The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1933, Page 3

‘Prosecutor Moves to Bar New Trial for Tom Mooney (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | finding —— MANY UNITED F DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1933 R ONT CONFERE Brady to Seek Dismissal of Indictment on SAN FRANCISCO, April 6.—Fur-« ther proof that the state of California will exert every resource to prevent @ | new trial for Tom Mooney on an un-| used indictment is revaled in the San Francisco News, Scripps-Howard “lib- | eral” newspaper. The News reports) that District Attorney Matthew Bra- | dy, who is “opposed to the trial and has asked that the indictment be} dismissed,” is “gathering material on| which to move again for a dismissal on April 26” when the trial opens. Meanwhile the prosecution is seek- | ing a writ of mandamus from the Ap- pelate Court to force a dismissal of the? ir Brady has openly that convicted on the evidence.” Rather than allow the frame-up of the state and the power trust against Mooney and the labor movement to be ex- posed, however, politicians and offi- cials will leave no stone unturned to destroy Mooney’s chance to prove his imuecence and will seek to keep him in prison for the rest of his life. “At this most critical time in the history of my case, we dare not re- lax for a moment,” declares Mooney. The most important thing on the or- Ger of the day is the building up of the Free Tom Mooney Congress at Chicago, April 30 to May 2, 1933. Those organizations which have not yet endorsed the Congress or affilia- ted with the local couferences should do so immediately. A successful Congress is not only the best guaran- tee for my ultimate freedom but will be a rallying point in the struggles of the workers of the United States against the terrible conditions facing them, against wage-cuts, unemploy- ment and starvation. The Mooney Congress will insure my final victory. This will be a triumph not merely for an individual but a victory of in- ternational significance, one of the greatest triumphs in the history of the working-cla Seamen to Elect. NEW YORK-~—A delegate to the Mooney Congress will be elected at an open-air meeting of the Marine Workers Industrial Union to be held this Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at Coentis Slip and South St. A former fellow-prisoner of Tom Moo- uey will be the speaker. * Expect Big Gathering. NEW YORK. — Reports indicate that the united front Free Tom Mooney Congress at Chicago, April 30 to May 2, 1933, will be the great- est event of its kind ever held in the United States. More than 60 con- ferences have been held or are being organized to support the Congress and send delegates to Chicago from every section of the United States. More than 700 delegates from 350 organizations attended a New York Conference on March 12. The Port- land, Ore., Conference has called for a mass meeting at the Civic Audi- torium April 14 to support the Con- gress. 78 organizations, including 36 American Federation of Labor un- ions, are affiliated with the San Francisco Conference, which organ- jzed the huge mass meeting on March 19, at which 15,000 people demanded a new trial for Mooney. Similar suc- cessful united front conferences are being held in Chicago, St. Louis, Sait Ue City, Denver, and many other cities, Mooney “Cannot be in San Francisco BILLINGS et le crime racial qui se prépare @ l’égard des jeanes noire de SCOTTSBORO Léon Ooorge x Comi teal de le Ligue des Droits de itor ©. DUMOULIN Maurice PAZ \ many du Secours Rouge | UNITED FRONT ACTION IN PARIS: | Scottsboro-Mooney conference which was held on March 13. present, with speakers including Ploche; Leon Blum, leader of the Renoult, Le lundi 13. mars, & 20 h. 45, SALLE WAGRAM le Comité Mooney-Scottsboro organise un GRAND MEETING BE PROTESTATION contre la monstrueuse incarcération de Tom MOONEY et de Warren sous la présidence du Professeur Langevin i assisté de Magdeleine PAZ et de Maurice DELEPINE Orateurs : Marcelle OAPY Depute do VAude Directeur dit Pepalaire Daniel RENOULT rédacteur a THumanité Charles VILDRAG Charles Vildrac, internationally known writers; Maurice Paz and George speaking for the Communist Party of France, | | ial Date, Is Report Pord cesar CAMPII ment gar Gaston Benocay Depure fe Seine-et-Orce HEL og ‘Notice from “L‘Humanite,” organ of the Communist Party of France, announcing the united front Hundreds of representatives of workers’ organizations and political parties were Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, French Socialist Party, and Daniel | MOONEY PARLEY IN CLEVELAND TO BE HELD APR. 23 Many Organizations Sending Delegates to Conference CLEVELAND, O.