The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1933, Page 3

NEW YORK, MOND. | —_—a DAILY WORKER, AY, FEBRUARY 13, 1933 Page Three DETROIT AUTO MEET FEB. 19 TO LAUNCH FIGHT ON CUTS, FOR RELIEF AND INSURANCE |; How Negro Reformist Heads Aided Boss | Lynchers International ANTI-FASCIST FRONT GROWS IN GERMANY Stem Revolt HUGENBERG IN THREAT } WORKERS ¥.€ | | WORKER CORRESPONDENCE By ROBERT HAMILTON By ROBERT HAMILTON COLLAPSE OF POLISH AGRICULTURE WARSAW, Jan. 23. (By Mail The debate in the Sejm on agi cultural budget discloses, the catas- trophic state of farming in Po-| land, The Minister of Agriculture | stated that farm exports had sunk / enormously, butter exports having dropped 93 per cent and meat ex- | ports 87 per cent. Deputy Kalinowski told the Sejm that more than five million peasants had no land now. | ‘He said that the impoverishment of the rural masses had reached such | Hitler Bars the Rote & pass that there was absolutely no | hope of any improvement in Poland's | Fahne, for Fortnite | ‘ohh pa tat of living for many years 8] BERLIN, Feb, 12. — In its MORE CUTS AND LAY-OFFS FOR RAILROAD “VOLUNTARY” RELIEF CHANGES IN N. ON THE PENNA. R. R. FREIGHT ROUTES NEW YORK CITY.—There are * A rumors that we railroad workers on 111 Sylvania Railroad, which also takes in| the New York Central are going to the Long Island Railroad, we have | work 5 days a week next month, fith what is called The Pennsylvania other changes; Ike the West Shore | ment. This is to give us an “income, ‘ At eh - 65th St. freight will be divetred at Wien ay Dee Oe Bek eae ol West Shore and one of those stations | contributions, as they are called, run | in to five classes. The first class con- | ae piney feigabel camels ine. tributes 75 cents a month, for which eee : | the worker receives 50 cents a day | that belongs to the Railroad Train-| sick benefit. The only difference be- Mens Union and am going to find out | tween the first and the fifth class is| from him the general opinion among | | that the fifth pays $1.25 a month and Ha ay ES ree ee ae oe ae | gs A . | ve 1e Se a ve “Slovo,” organ of the Vilna land-| fight against the revolution. | °'¢ psa Alas iseagol uy aot | six days per week now—B. | owners, writes: “The present situa: | ary movement, which daily | tle of medicine. tion in agriculture recalls the worst rises to higher stages, the | Bat the beneft decent start untit | conditions in the Middle Ages.’ | Karshewski, one of Polands most | capitalist class of Germany, | #fter the 7th day. This is if a fellow) NEW YORK CITY.—On the Penn Rally Delegates from Every Plant in City and | from Unemployed Workers Auto Union Branch Calls Mobilization Meeting Feb. 18; Continue Exposure of Disrupters DETROIT, Feb. 12.—With the conference called by the Auto Workers Union for Sunday, Feb. 19, only a week off, efforts are being wade to have every plant in the c ity, as well as the tens of thousands of unemployed auto workers, send | delegates. The preparations for the conference are being car- ried on simultaneously with ef. _ —e — VETS AT TRIAL YELLOW DOG CONTRACTS | FACING N. Y. C. WORKERS | The Pittsburgh Courier, mouthpiece of the N. A. forts to strengthen the strike jeined the lynch bosses in branding the Scottsboro ALC. P. Jeaders, eminent agricultural expei'ts, has just | +)», j heey | had to stay home on account of sick~ t ys as rapists (see ©movement which, with the ‘fi pi ev pine ae >a bes dst) through ite.* ‘government Of | ness for six days and came to work DETROIT, Mich-oPresident a photograph of news story and caption on right). The Chicago De- Briggs and Hudson plants as the claring that the farm.ng situation National (fascist) concentra>|on the seventh, he would receive Pi, akties ine aga fender attempted to maintain the illusion that by sending troops to | focus has filled thousands of atito OF WEIN. 7 had become so critical (r... his nerves | tion” is resorting to w nothing. So he goes back to work ber | Mare Whey r dramatize the lynch incitement, the Alabama bosses were seeking to | workers with a new { orse | forms of terror. Its desperation is | Browing