The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1932, Page 1

— wa NLY 7 DAYS OFF! The Ninth Anniversary Celebration of the Daily Worker is only seven days off— New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31. A meeting, concert and ball have been arranged. Make this a powerful demonstration for the fighting champion, leader and organ- izer of the American workers. Make this a demonstration for all the struggles that the Daily is leading. Bronx Coliseum, Dec. 31. Dail Central Norker faust Party U.S.A. vo Section of the Communist it a ANNIVERSA - Annive the Daily Get your sympathetic greetings. friends SEND GREETINGS FOR T Send greetings for the s -Lenin Worker, Jan. organizations All greetings must INI RY EDITION and shopmates and to be in not later than Jan: 8, Vol. 1X, No. 307 Entered as second-class matter at ti bad New Yerk, N.¥., under the Act of March & 127% the Post Office at In the Day’s News FIRE IN TOKIO SLUMS TOKIO, Dec,, 23—A fire which swept the Fukagawa slum district of Tokio took a heavy toll of death| among Korean coolies housed ‘in thickly crowded tehements, . At least 19 workers were known to have burned -to death, 18 injured and 32 still unaccounted for, in the fire which destroyed within the space of a half-hour, twenty tenement build- ings Housing 92 families. SPANISH JOBLESS TAKE FOOD GRANADA, Spain, Dec. 23—Two workers were wounded when guards charged |into a demonstration of un- | employed today. Refusing to starve | any longer, a group of jobless took | possession of food-stocks, notwith~ standing police attacks. 100,000 APPLY FOR SNOW JOBS | NEW YORK, Dec., 23.—When 100,000 unemployed applied for the 18,000 snow removal jobs, E. C. Rybicki, director of the city free em- ployment agency was forced to ad- mit that the city has not provided even the minimum of relief con- sidered necéssaty to prevent starv- tion among the unemployed. CAVE-IN KILLS TWO MINERS. SCRANTON, Pa., Dec., —Res- | cue gangs today found thee bodies | of the two miners killed in the .cave-in last night at the Lackawan- : na mine at Simpson. The dead men are Walter Nymola, 42, and Andrew Dragwa, 34. Nichols Zazula, 38, suf- ferred internal injuries. BOYEFF CONFERS WITH AMTORG NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Ivan soyeff, representative for Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union, arrived here yes- terday on the liner Europa and de- ’ clared ‘that his’ first. move would be hd t ser to confer with the Amtorg trading corporation, which is the commercial agency of the Soviet Union in this; country. DESTITUTE MOTHER TRIES TO DIE NEW YORK, Dec. 23—Mrs. A. R. Santiago with her 6 year old son in her arms was grabbed just in time to prevent her from jumping off the window ‘sill of her home. at: 60 West 115th St. Jobless and penniless, the mother could not endure to see her son starve. Instead of giving her re- lief, the City immediately snatched the child away from the mother and placed her in Bellevue Hospital for observation. SHARP DROP IN STORE SALES NEW YORE, Dec. 23.—Department Store sales have been heavily hit by the crisis, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York December sales in-1932, during the first half of the month were 24.3 per cent below the corresponding period for last year. In Newark the drop amounted to 26.5 per cent. DEMANND USE OF EMPTY BUILDINGS Homeless Blame City for Worker’s Death NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Charging the Department of Public Welfare with responsibility for the death of Skippy Baritone, a Negro worker who, was found dead from starva- tion and-exposure in a slaughter house at 39th Strest and 12th Ave., the City Committee of the Homeless Men, affiliated with the New York Unemployed Council, demanded at the office of Commissioner Taylor to open up various public buildings where various unemployed’ workers could obtain shelter. ‘The delegation was received by ‘Taylor’s assistant, Kelly, upon the Tormer's decision to see them. The delegation left with Kelly the re- solution containing the demands of the homeless men who then held a meeting at 10 East 17th St, at 1 p. m. for the purpose of making plans for furhter action. Refuse To Open Buildings Although authorized by the city it to open various vacant ‘Tpulldings for the use of homeless, DEBT STRUGGLE GROWS SHARPER DESPITE DELAY Delay in Bargaining Is Opposed By French Premier HOOVER-ROOSEVELT SAME Both Use Debt for Im- perialist Grabs | WASHINGTON, Dec: 23.