The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1933, Page 1

<= eon) eR SRC LI Organize and fight fer the releuse of the Scottsboro Boys. Immediate unconditional release of innocent Scottsboro Boys. Protection of Scottsboro Boys. Disbanding of boss lynch gange. Formation of defense corps of Negro and white workers against boss lynch terror. Against disarming of Negross. For the right of self defense. Dail Central Orgone Nig OS Mynist ‘(Section of the Com Vol. X, No. 87 o- Entered ao second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, rker munist International) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1933 CITY EDITION - Por workers on the jury. No reliamee on mace action. United straggte lynch sonrte, Foo of Negro and whtie workers against capitalist landiord ter- vor and starvation. Organize’ mace meetings and strect demonstrations, Protest te Governor of Alabemes. Pré- test to President Roosevelt. Price 3 Cents / SCOTTSBORO DEMONSTRATION IN UNION SQ. TOMORROW Appeal Patterson Verdict; Seek Trial Delay, Change of Venue, Pending Appeal | EDITORIAL The Two Years Struggle Must Rise to Higher Stage The latest lynch decision, again condemning to death Hay wood Patterson, in the Scottsboro case was like a mighty alarm spurring to action millions of Negro and white workers and farmers. Never before has one act of ruling class tyranny and brutality set in motion such masses of toilers against the shameless and bloody despotism of the American boss class. The roar of fury that thundered against this verdict shows that the time is passing when campaigns of murder against workers, even though disguised by capitalist legal forms, can be carried out without determined resistance that is a chal- lenge to the ruling class itself. Within an hour after the announcement of the verdict, tens of thousands of men, women and children in the Negro districts of the cities of the country swarmed into the streets. On every hand in white and Negro working class sections could be heard unrestrained denunciation of the justice of the chain-gang and lynch ruling class that passed this terror sentence in order to hold in subjection to American imperial- ism the millions of Negro toilers in the Black Belt of the South. But this mass fury that appeared spontaneously to burst forth was by no means accidental. It was the result of the two-years unrelenting struggle of the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense against terrific odds which first took up the case of these poverty-stricken and defenseless boys that made possible this movement. The names of these boys and the town of Scottsboro in which the first trial was held are now known throughout the whole world; they sym- polize the struggle for Negro rights, the struggle against the eenturies-old slavery of the Negro masses of this country, the fight for self-determination of the Negro majority in the Black Belt. e e It was the International Labor Defense that first came to the rescue of these victims of ruling class butchery; that snatched them from the hands vf the lynch fiends, that fought for them and carried their case throughout the world during the long months they were in the shadow of the electric chair, that appealed this case to the Alabama Supreme Court, thence to the United States Supreme Court where that tribunal was compelled in face of the rising tide of world indignation to decree a new trial. Last week in an atmosphere of lynch ter- ror at Decatur, Ala., the International Labor Defense shat- tered to pieces in the court of the lynchers the whole mons- trous frame-up and pilloried before the whole world the crim- inal conspirators carrying out the lynch policies of the South- ern ruling class. Seldom has the workings of the legal machinery of cap- italist class vengeance been more completely and devastating- ly exposed. The stormy reception that greeted the verdict proves that the Communist warning that only the greatest mass pressure will save the Scottsboro boys has taken deep root among the masses. It is this mass fury, the result of two years’ implacable struggle, that, rising to higher forms, is the guarantee of victory against the murder conspiracy of the lynch ruling class. This rapidly growing mass movement also proves that the long fight against all elements who tried te disrupt and disintegrate the mass struggle and induce the Negro and white workers to place their hope in the “impartiality” of capitalist justice is completely vindicated. Each of these attacks was met by systematic exposure and further mobilization in united action of all