The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1932, Page 1

| | i a | } Kill Negroes | As Terror In | South Grows ‘The Daily Worker today prints a number of dispatches from the South proving the existence of terror against Negroes, “mystery deaths,” forced labor and other barbarous conditions exposed in John L. Spivak’s book, “Georgia Nigger,” which the Daily is now publishing serially (read the fourth installment on page 4): CN napa y NEGRO WOUNDED BY “MYSTERY SHOT” AIKEN, S. C., Nov. 3.—While un- hitching his mule in his yard, Leon- ard Ware, a poor Negro farmer liv- ing near Salley, was shot in the head. Hirelings of white planters are believed responsible for the shooting, as a result of which Ware ae probably lose the sight of a ay Sheriff J.-P. Howard and his depu- | ‘es are going through the usual mo- ons of “investigating” the affair.) frince the sheriff and his armed | augs are bought and paiq for by | rt rich white planters, the result | 5'f this so-called investigation can.| ‘sasily be foretold. etary PRISON BREAK REVEALS FORCED LABOR BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 3.—The attempted escape of six prisoners of the Angola penitentiary here has re- vealed the existence of forced labor on a huge scale at the penitentiary. The escape was attempted while the prisoners wept working in the sugar cane field section of the 20,000-acre | penal farm. Two of the prisoners | were wounded. The break started when one of the prisoners, Mertz E. Doran, unable to} endure any longer the persecution | of one of the guards, dashed for lib- erty. While the prisoners are forced to labor long hours without wages on | the huge prison farm, the white | planters use this forced labor to bring down the wages of supposedly free labor, both Negro and white; and to subject them to impose slave and terror conditions. ; ae ANOTHER “MYSTERY SHOT” SHREVEPORT, La., Nov. 3—Wal- ter Haggerty, 25-year-old Negro, was killed by a “mystery shot” in the back near Robson ‘on Sunday. Though the police are supposed to be investigating, so far no arrests have been made nor are expected to be made since Haggerty was a Negro. LIVINGSTON, Tenn., Nov.3.—Two hours after being released from jail here, John Garner, a poor farmer living in Overton County, was found dead three miles from his home on the state highway built by prison labor. The doctor's official report states Garner died of heart disease, but the fact that he died so soon after being released from jail leads to the belief that the brutal treat- ment he received there was the ac- tual cause of death. Pn OF WILL BE TORTURED MONTGOMERY, Ala. Nov. 3.— Joseph Armstrong, a Negro prisoner on the chain-gang of Prison No. 4, who escaped last July because he could not endure the vile food -and horrible conditions any longer, has been caught. Torture by “stretch- ing,” in the sweatbox and by other devices awaits him. at at POSSE KILLS NEGRO MULLINS, S. C., Nov. 3.—Sur- rounded in a swamp by a posse of seyeral hundreg armed men, Henry Campbell, a Negro, was shot to desth | near here. Campbell, who had been working with a road construction gang, had been persecuted by the white fore- man, N. L. Tolbert, who finally fired | him. A quartel started ‘in which) Campbell wounded Tolbert. Know- ing that litle mercy would be shown | a Negro who defends himself against | @ white boss, he ran away to th swamps, only to be hunted down | and shot in vel blood. 2 ESCAPE FROM CHAIN GANG | TALLAHASS: EE, Fla., Nov. 3.—Two prisoners have escaped from a chain gang at Chattahoochee because of the unendurable conditions there. ‘The two prisoners. are E. W. Hug- gins and Ottway Whitley. A third prisoner, William Phillips, who had previously escaped, has been cap- tured in Cairo, Ga., and will be sub- jected to torture as punishment. . PRESENT MINERS’ ‘DEMANDS IN OHIO Demonstration on the Capitol Grounds COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 3.