The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1932, Page 3

v +5 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1932 PLAN EXPOSE OF U. M. W. A. PITISBURGH, Pa.—The National Board of the National Miners Union is planning a big fight of exposure in connection with the U. M. W. A. convention to be held in Indianapolis on Jan. 26. In regard to the election for del- egates to the U. M. W. A. convention, a stiff fight will be made for the election of opposition delegates. The fight will be made on the basis of the opposition program—militant struggle against wage cuts and for improved conditions, for unemployed insurance, against the checkoff, for the 6 hour, 5 day week, for recognition of a broad mine committee, removal of U. M. W. A. officialdom, reduction of official salaries, for Negro demands, etc. The Kentucky-Tennesee strike is to be brought forward sharply, as is the A. F. of L. and U. M. W. A fakers stand against’ unemployment insurance. LABOR UNITY OUT FOR FEBRUARY Important directive articles by leaders of the red unions and leagues feature the February issue of the Labor Unity magazine. Herbert Ben- jamin writes on “The Unemployed Groups—Their Structure and How They Should Function.” The rela~ tionship between the block commit- tees and the Unemployed Council is nere clearly explained. An article by Foster on Kentucky. is another feature. Such articles as “Who Will Lead the Building Work- ers” by L. Bravey and “In the Shoe Industry” by I. Rosenberg, stress the importance of the United Front from Below in building the TUUL unions and leagues into mass organizations. A thorough analysis of the short- comings and achievements of the Marine Workers Industrial Union is made by Ralph Simons. Utilization of the united front tactic, systematic work in the A, F. of L. unions are called for. The question of our attitude to- wards wage agreements has long needed discussion, and gets it now in an article by J. Smith. ‘There are articles by leaders in the TUUL work in New York—“The ‘TUUL in New York” by John Steuben and “The United Front,” by Joseph Zack. New departments include “Life of the Unions and Leagues,” and “With the TUUL in the Districts.” BUILDING TRADES OPPOSITION PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The possibili-~ ties for developing revolutionary op- positions in the A. F. of L. building trades locals in Pittsburgh are great. ‘The members of Plasterers Local 31 have passed a resolution condemning the stand of the leadership of the A. ¥F. of L, against the Unemployment Insurance Bill. On Feb. 1, 30,000 building trades workers will be locked out in Pitts- burgh. These workers represent ap~ yroximately 27 crafts. A committee of six is in conference with the Mas- ter Builders, supposed negotiating a settlement in reality negotiating a sell-out. The 25 per cent wage cut declared by the Master Builders Ex- change is in violation of the agree- ment with the unions. The TUUL has not yet begun to carry out the plans it made in connection with the lockout. The situation offers tre- mendous opportunities for the TUUL to gain a foothold in the A. F. of L. unions and building great influence throughout the lockout. ALLENTOWN GETS ORGANIZER _ALLENTOWN, Pa.—In the opinion of National Textile Workers Union organizers, a strike may egain break out in Allentown in a short time. The conditions of the silk mill work~ ers has reached the stage since the jJast strike where the workers are making $6 to $7 for two weeks. They have been given one wage cut after another in the past two months. ‘The U, T. W. has resumed activity here, planning further betrayais. The N. T. W. U. last week called together a group of workers and plans for activity were worked out. The N. T. W. U. organizers will visit Allentown weekly and hold meetings with the organization committee of textile workers which was formed Jast week. Open forums will be held in addition to mill group meciings. An N. T. W. U. organizer is stationed here. UNABL E TO SHAKE STORIES OF WORKERS IN TAMPA TRIAL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE ONE) ner demanded to know. “No, Sir,” Yorquina answered qeletly but firmly. Judge Petteway brone in: “On whom are you calling to help you keep your oath?” Yorquina answered: “I told the trath in my own words.” Contrasted with the contradictory and hesitant stories given by the police and the stool pigeons, Skinner was ynable to shake the clear, con- sistent testimony of the workers. He hammered away at them with dozens of questions in his frantic efforts to confuse them and get them to con- tradict each other, but with no avail Jose Campa, a cigarmaker and novelty salesman, told how he wasn’t even in the Labor Temple at the time of the raid, but was arrested when he protested and tried to help two women who were receiving brutal handling from the police as they were being taken to the jail. - SMASH GIRLS EVIDENCE AT ALA. HEARING (CONTINUED FROM PAGE