The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1933, Page 3

x ‘DAILY WORKER, NE W YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933 Jage Three MINERSVILLE, PA. UNEMPLOYED STRIKE | AGAINST COUNTY FORCED LABOR SYSTEM Roosevelt’s Hunger Drive! } MINERSVILLE, Pa., March 19 against the forced labor ing the struggle. Jobless in Anthracite Region Pick et; Plan March on Neighboring Towns to Widen Strike; Follows S henandoah Victory —A strike of the unemployed workers of Minersville stem began here yesterday, with the Unemployed Council lead- Picketing was conducted all day before all places of the borough where unemployed were sent to work for relief, and the majority of the unemployed on these jobs joined the strike. XPEL 5 FROM AMALGAMATED| Action Marks Brazen Betrayal Of Workers YORK. of the Amalgamated of America were exrelted e Board of that or- esult of one of the n cases: of het Cloth- workers were emplo; d & Schrag. They are now job! beca the action of tt Amalgamated officials in the inter ests of the bosses. the officials. the shop of the cont where the work was being done, stopped. A meeting was called and Union not return to work un hey paid the sum ef 1314 cents which the con- tractor had not received from the rm of Bernhard and Schrag, for additional work upon the c; Already Had Big Cut Already working under a 26 per cent reduction, some of the wovkers refused to accept this new levy and went to the Union demanding that the organization sanction a strike. Refused by ‘the officials, they went back to the shop and pulled out the rest of the workers on a volun- tary strike. But all this good work was disrupted by cooperated with Mr. Laura, manager of the shop, and the contractor. The five workers were expelled from the shop and then irom the Union by action of the Executive Board. s. | y could | the officials who Schuylkill county in the anth- { racite region followed, and now this movement is assuming a mass character. The Minersville Borough Council |had compelled the unemployed to | work on projects which are included in the borough budget, thus handing over the money saved in this way to the grafting politicians and their | contractor friends. The chief demand of the Miners- ville Unemployed Council is that the Borough stop the practice of forced labor, at the same time demanding that all who have been denied re- they refused to work on be placed back on the list. siastic meeting of the strikers held Fri night, plans ba re laid for large picket lines, and a large committee was elected to go to the Poor Board to demand im- mediate relief for the strikers and their families. At the same time it was decid to organize a march of the Minersville unemployed to neigh- boring towns in order to make the strike y-wide. | 87H STREET TENANTS FIGHT EVICTION NEW YORK.—AT 329 East 8th St., militant tenants under the leader- hip of their house committee and | the Downtown Unemployed Council forced the landlord to paint the hall, fix the roofing, install mail boxes, and are now determined to prevent him from evicting several families this morning. They have issued a call to all workers to help fight the evictors, coun Full and immediate payment of the war veterans’ adjusted compen- sation certificates; no cut in the | disability allowances; no discrimi- nation in hospitalization, The plan for the strike was first initiated by the Shenandoah Unemployed Council, which compelled the relie: administration to stop this practise. ® Other towns of ” USES MACHINE TO WEED OUT JOBSEEKERS NEW YORK. — A new device which determines whether or not applicants for jobs are “neurotic” is now being used by the Y. M. C. A, 109 W. 44th St., it is announced, Calculated to weed out ‘unsatis- factory” applicants, the machine is described as a “boxlike affair about two feet square, equipped with a phonograph operated by a crank.” ‘The job-seeker is given an electrical- ly wired pencil to touch the perfo- rations on the disk while it is ro- tating. With the aid of an attached numbering machine which jumps one number ery time the appli- cant touches the dot or perforation on the rotating disk, the examiner is able to single out those likely to get mad at speed-up tactics and ar- bitrary bosses, ‘Is Collective Path on Farms Correct?’-- Stalin Gives Reply “Ts the path being taken by the collective farmers the correct one? Is the way of the collective farms the correct way?” These are the chief questions answered by Comrade Joseph Stalin, Secretary of the Commu- nist Party of the Soviet Union, in @ speech delivered in Moscow on February 19, the last day of the Congress of the Collective Farm Shock-Brigades. The speech will be published in full in the Daily Worker next Sat- urday, March 25. The same issue will contain a full page of farm- ers’ correspondence from various parts of the United States, Be sure to order your copy in advance! Roosevelt Farm Bill Is Attack on Both Land and City Workers By JAMES ALLEN 'HE Roosevelt farm bill which has just been presented to Congress and which, its sponsors. hope, will stifle the farm revolt and “overcome” the