The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1933, Page 1

RPT RO 1 To Start a Workers’ Mdvucn i rk Ey INDICTMENT OF BRITISH SPIES IN MOSCOW AND CABLES FROM SOVIET UNION Organize and fight for the release of the Scotisboro Boys. Immediate unconditional release of innocent Scotisboro Boys. Protection of Scottsboro Boys. Disbanding of boss lynch gangs. Formation of defense corps of Negro and white workers against boss lynch terror. Against disarming of Negroes. For the right of self defense. ail Central Org the-Cdr iaynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist Inter rational) Vol. x No, 990 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. %.,/unter tha) At of March 8, 1879. ALL OUT Td The Daily Worker and 3,000 MINERS British the Scottsboro Case The attempt of the Southern ruling class to lynch the nine innocent Scottsboro boys on the crudest frame-up brings into bold relief how vital is the Daily Worker for the toiling masses and oppressed people of this country. For it is safe to say that if the Daily Worker had not been in existence on that April day two years ago when the Scottsboro boys were taken off a freight car in Alabama, the legal lynching of these boys would have gone ahead as scheduled. Two or three weeks after their arrest, the boys would have been placed one after another into the electric chair at Kilby Prison where their lives would have been burnt out. It was the Daily Worker alone which immediately threw the hot spotlight of exposure upon this legal lynching. It was the Daily Worker which immediately raised the cry, “The Scottsboro Boys are innocent! We must wrest them from the hands of the ruling class lynchers! The Scottsboro boys must go free!” The capitalist press of the country, where it was not al- tactther silent about this “trivial incident,” gave the case two or three lines on some back page, merely mentioning the coming execution of the “Negro rapists.” in The Daily Worker alone hammered home the Interna-| virginia Hill Mine in East tional Labor Defense policy of legal defense backed by mass protest, which stands between the boys and execution. The Daily worker is the only daily newspaper in the English language in the U. S. which defends the interests of the toiling masses. Tt must grow into a mighty voice! Well Deserved We get a measure of the “liberalism” of the Nation in its praise for Frances Perkins upon her appointment as Secretary of Labor by President Roosevelt. Said the Nation, March 8, 1933: “The appointmen. of Frances Perkins to the De- partment of Labor is equally a cause for profound jub- ilation. The first woman to enter the Cabinet, she is a tried executive and public official, with a national r«putation fo: ‘ficiency, integrity and courage. Her appointment renders a service to the working men and women of America, organized and unorganized, that can hardly be measured. * * Let us examine the “service to the working men and women of America” which the new Secretary of Labor has already “rendered” during her first months. 1, In the hearings before Congress on the forced labor bill whereby Roosevelt intends to militarize 250,000 jobless workers at an outrageous wage—$1 a day and later left to the discretion of the dictatorial president—his “principal witness.” “The plan which she defended is considered gen- erally as her own,” according to the New York Times. 2. ‘Tue Kiplinger Washington Letter, confidential news service to business men, reported on March 25, 1933, that “Railroads probably will succeed in reducing wages more than the present 10 per cent after midyear. ... Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labor, now seems to be preparing groundwork.” (Our emphasis). 3. Then we have the spectacle, commented upon edi- torially by the Daily Worker, of the conference with “Labor Leaders” in Washington, on March 31. The only real lead- ers of the fight for the workers’ interests, the Trade Union Unity League, the Communist Party, and other revolutionary | organizations, were not invited. And in answer to the Trade Union Unity League's protest against this action by Perkins, she wrote that she was “holding a series of small confer- ences, keeping the number of persons at each quite limited.” The flimsiness of this excuse is apparent when we remember that some fifty A. F. of L., Railroad Brotherhood and other union chiefs had been called to Perkins’ “small conference.” Praise of Frances Perkins by the “liberal” Nation, is well deserved. Committee for the “Daily” NEW YORK.