The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1933, Page 3

a ae DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1933 Page ‘inree Support I. L. D. Fight for New Trial for Patterson; Change of Venue; Postponement of Trial for the Other Scottsboro Boys Pend ing Appeal Unite to Demonstrate on May First Against Hunger and Fascism e Riflemen Surround Scottsboro Boys on Way to Court Room pea nit in Sorrow and United in Anger”-- Harlem Seethes Against Lynch By JOHN ADAMS Verdict on Patterson babe in her ar goes over to him. tle boys take papers paid for by older Trade Union Unity League Issues Call to All) WwW A Fi 8 NEW YORK.—A people aroused |“What do you mean? You get out} workers and distribute them, asking: & be im their sorrow and united in their | of here.” “Are you unemployed, mister, take orkers for Action; Response Begins aur peer Rive si See SE BFA wa yoises all atk GA? TRS Mee De day, the day the lynch verdict | her up, “Go ahead, Mr. Speaker. We them under doors. Helping to save “Make May Day Memorable for Labor” are the opening words of the call of the Trade Union Unity League slow in realizing that the Soviet Union is like a bright star in the| darkness, lighting the road of the masses out of capitalist slavery and} liam Z. Foster. |to Communism. They are therefore} Tt states in part: “May First is| preparing to try to crush the revolu-/| approaching. It is the traditional] tion in blood. Their desperate situa- day of struggle of the workers of this| tion drives them to desperate and} country. May Day was born in the! adventurous acts. The masses must | fight of the workers of the U. S.|ever be on the alert to defend the against their exploiters. It wes the| Soviet Union, which is the fatherland | fight for the eight-hour day in the| not alone of the Russian masses but | U. S. on May 1, 1886, that set in mo- | of the whole world. | tion the masses of many lands in the} MAY DAY, 1933, must become a struggle for the shorter work day, in} memorable day of struggle of the| the struggle against capitalist exploit-| masses of this country. A day of) ation.” | struggle against wage cuts, for higher | The statement further shows the} wages, for the reduction in hours! policy of class peace pursued by the| without reduction in pay. A day of ¥ leaders of the American, Federation | struggle for relief to the unemployed : of Labor. Pointing out that they|and for federal unemployment in- Upper picture shows Attorney have tried to replace the bosses La-| surance. A day of struggle for the bor Day for the militant day of strug-/ workers’ rights, against deportations, | gle May First. It then gives the/ against lynchings and discrimination | facts of the conditions of the work- | of the Negro masses, A day of strug- | ers “today after four years of crisis! gle against a new world imperialist the world over.” | slaughter, and for the defense of the The American workers are steadily| Soviet Union. A day of struggle being driven to increased starvation | against bloody fascism in Germany} by cuts in relief for the unemployed, and the world over. A day of strug- | and wage cuts for employed; attacks | gle against capitalism and for a new| on the small allowances of war vet-| social order in the interests of the erans and small farmers. Instead of! masses, which can only be achieved | the policy of class peace, “the only! by dethroning the capitalists and es- road for the masses to resist this at-|tablishing the rule of the workers. signed by its General Secretary, Wil- men. tack—is the road of struggle.” The Trade Union Unity League Chamlee of ‘Move tor March of 50,000 to Capitol Prompted by Fury at Lynch Verdict NEW YORK.—A spontane-| est Negro center in the United) support of the innocent Negro the Defense on the witness story that she staid in a house on Chamkee’s street, whereas in reality she was in a hobo jungle with some stand blasting Victoria Price’s from Decatur was announced, A solitary tree stands outside the Amsterdam News at 137th Street and Seventh Ave. On it are posted the LL.D. Bulletins, the challenge of Ala- bama’s rulers to the Negro and white workers—‘HAYWOOD PAT-| TERSON GUILTY.” A woman stops and looks at it. On her coat is framed a cross of palms, (It was Palm Sunday.) Tears come into her eyes and she stops the first person she sees. “That ain’t true. Thos do anything.” A greyheaded Negro worker puts his arm aro her shoulder—“That’s true, sister.’ ‘TIL Go to Washington.” A petition is put up outside the office of the News. Hundreds crowd around, fighting to sign it. A woman gets tired of waiting and goes into the office. “Give me as many of those as I can carry, I'll get them signed.” She goes out into the street, calling out for signers, Aman signs and says: “I'll go to Washing- ton or Scottsboro when they say the word, right now.” Some of her friends and neighbors come along.| She sends them after petitions. Soon the avenue is dark with people. Women and men are soliciting signa- tures on every street corner. A chair is brought out into the boss didn’t want this meeting.” “Lord knows I do,” says one woman as she closes in on the s the Scotts mee boys. Everywhere ngs. Hundreds listen. d have heard the mes- are The cop wal sboro in Harlem this 1 for funds is app worker com r , are you going to the “Give me back a nickel of th eeting? It is all I've got. family,” Mrs, B— Extra, Extra.’ neighbor. ing the Enq nothing come into H: up ing as stree In Hamburg for Patterson. “Patterson Must Not Die!” La in the evening, the Daily Tom Moor is the proof that Worker ears. Hundreds read as well Negro are oppressed headlines, “JURY ORDERS DEAT! hite and Negro masters, A “HAYWOOD PATTERSON MU r died in Hamburg for the NOT DIE.” Eager hans reach f boro boys. J. Louis Engdahl it. THIS is more like they want died for them. Aren’t you ready to A young Negro walks up fight for them?” A Young Com- vendor. “Come with me, I League speaker gets thunder- munist ous af you can sell ten of them.” the on Lenox Aye., them yourself, speaking for four him “Td take all of them, no moni s the answe! An hour later he re! money for the papers Twenty-five thousand signed the Scotisboro petitions on one corne alone. Hundreds took pieces of paper around to their neighbors to sign. but I have jous movement arising out of | States—the move for the mass| boys. | Street. A greyhaired man mounts it The movement for the| The call draws lessons from the! calls upon the masses to prepare| He opens the meeting “where all who policy of class peace by the German / themselves to demonstrate their pow- | the tremendous mass indigna-| delegation is only one of the} VILITANT UNIONISTS OF NEW YORK socialists in contrast to the triumph|er and determination to resist the| ¢j 2 4 ; f a ‘ : wish can have their say against the of socialism on the basis of the revo-| attacks of the master class. Let the tion at the Decatur lynch ver-| manifestations of the pro-| march to Washington was| murder of our boys.” He speaks and r lutionary program in the Soviet | symbol of MAY DAY enter into every |dict has resulted in prepara-)found stirrings aroused by the), 311. jaunched by the! ‘tls the story of Scottsboro as he ! i ll nlon, stati BT es | factory, into every city, town and ee tions for a march on Washing-|Scottsboro frame-up among|*0)™@y unche y e knows it. He admits it is incom- . ‘oday we can clearly see the be-| lage. Let come a new incentive | aa A : . |Amsterdam News, a Negro| Plete. 4 | for all workers to unite their ranks |ton by 50,000 Negro and white|the Negro masses, who are) : NCSrO | "Brothers and sisters, I saw hun- and Tobacco Workers al of the masses by the Socialists | ith their policy of class peace. Wel n see this most clearly viewing Ger- any side by side with the Soviet Union. power. In the Soviet Union the toil-| aration of strikes, mass demonstra- ing masses are in power. In Germany | tions and parades on May First! Sup- there is the bloody terror against the| port the Mooney Congress, which will workers. In the Soviet Union the| rally all workers against their ex- masses determine their own rights in| ploiters! the interests of all the toilers. In| Demonstrate on May First: Germany there is unemployment,| Yor the uni of the mass starvation. In the Soviet Union| masses against their exploiters! the standard of living is rising: ever Against starvation! higher and unemréoyment has been! Against Fascism! banished. In Germany Hitlerism is Against imperialist war! trying to plunge the masses into a For the defense ef the Soviet new imperialist war. In the Soviet, Union! Union the masses are fighting for a} For the Workers’ and Farmers’ genuine policy of peace, but at the! Government! same time ready to defend their vic-| torious revolution to the last drop of! their blood. The capitalists are not against their common enemy. Workers of all parties and all or- }ganizations, join together through Wm. Z. Foster, Gen. Seey. In Germany fascism is in| conferences, meetings, for the prep- | TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE, | N. Y. Farmers Battle Troopers | ¥. Y. FARMERS RENEW STRUGGLE WITH FIGHT AGAINST STATE TROOPERS Misleaders Who Advised Calling It Off Are Exposed by Action of State Legislature NEW YORK.