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| ei | | In the Day’s News FEAR MASSES, BAN FETE NANKING, Oct, 10.—For the first time in the history of the so-called republic of China, which is bought and paid for by foreign imperialists, the 2ist anniversary of the founding of the republic was banned by the Nanking government. The official pretext is that “the Manchurian crisis necessiates giving attention to the national salvation instead of to fun and amusement.” The real rea- son is fear that the masses would con- evert the celebration into a revolu- tionary demonstration against the Nanking government and its im- perialist masters. . * @ WANTS “PURE” CABINET ATHENS, Oct. 10.—In an appeal to the leaders of the various political parties, President Zaimis called on them to form a new reactionary coalition cabinet, whose purpose will be to fing new methods of solving the constantly deepening crisis at the ex- pense of the workers and peasants. President Zaimis proposed that the coalition include all parties except the Communist, which in the recent cloctions became the strongest party in Athens and is constantly gaining in influence among the oppresssed masses. BRITAIN GAINS OVER U. 8 ASUNCION, Paraguay, Oct. 10.— Paraguayan forces in Gran Chaco have captured Fort Ramierz and Fort Corrales from the Bolivians, accord- ing to an announcement by the Para- Guayen general staff. Paraguay is being ‘backed by British imperialism and Bolivia by the U. S. in this mili- tiarist war, for which the masses of both countries are paying with blood VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of the state and em- ployers Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor fermers from taxes, and no forced ecilection of rent or debts Centra WOKLD PROTEST OF LABOR GROWS AS U. S. SUPREME COURT GETS S COTT NC SBORO CASE Equal VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: I rights for the Negroes and unist Porty (Section of the Communist International) orker t determination for the Black Belt, 6. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the poliitcal U Ss A rights of workers. bt e Against imperialist war; for the de- fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, Bx Entered as second-class New York, N.¥., under the Act of SHOW THAT SCOTTSBORO TRIAL WAS DOMINATED BY BOSSES’ LYNCH LAW International Labor Defense Attorney Argues Before U. S. Supreme Court | Prosecutor Uses N.AG.CP. Attorney Roddy’s Treachery as His Best Argument 243 WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct., 10.—The Supreme Court, with a squad of Police in the room and cops swinging clubs in the corridors began to re- view the appeal of the International Labor Defense for a reversal of the conviction and death sentence on the Scottsboro boys. The police had been there all last night and today. & Walter H. Pollak, I. L. D. attorney, atter at the Post Office at March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents S The Scott si ws tsboro Mother Mrs. cottsboro Drive In Bulgaria Ada Wright and J. Louis Engdahl of the International Labor Defense U. S. A. with a group of workers’ children in Sofia, Bulgaria, shortly before their expulsion from the country due to pressure brought by the U, S, Embassy. “PROGRESS ILLINOIS RANK AND FILE ENGAGE IN MASS PICKETING DESPITE MILITIA, AS IVE” CONVENTION SELLS OUT Bayonets and Tear Gas Used on Taylorville Picket Lines Made Up of Miners Marching from Many Centers to Smash 18 Per Cent Wage Cut Progressive Miners of America Officials Force Convention to Adopt $5 Wage Scale; Agreement Provides Operators Help Build P, M, A. TAYLORVILLE, Ill., Oct. BULLETIN. . 10.—Pickets marched on a Peabody Coal Co. mine here today, the second in ives and children, came from Gilles~ the wage cut. Miners, and their | this county to try and reopen under and starvation. pie, Springfield, Tovey, Pana, Virden, Kincaid, Nokomis and other towns, and blocked all the roads to the | mine. Militia charged them with the bayonet and hurled numerous tear gas and smoke bombs, finally driv- | ing them from the road and letting a few scabs into the mine. | representing the defendants drew a dramatic picture of the frame up, and contended: “that in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U. W. PATTERSON INSULL FOUND; MAY GET OFF ATHENS, Oct. 10.—Samuel Insull, Tag Days Oct. 14-15-16 rite URL | ® Sr., former head of the $4,000,000,000 Public utilities trust that crashed as @ result of his wholesale swindling has been found at last after playing hide-and-seek all through Europe. He is being held by the Athens police, but may be released since negotiations for an extradition treaty between Greece and the United States have not yet been completed. As the Am- erican authorities are not overeager to prosecute this multi-millionaire, this is a convenient excuse. U, S. EAGLE AFTER PREY JOLO, Philippine Islands, Oct. 10— Strong constabulary forces, hirelings of American imperialim are being despatched in an effort to wipe out the native Moros who killed 12 and wounded many more of the uni- formed bandits when they recently attacked the Moro village. The Moros, who have frequently risen against the oppressive Wall Street rule, are pre- paring to give the troopers a “warm” reception. } HOOVER PULLS BONER PARIS, Oct. 10.