The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1931 ae Page Three VISITOR WRITES ABOUT LIFE IN GREAT SOVIET TEXTILE MILL CENTER Sierpucher, Once Town Now Modern of Misery for Workers Socialist City 7-Hour Day Exists in All Textile Plants; Build Improved Houses for Workers Daily Worker: Sierpucher, U.S.S.R. “Sierpuchor” is a textile center in the Soviet Union. Be- fore the war it had a population of 30,000, now it has a popu- lation of 700,000. Sierpuchor is surrounded by forests. the outskirts of the city, the Near the forests at rich lived. Now the workers occupy these houses. They use it for the day nurseries, clubs, hospitals and homes. Before the revolution there was no electricity in the whole city, now electricity is installed in the ¢- whole city. Before the revolution only the rich visited the movies and theatres, now every factory has club- rooms and large assemblies. When the workers gather to celebrate their achievements they have at their ser- vice the best actors, movies and con- certs, Before the revolution the workers lived in dark and dirty houses. Now they occupy the biggest and finest homes of their former employees and lackeys. In addition they have built rows of new houses. These houses have all modern improyements, light, heat, ventilation, etc. All the houses with a few exceptions have radios. Before the revolution the workers here worked 10-12 hours a day; now they work seven hours a day. Cooperative Dining Room Every factory in Sierpuchor has a cooperative dining room where the workers are served good meals. The workers are encouraged to eat in the factory dining room so as to free the women from the drudgery of kitchen work. Drunkenness Disappears. Before, as a rule, on a Sunday, the streets were packed with drunkards. Now the workers realize their rest days, which is every fifth day, for study, for physical culture and rest. Even on the May 1 holiday which meant two full’ days off, very few drunkards were seen. The few drunk- ards I met were aged people. Before the revolution there weré pictures of saints on the walls of ev- ery house. Now the walls are deco- rated with photographs of revolu- tionary fighters. Many houses still have the “icon”; these belong to the old in the home. The young people do not object to the “icon” and the old do not object to the picture of the “Tlitch” who is dear to all, young and old. Out of 42 churches 20 have been voluntarily turned into club rooms, 22 are still used as churches. U. S. Workers to Celebrate Completion of Soviet Steel Moscow, U.S.S.R. Dear Comrades: While the American bourgeoisie in the throes of a severe crisis were celebrating on July 4 a revolution long dead, we, a group of Commu- nists from America, England and Canada, together with leading Com- munists of Magnitogorsk, were cele- brating the construction of a new giant of Socialism which was made possible by the proletarian revolu- Magnitogorsk, a giant steel plant 5 going up for the benefit of the Plant Oct. 1 masses—and belongs to the- workers themselves. ‘The speed with which this, as well as all construction is being built, is made possible by mighty enthusiasm of shock tempo and socialist compe- tition. It was in this spirit that our group signed the following agree- ment with the leading comrades of Magnitogorsk: “This places a great responsibility onvus. “We in our countries must widely popularize the achievements in Magnitogorsk as well as the con- struction of Socialism throughout the Soviet Union. Preparations must be made in all centers, especially in the steel centers, for mass celebra- tions on Oct. 1. “Let this Socialist competition agreement serve as a means to fur- ther bind our workers with the masses in the Soviet Union and as an aid in mobilizing our defense of our fatherland—the Soviet Union.” Must Demand Release of Worker Jailed for Selling “Daily Worker” (By a Worker Correspondent) GRAND FORKS, N. D.