—In Oneida and Herkimer Counties aroused farmers are continuing to dump milk and fight state troopers, in spite of the pleas of Albert Woodhead, president of the Western New York Milk P-oducers’ Asso- ciation. Woodhead wasth e misleader responsible for breaking up the milk strike a week ago. He told the farmers to go home to sleep and to wait for the politicians at Albany to pass®-~- the price-fixing Pitcher Bill. As soon as he had done that, the state politicians hid the bill in some dusty corner, The farmers went out on strike again. Farmers have been arrested and beaten up. But the farmers have given a good account of themselves. A number of state troopers are in the hospital. Both assembly and state senate heve finally passed the Pitcher Bill, vhich sets up @ control board in the \gricultural Department to fix the minimum price of milk to the con- umer. The bill is worded in such an in- definite fashion that it can read to nean almost anything. It “may” fix the maximum price of milk to the consumer and “may” Ax the price to the producer. Milk dealers will be dicensed, The control board will consist of ine Commissioner of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Health, and another member appointed by the Governor, ‘This board “will try to insist” on fair practices by dealers and will try to see that the farmers get a feir price for milk, | Dh ra es relied shotgun against farmers and workers. It will boost the price of milk to the consumer but will not give the farmers enough of a milk price to meet cost of production. The purpose of the Pitcher Bill can be best given in the words of the author of this “experimental effort to solve the dairy situation.” Pitcher writes for the Associated Press, April 10: “The question is whether the State of New York shall leave the dairy farmer in @ position where he is sure to be an apt subject for almost any radical sentiment.” McGrady Slated to the Labor Dept. to Keep Up War on I Left Wing WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.— According to unofficial reports Ed- ward F. McGrady, legislative agent of the American Federation of Labor is slated to be one of the two as- sistant secretaries of labor. McGrady has been the principal tool of the A. F. of L, officialdom in fighting the the miltent rank and file. dent Roosevelt take action to| prevent the execution of the |innocent Scottsboro boys. | Originating in Harlem larg- port acknowledging the stra- tegic part played by the Communist Party and the In- ternational Labor Defense in |five clerks were kept busy to-| |day taking the signatures of| thousands expressing their} {support of the march. | BEERINHANDS | OF MULROONEY ‘Tammany Control Bill ‘Is Adopted at Albany | ALBANY, April 10—Tammany’s | | bill to dominate the state beer racket has passed and Governor Lehman has indicated that the Tammany chief of police of New York is to be chairman of the State Beer Control Commission. ‘The notorious labor hater and thug | who was put into the job of Police | Commissioner by the grafter, Mayor | James J. Walker, is the personifica- | tion of that unity of the Wall Street bankers and the criminal underworld which forms the base of the Tam- many machine. Racketeers in On Graft The appointment of Mulrooney, | | whose police have protected the thirty | thousand or more speakeasies, blind pigs and shake-down joints, is the guarantee that these elements will be brought directly into control of beer in New York City and that ail those throughout the state who do not render homage and allegiance to Tammany will be smashed and their places taken by Tammany regulars. ‘The republicans from up-state who fought against Tammany control be- cause they wanted a share in the beer racket have now to be content with whatever Tammany chooses to throw at them for being good and faithful dogs. STRIKE OF 1,000 ‘ON FORCED LABOR, AT HIGH POINT | Enters Second Week; | Company Union Used | to Hinder Strike ras The strike of 1,000 unemployed against a wage-cut, while working on a job which they are forced to its second week. With the help of the Bradley organization, a company union, the city and county officials have tried to break the strike, but without success. ‘Thugs have kidnapped the strike teaders. They have taken some of them for a “ride” out of town, beat~ ing them up. I. M. Ritchie, secretary of the Central Trades body, himself half starved and with a leakage in the heart, was given a