The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1933, Page 3

iv a | ya tee ence seg RRR ERE DAILY WORKE?, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1938 Page Three KS P.” Expels 4 in Chicago Who Support Unity Preparations in Full Swing, Led by Communist Party for United May Day Demonstrations CHICAGO, Ill, April 13.—A recent letter addressed by the Communist Party and Young Communist League to the Socialist Party end Young Peoples Socialist League was well re- ceived by the latter. But the leader- ship of the Socialist Party has con- | tinually blocked every stey about one united demor o bring ation on 1. It went to tr: extent of pelling four Y.P.8.L. leaders, in- juding the city secretary from its | organizations, their favorable support towards uniting the working- class After delaying an answer to the letter for many days,’ and constantly breaking mesting dates agreed upon in advance, Kreuger, a representative | of the County Committee of the So- cialist Party finally stated their de- sire to meet with representatives of the Communist Party and Y.C,L. Upon their own suggestion the meet- ing of Communist and Socialist or- ganizations was arranged for March 31. But this was only a menouvre for them to stall for time in order to delay any action. Therefore none of the socialist members of the com- mittee appeared on the day which they had agreed upon, Conference Sends Commitice ‘The United Front Conference how- | | the Communist Party and Young | Communist League proposes that there only be onc May Ray confer- ence and one united front May Day demonstration, of the entire Chicago working-c! » in which all organizations participating appear under their own banners and slo- gans,” But the leadership of the Socialis: | Party have proven once more to be | a stumbling block in the way of un- iting the workers. In J hear phrases for unity but with definite actions for a united front as on this occasion to bring about a united demonstration for May Day, they sabotage. Raise The Question! Members of the Socialist Party must not let these obstacles stand |in the way of unity. The member | of the Young Peoples Socialist Leagu | can do service towards bringing wi | ted action by continuing openly the | fight for the united front of all work- | ers. Members of the Communist Party must take the lead by personal dis- | cussions, by actively participating in | the daily struggles together with So- | cialist and non-party workers and show convincingly our desir= cf unit- ing the workingclass The final conference to ar. -nge ever decided to send a committee of | for Chicago’s May Day demonstra- three to the Socialist conference | tion is called for Sunday, April 23, ea took place on April 9. This| at 10 a.m. at Imperial Hall, 2409 N. rommittee consisted of Willlamson, | Halstead St. All organizations who from Communist Party, Banks, of | have not sent delegates to the first | ‘Inemployed Council, and Alpert, of | conference as well as delegates from The May Day ‘DAILY WORK- ER’ will appear with an eight page Magazine Section besides the reg- ular 4 pages, Many feature arti- c xcluding the story of the May Day demonstration in Union Square in 1890. Send your orders for this edi- tion immediately, Communist Par istricts, Sec- tions and Units, de Unions, Unemployed Councils, Fraternal Organizations send May Day grectings to the ‘Daily’ not later than April 22. Address all orders, Daily Worker, Business Office, 50 E, 13th St., New York, N.Y. Movie Operators Union Rejects Wage Cuts in Forty K. C. Theatres Forty Kansas res includ- iow house ing eve closed today for an indefinite period | | when un employees rejected a| | Wage cut proposed by the theatre | operators | Not only has the wage cut been but also the proposed speed- | up the bosses d iding re- | moval of a stage hand and operator in the neighborhood theatres. Union Officials said the theatres wou) 1 re- main closed indefiinately as they were determined to smash the wage cut. 30-HOUR BILL WITHOUT SAFEGUARDS More Stagger and MOBILIZE WORKERS FOR MAY FIRST TO FIGHT BOSS ATTACKS! AGAINST CUTS WILL IMPOSE GENERAL Forced Labor Is COOLIE LABOR STANDARDS ON TOILERS Senator Black of the lynch Jaw state! of Alabama and endorsed by the pres- ent Roosevelt administration. Un- der the title “The Black Bill Will Not Help” the financial editor of the N. ¥. Evening Post, Ralph W. Robey | in a recent article admits that the 30-hour week proposal will not solve) the unemployment situation