The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1932, Page 1

f | WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Daily Central Org. (Section of the\Communist International) f DAILY WORKER TODAY § Special Ohio West Virginia Striking Miners Material on Page 2 pe | ——— Matered as eecund-cl Vol. 1x, ‘No. 86 —* @ matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 cas = Taaaae = = NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932 ‘ CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents _ Force Unconditional Freedom SAVE THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS FROM LEGAL LYNCHING! for Mooney a Nicer must be satisfied with nothing less than an unconditional ". pardon for Tom Mooney. After repeated delays over the last four months Governor James Rolph, Jr., of California announces another delay but declares that his decision will be made by April 21, before he leaves Yor the National Conference of Governors at Richmond, Virginia. Every postponement of his decision has been made by Governor Rolph with the mounting of working class rage against Mooney’s continued im- prisonment; the Hunger March to Washington that raised the Mooney issue before the national capitol and the White House; the February Fourth Unemployed Demonstrations; the February Twenty-Fourth Day of, Protest on the Fifteenth Anniversary of the death sentence against Mooney, the mass response to the tour of Mother Mary Mooney and Mother Viole Montgomery, mother of Olin Montgomery, one of the Scotts- boro prisoners; the Paris Commune Anniversary March 18th, and the April Sixth day of struggle against imperialist war’, that were high points in the. struggle for Mooney, for Scottsboro, against all persecutions of workers. Governor Rolph has been waiting for a favorable opportunity to hand down an unfavorable decision during a moment of working class passivity. Instead the working class is more alert than ever on the Mooney issue. The effect of this growing protest is shown in the “feeler,” sent out by Governor Rolph for a commutation of sentence to take effect two years from now. The working class must fight any such outrageous travesty. Governor Thayer of Massachusetts in the Sacco-Vanzetti case had his “board of advisers” that helped put the seal of approval of “the best. people,” including Harvard University, on the decision to burn these two workers alive in the electric: chair. Governor Rolph also has such a “board of advisers” in Matt I. Sulli- van, former Chief Justice of the California State Supreme Court; Lewis F. Byington, the infamous corporation attorney, and Daniel J. O’Brien, director of penology and chief of the San Francisco police when Mooney was framed up and sentenced to death. They are meeting this week, April 11-16, in the final conferences “to put the finishing touches on the Mooney decision.” “finishing touches” should be. The working class has yet time to decide what those Although he is supposed to be conducting an “impartial investigation” to result in a “fair decision,” the Daily Worker has received very reliable information as to the vicious campaign carried on especially by Rolph's agent, Byington. While supposed to be “studying the facts,” Byington recently devoted an address to an American Legion Post to a savage at- vack on Mooney and all Mooney sympathizers. un-American all defenders of Tom Byington denounces as Mooney. Even in social gatherings of his own class Byington seizes upon every opportunity to raise the Mooney -issue. Even in these circles, however, Byington, the nephew of the corporation lawyer, Terry L. Ford, involved in San Francisco graft, and whose relatives have been the police agents of the notorious United Railroads, finds opposition, as in the challenge of the rank and file i One of the members of the “advisory commission” in speaking before @ Chamber of Commerce gathering declared that any one proposing the release of Tom Mooney is an enemy of the nation. Not even the most bitter boss class enemies of Mooney, however, dare argue openly that he is guilty. Instead, as the governbr’s “advisers” put it, they fear the “effect of Mooney’s release under present economic conditions if he were free to go about the coun and organizing,” in the words of thé San Francisco Examiner, a Hearst newspaper that has been consist- ently hostile to Mooney. Only the massed protest of the working class can win concessions from the ruling class in the struggle to free Mooney, now in its sixteenth year. This is more true