The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1932, Page 3

™ DAIL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 19 SMASH THE SECOND By ROBERT HAMILTON. SIDELIGHTS ON HITLEB While Hitler was interviewing his money-masters, among them Cuno, | ‘head of the Hamburg-American ship- ping lines, Schacht, former President ‘of the Reichsbank, and Thyssen, head of the German steel trust, a storm of protest against the proposed Nazi- {bourgeois coalition swept over the ‘country. Hundreds of demonstrations took place in Berlin alone, the larg- est being in front of Hitler's swanky , the Kaiserhof, where thou- sands of massed workers shouted “Down with Hitler!” “Down with Fascism!” and “Long live the Com- munist Party!” Decisions for an im- mediate strike in the event that Hit- ler became Chancellor of the Reich were adopted by the workers of the Afu plant in Templehof, by the fish- ermen of Hamburg, by a united front | meeting of the employces of the f mous Voigtlaender plant in Braun- schweig, and by many others. Part of the strategy that dictated Hitler’s being kept from office was just this—he is more useful to the German capitalist class in the role of fake opposition than he would be in office, where all his promises of a “Third Empire” would be exposed as a hollow sham. Plus the deter- mined resistance of the German working class to the threat of any Hitler regime. s NEW COAL STRIKE IN SPAIN OVIEDO, Dec, 8 (By Mail).—-The National Workers Federation has issued a call for a general strike all the coal miners in the province of the Asturias, The walkout is to begin tomorrow. The International Association of Red Unions has an- nounced that a general strike in all the province's coal mines would begin. é A general strike of coal miners took place in Asturias several weeks ago, the workers forming # united strike front ineluding Communist, Syndicalist and Socialist workers. The government’s efforts to arbit- rate at the workers’ expense have failed and now a second walkout is being called. * 6 FARMERS’ HUNGER MARCH IN ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 11.—One hundred thousand farmers are pre- paring to march upon Buenos Aires, the capital, to demand help from the Argentine Congress in the form of lower rents and greater credit facil- ities at lower interest rates. ‘The grain-producing districts of the provinces of Santa Fe and Cordova aye organized for the march and delegates of the Argentine Farm. Fed- eration are now in the farming dis- tricts completing arrangements for the demonstration. ; The world: crisis in agriculture is affecting every capitalist csi from Northern Canada, where it below zero now, to Argentine, where the sun is beating down in hot sum- mer. The farmers are beginning to realize, all over the world, that only united action ean force any relief from capitalist governments. Their next step must be the realization that only the united front of workers and farmers can really emancipate both from the chains of money-slavery. FORCED LABOR IN NEWARK, N. J. No Wages Paid 4,000 Snow Shovelers {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) day. Two other Maine delegates have returned, they were elected by the A. F. of L. Quarry Workers In- tenational Union locals in Rockland, : * * * Another Capitalist Press Lie. OLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 20.—A eolumnist named Paul Maloon states in the Plain Dealer published here that “The handling of the recent ‘Hunger March’ to Washington was) entrusted by its sponsors to a well known publicity firm which was paid @ very considerable fee. They were one who supplied the hunger marchers’ band with uniforms of the Communist organization.” ‘This whole statement is false from The Red Front Nominee in Chicago CHICAGO, T—Comrade Brown Squires, a Negro war veteran, has| y; ‘been proposed to run on the Commu- ticket for alderman against the trail two prisoners who escaped from a Georgia chain gang. This scene is being re-enacted today in Alabama as the boss thugs hunt for fresh victims among the heroic share croppers who defended them- selyes from the lynchers. SECOND DRIVE TO. KILL CROPPERS \Tallassee and Camp | Hill Battles | | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | confiscation campaign by the land- | | lords. | Toilers Destitute, i | Today the vast majority of the | | farming population of the South is destitute. The toilers who have pro- duced cotton in limitless quantities, do not have even sufficient rags to cover themselves with. The cros they raise are cou scated by the landlords, as wel las live stock, land and all other possessions. By means of systematic and forcible plunder the landlords drive the crop- pers into debt and eventually force them off the land. Typical are the cases of Jim Pat- | terson, father of a family of 6, who} works for George Harper. Harper confiscated the entire crop raised by | Patterson and his family, When Patterson protested, he was offered $6,00 Harper did the same with Anderson Higgins with a family of 1, Erlnest Oliver with a family of 8, and several