He} says, “If the bill should become law practically every manufacturing es-| tablishment in the United States will be affected. In many cases it is prob- | same and old employees would be re- able that the current output could) duced by a sufficient amount te take be maintained with the existing num-| care of the cost of new ones. “In ber of employees even on a six hour | other words according to Robey the day. In these cases obviously there | employers will meet the problem of would be no relief to unemployment”! keeping the same labor costs by low- In the face of the deepening crisis,! ering wages of all the workers or with markets declining, plant clos- firing the older workers for newer ings and the business index hov ones who can handle the extra speed- around itse lowest points, it is | up involved in producing the same that the jobs a shorter work-week| amount in a six-hour day. that because of the shorter hours the employers would be inclined to reduce ’. Where the employers would to add to their crews, Robey admits that “In meeting this prob- lem a decision would be reached first on the question whether the total labor cost is to be increased. In some instances it is probable that it would be, Im the vast majority of cases it is safe to conclude that the total labor bill would be held the Left Paoli Zionists (a Jewish Nation- alist Organization). John Williemson, spokesman for the committee, presented a program for united action to the Scyalist con- ference for one May Day demonsira- tion, A number of delegates took the floor and spoke favorable tow- ards the efforts to develop united ac- tion of the workers in Chicago, The tes of the Y.P.S.L. again pro- that a committee of 10 meet together with a similar commitice of the United Front Conference to mak the necessary arrangements, presentatives of the I.W.W. centered the main attack against the Com- munists and Sullivan of the executive of the S. P. spoke against united support for_the Moonev Congress. Disgusted With S. P. Maneuyre, Disgusved with the maneuvres of the Socialist Party leaders twelve delegates withdrew. ‘The re- | tae“'cs_ ond | the socialist conference are urged to come, | DETROIT, Mich., April 13, — The | Detroit Provisional May Day Com- | mittee has called a united front con- | ference for Sunday, April 16, 1:30 |p. m. at the Fort yne Hotel, Cass {and Temple. | The conference to prepare for May | Day has the endorsement of the Tom | Mooney Molders Defense Committee here and will help to prepare for the | Mooney Congress in Chicago. camps The General Staff of Roosevelt's Forced Labor Army. Robert Fechner, appointed as boss of the s an Official of the A. F. of L. with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and an army official, Major R. Y. Stuart, Here he is discussing methods of driving the unemployed together Painters Local 499 Demands Resignation | Of Robert Fechner NEW YORK. — Local 409 of the| Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators | BUFFALO, N, Y., April 13. The United Front Conference preparing for May Day was attended by 20 or- ganizations including a number of A. F. of, locals, ! | LACKAWANNA, N. Y., April 13. — Delegates from eight organizations | met to prepare for May Day, The |mext conference to make final ar- The chairman of the conference also | Tangements will take place April 14, jounced he would withdraw from | at 8 p. m. at Workers Center, 128 conference, It was obvious that | Ridge Road. \while only 12 left, that fully a third | and Paperhangers affiliated to the A. F. of L. passed a resolution to! |A. F. of L. Central | Body in Terre Haute MASS. HUNGER RANCH, MAY 1| sre ot ae ‘TON, Mass., April 12. — The) Because of resentment of the A. F. State received reports from a number of| forced labor program the Central cities of local struggles against relief| Labor Body of this city passed a| cuts and evictions. The workers in| resolution against it and sent similar Hunger March committee has of L. membership to the Roosevelt | Lifting the mask of demagogy, a, would provide would be at the ex- Further Robey admits that i |representative of Wall St. has made} pense of those already employed. | another method of forcing the bur a few frank declaration on the 30- Would Reduce Wages. |den of relief for the unemployed on hour share-the-work bill sponsored by| Robey continues: “There is danger| the shoulders of the employed work- | ers, similar to the so-called voluntary | “check-off” made on the workers | wages to