The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1933, Page 1

a EDITORIALS | “Without Us--Is Against Us” ee Si Sonnet ‘The leading imperialist powers of the world, France, Britain and Japan have been invited to have “preliminary conversations” with Roose- velt in preparation for the World Economic Conference scheduled to be held at Washington, To this Conference, the Soviet Union has not been invited. This is a fact of serious political significance fo the toiling masses of the world. ‘The forthcoming conference is ostensibly for the purpose of settling certain “difficulties” which have arisen among the imperialist powers regarding war debts, tariffs, price levels, etc. But the conference is more than that. It is an attempt of the capitalist world to overcome the ever- fieepening economic crisis, which like some devastating blight, defies all the panaceas of the capitalist witch-doctors. It is a conference at which the imperialist powers come face to face with all their antagonisms and contradictions, maneuvering, bargaining, scheming for advantage in an attempt to arrive at some way out of the capitalist crisis. It cannot but be a conference at which will be discussed all the most vital and funda- mental political problems now confronting the capitalist world. Writing in the Herald-Tribune regarding the Conference, Walter Lippman, who mirrors very sensitively and faithfully all the inner hopes and fears of the big bourgeoisie, says: “The political tension in the world today reflects the economic tension. The world must go back to work or it will go to war. At least, so far as Great Britain and the United States are concerned, there can be no doubt that what they will seek is a rise in commodity Prices.” The leading motifs of the coming Conference are thus clearly fore- shadowed—INFLATION AND WAR. * The Soviet Union is one of the world’s largest producers of wheat. The Soviet Union is second in world production of iron and steel. The Soviet Union leads the world in the production of oil. The Soviet Union is a colossal market. And without this country, the imperialist powers are solemnly meeting at an Economic Conference to establish trade agree- ments, to fix world prices! Is it not clear that the Economic Conference is being used as. a weapon ic isolate the Soviet Union and to place it in a position where it can be made to appear as the “main obstacle to world recovery?” We can do no better than to repeat what the Soviet press states on this point. It is worth repeating, and worth pondering over. “The exclusion of the Soviet Union is more difficult to understand, since the capitalist world is becoming ever-increasingly submerged in crisis, while the U.S.S.R., after successfully fulfilling its first Five-Year Plan is still growing and building, thereby steadily increasing its ifter- national political and economic importance. One of two things must be true: Either the members to be present at the forthcoming negotiations treat these negotiations with a complete lack of seriousness .. . or else these states are striving to attain objects which would be rather awkward to discuss in the presence of the U.S.S.R. “Many times already attempts have been made to find a solution to the sore problems of the capitalist world at the expense of the U.S.S.R. Our rich experience in the past gives us sufficient reason for thinking that a similaz attempt will be made at this time. Public opinion in the Soviet Union is justified in saying, ‘Without us—consequently, against us.” These words are profountily true. They will stir the people of the world to the greatest vigilance as the imperialist wolves get ready for their Economic Conference. The Mortgage Strike The profound shifting of class forces under the hammer blows of the érisis are again emphasized by the “mortgage strike” involving some 500 or more families of Sunnyside Gardens, described as a “home owning community” in Long Island City, Queens. The “strikers” are what were formerly regarded as members of the lower middle class—university pro- fessors, writers, artists, lawyers, small business people, skilled workers such as those in the building and printing industries and well-paid sal- aried employees. Known under the general category of “white collar workers.” Like the impoverished farmers, the small mortgagees in the towns and cities aye beginning to act in an organized way. Such action must meet with the enthusiastic support of the workers who are struggling against the hunger prcgram of the Wall Street government. Any at- tempt by. the. mortgage sharks to evict these strikers-should meet not only with the resistance of those in such neighborhoods who are directly affected, but should involye as supporters masses of men, women and youth to demand that these homes actually become theirs. In the “boom” years of 1924 to 1928 thig “model home owning colony,” Sunnyside Gardens, was created. Enterprising real estate manipulators