The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1932, Page 4

DATLY WORK Sn athena men BR 25 1°32 | 18th St, New York City, N. ¥ Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, $6; six months, $3.5 jew York City. 3_months, 3 months, $2; 1 month, Foreign and 33 Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, 2 months, $! By mail everywhere: oasepting Canade: One year, $9; 6 Follow Up the Scottsboro Victory! HE oilers resounding | re of the nine but it still thunderous ¢ Scottsboro boys. hankers for its victims. Supreme Court decision forced by the gigantic and powerful revolutionary movement of millions of toilers throughout the world is « entire working class | Negro and white. But the fight for the | unconditional release of the nir The Negro mn the “fairnes help to tighten the h cent boys—it will not tending from the imperi ranks of the ‘Negro and white zetically working t attempts t this bloody Reliance will only | the inno- | r-revolutionary front zents in the ro reform- i wrath of the | justice, rights no illusior h cou nec save ion ider coyer of and equal wrested from the clutches been temporarily the lynchers onl, e world-wide mass protests of the toilers. The guarantee for the unconditional release of the Scottsboro boys is not peace- ful wait and It a thousandfold intensification of the mass movement, reaching c > new nooks, mobilizing new sec- flons of the masses, ever broadening the united nt of revolutionary struggle * = = = ize in undecided of the Ne manner | ‘© masses. The | before the eyes of millions, of reform capitulation to nd political awaken- ass support for the | uggle for Negro | HE Scottsboro case has helped to er ithe reyolutiona: ferment in the r Scottsboro case has proved the effica revolutionary methods of struggle as the white ruling class. The deepenin: ing of the Negro toil has found expr Scottsboro boys, as a step fory liberation. The Scottsboro ¢ rong links in the chain of unity of white and Negro toilers against the whole vicious, barbarous system of national oppression, of which this brazen frame-up is but a Single expression But the work cannot rest b There is denger of a possible slack- | ‘ening down in this mass struggle now that the Supreme Court has tendered its decision. This danger is even greater today than before. This must be ov ome! De asures be taken NOW, with- out a moment’s delay, to utilize this tory in the struggle for the Scottsboro boys, to raise to new heights the mass action for their complete freedom. We must complete out the tenden to limit | the struggle only to the fore ady in and around the International | Labor Defense and the revolutionary mass 0 ti New masses | must be drawn into the movement | This important partial victory in the bi ie for the complete release of the Negro lads offers a splendid opportunity through which to pene- trate even the most backward sections of the masses of Negro and white toilers—those masses who have never before been stirred to action. We | must develop in the ranks of the widest sections of the oppressed toilers the consciousness and determination that they, themselves, on their own initiative, must widen the base of the movement, in the neighborhoods, in the factories, in the ranks of the unemployed, in the reformist or- ‘ganizations. Everywhere to develop such forms of organization as will rally the broadest sections of the white and Negro masses in working class solidarity, to defeat the united forces of reaction in their attempts to murder the boys. The united front Scottsboro conference on new life and vitality. Where s istence they should be immedi: in every locality must take ch conferences have gone out of ex- ly revived and begin to function not in @ narrow circle—but reaching out to new elements, particularly pene- trating the Negro reform organizations and A, F. of L. unions. Through the building up of the Scottsboro Defense Committee in the neighbor- hoods, factories, schools, new adhere _ the Scottsboro boys a = ® HE further struggle for the relea linkeq up with th Mob violence and lynch terror. act of discrimination, every act of rej this struggle with the Scottsboro cas Major attention must be given Struggle for the Scottsboro boys tT" hands the boys back to the same 1y demned them to death. It is ther the national oppression of the Negro that the vigilence of the Negro and white toile: vent the perpetration of this lynching. developing mass struggles for unemployment