crisis, cannot be considered apart from the steps that have already been taken by the Wall Street “brain trust” in Washington for widespread indirect wage-cuts through inflation. Roosevelt proposes to meet the in- creasing storm of agrarian revolt by raising the prices of nearly all the basic farm products to the pre-war Jevel. This ts to be obtained by re- ducing acreage and by a tax on the processors, that is, the first and di- rect wholesale purchaser of farm commodities before they are placed in the hands of the various middle- men and marketing agencies, al- though today these groups are more or less merged. Farmer Does Not Get Tax The tax levied on the processor, according to the bill, is to be equa! to the difference between the price paid the farmer for the product and the pre-war price of that product. This tax, contrary to the general impres- sion that has been so skillfully created, is not to be paid back direct to the farmer. On the contrary, it is to be used to force a reduction in farm acreage—to pay a rental to the farmer for the land he takes out of production. In the case of cotton, the government will utilize the op- portunity to get rid of the 3,000,000 bales it bought as a “relief measure,” by giving an option on it to all fees who will have reduced their ( acreage during the coming season by 30 per cent. ‘ The bill says nothing about “con- trol” of retail prices. Even the blind can see that the consumers—the masses in the city—are to bear the whole brunt of this increase in com- modity prices in the form of rapidly rising prices for all necessary foods and clothing. It amounts to a tre- mendous sales tax, placed not upon the middlemen, the railroads, the food trusts, but directly upon the city masses who can now get barely enough to eat and many of whom are starving. Will the poor farmers benefit from the rise in prices? Not one bit. The food trusts, the market agencies, the railroads will get the full benefit of the rise in prices. The s-<:es of the farmers were not directed against the city work- ers but to compel the food trusts to pay them higher prices for their farm commodities. The drop in farm prices did not prevent the food trusts from retaining high prices on the first necessities. The Roosevelt bill provides for more efficiency and organ‘zation amongst the rich farmers, the food trusts, etc. in order to help them make more profits and sustain less Josces in face of the general drop in commodity prices, and at the same time through this better or- ganizatienal monopoly on the part of the rich farmers and marketing trusts, to leave the small farmers more at their mercy. By his plan of reduc’ng the acreage, thousands of small farmers will be driven out completely from the land. This will also mean more foreclosures and sheriff's sales which will be conducted now more ruthlessly. Acreage Reduction Hits Small Farmers The proposal for the reduction in farm acreage—aside from its retro- gressive character and in face of the Farmers’ Poll in Six States Against Roosevelt Program Survey Shows Overwhelming Opposition to Do- mestic Allotment Bill, Keystone of Farm Bill KANSAS CITY, March 19.—The claims of Roosevelt's publicity ma- chine regarding enthusiasm among the farmers for his farm “program,” re- cently sent to Congress, is refuted by a poll just completed—strangely enough—by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. “The “domestic allotment” plan, administration program, is rejected by the majority of the farmers in every county of six agricultural states canvassed by the K. C. Chamber of Commerce. Oppose Present Laws Also, The survey at the same time showed ‘a heavy vote against continuing the present agricultural marketing act and the activities of the Federal Farm Board, The questions and answers follow: “Do you believe the agricultural marketing act and the activities of the Federal Farm Board should be continued?” ‘The vote—No. 4,654; Yes, 1,274. “Do you favor a domestic allotment plan?” The vote—No, 3,703; Yes, 2,109. “Do you favor the federal govern- ment attempting to control prices or roduction through stabilization, al- lotments or other schemes to direct srice movement against natural in- fluences?” one of the three key-points in the —<$—$$_$__. “Do you favor the federal govyern- ment coming to the aid of farmers in refinancing mortgages and other indebtedness at lower interest rates with extended maturities?” ‘The vote—Yes, 5,441; No, 715. One of the principal results of the Farm Bill as proposed by the Roose- yelt administration will be te raise prices at the expense of the con- sumers, with the large-scale farmers and marketing agencies being the only beneficiaries. Farmers in Argentine Plan March of 25,000 BUENOS AIRES, Argentine, March 19.