operating for the Equitable Life Insurance Company and Irving Trust, bought up 70 acres of land and erected thereon “model” one—two and three-family houses to sell at from $9,000 to $13,000. At from $70 to 2100 a month the principal and interest might be paid out in the course of ten or twelve years. All this was based on the illusion that this is the best system the world has ever seen, that it always was and always shall be: the self-deception practiced by every ruling class that per- meates the minds and determines the action of large sections of the population. Then came the crisis, the most devastating the worlt has ever seen. The inhabitants of Sunnyside Gardens, like all similarly situated, had recourse to every known device of raising additional loans, of selling their insurance policies, of skimping and scraping in order to keep up appear- ances. The hoped-for recovery, as often as it seemed to appear on the horizon vanished into a mirage. Things went from bad to worse. Finally, in great desperation, their capitalist ideas of individualism gave way and they began to plan common action. The professors and statisticians among them surveyed the economic condition of the “home owning” colony with the following results: 1. The average income has been cut in half, The income fell more rapidly than all costs of living. After payments to the landlord had been met, money available for living expenses was cut down two- thirds, 2, Savings had been reduced three-fourths, 3. Life insurance policies have been dropped, or have been used for raising loans. 4. Forty per cent of the inhabitants have lost their jobs. 5. One half of all those living in Sunnyside Gardens are in sueh financial difficulties that they will lose these homes, many of them almost paid for, unless they get relief. 6. An additional one-fourth will soon be in the same critical condition as the one-half described above. With slight variations the description of the condition of the Sunny- side Garden residents epplies to countless communities throughout the United States. Yet, in face of this widespread and acute distress the Roosevelt ad- ministration, under the pretense of relieving the small home owner, pro- ceeds to enact legislation that will aid the mortgage holder. This is done by scaling down mortgages and trying to force the home owner to pay whether he is able to do so or not. Such “relief” is no relief. The same government that has billions of dollars to turn over to the bankers, the bond holders and the railroad owners has nothing for the impoverished workers and farmers and those of the former lower middle class now re- duced to poverty. Instead of striving to force “readjustments” that only make more secure the precarious claims of the mortgage-holders, these home owners, like the farmers should demand immediate and unconditional cancellation of all mortgages and debts. APRIL iSSUL OF “THE COMMUNIST” OUT; SEND IN YOUR ORDER NOW ‘The April Communist contains the following features: FOR UNITED ACTION AGAINST FASCISM—Editorial, THE BANKING CRISIS IN THE UNITED STATES— —By Anna Rochester. THE END OF RELATIVE CAPITALIST STABILIZATION AND THE TASKS OF OUR PARTY—(Continued from last issue). ~By Earl Browder. 2 WHICH WAY OUT?—By Gusev. A NEW PHASE IN THE STRUGGLE OR SOCIAL INSURANCE— —By C. A. Hathaway, THE PROBLEMS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH MOVEMENT (9th Plenum of the Young Communist International). —By John Marks. |THE BOURGEOISIE COMMEMORATES MARX— —By V. J. Jerome. BOOK REVIEWS. _ Please send orders for the April issue of the Communist to the Work- ers Library Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D., New York. | | | | | 4 | Vides into three groups: Dail Central Org fered as w York, “Vol. X, No. 93 = (Section of the Communist International) rker nist Party U.S.A. a ‘The special May Day edition of the Dolly Worker will contain articles on many of the prof. lems facing the workers today. An eight-page tabloid size supplement wif bs included besides the regular four pages. A short time is left. Rush orders meg | te Daily Worker, Business Office, 4 East 13th New York, WN. ¥. ‘NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933 second-class matter at Poot Office at N. ¥., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879. BDITION Price 3 Cents VISHINSKY ASKS VERDICT | ‘OF GUILTY FOR BRITISH _ WRECKERS AS TRIAL ENDS Scores Imperialist’s Slanders Against U.S.S.R. Courts; Compares Soviet Justice With British Meerut Case Scandal (From Our Moscow Correspondent) MOSCOW, April 17.