—Sev- eral hundred workers demonstrated on the State Capitol grounds in sup- port of the demands of the eastern Ohio miners’ delegation and the in- dustrial and unemployed workers of |Central Ohio, These demands call ‘for strict enforcement of mine laws for the protection of the miners’ lives as well as for unemploy- ment relief. These included cash re- me without restrictions, discrimina- tion or compulsory labor for unem- ployed workers. The relief to be $10 per week for each, family, with $1 for each dependent, $5 for each single worker. All relief work to be done at the rate of 50 cents an hour and stopping ofall evictions. In spite of the fact that arrange- ments had been made by committees to see the governor he left the city. . The workers listened to the re- ports of the delegation for one hour, after which John Marshall, Com- munist candidate for Governor in Ohio, exposed the responsibility of the capitalist peed for existing conditions. He called upon all work- ers to Vote Communist as a protest against hunger and imperialist war. ‘The spokesmen for the delegation were: R. Sivert, National Miners’ Union of Bridgeport; O. A. Green, Unemployed Council of Powhattan; VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: t. Unemployment and Social Insurance . at the expense of the state and em- ployers. 2, Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3, Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions oy the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor and no forced farmers from taxes, collection of rent or debts Vol. IX, No. 264 en ty, FINAL ELECTION RALLY, ANNIVERSARY BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN, SUNDAY Dail Central Riunict Party vay of the Communist Bhopacsialte ) Entered as second-class matter at New York, N.Y., under the Act ef March 8, 1879, the Post Office at Dreiser on Way to Speak in Huge Free Mooney Drive Famous Novelist, Supporter of Foster and Ford,Rushes to California; Mass Delegations of Workers Greet Him |\Calicotte to Testify Before Thousands Marching Sunday to the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco; Launches New Fight to Reopen Case ing at the express invitation of ‘Tom Mooney. When he received Mooney’s wire, several days ago, Dreiser hurriedly made preparations, dropping all his work, and had al- ready reached Chicago, yesterday. In Chicago, on an hour’s notice that Dreiser was arriving in La Salle St. station, on his way to California, a mass delegation of 200 workers as- sembled there, cheered Mooney, sang The International and called on Drei- ser to speak. There was very little time, but Dreiser declared he was very glad of the opportunity to help Mooney, and promised to stop if pos- sible and report the progress of the struggle to a big meeting of Chicago workers, as he returned from Cali- fornia, Huge Mass Meeting. In San Francisco, the arrival of Dreiser will give further impetus to the arrangements of the huge Civic Auditorium meeting, A_ delegation of university students and newspaper Teporters will interview Dreiser on the ferry crossing from Oakland to San Francisco, Saturday. A large automo- bile parade will follow him to a re- ception to the hotel, and the autos will carry placards demanding the freeing of Mooney and Billings, and outlining the next steps in the strug- gle for his release. Visits Mooney Saturday. Saturday afternoon, Dreiser and newspaper reporters will visit Mooney in San Quentin prison. At noon on Sunday members of the Young Communist League will take part in a Mooney foot race through the city. All the runners will carry “Free Tom Mooney signs.” Special ferry boats are chartered to bring over the crowd of Oakland ing Sunday. Auto caravans of work- | er delegates are coming from all parts of California for the meeting. The rank and file of the A. F. of In. is giving support. All these activities to make the Ci- yic Auditorium meeting a tremendous dramatization of the demand of the masses for a new trial for Mooney and re-opening of the pardon hear- ing, are conducted by the Interna- ional Labor Defense and Mooney (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ‘Georgia Nigger’ Continuation on Page Four Today Turn to page 4 of this issue for the next instalment of ‘Georgia Nigger,” the remarkable book by John L. Spivak, exposing the hor- rible torture of Negroes on the chain gangs and slave plantations of the South. This smashing ex- posure will appear regularly on page 4; don’t miss a single in- stalment! NEED $100,0000,000 FOR STATE RELIEF Vote “Yes,” However, On Amendments On November 8, Amendment 1 and Proposition 1 will be up for vote. While it favors the support of Am- endment 1 and of Proposition 1, the District Committee of the Communist Party, however, declares that “al- though Amendment 1, which is for the use of forest preservation for re- creation purposes, shall be favored, we demand that all facilities to be erected shall be with labor at union rates; that no contract shall be granted unless such union rates are provided for. Although favoring proposition 1, which authorizes the issuance of bonds to the amount of $30,000,000 