—John Jer- ome, an active young worker, while engaged in the sale of the Daily Worker was arrested ast Saturday and charged with vagrancy. He was arraigned before Police Magistrate Leslie Ryan, a tool of the capitalist class, and pleaded not guilty and de- manded a jury trial. This was granted after some opposition by the Prosecuting attorney and the judge. Considerable local interest has been aroused in this case and it is believed that the case will set a precedent in Grand Forks County, ‘as no vagrancy case has ever been heard before a jury here. The charge was in reality without grounds, as the vagrancy law of North Dakota states that a vagrant “ds one without visible means of sup- port,” whereas this worker just one day previous had arrived in Grand Forks after having spent sevral days in the harvest fields on a threshing crew near town. He happened to have money in his pocket at the time of his arrest to provide him with food and lodging for a couple of weeks at least. This vagrancy law is a boss law directed against the workers and especially the unemployed. The bosses, through this law, have jailed thousands of jobless workers and put them to work for the state, county or city to work without pay. We must all organize to smash such laws which are written for the sole purpose of keeping the workers in starvation and misery. Join and support the International Labor Defense, which is putting up a determined fight against the vagrancy law. Scottsboro Mother Calls Sioux City Negroes to Get Into Fight Sioux City, Iowa. Dear Friends and Fellow-Workers: I came here for the International Labor Defense to talk to my race and also the white workers and to help raise money to help free the nine Scottsboro boys. One of the boys is mine. ‘ T was ata meeting last night and I only saw three Negroes there, It is too bad to think how hard it is to get our people to gather here, I never saw so few Negroes in, our meetings as I saw here. I have been all over North Carolina, Indiana, * Ilinois, and the Negroes there are just about ready for anything to happen. ‘There is something going to hap- pen, all right, but I am afraid Sioux City will be at the tail end of the Procession. If anyone wants to write to me and find out anything about the case I will be glad to tell them all I can, I am sorry I can’t be here longer and get to see more of you all, but T have to go back to Tennessee so my little girl ean go to school. She has been with me on the trip. I was like so many others, afraid. We have been praying a long time for god to open the way. Now the way is opened and we will have to do some driving. So let's wake up. We have slept long enough, —Mrs, Viola Montgomery. Chicago Workers Pledge to Carry on Fight Chicago, Ill. Daily Worker: The killing of three Negroes by the police in Chicago on Aug. 3 has not affected the courage of the Ne- gro workers in the least. In fact, they are more determined to carry on the struggle against evictions than ever. I was at Washington Park on Aug. 22, where we held a small mass . Uhen volunteers were called {® prevent an evidtion about 40 Against Evictions of the 100 men present raised their hands. While no eviction took place at the time, the spirit of these men indicated that they will not be made homeless without a struggle. Silently and in broad daylight these men marched to the home where an eviction was reported in progress, though each of them knew that Jess than three weeks before three of thelr race had been killed under the seme circumstances, —A Worker. | Autos Needed For Trip to Conference Workers who can lend automo- biles to take delegates to the Na- tional Conference of the Workers’ International Relief to be held at Pittsburgh, August 29th and 30th, are requested to communicate with the W. I. R. headquarters, Room 330, 799 Broadway. Urgent! CHICAGO JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE AT UNITED CHARITIES Demand Relief for 4 Families in Need; Indoor Meeting CHICAGO, Ill, Aug.. 27.—About About 1,000 unemployed workers dem- onstrated again yesterday in front of the United Charities at 1630 Mil- waukee Ave, in order to demand re- lief for four families who have been refused relief. This is the second demonstration in front of the United Charities in the last five days, the first one last Friday being broken up and four ar- rested. The delegation was pre- vented from going inside by the yo- lice, who blocked the office doorway so that the workers would not be abl to present their demnds. About 50 poliace were mobilized for this demonstrtion. However, seeing the militancy of the workers, who were carrying banners and singing songs in a very militant spirit, they did not again repeat the same attack as pre- viously, at which time they broke up the meeting, clubbed and arrested workers. After the demonstration obout 700 of the workers paraded to 2733 