relief and against the terror he worke workers, must react with more decisiveness nts can be won for the defense of . se of the iggle ai Scottsboro boys must be inst the whole system of , and especially the white and determination to every | sression of Negro toiler sand connect | to penetrating the he de South in the on of the Supreme Court | nchers and slave drivers who con- | efore right here, above all, where | people takes on the sharpest forms, must be aroused to pre- base exists in the rapidly The which makes possible real determined mass action on the part of the Southern toilers for the release of th Let the voice of the working cla the demand: Unconditional freedom for the Scottsboro Boys! ie boys s be heard stronger than ever, with Red Troops Smash 5th ‘Suppression Army’ Aided by Peasants BULLETIN. Hankow dispatches to the New York Times admit the collapse of Nanking’s fifth “Communist sup- pression” military campaign against the Chinese Red Armies and the emancipated masses in the Soviet districts. Reporting the results of several months of fierce fighting on a 150-mile front in Hupeh Pro- vince, the dispatch states: “The government (Nanking) forces have ceased attempts to ad- vance, The Communists are as- sigted by farmers, thus seriously complicating the problem.” | SHANGHAI, Nov. 24.—Alarmed at | the growing mass resistance to pro- | posals of the League of Nations for @ further looting and partitioning of China under the guise of “interna- tional control” for the “reconstruc- | tion” of China, the United States, | French, British’ and German minis- | erg are hurrying to Nanking to main- | tain the closest contact with the lNanking betrayers of China during | ‘the Manchurian discussions at Ge- neva. Behind the scenés, the Kuomin- tang leaders are maneuvering prep- aratory to a plenary session of the discredited Kuomintang party at Nanking in mid-December. A group of these leaders are irying to gain power on the wave of mass resent ment against Chiang Kai-shek, ‘I. V Soong, and Marshal Chang Hsueh Mang, leaders in the present govern- ment. ‘The independent Canton group of the Kuomintang has split into new’ sections, with Hu Han-min and Chan | Chia-tang leading the opposing camps. Chiang Kai-shek is nego- tating for alliance with either. factions. In Northwest, where the Japanese are busy fomenting the disorders they are hypocritically de- at Geneva, Yen es tre cy Feng Yu-hsiang have allied wi General Han Fu-chu, who | emerged victorious from the recent Generals’ War in Shantung Province. | C. ©, Wu and Sun Fo are organizing a elique of their own. Mearwhfle, the Generals’ War in | Seaham and Kewichow Provinces | tors have been unable to determine | Communist Center in) Baltimore Destroyed by “Mysterious” Fire| BALTIMORE, Noy. 24—Late Pri-} day night the Baltimore Communist | Party headquarters were practically | destroyed by fire of mysterious origin. The fire alarm was turned on about two hours after the last comrade had left the headquarters, locking the | doors behind him. ‘The fire inspec- the cause of the fire, outside of guess- ing that it was starteq by crossed | wires. ‘Typewriters, desks, literature, etc., were destroyed before the flames were | put out. It is highly possible that the fire | Was a piece of incendiary work aimed fat crippling the Party’s work, espe- cially the Hunger March prepara- tions. A number of police depart- | ment stool pigeons have been hanging | around the unemployed meetings and trying to worm their way into the various conferences and committee meetings. At last Sunday's mass hun- ger march conference the door was slammed in the faces of several of these..stools. The Baltimore capitalist press in describing the fire gloated over the destruction of “piles of Red litera- ture.” ‘The Section Committee of the Party has called on the Party mem- | iF to unswer, the gloatings of the boss press, by intensifying their ac- tivity by preparing a gigantic mass reception for the National Hunger Marchers who enter Baltimore on December 4th is continuing with unabated fury and bloodshed. The troops of Gen. Liu Hsiang, leader of the faction oppos- ing the provincial governor Liu Wen- hui, yesterday captured the city of Luchow, whose population has been bombed twice within the past two weeks by Liu Hslang’s military planes. Street fighting is ntinuing in Chengtu where three -factions are struggling for possession of the arse- nal. The Generals’ Wars reflect both the struggle for loot and power by the Chine: war lords and the ‘hemes of their imperialist: masters r the partition of China. 