because its armed attacks EXPELLED COMMUNISTS JOINS | against individual workers are being SOCIALIST PARTY | beaten off and because masses of MADRID, Jan. 23, (By Mail), Workers are daily increasing the rey- Manuel Adama, expelled from the utionary anti-fascist front. Communist Party of Spain by the In- | Repudiate Socialist Leaders. unions last spring that he would be the union “from now on,” The union contract was broken and brotherhood | officials were forced to sign an anti- union contract doing away with pro- tective rules and wage and mileage agreements, which constituted a 20 per cent reduction for D. and H. rail- way workers. | | “guard” the boys. The Afro-American and the New York Amsterdam News presented the bosses’ version of the “rape” charges without com- ment, The latter \ ree papers have since supported the mass defense campaign initiated by the International Labor Defense. The Pitts- burgh Courier and the N. A. A. C. P. leade’s continue their traitorous role of assistant hangmen to the white ruling class, viciously attacking, not the lynchers, but the revolutionary Negro and white workers de- fending the boy a could no longer stand it. cause he can’t Hve on 50 cents a day. | Now J do know that there are cases | Where workers are hurt bad, when | they should really be getting compeny | sation, but instead they get their 50 | cents a day relief for which they pay jand are given to understand that that js their compensation. Jn some | and has won conc | the workers in Ford's. The Feb. 19 conference wiil work out plans for organizing the strug- gle for immediate relief, unemploy- ment insurance and against the wage concessio: plant ery Will Join With LL.D. in Fight for Worker W YORK.—Wearing their ser- members of the Workers’ ternational Control Commission for! ‘The social-fase 7] | cut drive of the auto kings on a | Ex-Servicemen’s League, of Post 35 counter-revolutionary machinations, | urged ie Wane Chatee Ron eo GUE caeiie nina bys ieee Lore ur “ae ae USE GIBS N TO | broader basis. The auto workers are ,and other Bronx posts, will mobiliz: i “plunged” jn a spectacular buy o! teday in the front ranks of the na- jin the Bronx County Court, Arthu: | has now joined the Spanish Socialist) Hindenburg in the presidential elec+ Party which received him with open} tions as the “lesser evil” to Hitler, arms of course. _ .,/ are using more demagogic phrases Bright little boy asks: “Why is it; to try to stem the tide of German | that ali Communist renegades take | sociaj-democratic workers who are | refuge in the Socialist Party all over! going over to the side of the Com- the world? You tell him. |munists, They are now talking against “reformism” and are saying SOVIET GLIDERS BREAK RECODS| there is no use trying to “cure capi- In a glider meet held in Koktobel, eens ee Guanes eivind Crimea, during which 662 flights were| unity of the workers in the fight made, Golovin and Pleskov, |against the capitalist dictatorship. young pilots of motorless planes, | i é teey broke the world record for duration) Husenberg Hails “Last Ek.-tion, flight in a glider with a passenger, Pr. Alfred Hugenberg, a m-riber staying in the air 10 hours and 56|°! the Hitler cabinet and leader of | minutes, or nearly four hours longer| the royalist National party, in a| than the best American performance. | Speech in the Sports Palast, boasted } Stepanchenok made 115 complete ‘hat no matter how the elections of loop-the-loops in succession, besides | March 5th come out the government flying upside down and doing barrel- | Will continue to rule through a dic- rolis. This is a new world record for| ‘atorship, regardless of the will of stunting in a motorless plane. | the German voters. The March elec= | Osoaviachim, the Society for air) ton, Hugenberg said, “will be the | and Chemical Defense, pians 100! !