severe beat- ing by these thugs. | The Department of Labor, always on the alert to break a strike, sent its “conciliator” to help the city to smash the strike here. The mili- tancy of the men will also make it Possible to defeat this maneuyer. * The strike is under the leadership of the Unemployed League, The men were getting a dollar a day for three days, earning $3. This was cut to 80 cents a day, making it $2.40. The Unemployed League made a pro- posal, “if the city cannot pay $3, then the daily allowance should be $1.20, but two days a week.” This government throughout the country. Members of the Office Workers Union 2 to come to headquarters, 80 Rast 11th Room 303, daily to help picket the Schutte Book Store. HIGH POINT, N. ©, April 10.—| @ do in order to get relief, is now in| - WORDS AND DEEDS OF ROOSEVELT What He Said When He Ran for President and What He Did When He Got the Office During the election campaign, Roosevelt made a great to-do about the unemployed, declaring in a speech at Baltimore: “Ii is not time for delay when nearly half of our people cannot purchase the bare ne~ cessities for their existence ... when eleven millions of honest, industrious and willing men and women are tramping the streets and roads of our country looking for work.” And what did Roosevelt then say was his answer to unemployment? First, he said that he accepted 100 per cent the Democratic platform which had declared for “unemploy- ment and old age insurance under state laws.” And early in October, in an address delivered in Detroit, he approved the fact that “Some lead- ers have wisely declared for a sys- tem of unemployment insurance throughout this broad land of ours, and we are going to come to it.” Yet what has been Roosevelt's main “relief” proposal? A bill under which two hundred fifty thousand un- employed are to be dragged into the wilds for a year, subject to mil- itary discipline under army officers, | and paid wages first reported at $30 a month! Arousing a storm of pro- | test on the part of workers, the $1-a- day wage clause was omitted, leaving it entirely to the dictation of the | President. The federal government is not only to legalize forced labor, but this law is actually a signal to pri- vate employers to set up a wage “standard” at about $1 a day for common labor. Moreover, the 260,000 unemployed whom Roosevelt proposes to militar- ize on reforestation work are, even according to his own figure of 11 million, an insignificant fraction of the vast number of jobless in this country, Contrast this with the fol- lowing from a Roosevelt pre-election liscourse : “What do the people of America want more than anything else? Work | . . and with work a reasonable measure of security—security for themselves and their wives and chil- dren.” Security for an unemployed worker and his family at this out- rageous low standard! ‘There is also the $500,000,000 “re- lief” proposal, backed by the Roose- velé administration, and introduced into the U. S. Senate March 27. Un- der this bill—which would not go into effect until some time in May even should it pass—sums equal to one-third the relief money expended by States in the previous three- der the supervision of a Federal Re- lief Administrator to be appointed by the President, This means thou- sands of dollars to be paid for ad- | | ministrators and fat political jobs. | But assuming equitable lump sum distribution of these funds to each | of the 17 million unemployed, it would mean that the average jobless worker—including those with fami- | lies—would receive only about $29 or | $30, Such pitifully inadequate sops are calculated to keep the unem- ployed in a state of semi-starvation. It is a sop thrown out to prevent adequate relief and to stop agitation for unemployment insurance. BIG COMMUNIST VOTE IN SUPERIOR Double in All Cases Over Last Ballot SUPERIOR, The Communist vote at the recent city primaries was | in all cases doubled, and in one or two cases almost tripled over the vote cast last year. The Communist candidate school board received a total of 1,178) votes, against 447 votes received last year. Another Communist candidate for) the school board received a total of) 668 votes, against a little over 200| | received last year. | Other Communist votes showed a correspondingly larger vote. ‘ioe joie TUCSON, Ariz.—In the municipal \election the Communist Party has placed as candidate for Mayor, John task in the election the immediate needs of the workers, the platform distributed calls special attention to the need of fighting the discrimina- tion practiced against Mexican and Negro workers. D, Gustandos. Centering as its main —By Anna Rochester. —By Earl Browder. WHICH WAY OUT?