now than at any time since the workers of Petro- grad (Leningrad) in 1917 thundered at the gates of the American embassy in that city under the leadership of Lenin and saved Mooney from death upon the gallows, the carrying out of the sentence that had been passed upon him by San Francisco's courts. This week must see a special burst of protest. There must be a rising flood of letters, telegrams, resolutions to Governor Rolph, at Sacra- ménto, California, demanding immediate and unconditional release and denouncing the proposed “commutation scheme” of Rolph and his “ad- | visers” that would keep Mooney in prison two more years. ‘The working class has kept the Mooney issue alive for 16 years. It is today, with the Scottsboro issue, the symbol before the workers of the whole world of the growing struggles of American labor. The working class must free Mooney immediately and unconditionally, in that rising wave of anger that will also free the Scottsboro Negro boys and all other class war prisoners.’ Demand the unconditional release of Mooney! ousing Send-Off Meeting Wed. Night for American Delegates to Soviet Union Twenty Delegates Elected from Shops, Mines And Unions to Study First Hand Victories Of Soviet Five Year Plan NEW YORK.—Marcel Scherer, na- tional secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union, will analyse and answer the latest Soviet atrocity tales that have appeared in the capitalist press as par of the preparations for an imperialist attack upon the U. 8. 8. R. at a meeting at Central Opera House on Wednesday, April 13 at ¢ p.m. This will be a sendoff meet- ing for the workers’ delegation which will sail for the Soviet Union on the 8. 8. Europe on April 19. “Twenty delegates including two Negro workers have been elected to date by various unions, unemployed councils and other workers’ organi- zations throughout the country. The ‘Kentucky and Pennsylvania miners, the electrical workers at the Gen- the textile workers, and workers in other industries are send- ing their “ambassadors” to workers’ fatherland to learn the} the | facts for themselves and bring back reports to the American masses. This is an effective means of combating the lying campaign of the counter- revolutionary, imperialist propagan- dists, and mobilizing the American workers for the defense of the Soviet Union,” Marcel Scherer stated today. Other speakers at the meeting next Wednesday will be Max Be- dacht, and the delegates themselves. Th F. 8. U. calls upon all New York workers and sympathizers with the building of socialism in the U. 8S. 5 R. to give these delegates a rousing send-off, and to make the meeting @ frceful mass protst against the war plans of the imperialist powers using On the eve of their sailing, April 18, there will be a banquet for the delegates at the new Health Restau- rant at the Workers’ Center. Has your club sent in $5.0: worth of helf-dollars? FIRST ELECTION: THAELMAN DUESTERBERG YESTERDAY’S ELECTION + 3,705,000 19,367,000 13,417,000 Did Not Run TOTAL . 36,489,000 Of the 2,558,000 votes received by Duesterberg in the first elec- tion, about 2 Million now went to Hitler while 700,000 were given Hindenbarg. ‘The Communists loss is dae to abstension from voting on part of workers, since more than a million less votes were cast time than March 13th. 37,535,870. to the this Expect New Trial Soon for Two of Scottsboro Boys LL. D.. to Demand Change of Venue, Schwab Leaves for South NEW YORK.—Irving Schwab, well- | known New York lawyer and one of | the attorneys who argued the Scots- | boro case before the Alabama Su- ; Preme Court for the International ; Labor Defense, left early Saturday for Chattanooga, to lay plans for the defense of Eugene Williams and Roy Wright, whose trial is to come up in a few weeks. He will confer also with General George W. Chamlee, ILD. defense attorney, on. legal steps to force Huntsville police to turn over the letter written by Ruby Bates, in which she repudiated her testimony against the boys at the trial He will demand that bail be set immediately and the boys given their Hberty until the trial comes up, he announced. Mr. Schwab plans to remain in the South a month, working on the Scottsboro case, to which he is con- tributing his services free of charge. No date has been set for the trial of Williams and Wright, but the prosecution threatens an early trial to railroad them to the chair. Both were previously tried illegally in a court which had no lurisdiction over them because of their ages, Ala- bama