Hirsch Blyd., the headquarters of the Unemployed Council, Branch 12, packing the hall to the door, where an indoor meeting was held with about 400 workers and where more than 50 signed up for the Unem- ployed Council. Another delegation was elected to see the Charities again and the Unemployed Council, Branch 12, is preparing a huge mass meeting at 2733 Hirsch Blvd. on Fri- day, Sept. 28, at 2:30 p.m., where a report will be given by the delegates. Unemployed Council, Branch 12, is busy preparing for the Sept. 13 Conference, this demonstration be- Bt 2 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) it was proper for the prosecution to show that there was a connection be- tween the NMU and the Communist International, but improper for Thompson to explain what the Com- munist movement was. The judge carefully explained that it was proper for the prosecution to show that the NMU was “violent and illegal in its activities”, but improper for Thomp- son or any other defense witness to “compare the relative merits of the NMU and the UMWA.” In spite of such handicaps, and occasional reversal of himself by Judge Cummins, Thompson and other defense witnesses managed to show that any miner who wants to struggle to better his conditions can belong to the National Miners Union whether he is a Republican, Demo- crat or Communist, but that the best fighters for the workers were the Communists. The testimony of Thompson pro- ceeded like this: Q: Did you, as prosecution witness- es have testified, make a speech at Beck’s field ordering the miners there assembled to march to Curry field and break up the meeting of the United Mine Workers? A: No, I told them that the Fagan machine was holding a meeting there, that this gang was a strike- breaking agency, that we should go there and show by our numbers that the miners are for the National Min- ers Union and that the UMWA lies when it claims to represent the min- OTS woe Prosecutor: That’s enough of that! Judge: Mr. Thompson, we can't listen to speeches on the relative merits of the organizations. The Commonwealth is interested only in proof that there was a breach of the peace committeed, etc. Q: Did Stella Rasefske call Fagan ville names as prosecution witnesses testify? A: Well, she called him a scab, which he is! Prosecutor: Objection! Thompson stated that he was a Communist. The prosecutor tried hard but failed, to make him admit that his only interest in the strike was to build the Communist move- ment. Thompson testified that as a Com- munist it was his duty to be in the front ranks of any fight by the work- ers to improve their conditions, but that the National Miners Union was an economic organization, a union, struggling to win better wages and ing a part of their preparation, HARLAN TRIALS SENT TO ‘SAFE MINE COUNTIES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED grounds that the grand jury was ille- gally chosen. Judge Jones calmly overruled the defense motion and even threatened to have the defense lawyer hauled up on “contempt” chargs. At the same time he granted the motion of Brock, the state prose- cutor, for the change of venue. I. L. D. Representative In Jail. ‘The case of Steve Hibbard, charged with “banding and confed- erating and injury to property,” was also transferred to Clark County. The prosecutor has also made a mo- tion for a change of venue for four men charged with “banding and confederating,” etc., and the granting of the motion by the coal-operator judge is considered a foregone con- clusion, The defendants are Steve Hibbard, Gilbert Howard, Henry Henderson and Brady McKnab. ‘The T. L, D. is intnsifying its fight to free all the workers now in the Harlan jail, including its Southern representative, Mrs, Jessie London Wakefield, who js in prison on a criminal syndicalism charge under $10,000 bond. ‘The Associated Press reported last night that Jessie Lloyd, correspon- dent of the Federated Press, had re- ceived a letter threatening her life if she remained in the Harlan area. ‘The message, in the spelling of the original, was as follows: “Madam: You have been here to long already and remember to other red neck reporters got what was coming to them so don't let the sun go down on you here. If you do it will be just too bad, We got your number. Hundred per cent Americans. And we don't mean maybe.” Funds Urgent. Two other reporters have been shot after they