The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1933, Page 1

} A Call to Action Reports from Decatur received today tell of the attempt, last night, of a Ku Klux Klan gang to move upon the courthouse in which the nine Scottsboro boys were conferring with their Attorney Samuel ‘Leibowitz, of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. This action was not a spontaneous development. H had been deliberately organized by the Ku Klux Klan, consisting of capitalist landlord elements and hired thugs. This event confirms the prediction of the Daily Worker editorial of April 4th. On that day we said: “This conflict of forces will not be solely confined to the court room. The forces of lynch terror are gathering and concentrating, waiting for the opportunity to unleash bloody terror. The air about Decatur is sinister with lynch preparations.” It is the sledge-hammer blows of the defense, smashing to pieces the crude and flimsy perjuries of the state witnesses, which has ripped the mask of judicial impartiality from the Alabama court exposing it unmistakeably as the “legal” instru- ment of the Southern lynch slaveocracy. The landlords and Alabama capitalist masters are falling back upon their last reserves—lynch terror. The revolutionary movement of the United States is faced with grave responsibilities before the toilers and oppressed Negro peoples. All energy must be thrown imfe the immediate task of arogsing mass protest to the highest pitch. Telegrams, reso- lutions and letters must be sent in a torrent to Governor Miller of Alabama demanding adequate protection for the boys, the defense witnesses, and attorneys. These must come from ali organizations, groups and mass meetings. The organization of mass meetings, street parades, ete., must be immediately in- tensified. Workers, Negro and white, chose ramks against the ruling clase lynchers! Only mass pressure can save the Seottsbore hers! Wall Se, Smiles at Publicity The entire theory of Roosevelt that “proper publicity” could have prevented the enormous fleecing of the little in- vestors is killed by one simple fact. For decades the issuance of railroad securities has been going on under strict govern- ment supervision and with the most detailed publicity. Nevertheless, railroad stocks have crasked just as badly, #f not worse than other stocks. “Wall Street is quietly satisfied” with recent events in Washington concerning stock publicity. So writes the fi- nancial editor of a capitalist paper. And what is the reason for this quiet satisfaction on the part of Wall Street? The financial editor of the World-Telegram gives us the answer. “The New York Stock Exchange and other Exchanges will be relieved of considerable responsibility and expense if proposed changes are brought into being . . . And the burden of proof will be on the corporations. Much of the criticism now directed at the Exchanges also will be eliminated.” Ts it not remarkable how all of Roosevelt’s seeming at- tacks on Wall St. turn out to be good turns? Wall St. of course knows what it is all about. It is too close to the White House to feel any disquiet about the Stock Publicity Bill hailed with such cool hypocrisy by the capital- ist press as the “end of Wall Street swindling.” The publicity requirements of the proposed bill do not differ in any essentials from the requirements laid down by the Inter-State Commerce Commission for railroads, or Public Service Commissions for public utility securities, or atock exchange requirements for securities sold on that ex- ehange. The stock publicity bit is juet another attempt of the Roosevelt government to “restore confidence” of the host of amall investors whose life savings were wiped out by the shock exchange crash. By attempting to blame this securi- tes debacle upon a lack of proper publicity, Roosevelt is con- @aling the true cause of the crisis—the world-wide decline &: production. The really significant part of the proposed bill is that % gives the Federal Trade Commission power to refuse au- thorization to any stock company which it does not approve. Since the government is, in the last analysis, the expression of the will of Wall St., this means that the government is officially assisting Wall St. monopoly capital to further cen- tralize its grip on American industry. Only those companies which do not threaten the development of monopoly capital- ism will find favor in the eyes of the government. Keep ‘Daily’ Going With Halt Dollars T Scottsboro page Tuesday was 2 knockout.”” This ie what workers are saying everywhere—those that read the “Daily”. / The special Scottsboro page was not only interesting and instructive, but what is more important: it was a blow for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, a blow against the entire lynch system which murders and oppresees the Negro people. i This Saturday the Daily Worker will print