The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1932, Page 1

HUGE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN = D WILL BACK HUNGER FIGHTERS @ | Yote Communist Da il U Yorke Vote Communist: a November 8th! Conteal e- SORE gruniet Party U.S.A. November 8th! (Section of the Communist eS uals Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York. N.Y., ander the Act of March %, 1879. NEGROSLAVERY TODAY John L. Spivak’s Stirring Novel "GEORGIA NIGGER” NOTE.—"Georgia Nigger” is a smashing exposure of the hideous persecution and national oppression of the Negro masses. The Daily Worker is relentlessly opposed to the white raling class term. “nigger,” and to the oppression and contemptuous ent “of Negroes which it symbolizes. The author shares this view, but. in ses te paint a true picture of these horrible conditions, he considered it necessary to use this term as otherwise he would have put into the mouths of the boss lynch- ers terms of respect for Negroes which they do not use.—Editor. INSTALLMENT 3. ceeemnnnenenteeeece! THE STORY SO FAR: Fifteen chain-gang prison- ers—nine Negroes and five whites—are herded in a filthy, steel-barred cage, where they are tor.ured by flies and mosquitoes that enter through holes in the screening. One | of them is David Jackson, a Negro boy finishing his sen- | Vol. i, No. 263. a2 tence imposed for refusing to sign to work for the wealthy z: white planter, Jim Deering, about whom his jather had warned him. David bids his fellow-prisoners good-bye, and after being given a cheap civilian outfit, is driven home by the warden. Now read on. EVEN miles from Snake Fork lay Shay Pearson’s sixteen hundred acres. Here, was the first of the sagging shacks where his croppers lived, a rude and dilapidated structure blistered by summer heat and swept by years of ‘wind and-rain; and there, behind the luxuriant branches of those towering | live oaks, peeked the dark, un-* psinted boards of another cabin, with the morning sun on its roof. In the fields deep in Tich rows of cotton, croppers work- ed their one-horse farms appor- | tioned in return for half their prod- wets, stuffing the fruit of their | year's labor into sacks hanging from theit shoulders. | Half way across his sprawling lands was the planter’s home, an oasis of opulence in a world of ruined and decaying clapboards. Forty thousand dollars that house NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOV E MBE R 3, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Socialist Candidate in Pa. Repudiates S. P.; Calls Workers to Vote Full Communist Ticket TORTURE THE LEADER OF FLORIDA CHAIN-GANG STRIKE IN SWEAT-BOX |Convinced S. P. “Helps ‘Capitalists C O'BRIEN GIVES PROGRAM OF ROOSEVELT-SLASHING ATTACK ON WORKERS INDICTS | SI P. STAND IN OPEN STATEMENT Noah T. Walter, Nominee for Assembly 2 Easton, Pa., Urges Support for C. P. carry Out cost and it compared with Jim Dee- | ring’s, lost in his acreage at the other end of the county. Few ever saw the Deering mansion but Shay built his facing the main road so that anyone could see what a man can do when he has ambi- tion. “I knew Mr. Pearson when he didn’t even have a pair o’ shoes for the winter,” said the warden, “Yes, suh,” said David. A PLANTER’S RISE ‘The Jacksons were Pearson “nig- gers” and David knew the story of the white man’s rise. From the hopeless background of poor parents scraping a precarious sub- sistence from a two-horse farm he had become the second largest planter in Ochlockonee county. When his parents died and his brothers deserted the place for the | city’s opportunities, he was left | slone' to squeeze a living from the ING TOIL—Negro_ share-croppers waiting for the white planter’s cot- ton, which they have picked, to be ginned. Picking cotton means back-breaking work in the hot sun from dawn to’ dark, for which the croppér gets from 25 to 40 cents ® hundred pounds, averaging about 200 pounds a day. The Negro crop- per is usually swindled out of the largest part of even this meagre wage by the white planter who keeps the books to suit himself. (Copyright by John L. Spivak, au- thor of “Georgia Nigger”.) FROM THEIR BACK-BREAK- Cabrera, Tampa Class-War Prisoner, Being Victimized; Life ir in Danger Prisoners Get Hearing Tod Today; Wire Protests to Governor, Prison Authorities! INDIANTOWN, Fla., Nov. 2.