had refused to leave the county. Two months ago Bruce Crawford, editor of a Norton, Va., paper, was shot in the foot from am- bush, and more recently Boris Israel, a Federated Press man, was shot in the leg and is now in the Pinefield, Ky., hospital. In a statement issued last night the I. L. D. pointed out the urgent need for funds for defense. All funds should be sent to Room 430, 80 Bust llth St., New York City. Delegates to WIR Conference, Notice! Delegates to the National Confer- ence of the Workers’ International Relief, to be held at Pittsburgh Aug. 29 and 30, are requested to report to the W. T..R. offices, Room 510, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, upon their ar- rival at hey ad elty, i . Cassi conditions for the miners and to fight wage cuts and starvation such as the UMWA brought upon them, and that the Communist Party was a political party whose ideals and aims he would gladly explain if allowed, but not connected organizationally with the NMU, etc. All this to the accom- paniment of much objection and ar- gument by prosecutor. and Interna- tional Labor Defense Attorney Ma- rino. Three little girls, miners’ daugh- ters: Edna Macanga, aged 14; Cora Pinnonella, aged 15; and one otehr, testified to marching at the head of the procession from the National Miners Union meeting in Beck's field, Canonsburg, July 19, to Curry field, where Fagan’s meeting was going on. They testified that the miners in the crowd around Fagan cheered the NMU as they came up. They testi- fied that the fight was started by James Malone, Jr., throwing rocks and a chair from Fagan’s platform at NMU members in the crowd. They stated that they belonged to the Min- ers’ Children’s Club. The district at- torney tried in vain by every art of cajolery and by bulldozing and threatening to make them admit that this Miners Children’s Club was the same as the Young Pioneers of America, “What is the object of the Miners’ Children’s Club?” yelled the prose- cutor. “To help our mothers and fathers win the strike,” said Cora, “Don’t you publish a little maga- zine called The Pioneer?” wheedled District Attorney Burchinall. “No,” said the children. “As a matter of fact, your organ- ization gets a paper called the Daily Worker!” yelled Burchinall, belliger- ently. “No, we read that at home,” said the children, “Who comes down to lecture to the ‘Miners’ Children’s Club?” pleaded Burehinall, “I lecture to them,” sald 14-year- old Edna. Anna Rasefske, Mary Rasefske, Thompson, Stanley SBarko, Mike Skwarlo, Mike Sholtz, Edgar Jones (defendant), Thomas Boich (defend- ant), Bessie Kowlenski, and others, testified that they were at Curry field, and saw the fight started by James Malone, Jr., throwing rocky or bricks and furniture at the NMU members. Some saw the man with the revolver on the truck with Fa- gan, aiming at the crowd of miners, and miners’ families, Some tesiified that they heard tre speeches at Beck's field and that there was no order to break up Fa- gan’s meeting, but to come there and show which side the miners were for, and to persuade che miners at Curry field, if there were any, to join the NMU and the strike. Pete Wagner, defendant, tstified he spent the afternoon at the doctor's and at the German Beneficial So- ciety Club at Canonsburg, and was not on either field. James Cunning ham, John Halswand, John Simbeck, Frank Galsh and Frank Mitchell cor- roborated Wagner. This is import- ant, as Pat Fagan, William LEO THOMPSON ON TRIAL SHOWS NMU AS REAL FIGHTING UNION ten swore among their other lies, that they saw Wagner at Curry field, cursing, and swing a nlub. If they lied about Wagner, the rest of their stories are not credible. Certain prosecotion witnesses con- tradicted each other during the two days: International Organizer Dow- lings of the UMWA and Special Bank Guard Pullich say they saw Greene (Negro defendant) tear down the American flag from Fagan’s truck. But UMW International Organizer Hannaway says it was McQueen (an- other Negro defendant) who tore down the flag, and says that still another defendant, Stark, tore down still anoher flag. Stark, McQueen asd Green all testi- fied that they did not touch any flag there. McQueen came only a little way onto the field and left when the fighting started. Stark was busy sell- ing tickets to a picnic and took no notice of the fighting. Greene was selling tickets all day at a