—Unless the Argentine Congress adopts measures for farm relief by June, 25,000 farmers will march upon the capitol here, Esteban Placenza, president of the Argentine Agrarian Federation, threatened today. « mounting starvation throughout the country—is aimed directly at the farm tenants, small and middle farmers. The promised increase in prices for the farmers has strings at- tached with which it is proposed to let the small self-working farmers hang themselves. Big farmers will lose very little or nothing and even gain by reducing their acreage. For them it will mean simply reducing, their working staff the required amount or throwing out so many ad- ditional tenants and sharecroppers. For the small and middle farmers it will mean cutting down upon an al- ready small acreage and—granting an increase in commodity prices— leaving them where they are today, The processors are to be taken care of, however, for Roosevelt has seen to it that they shall not suffer. They are to receive loans from the Re- construction Finance Corporation to help them pay the tax and to tide over the short period until their re- turns begin piling in from the in- crease in prices paid by the con- sumer. Like all other measures pro- posed by the Roosevelt regime, this one gives direct aid to the food and marketing trusts, to the bankers and to the railroads. It is aimed directly at the toiling masses in the city and on the countryside. Wage Cuts Via Inflation The whole plan for “increasing prices” is subordinated to the well- worked out scheme for a general in- flation, of which the “banikng holi- day” and the issuing of an unlimited amount of currency by the federal government were but the first steps. By increasing prices and “reducing the value of the dollar” a tremendous wage-cut will gradually, from day to day, be imposed upon the workers. At the same time, by the glib prom- ises contained in his bill, Roosevelt hopes to stifle the militant farm re- volt and hold the farmers as allies against the workers. The National Farmers’ Conference held last December in Washington had already exposed all the elements of the Roosevelt bill which had been contained in various measures pro- posed during the Hoover administra- tion. It also exposed the leaders of the so-called farm organizations who are today supporting the new farm bill. The representatives of the small and toiling farmers demanded an in- crease in the prices of farm products, not at the expense of the workers, but at the expense of the middle- men, the railroads and the food trusts. They demanded an end to evictions and as a result of a militant struggle obtained it in many states. Large sections of the farmers are continuing their struggle against the bankers and other holders of mort- gages and the demand is now rising for complete cancellation of mort- gages and all debts owed by the poor farmers—about whith Roosevelt says not a word. United Struggle of Workers, Farmers Only by the united struggle of the city workers and the toiling farmers can this latest effort of the bankers, the employers and the trusts to make the masses pay for the crisis be de- feated. The stevvtion (through in- flation) plan of Wall Street must be obstructed by the united action of the workers and the consumers in the cities, and the farm workers, the tenants and small farmers on the countryside. ’ . to Stop Toilers Organize ORKERS and Farmers, Unemployed and Employed, Small Depositors! The widest possible mobilization of the toiling masses is necessary, to combat and defeat the growing new attacks of the Roosevelt administration against the standards of living. 1.—Hold mettings in factories. Develop actions inside factories against wage-cuts. Demand full payment of wages. Fight for raise in pay against food price rise. Build factory committees. Stop the mass lay-offs. 2.—Strengthen your unemployed organizations. Build block committees, Fight for Unemployment Insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government. Fight against Roosevelt s forced labor camps. For public works, to tear down the slums, to build sanitary houses for work- ers, and hospitals fer the workers. Unemployed workers employed on public works to be paid regular trade union wages. Fight for raise in jobless. aid against food price rise. 3.—Veterans—fight Roosevelt’s slash in your compen- sations. Stop eviction of sick veterans from Government hospitals. Fight for immediate payment of the bonus. Or- ganize United Front committees in veterans’ organizations for joint struggle against the Roosevelt attacks on the vet- erans. 4.—Stop the wage-cuts of the Federal Government | workers. Stop the compulsory one-month furlough with- out pay introduced by Hoover. 5.—Toiling Farmers—defeat the Roosevelt Farm Bill, which raises prices for the rich farmers, bankers, food trusts and marketing agencies, and slashes prices for the toiling farmers. Small and Middle Farmers—stop fore- closures and evictions; demand complete cancellation of your debts. Workers and Toiling Farmers—develop joint struggles for better prices for the farm products of the toiling farmers and lower prices for the consuming masses. 6.