The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1933, Page 1

DEMONSTRATE FOR SAFETY OF SCOTTSBORO BOYS AT 110 ST. AND FIFTH AVE., Da ily, Worker Raynist Party U.S.A. | EDITORIALS ‘On the Anniversary of America’s Entry Into the World War April 6 marked the 16th anniversary of the entrance of American imperialism, headed by Woodrow Wilson, into the slaughter of the World War. Tens of millions of corp- ses, millions maimed, mangled and crippled—these were the fruits of the war. The toilers of the world, the toilers of the U.S.A., the farmers and workers spilled their blood on the battlefields. What did the American toilers gain from the “war to end war,” from the war “to make the world safe for democracy”? The present crisis, with its suffering and misery, is the answer. Today, sixteen years after the entrance of the Uni- ted States into the World War, 17 million workers are with- out jobs, starving on the streets of the richest country in the world. Factories are closing down every day. Millions are work- ing part-time at hunger wages. Hundreds of thousands of hameless American youths are wandering over America. Everywhere families are breaking up. Evictions are a daily occurrence, Thousands upon thousands of workers have lost their life savings. The farmers, crushed by mortgages and debts, are be- ing driven from the land. The farmers starve—because there is too much wheat! The workers starve—because there is too much goods! The Roosevelt government, elected on a demagogic plat- form of promises of immediate relief and unemployment in- surance, is carrying through an even more ruthless anti- working class program than the Hoover administration. Today the capitalist class instead of feeding the starv- ing millions is burning and destroying the “excess” supplies of food. Tomorrow they will be burning millions of living ~ human beings in the furnace of imperialist war. The official war budget for the United States, England, France, Japan, and Italy, for the year 1930-31, equalled $2,873,000,000. This is three times greater than the war budget of 1914. Britain is attempting to disrupt its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. A large number of bombing planes are concentrated in the air ports of Bagdad. A military high- road is being constructed in Persia directly to the borders of the Soviet Union. These preparations mean WAR! The first skirmishes of the coming imperialist slaughter have already broken ont. In South Americu thousands of workers are being but- chered in the “unofficial” war between Bolivia and Para- hind Bolivia stands the United States. Behind Pa- stands British imperialism. In China, Japan presses on over the Great Wall, while the Nanking Government sends white armies against the - atmosphere is tense. The conflict between Ameri rialism and Japan, between the United States and I lism, is growing sharper every day. The United Sta still refuse to recognize the Soviet It is arming its imperialist rival, is driving Japan ve acts against the Soviet Union. Amer- i reedy for power in the Pacific and the ry is to weaken both the Soviet Union Japan exhaust itself in an anti-Soviet nd MacDonald are attempting to organize a pact with the aim of crushing Communism. Hit- to power means the concentration of the most rois forces of Germany. The German fas- all for war against the Soviet Union. The en- world seeks to solve the present crisis thru min ler’s € W and particularly war upon the Soviet Union. League of Nations is a weapon of British and French alism in its war acts. The League did nothing to stop the rape of Manchuria or the massacre at Chapei. The League of Nations took a leading role in the anti-Soviet g campaign. The League has rejected all the dis- nt proposals of the Soviet Union. Today the toilers all over the world must rally and re- sist the capitalist offensive, must unite in the struggle against capitalist oppression and terror, must unite in the struggle against German fascism which is raising its head as the gendarme of the imperialists in Europe. We must struggle to stay the hand of the Japanese bandits, to be ready to stay the hand of U. S. imperialism and turn the imperialist war of the bosses into a class war of workers against the imperialists. At this moment all our energies must be directed towards the stopping of the war in the Far Hast. We must stop the shipment of ammunition to Japan. We must rally to the defense of the Soviet Union. We must increase our struggle against fascism, in defense of the German proletariat, which fascism tries to bind with Junker and Kaiserist chains. ie Toilers of the United States! Build the united front in all places of work; the united front of tne unemployed and the employed. Socialist workers! Workers of the American Federation of Labor! Members of workers’ organizations! Join hands with us to defeat the new offensive against the already im- possible standard of living. Join hands in the struggle against the present wars in China and Latin America, against the coming world imperialist butchery. For the defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union, Stop the shipment of ammunition. Set up anti-war committees in every shop, neighborhood and workers’ or- ganization. Down with fascism. Rally in defense of the German workers from the bloody fascist reaction. Forward along the road of struggle that will wipe out capitalism, the breeder of starvation and war. rmam | TODAY AT 2P.M, “I send herewith $2,” writes A. W. of Whit- man, W. Va. “I am sorry I cannot collect more now, because we have been getting one wage-cut after another But that won’t stop our helping the Daily” Dal (Section of the Communist International) “I have been out of work for weeks, and see less ahead”, writes E. M. F. of Orlando, Fla., who contributes 47 cents. “But I will help I am used to hunger now. Let others open thety hearts and aid our paper too!” Vol. X, No. 84 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at “GP % New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1933 EDITION Price 3 Cents NEGRO BOYS ASK HELP! Need of Funds Urgent! |DEFENSE IS HAMPERED Rush Donations to ILD at 80 E. 11th St., N. Y.