The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURS) Page Three Y, APRIL 13, 1933 “Unite Workers for Demand of Unemployment Insurance,” —By Burck. Mass March Thru Chicago South Side Saturday , ‘ | | Set for Demand Better Housing, End of Police Terror, No Discrimination in Jobs CHICAGO, Ti.—A mass march hi as been called on the South Side April 15th, 1 p. m. starting at 33rd and State Sts., going south to 50th, east to St. Lawrence. Preparations for this march have gained new momentum with the mass resentment rising against the lynch verdict condemning Haywood Patterson, Calls Unemployed Council ‘In Letter to Continental Congress Which Is Sponsored by the Social- ist Party, Amter Calls for United Front | NEW YORK.—A letter was a dressed to the “Arrangements C | mittee of the Continental Cong: in Washington, D. ©. by the towns and patir in th Dally struggles o reasing attacks Na- 1 employed in one of the nine innocent Scottsboro ®-~ tional Committee of the Unemployed new deal” boys, to death. lice terror. The right of freedom of Councils, through I. Amter, national sh and insti- On March 11th, at the Forum Hall, | speech and assembly in halls, parks, secretary of the Councils. etter empha= a conference of 226 delegates, repre- | and on the streets. The Continental Congress is “1. Against senting 156 organizations, with a 5. The right of Negro workers to sponsored by the Socialist Party and increases in membership of approximately 50,000, 3 is to take place on May 6-7 in the : work day declared that the national oppres- sion of the Negro people of Chicago must be smashed. A concrete pro- gram was drawn up at> adopted in order to carry out th-! declaration. An address was drawn up and a dele- gation was elected to present it to the City Council of Chicago. The demands are as follows: Better Housing 1. The immediate tearing down of all condemned, dilapidated buildings in Negro neighborhoods throughout the city, to be replaced by new, mod- ern apartment buildings which are to be rented at the same rate as like buildings are rented to whites. In the construction of these buildings, em- ployment is to be given to Negro workers, skilled and unskilled along with white workers. To finance this, the incomes of the industries such as the stock yards, steel mills, and the landlords who have extracted su- per profits and rents from us, should be taxed. 2. The immediate resumption of work on the Wendell Phillips school at 49th and State Sts. employment to be given to Negro, skilled and un- skilied, along with white workers in completing it. 3. That the city clean up immed- iately all streets and alleys, repair lights on dark streets in the Negro neighborhoods, this work to be done by the unemployed. 4. The immediate abolition of po- all jobs, municipal, civil service, con- struction work such as the Worlds Fair and others, on public utilities such as motormen and conductors on street cars and “L” lines, with equal wages and the right of admission to | all trade unions. 6. The right to live in all neigh- borhoods, at equal rents. The right es, playgrounds, schools, etc. 7. That the City Council immed- iately pass an ordinance prohibiting the dumping of the worst qualities of meat and vegetables in the Negro neighborhoods, with prices higher than for better qualities in white neighborhoods, 8. No foreclosures for taxes or mortgages on the property of Negro smal] home owners. 9. That the City Council pass a resolution, send it to Gov. Miller of Alabama, demanding the release and safe conduct of the nine innocent | Scottsboro boys. These demands represent the very existence of the Negro peovl> of Chi- cago, embodying in then: ihe in- equality which the white ruli:.~ class imposes upon them, economic, po- litical and social. All organizations wishing to par- ticipate in the parade can send in their names to the provisional com-~ mittee’s headquarters, 1703 W. Madi- son St., Room 6, care of Lightfoot, secretary L.S.N.R. AND FARMERS’ RELIEF COMMITTEES FORCE WAY ONTO | FEDERAL RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS GRAND RAPIDS, Minn., April 11- ‘More than 500 farmers and workers from every part of Itasca County marched down to the county seat April 4. They forced the representatives of the Federal Relief Organization to listen. This was the first time farmers ard a march in this part of Minnesota. At first the County Commissioners acted as if the whole thing were a