The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1932, Page 1

NEGROSLAVERY TODAY John L. Spivak’s Stirring Novel "GEORGIA NIGGER” NOTE. ‘Georgia Nigger” is the name of a book. The Daily Worker 1s em- phatically opposed to the white ruling class term, “nigger,” but we are unfortunately eompelled to use it in the title because of U. 8. copyright requirements. The author Bimself is opposed to the term, but used it in order to bring forth and expose ‘the degrading system which operates against the Negroes and of which this term {s & symbol.—-Editor. INSTALMENT 2 THE STORY SO FAR: Fourteen chain gang prison- ers—nine Negroes ‘and five whites—are herded in a filthy steel-barred cage, where they are tortured by flies and mosquitoes that enter through holes in the screening. One of them is David Jackson, a Negro boy finishing his sen- tence imposed for refusing to sign to work for the wealthy white planter, Jim Deering. David's father had warned his son against Deering, about whose treatment of his men ominous tales were told, that even black men feared to re- negt among themselves. Now continue with the story: (Continued from yesterday) In that magic hour before dawn when the heat of the night glides into the grateful coolness that follows fever, the fourteen caged men breathe more eas and when you turn the sweat from your half naked body leaves a demp clot on the torn mattress. A rooster wandering from the warden’s yard crows lust-*— ee ily. When you cannot sleep} Puddle of spit. Fi : | “Watch yo’ step!” another, cries you hear him each morning.| as a steel spike stabs his leg | % presages your awakening. | And above the noise Charlie Whe vast hulk of Sam Gates stirs. | Counts’ voice rises louder: ake | He bends his head over the edge of | _ “Come an’ git it! Come an’ git the bunk and spits through his | it! Reck’n you got all day!” cracked lips upon the floor. | bi "6 . Qharlie Counts had called the | (RUMBLING sullenly the half | cook and his helper from the dark | naked men stumble down the shack in a corner of the stockade | four worn, wooden steps of the cage where the trusties slept. The | and pause on the cool, hard clay ‘weather - beaten clapboards that | to scratch and pull on their striped formed the kitchen were illumin- ' coats. Some put on shoes through SHACKLE POISON—Two Georgia chain gang prisoners wearing spikes such as Sam Gates, the huge Negro prisoner in the story, wears. ‘These 20-pound weights, permanently riveted around the legs, are a drawn-out torture leading to exhaustion. They rub against the legs, creating sores which often result in infections known as “shackle poison.” At night the prisoner's rest is repeatedly broken by the need of raising his legs whenever he turns in his bunk. Negro prisoners are especially victimized in this way. (Copyright by John L. Spivak, author of Nigger.”) Some turn restlessly | which their toes protrude. A well three hundred yards from the barbed wire fence supplies wa- ter to the camp but the trusties are too busy preparing and serving breakfast to trouble about water for convicts. And when you sweat in the stinking cesspool all night you are too tired to pump water to wash your face and hands even if you are given permission to go for it yourself. It does not matter any- way. You soon forget that you want to be clean when you dig dirt all day and sleep in it ail night. woes ee — ated by a lamp suspended from a beam in the center. You could see them moving about, preparing breakfast for the convict crew, their shadows flying across the dusty window panes like gigantic bats. CHAIN-GANG BREAKFAST With: creaks that shrieked their Message the rusty iron door of the cage turned on its hinges. “Come an’ git it!” the guard call- ed loudly. Dark shadows drop to the two- foot space between the tiers of bunks. Chains strike the iron floor with loud clanks and scrape over it with harsh rasps. In the pes darkness they bump into each JIM CROW TABLES The dingy mess hall is lit by an- eS ote Communist aa ] November 8th! Central Org. Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Vol. TX, No. 262 <q»: "NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932 | Or ke Vote Communist ae . November 8th! munis Party U.S.A. > o (Section of the Communist International) CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Fatherless FORD ROUSES JOBLESS STEEL WORKERS TQ NEW STRUGGLE; NATL MARCH |Arrested and Released in Akron, Speaks to| | Big Crowd Next Day in Youngstown \Calls Cleveland Negro and White Workers to| Joint Struggle Against Murder of Negroes | | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 1—James W. Ford, Commu- nist candidate for vice-president, is putting himself at the| |head of the sharp struggle of the jobless, of the Negroes| |against murderous attacks, and of the workers fighting wage| cuts in the Ohio cities he passes through on his nation-wide | “tour. After his release from arrest in Akron by the police who re- cently murdered the unemployed | council member Olari for opposing an eviction, Ford spoke to big meetings | in Youngstown and Cleveland. Ford arrived in Youngstown worn out from the sleepless night in the hands of the Akron police. 1,000 Steel Workers. But with a thousand steel workers listening to every word, with the hall crowded full and scores waiting out- side to hear what they could, Ford launched a smashing attack on the capitalist system that is slashing the | steel workers wages in Democratic Party controlled Ohio and in Repub- lican Party controlled Indiana, alike. Speaking to hundreds of the job- less who took part in the city hunger march the week before, Ford called on them to continue their ‘struggle for relief in Youngstown, and mean- ‘MOSCOW MAKES “READY POR 15TH _ ANNIVERSARY | City Squares Present Scenes of Feverish Activity - By N. BUCHWALD. (European Correspondent for the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Noy. 1 (By Cable) — Moscow is agog with preparations for the celebration of the 15th anniver- |sary of the revolution. The city’s | Squares present scenes of feverish activity. Huge decorative structures fatherless when strikebreaking mi ita KILed tner Gavis, coal miner. (Below) | of the Peabody Coal Company. (Above) These children were left father, Andrew Here are some of the immature soldiers who are given machine guns and sent into the Taylorville, Ill. min- | ing district to defend the profits |and cuts in the unemployment dole (F. P. Pictures) | THOUSANDS TO CELEBRATE VICTORIES OF RUSSIAN WORKERS SUNDAY; WILL HEAR REASON FOR VOTING COMMUNIST i||Browder, Amter, Patterson, Hathaway Speakers at Huge Madison Sq. |Garden Rally Will Show How American Workers Can Win Here to Come, His Speech Will Be Read from the Platform; Red Pageant; Chorus of 500; W.LR. Band NEW YORK.—Earl Browder, one of the founders of the Communist Party of U.S.A. |and a member of its secretariat now, will be among the main speakers at the Madison Square |, |Garden Communist election rally, Sunday, November 6, at 8 p.m. Browder has carried on | an active election campaign in the Harlem district, from which he is candidate for congress. The Madison Square Garden rally will be the final large Communist Election campaign cee 3 —————~=* mobilization, and it will be also the celebration here of the | {15th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Workers of BRITISH JOBLESS, |New York this year can vote for the Communist Program which leads straight to the sort of workers’ government which STRIKERS FIGHT |in the Soviet Union has wiped out unemployment, immeasur- LABORITE ATTACK ned the work Gays | shortened the work day to seven j hours, opened the schools and ali 5 y | | the arts and sciences to the masses ‘Left’ Labor Party Man } Lays Basis for Arrest of Wal Hannington ay atl £5 O7on Sofia to Stop Workers Congress | of workers and peasants, and made their life really worth living and |getting better all the time. Pageant, Chorus of 500 The great meeting Sunday is not i only a mobilization for struggle, it (Cable by Inprecorr) lis a Joyous occasion. It will be cele- SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov. 1—Over| brated by a mass pageant, by @ one hundred and fifty arrests have| workers’ chorus of 500 voices, by made in Sofia in the last few/the . International Workers Relief in order to prevent the Unger Band playing new and old revolu- e prohibited congress of the|tionary music. Party. All previous con-| Foster Speach Will Be Heard LONDON, England, Nov. 1—The struggle on’ two. main fr British workers against yage-cuts |continued today. In both cases labor