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DAILY WORKER, NEW Y Hh | | | RK, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1933 Page Three 237 DELEGATES AT NORTH DAKOTA FARM 'RELIEF MEET ADOPT PROGRAM OF ACTION NEGRO REFORMISTS SABOTAGES THE UNITED FRONT IN CARLOCK CASE WORKER CORRESPONDENCE INCREASING MISERY FROM STAGGER SYSTEM | UNEMPLOYED PAINTERS | ORGANIZE FOR RELIEF ane : : | CAN'T WORK FULL EIGHT. Repeat Fake Excuse of Memphis Cops That Lad Was Killed While | Hours UNDER SPEED-UP | Fleeing Arrest | SALAMANCA, N. ¥.—The workers| } in the United States Leather Co. re-| } MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 6.—With organization of local mass pressure behind the de- | ceive four cents an hour. The le | nands of the International Labor Defense for death penalties for the six uniformed lynch- | tem of work thete is that each w vesent Demands to State Legislature; Send Solitary Cable to German Masses, Committee of 41 to Build Broad United Front cr ome and BISMARCK, N. D., March 6.—Two hundredand thirty-seven farmers, representing thov- sands more from over 25 counties, at a three-day state relief conference here, drew up a fighting program of action, marched to the Senate and House of the Legislature and there presented their demands. . Tost repr er receives a certain amount of work ers of Levon Carlock going ahead rapidly, the National Association for the Advancement of |i¢ he works on a machine, he i Colored People misleaders are organizing their forces to smash the move for a mass move- ee r. They con- supposed to finish 90 hides the mini- heir misfortune from oe ‘ : Soo Kill : mum. If not, he must work overtime idualistic point of ; te dina * Aj farmers drone on coed iaetn ? ment to see that this is the last of the series of bratal police killings of Negroes in Memphis. | without pay,’ because the company, probably were never told that their The conference elected a state Committee of acter : ne ifcrcenct gp | Disregarding the enthusi-» us - management demands that 4 hours; misery and sufferings the re-| rally still broader support fo tions of the social conditions der which they live, and, when t go and ask for relief, they do it the impression that when they ceive it, it is out of kindness. He unaware of the struggle which is c ried on by the wor , Which forces | the capitalis relief under, is the time limit for working out 90 the demands in order to foreé the state legislature to grant 1em The astic reception given by a mass neeting attended by 700, Sun- day, to the International Labor De- fense call for election of united front delegates, the N.A.A.C.P. leadership forced through a decision to put off action until the Friday membership MANY REGIONAL FARM MEETS IN U.S. S. R. PREPARE SPRING SOWING 800 Workers of Power Dam Go to Collective The workers quarrel with each ‘ other, blaming each other for not be- ing able to earn something, and the bosses with their foremen have their speed-up men to exploit the workers. The speed-up is unbearable. Wages farmer delegate: of solidarity greetings to the man workers and farmers in their ; Ae art ce ‘pels Neely tne teas eis against the fascist dictator meeting, the same decision which were cut here per cent. here pressure e muCR | a . cae was arrived at, at a previous secret Tumors that very soon the company} threatens to overthrow capitalism Farms to Aid Drive Adopt Demands y meeting of their executive boar, will announce another wage cut. proc eevabt aly swore government, te merce eae eae Pe “Our information is tho: he was In the furniture factories they pay| They don’t realize the necessity of | SCOW, USSR. (By Radio-, penetrate. The class enemy wat gap A phe aa tiers ae fleeing arrest,” M. told the 22 cents an hour and are working 4) 0reanization. because they claim that |,.m) "Numerous regional confer-|a struggle for reducing the area sow peg nite ponte ae cs ok meeting, disregarding _ affidavits ‘hours a day, and only about a third|they can hardly bear their OWN Cnoes “of the collective farm shock|and lowering the yield is which prove that the i iling was 2 of the workers are employed. troubles __ | workers are now taking place, follow- Prepare Spring Sowing wanton murder, and photographic In the wool mill mostly women and Unemployed Committee of the | ing the historic All-Union Collective} Local conferences were also held in) ‘0! ic 7 evidence that Carlock was shot in the young boys 16 years old are em- Painters, Decorators and | Farm Congress in Moscow. the Moscow n, Dniepro-Pe : me eat temple from the front. ' ployed. Their wages are very low, ers Union w 1 the! The Conference in