joke. ers’ and workers’ committee told them about school children fainting in schools hecause of hunger. They snickered at the reports of hunger all over the county. They refused to consider cutting their own fat sal- aries in order to jncrease relief for the starved farmers and_ workers, They reeled out the old lie that their salaries were fixed by law. There- fore they couldn't be touched. But in the end they were forced to ac- cept a committee of farmers and workers to distribute relief and so cut out political favoritism and dis-| crimination. Important Victory. This is a very important victory The Farmers’ National Conference in charge of relief in the state has); ILD. Get behind th i i | oacaen ‘i truck has gone on its way. . Gel Ind the ILD, my peo- | chair, which is the lynch noose in a| : d has laid down in its fighting pro-| positively refused to grant an in- Down in front of the Harlem Lib- | ple.” Mittccent erette Tahal! not claim, its play a more important part than ie gram the demand for $500,000,000 cash relief, All relief must be given in kind and distributed by commit- tees of rank and file farmers. Farm- ers in all sections of the country should corner relief representatives) and squeeze the same demand out of them. Farmers and workers in Itasca County are now back in their locali- ties mobilizing more workers and They laughed when the farm-| workers had gotten together for such pum. to fight hunger, war and fas- cism. {aha e Hungry Farmers Ready to Seize Food WILLISTON, North Dakota, April ll—-All of the April allotment for farmers here cannot stand this any longer. At a big mass meeting the farmers decided to take the govern- ment bull by the horns. The follow- | ing resolution was passed by an over: whelming number of dirt farmer: present. |ately mailed to Roosevelt, Garner | and Speaker Rainey: | “Whereas,” the resolution declares, “this audience has been informed | that the official representative of the | Reconstruction Finance Corporation crease in the amount allotted to Wil- liams County; id, whereas, this | amount is woefully inadequate for the | immediate need of our people; now, | therefore, “We the citizens of Williams | County, North Dakota, hereby serve notice upon the Governor, and the Congress of the United States, that unless adequate supplies of food, clothing and garden seeds are sup- to restaurants, hotels, theatres, beach- | hunger relief in the west end of this| state was exhausted by April 5. The) The resolution was immedi-| BME. } Washington Auditorium. n pay, for a mi- For adequate local to the unemployed; | The Unemployed Councils in this letter vigorously argue for the need of a united front movement of wi | ingcelass organizations at this t to resist the attacks of the cap i It therefore call attention of th Councils of th: we the ont: organization in councils in nearly country, 500 cities with and “Ym Not a Red, But I of the I. L. D. number of street meetings. A Different Army “My friends, in the war they let ~ | sleek gentlemen in uniforms speak at the movies after each performance, to get us Negro people to join the army, Today we need to mobilize a greater army, an army for the Scotis- boro boys. I am going to every thea- tré in Harlem and ask that they give speakers time after each performance to recruit this army, I am going to let you know if they refuse.” The | speaker, Turner, represents no organ~ ization but he receives the approval of 2,000 Negro workers, at a meeting on 135th St. and Seventh Ave. On 138th St. and Lenox Ave. a | meeting is going on. A white worker drops a quarter into a collection box. | I ask him what he thinks of the case. “TI tell you these boys (Negro work- ers—J. A.) get lynched for anything at all, and the Scottsboro boys didn’t do anything. . TRUCK goes through the street broadcasting “All Out to Union Square.” The broadcaster shouts: “Repeat this after me—The Scotts- boro Boys Shall Not Die.” I look jaround me. Would they respond? Yes—like one man, lips are moving, repeating the determination of the worker-broadcaster, THEY SHALL NOT DIE. Whenever the truck is | stopped by traffic lights, the broad- caster makes a short speech, A crowd gathers and remains long after the erator office on 127th St. and Seventh Ave., a loud speaker is talking to » crowd that keeps increasing. Far into the night it keeps on with its | Mmessage—talling them to Union Square, to organize in the ranks of the Scottsboro fighters, the ILD. “This boys is innocent, I got eight children and I'm fighting for those boys like they was my own,” Love the L L. By JOHN ADAMS, “Let Our Negro Boys Go,” Is Demand Over 300 Jobless Leave of Militant Harlem Demonstrators D.,” Says Speaker at One of Many Fiery Meetings Scoring Seottsboro Lynch Verdict EW YORK.