to be used for relief purposes, we de- mand that the interest rate upon such bonds shall not exceed 2 per cent, and that there shall be a mora- torium upon such interest payments for one year, Although supporting propsoition 1, with the above provisos, the District Committee of the Communist Party declares that the $30,000,000 State bonds will have to be paid for in in- terest and principal by the workers and toiling farmers of the state, a- gainst which the workers and farm- workers to the Civic Auditorium meet- | Dreiser is going to this meet-*—— NY. VETS AT CITY | | {of New York are calling a mass con- Theodore Dreiser is on his way to San Francisco to take a prominent part in the struggle to free Tom Mooney. He will:speak to thousands of San Francisco workers and del- egations of workers sent from all over the South West, in Civic Auditorium, Sunday at 2 Fights for Mooney noted writer, ‘Theodore Dreiser, dashing to California to take part | in great mass movement to free Tom Mooney. Dreiser will speak to thousands of workers Sunday in San Francisco, HALL AT 11 A.M. To Hold Bonus Mareh Meet Nov. 13 Rapid preparations « are being made | by the veterans throughout the | United States for the second big} march to Washington on December 5th at the opening of Congress. The rank and file veterans of the City} ference of veterans and ex-service- men to take place on November 13th at 2 p.m. at Irving Plaza, 15th St. | and Irving Pl. ‘The veterans are planning to send a delegation to City Hall Nov. 4th to jemand that the Board of Estim- ates stop passing the buck in issuing | relief; also to demand that single | veterans and Negro veterans not be discriminated against by the relief bureaus, The delegation is expected to arrive at City Hall at 10:45 a.m. Western Groups Leaving Soon From Portland, Ore., and from San Francisco, Cal. the Bonus Marchers are preparing to leave for Washing- ton on Noy. 11th. The Western vet- erans will arrive in Washington promptly by all routes. While the unemployed workers will conduct a National Hunger March, | the war veterans will conduct a sec- ond bonus march at the same time. And while the veterans will support the National Hunger March there will be two separate marches. ‘To Come Prepared for Cold Traveling The Bonus Marchers are equiping themselves with winter shoes, cloth- ing and other necessary marching equipment. Those supporting the marchers are also collecting neces- sary things.. The Bonus Marchers will proceed by trucqs and by other means arriying in Washington on or before December 5th. Vote Communist November 8th! ers must get together and fight. A fund of only $30,000,000 means fur- ther starvation for the two and a half million unemployed in the State of New York, since it will provide only $12 per unemployed worker over | an indefinite period. Nevertheless, vote “yes” on the above amendment and Lege om The Communist forward the demand that the skate make an appropriation of $400,000.090 for relief of the 2% million unem- ployed, to be distributed at the rate of $10 per week for man and wife, plus $3 for each dependent; one dol- lar a day for each single worker, who today receives absolutely no relief A\the betrayal and J. FORD HITS PAY CUTS IN WARREN 500 Steel Workers! Hear Red Candidate WARREN, O., Nov. 3—Over 500 workers filled every inch of room in the Roumanian Hall to hear James Ford, Communist candidate for vice-president, speak on the elec- tion struggle and program of the Communist Par- ty against wage- cuts and for un- employment re- lief and insurance. Ford analyzed the lessons and mistakes of the NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVE! iBER 4, 1932 Norker VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Equal rights for the Megroes and self- determination for the Biack Belt, rs Against capitalist terror; sgainst all forms of suppression of the pollitcal rights of workers. U.S.A. ‘ fense of the Chinese people war; for t the de- and of the Soviet Union, CITY EDITION Although Wm. Z. Foster will be Communist candidate to speak into a Square Garden. Warren Trum- bull Steel strike and condemned treachery of the A. F. of L. and Socialists in the strike. He pointed out the eee and how to build up committees of action in the milk and how to build up ® fighting unity between the: un- employed and employed, Negro and white workers against wage-cuts and hunger. He called upon steel work- J. W. FORD | ers to join the fighting Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, Blow to Terror ‘The meeting was