The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1932, Page 4

Luge bour Daily, Worker Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily exexept Sunday, ot 50 LS 13th St., New York City, N relephionaALgonquin’4-7906. Osble “ITAIWORK.’ Address and mail cheoks to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 18th St. New York, N.Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mall everywhere: One, year, $6: six months, $3; two months, 61; exeepting Borough of Manhattp{ana}Bronz, New York, City. Foreign: one’ year, 085 sixgmonths, $480. “Conada, $8'per_year; 75 _contahperimonth. Hail the Protest Strike of the South River Workers! J ORKERS ail over the United States must hail the action | of the South River, New Jersey strikers in continuing for one week their victorious strike against wage cuts as a protest against the murder of nine year old Walter Rojek | and the shooting of three other workers by hired gunmen | imported from Newark by the Mayor and needle trade bosses | South River. This strike, coming ter the successful ter- the workers forced the mina t political rking th River to the United | River and at- there against the | ove is that of workers in every ne young strikers of South River jemocracy they were never taught in alist terror at the and cloaked with police of the capitalist class le against hunger and star- The murder of nine year old Walter Rojek is of a piece with the burning out of the veterans from Washington, with the attempted legal lynching of the nine Negro boys in Scottsboro, with the murder of work- ers resisting evictions, with the bloody suppression of unemployed work- ers everywhere demanding relief, with the slaughter of four workers by Henry Ford-Mayor Murphy police in Detroit. It is part of the whole campaign of terror instituted by the capitalist class against all sections of the toiling masses. * AGAINST this black reaction, the militant working class are forming and Kwill build a solid united front to resist with granite hardness every effort of the boss class to pierce its ranks. The action of the South River workers in declaring the one week protest strike against this terror is beacon light to workers everywhere. In this political protest strike the workers are forging a new weapon to beat back the brutal capitalist offen- sive. Workers everywhere should back up this strike with greeting, reso- lutions of solidarity, delegations expressing support and material relief. The immediate widespread response from the toilers to this action will mark a new page in the rising tide of battle. It will stimulate the uni- fication of the workers ranks, that will strike terror into the hearts of the brutal enemy. * * * * * E spendid militancy of the young workers of South River in’ the-face of police terror is a striking confirmation of the fact that the youth, under the hammer blows c/ the crisis, are more and more coming to the fore as leaders, together with the adult workers, in the struggle against ‘hunger, starvation and terror. The mass funeral for Walter Rojek, to be held today, will be not only an occasion for mourning. It will be a symbol of determination of the workers of South River, as of the workers all over the United States, that this bloody campaign of capitalist terror will not go unchallenged by the working class. It must be the signal for militant workers every- where to close ranks and march forward in the fight against the capi- talist attacks and around the six central demands of the Communist Party in the coming elections, one of which is “Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the politi¢al rights of workers.” All hail to the protest strike of the workers of South River! « Mayor. McKee and the Bankers FURTHER and more drastic cut in the miserable relief being handed to the jobless of the richest city on earth, is foreshadowed in Mayor McKee’s retrenchment program ostensibly designated to stave off the “bankruptcy of the treasury.” “The city must economize to satisfy the bankers,” the mayor said. “The bankers want results and I am deter- mined to see that they get them.” All of which only shows that the new mayor is the worthy successor to Jimmy Walk- er, and is a tool of the big banking interests. It further shows that the real rulers of New York,’as of the other cities of the United States, are not the “people” but the bankers. The mayor makes the plea that the city is facing bankruptcy, which would mean that the expenditures of the city far exceeds its income. His conclusion is that to stave off bankruptcy, the masses of the toilers must make