—The columns of the “Daily” in recent weeks have featured the most outstanding events of the toilers both in this country and internationally. ‘What reader of the “Daily” has not followed closely the reports ot the Scottsboro case and felt our class indignation against the lynch verdict? The reason for this is—the Daily Worker is the voice of the working class—it is the central organ of the Communist Party, It is necessary to still further improve our “Daily.” More cementing of its ties with the workers! Therefore we propose to organize A WORKERS’ ADVISORY COM- MITTEE. A committee of workers who will be in daily contact with the staff of the paper. This will be established at the next meeting of the city committee of the “Daily” which takes place on Saturday, April 22, 2 p. m. at the Workers Center, 35 EB. 12th St. All members of the city committee should attend. We especially extend an invitation to press groups and representatives of shop and ship committees, trade unions, women’s organizations, I.W.O., workers clubs, ete. Section committees of the Party and especially shop units should be represented, OUT; STRIKE WILL SPREAD 'Led by United Front Gommittees And National Union | 3 MORE MINES STRIKE \|U.M.W.A. and ‘Father’ | Cox Strikebreaking PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 13.— + Over 3,000 miners are now on strike under the leadership of local united | front action committees and the Na- | tlonaa Miners Union. The min struggles are steadily gaining mo mentum as many mines are prepa | | | jing strikes for local demands. ‘The|one of not guilty, though in answer| defensive and offensive facilities of | Atlasbury and Edna Number 2 min to questions he proceeded to admit! the USS.R Western Pennsylvania. and the | substantially all the important points | 27 Spies Ohio | in the confession he had made. pare Thornton listed 27 Britishers in the | Joined the strike today while the|of his replies were naive in the ex-|USS.R. who were engaged ir franks of th s in the| treme. He admitted obtaining in-| pionage — 15 of these wer mines previously reported on strike | formation from “Gussev, another of! military information, and 12 were en- | stand solid. Negro miners in the| the accused, concerning the manu-| gaged in secret economic inquiries | Avela section of Pennsylvania are |rallying to the strike in large num-|manded Prosecutor Vishinsky. “Mere! statements in his confession were | bers and the miners’ wives are sol. idly supporting the strikes. | As the miners respond to the strike He UMWA leadership is intensifying its efforts to break the strike. Father | Cox is also attempting to. recruit | strike-breakers from the ranks of the | | unemployed receiving his crumbs of | |charity, Under this pressure he} succeeded in recruiting 30 scabs. The | Unemployed Councils are mobilizing to stop Father Cox’s \strikebreaking. A mass hunger march to the Wash ington County seat against the 75 per cent relief cut recently declared | by county relief officials against the! triking miners is planned for April 18th. The miners and their families will leave different sections of the} county at midnight Monday and} Tuesday morning and journey on! foot to eee dix Cog Calls to Protest tis Fascism This apnea | NEW XYORK.—The ‘Trade “Union Un Unity Council calls all its affiliated DADEVILLE, Ala., April 13—Ef-| unions to come to Union Square on Saturday afternoon to join the demon- | stration against German fascism called by the Socialist Party. | SHERIFF'S POSSE, ‘Tallapoosa’ Victims Go| | on Trial on 25th forts of the Alabama landlords and sharecroppers attacked when Cliff James and three other Negroes were killed in Tallapoosa have thus far failed. This was revealed here today when the trial of five of the croppers, in- dicted on framed charges of “as- sault with intent to murder” and ori- ginally set for yesterday was put off to April 25 by Judge W. B. Bowling | yesterday. | Nineteen were Indicted jointly on | four similar charges, carrying twe: years each, but only the five who} |have been held in jail since January have so far been arrested, though posses have been scouring this and neighboring counties for tro weeks. | searching for them. | 4 motion to quash the indictments | against the croppers on the grotnd| | that Negroes weve illegally excluded | |from the Grand ry which indicted | |them, presented by Irving Schwab, | LL.D. attorney, was over-ruled. Negro farmers called to support. this| indictment testified boldly, but Nunn, local Negro preacher, and Darnell, Negro high-school principal, refused | to testify when they were summoned to court. White Resident Testifies, to his knowledge no Negroes had ever been called for jury service in the | past fifty years. ton Moss, Ned Cobb, and Alfred White are the five croppers under arrest. A chenge of venue from Dadeville to Montgomery will be asked by the TLD. when the cases come up. SOMETHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT (By a Worker Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D. C.