The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1932, Page 1

{ 1 a2) Scottsboro Verdict, German Elections, and Soviet Gains VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of the state and em- pioyers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts Prove Communist Program Correct for Working Class (Section of the Communist International) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: « Fqual rights for the Negroes and seif- determination for the Black Belt, Against capitalist terror; al forms of suppression of the poititeal rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the de- fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, | Vol. IX, No. 267 Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., under the Act of March 3, 187%. oa NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW SCOTTSBORO TRIAL | SMASHING GAINS BY COMMUNISTS IN GERMAN POLL 100 Red Deputies With 6,000,000 Red Votes 1. The Communist Party now has 100 deputies in the Reichstag, with a total vote of 6,000,000 ad- herents of the proletarian revola- tion. 2. The Communist Party has cap- tured Berlin as well as the Ruhr district, becoming the largest par- ty in the two most important re- gions of German capitalism. 3. The Social-Democratic Party, has lost 10 percent of its vote, largely to the Comrhunists. 4. Hitler’s Fascist Party lost 15 per cent of its supporters, losing enormously in the farming regions of East Prussia and losing domi- nation of the Ruhr to the Commu- nists. 5. Even the Catholic Centrists, with their previously unshakable religious support, lost more than 7 percent. 6. The Communist Party is now the third largest party in Germany, and shows 2 gain of more than 60 percent over the results of the against Von Papen’s wage-cuts, layoffs and unemployment and against any reduction of social in- surance, a eee The provisional results of the German Reichstag elections, the high points of which are summarized above, represent a smashing gain for the Communists, with corre- sponding losses for the socialists and even greater losses for the Hitlerites. Of the four major parties, only the Communists registered substantial Sncreases, and now the decisive sec- tions of the German working class— steel, coal, machinery, textiles—are lined up behind the Communist pro- gram. Large numbers of the ruined middle class, the intellectuals, and the peasantry, are also lined up be- hind the slogan, “The Dictatorship ef the German Proletariat—On to (oviet Germany!” ‘The remainder of the votes was iplit among a number of minor bour- geois parties, such as the Agrarian, the | State Party and the Christian Berlin Is Communist! In the capital, Berlin, with its huge working class lon, Com- munists polled 861,000 votes, or more than any other party. In the last Reichstag elections on July 31st the Nazis had a slight lead over the .' Communist and Socialist vote, but | on Bunday the Nazis got only 720,- 008 votes, a loss of 30,000, while the ial Democrats fell from 722,000 kee) Be deserting to the Communists, whose militant leadership of the strike has been reflected in the huge Communist gain. The figures for the proletarian heart of Berlin are even more strik- ing. The Commanists polled over 400,000 votes —* or within 80,000 (CONTINUED ON ‘ON PAGE ‘THREE) Painters Denounce Attempt to Deliver y _ fhem to Socialists NEW YORK.—The International Left Wing Groups of District No. 9 (New York) of the Brotherhood of Painters denounces, in a statement is- sued yesterday, the attempt of David ih of the District out that the Socialist Candidate Hill- quit was paid $1,000 per case or more as a lawyer and tried to force through the Tammany courts that the painters coe with the corrupt Building s Council. The painters voted down ‘this affiliation move time after eed car, suing ‘cohce, wail painters to vote Communist inthis flection, 4 Vote Communist! their villification of the leadership of the struggle for the Scottsboro The Communist Way Out! 1, The new trial for the innocent Scottsboro boys ordered by the United States Supreme Court is the result of the world-wide mass struggle in their behalf organized International Labor Defense. by the Communist Party and the This struggle must now be raised to a new high point to liberate these victims of lynch justice whose execu- tions have been postponed by the upsurge of mass protest, The verdict is proof that the Communist Party tactic of mass or- ganization and militant struggle outside the legal forms of capitalist “democracy” is the most effective method for workers and all oppressed. It refutes unanswerably the vicious slanders of the Socialist Party and N. A. A. C. P. to the effect that the Communists were endangering the lives of the boys. They have, for the time being, been rescued by mass struggle from the executioners to whom the S. P, and the N. A. A. C. P, surrendered them from the beginning. 2. The German masses led by the Communist Party, by their smashing victory in the course of the election struggle have upset the strategy of the von Papen-Hindenburg dictatorship of big capital and landlords and delivered a damaging blow to the capitalist offensive against the Soviet Union and the German masses. living and social standards of the The exposure of the treachery of the German Social Democrat leaders and struggle against them has been proved to be a central need for effective battle against the capitalist offensive and for the prepara- tion for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. 