provide relief funds. He | says: “The net result of such a law | therefore in the majority of cases | would be that those who today have | work would have the burden pl upon them of carrying those who | mow are unemployed. Such a bil | would mean not that industry is pro- viding for the unemployed but that laborers themselves are meeting this | charge.” Roosevelt Forced Labor Standard | for Employed. | From all this Robey conclude {the Black Bill will impose the | Roosevelt forced labor standard on the whole working class employed as well as unemployed. “Of more si | nificance however is the fact that |such a wider distribution of the ex- | isting wage would have the inevit- able effect of lowering the standard of living of the American workers. But lest we get the false impres- | sion that Mr. Robey is shedding tears about the working class we a: sured that his fi concern business. Mr. Robey can sec way of preventing the lowering of no an act to prohibit the reductions of wages and this he condemns vigor- ously. “If this prohibition were at- tempted, there would be widespread | bankruptcy among business organiza- | tions because certainly the employ- ers are not in a position at present to carry a heavier wage burden.” The fear which prompts Robey to unmask the real purposes of the law is that the working class will not stand for the reduction of their miserable wage standards, that they will struggle against it and that the | hopes which the law was designed to create will be speedily shattered, The Black 30-hour stagger bill was | dangled before the unemployed starv- | ing masses in order to arouse hopes | | amd faith in the ability of the cap- italists to find a way out for them. |In creating the illusion that a shorter work week could solve the | unemployment situation it was sery- ing as a means of counter-acting the mass movement for unemployment jinsurance. At the same time under the guise of benefitting the masses it was aimed to force the workers to divide up their meagre pay envelopes with the unemployed while the maj- j ority of the starving jobless would be left unprotected against starva- | tion. It was for this reason that the | bill called forth support from the employers and loud praises from the A. F. of L. officials. The shorter work-week wiht no re- the living standards except through) . of the delegation were sympathetic to the’ call of the United Front May Day Conference for one demonstra- uion. occasion again shown its genuine de- sire to unite the workers for strug- zie, Tn the original letter to the S. P. it stated: united action of the whole work- ing-elass to counteract and defeat | the bosses offensive, On May Day, | the historic day of straggle of the working-class instead of two May Day conferences in preparation for “emphatically protest against any) the textile towns in Massachusetts | resolutions to locals all over the coun- The Communist Party has on this | UNION CITY. N. J., April 13. —|,.., i ; The May Day Conference will take forced labor schemes whether in the} form proposed by Roosevelt or by any other relief agencies.” | place at 504 Forty-fourth Street on | Sunday, April 16, 11 a. m, All labo. izati re ask ‘ | gpl iabor organizations are asked to) cay «demand the immediate. re-| ation of Robert Fechner, the vice- | ident of the International As- | This important industrial center wil! Aare hold a united front conference to| S°!ation of Machinists as national organize the May 1 demonstration on | head of the forced labor camps, and | | April 16, 2 p. m. at 638 Newark Ave.! if he refuses to resign he shall be | ee expelled from the organization.” JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 13 BAYONNE, N. J,, April 13. — This are in this way preparing for the try asking them to act on this matter. hunger march to present their de-| mands to the Governor and state legislature in Boston on May 1st. ‘The Hunger March Bulletin issued by the committee states, “The govern- ment will only consent to pay un- employment insurance and immediate | relief to the jobless, if the unem- ployed and employed workers organize | communications should be addressed and demand it.” to: State Hunger March Committee, The committee then calls for a full, 775 Washington St., Boston, Mass. mobilization for the tag days on April 22 and 23. To collect funds through affairs and from organiza- tions in order to make it possible to carry on the work. All funds and | city controlled by the Standard Oil | Co,, is preparing for May 1. A united front conference is prepared for Wed- nesday, April 19, 8 p. m. at 10 West two May Day parades, as arranged, | Twenty-second Street. Fickert Aid to Oppose “We Must Organize and Struggle,” Hungry Second Mooney Trial | O'Gara, Assistant Prosecutor in 1916, Will. Come to Hearing As ‘Citizen, Tax-Payev’ | NEW YORK, April 15.