The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1932, Page 2

Rape and Scottsboro Calls for $10,000 Defense Fund By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL General Secretary, International Labor Defense The International Labor Defense has launched Drive for a $10,- 000 Fight of Scottsboro. ‘This secured imme- diately! While mass protest grows every- where in resistance to the decision of the Alabama te Su- preme Court, it must spread still more, Parallel with the mass resistance campaign there must also be carried forward the legal struggle in the courts. We are not yet through with the Alabama State Supreme Court.’ We have demanded a rehearing on our appela. New trials face Roy Wright and Eugene Williams in the Scotts- ching | i boro courts. The fight must be car- ried up to the United States Supreme Court in V gton, We are fight- ing on htree fronts. New trials for |Roy and Eugene through of an in- on to get further the frame-up, the ing of new and reliable witnesses ynch-law sted regions of Scottsboro’s immediate neighbor- hood. As in the Mooney case, every | lie must be blasted. We must have a Fighting Fund to carry through this struggle. We must have $10,000 for this Fighting Fund IMMEDIATELY! Send your donations at once, ari mail if pos- sible, to the, Scottsboro Defense Fund, International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City, DO NOT DELAY! ANTI-WAR MEET ‘WORKERS STRIKE INN.Y. TONIGHT) = AGAINST CITY Called by Friends of| Emergency Relief | Soviet Union | Cheats on Pay | To protest the war plans of the] NEW YORK.—144 workers, em- bosses against the Soviet Union and| ployed on the City Emergency Re- the Chinese masses, workers of New| lief Committee jobs for the unem- York will meet today at Irving Plaza | ployed, struck yesterday morning Hall, 8 p. m. This is one of a series |against the attempt to cheat them of mass meetings to be held in New | of in their meagre pay. | York under the auspices of the| When they came to work Monday, Friends of the Soviet Union. they were sent home by Commis- The reasons why the capitalist| sioner Wards on the excuse that it Powers are trying to provoke a war/|was raining. The pay of the work- upon the Soviet Union will be fully /ers had already been reduced to a| explained by Comrade Marcel Scherer | point where it meant slow starva- national secretary of the F. S. U./tion of them. Formerly they were Scherer will also tell of the projects |given three days work every other | for industrialization of the Soviet| week at $5.50 a day; this has been Union contained in the second Five-|cut to two days every other week. | |for them and their children. 1n ad- EAST N.Y. JOBLESS be paid rain or shine, |the main office of the Emergency | Coney Island Workers ‘In Secttsboro Protest Meet This Evening NEW YORK. — J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the International Labor Defense will be the main speaker at a mass meeting tonight, Thursday, to protest the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court uphold- ing the murderous lynch verdicts against the Scottsboro boys. The meeting will be held at Ocean Side Hotel, West 22nd Street and Ocean Avenue, Coney Island. It is organized by the Frank Little Youth Branch of the International Labor Defense. LAUNDRY STRIKE Workers i Beat Them) | Off; Strikers Framed | Unable to break the ranks of the seats “hen derwerseay Lachitcad ol, 1is2 ‘FOSTER AND FORD AT , SCOTTSBORO MEETS FRIDAY | Brooklyn Workers to Protest Lynch | Verdicts NEW YORK. — A mass protest demonstration against the decision of | the Alabama Supreme Court uphold- | | ing the Scottsboro lynch verdicts will | be held at 3034 Ocean Parkway, | Brighton Beach, N. Y., on Friday eve~ ning at 8 p. m. with Wm. Z. Foster s the leading speaker. The Prolet- buehne will also perform. Another protest demonstration will be held at 1813. Pitkin Avenue, Brownsville, Brooklyn, N. Y. with J. W. Ford as leading speaker, at the same time. “Scottsboro Limited”, a play by Lang- ston Hughes will be presented at this |Shoe Workers Meet Thursday, March 31 The regular monthly membership meeting of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union will be held on Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 64 East 4th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Ave- nues. This meeting will also be a mass demonstration of Shoe and Slipper workers against the attacks of the court in issuing the injunc- tion to the Columbia Slipper Co. against the Union. Comrade John Steuben, TUUS or- ganizer report on the TUUC mem- bership, drive. Various other impor- tant organization problems will be taken up. SECOND TERM AT WORKERS SCHOOL Registration O p e'n meeting. April First Strikers of the New Style Laundry who have been out for five weeks, | the bosses have resorted to gangster | tactics. On Tuesday, three strikers | who were covering the routes, vis- | iting customers and asking them not | to patronize the laundry, were at- | tacked by gangsters on 12th St. With the aid of sympathetic work- ers they fought off the thugs. Later one of the thugs came to strike head- quarters with two detectives and ar- | rested the three workers, who were held on the trumped-up charges of assault. The strikers were placed under $1,000 bail each. Workers are urged to help the} laundry strikers by reporting at 5} E, 19th St. for picket duty. A special membership meeting of Hall, Third Avenue and Claremont Parkway. STRIKE AT NEW STYLE GROWS Arrest of Workers Fails in Purpose NEW YORK.