The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1933, Page 3

| 4 Lage Movement to % | | | New Attaaks on Rail Workers, United Action 1,000 Young Workers in United Demonstration Before German Consulate in New York Grand Rapids Conference, United Front for Mooney and Scottsboro Boys NEW YORK.—Breaking through a number of obstacles for united ac- tion against fascism a demonstration took place last Saturday organized by the United Youth Conference against the fascist terror in Germany. After ® demonstration before the German consulate one thousand young workers augmented by 500 more at a mass@ meeting on Rutgers Square. Participating in the demonstration Peoples Socialist League and the Rand School, Signs bearing the| 9 3 names of numerous organizations | were carried among which were:| Conference for Progressive Labor) Action, National Student League, Workers Industrial Union, Young Communist League and many other trade union, student, and cultural Socialist Leaders Sabotage. “ The demonstration marked again} the disruptive policy of the Socialist} Roosevelt Order Calls a : Wied to unite the workers of this city in| fOr Dropping 645,000 to common action. The conference to organize the demonstration was from Rolls originally called by the Rand School) port of many revolutionary See tions including the Workers School and Young Communist League. The| Rally Vets for March ever seeing the growing desire for to Capitol May 12 unity on the part of the member- | ——, ship, exerted their full force, includ-| WASHINGTON, April 2—More to destroy this unity. | veterans’ benefits and bonus pay- In this they were partially success- | ments by the terms of an executive full. It is evident that the demon-| order signed by President Roosevelt stration would be have been much ried out, Rank and File Can Widen United Front. Larry Cohen, speaking for the Con- tion at the demonstration said that he “regretted the Young Peoples’ So- cialist League leaders sending letters to their members not to participate claimed the united front was not broad enough. The fault lies with them, not here.” His statement that the fault lies with the leadership who we cannot look merely with regret at the action of the leaders. It was their conscious policy to hinder the united action. More energetic ac- bers and among the workers gen- erally can widen the united front by involving larger sections of the youth in the city. and students marched through the down-town territory where they were were many members of the Young Youth Section of the Needle Trades Party leaders in hindering all efforts and had the participation and sup-| BIG SUM CUT FROM BONUS leaders of the Socialist Party how- ing the threat of expulsion, in order) than $45,000,000 will be slashed off larger if the disruption was not car- ference for Progressive Labor Ac- in this demonstration. disrupted the unity is correct, but tivity among the rank and file mem- The meeting in Madison Square Garden on 49th Street and 8th Ave.,| next Wednesday is the next step of uniting all sections of the workers and gain the support of the middle class in fighting against the attacks inflicted on the German masses by the Hitler regime. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 2.— A united front conference to adopt a program of struggle against forced labor and fort cash relief, held on March 24, was attended by 135 dele- gates representing 4,100 people, most- The Y.P.8.L. | | yesterday. | The new regulations, which are ef- fective July 1, carry out 100 per cent the program of the National Econo- | my League, a Wall Street organiza- tion of bankers, captalists and army and navy officers, which for months |has been campaigning for cuts of | $450,000,000. | 645,000 to Be Dropped. The full extent of this robbery is evident from the fact that veterans’ | administration officials admitted that | 56 per cent of those now on the rolls, | or about 645,000 veterans and de- pendents, would be dropped entirely. diately affected, while tens of thous- ands more will be prevented from fil- ing claims in the future. While most of the cuts start July | 1, certain items such as travel and clothing allowances are effected im- mediately. All authorization by Con- | gress for new veterans’ hospitals or | additions to hospitals, on which work has not yet been started, will be can- celed, Gen. Frank T. Hines, head of the Veterans’ Administration, de- clared. Some field stations will be closed entirely. _ Bigger Cuts Than Indicated. The new regulations cut off en- tirely nearly all of the more than 400,000 Spanish and World War vet- erans who have been getting miserly sums from $12 to $40 monthly for so-called non-service-connected dis- abilities. The only ones exempted are about 29,000 who are totally and permanently disabled; these will A