sacrifices. Sacrifices, of course, are not demanded of the bankers, CCORDING to the mayor, the bankers must have their loans repaid, loans which go to keep up the large army of police, pay huge salaries and which go into the pockets of the big capitalist politicians and their henchmen in the form of graft. If these expenditures would be cut down and the huge wealth of the bankers and the industrial magnates taxed, the city would not be bankrupt. There is enough wealth accumulated in ‘New York and squeezed out of the toiling masses to supply the needs of the hungry and starving. But Mayor McKee does not want to tax the wealth and income of the bankers. He prefers to cut the salaries of the low paid city employees, to reduce relief already on the starvation level, to introduce more forced labor, to throw the burdens of the crisis and capitalist waste upon the shoulders of the poor. McKee works hand in hand with the bankers. He uses the same false plea of bankruptcy to cut relief as did Mayor Murphy of Detroit’ whom, the socialists praised and supported. * * . 'HE workers of New York must realize that against the bankers and their tools the city government, only united ranks and mass struggle can get relief. To plead with the bankers and its tool in offic? will avail nothing. T..e formation of committees of the unemployed, united with the employed workers in the shops with those who are suffering wage euts, and the carrying of demonstrations and, other mass actions can force relief for the coming winter. But it is likewise clear that day to day fight for relief, against the city governments alone, that are cutting down relief, will not give-assurance against hunger, The need for unem- ployment insurance paid for by the bosses and the government stands out clearer than ever before. In the election campaign, the workers must rally around the Communist Party as the only party fighting for. relief Sica aias insurance, fighting to overthrow the rule of the bankers. Letters from Our Readers SENDS DONATION * Los Angeles, Cal, | Editor, Daily Worker, Newsstands and Readers New York. Editor, Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: Dear Comrade: i y Did you know that one “Daily”| Enclosed $1,00 donation, and I want be cenieiand gets five readers |t© say the Daily has improved the within two weeks? Well, it does. I've Past few months, The articles and | the secretary. tried it at several candy stores and about the sarge thing hapepns. Or- der your Daily and insist that they put it on the stand until you call for it. Also after you read it pass it to your fellow workers in the shop. First she calls you a Red, then she gives you an earful of “those dirty) Reds,” but because the paper is free, | she'll read it. Next day she'll ask questions. “A war? Unemployment {nsurance, etc.”? Then she tells you! all she knows. Two workers killed stories are great, the international news, in more detail form, is a vast improvement over the news flashes, and such articles as “Foster's Speech” in Ohio was very good. Altogether I have noticed a very much improved workers’ paper. Gootl work, com- rades, It's needed more than ever now, Comradely yours, ALBERT COOK, Here's to more readers and fighter fowntown. Where is the nearest club | fighters. n the neighborhood of Fifth St.2 | ve Waters. ch Apothe | i agi ° - q DAILY +, ORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEP! Problem of Cadres in the Party By TZIRUL (Installment IV.) ‘HE PROBLEM of strengthening the cadres can only be solved by making a number of changes in the methods of Party work. This applies particularly to the methods of work in the Party committees. The Party organs must guarantee of the activization of all their mem- bers: more workers must be drawn into active Party work than here- tofore. We must no longer have a state of affairs where the ‘ork is done not by the whole commit- tee but only by a few members or ‘This does not mean that we must have a larger staff of paid Party workers. On the con- trary, in some cases (for instance in the: C.