Northern Cau-|region in 1 See oe ; Daisy E, Lampkin, national N. from 3 to 5 dollars a week, 5 1-2 days s to come and r their | casus showed a high spirit of Bolshe- | throughou a news sone aoe i ntative, who has consist- a week, 8 hours a day. They wo ces with the committee, which | vist determination to carry out the} mobilization e ip haseustihushatt tas nor! sed to take any action in mostly piece work, orks in conjunction with the local) decisions of the Moscow Congress,|success of the the defeat of all legislatior the case, tried, after the meeting to |. There is a contractor building a} Unemployed Councils. making good the shortcomings of last |the early liquidation of to raise farm prices _ th persuade Mr. Eula May Carlock, wid- | bridge for the Railroad Co. The} Painters, you must realize that|year, carrying out the full program |in management of the e of the consumers; hey efeat ow of the murdered man, that she ‘contractor employs 40 men, paying} your destitution and misery are not|for the spring sowing and weeding/well as ruthless strugg on based on the “sur- plus production” theory ment of legislation supply them 30 cents an hour. There isn’t a worker that could complete his 8 the enact- ng produc- confined to individuals alone, but in- cludes all the workers. That is one; out the remnants of kulak (rich|kulak disrupters should turn over the case to the or-| Sec | | farmer) counter-revolutionists. | Eight hundred workers at Dniepro- ganization, “It's too bad you allowed yourself hours work. The cursed slave driv-| reason why you should organize.| Addressing this conference, Kali-|stroy Power Dam volunteered to go} tion credit to all farmers to ogkad wp WER tye de ers are paying off workers every) Alone you cannot act and this fear| nin said: “To work like you did last|to the collective farms to help Calls for Song Rae ye, Aptuanee top eres Os Let te three hours. Workers are hired every|that prevails in your heart is the|year, will not do. The past year|things ready for the spring sow | demiaside. wera cea she told her, “We could have done} { hour. Only those who bribe the| mightiest weapon in the hands of| showed that the majority of collec-|One hundred of the ; n of the dele so much, Lenin and his wife, Krupskaya, with workers’ children | foremen can remain working 2 or 3} the capitalist. All your suffer-| tive farms are sound, strong estab-| (shock-workers) were gation, a dirt farmer from the Rec All Faith in I. L. D. ; | hours, jings and misery should spur you to/lishments. But, among the collec-j among the volunteers. This is t River Valley, rose and said: “'Thoug’ “Lam putting all my faith in the — Eaeamepnnemmnaeel fight for better conditions. tive members there are still plenty|of the tie which exists betwe some of you Senators were attentiv: I. L. D.,,”" Mrs, Carlock told her, “and| git | NEWSDEALERS HAVE Organize a BUODE: See of loafers. In sibel collective ERED | NOIRE and peasants throughout the| Giners closed their eyes and went t I will do what they say, If the police} 2 | committee to fight with you, and/kulaks, white guardists managed to! Sovict Union. sleer refore th hill me too hate olen, wwe Soviet Power and the Position’ NY OV MBAS TEM iy] oer ete al ane oe tunes sleep, 1, therefore call upon th ter than this.” NEW YORK CITY.—At no time is for relief are available there is no song ‘Solidarity, to wake up thos * ‘The N.A.A.O.P. has consistently re- the work of a newsdealer pleasant.|reason why you shouldn't get it, and ALBANY MEET > n ing.” the farmers burst int who are slee With a roa HATHAWAY AT Ist the only w. y to get it is to organize and demand it. fused to move in the case, and affi- davits of eye witnesses to the mur-| You have to stand through the cold |and snow, you have to work in the of Women der and of other witnesses were se- Excerpts from an article by Lenin in the “Working Woman's Page” By Y. I. LENIN be any real freedom, as long as the | | rain. their song. at the end No Senators were aslee! Build a strong Unemployed Com- SCORES ENEMIES ALBANY SESSION ince Is the state and will work in co aun 7 : “ ‘as The wages of printers have been| mittee of the Alteration Painters, ena e pies Te pre neg ila ey es Ba Dearie of the Pravda, November 7, 1919. Gal, The wanes ce calierers arcs | Decorators and Paper Hangers Union sul ae | = pe ee tee ee Action eel tive, many workers in the audience| #95 cites How. hes the, mewaboys | 0h Gyeaier New Fork Purpose Is to Unite Social Insur: pletely exposed, and to offer their Legal lynchings here are continu- Soviet Power compels us to make ents accuse us of breaking the rules During these two