total of 1,400,000 will be imme-| ly workers. Organizations attending the conference included, Working- mets Association, Communist Party, Young Communist League, Socialist Party, Young People’s Socialist League, Painters and Wood Carvers Union which are affiliated with the A. F. of L., International Labor De- fense and numerous cultural, frater- nal and language organizations. In united action the conference devel- oped a program to carry into life the campaign for the immediate needs of the unemployed and part-time workers here. Lately, allowances to the unem- ployed have been reduced. In many instances food items were aken off the list. The local flop house man- ager, Majchrak, has announced that | single men living in the City Social) Center will be evicted April 1. The permanent committee of the United Front Conference will conduct the fight against these new attacks | on the basis of the decisions arrived at through the conference, ree ees United Defense Committee. SPOKANE, Wash., April 2—As a result of the arrest of four workers for turning on lights a united defense committee has been set up including the Unemployed Council, Unem- ployed League, Communist Party, So- clalist Party, I.W.W. and B.O.B. Each organization has elected three dele- gates on the defense committee to fight to have the charges dropped. have their compensation cut in half from $40 to $20 a month. That this practice is not new is evident from the fact, never re- yealed, that during the past seven years about 175,000 veterans with service-connected disabilities have been removed from the benefit lists. The leaders of the American Le- gion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, following their policy of supporting the cuts, have thus far refrained from comment. Only the Veterans Nat'l Liaison Comm., with the support of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and renk and file groups in the Lecion, V. F., W., Khaki Shirts, B. E. F., Disabled American Veterans and other organizations, is rally- ing the vets for a determined struggle against the bankers’ at- tacks on their living standards, At | the call of the Liaison Committee, | thousands of ex-servicemen are now preparing to march to Wash- ington, gathering there May 12 to demand from Congress the stop- ping of the cuts and immediate payment of the bonus. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—A workers’ ticket and platform endorsed by the Communist Party was ratified by a United Front Election Conference. Ninety delegates from 46 organiza- tions, with a membership of 5,000, unanimously approved Mortis Kar- son, Communist candidate for Mayor WAVE OF EUROPEAN AUTO STRIKES; VICTORY AT. FORD'S GIVES IMPETUS 2,000 Out at Briggs in England, Citroen Work- ers Strike Against Wage Cut A wave of strikes in auto plants in England and France at present follows after the successful strikes of over 15,000 auto workers in Detroit. last month. It will be remembered that in the Detroit strikes the workers defeated the proposed wage cuts and in many instances, as the Hudson plant, gained increases in wages. The Auto Workers Union with head- , quarters in Detroit gteets with international solidarity the action of their Ruropean fellow workers, ef recent neemnenenenteneeencenn® ae Briggs Strike England LONDON, April 2—Following the victory of the Ford workers in Dagen- ham near here, the workers in the ees plant employing 2,000 went rike last week. Briggs plant odies for the Ford fsctory. kers demand the same wage vcores ag the Ford workers gain. sq abolition of the piece work stem, ait ae Citroon Strike PARIS, April 2—A strike against i announced 10 per cent cut in ages started in the Citroen plant. ‘rhis is the largest automobile fac- head of the company admitted that this wage cut follows similar example ef cuts in American plants, An attempt by the company to lock out all the employees prior to the complete walk out, it is expected will result in a sympathy strike of the workers at the Renault factory, the second largest in, the country. Vietory at Fords LONDON, March 31.—A strike of 7,000 auto workers at the Ford piant in Dagenham ended yesterday with a victory. The men returned ii work after the withdrawal of the ny in France and produces cars imilar to Ford's. Andre Citroen, Wage cut and an increase in wages for skilled and unskilled workers. EWS BRIEFS WASHINGTON, April 2.—Roose- velt discussed “emergency railway | legislation” yesterday with railroad} owners and labor leaders. Daniel C. Roper, secretary of commerce, an-| | nounces that discussion will continue this morning. It is planned to scrap | lines that do not pay and to stagger) | Work and further cut wages so the stockholders can get dividends. | U. §. Air Lines in China. WASHINGTON, April 2.