The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1931, Page 1

* ad ~“iraders “and~comradest Treason and Corruption in The Scottsboro Case | " Nieedeae the Scottsboro case we are now witnessing a most remarkable demonstration of treason and corruption, Treason on the part of the Negro leadership, the petty-bourgeois intellectuals of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Negro church ministers, who refuse to fight for the lives and liberty of the nine framed up Negro boys and children in Scottsboro, but fight instead against the Scottsboro Defense Committee, and its supporters, the In- ternational Labor Defense (officially representing all defendants and their parents) and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights which first made a national issue of the case after the Communist Party brought it before the country. Flagrant dishonesty, trickery, and ideological cor- ruption on the part of the white “liberals” of the Civil Liberties Union, the “Nation” and the “New Republic,” and their associates of the So- cialist Party. Consider the Negro preachers! From Chattanooga comes the news that the Interdenominational Ministers’ Alliance of Negro Divines has issued its first statement on the Scottsboro case, This is not a defense of the victims of legal lynching, but a vicious attack against that defense, which declares that “if the movement” for saving the boys “is suc- cessful it will tear the South asunder and destroy the peace and har- mony existing for many years.” These Negro preachers want nothing but the “peace and harmony” of lynch law which “for many years” has burned alive hundreds of Negro workers, the “peace and harmony” of the electric chair to which are sentenced the 9 boys, 3 of them mere children of 14 years and less, on the framed up charge of “rape” against two notorious white prostitutes! If this is not treason, then that word has lost all its meaning! Consider the NAACP! Forced by popular indignation to interest itself in the case, it indulges in the most flagrant lying statements to the press, directed against the defense organizations and lawyers approved by the defendants and their parents in a formal document attested in the presence of the Warden and his deputy in the prison, signed before the prison Notary Public. It appeals to the public for funds for the case, but it is spending its money to fight against the defense in the case. It names as its legal representative the same lawyer who in the first trial directly assisted in the legal lynching! And in the paper, “The Crisis,” official organ of the NAACP, not one single word is printed about the whole Scottsboro case! If this is not treason, then Judas was an angel of light! Or consider the gentlemen of the Civil Liberties Union and the Gar- land Fund Committee! These eminent and ethical gentlemen, who utter slanders about the Communists to the effect that we divert money collected for defense purposes to Communist propaganda, they them- selves have diverted the Garland Fund to the opposite purposes to that for which it was intended. In disposing of $100,000 set aside for the struggle for Negro rights, they refused to allot one cent of it to the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, which actually organizes the struggle (32 city conferences this week and next for Scottsboro defense), but give it insteze to the NAACP which uses the money to fight against the Scotisboro defense, and to make anti-Communist propaganda! And in addition, we are informed, they are writing letters to more honest liberals, urging them not to give money to the Scottsboro Defense (recog- nized by the defendants) but to give it instead to the NAACP which fights agaist the defense! If this is not corruption, then Tammany Hall is a hall of pure justice and equity! And consider the Socialist Party! Its paper, “New Leader,” men- tions the Scottsboro case only to utter slander against the defense, to support the NAACP, and to help the southern lynchers. On the same page it prints the picture of its leader, Heywood Broun, and his vulgar clownish writings—the same Broun who, just before entering the Con- gressional elections for the Socialist Party, wrote in the N. Y. Telegram, that he would not attempt to enforce in the South the XIV and XV Amendments to the Constitution which nominally grant citizenship to Negroes! This is the same Socialist Party which, in the South, openly supports the “Southern system” of dealing with Negroes, the system of Jim-Crow and lynch-law! Treason, lies, slander, and corruption are all combined in this outfit which disgraces the name of “socialism”! Negro and white workers! In times like these, when there are only days and weeks to fight for the lives of the Scottsboro boys and chil- dren, you can learn more in one days about the real character of your leaders than inten years of uneventful times. These are the days of testing! Learn from-these facts to know who are your real friends, Learn: to. know who are your