—Hold meetings in neighborhoods. Fight against increases in the cost of living. Build special Women’s committees against rise in prices of necessities. Fight for enactment of laws against evictions; for immediate mora- torium on rents and for moratorium on workers’ debts to banks, corporations and loan companies. Hold mass meet- ings of small depositors. Demand 100 per cent government guarantee of payment to small depositors, and immediate re-opening of all banks, and full payment of deposits upon request. Local United Front Blocked By Socialist Leadership Keep Branch from Joining Communist Party | Unit in Fight on Banker’s Attacks (By a Worker Correspondent} NEW YORK CITY.—A fine example of how the Socialist Party leader- | ship destroys every effort for a united front of all workers is as follows: During the bank holiday and following the new currency laws, which it was evident ment inflation and an increased cost of living, the Communist Party unit in the neighborhood of 170th St. and Jerome Ave., the Bronx, decided to hold a mass meesing to® organize the workers against this at-; Question up with Claessens, of the tack on their standard of living. |S. P. city committee, and he pro- mised to let us know the next day. The Party unit also decided that We called there several times, and the Socialist Party workers should|the organizer finally told us that be drawn into this struggle, and he would let us know the next day. therefore a committee went up to/ But he never did. the Socialist Party headquarters on It is apparent that the city com- 170th St. and Jerome Av. with a mittee forbade the meeting on a proposal for a united front meeting. | united front basis. This is how an The organizer of this branch said} appeal for a united front with the that he would have to take the SHOP GROUPS CONDEMN OFFICIALS OF LL. @ W. U. AND GIBSON NEW YORK.—The conference of and the heads of the latter unions | place left | member of in its confidential letter of lions dollars, the full ex While the organization” AUSTRIAN BANKS FACE COLLAPS Cabinet States, Hasn’t Any Remedy Yet VIENNA, important collapse toda: called an em ning at 11:30 § at one o'clock ement were no conclusion bable that the on Monday xtent press tries to proce berations STUDEBAKER IN REC SOUTH BEND, Ind With a reported dc for the first nine and its quick assets debts by $ manufactur ckne and Pierce-Arrow automot was placed in rec tship b; ral Jud; By a Metal Worker Correspondent ANDERSON, Ind.—The Chief, Joseph N. Carney, was recently appointed new Police the liqu rorize the w several year show what kind of a w he is. One worker was picked up in of the Delco-Remy plant, which unit of General Motors Cory on the claim that he w itator.” A committee of work cured his release. Job Sharks Retreat When Fighting 6th’ Swings Into Action Job sharks of the Interstate E ployment Agencies beat a speedy treat in the case of Frank Duzlak when they found that he was up by the “Fightin: th” Gi Committee of the unemployed. Duzlak was sent to a job in Brook- had misrepresented conditions. F porting to his job at the Broadway BILLIONS OF DE Big Business Secret News Letters Declare: “ ger and Uncertainties; Inflation May Not Move Trade” . | ministration Socialist Po Chief Terrorizes Workers | i of the public debt. minimize the los | “Some billions of deposits jare to be wiped out. Huge jlosses are to be taken in re- 4\organization of railroads and| |corporations, adjustments as | to real estate, bankrupts, etc.” Marvels At Double Drive In commenting upon the in- \troduction of inflation with a }co equent rocketing of {prices of the necessaries of | life the letter expresses sur- jpriso that the Roosevelt ad- should, at the same time, slash wages, and jsays: “It is not usual to reduce |wages in the face of an ap- | proaching inflation.” Thus even some of the capi- | talist spokesmen are surprised *!at the viciousness of the drive ;,| Which simultaneously smashes | down the standards of life by | indirect wage cuts through in- flation and direct cutting of ey wages. The letter warns its clients that prices will rise from 16 to 25 per cent and adds that “the situation is full of danger ans uncertainties, first because the public may be enticed into |expecting an inflation of far gr tended and, secondly, because |the surpluses still exist and it is yet to be determined if in- | flation can put trade into move- | ment.” | | | mor “RED HOOK COURT FAKE CONFERENCE |But Judge Must Order s-| Relief for Several | NEW YORK.—The conference Fri- day of Judge Eilpern, the Red Hook | Block Committee and the supervisor of the Schermerhorn Relief Bureau, where the workers staged one of the | most militant demonstrations Wed- | nesday, showed up the court. The judge sat in his elevated chair and courteously told the supervisor that arrangements should be made to e immediate relief to the workers pending investigation. After Mrs. O'Niell, the supervisor lisped her apologies, Mrs, Tarmon the repre- | sentative of the workers wished to speak. The judge stopped her with an angry “Just a minute... .” and the bailiff piped up with a sharp POSITS TO BE OUT, STATES WHALEY-EATON SERVICE ater proportions than is in-| shop committees, Saturday, repre-| failure senting the workers of the Gibson Red Cross Cloth fund factories, after hearing the report of the Needle Trades Unemployed Council