law provides that persons un- der sixteen years of age must be tried in a juvenile court.. Willfams and Wright, arrested a year ago, are now fourteen and fifteen, respectively. A change of venue will be de- manded, the period between February and Ma was State Industrial Commissioner of New York. A survey of over 1,500 factories showed that there was an increase in unemployment of 1 per cent and @ general drop in wages of an equal amount. The significance of this as an indication of the deepening of the crisis is seen when it is temem- bered that the February-March period “usually” shows’ an increase in employment and wages. Further- more, New York is a good index of what happens in the rest of the country. Employment has dropped by more than 37 per cent from the average in the two years from 1925-1927, On the same basis wages in all manufac- Report Increase in Wage Cuts and Unemplyment =e" NEW YORK.—The largest increase turing industries in New York state in unemployment ever recorded for| have dropped by 46 per cent. This a + 2 af gaia oa ~~~ |ALABAMA SUPREME COURT DENIES REHEARING FOR SEVEN SCOTTSBORO BOYS I. L. D. Attorneys Vigorously Push Move to Carry Fight to U. S. Supreme Court; Funds Needed for Appeal MONTGOMERY, Als., April 10.—The Alabama Supreme Court yesterday over-ruled the application for rehearing ap- peals in its recent decision upholding the lynch verdicts against |seven of the innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. The application was made by the attorneys of the International Labor Defense which is defending the nine Scottsboro boys. The mass legal murder of the seven boys is set for May 18, in line with the original decision of the Alabama Supreme Court made public on March 25. In this decision, the chief | justice of the court, John C. Anderson, dissented, admitting ‘that the boys had not had 2 fair trial in the mock trial in the lewer Army Officers Help Labor Spy Agency. Boom Better Gas Attacks on Workers Company Advertises “More Efficient Gas| Bombs” to Suppress Workers’ Struggles DETROIT, Mich.—A confidential letter has come to light exposing the plans of the Detroit bosses to carry out even more frightful attacks against the working class ‘than the | Dearborn massacre of the Ford-Dearborn-Detroit police mur- der gang on March 7th. The letter, sent to all the industrial’ establishments of Detroit, is from the O'Neil Industrial Ser- vice Company, a division of the O'Neil Secret Service, Inc., a notorious labor spy agency, which has a long record of strike breaking activities in this city. — Tear Gas for Workers stration, the time and place of which This labor spy and strike-breaking | will be made known to reliable con- agency has secured, with the aid of | cerns, Officers of the chemical warfare di- vision of the United States Army, a! supply of chemical warfare gas and | Weapons to be used against labor demonstrations, which the spy agency anticipates will increase in the im- mediate future, due to the “upset conditions of industry in general.” The tear gas is to be'supplied by the Lake Erie Chemical Company, several of whose officers are reserve chemical warfare officers of the U. S. Army. The president of the com- pany was the chief of the chemical warfare division of the Second‘ Army of the American Expeditionary forces during the World War, who is praised by Major General Amos A. Fries, as “one of the best living experts in chemical warfare.” Stage Second Demonstration In the letter which has come into possession of the Daily Worker, the Detroit bosses are advised that in- creasing labor struggles must be met with more efficient gas attacks, and those to whom it is addressed are invited to attend a secret demon- SEE PAGE THREE FOR LETTER. ‘2 ANTI-SOVIET WAR PLOTTERS ARF EXECUTED Soviet Newspaner In Warning to Polish Imperialists A Moscow dispatch to the New York Times {reports that the two anti-Soviet war plotters, Judas Stern week of the attempted assassination of Dr. Fritz von Twardowski,, coun- sellor to the German Embassy, were executed on Saturday by a firing squad. The trial of the two men clearly brought out the fact that the attack on the German diplomat was aimed at involving the Soviet Union in war and that the two men were tools of Tsarist White Guards and certain Soviet newspaper Pravda has bluntly charged the Polish imperial- ists with encineering the plot against ‘he life of the German diplomat in order to disrupt diplomatic relations is the first time that factory pay. reporded