others. White Croppers Also Hit. While the Negro population bears the double burden of national as well as economic and oolitical op- pression, the white croppers, in many | respects, are scarcely better off. Losing Land. Small farm owners, white as well as Negro are losing their land. This is born out even in government fig- urés which ‘put the increase in ten- | | antry during 1930 in the Southern | | States, at 60 per cent. The over-| whelming majority of the victims, | are Negroes. Since that time the impoverishment of the southern | farmers has proceeded at a much faster rate. These are the conditions which ac- count for the growing solidarity of the Negro and white toilers of the South in common struggle against | their exploiters. Growing Terror, It is with the object of enforcing | these conditions and suppressing all oppesition by the toilers and particu- larly the Negro toilers that the Jand- | lords haye intensified the campaign | ,of terror and suppression which was recently smymbolized in the Scotts- boro case. Framing Negro toilers on the most | | common charge of “attack” on white | women, the “gentlemen” of the | southern ruling class engage in gen- uine and widespread violence against | | Negro women, A typical example is that of Pat Heard, a U.S, army sol-| dier who came into a Negro worker's | house and at the point of a gun, | brutally raped three girls. Another | outstanding case in this region was the attack by three ladnlords on the wife of a Negro cropper. The main purose of intensified terror by the southern landlords is to reserve their pofits in the face of the gowing depression, and to place the buden of lower cotton prices and other effects of the crisis entirely on the shoulders of the impoverished farming population. Union Fights Starvation. | Unbearable conditions and growing | militancy of the Negro and white croppers finally resulted in the or- ganization of the militant Croppers’ Union. Yollowing are some of the conditions the unjon has been fight- ing. Croppers have to pick cotton for some one else in order to get enough to live on, being paid at the rato of 30 cents a hundred. Most of the pay is in groceries. The croppers have to feed themselves while pick~ ing for this starvation wage (200 pounds a day is exceptionally good from sun-up to sun-down). Some of the croppers have no hogs to Kill The landlords even take part of ‘the syrup they make. In winter-time the croppers live at the mercy of the landlords who advance food to ractieally enslave the crop~ pers into picking the next crop, but frequently do not advance the food and force the croppers to migrate or starve, Fighting in the face of murderous terror by the sheriffs, lynch gangs and the entire capitalist-landlord regime of the South, braving starva- tion at the hands of the landlords ingto proves that the croppers are to bave eadth itself in the | to pay $1 a day to the company. | actually becoming slaves of the com- WORKER CORRESPONDENCE SHARE-WORK AND PROSPE RITY LEGENDS EXPLODED BY LETTERS FROM THE JOB CALLS FOR UNION TO SMASH NEW Worker Exposes ‘Share-Work’ Drive in Action; Shows What “Prosperity” Means CHICAGO, Ti.—The Northwestern Railroad Co. last week announced through the local press that it will put more workers on the force and in this manner hasten the return of prosperity. The press of course took advantage of this to hail the “coming back of prosperity.” But the facts are as follows: I tal where I work. nounced that from the 12th on, all workers will work six days a week | instead of five as we used to do, but only four hours a day. This means the following for the workers: They | will get $8 a week instead of $16) as we used to get before. But this | is not all. The new ruling of the) company is that only single and not | married workers will remain on the | job. The reason for this is that the company will compel all of the work~ ers to sleep in its barracks and to} feed them, and in return they have No one is permitted ot go and sleep or eat elsewhere. Thus the workers are | pany and only one dollar is left for | them after a week’s work. Accord-| ing to the capitalist press this is asign | that prosperity is coming back fast.) It is about time that the Brother hods Unity Committees take an ac-| tive part in organizing the railroad | workers. A Slave of the Northwestern Railroad Co. Help Us Organize Drug Clerk Asks, NEW YORK N, Y,—1 have worked for a drug chain the Walgreen Co., for several years and the conditions that exist there in regards to clerks is indescribable. They work from 12 noon till about 1 in the morning, six days a week. On special sale days, they even stay as late as 3 a, m. The salary is trivial, the help is hired and fired at random, and an elaborate spy system of checkers are used, The conditions of the drug clerks are poor everywhere. I have spoken to many of them and they say that the only solution is a union. There- | fore I took the liberty of writing | you as a friend of the workers, if it is plausible to start such a move- ment. The eight-hour shift would aid hundreds of