The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1933, Page 1

| The New Roosevelt-Green| "6164" Organize and fight for the release of the Scottsboro Boys. Immediate unconditional innocent Scottsboro 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. release 0° Dail Central Orga Vol. X, No. 91 Mmiered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Of (Section of the Communist International) orker nist Party U.S.A. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1933 For Negroes on the jury. For white workers on the jury No reliance mass action, 7) nm lynch courts, For United struggle of Negro and white workers against capitalist landlord ter- ror and starvation Organize’ mass demonstrations. Protest to Gove meelings and street rnor of Alabama. Pro test to President Roosevelt. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents - LABOR DEFENSE CALLS FOR MARCH ON WASHINGTON IN FIGHT TO SAVE NINE INNOCENT SCOTTSBORO BOYS Agreement The conference of the officials of the A. F. of L. and Rail- road Brotherhoods with President Roosevelt and Secretary of Labor, Perkins, resulted in an agreement which assures the | Sy BORCK SECOND SCOTTSBORO TRIAL IS DUE TO OPEN MONDAY UNLESS PROTEST HALTS industrialists that they can rely, as heretofore, upon these | agents to do everything that lies within their power to continue | ATTEMPT 10 RAILROAD CHARLEY WEEMS a aces —<=—_ the Hoover-Wall Street hunger program. Wide publicity at- tending this conference is only for the purpose of deceiving the workers that the government will do something for them. It is an attempt to again smother the developing struggles against wage-cuts, the stagger system and unemployment. The Hoover-Green-Woll no-strike agreement, after the wtock market crash in 1929, was made for the purpose of sur- | rendering the workers to the bosses wage-cutting program. The present Roosevelt-Green-Hillman agreement has a similar Big Sco ‘Protest wood Patterson, the frame-up N. Y. Conference Sun, ttsboro in N.Y. NEW YORK. — With the airplane piloted by a Negro flier circling Union Square in salute, 20,000 Negro and white of the other Scottsboro Boys, to Map Drive for Boys and Negro Rights TRIAL DEL DELAY SOUGHT Concrete Actions Are Proposed by I.L.D. i In a stirring cal! to action ; purpose. The resistance of the workers to their impoverish- | workers, with thousands still pouring into the Square, de- issued today by the National i | ment and to the reduction of the value of their wages still fur- monstrated here this evening against the conviction of Hay- | Executi Committee of the i epeairs es ey | ternational Labor Defense, i ther by inflation is now sharpening into a struggle for wage in- | Internatior Labor Defense, ‘ fe ae ? 2 workers, in- creases. This new agreement proposes to stifle the rising and against the whole system of ruling class oppression. The : hia Fah struggles. : i 4 protest was called by the International Labor Defense. cigar pe They put forward a program of public works involving ex- ; pdt: tc penditures up to 6 billion dollars. In this connection, Green A tremendous ovation greeted Mother Patterson when 1 to Wash- said: otras : she was introduced by John J. Ballam, of the LL.D., and took ip she Cae “We did not considera minimum wage necessary for public buildings since the Bacon-Davis Law provides for pay- ment at the prevailing rates of wages and we said that for public works other than public buildings, the Public Works Administrator should be given power to fix minimum wages.” What are the prevailing rates of wages today for the Suilding workers in public works. They are not the union scale of wages. They are the coolie-scale, ranging from a dollar a day, down to-payments in kind. This will be the-prevailing rate | for the unemployed who are to be the beneficiaries of the “great public works program” of Green-Roosevelt-Hillman. We have already seen the nature of the Roosevelt public works program in the militarized forced labor camps for re- forestation. We have seen in the dollar-a-day wage standard which the Roosevelt government expects to maintain in its building works program. A sinister feature of this glorified public works program found no discussion at all at this conference. We refer to the fact that high officials in the army and navy are fully confident that hundreds of millions of dollars borrowed for “public works” will go into the building of war machinery, battle- ships, army camps, etc. Public works? Yes. At full wages, at decent standards of living, without discrimination against Negroes and foreign- born. ness called as the third day of the trial here of the engineers accused of Spying and sabotage in the interests of British imperialism started, was Dolgov, a manager in the Soviet Elec- trical Import Trust, who gave direct evidence of bribery against Thornton, one of the accused Englishmen. “Thornton gave me a bribe of 3,000 rubles in his office July 12, 1932,” said Dolgov. Thornton admitted giving the money, but said it was a loan. MacDonald, also charged with bribery this morning, admitted every- thing. | and that he had been paid 5,000 rubles MOSCOW, April 14.