—The hand of the torture system operating in the prison camps of this state has swooped down on the heroic leader of the one-day strike of the chain gang prisoners in the State Road Camp here, Angel Cabrera. Cabrera, who is one of the class-war prisoners sentenced to the chain. gang in connection with? the Tampa tobacco workers DEMONSTR. ATION Drive Against Working Class” Noah T. Walter, for man in the industrial Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and S. F candidate for State Assembly, has issued a public state years a Socialist Party leader, > ent repudiating the Socialist Party leadership and calling upon all workers to support the Communist candidates in the elec- tion on November 8th. The follcwing is the open letter ued by Walter repudi- ating Thoma: and Maurer and urging support of Foster and Ford and the entire Communist ticket. There is no regularly nominated Communist candideie for State Assembly in Nort- hamry’ 1 county. “19th, and Liberty Easton, Pa., Noy Tammany Candidate for N. Y. Mayor Calls for Police War On Workers Answer This Challenge By United Front In Shops and Breadlines; Vote Red! NEW YORK.—An avalanche of threats, an open declara- tion of war on the jobless fighting for relief and the workers fighting wage cuts in this city was made in a speech Tuesday night by Surrogate John O’Brien, Tammany candidate for mayor and a part of the Roosevelt election machinery now. ——— 7? O'Brien was speaking to-a |group of publishers who are Would Club his shovin | cutting the printers’ wages and are now in the sweatbox, where they have been confined four, days. It was sweatbox torture that was responsible for the recent death of another Florida chain gang prisoner, Arthur Maillefert, which aroused so soil. He began with Isaiah Cleve- land who owned an adjoining thir- ty-acre tract. Old Isaiah was a Ne- gro, so the aggressive young CTack- er plouthed twenty feet over the balk into his neighbor’s land. In three years Shay had so encroached on the property that Cleveland went to Inw about it only to learn that his title was questionable and that he owed his attorney one hundred and fifty dollars. Tne lawyer accent- ed 2 note secured by the property for the debt and Pearson Pala it ~-withy, me ‘botrowed* “the” Southern Cotton Bank. In ea full- ness of time, sfter a season of rain gnd another ef cheap cotton, old Isa‘ah’s farm was knocked down to the white planter who permitted him and his family to work their old land as croppers. By loans and similar transactions Shay had ac- quired fatfm after farm and now tuted his Iands and the thirty-two families on them, like a medieval lord. of the narrow path lined with broom weeds that led to the house. “Good luck now, an’ don’t you go to gittin’ into no mo’ trouble!” * | Hs parenis and sister were prob- ably at the far end of the field | for only Zebulon, not yet old enough | to work, was visible. The five-year- ; Old boy was trying to ride a pig and at David's loud shout, fell off with excited squeals of glee. “There*-was" an: ‘air “of~ peace” tnd tranquility here: the sun on the | white rows, that butterfly dipping over the heavy stalks, the noises of the field—even the pig grunting un- der the house added to the restful- ness. That pig always rooted there, right under that crack in the floor where water from ithe drinking bucket dripped to the cool ground underneath. Bright red geraniums in rusty tin cams and broken earth- | enware ranged the porch and gave * | the drab boards an air of cheerful- ness and color. The three rooms were spotless: The large cooking stove, with its pots and pans scrub- bed shiny, was when he had left | changed and there was comfort in that knowledge. A REAL WASH | SOW and two pigs wandered out | of a side road and stood rooting | in a ditch by the highway. A flock | of buzzards, feeding on the carcass of a pig killed by a passing motorist, took wing at the car's approach and swarmed to the dead limbs of a tree to eye them owlishly. AT LAST! “Won't be much left o’ that there | ““i:, found a large cake of wanes pig by the time 1 gits back,” the | towel and a pair of old overalls, Ze- warden commented amiably. |, | bulon watched curiously while he No, sub. Reckn. not,” the boy | poured water into the large zine reine a the ee uz- | tub his mother used for washing “T ain’ : clothes. I ain't never seed sua smellers | ““Gottuh git rid o’ de lice an’ as them buzzards have. I once saw David explained ‘cheerfully . | crabs,” eae pee fae lke ‘that there one. | “You wouldn't want ‘em crawlin’ all uzza ae around an’ a couple o' hours later .