—By Gusey —By C. A, Hathaway. ~—By John Maxks. —By V. J. Jerome. BOOK REVIEWS. Please send orders for the April APRIL ISSUE OF “THE COMMUNIST” OUT; SEND IN YOUR ORDER NOW The April Communist contains the following features: FOR UNITED ACTION AGAINST FASCISM—Editorial. THE BANKING CRISIS IN THE UNITED STATES— A NEW PHASE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE— ers Library Publishers, P. ©. Box 148, Station D., New York. | THE END OF RELATIVE CAPITALIST STABILIZATION AND THE TASKS OF OUR PARTY—(Continued from last issue), ; THE PROBLEMS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH | | MOVEMENT (9th Plenum of the Young Communist International), | THE BOURGEOISIE COMMEMORATES MARX— 1} issue of the Communist to the Works | | month period are to be doled out, un- | workers to demand that Presi- | more and more by their sup-| weekly in New York. Twenty-! dreds of people marching in Harlem yesterday for these boys. Today I say to myself, why wasn’t I there? Why weren't you there? “I'm going to introduce a lady whom I don’t know. No matter what the color of her skin may be and be- cause she is here, she has the right ; to speak to us, She has asked for this privilege.” “That's the Labor Defense.” Belle Taub represents the Interna- | tional Labor Defense. She reads let- ters from white and Negro workers | enclosing contributions to the Scotts- | boro defense, She explains the case as a fight of all workers. She ap- | peals for them to fight harder. | “That’s the Labor Defense. That's | the people who fought for the boys. | She’s right.” Buzz of comments such as this from the crowd. Women with palms in their coats are crying. Men are cursing. “We'll be there,” hundreds of voices | answer when she announces the dem-/| onstration in Union Square for this Wednesday at 6 p.m. The chairman gets back. He says: “I thought this was the case of our race, but it don’t take a mule kick to wake me up. This is a case for all who are hungry against those who make them hungry.” “Don't you call me friend,” says & Negro woman to a Negro cop who tells her to move in closer to the curb. Speakers from the Communist Party, Garvey movement, preachers, I. L. D., all mount each others’ stands. The Negro people of Harlem want to hear the way to save the Scotts- boro boys. This is their concern to- day and tomorrow. Down in front of the Harlem Lib- erator office on 127th St, and Seventh Ave. A meeting starts at 4 p.m. The cop comes over. “Have you got a permit?” Told no, he orders the speaker to “break it up.” A young Negro mother with her WITH NO BREAK CRUCIBLE STEEL (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Crucibie for) Steel Co, here employs around 400| Company are now in their fourth workers of various nationalities. During the past two years the fac- tory has been working no more than five or six days per month, each worker getting only two or three days. Wages were cut from 30 to 50 per cent and each worker Ppelled to do the work of two or three. The treatment by the bosses and foremen is unbearable. The workers are sometimes compelled to work 15 and even 24 hours in a stretch with- out any rest, regardless of whether | it is hot or cold work, Often the | workers don’t get full pay for the work done, They can’t protest, for they would lose their job. Once last January the company announced that it will donate two tons of coal to those who work less than six days per month. The work- ers had to hire trucks themselves for | hauling this coal. But when they | came to get it, it turned out to be} trash, so that the workers even didn’t | care to take it. But they were com- pelled to pay $2 for the trucks out | of their own pockets. | The workers themselves can rem- edy this. They should read the work- ing class papers, should attend mass meetings, and organize. Fellow- workers, join the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and the | Unemployed Councils. In a United Front we will conduct a struggle against the capitalist exploiters, for Unemployment Insurance, for better liying and working conditions. a The excoutive of the modern state is but 2 committee for managing _ the common affairs of the whole honrgeoisic.