—Pan-| | American railways, imperialist group | which operates airways from the| Arctic circle to Panama, is now a) | partner with the Nanking national | government of butchers in the Chin- ese National Air Transport system. The United States company secured 45 per cent of stock in exchange for an undisclosed amount of stock in | the American lines. This is a fur- ther challenge to Japan. | | Beer in 19 States Friday. | WASHINGTON, April 2.—Bearing| | interference by state legislatures | sparring for beer control, the bever- age will be sold in 19 states on Fri- day. They are Arizona, California, | Connecticutt, Delaware, Illinois, In- | diana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minne- | sota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wis- consin, | | | Morgan Partners in Inquiry. | WASHINGTON, April 2—J. P. Morgan partners have been requested | to be in readiness to attend the stock | market inquiry being conducted by |the senate banking and currency | committee, which is intended to “re- | store confidence” in the banking | structure of the United States. | | Strengthen Military Machine. | WASHINGTON, April 2,—Secre- tary of War Dern is to go to New | York tomorrow to attend the meet- | ing of the Panama railroad company over which the war department has jurisdiction and to investigate plans for improving the New Jersey army base. | Nazis Seize Einstein Funds. BERLIN, April 2.—The Nazi gov- ernment seized all funds of Professor Einstein in banks here yesterday, An attack was made by Nazis upon Ein- stein’s daughter. Einstein has re- nounced his German citizenship and is living at Ostend. eo Mele Pope Says He Will “Save World.” ROME, April 2.—The pope yester- day used a golden hammer to strike three blows against a door by way of starting what he calls a holy year. He says he will save the world. He | wants to bring “true prosperity” to | capitalist nations by further provo- cations against the working class and by. fomenting intervention against the Soviet Union. . Albany Beer Deadlock. ALBANY, April 2—The deadlock on beer continues, with Tammany fighting to get complete control of the loot. The democrats control the senate, the republicans the assembly. Meanwhile Mayor O‘Brien head of the New York City Tammany outfit | in Morgan County. Reviving the Slaveowners’ Logic DAILY WORKGR, Niu LOKK, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933 to Bar Negvoes from Ala. Juries (By Our Special Correspondent) ECATUR, Ala. (By Mail). — niggers here are becoming a little uppitty already as a result of this case,” remarked a Decatur business man when a local Negro testified in the court that he had never seen or heard of a Negro serving on a jury Dramatic clashes between the de- | fense and the state over the right) of Negroes to sit on juries have oc-| curred throughout the first week of | the second Scottsboro trial. It is now generally being said that the nine boys are no longer on trial, it | is rather the exclusion of; Negroes from the “Jaw’—but one aspect of a more general exclusion—which has thus far held the center of the stage. “State in a Corner” With a persistent logic and direct- ness the defense has pushed the State of Alabama into a corner from which | there is no getaway. It has shown that Negroes are excluded from jury service systematically by having} Negroes themselves testify to that in court. Negroes have come voluntarily to prove that they are eligible for jury duty and have never been call- ed or even considered for jury ser- vice. Hundreds and even thousands of Negroes from Jackson and Morgan Counties are ready to do likewise. With his every word Attorney- General Knight of Alabama has simply supported the self-evident truth that there are no Negro jurors in circuit or state courts in the South. When he tried to show that Negroes are excluded not because of their color but because they are not quali- fied for other reasons, witnesses ap- peared about whom there could not be the slightest shadow of a doubt that they are fully qualified accord- ing to all the conditions of bour- geois law. ep 1. %; PRACTICALLY every one of the twelve Negro witnesses of Morgan County who testified in court on Thursday was incidentally, a gradu- ate of a college, some of them from a number of universities. They were either preachers, doctors, school principals or responsible for other important social work, They testi- fied not only because they had the personal courage to brave the storm, but because that courage was given them by the mass defense movement. It was apparent from the whole at- titude of the prosecution and the court that even these upper-class, relatively “highly esteemed” mem- bers of the community were made to “keep their place.” “None of ’Em Fit” When H. J. Banks, 55-year-old local Negro business man, was to be cross-examined by