—Workmen of Washington forced Into the slave- to express concern over the breaking up of families by these forestry “en- their police to track down 14 of the | 9 An old white resident testified that | | Judson Simpson, Sam Moss, Clin-| labor camps have something to be! | happy about because Mrs. Roosevelt | has announced that she'and her hus- ‘band will visit the camps nearby.! | Mrs. Roosevelt was also kind enough | Service S Found i Engineers’ Confession Shor Firm Trying to Reveal USSR Defense Plans MOSCOW, Apri! 18. — The latest developments in the trial of the engineers on charges of espionage, bribery, and sabotage, showed the British defendants under er tion contradicting each other and themselves freely | ducing the most confusing ee eames their questioned activities. MacDonald, who had sign-| ed a damning confession, and| had previously entered a plea |.of guilty, today changed his plea to! |facture of munitions. “Why,” de- | Later “Tt is true I gave money to) Maybe a6 much as 2,500) ‘uriosity,” MacDonald replied. | he said: Gussev. tion for heavy overtime work.” Some this money, he said, came from | ‘Thornton. Metro-Vickers, the. eat in whose employ Thornton is, {closely allied to the armament firms | | Vickers-Armstrong. | British Secret Service ene British Secret, Beryice was also) [ee But it was just remunera~) g in the Soviet Union, in| By iat confession by Thornton, read | in Court by Associate Judge Martens. Thornton admitted that he wrote the jee, and then immediately re-|that these had influenced them into ng to the pudiated it. His statement, which| making exaggerated admissions of ate at ta! was in his own handwriting, said:| their own. sponaenr. | it informs all unions io assemb! | fact that leaders of the Socialist Par- @— ty refused every proposal for work- ingelass unity, at the same time un- iting with the bourgeois Jewish Con- gress which is dampening every mil- itant action of the masses against Hitler’s fascist terror. A children’s protest demonstration in Tallapoosa county circuit court} arranged for Saturday noon to march | ; against fascist terror in Germa: to Union Square will unite its forces with the workers present at the | Square. It is expected that several | ; Communist Party members and all | revolutionary workers should not permit themselves to be provoked in arguments that wili give the lead- lers the excuse of breaking up the | | demonstration. By comradely rela- | tions at the meeting between So- | NEW ‘YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 1 4, if 15th Street and Irving Place and march into Union pierce in spite of the | 933 in USSR Shows English Arms xamina- and pro- “AIL spying ties of the British fveret Se ce in the Soviet Union | were car out thn rough C, E, Rich- | ards, Mana 1 } ment of Metropolitan Vic objectives were to. inve: | Mrs. Janie Patterson, upon her arrival at Penn. Station, New York, when she was welcomed by hun- dreds of workers. Attorney Leibo- witz (right) was among those who oe her. Thornton now says that these | lies. When asked why he had said these things, he replied: “I didn’t) pay much attention to what I said} earlier, because I knew there would! be a trial in court later.” All through the session the correspondents : were | laughing as contradictions developed is/ under the skillful cross-examination conducted by Vishinsky. |you make false statement jton was asked. “My courag me when I) k t : BY JAPAN TO USSR TOKIO, April "13,—The Manchukuo Government, backed by Japan, has ent a provocative ultimatum to the Soviet Union demanding the return |Teagues, ae Te and Thornton | prison they had ling admissions aid that while been told of dan by colleagues, a d GRAFT ISSUE IN POLICE HEAD ROW ¢ choice of a suc: mmissioner Mt the ne used by capitalism | le with their banners and slogans at \Conference Ags inst | Fascism, Sunday 3 kept up a furor about the * police force. the curtain was lifted osed the reason for a new police as caused by “who is to get the NEW YORK.