—Hundreds of Harlem workers are pouring into the ranks of the International Labor Defense. On street corners, in pool halls and houses, workers are filling out the special Scottsboro Enrollment Card | Far from ebbing, the tide of resentment against the murderous lynch verdict in the Haywood Patterson | case rises higher and higher. The workers, their wives and children mill for hours around the ey There has not been enough done. ’'m doing all I can. I collected signatures all day today. I ain't got any chil- dren and I don’t want any until these boys are saved.” A Negro work~ ing woman speaking. Men and wom- en around her nod their assent. “That’s right sister, we're with you.” “This is not the fight of only the Negro people. It is the fight of the whole working class. There must be unity of Negro and white toilers against their common enemy, the capitalist class. I was born in Ala~ ere have been sent down there. Let us fight together for the Scotts- horo boys with the. white toilers.” It is James W, Ford, Negro Communist leader and recent candidate for vice- president speaking in front of the Amsterdam News to a crowd of 1,500. Women follow his every word, repeat- ing after him and saying, “Yes, yes, brother.” een eee 5 T the same place Rey. Purcell, Methodist preacher from Raleigh, N. C. speaks to a constantly inter- rupting crowd--interrupting with cheers and shouts of approval. “.. am not a Red. But brothers and sisters I love the ILD. The ILD is fighting for those boys, for my people. It has done move than the Christian church ever done for the Negro peo- pie. I know I am a preacher. T am behind the ILD. Keep on fighting, Dyett, young Negro assistant dis- trict attorney mounts the ladder. He says that he has been advised not Farmers Organize Action Committees | bama, I know what lynch rule means. | | to speak here because the Commu- nists are mixed up with it. He says he speaks because the Communist Party and the ILD have saved the lives of the Scottsboro boys. He calls for unity on this issue of all Negroes at this time. The crowd cheers him, A worker is visiting contacts given him by his union, the Laundry Work- ers Industrial Union. They are all Negro laundry workers. He visits five of them and tells me that they all asked the same question. “How does the union stand on Scottsboro?” They all join when he explains that thi is a revolutionary union, that it ha: | called its membership to demonstrate at Union Square. rades take note of this, Scottsboro is a shop issue as well. 'ORKERS whistle from their homes to Scottsboro collectors and | One rolls into the sewer at 135th St. and Lenox Ave. The giver, three stories up says, “Wait a minute.” He ed up and put in the box. | A horse and wagon travels the} streets with signs, “Negro and white ~—unite to free the Scottsboro boys.” A Negro worker dressed in convict stripes sits in the electric chair rep- lica in the wagon. Men and women run up to give money to the driver, for the Scottsboro boys. They are determined that the real chair—the innocent victims. ‘Wednesday morning. The weathet seems to be in a conspiracy against | the workers. Rain pours down with no sign of clearance. Yet at 10 am., | hours before time for the march to | Pennsylvania Station to meet Mrs. Patterson, crowds stand before the | Harlem “Liberator” office to listen to | the loud speaker. They are mobil- Other union com- | throw their nickels out the window. | aber Coes in N. Y., Same Reports from Other States Unemployed to Be Used in Other Jobs BesidesWork in Forest, Truck |Drivers for Less Than $1 a Day; Jobless Organize Demonstrations | BULLETIN : The Down Town Unemployed Council has or; ed a demonstration at 11 a.m. before the Home Relief Bureau, Spring corner Elisabeth Sts. cils throughout the country should take this lead and develop similar demonstra lief bodies against the carrying of this forced labor meas- ure and in solidarity with the unemployed now in the camps. 2 bao 9 ® | NEW YORK—In a frantic effori| he supply the quota for the forced |labor camps here, special delivery | letters were sent to the unemployed | | to report to the Emergency Work; | and Relief Bureau. But the response} lis very slow, as facts become known! |of the conditions inside the camps.