—American Feder- ation of Labor unions are well repre- sented on the Provisional Committee which has called the united front con- ference for Tom Mooney on Sunday, April 23. The conference is designed | to stimulate interest in the coming Free Tom Mooney Congress to be held in Chicago, and to organize the local fight to secure his immediate release. The Cleveland conference will be held at Painters Hail, 2030 Euclid Ave., be- ginning at 10 a.m. Chairman of the Provisional Com- mittee sponsoring the conference is Ted Robinson, well-known columnist of the Plain Dealer. Other members of the committes are Forrest Wilson, former member of the Industrial Commission of Ohio; C. D. Ward, business agent of the Painters’ Dis- trict Council (A. F. of L.); Dr. Thom- as, president of the National Asso- ciation for the Improvement of Negro | People; Trent Longo, secretary-treas- urer of the Ohio State Painters Con- ference; John Olchon, vice-president of Local 439, International Associa- tion of Machinists; Perry J. Jackson, former member of Ohio State Legis- lature; Yetta Land, secretary of the Cleveland branch, Natl. Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners; Gertrude Binder, acting distrigt secre- tary, International Labor fense; Ralph Remas, member of Painters’ | District Council; Helen Orken, teach- er; Mark Donley, secretary Painters’ Rakoschy, journalist. A mass meeting on behalf of Tom Mooney will be held in Cleveland on Friday, April 28, at a hall to be an- nounced later. Carl Hacker, national organizer of the ILD will speak, Local 765; G. Racheff, ILD; and M.} PROFESSOR HITS _ DECATUR TRIAL NORTHAMPTON, Mass., April 6— Demand for a change of venue in | the Scottsboro case from Decatur to | Birmingham is made in an open let- ter sent to Governor B. M. Miller of | Alabama by Professor S. Ralph Har- | low, of the department of Religion | and Biblical Literature, of Smith Col- | lege, here. “Had the trial been held in Bir- mingham,” Prof. Harlow writes to Governor Miller, “I feel that there might have been hope. Decatur has @ record already stained with mob violence. “The treatment of these boys dur- ing their long imprisonment has been a cause of shame that brings a blush to the cheek of every lover of justice. The Nazi treatment of the Jews in Germany is less harsh and less cruel than is endured daily by great num- bers of men in our own prison camps and on the chain gang, men inno- cent in many cases of all save that they are of the Negro race, if that be a crime .... “States where Negro womanhood is held cheap as dirt are the ones in which even to protect such a woman has meant lynchings to her brother or her husband. But even the insin- uation, based on lies and prejudice, that two prostitutes of the white race have been mistreated (prostitutes be- cause of our economic order which made wage slaves of them) raises the cry for blood, Negro and White Doctors to Examine Harlem Children NEW YORK. — Negro and white doctors and nurses will help in launching the Workers International Relief campaign against child misery in Harlem with a medical examina- tion of Harlem children at noon to- morrow at Lafayette Hall, 165 West 131st Street. Refreshments will be served to the children and parents attending. Forced Labor Camp Workers Will Not Get Pa TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE BACKS CAMPAIGN AGAINST FORCED LABOR Is Reducing Purchasing Power of Dollar; Senate Committee Wants Inflation NEW YORK.—The Trade Union Unity League today endorsed the campaign undertaken by the National Committee of the Unemployed Coun- cils for struggle against the forced labor measures just adopted by congress as part of the Roesevelt new deal. confronting the working class, the N. J. UNION VOTES BUS WAGE CUT Union Leaders Fake Count, 1,842 Vote for Strike NEWARK, N. J., April 4. rong, sentiment ageinst a 10 per cent wage cut was recorded last Sunday when 184" hus overstors veizd p~-'=-t ih. Balleting on He gee pe took placa ‘: R ee t a 1 the cuporvision cf the Bus and Trol- Ne SS Sete, Lows: y, ted Association cf Stroet end Hlectrical Railway Emp: 23. T S72. vse wes, do*-ated 17 a margin of 507 votes, voto for azcept- ance being recorecd as tu.9 ‘2.2 wave cut reduces the wages of 5°70 bus operators in New Jersey from 61 cents to 55 cents an hour, Sharp disapproval of the methods used by the union officials in tabulating the vote was voiced by the rank and file. Officials ae not present in the hall when the final vote was an- nounced and could not be questioned by those who were opposed to the high-handed balloting methods. Rank nd file members pointed out that number of ballots were arbitrarily hrown out as defective. Prior to the balloting W. Wepner, wx-iteome of Local 819 of the Amal- Branding this scheme as a new menace xenace of a coolie wage scale of $1 a day and a signal to the bosses to put over further wage slashes on the workers, the Trade Union Unity League in a statement today called upon all workers, employed and un- employed, Negro and white, organized and unorganized, to take up at once the fight against the Roosevelt pro- gram of forced labor. The statement says in part: “Already following these proposals of Roosevelt, the bosses have