— With stock prices in a sharp | decline, corn and cotton reach- ing new lows and proof piling up generally of the catastroph- | ic deepening of the world crisis of capitalism, Hoover and] Roosevelt yesterday agreed to delay | negotiations on the war debts ques- tion until after March 4, in an at- {tempt to conceal from the American masses the war-like character of the struggle between U. S. imperialism and its European rivals over the war | debts. This struggle is growing fiercer | cnily with the rapid deepening of the | crisis. The news o f the delay im~- mediately precipitated a conference between Premier Paul Boncour and | Ambassador Edge in Paris in a fran- tic attempt to again reopen the ques- tion. Hoover-Roosevelt Policies Same In an acrimonious debate as to | “responsibility” for the delay, both the President and the President-elect |further attempted to divert the at- tention of the toiling masses from the struggle over the war debts. Behind the accusations and counte! accusations, both are in perfect agree- ment for support of Wall Street's demands for trade and colony con- cessions from the debtor powers in exchange for any reduction. of the uncollectable debts. Hoover is reported to have aban- doned his plan for the immediate creation of a “debt review” commis- sion, intended as a futile gesture of “international good-will,” but which would have lacked authority to make any séttlement except on the lines already laid down by Wall Street. Secret Moves Roosevelt is for shtouding the debt negotiations with the utmost. secrecy so as to conceal from the- toiling masses the real aims of U. S. impe- rialism of using the debts to bludgeon the debtor countries into giving up concessions in trades, colonies and arms reduction aimed at strengthen- ing U. S. imperialism for the new world war, for which all the imperial- ist powers are frantically preparing. Meanwhile, it was revealed yester- day that as a part of the savage trade war between U. S. and British imperialists, both are trying to divert mail contracts to vessels under their own flags, thus delaying the delivery of mail between this country and | Europe. BOARD STALLS ON RELIEF MONEY Adjourns for Holidays; Jobless Starve NEW YORK.—The Board of Esti- mate met in secret session yesterday and postnoned indefinitely a motion for $5,000,000 relief funds for the unemployed by turning it over to Deputy Controller Prial “to make a report on” after the holidays. The motion for relief funds was from Commissioner of Public Welfare Tay- Jor, who has to at least make a show of doing something. The Tammany Board didn’t want to be bothered, though. Take a Vacation ‘Then they adjourned for Christmas vacation. But first they assigned to Budget Director Kohler the job of working out the details of the slash- ing of $20,000,000 off of the wages of The knifing of the city city debt bonds. dered it, had a special session of the legislature called to legalize it, open- ly and flagrantly directed the activ- 17,000 subway and workers from 10 to 30 And the very same day, also, the money “saved” by this cut, courts ordered the interest on s' bonds paid to the bankers. FEEDS HORSES, STARVES BLESS { Charity Slop Poisons Whole Family of 7 LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 23.— Doctors and nurses at a hospital here had to work hours to save from death a family of seven, named Darling, poisoned by eating canned corn and tomatoes dolled out to them by the Los Angeles Charity Warehouse. In the family were four small children, The father had been out of work for a long time, and the family got some of the charity food. Workers here are forced to con- tribute, for fear of losing their jobs otherwise, to the community fund. Most of the money goes for sal- aries, off ces and yery little of it for food for workers. Left-over and rotten food is gathered from the groceries, and this stuff is given out by flop houses, labor camps and the bcucashdiadrgeat Me board. 2 WAITERS UNION | GRAFTERS SHOT Rank and 1 File Fights | Job-Racketeering | NEW YORK.—The struggle against | the racketeering officials of local 1, | Waiters’ and Waitresses’ Union, broke | into gunfire Thursday night when two busines agents, both notorious | grafters, were shot by an unemployed | union member, Benny Glast, at a meeting in Beethoven Hall, 201 E.| Fifth Street. The wounded business agents are Jack Lasher and Morris Turkel. Bo‘h have been exposed by the militant Rank and File Group in the union, as carrying on, in cooperation with the bosses, a thriving trade in jobs. Union members have been compelled | to pay $300 for a job, which has been split between the union officials and the bosses. Once In Thick With Grafters ‘The man who did the. shooting was at one time in thick with the union bureaucrats whom he served as a strongarm man. But his mas- ters double-crossed him and for-the past two years he has been out of a job. Recently he went to Lasher and Turkel and begged for a job, saying that his wife was ill and starving. They refused to do any- thing for him. The following day, however, he was visited by a “go- between,” who offered him a job if he forked over several hundred dol- lars. This drove him into a rage and he determined to “get” the business agents. Thursday night's meeting was called for the purpose of nominating officers for the coming year, with elections to take