The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1932, Page 3

(/ DAILY WORKER, NEW. 3, 1932 Page Three YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 40.000 OUT IN CHICAGO; WORKERS IN MANY CITIES BATTLE FOR STREETS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) a banners three miles through the city. with thousands more lining \B the streets and following the marchers to the parade grounds | while all traffic was stopped. Eight thousand workers gathered at the parade grounds to hear Schneiderman, Communist candi- date for governor, Karson, candidate for Congress, Lindman, candidate for Lieutenant-governor and represen- . * tatives of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Unemployment Insurance and the Y. ©, L Resolutions were unanimouszy adopted against war and for the re- lease of the Scottsboro Negro boys and Tom Mooney William Z. Foster and James W. Ford, proposed Com- muniss candidates, and the Minne- sota state ticket were endorsed with @ roar of ayes when presented to the crowd. * 70 DEMONSTRATIONS IN MINNESOTA DISTRICT MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 2— Seventy May Day demonstrations and mass meetings were held throughout the Minnesota district. Three thousand workers demon- strated in Duluth, with eight hun- dred marching in the parade. This . is the largest May Day in years, with the greatest display of militancy on the part of the workers. Six hundred workers demonstra- ted in St. Paul; twenty-five hundred in Hancock; seven hundred in Su- perior. * 5,000 OUT IN ST. LOUIS. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 2.—Yester- day’s demonstration was the largest May Day in St. Louis. demonstration ever held Five thousand work- ers demonstrated enthusiastically in Carr Park preceded by a three mile march of 1,000 workers through city led by a band of music. the In various sections of the city pre- ceeding the central march, workers held local marches and auto parades attracting wide attention. Sixty- five per cent of the participants were ‘Negroes, 10 per cent youth and 15 per cent women. cial division of children. There was a spe- For the first time in St. Louis a * red flag was unfurled at the demon- stration and carried in the parade. There was a‘ wide sale of literature and the new weekly organ. The spirit was exceptionally good, resulting in big organizational gains with 50 applications to the Com- muniét Party on hand. For the first time a May Day dem- onstration and march was held in Granite City, attended by 200. The first socialist party May Day picnic, car parade and indoor meeting since 1917 scheduled, with C. Senior, National Secretary, was a complete failure, with only 200 at- tending. * * STEEL POLICE ATTACK MARCHERS HAMMOND, Ind. May 2—The May Day demonstration in Indiana | Harbor was broken up by police seven workers were arrested. Gary workers were brutally beaten ‘ * and and fifteen were arrested, and as a result no meeting was held. In Hammond four hundred work- ers marched in the parade and a meeting with one thousand workers was held. * TEXAS LYNCH BOSSES UNLEASH VICIOUS TERROR HOUSTON, Texas, May 2.—Police brutality and terror raided the May | Day celebration. Young Communist League members, Negro and white, | were jailed. Comrades Hurst, Haw- | ‘kins and Lasky are still marked. . Negro workers were searched, bullied and told “not to believe the lies of these dirty reds, that good Southern niggers ought to know better.” At least one hundred police terrorized the meeting. * 25,000 STEEL WORKERS HAIL MAY DAY YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 2.— Twenty-five thousand workers lined the streets to witness the May Day parade here. Ten thousand met at Public Square where the workers raised the red flag on the city flag pole and remained afloat for fifty minutes before the fire department was able to lower the . IRONWOOD, Mich., May 2.