unemployed drug clerks and would better conditions for all. I sincerely hope that you will give this your kind consideration, ~L. EDITOR'S NOTE:—The Food Workers Industrial Union has been | notified of the request of this worker for organization, The work- er gave no address however, Since organization of these workers will be greatly facilitated for the Un- ion if it has several contracts among the workers themselves, who can give the detailed infor- mation on conditions of work, the best way to circumvent the spy system, and the best way te ap- proach the other workers, we ask this worker either to send us his address (we have the name), or to come personally either to us or to the Food Workers Industrial Un- ion at 4 W. 18th St., or phone CHelsea 3-0505. Negro Workers _ Kicked on Job, JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—A Negro worker in the Southeastern Ware- house Company, was kicked by a boss because he was trying to protect his younger brother. The boss had this Negro worker arrested. A Nego woman worker here was arrested and carried into court with only two pieces of clothing on. And with such misery among the working folks here, we see in the paper that the city got $10,000 from the county, and is going to hold it as a special fund, In the meantime the workers in this city are starving. —W.0. & TS. Three Days A Month on Shop Payroll Cuts Worker Out of Relief EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Three years ago every factory in town was work- ing overtime. Now very few of them are working at all, those that are trying to do anything are only work~ ing two or three days @ month. ‘The Servel Refrigerator Corpora- tion is the only factory that is work ing at all, and they are just about shut down, only work a little as they get a few orders. The workers in the factory even suffer from the fact that they are employed, for as long as you are on the payroll, you can get no relief, and the company has cut wages of the employees until they Moor practically nothing when they work, During the last three years, Ber vel has put in all modern speed-up ma~- chinery, such as conveyors, etc, If the company was to go back to their 1929 peak of production, they would now use only about one-half as many men as they formerly did. —A Worker. 30-40% WAGE CUT CADILLA, Mich—T he Cummer The company an-@— ke for instance the Wisconsin Division Chats with Our EXPOSE THE SHARE-THE-WORK PLAN! One of the most valuable letters we have received is the one in today’s section from the railroad worker from Chicago. On the basis of his own experience and the conditions on his own job, he completely shatters the greatly - heralded “Share-the-Work” plan, which the employers and espe- cially the Standard Oil Company and Hoover's Committee for Emergency Relief, hail as the solution of the crisis. This is the type of corres~ pondence we want. Workers every- | where should write to us, exposing the sham of this plan, for many workers are still falling for it. Greyhound Bus Lines Hound Workers; Use Stools to Fire Men NEW YORK.—All employes on the Greyhound Bus Lines are going to be cut 10 per cent on Jan. 1. This company is treating its employes very harsh, and they terrorize them in all sorts of ways. About a week ago a driver was discharged for taking his mother, sis- ter and a@ friend down the road a few miles on the Albany division. At the time there happened to be a company “rat” on board. He evi- dently went and stooled to the com- pany and this driver was promptly discharged. He was a very courteous driver and carried a gold button for good driving and no accidents. ‘The dispatcher at the Capitol Ter- minal Was discharged on account of a very slight mistake, which anyone could make. Any small scratch on @ bus causes the loss of the driver's job. No ex- planations are listened & RS. eS Editor's Note: In writing stories of this kind, we ask our worker correspondents not only to describe such conditions and incidents, but also to tell us something of the re- actions of the men on the jobs. What organizations haye they? Are they totally unorganized, or trying to form a militant organization? Are they in a reformist organization and victims of misleadership? What are they doing about it? Milk Price Cut at Expense of Drivers in Newark, .N. J. NEWARK, N, J.—The three big milk companies, Borden, Sheffiields, | and Alderney, have reduced the price of milk here one cent a quart, at the expense of the drivers, They have | been cut six dollars a week. Besides the cut the mail carriers received and the other one that is coming now, many carriers are forced to do half again as much work, as several routes have been eliminated and two carriers are cov- ering the routes formerly covered by three men. —AK. Fate ie EDITOR'S NOTE:—The worker correspondent writing this informa- tion to us, should give the local ‘Trade Union Unity Council the same information and put it in touch with workers affected by these cuts, 80 that organzation against further cuts and to regain these, can be started at once. No Overtime Pay at Lofts Candy Co. LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.