place in January. About 500 workers were present and the mee‘ing was about to start when shots rang out in an ante-room off the stage. Glast ran out, waving his revolver, and yelled: “I did it. I let them have it. They've been preying on the mem- bers for a Jong time.” Shorily after this, he was arrested. Boss Arrested The shooting created a sensation among the union members. Those of the Rank and file group, while op- posing individual terror as a method of struggle, placed the blame for the near-tragedy squarely on the should- ers of the corrupt officialdom. Ear- lier in the evening Julius Malich, prominent in the Restaurant Owners’ Association, was arrested on a charge of extortion. The Rank and File Group has sufficient affidavits to prove that Malich and many other restaurant owners have worked hand in glove with the business agents in forcing waiters to pay for jobs. The Rank and File Group, which recently forced through pay cuts for the officials, is calling for a deter- mined struggle to oust the racketeers and hirelings of the bosses who have gotten the union into their grip. They warn against the International Pre- sident. Fiore, another notorious rack- eteer, who is reported coming into town from Chicago to “settle” things. This is the same Flore who in 1929 put the convicted grafier, William Lehman, back into office as secret- ed by, the members. This year Leh- man was succeded by the “socialist” Rubinfeld, but this pal of Norman Thomas resigned in the middle of his term to make room for Lehman who came back. Philippine I. L. D. Is Declared Illegal; Part of War Move ing-class organizations. _ Recently, twenty leaders of the workers were condemn FH 5 : us ace sie E pS 38 i e 5.52 Bi ary-treasurer after he had been oust- | be WIN RELIEF AND TURN ON WATER IN BIRMINGHAM In Face of the Terror Near Murder Area, Jobless Fight, Win MICHIGAN STATE MARCH On to Lansing Dee. 27} to Demand Relief BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec., 23.—A delegation of steel workers led by Edith Briscoe of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union has forced the city council to grant its demands for free shoes to every family whose name they presented, er eae 5 BIRMINGHAM; Ala., Dec. 23.—Following the return here of National Hunger Marchers, the struggle of the unemployed has forged ahead and won vic- tories, right in the midst of the terror campaign. New unemployed and united front committees have been organiz- ed. Delegations to Commissioner | Jones have forced him to turn on | the wa‘er again in houses of a num- ber of families of unemployed work- ers from which it had been cutt off for non-payment of water bills. President Shook of the Community Chest has been forced to give food to a number of starving families hi- therto genied relief, . By W. ‘o. McCUISTION | (Seaman On the National Hunger March.) When Column 6 of the National Hunger March, starting from New Orleans for Washington, came to Birmingham, Nov. 28, it ran into the first attack. This city is only 50 miles from Tallapoosa county, where the murderous raids on Negro share croppers are now going on. ‘The demonstration of greeting to the marchers had been called to meet in the center of the,city. But early in the morning police were busy keeping all Negroes away from the demonstration point and stop- ping all white workers and question- ing them. Angered by what they'termed the “impudence of the. Reds” the’ police became~ frenzied but despite their efforts several thousands white and Negro workers broke through their lines and gathered at the old court house to greet the Hunger Marchers. One of the Hunger Marchers, a white woman and two of the demonstrators were arrested. The Hunger March- ers refused to leave Birmingham until the arres’ed workers were re- leased and as Column 6, enlarged by the Birmingham delegation then re- fused to leave Birmingham unless (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 500 OUT TO HIT JOB SWINDLERS Commiss’n’r- Geraghty Ignores Evidence NEW YORK.—Five hundred as- sembled at noon yesterday at the call of “The Fighting Sixth” in the drive to eliminate the racketeeering job sharks. The crowd overflowed the packed midtown sidewalks, despite a police mobilization. ‘They listened ‘atten- tively while speakers described the atrocious swindling of pennyless un- employed by the sharks. An elected committee of 13 went downtown to see License Commissioner Geraghty at his office, 6 Reade Street. As a result another larger demon- stration has been called for 11 a. m. next Tuesday at Geraghty’s office, be- cause Geraghty only sent his secre- tary to hear the committee's demands that the licenses of four job sharks. revoked. The midtown demonstrators in the meantime forced the Empire State agency, 1235 Sixth Avenue, to give back $9 swindled from Caezar Tuillee, a worker with a hungry family to support. They also made the Am- sterdam agency, 1211 Sixth