| | | From Fort Slocum a young worker | writes “I run a truck for them.”) | While truck drivers get $3 to $4 a) | day, the unemployed on Roosevelt’s | “new deal” jobs get less than a doliar) |@ day and at the same time are ARMY AND NAVY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION PORT SLOCUM. NEW YORK thar Iyethers Path, compelled to pay exhorbitan’ prices) ——~ Ze A dant ada cling att Ootonhe for cigarettes and other articles at ae 4 - - a Pf the camps. Am —Faiarg Guede tee tan | rE Over 300 have already left the} vs y VY od, camps. At Fort Slocum, James Pe- | el te. hax $A hacthbe 0 trozzella, of 1061 Sixty-fourth Street s P | Brooklyn, organized a group of fif-| —4*&—feteg —stemme. frtsae a i | teen who left the camp together. Dis-' 5 | satistdction at Fort Slocum has taken | |the form of breaking up of dishes | and other open expressions of resist~ | | ance is manifest among the men. | | To instill a military discipline) | among them, they must pledge to re- | | main for six months and “to obey} | those in authority.” to gets another and this time it is pick- ee Amy Plays Big Part WASHINGTON, April 12.— The; eet | first fifty camps have been design- | | ated in national forests in different | parts of the country. The men now in the army camps receiving milit- |ary training will be shipped to the | national forests for work on forced labor jobs. | | It is believed that the Army win | | | iginally announced. Therefore | selection of young workers . between the ages of 18 to 25 as the first re- eruits for military training, which | | serves as a part of the feverish war} preparations. Ordinarily laborers in the logging | camps average twenty dollars a week, while the unemployed will not get) }a cent, as their pay will be given to | their dependents who are taken off! The letter of which the photograph appears above sent by a young worker to his parents from Fort Slocum, reads as foilows: April 9, 1933. Dear Mother and Father, T arrived Saturday at 6 o'clock and I am having a good time here. ¥ will be here for a week or so, Then we are going some place in the farmers for greater marches. They| plied within 30 days, we propose to| A subway porter in his uniform is | izing to meet in Union Square. We f encies lists from South. We eat plenty of beans. The days seem very long. We ate in are working for a big May Day Dem-| take such supplies wherever they can! speaking. | Ja. | are certain that the greatest demon- | OF er ae ee t Ld bed 9 o'clock and get up at 6 o'clock. We don’t work here. (This is onstration to be held in Bovey at 2| be found.” “T read this morning thet 25,000/Abandon Homesteads; | stration of Negro and white workers | Nolee up to the present v thy Hmbltagy Guinp. WORE starts next qioekE in the: foceat maitOn” | Can’t Pay Taxes | in history will take place in spite of | all difficulties. Harlem is on the | The man that was in the house was lying; we don’t get anything for nothing. We pay 16 cents for cigarcites. Stamps we pay 3 for 10 march against the lynchers’ verdict- Value of Dollar on cents, Paper we pay for, send me some stamps, I run a truck for them, tters rom armers Tou out | BE Ete "i THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS SHALL | ry $33 E h With my suit we Jook like monkeys. It is cold out here but nice. How | 3 ek os mondrees Of Ne Die. | oreign Exchanges are you all. We learn how to shoot here. homesteads here have been aban- jeneirs a P. 5. They gave me two needles and could not sleep. We got beds Country Describe Impoverishment, Half of Farm Town Now On Relief, Cut To $1.50 Per Week (By a Farmer Correspondent.) NANPA, Idaho.—The “rey.” Logs- | don, Welfare director, reports that the organization had 792 families on relief here at the peak—about 4,000 individuals—which would be practi- cally half the population of the town, and announces that the appropria- tion for April has been cut to $2,500 and all labor “projects” have been abandoned, Relief has been cut to a maximum per family of $1.50 (ex~ elusive of Red Cross flour, which is being again distributed free) per week. Winter is broken, and it is perfectly evident that those unem- ployed not fortunate enough to ob- tain work with ranchers at a wage of $15 to $20 a month and board for the summer will be expected to subsist on grass, which will soon be A ‘couple of misguided individuals couple led individual in the organization are helping out that idea by opening a warehouse for the storage and distribution of donated supplies (potatoes, onions, ete, to be contributed by busted farmers); thus—so they imagine— making the unemployed independent. @ i | ‘Farmers, Blocked in New - (By a Farmer Correspondent) SUMMERS, Conn.