—President Hoover's much-heralded Des Moines speech, which was praised by every American | Yeactionary, and Norman Tho- i mas, Socialist candidate fer president, ‘was really a boner of the worst sort, according to. comments in the Paris press. His reference to the raids on the American dollar only helped to make the dollar more shaky than ever the press declares. The recent radios on the dollar were a reflection of the growing intensification of the finan-- cial crisis of American capitalism despite all the hoopla “remedial” measures. WHALEN ON THE JOB AGAIN NEW YORK, Oct. 10. — Grover Whalen, former police chief of New York notorious for the brutality of his attacks on workers, today issued, in the name of the Advertising Club of New York, of which he is president, an invitation to 700 capitalists and misleaders of labor to meet at a con- ference here Nov. 10 and 11 to for- mulate a program “for speeding economic recovery.” In other words, @ program for further attacks on the living standards of the workers in the form of reducing relief, wage-cuts, etc. PROTEST TODAY ON WATERFRONT! Denounce Dollar Line Brutality to Seamen NEW YORK.—All marine workers should be at South and Whitehall streets today at 1 p.m. The marine Workers Industrial Union calls for F* demonstration there in solidarity ith the 95 Chinese seamen of the resident Johnson. They are being returned to China on the Dollar Line ship President McKinley after a strenuous struggle by the M. W. I. U. and International Labor Defense and Chinese Workers Club to release them from their imprisonment here by the steamship company. After the Dollar Line promised to relcase these seamen and had put them abroad the President McKinley, the captain and officers of that ship! tried to work them. They refused and with splendid solidarity are standing together, though they are attacked with blackjacks and pistols, some aro imprisoned again, threat- ened with logging and with black- listing and removal of their papers. The Marine Workers Industrial Union says, in leaflets distributed on the: waterfront yesterday: “The fight of these seamen is our fight. The same shipowners are at- tacking our conditions daily. Defeat of the Chinese seamen will enable ‘Dollar and the others to defeat us. iThe attack of the Dollar S.S. Co., is especially vicious because they a! weparing for more wage cuts an whey wish to crush the growing unity of all scamen, especially of Chinese and American, which they were able to prevent so long through the trea- chery of Andy Fureseth of the Ls. vu. “The shipowners must be shown that we support and are inspired by the action of these seamen. They must be shown that we too will or- ganize internationally and answer all attacks against our wages and conditions with the same militant action as our Chinese fellow work- \ x S. constitution they had been denied a fair trial, denied proper counsel, no Negroes allowed on the jury.” He told how a group of white toughs, beaten in a fight with Negroes on the j freight train, had wired ahead for | police action. Only after the nine Scottsboro boys were taken off the train, and the white prostitutes dis- covered in another car, did the frame up charge of rape develop. | Lynch Trial | Pollak show:d how, by admission Jot the state itself, there was an at- | mosphere of violence, tie white land- |lord interests in Scottsboro being worked up to the lynching point, and “under these circumstances no fair trial could have been expected nor would the jury dare to acquit.” State Uses Roddy Sabotage Thomas E. Knight, attorney general of the State of Alabama argued for death to the Negro children. His main legal point was that objections by the defense counsel, should have been made at the same time of the trial to anything the defense thought unfair. He entirely disrggarded the {fact that Attorney Rodd¥, hired by the National Association for Ad- vancement of Colored People, was the boys’ only defense lawyer at the time, and was against them and sabotaged their case. Mother Mooney At Hearing William L. Patterson and Mother Mooney were in Washington, Mrs. Mooney was in the court room. Pat- terson was present, representing the I. L. D., of which he has just been elected National Secretary. Many of the spectators in the court room were Negroes. Crowd Favorable To Defense The court room was jammed, and j the hallways in the building were crowded with spectators, the