a special anti-war edition on the anniversary of America’s entry into the world war. And that will be another blow against our enemies! * The “Daily” has been able to hit hard in every strug- gle of the workers, to give leadership to these struggles only because the contributions to our financial drive from thou- sands of workers and friends throughout the country have kept it alive. Now it is necessary to complete the drive, to reach the $35,000 goal, in order that the “Daily” may con- tinue this work. It can be done if every reader sends in a half dollar at once and gets a friend to do likewise. Speed funds to the Daily Worker, 50 B. 18th St., New York City. BDITORIALS | Aid Comes from Turtle Greek Eight workers in the impoverished Tur- tle Creek, Pa., area got together and raised $1.70 for the Daily.” Workers in other towns and cities should follow their example, Dail Central Org ‘(Section of the Commuwist International) orker the-Cominynist Party U.S.A. Our Hands Must Not Be Tied! ithout is our hanc writes ( Palisade. has been 5 scious over 40 sontribut . are you doing? wor Entered 26 second-sless mistter at the Fost Offies st Vol. X, No. 82 SEB * New York, . ¥., under the Act of March $, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 19. BERLIN, Mar. 27 (By ma’ bers were arrested in the Koen’ man State Railways. The wo: shops in Berlin. The indig- ant workers sent a deputation to the shop management, de- manding that the Nazi emblem be hauled down at once, and threaten- ing to strike unless their demands were agreed to. The Swastika flag disappeared immediately. The management of the Yenidze cigarette factory in Drjsden hired a well-known Nazi as fcy man. As soon | 38 the workers learn¢i of this, they | decided to strike. When the new Fascist foreman en- tered the plant, all hands struck work. A deputation was sent to the menagement to demand the immedi- ate discharge of the Nazi foreman After a two hours’ strike the workers gained a complete victory—the Fas- German Workers on Strike, Force Release of Arrested Leaders Thousands Demonstrate In Brunswick; Fight In Streets for Hour Against Fascists Section of Steel Helmet Rank and File, “In- fected by Marxism’, Joins Workers il) -—Several shop council mem- igsberg repair shops of the Ger- rkers went on strike at once, forcing the release of their arrested comrades. The fascists hoisted the Hitler flag over the railway repair ——————__ cals consist in their majority of Com- munist and Socialist workers, who are trying to continue their illegal activity under the aegis of the Steel | Helmet. . Franz Seldte, National Chairman | of the Steel Helmets and minister in the Hitler Cabinet, has issued a statement on the Brunswick inci- dents, in which he tries to confuse the sharp contrasts between the Steel Helmet rank and file and the Nazi storm troops. These incidents, as well as the mutiny of the storm troops in Lud- wigshafen, Bavaria, are indicative of the growing disgust of the proletarian. |and sem{-proletarian elements in the | Fascist organizations. SAVE THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS! DECATUR hore he Lynch Gangs are there brapd Mes: MADISON CO. HUT SV MLE | Lynch Conte. Northern + Alaboma H - While Workers 9 Best Defense GE OF VENUE TO BIRMINGHAM JACKSON £0. SCOTTSBORO | the : Notorious Lynch 2 Town 6es of cist foreman had disappeared. a ee} BRLIN, March 28 (By mail, first uncensored news.)—Thousands of workers demonstrated in Bi ick yesterday under revolutionary lead- ership against the Fascist govern- ment. Making use of a parade of the Steel Helmets, which took place ‘om the same day, the workers assem- bled in great numbers, shouting: “Down with the Hitler government! Long live the Communist Party!” Most of the Steel Helmet paraders domed in these slogans against Hit- ler. The government at once mobilized all the Nazi storm troops in the state of Brunswick. Fighting occurred in the streets, with the population of the whole city in a state of extreme excitement. After fighting lasting for hours, the police and the storm | troops arrested 200 members of the cee Helmets and over 1,000 “Marx- ste.” The police then ordered the dis- banding of the entire Steel Helmet organization in the state of Bruns- wick, because “it is completely in- fected by Marxists.’ Numerous lo- HIT EXPULSION OF ‘PROF. HENDERSON | NEW YORK.