@st one. Slider schools with a total of 200,000 Bar “Rote Fahne”, glider planes by the end of 1933, Every, The official organ of the German | factory and collective farm is or-| Communist Party, Rote Fahne, hes | ganizing its own glider club, with the | been barred for a fortnight charged members building their own machines with printing subversive articles, urg- from standardized plans. ‘ing a general strike. Drop in Donations Endangers Life of ‘Daily’; All Districts Must Act NOW to Save Paper Colorado Sends First’Real Donation ; Most Other Districts at Low Level Fridays donations, $264.13, which is| R W Kroll 2 $130.27 less than what was received | Hotel and Restaurant Workers, FWIU 5.00 Thursday, marks a crucial point in| Gnit : section 6 ne the Daily Workers drive for funds. If greater sums do not come in EVERY SINGLE DAY, the “Daily” y Island Workers Club Side Workers Club 6 Committee, 2440 Bronx Park E. Unit 17, Section 2 2 will not be able to ward off the dan-| Finnish’ Workers Club, Staten 1 fe 235 | ger of suspension. Section 1 Workers School, Class in History of American Labor Alfred Bergens. Workers School Workers School, Class in Trade Union New York's contribution of $208.43, | only reveals how little the districts throughout the country are actually 1.36 | 1.00 doing: Only Callfornia, which con-| | Stratery and "Tacties, Mon, 7 p.m, 2.52| cributed $16.65, seems to be hitting| Vat 13 8, Section 2 $l its stride. Colorado, with $9.12, fin-| Anonymous 10-00) ally entered the ranking list with all| Collected by Unit 2, Section 1: the other districts, as previously it 1.908 Lai had contributed only ten cents, With | 7 are Levis | a quota of only $150, Colorado should | p Hatpern rena o | continue now by raising the complete | Marie May peat quota before any of the other dis- | feetlon 1 1.68) Unit 10, Section 1 50] tricts. by Unit 15, Section 1: More than at any other point of ein BO A Rafkii a the drive does the Daily need funds re by Unie gt Be Now! Canvass every section of your F Karvinx 1.00 F Kite ay rances: 05 J M Fisher no M Lask cy Guilty! Matiie iB ial Ke Collected by Unit 2, Section 1: Taiko 23 G Litaria 25 R 205 J. Shirbath 26 J Surovite 0 NN 08 3 Millan 25 S Lee 05 A Antonwics = 25 K Wang 10 R Dach 07 BW Chang 10 Collected by Unit 5, Section 1: Wolonti. Krocky 3 Wandele 10 Chonko F Chesnak 05 P Gyuk Jackalchuk 10 NN P ay 168 8 Shapka I Yacuk 20 P. Rusek P Beskkalo 10 Friend Mulykc 10 L Tabae I Halagy “10 § Freman 25 W Cibuisky 10 Tekan x as Br Michalchuk “30 Shents a3 Karol -10 1 Katzman 05 Wiurohar 10-5 Friedman 10} Nastasiveky 25 Friend 10 Schlicky 10 Gosdman F Jagodansky 10 © Helles Cot peed br ‘Unit 8, Section 4s 5 | Collected by Unit 10, Section 1: & A tre 1.00 E Train 05, Ceitecled by Unit Sh. Section 1: That's the charge of this dollars “Pmt “iss, ruled judge against the Daily | N Mormaluk 10 A Oslasrenko Worker. The “Daily” admits the Cayeien es way 1, Seetion 1: charge, proudly knowing it is guilty | Jy Bomomoletr 1.00 3" Krity of opening the eyes of the Ameri- |B Gito 35 M Kremer can workers, of leading them in | BM 4. ott Oriakin their struggles, and of continually | @ cym Oo aa eae pointing to the only way, the revo- Bokoes 10 Tarnicky lutionary way out of the capital’st ptioato by Unit 16, Section 1: crisis, "Si the paper that | Geverisman 03 Gurainik leads you in your struggles! 10 Kotrik fave” 0 Elenter city, town or neighborhood! Remem-| Craut “ho Kats ber that not a single meeting, lec- | Cvlleeted by Unit 19, Section 1: ture, debate or dance should take|y Rs? A place without having a comrade pres-| G@ Marganti 50 A Comrade ent to appeal for gy be to take pak 8 Ps A Villa, up a collection. Funds CAN be raised! | Bertant | 2 Its up to every worker, every organ-|N'shitimes aon’ Ner te” ization, to do so, And rush them in hee Mardorace 190 6 Droodett Immediately gy Collseted by Unit 18, Section te ‘Markel +35. Anonymous Total recetved Friday $264.18! A Friend 125 J Kish Previously received 5669.24 Sasma .25 Anonymous ‘Total revived to date FROST E Holman “28K Comrnd FRIDAY'S CONTRIBUTIONS: wopee RISTRICT § 30 P “Ajarehina! Wack Way Unit 1.00 +20 Anonymous Conteh Unit, Providence aon Conecies Li ‘ = i A’incon Total to agte sunt 2 G Tomes DISTRICT 2 iF $ Aledsrline 18! Nath Beach Shule 1 J Dermot 10! Hd Neckwear Worker 4 05 by Unit 14, Section 2: New Touth Club, Brookirn 10,95 4 Kronheart . {30 