majority of them Negrozs. Some were allowed into the room, but most were kept out. The crowd was sympathetic to the defense, as proved by the fact that it came primarily to hear Pol- lak’s speech, and left afterwards. The case lasted from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Decision will come some time later. The character of the de- cision will be determined by the continuation of the mass protest movement demanding the uncondi- tional freedom of the Scottsboro Boys. List of Attorneys Present representing the defense, though Pollak made the main argu- ment,- were, besides Patterson; At- torneys: | George W. Chamlee of ‘Tennessee; | Joe Brodsky, of New York; Irving | Schwab, of New York; Allen Taub, of New York; Ely Schwartsbard, of New York; Bernard Ades, of Balti- more and Samuel Levine of Wash- ington, |up against the eight Scottsboro Ne- TO HEAD I. L. D. Scottsboro Protest Group to Wash. CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 10.—Vvigor- | ously denouncing the criminal frame- gro boys, the delegates at the Na- tional .Convention of the Interna- jonal Labor Deiense, which opened here Saturday, today adopted a pro- test resolution to the United States Supreme Court, demanding uncon-} ditional freedom for the boys, and} electeq a delegation to go to Wash- ington to present it. The Supreme Court is reviewing the case today. The appeal is being presented by Walter H. Ballock ‘in behalf of the International Labor Defense. Dis- cussion of the Scottsboro case dom- inated the entire convention. The delegation is headed by Mother Mooney, mother of Tom Mooney, and William Patterson, outstanding leader of the struggles of the Negro workers, who at today’s session was unaminously elected national secre- tary of the I. L. D. His election was a demonstration of the unity of the Negro ang white workers at this mi- litant convention. Frank Spector, who spent a year in San Quentin for organizing the Im- perial Valley agricultural workers, was eleteed assistant national sec- YTetary, and Carl Hacker, of New York, was chosen organization sec- retary. Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, who is now on a tour'of Europe rallying support for the case, and Mother Mooney were elected members of the National Committee of the I, L. D., as well as hongrary delegate to the coming world congress of the International Red Aid. Tom Mooney, now serving his seventeenth year in San Quentin, was named honorary chairman of the National Committee. The new Na- tional Committee includes Negro, white, Chinese and Japanese workers. J. Louis Engdahl, former national secretary of the I. L. D., Bill Taylor, a Negro worker, Hacker, and Miriam Brooks, a young worker, was chosen delegate to the I, R. A. Congess, 19 MINERS DROWN LEIGH, Lancahsire, England, Oct. 10.—Coal operator negligence took another toll of lives when 19 miners at the Plank colliery near here were drowned today. An elevator cage that was carrying them fell into a hole full of water at the bottom of the mine shaft. The machinery of the elevator was defective. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 10.— Callicotte is being brought here. He is the man who issued a sworn state- ment in Portland a couple of weeks ago, that he placed the suitcase which probably contained the bomb that killed several people here in 1916, and for which Warren K. Billings and ‘Tom Mooney were framed up and are serving life sentences. The San Francisco authorities did not want to bring Callicotte. They tried to laugh down his statement. Mass demonstrations and repeated demands finally causeq District At- torney Matthew Brady to agree to bring Callicotte and all available wit- nesses in the Mooney-Billings case before the grand jury, and virgually re-open the whole case. Goff Sent To Kill Story But they selected Police Capttin Goff, who had much to do with the original frame-up to question Calli- cotte first in Portland, and this use of Goff, an interested party, was a deli- berate attempt to suppress the con- fession and prevent the exposure of the frameup. ‘The struggle to bring Callicotte here and re-op_.. ihe Mooney-Billings case was led by the International Labor Defense, the Tom Mooney Callicotte on Way to San Francisco in Mooney Case; Admits He Placed Bomb Repeated Demands of I. L. D., Mooney Defense Forcing Re-Opening of Whole Case Moulders Defense Committee and the National Committee fcr the Defense of Polftical Prisoners, It got powerful backing through a demonstration of Portland workers before Goff’s hotel in Portland. At- torney Goodman, representing’ all three organizations is accompanying Callicotte on the way here from Port- land. They will arrive tomorrow. Grand Jury Tries to Keep Secret The indications are that the grand jury will try to suppress the con- fession by a secret hearing as it did in the case of