years the So- of this all, the price for the evening will cut the profits on the evening Whether Negro or white, whether} t in to say that keiths ' sell their papers the night before at “are . operation with farmers and worker the ae é HE secon iver: \f workers and toiling peasants are |2 cents, the sales decrease. On top, you belong to the A. F. of L. or the i ¥ [the NAACP. tactics were com- eoond “Antiiversary of the | eerie fram the gokte OF capitaiises,| 2p erate tes, ese p F. of L. or the Toilers, Not Split Them he country Alteration Painters’ get of other parts of t Greatest Need Now | , r " y by aniz ‘i % ere U complete support to the program put] ® general survey and evaluation of | landores and merchants, as lend | papers is also going up. It does not together, Only by organizing Will) 4) nay, w. ¥, March 6—At the| ALBANY, N March 6—The| Farmers Pack Arizona Senate ard. the importance and aims of the ac- 7 {mean that the day papers will re- ees . first sessi {f the Workers’ Confer-| Workers’ Conference closed its first} PHOENIX, Ariz. (By Mail).—Unt- ', complished revolution. privileges legally for the benefit | main stationary. It only means that} Unemployed Committee of the Al-j first session of the Workers’ Confer day’s session last night before an Soe Wane HIanS he oe Lynchings and Hunger. The bourgeoisie and its adher- | Of men..... they are using strategy. First they|teration Painters, Bronx Local 1. |ence the delegates listened to a re-|< 5)" 5. a BE tate HIGH ores ne b h applauding throng, swe VICTOR HALPERIN, lery of the Arizona Senate as Sal port by Carl Winters of the Unem- : enthusiasm by the stirring! River : ously carried on side by side with the| of democracy, while we assert that | viet Union, which was the most |papers, and, when the objection dies Chairman. {ployed Councils and a speech by Peeahieh oO; A. athe Saag ing pee aga. nod the Philing one police murders of Negro workers, and| the revolution gave an unheard of | backward country in all Europe, |out, they will cut the profits on the A. Hathaway of the Communist] in the name of the Communist Party.|giertionney seal. motets trtoan: the I. L. D. is building up a united| impetus to the development in all | did more for the liberation of wom- | morning papers also. is 65 cents. Party, Hathaway was received by the forcolooure moratorium bil front of struggle against both forms.! directions of democracy for the | en, for her equality with the | Before, the price for the evening] The vw: ges went down, the prices) ‘The first speaker in the discussion} delegates standing and applauding, ‘The farmers demanded that relief The Memphis wave of teror comes} toiling oppressed masses—conse- | “stronger” sex, than all the ad- | papers was $2 a hundred, then it was|went down. Why don’t they reduce|after Winters’ report was the Love-|when he walked on to the stage, and be given to the farmers, who are los av a time when hundreds of Negroes) quently a socialistic democracy (for | vanced, enlightened “democratic” | ratsed to $2.15 and $2.25, now it is|the price of the newspapers? The|stoneite, Herman. Herman's main}even before he was introduced by ing their homes by the thousanc and whites are being summarily cut} the workers), in distinction to a | republics in the world put together | raised to $2.35, with old copies re-|irusts which control the newspapers] argument was that the Socialist lead-{Sam Weissman, yesterday clecte daily. The galleries were packed witi off the relief lists, and when wages| democracy (for the rich, exploiters | have cone in the period of 130 |turnable. So that now if one is lucky | get the profits. The workers get the]ers should have been in the confer-| chairman of the confer: F.C: proximately 500 farmers, and man for R. F. C, road work have been| and capitalists.) years, enough to sell a hundred all he gets | wage-cuts. ence and were not because of failure}delegate of the Shoe and Leather) yore in the halls of the capito drastically cut so as to give workers Who is right; eae ig of the leaders of the conference, ali} Workers’ Industrial Union, woman building with families but $8 a month, and 'ULTURE, civilization, freedom,— of whom he labelled Communist, to| worker, was yesterday elected-secre- during an unprecedented rush upon all the banks in Memphis, with mil- lions of dollars being drawn from safety deposit accounts. START ON NEGRO To consider this question tho- roughly, to get a clear understand- ing—means to take into account the experience of these two years and.to, develop this further. The position of women. shows clearly the difference between bourgeois and socialistic