A Bozilich 25 May Motosic ey B Seder 1.00 J Sultech 23 MOS Zinrid 2S | it, you're on the job in full swing. S Moll ‘Anonymous | A Dleisteld 5 Anortymons R Powsner S Bleifeta worker is told to come into work, but he won't have to do anything. | He might have smashed toe or finger | so he thinks it would be better to come in and hang around and get | paid for it rather than stay home for} 50 cents a day, But once on the job, he soon finds out that he must keep moving; first they give him some letters to take around; then he goes to the store room; then the boss gets short+ handed and asks the worker for a favor to help him out, but not to Strain himself, and before you know Then there are workers who de- mand compensation or threaten to sue. Most compensation cases are | thrown out because you have to prove the material you are working with is not to be used in interstate com- merce. With these workers the com- pany makes some small cash settle- ment. BUT after a few weeks fault | is found with them and they are fired. Se much for voluntary relief. | For a long time the Pennsylvania | Rail Read Systems carried approxi. | mately 250,000 employes on its “relief” | scheme, at one dollar a month for each worker. That would be one quarter of @ million dollars. In ad- dition to this the company squeezed an additional half million out of its workers for the Ladies Aid, I often wonder what becomes of all these millions of dollars that are so nicely squeezed out of the workers through this so-called “Voluntary Relief,” Ladjes’ Aid and other schemes. And why do they calf it “voluntary” when every R.R. worker knows that the first thing they give us to sign before we get hired ts this volun‘ary relief. —AB, P Zuri x] U Zelowich 25 35 S Mikulin 25 25 ¥ Dyanich 25 30 W Zuri: 25 Lehman 20 Collected by Unit 10, Section 2: G Hardy 05 © Lane J Marbower 2 LMF 2 L Laiffer 10 L Muller 25 Collected by Unit 16, Section 2: Sherner 3.00 ¥ Hertks M Olson 2.00 Anonymous Sol Tadios 20 Collected by Unit 8, Section 2: A Friend 1.00 © Appleton 1.00 Collected by Unit 2, Section > A Friend Collected by Unit 13, Section +: 8S Sehaeter 1.50 M Klein A. Solodor “10 E Heronris rw 35 G Tates Collected by Unit 7, Section M Spector 50 TL Weintraub Sam Buchman 25M Bleifeld Collected by Unit 7. Seetion t: M. Hand 50 Collected by Unit 6, Seetion 2: N Huntee: “5K M Collected F I by Unit 3, Section ny 10 A Sharret 10 A Roberts iner 10 © Norman z, Collected by Unit 11, Section 5: D Windman 10 W Smith 25 N Meisel +10 J Smith 2B 110 Anonymous 35 110%. Bosekofsky = 10 25 L Aronoft Bt 23 KH Fintand 5 10 8 Schwarte 95 15 J Harris 10 +10 Milton Berle 10 110 M Glantyman 10 :5 A Bernard 25 15 10 J Olshine 10 Collected by Unit L Filowitz 0 L Winstone 1.00 Collected by Unit 10, Section 5: R Gresvert 25 A Gertie BS L Emmert 50 W Boch 50 A Boch . Collected by Unit 10. Section St i G Svanott HOP Borowitr Bi Anonymous 25 B Akermann Bld 26 BR Attermann 18 -10 Sanshine Mildred .05 25 Sehnitaler Lead “10 Harry Singer 25 M Gladstone “23 A Jaffe 10 Anonymous | Fs ul 25 J Abramson 350 19 Anonymous 0 A Ral 05 Bl) 310 10 wo 1.00 Bt a) 0 Collected by Unit 2% Section Br Rosenberg. -s * i 28 in 28 Hellerstein 25 Lebow 135 Silberstein 25. Anon 38 | Anan 25 Polinek Collected by Unit 20, Section 5: M Friedman oO FS Anta J Kustam 10-3 Gaiman t New York Central railway stock. During the depression he has been sitting pretty with a $23,000,000 profit he made by “milking” the Wabash Railway, and now he is “betting” on | New York Central. He “is confident the New York Central will be a pay- ing proposition.” Of course it will, because Loree knows his stock speculation and Wwage-cutting arithmetic. With con- trol of the New York Central and his same_anti-union contracts for the New York Central workers, it is ob- vious that for a few months this stock | gamble will be a good bet for this super-gambler. Schaaf in Dying State After Carnera Bout NEW YORK—Ernie Schaaf, heavy- weight boxer, who hit the canvas hard when Primo Carnera, giant Italian fighter, socked him on the head in the 13th round of their bout at Madison Square Garden Friday