The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1933, Page 1

Lane REARS Leonard Patterson, of the Young Communist League, addressing a Scottsboro protest meeting in Harlem. J udge Horton, Chief | Lyncher WHEN the rabid prosecutor, Wright, delivered his foul tirade against the boy, Haywood Patterson, and resorted @ anti-seinitism that would have done credit to a Hitler about “Jew money from New York,” Judge Horton permitted him to continue. He refused to deciare a mistrial. Then in a hypocritical manner told the jury to disregard it, only after the dirty work was done. That made the legal/record clear! Judge Horton also restated the creed of the Southern slave holders in his statement to the jury: “We live together in peace and tranquility between the white and Negro races . . . but we want to protect the peace and tran- quility of our section.” Every lynch fiend understands such language. It means: “We, the Southern masters alone know how to handle our Negroes and we will not tolerate anyone trying to compel us to recognize tnem as human beings. | They have no rights we are bound to respect.” Every lyncher knows | | | that means to-maintain unaltered the policies of jim-crowism, segrega- tion, terror arid suppression. On the most vital question at issue in the trial, the right of Negroes to sit on the jury, Judge Horton by his actions completely threw all the strength of his position on the side of the prosecution. He deliberately permitted the trial to yo on with a lily-white jury recruited from the capitalist landlord elements and their hangers-on. He persistently denied every motion of the defense for a mistrial tm the face of the most flagrant violations of even Capitalist legal pro- cedure. * Comrade Foster's description of Judge Horton as the “chief lyncher” | ‘ww accurate and absolutely true. ‘The statement of Attorney Leibowitz praising the fairness of Judge Horton is belied by the splendid and vigorous fight made by the Inter- national Labor Defense whom he represented in the court. The actions of the defense attorncys in the court were directed agairsi ine whole legal lynch machinery of the state, Judge Horton as well as the prosecuting attorneys, Knight and Wright. ‘ Attorney Liebowitz can really fight for the lives of the nine Scotts- boro boys only by pursuing the line laid down by the International Labor Defense. No other policy can be successful. Every other policy is opposed to the interests of the boys. Now more than ever it is necessaty to carry on. the fight along the Bnes laid down by the International Labor Defense, the line of resourceful legal defense backed and supported by powerful mass actions. The lives of the Scottsboro boys can be saved. But there is only one thing that can save them. And that is the might of mass actions, the irresistable power of world anger at the murderous frame-up. y ‘Now more than ever to have illusions about the impartiality of capital- ist courts is fatal. The Scottsboro boys are alive today only because the protest aroused by the International Labor Defense and the Communist Party was directed against legalistic illusions. As the struggle for the lives of the boys gets fiercer, the capitalist class pursues the strategy of fostering legalistic illusions of fairness, be- cause it is only in this way that they can dull the vigilance of the people. ‘The attempt to weaken the onrush of world protest and mass actions in defense of the Scottsboro boys, by fostering the illusion that capitalist courts, particularly southern courts, are impartial tribunals of justice, is in actuality playing directly into the hands of the lynchers. ‘The International Labor Defense is leading the world protest against the legal lynching of the Scottsboro boys. This protest alone stands be~ tween the boys and execution. The toiling people must build the Inter- national Labor Defense. Through its leadership alone can the boys be snatched from the fate which the lynch masters have in store for them. Dail Central Org Entered us stcond-class matter at the Post Offi ORG New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Marck 5, — (Section of the Communist International) ico at 1879 NEW YORK, THUR: DAY, APRIL 13, 19% orker of “the-Cominunist Party U.S.A. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents STORM CAUSED WEDNESDAY MEET TO BE POSTPONED; WORKERS BRAVE WEATHER’ NEW YORK.