3. On its Fifteenth Anniversary, the magnificent victories of the proletarian revolution and socialist construction in the Soviet Union, led by the Communist Party in the face of the implacable enmity and attack of the capitalist world, place before the working class the greatest concrete achievements for the masses ever recorded in history. 163,000,000 people in one-sixth of the earth’s surface constantly progressing in every field under the proletarian power with the widest democracy yet seen, while capitalism decays, prove irrefutably the the correctness of. revolutionary .Marxist-Leninist. program and’ tacties~ ~ of the Communist International and its Communist Parties. 4, The betrayal of the interests of the masses by the Second Inter- national and its parties like the Socialist Party of America is laid bare by their attacks on the Soviet Government and its Communist leader- ship, by their sabotage of the mass struggles of the German workers, by boys, unemployed. in the United States. by their sabotage and slander of the mass struggle of the 5. Socialist Party opposition to and sabotage of the great local battles of the unemployed and the National Hunger March to Wash- ington under Communist leadership is a crowning current example of the betrayal of the American working class by the social fascists headed by Norman Thomas, whose whole election campaign has been aimed to check the revolutionary development of the American working class— and lead it into the capitalist camp via capitalist “democracy.” Support the National Hunger March to Washington for unemploy ment insurance and cash winter relief at the expense of the employers and their government—organized and led by the Communist Party and the Unemployed Councils! Vote Communist! For Foster and Ford! Support the Communist Program of mass struggle for a Workers and Farmers Government— the revolutionary way out of the crisis! Join the Communist Party! The Communist Program 1. Unemployment and-Social Insurance at the expense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts. 4, Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determina- tion for the Black Belt. ‘Against capitalist terror; against all forms oF suppression of the political rights of workers. 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Lyneh Y erdicts wo Again by Mass Fight The Nine Séottsboro boys in whose defense millions of workers, peasants and intellectuals throughout the world have held numerous protest demonstrations. Reading left to right, they are: Andy Wright, 17 years old; his brother Roy, 14; Haywood Patterson, 17; Eugene Williams, 14; Willie Robertson, 17; Olen Mont- gomery, 17; Clarence Norris, 19; Charlie Weems, ‘20, and Ozie Powell, 14, Scottsboro Lads Victims of Hideous Class Frame-Up They Were Railroaded to Death Sentences On Trumped-Up “Rape” Charge Reformists Aided Lynch Bosses While Commu- nists Lead Fight for Their Freedom *__ The nine Scottsboro boys were arrested at Paint Rock, Alabama, on March 25, 1931, while riding a freight from Chattanooga, Tenn, in a vain hunt for work. ‘They were at first arrested in connection with a fight which took place on the freight between a group of Negro boys and seven white boys. This charge was later changed to “rape”¢- when the sheriff discovered two white girls riding the freight in overalls. The two girls at first denied they had even seen the Negro boys on the freight, The two girls were mili workers forced into prostitution by low wages and unemployment. The state ustd this fact to coerce them into lying away the lives of the boys. Misleaders In Case. The boys—all minors—were denied any opportunity to communicate with their parents or to arrange a defense. The “defense” attorneys ap- pointed by the court helped in rail- roading the boys toward the electric chair. One of these attorneys, Stephen Roddy, was later endorsed and sponsored by the misleaders of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. These ‘s and other Negro and white reformists, have consistently played the role of assistant hangmen to the imperialists throughout the long history of the case. Trial on “Horse-Swapping Day. ‘They were rushed to trial on April 6, 1931, “horse-swapping day” in Scottsboro, Alabama. The normal population of the town is 2,000, but. on April 6, a mob of 10,000, many of them armed, surged through the streets of the town demanding the lives of the boys. During the “trials”, this mob, mobilized by the boss press and entertained with boope and a "rose from workers bosses, surrounded the court, cheer- ing the lynch verdicts as they were brought in by juries from which Ne- groes were deliberately excluded. Within a few hours, death verdicts were returned against Charley Weems and Clarence Norris. In quick succession, Haywood Patterson and then five more in a group, quickly followed by the last little boy, Roy Wright, were put on “trial”, All but Roy were swiftly sentenced to burn in the electric chair. 4 small minority of the jurors held out for life im- prisonment for Roy. This caused a mistrial in his case. Mass Move Starts. July 10 was set for the carrying out of the hideous lynch verdicts against eight of the boys. But now a furious storm of protest broke over the heads of the astonished boss lynchers. The Communist Party and its press had exposed the lynch frame-up. The International La- bor Defense had taken up the de- fense of the lads. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the In- ternational Labor Defense and the Communist Party, roused the masses, black and white, to angry protests. The International Red Aid, of which the I. L. D. 1s the American section, and the Communist parties of the whole world, took up the pry flung down by the brutal geleen ses. A furious thunder and intellects throughout Europe, China, South Africa, etc., while in the Soviet Union millions of workers and peasants thundered their protests against the lynch verdicts and their solidarity with the oppressed Negro masses. The Scottsboro court was forced to grant a new trial and a stay of exec- ution. The new trials were held on June 5, in Scottsboro, with the judge who had handed down the original lynch verdicts and who now denied a change of venue to a point outside of Scottsboro, presiding. Judge Haw- kins upheld his own lynch verdicts. He set a new date for the legal mur- ders. a: Case Appealed. ‘The ¥. L. D. attorneys appealed the case to the Alabama Supreme Court, while the mass fight of white and Negro workers went forward in giant strides throughout the world. The Alabama Supreme Court upheld the lynch verdicts against seven of the boys and set a new date for the executions. In the case of 14-year old Eugene Williams, the court re- versed the verdict and ordered a trial in the juvenile court. Chief Justice Anderson, in an opinion dissenting from the majority opinion upholding the lynch verdicts against seven, was forced to admit that none of the boys had had a fair trial. The I. L, D., supported by increas- ing numbers of white and colored workers, demanded a review of the lynch verdicts by the U. S. Supreme Court. Oral argument was heard on October 10 by that court, Its deci- sion was postponed until yesterday, when it was given as a last minute election move in an attempt to cor- ral Negro voters for support of the slave-driver and jim-crow president Herbert Hoover and his lily-white Republican Party. DEMAND RELIEF! CROWN POINT, Ind.—Pifteen workers who have been getting re~ lief from the North Township came to the county commissioners’ court to protest against the cut in relief from $5 to $4 food a week. The unemployed also demanded free light, free gas and free clothing for their children as protection against the coming winter. They also demanded that fresh meat be fiven them, FIGHT WAGE CUT ON RELIEF JOB! Amalgamated, I.L.G.W. Agree to Wage Cut NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Unemployed Councils call all jobless needle trades workers and other workers to a mass meeting Wednes- day at 2 pm. in Union Square, to protest the wage-cutting scheme which the Gibson Committee, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and International Ladies Garment Work- ers have worked out for work on the 5,000,000 yards of cloth to be worked up for the unemployed. At present the Gibson Committee is registering unemployed needle workers for work on this cloth. The registration office is at 111 East 22d Street. But it is so far registering only those who have cards from the Women's Trade Union League. The Uemployed Councils propose to all unemployed women needle workers that they go down and demand also the right to register. It is well known that Potofsky of the Amalgamated and Dubinsky of the International have agreed with the Gibson committee to put work- ers on at 50 cents per hour, and to provide the shops. This proposition was put up to the Unemployed Councils by Mr. Kidder, representative of the Gibson Com- mittee, at two meetings which a com- mittee of the Councils had with him. Kidder denied any such proposition. The Unemployed Councils de- manded that the Gibson Committee furnish the shops, and that wages from $18 a week minimum to $30 maximum be paid those who work on the cloth, also that a special bureau with jobless representatives on it be set up to pick out the most imme- rei needy cases to get the first ote Gibson committee, through Kidder, rejected these demands, and said its only interest was “to get the work done as cheaply as porsible,” and that “the propositions of the Amalgamated and I, L, G. W. were satisfactory.” BROADCAST SCOTTSBORO VIC- TORY TO NEGRO WORKERS The Daily Worker calls for volun- teers to report to the office of the Daily Worker, 8th floor, 50 East 13th Street, to get special {ssue of the Daily Worker to sell In Harlem end vicinity. It 1s urgent that the news of the new trial won for the Scotts- boro Negro boys shall be broadcast widely among all Negro workers in Harlem. The comrades, therefore, are urged to report to the Daily Worker, get their bundles, and so cut with the papers among the workers of Harlem. DAILY WORKER | over 3,000 people was overcrowded by |GREAT APPLAUSE. GREETS STALIN IN) | BIG VICTORY MEET Moscow Soviet, Shock| Workers At the 15th Anniversary Meet ss | (Cable By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Nov. 7.