National Miners picnic in Wolfdale, and was not near Curry field. Prosecution witnesses also contra- dicted each other as to who was lead- ing the parade, If trere were any assurance that a reasonably fair jury was sitting the case should result in a verdict of not guilty immediately after going to the Jury. ‘The first daf, when the jury was selected, all.witnesses and the public and press were barred from the court room. Tuesday, when the prosecu- tion testified all day, all witnesses were admitted and the public and press if there were room. Wednesday (today) when defense witnesses testi- fied, most all witnesses were barred until called, the press was admitted, and the public very grudingly and with discrimination. Ordinary min- ets were kept out, and UMWA fakers allowed in. Bajliffs (called here “tipstaves”) roamed around, preventing the vis- itors from taking notes on the trial, or bringing any written or printed matter in. A miner who had found @ couple of pictures in a newspaper, showing James Malone swinging a table to throw it and standing with his hands full of rocks for throwing (though he testified he never did either) entered to give the paper to the defense attorneys. He was imme- diately thrown out bodily. He dropped the paper in the hands of another visitor, who didn’t know what it was. The commotion made by the tipstaves trying to throw out this second man for merely getting the paper (although all this -was at recess time-and the court was not In session) attracted the attention of Defense Attorney Schwartzbart, con- sulting with Marino, and he came down and took the paper. The two pictures immediately appeared in evi- dence, and will be hard for Malone and his friends to explain. 400 WORKERS IN AUGUST 22 MEET Honor Sacco Vanzetti Despite Cops Attack TRONWOOD, Mich. Aug. 23—A Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration was held here at 7:00 p. m. yesterday. The demonstration was called to be held at the Chicago & Northwestern Park, which is the property of the U, S, government. We were warned by the police several times that we could not hold our meetings there. Nevertheless, we mobilized our de- fense group and pfoceeded to open up the meeting at the above-named park, Shortly after the chairman at- tempted to open up the meeting, the police made their appearance and broke up the meeting. The park has been used for quite some time for parking cars and large groups of men can often be seen sleeping on the grounds, but, if the working class wants to hold a short meeting there, nothing doing. However, before dispersing, one of our speakers got up and called upon the workers to follow the truck to International’ Youth Day Meetings Under the leadership of the Young Communist League and the Communist Party many or- ganizations will take part in the mobilization of the youth and adults to demonstrate against bosses’ militarism and war prep- arations on Sept. 8 So far the districts have reported the meet- ings in the following places. Many of these will be with ‘pa- rades through working-class sec- | tions. All of these demonstra- tions will take place in the eve- ning. District 1—Boston, Mass. Bos- ton Commons; Providence, R. I., City Hall; Worcester, Mass.; Lynn, Mass. Peabody, Mass.; Gardner, Mass; New Bedford, Mass.; Pawtucket, Mass.; May- nard, Mass.; Fitchburgh, Mass.; Norwood, Mass.; Lawrence, Mass.; Lowell, Mass. District 2—New York City; Pat- erson, N. J.; Passaic, N. J.; Eliza- beth, N. J.; Newark, N. J.; Perth Amboy, N. J.; Linden, N. J.; Jer- sey City, N. J. District 3—Philadelphia, Pa.; Tigo, Pa.; Trenton, N, J.; Balti- more, Md.; Washington, D. Chester, Pa.; Reading, Pa.; Al- lJentown, Pa. District 4—Buffalo, N.Y., Broad- way Auditorium; Rochester, N. Y., Washington Square; Syracuse, N. Y¥., Hanover Square; Niagara, N. Y. Welch St. District 5—Pittsburgh, Pa., Hill Section; Allegheny Valley, New Kensington; Avella, So, Burgetts- town, Pa.; Bentleyville, Mononga- hela City, Pa.; Brownsville; East Ohio, Wheeling Riverside Park; McKeesport, Versailles, Pa.; Can- onsburg, Washington, Pa.; Li- brary, Bridgeville, Pa.; Ambridge. District 6—Youngstown, Ohio, East Federal and Basin; Mans field, Ohio, Scandinavian Ha Maksilon, Ohio, City Hall; Cleve- land, Ohio; Collinwood, Ohio, Waterloo, 156th: District 7—Detroit, Mich.