the prosecu- tion, the first. thing Attorney-Gen- eral Knight asked was for his first name. And he continued to call him “Henry” as if he were addressing a} child, although Mr. Banks was old enough to be the General's father. | And when the witness quite heatedly refused to answer an insinuating announces that beer will go on sale | Friday in the city. question placed by the prosecutor, the | must not only admit that Negroes action was ‘so unprecedented that Knight grew red in the face and re- the eyes. The prosecutor for the state of | Alabama pointed a threatening finger at Reverend W. J. Wilson, a Baptist | minister, college graduate and prin- | cipal of a school and declared: ‘“T/| mean to challenge the fitness of this | man for jury service.” With this | action he showed clearly that he did | not think any Negro fit for jury ser- | vice, even those much better quali- | fied by bourgeois standards than the | white jury commissioner who did not | know the legal qualifications for | jurors although it was his task to| pick them. The truth itself and the | persistent drive of the defense has | forced the state of Alabama up a tree. The forces of “white supremacy” are not permitted to serve on juries, but they must admit this in the face | of a mighty challenge. That is the rub, HE climax came Thursday after- | noon when Samuel Liebowitz, | head of defense lawyers, told the | prosecutor that he either admit the self-evident fact that Negroes are systematically excluded from juries or he will subpoena the whole jury roll from which the ventre of 100 was drawn for the Haywood Patter- son case. There are about 1,500 names on this list. The Judge was forced to order the huge volume con- taining the jury list into the court NEW INDICTMENTS ON ORPHAN JONES SNOW HILL, Md—In a clear at-| tempt to insure the killing of Euel Lee (Orphan Jones) whose conviction | on framed murder charges is to come | up for appeal a second time in a few} weeks, the Worcester county grand| jury, has returned two new indict- ments charging him with murder. As a result of a fight waged by the International Labor Defense, the Maryland supreme court had reé- versed Lee’s conviction at the first trial on the ground that Negroes were excluded from both grand and petit juries. On the second trial Lee was once more convicted on the frame-up evidence as at the first trial. Seeking to nullify the victory of the ILD., on the question of Negro jury service, the authorities placed two Negroes on the grand jury which yes- terday returned two murder indict- ments against Lee, but they made sure that they picked the “proper kind” of Negroes—businessmen who shared the same class prejudices as the white members of the grand jury. The LL.D. calls for protests against this lynch frame-up to be sent to Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Mary- land, demanding the immediate un- conditional release of Euel Lee, and dismissal of the new indictments and Mr. Tidwell, one of the three “The | coiled as if he had been hit between | county jury commissioners was in- structed to go down the list and call Off all the names he knew. Of course they all turned out to be white. And so will everyone of the others Usted in this book The issue has been placed sharply. That it goes far beyond merely the question of exclusion of Negroes from juries is conceded by the editorial writer in the Birmingham News. Con- cluding a long editorial on the sub- ject, he writes “Whether the obviously punitive amendments (13th, 14th and 15th —Ed.), set up in the heat of pas- sion against the South immediately following the war between the states, shall remain inflexible at this late date, to the obliteration of the principle of state rights, is a matter of more interest to the South than to any other section of the country.” | | | | eager’ . | Ace. as in the days of slavery, | the cry of states rights is being raised, with the foregone conclusion that the amendments won as the result of the revolution of the Civil War decade were “obviously puni- tive” and that they should be so “inflexible” as to be totally inopera- tive as far as the Negro is concerned. | This battle cry, however, will prove to be antiquated. Old issues have reappeared, but this time in a new content and with new classes at dagger-points. The solution of this problem history has long since taken out of the hands of the old contending classes of the Civil War | Days—the slaveowners and the north- ern bourgeoisie. It has placed it in the hands of the working class, of the Negro masses on Southern plan- tations. The struggle for its solu- tion adds fire to the all-encompassing struggle against the bourgeoisie. | |Special Scottsboro || Page in Tomorrow’s Issue of | the Daily’ | § SPECIAL Scottsboro page will) | appear in tomorrow's issue of | the