democra- cies and offers a straight answer all those pompous words are connected in all the capitalist, bourgeois republics of the world with the most base, disgustingly filthy, beastly laws for. women’s inequality, laws f6r xnatrimonial rights and divorce, for the inequal- ity of children born out of wedlock of $376.46 from the Districts Continue to Lag as Bank Crisis Increases Danger 50 Only a long-delayed contribution International properly invite the Socialists. Hatha- way showed that they were invited, the general call of the conference having been sent to the state com~- mittee of the Socialist Party along ‘with all other ‘organizations. But the Socialist leaders did not come be~ cause they are on record (Hathaway tary of the conference. Burning Need for Insurance, Hathaway began by pointing to the burning need today for social insw ance, of which unemployment insur-~ | ance is the most important “But in social insurance A.F.L. MEMBERS FOR INSURANCE in “ ” - | Workers’ Order enabled Saturday's 2.00 read from the New Leader of Feb. 18) | broadest aspect,” said Hathaway, “is) New YORK—Organization of a FILM THIS VE AR to the above question. hee Toe rot een tna mueigoee total inthe Daily Worker $35,000 ka cmtor gti in favor of the Byrne fake insurance | 2M issue on which all workers, native | number of A. F. of L. locals in At | x ‘In a bourgeois republic, (where | insuiting laws for women. drive to hit the sum of $660.03. New] H. Fenster icy bill. and tage Bera, eee ar ee lantic City into the A..F. of L. Trad 1% as ie RO ‘The yoke of capitalism, the op- | York raised $168.63 of this total, the | ai, Berkowitz Total 00] “We'll meet the Socialist leaders in] 2. vtg od unemployed, con be | UmOR Committee for Unemployaien By ALAN McKENZIE most democratic republic, nowhere | Pression resulting from “‘seered ey in wane ps OT aaeors ae ‘TH to date soon7s the capitol, and they will be there On| united for struggle, and we must reduced nape bon ee (Member “Black and White” Group) | in the world have women acquired | Private ownership” despotism of | (ga¢02), Boston ($2485) and. Pitts- | Venera eT | yey Tammany,” said Hath: | cary forward this struggle, to mass| ters jocated at Roum 296, 760 Breed~ MOSCOW, March 6 (By Radio-| complete equality with men. And | Petti-bourgeois stupidity, narrow- | burgh ($23.77), were the only other | Mima an) ae teruae preesine ae jefites strikes, leading finally to the general) way. gramn).—In @ special interview with| that in spite of the fact that more | Minded greediness—all these fac- | aistricts that raised over $20 for the| 1. Malinom Total 31.00 : f strike. the directors of the Meschrabpomfilm organization regarding than half a century has passed since the great French (bourgeois- tors stand in the way of removing or even of attempting to encroach day. With The exception of Clev jand and Detroit, none of the other Louis Weinstock, national secretar: of the Committee, addressed dele- here will also propose, a united front with Tammany, that he is acting as ian Malinow Tannenbaum This point he drove home at the end of his report, amidst the — again TH to date $253.70 “ “4 ' ee » - 2 bona fide A. F. of L. loca ‘Black and upon those filthy, beastly laws. istri ; B, Takal 30 the agent of Tammany.” (Great ap-| or trusias, f the delegates: ‘The| gates of - e White,” the film of the Mfe of the pe atone Rada on ee sie Baviey Riputllo of workark thet oe $10 hayes = e 1, Monternede cd nes plause and laughter.) pibibions an oar as eeiaay, when | Utions representing the painters, American Negro masses, whose pro-| words oni eb io canality * a | and peasants swept out all such ‘dipet Lee eee Clay Merits and| onleried. by Werke | welt” The “others” referred to were the! oe present demands to the legisia-| Plumbers, tron workers, | pressmen, duction was postponed last August, I Sy P saint ig ol Mase sag pee. Ys | treedom. In fact, however, not even laws, did not Jeave a stone un- ers’ School; Trotzkyites. Cannon, their chief waiters and cooks, and musicians lo- sy : - veh South Dakota, Seattle, Connecticut aaiécohis 5 date $3: i _|ture for adoption of our bills. Wel cals, 2 vell as representatives of Was informed that the scenario is| ihe most advanced bourgeois re- turned in the edifice of bourgeois | North and Soutn Caroline, Alabama-|4. Nabegaée “i0) so om eeneeraan iD America 18 A180 Pres should not crawl on our bellies tol tne’ central Labor Union of Atlantic now ner an i isy. . Go S s oT 6 is gover! 