McDonald, a. witness against Mooney who confessed a couple of years ago that he was com- pelled to commit prejury by the pro- secution, and in the case of Oxman, whose prejury was abundantly proved by letters in his own handwriting. The I, L. D., the Mooney Defense and the Political Prisoners Committee will lead a vigorous struggle to pre- vent secrecy, and for open hearing. Goodman has already clashed with those who are interested in keeping Mooney in jail. When Goff and the Portland authorities tried to suppress the Callicotte confession, and tried to frame some way to make Callicotte Billings as the the suitcase to Market its, Street ageinat Be Must Push Campaign to Save “Daily” Over Top R ALMOST three months now the Daily Worker has been calling on the workers to donate all they possibly can in an effort to raise the $40,000 which is essential to its life. During these months the response has been widespread, but small. Workers who in previous years were able to donate one and two dollars now find it difficult to raise 50 cents or a quarter. The result has been that, even though almost as many workers contributed this year to the Daily’s financial drive, they con- tributed less than a third of the amount they sent in last year. Right now the Daily Worker has collected less than half of the $40,000 Emergency Fund. And unless an overwhelming effort is made NOW, the continued publication of our paper will be seriously menaced. The balance of the $40,000 which was called for in July MUST BE RAISED! . . NE great widespread effort to insure the life of our’ paper is left—the National Daily Worker Tag Days on October 14th, 15th and 16th. These days provide a special opportunity to workers throughout the country to rally to the aid of our press. These days must be well organized. They must draw into ac- tivity thousands of workers. There must be no chance of fail- ure. These Tag Days must make up the sum which the Daily has failed to raise during its long Emergency Fund Drive. Meanwhile, we must do all in our power to increase daily donations, to enable the Daily Worker to go to press from day to day* Funds MUST BE KAISED—dojiars, haif-dollars, quar- ters, and rushed immediately to the Daily Street, New York City. Worker, 50 East 13th Recruiting from All Vet Organizations for March to Capital Mrs. Peuschel, Leader of W.E.S.L., of Women’s Auxiliary Says Large Group Will March New York Rank and File Committee Meets to Work Out Plans ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct, 10.—Big preparations are being made here to | recruit a large delegation of war veterans to participate in the National Rank and File Bonus March which will arrive in Washington before De- cember 5. “The St. Paul post of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League will send no less than one hundred members too— - the capital”, said Mrs. Mabel A. Peuschel, wife of a war veteran and first member of the Women’s Auxil- jary of the W.E.S.L. Mrs. Peuschel, who was a delegate to the National Veterans Rank and File Conference in Cleveland, is one of the outstanding organizers of the new march to Washington. She was the one who introduced a motion at the W.E,S.L. convention for the or- ganization of a Women's Auxiliary. At the last meeting of the local post of the W.E.S.L. plans were drawn up to hold a series of mass meetings and to send speakers into all vet- erans organizations to rally the rank and file for the march. Open for- ums take place every Sunday at the City Hall where debates on impor- tant questions are held. Speakers from the W.ES.L. will attend the forum on October 16 to discuss the Natinal Rank and File Conference which was held in Cleveland and the march to Washington. A mass meeting will also be held this week to recruit ex-servicemen for the march. Hverey ie N. ¥, Committee in Action. NEW YORK, Oct. 10—The New York City Rank and File Veterans Committee, 154 W. 20th St., has com- pleted most of the plans to send a large delegation of veterans to Wash- ington to demand immediate pay- ment of the bonus when congress opens. It was announced today by Mor- ris Klosner, chairman of the educa- tional committee, that a meeting of star chambsr proceedings. Goff threatened to have him ejected for his militant protection of Mooney’s interests, but Goodman refused to be intimidated. He showed Callicotte who gave him the sultonse the city committee will be held on ‘Wednesday, October 12 at 154 W. 20th St. at 8p. m. At this meeting mat- ters of vital importance to the rank and file veterans and plans for the forthcoming bonus marth to Wash- ington will be discussed. A. F. L. WORKERS MEET THURSDAY Plan Unemployment Insurance Conference NEW YORK.