traitors, {brothers of the American Socia are being erected, illustrative of the different aspects of the triumphant} growth of Socialism in the USSR and the revolutionary struggles of the working class and colonial masses throughout the world. Red Square is to have a giant structure stressing the subject “Fifteen Octobers.” Com- intern Square will have as its subject | the “World Communist Movement.” Soviet Square will have “Municipal Plan of Moscow,” including a model |of the projected canals joining the Moscow River with the Volga_and other great waterways. Artists Prepare Decorations | The leading Soviet artists are busy |shaping these festive structures. Every square and street has a co- ordinated scheme of decoration su- while to organize deep down among the jobless and in every neighbor- | hood and among the part-time work- | ers in every mill, committees of ac- tion to fight wage cuts and prepare @ great movement to support the Na- tional Hunger March on Washing- | ton. The National Hunger March | jcolumns come through Youngstown, | and pick up the Youngstown delega- tion, Nov. 30. Big Noy. 7 Celebration. Ford told of the Soviet Union, the | country —-without ~ unemployment” or wage cuts because workers rule there, and called all Youngstown workers to fight for such a system here, and to support the Communist, election pro- gram by coming in hundreds to the Issue in Campaign I Relief from Hunger |liam_Z. Foster, Communist candida for President. are starving and on the starvation. verge |Abe Lewis, Negro worker and Com- | sary contest. The prize winners in- day, brand Hoover's speech here of | | the opportunity to hear - PP y these compo-| oct’ 15 as an attempt to conceal |ties are for a continuation of th |sitions through a broadcast by the | Moscow Station of the Trade Union. A fresh burst of creative energy is sweeping the USSR on the eve of the | anniversary of the revolution. Work- |ers in the shops, factories, mines and railroads, peasants on the co-opera- | ploitation. the misery of the jobless and wage Hoover, Roosevelt cut workers, Ford showed that while Hoover blames the crisis on the foreigner and | claims in the same breath that he | socie has stopped the crisis here, the num- bers of the unemployed are greater in America than in any other country (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) struggle against the bosses. A BIG RED VOTE ‘The_issue jn “The masses of people Fifteen million are un- employed. Many more are working dren in search of bread and a place} lican, Democratic and Socialist Par. American capitalist responsibility for | present system of robbery and ex-| and| Thomas have definitely proved them selves in this campaign to be repre-| great cheers from the sentatives of the. existing state of|marking sadly, that he The Communist Party leads | hunger and will lead the workers and farm-| force and violen ers, Negro and white, in a militant A vote s of the Workers Party were} A sudden relapse suffered by Wil- prohibited but have been held never-|jiam 7, Foster, Communist “candi- \ theless. |date for president of the United ‘Party, are busy trying to smash the workers’ resistance. spinners are now out on strike, offi- carp | States has le his = sits of the-unien amet-with tho em-| SCIENTISTS AFFEAL AGAINET |S ence as muin speaker at itis ployers and planned new cc - WAR jrally very doubtful, it was announced mise. Meanwhile, though the union (Cable By Inprecorr.) | yesterday by the New York State focal meetings have rejected the 8), KHARKOV, USSR, Nov. 1 “ine | United “Front Communist Election © per cent wage-cut which these offi- a ae " cet | Campaign Committee. Should Fos- | cials previousl ed on with the/Bress now proc ding at | Kharkov | (or condition make absolutely im- | ett started | have is 2 ‘ fain “a ‘referendum. on, strike, and chemise? against imperialist war and| Tesue taryaDPeecors, Os Siring will try to enforce an obsolete. union | Capitalist rvention in the Soviet | rom the platform. — 4. by-law that. four-fifths majority ‘The manitesto--calls- for} Patterson for Mayor sald"Wi-|"Teded for a strike. Thete is grav prevent chemeal science | eters Mayor te nee le Dee eee ie Ape - M h is a great lever in human pro-| ae the list of prominent speakers candidate for Mayor. Patterson was arrested