7 (Detroit) . » 3,500 District 8 (Chicago) . 4,200 District 9 (Minnesota) .... 1,500 District 10 (Kansas City) .. 750 District 11 (Agricultural) .. 100 District 12 (Seattle) ...... 1,000 District 13 (California) 2,000 District 15 (Connecticut) .. 1,000 District 16 (South) ...... on 100 District 17 (Birmingham) . 150 District 18 (Butte) . 150 District 19 (Denver) . - 300 PROVE: 83,0503 \aoa deen nee $32,500 Fraternal organizations are ex- pected to raise $10,000, which will also cover the difference between $32,500 and the total needed, $35,000. Form as Fight Goes On Taking On Organized Scottsboro _.( Campaign (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) organizations are supporting the lo- cal United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference, to be held in this city on Thursday, May 28, at Cairo Hall, 528 Massachusetts Ave., at 8 p.m. Invi- tations and speakers are being sent out from the Provisional United Front Committee, Room 6113, Dudley St., Boston. TU UL Pienic In Grand Rapids Sunday GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 22. ~—All workers of this city and their friends are invited to the big Trade Union Unity League Picnic which will be held Sunday May 24 from 10 p. m. at Cooperative Lake, Admission will be free to all and a fine program of sports and games There is also good swimming facilities, boating and has been organized. dancing. Everybody is guaranteed comradely good time in the fresh air and sunshine of Spring. Those who drive their autos can get there by going north on Plain-~ field Road (US-131) to the junction with M-44, then to the right on M-44 to about 7 miles beyond Bostwick Watch for the signs. There will also be free transportation from Lake. 336 Bond Avenue at 10 a. m, an perhaps another load at about 12 . . . noon. tide. Come early to be sure of - Demand Amnesty ! 25% REDUCTION TO CITY AND UNION WORKERS Have Your Eyes Examineo and Glasses Fitted by WORKERS MUTUAL : OPTICAL CO. ander personal supervision » DR. M. HARRISON Optometrist 215 SECOND AVENUE Corner 13th Street NKW YORK CITY Opposite New York Eye ane €or tnfirmary hae Telephone Stuyvesant 8830 J. E. ALBRIGHT & CO. ADDING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS Sold, Rented, Repaired, and Bought Agents for all makes portables 825 BROADWAY, NEW YORK (Between 12th and 18th Sts.) ‘ ALgonauin 4828 | Airy, Large Mestine Rooms and Hal! TO HIRE Suitable for and Dances in the Czechoslovak |Workers House. Inc. 347: K. 72nd St. New York i Velevhone: Khineianaer 909% tings Lecturee|! Many Hear Moore on Scottsboro Tour ERIE, Pa., May 22.—Over 900 work- ers attended a Scottsboro protest mass meeting on Perry Square last evening. Richard B. Moore, national Negro director of the I. L. D. who is touring the country on the Scotts- boro issue, was the main speaker. Protest telegrams were sent to Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama at Montgomery, Aix., and to Judge J. A. Hawkins at Scottsboro, Ala., de- manding a new trial for the boys. poe sears AKRON, Ohio, May 22.—Richard B. Moore spoke here to a large audi- ence of white and Negro workers on the Scottsboro frame-up. All pres- ent pledged their solidarity with the nine Negro boys and unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the court-room lynching and demanding their release. Copies were ordered sent to Governor B. M. Miller and Judge J. A. Hawkins. a id 4) Campaign Gains In Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 22.—On Thursday, June 4, Richard B. Moore will speak at a Scottsboro protest mass meeting under the auspices of the I. L. D. and the L. S.N. R. The meeting wil Ibe held at the Workers’ Center, at 932 S. Meridian, and will also protest the police brutality aginst the militant workers of this city. | The local united Front Scottsboro !]| Defense Conference will be held on June 5 at the ‘Odd Fellows Hall, 536% Indiana Ave. | On Saturday, June 6, there will be {j| # Mass parade and demonstratoin at ‘|| 3 p. m., starting from 13th and Sen- ate, to protest against the Scotts- boro lynch verdict. Phone: Lehigh 4-1812 Cosmopolitan Hardware ||| & Electrical Corporation | ee Builders’ Hardware, Factory Supplies 2018 2nd AVENUE CORNER 104TH STREET NEW YORK CITY Powell. son in an attempt to trick the phine Powell, mother of 14-year-old Mrs Powell yesterday accused ite, of the NAACP, of lying to her youth into ac- phen Roddy for his defense. White that he had seen his mother and > In Railroading 9 N Leaders CHATTANOOGA, Mi 2.