1 \ PARTY LIFE Some Questions on the Bonus March to Wash. By SOL HARPER y Ta Second Bonus March is now organized and increasing num- bers of marchers brings to the forefront some of the lessons of the past. In the first march, there was underestimation of the num- ber_of veterans who would march to Washington. -Some claimed that only @ few hundred would go to Washington. Others said two or three thousand. Others placed the number up into the tens of thou- sands. In the present march arises other factors, such as: (a) The yearly drifting of vet- erans to Washington where they have made in the past individual demands upon the congressmen and senators who they were duped into voting for. (b) Large numbers of disabled veterans have gone to Washing- ton at the opening of Congress to see if they can no get something done for them by the Central Of- fice of the United States Veterans Bureau. (c) Other Veterans sought civ’ service jobs with help of “thei congressmen and tried-to get di- rect help from the Rehabilitation Section of the Veterans Bureau. (d) The Veterans of oher wars applied to the United States Pen- sion Bureau (which has now been there consolidated under Hines of the { Milwaukee, the “Pride” Veterans Administraion. (f) Other groups of Veterans went to Washington trying to get into the hospitals in the Capital. | PLACE DEMANDS DEC. 5 All of these groups of Veterans | are marching to Washington this time to join in the Big Bonus Pay- ment Demand to be made on Congress December 5, and those hundreds of veterans who have already hopped freights, and hitch- hiked to Washington are now de- termined not to again let the buck be passed as before from office to office, place to place and de- partment to department. They are determined to go to the Hearquar- ters of the Rank and File Com- mittee, located at 905 Eye Street, N,W., where they will again form their country-wide supported Rank and File Committee and make a united front demand for the Pay- ment. of the Bonus! For NO re- duction in the Disability Pay of the disabled veterans! ‘These veterans will demand that discrimination against the Negro veterams be \stopped! They will demand the right to hire their own doctors at Govern- ment expense, and for the admit- ‘ance of Negro and white veterans into all hospitals upon the basis of full equality! UNDERESTIMATION A DANGEROUS SIGNAL! ‘The present underesimation of the Second Bonus March can be summed up in a few words: 1. We have failed to state clearly what is the real necessity of the Bonus March at this time, and how we must (a) carry on the fight to show that unless we get our back pay now, we will be starved to death, (b) that the bankers will get all of it except a few dollars, (c) that the National Economy League (which is one of the Government's organizations), with the lame duck and Other re- presentatives of the bosses in Washington is planning to take away the little disability pay that a few tens of thousands of vet- erans are now getting. ‘These are only a few of the fac- tors which must be made known to the unorganized veterans. Also to those inside the ranks of the boss-controlled veterans’ organiza- tions. We must not tell the mass groups of veterans in, say Phila- delphia or other cities, “don’t go to Washington.” We refuse to al- low these veterans to be cheated out of their back pay. Our line is, On to Washington, Negro and white! Demand our back pay now! On to Washington rank and file! All war funds for the payment of the Bonus and Bnemployment In- surance! Not a cewt from the Dis- abled Veterans for the bankers. On to Washington by December 5! ‘A Pair of Cheap Slippers--Dark Tan and Size 7’ THE Scottsboro fight has many phases. But, as the following extract from a letter of Olen Mont- gomery,. now 18, will show, there ig still another phase of the case, another opportunity for you to help: “And Mr. Patterson, (Secretary of the I. L. D—Ed. Note) since you all are going to have us transferred I will ask you to have some one to send me a pair of cheap slippers dark tan and size seven English toed. Now Mr. Patterson I don’t want you to think I am choicery because I can’t be for the circumstances T am under, But really my fect is small and boney, And a broad toed shoe don’t fit my feet. What &o ever. And as for color 1 just, like dark tan because my mother