a number of times for lead- ing Negro and white workers in their of fearful imperialist weapon for the| extermination of humanity and the | destruction of civ ion and culture. that over one-fifth of the votes are against a strike. | Nov. 7 celebration of the anniversary | only one or two days a week. The Hannington Arrested. . | struggles against unemployment and Bipot es Geese aa of the Bolshevik Revolution. It will|few that are able to find work at| In London the police raided the INA ROTE | Wage cuts and for unemployment re- wonderful. Dozens of theatres "in be held here in two halls, Lithuanian | starvation wages are being evicted! National Hunger March Committee | Hef throughout the country. Patter- Moscow ang other cities are opening Hall, Franklin Ave., and in Zora Club | from their homes. The park benches | headquarters today and arrested Wal (Cable. by Iniprecorr. ) json’s militancy forced the Citizens | new plays in connection with the an- Room, 525 W Rayen St., at 7:30/and flop houses are full. The freight] Hannington, Communist and lea) Riis 1 veapendagis Jaal- ee Committee to allow him to |niversary celebration. Eighty-four |: 2. Monda cars are crowded with the hundreds | of the march of 4,000 delegates of the Vienna Rote Fahne was | SP¢@* ha boner. sie in fee | plays were submitted in an anniver-| Other speakers at this meeting were |of thousands of our wandering chil-|3500,000 British unemployed. The i and the responsible edi- | negie Hall recently at which he de- gainst to ton livered a devastating attack jobless delegates sent Hanni ed on & charge of inciting ‘ > |munist candidate for county sheriff,|to sleep. Millions of Negroes are|the House of Commons and to Pre- i | the Republican, Democratic and So- Re eee A tne ee Frank Rogers, Communist section or-|Jim-Crowed, segregated, _legally|mier MacDonald two days ago with Ae ae: | cialist parties for their economy pro- |B. G. Fink. Of 33 musical composi- ganizer and leader of the city hunger |lynched and many lynched.. The|a letter asking that the House of] yeayy SENTENCES FOR GERMAN |20S#ls, and drew enthusiastic ap- | tions offered in the contest, the out- march, and Mike Johnson, organizer | farmers are evicted by the hundreds| Commons receive their delegation of WORKERS plause when he made demands that standing is Myaskovsky’s “Kolkhoz|°! the Steel and Metal Workers In-|of thousands from their farms. Mil-|50 today. It will carry a demand aes sie the rich be taxed for providing un- |Symphony;” and Bieleys’ “Hunger | 1StTial, Union who was chairman. |Jions of workers cannot even exer-| for abolition of the Means Act y ee is cable) : |employment. relief and free food and March.” The workers recently had| , 1” Cleveland, 1,500 heard Ford Fri- | cise their right to vote. The Repub-| which over a million jobless nays Sal pi ‘rom | clothing for workers’ school children. Another speaker on the program been cut off the dole. workers in which | will be Clarence Hathaway, National and he | McGovern's Treachery. n seriously injured six) Campaign Manager of the Com- Meanwhile in the Parliament Mc- | v sentenced to ten years|munist Party. Hathaway, a member Govern, a “left D ae: Four | of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party, was at one jtime Vice-President of the Minne- marchers’ decision use . FOUR FROM SPANISH | cota State Federation of Labor. Thus laying the PARTY Israel Amter, Communist candidate basis for the use of force by the} (alias by aiupcacnns) |for Governor, who during the war police against the marchers. | USSR, Nov. 1—The|took an uncompromising position a- and they get, less relief, 3 Negroes Murdered. Along with this goes, right here in FREE ALA. 9, SAY MOSCOW, r im of the Executive Commit- | the Communist International and the International Control Com- The Home Affairs Committee of the cabinet then began to plan ways and means to eject the marchers for the Republican, Democratic and Socialist Parties is a vote for capi-| talism—for hunger, war and lynch-' gainst the Socialist leaders for their pro-war policy in 1917, and who is a charter member of the Commun- misingly the demand for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance at the expense of the state and the em- ployers, and economic, political and Tri General admission to the