yesterday by rolls have shown a decline in March hetween the Soviet Union and Ger- _| Frances Perkins, The largest amount of unemploy- “any. A Moscow dispatch on the ment was recorded in the metal and New York Post quotes Pravda as fol- textile industries. Mahcinery and ‘ows: electrical apparatus firms fired more| “In the stateapparatus of the than 3 per cent of the workers (#1- bossa gad aoyersachy eit te loyed in them during February ig themselves under diplo- i pi tahete ya sa , by| matic immunity to organize terror- manufacturers of automobiles and. irc carom oat ge rice : taetacary | in an effort to shake the interna- hispanic bag atta nant’ tional position af the U. 8. 8. K. and Sergei Vassillev, convicted last|and the Soviet Union. The demon- | sented were 27 trade unions, includ- tries showed similar increases in un- employment, According to the State Commis- sioners’ report, the increase in unem- ployment was not due to individual industries, but represented a general decline in production in all industries | They escaped the ha nds of Soviet justice by hiding in diplomatic uni- forms. But we will not allow bour- geois, imperialist and fascist circles in Poland to continue to act under diplomatic immunity.” What have you done in the haif- 1,000 IN MARCH ON JAPANESE CONSULATE Coast Workers In Mighty April 6th Demonstration SAN FRANCISCO, April 10.—One thousand workers cheered Japanesé, | Filipino, Negro and white speakers ir? a@ spirited anti-war demonstration here on April 6. Singing the Inter- national and demanding the imme- diate withdrawal of all imperialist armed forces from China and a stop to the criminal wah provocation against the Soviet Union, the workers naraded through the streets, march- ing on tie dapanese Consulate in front of which they held a militant demonstration. The demonstrators carried banners | with slogans demanding the immed- iate release of the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney and other class war prisoners, and the ousting of the dip. lomatic arents of Jananese imner- falism which is butcherine the Chie nese masets and a ing ps the enear- head of world imnerialiem {n its mon- strons plans for armed intervention | against hte Soviet Union end its guc- | cessfu) socialist construction. The Communist Party spenker| calling upon the workers to march | on the Japanese Embassy wes thun- derously cheered. All present pledzed active defense of the Chinese masses stration was held under the auspices of the United Front Anti-war Com- mittee. Plans are being pushed for another tremendous anti-war dem- ATTEMPT TO BLOW | against the Chinese Eastern Railway WHITE GUARDS IN | UP SOVIET R. R. The White Guard allies are carry- | ing on a campaign of destruction | in new attempt to provoke the Soviet Union. The Chinese Eastern Railway is fointly operated by China and Soviet Union. The White Guards | yesterday attempted to dynamite the big railway bridge on the Sungari River near Laoshaokouw, half way between Changchun and Harbin. They are reported to have been! driven off by Chinese troops. The Japanese puppet govern- ment in Kirin Province, Manchu- ria, have arrested a number of Soviet employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Soviet Con- sul General is reported to have lodged « strong protest against the arrests, A Hankow dispatch to the New York Times claims that four Kuo- mintang armies have suceeded in sur- rounding a Chinese Red Army oper- ating in Kupeh province and threat- ening Hankow from the west. The dispatch further claims that there are “prospects’ of defeating this Red Army force “within a fortnight.” It says the Red Army force consists of 20,000 troops. ; Although on most oceasions where the Kuomintang troops have come in contact with the Chinese Red Ar- mies, the Kuomintang troops have deserted wholesale to the Red Army, the officials claim that their troops are now “seemingly actuated solely by hatred of the Communists.” Vets Demand Bonus Payment in Mass} Meet at Madison Sq. | NEW YORK.