| OV! You. would you now?" ase when I passed by, them bones was oni far coaek ell picked clean. Picked clean they rc was.” outer me if I done got lousy!” Pa eos aia puget ea oe HEN the new clothes were left soaking in lye water to rid them of any vermin he might haye brought from Snake Fork and his own body washed, David swung a cotton sack over a shoul- der and with his little brother chattering at his side, went to the fields. He was needed there, and | besides, Shay Pearson’s overseer knew that he would be a freed man this day and the planter “Them buzzards has sho got won- derful smellers.” HOME. At a turn in the road David saw ,the familiar live oak rising before ‘is home like a lonely sentinel, its ide-spread branches shading the of the\rickety porch. The cabin rested on three brick stilts and an upright log of hickory. “Well, I reck’n here’s where you git out,” the warden smiled. He pulled up at the deep wagon ruts in the kitchen as | Nothing seemed (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SLAVES OF TODAY—Two Negro share-croppers at work picking coti-n on a white planter’s farm miles from the nearest village. Thou- se’ "; of Negro share-croppers in the South are systematically robbed and ierrorized by the white planters, of whom Shay Pearson in “Georgia Nigger” is typical. The planter keeps the books and charges from 18 to 2 it interest on his advances. By constantly adding new charges, the planter finally takes possession of all the croppers’ belongings and him into a life-long slave. The planter also takes advantage of system of oppressing an entire people to exploit and oppress the white a too. Every attempt of.the Negro av” <hite croppers to Bees years ago. a militant union is met with terror as w..; the case in the the Share-Croppers’ Union at Camp Hill, Ala,, two (Copyright by John L, Spivak, author of “Georgia Nigger.) 4 Vin, {much indignation that the author- |ities were compelled to bring his | | murderers to trial. These chain | gang tortures, in which Negroes are especially victimized, are now being exposed by the Daily Worker in the serial publication of the book by John L. Spivak, “Georgia Nigger.” News of the torture of Cabrera | comes on the eve of the hearing, | scheduled for tomorrow, on their grievances which the prison author- ities were forced to grant the pris- oners. -The men struck #-few days ago, under Cabrera’s leadership, a- gainst putting four of them into the sweatbox for having protested against the vile food and inhuman living con- ditions in the camp. The hearing will be held before Commissioner Nathan | Mayo, head of the State Prison Board, jand its secretary, T. E. Andrews. These, together with Governor Doyle E. Carlton, are directly responsible for the institution of sweatbox tor- | ture in Florida prison camps. Capt. | C. Musgrove and State Prison Inspec- |tor Joseph Gates, in charge of the} {Indiantown Camp, will present char- |ges against the prisoners, | Cabrera and Ismael Cruz, another | Tampa class-war prisoner, are be- lieved to be in special danger, as lecal workers have been told of a plot to shoot them down on the way to the hearing on the pretext that | they tried to escape. This is an old device on chain gangs, Protests should be immediately | | Wired to Governor Carlton at Talla- | jhassee, Fla., and to Capt. Musgrove, |Commissioner Mayo and Secretary | |Andrews at Indiantown, demanding | that the sweatbox be abolished as a | means of torture, that decent food be given the prisoners, that Cabrera and |Cruz should be transferred to the state prison until they finish their term in January, and the release of all the Tampa class-war prisoners. “8 8 ° LL.D. Wires Protest NEW YORK, Nov. 2—The Inter- national Labor Defense has wired the following protest to the Deputy warden in charge of the Indiantown, Fla., State Prison Camp, and to Goy- ernor Doyle E. Careton at Tallahas- see, Fla.: “Protest inhuman conditions, bad food and sweatbox torture for prison- ers Indiantown Road Camp, Demand abolition medieval torture condition, halt victimization workingclass pris- }oners. Hold you personally respon- sible safety Cabrera and all others in camp. International Labor Defense William L. Patterson, National Secretary.” VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social! in- surance at the expense of the state and employers, NEW YORK.