—In the Loft candy factory here the work- ers are forced to work 54 hours per week, nine hours a day. Out of the 2,500 workers, 50 per cent of them are forced to work overtime as late as ten and 11 o'clock in the evening, without any overtime wi whatso- ever. Before we used get paid for off days, when we reported sick, now when a worker takes a day off he doesn’t get paid. The workers are compelled to buy their own tools, out of their miserable wages, such as rubber gloves, $1.75 a pair, also same price for the scissors and measuring glass, If any worker dares to complain about their rotten condition then we are told: “Get to hell out of this place.” There are thousands outside unemployed waiting to take our place, if we don’t like it, they tell us. Those workers who are interested in organizing these shop workers of the Loft plant, should get in touch with the Food Workers Industrial Union, for information their address | is 4 West 18th St., New York City. that if conditions did not improve they would put through ahother cut, ‘This was signed by the President, W. wages all summer cae MURDER DRIVE BY A InsuLy, NOT STOP Reason for Present By JIM The croppers of Tallapoosa and ganize the Share Croppers Union in t frozen in their windswept cabins du Hunger ! That is the lot of the wife of a Negro sharecropper. In addition to her household duties she must toil in the fields with her husband for a mere pittance, Share Croppers Letters Camp Hill Bosses Keeps Negro Hungry At $4.00 Per Month (By a Worker Correspondent.) to let you know about Mr. Pearson, He is a landowner with 25,000 acres of land. He won't repair ges people $30 for 10 acres of poor land and he won't make any settle- | ment with his laborers. He claims that all the people that live on his land owe him money. He says if they try to move he will take all their house things and everything they have. When Slaughter went to move, he took all the poor man's house things and put him out of doors. Franklin Brazzel is a white man at Camp Hill, R. 1. He has a Negro working for him) at $4 a month and h ewants him to take that out in old clothes, ‘There is a merchant, M. Laron, at Camp Hill, Those poor Negroes that owe him money, and can’t get any work so they can pay him, he is kicking them around and running them out of town. He ran two out of town already. ‘Tannie Henderson is a white man who lives on R. 3. He took all the crop his farmer made and nailed up the house and made the farmer house things. De Priest Framed Police Attack on | Negro Workers (By 2 Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.-Two Negro workers arrested and beaten by orders of Os- car De Priest, will face trial on Dec. 27. Two conferences have been held for the purpose of mobilizing mass support for the defense of these workers. A mass demonstration in and around the courtroom is being arranged. The attack on these workers took place jus; before the elections in November when a number of workers Gathered at the Blackwell Memorial Church on Oakwood Blvd., to hear Oscar De Priest, republican candid- ate for congressman in the First Con- sressional District. Tells of Good Time De Priest arrived about 9:50 p. m, and tried to entertain the audience | with a’story of his travels and of | all the good eats he and his wife | had enjoyed while he was on tour. After some time he finally got down to politics and asked the work- ers to support him and the Repub- | lican Party, Calls Cops Just before he finished speaking he was asked by Herbert Newton, Com~ munist candidate for Congress, what his stand was on the Scottsboro case, | the Veterans’ Bureau and Unemploy- ment Insurance. De Priest finally agreed to. answer, but in the meantime, his henchmen had called the police who reported with clubs and guns and proceeded to beat every one in reach. After the smoke of battle cleared, two of the workers were found to be terribly beaten and clubbed, It is these two victims of misleader and capitalist agent, De Priest, who are going up for trial on the 27th. St. Louis Unemployed to Give Milk to Kids. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.—Five hundred ; St. Louis workers demonstrated in| miserably cold weather today before the Provident Association, a charity organization and forced the associa~ tion to give milk to the children of the unemp! ‘The demonstration, which was ledLouis unemployed for winter relief. ey CAMP HILLSLAUGHTER | gro and White United in Croppers’ | And Spread It Throug PEONAGE SYSTEM OF RR. BOSSES | Growth of Organization Negro share croppers was quick and immediate. been forced to take crops on starvation terms in the spring. CAMP HILL, Ala.—I am walling | c, L. any houses for his renters. He char- | pay $40 before he could get his own | Force Charity Outfit. 