elements sin- cerely interested in fighting to free the Scottsboro boys. It was this constantly rising mass movement, this united front action, that broke down the stubborn resistance of these ele- ments and compelled them, one after another, either to sup- port the struggle to free the Scottsboro boys, or to refrain from further attacks upon the defense forces. . * * The historic struggle now enters a new stage, but the struggle must continue and rise to higher levels along the same fundamental line of action that thus far has held back the hand of the executioner. This verdict is arousing to mightier action the masses of Negro and white toilers for immediate and complete freedom and safety for the Scottsboro boys. The tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of workers that have been swept into the movement against this lynch verdict must be mob- ilized on the basis of the broadest united front action to set free these boys. It is this movement that alone is the guar- antee that no group of former leaders or self-appointed new leaders will be able again to impede the struggle as some of them did in the early days of the development of this move- ment. ' The further struggle to freo the Scottsboro boys must become one of the main points for united front action of all organizations sincerely interested in fighting against lynch justice and capita st reaction in every form. In the future as in all the past the Communist Party will fight in the vanguard of this movement until these boys are definitely and permanently taken from the shadow of the electric chair and liberated from the dungeons of the sleve- &, Sey pian BACK INTO THEIR FACES! By Burck 4 | Greet Leibowitz, Trial Leibowitz, chief trial attorney, upon his arrival from Decatur. Two work- ers were arrested and will be tried | in 54th St. court. The demonstration over, the work- |ers began a march to Harlem. Af- ter minor tussles with the police out- side the terminal when they tried to stop speeches being made to the crowd by Negro and white speakers, the demonstrators began their march to Harlem. At 54th St. and Broad- way, mounted police tried to disperse | the parade by wielding clubs and hurling tear gas. Negro and white workers—including many Negro wo- men—fought back the police, and immediately re-formed their ranks and continued the march, Workers Organize Crowd ‘The crowd had waited nearly an hour at the Pennsylvania station. Police had kept the crowd away from the track. The workers’ own com- mittees organized the ranks so as to permit passage for Leibowitz. “Ym going back there Saturday and make a forum out of that court,” Samuel S. Leibowitz, chief trial at- torney for the International Labor Defense in the Decatur trial, told a representative of the Daily Worker as the Chattanooga-New York train was pulling into Pennsylvania Sta- tion where the Negro and white workers were waiting to demonstrate for the release of the Scottsboro boys by giving him 2 rousing welcome. Put System On Trial “Ym going to put on trial the bigotry, racial prejudice and the eco- nomic and social issues raised by the Scottsboro case,” Leibowitz declared. “The evidence in the trial was com- pletely ignored in the Patterson trial. The jurors had made up their minds beforehand that they were going to send the boy to the electric chair.” Negro porters and Pennsylvania employees openly contributed to the Scottsboro collections girls were tak~ ing up. Covies of the Daily Worker were bought by the workers in uni- form, defying the espionage of the company detectives. Back Defense Just before the train arrived a Ne- gro speaker mounted the high steps at the end of the station. He could not talk because of the cheering that went up for the Scottsboro boys. Leibowitz’s train had arrived. The tired-looking lawyer was swept off his feet by a group that had pene- trated the police lines. Carried on their shoulders he was brought into the station, waving his hat to the crowd. The lines of workers broke, tu- multous cheering resounded against the walls. Thousands surged toward Leibowitz and carried him on their shoulders. ‘They pushed the police aside and. poured out the 3ist St. driveway, stopping traffic there, Defy Police Sol Harper, Negro vet, mounted the space around a column on the street. The momentum of the crowd carried them past him up to the 33rd Street entrance of the station There speakers from the Interna- tional Labor Defense proposed a march to Harlem. The crowd thund- ered ite agreement. At this moment & equad of cops tried to approach the ‘The crowd angrily demanded that 