Avenue, return $4.58 to Joseph Gomboz, vic- timized for a non-existing job as dishwasher. Browder to Sneak at Big Daily Worker Celebration Dec. 31 NEW YORK—Ear! Browder, secretary of the Communist Party, will be the chief speaker at the celebration of the ninth anniversary of the Daily Worker, New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, at the Bronx Colseum, 177th Street and West Farms Road. A concert and ball have been phony sky, the New Dance Group, the International Choruses, the Singing Freiheit. Society and a Negro and white double brass ‘band. ‘|auto industry ~for - the . past. months, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Just Part of Capitalism Going Up in Smoke a plane, showing millions of sacks Paulo, Brazil, by the capitalists themselves, to keep up the price, price fell because so many workers afford a nickel for a cup of Java on the unemployed what can’t be sold, | of coffee being burned nea are penniless that they a cold: morning. Instead of g! capitalism deliberately destro an’t even 20,000 Chilean Workers Protest Murders by Cops Demonstrators Battle Armed Forces; Colombia Boss Parties Uni U.S. Arms to Bolivia Move Through Chile Sea- ports to Gran Chaca War Zone BULLETIN. (By Inprecorr Cable.) PARIS, Dec. 23.—The World Anti-War Committee, el Amsterdam Anti-War Congress, is now meeting in Pa for rallying the working masses and intellectuals of the str ggle against imperialist war. Henri Barbusse, noted French writer and anti-war fighter, reported on the international situation, following which a spirited discussion tock Among those who participated in the discussion were V place, zenberg, interrctional secretary of General Schoenaich, Racamond, and cussion called for greater efforts to popularize the decisions of the Am- sterdam Congress, to connect the economic struggles with the anti-war campaign, and to give concrete instructions to the masses on how to fight imperialist war. A Japanese sailor,, who followed Katayams, aroused great enthus~ iasm with his description of the heroic striki tions against Japanese imperialism’s . ° SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 23—Twenty thousand workers demonstrated here yesterday in furious protest over the murder by Chilean secret police of Luis Mesa Bell and: nine other persons whose bodies were accidentally dis- covered by a-diver in the harhor on Wednesday. The demonstrators mili- tantly batticd police and catabiners called out by the government. In a manifesto issued by the Professors’ Association, Bell’s murder was HAND GOLD BRICK TO PHILIPPINES, ‘Independence’ Voted; Stall on Beer WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. — Beer and the question of Philippine inde- pendence occupied the attention of the Senate during the past two days. The beer issue was kept alive in or- der to divert the attention of the masses from the fight for ¢deral unemployment insurance and imme- diate relief when the Senate today defeated by a vote of 48 to 23 a mo- tion for immediate consideration of the Bingham 3.2 per cent beer bill. This measure is similar to the one passed by the house two days ago. Yesterday. the Senate handed the Filivino masses the gold-brick entitled “independence” After compromises agreed upon between House and Senate conferees, the bill was pas- sed providing so-called independence after ten years. It is considered cer- tain that the House will also accept the measure. ‘The passing of even a fake Philip- vine independence bill, which has been hanging fire for 30 years, shows that the catastrophical economic crisis and the growing revolutionary struggles of the Filipino masses, un- der the leadership of the illegal Com- munist Party, are forcing the Wall Street masters to make new ma- neuvers as Wall Street’s social base in the Philippines narrows down. U. 8. Keeps Stranglehold. The bill, however, makes sure that 1. independence will be postponed for a period probably a good deal longer than ten years; 2. meanwhile Philip- pine economic life will be further stifled by new import duties and re- strictions on immegration; 3. if and when “independence” is granted, it will be under the “protecting wing” —and epg Uv. 8. a gles . To Feather Many Nests. NEW YORK.