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Battle Creek, Mich, District 8—Chicago, Tll., Wash- ington Park; Milwaukee, Wis.; St. Louis, Mo., City Hall; Gary, Ind.; re, TL; Cicero, Iil.; Ben- mn, Il.; Hammond, Ind.; Ractine, Wis.; Kenosha, Wis; Granite City, Tll.; Chicago Heights, Ill.; West Allis, Wis.; Rock Island, Ill.; ‘Waukegan, Tll.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Indiana Harbor, Ind.; Bennile, mM. District $—Minneapolis, Minn.; St. Paul, Minn.; Duluth, Minn.; International Falls, Minn.; Ely, Minn.; Bemidju, Minn.; Cook, Minn.; Virginia, Minn.; New York Mill, Minn.; Superior Wis.; Owen, Wis.; Iron River, Wis.; Hancock, Mich.; Ontonagan, Mich; Iron River, Mich.; Ironwood, Mich.; Negaunee, Mich.; Soult Ste. Ma- rie, Mich. (border demonstration). District 11—Columbus, N. D.; Williston, N. D.; Belden, N. D.; Frederick, S. D. District 12—Seattle, Portland, Ore. District 13—San Francisco, Cal., Post and Fillmore; Berkeley, Cal., University and San Pablo; Stock- ton, Cal., Hunters Square; Los An- geles, Cal.; Oakland, Cal., 7th and Peralta; Sacramento, Cal. Plaza Park. District 15—Hartford, Conn.; New Haven, Conn.; Stamford, Conn.; Springfield, Conn.; Bridge- port, Conn.; Plainfield, Conn.; New London, Conn. District 17—Charlotte, Mill Villages (2). District 17~Atlanta, Ga.; Tam- pa, Fl.; New Orleans, La.; Chat- tanooga, Tenn, District 19—Denver, Colo.; -Salt Lake City, Utah, Wash.; N. C5 the Farmers’ Market Suare, where we continued our meeting. After a short meeting was held, attended by approximately 400 workers, we pro- ceeded to the Palace Hall, where a rogram was arranged. At this program we had four speakers, including a Pioneer speaker. Before adjourning, a resolution, de- manding the immediate and uncon- ditional release of the Imperial Val- Jey prisoners and also of Mooney and Billings, was read and adopted. BRITISH LABOR PARTY “OPPOSITION” AID MDONALD BY TALK, NOT ACTING {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) thereby to get the votes of the work- ers in the next election, MacDonald, just before he left for his vacation, issued a letter to all members of parliament in the Labor Party urging them to support his stand. A complete statement of the at- tacks the new government will launch against the British workers will be published by MacDonald be- fore Sept. 8, when parliament opens to put through these plans. The only detail now out is that the unem- ployed will be hit through a cut in unemployment insurance. This “opposition” reaches to the United States, where the Rev. A. J. Muste, staunch supporter of the American Federation of Labor strike- breakers, and “left” socialist be- traying the American workers, joins in with Arthur Henderson in berat- ing MacDonald. Muste speaks out because he has been urging the American workers to build a Labor Party of the British type, with Muste in the role of MacDonald. Now Muste needs must ‘do some explaining. Hence Muste rushes in to the de- fense of Arthur Henderson—the Hen- derson who during the last world war helped British imperialism slaughter millions of workers and in the late MacDonald = government helped slaughter Indian workers and peas- ants. Muste wants the workers to have faith in MacDonald's comrades-in~ arms, who just yesterday rubbed el- bows with him, and whose policy is no different fundamentally. Muste tells the American workers: “The opposition of the Trade Union Congress and the Independent Labor Party to the MacDonald betrayal is encouraging. It is to be hoped that |Ala. Legion Hits Communists = For Fight for Negro Rights (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | dition warrants. The production of a witness willing to lie that he saw | Thompson on the night of the crime indicates that the bosses are persist- ing in their plans of framing up | Thompson. In the meantime, the terror against | local Negro workers continues with | the Negro reformists still working hand in glove with the boss lynchers. | Harry Brown, a Negro worker, is | being held in the county jail on a | fake charge of “attempting to at- | tack” a white woman at Lovick, Ala An unknown number of Negro work~ ers are being held in Birmingham jails on a technical charge of vagrancy, As reported in the Daily Worker yesterday, the fascist American Le- jon Communism. The executive com- mittee of the Legion has appointed a committee to see that the Alabama Legislature passes new anti-working class laws especially directed at