| | “Sitting on a mountain of | TNT’—Leibowitz, L.L.D. attor- ney, wired to the editor of the! Brooklyn Eagle. In a little town in Alabama nine Negro boys have become the symbol of working class unity. In the Scottsboro case thir-| teen million Negroes and mil- lions of white workers in Am- ‘erica are face to face with boss-class justice in all its brutal nakedness. The eyes of the world are on the Scotisboro boys! These boys are now most immediate danger. The Alabama office of the I. L. D. is crying for help. The defense is hampered in its work through lack of funds. The situation is not only serious. The whole defense is men- aced. Chief trial attorney Leibowitz is contributing his setvyices free in ad-} dition to paying his own expenses in connection with the case. The funds | contributed by the workers go to pay | for the most urgent expenses, includ- ing transportation and feeding of witnesses, court records and investi- gation. ‘The National office of the I. L. D. appeals to all workers and their sym- pathizers, to all organizations, to all} | friends of these innocent Negro boys, | to collect funds and bring them im-}| |mediately, today and tomorrow) |to the National Office, Room 430, 80 | East 11th Street, New York City. The International Labor Defense has issued a penny stamp in sheets of one hundred, which workers em- ployed and unemployed can sell in their neighborhoods, factories, offices, and at mass meetings. Each sheet sells for one dollar. Rush one dollar to the National Office of the I. L. D. | for a stamp-sheet which will be sent you immediately. As you sell the stamps you will get your dollar back. The Scottsboro boys are knocking} at your door for help! | | Help save them from lynching by) sending telegrams of protest, de- manding full protection for all de- fense witnesses and lawyers, freedom and safety for Ruby Bates, a change) of venue to Birmingham for the cases} of the other. boys, immediate, safe, and unconditional release of the nine boys, to Governor B. M. Miller, Mont- gomery, Ala.; Judge James E. Horton, Decatur, Ala.; Attorney - General} Thomas E. Knight, Decatur, Ala.; President Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. Help the defense by rushing every penny, nickel, dime, dollar, you can to the Scottsboro New Trial Emer- gency Fund, of the International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 E. 11th Street, New York City. VOTE9 OF LEFT WING TO LOCAL 22 EXEC. BOARD NEW YORK.—The entire left wing slate of 9 members were elected to the Executive Board of Dressmakers Local 22 of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union following the balloting last night. The com- bined forces of the Zimmerman and Bluestein cliques succeeded in defeat~ ing Morris Stamper, the left wing candidate for manager and reelected Zimmerman by a close margin. The vote for Stamper was 319 and for Zimmerman 396, The right wing business agents were also elected by a small margin, no candidates having been offered on the left wing slate, but many work- ers voted no against the right wing candidates. NEW YORK. — The Dis- trict Committee of the Communist Party has is- sued a call for volunteer workers to come to the Fin- nish Hall, 15 W. 126th St., at 10 a.m. today, in gravest, in Harlem Today, 2 P.M. NEW YORK.—Thousands of white and Negro workers are expected to join in the demonstration for the nine Scottsboro boys today at 2 o’clock in Harlem. | The mobilization point is 110th St. and Fifth Ave., from which place the workers will march thru Harlem as follows: 110th St. and Fifth Ave. to 116th St., to Lenox Ave., on Lenox Ave. to 129th St., west to 7th Ave., on 7th Ave. to 145th St., east to Lenox Ave. The demonstration will denounce the lynch threats against the Scottsboro boys by organized K.K.K. gangs, and demand the immediate release and safety of the Ne- gro boys as well as their lawyers and defense witnesses. The demonstration is arranged by the International Labor Defense, N. Y. District, and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Speakers will include Clarence Hathaway, Organizer of Dist. 2, Communist Party, M. J. Olgin, J. J. Ballam, H. Shepard, Steve Kingston, Ben Gold, Leonard Patterson, R. Fitzgerald and Donald Henderson. ILL. WORKERS DEFY MILITIA > OTTAWA, UL, April 7.— Karl Lockner, secretary of the Mlinols Unemployed Council, and Pemmny Cemt, Martin Sadela and Helen Sukolo, hunger marchers, were still held in jail today when the rest of 39 marchers arrested yesterday were released, Je ee: SPRINGFIELD, April 7.