—Braying snow, rain and wind, which continued during the entire day, egro and white workers gathered at the north side of Union Square last night in spite of the fact that the Scottsbore protest demon- stration had already been postponed for Friday at 5 p.m. due to the weather. The workers stood at the square for more than half hour, many of them without oyercoats and umbrellas, soaked to the skin when the meeting had ended. After brief speeches had been made by James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice-president in the recent elec- tion, Edward Sagarin of the National Students League, and B. West, of the Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee, the chairman announced that the demonstration originally planned for yesterday would be held on Friday. He called upon those present to carry the call for the de- monstration to the shops, trade unions and among the unem- ployed in preparation for Friday’s meeting. A special 8-page edition of the| DAILY WORKER on the signi-| HARLEM MEETS a ficang> of May First to the revo-) | ceca on April 26. This issue will con- iSt. Luke Hall Jammed; | |7p27yi* 2" \Many Street Meetings | | "The historical background of| | May First, dealing concretely with the 8-hour day movement, ‘the’ Haymarket events. The powerful Union Square de-| NEW YORK.—One hour before the| | scheduled meeting time Tuesday) | monstration of 1890. | night, St. Luke's Hall on 130th St. is! | The May Day barricades strug-| filled. Over 800 Negroes and 200/ | ste in Berlin in 1929. 1] white workers crowd every foot of | May Day under czarist Russia | space and flood out into the hall,| |and ir the Soviet Union today. There to protest the lynch verdict of | The Second International and Alabama's courts against Hayward) | ygay First. Patterson. || The struggles of the American Several large open-air meetings! | working class from May First,| were held earlier in the evening, in-| | 1932, to May First, 1933. cluding one before the office of the We call upon every district of Harlem Liberator. the Party, every section and unit,| | Henry Sheperd, Negro worker and) | every mass organization to imme-| organizer of the Trade Union Unity| | diately prepare for the most wide-| | League, L. Patterson, Young Commu-| | spread distribution of this issue. | | nist League Organizer, Fred Bieden-| | We call upon all workers to send) kapp and others speak for the de-| | in articles on how they intend to) | fense of the nine Scottsboro boys.| | celebrate May First this year. | Morris E. Taft is chairman. | ba apa Three minutes of thunderous Send orders for bundles of Spe- | |eial May Day Edition to Daily orker Business Office, 50 E. 13th cheering interrupts Pattersosn as he} speaks. “This week the Negro peo- | nouncing the lynch verdict against Haywood Patterson. | |cluded are conferences in Detroit, | April 16; Syracuse, April 15; | burgh, April 23, Newark, April 23; P.M. SCOTTSBORO PROTEST DEMONSTRAT AT UNION SQUARE, FRIDAY AT 5 Postal Telegraph’ MLeTD SANFRANCISCO CALIF 4 LABOR DEFEWSE® hy £ 822 50 FILLIAM PATTERSON, IMTERNATICHAL BO EAST 11 ST MERYORK Nive HAYEOOD PATTERSON VERDICT AGAIR PROVES IMPOSSIBILITY NEGRO WORKER SECURING JUSTICE LYNCH RIDDEN COURT OF SOUTH THIS DECISION SHOULD SPUR YOU TO GREATER EFFORTS RALLY EVER GREATER MASSES WORKERS | AEGARDLESS RACE CREED COLOR OF MATIONALITY TO THE SUPPORT | | | SCOTTSBORO BOYS ONLY MASS SUPPORT SILL SAVE THEIR LIVES ANG ACHIEVE THEIR LIBERATION® Tom MOONE YT. Telephone Your Telegrams io Postal Telegraph Copy of wire received today from Tom Mooney by the LL.D., de- Labor J ury ‘Picked for o Second Mooney Trial /315 Delegates at Chicago Conference; More Cities Prepare for Mooney Congress SAN FRANCISCO, April 12.—A labor jury of 18 workers has been elected | by the united front of working class organizations in San Francisco to render verdict on the second Mooney trial set for April 26th. The jury was chosen at the Free Tom Mooney conference held here, | which ineluded 87 American Federation of Labor local. wnions, delegates }trom lovals of the Railway Brother-%- - <a |hoods and from mass organizations) Will coincide with the Chicago Con- |such as the International Labor De-| gress and other mass meetings and fense and the Friends of the Soviet demonstrations throughout the coun- Union. | try to arouse mass demand for the A delegation of workers chosen by} sxeedoms"cr eben the San Francisco conference to visit | Tom Mooney in San Quentin was de- nied entrance by the warden. | Prior to the Chicago Congress a} series of over 60 conferences is being held in foremost American cities. In- By Chicago Conference CHICAGO, April 12—Three hun- dred and fifteen delegates, repre- senting 218 organizations, met here in a Free Tom Mooney conference, April 9. Included were twelve A. F. of L. locals, three locals of the Carl Borders unemployment committees, one local of the I. W. W. unempl ~ ion, and Communist Party,| opposition, and cultural groups. Boston, April 16; St. Paul, April 16; Minne- apolis, April 16; Youngstown, April 16; Philadelphia, April 17; Buffalo, April 23; Cleveland, April 23; Pitts- earning of the conviction of Hay-| wood Patterson, framed Negro victim} of Decatur, Ala., lynch court, the con- | ference unanimously adopted a mo-| tion to wire a protest and demand| the’ safety of the boys and the attor- neys. Twin Ports (Duluth and Superior), April 23. New York Meeting. Immediately following the opening |of the trial a mass meeting will be | NEW YORK.—“I am glad to be in New York. | James E. Horton and Attorney-Gen- | | at least 25,000 telegrams each, pro- | as many LL.D. TO FIGHT MOVE TO RUSH THRU OTHER TRIALS Defense Will Demand Postponement Pending Appeal; Weems Trial Set for Monday DECATUR, Ala., April 12.