OSE) preme Court adjourns at 1 o'clock. Court Threatens Working Class. Chief Justice John ©. Anderson opened the hearing this morning with the statement that for weeks the Su- preme Court had been bombarded by protest telegrams and resolutions “some revolutionary in character.” He @ated that if he had senders of the telegrems and resolutions within the Jurisdiction of the Alabarna Supreme Court he would cite them all for con- tempt of court, As the protests were sent by organizations and mass meet~- ings representing millions of workers the Alabama court would have rather a stiff job. The statement of the Chief Justice reflects the fear of the white ruling class in the face of the growing united front fight of white and Negro workers against the lynch terror. Chamlee was the first of the de- tense attorneys to argue the appeals. He read an article from the Jackson County Sentinel (published in Scotts- boro, Ala.) of March 25 calling the boys “black fiends” and “Negro brutes” and declaring that they were “all identified” and “all guilty’. Chamlee then cited the court records to prove that the Sentine! deliberately ongaged in a vicious campaign of lyneh incitement against the boys and that the boys were tried in a lynching Chamlee asked why the seven white boys who were jailed with the Negro lads and the two white girls were not put on the stand in the Circuit Court at Scottsboro. He brought out but no such crime took place on the freight train. He showed in a clear analysis how Ruby Bates and Vic- toria Price had contradicted time and again their own testimony in the lynch trials, and how no supporting testimony was produced by the State to verify the stories of the girls. Destroys Evidence of Victoria Price. He declared the fifteen affidavits obtained since the lynch trial at Scottsboro throw new light on the girls and the evidence they gave. He read into the records the affidavit by Percy Hicks, fireman of the freight train, in which Hicks declares he saw the girls in the box car and not in the gondola in which the Negro boys were traveling. He later saw the girls tunning from the train, and saw the Negro boys being taken from various parts of the train. He had seen the two girls a week previous bumming a tide to Chattanooga. This testimony destroys the entire story of Victoria Price. Schwab then read affidavits prov- ing that the girls were notorious pros- titutes. Even the counter affidavit by the State says that the Bates girl was @ good girl until she met Victoria Price. Brodsky Electrifies Court. The LL.D. attorneys demanded a new trial for the boys on the new evi- }dence presented and on the charac- ter of the two sole witnesses against the boys. Joseph Brodsky made a masterful appeal, Those present in the court were electrified as he told how the boys were convicted while lynch gangs packed the court, paraded outside and cheered the first convictions. Brodsky brought out the fact that Negroes were excluded from the jury and the jury panels. He told how four .|jurymen admitted that they heard the mob cheering and a band playing “Hail, the Gangs All Here” in cele- bration of the first death verdict, and while second trial was in progress. He quoted the statement of Stephen Roddy, N.A.A.C.P. attorney, who be- trayed the boys, that “I am not pre- pared. I do not know laws down here. would be better if I stepped out.” *|'To the Young Workers of the World: | 9 BOYS AND MOTHERS ASK MASSES AID MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 21.—The following appeal from the eight innocent Scottsboro Negro boys confined in the death cells at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama, is directed to the young workers of the whole world. From the death cells here in Kilby Prison, eight of us Scottsboro boys, is writing this to you. We been sentenced to die for some- thing we ain't never done. Us poor boys been sentenced to burn up on} the electric chair for the reason that | we is workers—and the color of our | skins is black, We is none of us older than 20, Two of us is 14 and| one in 19 years old. What we guilty of? Nothing, but being out of ajob. Nothing but look- ing for work. Our kin-folk was starv- ing for food. We wanted to help them out. So we hopped @ freight— just like any one of you workers might a done—to go down to Mobile to hunt work. We was taken off the train by a mob and framed up on rape charges. At the trial they give us in Scotts- boro we could hear the crowds outside yelling, “Lynch the Niggers.” We could see them toting those big shot- guns. Call ‘at a fair trial? There can't be no fair trial for a black man down South here. And while we lay here in jail, the boss-man make us watch ’em burn- ing up other Negroes on the electric} chair, “This is what you'll get,” they says to us. What for? We ain't done nothing to be in here at all. All we done was to look for a job. Anyone of you all might have done the same thing—| and got framer up