enemies. and tae agents of your enemies! Rally with tenfold solidarity and fighting energy to the United Front of struggle to save the Scottsboro boys! Support the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense! Build defense committees in every neighborhood and city! Hail National Youth Day! To All Workers: AY 30th is the day set aside by the boss class of the United States as Memorial Day. It will be a day of parades of soldiers and ex-soldiers, a day of whipping up war spirit. It will be used to the utmost this year to stir up a war spirit against the only country where the workers and farmers rule, the Soviet Union. The militant young workers of the United States, under the leader- ship of the Young Communist League, have set aside May 30th and Bist, as National Youth Days, as days of struggle against bosses’ war and against the conditions of the youth under the system of private profit. This should be greeted by every militant worker. The entire working class must give National Youth Day its heartiest support. ‘The bosses and their government hope on May 30th to get the minds of the American workers off unemployment at home, off wage cuts and lynching. By shouting about the mythical “Red Trade Men- ace,” the boss class is now trying to make the unemployed forget that they are hungry, the employed that their wages are being cut, the Negroes that a Scottsboro lynching massacre is being “legally” planned, the youth that they are being groomed to be cannon fodder in a new war. This year, being a time when their entire capitalist system is shown up in its rotten nakedness as a system of starvation and decay, the bosses will try harder than ever to convince the American workers that the way to get out of the crisis is through a war, primarily a war against the Soviet Union. Above all will the bosses use Memorial Day as a day to win over young workers into the Army and Navy, the National Guards and Citi- zens Military Training Camps. National Youth Day, on May 30th, however, will be a day on which all the struggles of the young workers against militarism and war, against unemployment and wage cuts, against boss class terror and lynching will be reviewed. The struggles of the Rhode Island textile workers now going on, the struggles of the Pennsylvania and Kentucky wniners, in all of which the youth are in the forefront—all these strug- gles will find their reflection in National Youth Day. National Youth Day sets a new tradition for the American work- ing class. Although it is particularly the day of the toiling youth the entire working class must support it, must make it a glorious high point in the struggles of American labor. The Communist Party, which struggles in the interests of the entire working class and leads the struggle of the workers on National Youth Day. The struggles of the young workers are the struggles of the entire working class; the struggles of the working class find the young workers in the front ranks. The main slogan under which the Nep tional Youth Day will be held, “Not a Cent for Militarism; All Wat Funds to the Unemployed!” is a slogan of the entire American working class. Hail National Youth Day, a day of struggle of the American toiling youth! Hail National Youth Day, the beginning of a new, tradition» of American labor! Sah. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. 8. AL Prosser and Frey On. Secretary Doak’s Un- employment Comm. WASHINGTON, D. C., 24.—Secre- tary of Labor Doak has appointed C. A. Prosser, cf New York, head of his new committee to “investigate technological unemployment.” Pros- ser is the head of the fake relief agency which collected $8,000,000 last year from corporation heads (who checked it off their employes wages) to hire men to work in city parks and on other city jobs at $15 a week tee are government officials, an ex- ception being that one os John Frey, head of the Metal Trades Depart- ment of the A. F. of L. and a great believer in class collaboration at the exxpense of the workers, Railroad Shops Shut Down at Greenville, Pa.; 750 Lose Jobs GREENVILLE, Pa., May 14.—The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad shops here close on Monday, “until busi- ness is better”. Seven hundred and fifty men will Jose their jobs. OER cE Scottsboro, Ala., court house in which eight of the nine Scottsboro boys were railroaded to the shadow of the electric chair, with the help of the “defense” attorney, Stephen R. Itoddy, a Ku Klux Klan lawyer now claimed by the N. A. A. C. P. leaders to be representing them, Roddy has been denounced by the bi Dail Central Vol. VIL!, No. 125 Scenes of Scottsboro Lynch Mob, Court and f the mob of 10,000 whict Alabama “trial” was deliberately day and as an added Scottsboro, gro children at their first “trial” at Scottsboro, for the opening of horse-sweppi'y and Fair inducement to neighboring farmers to hn howled for the blood of the nine Ala.; The | ottsboro, Ala., prison in which gz thunder of mass protest art lynch verdict force