Daily Worker. This will include: An exclusive | interview with the Scottsboro boys! | in Morgan County jail by our own correspondent; a vivid description of the life of the Negroes and poor) white workers, as well as the gen-| eral “setting” of the Decatur trial; | | the story of how Judge Horton,| | | presiding at the trial, tried to in- | fluence Negro correspondents and | how they are at present being) | shadowed in Decatur. if Original individual drawings of | | | the Scottsboro boys made on the scene, a well as a photograph of the group taken in the Birming- ham County jail, will accompany) the articles. Don't miss Tuesday's issue of | the Daily Worker! Order an ex-| against him, tra copy for your friend or shop- | | mate! | — The following letter, discussing the Scottsboro case and other fun- damental issues, was sent to Frank Crosswaith, Negro, and a leader of the Socialist Party, by Loren Miller, young Negro journalist of Los An- geles, who was one of the group which went to the Soviet Union to take part in the production of “The Black and the The letter foliows in part: “It was this very Scottsboro case that set me thinking definitely on the role that a revolutionary, soci- alist party ought to play in this time of crisis. When the case first came to public notice I was reporting for the local newspaper—you remember the Eagle. I was, and am now, writ- ing that same column for which you were once kind enough to write for me. “I wanted to aid as best as I could in this Scottsboro fight. To begin with, I was with the NAACP., at least to the extent of thinking that the organization could best fight this Scottsboro case. Being in the news- paper business, however, I couldn’t |help but know and appreciate the fact that it was the International Labor Defense that was responsible for the case being brought to public attention in an effective manner. I thought that the two organizations could and would reconcile their first differences and get together in a common defense for the boys. I wasn’t very clear then, you see. Knows Value of Mass Defense “Naturally, I came into contact both with the local LL.D. and the national office as the fight for the boys went on. One of the first things that drew me closer to the LL.D. was its campaign for mass pressure. You know, I was once @ lawyer and I know that behind the scenes this public opinion exerts the determining role in the law, ‘Nor can I see how the case can be disentangled from the socio-eco- nomic system that makes it possible. It is plain, as you once pointed out to me, that lynchings exist because of the relation of the Negro as an exploited class to the rich whites of the nation. It seems to me that If you take the case as an isolated piece of “injustice” you are just shutting your eyes to the plain implications of the whole business and are deny~ ing what you and I, as Negroes, know Aid? Loren Miller Asks of Frank Crosswaith a dozen times over to other Negroes. “Therefore, I have come to under- stand, Negroes ought to use the case not only to fight the particular issue but to educate those other Negroes who cannot ordinarily see that our ills flow from capitalism. For it seems to me, if Negroes are ever to be educated as to the workings of capi- talism with its mock trials, its lynch- ings, its poverty, its misery, its un- employment, they must be educated with particular instances in which you can show them the inter-relation of the particular “injustice” to the whole social order, “When the ILL.D. undertook the task of arousing the whole world to this case and at the same time used it as the basis for an educational campaign they enlisted my support. That the campaign has led me on to see even more Clearly than I ever saw before the whole rotten social structure and how it works is it- self a case in point for the argument that I have just advanced. Disgusting Tactics “Now to the particular point. I have read a number of Socialist re- leases, particularly one by Parker, in which the I.L.D. has been vicious- jy attacked for its part in the case. ‘These releases insist that the Com- munists are using the boys as stalk- ing horses and have no interest in saving them. Such tactics, frankly, disgust me. The whole purport of them seems to me to offer aid and comfort to our common enemy: the tion any efforts to enforce the 14th ruling class of the South. Let me ask you specifically some questions: “What is the Socialist Party doing to aid the boys? “Don’t you agree with me that the only way to help the boys now is to join in on their side and that the only way to join them is to aid the ILL.D., their representative? “Don’t you think that those who still shout that the I.L.D. is trying to hang the boys are themselves aid- ing the bosses who will be quick to seize on this induced-feeling-of-fu- tility (fanned to flame by supposed friends) and thus burn the boys while they smirk that that is what the Communists wanted? “Don’t you think that this is the time for all real friends of the boys to come to their aid? The Real Test “Why doesn’t the Socialist Party do something beside stand aside with its holler than thou attitude and its gesture of support to the N.A.A.C.P., an organization long since out of the case? “Finally, don’t you think that the real test of a party for Negroes is its willingness and ability to fight for their common every day de- mands? There are a few other questions. One of them concerns Heywood Broun, one of my youthful enthusi- asms. Nobody seems to deny that he once wrote that if he were a can- didate for office he would not sanc- HOSPITAL HORROR IN BIRMINGHAM Young Doctors Practice on Negro Patients | (By a Worker lent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—This is how Calie Johnson was murdered. Calie Johnson went to the Hill Mann Hospital. She went there to be examined, and they told her she needed shots, and they gave her shots, and she died before she could get home. And this is how John Feilmond died. He was given shots, and came home sicker than ever, He lay down on his bed and died before they could get a doctor to him. This happens often at this hospital. Young doctors joe there on Negroes, who come in as emergency cases and are dying there with broken arms and broken legs. The unempk are beginning to rally the workers together to fight against this brutal outfit. . * . This worker's letter shows that the horrible conditions uncovered in the Hospital in New York are not confined to Harlem alone. Workers What Is the Socialist Party Doing | to Aid the Nine Scottsboro Boys? | Don’t You Think That Now Is the Time for All Real Friends of the Boys to Come to Their and 15th amendments to the con-| stitution, Yet he continues to regard himself and to be regarded as a lead- ing Socialist. Is this the attitude of | the party? If not, why doesn’t the party take some action against this sort of thing? “Then there are those repeated ut- terances from Southern Socialists, who must be taken to voice the opin- | jon of the party, to the effect that | the Southern party must be some shade of lily white—what else do! you and the other leaders make of | the statement of the Texas lieuten- | ant governor candidate who said that | the South wouldn't tolerate voting | for a Negro for 50 years. Or those | other statements made in the New Leader as late as 1931 that the South- ern movement must be conducted | “Southern style’, meaning that Negroes must be discriminated | against, if the movement is to thrive. | Jim Crowism of Norman Thomas “Norman Thomas spoke in a jim crow hall in Virginia. That much is admitted. I know or have heard that he attacked jim crow when he spoke there, but left-handed attacks while bowing to the institution at- | tacked in words means nothing. “Then again, when Oklahoma barred the party from its ballot, I read Thomas’ appeal to the governor asking if he knew that a great por- tion of the state’s voters were to be | disfranchised. Didn’t Norman Thomas | know, or did he ignore, the fact that | the state of Oklahoma disfranchises | thousands of Negro citizens every year? Why doesn’t the party fight this disfranchisement on a straight out basis rather than by such silly appeals to a state executive, Gov. Murray, whom it Knows or ought to know is one of the most vicious enemies the Negro had. “In closing let me say that these questions are not mine alone, they occur and recur whenever the young- er Negro intellectuals, now shifting to the left almost en masse, talk about the Communists and the Soci- alists. I think that we are entitled to an answer. I am not asking you these things as a Communist Party member because I am not a member of the party. I am asking as one class conscious Negro to another. I hope that you will find time to answer me as frankly as I have) queried you.” to be the plain facts: that the case in its broader asvects has happened Harlem throughout the country must organize to stop this butchery of Negro work- ers in hospitals in whatever city such practices are going on. Sincerely yours, —LOREN MILLER. Page Whree |'Threat of Mass ‘Action Sets Back Hilly Ruling in Court NEW YORK.