5,000 at Penn. Station | Demand Release of Boys Battle Police in Mareh to Harlem Several attempts of mounted police to break up a march of Negro and white workers with clubs and tear gas failed yesterday afternoon, fol- lowing a demonstration in Pennssivania Station when. 5,000. jammed. the terminal to show their solidarity with the Scottsboro boys and the Inter- national Labor Defense which is defending Attorney for I. L. D.; t them by greeting Samuel S| sergeant said, “I just want to tell the speaker to tell this crowd not to block the street.” One cop climbed up to where the speaker was trying to make himself heard. Hands reached up and tore him down, seizing Ns club from him. He was hurled onto the street. The other police hastily retreated. The march started with | the crowd singing the International | and shouting the “Scottsboro Boys | Mast Not Die. NEEDLE, MARINE BACK WEDNESDAY SCOTTSBORO MEET NEW YORK.—The following call to all needle trade workers to come to join the demonstration tomorrow in Union Square protesting the Scotts- boro lynch verdict and the entire’ attack on the Negro and white work- ing class the verdict signifies, was is- sued by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union yesterday: “A despicable crime has been com- mitted against the entire working class. Haywood Patterson, the first of the Scottsboro boys to be tried on a framed-up charge, has been sent- enced to death by a jury whose minds | were poisoned by the atmosphere of lynching and race prejudice. “Patterson was convicted and sent- enced to death despite the fact that} the defense broke down every bit of udioe.trumped up by the hirelings of | the southern slave barons who raised the cry that the defense was being | financed by “Jew money from New| | York”. “This monstrous lynch verdict is} |an attack on the working class. Ii is an attempt to stir prejudice against the Jews; it is Hitierism in its Amer- ican Garb, We must not surrender any of the Scottsboro boys to the Southern mur- derers! We must join in a gigantic mass protest of the workers thru~ out the entire world. Come in thousands to the protest demonstration, Wednesday, April 12, at Union Square. aia) NEW YORK—The Marine Work- ers Industrial Union is holding a) Scottsboro protest meeting at 18th street and llth avenue, Wednesday at noon. Fred Biedenknapp will) speak. The union calls upon all sea- men to join the demonstration Wed- nesday at 6 p. m. in Union Square to tear the Scottsboro boys from the lynchers. Governor of Vermont Sends 150 1 Deputies BARRE, Vt., April 10.—To assist the | employers in breaking the strike of 2,500 granite workers here, Governor 8. C. Wilson has ordered 150 depu- ties sworn in for duty in the Barre Montpelfer granite belt where the employers expect to start work today. ‘The governor is reported to have said that “df necessary the entire forces of Mother of Framed Boy | Rushes Here from Ala. | , Scottsboro boys. ! workers joined | tion. MRS. PATTERSON | s AT UNION SQUARE BULLETIN. SANTIAGO, Cuba, April 10. Workers carrying red flags stoned | the American Consulate here in a | fiery demonstration on behalf of the | Leaflets which flooded the city denounced the con- viction of Haywood Patterson and demanded the release of the other Negro boys. ‘ The storm of fury aroused | by the lynch verdict against} the first of the Scottsboro} boys to be tried is mounting hourly, | as reports arrive of demonstrations | throughout the United States. Union Square tomorrow at | 6 p. m. will see the greatest} number of Negro and white) in one solid fighting front in the history | ot New York. | Mrs. JaniePatterson,-smother—~ob4. the convicted Haywood Patterson, ; will arrive from Alabama in time to speak at the Union Square meeting. Tonight in St. Luke’s Hall there | will be a mass meeting to mobilize | for the demonstration tomorro' | the demonstration, Jos. Brodsky, LL. | D. chief counsel in the Scottsboro case, will speak. James W. Ford,/ Communist candidate for Vice-Presi- | dent, will also speak. Others will in- | clude Roger Baldwin, Richard B. Moore, J. B. Matthews, J. Ballam, N. Y. organizer of the LLD., etc i There will be central street meet- | ings all over Harlem and New York | tonight. Meetings of protest and ac- | Haywood Patterson, Negro boy, testifying to his innocence on the framed and condemned to death. NTENCED TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR on the witness stand charge on which he has Negro Ministers Endorse LL.D. NEW YORK.