night, is repotted to be in a dying! condition in the Polyclinic Hospital. Cayrnera, who is managed by an underworld ying, is notorious for the number of fake fights he has staged in order to build up a reputation for himself. Jt ig probable that some- thing went wrong in his bout with Schaaf and he inadvertently hit him a blow which may cost Schaaf his life. J Weody 2w DP 05 L De -15 E Steiner 3, Anon: 25 M Guttman 18 L ‘Tron 2 Collected by Unit 25, Section 5: a is 2.00 Collected by Unit 8, Section 5: JD Masso 1.00 Ai 1 1g | written to a sweetheart, Earl Street- man, with the obvious purpose of | clearing herself in his eyes of the | imputations of her court testimony. 1 a 35) 10 LJ Simmonds — .05 AA Drieband — .05 Collected by Blanche Bedler, Whrs, School S Perlowiti 10 A Wirk A Belt Grace Badler 1 B Badler a 0 05 23 B Pelowits 10 Ben Israli r 05 ankt rkers School: M MeAdam 1.00 tert 1.00 Collagted by R Darfus, Wor jebool: Com. Ostow 25 FE Diekman 05 5 Blumenkrant 45S Malteer J Bushwick 25 ¥ Newman 25 8 Krokin 25 Margotis 26 L Garland 2s Collected by S. Leone, Workers Seboo!: R Fagnotte 25 J Leone 4 G Zucchero 25 8 Leone 30 J Leone 25 Collected by O bP? eal ‘Workers Sehoo}: Mary Mann y —— a “plewart 25 «(TOTAL $206.43 M Shaw 3,00 THY te date $3667.99 Anonymous — | 1.00 DISTRICT 3 R. Florman 1.00 W. Sehymant- LS, and A. 8. 5.00 sky, party 10.25 C. Berry i ——— House party at TH, to date $238.37 Stone's house 5.15 DISTRICT 5 — Alfred Kish 89 = Totat $16.65 —_— TH, to date $97.83 ‘Total to date $48.20 DISTRICT 14 DISTRICT 6 G. Chaikin 2.00 Geseap James "08TH, fo date 805.05 tag James to ry . — DISTRICT 15 Tota $1.53 Ann Chess Tt, to dete $158.56 — DISTRICT 7 ‘Ttl, to date $64.63 Section M 2.98 DISTRICT 18 Bourgeois sym- Jim Neilson 2.00 iner 00 alte wie Rt Gee Totay $3.25 DISTRICT 19 Til, fo aate $226.88 Unemployed Coon- DISTRICT & oll Abe Glasy 4.00 Collected by IM. 77 ¥, Pearson 1.00 Downtown Unit, ¥red Stanley 110 collection F. Miller 1.00 Collected by eten ——~ ——dDeelirjch 3.00 Tota 3.10 mae TIRTINCE Ve Fetal to date fa2 i sw x y, 3 Warne ee) w. 0. Hage te Branch 150 4.00 4 Yriene 4 THl to date $605.04 ‘Worker POLISH |.L.D. BRANCH GIVES $5 TOLEDO, ©.-— The Polish branch No, 1 of the International Labor De- fense has contributed $5 to the fund ‘to save the Daily Worker, | PATERSON, N. J. ] CELEBRATION & DANCE Saturday, Feb. 18th New Worker Center 222 Paterson Strect Admission 30 Cents 35 in whipping up the ‘STAR WITNESS SAYS SHE LIED The Scottsboro Boys Still Facing Death (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) y in their long, stern fight to force the police to produce this evidence in court. The letter was ordered produced and impounded by Judge J. P. McCoy in { eral George W. Chamlee and Irving Schwab, two of the I. L. D, attorneys | realizing the effect of its publication on the already furious indignation of the toili.g masses, attempted to block the efforts of the I. L. D. attorneys to secure photosthat copies of the | letter. Secured Jan. 31 An order for delivery of photosphat copies of the letter to the I. L. D. attorneys was secured on Jan. 31. The order was procured in the course of a hearing on a writ ol habeas corpus to secure the release on bail of 14-year Roy Wright whose original hearing resulted in a mis- trial. Roy Wright has been held in Birmingham County ail for nearly two years, the State refusing either to release him or bring him to trial The writ was denied. Cops Forced Fake Testimony The letter, categorically denying practically every point in the fabric of lies erected by the prosecution, and charging the police with forcing her | that the boys did not touch either the writer.or the white boys on the same freight train. The latter was What Happened at Paint Rock | The Scottsboro boys were taken off | freight train at Paint Rock, A jon March 25, 1931 by a sheri! | posse. They were unemployed and | were traveling to Memphis in search | of work. The first charge against | them was of fighting with and whip- | ping a group of white youths travel- ling on the same train. The lynch bosses consider it a crime for