renewed on a wide scale the wage cutting campaign. We can ob- serve that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., who claims to fight against the Roosevelt forced labor measure, is in reality not only refus- ing to mobilize the workers against it, but through his waverings and half approval of the scheme, is exposing that he is only putting up a sham opposition because of the opposition of the rank and file of the A. F. of L, membership to this measure. The Trade Union Unity League wants the workers to watch the proceedings of the Perkins conference on March 31, which is aimed to draw the A. F. of L. and the Railroad Brotherhoods into official support of the whole program —to oppose any agreements reached against the interests of the masses. id; Their Wages Are for Dependents Relief | WASHINGTON, April 6—On or- ders from Roosevelt, the war depart- ment is preparing to transport the | first contingent of men, who will be | assigned to forced labor. This mobil- ization will involve 25,000 workers, Only men from the age of 18 to 23, are being hired just as in the army. A condition is made that the re- cruit must allow a major part of his $30 pay for the month to be sent directly to his dependents. This takes away complete responsibility from the government and existing relief agencies to feed the families of these workers. Thousands Lose Relief. Roosevelt places a quarter of a mil- lion men into forced labor camps at a dollar a day and compels these men to feed their families for the money they get. When this program is fully in effect it will mean that tens of thousands of families will be stricken from the relief lists. It will further take way a responsibility from the bosses and their government and place the burden of privation and suffering more on the shoulders of the workers, aaa ee J 400 Demonstrate Against Increased Forced Labor Hours. BEDFORD, Mass., April 6— Over 400 demonstrated at the Welfare Board against the decision increas- ing the hours of forced labor per man for the same amount of relief. The ruling will compel the unemployed to work 2 days a week when getting $4 to $5 a week in relief. Before the requirement was only one day. A resolution was unanimously sup- ported to “refuse to work the added hours, organize into unemployed com- mittees and strike on the job.” As a result of this fight many joined the Unemployed Councils, It also increased the support for the State Hunger March which will be held on May First. gamated told the workers that a strike could be called only on a two- thirds majority vote and if the vote was less than this, the International would decide the matter first at- tempting to effect a compromise, Recognizing that the union officials were trying to smother the fighting spirit of the workers and that they put over the count for the acceptance of the wage cut, the workers are aroused to action against these meth- ods. Bus drivers should get in touch Page Three NCES HELD AS MAY FIRST NEARS 6 LYNCH GANGS MENACE BOYS Phila. Conference to AS FRAME-UP IS SHATTERED | Be Held This Sunday; Other Cities Prepare peared in the courtroom for the first time today. “I’m afraid of what will happen if I am free,” the boy told his mother, The mother wept. Leibowitz moved for mistrial at least three times during today’s ses- sion due to improper questioning of the witness by Prosecutor Knight. The state introduced the letter written by Ruby Bates to Earl Streeter denying the rape, and then an affidavit pur- ported to be signed by her denying the truth of the letter. While the letter to Streeter was in her own handwriting, the affidavit was not, and the witness declared that she did not know of the contents of the af-| fidavit. | “I want to show that this whole| affair is a manufactured lie,” declared | Leibowitz, referring to the first trials, during his heated arguments with Prosecutor Knight. | More than a score of protest tele- grams denouncing lynch prepara- tions against the Scottsboro boys | were received today by Prosecutor | Knight in the courtroom from LL. | D. branches in Chicago, Boston, New | York and other cities. Similar wires | continued to pour in throughout the | day. | Hates Protest During the height .of cross-exami- | nation, Knight was handed another | wire of protest which angered him so he slammed it down upon the desk without uttering a word. Taking the witness stand in the} trial of Haywood Patterson earlier in | the day, Lester Carter, one of the | white youths thrown off the freight | train following a fight between the Negro and white boys, took the stand in the trial of Haywood Patterson, also flatly contradicted the story told by Victoria Price. | Leibowitz, questioning Carter, drew from him significant admissions of intimacies with Victoria Price prior to the time she charged she had been assaulted by the Scottsboro boys. Al- though Mrs. Price previously had testified that she had spent the night before the asserted