—Gen. George W. Chamlee, atiorney for the International Labor Defense in the Scottsbore frame-up, will move for a postponement of the trial of Charlie Weems pending the appeal of the case of Haywood Patterson to the higher courts, when Judge Horton orders the commencement of the Weems trial here on Monday. Meanwhile the ELD, backed by international protest. is demanding a change of yenue to Birmingham for the remaining trials. I am glad to be with the workers and the LL.D. who are fighting for my boy.” Mra Janie Pat- terson, mother of Haywood Patterson, framed-up Scottsboro youth, told the Daily Worker reporter who interviewed her before she stepped off the train at Pennsylyania depot where 700 Negro and whiie workers waited to greet her. Attorney Samuel S. Leibowitz was among those sreeting her. The train was half an hour late. Fifty police deployed themselves around the steps at the south end of the station. They could not hoid the ranks back, however, when Mrs. Patterson mounted the steps escorted by the reception committee of the International Labor Defense. “Long live the Scottsboro boys. Three cheers for Mother Patterson,” some one called out and the roof of the station echoed a thunderous res- ponse of the hundreds of workers present. Workers who had come from Harlem and other parts of New York in spite of the snow outside. Mrs. Patterson was escorted to a cab that was waiting to take to the LL.D. office. The crowd pushed the police aside and ran after her They surrounded the cab, cheering and shouting. Hundreds immediately started marching to Union Square for the Scottsboro protest meeting. her The Negro and white workers of the world have swung | into their mest intensified action in the fight to save the boro boys, following the pronouncement by an all-white jury in Decatur, Ala., of a lynch verdict of death against Haywood Patterson, first of the boys to be retried. | It is estimated that at least a million workers throughout the country took part in protest dem-@——__—__—____— onstrations and mectings in the last | | OT three days, with the tempo of pro-| | TMPORTANT | SCOTTSBORO test constantly rising. | fe . Workers, party and non-party, | A national movement was launched by the International Labor Defense,| |2F€ urged to call at the various to obtain a million signatures to a| | headquarters tonight for leaflets petition addressed to President, | for the Second Scottsboro demon- Franklin D. Roosevelt, demanding | stration to be held in Union that he step in and prevent the legal | Friday at 5 p. m. Sect lynching of Haywood Patterson and||ers and heads of wo! cl of the other boys. |shonld come to District Offic | Party today for the leaflets. Protests Pour In. It was «mmounced from Alabama | ————__ ee that Governor B. M. Miller. Judge Section N. Y. Protests NEW YORK. — A Si eral Thomas E. Knight, Jr. special| monstration and parade wi prosecutor in the case, had received) py the Downto wn trict IL.D. tomorro’ 7:30 p.m., at 10th S Paul Green, from Decatur, will testing the lynch verdict. At least re believed to have been sent to. President Roosevelt. {held in the Bronx Coliseum, New Two observers attended the Mooney ple of Harlem have above all things] They} proven that they are fighters. have proven that they know hi fight, they are fighting in unity the workers against the lync! rulers of this country.” In answer| to his appeal for “action and still) more action,” they flood him with one dollar bills and all their pennies. This money comes from an audience that is over 50 per cent unemployed. St., New York, ¥. York City, for 12,000 workers. This! meeting from the Socialist Party. At the menti of the Soviet Union, be is interrupted with thunderous | applause. Time after time the audience thun- dered its support of the International Labor Defense and denounced the misleaders of the Negro people, The statement of the NAACP in the cap- “The Tide Is Turning,” italist press met the angry response of the Negroes particularly. They | know who fights for Scottsboro, they | and the militant white workers. They promised to carry on their share of the struggle to victory. Score NACP. Shepherd denounces the slanders of the leaders of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Col- ored People.” If it were not for the An Attack on the Soviet Union in Congress of the six Britich engineers on trial in Moscow for piotting to sabotage and wreck Soviet industry, has pleaded guilty. Commenting upon this, Rainey, Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, said today that the Soviet trial of the British engineers has “complicated” the question of the United States recoguition of the Soviet Union. Aiso, Senator Robinson, Republican of Indiana, told the Senate today that rec- | ognition of the Soviet Union would mean “simply placing a gun in their hands with which to shoot us.” The coincidence of these