—The Inter-denomi- national Ministers Association, re- presenting six to ten thousand Negro members of various churches, sup-| ported the fight being led by the! International Labor Defense for the! Scottsboro boys, and called upon all) their members to join in the demon-| stration to be held in Union Square | Wednesday at 6 p.m. to protest the Decatur lynch verdict. passed the resolution at their meet- ing in the Salem Baptist Church, 12$| Seventh Avenue, last night, after) hearing Ray George of the Interna-| tional Labor Defense Harlem Branch. | All the ministers, including Rever-| end Thomas and Dr. Brown, wired) protests to President Roosevelt and) Governor Miller of Alabama de-| manding the immediate release of the Scottsboro boys. The members of the New York City Baptist Church, 73 W. 103rd St. unanimously supported the Interna- Jobless to abeth Sts. The Relief Bureau is age into the forced labor camps. thereby cutting off from relief th * * WE ie EE a x NAME LOS ANGELES C. ORDA TE) in LOS ANGELES, Cal. sns for an) with the response expected, despite energetic election campaign of work-| the coercion used on those getting) | ing class candidates are being formed.| relief to join them. Many cities re- Candidates who qualified for the| port small “recruitments” and in the primary election, which takes place) capitol itself only 20 have been sent on May 2, are: Lawrence Ross, for | to the camps. | government to place the unemployed | Ai forced labor camps has not met| itform the capitalist press that the| verdict would be returned in the Pat- Relief Bodies Forcing Join Camps | Movement Growing, Against These Attacks on | The ministers| Unemployed, New York Demonstration Thurs. BULLETIN NEW YORK.—A demonstration will take place Tharsday, April 13, 11 a. m. at the Home Relief Bureau, Spring corner Elix- sending its investigators to the homes of the unemployed to recruit those from 18 to 25 years of The Downtown Unemployed Council calls for the widest possible mobilization of the workers for this demonstration. All out to de- feat this plan of placing the jobless on forced labor projects to work for nothing, and use the dollar a day to feed the families, jousands of unemployed families. * unemployed. A message was sent to > ‘TRIAL OF WEEMS ‘SET FOR MONDAY |Negro Boy to Be Tried at Same Lynch Scene DECATUR, Ala., April 10.— | As reverberations of the temp- est of fury which swept the country following the verdict | of “guilty” in the case of Hay- wood Patterson reached this little Southern Alabama town, lawyers for the International Labor Defense mapped out the next moves to thwart | the executioners. | Immediate appeals are being plan- ned to the state Supreme Court and ultimately to the U. S. Supreme Court, which, on November 7 last turned the case back for a second | trial, lawyers for the ILD announced here yesterday, just before their de- | parture for New York, where they | will confer with leaders of the labor defense organization regarding fur- ther moves. Fight for Vanue Change Side by side with the taking of an | immediate appeal against the lynch verdict rendered against Patterson, the 19-year-old Negro boy, is a de- mand for a change of venue to Bir- mingham in the trials of the remain- ing Scottsboro boys. On Saturday, | While the jury in the Patterson case | was still “deliberating,” Judge Horton | flatly denied a motion made by Jos. R. Brodsky, defense counsel, for the jchange of venue, This fight will be | pushed more energetically than ever, however, the ILD declares. At the same time—while mass pro- | test against the murderous verdict rages throughout the country—the de- | fense is calling for a postponement | of the trials of the remaining Negro | boys until after the appeal in the | Patterson case is heard in the higher | courts. It is doubtful, however, whether the prosecution—eager to take advantage | of the lynch atmosphere which it has | succeeded in creating during the past weeks of the trial—will permit this delay. | May bar Press At Next Trials | An indication of the rope-and-fag- got spirit which has been whipped up here by the prosecution is found in the report which gained credence to- |day that Judge Horton may exclude | newspapermen from the remainder of | the trials, giving as his reason the | “intense feeling” which exists. Unless the defense wins its fight to postpone the remaining trials until | after the appeal in the Patterson | case is heard, Charlie Weems, second of the innocent Scottsboro boys, will | go on trial in Decatur next Monday | before Judge Horton. | Yesterday the condemned Negro boy | was taken to the Jefferson County Jail at Birmingham, to which the | other Scottsboro boys were