always likes tan for me. And of course I would ask my mother for showes but she is unable to buy them and you all are the only ones I can ask for support. And T will gladly accept them and ap- preciate them to the highest be- cause I am in need of them and it is getting real cool here and concrete neyer stays warm in the winter part of the year.” The International Labor Defense takes care of all sides of this case Olen’s family needs you, Olen, still in danger of death, should have those “tan, English toc” shoes. Support the Prisoners’ Winter Re- Jief jen! Send all contribu- tiong to: 80 EB. 11th St., Room 430, New York, N. '¥. | PRETTY HERE TAKE: THIS AND couLect aay 2 igs —By Burck | of the Socialist Party By 1. AMTER ‘HE Socialist Party boasts of its achievements in Milwaukee. They } told us during the election cam- | paign about Milwaukee’ ers, the municipal treasury, the re- lief system. ‘The capitalist papers and journals were loud in raise: of Milwaukee. This “socialist” was held up as a model of what could be accomplished in any city of the country. If this could be done in Milwaukee, then why not in New York? If Milwaukee could effect such progress, why not adopt Milwaukee methods in the other cities of the United States? As a result, while recently running as candidate for Mayor of New York, Hillquit could correctly say that the election of a Socialist mayor would not produce any “revolutionary changes” in New York. And how right he was! Hillquit did not talk about the mass hunger in Milwaukee, the brutal slugging of the unemployed by the Socialist Mayor Hoan’s socialist police. He said nothing about forced Jabor in Milwaukee, the cutting of the city employes’ wages and the miserable conditions and wages in the mills in Milwaukee. This the Commun- ists told the workers—only to be contradicted by the Socialists, MILWAUKEE’S STARVING CHILDREN This time, out of their own mouths, the Socialists convict them- selves. In the New Leader (Social- ist party organ) issue of November 19, 1932, we read the following: fine sew- “Children Kept From School By Lack of Proper Clothing” “MILWAUKEE, Wis.— Reports made to the Milwaukee county board’s committee on institutions revealed that many children are kept from schools because of lack of clothing. Hith the board has limited its distribution of clothing to shoes. “Children in my district are so ragged they cannot be sent to school,” said Socialist Supervisor Robert Buech. “We have a com- pulsory education law, but poverty has become so abject, that chil- dren are out of school because they do not have enough rags to cover them. Private relief agen- cies say they can no longer furn- ish clothing because of lack of funds. So it would appear that it is up to the country to take ‘ac- tion. “Socialist Mayor M. V. Baxter, of West Allis, confirmed Buech's statement that private agencies are unable to provide clothing. “My office is directly over the West Allis headquarters of the Family Welfare Association,” the mayor said, “and I know they are unable to supply enough clothing.” “There are hundreds of families ‘The system of chain gang “Georgia Nigger” is sotiviy nee stot by the south- ern senators and congressmen who their power to cover up these ‘eerie conditions despite the fact that the U. S, Constitution’ ex- pressly forbids “cruct and unusual punishment.” On the left and right are two loyal representatives of the southenn rnling class, U, 5. Senator William J. Harris (left) and Representative Carl Vinson (right), | in my city who lack the means to secure clothing for their chil- dren. The depression jas lasted so long that all of their reserves are exhausted.” (Emphasis ours.) This is taken bodily from the of- ficial Socialist organ. “Children in rags,” “children kept out of school for want of clothing.” Children without sufficient food, fathers earning Httle or no money. This is Milwaukee—the beast of the Socialist Party, This is “social- ism” in practic ‘This is the “socialism,” the “mu- nicipal socialism,” (whatever that may be), that Thomas and Hillquit | offered the workers of New York during the recent elections! Why should the capitalists fear such “socialism?” They have the same brand of “socialism” in oper- ation in the other cities at the pre- sent time. CAN BUY RIOT GUNS But let us not forget that in this city of Milwaukee, where “poverty has become so abject,” and the chil- dren “have not enough rags to cover them,” the city has a treas- ury