repre- sentative, and, after a discussion, voted to condemn the leadership of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union for joining in the T Pur Co), 15 MILLION § BS, ARO TAKE I holt ‘Noe is ded ‘side. discrimination and racket of the Gib- son Committee. The I. L, G. W. U. officials were denounced for not fighting the vicious firing of workers by the Gibson crew / SAVE THEM FROM THIS! to defend Negro workers, The conference also pledged its full- est support to the Needle Trades Unemployed Council. A committee representing all shops will place the workers demands be- fore the Gibson department heads and will also issue leaflets explaining the situation te other workers in the trade. Jobless Dressmakers Meet Today at 1 P. M. in Fight on Rackets unemployed dressmakers on Monday at 1 o‘clock in Memorial Hall, 344 West 36th St. For the past couple of days an exposure of some of the activities of the Gibson Committee has been made in the press which revealed startling facts of how a great deal of the money collected from workers for the unemployed is going into the pockets of a few grafters. This exposure has aroused the in- dignation of the workers. The graft and corruption in the} received the return fees due him, shops of the Gibson Committee will} be exposed at a mass meeting of; | there. “Listen to the judge,” and when Mrs. Tarmon indignantly replied she was not on trial the judge replied in- furiated “You will be in a minute.” When Mrs. Tarmon left the court- room the judge shouted threats after her. Her case comes up at 9 a. m. 2 ai . “jop"| today in the Adams and Myrtle igaiageiery. paid for the “job”| ave. court. She was arrested together But Duzlak did not let matters rest | with Mrs. Hammond and Mrs. Sels- He came to the office of the| ™*r St the H. R. #. demonstration “Fighting Sixth,” 58 West 38th Street,| Wednesday. who formed a committee of six to| Workers must jam the courtrom to attend to the case. It was net long| Prevent this vicious judge from rail- | roading Mrs. Tarmon to jail. after the Committee arrived at the| he Aj cies that Duzilal en etenineneanenn feceived the retumn fees du WILLIAM AVE. STRIKERS CALL FOR PICKETS The workers who| NEW YORK.—The tenants of 444 exposed these facts will be at the) William Avenue, Brooklyn, expect meeting to tell of their experience in! the lendlord of the house to attempt the shops of the Gibson Committee.| four evictions this morning at 9 a. m. Plans will also be discussed to| after the house committee: and the broaden the struggle of the unem-| Unemployed Council refused to deal ployed and to see the jobbers in| with a representative of the Land- the dress trade who are continuing to| lords Protective Association in settl- make huge E relief for| ing their rent strike for a 15 per cent the masses of unemployed dress-| reduction in rents, no evictions of r ak the hours were much smaller than} discovered th: longer and the stated by the Agenc Regi ng his d. tion, Duz- lak was immediately fired. He came back to the Interstate Employment | Agencies and asked for the return of Monday, 1 o‘cloc The Dressmakers Unemployed) ployed workers are ur Council has arranged a meeting for this meeting. makers. unemployed famives, and recognition All unemployed and partia em-| of the house committee. ged to come to| Workers are urged to be on the | picket line this morning. ar WIPED ituation Is Full of Dan- WASHINGTON, March 19.—That the new banking bill gives the government oppore tunity to print money in unlimited quantities is admitted by the Whaley-Eaton service, i March 11th to its clients in the business world. The letter points out that money could be issued to the amount of as much as 20 bik ses that depositors will suffer in the “ree the Whaley-Eaton service, speaking confidentially to its clients, says * plainly: ‘BRITISH BANKS OUT INTEREST |Almost Nothing Now; Cannot Invest LONDON, March 19.—For the first | time in the history of British bank- jing, England faces the suspension | of interest payments on deposits. | There is ample money and deposit |—but no place it can be invested | profitably. That is, there so little | chance of capital investments that will put workers on the job that thing is being produced with which to pay interest Interest has been paid at the low rate of ten shillings on one hundred | pounds sterling. That is to say about $2 on $400 (one half of one per cent | interest). It is now proposed to re- |duce this to 2% shillings on | hundred pounds. | _ This indicates again the still rapid decline of capitalist economy and the general deepening of the crisis. one \ SHOCK BRIGADE. ' TO SAVE DAILY |Raise N. Y. Quota to | $15,000 by April 1 | NEW YORK- he New York Dis- trict in the Da‘ly Worker drive for $35,000, received a $12,000 quota. The class-conscious workers of New York jas ‘always in the past when the Daily Worker was in danger, arose to the situation despite the “depression.” despite the wage-cuts, despite the | starvation conditions under which | they are living and contributed out }of their flesh and blood, to make the quota of the New York