Negroes to defend themselves. this case gs | the crime was all the more “heinous whipped the subsequently because the Negroes | white group, It was al:| shown that while a fight did occur on the train it was between the white | youths and another group of Ne- groes, and that none of the Scotts- 25| boro boys were involved. The Negro youths involved in the fight had dropped off the train before it | reached Paint Rock. Frame-up Starts The charges were changed to “rape” when it was discovered that two of the group of “white boys” were | girls dressed in overalls. The auth- |a nice lynch frame-up and the op: portunity to throw nine charred, t tured bodies of Negro children into | warning to quietly accept the growing | oppression and starvation. ‘Trial of | the boys was deliberately set for “horse-swapping” day in the little | town of Scottsboro. The boys were rushed to trial without being given any opportunity to communicate ——| with their families or to arrange de- | fense. Thousands of people poured |inte the town from the backwurd hill sections and adjoin ates. The locel newspaper, the Jackson County Sentinel and the mill bosses joined proper lynch Cheap booze was passed out | spirit. freely. The mill bosses furnished a | brass band which hailed the first lynch verdicts with the strains of “Happy Days Are Again.” The mi- litig was called out, ostensibly to “protect” the boys, but in reality to further dramatize the lynch sprit. Inside of 72 hours, lynch verdicts were handed out to eight of the nine boys. In the case of the ninth boy, Roy Wright, there was a mistrial. I. L. D. Enters Case The International Labor Defense, backed by the toiling white and Negro masses, entered the cases. The lynch verdicts were appealed. The Ala- bama Supreme Court upheld the lynch verdicts against seven of the boys but was forced to reverse the verdict against Eugene Williams. Chief Justice Anderson, in a dis- boys hed not had a fair trial. The thunder -f mass protests against the lyneh verdicts forced the U. S. Su- preme Court to review the sentences, follwing the filing of an appeal by the I. L. D. attorneys. The U. S. Su- preme Court ordered new trials for the boys, but sent them back to the court which had originally carried through the frame-up. The U. S Birmingham, Ala., on motion of Gen- | jin the case. The court, however, | to give false testimony, states Clearly | | orities at once sensed the makings of | the face of the Negro masses as a} senting statement, admitted that the | CUT ENGINEERS Proposal to Put 2,000 On Relief Wages Only NEW YORK.—Two thousand en- sineers that have been laid off by | the city in the department of edu- cation, transportation, ete. since last summer have been told to go to the Gibson Committee where they are offered their old jobs for less than ; One fourth of what they got before, Their former wages were $40 to $80, now they are offered $24 for two weeks’ work, Those who suffered from these lay- offs have held a conference where they decided to demand reinstate- ment on the old wage. The United committee of Jaod-off men of the | Union of Technical Men and the Unemployed College Alliance of which Alex Kora] is chairman and a former engineer of the Board of Education, plan to hold a mass meet- ing February 24. A committee has been organized to visit the Gibson officials and de- mand the right to examine their books in order to find out which of the engineers have thus had. wages slashed. Specific Cases At a conference held at 189 Monia- gue St. Brooklyn, Saturday, dele- gates of many city departments were present and reported the extent of lay-offs in their departments. and the number that have been re-em- ployed in their former position as “emergency” workers at a fraction of their regular pay—from $12.50 to $25 in place of $3,120 or $3,600 per year, after many years of faithful service in the city work. Alexander Koral, chairman of the committee, reoorted: “We made our protest to the Emergency Work Re- lief Bureaus last week and Mr. Ray- mond Houston, as: the E.W.B. tried to deny these facts with irrelevant statements. “We have the reports