—That the original framers of Tom Mooney are ‘till on the job is seen in a special dispatch from San Francisco, announcing | that John A, O'Gara will argue against the granting of a new trial to Mooney in a hearing April 15. NAVY T0 LAY OFF CIVILIANS War Plans Don’t Mean Any More Work WASHINGTON, April 13.—Secret- ary of the Navy, Swanson, has or- dered a ten per cent reduction in the pay of civillan employees in the Navy. This affects mainly the work- crs In the Navy Yards for whom it means wage cuts and lay-offs. No cuts were announced in the actual expenditures for fighting equipment, ¢ is planned that the reduction in ‘kers will be made up by having the fepair work done by the crews the Navy ships. At the same time, Major-General B Hapgood, testifying before the Military Affairs Commit- tee, recommended reorganization of the Army and War Department, in- volving a reduction in expenditures of 80,million doilars, As in the ¢ of the navy reduction, the proposed outs do not reduce the fighting ap- paratus of the army, On the con- tery, they are intended to improve the fighting capacity of the army, ‘STEEL PLANT CLOSES OLBVELAND, O., April 11.—Several hundred workers of the Nesonal Ae- me Company, tool manufacturing plant at Windsor, Vt., lost their jobs ‘Gara was assistant prosecuting attorney at the time Mooney was = convicted. Works 40 Hours for Hannah Picket Mill; Owes Company $1.40; ROCKINGHAM, N. C.—I_ worked) in the Hannah Picket mills forty hours oiling for 13 cents an hour and 10 hours weaving at 22 cents an hour, total wages $7.40. The com! pany charged me $.90 for rent, $1.60 for fuel and $6.40 for store supplies.! Atter working 50 hours they geve me’ no money and tell me I am over-| paid $1.40. “Byidence” against, Mco- | ney was obtained by O'Gara, Charles | Fickert and Ed Cunha, presecutor: I am going to join the National | for the State, by bribing, coaching, | Textile Workers Union and help get | and threatening perjurers, underworld | everybody else into it. We have just police tools, and two religious freaks | been left in the hole by the United; given to hallucinations. | Textile Workers Union, They came} | Working with this prosecuting trio | here to Rockingham, made a Jot of; was Martin Swanson, undercover man | nice speeches, cracked some funny of the Pinkerton detective agency for | jokes, took what little money we had, the Pacific Gas and Flectric Co, | promised us a lot and then left town t | are afraid of deportation. Secondly, O'Gara, stating that he will appear | leaving us to sink or swim. T and | a lot more like me are through with | that gang. | ‘The next time we will strike, we are | going to strike with the National Tex- | tile Workers Union, the same outfit | that led the Gastonia strike. —A Weaver, as a “citizen, tex payer, and lawyer,” will argue that ““Mooney’s guilt has been conclusively established and confirmed by the highest. court of the state, so necessarily he must be found guilty in any trial on another indictment,” Fourth Attempt to Stop Trial “There is no such thing as a re- trial,” he continues. “The two crimes, the indictment on which he was con- victed and the remaining one, are necessari!v closely connected.” This is the fourth attempt to pre- vent Moonsy from taking the wi stand, The reason for this feverivh ac- tivity to prevent the trial is the knowledge thet in an open cout | Mooney can not only expose the frame-up, but also show the inter- relations between ‘leading capitalists and thetr political and legal hench- men. these attempts are being given at some 60 Free Tom Mooney confer- | ences throughout America, which will Mooney Congress in Chicago, April ne May 2. mese meeting t send these delegates off and aroiwe mass pres- Mooney's release will be helt Bronx Coliseum, New York Otey, April 27, 8 p.m The answer of the workers to! elect delegates to a monster Free Tom | WHO GETS THE PROFIT? (By a Textile Worker Correspondent) LAWRENCE, Mass.—The Arlington inill in Lawrence is running a small government order which pays the weaver $1.45 a cut for 68 yards of cloth of 54 picks, The same work! on two looms used to pay over $4,00. 