on the same charge | just like we did. Only ones helped up down here been the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights. We don’t put no faith in the National Association for the Ad~ vancement of Colored People. All they do, try to stir up trouble. They give some of us boys eats, to go against the otherboys who talked for the ILD. But we wouldn’t split, no- how. We know our friends and our. eneinies. Working class boys, we asks you to save us from being burnt up on the electric chair. We’s only poor work-. ing class boys whose skin is black.) We shouldn't dic for. that. ‘We hear about working class people | holding meetings for us all over the| world and in Soviet Russia. We asks | for more big meetings. ItTl take a lot of big mestings to help the ILD and LSNR to saye us from the boss- man down here. Help us boys. We ain’t done noth- ing wrong. We are only workers— ike you are. Only our skin is black. | Signed, Andy Wright, Heywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, Willle Robert- son, Olie Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Charles Weams, Orie Powell. Issued through the United Front Scottsboro Defense Committee (Youth Committee). * CHATTANOOGA, Jan. 20 The mothers of the eight inno- cent Scottsboro boys, who have been railroaded to death sen- tences in Alabama, makes the following appeal to the toiling mas- ses of the whole world to rally to the mass fight which alone can save and free their boys. The hearing of the appeals filed by the attorneys of the boys and the International Labor Defense comes up before the Ala~ bama Supreme Court today. Recog- nizing the role of the courts of the ruling class, the boys and their par- ents place their faith in the work- ing class. ‘Workers! Rally in tremendous pro- test demonstrations and by imme~- diate contribution of funds to the de- fense of these innocent boys. Rush protest telegrams to Gov. B. Miller of Alabama and to the bama Supreme Court at Montgomery, Ala. Rush funds to the Internation- al Labor Defense at 80 Hast 11th St., New York. The appeal of the moth- ers follows: To the working class mothers of the world:— We are the mothers of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys who have been sentenced to die on the electric chair. The world knows our poor boys is innocent. We appeal to all working class mothers to help us save our boys from being killed. It might have happened to any working class mother’s boy. We've been starving all our lives and forced to live from hand to mouth, working for as low as $2.50 a week down here in the South and our boys wanted to go out and find work to help us out. We didn’t want to let them go be- cause they are almost only babies. One of them is thirteen years old, and two only fourteen. The oldest ain't over twenty. And now here they is in Kilby prison waiting for the electric chair. For something they ain't never done. ‘They was put in jail at Scottsboro on frame-up. Everybody knows now they never did committ that rape the boss-men down here charge them with. They was framed up only be~ cause they are working class boys, and because they are Negroes, That is all. Nothing else, ~ ‘They have been saved from the electric chair so far by the working (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) forth the demands the welfare asso- ciation tried to split up the delegation by going among them asking indi- vidually if they wanted help if so they would give them relief, to go upstairs to the desk. This Family Welfare refused to send relief to those needy families stating that each one had to apply for himself, and they would take care of them. Workers of the Hill have ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 21—St. Louis is preparing for a National Unem- ployment Day Feb, 4th demonstration at City Hall, 12th and Market Sts., |which is a continuation of the work of the National Hunger March to unemployed of this city don’t intend to starve but will fight. The unem- ployed workers are starving every day while the bosses make more profit. The St. Louis Dairy Co. cut 25 per PORT CHESTER, N. Y. Jan. 21— With a flaring streamer stating, “Board Forbids Labor Mass Demon- stration,” the Daily Item here an- nounces that the police have refused | @ permit for the February 4th demon- stration here for unemployment in- surance. ‘The Daily Item report the nego- tiations for a permit for Feb, 4th follow: *“Tur police here are well able to take care of any such trouble that may arise and don’t. forget: it,” was the sharp warning issued by Village President Halsey J. Munson to rep- resentatives of the “Port Chester Unemployed Council’ last night when the spokesman for that vaguely de- show the bosses of St. Lauis that the | Page ‘Tiree Expose Pittsburgh Welfare; Call } For Huge Feb. 4th Mass Protest DEMAND RELIEF been to this Welfare as many as six times and received only promises. The Welfare is clearly carrying the present