from techni- cal workers of city departments that in the office of the Borough Presi- dent of Queens (Engineering De- partment) about 400 technicians were ant chairmen of | | tion-wide fight against wage-cuts. | While total wages have dropped, ac- | cording to official figures, from § | 058,000,000 in 1928 to $28,232,000,000 {in 1932, dividends and interest have | risen from $6,028,000,000 in 1928 to $7,000,000,000 in 1932. The auto in- dustry has been one of the centers of the wage-cut drive since the crisis started, while the bosses, despite greatly decreased production, have continued to reap a harvest. The conference next Sunday will also make preparations for the De- troit Hunger March on March 4, the day of Roosevelt's inauguration, and for the Ford Hunger March on Mar. j7, the anniversary of the massacre last year at the Ford Dearborn plant, in which four workers were murdered. A preliminary mobilization meet- 6:30 p. m. by the Marquette Branch and Mitchell Ave. All auto workers, whether members of the union or not, are urged to come. The Auto Workers Union !s con- finuing to expose the strikebreaking role of the disrupters who have got- ten control of the Mack Ave. Briggs strike committee. These are work- ing hand in glove with the police, | Mayor Murphy's “fact-finding com- mittee”, the capitalist press and the misleaders of the Detroit Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party and I. W. W. A particularly vicious role is being played by Frank X. Martel and his gang of A. F. of L. betrayers, who ate now talking about organizing a Jers, a union that will undoubtedly be a willing tool of the bosses. laid off and already 100 men were hired from the E.W.B. for the same work. Among this 100 are many who were discharged by the city since last March. Similar instances are to be found in the Board of Education, Board of Water Supply, and in the Borough President of Manhattan | regular periodic engine: ig services are being performed by E.W.B. men jin violation of Civil Service rm 5 | Representatives of t iaid-off | brarians report the substitution | the regulars in the New York Pu libraries by ‘emergency’ librarian ing will be held Saturday, Feb. 18, at | 1 of the Auto Workers Union at the | Ukrainian Workers Home, Carpenter | new “industrial union” of auto work- | and Freemont Ave., on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 9:45 a.m. to demonstrate for the release of Sam Weinstein, whose tria! arges of assault and man- slaughter will start at that time. Joseph R. Brodsky, chief counsei of the International Labor Defense; will defend Weinstein. Cited for Bravery Weinstein, who enlisted in the Ams erican army during the world war, | Saw action in numerous major bat- tles and received a citation for bra | very, including the Conspicious Ser-= | vice Cross. | The capitalist class which was willz ing to saerifi Weinstein and all | wor! in its war for profit is now |anxious to send Weinstein to a liv- |ing death in prison because he en- |dangered the bosses’ profits by his militant participation last summer in @ strike of furniture workers in this city against wage-cuts and speed-up program of the employers. Weinstein is charged with the mur- der of a woman who was fatally in- jured on July 19th of last year in front of 1482 Southern Blvd., Bronx, although witnesses have testified thai at the time the murder was com- mitted they saw Weinstein picket- ing the shop of the Muskin Manu- facturing Co., Throop Ave., Brooklyn, about one hour's ride by subway from the scene of the mur- der, Harry Frashker, a member of the |Muskin Company, who had threat- ened Weinstein with violence be cause .of. his participation in tl strike against that firm, “identified” Weinstein as the one who “had murs dered the woman.” | Making no attempt to find the real murderer, the corrupt Tammany | lice jailed Weinstein and held him | incommunicado for 24 hours. His re- | lease on bail was forced by the N. ¥. District, International Labor Defense: Be at Court Room! The Weinstein Defense Committee and the New York District Inter- national Labor Defense issued a spe- cial appeal to all workers of New York City, especially war veterans to be in the Bronx County Court Tues- day, 9:45 a. m. to demonstrate tor Weinstein and to help this worker framed for his loyalty to the working class in his fight for freedom. LLD. Builds Mass United Front Conferences for Scottsboro Boys ation-Wide Demonstrations on Paris Commune Day March 18th; February 25, 26 Tag Days NEW YORK.