—Four thousand workers militantly demon- strated here on May Day. Fifteen 1,200 OUT IN CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 2— ‘Twelve hundred workers demon- Resolutions in defense of the strated, with three hundred march- ing in a parade over a mile long. So- viet Union, free the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney, against terror in East Ohio were adopted. The names * flag. One thousand marched to the Hoover city garbage dump where the workers are forced to live. Two thousand workers attended a rally later. "The May Day meetings at Camp- hundred marched in a parade which ‘was attacked by the. police and the fire department. Two workers were clubbed and one arrested. * * CINCINNATI of the Communist candidates were greeted with tremendous enthusiasm. Two sectional marches were held, despite the police ban, The workers pledged to demon- strate on May 7th, to demand the re- Tease of the Scottsboro boys. The demonstration will be held on the ‘ Hospital Lot, at 1 o'clock. . A * MINERS AND POOR FARMERS DEMONSTATE IN TERRE HAUTE TERRE HAUTE, Ind. May Ca Over eight hundred workers, includ- ing miners and poor farmers thusiastically demonstrated this en- af- fernoon on the court house steps, militantly defying the bosses and stool pigeons. They pledged to dem- Scotton who was EVANSVILLE, Ind, May demonstration at Garvins Negroes and 50 women, little preparation was made, onstrate at City Court on Tuesday, May 10th, for the release of William arrested — while pasting May Day posters. They also pledged to endorse thel ocal election conference to be held on Saturday, at 2 p. m. and to demonstrate in . « HOLD FIRST MAY DAY IN EVANSVILLE oe Evansville held its first May Day Park. About 350 workers attended, with 50 Although the workers came out and very little in- terested in the first public meeting held in a public park. demand for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys at 7:30 p. m., both demonstrations to take place at 29 North 4th Street. A resolution in defense of the So- viet Union was vigorously applauded. Another resolution exposing the Lewis-Watker-Mitch machine was also adopted. Speakers were Hill, Dubois, Jayne, Robert, McComes, Stohr, Sebree and Newton. Five workers joined the Communist Party and literature amounting to $7.00 was sold includ- ing seventy-five Daily Workers, . Comrade Tom Knowland, Claud Burgus, Paul Gullot, a Negro worker and Don Wilson of Terra Haute, were the speakers. The following resolutions were adopted: Hands Off the Soviet Un- ion and China, 4 resolution demand- ing the release of Theodore Luessie and the Scotttsboro boys and ell class war prisoners. * 23,500 OUT IN BUFFALO BUFFALO, N. Y. May 2.~This wes the most enthusiastic demon~ stration ever h eld in Buffalo. Over 3,500 workers in a most disciplined parade, with over 100 banners par- ticipated amidst approximately 20,000 spectators, who cheered at the sight of the Scottsboro, anti-war, unem- ployment insurance and bonus slo- gans. A huge brass band played the “In- ternational” and other revolutionary SONGS. Eight thousand workers met at * CLEVELAND, Ohio, From five to today in the biggest the ‘This is the largest demonstration | greeting the opening of Dnieperstroy. since the May 1919 May Day demon- stration at which Ruthenberg spoke,!in the Cleveland district. * * . ROCHESTER WORKERS HOLD MILITANT MA¥ DAY ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 2—J/ever held in Rochester. Three to thousand workers|four thousand additional workers|boro boys and all the class war pri- &nd| were at Washington Square to greet | soners Broadway auditorium in an open ait demonstration. Four hundred pieces of literature were sold. The Pioneers, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and W.LR. squads marched in the parade. For the first time in the history of Buffalo the red flag was leading the parade with thous- ands cheering and saluting, singing the slogan of “Defense of the Soviet Union” : on The demonstration was followed by four indoor meetings. - * . 25,000 DEMONSTRATE IN CLEVELAND May 2,— Twenty-five thousand workers dem- onstrated in Public Square with 8,000 workers marching through the Ne- Public Square was red with ben. ners and floats. Eight speakers ad- dressed the meeting from as many stands. Telegrams demanding the release of the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney were endorsed, as well as Sixteen indoor meetings were held the International with raised fits to | | bell and Struthers were smashed, with | four workers arrested. * * MASSACHUSETTS STATE HUNGER MARCH ON THE WAY TO BOSTON a | | By I. AMTER. ROM her cot in the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston, Ed‘th Berkman sends forth a challenge and @ militant appeal for struggle of the workers of this country against the evil of deportation, which the bosses of this country in their eagerness to destroy the revolutionary unions, are applying. Comrade Berkman is suf- fering from tuberculosis, which she éontracted in prison, where she has been confined for 29 weeks for her activities as otganizer and leader of the Lawrence textile