—Delegates directly | elected by the workers in the shops | will participate in the conference | d. a uncertainty of * graft.” | this Sunday, 10 o'clock in Irvii Plaza Hall, 15th St., and Irving Place. The Needle Trades Workers Indus- “Leaderless” Cops Club | thousand children will gather on/trial Union and the Trade Union|, 2% Workers of New York know Avenue A and Seventh Street and Uniiv Council, Workers Clubs, Jew- thal an Al fet WR fe comnealeoner | participate in the march ish Bureau of the Communist Party nt thet... On the svery Gag thet and many other organizations have igned and the endorsed the conference < \ ‘a leaderless police” » Tammany strong arm men tacking the Negro workers who “marching from the Pennsyl-| 1 station to Harlem protesting ‘the Scottsboro case verdict. Mul rooney cialists, Communists and non party workers create a spirit for workin class unity. Call 45 Nations to Bowaiae Ciilernice | WASHINGTON, April 13. — Pre-) | parations are going ahead for the World economic Conference. Secre- tary of State Hull announced today that the United States will present @ comprehensive program for raising world commodity prices in a possible “Little Economic Conference” to ke held between President Roosevelt, Premier MacDonald, Ex-Premier Her- riot of France, while the series of in- dividual conferences are on between Roosevelt: and representatives of vari- ous governments. There may also be conferences of President Roosevelt, MacDonald and Prime Minister Rich- | ard B. Bennett of Canada Soviet Union Not Invited Enlarging the original plan of the Conference, the countries of the| “Little Entente” have been invited to the conference. This brings the total up forty-five. The Soviet Union lstmenta,” nck Monroe. owe eben a1, The Soviet Union newspaper “For; House has declared that the trial of| Industrialization” comments, “It is| the British engineers in incomprehensible how it should be} “complicated” the question of Soviet possible to discuss, with any chances} recognition. of success, world economic probiems, | Secretary of State Hull declared with the U.S.S.R. excluded. How, for| that the United States hopes to be example, can you speak of interna-! able to get the forty-five invited coun- tional agreements in the world wheat | tries to enter into agreements with market without one of the most im-| the primary purpo: of restoring portant world-exporters being pre-| world trade. For the past three years, sent? How is it possible to outline | since the beginning ot the world econ- in any seriousness schemes for the| omic crisis, the foreign trade of the expansions of the international trade| capitalist world has been declining turnover without the participation of| at the rate of 10 billion dollars a a country which occupies one-sixth | year. of the whole globe? . . . Public opin- | ion in the Soviet Union is justified in saying, ‘Without us, consequently In 1929, the foreign trade of 24 most important capitalist coun- tries amounted to 52 billion dollars. At ond of 1932, due to the in- against us’ creasing intensity of the crisis, this While these preparations for the| trade had fallen to 20 billion dol- conference are going on, debates re-| lars, Since that time it has declined garding the recognition of the Soviet! still further. The total decline of Union are taking place in the House! world foreign trade in the last three and Senate, Speaker Rainey ct the| years hag been over @8 per sect, ¢ RR. ULTIMATUM ~ | would bitterly oppose any attempt to| today on account of the -READ ON PAGE FOUR For Negroes on the jury. For white workers on the jury. No reliance on lynch courts mass action. United struggle of Negro and white workers against capitalist landlord ter- ror and starvation. Organize’ mass meetings and atrect demonstrations, Protest to Governor of Alabama. Pro test to President Roosevelt, y EDITION For Price 3 c ents | LLD. LAUNCHES FIGHT TO PREVENT RAILROADING OF SCOTTSBORO TRIALS Mrs. Patterson, Brodsky, Hath Hathaw: ay and Other Speakers at Demonstration Today at 5 p.m. Prosecutor Says He Will Fight Postponement of Weems Trial Monday; Protests Grow A Plea from Haywood Patterson- “Hitmingham, Ala. Jefferson County Jail. April 9, 1933 “IT no by now you all have hearde of me getting the chair again and I wants you all to do something quick you all no that I was really framed up on this time just as the first time. And as you all say you all will keep the fight up I hope you will because I’m innocence and need help. And I wish you all will send some stamps and some money to get some with, “And you all write me a letter and let me se “Because I'm worried to death | “oh! well “I will close “From Haywood Patterson” Answer this plea by Haywood Patterson from the shadow of the death chair—BE AT UNION SQUARE TODAY AT 5 Ps M! ST. LOUIS, April 13.