il- legalizing the Communist Party. structed to name a committee to carry on the attack in its territory against the working class movement. Attack Communists as Defenders of Negro. That the attack against the Com- munist Party is directed especially against its relentless fight for Negro rights is openly admitted in the fol- lowing statement issued by the Le- gion’s executive committee: | “It has come to the attention of the department executive committee that a horde of Communists has | descendeded upon our state spread- ing a flood of propaganda opposing our form of government, our social conditions, our race relationships and all the bases upon which our so- ciety rests, advocating race equality, gion is being mobilized for the fight | | Bach post in the state has been in- | “The legal decision condemning the Negro rapists in the Scottsboro cases, the action of authorities in Tallapoosa County (massacre of Negro croppers——Ed. Daily Worker), means used in Jefferson County to find the Negro murderer of two girls (Birmingham police terror | against- Negro workers.—Ed. Daily Worker), our system of race segre- gation are being viciously attacked by paid agents of the Communist Party and by literature in its name.” To this is added the hypocritical statement that “The Legion believes | in free speech, it condemns violence.” The Legion further declares it will continue to work for the continued suppression of the Negro people: “It (the Legion) will work for the orderly government and peace in | race relationships, which we in this state must have.” Same Language Used by N.A.A.C.P. | It is to be noted that this is the same language used by the mislead- ers of the N. A. A. C. P. who are in | complete accord with the plans of the Alabama bosses and their fascist Legion tools to suppress the strug- gles of the Negro masses.’ It is in these same terms—of maintaining the present “harmonious race rela- tionships” in Alabama—that Pickens and Walter White attack the Com- munists. The Alabama bosses and | their white and Negro tools will not succeed in driving the Communist Party out of Alabama. Nor will they succeed in crushing the struggles of the Negro mastes organized and led by the Communist Party. Negro and white workers of the North! Rally to the defense of the working class of Alabama! Support the fight to free the nine Scottsboro boys! Support the demand for the right of self-determination for the Negro majorities of the South, with confiscation of the land of the rich land owners for the white and Negro workers who till the land. destruction of law and authority by force and violence. For United Mass Struggle to Release Mooney and All Class-War Prisoners (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE? tions of Russian workers in Leningrad, had prevented the state of Cali- fornia and its A. F. of L. agents from hanging them. From such a so-called “united front” is excluded one thing—the mass action of the workers; a “united front” dominated by the officials and their reactionary policies. Second, there is the genuine United Front—the United Front of the working masses. If all that Mooney has said in his latest pamphlet in regard to the reactionary trade union officials who deliberately helped | the effort to hang him is true, the united front of the working masses ‘cannot be a united front with the agents of the police and the state who | -hold the position of “leaders” and who would continue to be in any such false “united front,” not for the purpose of releasing Mooney and the | other class war prisoners, but to continue to act as the agents of the dic- tatorship of capital in keeping them in prison. In any genuine united front for the release of Mooney and all class war prisoners, there would also be something missing—the bureaucracy and the agents of the dictatorship of capital (both open and concealed agents) whose profession is strike-breaking and disruption of the revolu- tionary movement and its organizations. t us all work in common for the Social Revolution.” says Tom Mooney. And in the last analysis, it is true that those who will today fight for the class war prisoners will in the practices of their common action learn the necessity to fight for the social revolution tomorrow. But will Matthew Woll, Sidney Hillman, Morris Hillquit and the Reverend Muste “work in common” with the working class “for the social