'On the magazine looms the weayers| run 20 picks a cut of 72 yards for| 45 cents a cut. We get $5.80 for 272) | yards of cloth now, instead of $4 for| | 68 yards of cloth. his is the profit | the workers get out of government) orders, while the Arlington mill re-| 1 Pore tens of thousands in profit tor | | Y I think it high time we joined up| with the National Textile Worker) | Union, which is preparing to fight the} new wage cut being cooked up. In order to cover the latest de- | | velopments in the case of the | Seotteboro boys, the Daly Worker | has had to omit today’s nstatment of “Barricades in Berlin.” The next instahment will be printed to- morrow. r Textile Workers Write “Put Aside. All Differences,” Appeal of Textile Worker By a Textile Worker Correspondent As an American-born textile worker, I wish to state by conclusion from my personal contacts with other workers, in reference to organizing and getting together. In their way of thinking if a certain nationality is ap- proached to join a union, and they do not immediately respond, they simply sit baek and wait for some Tom, Dick, or Harry to pull them owt of their misery, — I find the same difficulty amongst | guard! Let us wake up once and the unemployed workers, ‘Their first | [0° all, to fight for « better sian cry is that they are not citigens and |°! living, Unemployed workers, Jot |the Unemployed Council. Fight for | the right to live. —An Unemployed Textile Worker, that the native born should lead the struggle, and that they would follow to the limit. But let me say this, fellow workers, Mill Boss Murders 2s @ native-born worker from Law- People Wholesale rence, Mass. The majority of the . workers here happen to be unemploy- ' B Ww rvation ed. and FOREIGN BORN, therefore | y Slow 8 tarvation it is Wkely true for other textile een- | (By a Textile Worker Correspondent) ters. Now, fellow workers, are we' ROCKINGHAM, N. ©. — Textile going to allow them to keep us divided | workers are constantly fired out of by their brutal attacks? Perhaps some | the Hanneh Picket Mills, thrown out of the workers are still waiting for | of their homes, put out of the com- Roosevelt's promises to the Forgotten | pany mill village on the state high- Man. He has already remembered | way with no place on god’s green 250,000 of the vast army of 17,000,000 earth to go to and with no money. unemployed, with a dollar a day,| They are now staying in barns, gar- which these men will never see. Some ages a vege shacks that no of these men will be taken away from | One else want hersed their wives and children, the. same|_ There are forty families like this. way that they did in 1914 at the out- | Mr. Cole, the owner of the Hannah break of the World War. Think, fel- | Picket mills, murdered @ mill-hand low workers, what will be the outcome | two years ago and was let go be- for the rest of the 17,000,000 unem- | cause he can do what he wants ag he ployed, owns and runs the court this r | Richmond county. Tn your imagination, you may think! He is now murdering people whole- that President Roosevelt is finding sale, men, women and children. Now the solution for bringing back pros-| he is not doing it by perity, For instance, that the pass- | by slow starvation. We have nothing ing of the thirty-hour bill, will solve t eat, even when we are working, the unemployment question. What | but a few slices of fat back, some does this mean, fellow workers? It | orn meal, bread and black coffee means that if a textile worker was | a"d not even canned milk. Those averaging, let us say $15 2 week, he of Us that were aged hard in that will be getting only $7.80 under this last strike he has fired out of the stagger plan, | mills and homes. —One Just think, feliow workers, what we | duction in pay is an important de- mand for which the workers must | fight. But legislative measures for | the shorter work-week will not liqui- | date the crisis which has brought the | present wide-spread unemployment }and misery to the masses and for which the bosses are responsible. It | will not start the wheels of indus | turning and provide jobs for the | masses of unemployed. Every scheme |thus far proposed by the demagogic Roosevelt administration is for the | | purpose of making the workers meet | the costs of the crisis. Unemplo’ |ment insurance paid by the govern- |ment and the bosses (which Roose- | velt has thus far ignored) and not | the 30-hour stagger plan will pro- vide the means of satisfying the im~- | mediate needs of