attack in a Chattanooga boarding house, Carter | declared that she spent the night; with him in a hobo camp. He also testified that he had been a frequent visitor at her home. Met Price Girl in Jail Carter told how he met another white youth, Jack Tiller, on a chain gang in Huntsville, Ala., while serv- ing a 50-day sentence, and of meet- ing Victoria Price for the first time in the Huntsville jail, later making | the acquaintance of Ruby Bates, who came to the jail as a visitor. He then related how, after his release from jail together with Tiller, he renewed acquaintance with the girls, spend-| ing the night of March 23 with them in a “hobo jungle” aboard a freight train in the Huntsville railroad yards, where they planned a trip together. Inasmuch as Tiller was married, his wife working in a textile mill, they planned to send for him later, after sfactory place to re- main in. Carter testified that they left on a freight train headed for Chatta- nooga on the evening of March 24, | Spending the night in a “hobo jungle” }and bumming for food nearby. He | related how, after the train left Ste- venson, he saw five white boys on a |Bondola to the rear of them, throw- ing stones at 8 group of Negro boys. He was asked to join in the fight by the white boys, Carter ssid, began climbing into the car when a Negro boy swung at him, and he hopped off the train, following the other boys, enroute to Stevenson, where they complained about the fight on the train with the Negro boys. He tes- tified that they were then taken by car to Paint Rock where he overheard Victoria Price telling another white boy to pass as her brother in order to save her from being arrested for vagrancy. Paid for Lying Moreover, he said that while he was in the Scottsboro jail he overheard a “ouss fight” between Gilley, a white boy, and Victoria Price. Gilley, he said, wanted to know what the girls were charged with, telling her: “Do not tell anything about what hap- pened, else you will go to torment.” The witness said that Victoria an- swered: “We will get paid so much @ day if you do as I tell you. If you don’t testify the way I do I won't cook any more for you.” Carter, the Witness, explained that Victoria had been cooking for the boys in the Jail. | Answering further arguments of Gilley, Price countered: “What do we care about Niggers, I don’t care if they stick all the niggers in jail.” “You are crazy,” her companion re- plied. “Sometimes a Nigger may have to testify for you to save your life.” When Solicitor Wade ‘Wright of Decatur sought to insinuate that Car- ter had been “coached” in his story by defense attorneys, the witness heatedly denied this, and retorted that he had been kept in the Scotts- boro jail for 16 days during the course of the first trial, and had been per- mitted neither to listen to the pro- | ceedings nor to testify as a witness. He startled the court with the announcement that, no longer able to endure the pangs of conscience, he sought to tell his story to Gov. Roosevelt, but was informed that the latter was “too busy” to see him. Carter was impelled to seck out Roosevelt under the impression gained from hostile newspaper stories in the Alabama press about ‘outsiders from New York’—that the case involved difficulties between the State of Alabama and the State of New York. The witness further told that oui his way home to Kno;-ville, Tenn., he met an itinerant preacher, who after hearing his story advised him to re- veal the truth. Other witnesses followed Carter with testimony confirming the fact that Mrs. Price had been seen’ with Carter in or near the Chattanooga hobo camp prior to the alleged as- { sault | Yest , Haywood Patterson, un- der cross-examination, steadiastly {denied that he said at the previous trial that he had either seen the girls at all, or that he had been a witness to any “rape.’ When Prosecutor Knight failed to get Patterson to! ; change his story despite rapid-fire questioning, Leibowitz, demanding | that the Attorney-General “I'm not ashamed of the way I'm treating this witness,” Knight | | replied. | Patterson replied to the hostile and | insinuating questions in a soft, calm voice. Knight's method is ijilustrated in the following: | Q.—Did you pick up Victoria | Price in your arms and held her over | the side of the gondola? A—No, | sir, I did not see any girls on that | train. . | Q.