removal to Birmingham prison whe: visit | Was somewhat less. They are now ir the governor the nine boys were confined until the frame-up and of Alabama. to order th against ape” 4 re the a mob lynching » Kilby prison tntered as d-el: tter at the Post Office © P-L at ice eae wi wtaena tha aas a NEW YORK, Orga (S@iction. of the~- the Comm Ug, W rty U.S.A. ee Sahunist Pa unist WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! OF MONDAY, MAY 25, 1931 Price 3 Cents Issues; ‘‘Daily”’ Faces Suspension; Rush Aid The Daily Worker appears today only because an emergency appeal to the work- ers of the New York district produced enough to issue the Daily for one more day. But will it come out tomorrow and the next days? The answer must be given today by you who are reading this paper and by thousands of other workers and friends of the Daily Worker throughout the country. Worker has conducted has been so slow in has been wretched. Despite the fact that they received their instructions and coupe starting. 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Workers Cheer Mrs. Wright In Packed Scottsboro Protest Meet PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 24.—Registering their determina- tion to smash the Scottsboro boss court lynch verdict against nine innocent Negro children, victims of a murderous frame- up charge of “raping” two notorious white prostitutes, over 800 Negro and white workers jammed the big auditoriam of the Pythian Temple here last Yriday night to pledge their solidarity in the fight to save che nine youths and to hear Mrs. Ada Wright, the mother of two of the boys. AFT AND GANGSTERS — (This is the first of a series of articles on the connection of graft and gangsterism with capitalism in the United States, Starting off with the rise of gangsterism in Chicago, it traces the history of violence in the struggle for graft and boodle. Following chapters will deal with J. P. Morgan's use of gangsters. Graft in New York and Chicago, How the courts work with the gunmen, The story of Mayor Murphy and _ Detroit grait. It follows the march of graft into the white house and shows the close alliance between the fascist development of capitalism and the greater use of gangsters against -the workers.—Ed.) 8. ee By HARRY GANNES. “Bugs” Moran's beer run- boys. trom ners aware getting tieir trucks load of The meeting was an answer to the frightful legal massacre nlanned by the Southern bass courts which have sentenced eight of the boys, all of them under age, several only 14, to burn in the electric chair on July 10. I bootlegg to a speakeasy claim- ed by the Capone gang. They had heard of “Scarface” Al Capone’s threats to put them out of business in the Chicago North Side District. Capone was rapidly consolidating his power. Millions of dollar’s worth of business was involved. Despite Capone’s growing sup- port among the higher officials of the Chicago city govern- ment and police department, a long drawn out fight developed over the spoils. The Moran men kept their hands within easy reach of their automatics. It was an answer, too, to the trait- orous support being given the South- ern boss lynchers by the “Pittsburgh Courier” and the leaders of the N. A. A. C. P. who have been actively sab- otaging the fight to save the lives of the boys. The Pittsburgh Courier had attacked the meeting and the tour of Mrs. Wright to mobilize the masses for the defense of her two sons and the other 7 boys, “Thunderous applause grected Mrs TINURD ON PAGE ) |In Unguarded Speech, Farrell of Steel Trust The Origin of Canesten m and Graft in the U. S. No Funds for Next Few MICHIGAN JOBLESS MARCH ON 4 ROUTES TO STATE CAPITAL Green and Woll Support US. Steel Corp. Pay Cutting Plan Admits Bulk of 1,000 Steel Heads Have Slashed Pay In Most Plants Unstinted praise was given to one of the leaders in the wage cutting drive, James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corporation, by \Wm. Green and Matthew Woll, leading fakers of the American Federation of Labor. Farrell spoke before the American Iron and Steel Institute on Saturday. Over 1,000 lead- ag ont. Setwal head ofthe Bete SENTENCE LUESSE TO ONE YEAR IN BLOW AT JOBLESS lehem Steel Co. had just fin- ished speaking, stating, in one Mass Protest June 4th In Indianapolis breath, there had been no wage cuts, and in the next that wages had been cut through speed up and outright slashing of pay. Then Farrell got up and admitted that nearly all the steel companies had cut wages. Later Farrell tried to have his speech suppressed be- cause he said it was not made for publication. INIDIANAPOLIS, Ind., } Theodore Luesse, secretary of the In- diana State Unemployment Insur- ance Committee and leader of the struggle of the jobless in this city, has been sentenced to one year in prison and to pay a fine of $500. 