and was able to buy riot guns with which to shoot down the work- ers who fight against poverty. It was the illustrious Socialist Sheriff Benson who boasted of the high power sub-machine guns with which he equipped his Socialist deputies to murder the fighting workers. It was the Socialist mayor, Bax- ter, of West Allis, who called out his Socialist police and had the co- operation of the $13,500 a year So- cialist Mayor Hoan and Socialist Sheriff Benson of Milwaukee, in murderously assaulting the 6,000 fighting laid-off workers of the Al- lis-Chalmers Motor Corporation, who demanded relief from the com- pany. For these attacks, the city has plenty of money—and the may- ors, sheriffs, cops anc. deputies are not affected by “abject poverty,” nor do their children “go around in rags.” ‘Well, Messrs. Social-fascist lead- ers—Thomas, Hillquit, Hoan et al— are you again “misrepresented?” Do you or do you not play the | part of agents of the-capitalists in the ranks of the workers? You say you stand for “socialism”—but what brand of socialism? The Milwaukee brand of starvation and murder of the workers! Socialist workers: Have we Com~- munists misrepresented the Social- ist Party? Is Socialist Milwaukee not exactly as we Communists have told you? Is it not time to do as the Easton, Pa., rank and file So- Cialists have done—to get out of the Socialist Party, and to take the next step and join the Communist Party? ‘The municipal campaign of 1933 in New York is already in the mak~ ing. Hillquit, Thomas and Blan~ jure exposed in in both of Georgia, Toth arc members of the dema- 4 | | | | | | shard, leading Socialists, already tell us that they will stand for a “veal socialist” program. We have it in Milwaukee. It is a clear cap- alist program, no matter how it may be ornamented with demagogic phrases. In the municipal campaign, as in all struggles, there will be one and enly one workers’ party—and that is the Communist Party. The Com- munist Party and it alone is lead- ing in the fight for unemployment, relief and unemployment insurance, | for farmers’ relief and the bonus. ‘The Communist Party is fighting against wage cuts, ‘police terror and imperialist war. Everywhere the workers in their struggles meet the Socialist Party, which carries on the foul game of the bosses. ‘Therefore, to fight the bosses, we must at the same time fight and ruhlessly expose their agents, the Socialists. They have again helped us in Milwaukee — out |of |their own mouths the Socialists have exposed and convicted themselves! i] Letters from Our ' Readers Wants Speakers to Be Conerete--and Show up New York City. Editor Daily Worker: Dear Comrade: Recently I was at 41st St. and 8th Ave., New York, listening to the Communist speaker who was talking generalities, avoid- ing local issues. The next night another open-air meeting was supposed to be held at 30th St. and 8th Ave and after leaflets were distributed saying the meeting would be under the aus- pices of Section 2, Unit 12, at 7:30 pm. The workers were assembled there, but the speaker did not ap- pear until 8:30 pm., and workers got disgusted and went away. And on another day leaflets were distributed all along Hell’s Kitchen, calling for a demonstration at 35th and 36th Sts. and 10th Ave. The workers and their children were assembled there waiting for the Young Communist League, who sponsored the meeting, when one of the Y. C. L. came over and told the children that the demon- stration was postponed until next Friday night, although the leaf- lets said the demonstration would be on Wednesday. How the hell do you expect us workers to follow you when your speakers confuse us in their speaking and also fool us and do not appear on time? Jay Dee. Two SUPPORTERS AND A VICTIM oo CHAIN GANG TORTURE cratic Party of Roosevelt, whose winter- home iu Georgia is only .a few miles from a chain gang camp. Vinson, who is chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, introduced at the last session of Congress a bill for the construction of 120 new war- ships at a cost of $616,000,000, Slavery, torture and war is the program of Vinson and his party. In the center is one of the victims of the Georgia chain gang, a~Negro prisoner serving 2 life sentence, NEGRO SLAVERY TODAY John L. Spivak’s Stirring Novel "GEORGIA NIGGER” NOTE.