—Who did you see raping those girls? A—No, sir, I told you I did not see any girls. Patterson freely admitied the fight | with the white boys who molested | | them, at the same time vehemen denying the “rape” charges. Fireman's Questioning Under questioning by Gen, George W. Chemlee, chief defense attorney, | Percy Ricks, a Negro railroad fire- | man on the Scottsboro train added |important new testimony, sharply contradicting the story told by Vic- toria Price, “7 saw them both (ihe two girls) running up toward the engine,” he said. “Somé of the men with shot- guns came around and headed them off. The they turned and ran the | other way until another batch of men }came up from that direction and | stopped.” | Ricks said that he was standing | Pear the water tank in front of the | train when he saw the girls climb out | of the box car and run excitedly to- | ward the engine when the train stop- | ped. A few minutes later they were caught by deputies coming from both | sides after them, | This completely supporis the de- | fense contention that Victoria Bates | and Ruby Price sought to run away, fearing arrest for vagrancy, and told the “rape” story only after they had | been held in jail in Scottsboro. The | witness also supported the previous | testimony of the defense that the | boys were in different, widely-separ- | ated cars and were not found to- by the prosecution, Dr. E. E. Reisman, Chattanooga gy- necologist, was also called. He tes- tified that Victoria Price’s story that | she was attacked by six of the Ne- gro boys an hour before her exami- nation at Scottsboro was inconsistent with the medical evidence offered by the prosecution, He showed by means of charis that it was impossible for Victoria Price | to have had relations during at least eight to ten hours before she and Ruby Bates were examined*by Dr. ‘ Bridges of Paint Rock. “TWO (In Tuesday's issue of the Daily Page, we published an interview with the Scottsboro boys with one of our correspondents now in De- | catur, The following is a second interview of a slightly different chatacter written by another of our correspondents at the trial. —Editor’s Note.) se ‘HE jail is situated directly in | back of the Morgan County | Courthouse. It is a squat two-story red brick building. Every morning, | lunch hour and evening the boys are marched to and from the side | entrance to the courthouse, a dis- tance of about 30 yards, with a squad of soldiers in front and back. There is always a group of spec- tators numbering between fifty and a hundred, most of them Negroes, gathered along this short line of march. IN THE JAIL One gains entrance to the jail through the dwelling quarters of the sheriff. No sooner do you descend the two steps into the first tier of cells when an acid stench strikes your nostrils. It is a mix- ture of urine, bugs and antiseptic. One gets the impression of a medi- eval dungeon, with its stone slab floors, damp, stuffy. One flight of steps up is the sec- ond tier of cells where the Scotts- boro boys are kept. ‘The gallows haunt the boys rest- lessly pacing their cells. That in itself, together with the realization that despite the victories being scored by the International Labor Defense in the courtroom as a re- sult of the world-wide mass move- ment the danger of lynching has by no means diminished, explains the restless pacing and nervous laughter we hear from the cell rooms, ‘With the boys free—and freed as the result of a persistent world- wide mass movement—the road to & new life will become more evi- dent to the Negro masses. We first became aware of the boys as dim shadows behind bars. | A flimsy door separates the small hall with the gallows from the cell room. As you enter this door the stench becomes even sharper. The cell block itself is in the center of | the room with a narrow corridor immediately with the Newark Trade ‘Union Unity Council, 385 Springfield Avenue, around it. There are six individual Worker, on the special Scottsboro ; cells within the cell block, the light from the small windows across the IN SOUTHERN PRISONS FOR YEARS AND FIVE DAYS” corridor barely penetrating. An uncovered toilet is situated in the center of a natrow passageway separating the individual cells for the common use of ail the boys. The dirty cream paint on the cell walls has pealed, and numerous bugs of all sizes roam leisurely about, The cell block reminds one of the traveling cages used for chain gang prisoners on road work, into which up to twenty-five prisoners are crowded and shackled. ER Tai 0 artist wished to draw each one of the nine boys and we asked the Captain of the guards- men to let us into the cell block with the boys. But the turnkey could not open the door into the group of cells. This jail is so old, that the bolts jammed. It was only after a few hours of work that he finally succeeded in opening the door. I was reminded of the fire two years ago on a Georgia chain gang, in which a number of Negro prisoners roasted to death because the guards could not or would not open the door to the traveling cage. While our artist sketched the boys through the bars, we talked with them. Soldiers and curious yisitors who had come to see an artist sketch the “niggers” stood about. At first the boys were re- tiscent, refusing to let us draw them. . “No Southern paper would print a Negro’s picture, anyway,” one of the boys told me later, Whatever suspicion remained was dispelled when the boys saw the finished drawing of Haywood Pat- terson. There was no mistaking the truthful and sympathetic