—The opinion given by Counsellor Hilly for the landlords, that rent strikes are illegal has re- ceived a setback in two magistrate courts due to the threat of a mass campaign against it by the Unem- ployed Councils and New York Dis- trict of the International Labor De- fense and the determined resistance to the ruling by workers in rent strikes in all parts of the city. Women Released. Eight women held for picketing at 3039 Wallace Ave., 3130 Holland, in the Bronx, were released by Magis- | trate DeLuca, 8th Magistrate’s Court. Challenged by Samuel Goldberg, at- torney for the New York District, |I. L. D, on the legality of the Hilly “decision,” DeLucca answered to the effect that he could not consider it legal, Admits It Is Illegal Judge MclIntry, 6th Magistrate's Court, also would not convict rent strikers charged with picketing at 1537 Fulton Street, At the same time while admitting that rent-strike picketing was not illegal, this magis- trate trickily held two rent strikers on charges of disorderly conduct and gave them suspended sentences. Hilly's “decision” was obviously ‘MOB DANGER GROWING AS WHITE {made at the behest of realty cor- porations in order to encourage po- lice to be more aggressive in break- |ing up rent strikes, Victory for Tenants This setback in their plans i¢ a decided victory for the tenants and should stimulate them into wider action against the exorbitant ren- tals the landlord robbers try to put over on them. Organization plans started by the Council and I. L. D. against the po- lice terror and Hilly ruling will no doubt also be intensified, spurred by these victories. 1,000 DISCHARGED RELIEF WORKERS MAKE DEMANDS NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of 1,000 discharged workers of the Em~- ergency Work Bureau held at Stuy- vesant High School, last Thursday, passed a resolution demanding: 1. Immediate re-employment of all dis- charged workers; 2. If such re-em- ployment is at present impossible cash relief in amount equal to their salaries while with the Emergency Work Bureau; 3. Relief to be granted without further delay or duplicate in- vestigation. RULERS RESENT “NEGRO ISSUE” |All White Jury Picked to Try First of the Nine Innocent Scottsboro Boys (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Graves, bank cashier, Decatur; Rob- ert L. Kitchens, automobile sales- man, of Decatur. Judge Admits Mob Danger. The undisguised prejudice of the veniremen was shown when, during the questioning by Leibowitz, a pros- pective juror arose and objected heatedly, declaring: “We are not ac-| customed here to choose jurors that way.” The first official admission of the} danger of mob action was made by Judge Horton when, in addressing the jury following their selection, said: “The citizens know their duty is to abide by the decision of the court. There is no other way to en- joy liberty. It would be a blot on any of you to let anything, any ac- tion of yours, mar the course of jus- tice.” Feeling Running High. Feeling in Jackson County, where Scottsboro is located, is running high with resentment growing due to the mounting cost of the trial which this county—and not Morgan County, where the trial is being held—must bear. Characteristic sentiment among | Jackson County residents who are| bitter at the prospect of a long, drawn-out trial is: “We should have strung up those niggers long ago.” Especially after the heated argu- ents in the court on the issue Pressed by the defense showing sys- tematic and deliberate exclusion of Negroes from Morgan County juries, Leibowitz, I. L. D. attorney, was called a “Russian Jew Nigger who ought to be hung.” Scottsboro Mob Formed. Further evidence of the sinister forces growing which endanger the lives of the Scottsboro boys is seen in the fact that immediately after , National guard and plain ciothes men before the apartment in which Lei- bowitz is living, but the atorney re- | quested that the guard be removed, Negroes Back Defense. Negro leaders of the community, as well as the Negro masses, are re- sponding enthusiastically to the issue of the right of Negroes to serve on juries, and Negro witnesses remain unmolested due to the world-wide at- tention which the Scottsboro case is receiving. One locally prominent Negro de- clared: “If a mob comes from the | outside to try to attack the boys they won't have it so easy.” An~ other said: “If the Reds are re- sponsible for all this, I'm with the Reds.” Despite the efforts of the leading | whites to influence the Negro Min- | isters’ Alliance here, many are openly sympathetic to the defense, and state | so in their churches. | Friday night, William A. Christel, | a Negro bearing credentials from the Birmingham I. L. D.; Muriel Rukey- ser, a member of the National Stu- dent League who is writing about the | trial for the National Student Re- | view; two other white workers and one Negro, were arrested and held four hours by the police, who later released them after confiscating their personal papers. They were ordered to appear before Judge Horton to- | Morrow morning. Christo], who was | authorized to raise funds for the | Scottsboro case, declared that he will appear in court. Defense Moves. Two moves to be made by the de- | fense in proving that the nine Scotts- boro Negro boys are absolutely inno- cent of