—Democratic ward- heelers, rum-runners and other hanger-on were greatly cheered by the announcement of James A. Far- ley, cl n of the Democratic National Committee, here yesterday that 150,000 jobs will be handed out to the faithful when Roosevelt takes office. Farley has managed to corner a soft berth for himself as he is slated to become postmacter-general. Traffic in. jobs: is’ a c™-racteristic feature of political corruption in the U.S. ‘SUCCESS OF MOSCOW BALL- BEARING FACTORY ‘ Between September and October the Moscow ball-bearing factory was able to more than double its output, and shipped 251,500 ball bearings of 11 different types for tractors and automobiles. This exceeds the Plan schedule, and wipes out the shortage of bearings that has threatened ee ite to Push War ted at the to discuss plans world in the li Muen- the Workers International Relief; Sen Katayama of Japan. The dis- struggles and demonstra- war moves by the masses of Japan, . attributed to “his campaign against a corrupt section of the secret police who have. inaugurated a reign of white terror.” Bell was editor of the weekly “Wiken”. The secret police are also held responsible for the mur- der of Professor Anabalon, who dis- appeared last July and whose body was among the ten discovered on Wednesday. The terror was instituted by the government. as part of its drive for | active participation in the undeclared war between Colombia and Peru and | suppression of the struggles of the | impoverished masses against starva- | tion. Defeated Candidate War Head The Colombian government terday appointed General Al! Vasauez Cobo to command its fo: in the war with Peru defeated Conservative Pa date in the last president His appointment is aimed at cr a united front of the Colombian bourgeoisie for the prosecution of the war. Another defeated bourgeois candidate has been appointed as member of the commission on for- eign relations. On the initiative of Pope Pius, the governments of Bolivia and Paragu- ay have agreed to a hypocritical christmas day truce in the unde- ¢lared Gran Chaco war. The ‘truce’ will extend from midnight Dec. 24 to midnight Dec. 25. U. S. Behind Bolivia Puppets. Jorge Matte, new Foreign Minister of Chile, admitted: in a speech in Santiago yesterday that war sup- plies. for Bolivia from the United States were moving through the Chi- lean ports of Antofogasta and Arica. The U. S. government is supporting its Bolivian puppets in the Gran Chaca war which, with the armed conflict between Colombia and Peru, is part of the fierce struggle between U. S. and British imperialism for control of markets and the natural resources of the semi-colonial coun- tries. yes- 275 Ala. Croppers Vote Communist in County of Elmore BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 23.— The Alabama state government disclosed yesterday that the Com- munist vote in Elmore county in the 1932 elections was 275,. This, in spite of a previous Associated Press statement, published all) over the country, giving nothing | for the Communist vote there. | The Communist Party now de- mands that the secretary of state of Alabama announce the Com- munist vote, officially for all Ala- bama counties. «Elmore county borders Talla- poosa on the southwest. .It is an agricultural district, where the | present murder drive is raging | against .Negro .share .croppe: Sheriff Golden of Elmore coc erated in the attack in Tallapoc: ‘The white share croppers of El- more refused to be deputised, but some thugs were found and used |b the sherit HUNT NEGRO CROPPERS IN ALA. AS TERROR DRIVE IS PUSHED BY ‘Southern Press Forced THE BOSSES to Admit Failure oi Lynch Law Incitement Among Tallapoosa White Croppers WwW ho Negro Reformists Sut Terror as White and Mighty Protest Thr BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 23.—Clifford croppers Union at Notasulga, Tallahoosa County. he was surrounded by armed deputies. croppers wounded in Monday's battle when landlord-pol attacked the croppers and attempted to expropriate James cow. Following James’ arrest, one of the deputies, Elder, threatened all Negro croppers when the deputies return with the attachment James’ property. Defended Negroes port Landlord - Negro Toilers oughout Count Police R James, lo. James 4 was o' Alice Burke, wife of Donald Burke, scuthern organizer of the Inter~ national Labor Defense, was arreste d last night at a me protest in the home of a white worker at East Lake, Ala. Four policemen b in on the meeting with drawn guns. She is being held incom ado, All workers organizations and sympathizers are urged to rush protest telegrams to City Commissioner Jones of Birmingham, BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 23.—The Birmingham Post, in ¢ | leading editorial yesterday, was | the splendid solidarity of white and Negro eroppe back the first wave of the landlord-police terror in Talla Ala. The editorial is ra led ‘ County, in part: “The relatively small ex- tent to which race prejudice | factored impressed newspapermen most deeply, many farmers ground down by the same relentless eco- nomic pressure which Negro suf- fers expressed sympathy with the groes’ desperate plight.” after three days of sere headlines | , the Southern | s is foresd to admit both the omic background of the tremen. struggles taking place in Tall poosa County and the solidarity of the local white croppers with the Ne- | gro croppers who h2roieally defended | themselves against the armed attacks’ of the landlord-police lynch gangs. | Mass Protest Grows The mass protest against the ter- ror is growing throughout Birming- ham and the South. Many meetjngs