The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1932, Page 3

COURT EVADES SCOTTSBORO DECISION UNTIL AFTER ELECTION wi hestnaeter cnt a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1932 International Notes By GEORGE BELL. Edo Fimmen, secretary-general of the reformist International Trans~- port Federation, after witnessing the imperialist Japanese invasion of Manchuria, stated upon his return: “The vital interests of Japan render its battle in Manchuria quite under- standable.” The Japanese Foreign Office would do well to hire this prominent so- cialist as a paid propaganda agent. 291 delegates to the Anti-War Con- gress at Amsterdam were members of various Socialist Parites. Now the leaders of the French Socialist Par- ty, Paul Faure and Renaudel, are threatening with expulsion all So- ialist Party members who attended the congress, and ate disciplining all rank and file sections that dare to endorse the anti-war resolutions of the congress, Another comment on the sincerity of socialist professions of “war against wa: The leaders of the Second the vital question of the attitude of socialists in case war breaks out upon the agenda of their coming World Congress. | International have refused to place The so-called “Left” governmerit of France, openly supported by the French Socialist Party, professes its desire for peace and signs the Kel- logg-Pact. That does not hinder it from carrying on ruthless war against the natives of Morocco, fighting for their independence. La France Mili- taire reports that 300 insurgents weré killed in a recent battle, while 2 of- fleers and 22 soldiers of the Foreign Legion were the French losses. The French daily press (as well as the yellow journals of New York) sup- pressed this news, claiming that the “pacific occupation” of Morocco was proceeding apace. a ae Sater Frite Ebert, jr, son of the notori- ous social-democrat and first Presi- dent of Germany, made the following statement of socialist aims in the dis- armament question before a meeting of Socialist Party officials in Bran- denburg: “Together with our French and Belgian comrades, we demand the U fulfillment of the ‘Treaty of Versail- les—the establishment of equal mili- tary rights for all through joint dis- armament. But if the world refuses to fulfill its solemn pledge, we must have the courage to act as German socialists. We are faced by difficult decisions! They prove that the Ger- man Social Democracy, even when it is in sharpest opposition to a gov- ernment, is not released from obli- gations to its country.” Commient superfluous; file under heading “Socialists and Militarism.” Cais aa The perjury methods of the Ger- man Fascists are revealed in testi- mony by @ former member of the Nazi storm troops who resigned from the Hitler Party in disgust. Testi- fying at @ trial of revolutionary workers in Halle, said: “I am no % longer a member of the National So- \\— slalist German Labor Party (Hitler's party) and have resigned from the storm troops ,s6 that I now can tell v , the court the truth. I did not rec- ognize the two defendants during the fight, But party headquarters in- structed us to name Kroll and Ull- rich (he two Communist defendants) and {p testify that we saw them there.” Tm Osaka the workers in several Japanese munition factories are out on sttike for higher wagés and bet- ter working conditions. Me 7th Manchurian brigade, or+ ganized under the command of the Japanese General Staff, mutinied in Tunliaox and went over to the Chi- nése institgents. All the Japanese officers of the brigade were shot. 28 The silk-glove attitude of German qourts towards Nazi murderers is bearing its expected fruit—after a Berlin Assistant State's Attorney asked that a Nazi‘on tfial for stab- bing @ Worker to death be sentenced to two years in jail, the word pas- sed around the storm troop head- quarters by) “If we get only two years in the jug, then it pays to knife a Communist pif!” El le et — Proofs of the disintegration of Hit- ler’s Party are accumulating. In Ol- denburg a new Nazi party has been formed by former Hitler adherents, | named the “National Socialist Ger- man Revolutionary Labor Mvement”, eat . A Nazi factory nucleus chairman in Aussernzell, Ludwig Raid}, has re- signed ftom the Hitler Party and joined the Communist Party of Ger- many, He inforthed the C. P, that all the members of the factory nuc- Jeus had resigned from the National Socialist Party. Much of Hitler's’ propaganda cent- ers around the phrase “The Third Reich”, in which