2 3} » | 1931, DID STRUGGLE Union h Three Counties and Its Victories Murderous Attacks ALL A Lee counties, Alabama, began to or- he spring of 1931 The response of the They had starved and uring the previous inter. They had ‘ood allowances | ubsiste | | nd their local gov 1 fiercer, Negro croppers organized in their local groups hammered out their demands: (1) Continuation of the food allowances which had been cut off July crop was re: C the crop-| til cotton (2) the ne t had beg ¥ e in September; i ng right of the cropper to sell his ec ton for cash, where and when he ather than to turn it over landowner for “division”; (3) cash settlement for the season at cotton picking time; (4) *@ nine- months’ Negro school with free} school bus without discrimination; (5) right of a cropper to plant his own garden for his own use; (6) freedom for the Scottsboro boys. “Southern Worker,” Negro croppers and their families came from all parts of the two coun- ties to the union meetings. The Southern Worker, Communist weekly published in the South, was eagerly | distributed and read by the Negro | peasants. The big white landown-| |ers and credit merchants at Camp} | Hill and other towns in the vicinity | | attempted to crush the union before | | cotton picking time. | | On the night of July 15, 1931, dep-| uties discovered and dispersed aj} union meeting. A lynch mob num-| bering 300 lando g whites and| their hangerson instituted a reign of | terror throughout the two counties. | The “night riders” lived again. They jraced through the countryside, fir- ing broadsides into the Negro crop- pers’ cabins. They raided the cabins} searching for literature, the union] records, and, above all, the leading| Negro organizer. One group of dep-| uties and landowners met Ralph Grey on a lonely road. They fired, | | breaking his legs. From the ground | |he returned the fire, wounding one | of the officers. Grey was later| taken by his fellow croppers to a} cabin. A doctor refused to come to} jattend him. Instead the posse re-| | turned, took him by force after a long battle with his comrades, who| retreate d only when their ammuni- | tion was exhausted, and killed him/ in cold blood as he lay in bed. | Remarkable solidarity and coolness | jon the part of the Negro croppers | saved the organizer of the union.| | Lynch posses and bloodhounds were | after him. The croppers succeeded | jin hiding him, diverting the lynch} | mobs and covering up his escape, j 40 Arrested, Many Killed, | Two score Negro croppers were ar- | rested and thrust into the ‘Camp Hill | jail. Six were there are reports of many others | | murdered, | But the news had spread swiftly. | The Scottsboro campaign was grow- ing. The Negro and white masses, | mobilized by the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense, immediately grasped the basic im- portance of the struggle of the Ala- against the whole | semi-slave em in the South. Pro- test meetings were held, Telegrams demanding the immediate release of the arrested croppers flooded the county. The local slaye-drivers’ gov- | ernment. was forced to release all the | croppers, | Victories of Union. | The Negro croppers felt that they were not isolated. They felt the! | power of their own organization and | the wide mass support they were| | getting from both the white and Ne-| gro workers in all parts of the coun- |try. The share-croppers’ union grew |rapidly, It spread into a_ third county. I¢ won the right for the |croppers to plant their own vege-} | table patches and also a better level | |of treatment from the slave-drivers. |The majority of the croppers were | organizing. By the winter of 1932) |they were ready to carry through a j determined struggle for food, after @ summer of intensified starvation |and suffering, The Jandowners were | again faced with a stronger and big- | |ger organization of the croppers. |There are 900 members in three counties and the union is spreading | | out—one of the reasons for this at- | tack, The second phase of the struggle | of the Alabama croppers has begun. ‘Students Convention To Hear Browder CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—The Second National Convention of the National Students League will be held at the | yas University on Dec. 30ih and 1st. | Among those scheduled to address the convention are Earl Browder, | Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., Scott Nearing, form-| er professor of the University of Penn,, and Donald Henderson, in- structor at Colunbia University and | Executive Secretary of the League Some of the topics scheduled for discussion are: Student's Right, ‘lhe Soviet Union and the American Student, The Negro Student, Decay of Capitalist Culture and War and the Student, by the Unemployed Council, was very militant despite the attempts of the police and the Provident Association to freeze the workers out. It rep- resents a real victory in the strug- gles of the tens of thousands of St. known killed and/|sheriff-murderers of Negro croppers. Page Three LABAMA LANDLORDS! Ala. Landlords, Sheriffs Lead Bloody Attacks on Croppers and Union Aim to Crush Fight Led by Union Against Landlord Robbery and for Right of Croppers to Sell Own Cotton Toiling Masses and Intellectuals Must Rally in Mighty Protest to Defense of Negro People Demand Halt of Terror ON White