1 capitalist hench~- , i 3 public offers to the female half of | lies and hypocrisy. Florida and Colorado, Goldberg pisrere : si , the governor and cap City. Production will start before the end| humankind either lawfully equal Down with the ars who talk | Both large and small districts’ jf Brot re eras) pe ouny Hethaway analysed tha |imen. If we came to them asking!) “Winsock reported en the activities of the year, rights with men, or freedom irom | of freedom while there is an op- | must speed all funds to the “Daily”, a! Gabinur ——. fo-called “unemployment bills” now |them to please give us unemployment | or tne Committee since it was formed, The mistakes of the previous sce-| man's custody and oppression. pressed sex, oppressed classes, while |now! As much money as possible Til to date $544.10 pe ae eee: ae preyed insurance because we are hungry! it, fight for unemployment insur nario will be eliminated, while new| The bourgeois demcoracy is a de- | there is private ownership of capi- | must be raised before the two Tag| Total Le pisTRICT 7 ceed ine Shien ei Jy : e one and our families are starving, they| anes for immediate relief, and cone artistic, ideological and technical ma-| mocracy of high-sounding words, | tal and land, while a few enjoy |Days on March 11 and 12, which will] ru to aate ssagzaz (Detroit) eee ompany by company | Wow sneer at us and throw us out.| trasted these activities with the op- terial will be added. The scenario} pompous words, empty promises, | wealth in order to enslave the |start the last big collection-offensive Total 10.00 Ment reserves, company by company! But we must go to them with de- will be ready by August, and from August to November the technical arrangements for the film will be completed. The actual filming will start in December. The picture will be made in Mos- cow and wherever the location is solemn slogans for freedom and equality, in order to cover up the lack of freedom for women as well as for all the exploited toiling masses, Away with these infamous lies! hungry. Our slogans are: Freedom and equality for the oppressed sex! Freedom and equality for the workers and toiling peasants! Fight against oppressors, cap!- talists, profiteers, kulaks! of the present drive. raised 50 per cent of their quotas Four out of nineteen! So far only four districts have and makes immediate funds essential. position to unemployment insurance on the part of the leaders of the A. for its own workers, and not unem- ployment insurance, even where the company pays the whole cost of in- surance. All provide for payment of a few weeks, 10 to 15 in each year, and all provide a waiting period. All provide nothing for the 16,000,000 to mands, telling them that if they re- ject us, we will go back and mob-| g o¢ 7, ilize tens of thousands of workers,| “‘s. ageused the leaders of the A moving in waves against them until! por 1 of gy litting an | . of § and destroying they have to grant what they would | the tabor organizations and betray like to refuse. Every worker, young| ‘Re lab we ‘and old, must find expression of his| 2S the interests of the broad mas- =! Ttl to date $5 DISTRICT 8 (Chiexgo) Total s 1. W. 0. (New York City) 16 5.25 !) a0 3 39, H. Salzman THI to date $1,296.40 is ses of members in the organization, ‘ its 5 STRICT 17,000,000 now unemployed, and offer nfer- | © ke ° suitable, A minimum of mass scenes| There cannot be and will not be These are our militant slogans,| Let's have every district do all in its stinnesota). something only to ia who become etn mn te Gere racist gai For effective struggle against the ex- | are scheduled to be made in the; @ny equality between oppressors | our proletarian truth by which we | Power to send in a flood of contribu- ‘Total 5 e nm 8 5 United States, if possible. The direc- tor has not yet been decided on, but and oppressed, exploiters and ex- Dioited. There cannot and will not challenge the world capitalism with its sugar-coated, hypocritical pom- weapon from being destroyed. er ley ee tions to keep our most powerful ting conditions he offered the fight- , wi loyed in the future. yrne ena Ate ree ome aene ing program of the Gincinnatti Rank but if it sets in motion a series of | and Mastick bills before the New DISTRICT 13 rent strikes, relief bureau struggles, aatineatay York legislature are of this type. : 1 us *:| an File Conference. someone with wide experience will be |——___._46§6§ | pous phrases about freedom and ‘Total 39.80 and if in the midst of this we propa” |“ Following on considerable discus- | secured. . equality for all. Contributions Saturday _. $ 660.03 | 4, Po gandize the general strike, and when sion by the delegates, the report and ee saitlhi fhis nige ceitee of an unsatisfactory scenario, was ql iy . Previously