he promises pros« / perity, death to the Jews, and heaven on esrth. The hi ypocrisy of this slogan has been disclosed in Nazi testimony Bruenn,, The Nazi attorney for the defense defined the “Third Reich” in his plea to the jury as follows: “The ‘Third Reich’ is a conce} which anyone can interpret as te the’ party der. aguatonal Wortous purposes only, The ‘Third ' is like God, of whom every one's phantasy cre- ates @ different image. The term * j = one imagines it to be what he him. self desires most.” ae ae The Hindenburg-Papen emergency decree ordering compulsory wage cuts throughout Germany has evoked a wave of protest strikes all over the country. Metal factories in ‘Thurin- gia and Wuerttemberg, shoe and ~ leather plants in , printing Plants and textile mills have started ve resistance or gone on strike *» force the revocation of new “ CALL TO WORKERS AND FARMERS OF U. 8. TO JOIN COMMUNIST PARTY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) surance affecting millions of workers, Norman. Thomas, Socialist Party candidate for President, appeared with J. P. Morgan in support of the so-called “Block-Aid” campaign designed to force low-paid, part time work- ers to support the totally unemployed and thereby save the cost of charity to the capitalists. Word and Deeds of the Socialist Party In the Socialist Party controlled city of Milwaukee the Socialist Party shows what it will do to workers if it has power. In Milwaukee the Socialist Party has cut the wages of workers. It has cut down relief to the unem- ployed. It has clubbed and jailed the unemployed and their leaders. It has intreduced forced labor. It is trying to prove to the capitalists that-the Socialist Party is the best party for capitalism. The Socialist Party has won the admiration even of the other capitalist party candidates. The Democratic candidate, Roosevelt, in a recent speech praised Milwaukee for having the most efficient police department in the country. He is right. It is the most efficient—against workers. 2s Throughout the world the Socialist Parties are supporting capitalist reaction. The Socialist Party of America belongs to the same Socialist and Labor International (Second International) which produced the infamous MacDonald and the treacherous Henderson in England. It belongs to the same international to which belongs the German social-democracy which made the election of Hindenberg possible and opened the door to the gov- ernment of barons, landlords and generals which now rules Germany in the interests of militarism and the big capitalists and landlords and against the workers and peasants. Everywhere the Socialist Parties are the loyal servants of capitalism. The Socialist Parties are the most cunning and vicious enemies of the only government of workers and farmers in the world, that of the Soviet Union, C. P. Fights for the Daily Needs of the Workers Only the Communist Party stands for and fights for the interests of the working class—for its daily interests and for the organization of the struggle for the conquest of power by the working class to end its enslave- ment by capitalism. The Communist Party and its members everywhere are in the front line of the fight against wage-cuts, organizing and leading the strike strug- gle, without which the capitalist offensive would completely overwhelm the working class. The Communists fight for the interests of the unemployed. They or- ganize the fight for better relief and for unemployment insurance at the expense of the government and the capitalists. shim The Communists fight for the interest of the toiling farmers. The Communist Party is the only Party that fights against lynching and Jim Crowism, for the liberation of the Negro masses, for self-deter- para for the inhumanly oppressed Negro masses in the Black Belt of the South. The Commus.st Party is the only Party that calls upon the white working class to take the lead in the fight for Negro rights as an indis- pensable part of the mass struggle against capitalism. The Communist Party is the only Party that organizes the masses for struggle against capitalist police and gangster terror and suppression, it is the only Party that organizes and leads the struggle against the denial of elementary political rights. The Communist Party is the only Party that organizes and leads the Struggle against the agents of the employers in the unions—the bureau- crats of the American Federation of Labor. It is the only Party that sup- ports and takes a leading part in the