Rulers’ Answer ness for sev- | es % landlord robbery of the Governor Prepared to Mond Es the Negrces. Montgomery he no doubt Gov. Miller, for the latter at or begun preparations to call out the | militia against the croppers. prelim ent Harth the Alabama Dadeville to conduct a s tigation,” ™ The Share Croppers Union has| | Negro share-croppers in the taised th nds in its| Black Belt who protest against the struggle a: nd land-| Wholesale swindling ana oppression lord ri | to which the white planters sab- 1. The ject them are often kidnapped on his ov fake vagrancy charges and rail- a) Wo farded roaded to the chain gang, where “7 > they are horribly tortured. Photo | shows a Negro prisoner on a eorgia chain gang being tied up in preparation for “stretching,” a torture that nearly tears the arms from their sockets. (Copyright by . Spivak, author of “Georgia ing up cotton Cancellation of No evictions of land. No confiscation of live stock. A minimum price of 10 cents per pound for cotton Free bus transporiation t from school for the children All organizations and persons op- posed to the brutal oppression an lynch terror against the Neg urged to at once re iff Young at Dade debi croppers from the 4, 6 4 o and MURDEROUS ATTACK IN TENN. HAZARD, Ky., Dec, 20—A 16+ year old Negro girl and her com- panion were brutally murdered by | a lynch gang of two white men and Miller, at Monte | @ woman, and two other Negroes ing a stop to tl jord-polige ter-| seriously wounded when the three } ror; immediate r e of the ar-| whites opened fire om them for re- / rested croppers; the right of the| fusing to accept their orders croppers to organize and to sell their own cotton; the right of white and | Negro croppers to organize together; | self-determination for the Negroes | majorities of the Black Belt with | the withdrawal of the armed forces of the landlords and imperialists as | & guarantee against the lynch-ter- | ror; the right of croppers to defend | themselves and punishment of the | to move a stalled automebile own- ed by the whites. The murdered workers are 16-year old Martha Stacey and 24-year old Fred Brown. The ounded Negroes are Jessie Stacey, 20 and Luther Combs, 24. So great is the resentment of the Negro workers here that the lynch courts have been forced to make the gesture of indicting the three whites, STOP REIGN OF TERROR AGAINST ALABAMA NEGROES (STATEMENT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. A.) (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Communist Party calls to you to rally as one man in defense of your brothers across the county line in Tallapoosa! Reports are that the sentiments of the white laboring farmers of Tallapoosa County are al- ready so sympathetic to their Negro fellow farmers that the sheriff is recruiting his posses or murder gangs across the line in other counties! But the working farmers of the adjoining counties must stop this! If they dispossess and rob and murder the farmers of Tallapoosa, County today, they will dispossess and rob and murder the farmers of the ad- Joining counties next. Especially we appeal to the white tenant farmers and share croppers. Your conditions are constantly growing worse. You are robbed almost the same as your Negro fellow farmers! Stand together with them against the robbers! DEMANDS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY The Communist Party demands 1, Immediate stopping of the reign of terror against Negro share- eroppers and tenants of Tallapoosa and surrounding counties! We de- mand that the sheriff's possess who are murdering Negroes be igumie- diately disbanded! Stop the disarming of the Negro farmers, which leayes them helpless before the murder gangs of the white landlords! 2. We demand the unconditional release of all the Negro share- croppers and tenants arrested and prosecuted in Tallapoosa County, 3. We demand immediate punishment for the murderers, and the payment of indemnity to the fa s of the murdered victims. 4, We urge united defense action of the Negro and white tenants and shayecroppers. We urge the organization of common defense corps of both Negro and white farmers for mutual self-defense. 5, White sharecroppers and tenants! Stand by your Negro neighe bers! Defend them, or the landlords will be shooting you down next! 6. Defend the right of the laboring farmers to organize theis Sharecroppers' Union to fight for their interests! 7. We demand an immediate stop to evictions! No seizumgs of mules, cows, farm implements or household goods for debt! Ne fore- closures on farms for debts! 8. Organize the laboring farmers to struggle for the right to live! Defend our class interests! Demand the immediate release of the nine innocent Negro lads framed up and sentenced to death at Scottsboro! 9. We demand seif-determination in the Black Belt, . CENTRAL COMMITTE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GN THE ROAD A Communist Novel PUBLISHED BY RED STAR PRESS, BOX 67, STA.D, NEW YORK SPECIAL SALE * DEC. 21-31 Workers Book Shop 1457 Wilkins Ay., Bronx, N.Y, — Workers Book Shop 50 B13th New York City