-P. of America) this staff must. be reduced. A redundant Party apparatus leads to the bu- | reaucratization of Party work, to | work by circulars, to isolation from the masses. WORK IN PARTY COMMITTEES. Comrades must be made to un- derstand that it is their Party duty to work in the Party committee. ‘This applies above all to the mem- bers of the given committee, and after them also to other activists. Members of the Party committee from the factories must above all | establish a connection between the committee and the factory; they must keep the Party committee in- | formed about the mood of the work- ers in their factory, about their own activity and that of their nuc- Jeus, they must secure influence for the Party, first in the factory, and then also in their own district. Collective work in the leading organs must be accompanied by the development of self-criticism. This will be conducive to bringing to light new forces and giving them an opportunity to show what they can do. On the other hand, this guarantees the possibility of find- ing out incapable workers and re- Placing them by others. In order to help the new Party- workers one must organize confer- ences of instruction on various questions, courses, etc. Great help can be given them through in- structors, who certainly must not only familiarize themselves with the situation in the various nuclei and organizations, but must also help the local workers to bring a change and an improvement into their work. To equip the Party cadres with the revolutionary theory of Marx- ism-Leninism is one of the most important parts of cadre training, all the more so as there are Party members still in the grip of social democratic traditions, and as many Party workers have not had a ser- ious Marxist-Leninist preliminary training. “THEORY AND PRACTICE.” Meanwhile, one frequentiy notices an inadmissable disdain for theory on the part of some Party activ- ists. “Over-burdened with prac- tical work”, such is frequently their excuse for not giving more time to reading Marxist-Leninist literature, of which in most cases there isn’t very much in the various Parties. Neglect or theory is demonstrated by the, in some cases, inadmissibly small editions of Marxist-Leninist literature, and of periodical pub- lications of the Parties. With the exception of a few Com- munist Paries (the C. P.’s of Ger- many and Poland) which have al- ready a definite, though far from adequate, network of Party educa- tion, there is hardly any serious attempt to raise the theoretical level of the Party activists. The network of schools and circles is restricted and not permanent. The school sylabuses are too ambitious and dissociated from the immediate tasks and activities of the Party. It frequently happens that sensible and well written literature is con- spicuous by its absence. Problems of Party construction do not re- ceive sufficient attention in ‘the periodical press of the Parties, in Party journals, in the newspapers, etc. oo Hardly any of the Parties (except some beginnings in the C. P.’s of Czechoslovakia and France) have as yet been able to produce a man- ual on the history of their Party. Without bold promotion on a large scale of new forces of the prole- tariat, armed with revolutionary Marxist-Leninist theory, it is im- possible to do justice to the over- growing tasks of the Communist Parties — winning of the majority of the working class and leader- ship in the class struggles of the proletariat. More attention ta | Party cadres! (The End) HUNGER IN A RICH CITY MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.—Out of @ population of 62,000 there are 10,000 to 15,000 unemployed workers in Mount Vernon, yet the only relief this rich city gives is work for 100 to 150 a week, for $3 to $4 a day . Those who get work are either friends of politicans or heads of big families in desperate need. ‘When I asked for relief at the re- lief bureau the answer was, First, you are single, and we can do nothing for you, and second, you hang around the Workers’ Center on South 8th Ave. We are organizing our Unemployed Council, and when we go to the re- Hef bureau by the thousands we will make them listen. —Unemployed Worker. Correction In. a review of “The Farmers’ Way Out,” published in. the Sept. 21 issue of the Daily Worker, the price was erroneously given as 10 cents. The correct price is 1 cent each, to be ordered from Workers’ Library Pub- lishers, Station D, New York, Stop the billion-dollar subsidies to the trusts and banks. Immediate unemployment insurance at the ex- pense of. the. government and em- Sao 5 eee asin ee ae —‘\ THE NAME OF THE STARVING VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES OF THE UNITED STATES, THIS CONVENTION IS NOW OPENED!” Bvt WORKERS’ EX-SERVICEMENS’ By BURCK. RANK €, ELE oe AMERICAN LEGION The Cleveland Veterans Conference organizes the united front struggle for the bonus, Digging Coal at Muzzle of _ Guns in Southern Illinois By FRED GILETTE. EST FRANKFORT, Ill—Despite the peaceable calm of the early September afternoon you get the impression of dozens of unseen eyes watching your movements: the husky with the gray slouch hat who eyéd you when you got off the train, the policeman on the beat, everybody knows a stranger in town. And a stranger in town nowadays when goods are rotting on the shelves is hardly likely to be a traveling salesman, these fel- lows figure. Therefore, every stranger is a probable Red. After a few hours in this town you understand more clearly what it’s all about; a veritable Chinese wall of terror has been thrown up about Franklin County Edmondson’s gangsters rule like a bevy of drunken czars. (Edmondson is a Lewis agent— at one time self-appointed leader of a “rank and file” movement.