—The most im- | portant source of income here comes from the sale of milk. For this the farmer gets an average of two cents a quart. We got a cent and a half @ quart, For one month we sent in 2,400 quarts and received $15.53. Af- ter this we stopped sending milk. It costs the producers three cents to nrndies 8 quart ef te counting labor, We decided to do something. about tac. wee op and with the help of the Farmers’ National, organized an association in Hartford, Conn, to put forth our de- mands to the milk dealers, I want to point out there exists an organization which takes money from the farmers and does every- thing they can to help the milk deal- ers, This old association heard about the formation of the new one and set out to fight jt tooth and nail. They visited all the farmers and used all kinds of tricks to get them to Organization, Capture Old. revolutionary spirit. We resolved un- animously that from April 1 on we would demand that the trust pay us 6 cents a quart for milk and also pay us for surplus. It was also re- solved that if we cannot get these conditions we would eall a milk strike on May 1. Our victories in passing these mil- itant measures was received with great enthusiasm by all the farmers who intend to stand strong and fight if they have to. —H. Workers On Relief Work, On Roads, Not Paid Since February (By a Farm Correspondent) NIOTA, Tenn.— The RFC, plan here is putting men on road work. Some men started to work in Febru- ary and they haven't been paid off | doned. Scores have reverted back to | the state for tax celinquencies. Un- paid back taxes mount rapidly. Even | With taxes from two to thirty dol- lars per farm, depending upon the acreage, the cash return has been so meagre that poverty and hunger is general. Mostly feed crops are grown. Cattle | and some cotton is the main cash income. Farmers who took out crop production loans in the past year, if they did not pay up, now fin m~ selves squeezed out thru refusal of further production credit. This the attitude of the Roosevelt admin istration to eliminate farmers,” granting credits only is to raising crops and livestock for the market.” That is, rich and well-to- do farmers with sufficient collateral. With a population of 9,000, in Stone County, over 1,100 are on the R.F.C. cash relief road work project. Only $3,000 per month is the allot- ment, one or two days a month, according to dependents. Government flour is inadequate in supvlv and distribu- tion. But two distributions to date, which did not go around. Organized into Committees of Ac- tion, farmers are taking steps to force demands for an emergency ap- | propriation to assure $12,000 ver | month, work on a weekly basis. Flour program of demands for immediate | relief from hunger. “inefficient, | “farmers who make a business of | So impoverished farmers get | and clothing is also included in their | THOMAS A COLUMBIA PROF. NEW YORK.—Columbia Unilver- | sity, which last week fired Donald | Henderson, economics instructor, be- | cause he was too active in the Na- | tional Students’ League, today an- noynced that Norman Thomas, So- cialist Party leader, will be a mem- | ber of the Summer Session. LL.D. Needs Funds to Push Appeal of Negro Boys to Higher Courts “The lynga verdict against Hay- wood Patterson must be appraled to the couris at the same time as | the workers of the entire world raise still louder their protests against the frame-up of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. | “It must be taken to the State | supreme court of Alabama as well | as to the United States Supreme | Court, | “The trial of Charles Weems; | second of the Scottsboro defend- | ants is due to begin in Decatur, Ala., this coming Monday. His trial, | to be held in the same lynch at~ | mosphere in which Patterson was | railroaded, will be followed by trials | for the remaining innocent Scotts- boro boys. These trials wil cost thousands of dollars for legal expenses, transpor~ tation and feeding of witnesses, | Falls; Inflation | like in Sing Sing