—The first. wit-| case of war or foreign intervention, ' Moscow Trial Evidence Shows Intervention Plan to Cut Off Power from Factories During War ment of Sukhoruchkin, assistant chief engineer of the Moscow Electri- by Nordwall and given an overcoat. cal Trust and alco under arrest, that Nordwall, dup listening intently, inter- Thornton had worked ont #ith him ted that he had been merely the plans which included cutting off elec- intermediary for another Englishman. trical power from the Kremlin gov- ernment buildings, military barracks! Wrecked a Turbine Koiliarevsky, one of the Russian defendants MacDonald's instructions, wrecked a turbine at the Zuevka Electric Power, Station, that he had concealed the, fact that oil pumps supplied by Metro-Vickers were defective, that he had agreed to put nails into the gen- erators, and that he had been paid/ testified that he had, on and principal factories. Charges were also leveled by Zivert, one of the Russians on trial, against Gregory, another Metro-Vickers em- ployee, of deliberately slowing down the installation of British Metropoli- tan-Vickers electric switches at the great Dnieperstroy dam. Zivert’s shouting and stamping caused one of the stand to speak. The thous: SHALL NOT DIE!” R. B. Mathews, Socialist conciliation, struck the keyn he said: ft “As a*member of the w southerner, I say to this gre Negro and white workers tha ” | ing. | } | versity for militant activity, announced that the National conference to blaze the trail Negro students. Spencer, Harlem } pointed out that in the fighters” but that “if they “devil fighters” for we dom of the white and Negro worker ' Other speakers were Richard B. camp and Harry Wicks, of the Com: ed to speak the-mass of workers ‘O organize sae ers chanted in unison a mighty “TH the ands of Negro and white work- SCOTTSBORO BOYS leader of the Fellowship of Re- te of the demonstration when orking Class’and as a white eat historical demonstration of t the white workers and farm- ers of the South will fight with you against capitalist lynch- Donald Henderson, recently ousted from Columbia Uni- rec ived an ovation when he Students League has called a towards equal opportunity for or of ¢ Communist League, ere called “hell e nine Negro liberation and for the free- Moore, the IL.D., Fred Bieden- When the latter start- an to sing the International boys they can call us | ‘al of the dele- Charlie Weems, Scottsboro boy, due to go on rial in Decatur on Monday, gations to the capitol to present to President Roosevelt the demand for of the Er Conference called by the Scottsboro Unity Defense | Committee for Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Harlem Masonic Temple, 310 Lenox Ave., near 126th This will be a broad, city-wide i : vhich will have repre- i Be tue «. aya. Evidence from another engineer,| 1,000 rubles by MacDonald. the Judges to tell him: “Don’t ro- and a sea of black and white fists was raised in the chorus, ts Public works? Yes. Clearing the slums, building modern| punanoy, involved the ‘Emglinman| "Anothos Tegra illo, was! manticize. Stick to the facts.” To a many ee i houses for all workers and their families, building of free hos-|Nordwall, who was accused of in- involved by the testimony of Lebedev,|Gregory’s excited protests: “The Roger Baldwin, of the Civil Liberties Union, said any Hberals | W nae or ; ria w = \ 5 ses hig ia th structing Lubanov to wreck and de-| Russian mechanic, who heard Elliot | statements are without proof. Is this have said Communists should get out of this y say it is bad | Churche tical BTOUPR Eee | pitals and playgrounds, building of new schools. This is the stroy machinery at the Ivanovsky “collecting military information” at|fair? Is this justice?” Presiding enough to be black in the.South without being red. But it is plain that |_ Sponsors o the Scottsboro Unity ] public works program which the workers demand. power station. Nordwall denied the|a gay party. ‘Thornton confirmed) Judge Ulrich replied: “Zivert has, the black workers can only rise on a basis of class unity with the white | Defense Committee include Sherwood Marchers at Washington. They have made the proposal of a Minimum Wage Board in certdin industries. Does this mean that the workers will now be assured a decent living wage? No. It will be an aid to the bosses to bring down the wages of all workers to a gener- ally low “bottom” level. The minimum wage will become the maximum wage, and the living standards of the whole working class will be reduced to pauperism. Mr. Green wants to defer the struggle for higher wages till the time when “business im- proves.” He says: “The American Federation of Labor should be estab- lished in the textile industries and needle trades and other industries where labor is not organized to protect itself, but wants to be free to use collective bargaining to secure in- creased wages when business improves in organized indus- tries.” | charge completely. Lubanoy said that that Elliot gave him information, but | Nordwall had suggested to him that, “only of a general character.” he should wreck the power station in| A dramatic episode was the state- spoken, You'll have a chance to speak. Whom the Court believes remains to be seen.” full equality, social, political and ¢ | Communist Party stress this in the S LABOR MISLEADERS IN CONFERENCE. | WITH ROOSEVELT REACH AGREEMENT ON BROAD ANTLLABOR PROGRAM WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14—A_ Roosevelt-Green agreement was reached yesterday after a secret conference between Roosevelt and A. F. of L. officials. Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing. Workers, Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Schneiderman of the Women’s Trade Union Leas" were also parties to the plan. The plan announced by the conferere> from which representatives of the Trade Union Unity League and Un- words, the Roosevelt-Green agree- ment just as the Hoover-Green UNITE RANKS OF ALL WORKERS AT DEMONSTRATION AGAINST FASCISM, - NEW YORK.—The demonstration against fascism announced by the Socialist Party for Union Square takes place today at 1 p.m. The leadership of the Sosilalist Party re- jected every effort to unite the work- ers on this vital question. On the contrary it has cowed and threatened with expulsion those members in its organizations who supported unity. class unity. ,__At the demonstration worke: not permit interferences to excuse for breaking up the meeting. Comradely relations between Com- munist, Socialist and non-party workers will be the best expr of the unity of the workers a, fascism. workers and that is bound to look pret give an| , Franz Boas, Countee Cul- William M. Kel red. Red in the South means and only the LL.D. and the MARCH ON CUBAN CONSUL TODAY |Only Mass Protest Can Free Machado Victims NEW YORK, April 14—The Anti- | Imperialist Le: and the Commu- |nist Par on all workers to I.L.D. call for the Washing- ch and other actions fole s, Biack and Whites s: egro People: ‘0 Struggle for the cottsboro Boys and ion of Negroes: ‘dict of the all- he tool of the Southern rs—that pronounced the upon Haywood Pat- demons te in front of the Cuban Consul: 17 Battery Place, at 11 a. m. today to demand the relea ecatur, serves to destroy it of the illusion: that and th exe working class a } i Despi rank il £6 Vivo, Ordoqui, ar -|can r ic talis worker to the mercy of the Roosevelt government whose inter-| gram which Roosevelt will recom- f Peoples Socialist League have on | revolutionary movement, and also to est lies in driving down the workers’ wages and preventing any mend to Congress. The program calis for public works and regulations for ers, and pledges A. F. of L. assist- ance to further the growing strug- many occasions shown a desire for CALLS 10,000 PEA demand the r of hundreds of out to and wh American workers, black the clear path that they . | united struggle with the Communist other political prisoners rotting in| must t 1 in the further struggle resistance against this onslaught. decreasing hours and minimum wage | 8105 Of the workers for wage in-|D2> members and the workers in Cuban jails. The lives of these | to freo the nine Scottsboro boys, free Not one w these officials who conferred with Roosevelt boards in certain industries. revolutionary organizations. three comrades are in danger. The | Tom Mooney and all victims of rule and his secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, raised the funda- mental question that faces the toiling masses today—the ques- tion of unemployment insurance. Instead they discussed the infamous Black Bill which will compel the employed to bear the additional burden of poverty and share it with a few who would otherwise be unemployed. This continued treachery in face of ever-increasing misery for the masses should spur on to determined action the rank and file members of these organizations. In face of these in- creasingly vicious attacks there must be built up the broadest united front movement to carry forward the mass struggle against hunger and for immediate emergency relief and un- In a statement issued by the A. F. of L. officials they ask for 5 bil- lion dollars for public works. No minimum wage is asked for the workers on public works as the A. F. of L, officials declare they will rely on the Bacon-Davis law providing for payment of prevailing rates of wages. Since the prevailing rate is now far below the union scale, the A. F. of L, officials are consenting to & program which will employ work- ers at the present scale of relict doles. The program will actually speed up the building of ships for war preparations as public building has been at a standstill under the present Roosevelt administration, Chester Textile CHESTER, Pa., April 14.