developments, and the particular manner of expression employed by the Speaker is significant of the way in which the whole question of the recognition of the Soviet Union is now being regarded in government circles. This open hostility on the part of legislative leaders finds expression om the eve of MacDonald's arrival in the United States, where he is to confer with Roosevelt about the coming World Economic Conference. The Soviet Union, which is now second only to the United States in the pro- duction of certain heavy industries, such as iron and steel, which leads the world in the production of oil, and which is a leading world producer of wheat, has not been invited to participate in this “Economic Confer- ence.” As Roosevelt prepares to confer with MacDonald the House of Com- mons has passed the Embargo Bill, giving the British government the right to break off at any time trade relations with the Soviet Union. The sudden concern of Speaker Rainey about the British engineers, together with all the above developments, point in a definite direction. ‘They indicate that the currents among the world imperialist powers are fm the direction of an anti-Soviet front. ‘The Friends of the Soviet Union is now conducting s nation-wide drive for the recognition of the Soviet Union. The best way to fight the hostile statements of our anti-Soviet congressmen and senators is to give vigorous support to this campaign. The people of the United States must demand immediate recognition of the Soviet Union. ‘This Sunday, April 16th, at 2 p.m., the Friends of the Soviet Union is holding a mass meeting for the recognition of the Soviet Union at Web- | ster Hall, 119 BE. 11th St., New York City. Let this meeting be a powerful answer to the enemies of the Soviet Union. Communists, our boys would be| At the end of the meeting hundreds dead.” He is cheered by the audi-| stop to buy the Daily Worker, the) | ence. “There is a church on every sireet jin Harlem built with our pe. >. | Now if ever, we can make these} churches serye us for a change. We can use them as centers to mobilize | 300,000 Harlem Negroes ity with the white workers for Scotisvoro Boys.” The crowd roars | back at the speaker, “We'll use them.” Cheer Soviet Union. Fred Biedenkapp speaks for the Communist Pary. The crowd cheer for five minutes shouting: “Join the ILD, Join the Communist Party.” S. P. ANNOUNCES MEETING AGAINST FASCISM; WORKERS URGED TO JOIN DEMONSTRATING FOR UNITED ACTION NEW YORK.—After rejecting every effort to form a united front and setting obstacles in the way of joint activity by its members together with members of the Communist Party, the Socialist Party has announced @ meeting against fascism in Germany for Saturday, April 15,1 p. m. at Union Square. Only a week before 22,000 workers jammed Madison Square Garden. This demonstration forged a mighty weapon in the struggle against Ger- man fascism. Scorgs of organizations participated in this meeting at which the Samant Party stood in the forefront for the unity of the working class, but the Socialist Party refused to support this meeting. | ‘The American Socialist i‘arty is following the trail blazed by the German Social Democratic Jeaders. Standing in the way of uniting the | workers against Hitler's fascist: attacks. But the workers in New York m ‘oy every attempt to hinder workingclass unity. Trade unions, workers fraternal organizations, in- dividual workers should join this meeting on Saturday afternoon at Union Square and make it a united demonstration against fascism. | have learned of for the first time during the past few days. seethes with anger T.U.U.L. MASS MEMBERSHIP MEET TONIGHT Mass membership meeting of al! | affiliated T.U.U.L. unions to discuss pplication of United Front policy in de union struggles and to prepare | for May Day, tonight. Jack Stachel | and A. Overgaard will report. Irving} Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, 7:30 p.m. j 7 ‘BRITISH ENGINEER CONFESSES SABOTAGE AGAINST U.S.S. My _ 'Struggle Developing Against Confiscation of| Entire Crops by Landowners By a Negro Sharecropper DADEVILLE, Ala.—I thought I would write you a few lines to let you | paper about which many of them) know how we are getting along down here. We are just here by the mercles | of the Lord, among our enemies, with not a living chance. We are naked | haven't had for three winters. We are share-croppers, and because we are in debt, the landlord holds all our cotton every year, and we don’t get one penny to get shoes and | clothes to work in. We have to make a crop in rags and barefooted and part of the time hungry. He pre- tends he is going to furnish us the year, but only lets us have five dol- lers a month for about three or four months. There are two families of us here on the place which consists of eleven people in all. He didn’t let us have one penny from last Aug- ust until this year in January, when he came down here and brought elev~ en dollars for two families. This amount would not get shoes