—The College of the City of New York was virtually un- der the control of police yesterday, who, in plain clothes and uniform, kept patrolling the corridors of the main building at 137th St. Plainclothesmen and police also filled the Magistrates Court at 455 W. 151st St. and guarded the streets out- side and the surrounding roofs, when students arrested on October 26 when the cops broke into Room 126 of the College while the Liberal Club was meeting, were put on trial. With the students, Nat Sauberman of: City College, and Karl Amat, of Cooper Union, was Donald Hender- H | Prepare Detroit City A Liberal Education-- Brass Buttons Snoop in C.C.N.Y. strike, and another prisoner IN DEARBORN FOR WINTER RELIEF Wide March On Saturday DETROIT, Mich., Noy. 2.—A thou- | sand laid-off Ford Motor Co. work-| ers demonstrated in Dearborn, the| Ford City, today, demanding $50! winter relief for families and $25 for | snigle men, also for coal for unem- ployed: families and free meals to School ‘children. This is the first such demonstra- | tion since March 6, when thousands | swarmed up to the gates of the Ford auto factory here, calling for relief. At that time Edsel Ford, in charge of the plant, had police open fire into the crowd with machine guns and 35 were shot down, four of them dead. The demonstration today was in| front of the city hall, and a com- mittee heated by John Pace went in| and presenved the demands to Mayor | Dwight Ford, the scion of the Henry | Ford family which rules Dearborn. | The demands were also presented to| the city council. Pace is one of the| leaders of the bonus march, is chair- man of the Veterans National Rank and File Committee, and is Commu- nist candidate for congress. | These struggles lead not only to the National Hunger March, which leaves Detroit Nov. 27, but to the | great Detroit city hunger march, Nov. |5 the main column of which will leave Ferry Hall at 1 p. m. Satur- day, and join other columns at} | Grand Circus Park at 2 p. m. Com-| munist candidates will be leaders} and speakers in this demonstration. VOTE COMMUNIST Metal Workers’ Union) Will Hold Election Symposium on Friday, The Metal Workers Industrial | Union will hold an election sym-| posium on Friday, Nov. 4, at, trving | Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St. Invitations were sent out to the four political parties, Democratic, Communist, Republican and Socialist | to send speakers to present their platforms to the Metal Workers at this symposium, To Date only the Communist Party has accepted. The Republican Party requested more in- formation as to who the other speak- ers are going to be before accepting the invitation. Communist candidate for} Chief Justice of State Supreme Court, George Powers, a former or- ganizer of the Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, who is familiar with the problems of the metal workers, will present the platform of the Com- munist Party, son, instructor at Cotvmbia, Univer- sity. The charge is disorderly conduct. Witnesses for the prosecution, Dr. Nelson, the librarian, and a police sergeant, suffered remarkable lapses | of memory when questioned as to whether or not the students in Room 126 were discussing the expulsion of Dr. Oakley Johnsoy for his political views. The International Labor De- fense lawyer pointed out that permis- sion for the use of Room 126 was given by the police sergeant, and that the students were holding an orderly meeting, The case will continue today at 3 pan, “To Workers and Farmers of Northampton County: “Comrades and Friends: “AS socialist candidate for the State Assembly trom Northampton County, I like many other workers, have been wondering what is to be done to carry on a fight against the hunger and war program of the capitalist class after this campaign is over. Certainly there is no answer to this question in the program of the Socialist “Party. It is plain to me that any Party professing t o speak for the workers must have some policy of action beyond mere voting in an election. I, along with many rank and file Socialist Party members in Easton and vicinity, felt that the Socialist Party was in no way preparing workers for any struggle bia ist the terrible misery and starvation imposed upon,us by the boss class, CONVINCED OF S. P. ROLE. “When, along with other rank and file members of the Socialist Party from Allentown and Easton I attended the Foster meeting in Allentown.and listened to-H. M. Wicks, speaking. in.the place of Foster, put forth the program of action of the Communist Party I was more than ever dissatisfied with the Socialist Party policy. The speaker, Comrade Wicks, charged and proved that the Socialist Party leadership not only had no policy of class struggle, but