—At yesterday's evening session of the trial of the spies, sabotagers, and counter-revo- lutionary plotters, the - Prosecutor Vishinsky began the final speech in which the case of the USSR. against these men is summarized. His words were followed with the closest attentia@® by a crowded court. “This trial has extraordinary international significance,” began Vishinsky. “The whole world, the toilers of our coun- try, of all countries, of all nation and races, all of our friends—but also all of our enemies who, blinded by class hate, forgot the proprieties es- tablished by international relations —all these people have their atten- tion riveted on this trial. Our ene- mies tried hysterically to bring moral | | pressure to bear on this trial, but of course they got the rebuff that they deserved. “These people will likewise receive in the future a decided setback un- | less they bring themselves to under- | stand that the land of the Great Oc- tober, the land of the triumphant Five Year Plan—this greatest work jof the creative forces of the toilers, | the land which fifteen years ago overthrew the capitalists and the landlords and now builds the New Social Order, will take no account of demands opposed to the interes' of the proletariat, the proletarian re volution, and the state of the pro- Jetarian dictatorship. “Certain imperialist circles, dis- liking the fact that the Soviet Courts protect the interests of the workers against their oppressors and exploit ers, attempt from their narr minded, vulgar and inhuman vie’ points to slander the Soviet Courts, alleging that there is no justice here. Vishinsky then recited many quota- tions from different speeches in the English House of Commons, and | many cases demonstrating how “jus- tice” is practised in “tapitatist-coun- tries. He referred to the Meerut Trial: months of detention without any charges presented; and quoted a British journal as saying that the Meerut case was the greatest dis- grace in the history of trials through- out the whole world. This outrage- | ous case, Vishinsky pointed out, drag- ged on for four years. Capitalist so- called justice deals in third degree questioning, inhuman treatment of | prisoners, and all manner of physical and moral coercion. The defenders of this kind of “justice” dare to level accusations against the Soviet Union, | the only free country in the world, jand against the Soviet Courts, the only courts in the world where the desires of the proletariat are carried out. Vishinsky then went on to analyze the crimes committed which he di- wrecking work, espionage, and the bribing of officials. With especial severity, Vishinsky emphasized the guilt of those employees of the Soviet state who, while they should have been dis- charging the duties of office entrust- ed to them by the people, had com- mitted treason. Real War—Though Hidden. Vishinssy brought his speech to an end in today’s session, after telling { COMBADE VISHINSKY | | | | | | | | June 16; I.L.D. Appeals asters in electric stations all over the | Soviet Union, accidents and break- | downs that are directly traceable to the band of wreckers now in the dock. | Speaking of 10 serious breakdowns in the Zlatoust Power Station ‘within’ | two years Vishinsky said: “All that was concealed and masked. But it) | was real war.” Speaking to Thorn- | (By Our Special Correspondent) the Decatur lynch | Protest against in | verdict echoed |Brodsky in Court Room Calls for Unity of Negro People and White Toilers } DECATUR, Ala., April 17.—World | the court-room | |here today as Judge James E. Hor- } SCOTTSBORO TRIALS ARE POSTPONED; JURY TAMPERING HIT BY BRODSKY; PREPARING MARCH 10 CAPITAL Patterson Sentenced by Judge Horton to Die Definite Plans An- nounced by Action Committee NEW YORK.—Definite plans for the march to Washington to demand the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and constitutional rights for as called for by the Inter bor Defense and endorsed to State Supreme Court | Horton began the reading of a pre- | ared statement admitting the im- | ossibility of a fair trial for Weems, 233 del~ iue to “prejudicial statements and | €8ates of 65 organizations at the con nister influences,” citing specific- | ference called by th cottsboro il Unity Defense Committee, Sunday, a@ purported interview with Lei- | | ton, the Prosecutor compared him to | another English defendant, Cushny.| Thornton has been continually tang- led up in court in the questioning, and has contradicted himself on near- ly every point, “Cushny”, said the | Who is prosecutor at the trial of the British and Russian sabotagers, jton granted a postponement of the | trial of Charlie Weems, set for to- | day, until the July 10 term of court Other developments in Decatur court today were: | 1, Sentence of death was passed on Haywood Patterson, by Judge | bowitz in the New York “Herald- | Tribune,” in which he characterized |the jury as “bigoted, lantern-jawed ; morons.” The judge read in open | court this statement as quoted in an inflamatory reply made by Knight in Saturday's issue of the Decatur were announced today by Louise Thompson, provisional secretary of the National Action Committee elect- ed at the conference converge on Washington April 28, converge on Washsington Aprli 28, from New York, Boston, Jersey City, 1500 Agricultural | Prosecutor, “refused to admit any- | thing. He refuses to answer ques- | Horton, who refused to set aside the That's the classic method of | | | tions. a | verdict. | the experienced spy. You should W k St k g 2. Thirty days allowed to make | learn from him, Mr, Thornton.” or ers rl In final motion for setting aside verdict. 