organization of the unorganized mil- lions of workers into the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Communist Program Only Revolutionary Way Out of the Crisis ‘The Program cr the Communist Party is the only way out of the crisis of capitalism for the toiling masses short of submission to the capitalist prograin of hunger, slavery and imperialist war. “Communists disdain to conceal their aims.” The Communist Party de- clares openly that only when the masses overthrow the rule of the capi- talist class and set up their workers’ and farmers’ government will the burning problems of wage-cuts, mass unemployment and hunger, Capitalist terfor and oppression, imperialist war and constant beating down of work- ers to new low levels of existence, be solved in favor of the working class, ‘The organized, heroic and victorious struggle of the Russian workers and peasants, leq by the Communist Party, the gigantic achievements of the Russian masses in all fields since thé revolution 15 yeats ago, show clearly to the working class the only way out of the growing mass misery of this crisis of capitalism. The Communist Party of the United States not only calls on you to join in the struggles led by our Party. We call on you not only to VOTE COMMUNIST in the elections. The Communist Party calls on you to join its ranks—to become an active member of the only revolutionary party of the working class. The Communist Party is thé Party of’ the toiling masses. It is the Party of all the oppressed—Negro, and white, native-born and foreign-born. Every worker, every poor farmer, every toiler is eligible for’ membership in the Communist Party. ‘The Communist Party is a Party of workers, for workers. The Com- munist Patty—the American section of the Communist International, founded by Lenin—was organized and is led by workers. It is YOUR Party. It is the only Party of the proletarian revolution. Vote Communist! Join the Ranks of the Communist Party! ‘Take YOUR place in the ranks of the Communist Party. Help to strengthen its fight for the SIX-POINT ELECTION PROGRAM which ex- precses the immediate burning needs of the toiling masses of the United States. Join the Communist Party and ‘help to: build it into the powerful mass Party which will,orgafiize and lead the victorious struggle for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government in the United States. RULE YOKINEN BE:NATION WIDE SENT TO FINLAND] JOBLESS DRIVE IC. C. of Russian Com- LL.D. to Fight for ...Free Departure WASHINGTON, D. G., Oct. 11—On the same day the United States Sup- teme Court decided to postpone de- cision on the Scottsboro case it de- nied August Yokinen the right to have the deportation decision against him reviewed by court. ~ Yokinen was held for deportation soon aftet he was expelled from the Communist Party for showing race hatred against Negroes. The present Supreme Court decision was made be- cause Yokinen, after his expulsion, recognized his error and pledged sol- idarity with Negro workers. Previous to this decision the U. District Court had held that since Yokinen was once a member of the Communist Party he could be de- ported. On hearing of this high-handed de- cision, Wm, Patterson, newly elected General Secretary of the Interna- tional Labor Defense which had de+ fended Yokinen said: : “The decision against Yokinen re- veals that wherever and whenever it dares, the Supreme Court will carry out the anti-working class policies of Jim-Crowism; segregation and lynch- ey next step in the Yokinen fight will be to win for him the right to voluntary departure. assault upon the German workers. 200 workets in the big Mittler and Son printing plant in Berlin forced the firm to withdraw a 50 percent reduction in overtime pay through “ca’canny” (slowing up work), The working force of the Jacob Reiss shoe factory in Berlin started pas- sive resistance against a Wage cut, and after negotiations with the man- agement broke down, went out on strike, ‘Their demands for retraction of the cut were eranted the very xt days Planned by Committee Meet in Chicago (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) how such struggles won relief in St. | Louis, stopped evictions in Chicato, defeated forced labor in Minneapolis, won free gas and éleciricity in To- ledo, won some free food, ¢inthine and shoes for the school children of unemployed workers it Salt Lake City. He showed how the mobilizing of 800 locals in the AFL, behind the program for Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance put forward by the AFL. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insuratice and Relief, S.|has forced President Green of the AFL. to make a kind of maneuver and say he is for the workers paying for state unemployment insurance which would only affect @ section of the workers at present employed, Toward Nation-Wide Actions. ‘The local struggles declared Ben- jamin must be multiplied a thou- sand-fold around the most urgent needs, food, clothing and shelter. These struggles must be consolidated into national action to force congress to provide $50 winter relief for each family to supplement what local re- ef can be won. ‘The demand must be raised and made an important point in each struggle, for adoption of the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance. Bill, National Hunger March, Benjamin proposed the national convention adopt the suggestion made by many local branches of the un- employed councils, that there be a second national hunger march, this December, The first was last De- cember. This hunger march must be composed of representatives elected in the midst of the numerous local struggles to be carried on. It will place the demands for winter relist and instirance before congress when Pee A, pecrenee (tetra OF DNIEPROSTROI munist Party Sends Telegram (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Oct. 11.—The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of People’s Com- | missars sent the builders of Dnie-| prostroi a telegram of congratulation to the following effect: | “The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet | Union heartly congratulate the work- ers, engineers, technicians and the entire personnel of Dnieprostroi. We congratulate you, comrades, upon the completion and the opening be- fore the scheduled time of this giant of electrification, having no equal in the world.” “The Soviet Power,” the telegram further reads, “has been able to ac- | complish this gigantic piece of con- | struction in a short. period, at a time when the most destructive crisis and unemployment are ravishing in the entire capitalist world, only because the Soviets are the only power in| the world having the unlimited sup- port of millions of workers and pea- sants. Long live the workingclass! Long live the power of the Soviets! Long live the Party of Lenin!” CELEBRATE START OF DNIEPROSTRO! Thousands See Station Named After Lenin By J, HOLMES Kichkas, U.S.S.R., Oct. 11. — The completion of the Dnieprostroi, the world largest hydroelectric station, was celebrated yesterday in a cere- mony in which Kalinin, president of the Soviet Union, named the station | after Lenin, | Thousands of workers, including delegates from Leningrad, Mos- cow and else- 5 where participa- ted in the open- ing ceremony. Many _ workers and engineers were awarded the 3 ordets of Lenin : ‘ and the Red KALININ Banner, including Cooper, the chief American consult- ant engineer. Cooper's speech was heard with great interest. He praised the work of construction saying it was well done, The station would more than GREETS WORKERS| jtions from Kiev, Kharkow, Dniepro-| cialism increasing the welfare of the Greets the Builders of Dnieprostroi ‘Marks Growth of Workers’ Welfare Victory for Leninist Program (Cable By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, Oct. 11—The entire| | Moscow press yesterday devoted full |columns to the biggest event of so- |cialist construction in the Soviet | Union during the first Five-Year Plan, namely, the opening of the Dnieper Hydro-electrie Power Sta- tion, the largest in the entire world “Pravda,” the central organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, editorially stressed the im-| portance of the Dnieprostroy as the| |real and vivid embodiment of Len- |in’s policy of industrialization and regarded this giant electric station say he enone banner of the Bolshe- vik speed in buildin - COMRADE STALIN. cialist: society. Bee eel © A Light In Darkness of Capitalist Crisis. Pointing out that Dnieprostroy is a tremendous sign of the tempestous growth of industrial forces: in the| Soviet Union, Pravda stated: “The| | ght of the Dnieper Hydro-elcctric | | Power Station is burning with par- | | ticular force in the datkness of the | | cedented crisis embracing the | |entire capitalist world. The electric | (Cable By Inprecorr) lamp of capitalism is burning out. KICHKAS, Oct. 11—On the eve of | Its incandescence is still more fading its formal opening, Dnieprostroi was | @Way on the