—Declaring that “we will carry on a determined fight for | his reinstatement,” the National Stu- dent League, in a statement issued yesterday, denounced the expulsion from the faculty of Columbia Uni- versity of Donald Henderson, ins- tructor in economics. Henderson was until a month ago executive secretary of the National Student League and is now acting secretary of the American Committee for Struggle Against War. He is be- ing dropped at the end of this term for his active participation in the re- yolutlonary movement since he and his wife, Elizabeth Henderson, left the Socialist Party about two years ago. To bover up the political. charac- ter_of the expulsion Prof. Rosswell ©. McCrea, head of the department of economics at Columbia, issued the lying statement that Henderson had “failed consistently to apply himself seriously and diligently to his duties as instructor and to maintain the standards of teaching required by this department.” In a statement of his own, Hender- son revealed that Professor Rexford G. Tugwell, former head of the eco- nomics department and now Assis- tant Secretary of Agriculture, had offered him a research fellowship at @ salary cut of $700 provided he would do his research in the Soviet Union, Henderson rejected the offer which, his statement said, “is clearly @ maneuver to ease me out of the university without raising any ques- tion of academic freedom.” LOANS TO PROTECT BOND- HOLDERS WASHINGTON, April 5.—A tele- gram has been received from Richard Washborn Child, former ambassador to Italy, and chairman of the pro- tective committee for Hungarian and Columbian external dollar bonds, egainst any action that RECEIVED YESTERDAY . . . $308.73 TOTAL TO DATE . . . $26,606.9¢ warning might hold up future loans to pro~ tect the holders of bonds of these countries 3 / | Militant Teacher Gets: ‘Dropped by Columbia trance to Eighth Ave. j “Down With Hitler!” Three hundred seamen from |the waterfront, were greeted | with the thunderous applause as they streamed in, ‘Two hundred Italian workers pa~- raded in, singing “The International,” and the whole crowd joined in the chorus. After that organizations arrived thick and fast. Fifty mounted police sat their horses |mear the entrance and glowered, and 200 more police were around the Place. Many of the workers had been mobilized by a huge head in effigy of Hitler with his mouth open, car- ried through working class sections of the city. On the truck with the head were a Negro and white worker, shouting alternately, “Down with Hitler!” Inside the hall was a sea of color, with tossing banners of the unions, ete, and placards denouncing the atrocities of fascism. Banners hung from the balconies and were massed on the stage. Brass Band played revolutionary songs and the whole audience joined in the singing. Betore Hathaway, district organizer of the Communist Party, look the chair, there were on the platform The Workers International Relief | all. (Hest news from Madison Square Garden, received as the Daily Worker went to press. tomorrow). * Crowd Madison Squar Workers March in Formation With Banners of Their Organizations to Enlist in World Wide War Against German Fascist Terror Full details . . NEW YORK.—Madison Square Garden, 22.000 capacity, was jammed full last night with New York workers pouring in from all parts of the city to join in mass protest |: against German fascism. At 6:30 p. m. a line four deep extended from the 49th St. en Delegations from workers organizations marched in ranks inte the hall, shouting, Minor, just back from San Francisco, with a message from Tom Mooney; | Peretz Hirschbein, noted Jewish | writer; Joseph Freeman, writer and | editor of the New Masses, Roger Baldwin, of the American Civil Lib- ; erties Union, M. J. Olgin, editor of ‘The Freiheit, and others. | Momentarily expected to arrive as | speakers were Jack Stachel, of the Trade Union Unity League; Maicolm | Cowley, editor of the New Republic; Richard B. Moore, of the Negro de- partment of the International Labor Defense; Ed. Dahlberg, just back from Fascist-ruled Germany, and William Kelley, editor of The Amsterdam | News, with still others. Reuben Brainin, aged Jewish writer, sent a message stating that he was too old to come to the meeting, but hailed it as a symbol of struggle, and recognized that the fight against Fascism was not just a struggle | against anti-Semitism, but must. be | also for the defense of the working | class which the Nazis attack most of | Hathaway, introduced by Carl | Brodsky, who opened the meeting, | declared: “This is not a meeting to} end the struggle against German fascism, but to further it until Hit- | ler and fascist rule shall be over- | are confined, the New ¥: rushing plans for a series immediate mobilization Workers: Lack of space forced us to omit several important articles from this issue. Only you can help vs! meet the needs for a larger Daily. BUILD THE DAILY WORKER. Rush donations! Subscribe! RUSH N. Y. SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE MEETS AS LYNCH DANGER GROWS Mass Turnout in Harlem Tonight; Patterson and Olgin to Speak NEW YORK.