3. Charges that the State tamper- Vishinsky ended by saying that he ed with the Patterson jury wei would leave to the discretion of the court the degree of punishment for} strike Sriage pinata lg ae made by Joseph Brodsky, Interna- the criminals. “All of these men are) } ‘ ‘ 1 are | nd Santa Clara District. The strik-| ‘ional Labor Defense attorney, in en bap whe » he cried, “and | ers demand thirty-five cents an hour, Pe court. B all deserve death. But our courts are| or thirty cents per hamper, now they, 4. Change of venue to Birming- not vengeful or cruel. Nevertheless! are paid about seventeen cents an| ham will be demanded. | if the court considers it necessary to! hour, | The postponement of the Weems carry out the supreme measure, yor trial until July 10 came as a com- | hand must not shake.” | plete surprise to the defense, and | tm the evening session today, which | veitig the season and the crop is| Showed directly the effect of the eee 1 ‘ rial highly perishable. Th gse8 a mass pressure mobilized by the In- will in all probability bring the ti al | wee jer; Aer eagee ee ee ternational Labor Defense, and the | to @ final close, speeches were made} ‘ “| strike immediately. ‘The charities and| indignation of the masses against by tie coal foe ee ae Sale edtately. rhe charities and/ the lynch verdict of the Alabama | sian engineers. The downfall of Gus- | relief bodies working hand in han ie. z sey into counter-revolutionary activi-| with them are cutting relief in the) Tuling class against Haywood Pat- (ties was materially aided by the strike area with the intent of getting src - . j “clever and well-financed British in-| scabs. | “Fair Trial Impossible—Horton | telligence service” said Defense At-| But the strike is under the militant | | Judge Horton clearly admitted that | torney MKaznacheyey, pleading also) leadership of the Agricultural W there was no possibility of a fair trial that Oleinik was not even a success|ers Union. Hundreds of laborers are fo" Patterson in Decatur. He iis las a spy. He concluded a half hour| joining. The response is seen in the| tempted, however, to save himself | speech by expressing the hope that| unity of all workers, Filipinos and, With the ruling class by placing the his clients would not be put to death.| Mexicans are responding well. ‘The! entire respor lity for the situation SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 17.~ wu! The agricultural workers have pick- ed a decisive tlme for the strike. This Englishmen will follow, and then the| men eo from camp to.camp bring-! torncy. i judges will retire to consider a ver-| ing the workers out to join the strike.) Patterson was sentenced to die by dict and determine the sentences. re first serious fight between electrocution in Kilby State bi | strikers ahd armed guards took place June 16. Sentence was pronounce‘ | MORE NEWS ON MOSCOW yesterday, The strikers had just left! by Judge Horton at 9:25. TRIAL ON PAGE 4. @ Mass Meeting and formed a picket) “Have you anything to say why line of three. hundred streng to pro-)-sentence-should not. be pronounced?" ceed to stop scabs brought from Horton aked Patterson, who was | Stockton. Police charged the picket| brought into court and stood before line firing shot guns and shooting! the bench surrounded by armed MILK PRICES UP HIT CHILDREN * eat ee ee _ “tf Am Innocent” “I am innocent, I did not get a fair trial,” Patterson answered. Brodsky | fifteen arrested. | Speeches on behalf of the accused | women and children together with the| on Samuel S. Leibowitz, defense at- | immediately filed notice | Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wil- mington, Richmond, Norfolk, Balti- more, and the capital itself. Massa delegations will arrive on the same day from the South and West. Details of the arrangements, which | Daily. | In conclusion, Horton, though ad- | mitting the impossibility of a fair | | trial in Decatur, sought to place the | j burden of this fact on the shoulders | of the defense, rather than on the | ‘ ' ;|are being perfected in the various | White ruling class, and announced | cities, will be announced from day postponement of the date for the|t9 day. : trial of Weems until the July 10th | | term of court. | “Responsibility on White Ruling | Class” The committee, it was announced, [has set up its headquarters at 119 | West 135th St., New York City, where } | reports should be made of volunte: | Knight then launched into a sick- | Supplies donated, and recruits for the ening laudatory eulogy of Alabama | March come for instruction and in- | justice. | formation. |” “We are not