a-smashing blow / to the terror of the steel trust against the steel workers of Warren. Al- | though the} steel trust ang the elec- tion board has threatened all workers with loss of jobs and the stopping of relief if. they attend any Com- the hall to hear the Communist elec- tion program as presented by Ford. When Ford called for membership in the Party, 22 steel workers filled out application cards and pledged to |carry on the task of butiding the revolutionary movement in Warren, The Young Pioneers, about 50 pre- | sent with red flags and red bandanas | around their necks, were the real | j Spirit of the rally. They sang songs, | | recited revolutionary poems, pepped up the meeting. MAKE MILWAUKEE COPS TO HELP S. P. “Give Socialists $2,000 or Get Pay Cut”! MILWAUKEE, Wis. Nov. 3.— Mayor Hoan and the Socialist Party were exposed in an attempt to coerce city policemen into making contribu- tions for the party’s campaign fund. These facts were revealed through statements made by John Bauschek, ‘inspector of police. Three Socialist aldermen, according ot Bauschek, told a meeting of police captains that $2,000 should be raised by the City’s police force, and impressed upon the meeting that failure to do so may result in the lowering of po- lice salaries, Socialists “Hem and Haw” Members of the force hostile to this proposition took refuge behind a resolution passed by the common | council which forbade raising of funds for such a purpose among the city employes. According to the in- spector, when this resolution was brought to the attention of the So- cialis aldermen, they “hemmed and hawed” and the matter was finally left “the same at it was.” Use Capitalist Party Methods The Milwaukee police force has been used frequently by the Social- ist administration to break up meet- ings of unemployed workers. The city police, at the orders of the So- cialist Party, have proven themselves as zealous as the police of any other its | city in breaking up these demonstra- tions. It aroused no surprise, there- fore, among class-conscious workers that the Socialist Party came to the same police force with requests and veiled threats, for financial support. | Workers who have ben told to “Vote for Hoover or get off the job!” by their employers, have found in the either from the City or the State; that there shall be no discrimination against Negro and foreign-bron workers, action of the Socialist Party a strik- ing resemblance to the methods used by the capitalists and their polit- ical parties to obtain support. and | Will Speak Over Phone ies his bedside. His message will be broadcast through too ill to appear at the Madison Sq. Garden election rally Sunday night, arrangements have heen made for the microphone which will be installed at amplifiers at Madison “SPEECH TO CROWD | | IN THE GARDEN Amplifiers Will Euery Voice to Audience in Huge Final Election Rally Sunday tion Should Be a NEW YORK.—The voice Garden on Sunday, November 6, at 7 p.m. | Arrangements were com- jpleted yesterday by the N. Y. |State United Front Commun- ist Election Campaign Committee for Foster to deliver his speech from his \ bedside in his home into the mouth- jpiece of a telephone at 9:15. A spe- cial wire will carry his address to the platform of Madison Square Garden where a battery of loud speakers will | pick up: his speech and broadcast it to the huge Canes Starts at 7 p.m. The Madison ‘Square Garden Rally will start at 7 pm, All workers and | mass organizations which have ar- ranged to march in mass formation | into the garden are urged to be in| the Garden an hour before that. In- | dications are that. the Garden will be jammed and that overflow meet- Garden. Browder-Patterson-Amter“Hathaway Police Seiz LONDON, England, Noy. hours. When a police charge came * near the great rolls of paper bearing the signatures, the jobless committee in charge checked the petition in Charing Cross station. When they presented their ticket later to take it away, they found that in defiance of law, the police had already seized it. Marchers Stand Fast. The National Hunger Marchers are still camped in halls and work houses in London, many declaring they will not leave until parliament accepts the petition to abolish the Means Test, a Labor Party and National Govern- ment Law to cut off the dole from those who have any small savings, or any “means of existence”, The government and police are talking of driving the marchers from London by force. Already 16 have been arrested in a raid on Westmin- ‘ster workhouse, where 700 