threshold of the second tossed in a sea of lights. Scarch- | round of proletarian revolutions and lights were rummaging the sky. Elec- | imperialist wars. Only the Soviet tric fitters on the dam were fasten- | Union ‘s able to move forward in the ing a slogan to the big wooden| development of industrial forces cre- shields. ‘The shields were bearing | *ting a firm basis for the growth of in big letters Lenin's great slogan: | the toilers’ welfare.” “Communism is Soviet Power pius| | More Houses, More Bread for ees tat of the entire eountry.” Toilers, ie stations for the reception of Pravda further pointe: guests on both banks of the Dniep: | the Dnieper ing Sou An were working day and night. Every | giant of the first Five-Year Plan is train brought new masses of guests. | j a base and that now its place is The representatives of all regions | rshadowed by the new giant of and republics were crowding the | Soviet industry, namely, the Dnieper streets. Foreign languages were often | Combine, the largest industrial cen- heard. ter in the country, which will be fed Collective farmers from the Far|by the Dnieper Power Station. East, Lower Volga, Kuban, Northern | Pravda said: “In the rear of the Caucasus, Donets regions and Siberia | Dnieper waves flowing over the dam kept on arriving. Workers del | one heats the victorious march of s0- Dnieper, Sea of Burning Lights on Opening pretrovsk, Kamenskoe, etc; arrived | teilers. The Dnieper power station with their orchestras and choruses, | means new houses and more bread The tramway line carrying the | for the toilers.” — Page Three DEFENSE SHOWS “RAPE”: CHARGE WAS INVENTED. AFTER ARREST OF BOYS Original Charge Was “Fighting White Boys”; Girls Made No Compaint at Time of Arrest TrialWas by Court Under Lynch Gang Control; No Negroes Allowed on Jury (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Congressmen, led by former Senator Heflin, th notor’ous Negro hater, who a few years ago shot a Negro who sat down beside him on a Wash- ington street car, The United States marshatl cpened the court with a recitation: “Oyez, oyez, this sess’on of the court now opens ... God save the United States of America and this Court!” What a mockery, with Mother Mooney sitting there, and the lives of the Scottsboro boys at the mercy of a capitalist court! i Preceding the Scottsboro h ng, the court heard two liquor cases and a white slave case. The judz usual, took an zetive and talkative part, asking many questions of law Fut when the Scottsboro case came up, the judges became vry s Not one asked a single question during the hearing: ted silence was obviously a move to minimize the importanc AND ON But the real attitude of the reached the Scottsboro case. The one s'de by a Negro lawyer, and Ju R the most notorious Negro-baiters en the bench, drove him unmercifully, asking him questions in a contem) sulting manner. : Finally the Scottsboro. case begen. James C. McReynolds of Tennessee leaned forward, holding himself in leash, his enormous hooked nose giving him the appearance of a bird of prey. Justice McReynolds had voted in his usual lynching manner even in the famous Moores case when, after a mob attack on a group of Negro sharecroppers, en that Negro witness: ‘e whipped outside the courtroom. Justice George Sutherland, appropriately enough, sat next to McRey- lear long before they ceding it was argued on nolds. He votes with McReynolds on every issue. Then come Justices Van Devant ~ and Butler, also part of the McRey-|lupneld the lynch verdict of the nolds-Sutherland reactionary bloc o Rees enurt all questions, Knight very blandly argued The “liberals” are no better. Bran. because Roddy and the official dies—who refused to hear the writ vers appointed by the Scottsboro in t he Sacco-Vanzetti case. Cardoz h court did not call any witnes- who refused an app2al for Fo: ses, it was due to their “strategy” and not to their treacherous cooperation with the lynch court. He also argued , if six out of seven Southern judges of the Alabama colrt had declared against a new trial, that proved the boys didn’t deserve onc. “The mob”—he admitted it was there Minor and Amter, when they slugged and arrested after the 0 6, 1930 demon: tion, and who did the same for David Gordon, who wa: sentenced for writing the p “America,” in the Daily Chief Justice Charles Evans Hugh guests had been prolonged up to the dam. The power station had assumed an entirely festive aspect, pirenliiorererihins Atanas tite SE repay the great efforts spent