—In spite of and in defiance of the terror the Tilinois State Hunger Marchers’ con- ference will be opened here today with those marchers who have been able to get through the lines of mili- tiamen, police thugs, American Le- gion hoodlums and other scum mobi- lized to try to smash the march. A committee is to be elected to see Governor Horton who is responsible for the state-wide attacks that have been raging the past forty-eight hours. In the attack on the Chicago col- umn at Ottawa the workers heroical- ly defended themselves agdinst the fierce tear gas attacks. Many work- ers were fiercely. beaien, eighteen were arrested including Karl Lock- ner, leader of the state unemployed. These were freed hy determined ac- tion of the workers: and later were re-arrested after a sharp struggle. | | | | SCOTTSBORO JURY GETS FINAL PLEAS SCOTTSBORO Scottsboro Demonstration STATE RANTS OF “JEW JUSTICE FROM N. Y.”; IGNORES EVIDENCE AND FIGHT FOR NEGRO JURORS Defense Attorneys in Masterly Exxose of Frame-Up; ‘Let Them |Hang Me,’ Cries Leibowitz, Flaying Rabid Speeches of Prosecution | Prosecution T |SCOTTSBORO EXTRA ON SUNDAY! Because of the tremendous interest in the Scottsboro case, the Daily Worker will hwarted in Plan to Introduce Evidence of Prison “Stool” Favored by Governor Miller of Alabama ‘| publish tomorrow a special two-page SCOTTSBORO EXTRA, containing last-minute direct papers at the regular places. As We Go To Press (By Our Correspondent) DECATUR, Al. April 7.—De- fense Attorney Samuel S. Leibow- itz will complete his summation speech Saturday morning. He will be followed by Attorney- General Knight, who has one hour and one-half. Judge Horton will then charge | the jury, and it is expected that | they will retire to consider the | verdict about the middie of the afternoon. Draft N. Y. Boys innocent Scottsboro boys. Bigotry Unprecedented Speeches which were probably un- Bring Pressure on Parents to Mak> Boys Sign Pledge of Military Obedience to Slave Camps; Ma iy Methers Declare They Would Rather Have Relief Cut Than Sell Children Into Forced Labor NEW YORK.—The recruiting of the| tasks yesterday and today, and to| the consent of the parents is obtained jobless for forced labor in the Roose-| visit, one by one all the families on| by the investigator, acting under or- velt “reforestation” camps has begun in New York. It has every aspect of drafting, not just recruiting. All Home Relief Bureau investiga- tors were called by their superiors in- to special meetings yesterday, and or- dered to report for work today, their relief lists who have unmarried sons between the ages of 18 and 25, who are American citizens and phy- | sically fit. Investigators were given white |blanks and yellow blanks to make | their reports on, the yellow being for ders, using every argument to per- |suade the boy to m up to $25 | of his $30 a month wages to the sup- port of his family.” This takes the | place of whatever relief the family ; has been getting from the cit In spite of this bribe, ma though they usually do not work on|those who would not consent to the) ors genounced the conscription of Saturday. ‘They were told to drop all other forced labor. | For those under 21 years of age, Senate Passes 30-Hour Stagger Plan Bill Plan Advocated by Hoover Administration | Introduces Nation-Wide Pay Slashes slavery in prison camps, and declare “Take away our relief if you will; we refuse to sell our sons into your camps!” Those “accepting” have to sign a pledge reading: their sons for “I agree to faithfully abide by the | rules and regulations governing the work and the camps in which I de- sire to be employed.” The lie direct to this yellow dog contract is given by the following part of the slip which the drafted man carries: “The United States Department of | Labor certifies that (mame of boy) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7.—The Black 30-hour bill passed the Senate | of (address) has been selected for yesterday and now goes to the House. a five-day week in industries handling products of interstate commerce and is to be in effect for a period of two The bill, which it is predicted will News Flash NEW YORK.—The City Commit- tee of the Young Peoples Socialist League has announced a demonstra- tion against German fascism today at Union Square. This demonstration, called only by the Y.P.S.L., follows after many ef- forts by the Young Communist League to develop a united front movement of youth against German fascism. Last week a united front demonstration against the fascist atrocities in Germany was held be- fore the German consulate attended by one thousand. This action was organized at a united front confer- ence which was originally called by the Rand School. But the leader- ship of the ¥.P.S.L. has opposed all efforts of welding together a unified movement of young workers and students. The youth of this city should make today’s demonstration the occasion —®of the share-the- years during the “present emergency”. be enacted into law, is the legalization -work plan proposed by Teagle of Standard Oil and other employers and advocated by the Hooyer administration as a means of “solving” the unemployment situa- tion. Its adoption will introduce a nation-wide wage slashing campaign to reduce still further the present starvation wage levels of the workers. T.U.U.L. Fought Bill. At recent senate hearings on the Black ill representatives of the Trade Union Unity League appeared and exposed