—Ed. Note). Chapa tan INERS are forced to work at the muzzle of guns. One miner, an old grizzled resident of the fields for the last fifteen years said: “The whole county of miners is a wanting to come out. But they can’t come out while Edmondson’s gun thugs run riot over the fields. He revealed that a number of min- ers have been shot ‘for speaking their minds.’ That if a miner does not appear at work in the morning he is visited during the day by a committee of gunmen who “want to know the reason why.” Every for- eign born miner is considered “a god damned Red hunky son-of-a- bitch.” EVERYBODY | WEARS A BADGE Terror equalling that of Harlan County, if not exceeding it, exists here. Every businessman in the city has been deputized: the local barber, the doctor, the grocer has had a gun flung into his hands and a badge pinned on his chest. “If you don’t—we ain’t responsible,” they are told by the thugs. A bar- ber, satisfying himself he was speaking to no secret emissary of Lewis or Peabody, said as he looked warily about him, that he had been terrorized into acting on the “Citi- zens’ committee” the fascist militia organized since the march on Franklin County. “I was told un- Jess I did so, I would be fined $200 —and his voice fell to a whisper, “maybe more would happen to me.” Boy scouts 15 and 16 years of age packed guns as deputy sheriffs dur- ing the march on Franklin County. The miners’ lot is hell on earth here. As one native, ex-100 per center told me: “They might for- give Lewis and Walker in heaven for what they have done to us, but T'll be god damned if we'll ever forgive them down on earth here.” Their bitterness was never so great. They are looking across the hori- zons of the county boundary for aid from the newly organized union, the Progressive Miners of America, They are looking for another de- scent on Franklin ity—a well- organized march—nof like the hap- hazard one last time—which will succeed in breaking down the ter- ror. One miner blamed Ansbury and Allard for not having endorsed the movement at the beginning of the revolt, in April, for the crea- tion of broad strike committees in Franklin County, “We could have halted this terror if we'd organ- ized then,” he said. “But Ansburyy g “PMLA.” As It Is in Action The miners dare not assemble in groups of three on the streets; they are forbidden to talk in the gloom of the mine rooms; their locals dare not hold meetings; a 15 per cent levy on their wages above the reg- ular dues forced from them by the Lewis-Walker gang—a tribute they must pay to the union for the priv- ilege of having an army of gun thugs foistered on them; of pay- ing the scpscraper salaries of Lewis | and Walker who are driving them into the ground. One miner reacted bitterly at the mention of Ansbury’s name: “One week before the march,” he said, | “On August 18 at the mass meet- ing in Zeigler, we asked what to do | next. Ansbury threw up his hands. The Meaning of Wall Street-- Wall Street, By Anna Rochester. International Pamphlets, 50c. Reviewed By ROBERT J. KENTON ‘ALL STREET, says Anna Roch- ester in her excellent pamphlet, commonly means “the world of tri in stocks and bonds.” This, it pointed out, while important, is of lesser importance than the “wealth drawn directly from in- dustry and banking and the result- ing power which centers in the Wall Street area.” Wall Street, geew up with the country—the de- velopment of large scale industry and the consequent need of huge sums of money for industrial pur- poses gave control into the hands of those able to supply this need. Today, there is no real line of de- macration between industry and banking. Wall Street has resulted in the fusion of the two. ‘Wall Street, the pamphlet shows, is itself dominated by a small num- ber of financiers. The oldest and still the most powerful is the bank- ing firm of J. P. Mor; and Co. Morgan is believed to have control- led in 1929 over’ one-sixth of the total corporate wealth of American capitalism. The Rockefellers, Kuhn, Loeb, and