there- on, Cooper stated, and would persu- ade those who had previously doubt- ed the wisdom of the Soviet Govern- ment. Ordzhonikidze, People’s Commissar for Heavy Industry, spoke of the necessity of pressing forward! the great metal Work which will use the Dnieprostroi’s power. Henri Barbusse, the famous French revolutionary writer, greeted the Soviet workers’ triumph. in Chicago to cub jobless relief by half, are engaged in Tonight there is a demonstration Party leader, Mayor Certnak, Tonight also a big mass meeting at German House _ will hear Herbert Benjamin, nat’l secretary of the unemployed ¢oun- cils report on the plan of struggle the national coms mittee of the councils has j adopted in ses» J+ W. FORD siotis here yester- Speaks in Chicago day and today. Oct. 18th There are_ at least 25 demonstrations before al- dermen’s homes and relief stations now going on—all protesting the re- lief cut, and placing demands for more relief. Tomorrow there will be a huge mass funeral for Sbosob, starting at 2p, m. from Halsted St. and Van Buren, and proceeding through the tity, and this funeral will be also a demonstration against the relief cut and against police brutality visited upon thosé who oppose the cut. There are many other such actions of the unemployed, formation of united front groups in the localities to struggle against relief cuts, and a united front on the specific issue of demand® for rellef and for the Sbosob funeral has been secured between the Chicago Committee on Unemploy- ment, the Workers League and the Unemploved Countils. The Cook County Conference on Unemployment with representatives of all workers’ organivstions will be held here Oc- tober 16th. Not the least part of this strueel> against the out and for more relief, is the prevatation for the big mass meeting to be addressed by Jamer W. Ford. Communist candidate for vice-president, in Ashlerd Arditori+ um, Ashland Ave, afd Van Buren St., at 7:30 p., m., Oct. 18. Today A. W. Mills, orenizer of the last national march, will renort on plans for another national demorn- stration. ‘The whole national committee voted to participate in a body in the mass funeral for Joseph Sbosob. murdered last. week by police, while demon- strating with a thousand other job- less workers agaisch cutting down Chicago felicf, e funeral starts Wednesday at Ve Buren and Hal- Oe RTE) Continuous Struggle Against 50 Percent Cut in Relief i CHICAGO, Hl. Oct. 11—Chicago workers, before the home of the Democratic Ford will bring out the Commu- nist program of unemployment and social insurance at the expense of t state and employers. He will ft mind Chicago workers that in this city ‘was first announced to workers William Z. Foster's proposals, in the name of the Communist Party whose presidential candidate he is, the pro- gram of wide united front struggle in every locality, in every street and block, of employed and unemployed workers for relief and against wage cuts, Parade to Meeting. Ford, when he speaks, will take up particularly the fight against the 50 percent relief cut. Workers of the South Side are pre- pating a truck and auto parade to bring thousands to Ashland Auditor- ium to hear Ford. The parade will start at 6 p. m. from 622 Bast 43rd Street. Admission t6 thé Ford speech is 15 cents for employed workers, and five cents for unemployed. Tag Days. Ootober 15 and 16 are tag days in Chicago for the Communist elec- tion campaign, a fight directly against wage cuts and for unemployment ro- lief and insurance, in the three states: Tilinois, Missourj and Indiana, For the first time in history all three of these states have the Communist Tag Day Stations Thruout NEW YORK—From hundreds of stations throughout the country work- érs will go out to cellest money to save the Daily Worker on the Tag Days this Friday, Saturday and Sun- day, Oct. 14, 15, 16. Great hopes are being placed on these Tag Bays mak- ing up for the lost time ring the drawn-out financial eaiipeien, The aim is to raise $20,000 thru these Tag Days. The increesed number of con- tributors to the find show that work- ers are ready to support their only paper, they have to be reached, The stations from which equads Of red collectors will go out are: Newark, N. J, District 14 Newark, 7 Charlton Si,: Hillside, 9 Whites St.; Elizabeth, 426 Court St.; Bayone, 10 West 22nd §t.; Paterson, sled Sty ab 2p. mw 801 Ritner St.) ee St. ao * aroused over the proposal | ant ie murder by police of Joseph Shosob Thursday when police fired on a crowd of 1,000 protesting