starvation program of the bosses. The Unemployed Council will hold | a mass protest meeting Sunday night | at the Workers Center, Ave., 7.30 p. m., and expose this fake relief program to the workers, ‘The only way to relief for the worekrs is to fight, demand it, demonstrate Feb. 4th, everybody on the streets. | St. Louis Workers to Gather At City Hall, 12th and Market Streets cent. The women workers of the Nut | factory were forced to take a wage | cut. They were making $2 per week | picking nuts, now they only get $1.50. The bosses of East St. Louis plan a 10 per cent cut for the city em- ployes, The fake St. threatened to arrest all who ra’ their voices at these charities relief. charities in for Hold Port Chester Feb. 4th Demonstration Despite the Cops. fined body hinted at ‘trouble’ because the board of trustees had refused the ‘council's’ application for permission to hold a ‘massed demonstration’ here on Feb. 4, ago appeared before the Trustees and demanded, among other things, that the unemployed be given cash relief allowance instead of orders for food, clothing, etc. represented the “coun~ cil again last night. Questioned as to the purpose of the proposed “dem~ onstration,’ Lazadasio replied simply that it was “te help the unemployed.” ‘The Unemployed Council announc- ed it would call on the workers to demonstrate and would expose the efforts of the bosses to try to keep the unemployed starving quietly. BOSS PRESS ADMITS CHINES MASSES TURNING TO COMMUNISM AS ONLY WAY OUT FOR THEM (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) China. These admissions are made in 2 cable to the New York Times from its Far Eastern correspondent, Hallett bend. The dispatch reports that “the Kuomintang party has lost the con- fidence of the people,” It admits that “even in the Peiping Tientsin area” this is strikingly evident.’ ‘Students, labor unions and other elements are openly denunciatory of the Kuomintang in Pelping and Tientsin, while in Shans! province students have established a ‘People’s Tribunal,’ which now is presuming to try Kuomintang officials for alleged misdemeanors.” There is everywhere, the dispatch reports, “a decided swing to the Left.” The dispatch admits that there are only two political parties in China, the discredited and rapidly disin- tegrating Kuomintang party of the Chinese landlords and bankers and ot the foreign imperialists, and the Communist Party whose influence is growing with mighty strides in every part of China. Abend deplores the jo sajoyod asjsseideaz at fhe Ruomintang party did not permit the existence of a third party in we had no friends but when we went to some of them mess meetings we saw the working class wes with us. But we want the working class to "| know the white boss men down here mean to send our poor boys to the chair. That's why we make this ap- peal for bigger meetings, more help to the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense. The NAACP try to sell-out on us. But we knew they were our enemies. We stopped them in time. They works in hand with the white boss men down here. Our boys was framed up in the trial at Scottsboro. There was a lynching mob outsid ethe door hol- lering for our boys to die. Working class mothers—these boys might a been your boys. It makes no difference nowadays whether the skin's white or black. The boss man’s framing up trouble for all the workers. Only in the South here it’s especially the worker with the black skin who gets it worse. We calls on you to help us save our boys. They done nothing your boys might not have done. They looked for jobs. That's all. We was starving and they looked for jobs. Help the International Labor De- fense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights to raise bigger meet- ings and show the boss men the working class won't let our boys die for nothing. Help us get them free! ‘They only looked for pobs. (Signed) Bernice Morris Viola Montgomery Ada Wright Janie Patterson class led by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Interna- Defense, We thought Ching, to which the native bour- geoisie and foreign imperialists could now turn in their predicament. While admitting the leftward swing of the Chinese masses and the tre- mendous power of the Chinese Com- munist movement, Abend carefully covers up the fact of the existence of the powerful Chinese Soviet Republic, which today represents the only stable force in China and already controls over one-sixth of Inner China. Abend carefully omits any mention of the growing strike movement in the coast and other cities of China. on the charatcer of a political struggle against the Kuomintang and its imperialist masters. They con- tinue to grow in extent and political significance with the smashing ad-~ vance of the Chinese Red Army in Central China. The Chinese Red Army is now besieging the city of Manchang, cap- ital of the Province of Kiangsi and last remaining stronghold of the Kuomintang in