—The boss in the New The Scottsboro boys it will be re- membered were arrested on March 25, 1931. They were at first charged with fighting against some white} boys on the freight train on which NEW YORK. — With |the First | Spring Term coming to its. success- tul conclusion, the Workers School | has mapped out definite plans for they were travelling in a hunt for|the second Spring Term which will | work. When, however, it was dis-| start on April 25 and last until July | covered that two white hoboes on the | 1, Registration begins on “April 1. | train were girls wearing overalls, the| The First Spring Term has been | southern bosses realized that all the the biggest Spring Term in the his- elements were present for a nice tory of the school, with over one- lynch frame-up and at once raised the | thousand students. In the Second lynch issue of “rape”, Spring Term many new and conti- Now the Alabama Supreme Court nuation courses are to be offered. to whom appeal was made, upholds|Some of these courses are: Princi- | the decision of the lower courts and | ples of Communism, Political Econ- | sets the date for their execution on |omy, Marxism, Leninism, Trade Un- May 13th. Negro and white workers |ion Strategy, Revolutionary Journal- are urged to attend the above dem-|ism, Dialectic Materialism, Methods onstrations and to loudly protest |in Shop Work, Revolutionary Parlia- against this vicious frame-up of the |mentalism, the Struggle Against Im-/| boss class. Remember the date: Fri- | perialist War, Public Speaking, Rus- day, April lst at 8 p. m. at both|sian and Spanish. Organization Prin- Brownsville and Brighton Beach, ciples and Problems of Shop Nuclei These demonstrations are under the |and a special class in Princpiles of auspices of the League of Struggle |Communism are offered for Com- for Negro Rights. munist Party and Young Communist | League members. Other courses for | ‘ 9 | training in specific fields such as Ne- | Cannons or Tractors’, | gro, cotonial and Youth Problems| First Anti-War Film |*%,2% even. The Scholo Committee has decided | Released ‘by W.LR. | to offer a number of scholarships to ARREST WORKERS EXPOSING FAKE BLOCK AID PLAN Afraid Workers Will See Through Bosses Hidden Scheme NEW YORK, N. Y.—Three work- ers, among them two women, all members of the Williamsbridge Un- employed Council were arrested in front of the Block Aid headquarters at 233 White Plains, yesterday after- noon, for distributing leaflets ex- Posing to the workers what is be- hind the block-aid scheme, The police tried to stop an air meeting started by the council but were held back by the huge crowd of workers who gathered to hear the speakers, On Monday night, an indoor meet- ing called by the Mid-Town Unem- ployed Council to expose the block- aid was attacked by thugs. These acts of terror and brutal expressions of the fear the bosses have that the workers will see that the block-aid schemes instead of being for their relief is designed to spy on them, blacklist them if they are militant and bleed them of their last penny. To Proclaim Jewis Soviet State 1933 Jewish Colonizers in} USSR Meet in Moscow} By MYRA PAGE (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 30.—The second enlarged plenum of “Ozet” (Society to Colonize Jews on the land in the U. S. S. R.) opened here today with representatives of the Jewish national districts Kalinindorf, Ukrainia, Frei- dorf and Krim present. the Communist Party and Young The representatives of these dis- |port to a non-student organization | jon the trip and experiences of the Year Plan. |Loss of even a penny in pay means | dition they learned that according to T0 DEMONSTR ATE. he workers furmed a parade and Demand Cash Relief} |to the workers that much less food committees own rules they were to| |tarched from Van Cortland Park to from City Buro Tired of the promises of relief | which never comes, and embittered | by the abusive treatment received at} the Home Relief Buro, the workers | of East New York will demonstrate | at 2 pm. before the relief buro at Crawford and Belmont. Immediate cash relief, a minimum of $10 for a family of 5 to be paid | n cash, and no discrimination | against Negroes, are the demands| that will be raised by the workers | in this demonstration. Many families have been denied relief by this Buro on fake excuses, such as having previously received a few cents in charity, etc. Whatever relief has been given has been in| the form ot checks, wh:ich the land- lords refvee to accent and which the wil cash for ontv half their The Unemployed Council of Great~ er New * ork, which ts erganizing the demonstration, urges ail wutkers in Relife on Claremont Avenue to an- nounce their strike. Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions, ZANE GREY IN “SOUTH SEA ADVENTURES” AT CAMEO “Zane Grey (Himself) in South Sea Adventures,” opens at’ the Cameo Theatre today. Zane Grey, well- known writer and traveller has spent much of hi§ time on fishing and hunting expeditions, This film, orig- inally intended for the author's own recollections, now having its first public presentation, represents nine- months’ sarching in the South Seas. Grey shows captured devilfish, sail- fish, swordfish, other large sea game and capture of a giant black marlin (sword-fish) weighing more than thirteen hundred pounds. The motion picture shows visits to Galapogos Is- lands, 700 miles west of Educador; Tahiti and many little known spots off the coast of North America and the vicinity to ture out todsy. in the South Pacific, Style Laundry realizing his inability to break the strike by his recent | frameup of the most militant strik- ers, is now attempting to terrorize the militant Negro workers on and off the Picket line. | Strikers, canvassing of routes has been resumed and has proven very effect- ive. The boss has again starter to arrest the strikers. He had one ar- rested for following a scab but was quickly released. There were several effective demonstrations staged last week with several more scheduled for this week. All workers are urged to come to 5 E, 19th St., first floor and help these militant workers carry on their ac- tivities in order to win the strike. There will be a special membership | meeting of all laundry workers, this Thursday, March 31, at 8 p. m., at Ambassador Hall, 3rd Ave. and Clare- mont Parkway. All members must be present, a tax will be discussed. Have you ordered your bundle of the Anti-War Edition of the Daily Worker for April 2? MORGAN, THOMAS AND THE BLOCK-FAKERS : (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ened wiht eviction, he wrote to the Bureau demanding aid. In his letter he stated that if he did not get relief, he would take a gun and go out nad rob, to keep a roof over the head of his family and get food. .“As well and humanly administered,” as Thomas said—but the veteran did not even get a reply. He wrote a similar letter to The block-faking plan is a broad fascist money rais- | ing plan; a building plan of fascists with the aid of What are the workers to do? Workers Must Fight Agianst Block-Faking Plan Build the Block Committee of the Unemployed Council in your block to carry on a fight for adequate relief at the expense of the bosses and the city. the socialfascisst. Db 2) 3) Refuse to contribute to the bli zation. Demand the election of a ete ni the block, to control the funds and disburse- ments. 4) ers, Unemployment Insurance Bill. ployed workers in the block into this If the block-ald committee should succeed in building organization in your block, organize the work- ers in the block to get control of the block organi- Mobilize all workers in the blocks for the fight for Unemployment Insurance at the expense of the government and the capitalists. Fight for the Work- | Draw also the em- Emergency Relief hoods, but also particularly the Walker. the block-faking party in this att ance, jock-faking fund. faking plan will on the militant workers’ commit- the Unemployed fight. ist program and MILLINERS FIGHT LATEST SELLOUT NEW YORK.—The Millinery Work- ers United Front Committee has is- sued a call to all workers in the trade to attend a mass meeting on Thursday, March 31, right after work in Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15 St. The call points out that after the fake stoppage, it is becoming clearer from day to day that the promises made in the agreement are nothing but fakes. | The millinery workers have been shamefully betrayed by Zaritsky, Spector and Co, They were sent Slaves will be used as fascist tools. go the preparations for the election campaign, in which the workers must see that there is only one party which fgihts not only for the unemployed, but for the entire working class, and that is the Com- munist Party. Build up the Block Committees and The block-faking scheme, sponsored by the fascist capitalists, and supported by the socialfascist social- ist party, must be exposde not only in the neighbor- in every working class organization, unions of the American Federation of Labor, the leaders of which are open supporters of plan. There must be a rapid mobil- ization of the workers to defeat the