marchers ings will have to be held outside the | Contains Demands With Million S Marcher Refuse to Leave London All Unions and Workers Marching in Forma- t Hall by 6 p. m. of | W fam Z. Foster, Commun- jMmunist meetings, over 500 jammed it candidate for President and revolutionary leader, confined to his home by severe illness, will be heard at the final election | rally and celebration of the 15th ) Union which the Communist Party will hold in Madison Square Anniver: of the Soviet ri In addition ing will be add Communist candidate th Consressional District L. Patterson date in Wil- | of Ameri Pagean: mass pageant | achievements of the wo | Soviet Union, will a’so include a group | of dances by the Red Dancers. Re- | volutionary songs and music will be | provided by a Workers Chorus of 500, | and by the Workers International Re- lief Band, The passant will be staged | ! by Workers Theatre League, | A limited number of reserved seats at $1 each still be secured on the | | 5th floor, 50 E. 13th St., General Ad- | mission 40 cents. e British Hunger March Petition Signatures; 3.—Police seized the petition against the Means | Test, with its million signatures, yesterday. and the 4,000 National Hunger Marchers had carried it toward the parlia- | ment houses the day before, to present Jaunched a savage police attack on these marchers and fighting lasted eight | Thousands of London jobless | it. The MacDonatd government | are sleeping. the. rest from 1 “Dewn With Nat! ed “Down wit the Means Test!” “Down with th National Government!” when they were brought into court. The courts hard labor. Wal Hennington, Commu- nist leader of the March is still in Hunger March in U.S. A., which will |present demands for unemployment insurance and $50 winter relief in addition to local relief, before con- gress on December 5, are giving sentences up to six months | Price 3 Cents W. N. JONES, NEGRO EDITOR, CALLS FOR B IG VOTE FOR PULL COMMUNIST TICKET Urges Colored Worke rs aed Intellectuals to Support Communists’ Fight tor Unconditional Rights | | Equal Scores Reformist Leaders Attempt to Trap the Negroes Into Polit Oppr | NEW YORK.—William N. ical Camps of Their essors Jones, managing editor of the | Baltimore Afro-American, speaking in Harlem on Wednesday | night called on all Negro workers and intellectuals to support the | Communist ticket in the election campaign as an essential part of the struggle for unconditional equal riguis for the Negro | People. Mr. Jones, who is also orga- | nizer and chairman of the Mary- land Ford-Foster Committee for |Equal Negro Rights, was the mair |speaker at a Communist election ral- ly at Renaissance Casino, 138th St. and Seventh Avenue. He told the 400 | Negro and white workers present that |“the Communist Party by its nomina- | tion of James W. Ford, a Negro, for vice-president of the U. S. A, has made the issue of Negro Rights a liv- | ing issue in the present election cam- paign,” Then addressing himself to |the active Communists in the audi- ie he declared: “I bring you the greetings of four- teen million potential colored Com- munists. I say this, because in my ; work,.I am able to fathom some- what what is going on in the minds of the Negroes in this country.” Mr. Jones stated that there wag al- ready a tremendous sympathy among the-Negro masses for the Conimunist Party, as a result of its relentless for unconditional Negro equality, as shown concretely in its day to day activities, in its fight for*the Scotts- boro boys, Yuel Lee and other victims ,of class justice and against ali forms of discrimination and lynch terror against the Negroes. Denounced Reformist Leaders. He denounced the reformist Negro leaders who he said are engaged in |the attempt to again trap the Negro ‘masses into the political camps of their enemies. He declared: “{ am asking, I am appealing to my group to vote the Communist | Uecket. Repudiate the anti-Negro | policies and acts of the other par- th Protest! Let the republicans, the democrats and socialists know that no longer are we their party slaves, And don’t let the socialists fool I have had dealings with the I have helped in their in the past, Eight campaigns 'GOP—Democrats to, Form Coalition Says Boss Secret Letter, | The following statement, taken | from the confidential Kiplinger | letter sent to bosses, for their pri- vate information, of Oct. 3Ist| again emphasizes not only that) there is no difference between the | Republican and Democrats, but hat they are preparing to unite to force through a further worsen- | ing of the workers’ conditions. | “There is talk among political leaders of both parties,” says the | letter, “that if Roosevelt is — | | elected there shall be such close | interparty cooperation as to be | | roughly equivalent to a coalition government.” Workers, for their own interests, should rally now against a Repub- lican-Democratic alliance under | Roosevelt's leadership. } Vote Communist Nov. | |for Foster and Ford! | hammer and sickle! 