—Pushing ahead in its campaign to rally the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor for the struggle for unemployment insurance, the New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unem- ployment Insurance and Relief has arranged a mass meeting this Thurs- day, Oct. 13, at 8 p. m. at the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St. The meet- ing will make plans for the national conference to be held in Cincinnati Noy. 22, More than 800 local unions affili- ated to the A. F. of L., as wel as thousands of rank and file workers, have joined the struggle for unem- ployment insurance and relief des- pite the opposition of the treacher- ous officialdom. The New York A. F. of L. Trade *Union Committee calls upon the rank and file to send delegates to the Cincinnati confer- ence, which will elect a delegation to go to the A. F. of L. convention and demand that it adopt the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Another mass meeting will be held in Jamaica for all Long Island A. F. L. locals on Friday, Oct, 14, at 8 p. m. at Saengerband Hall, 168-11 91st Ave., one block from the 168th St. station. Prominent speakers of the various New York local unions will é Worker Shot strike under the dictation of its of-} ficials, and in spite of strenuous re- sistance by rank and file delegates. {| The convention, instead of rally- |ing all forces for a united front |struggle under rank and file leader- ship to smash the 18 per cent wage cut, has accepted the cut. Not even |@ $5.50 scale came out of the meet- ing of the heads of this new union, |It was erroneously reported several |days ago that $5.50 had been secured | This was due to a flood of propa- |ganda released by the Officials, de- signed to hide the sell-out. For ex- ample, the scale committee was told to “get the best contract possible be- | tween $5.00 and $6.10.” The old scale was $6.10, which the operators amb United Mine Workers ordered cut to |$3. But now the facts come out, | the P.M.A. convention has accepted | the $5 scale. “Point 17 of the agreemént they of- | fer the operators, and which some | mine owners have already accepted, | calls for the companies to “do eve! | thing possible to build up the Pro- | gressive Miners of America.” | This, coupled with the betrayal of | the strike and the acceptance of the wage cut, is such open class colla- { boration that a storm arose in the convention over it. | GILLESPIE, Ul, Oct. 10. — The | Progressive Miners of America con- |vention has completely sold out the Protest Demonstration ganizations and U! AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 10. ‘Three hundred Akron workers fought against the eviction of Mike Mac- On Southern Tour It’s Not Necessary To Tell Who You're Going to Vote for | NEW YORK.—A worker reported of the Daily Worker office that he was told while registering to vote by an official that the Communist Party is not on the ballot in New York State. This of course, is a deliberate lie and is part of the campaign to keep the workers from voting Com- munist. Workers should understand that it is not necessary to tell the officials in the registration booths what party| they are going to vote for. C. A. Hathaway, speaking for | Foster while the latter is ill. Police smashed the Communist election rally in New Orleans Saturday, ar- rested Hathaway and nine other workers, and held Hathaway until too late for him to reach Birming- ham for a meeting there Sunday, ‘Dnieper Dam Is the Greatest Engineering Achievement in World, Says Hugh Cooper American Engineer Lauds Soviet Workers in Interview With “Izvestia” (Cable by Inprecorr) their work as exceptionally successful. KICHAS, U. S. S. R., Oct. 10.—The tthe American consultation staff,” huge Dnieprostroi power station, the|he continued, “always met with the largest in the world, whose opening | best treatment on the part of the here is being celebrated today, is| Soviet government and I cannot re- |from the standpoint of engineering | call any unpleasant incidents in this art the greatest achievement of its| respect. I came in contact with the kind in the history of mankind, de-| population of the Soviet Union not |clareq Col. Hugh Cooper, American} only at Dnieprostroi, but in other engineer who headed the consultation | parts of the U. S. S. R., and I can jstaff for the project. Col. Cooper that these meetings will always arrived here today to attend the cele-| remain for me the most pleasant re- bration of the opening of Dniepro- | collections.” So ne et ae ede tol. Asked a if his conclusions regard- e course of an interview given to). a correspondent of the “Izvetia,” or- | ing further technical and economic gan of the Soviet government. cooperation between the Soviet Union Col. Cooper, who was awarded the| and the United States, Col. Cooper Order of the Red Star for his work, declared that the construction of the related his impressions on the con-|4am and the power station with such struction of the dam and station. He | Success was the best reply to the first said he considered the Dnieprostroi | Part of this question, showing that station one of the best among struc- | thre could be no further serious ob- tures o f its kind in regard to both | *tacles in this respect. | “As to po- construction work and the organiza- | litical and economic relations between *g ithe two countri tion of Labor, Under Col. Cooper's, the two countries!” | Pee ee vey ion cocuseation. 