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of this city today announced that it would participate in the Scottsboro demonstration to be held here on Saturday noon be- fore the City Hall. A delegation te be elected at the demonstration will present a resolution to the mayor and board of aldermen demanding that they go on record for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. NEW YORK.—The scores of preliminary prot following the lynch verdict against Haywood Patt of the Scottsboro boys, indicate that the demonstration uled for Union Square today at 5 p.m. will undoubtedly be one , of the most impressive ever held in this city. Feeling against the frame-up verdict which door O-véar. 7 es ee 19-year-old Negro boy to thes wan ul Ss electric chair in the face of in-| coming Monday. disputable evidence of his in-| Mrs. Patterson, Brodsky Speakers. nocence was heightened last night! The Union Square demonstration when reports arrived from Decatur,| Was originally scheduled to be held Ala., that Attorney-General Knight Wednesday, but was postponed until rain and tings one od. ed. the been set for postpone the trial of Charlie W-ems,| second of the Sei tts sboro def fend nts, | ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE a : Eye-Witness Report of the | Decatur Trial, Sunday Eve. Brodsky Chief Speaker; Spivak, Allen, and Burck To Tell of Scottsboro For the first time since the de- sky, chief attorney of the Interna- cleration of the lynch verdict senten- | tional Labor Defense, f cing Haywood Patterson, one of the | from Decatur; John nine innocent Scottsboro boys to the | author of “Georgia Nigger”; J electric che > workers of New|S, Allen, autho: “Negro Libera- York will have opportunity to| tion”; Joshua Kunitz y of hear the enti he trial. At| the National Committee the De- ey Palace th St. and|fense of Political Prisoners; Jacob ighth Ave., this Sunday at 7:30 p.| Burck, staff artist of the “Daily,” Vee The correspondents of the Daily | who sent up the drawings of the nine Worker, who were present throughout | boys whiah appeared in the special | the entire trial, will give a detailed | Scottsboro edition; Sam Dor, acting |and intimate account of what took | editor of the Daily Worker. | pl The accounts which these | place. unt . “ »| Sender Garlin, of the “Daily” edi» | correspondents sent up to the “Daily’ | tortad staff, will be chairman, directly from Decatur have been ac- | | claimed all over the country. | Admission is 150, Unemployed ad= in Washington; But Not the Soviet Union 2°"! tm Bet mis Moscow has} \Brooklyn Scottsboro Demonstration and Parade on Saturday BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 13— Negro and white workers of Browns- ville, East New York and Crown Heights will protest the Scottsbsoro verdict in a march culminating in a mass meeting on Saturday. The demonstration will start from an open air mass meeting at Fulton and Cumberland at 2 p. m. tomorrow. From there, the workers will parade | through the Brooklyn Palace, 130 Rockaway Ave., meeting will be addressed by promi- the International Labor Defense, churches and other organizations. Mrs. Patterson oil! sDeakea. A SHARE CROPPERS FAMTLY | ranged in Cineinatt and neighborhood to the} near Fulton at 4:30 p.m. where the) |nent local and national speakers of} he the shief| ‘ | Committees of the ILD sent out to | rally the workers against. the verdict, were met by an overwhelming re« sponse. YPSL Branch Backs ILD, A visit by another representative to & meeting of the Young People’s So~ cialist League resulted in a motion being passed to send a letter to the City Committee calling upon it to support the defense actions initiated by the ILD, The tide of protests began the very evening the verdict was received, | Open air metings organized by the | ILD met with warm response. Speak- lers—Negro and white—expressed the | mass indignation this frameup had aroused. 5,000 Daily Workers carry- ing the headline: “Haywood Patter- son Must Not Die” were sold or dia~ toteasedt. agp