the unemployed and this can only be achieved by united | mass struggle, Shipbuilding Less Than at Any Time j in Last 50 Years | The capitalist countries of the | world during the first three months | of 1933 entered into less construction of merchant shipping than at any | time in the last 50 years, according | to the quarterly report of Lloyd’s Re- gister of Shipping, published yester- day. Germany and the United ‘States suffered severest declines in shipping construction. This news | comes at the same time that United | States Steel reports fewer unfilled or- ders on its books than at any time! in its history. Together these an- nouncements indicate that the capi- talist world is still heading deeper into the economic crisis The bogrgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the | physician, the lawyer, the priest, | the poet, the man of science, into | its paid wage-laborers.—Communist | Manifesto, Declared by Gov’t General MacArthur, Who Ordered Shooting of Veterans, Commands Labor Camps WASHINGTON, April 13.—Following the program of placing a quarter of a million unemployed Into forced labor camps and removing their fam- illes from the Welfare Relief agencies, announcements are made from Wasb~ ington today starting a “work program inyolving three million jobless.” The three points of this program are: starting public works, division of work on present jobs and request- ¢— rr ing employers to add additional men, was in charge of shooting down the for short periods of time veterans in July of last year, sent Th three points fit directly the following orders by radio to the to the plan estab! d by Roosevelt | Corps area commanders. of destroying every concession won| “The corps area commanders wil by the workers through struggle, | be reaponsible for all matters inciden é to command of units, the construe- The first point means establishing | #on of forestry camps and their sup- public works” on a similar plan as! ny He “authorized by direction the “reforestation” project. Putting o¢ the President to call te active duty unemployed to work on jobs at coolie | with their own consent and for pe- wages and abolish the already low) rieds of aix months the following or- wage standards now in existence.| ganized reserve personnel: For each The big utility corporations will later| 1999 of the civilian conservation reap profits from these constructions. | corps three medical officers, viz., one The Unemployed Councils are for! captain and two lieutenants.” public works by constructing new! Unsuccessful so far in militarizing houses in workers’ neighborhoods,! the unemployed, Roosevelt expects playgrounds, and all work at trade| by military commands to bring them union wage rates. ‘under his orders. The second and third points to| The unemployed and empioyec divide work and put on additional; workers have already tasted the frult: workers at a time when production! of the “new deal.” Together with in industry is continuing downward| these attacks there is complete si- has only one intention, to further| lence to the demands presented by yment. Dividing work; 3,000 hunger marchers to Congres: ner means to divide} December 6, 1082. The demand o starvation still further. Workers who! the hunger marchers speaking fe: still have a few days a week will be| the American workers, was for ade cut still more, This is another wage) quate local and federal caah relief cut. | and the adoption of federal unem- General Douglas MacArthur who! ployment insurance. SHAM N. Y, MINIMUM WAGE LAW FOR 13 STATES ASKED FOR BY ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.—President Roosevelt today addresmed the governors of 13 industrial states calling attention to the so-called min- imum wage law just signed by Governor Lchman in New York and proposing similar action in these states. Under the law just enacted in New York a minimum wage will not be actually put into force in every Industry. A minimum wage will be recommended @— -———__—___-______-_— by a state committee appointed by| Manufacturers who want to use the the governor after months of inves-| }aw cay lee 7 to drive out their tigation in those industries where wo- : men and children are employed, and| At the same time the president is will be determined on the basis of | NOW urging greater ‘flexibility” in allowing the biggest margin of profit| the Provisons of the 30 hour Black to the bosses, Such @ minimum wage | Reaction to the pressure of em- will result in lowering the general| Ployers