por- trait, so different from the distort- ed pictures first taken of the boys. ‘They all crowded against the bars to convince themselves by looking at the drawing that we were friends. . ITH the exception of old scars from beatings suffered at the hands of sheriffs and prison guards at their first trial and subsequent transfers, the boys looked well. ‘They were all drossed in blue denim overalls. Roy Wright who was 14 and Bugene Williams who was 15 at the time they were picked off the freight train at Paint Rock, Alabama, have not permitted two years of imprisonment and nervous tension during their formative years to warp them. Instead they have been busy making up for lost time in reading and writing. Their youthful vigor still bursts out into laughter and all the boys manage to pass jokes. “NONE OF THEM BEST” When someone asked the boys which of the five jails they have been in during the last two years they liked best, Andy Wright an- swered, “We like hone of them best, although this is the dirtiest we have ever been in. We want to get out of here.” And they are all hopeful that. the International Labor Defense will be able to obtain their free- dom, although extremely nervous about the strong likelihood of an attempt at lynching if the court would be forced to return a verdict, of “Not Guilty.” Every minute they spend in the cell block is full of tension. They must stand the gaze of visitors who come to “Jook the niggers over.” It is hard to forget that soft, intense longing in their eyes. It bursts upon you with tremendous force when they raise their eyes to look at you. * { “(QJE have been in prison for two years and five days,” one of | the boys said, brushing a huge bug off his knee. And during this time they have managed to build a friendly dis- cipline among themselves and @& keen sense of the role these nine unemployed boys looking for jobs have been made to play by cir- cumstances. The Wright brothers and Ozie Powell have probably done most to impart a keen ap- preciation of the significance of the Scottsboro case and a feeling of social dignity to all the other boys. WHAT THEY CRAVE The boys long for letters, fruit, candy, books — anything to make the nerve-racking experience they are now going through easier to bear. Flood them with these and even in this medievel dungeon they will remain more keenly aware of the tremendous movement which has risen in their defense and which is determined to free them, | united front conference las Call for Unity With Socialist and A. F. of 1. Membership for May PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April 6. of this city of which Ernest Kornfeld, ers, is chairman is receiving reports | Avenue A conference held in West Phila- present 42 organizations, inciuding the West Philadelphia branch of the Young People’s Socialist League, and many Ttalian societies, elected a committee of ten delega come to the United Front May Di Con- ference. 118 Delegates Meet. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 6.—The Sunday yas attended by 118 delegates. A {committee of 30 was elected to make all preparations for May 1 A call} for a united May Day demonstration | has been sent to the central bodies of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist | Party. The Milwaukee Socialist Party leadership has already called a sep- arate demonstration not on May 1,/ but Sunday, April 30. The A. F. of L. and S. P. membership is called on to participate in the May Day dem- | onstration Rockford Conference Sunday. ROCKFORD, Ill., April 6. — The United Front May Day Conference | will be held Sunday, April 9, at I O. G. T. Hall, 1015 Third Ave. This conference is being called by the} Communist Party section committee for organizing one broad y Dt demonstration in Rockford. The de- The Prov | |i Mine Strikes Spreading; Relief to S Day Demonstrations ional May Day Committee a leader amongst the Hosiery work- that many organizations, as well as show | unions, have elected delegates to the United Front May Day Conference courtesy and respect to the Negro| that will be held April 9, 2 p. m., at the Girard Manor Hall, 911 West Girard ‘oie fense of Tom Mooney and Scottsboro boys will be planned also at this con- | delphia on March 30, at which were | ference. KENOSHA, Wis. April 6 The United Front May Day Conference will be held on April 13, in German American Home. RACINE, Wis.. April 6.