—A strike occurred at the Irving Worsted Mills here last Monday when the bosses announced a 15 per cent wage cut. this It is as a result of this activity for united struggle that the Trade Union Unity League, the Workers’ Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League and many other organizations have called on their membership and all workers to make “demonstration one of working- Eye-Witness Account of Decatur Trial at Rockland Palace on Sunday Night Detailed accounts of the trial in Decatur, Alabama, at which a lynch verdict sentencing Haywood Patter- son to death was handed down, will be given this Sunday night at 7:30 life-size drawings that Jacob Burck, Daily Worker cartoonist, will make on the stage. Burck was present in Decatur throughout the trial. Speakers at the meeting will in- PICKERS’ STRIKE San Jose Conference Votes Demand for 35 Cents Per Hour SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 14— ‘The Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union Conference in San Jose yester- day voted to call 10,000 workers en- ‘gaged in the pea-picking industry out on strike this morning. The demands are for 30 cents a hamper; 35 cents an hour or 80 cents a sack; the aboli- tion of contractors; the hiring of workers through the union, | hado government took them at | midnight from prison, and has con- ntly refused to state where they Only a mass protest of the interna- tional working class can save the lives of these leaders of the Cuban revo- lution, The Marine Workers Industrial to march from its headquarters to the consulate. The speakers will be J. B. Matthews, Secretary of the Fel- lowship of Reconciliation, Willie Simons, National Secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League, Rudolph Christian, from the TUUC and others. or what has been done to them. | Union {s mobilizing its membership | jing class terror—the path of mass 1 supported by legal action, as ly followed by the LL.D, Masses Aroused Ths toiling masses are aroused ta | the deepest indignation by the brazen | decision of the Southern white rule jing class that Haywood Patterson | must die in the electric chair on framed-up charges of “rape.” The | spontaneous response of the Harlem | population, nearly 30,000 protest signatures within three days, the ime | promptu demonstrations of remarke able militancy by 5,000 black and white workers upon the arrival of attorney Leibowitz and the reception Smash the Machado-Wall Street ; p.m, at Rockland Palace, 155th Street | clude J Brodsky, chief attorney mi terror to Mrs. Patterson, the spontaneous employment insurance at the expense of the government and| The proposal for Shorter, hours | and Eighth Avenue,” of the tnigmational Labor Defense; | _ Press Calling for Suppression | ferret against the militant Cuban | movement for a march upon Washe the employers. A government that can find billions to aid the finance capitalists can find enough to feed the starving men, women and children of this country. It will never do that willingly, but it can be forced to do it by relentless struggle on the basis of the demands put forth last winter by the National Hunger when business improves.” In other the intention of legalizing the pre- sent low wages of the workers. Mr, Green, in making the propos2i for minimum wage boards, declares that they will protect the unorgan- ized whose interests the A. F. of L. leaves to the goverrment and thst ‘ue wants to be “free to use collective bargaining to secure increased wages This meeting offers the first oppor- tunity to the workers of New York to hear a description of what took place at the trial of the innocent Scotts- boro boy, from the Daily Worker cor- respondents who were present at his trial. The accounts which these cor- respondents sent up to the Daily Worker have been acclaimed all over the country. A feature of the meeting Will be the’ mited freq John°L, Spivak, author of “Georgia Nigger,~ James S. Allen, author of “Negro Liberation”; Joshua Kunitz, Secretary of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, and Sender Garlin, of the Daily Worker staff, will act as chairman of the meéting. ‘ Admission to the meeting will be Unemmleved will be ad- - 15 ‘cents. The capitalist press is yelling for armed guards and carrying sensa- tional headlines in an attempt to help | the bosses force the pickers to work for 17 cents a hamper. The $12,000,000 pea crop is threatened. At the conference that decided the strike call there were 189 delegates, representing sixteen centers of the pea-picking industry, At two towns, Decora and Warm Springs, there are already 900 out on strike. Some of the smaller farmers | have applied to the union for settle- | ments immediately on the announce- ment of a strike against the main body of growers. The big growers are appealing for county appropriations in order to increase the sheriff's forces. ington and similar actions from othss centers indicate that the Scottsboro | struggle has now reached the stage at which it involves millions of blade | and white people, revealing the tree mendous scope of the mass moves | ment. Tt is through the correct potty olf (CONTINUED OM PAGS THRER