that province. The important industria! city of Hankow. Two days ago, 20,000 Nanking troops deserted’ to the Chinese Red Army. A week ago, the Nanking garrisons of three towns near Hankow went over to the Chinese Red Army. Shanghai Workers Strike |most important centers of the re- volutionary movement. The workers of the Tai Shan Rubber Company, the China Tin factory and Chine Ruber Company, three Japanese con- cerns are still on strike, The workers of the Tai Tung Book Company are also out. The newspaper workers union has issued a manifesto sup- porting the strikes. The strength of the revolutionary movement in Shan- ghai explains the reecnt brutal at~ tacks within the past few days by the Japanese on Chinese workers in Shanghai. ‘The growth of the revolutionary movement in China also explains the frantic haste with which the im- perialists are rushing their prepara- tions for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. It explains the present moves of the imperialists for direct armed intervention against the Chinese masses and their Chinese Soviet Republic. The Kuomintang party of native landlords, bankers and militarists and other tools of the im- perialists is no longer able to check the mass upsurge throughout China. ‘The imperialists are therefore turn- ing to direct attacks. ‘The Japanese continue to sidetrack the proposals of the Soviet Union for a non-agegresison pact. The Ru- manian, Polish and other puppet gov- jernments of French imperialism on the Soviet western frontiers are also pursuing the same tactics. This is further confirmation of the reports in the imperialist press that armed in- tervention against the Soviet Union fs planned to agouy br this coming eoring. 2157 Center | “ Louis | e | “Arthur Lazadasio, who two months | These strikes are increasingly taking | Red Army is also closing in on the) The city of Shanghai {s one of the | WEBER, 25 MINERS: FROM KY. GOV. (CONTINUED FRO! PAGE ONED sented all the striking miners) marched to the capital headed by Joo Weber, the governor had to| change his mind and to find time to listen to the demands of the miners | in his state, and who are fighting | against starvation and oppression by | the coal company and their gun-/} thugs and courts and state govern- ment, Try to Intimidate Delegates. The city of Frankfort was flooded with coal operators and their thugs in an effort to intimidate the dele- | | gates, Harlan gun thugs were rid- ing around in cars to demonstrate | their absolute power over the miners. Being forced to receive the delega- tion, the governor tried to stifle the | voice of the miners by banning all ‘reporters from the hearing, even the | Associated Press man, who is favor- | ing the operators was not admitted Before the miners entered the governor's chamber, a committee of operators conferred with him. Prosecutor Brock of Harlan County was outside the chamber all the time the miners were at the hear- ing, ‘The delegation arrived in Frank- fort by truck and left in high spirits determined to spread the strike and i thus force the bosses to yield to | their demands. | Among the demands presented | to the governor was the demand for unemployment insurance. The miners are determined to demon- strate together with the workers | throughout the country on Feb- ruary 4th, National Unemployment | Insurance Day. | In the evening Lieutenant-Goy- ernor Chandler addressed a meeting | of the business men of Frankfort and | ‘nearby twons and viciously attacked the Communist for the “labor troub- ble in the south-eastern Kentucky coal fields.” He demanded that the Communists be driven from Ameri- can shores and their literature ban- ned from the mails. Bosses Fear Miners Will Turn Red. | Not a word was mentioned about | the unbearable hunger conditions | ef the miners. Chandler tried the old stunt of saying that it was | foreigners whe where imparting discoritent among the native born | Workers, but he. had te admit that | | “there is an element of Communism | | in Kentucky.” | dler’s vicious speech and the | sé of the governor, is the | | real answer of the state government | to the demands ofthe miners, But: the. struggle will go on with renewed: vigor. » The delegation later gave a-state- ment to the waiting: reporters. The hearing: was opened with a short ‘re- view by Weber of the actual con- ditions of the miners. Jim Garland then spoke bringing out concrete cases of starvation and terror. ‘The goveror put up a naive face as if all those horrible facts are newe to him. Weber, who only three days ago had been saved from death at the hands of Harlan thugs, took the floor and in a brilliant speech which lasted an hour and a half, blasted away the sham ignorance of Laffon, pointing out that his predecessor, Samson, had made an official inves- tigation of conditions in Harlan County, which despite its aim -to whitewash the coal operators, had to admit the murder of innocent min- | ers and dynamiting