fascist Morgan, the Tammany machine and police and the socialist tempt to blackiack, blackmail, stool- pigeon and terrorize the workers in the fight for pro- per unemployment relief and unemployment, insur- This is particularly necessary in view of the pre- parations for imperialist war, in which the block- be used for mobilization of the work- ers for war purposes. Along with this go the attacks workers, in which the white collar Along with this Councils, and support the Commun- campaign in the coming elections. back to the shops to slave under miserable conditions, without a single improvement as guaranteed by the agreement. Hundreds of millinery workers have been forced to work on Satur- Gay afternoon and on Sunday with- out being paid for overtime. At the ime the army of unemployed workers is growing with the al refusing to do any- BAZAAR We will celebrate the achievements of the DRESS STRIKE STAR CASINO—107th St. and Park Ave. = 3 7 = 2 g e = rs 2 2 77 5 = t E é 8 =| 3 ss i] os Trades Needle 25¢ COMBINATION TICKET (For All 4 Days) 75 CENTS Sunday APRIL 10th APRIL 9th 50¢ Saturday Friday APRIL 8th 25e Collect Articles for the Bazaar! BAZAAR OFFICE—131 West 28th St., N. Y. C. 20¢ APRIL 7th Thursday With the release of the framed up | NEW YORK.—The first anti-war film, “Cannons or Tractors,” will be releaseq by the Workers International Relief here on April 24, at thhe Fifth Avenue Theatre, Broadway and 28th Street as part of the anti-war cam- paign, for the defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviets. “Cannons or Tractors,” a Sovkino- Weltfilm production was produced in the USSR and Germany. “The material contained In this picture,” the W. I. R. pointed out yesterday, “is of such agitational power that much of it has been pro- hibited from news-reel release at bourgeois theatres. Scene after scene lays bare the corruption of capital- ist society. “Contrasted with the misery of capitalism is the forward march of socialist construction in the Soviet Union. The slanders of the Trotsky- ites are unmasked by scene after scene giving a vivid panorama of | collectivization, socialization, and s0- | cialist construction.” ‘The picture can be seen only by membership-ticket, which are on sale a@ month in advance. The price per membership-ticket is 35 cents. Blocks of tickets can be obtained at the Workers International Relief Center, 16 West 2ist St. N. Y. C. Individual membership-tickets are available at the Workers Book Store, 50 East 13th Street, at workers clubs and fraternal organizations, W. I. R. branches and at the W. I. R. Center, 16 West 2ist Street. Have you ordered your bundle of the Anti-War Edition of the Daily Worker for April 2? 3 NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX sa || Prospect’ mse ‘Thursday and Friday Ann Harding PRESTIGE ADOLPH MENJOU and MELVYN DOUGLASS —OTHER FEATURES— NEW LOW PRICES MATS. 15 Cents || EVES, 25 Cents Except Sat., Sun., and Holidays Challenge” ~ Adapted from “THE 5TH YEAR” An Authentic Picturization of the ‘Progress and Achie U.8.8. ADDED ATTRACTION “Songs of the Cossacks” —Starting Saturday, April 2— “ROAD TO LIFE” First Russian Talkie ACME THEATRE 14TH ST. & UNION SQUARE ents of the Communist League Units, Trade Un- | tricts will report their achievements ions and other mass organizations. | 88 part of the five year plan. A spe- These scholarships enable the assign- | cial report will be delivered about ed students to register at reduced | the work in BiroBidjan, on the rapid rates, | construction there, about the Jewish For a full, descriptive catalogue | Working masses of Poland, Lithuania, and further information about the| Latvia, Argentine, the United States term, workers are advised to refer to| and Palestine, who have begun to the Workers School, 35 E. 12th St., New York City. Telephone, Algon- quin 4-1199. Workers are advised to | register early in order to get into) the classes desired. The number of | students in each class will be lim- ited. flock to Biro-Bidjan. Biro-Bidjan will, according to the decision of the Soviet government, be proclaimed a Jewish autonomous Soviet Republic in 1933, one of the family of free Republics which make up the Soviet Union. AMUSEMENTS] THE THEATRE GUILD Presents HE MOON IN THE YELLOW RIVER By DENIS JOHNSTON GUILD THEA., 52d Bt., W. of BY Eve. 8:40, Mats. Thors., Sat., The Theatre Guild Presents REUNION IN VIENNA A Comedy .By ROBERT E. SHERWOOD Martin Beck Stas Ave. Ev 8:40. Mts Th., Sat. Tel. Pe 6-6100 COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW ELMER RICE PAUL MUN Then. W. 45 St. By. 8:20 Plymouth wats rhare, & sat 2:20 Mass organizations, get into revolutionary competition to save Daily Worker. Zane Grey (HIMSELF) “South Sea Adventures” The gteatest fish story ever told, and every thrill of it true. As exci 8 fighting jungle tigers—plus the dangers of ocean deeps, You'll never forget the man-to-monster battles in this big-game hunt of the sea. SCAMEO% Now BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK ws | RICHARD ‘Nee meres DIX TOMO APRIL {Ist Dancing until 3 a. m. Ticket: Come in Costume to the NEW MASSES Spring Frolic Webster Hall, 119 E. Eleventh St. (Near 3rd Ave.) On sale at NEW MASSES, 63. W. 15th St. (orders accepted by mail or Phone Al. 4-4445), Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St., and other centers RROW { Fri. Nite} $s $1.50 in adv., $2.50 at door Morning 1,000 PROLETA| Office—Prices: 50, WORKERS!