the relief cut, their most important struggle so far against starvation. Victory for General Line of Com- munist Party. Recalling the heroic struggle which accompanied the construction of the Dnieper Hydro-electric Power Sta- | tion, recalling the entire road passed | by the proletariat from the Volkhov- strok, the first child of Lenin's for- | mula of electrification up to today's | opening of the world giant Dniepro- | stroi, Pravda declared: | “The opening of the Dnieprostroi is the greatest victory for the general line of the Commun'st Party. Dniep- rostroi has become the peculiar sym- | bol of socialist industrialization.” | Pointing out that all opportunist | theories opposing the Leninist line of | the Party have been completely shat- tered, Pravda continued: “The Soviet country has been firmly set on the | socialist road. A powerful industrial- ation base has ben created for the reconstruction of the entire economy | in the Soviet Union. The new col- | lective farm system is growing and | strengthening, The production of | articles of general consumption is de- | veloping by a rapid tempo.” . | Contrast With Workers’ Conditions | Under Capitalism. Pravda concluded its articles by stating: “One must compate what is | going on today on the banks of the} | Dnieper with what is occurring in Western Ukraine, where the foilers} j; are groaning under the unbearable | yoke of the landowners and” kulaks and unbridled military Polish im- | périalism. “One must compare the miserable |hovels of the peasants in Western | Ukraine with the ht, clean, new | town which is frist together with the electro.station on the left bank of the Dnieper. How pleasant for the eyes are these three-story little | houses surrounded by trees on the | banks of the blue Dnieper! How bright and sunny! It seems as if the water of the Dnieper is loudly speak- ing of peace and brotherhood to the | toilers of all nationalities in the So- | viet Union, of victory for the Leninist |national policy. How wonderful is |the Soviet Dniever, creation of our |Party and the heroic proletariat of the Soviet Union, shock brirade of the International Revolution!” TAX BURDEN HARDER. | CROWN POINT, Ind. — Property | \tax delinquencies increased about | 43.2 per cent in Lake County last year | over those of the previous year. | |Party on the ballot. All workers and jobless workers are urged to come to the stations in their territory, Saturday, Oct. 15 at |rested and held without charges in | not. even make the opening or the | panel of the jury, according to the| —former attorney for the American| Woolen Company which holds the workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts] in a perpetual terror, and who, as Secretary of State under Harding rabidly denounced the Soviet Union Such was the character of the Sup-} reme Court in whose hands tt was} placed the lives of the nine tts boro boys. Case for the Defense. Walter H. Pollak, known New York lawy the defense for the Internation: bor Defense. He established conclu-} sively: 1,—That the original arrest of the boys was for a fight with white boys, while both were riding a freight) train, 2.—That the two girls, both identi- fied as Known prostitutes, made no charge of rape at the time of the arrest, nor did they present any evi-| dence of rape or assault. The ex-| amining doctor's evidence, in fact proved that the girls were not at- tacked. 5 3.—That the girls made no charges until after they were themsely the Scottsboro jail. (The girls were intimidated by the sheriff into fram- ing a lynch case.) Trial Under Mob Control, 4—The case was “tried” under mob control. In a town of 2,300 pop- ulation, a mob of 10,000 stood waiting] with ropes and guns to lynch the boys and burn them at thi 2. A brass band played outside the court- house windows when it was an- nounced that the first two boys Weems and Norfis, had been scn- tenced to death. 5.—None of the defendants had a} legal defense. Roddy, who was sent in by the Interdenominational Preachers Alliance of Negroes said in court he would not defend the boys but was there as an “observer.” The judge appointed “the Scottshoro bar to defend the boys: an outright farce, fot not one of the lawyers inter- viewed any witnesses, and they did) closing appeals to the jury, nor the motions necessary for new trial. 6.