removed | tional Labor Defense fight and also| WASHINGTON, April 9— Reports, /S busy hiding the fact that the | saturday night when Decatur became evidence, He was convicted on prej-| wired protests to President Roosevelt, | indicate that the campaign of the|C@Mps are directed to militarize the! fijied with klansmen ready for lynch action in the event that an acquittal | connected in any sense with the Ar-| camps “are not to be associated OT| terson case. sha eet e Although the jury in the Patterson my service.” At the same time the! case was out for nearly 20 hours, war department is made responsible) actuajly arrived at a verdict of to pay out the men and send the! “guilty” in exactly 21 minutes—a STE Wenner Coe Tee | slightly longer time than {t took the Reports from Canada thet similar| frame-up jury in the original Scotts- the state of V t, both ety] and) Some Mayor; Ezra F. Chase, for City Coun-| cilman 8th District; Leo Gallagher, In the mean time the government Financial Editor Admits Black Bill Will Cut Pay Employers Halt Final Enactment of the Stagger Plan Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10—In an article today, R. W. Robey, financial editor of the N. ¥. Evening week bill which was passed in the Senate last Friday with unprecedented | speed, will reduce wages. Post admits that the Black 30-hour He pointed out further that employers to avoid increasing “labor costs” will either maintain output with the same crew or fire old workers to take care of the “cost” of new ones. The net result, he maintains would be that “those who today have work would find that their purchas- | ing power is reduced.” This accounts for the support of the bills by the employers generally and t quick action taken to push it through the Senate. The bill calls for the reduc- | tion of hours to 6 a day and to 5 days a week in industries, handling interstate commerce, legalizing the share-the-work pian. opposition to the bill has de oo _ ers however. The bill has been halted in the house and sent to Roosevelt for modification and it is now said that it will be held up until other measures in Roosevelt's program have been put under way, tion of the employers which is now being developed is based on the fear that the principal of a shorter week | will be established and@ that the work- ers who will fight the wage slashes which will inevitably follow may even force higher wages upon them, In addition, the bosses hoping for a re- vival wish no legal obstacles in the way of intensifying their exploitetion. ‘$2 Pe eap a the enploy- | of the varking glee, poten sagt Active opposi- | | camps are started there, which will ‘include 50,000 men. Mainly for the | purpose of using them for mobiliza- tion centers in time of war. Organize Inside the! |Forced Labor Camps, | Elect Committees | | | i ‘reforestation” projecis. not to be removed from relief by ‘Welfare Agencies” because de- | pendants are in camps. 2. Organize grievance commit- tees in the camps to fight against | |the military-prison regulations. | |The right of every one to leave | |the camps, whenever they wish. 3. Unite the grievance commit~- tees with the unemployed in cities and towns near the camps for joint struggies. | 4. Demonstrate at the reeruit- ing stations and at the relief sy - tions against removing any one for refusing to go to the camps. | 5. Unite the employed and un- | | employed against forced labor and | |for immediate cash relief; for the | adoption of federal unemployment, '| Insurance. | ———— mee Full pay for all employed on | Families | | boro trial to doom the nine innocent Negro boys to the electric chair in the Spring of 1931. On the first ballot the jury, it be- came known today, was unanimous for conviction. On the second ballot, which was to determine the degree of punishment, the vote was 11 for elec- trocution and one for li‘e imprisons ment. It was the foreman of the jury, an architectural draftsman, who held up his associates for nearly 20 hours, with his insistence that the young Negro be sentenced to: life im- vrisonment instead of to the electric chair, 4 Imperialist Pewers Threaten Reprisals | Over Nitrate Tariff SANTIAGO, Ohile, April 6.—Chile’s action in abolishing the 60 pesos per ton export fee on nitrate, which is the financial support of the foreign | bonds of Cosach (Nitrate Corpora- | tion of Chile), is expected to lead | | to trade reprisals by the four foreign holding powers, England, the United States, Germany and Holland. Fore eign Minister Cruchaga Tocornal re- plied to all four that the government {ef te Sonch pd eerasie Sn Ber eae