relief kitchens. | | | not hide the fact that he is perfectly aware of all the bloody doings in Harlan and Bell Counties. ‘Weber further recited the inhuman | and their families live in Kentucky. He showed their miserable earnings which are not more than $12 or $16 @ month. He mentioned the official figures that 25 per cent of all the miners’ children of Middlesboro and Bell County are suffering from ths flux, a starvation disease. Weber brought out the treacherous | | role | which are now patronized by the | bosses. He attacked most sharply the vile campaign carried on by the bosses and their press that the Na- tional Miners Union is an outside organization of foreigners. ‘The governor interefered, saying he is helpless to do anything in the situation and that he sympathizers with the workers. By that Laffoon wanted to demoralize the delegation with soft words. Weber told him point blank that this stuff of a shrewd politician would not go with the miners. The governor then threatened to stop him from talking, but Weber went on showing that the governor could in- tervene to stop the murderous rule of the gun thugs. Weber demanded the release of the nine arrested in Bell Count and others held because of strike activi- ties, also the release of Jones and Hightower convicted for life and to} stop the persecution of thy National Miners Union and its organizers. Weber was folowed by Mrs. Jim Grace whose husband is being sought by the Harlan sheriff; Jeff Baldwin whose grother was murdered in cold blood by the thugs while guarding the soup kitchen and himself woun- ded, Mayham and Tyree and Carter, the Inst from Tennessee. ‘The governor again put an an innocent face saying he “is only the | executive and not the legislative | power in the state” and so on, and | threatened Weber for offending him. ‘The delegation left the official de- | beautifying the depot, | receive no pay Governor Laffoon, Weber said, can | conditions under which 40,000 min h 40,000 miners | win walk a couple of miles to a farm |house, ask the farmer for some corn, of the United Mine Workers | mands with the governor and will report to the strikers and the Gen- Te oe i come ‘Boston Station Beautified at the Expense of Workers [Pontess Who Get No Weave, Forced to Buy New Uniforms at Company Store (hy w Worker” Oorrespahdent) BOSTON, Mass.—Behind the splen- dor of a newly overhauled south road terminal in Boston, prevail a of tyrannical working which scream out for correction Just as the railroad employes in ge eral have borne the the station in its enti: loss of income from unemployment and part-time work), have the tyrants of the Boston Terminal Com- pany decreed that the force of atendants, (or bag-carrying porters) should be labor's latest ices in Why we here should place any more importance on this particular group of men, than those filling other jobs, is very explained, since the porters are re- quired to report to work daily while tof altering (t tation on @ payroll amounting to exactly nothing. These porters at the whatsoeve! entirely upon the of trave for their s are }compelled to punch a tim kK on arrival, and again on lez and must do the same at definitely ap. pointed times of the day or night. In addition to this, they have had to pay for all of their working apparel, which consisted -of a summer sult, (jacket. and trousers, costing $20) and a winter suit, coat and trousers, costing $35). Also a change of cap each year at a cost of $1.25. All the above had to be} purchased from the Boston Terminal | Company, who employ their own} tailors in the station to do this work ‘The clothes are of very ordinary ma- | terials and on the basis of current | the retail costs of wearing apparcl, prices charged are prohibitive Forced to Pay New Uniforms For the number of years the color | scheme of uniforms has been a plain medium gray, A few months ago the (mackinaw | jmanagement decided on the change to the new suits of navy blue, (at a cost of $30) and the order was issued fo rthe men to get ready to come across to the racketeering employers who pay them nothing, yet rule their every destiny. No consideration was given to the fact that the porters experienced the worst summer season ever, and that funds were very scarce among them. No credit was allowed those who had winter suits that were d last year at the ter- and which were still new. Nothing interested Terminal czars except the eexcu tion of their latest plan of extortion and a few days before the ninth of December an order, (might we call it warning), was posted in the dingy porters’ quarters, stating that ne man was to report to work on Dec 9, unless garbed in the new chains. the Modern Slavery We challenge the Boston Termina) Company chiefs, or any others, to show wherein @ combination of such conditions constitute anything but modern slavery, controlled by slave- driver parasites. We want to know by what rights they keep men work- jing definite hours, rendering a dis- tinct service in the functioning of |a public utility, and yet pay them nothing. How do they account for | these men, working on railroad prop- | erty, being covered in no way by workingmen’s compensation of other | x employers’ liability insurance? Why should the porters be subject to pay- | ment commit of railroad fare, even when i between the South Ste “In one word, you reproash ws | with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is Just what we intend.”