~Negroes were excluded from the Jim.Crow tactics of Southern courts. “If ever there was a case,” declared Walter Pollak, “that required pre-| paration, this was the case. Yet the boys were arresied, arraigned, tried conyicted, and senienced to death— all in less than two weeks.” Alabama Boss Official Demands Death, ‘ Refusal of a new trial was pushed Thomas &. Knight, Jr “was not hostile, since it committed no act of violence.” But it didn’t have to, since the court tried to do the lynching for the mob! ph Si During this absurd attempt to de- rend Alabama’s lynch attacks, Jus+ s McReynolds and Sulherland aned far forward, looking at Attér. y General Knight as if they were ying to give him strength to argue case. That other “liberal,” Justice Harlan F. Stone scarcely listened to the case. He was too busy glaring. at an ILD representative who, agajnst the dignified rules of the court, was making notes on the case. int Court Show Over. Finally the court show was ovéP: The nine ancient justices took the Scottébero case “under advisement,” which no doubt means until the eiée-_ tions are over. Si But if the judges hope for a breath. ing spell, they are sadly mistaken: The American working class, supe. ported by the militant masses thrue out the world, must force this capi. talist court to drop its pretense of impartiality. They must demand a favorable decision before November 8th. For only a demonstration of mass sentiment, of gigantic propor. tions never before paralleled, can Save the Scottsboro boys. PICKETNG AGAI AT TAYLORVILLE TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Oct. 11—Te- linois militia with fixed bayonets and with tear gas bombs handy charged the rank and file miners’ picket lines yesterday for the secot.d time within twelve hours, at Peabody Coal Co. Mine No. 58 here. In the morning, they tear gassed and menaced with their rifles about 1,000 miners, with their wives Sid children. Beh a cloud of tear gas, the na- tional guardsmen led 4 handful'or scabs into work under the $1.10 wage cut Nearly hand when the as many pickets were on cabs cain? out av night, and this time the militia not only broke up the picket line, but arrested ten s rs. They ate held without charges in the County jail here. Yhese events 5 tion of the mir fight the wage cut, although the Prog e Miners of Awerica which is the new union here, now agrees on the-same 18 per cen; wage cub that the United Mine Workers offi- 2 p.m. and Sunday, at 9 a. m,, to help in the tag days. son of Judge Thomas the Alabama Supreme cials endorsed. Rank and file strike committees to lead tho struggle ate what the miners need now. 51 Bridge St.; New Brunswick, 11 Plum St.; Perth Amboy, 308 Elm St. Trenton, 510 Adeline St. Detroit, Mich,, District 7 Workers’ Club, 9148 Oakirnd Ave.; Ferry Hall, 1843 E, Ferry; Section A headquarters, 4515 Hastings St; Pol- ish Workers’ Club, 9770 Grandy Ave.; Workers’ Club, 3945 Blmwood Ave.; Martin Hall, 4969 Martin Ave.; Pol- ish Hall, 8566 Magholia; Workers’ Club, 6551 Central Ave,; Vanderbilt Hall, 8419 Vandebilt; Copeland Hall, 8890 Copeland; Election headquarters, 3014 Yemans, Hamtramck, Mich.; 4508 Michigan Ave.; Yemans Hall, Workers’ Center, 3084 Leushner Ham~ tramck; Bayside Hall, 775 Bayside; Finnish Hall, 5969-14th St.; Workers’ Book Shop, 1981 Grand River Ave.; rs’ Center, 13-219 Mack Aye. ion hendquarters, 531 Clairp Pittsburgh, Pa., D' Hill section, 2203 Contre Ave. Side scction, 805 James St.; Side Sectich, 82 So. 11th St Minneapolis, Minn., D £9 Cet, 14th, 1825 Minneshaha Ave; Oct, 15th, Glenwood Hall, 1317 Glen- North South lin St.; 715 N. 6th St. the ‘Country Will Mobilize Workers to Raise $20,000 for the “Daily Worker” PHILADELPHIA 1829 So. 5th St.; 326 St, Lawrence 912 So. 3rd St.; 421 Quince St,; . rd St; rpenter St; N. St; th E. Orkney ani | Cambria; 6023 Vine St.; 703 No, 1747 Wilton St.; 2225 W, Indiana 2456 N, 30th St.; 1753 N. Sist® 229cMaster St.; 2226 W, Columbia 39 Brown Si 331 N. Fran 995 N, 5th St. Christian, wood Ave.; Oct. 23rd, Workers’ Cult- } 9193 w, Orianna St.; 1704 So, 2ist Sti ural Genter, 1229 Logan Ave. 1137 N, 4ist St.; 8219 Tinicum AV .. Disttet 15 California, District 13 oh. 49 Paci-| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 11—The-« Center, |San Francisco Tag Day stations are? |1164 Market; 1507 Eddy St.; 530 Vals’ > jencia; 1529 Powell, 830 Market;,.20, ~ Flint; 660 Jessie. < y In Oakland, the station will be Aii- 727 Washington. In San Jose, 81 Lexington St.; Bridgep riers’ Center 301 Fairfeld Ave.; New Haven, Labor Lyceum, 36 Howe St.; New Brtan, Workers’ Centr, 53 Church St.; Waterbury, Workers’ Center, 774 Bank Greek Hall, 337 Monroe Ave.; Work- St, j Sacramento; 912 12th St ;