strike in Oc- tober, 1931. Comrade Berkman is another of the leaders of the textile workers by whose deportation the textile manu- facturers believe they will be able to prevent the organization of the viciously exploited textile workers and to keep down and lower their | wages. The workers in the textile | industry, both in the North and the | South, are receiving hunger wages. In Fall River, Mass., textile workers went out on strike on April 29, fight~) ing against their starvation wages, which amount to from 50 cents .to $4.85 a week. This is the wage that workers are expected to live and work on. This is considered “suffi- cient” by the textile manufacturers. This is the wage of “returning pros- perity” that Hoover talks about. Fighting against these conditions, and leading the textile workers in struggle, Comrades Murdoch and De- vine, organizers of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union, were deported some time ago. Frank Borich, secre- tary of the National Miners Union, faces a similar fate, for his loyal, | courageous leadership in the Penn- | sylvania, Ohio and Kentucky miners’ | strikes. The Tampa tobacco workers will suffer the loss of some of their organizers, who are languishing in the prison of Florida, and face de- portation upon finishing their sen- tences. Berkman Jailed legally. And now Comrade Edith Berkman, spewing forth her lungs in the tuber- culosis ward of the hospital, is being Park. The marchers displayed unexam- pled militancy, displacing the police at traffic intersections and forcing all street cars to stop. While the parade was in progress. The march- ers weré on the point of throwing one trolley over on its side when its motorman refused to shut off the j * MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 2—Two demonstrations were held in Mil- waukee. One at Red Arrow Park where four thousand workers partic- ipated and another at Kosciusko Park, on the south side, with two thousand, besides the thousands at the sidelines A militant parade was held from both places to the south side armory with two thousand work- ers in the line of march. The indoor meeting was packed with 15,000 inside and over 1,000 in an overflow meeting on the street, The police were mobilized, especially on the south side, and threatened to break up the overflow meeting. 2 Over 100 applications to the Com- munist Party were made. ‘The socialist parade with elaborate floats and bands, with union mem- bers and city members coarced to participate, turned out to be a fiasco. One thousand bystanders watched Riot Gun Benson and Starvation Hoan, etc, but their parade was smaller, and many workers left them at Wisconsin Avenue and came to our meeting. Mayor Hoan was to be seen riding in a limousine. The Racine meeting was a huge success, following the Swaboda scan- dal and the exposure by the Com- munist Party. The “socialist demon- stration” before the city hall had only 25 present who were not even mem- bers. The planned “parade of or- CHICAGO, TL, May 2.—Two hun- dred South Bend, Indiana workers walked two miles out of town to a May Day meeting after the police notified the arrangements commit~ tee two days before May Day that they could not have Howard Park which was originally announced as the meeting place. : ‘The police refused admittance to anyone into the park, and the work~- ers had to walk to the outskirts of . PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 2.—Three thousand steel workers from Home- stead, Rankin, Braddock, Duquesne, Clairton, Glassport, McKeesport and Monesson demonstrated in McKees- port yesterday in the first May Day demonstration the Monangahela River Valley has seen in over twnty years, if not in history. A white drunkard leaped on the truck to attack Earnest Carruthers the Negro speaker. Hundreds of hands reached for and quickly ejected him. ‘The workers cheered when Carruthers and later white speakers exposed this as a result of boss prop- aganda. Daley read a statement from Tom MILWAUKEE WORKERS DEFY power and desisted “only when the motorman pleaded that his job was in danger. The city was forced to grant the use of the huge government owned Convention Hail for ‘another indoor demonstration which was held after whe. parade. = | » *“SOCIALIS' POLICE derly protest against existing condi- tion,” of course. Five hundred workers paraded from the West side at our call to Monument Square where they were greeted by 3,500. Tremendous en- thusiasm and mass applause was displayed on the socialist party