161 relations of the closest character too various parts of the world, including | Cowl not be created.” the Mississippi Dam, the Canadian| While expressing these hopevul Niagara Falls station, the Maskcall! views regarding the possibility of Dam in Pennsylvania, the Wilson|2nd political relations, Col. Cooper Dam in Tennessee, which is the kept silent concerning the active largest in America, dams in Canada | ‘Soviet policy of the American and Egypt such as the Assuan on the |imperialist government, (which is Nile, and other numerous hydro-| playing a leading role in the secret structures. Hintrigues that aim to form an im- perialst united front to overthroy Workers Republic and plunder Aribute to Workers “All these plants,” said Col. Cooper, “taken together aggregate 1,400,000 magnificent achievements includir horse power, while the Dnieprostroi the great power stetten at Dnepro- plant alone has a capacity of 810,000 | stroy, horse power. The difficulties which were overcome in the building of Dnieprostroi were also exceptional.” Col. Cooper also stated that the| Soviet workers who were the builders | of this immense power station showed | opie, he Edtor's Note:—Because of an er- ror in the cable, the story in yes- terday's Daily Worker gave the date of the opening of the Dniep- rostroy station as Nov. 10 instead Bi. uatie~ nner 7 . ~~ nmtnenetant tare entices uote ert as 300 Fight ‘Akron Eviction; Jobless in Militant Self-Defense Called for by Mass Or- nemployed Council Bosses’ Terror Drive Aims to Halt Successful Fight for Relief cheroli at 729 Moon Street. In a | struggle provoked by policemen Davis and Robinson a worker by the name of Alex O’Lari was shot in the back. Davis was badly beaten by the angry demonstrators. He has a concussion jof the brain, according*to ann ments. Doctors state that OL: was seriously hurt by the bullet which pierced his back coming out through the abdomen, i The Unémployed Councils and mas organizations of workers will hold a protest demonstration on Monday evening in Perkins Square The struggle comes with a background of increased activities of the ne! ployed Councils for winter rélie The Akron press and the m have instituted a city-wide man hunt for the leaders of the Council with the intention of smashing the mil- itant unemployed movement t successful fight for relief and evictions. HATHAWAY SAFE t) WAS ARRESTED Held In New Orleans Then Released BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 10.—C. A. Hathaway, secretary of the Na- tional Communist Election Campaign Committee arrived here safe yester- day. He was held by the New Or- leans police until too late to reach Birmingham to address the meeting of 1,200 Negro and white workers as- sembled to hear him. Hathaway is touring the South, filling dates ori- ginally advertised for William Z. Fos- ter, Communist candidate for presi- dent. Foster was taken seriously ill some weeks ago, and since then, all meetings prepared for him have been addressed by other Communist speak- Jers. | Hathaway was to speak Saturday in | New Crleans. He reports the meeting |there broken up by police and Hoeal workers arrested. Hathaway \himself was held by police, and cross Jexamined until it was too late to |make train connections with Bir- mingham in time for that meeting. 1,200 at Meeting. ‘The Birmingham meeting was held and addressed by local speakers until a gang of thugs, probably Ku Klux |Klan ,as the KKK. has been mak- ling many threats against the meet~ ing here, broke it up. | The Birmingham meeting was the |largest united front demonstration of |Negro and white wor jin this southern city. jof the continued or; ation of the Alabama Share Cropy Union, {eluding both Negro and white ten- jant farmers, which continues in spite \of the vicious attack and murder of |members of white landlords last year at Camp Hill, Ala. Speakers told n Organize Jo! SS. | Birmingham is a steel and coal city, \and the Negro and white jobless and workers in the mills and mines are |being organi: to fight for relief, jand against wage cuts, The Cor is on the ba in 4 nd workers ate living to its program of united iront unemployed committees in the neighborhoods, and of anti-wage cut united front committees in the mills and mines, and to the united strug< gle of Negro and white workers for full Negro equality and sel! nation in the Black Be! bie altabind ah Ms

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