rally is and curse in undertones. other kerosene lamp hanging from Ohio, a vicious persecution of the |ing- The Communist Party is the|from London. |mission have decided to expel four | ist Party of America, will also speak “Fo’ Christ’s sake!” a convict ex- jobless and particularly of the Ne-|0nly party in this campaign bringing Call 12,000 Volunteer Police. | members of the Central Committee of| from the Madison Square Garden @laims as his bare feet: step into a | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) < groes. forward mijitantly and uncompro-) jeannington and another hunger the Spanish Communist Party. These | Platform. Rayford and Jackson, two Negro members of the unemployed council were shot to death by Cleveland po- march leader, who were arrested, are) are Adame, Bullejos, Vega. being charged with sedition. The police have call:d for They have acted as traitors to the |40 cents. 1,500 seats have been re- 12,000 | Spanish revolution owing to the sec- | served at $1 each, and can be sec- Toilers Shout Demand * lice on October 6, last year. A few volunteers from the aristocracy and| tarian anarcho-syndicalist line they |ured on the 5th floor, 50 E. 13th St, For Their Release months ago. a Negro worker was| Social equality for the Negroes. A|)0 f° "Uigsces to aid in smashing) *dopted, factionalism and sabotage f pene lynched in Ironton, Ohio, In Cin-| Vole for the Communist Party is @/the demonstrations of the jobless. ° |of the decisions of the Communist | cinnati a Negro worker was murdered | Vote for @ workers’ and farmers’ gov- ‘ doubtedly be a. big| International. They also tried to} as NEW ORR tied wit |f0r absolutely no reason at all by 9 | Srmprtena ts Sse Ry OMe ot the Ce a rant nian: suse to this date place the masses at the mercy of the ews |and capitalism policeman, and shortly before, a Republican-bourgeoisie. frame-up rape case was started against another Negro worker named Clayton. Ohio has a Democratic Party ad- ministration. This is its treatment of the Negroes and the unemployed. Against this, Ford raised the Com- munist demand for united front struggle of both races for complete Negro equality and self-determination in the Black Belt. laration of war by the government leave here Saturday Nov. 5, for Washington, D. C. where they will join 250 other workers from Phil- adelphia, Baltimore, and Washing- ton to picket the U. S. Supreme Court under the leadership of the International Labor Defense as part of its campaign to force the release of the 9 Negro Scottsboro boys who were framed up by the white bosses’ of the South. The picketing is due to st#-t Monday Nov. 7, when the decision of the boys’ fate is to be handed down. SERRA ee ‘Down With War’ Yell Spanish Students in Madrid Demonstration MADRID, Spain, Noy. 1.—Premier Herriot of France who came here yesterday to consolidate an agree- ment between French and Spanish imperialism on concerted action in case of war, was greeted with a mil- itant demonstration of college stud- ents. ‘Down. with Herriot! Down with war!” shouted the students as the premier’s car neared Puerta del Sol, Madrid's central square. Meanwhile the law students of the Madrid University went on strike for the duration of Premier Herriot’s stay in Spain. MANY WILL NEGRO EDITOR | Speaks at Renaissance Hall Tonight A large audience of Negro and| white workers is expected to attend} the meeting tonight’ in Renaissance Hall, 150 W. 138th St. Harlem, at which William N. Jones, editor of the Baltimore Afro-American and chair- man of the Foster-Ford Committee for Negro, Rights, will be the main speaker. Other speakers on the pro- HEAR NEVADAD “BANK HOLIDAY”, CUT WITHDRAWN | Victory for the 50,000 Can Refuse to Pay Out : - for 2 Weeks; 16 Close Hunger Marchers CHICAGO, Ill, Noy. 1.— EO, ppt A nein Penk The Illinois Emergency Re- oliday of two weeks to i as 3 ‘8 Nov. 12 was declared today by Lieu-| lief Commission today with: tenant-Governor Griswold, in Sos a drew their order for a fifty sence of the governor. Any nl A Hy A Which wishes to-do so can shutdown, | Pet cent cut in relief. This jrefuse to pay out deposits, refuse to| action is a victory for the cash checks given to workers by em- i front unem: ployers, for that period of time. mass united t unemploy~ ment movement in Chicago, which culminated yesterday Already the 16 banks of the Wing- gram are William L. Patterson, can-| rielq chain, three of which are in in a hunger march of 50,000, Mayor Cermak promised on didate for Mayor, and Clarence Hath-|po.4 have shut down under these the eve of the march that away, candidate in the Third Con- provisions. the cut would be withdrawn. City College Straw Vote Gives Patterson Lead Over Democrats NEW YORK.