—Point= ing out that the attack on the Scottsboro defense by Stephen R. Roddy, the Klan attorney claimed by the N. A. A. C. P. leaders to be representing them, was deliberately timed to inflict the greatest damage on the fight to save the lives of the nine boys, General George W. Chamlee, International Labor De- fense attorney, today replied to Roddy. Roddy’s attack sera in The Chattanooga Times the day preced- ing the date set for the hearing on the motions of the I. L. D. for new trials for the boys. It constituted a vicious incitement to the southern bosses to carry through their plan- aed legal lynching of the nine in- nocent Negro children. In his statement, General Cham- lee explodes Roddy's argument that he, Roddy, had charge of the de- fense for the boys and that Cham- lee was an interloper. General Chamlee points out-that Roddy was never engaged by either tne nine boys or their parents. Chamlee ex- hibited records to show that while Roddy had been engaged by the In- terdenominational Minister Alliance of Chattanooga he had refused in court to appear as counsel for the boys. The court records quote Rod- dy as saying to the court: “If the court please, I am here, but not as employed counsel by these defendants. But people who are interested in them have spoken to me about it.” General Chamlee points out that the court told Roddy that if he re- presented the boys, the appointment of members of the Scottsboro bar would be automatically cancelled. But Roddy absolutely refused to take responsibility for the defense: : Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 37 WEST 32ND STREET 225 WEST 36TH STREET NEVIN BUS LINES 3ist (Bet. 6 & 7 Avs.) Tel. Chickering 1600 TT ADRT PETA HOURLY 11IW. 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Bosses in Court Room Lynching NINE BOYS ARE IMPRISONED Group of Parents of Scottsboro Boys with Rudolph Baker and Joseph Brodsky, New York attorney of the International Labor De+ fense. Prison to stop betrayal of sons, Photograph taken just before frantic rush of parents to Kilby iChamlee Exposes Roddy’ s Aid 9 Negro Boys YAACP erate asc wantite appear as counsel, but I do want to stay i nand not be ruled out of the case. I just appear here through the courtesy of your honor.” The records presented by General Chamlee shows that Roddy then pro~ ceeded to help the boss court in rail- roading the boys to the electric chair, that he refused to ask for a post~ ponement in order to prepare the defense, that he failed to cross- examine the witnesses for the State, in spite of the fact that their tes- timony was confusing and contra- dictory. General Chamlee then goes on to show that all nine of the boys and their families had signed contracts with the International Labor Defense for their defense, and had endorsed General Chamlee and other lawyers provided by the I. L. D, “I was employed by the parents and -kinsfolk of these boys in con- nection with the International La- bor Defense and this organization has agreed to finance this lawsuit in the main, but in retaining me, in connection with the request of the parents and kinsfolk of the de- fendants and the defendants them- selves, the International Labor De- fense made it clear that I am be~ ing retained as counsel only, and that I am in nowise required or expected to give up my views on any social, political, religious or economic question. This organi- zation asked me to give my sin- cerest and best efforts for the de- fense of these nine boys, in the manner provided by the laws of the state of Alabama and the laws of the land, and this I gladly agreed to do to the best of my ability. Mr. Brodsky and myself are the attorneys in this case, and Mr. Roddy is not employed in it as far we are concerned and his continued criticism has rendered his services to our clients unsatis- factory and undersirable.” Save-the-Daily Drive First Three Days of Only $322 Raised In Only $322.75 was received mp to Friday, noon, in the campaign to raise $35,000 to save the Daily Worker. This is far below the $1,000 a day that is absolutely es- sential if the Dally is to survive, Of the total contributed to date, $200 has been given by the Finnish Federation, leaving very little from other sources, The list of con- tributions follows: United Ukrainian Organiza~ tion, Hempstead, L. T.....3 10.00 Section 1, Unit 1. 28.00 F. X. K., N. ¥. €, sees 20.00 Hungarian Sick & Benefit Society of L. Eivts..c.c00. 5.25 Sec, 10, Jersey City Unit. 6 00 Zimmerman, N, Y, C.. Carl Brodsky, N. Y. C. . Steve Morris, Astoria, L.I... Julius Frame, N, ¥. C. oon A. P. Speigel, Bronx, N. Y. J. Feder, Bronx, N. Y. : Clara M. Renner, Brooklyn. . Red Sparks A. C., N. ¥. C. Hamenbaum, N. Y, © ¥. J. ZN. ¥ C.., 8. Danber, N, ¥. C.. Chas. Kasofsky, Brooklyn.. 2.00 John Paulin, Nyack, N.Y.... 2.60 Finnish Federation ........ 200.00 Total... wager reese $315.75 cr 8 TAL, Scott, Washington, D.C. 1.00 DISTRICT 6. J. Rabin, ClXeland, Ohio.. 5.00 DISTRICT 9. John Bortnick, Minneapolis, MIMO. cosdinceeevecseseoee 1.00 Grand total all districts. .$322.75 The history of all hitherto ex- isting society is the history of class struggle-—MARX. SOL-ART STUDIO! 101 E. 14th Street (Around Corner -of. Klein's) Passport Photos $1.50 PER DOZEN MADE IN 10 MINUTES MOSCOW— LENINGRAD— and return S. S. 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