—Communist Manifesto. is com- | Cleaners and Dyers Strike; AFL Leaders Strikebreaking A city-wide meeting of all active trade union members has been called by the Trade Union Unity Council of New York to be held at Irving Plaza, Thursday, April 13, for a thorough discussion of the United Front and its application in the growing struggles led by the trade unions. Immediate preparations for the united May First demonstrations will also be discussed. The reports will be made by Andrew ¢———_— | Overgaard, secretary of the TUUC,| but in the course of the strike the and Jack Stachel, Assistant National | majority of them have joined the To- Secretary of the TUUL. | bacco Workers Industrial Union, af- The response of the workers to the | filiated to the TUUL. | Manifesto issued by the Communist | Militant picketing and daily strik International calling upon all labor | meetings are conducted by the ran organizations to join in a united front | and file sti committee, and the | struggle against the menace.of fas- |-workers. are ermined to hold out cism, starvation and war takes it | until ali.demands are won, inciuding imperative to develop that fight for | recognition of the shop committee and | the immediate demands of the work- | no discrimination against strikers, ers without loss of time. In this sit-| The Womens Council and the WIR uation, the unions affiliated with the | are providing relief to the strikers. Trade Union Unity Council must im- | id 4 . mediately take the initiative in build- | Rank and File Strike Against A.F.L. ing the united front for struggle with- | out waiting for the outcome of nego-| One hundred and thirty workers of tiations with leaders of the American | the Max Schwartz (Primadora) To- Federation of Labor and reformist | bacco Company are on strike de- Mislead unions. |manding recognition of their shop _ On the basis of the actual situation | committee and the right to belong in each ind’ and trade, the meet-/ to the union of their choice. These ing will work out concrete proposals | workers are members of an AFL lo- for the immediate application of the | cal and the strike is a rank and file united front policy as a means of | revolt against their fake leaders and mobilizing all w s regardless of | the check-off system their affiliations or political beliefs Joint action is being developed be- for struggle for their most pressing | tween these workers and the strikers needs. of the Edwin Cigar Company, with Cleaners and Dyers Win Partial | mutual assistance in picketing and shops struck Victory | relief activities. | frantic efforts to break the strike. settled shops will be called upon to delegates arrested by the police at The workers of 17 sea Da last Thursday on the first day of the | strike called by the Cleaners, Dyers | FORCE RELE ASE and Pressers Union, while the leaders | je of the A-F.L. local in the trade made | OF 1) MEXICO A strike meeting of the entire union i 9 membership at Irving Plaza on Sun- | —_— day laid plans for extending the | Way, struggle through militant picketing | Wer e D elegates to A | and demonstrations, Workers inthe| United Front Meet | come out Monday in support of those ! e | workers still on strike. MEXICO CITY, Apr) 6— team Demands include a minimum wage | the United Front Conference called cale in the trade, 40-hour week, nO} by the Mexican Red Trade Unions i by the have been released. Due to the re- sistance of the present at the ° Conference, the police were able to man- | Tobacco Workers arrest only 20 of the 70 delegate: One hundred and fifty workers, | present | men and women, of the Edwin Cigar ‘The release of these twenty has now been won as a result of the mass pressure of the Mexican workers. Half the delegates at the Conference | were sent by rank and file groups week of struggle against a wage cut of 35 per cent. The workers were un- organized at the time of the wage cut a —— First Meeting of the FRIENDS OF THE WORKERS SCHOOL Wednesday Evening, April 12th at 8 p. m. | 35 EAST 12TH STREET AT WORKERS’ SCHOOL—THIRD FLOOR re itudent: 14 Friends of Workers’ Schoo! are | Al Former and Prospective Students am ee ea Greet the Appearance of the Harlem Liberator INAUGURAL BALL, SAT. EVE. APRIL 15 at Alhambra Ball Room, 126th Street and 7th Avenue —Admiasion 40 Cents— SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE FOR NEGRO LIBERATION, AGAINST LYNCHING, JIM-CROWISM, VICTIMIZING OF NEGROES CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, WN. Y. SPRING SEASON REST and RECREATION SPORT ACTIVITIES RATES: $12.50 per week, ine, lax to members of I. W. O. and Co-operative . with a letwer rom your organization | 20.50 per week Cars Leaye Co-op Resiawrant, 2700 Bronx Park Kast Every Morning at 10:30 4, M $2.75 ROUND TRIP FOR INFORMATION call: Estabrook 8—1400