ex- posure, A stool pigeon, trying to disrupt the meeting, was beaten up by the workers. The crowd stayed for three hours, and numerous applications to the Party was made. Five hundred workers paraded in West Allis to the City Hall. A reso- lution on the demands of the unem- ployed was passed and a committee was elected to present them to the socialist mayor Baxter on Tuesday at city hall. Two hundred workers met in an outdoor demonstration at Cudahy and one hundred and fifty at Wau-| kesha, | A resolution calling for a demon- stration to be held at City Hall on May 16th at 2 p, m. to submit de-+ mands to the socialists in the City Hall on May 16th at 2 p. m. to sub- mit demands to the socialists in the City Council was accepted with great | enthusiasm as well as one to take place on May 7th, on the elections and against imperialist war and in HOLD MAY DAY MEETS FOR FIRST TIME. STEEL WORKERS DEMONSTRATE. defense of the Soviet Union. | . * the city. One hundred and fifty workers demonstrated in Elkhart for the first | time in Highland Park, in defiance of the police order not to meet. The police and sheriff were present, but did not dare to interfere, Over two hundred workers demon- strated for the first time in history in Goshen, Indiana, on the court steps. * * With a mighty roar the crowd voted to accept Mooney’s call and send him greetings. A unanimous vote was taken to tell the McKees- port Daily News that if workers’ news was not printed straight, the workers would boycott the paper. Results of the terror was seen whep hardly any tin mill workers ware thre. Other speakers were Bill Mikados for years a McKeesport revolutionist, Chairman Edith Briscoe of the Met- al Workers Industrial League, Gus Mikados of the Young Communist ‘League. . The crowd pledged international solidarity in the fight against im- perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union and applauded every part in the Communist elec- | grams of protest! build up the revolutionary unions of| THE WORKERS MUST SAVE EDITH BERKMAN held—in spite of the fact that she cannot legally be deported, since she is not a citizen of Poland. Pilsudski, the butcher of the Polish workers, has a good ally in Secretary of Labor Doak, whose main job is to| break strikes and deport foreign- born workers. Aided in this work by the reactionary officials of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and, in the case of Comrade Berkman, by the officials of the United Textile Workers and the American Legion, Doak believes that he can keep the workers of this country from build- ing up their revolutionary unions. Terror cannot stop the working class. Fight Bosses’ Terror. As long as the bosses can keep Edith Berkman in jail; as long as they can keep Tom Mooney and War- ren K. Billings behind prison bars; as long as they can try to send the Scottsboro boys to the electrie chair, they believe the workers are not ready to struggle. Our answer to the appeal of Com- rade Berkman, to the appeal of Tom Mooney in answer to the denial of his release by Governor Rolph of California; our answer to: the at- tempt to railroad the Scottsboro boys to the electric chair; our an- swer to the smashing attack on the Tampa tobacco workers and the Im- perial Valley workers—our answer to the growing terror against the work- ers of this country, particularly the Negro workers, and the deportation terror against the foreign-born work- ers, must be broader organization, mobilization and struggle. The strug- gle for the release of Comrade Berk- man and the other comrades in cap- italist jails, is part of the struggle against wage-cuts, against hunger and for unemployment relief and so- cial insurance. It is directly con- nected with the fight against the bosses’ terror, and for the right to organize, strike and picket. It is directly connected with the struggle against imperialist war, for the de- fense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. Demand .the release of Edith Berk- man and the other militant workers in jail! Pass resolutions! Support the International Labor Defense and the Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born in their fight for the release of these victims! Flood Secretary of Labor Doak with tele- moe 2 Million Workers \in Tremendous May 1 Moscow Demonstration (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) one never to be forgotten. On the| site facing Lenin’s tomb were as- navy, aviation and civic militiamen. Across the square on the review- ing stand stood