that its part was actually to help the capitalists carry out the drive against our standards of life by trying to disorganize and disrupt the growing movement for united action of all workers, employed and unemployed, white and Negro, native~ born and foreign-born. The speakers’ indictment of the part ee in international social democracy in the war preparations~in s rt of the imperialist bandits, and the support of the Leagle of Nations by the Socialist leadership of this country laid bare the treachery of this leadership on an international scale. “In spite of this indictment against the Socialist Party leadership it was not easy for us to be convinced that there was no possibility within that Party of fighting against hunger and war. For weeks we here have talked over this question, read and studied Communist campaign literature, compared it to Socialist Party policy and have not only con- vinced ourselves that the Communist Party indictment is correct in all details, but that within the ranks of the Socialist Party it is not pos- sible to effectively fight against our class enemies for the simple rea- son that the Socialist Party leadership are part of the capitalist class machinery that is used against workers and farmers. “REPUDIATE S. P.”, HE SAYS. “In view of my position as candidate on the Socialist Party ticket in this election I feel that I must make myself clear before election Although on the ballot with Norman Thomas and Ja H. Maurer, presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Socia Party, I ask all class-conscious workers to repudiate the Socialist Ps y leadership and to cast their ballots for Wm. Z. Foster and James W. Ford on vember 8th and to plunge into the struggle against hunger and w: help prepare the workers and farmers for the overcoming of the cr: in Aas only way it can benefit the working class—the revolutionary way out “I urge all workers and farmers who support my candidacy to support the candidates. of the Communist Party by voting a straight Communist ticket and pledge myself henceforth to vote and fight in the ae of the one working class Party in this country—the Communist arty.” For working class 7, eh i Dfot len, FILIPINO SEAMEN | :ecentis! site emsinas tor reve ang STRIKE OVER CUT, against the two watch (12 hours a day) system. The mate announced: Institute Tries to Send Seabs; MWIU Pickets “I started the two watch system on this ship, and I’ll keep it if every man on the beach goes to Washington.” When the ship got into New York, |the “Dog House News” paper of the Waterfront Unemployed Council, told of this incident, and remarked: NEW YORK.—The Filipino engine and fireroom crew of the S. S. West Kebar are on strike against a $15 wage cut which would bring firemen’s pay down to $37.50 a month. The ship belongs to the Barber line and Hes now in Erie Basin, “Bucko mates have been stopped before!” Now Sullivan doesn’t dare| Brooklyn. ‘The Barber line contributes $5,000 @ year to the Seamen's Church In- Against capitalist terror: all forms Of suppression political rights of workers, against or tne | Surrogate John O'Brien, Tam- many wheel-horse for 35 years, makes attack on Communism and workers’ struggles main election | platform. aands a they will r—a year of depression, when all be won. Fighting Unions Will March Into Madison chia Garden smashing job conditions by the no- torious arbitration scheme in the newspaper game, and by the open posting of wage eut notices in the | book and job trade. The meeting was |in Hotel Astor, one of the swankiest and most expensive, and was arranged by A. J. Powers, of Powers Photo- | Engraving Co. who is chairman of O'Brien's publicity campaign. Sees Rising Struggle | O’Brien suddenly launched into a denunciation of “radicalism” which he said was “pernicious and evil” and was growing rapidly, | “Are we going to wait until the | army that gathers at Union Square has grown info a force that will turn America ito a Soviet?” he asked. “Ll promise you this: The Police | Department and the other depari- ments of the city will wage a vigor- out -warfare against such activities. You're going to have a mayor with a chin and fight in him and a Police Department that’s going to see that this great metropolis is preserved.” | “The Army which gathers at Unior Square” is usually composed of thou- sands of jobless workers, starting a { (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) y, Nov. 6, at id ‘ranks, with oe placards announcing their de- celebrate their victories