revolution”? Their business is to fight against the social revolution—against the work- ing class interests in every way, and in this united front action these men can only be traitors, The Communist Party calls for a united front of all honest workers, of all members of our class, all members of every workers organization— of all workers whether they have yet come to revolutionary views or not, so long as they be loyal to their class. We call for the united front to fight uncompromisingly for the release of Tom Mooney and all class war prisoners. Demand the release of Tom Mooney! Demand the release of the arrested strike leaders of the Imperial Valley strike! Demand the release of the nine innocent boys framed up for death at Scottsboro! Demand the release of the militant coal miners slated for death and prison by the coal operators at Harlan, Kentucky, for their heroic defense of their class against the company gunmen and sheriff's thugs! Demand the release of the 100 coal miners slated for long prison terms or death at the hands of the coal companies in the Pennsylvania- Ohio coal strike! Demand the release of the members of the I.W.W. who have been tortured in prison for 12 years as the aftermath of the Centralia case! Put a stop to the persecution and deportation of the foreign born workers! Demand the release of all the other countless numbers of workers languishing in the bastilles of capitalism for their loyalty and militancy in the struggle for our class. “- The Communist Party proposes to the Unemployed Councils, now organized in 190 cities, that the banner of release of Tom Mooney and the other class-war labor prisoners be raised in the coming National Hunger March to Washington for the opening of Congress. We propose that this demand be made a part of every local, county and state Hunger March during the coming 3 months leading up to the National Hunger March to Washington. We propose that a National demand upon Congress to release Mooney and all class war prisoners shall be made and presented to Congress. We propose that at the same time a special mass campaign be or- ganized for and in the State of California to march to the State Capital and there to present en masse the demand of the working class of the entire world that Mooney, Billings and their fellow-victims be freed. We offer to the masses of workers no illusions, The agents of the big banks and industrial corporations who constitute the United States Congress will not willingly grant the slightest part of these demands, but only thru the determined pressure of the laboring masses can anything be wrung from their hands. Mooney’s freedom, and the freedom of all the other hundreds of fighters of our class now being tortured in capitalist jails will be won by the hands, not of “kind-hearted” agents of capitalism in Congress or of strike-breaking trade union burocrats—but of the masses of workers. ‘The Communist Party calls upon these masses to act. Organize and March Against Hunger and Evictions (By a Worker Correspondent) know we workers will refuse to die NEW YORK, N, Y.—Capitalists| of starvation this winter. ‘They know the false leaders will be thrown out|®@re preparing to evict workers this of the party and that the party itself | winter. They also know workers will be reorganized on a more militant | bring back the furniture into the and genuinely labor base.” homes. They know we are organ- While the “opposition” works out | ized, are organizing, to die prevent- its own plans to “save British fi-|ing evictions. Didn't we already nance”, while it claims to be more | Show this in Chicago? patriotic to British imperialism than| Will cops, guns and clubs force MacDonald—because they say Mac-|evictions? No! And that’s why Donald acted under Wall St. dicta- | Hoover convenes his thugs to “study,” tion—Muste asks the American work- | “appoint,” “prepare.” Remember ers to support these strike-breakers | this, comrades. of the Muste type in England,” “5 SF, } \. NOW, What sbeut food? Our ‘ae manrsh, srush apd that just as we are organizing to prevent evictions we will organize, march to the food storehouses and demand food. And this, comrades, is another reason for this “studying” at Hoover's school. Let us openly declare this war against our enemies who burn and destroy the food we produce. They burn and destroy our food to exploit and starve us. Let us organize, mash.