Stalin, Kalinin, Molotov and other well-known polit- ical leaders. Some distance away | stood members of the foreign diplo- | matic corps and in trfbunes many | thousands of the best representatives of the Soviet toiling masses, Red Army men, as well as hundreds of working-class delegates who had| come for the Moscow May Day from America, Germany, China, France, | Italy, Australia, England and all| parts of the globe bringing their pledges of solidarity and defense of | the Soviet Union. ste of the square ran monster ban- | ners declaring the Soviet toilers’ May | Day message greetings to the work- | ers of the world in five languages: | “Long live the victorious offen- | sive of the proletarian revolution throughout the world!” Promptly as the Kremlin bells chimed nine, Voroshilov, eomamnder of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and Navy, rode into the square, where he greeted the assembled de- fenders of the Soviet Power, the toil- | ers of the U.S.S.R. and the interna- | tfonal working class in the name of | the First of May. | The bands struck up the Interna-| tional.. The sun, which had been hidden until then, suddenly flooded the square, lighting the masses of upturned faces. Following Voroshi- | lov's brief, tense speech, a brilliant | parade of all branches of the armed | forces, infantry, cavalry and artillery | began, closing with impressive man- euvers by squadrons of high-powered | | aeroplanes, while on Red Square it-| self mechanized army transport units thundered by. Beginning soon after 12, Moscow’s workers, marching by factories, be-} gan pouring six columns abreast into | | the square. Singing, faces aglow,| | bodies erect, they swung by in end- less lines, carrying banners like a} red forest overhead. Those plants with the best record} had the honor of leading the march, such as Electrozavod, 20,000 workers; | Stalin Auto Works and many others. | Workers Depict Achievements. | As the workers passed the review-| ing stand, friendly shouts of recog- | nition for their leaders went up. Posters and floats, as well as striking exhibits made by the workers throughout Moscow, depicted the la- test industrial successes, such as Dneiprostroi, Magnitogorsk, new ball bearing plant, the subways disployed the contrast with the crisis in capi- talist countries. | Many stinging caricatures of the | capitalists and their lackeys featured the parade. The demand for the freeing of the Scottsboro boys fig-| ured prominently throughout the | | demonstration. In the line of march were bri-} gades of armed factory workers, | especially Comsomols (members of} the Leninist Young Communist | League of the Sovitt Union). The} Pioneers marched, the oncaming gen- erations of youth, vigorous with health and a clear Communist out- | look on the present world and their part in it. Close to 2,000,000 were in today’s demonstration, which was still pour- ing into Red Square at 5 o’colck. the Trade Union Unity League in the shops and carry on the fight! Join the Communist Party and help in | the battle to put an end to capital- ism with all its terrorism and brutal. But most of all— | exploitation of the working class! | Edith Berkman must be saved! Japanese Send Division to Three Japanese Colum Hailin and Sanshing, Widely Separated Towns Near Soviet Frontier ‘The Japanese government yesterday ordered Gen. Jiro Tamon’s division to proceed to Tunhua to reinforce the three Japanese columns which set out from Harbin a few days for that district. The Tunhua district is on the Manchurian-Soviet border. Yes- terday’s bourgeois press dispatches from Changchun, capital of the new puppet Manchurian state sét up by Japanese bayonets, reported that Japanese heavy artillery had arrived in that city for dispatch to the Tun- hua district. ‘The Japanese column under Gen. Nakamura has reached Fangcheng on the Sugari River and is proceed- ing to Sanhsing, a short distance from the Soviet frontier. This column is proceeding by river and is accom~- panied by a large gunboat flotilla. A Japanese inspired dispatch from Tokyo reports large scale fighting over wide areas of Northern and Eastern Manchuria between the Jap- anese invaders and insurgent Chin- ese troops. There is no doubt that the national revolutionary struggle in Manchuria is spreading and increas~ ingly drawing new sections of the toiling masses into armed resistance against the Japanese. The seizure of Manchuria by the Japanese, their brutal terror against the Manchurian masses, have created the conditions for such a struggle. It is also clear, however, that the Japanese are fos- tering “bandit” activities on the So- Fresh Army Soviet Border ns on Way to Tunhua, , Steady concentration of Japanese | movements are in the direct pay of the Japanese. —— | LIMA, PERU.