other Titans, and also the richest bankers and industrial- ists outside of Wall Street proper but within its orbit, reach out over the country as a gigantic octopus, involying in its grip every industry, every large corporation and prac- tically every important bank. |. Wall Street makes certain of its control of the economic life of the country by its control of the vari- ous political parties, the pamphlet points. out. It is well known that the Republican and Democratic Parties are the handmaids of the banking and industrial fraternity. But the Socialist Party also bolsters up the rule of Wall Street, while seeming to oppose it. This little volume should be distrib- uted by the thousands all over the | country, and its price—only five | cents, three cents if ordered by the | hundred—makes this wide distrib- ution possible. Order from Work- ers Library Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New York City, or from he ‘Fellows,’ Ansbury said, ‘I don't know what the hell to advise. Go back to your locals and decide for your selves.’” ‘The miner’s opinion Was that at that time Ansbury did not guage the mass solidarity thru- out the fields; that he was ready to capitulate to the terror in Franklin County; that he fled the Keystone County of the field in the face of the terror. “Only when the masses of miners insisted on marching on Franklin County, did Ansbury fall’behind the movement.” And then he led the march five miles in the air—in an airplane, instead of being on the firing line, the miner said. se 6 come of the mines in this county are dumping the coal on the | ground; storing up what they can't sell at the moment, foreseeing the | Possibility of an irresistible revolt within the county one of these days. The attempts of the mine owners to fan into flames prejudice against the foreign born miners will not succeed. For conditions are growing unbearable even for the native-born miner. ‘The county oli- garchy, of Edmondson, a republican, the democratic sheriff ang district attorney, the Shelton gangsters from East St. Louis can only last so long and no longer. “The straw is coming soon that will break the camel’s back,” this miner said, Jt was enlightening to learn that “Buddy” Moore, state policeman who was “discharged” from the force for beating up too many min- ers, and whose life was in conse- quent danger, has ‘been appointed night watchman of Orient Mine No. 1 to replace the killer Sutton, who shot Joe Colbert, the militant Secretary of Local 303 of Orient No. 1, August 17. Sutton is said to have murdered nine men to date. BIGGEST IN THE WORLD The 17,000 miners of Franklin County are employed chiefly at Orient No. 1, at Orient; and New Orient No. 2, at West Frankfort; the C. W, and F., Ild Ben Coal Co. mines, the Brewrton mines and the Bell Zoller No. 2. To give you @ picture of the capacity of these mines: Franklin County in 1931 produced more than nine million tons. First in production came the New Orient with 651,000 tons;/ next the Old Ben Coal Co. No, 15, with 534,000 tons, and third the Bell Zoller No, 2 with 373,000 tons. The New Orient No. 2 at West Frank- fort is said to be the biggest mine in the world; it holds all world’s records for hoisting. Ser eas 1 pte are the reasons the UMWA and the coal operators are de- termined not to allow Franklin County to exercise the “democratic rights guaranteed us by our Con- stitution” as the leaders of the PMA put it, very, very mildly, Then the pendulum swings to talk of “fighting fire with fire on the next march to Franklin County.” Right now, the heat of strike still per- vades the coal fields. . Homeward, at a mass meeting in O'Farrell yesterday, Barney O'Fla- herty, a leader of the PMA appeal- ed to all the miners who can pray to get, down on, their knees and pray for the success of the new union; but as a miner said to me afterward, “prayer won't get you into Franklin County.” The rank. and file of the new union must press their leadership forward for _action on this keystone point, be- fore-it is too late, = Ny X FRESH AIR IN SOUTH BEND FORCED LABOR IN THE STUDEBAKER PLANTS 'VERY year, in the spring, it was : the custom in South Bend, Ind., to wash from the stores and housefronts the year’s accumulaton of soot from the hundreds of factory chimneys. It was not only a custom, but a necessity, for the thick smoke pour- ing out day and night left a black pall on the city and its 120,000 pop- ulation. But for the last two years South Bend has not cleaned its fronts, for it has not been necés- sary; little smoke has appeared over the housetops,. For two years