—William Patterson, Communist candidate for Mayor of New York ran ahead of both the Demacratic and Republican candid- ates in a straw vote taken among students of the City College. Pat- terson, a Negro, received 156 votes to Pound's (Republican) 111 and O’Brien’s (Democrat) 107. The for- mer attorney for the Czarist oil mag- nates, Hillquit, who is running on the CHICAGO, Nov. 1—The fight for the freedom of the nine’ Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney was one of the central points in the gigantic hunger march of 50,000 Chicago job- jess Negro and white workers on Monday. Scores of placards were carried by the marchers demanding the release of these and other victims of class justice. A huge placard show- ing a Negro worker strapped to the electric chair was labelled “Stop the Scottsboro Electrocutions.” At Grant Park where a tremendous demonstration was held, the workers thundered their approval of a resolu- Pageant Rehearsal Called for Tonight | Jones will explain his reasons for|it is to prevent the wholesale crash yoting: the Communist ticket. He is}of banks that causes him to take wellsknown in newspaper circles on| this action, showing the deepening | gressional District. | The governor states frankly that tion demanding the immediate and mea ihe. aseniial Meee Hoover| |, All workers who wish to par-||the East Coast, and his eng ppg Bacay Darcey rp enc a4 He agreed that one delegate | unconditional release of the Scotts-|managed to beat out Foster, getting| | Helpate in the mass pageant of | ie Nea, newspaper’ in the|be extended, and meanwhile the de-| Of the jobless would be placed boro boys and ‘Tom Mooney. Copies |171 to Foster's 160. Roosevelt received | | the 13th Anniversary of the Rus. | | (i! positors are sunk as badly as if the| on the emergency commite of the Scottsboro resolutions were or- dered sent to the United States Su- preme Court, which has postponed the announcement of its decision on the appeal argued by International tions, thereby playing boss politics Labor Defense until after the elec- with the lives of these nine innocent|the students and intellectuals. It jee children. A copy of the Moo-| shows, however, that many still be- 554 to Thomas’ 629. Amter, Com. | | Madison Square Garden on Nov. 6 munist candidaie for governor got | hoa Ber 1 Vorkers’ Ci 143 votes to the Republican's 79 and | pow Hens ibis les i Socialist’s 214. {ees “4 ADRsetiy ‘The student poll is representative| | Might at 8 o'clock for rehearsal. of the great swing towards the Com- munist Party that has set in among fe 4 out that, | Pans had collapsed. Already he has pointed ou thet,| Wingfield interests made their big from all he has seen, the Communis ‘money in metal mining, and. still |Party is the only Party actually | control much of the Nevada mininy fighting for the rights of Negroes| Control much he 5 and against discrimination. This the pay CALLS FOR VOLUNTEERS |Communist Party is doing, not just} To-| Volunteers are asked to report to he said he would give his| the Daily Worker office on the eighth ns for voting Communist in a/|floor for important worker. Ask for res \.( Lewis ip the business ofice, Vs titi. : aes nl fipentteve verter tee. WITH VERMIN—A bunk inside one of the stecl prisoners in the stockade of the Seminole County, unk was occupied by 2 sick prisoner, and the left on the lower bunk w.. .¢ ‘lies, entering i sereening, gathered. It is on suc bunks, amid disease, that the prisoners in “Georgia Nigger” sleep, (Copy- 3h. eae WANTED TO PREPARE HUNGER MARCH! NEW YORK.—Votunteers are needed for technical work in prep- aration for the National Hunger March. Come to 80 E, llth St, Room 436. LUNTEERS Against capitalist terror; against | by words, but by actions, he said. ight jn ney resolution was ordered sent to/lieve that the Socialist Party is sin- ei a ae Gov. Rolph of . Vecre when it ta, a ae