received —. is 15,076.74 | Ttl to date $203.24) PRIEST HELPS WAR DRIVE ears Pa Pa seruayles ae recommendations presented by Wein- if the occasion for vicious slandero 5 strength an raining is gained, a) \ B i a 2 | tl bie gba lta e ate attacks on the Soviet Union in the A Geod Program ‘Diraios 1) parla Wont ns | pi bea dale < EROENTS, piacia Teoent ser movement will be built up that will Pain of ee ae he lve beatae tes last year | capitalist press of the world by thi : (Boston) HW. Schmidt 2.003 Total 46,00, mon Beinap eventually sweep all capitalists out) yy; f ; ; t will be given preference where their | of th Ahaha ‘otal $24.85) Prospeet Whrs. -|E. Ford, sounded a warning that| oy the seats of power and place the | UNion 508 was elected secretary of types are in accord with the new tiie members of | tHe sraup et Wednesday Night at Center t scenario, Their expenses will be paid in full. Negro actors and intellectuals who had been brought to the Soviet Union Scottsboro Benefit | TH to date $596.15] Jenning TH to date $342. 8 “another world war is certain.” ¢ Atlantic City Committee. Ar- workers there.” Another thing DISTRICT 18 “While every nation,” he said, “is| emphasized by ‘angements were made for another to produce the picture, poke a (Milwaukee) talking peeae in reality they are pre-| Hathaway, to the delight of the ean-| poe held on Mareh 11 in * . . The other members of the group NEW YORK.—A spectacular pro- Toor Meeting, New 75 Total 2, paring for the greatest slaughter the) ference, was that the conference was Tncluded among the speakers wae The postponement of the produc-|of 22, which included the noted | gram, with four bands and @ group|_ Brighten 3,00 110 Tit to date suo04i | World have ever known. ‘The aggre-|being held in spite of the sabotage soitonan president of the Centra tion of the film, “Black and White,” | Negro poet, Langston Hughes, quick-|of famous Negro artists, has been |% a2) ‘gated standing army of the world|of the Socialist, A. F. of L. leaders, fee Ne es ce made necessary last August because! ly exposed these slanders. Sbriviged for the ‘Seottduord Behett ashy 1.00 Your letters must arrive three days Lend + ace pier bag in | Lovemonsites end Canncniten, expressed his full hearted support to Rilcolskis 1.00 , chs ease ; x million dollars is being —_—-- ~ SaiCtaAn TETit 5 inal ek ann Dance this Wednesday night, March wool e ; Fi pit ted Aes ey babe ee | spent daily in preparations for this Build & workers correspontonee Reh Neeson Bhat tit ye c ‘“ . e 8 at the Savoy Ballroom, Lenox Ave- 1.00 | LY-0. Shalle, Nov 19| Order an extra bundle for special dis- | War! __| Stomp in your factory, shop ef | erates of local unions to cafry out e 1Z t for the Rich nue and 140th Street. The program id 8.00) mit Free io] tribution when you send the letter.| Rev. Ford then goes on to explain| neighborhood. Sené roguiar letters | the program adopted at the Cincin includes Fletcher Henderson and his Cle sollaction 1.68 | Collected by Arme- District D, W. agents, organize spe-| that peace is impossible because) {@ the Daity Worker. nati Rank and File Conference. band, Red McKenzie and his band, | Workersof Beth — nian Lang. Buro 10| cial distribution at selected places. | “people like to fight for the glories While Our Parents Starve!” erent (Story of a Japanese Soldier in the Utsunomiya Division, who came back from Manchuria.) E were dispatched directly to the interior of Ku Shiang district immediately after the Shanghai war was over. None of us liked war, so that when our first fixed period of “Forward march,” we would not march out of the trenches, but re- plied instead, “You go ahead your- self.” Once during the time of the Ku Shiang attack it happened that an officer was knocked down by sol- diers under his command. Whenever our troops inarched for- Bennie Carter and his band, Monette Moore of “Flying Colors,” Chilton and Thomas, dancers, and the Three Black Dots, dancers. Tickets are 50 cents, and are on sale at the Work- ers Bookshop, 50 East 13th Street, the John Reed Club, and 80 Easi 1ith Street, Room 601. The affair is arranged by the Scottsboro Unity Defense Committee, a Harlem group organized around of their respective nations and rul- ers.” And in concluding his talk he said: “The beautiful part of the pier ture is that the next war will be the Jast, for Christ will then set up his eternal kingdom of peace.” Thus we see the capitalists are en- listing more and more ministers to their side to prepare the minds of the masses of people toward “just one more war to end war!” Wisc. Farmers Win Release of Jobless Jailed in Milk Fight MILWAUKEE, March 6.