jail. You should see the big truck I drive. | | Your Joving son. On the international financial ex- P.S. 1 will be back in 6 months, Tell Tom I am a soldier like biat changes yesterday, the American dol-| \lar was definitely weaker in terms, | of gold currencies. French francs, | | Belgian belgas, Swiss francs and Dutch guilders all rose in comparison | | to the American dollar. “This ten- | dency was a direct result of growing European opinion that the American financial situation is getting worse and is in the direction of inflation. America still continues its internal and external embargo on gold pay- ments, at the same time that it is | planning large expansion of credit | through budget expenditures and fed- |eral bond issues. It is rumored that the government may lift the em- | bargo on foreign payments in gold.) | If this happens, the internal cur- rency will be still further weakened | causing a rise in commodity prices. | The unstable position of the Ameri- can dollar on foreign exchanges re- | flects all these tendencies. | The kind of camp unemployed are now being sent to work for nothing, Replacing lumber workers who would have to be paid for this work, This camp is located in Arkansas, of ‘Daily’ Monday | _ The Daily Worker on Monday, | 1) | April 17, will be « speciat TOM) | WORKERS | MOONEY EDITION. | Tt will contein important ar- | ticles, features, photographs and cartoons on all aspects of the Mooncy frame-up, and explain the ’ ORGANIZATIONS! PREPARE FOR A UNITED MAY DAY “4 » sign. up for another year, Most of A few well-to-do valley farmers | publicity, ete. meaning ef the latest deyelop- é pot inp i a A A a the farmers signed. Ii was therefore | Yt 1 got on in March, Six in my hire day labor. For this the workers) Thousands of workers have de- | ments in the case. Celebration simply be relieving the bourgeoisie | ‘impossible to start another acaocia- | family and I was assigned to four | are paid a bushel of corn a day ($1) | clared THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS || Special features in) the Edition of the burden of providing for the | tion immediately. days work = month and the boss|—-their price--or two gallons of | SHALL NOT DIE! | will include an intimate pen-por- mice oe der you jobless workers, and assisting and endorsing the vicious’ and immemo- rial, bourgeois practice which com- pels “the popr to feed the poor.” Idaho has a Criminal Syndicalism law on @ par with California's and sadists—accord: ling to population—frothing at the mouths and straining at the leash with hot What did happen was that we forced the old organization to call a meeting of all the farmers at the Hartford State Armory on Wednes- day, March 29. The farmers in Con- necticut never saw anvthine lire +h! meeting. It was very stormy. We did not allow the old oiuc.as u said today we are about out of money and the men that’s doing the work hasn't had a payday yet. I have work- ed two of my days but I don’t know about the other two. When, I don't know or can’t find out when pay- day is. ‘The paper states the R.P. C. is paying $1.80 but its $1.25 a sorghim ($1), sorghum ($1). hay. which is twice its Others pay a bale of —OILF, NOTE; Letters from Negro farmers from the Black Belt, the district where the Translate your bitterness against the lynch courts into action, Rush your donation to help this fight TODAY to the International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 E, 1th St, New York, N, | iy ‘The executive of the modern state | trait of Tom Mooney in San Quen- | tin, written by a former prison- | mate of Mooney’s who was freed | asa result of a mass campaign in | bis behalf, | The MOONEY EDITION should spur preparations now in full swing thoroughout the country for, | AY DAY BUTTONS district, C. P., U, 8. A. or from Communist Party, U.S. A. P. ©, Box 87, Station D, from you | | | $10.00 a Thousand SEND MONEY WITH ORDER chance to say anything, but the lead-|day. One dollar and twenty-five | sharecroppers’ trial will take place, is but a committee for managing the “Free Mooney Congress” to be New York, N. ¥, desires to be permitted to enforce| ership was taken over by the Farm- | cents for nine hours work, will be published in the Daily ‘Worker: the common affairs of the whole held in “Chicago, April 30-May 2. | | ® t it to the hilt. 8. % | ers National and conducted in a real —J. on Saturday, April 22, ‘ommun|st Manifesto. { | $$$ spans