the bill as intended to create the illusion that unemploy- ment will be solved by this means and thus stifle the struggle for unem- ployment relief and insurance. The representatives demanded a short work day for the workers with no re- duction in pay. No such safeguard against pay cuts are provided in the Black bill. of united action and break down this and every other attempt to hinder united struggles. The bill calls for a 6-hour day and | |enrollment in the emergency conser- | vation work under the provision of | act. of Congress, approved March 31, | 1933, and has been directed to U. S. army authorities at (name of army camp) for completion of his enroll- ment. (Signed) New York State Temporary Emergency Relief. This is strikingly similar to the form used for enlisting in the army. The ages are about the same as army ages. Military officers will “train and direct” the labor. In the camps, under military discipline, wearing prison uniforms, using army equipment, the youth will toil at forced labor—and their parents will live on the wages of their childzen’s slavery. From the moment he leaves for the camp the boy is claimed by the government, he is sentenced to six month’s hard labor, he can’t quit, unless he becomes too ill to be of any use in the camps. Fight the Dollar-a-Day standard full pay in the Roosevelt re-foresta- tion camps! news from the trial and other features. All Daily Worker agents should call for their (By Our Special Correspondent) DECATUR, Ala., April 7.—Vicio in the trial of Haywood Patterson, and a demand that the Negro boy be electrocuted was the reply of the State of Alabama to the two-y fense—backed by world working class protest—for the freedom of the nine innocent Scotts. —®boro boys. hysterical. lynch-inciting speeches to the jury ear fight of the International Labor De- CS The speeches, made by two go off the rolief list and be made to) established for all workers through | these camps. Demand the right to | | assistants to Attorney General Knight—son of the chief jus- tice ofthe Alabama supreme court | which affirmed the original frame-up verdict—were in the form of summa- | tions of the jury. | Confirming themselves to the most | primitive appeals to prejudice, the | two prosecution lawyers ignored com- pletely not only the overwhelming \evidence which clearly shattered their frame-up case, but evaded at the | same time all the fundamental issues | |involving Negro rights brought for- ward in the trial by the defense. Opening the summation for the | state, Solicitor ailey of Jackson | County declared: “Not only the guilt or innocence of the defendant is in- volved, but also the rights of society.” He then proceeded to paint a lurid picture of the alleged “rape,” full of maligning insinuations against the egro people, and particularly the precedented in bigotry, prejudice, vi- ciousness and outright attempt to in- spire the lynching of the Scottsboro boys and their attorneys, were deliv- ered by Knicht’s associates in their summations to the jury. During the entire day protest tele- rams from various parts of the United States, demanding safety for the Scottsboro boys. continued to pour into the court, addressed to Judge Horton and Attornev-General Knight. In the mi¢st of the melodramatic wind-up of the speech by Solicitor Wade Wright of Decatur, s ral wires arrived. Knight hardly looked at them. but angrily crumbled them up and threw them on the floor. Sinking to almost unbelievable depths in his attempt to work upon | the passions and prejudices of jury, Wright directed his m against Joseph R. Brodsky, ILD at- torney, for “buying food and clothes” for Ruby Bates and Lester Carter, | two defense witnesses, and termed it | “bought justice.” Roaring like a lion | the Solicitor told the jury: “Ruby Bates could not understand | everything told her in New York be-| ‘cause it was in Jew language,” as he referred ta the “«** vouth, Car- or, as Carterinsky—bringing Attorney | Leibowitz to h’s fect with still an- other demand for a mistrial “That's the prettiest Jew you ever saw, this Lester Carter, moving his ven! HWAYWOOu PATTERSON (On Trial) hands this-a-way and that-a-way. That's Mr. Brodsky in him,” declared Wright. Raising his vc cried: “Are you going to declare for jus- tice bought and sold for Jew money from New York? At this point Leibowitz once again demanded that the Judge declare a mistrial, but a motion was denied, Ignoring completely the damaging testimony introduced by the defense s in smashing the pro- the Attorney- @ speech ory. the Solicitor Appeal to S: against the and spoke anctity of moth- onious tones he Victoria, “star” hammered a e No! sked the jury ictoria Price 3 r of the sine influences of New York.” action againat the y sir lawyers in= creased perceptibly as spectators in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRES) Pittsburgh Smashes Thru Again in “Daily” Drive! HE PITTSBURGH dis the new quota it set Worker drive. | raised its total to $522.74 untold sacrifices for their Receipts in the drive have point. without waiting. Get half Received yesterday $108.03. By sending in $ ct has smashed through for itself in the Daily 26 yesterday it These coal miners and steel workers have made What about you? mn to the danger paver. fallen do Is 50 cents too much to ask to keep your fighting “Daily” alive? 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