8th! Vote Vote every | months aco I gave them my sup- port. They made us all sorts of promises then. But after the elec- tion was over we never saw them ‘d of the slightest activity on art for Necro richts. They | do not offer us strateht from the | shoutder the things that we want, | the things we are fithting for. Only, the Communist Party comes out | bo'd'y for these thines. Onty the | Commun’st Party, day in and day cut and all throuvh the year car- ry on a re'entless struggle for Ne- | gro rights.” Hathaway Speaks. jail. The marchers are demanding} Clarence Hathaway, Communist the release of all those arrested. election campaign manager, called The London hur 's are |upon the workers to contrast the pro- setting an examy ination |mises of the republicans, democrats and persistence for the National|and socialists with their anti-Negro, anti-working class deeds and to blunt- \ly reject those parties, Class Fight, Says Patterson. William N. Patterson, Communist Negro candidate for mayor of New DEMAND RIGHT TO PICKET COURT Act Monday in D. C. for Scottsboro Boys BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Chief of Police Gnash today refused to issue a permit to the International Labor Defense for a demonstra tion of Negro and white workers and intellectuals on Monday in be- half of the seven innocent Scotts- boro Negro boys. The demonstra- tion will be held despite the police prohibition. oie WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 3.— ‘The capitol authorities are agog, al- ready fearful of the picket demon- stration called by the Internationa! Labor Defense to take place before the Supreme Court Monday at 10 a. m. to demand the immediate release of the Scottsboro boys, The captain of police, Stephen Gnash, has already announced to the press that “they simply cannot dem- onstrate. I will have § men ready for them.” A delegation representing the pick- ets will visit Captain Gnash today to demand assurance that the Washing- ton and Capitol police will not re- Peat the brutal treatment accorded demonstrations at the capitol—the demonstration at the Japanese em- bassy and the bonus marchers. Upon reciept of the information that the capitol police “will be out in full force against the picketers,” Frank Spector, Assistant National Secretary of the International Labor Defense, declared: “Upon announcement of our sims we are immediately confronted with the night-stick of the police. But the working class has been threatened before. We will not concede one inch in our struggle for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys; in our struggle against the lynch law which con- fronts the Negro people in this country.” 10,000 IN PHILA. LEMONSTRATION Reyburn “Plaza Used , Despite Ban PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 3.—Ten thousand Philadelphia workers de- monstrated at Reyburn Plaza for im= mediate relief and against the oc- cupational tax. Despite the refusal of the Park Commissioners to grant @ permit the police were compelled to let the meeting go on. The com- mittee elected to present the de- mands to the City Council were re fused admission. The workers present pledged a con- tinuation of the struggle against the local councilmen and to build mass support for the National Hunger March. H. W. Wicks, Communist candidate for the U. S. Senate, was enthusias- tical'y erected by the workers when he exposed the Remublican, Demo- cra‘ic and Socialist hunter John Park, convicted of leading a demonstration for relief on August 25, was cheered by the worlers when he called for further struezles in the localitics, urging the building of block committees, Unemployed Coun- cils. The use of Reyburn Plaza was only gotten because of the mass pres- sure of the workers. York City, and National Secretary of the International Labor Defense, de- clared that the election campaign was not merely a struggle between po- litical parties, but a struggle between two economic systems, a struggle of the workers for the right to live against the wage-slashing, firing and mass unemployment and misery of the capitalist system,