—A special meet- ing of the Moscow Soviet with r Tesentatives of the Central Soviet| innocent Negro boys who* yovernment and shock workers cel-| 4. et ‘ ebrating the 15th anniversary of the | WeTe if amed up on a triumphant Russian Revolution was} “rape” charge in Scotts- held today at the Moscow Grand] boro, Ala., and originally sen-| Opera House. gee ; Long before the opening. of the|tenced to die in the electric meeting, the hall accommodating] chair on July 10, 1931. workers from Moscow factories and mills. The hall was decorated with slogans emphasizing the peaceful | character of the successful socialist | construction carried on for fifteen years. the last Stormy Applause Greets Stalin, Molotoy The appearance on the platform of members of the Soviet Government | and the Political Bureau of the Com- | munist Party headed by Stalin and} Molotov, caused a powerful outbu of applause passing into a stormy ovation. All rose to their feet The meeting was opened by Com- ‘Yade Bulganin, President of the Mos- cow* Soviet who reviewed the histor- | ical events of the past 15 years and moved for the election of a presid- dum. Members of Central Organs of the Party and Government, shock workers from Moscow factories, Com- rade Marty, well knewn French Com- munist leader, and Sen Yatayana, leader of the Japanese Communist Party, were elected as members of | the Presidium amidst great acclama- | Capitol Police in Attack on Pickets WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov 7.—On the eve of the Presidential elections, the U . 8. Supreme Court, in a decision handed down today, granted a new trial for the Scottsboro boys. This partial victory is a di- | rect result of the international campaign of protest organized and led by the Communist Party of the U. S. and the International Labor Defense. In practically every coun- try of the world mighty demonstra- tions of protest were held, and mil- lions of workers—Negro and white— mobilizeq behind the campaign to force the freedom of the Scottsboro defendants. Does Not Mean Boys Are Free! The decision of the U. S. Supreme Court means that the Scottsboro boys get a new trial—it does not mean that they go free! While the decision postpones the execution in the face of overwhelm- ing evidence of their innocence, the U. S. Supreme Court turns the Scottsboro boys back into the hands of the court which engineered the original frame-up. A careful reading of the official decision shows that the . Supreme Court has taken great care to in- struct the Alabama authorities how tion. “properly” to carry through such The Presidium headed by Stalin,}lynch schemes and thus to bolster Molotov, Kalinin, Voroshiloy and|their discredited “judicial” institu- Thaelman provoked a stormy ovation. | tions. U.S.S.R. Wants Peace, § Kalinin | Cue for New Lynch Verdict. Comrade Kalinin, chairman of the Thus, “the failure of the defend- Central Executive Commitiee of the| ants to obtain adequate legal repre- Soviet Union, delivered the principal speech devoted to the 15th anniver- Sary of the great Russian Revolution. | Kalinin traced the victorious road traveled by. the Soviet Union in building socialism on one-sixth of the globe. The successes of the Soviet | Union, he said, are particularly s ihg on the background of the world economic crisis hitting capitalism which has reached the last stage of its disintegration. Pointing out the world significance of the October Revolution (accord- ing to the Western Calendar the| Revolution occurred in November, Editor), the determination of the So- viet Union to live at peace and its tireless struggle for peace, Kalinin touched upon the difficulties which the proletariat has to overcome in breaking down the old world and building a new one. Fight Against Opportunism Most of these difficulties, Kalinin pointed out, were accompanied by an} intensification of the inner Party struggle. However, the Party reso- lutely, dealt with all sorts of right and “left” opportunists and again} displayed. its will for unity and pre-} servation of the solid character of the ranks. In conclusion Comrade Kalinin Pointed out that since the organiza- | tion of the Soviet Union, the whole world was split into two camps, the camp of socialism and the camp of capitalism. In the countries of capi- talism oppression, exploitation, reac- tion and mockery is the lot of the workers, In the land of socialism, in the USSR, there is complete na- tional and social freedom for a1] toil- ers. Kalinin’s speech was received by an ovation lasting many minutes. The sound of the International merged with the mighty hurrah from thousands of throats. Marty Hails Success of Sotialist Construction. Kalinin was followed by Andre Marty who led the heroic revolt of the French Black Sea fleet, against the intervention of their govern- ment.Marty conveyed heartiest greet- ings to the proletariat of the Soviet Union on behalf of the Comintern and the Communist Party of France. His appearance provoked a lasting sentation” is given as the sole ground for granting the new trial. In its ruling it based itself on a mere legal technicality. It ignored the fact that the boys were framed | up from the start; that the lawyers for the “defense” assigned by the court ang approved by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People actually worked on behalf of the prosecution; that the or- | iginal trial was held in an atmosphere of lynch law—with armed militia and a mob of 10,000 outside the court howling for the blood of the innocent Negro youths. It ignored the fact that Negroes were excluded from the jur- ies in the Scottsboro trials. These fundamental questions of