who oppose any legal limita~ wage scale, thus in no way conflict-| tion of working hours, he has recom- ing with the Roosevelt program of| gaa eres afl should not ae a general forced labor standard Fa fpecdaoet peter: adres ae tie eal y a | se . In the mean the masses, Roosevelt is pushing) while the bill remains deadlocked in this bill in the interests of the big’ the Senate. HOLD DEMONSTATIONS AGAINST SCOTTSBORO LYNCH VERDICT ‘(CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE snow storm which pt over the city during the entire day. In spite of the weather, groups of Negro and white workers huddled around the north side of the square and listened to brief speeches. Speakers at the demonsiration to- day will include Mrs. Janie Patter- son, mother of the boy who Is to be sentenced to the electric chair by Judge Horton on Monday; Joseph R. gomery, Ala Decatur, Ala and Judge Horton, LIBSBOWITZ WRITES TO LL.D. “May I take advantage of this oc- casion to express my sincerest ad- miration for the splendid struggle you are making on behalf of these down- trodden and victimised boys,” Samue! S, Liebowitz, chief trial attorney in the Scottsboro trials, writes in a letter from the courthouse at Decatur, Ala., to William L, Patterson, nation- Brodsky, chief counsel of the Inter-| al secretary of the International national Labor Defense, who has just| Labor Defense, in a letter made pub- returned from Decatur; William L.| lic today. Patterson, national secretary of the} ‘The occasion for the letter was International Labor Defense; Dr.| forwarding to the International Labor Joshua R. Kunitz, secretary of the| Defense of a check for $26 sent to National Committee for the Defense| him from New York as a contribu- |of Political Prisoners, who attended) tion toward the fight being waged to |the Decatur trial; Clarence Hatha-| free the nine innocent Scottsboro way, organizer of District 2, Commu-| Negro boys. nist Party, and Roger Baldwin, sec-| “This contribution came unsolicited retary of the American Civil Liber-| and is but one of many proofs that ties Union. | have come to me that a fight for The I. L. D. yesterday announced | justice enlists the heartfelt sympath- that it is pushing its fight to post- ies and support of unprejudiced men pone the trial of Charlie Weems,| and women all over the land. which has ben set for Monday, and! “May I not take advantage of also for the other defendants in or- this oceasion to express my sincer- der to enable it to gather up its, est admiration for the witnesses—many of whom have been struggle you are making on behalf terrorized—in various parts of the of these downtredden and rictim- state. The I. L. D. demands that) ize@ beys. the trials be delayed until the appeal «7 have given ef my best in this on the Patterson verdict has been trig! without any monetary renumera- heard by the Alabama Supreme Court. tion whatsoever”—but Y have received LL.D. Needs Funds a far greater and dearer reward— Moreover, the expenses incident to namely, the thanks and appreciation the Patterson trial have completely of many men and women previousty exhausted the resources of the LL.D., unknown to me, who have assured and is practically without funds to| me that my course was just. gather and feed witnesses, pay tech- nical expenses, etc. for the forth- coming trials “The realization that in our land there are still countless numbers ready to support a struggle for justice and Workers are urged to wire protests Tight is suMcient recompense for my demanding postponement of the trials effort until after the appeals are heard, also a change of venue to Bir- mingham, Ala., when the trials come (up, Wire to Goy. B. M, Miller, Mont~ | “Very truly yours. SAMUEL S. LIEBOWTT2.” erie OCTCAGO DEMONSTRATION OHIVAGO, April 13.-Workers in | Chicago, and particularly the thous- ands of Negroes on the Southside, will add their voices to the interna~ tional wave of protest against the | Haywood Patterson verdict when they join the parade and demonstration here on Saturday. The mobilization point is 33rd St. and State St. The ILD. under whose auspjces the demonstration {s being arrar ed, an- nounces that many organizat) os have announced that they will participate, PHILADELPRIA MEET |. PHYLADELPHTA, Pa. Apr’ 1 | Mrs. Janie Patterson will be welcomed by Philadelphia workers when she | arrives here at 12 o'clock on Satur- day. She will be the chief at a Scottsboro protest to be held at Reyburn Please at 1 o'clock, CLEVELAND PROTEST