—The City was par-| alyzed as a result of a complete sus- pension of street car service on May Day. Although clashes tween the | workers and the police were feared, no disturbance occurted during the May Day. demonstration hére Watch for the Daily Worker Straw Vote on the Bonus! Voroshilof Repeats Soviet |the electric chair, free them from| RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 BUILD Name Serrrerry City THE WESTERN WORKER A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West 26 Issues $1 Western Worker Campaign Committee 1164 MARKET STREET, San Francisco, Calif. Peace Policy at Gigantic May Day Demonstration sembled regiments of the Red Army, Warns Imperialist Brigands That Red Army and Soviet Masses Will Defend Soviet Soil With Last Drop of Blood MOSCOW, May demonstrations throug’ 1,— In huge May Day hout the length and breadth of the vast federation of Socialist Re- publics, the Soviet masses on Sunday served notice on the imperialist war inciters that Sov- iet territory and achievements will be defended to the last drop of blood. In Moscow, where over to the Japanese imperialists who are concentrating troops on the Soviet) borders and to the vassal states of | French imperialism who makés no secret of their plans for joint armed } intervention with the Japanese | against the land of rising, flourishing Socialism. Comrade Voroshiloff de- clared: “The Red Army is a stronghod of peace. Let the capitalist bour- | geois world know that the Red Army never nor ever will threaten anyone. | It does not dream of | starting war, but it is resolved to | fight a most stubborn fight in the defense of every inch of Soviet soil | against any power or group of | powers which attacks the Soviet Union. | “Our proletarian country was | founded on a strong Red Army, | which is an eyesore to the cap- italistic world. But we are ready | to sign any agreement able to se- cure peace. We have proposed com- | plete disarmament because we de- | sire to do everything possible to | prevent bloodshed, yet our proposals | two million workers marched | past the tomb of Lenin in a gigantic May Day parade, Klementi On buildings flanking the north| Voroshiloff, Commissar of the Red Army, gave a blunt warning were unacceptable (o the (“disarm- ment”) conference. “The laboring masses as well as the representative of the bourgeoisie knew wars are prevenied by the existence of the Soviet Union, Let the world know the Red Army will never threaten anybody but will watch events and be where it should be when necessary. “They try to provoke us, but our nerves are strong enough. We will not be foiled by these provocations. If some groups or countries wish to try our forces, we will show them how to resist.” The traditional May Day parade of the Red Army and the swearing in of new troops began punctually at nine o'clock Sunday. The parade featured numerous squadrons of airplanes moving in perfect evolutions above the Red Square, and an unusually Jarge representation of mechanized detachments. Following the Red Army parade, six columns of armed workers headed the huge procession of workers through the Red Square. Clara Zetkin in Stirring Appeal to Workers to Push Fight for Scottsboro Boys (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | proved that they did not commit the crime of which they were accused— of having “raped” two white prosti- tutes. The accusation is a deliberate | le, which was made in order to serve | the dary ends of property owners and manufacturers, These people want to have the young Negroes burned alive, in order to terrorize the toiling Negro masses, who are rising against exploi- tation and who, together with their white brothers and sisters, are build- ing a united front against hunger, imperialist war and the bloody white terror. The serious charge of which the boys are accused showed itself from the very beginning to be groundless, and does not stand serious examina- tion. One of the prostitutes herself later definitely repudiated her testi- mony. The judges proceeded to ignore this fact as if they had been deaf and blind. The most debasing race hatred of whites against blacks, the expression of race arrogance and a low standard of humanity and cul- ture—awakened and lashed the brutal instincts of the