Negro rights were contemptuously passed over by the court as of “no material weight,” Taking the cue from {the misleaders of the N.A.A.C.P. in their attacks on the mass fight to free the boys, the Court characterized the defendants as “young, illiterate and ignorant.” Meanwhile, in Fort Payne, Ala., Judge A. E, Hawkins, who imposed the death penalty on the Scottsboro boys, said that the new trial will be set for the March term of the Circuit Court at Scottsboro. He said that the trial date would be set within the next few weeks, and that he would ask for-troops at the second trial, over which he probably will preside. “The presence of militia will be more imperative than ever,” he said. Ask Immeriate Lynching. A dissenting opinion was rendered by Judge J. C. McReynolds ang Pierce Butler, two judges who upheld the contention of the Alabama authori- ties that the judicial murder of the Scottsboro boys should proceed with- out further delay. Even as the court was in session, a militant demonstration of several hundred Negro and white workers was held on the capitol grounds yesterday afternoon. Defying the police, who had mobilizeq to prevent picketing, the workers battled with them as they held their banners aloft demanding: “Free the Scottsboro Boys.” Twelve were hurt, including several policemen, and 13 of the workers were jailed. Five hundred police _ patrolling every inch of the capitol grounds launched a tear gas attack on the applause. picketers. The capitol was an armed The successes achieved by the Sov-|camp. Motoreycle police patrolled iet Union, said Marty, give the id} all roads entering the Plaza. The proletariat a clear answer to the question “What road to follow? The road of revolution pointed out by Lenin or the road of compromise picketers marched in the face of drawn revolvers in the hands of po- lice. Only a gas attack and four- to-one mobilization of police dis- {Continued on Page Three) Serr | ea par yO RL aN CORR The decision reverses the death | verdict of the Alabama lynch courts against the nine 18,000 DEMAND MOONEY RELEASE ATSANFRANCISCO March With | Red Flag; Tumultuous Cheers For Communists SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 7.— Eighteen thousand workers, making the largest mass meeting here in 15 years, marched into Civic Auditorium yesterday afternoon and launched a renewed struggle for the freedom of Tom, Mooney. They jammed the | balconies, platforms and aisles and cheered tumultously for every call to action by the speakers. They stayed in the hall from 11:30 am. to 5:30 p.m. They listened with bated breath to the tensely dramatic testimony of Callicotte, under the skillful questioning of Theadore Dreiser, who now reached the climax of his cross-continental dash to aid Mooney. Marched With Red Flags Delegations were present from all | California towns as far away as Los Angeles. Five thousand marched with red flags and placards, “Free Tom Mooney,” and “Vote Communist!” from the waterfront. Other proces- sions from around the city followed red flags to the Civic Auditorium. As the marchers paraded around the hall, all those previously assem- bled rose and cheered for 15 minutes. | Leo Gallagher roused the meeting to a fever pitch with his dramatic recital of the points in the frame-up of Billings and Mooney. Steffens Calls for Communist Vote Lincoln Steffins, famous for his writings and particularly for his in- vestigations of graft in American capitalist politics, got. a powerful ova- tion when he declared: “Tom Mooney now has his first real chance for freedom with the masses of workers led by the Com- munist Party which has thrown its full force behind him.” Steffins then appealed, amidst wild accla- mations, “Vote for Foster and Ford!” The crowd cheered with enthusi- asm the greetings to this meeting and to Tom Mooney from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany, from the Communist fraction in the German Reichstag (these were signed by Clara Zetkin), anq from the Communist Parties of Great Britain and France. For an hour the crowd listened in hushed attention to the detailed pub- lic questioning of Callicotte by Dreiser. He brought out how Calli- cotte was hired by two men, neither of whom was Mooney or Billings, to | place the suitcase which must have contained the bomb that killed ten in the Preparedness Day Parade, on July 22, 1916, and for which they framed the strike leaders, Mooney and Billings. Refuse to Cross-Examine The San Ffancisco District At- torney, Captain of Police Gough, and Chief of Police Quinn had special representatives present, but these, seeing Callicotte’s story unassailable, refused to question him in public. Sam Darcy, Communist district or- ganizer, spoke particularly on the way in which.the Mooney frame-up was handled by a city administra- tion which acted as the agents of the employers against whom Mooney had been leading strikes. He told also of the long history of treachery to Mooney by the AFL leaders in California and elsewhere. Tried to Suppress Evidence Attorney Goodman of the Interna- tional Labor Defense vividly exposed the “investigation” by San Francisco police agents of Callicotte immediate- ly after he made his announcement of hitherto concealed evidence in Portland, Sept. 26. Goodman told of the frantic but vain efforts made by these police agents to suppress or dise credit the Callicotte confession