the air in South Bend has been clean. The workers have had plen- ty of fresh air; but since this is the capitalist system, with every-. | thing owned by the bosses and without unemployment insurance, clean, fresh air in South Bend has meant poverty, hunger and starva- tion. “RELIEF” ON ACCOUNT! The huge Studebaker automobile plant dominates this city; and it has been running at a fraction of its normal output for the last two years. Twenty-five thousand men used to work in Studebaker’s; most, of them have not been fired, but neither do they work. Fifteen thou- sand of them, those with families, receive “relief from Studebaker; but the relief has a big long string attached to it. Each family gets about $4,a week in groceries; but the relief is charged againct the men’s future salaries; and, needless to say, the Studebaker Company sees to it that each man gets just enough work to pay for his gro- ceries. In other words, the men get no relief at all; they are simply getting work sufficient for a $4 | weekly pay check. This saves the county money, which means saving money for Studebaker, which pays so much less taxes. It amounts to @ new wrinkle in the country-wide system of forced labor for relief. . 8 EXT to Studebaker, the largest plant in South Bend is the Ben- dix Brake Company. Its president, Vincent Bendix, is one of the great playboys, of the fast wealthy set; it is nothing for him to spend $35, 000 on a single wild party at his Florida home. Meanwhile, his work- ers starve or work themselves to death. I have seen a pay check | for $22 for ninety hours work in a week. The factory seems built for the purpose of\creating drafts in which the workers take sick. Not all the factories in South | ‘Bend are closed, There is Wilson Brothers, which makes shirts, who have worked up a scheme for mak- ing goods cheap. Pay practically no wages, use strong, young girls and work them to a frazzle. The wages run from $3 to $5 a week; the girls are employed only in their By GEORGE COOPER. best years of youth, from sixteen to twenty years of age; no girl over twenty years is employed. And be- fore any girl is employed she is given a very thorough examination to make sure that enough work will be gotten out of her, SINGER AND RED PODOLSK I drov.e by the enormous Singer Sewing Machine plant: empty, dark, silent, a handful of men at the gate, What a contrast to the picture recently presented im the Daily Worker by Myra Page of the former Singer Sewing Machine plant in the Soviet Union! Here unemployment and hunger; there happy workers secure whether they work or not. ‘The fight for adequate unemploy- ment relief moves slowly, “thanks” to the*socialists and the churches. If anyone wants to see what is meant by the social fascist dan-* ger, let him come to South Bend. ‘The socialists have gone the whole hog. They have actually gone so far-as to organize fake Unemployed Councils and to call them by the name of “Unemployed Councils!” And they claim the national affilia- tion, so that the “American Guard- ian” declared, when South Bend’s fake councils endorsed Norman Thomas, that the national com- mittee of unemployed councils had endorsed Thomas! ‘HE ciay officials appreciate deep- ly the function of the socialists. While there is a terror continually going on against the real Unem- ployed Council, and two cf its most active workers, Leo Lipinski and Antony Yakinski, are now held in ‘prison for deportation, the social- ists are not only not molested but are given aid, The city and the bosses give them quarters rent free, fre2 electricity, and provide them heir bumming expedi- ile the real Unemployed Council struggles along on the pen# nies its own workers scrape to- gether. TWO UNITED FRONTS! One third of South Bend’s popu- lation is Polish and Catholic. The priests exhort their parishoners to yield to their bosses or suffer ex- communication. Here is the com- mand of Monszigneur Osadnick, the head of the Polish Catholics, to hi sstarving flock: “If any Com- munists come to your doors to call you to the Unemployed Councils, greet them with boiling water.” (ae | 'UCH is the united front of poli- ticians, bosses, socialists and priests, with which the fight against starvation has to contend. The workers—employed and unemploy- ed—are beginning to answer this unholy trinity with a real united front of Labor. (Tomorrow: “Gary: U. S. Steel and Starvation”) THE SCOTTSBORO MOTHER’S ARREST Jailing in Czecho-Slovakia Coincides With Welcome to Mayor Cermak of Chicago By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL 'HE Scottsboro Negro Mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, spent three days and three nights in the po- lice stations, jails and ‘prisons of Klofno and Prague, in Czecho- Slovakia. This attempt to silence the Scottsboro appeal failed. It may be said that it was heard louder throughout Czecho-Slovakia, and out into the neighboring na- tions, with the Negro Mother in prison, than in any of the dozen countries so far visited where the attempted humiliation of prison bars was not forced upon her, PRESS IS FAVORABLE The Czecho-Slovakian press, with few exceptions, was filled for days with favorable mention of the Scottsboro struggle. The outstand- ing exception was the “Vover,” personal organ of Minister of the Interior Slavik, who sent Mrs. Wright to prison. This government organ and voice of the agrarian reaction loudly applauded the ex- pulsion decree issued against Mrs. Wright, whom it denounced as a “Bolshevik Negro Woman” and as “A Black Communist.” ooeh ef ‘HERE ar. no doubi many reas- ons why the Scottshoro Negro. Mother should be jailed first in Czecho-Slovakia. The president of the republic, T. G. Masaryk, at one time professor in the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller Standard Oil University, is keenly sensitiye to the pressure that emanates from Washington through the American Embassy in Prague. October 10, when the United States Supreme Court in Washington will hear the Scottsboro appeal is rapidly ap- proaching, and embassies all over Europe are getting progressively ;More nervous with the increasing ‘protest against the planned judicial lynching of the Scottshoro boys. It may be said that the American Ambassadors in all the thirteen countries have sought to smash the Scottsboro Mother's tour with pri- son bars. This resulted in two ex- pulsions from Belgium. The diplo- matic ambition, however, has so far been successful only in Czecho- Slovakia, but with the result that the Scottsboro issue looms bigger than ever in the Masaryk republic. Mrs. Wright went to prison with head erect and firm faith in her cause, and she was vindicated by the ever-broader basis developed for the Scottsboro struggle. “AN UNDESIRABLE FOREIGNER” She was charged with being an “undesirable foreigner.” What “un- desirable” means in instance may be \ Su plaice oe |e esring. And a ee acclaimed the mayor of Chicago, Anthony J. Cermak, born in the same Klodno where Mrs. Wright was arrested. Official Klodno had prepared festivities for Mayor Cer- mak, head of the Chicago police department that carries through the worst oppression of workers, especially Negro workers, two of whom were shot dead in the police war against the protest of the job- less against the eviction of some of their comrades from their homes. Official Klodno sent Mrs, Wright to jail claiming she'\had come to talk “politics,” that she intended mixing in the “internal affairs” of the country. It may be said, however, that Czecho-Slovakia’s official regime unwittingly helped themselves in giving added political significance to the Scottsboro persecution which is an outgrowth of the national oppression of the Negro masses in the United States. The Germans, Slovaks, Ruthenians and other na- tional minorities, forced into this artificial creature of the Versaill peace, easily identified the basis the Scottsboro persecution with their own oppression: i * 'HE International Red Aid, which orzanized the Scottsboro cam- paign and gave it leadership in Ozecho-Slovakia had been outlawed by the government but, with the presence of the Scottsboro Mother, even in prison, the bourgeois press declared that, “Tt seems as if the Red Aid is still with us and as active as ever.” ‘The regime of Masaryk-Slavik with its chief of political police, Rejeck, prepared for the Scotts- boro Negro Mother’s coming by prohibiting all the meetings and demonstrations arranged at which she was to spcak. New meetings had to be organized by special in- vitation as order by Paragraph . Two of/the Criminal Code. With Mrs. Wright in jail, and later ex: pelled from the country, even these ~ , a were smashed by the po- ice. WILL PRESS ISSUE But the government has made the Scottsboro issue a major poli- tical issue for itself. svicious treatment of the Scottsboro Mother will be made the basis of an in- terpelletion in parliament. Slevik’s organ, Vocer, will be called to ac- count in the courts, with no illu- sions as to the decisions of this “capitalist tribunal. A special dele- gation will raise the whole ques- tion directly before President Mas- aryk at the first opportunity. It is believed that Masaryk will not dare refuse such a hearing. ty