for one family. Trodden Under Foot So you see just about how we have to live and are treated. I pray the day will come when we Negroes can have our equal rights to make a liv- ing for ourselves. All our lives we haye been trodden under foot and could not speak for our rights or else we would be knocked down, beat- en, shot or lynched, The Dadeville Trial So I guess you have already heard of Dadeville, Ala., on Jan. 12 of this year, when the trial of the five Ne- | Bro sharecroppers was to be heard They was not allowed to go in the Court House and was driven out of town like brutes, just as though they |how the Negroes were driven out | | Harlem and barefooted and haven't anything to get clothes and shoes with, and wasn’t human. That is their way of treating the Negroes down here in the South. | “Like Unto a Rabbit” The Negro’s living chance here the South (where we was bred and | born), is like unto a rabbit in the | forest among a crowd of hunters with deadly weapons, everyone shouting catch him, kill him, and every time one gets a chance, he will shoot and kill or wound him. So you see that is the fix we are in here, everybody shouting kill him, beat him, lynch him, and not one voice raised to de- fend him. For Bread, Land and Freedom But I am so thankful that the tide jis turning and I thank God and all the friends of the Negro race that are working for the defense and rights of the Negroes. I pray that we may succeed in our struggle for Bread, Land and Freedom. Your comrade. Sharecroppers | from Black Belt Tell Own Story | in “ | | Letters from Negro farmers from) | the Black Belt, the District where | the Sharecroppers ‘Trial is about! to take place, will be published in. | the Daily Worker on Saturday | [Apel 22 | In Santiago, Cuba, a demonstra- tion of workers was held before the American consulate in protest against the lynch verdict. In Harlem hundreds of meetings were held day and night, on the streets and in churches and clubs, at which International Labor De- fense and other speakers spoke on the case. The Amsterdam News, New York Negro weekly, announced that 50,- 000 signatures to its Scottsboro pro- test had been obtained by Monday morning, with thousands more pour- ing in hourly. Plans for a march of Negro and white workers to Washington to pre- sent the petition were announced with thousands volunteering to join it. A tremendous demonstration of Negro and white workers took place at Union Square, New York, Wed- nesday evening while Chicago, | Boston, Pittsbusth, Philadelphia, | Cleveland, Akron, Indianapolis and Birmingham, and the Pacific Coast cities reported huge mass protest meetings in preparation. Millions of leaflets calling for-pro- test, linked with specific local meet- ings, have been issued throughout the United States. Divine: re Pittsburgh Protest PITTSBURGH, Pa., April i2.—A demonstration against the Scotts~ boro decision will take place on Sat- of Kirkpatrick and Wylie Avenues. for Recognition by U. S. of Soviet Union WASHINGTON, April 12.—In re- ply to a speech by Senator Robinson, Republican of Indiana, who urged President Roosevelt not to yield “to insistent propaganda favoring Amer- ican recognition of Russia,” Senstor Borah, Republican of Idaho, and a leading Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, denied that the Soviet Government was cir- culating any propaganda in the United States, B.! FULL DETAILS ON PAGE urday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m., corner! Borah in Senate Speaks | and 10th St., 7:30 The parade, led Bi , will culn monstration in F | Sadie Vanvee: | Stein, David Kol v }er recently returned from the Soviet | Union, as main speakers. '|Foreign Workers \|In U.S.S.R. Town Pledge Support | |_ KONDOPOGA, U.S.S.R. (By | |Mail).—A pretest from the Kon- | | dopoga foreign workers to the gov- lernment of the United States in | behalf of Scottsboro bo; | | We have followed very closely |the persecution of the Scottsboro |boys in its various stages and are | |convinced that the nine Negro | |youths are innocent and are vic~ | tims of the most vicious frame- | up. Therefore we demand that | |these young workers must be set |free immediately. \ || Unanimously accepted at the | |mass meeting of the foreign work-| | |ers of Kondopogs, U.S.S.R., March/ 23, 1933. Karhu, Chairman; Fors, Sec'y. HITLER FIRES N.Y. CONSUL | NEW YORK.—In response to a re- quest from the Hitler regime, Dr. Paul Schwarz who has been Ger- man Consul in this city for the past |four years, resigned today. Dr. Schwartz entered the diplomatic ser~ vice under the ex-Kaiser. He declared that for the last fourteen years “my entire existence has been bound up in Republican Germany.” Despite his resignation, he has no lintention of fighting against fascism. He declared, “For us who are now on the outside there is only one thing to do, and that is to repeat the words of an historic American, ‘Right or Wrong, my country’. Dr. Schwartz is apparently ready to serve fascism when he is needed. 4 THIS ISSUE Rae