—Wis sin farmers showed that they unde! jumped up, saying, “What the hell difference does make if they're two months’ stay was postponed to! ward, there followed about fi the fight for the Scottsboro This self- {Stand the meaning of solidarity be-| farmers cr not? They helped us—and ; ive to ie Boys. is self-same minister 1s also re-' ¢, fo hen | we're to get them out ff you’ three months and then finally to sev-| ten prostitutes. ‘These prostitutes| The group already has had two large ported to have said in a previous ser- ae eer he Bos ey RE ieie atone leeele ‘ee ic hi en months, we were full of indigna-| were used by the officers and we|™ass meetings in Harlem churches, tion. The officers becéme aware of this and tacitly permitted us to plun- der whatever we could find in the villages in order to soothe us and turn aside our indignation. Military discipline had been ignored for a few months now. Offcwrs Make Living on War. What we were most anxious about was the starvation in our own vil- lage and about our parents and brothers. What irritated us most was the fact that the officers made their living on the war and received good salaries while we soldiers were al- ways exposed to the danger of losing our lives a8 our compulsory duty to the emperor, and yet we received lit- had nothing to do with them. But this situation added to the dissatis- faction in our ranks. False Reports, Before we were dismissed, we were strictly warned not to talk about the real conditions in Manchuria.A book- let, containing the war report espe- cially prepared by the War Depart- ment was distributed among us. When I came back to my own coun- try in Gumma Prefecture, I found that offigers had already spread the war story among our villagers at schools and at other public places, just exactly as it was written in our and 1s doing excellent work in mobil- izing the Negro people of Harlem in behalf of the Scottsboro boys, DESTITUTION IN OIL FIELDS NEW ORLEANS, Ia.—The people working in the ofl fields near here have no pienic. The conditions ate terrible, The vast majority are un- employed and for homes they live in Hoovervilles, shacks built from scraps of wood, paper and tin. For relief they depend upon the Red Cross (the crooks), which is now well known to be a graf or- mon that the Soviet Union must be exterminated before the “Kingdom of God can be set up in this world.” bers of the Unemployed Council who had been arrested during the Wis- consin milk strike. e four workers were kept in jail GOVERNOR URGES STAG- | atter all the farmers arrested in the ingale Hall, Milwaukee Co Soyrgee A where both Singler (strike leader PHOENIX, Ariz—Governor B. B.j who sold out the farmers when the Moeur, who attended a conference of| strike was virtually won) and W. B his henchmen, the Arizona state} Rubin attorney and take friend of highway commission on February 9,| farmers and unemployed, spoke, the urged it to stagger employment in| farmers demanded that Rubin se the department to create more jobs.|that these four workers be released Moeur urged that this policy be} at once. Rubin replied that thes adopted until conditions improve so} were not farmers and if they (the as to furnish work for persons now] farmers to whom he was speaking) The workers in jai under the charges riot,” “disorderly conduct,” resisting an officer, etc. When they came up for trial a few days after the above meeting was held, 200 farmers crowded the courtroom, the stairway and overflowed to the street. Berg, the International Labor Defense at- twoney from Milwaukee, represented the defense. The district attorney, the crowd of farmers informed the judge that all had been dropped except conduct Mistaken], the four workers pleaded guilty to this charge and were released with suspended sen- were being held of “inciting to “official report,” which of dourse, did| ganization upheld by the eCOn- ‘When unable to secure other work. This is| were wise, they would not have any-|tences and costs. of $180 which “aby at sast, Gers when. acy oMloer| inten arom rede anne Ree ees Finance Corporation, corm, they piled it in ertbs along the street to get rid of tt. Many farm- | obviously another attempt, to place|thing to do with the Unemployed) amount was paid by the farmer eh » ‘: }. 15, erever you turn part ers are burning corm instead tarve. burd the crisis the work- i embers, in jail or out. e aommanding us from behind said,! 1933.) x the oil country, you see towns shut} great capitalist herd , breed cuit Pad ise cae a he sermers resented this and one‘ defenses pases. A system. «

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