lynchers, and it was in this atmosphere that the trial took place and the sentence was passed. This hatred rages in Alabama, and demands its victims. To satisfy this lust, eight young Negroes are to be burned at the stake. Because of the looming possibility of death in the electric chair, we must | Strain all our energies, we must act | swiftly, we must lose no time, we must utilize every moment, so that eight | young lives may be saved from the terrible fate of being burned alive in the electric chair. Members and friends of the Inter- | national Red Aid in all countrtes! I| know that you willc ontinue to do as you have been doing, that you will exert your whole strength and energy | for the demand: | “Snatch the eight Negro boys from | | prison, and free also the brave, inno- | cent working-class leaders, Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, and the | Harlan and ail political prisoners.” Yes, you must accomplish the seem- ingly impossible; you must still fur- ther increase your unselfish, enérgetic work to save the eight Negro boys. | Thus you will remain the firm, invin- cible shock-troops in the struggle | against the crime of race hatred, | lynch justice and greed. But in order to block the legal murder of the eight boys, strong, firm mass forces must be organized everywhere! All of you who still have a con~ science, and in whose breast a human heart still beats: to the rescue of IT! SUBSCRIBE NOW! 13 Issues 50c + Street State |Communists Elect | districts. a amet. these eight youths, whom the execu- tioners are preparing to drag to the electric chair! Whose only guilt is that they were born with black skins! Speak! Act! In your front ranks will be uncounted human beings from the United States. You have not for- gotten that in the United States men and women of lofty minds, courage and character staked their names, their social status, their health, their whole personality, and often their very liyes—for the abolition of Negro slavery, for liberation and equality for their black brothers and sisters. Do notl et the great example of these heroes remain dead facts in school text-books! Let them now exert their influence as a living force. The great deeds of those heroic men and women who, in the struggle of the masses for human rights against prejudice and hatred, fearlessly unfurled and carried high the banner of complete equality and liberation for all those deprived of their rights, for the despised and the oppressed—these deeds are indel- ibly inscribed on the pages of history! Do not allow a dark crime, the murder of eight young Negroes, to be added, next to these illustrious pages, to the dark, bloody record of lynching and legal crime. Picture the inexpressible suffering of the long period of imprisonment, before the final decision, when the prisoners are daily and hourly tortured by the terrible thought that tomorrow or the day afterward the executioners may come to their cells in order to lead the eight victims as sacrifices to the altar of race hatred. The cry of the countless masses must drown the cries of the brutal mob of lynchers, The hands of the vast masses must be clenched into one giant fist, that will tear to pieces the sentence of death and will hur! away the electric chair! Every man or woman who is silent, passive or indifferent during the struggle for the freedom of the eight young Negroes will be an accomplice to this unpardonable crime. This crime would be an indelible, shameful stain on the history of the United States and on the history of human- ity. ‘The strugsie +0 save the eight young lives from suffering and from murder in the ¢lectric chair becomes historical struggle of enormous significance between unprejudiced humanity and high culture, against brutal, blood-thirsty ract hatred In this struggle, humanity must be triumphant. Its triumph is assured if every man and woman will con- Seientiously and bravely fulfill his or her duty to the very end. All for the cause! Into the fight! And fight for a strong Red Aid, hardened in the battle against white terror and for the international sole idarity of all races and nationalities! { Doriot to French Parliament PARIS.—A heavy fall of the Com- munist poll in the French elections was registered yesterday. Only one was clected—Doriot. An increase of | 12,000 votes occurred in the mining | area of Pas De Calais. The heaviest, losses were suffered in the agraria® The Paris losses was lighter. War Veterans Should Pre- pare for the Daily Wosker, Straw Vote’ =e > eee aS