—With a mob of 200, led by the Ku Klux Kian, moving on the flimsy town jail of Decatur, Alabama, in which the Scottsboro Boys District of the International Labor Defense is of meetings throughout New York City for an of working class pressure in defense of the nine framed boys. The first of such meetings will be! held tonight at 8 p. m. by the Harlem Section ILD, at St. Lukes Hall, 125 W. 130th St. William Patterson, Na-| tional Secretary, ILD, as main speak- | er will call on all Negro and white workers to demand a change of venue from Decatur, hot-bed of lynch vio- | lence, to Birmingham. Delmas Steel, Mayor of Harlem, and a native of Sanereige epeae Moissaye Olgin, editor ° lorning Freihett, will also speak. & eS wees j with him, ready to speak, Robert, thrown, and the working class come | with t nto power. He announced that the Conference for Progressive Labor Action had ac-~ cepted the invitation of’ the Com- munist Party for joint action against fascism. Hathaway was followed by Louis Hyman, who declared, speaking in Yiddish, that he appeared, “Not just for the Needle Trades, but for 200 Jewish organizations excluded from | the Socialist Confere: Committee of Needle Trades Union Propose Joint Action Louis Hyman, Ben Gold and J. Boruchowitz, pear today before the General ecutive Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union mecting at the Hotel Duncan in New Haven and present a program for |S 2 united front ef all needie workers to struggle for better conditions. The G.E.B. is trying to postpone elections in Local 22 to April 20 to consolidate their efforts to win own slate. LOCAL 22 VOTES TODAY NEW YORK.—Today dressmakers of local 22 of the International La~- dies Garment Workers Union will vote for a new administration for the local. The left wing group calls upon all dressmakers to vote for the following candidates: For Manager: 1 Morris Stamper; For Executive Board: 12 Max Dranch, 15 Jacob Ge'‘son, 23 Meyer Kravitz, 28 Norma Rose: Rosenberg. 34 Na Sil 35 Harry Soloff, 36 Max Sporn, 3 Abe Sommergrad. EMPLOYEES DEMONSTRATE | TODAY | NEW YORK.—All workers dis- charged from Emergency Work Bureau jobs are urged to attend the meeting of the City Commit- | tee of Emergency Work Bureau | Employees at Labor Temple, lth | . and Second Ave., today .m, after which a demon |demanding the reinstate! of |discharged workers or immediate relief will be held at 3:30 p.m. be- | fore the Emergency Work Bureau joffices at 4th Avenue and 23rd Street. 1) | K.K.K. GANG OF 200 MOVES ON DECATUR JAIL; WORKERS! DEFEND LIVES OF SCOTTSBORO BOYS of the Needle Trades |. Workers’ Industrial Union, will ap- | the | election for Zimmerman and their | OCITY EDITION Price 3 C LEIBOWITZ CONFERRING | WITH 9 DEFENDANTS IN COURT HOUSE AT TIME > Judge’s Speech from Bench Confirms Growing Lynch Danger; Guards Are Increased Scottsboro Boys Take Stand, Deny C “I Was Framed Up”, Shouts Patterson ional Labor De: throughout the United s and demonstrations denow NEW YO. more than 800 tests and hold attempts at Dec se today urged its ates to send pro- cing the lynch * * | (By Special Correspondent ) DECATUR, Ala., April An armed ga bers of the K 1 an, who had jt | held in anc yn of the town, last night mo | Morgan County court house in the rear of which—in ¢ l—ar aes attempted attack took | place about 8 o’clock in the jevening, at the time when ; Samuel S. Leibc attorney for the | International Labor De ii g with the nine jir r | wor ix [had « took pla unable to ‘ though C; mand of 1 guard to an he ment on s, admi leaving the jail t | that mi been placed | around t and the jail. jail is ana we At the same tim is reported that | plenty ammunition t 15 more militiam ging machine| This, taken t h the with them, are due to arrive in| speech made in court today by r momentarily. Judge Horton, with s 8 an ee is we warnings against “mob in- dicates clearly that the ju aware of the lynch makes speeches from t keep up the pre When c o the action of the armed gang WH outburst f Negri he kn | Knight had \witz as to Price woman 1931. She had pre Patterson as the gro who had att | ing e an | himself spoke to the r to shoot and. urging them to d the local officials as well the press are seeking to stifle the y in an id : ne Negro boy, whe has been in effort to main the illusory, “peace-| 10° me de ful” exterior of Decatur bas grasa Last night Capt. Burleson of the| ’ mitted guard conferred ional excitedly which | taken p edge of the assaults, More Frame-up The feebleness case again: ,| Negro be {0 | | s. respondent Judge's Speech confi ation action agair id their ORGANIZE, FIGHT FOR SCOTTSBORO DEMANDS 1) Immediate, unconditional release of these nine innocent Negro boys. Dishanding of boss lynch gangs around Decetur, 3) Protecticn of Scottshora hovs and de- fense witness:s—‘or formation of de- | fense corps of white and Negro work- ers against boss lynch terror. | AY For Negroes on the jury—for white workers on the jury. 5) No reliance on lynch courts—for mass action! 6) -A united struggle of white and Negro workers against capitalist-landlord-ier- ror and starvation. 7) Mass meetings and street demonstra- | | tions—Pretest to Geyernor of Alabama.