—Urgent directives for intensifying the mass fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, in preparation for the trials sched-| uled for March, have been sent by he International Labor Defense to ts 18 districts and hundreds of branches. The directives call on the I. L. D. districts and branches to give the fullest support to the Scottsboro United Front Conferences, called in many cities by Provisional Commit- tees’ of Negro and white delegates from many mass organizations, Broad Defense Committees. In many cities, the broadest de- Tense committees are being organized, linking up the Scottsboro ease with local struggles, and with the defense ef Angelo Herndon, the Atlante Six, Tom Mooney and the Tampa Prison- ers Special mectings are called for in every city, to bring forward the pressing problem of broadening ovt the mass defense, drawing in al) ele-| ments willing to fight for the frec- | Supreme Court decision carefully points out to the Alabama, bosses their | “mistakes” in the original trials, and | broadly hints on how to “legally” | carry out the legal lynching. Despite the order for new trials, eight of the boys are still held in the death cells in Kilby Prison, Mont- gomery, 1 violation even of the bosses laws. Despite the collapse of the frame-up evidence, the lynch bosses aro still attempting to carry through this hideous crime against the working-class and the Negro people. Only the mass fight of white and Negro workers and all sincere elements can effect the freedom of the boys. The mass fight must now be intensified an hundred-fold. Build United Front Scottsboro fense Committees! Hold den ons! Demand immediate and unconditions! release of the Scottsboro boys! Rush funds to the International Labor De- fense, 80 East 11th Street, New York City, to help push the legal and mass fight for the Scottsboro boys. | dom of the Scottsboro boys. | Feb, 25, 26 Tag Days. Funds must be raised immediately for the successful carrying out of the legal and mass defense. National Tag Days will be held Feb. 25 and Education outlines have been si out, giving the history of the Scoi boro frame-up and the world ; Mass defense to free these innocent | victims of capitalist justice. March 18 Actions. The directives call for the organ-! izing of local mass demonstrations and for nation-wide demonstrations on March 18, Paris Commune Day, to carry forward the ht for the freedom of the boys. The Scottsboro issye will also be brought to the fore on Internationa! Unemployed Day, March 4; International Women's Day, Mareh 8, and Marx's Anniver- sary, March 14. . Conferences Arranged. United Front Scottsboro Confer- » | ister: ences already have been arranged in the following cities: Boston Mass. — Scottsboro-Mooney Defense Conference Feb. 19 at 2 p.m. 2 Central Square, Cambridge. The rene? is endorsed by scores of and mass organizations and promine labor leaders, min- educators, law and writers, organizations already id the conference real mass confer- Many elected delegates ¢ | promises to be a Buf Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m., at 476 William St. Philadelphia, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m,, at Whittier Hall, 140 N. 15th St. Newark, Aprii 9, place to be ans nounced later. Norfo’ March 10, place te be announced later. In New York City, a provisional committee composed of representa tives from a number of organiga= tions is meeting tonight in’ Harlem {to prepare a call for a conferenee, UNLESS YOU RESPOND Amount....... NAME... .sovrvccseve | Address. 5). ccsseeces WORKER'S CALL FOR HELP! DANGER! AT ONCE TO THE DAILY USE THIS BLANK: Soke, MEE Ses Rush all funds to the Daily Worker, 50 BE. 15th St., New York Otty,