in the last ll labor traitors say victories can not They will march, also, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the vic- tory of the workers of Russia, when they threw off capitalism forever and began to build a new society without unemployment or wage-cuts. They w.ll march to pledge support to the Communist Party, leader in all their struggles, and its program and its candidates in this election. With them will march many other mass organizations, and thou- sands of unorganized workers will flock to the Garden that night. This huge meeting will be the f’nal election rally of the Communist campaign; it will be the celebration of the 2~niversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. It will proclaim its solidarity 4/1 the heroic British Na~ tional Hunger Marchers, with the London jouv:ess who have rallied again and azain to fight the police and place their demands against relef cuts. It will be a new mark in the preparation of the National Hunger March on Washington and the fight for relief here. The best speakers will be there: terson. If Foster is well enough Browder, Hathaway, Amter, Pat- he will speak, and if he is not his message to the workers will be read. Revolutionary musie will be provided by the W. I and by a chorus of 500. There will A number of reserved seats at Fifth Floor, 50 E. 13th St. General R. Brass Band | be a Red Pageant. $1 each can still be secured on the admission is 40 cents, More West New York Empleyes Get No Pay School tea Ss, s, police and firemen of West’ New York, N. J., have al- ready gone without pay for some} time, and yesterday 20 more em- |ployes of the city joined them in go- ing without pay. | School teachers of that town have not been paid since July, and the po- |lice and firemen have not been got- ten wages for two pay days, step ashore without two husky guards to escort him to the taxi. stitute. The Institute has begun sending men to take the strikers’ places, telling them that “there is no strike, the company is only replacing | Filpinos with Amercians.” ‘The Marine Workers Industrial Union has thrown a picket line | sround the dock where the ship lies, and already has turned back the first half dozen of the Seamen's, Institute | replacements. The M. W. I. U. has already no- tified, by means of a leaflet, the unemployed workers on the water- Answering a call issued by a group | of writers among whom were Malcolm | Cowley, Countee Cullen and Edmund | Wilson, for endorsements by writers, artists, educators of William L, Pat- terson, Communist candidate for front of the strike situation. With- in 15 minutes after the distribution of the leaflet began, an extra squad of police was scattered over South St. ‘Taming a Bucko Mate A mate named Sullivan on the S. S. Manhattan heard of the ‘ Mayor of New York City, a number of Negro and white artists, writers and musicians today announced that they will vote for the Communist mayor- rg candidate on election day. They | Auras Savage, Negro sculptress, Writers, Artists, Educators Favor Communist for Mayor Norman | Lewis, Negro painter, Law- rence Brown, Lillian Lawrence, Will- iam Lawrence, Negro musicians, Mau- rice Becker, artist Sidney Hook edu- | cator, Grace Lumpkin, novelist Slater Brown, Adelaide G. Walker, Louis Lozowick artist, Robert Cantwell, writer. Patterson's candidacy has also been endorsed by James Rorty, poet, Louis Colman, novelist, Isidor Schnet~- der, Donald Henderson on the faculty |of Columbia University, and Dr, ©. ) Small, Yeon Soviet Experts Invent New Way to Make Rubber jo by Inprecorr) RS , Nov. 2—Mass produc- tion of rubber is expected to be greatly accelerated in the Soviet Union, as a fesult of the discovery of a method of obtaining synthetic rub- ber from acetyl. The State Institute of Applied Chemistry today reported the discovery to the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. The new process is said to be very rapid and much cheaper than other methods of obtaining rubber from other raw materials. Th equality of \the new synthetic rubber also sur- passes that of the synthetic product |obtaineg from alcohol, and similar sources. It is even of more service ‘able quality than natural rubber, ace cording to the institute's report. All necessary resources, !ncluding lelectricity and raw materials, are available in @reat abundance in the Soviet Union, the institute reported, YOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; defense of the Chinese people and ot the Sortet Union, | t