24 The main point in Farrell's speech admitting wage cuts for all the work- ers in the steel industry are as fol- lows: “When it is said, Mr. President, | This is the retaliation of the capi- that wages have been stabilized in | talist class for the successful and dramatic state hunger march on} the industry—they have not. We are living in a fool’s paradise if we think that every steel manufac- turer in the United States has May 2-4, and an attempt at ter eal izing the workers here into stopping | their fight against evictions of un-| employed families. maintained what is — generally known as the current rates of The particular case against Luesse wages. It has not been done! was his leadership in the fight to stop the eviction of a jobless Negro worker and his family. The charge was “obstructing a le- gal proc The sentence was flicted by Judge Baker, in the cr nal court. ‘There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing. And even among the most-talked- of companies, the companies in the headlines now and then, they do not pay the standard rate of wages when it comes to the rate per hour, I am not going to mention names of all the companies in this room A Class Trial. The trial and the verdict sentence were not bi the sed on any evi- and AGE THREE) | (CONTINUED ON PAC «CONT NUED ON) marking the movement of the machine gun muzzles. Scarce- out of their resting places. They were all sct for a surprise attack by the Capone gunmen. Then without warning ‘the garage doors were flung open. The Moran bunch reached for their revolvers, but were gruff- ly told to put their hands up, and be quick about it. Why did they obey? Not because of the threatening aspect of the blue stcel machine guns and the cluster of revolvers menacingly pointed at them. What struck their eye was the fact that the raiding crew wore official police uniforms. “Just another pinch,” flashed thru!a criss-cross line like a “Z’” ly a groan escaped from the bullet-riddled gangsters as they sprawled on the cement floor damp with booze, motor. oil and now with gullfes**Gr streaming blood. The execu- tion was carried out with the precision of a firing squad. It was like a Chicago stock-yard scene with a row of dead pigs on the moving belt, pervaded by a smell of beer. Who Did the Killing? Who were the executioners the Moran Henchmen’s flabby brains. It wasn’t worth a shooting scrape. They would get out of it by fixing it up with the big boys on the inside. The invaders ordered the Moran gunmen to line up against the wall with their fac- es scraping the bare red bricks. They turned. A few mumbled words and there came the hiss and tear of the machine guns, as several of the “cops” open- ed fire. All seven lined against |Demand Insurance and No Registration of For- eign-Born rough 5 actory Gates Chio Workers Join in Finger Print Protest DETROIT, Mich., May 24,—Along four main lines of march, scores of delegates of the un- employed are marching on the state capital at a |Lansing. They will serve notice on the state government, whose legis- lature has just struck a blow at the whole working class wit h its bill to finger print for- workers, that the it employed work- 1 not starve or en- e W cuts without a struggle. hey will demand no registration. finger printing or blacklisting or de- portation of foreign-born workers, and they will demand unemployment ance from the state for the ing tens of thousands in Michf- this state v n Park-Detroit march- 30 from the heavily indus- section around Detroit, from the auto capital of America, on through Pontiac, through Ortonville, and to Flint. To Flint also com starting at Van Dyke and Roseville, and gath g reinforcements at Mt. Clemens and Port Huron and other cities. Down from the north, to Flint, come marchers from Bay City and Saginaw the marchers All these marchers swing on then from Flint, a great auto manufactur- ing city, cently, rike re- to scene of the Flint s to Johns and south St From : Wi tern Michigan, starting at Muskegon and going through Grand Rapids, the great furniture acturing center, and through Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, the breakfast food city, marchers will ge on eastward to Jackson and then north to Lansing Score Finger Pointing. CLEVELAND, Obie, May 24.—The City Committee for the Protection of reign Born has passed a resolution condgmmiing vigorously the Michigan “fingér printing and registration bill The resolution is being sent to all workers’ organizations with a request that they also adopt it or take sim- ilar action, It is expected that resolutions of protest will come from all parts of the country, Michigan and Ohio be- ing but the first to mobilize against the: most vicious legislation against the working class since the criminal syndicalism laws were passed. The Ohio resolution points out that this state action shows that the war- the wall slumped down in an for Capone? Were ‘they 4. po- even row. From one end of licemen or gangsters? None the wall to the other, there was|°! the capitalist newspapers (CONTINUED ON PAGE eS making Fish Committee proposals for such registration were not empty threats, but a real policy of the busi- ness men of Amerieg “is