—MOBILIZE!— 10th JUBILEE CELEBRATION SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2nd Madison Square Garden REVOLUTIONARY MASS SPECTACLE — ARTEF FREIHEIT GESANG FEREIN—RED DANCERS All Seats Reserved—Obtainable at Morning Freiheit Freiheit RIAN PLAYERS 75, $1.00 and $1.25 Call Anti-War Mass Meetings in Three Towns in New Jersey The Young Communist League and the Communist Party have called open air anti-war demonstrations for April 6, at 4 p.m. in the cities of Perth Amboy and New Brunswick, New Jersey. | Thousands of leaflets haye been distributed to workers calling on them to take part in the demonstra- tions against imperialist war and against hunger. An indoor anti-war meeting will be held in Lakewood, N. J, on April 8, at 8 p.m. STUDENT REPORTS ONKENTUCKY TRIP CCNY Delegate Will Speak Friday NEW YORK.—Rem, of the City College group in the National Stud- ent League delegation to the Ken- tucky coal fields, will report this Friday at the headquarters of the Red Spark Athletic Club, Rem will expose the terror and mass Violation of the elementary rights of the students by the Ken- tucky Tennessee officials andj will show this as an example of the in- creasing use of fascism to crush the struggles of the workers. At the same time, Rem will point | out the necessity of struggling| against the growth of fascist terror and how it can be overcome. All workers reurged to be present at 7:30 p.m.esharp in order to hear the report. It will be the first re-| student delegation, | “ROAD TO LIFE” OPENS AT ACME SATURDAY “Road to Life,” first Russian talkie, which broke all records at the Cameo in its five weeks there, will be shown at the Acme Theatre, beginning this Saturday. “Road To Life” is a tense drama of Russia’s “wild children,” the waifs who were left over in the wake of the World War, and the days of famine that followed. The picture shows the transformatio nof these orphaned children into useful citi- zens by the Soviet government. Titles are in English, prepared by Michael Gold, noted author of “Jews Without Money.” The preface is de- YOUNG WORKERS. TO HIT TERROR . IN GAUTEMALA Workers Killed and Jailed by Thousands; - Demonstrate Thurs. Preparations are going ahead full blast for the Guatemalen Demons- tration that is being called by the Young Communist League, Down- town section. Hundreds of young workers will demonstrate against the murder ter- ror that has been going on in Sal- vadore and Guatemala against all militant workers, young workers and peasants. The capitalist class of Guatemala and Salvadore is trying to put down in a sea of blood, torture and jailings the mass discontent and revolution- ary uprisings that are taking place in Guatemala and Salvadore. Thousands of workers, young work- ers and peasants have either already been killed or are rotting in jail at the mercy of the puppets of Am- erican and British imperialism for daring to lead the workers and peasants in revolutionary struggle against their bosses, Young Workers: Rally to the de- fense of the workers of Guatemala and Salvadore. Protest the murder of Wainright, the leader of the revolutionary workers, young workers and peasants of Salvadore. Terror used against these workers will be the same terror, murder and jailings that will be, and are being used against you. Rally to the mass demonstration in front of the Guatemalan Con- sulate, 17 Battery Place, Thursray, March 3ist, 12 noon, Stop the robber war against the Chinese people. Demonstrate on APRIL 6th against im- perialist war. livered by Dr. John Dewey of Colum- bia University, who saw the experi- ment at first hand on hsi visit to Russia. Workers’ Clubs Should Advertise in the “Daily” Tel. EStabrook 8-5141 COOPERATIVE COLONY TAILOR 635 ALLERTON AVENUE Patronize the Colony Tailor and Help the Revolutionary Movement WvvVvv¢d Parkway Cafeteria The Only Strictly Vegetarian Cafeteria in Brownsville WE SERVE GOOD FOOD A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU 1638 PITKIN AVE. Near Hopkinson Brooklyn, N. ¥. Phone Dickens 2 Short Wave and Television Apparatus Sound Recording and Reproducing B. BARTHEL RADIO ENGINEER. Expert Repair and Service SPECIAL RATES FOR WORKERS 211 W. 58th St. Tel. Circle 7-4563 INTERNATIONAL SHINDIG to be held Friday, April Ist, 8 p.m. IRVING PLAZA 15th St. and Irving Pl. 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