the charges against them, and | that these charges were framed, have | been revealed by the I. L. D. An important exhibit in the case, jit was stated, will be a miniature | Judge Horton on Friday over-ruled| train, @ replica of the now famous the defense motion to quash the| freight from which the nine boys and venire of white jurors, an organized| two girls were taken by a sheriff's crowd of 50 left Scottsboro following their declaration that they would come back “about the middle of the week,” thus revealing the extreme danger of extra-legal action in the event that Haywood Patterson is ac- quitted. Photographers hired by the de- fense to take pictures in Paint Rock, Jackson County, the scene ef the arrest of the Scottsboro boys, were threatened by a men- acing crowd. In Decatur whites,” steeped in decades of vicious prejudice against the Negro —as a result of ruling class propa- ganda—declared: “If they don’t burn we'll string ‘em up. They'll never get out alive.” Following the receipt by defense attorney Leibowitz of threatening let- ters, and as a result of verbal threats | muttered in the courtroom, Judge Horton placed seven members of the “poor | posse in April, 1931. Using this | miniature, the defense will prove that |it was impossible for any such at- | tack as is charged by the state to be | made, and that the movements of the |boys over the train as described by | prosecution witnesses were impos- | sible. | It will be proved by this replica also that the testimony of witnesses at the first trial, who claimed they saw the “attack” from such various points as haystacks and farm roofs along the right-of-way, must be false, | since it was impossible for them to view portions of the train they claim they looked into. Another important move by the | defense will be the introduction of medical evidence which will prove the impossibility of the stories told by the two girls, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, at the original trial, about the mythical “attack.” STRIKE VICTORY IN MILWAUKEE Furniture Strikers and Jobless Unite MILWAUKEE, April 2.—After five days the strike in the Marquardt company has been settled with vic- tory for the strikers. From now on the pay will be increased from seven- teen to twenty-seven and a half cents for piece workers, and increas- ed twenty-five cents for day work- ers. nized. There is to be no discrimina- tion against strikers. Unite Employed and Jobless This time when on March 20th, forty workers from the iron depart- ment went on strike the Trade Union Unity League worked with the strikers and the Unemployed Coun- | cils mobilized the jobless for picket- ing. Within a few days all depart- ments: were out and the scabs were prevented from entering despite a large number of police, 60 FURNITURE WORKERS | STRIKE | NEW YORK.—About 60 workers of Newport Furniture Company, 240 | Newport Street have struck for the | following demands under the lead- ership of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union: 1. Back pay in full; 2. No piece work; 3. 44 hour week in- stead of present 49; 4. Recognition of | the union; 5. Equal division of work and no discrimination. The union asks for aid in picket- jing. The strike headquarters are at 711 Lackawanna Avenue, Brooklyn. The shop committee was recog- | oleae Seamen Force Relief NEW YORK.—The struggles of the jobless seamen under the leadership of the Waterfront Unemployed Coun- | cil have resulted in a partial, but sig» | nificant victory. The Haight Emer- | gency Committee, which claimed to | be broke and announced it would cut | off relief on April 1, has been forced | to extend this relief to June 1, | The H. E. C. made this announce- ment Friday, after a demonstration | of 300 jobless seamen was held Thurs- day at Whitehall Street and Coenties Slip, across from the Seamen's | Church Institute. The demonstra- | tion adopted a resolution demanding that the Haight Committee continue | relief and extend it. : | “The fight must go on until there is not a hungry seaman or harbor | worker in the port of New York. The shipping bosses must be made to pay for our miserable conditions,” said a statement of the Unemployed Coun- cil today. - HUNT NEGRO SHARECROPPERS DADEVILLE, Ala.—A manhunt is on in Tallapoosa County for twelve Negro share-croppers against whom indictments charging assault to murs der were handed down by sn all~ white Grand Jury here Saturday. Five others named in the indictment have been in Dadeville jail since the attack upon the croppers, December 19, when. deputy sheriffs, aided by Tuskegee Institute, murdered four of them. The International Labor Defense, which is defending the share croppers, has called for an immediate flood of protests to Governor B. M. Miller at Montgomery, Alabama, and Shertff J, Kyle Young of Dadeville