—A conler- ence preparing for May Day of all workers’ organizations is called for April 16 The May Ist issue of the Daily Worker this year is of exceptional importance. It WI contain -a | number of articles on the back- |ground and history of May Ist in |the United States; the present |growing revolutionary straggies throughout the world will be re- flected in a number of articles ex- Plaining the present situation in Europe and in the Colonies. Gen- erous space will be devoted to workers’ correspondence, and we ask workers to send in corre- spondence especially from muni- ion plants and from the docks. We also invite workers to ex- press their opinion on the need for a United Front and on the proposals of the Communist In- ternational and the Communist | Party of the U.S.A. published re- |cently in the Daily Worker. trikers Cut Hunger March Planned to Fight Relief Cut; Borich, Union Leader, Ordered Deported PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 6—The mine strike movement in the Penn- sylvania coal fields is gaining ground with the reports today that nine mines ‘are already out in Washington County Tylordale. Many other mines |for struggle both in this section and} |in_other coal fields, | | To head off the developing} struggles, U. S. Labor Secretary Fran-} | ces Perkins working closely with the} |mine operators has ordered the de-| | portation of Frank Borich, president | | of the National Miners Union, today. | This is clearly a move to demoralize and terrorize the miners and deprive the union of leadership at this crucial time. Morgan Davis, member of the | National Miners’ Union and a resid- ent of the U. S. for 35 years has also been ordered deported. The I. L. D. is filing an appeal to | in other sections of Pennsylvania and in Ohio. he Burgettstown, P. and W. Cedar Grove, Dequesne, Berthe, Bulger, Block, aree- ———— | gether with Victoria Price, as claimed | SWinging into action in preparation; the U. S. Supreme Court in the c in addition to those already reported The mines on strike are: of Frank Borich and is filing habeus corpus proceedings for Davis. In a further attempt to stifle the strike movement and break the strikes in Washington County, the Washington County relief commis~ sioners cut relief 75 per cent, a direct reversal of the promise made by Rod- gers, Penn State Relief head that all striking miners will be placed on re- lief at the same rate as the unem- ployed. By this cut families of three will receive 75 cents a week, and couples, 50 and 35 cents a week. A mass hunger march is being prepared to fight the relief cut. ROB VETERANS OF $1,203,000,000 BY HINES’ OWN ADMISSION Veterans Rally for Action Against Slash; WASHINGTON, April 6—The Wall Street ax cut even deeper into vet- | | erans’ benefits with the announce-/ ment by Gen, Frank T.Tines, Admin-| \istrator of Veterans Affcirs, that the| | huge sum of $1,203,009,000 would be | lopped off appropriations for hospi-| | tal and domiciliary facilities. This} is in addition to over $450,000,000) | slashed from disability payments and | pensions and the fund for adjusted service certificates (bonus). The announcement is contained in a report to President Roosevelt made public yesterday. This huge sum | will be saved on new hospitals that would have had to be constructed and existing hospitals and homes for v erans, some of which will be shut} down. Asa result, tens of thousands of disabled vets will be unable to re- ceive any medical care Vets Rally for Action. | While the government continues in the most brutal and cynical fashion | bg increase the robbery of the vets—/ }a robbery which has been given the | blessing and support of the leaders) | of the American Legion and Veterans | of Foreign Wars—the rank and file veterans throughout the country,| | boiling with indignation, are rallying| | their forces for a determined fight | | against the cuts.. The call issued by | | the militant Veterans National Liai-| | son Committee for a march to Wash-| Organize Conferences; Will March in May ington, May 12 to demand withdraw. al of the cuts and immediate pay-~ ment of the bonus is meeting with widespread warm response. United front committees are being set up in various cities and conferences called in which members of all veterans organizations are participating. so eee Movement Spreads, NEW YORK.—Additional reports have been received by the nationa) headquarters of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League, 799 B’way, indi- cating that the movement against the cuts in veterans’ benefits is spread- ing. In Milwaukee preparatory work is being carried on for a state united front conference on April 23. In Chicago, a United Front Veter- ans Provisional Committee has been formed to mobilize the vets for the march to Washington. In Bellingham, Wash., the W.ESL. post has set up a committee to get in touch with other vet organizations and their auxiliaries so that a united front committee can be formed. A recruiting headquarters for the march to Washington is also being established in Bellingham, The veterans are scheduled to as- semble in the capital May 12. On the 13th they will hold a conference, and on the 15th they will present their demands to Congress, ~~” $10.00 a Thousand 5.00 Five Hundred SEND MONEY ORDER, g WITH WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS! M from your district, C. P., U.S. A, PREPARE FOR A UNITED MAY DAY Celebration Order your AY DAY BUTTONS or from Communist Party, U.S. A, P. O. Box 87, Station D, New York, xX. a