—‘“Georgia Nigger’ national oppression of the Negri to the white ruling class term, treatihent of Negroes which it order to paint a to use this term ers terms of respect for Negroes THE STORY SO FAR: inser,” and to the mbolizes. picture of these horrible conditions, he considered it necessary therwise he would have put into the mouihs of the boss lyme which they do not ust-—Editor, isa pare exposure of the hideous persecution and ‘The Daily Worker is relentlessly opposed sion and contemptuous but, in The author shares this view, INSTLLMENT 22 { After escaping from the slave farm of the powerful white planter, Jim Deering, where Negroes are tortured and semetimes murdered, David Jackson, a Negro lad, is being driven to the next county by Ranisey, a planter are overtaken by Sheriff Dan Nichols, After much wrangling, agrees to let David go if Ramsey will pay off his advance. turn back to the courthouse. ho bas come to his aid, when they a Deering hireling, and forced to Deering finally Ramsey takes the boy to the next county, gives him $10 and Jeaves him to take the bus for Americus, fr get a job. Now read on: > 'HE town was like Live Oak, only larger. Concrete sidewalks and wide, concrete streets. Small build- ings of brick and dull wood. A drug store on one corner and a general notions store on another, The depot, with its painted signs announcing destinations and fares —Macon, Atlanta, Columbus, Bor- mingham, Jacksonville. David peered into the darkened station. Two white women sat on wooden benches, with suit cases in front of them. There did not seem to be a colored waiting rcom and he stood uncomfortably before the large depot window with an- other list of destinations and fares painted in bright yellow. AN OFFER OF WORK A lean, sun-dried white in a soiled blue shirt approached with a friendly air. “Lookin’ fo’ work?” David was too frightened to an- swer. “How'd you like to work fo’ me?” “I cain’, suh,” the boy choked. “Tm on my way tuh Macon: I’m waitin’ fo’ de bus, suh.” “All you darkies are always on your way some place,” the man snorted and walkeq on. 5 ee Tes ‘HERE were hours to wait for the bus and the white had scared him. He asked the ticket agent how far it was to Americus. “If yo’ fixin’ to walk,” the clerk drawled sympathetically, “head yonder till you git to the highway. | Maybe some | That'll git you there. darkie'll’ give you a lif’.” Not until he was well in the countryside did he dare ask for a ride. A grizzled old Negro in an empty wagon from which tufts of | cotton fluttered, rattleg by and | David hailed him, “Goin’ far?” he asked timidly. “Yonder.” He nodded vaguely up the road. “Dey’s plenty room if you wan’ a lif’.” A FRIENDLY NEGRO The horse jogged wearily. A wheel careened crazily. The driver wiped his face with a shirt sleeve. “Goin’ far?” he asked. “Americus.” 4 ae far. Whut you gwine dey 012” “wuk.” “Plenty wuk roun’ here.” “I wan’ tuh wuk in a mill.” “Ain’ no easier’n de fiel’s.” He glanced sidewise at the boy. “Say, you ain’ runnin’ away, is you?” Oi ete AVID did not answer. “Dat’s alright. I ain’ askin’ no questions. Doan you be skeered o’ me. Say, if I was to tell "bout all de niggers I-he’ped run away Td be roasted lak a barbecued pig. Lawd, I’ve done he'ped mo’ niggers run away den dey is on Jake Mil- let's farm. I ain’ askin’ no ques- tions, but if you is foot-loose you better git outen dis here county. Why, dey ain’ a farmer roun’ here ain’ pullin’ de hair out 0’ his ha‘d worryin’ ’bout pickin’ dey c iton er shakin’ dey pecans er cuttin’ dey cane, er jes’ plain worryin’.” SLAVE TRAFFIC He wiped his face again. “Dese white folks ain’ happy les’ dey’s worryin’ "bout somethin’. An’ wen dey starts worryin’, foot-loose niggers better start travellin’.” “How far is it to the county line?” David asked anxiously. “Bout eight mile. Ain’ far. Sheriff Welby’s huntin’ ’em co’se he gits three dollars fo’ ev'ry res’, but dat ain’ nothin’ to git worriet about jes’ as long as you is wid me. I got my own farm yonder an’ fo’ all dey know you’s wukin’ fo’ me. Git dat worriet look offen yo’ face.” es H baci miles north the Negro came to his cabin. “Dis is my place,” he said. “If you got a dollar er two you'd bet- ter tek a bus, boy. Ain’ nobody stop you if you got a ticket.” “I got de fare,” David said ner- vously. ‘Den you better ride. De Am- ityville bus passes by here. You kin change dey fo’ Americus.” DAVID TAKES A BUS The bus was a luxurious limou- sine driven by a white in a neat uniform. The fare was collected in advance and David motioned to a seat in the back. There were no other passengers until a white man in cveralls, with