—Masses of vet- erans of the last world war will rally on Friday, April 15, in a huge demonstration and parade to voice their demands for full jmmediate cash payment of the soldiers bonus. Thoussnds of leafle's are alo veady being distributed by the| | Workers ExServicemen’s League calling on the vets to come out in masses and repudiate the Am- erican Legion and by militant] mass action force the Wall St. government to pay the bonus at once. The demonstration will be held | at 11 a. m, at Madison Square. From this point the vets will | parade to another pont to be an- nounced later. The parade will |be led by the bugle corps of the | onstration on May First, One hundred and thirty-five dele- “ates from 50 working class organ'za. tions attended the Emergency Mo- bilization Conference of the Unem- loyed Councils held on Saturday at the Unemployed Council headquar- jters, 5 East 19th Street. The response to the call in defense of the unemployed against the new, attacks of the bosses was good, con- sidering that the conference was arranged in three days. Among the organizations repre- ing locals of the A. F. of L. Carl Winters, Secretary of Unem- ployed Councils, reported to the con. ference. The purpose of the confer- ence was’ to make the quickest possible mobilization of the working class of New York, employed and unemployed, in a struggle against the move of Tammany and the |boss class to ‘Plan Big Mobilization to Demand Mass Jobless Aid Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. unemployed workers. He pointed out that recently the Emergency Work Bureau has laid off 6,000 men from the city park jobs in the last two, weeks ,and cut down the three days} that they used to get to two days, from $15 weekly to $10 weekly. The board of estimate, which boasted of its appropriations for the unemployed, has suddenly decided to drop the $231,000,000 building plan, which would have given work to hundreds of unemployed building workers, Winters pointed out that the Home Relief Bureau that was played up by Tammany Hall as solving the un- employed crisis, will close its doors June 1, and the tens of thousands of jobless families, dependent for the barest existence on the miserable relief doled out, will be cut off from court at Scottsboro, Ala. Invhis dise senting opinion, Chief Justice Ander- son wrote: “As to whether or not these de« fendants are guilty is not a ques« tion of first importance, the real one being did they get a fair and impartial trial as contemplated by the bill of rights. “It may be that neither of the foregoing reasons, if standing alone, should reverse these cases, but when considered in connection with each other, they must collectively | impress the judicial mind with the conclusion that they did not get s fair and impartial trial that is re- quired and contemplated. by our Constitution.” The court upheld the lynch yerdicts | against all but one of the eight boys under sentence of death. It remand. ed 14-year-old Eugene Williams for @ new trial. Roy Wright, another 14 year old boy, in whose first: trial there was a disagreement in the jury, is also held for a new trial. The ILD is fighting for a change of venue from Scottsboro to Birmingham in the cases of these two boys. The ILD is fighting to take an tpe peal to the United States Supreme Court for the seven boys who are now, facing legal lynching on May 13. Ten thousand dollars will be needed to push this appeal. All workers and sympathizers are urged to at once rush funds to the Scottsboro Defense Fund, Room 430, 80 East llth St., New York City. ‘The nine Scottsboro boys were ar- rested on March 25, 1931, on a framed: up charge of “raping” two white girls who were hoboing their way on a freight train. At first the two girls denied that the boys had molest- ed them, or that they had even seen the boys. When confronted, how- ever, by the state officials with their record as prostitutes, the two girls were coerced into giving testimony along the line dictated by the state Officials. Millions of Negro and white work- ers and many intellectuals through- out the world have protested against the hideous frame up and lynch ver- dicts. Demonstrations throughout the United States on April 6 demanded the release of these innocent boys. It is now necessary to intensify ten. fold the mass fight for the release of these boys. Only a tremendous Mass defense campaicn cnn stop the bloody hands of Southern boss lynch« ers. Page May Ist Issue Cnly 3 Weeks Off; Send Funds Three short weeks are left to prepare for the big eitht-page | May Day issue of the Dally Work- er, three short weeks in which to send in your May Day greetings, te send in your contributions to put over this issue with a bang and to keep up the day to day work of the revolutionary press; three short weeks in which to get your bundle orders for the distri- bation of the ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND copies of the May Day Daily Worker. 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