Distric to save the Daily Worker. Unfortunately, the very thing which the Daily Worker exposes and fights, —the terrible destitution of the workers—prevented the workers of the rest of the districts from con- tributing their quotas, thus making for the continued stence of the danger of suspension facing the Dally Worker. Especially now, when the Daily Worker is needed more and more to lead the struggles of the working class against starvation and misery and at the present mome! when the Communist Internationa! has issued a call for united action with the Socialist Party, the Con- ference for Progressive Labor Action and the American Federation of Labor, the Daily Worker, the means of publicising the United Front, is all the more desperately needed. Therefore, the City Committee of the Daily Worker, realizing the needs as enumerated, volunteers to become a Shock Brigade for the rest of the country and voluntarily increase its quota from $12,000 to $15,000 and pledge to mobilize the workers of New York City to reach this amouny by April 1. CHILD STARVATION © DOUBLES IN BRONX Majnutrition (starvation) among school children in all boroughs of the city has increased 55 per cent and in the Bronx it has nearly doubled since 1927, according to study cove ering the last five years, which was disclosed yesterday by Miss Pauline Murrah, director of the nutrition advisory service of the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross, U.S. GAVE VET MALARIA, | PENSION CUT OFF, HE ENDS LIFE WATERTOWN, N. Y¥—Charles B. |Baker, 51, Spanish-American Wer veteran, ended his life by hanging today, police said, becausé of illness and fear he would lose his Govern- ment pension. Baker, it was said, suffered for years from malaria con- tracted in the Philippines. Suicide is the bosses’ way omt, workers must organize and fight. NEW YORK. — The New York ‘Times in a dispateh from its special staff corespondent in Alabama admits that “the success of the defense in obtaining a change of venue from Jackson County seems a little like a pyrrhic victory (a victory bringing with it new dangers) in view of the comments made here today by of- ficials and average citizens.” The LL.D. has charged that the moving of the trial to Decatur was the result of a careful plot between Attorney-General Thomas E. Knight, Jr. of Alabama, and Judge A, E. Hawkins of Scottsboro, who conduct- ed the original lynch-trial and to whom the case was sent back by the U. S. Supreme Court. The purpose of this plot was to create an illusion Scottsboro, the boys, legally or extra-legally. of fairness by moving the trial from | vhile actually increasing | that the authorities’ chances of lynching | twenty-five which isjasked if he thought the trial might be interrupted by viclence, he said: I don’t know. If any Niggers come “Residents of Decatur, |fifts miles south of Pulaski, the birth- | | he original Ku Klux Klan Pr resosisuition days, t that |around the court-house and start act- the defendants will get a fair trial,|ing up, something might happen. but they warn that they will stand | But ff the Niggers and the outsiders no nonsenee, cither from the defense mind their business, there won't be lor its sympathizers, white or blac y trouble.’ the Times dispatch said. ‘Then he added | “The townsfolk don’t care to listen) "‘Most of our officers and ¢ to legal argumenis about race equality of people in Morgan County or the rights of Negroes to serve on \raised in Jackson County, juries, the man in the street will tell . Court officials and old in- the visiting stranger. | habitants affirm that they cannot . Another county official, who remember a time when anyone here- refused to permit the use of his name,' abouts even suggested that a Negro insisted that the Nez received might be qualified to serve as a juror.’ jfair treatment at their first trial, and Purpose of Times’ Articles asserted they ‘would get the same|' “Only mass action can defeat the kind of treatment here.” lynchers,” Patterson said, ‘'The “He remarked 2 U. S. Supreme Court decision, aimed if this t d at lulling the workers into a sense ears ago there cf security, and smashing t mass trial.’ When he was'defense movement, has in part sucy Jot were ii have been any SCOTTSBORO BOYS FACE LYNCH DANGER IN DECATUR, ADMITS THE NEW YORK “TIMES” ceeded. Mass action has subsided. | “The purpose of the New York Uiiieg. articles now being published daily, on the Scottsboro case, is to {further this demoralization. Their | purpose is to create the illusion that ‘the bourgeoisie will help save the | Scottsboro boys.” For Conscious Fight “Governor Miller of Alabama has received more than 150,000 protests legainst the legal-lynch plans of the |Alabama bosses. He must receive a |million. And every protest must be the expression of militant, fighting, conscious demand for the immediate, unconditional release of the Scotts- boro boys “Demand « change of venue to Birmingham for the trial. “Demand safeguards for the lives of the Scottsboro boys. “Fight, consciously and militantly, jagainst the lynch-preparations of the Alabama bosses. ad