—Marx., LYNCH GANG JURY TAKES ONLY 34 MINUTES TO RETURN DEATH VERDICT AGAINST ORPHAN JONES (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) was demanded by the Eastern lynch gangs of rich farmers and chants as a direct act of terrorism against the Negro workers and farm hands on the Eastern Shore. Judge Dimean boasted that in his 25 years.on the betich He had never selected 2 colored person for jury ser- vite. This open denial of the rights of the Negroes was again exposed when Sheriff Trail had to pick out talesmen after the first panel had been ex- hausted. The sheriff picked out only | white persons. When challenged by ILD attorneys, he glibly replied that he had no ob- jection to placing Negroes on the jury but that he had simply “happened” | to start gathering his panel in the other end of the room, far from the Negroes who were jim-crowed in the court. He added he didn’t know ane colored persons, so he “couldn't tel! if they were honest and intelligent! ILD Appeals The ILD has filed notices of appea! against the lynch verdict. The ILD attorneys, David Levinson of Phile- delphia, nad Bernard Ades of Balti. more, put up 2 brilliant defense, com- Pletely proving a police frame-up against Jones placing before the cout the probable guilt of 2 white neighbor of the murdered fermer. The prosecutor openly called upon the jury to decide between 2 white man and the Negro defendant. The ILD attorneys charge that the jury was illegally chosen. All jury- men were friends of Sheriff Blair of Snowhill, Md., where Jones was first held after his arrest and where lynch gangs tried to lynch Attorney Ades and an ILD investigator, Helen Mays. MEET SUNDAY TO PLAN SPREAD OF STRIKE IN HARLAN, BELL COUNTIES AND TO 7 STATES (CONTINUED FHOM PAGE ONE) bring the corn to a mill where tt is ground, and then make cornmeal mush To Spread Strike to 7 States. The “spread the strike” conference to be held Sunday in Pineville, Ky. will have for its main objective the ke in Harlan and er, the Ez tive Strike Committee of the announced yesterday that it is con- fidently expected that the conference will result in the spreading of the strike into the other seven states as well. Thousands of leaflets calling on the working miners of Harlan and Bell County to send delegates to the con ice are still being distributed all over the two counties. Despite the terror of the gun thugs who raised the charge of criminal syndicalism against any miner caught distributing leaflets, a gigantic dem~- onstration of working and striking miners of Kentucky and Tennessee will take place at Pineville Sunday Just before the conference. It is ex- pected that hundreds o* miners will leave their homes late Saturday night and early Sunday morning in order to get to the demonstration on time. Plan Food Collections. A relief conference of all of the section committees will take place in Pineville Saturday night to make plans for the collection of greater amounts of food from the merchants and farmers in the surrounding country. \ Members of the NMU local to which G. Green, Negro miners ar- rested late Tuesday night for crim- inal syndicalism belongs, report that @ large cross of fire was burned in| Green's back yard just before the ar- rest and that a handful of bullets was left at Green’s door as a warn- ing. Miners brought the bullets to nessee Miners Relief Committee of the W. I. R. last night, cross- examined the workers in the of- fice and took samples of the liter- ature with them, after ransacking the desks in the office. Workers have informed the WIR which is holding 2 large mass meeting in Knoxville Public Hall Saturday night for the benefit of the strik- ing miners and their families that | the local American Legion were Planning 2 demonstration, but of- ficials were forced to grant the public hall to the miners as & tee sult of the great interest shown in the mine strike. Adjutant General Boyd today Sret denied that Weber and Duncan wese Kidnapped. But now he has admitted to the Knoxville Sentinel that the two miners were Kidnapped and that they were “undoubtedly mistreated.” Coal operators’ “law” of Bell Coun- ty continues its policy of seeking to jail every militant worker in the strike. A warrant has just been issued for Bill Meeks, one of the lea@- ing figures of the Central Executive Strike Committee. Workers! Do the pl: places where you spend your money advertise in the Worker? ASK THEM TO DO IT SEND US THEIR NAMES! Daily. qWorker 4