of white and Negro workers are be- ing held in this and other cities. Negro and white organizations are responding to the call for militant protest against the murderous at- tacks on the Negro croppers and for the relsase of the arrested leaders | of the Sharecroppers Union. The In- | ternational Labor Defense has called | a protest mass meeting for Monday, | Jan. 2, at 2 pm, at Old Pythian | Hall, 1524% Second Avenue, North | hau lenceria ON PAGE 3) DEMAND VENUE CHANGE FOR NINE, LL.D. Attorneys Begin | Scottsboro Action MONTGOMERY, 4 Ala., Dec., 23—| Gen. George W. Chamlee and Irving Schwab, attorneys for the Interna- tional Labor Defense arrived in this city today to push the fight for a change of venue for the new trials of the Scottsboro boys, under the decision of Nov. 10, wrested by world- | wide mass protes; from the United | States Supreme Court. They will) also help in preparing the Sefense'| of the 12 leaders of the Share-crop- | pers Union arrested in the landlord- | police reign of terror in Tallapoosa | County. Defense Demands | Chamlee declared today that the} first step of the defense attorneys | will be to demand recognition by the | Siate of Alabama of the right| of the nine Scottsboro defend- ants to have a private conference with their lawyers. This right has been denied the boys in the past although the Alabama law provides for private conferences between at- torney and client. At previous con- ferences, Chamlee pointed out, the} warden of the prison insisted on be- ing present. The I. L. D. will also demand the immediate removal of eight of the boys from the death cells at Kilby Prison, where they have been held in viola.ion of cus- tomary practice, in an attempt to break their spirit and force them to turn over the defense to the N. A. A. C. P. leaders and other reformist agents of the lynch bosses. Seek Change of Venue The I, L. D. attorneys are seeking a change of venue to Birmingham, where there is a large Negro popu- lation and an increasingly class con~ scious white working-class. Judge Hawkins, who handed down the original lynch verdicts, has already set the date of the new trials for the March, 1933, term of his court. Get greetings from your friends and sympathetic organizations for the special Ninth Anniversary- Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker January 14. All greetings must be in by Jan. 3, | struggle | of the still growing c! | the expropriation a forced to take nizance 0 h bea s wh ‘No Race Riot” and st es TUL PROTESTS [ALABAMA ' TERROE Calls on "Workers tc Defend Negroes pro! police Trade signature, of general secr' Only the ganized of the white workers and farmers can to the murderous ex the Negro tenant farmers and share croppers now being carried thro in Tallapoosa County, Al: other szctions of the Sout white landlords and Attack On Living Standards This attack is part and parcel oO the attack no i y The ruling class dards of J in Tallapoosa Co It i lated attack. neup of tt boys, of the cou In this attack the r: | not alone on the whi bama but also upon the Hoover ident-elect Roosevelt which is solidly supported white southern ruling class. Res sibility for this attack also the shoulders of the socialist who Jim Crow the the South, upon the shoulders of the leaders of the American Federation of Labor who only at the recent ers from joining the union: Crowing them into ineffe arate federal locals. R for this attack also fa shoulders of th> the Republican De Pr supporters of Roosevelt and the so~ cialist Randolph, all of whom are preaching obedience to the rule of | the white masters White Farmers Rally to Support It is encouraging to note how the poor white farmers and farm labor- ers of the South are rallying to the support of the Negro farmers. Here is a development before which the white rulers will be compelled to re- treat. Here is a development which will unmask the Negro misleaders. But this support is still insufficient, The white workers and farmers the country over must take the lead in fighting for the rights of the Negro farmers, for the rights of all Negro toilers. We call upon the white workers to join hands with the Negro toilers everywhere to protest this murderous attack. To demand from the Gov. ernor of Alabama, from the local of+ ficials from Hoover and Roosevelt. that an immedia ‘op be put. to murder. We call upon the white workers to join in the actua! d2fense of their Negro brothers. We call upon unions of the TUUL, upon all workers organized in the A.F.L., the Railroad Brothers hoods,’ upon all white workers t@ adopt protest resolutions, to hold proe test meetings. Demand the immedle ate release of all arrested. Demand the punishment of the white murders ers. Demand gro farmers. D ef to starving Negro me et us not only stop this attack but develop a broad fight for the immediate needs and the rights of the Negro toilers, WM. Z. FOSTER, Gen. Sec*y, “ \ Trade Union Unity League | {