his coat slung over m where David expects to go to Macon and . . { mo'nin® fo’ de bu: “Yeah.” The white man eyed him medilatively. “Got the fare?” “Yes, suh.” OMINOUS QUESTIONS an arm, hailed the car on the high- _ way, The white man sat with the driver. The front seat was the dividing line for colored and white. ‘Ten miles farther another white standing before his cabin held up a hand and the two whites sat in the back while David sat with the driver. rie ane Amityville bus station was in a three story hotel. From the ticket agent David learned that the connecting bus diq not leave until seven in the morning. He would have to spend the night in town, and he started aimlessly for “Nig- ger Town,” where he could find a lunch counter and a bed, but he had not gone two blocks before a stocky white man stopped him. “whey you goin’, boy?” he asked. “Americus, sul.” “Whut you doin’ in this paht o' town?” “tookin’ to’ de cullud section, 1 got tuh weil till seven in de | revolutional The boy hastily showeq his care+ fully folded dollar bills. The man rubbed a growth of beard. “Live in Americus?” ‘ I live in Ochiockonee two days’ ’ got no re- “Den whut you goin’ there fo’?” “Y'm goin’ lookin’ fo’ wuk,” the y explained nervously. ‘Oh. No work whey you come fum?” “Yes, suh. No, suh,” he stam- mered. “Whey you fixin’ to sleep this evnin’?” AVID twisted his hat nervously in his hands. “T doan know, suh. I figgered maybe—— “Yeah,” said the man decisively. “You figgered. But I figgers I doan lak roun’ loose ‘nin’. to see darkies wande in this here town in de Better come along with “Mistuh, I ain’ wanderin’ roun’ loose. I’m jes’ lookin’ fo’ a place tub eat an’ sleep till de bus leaves——’ “Yeah. I'll give you a place to eat an’ sleep. Come along.” “You ain’ de law?” David asked miserably * “Yeah. I'm de law an’ T doan lak no vagrants roun’ here.” (HE LAW” “T ain’ no vagrant, Cap’n. I got eight dollars an’ ’'m on my way tuh Americus. Please doan leck me up. I never hu’t nobody an’ Til git out o’ here dis evnin’ if you let me go.” “Come along,” the law said bruskly, taking him by the arm, . . K the small cell in the county fail David's bitterness surged in a re- bellious hate that startled even. him. He shouted furiously, banged on the iron door, cried and cursed. A voice several cells away shouted: “Whut’s de matter wif you, nig- ger? You gone out o’ yo’ haid?” When the justice of the peace solernly imposed a fine for yag- rancy on him, the boy kept his eyes on the wooden floor of the court room. SLAVES WANTED A white farmer approached with a grin. “I need a lil he’p out on my place,” he said amiably, “an I'll ad- vance you the fine if you'll come an’ work it off. Poy you twenty- five dollars a moth.” David Hiq not answer. “Whut say, boy?” ‘The sheriff poked his shoulders. “Hit’s a lot better’n workin’ it off on de roads.” “I ain’ goin’ tuh sign nothin’,” David said sullenly. “Make him sign!” the farmer ex- claimed angrily. “These damn nig- gers——” “Can’t'make him sign,” the sher- iff laughed. “Tt’s against, the law. This buck mus’ a-worked fo’ @ farmer befo’!” Re eek cal Hs belly shook with laughter, “IT don’t want him afier the second pickin’,” the planter pro- tested. “Tell it to him,” the sheriff grinned, “There’s plenty work in this county. We kin use’m, We're short 0’ convicts anyway to finish the road to Jeff Beas con’s place.” (Continued Tomorrow.) . * CAUGHT AGAIN IN THE NET OF WHITE RULING-CLASS LA’ TO WHOM UNEMPLOYED NE- GROES ARE LEGITIMATE PREY, WHAT }ORRORS AWAIT DA- vViD ON THE BARBAROUS CHAIN GANG? DON’T MISS TO- MORROW’S INSTALLMENT OF ‘THIS SMASHING EXPOSURE! U.S. Bosses Arm Fascists Against Chinese Masses American volunteers organized in the South China city of Shanghul for use against the revolutionary Chinese workers have — just ~ been armed with the sawed-off shoigun. Arms and muni- tions for this group of American fascists ave furnished by the Wall Street government. The ‘Intern: tional News Service admits this in a Shanghai dispatch of Nov. 9: “Few people in the United States probably are aware that the Wash- ington government furnishes arms and munitions for this group of Americans who stand side by -side with detachments of other nation- alities on the firing line when dis- orders threaten the basic va Settlement here.” The “disorders” referved. to are the struggles of the Chi- nese toilers to rid the country of the Imperialist: parasites, plunderera: and’ murderers. notorious ne y f