bigots,” he shouted. | The Action Commitiee, which was Fontan ctatate speech is heroic,” | instructed by Sunday's conference to Brodsky answered, referring to | make the plans for the “Free the Knight's citing of one crank letter | Scottsboro Boys” March to Washing- he said he had received from New | 10m to collect and present to Pres\- | York, threatening his life. “Leibow- Br Lnk RMAIRTA aed ae ; “4, {demanding the immediate, uncondi- | itz’ speech has nothing to do with) tional, and safe release of the nine prejudice here. The responsi- | the Scottsboro Boys, and to pri a 7 | s vs, esent to bility must be placed upon the South- | Congress a bill to be ae at once, ern ruling class and their theory of | providing for strict enforcement of | White supremacy, which is used to|the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fif- ‘divide and rule’ the Negro and white | teenth Amendments to the Constitu- | workers. | tion relative to the rights of Negroes, For the first time in a Southern | announced that the bill is being | court-room a plea was heard for the | drafted into final form, and all ar- unity of black and white workers |rangements under way for the sig- | against exploiters. Misery and starv~- | nature drive and march jation of poops workers in the South | “Crowd the Highways” fan only be abolished by their unity | «neighborhood groups are urged by j Mith Negro. workers against..the | the- Committee to set up their own | Southern ruling class and its theory | headquarters and report these to the of white supremacy, Brodsky potnt- | National Scottsboro Action Commit- jed out. p jtee,” the statement said. “These | Here Knight, turning purple with | neighborhood committees should re- |tage, interrupted Brodsky. | port daily on all information, such “We will not hear such statements | as trucks, food, number of recruits, in an Alabama courtroom!” he | Organizations should select their cap- shouted. tains carefully so that their delegates Increases 5 Cents; BOLAN GETS JOB NEW YORK.—Following the ac-/ | Higher Prices Loom | y sone AS POLICE HEAD | tion of the State Milk Control Board} | in fixing minimum prices for milk) NEW YORK, April 1f.—James 8. of appeal to the Supreme Court of Alabama, which automatically | pends sentence. | “Come around, Haywood, IT want to impose sentence,” Horton said. “In accordance with the verdict of the sus~ Judge Horton angrily ordered | Brodsky to be silent. jmay act in a united manner, and \these captains should report at once. | effective today, the retail price of| Bolan, former deputy chief inspector | jyry, I sentence you to die in the | milk soared in many cities of the| of the police department, was aD~| electric chair on June 16.” | state. Milk has been selling for 4) pointed police commissioner Satur-| Brodsky rose and filed a prelimin- {and 6 cents a quart in sections of| day by Mayor O’Brien to fill the Va-| ary motion to set aside the verdict, Brooklyn and the Bronx and on the| cancy caused by the resignation of| and for a new trial, giving twenty East Side of Manhattan. The new| Edward P. Mulrooney, who now has| grounds, including: exclusion of Ne- | minimum price drives the costs of| the job of chairman of the state beer | croes from grand and petit juries; | milk for .the toiling masses up to 9/ board. | prejudice and terrorization of the cents for store milk and 10 cents for; While Grover Whalen, the Wana-| jy+y and defense witnesses; prejudi- ‘That the) maker glorified floor walker, was po-| Gia} errors made in the tri ricites lice commissioner Bolan, still on his milk delivered at horae. TammanyHallPlays With the Lives of the | minimum price is merely a starting | point for continued price increases is | evident from reports that the price of milk is expected to rise to 12 or 13 cents before the end of the sum- mer. Thousands of children of the working class, already undernour- | ished from lack of sufficient food will | be deprived of this essential food and to malnutrition and other serious di- | of the continuous accidents and dis- seases. “white light” job took a prominent part in censorship of plays. Slugged Workers’ Demonstrations. In 1928, Bolan was placed in charge of the Manhattan uniformed force jby Commissioner Whalen, which job he held until his appointment to the | job of commissioner. During that thousands more will now be exposed | period he ordered all the savage police | | raids upon strikers, pickets and mass (unemployed demonstrations. Chicago South Side Demonstrates for the Scottsboro Negro Boys 7000 in Parade; 20,000 Cheering Workers Line Streets Protesting Verdict By ROBERT MINOR CHICAGO, Ap#il 15 (By Air Mail). —The principal streets of Chicago's South Side during the whole of this (Saturday) afternoon rang with the shouts and cheers of 17,000 demon~- strators demanding the release of the innocent Negro boys framed up and condemned to death at Scottsboro, Ala., and calling for an end to Jim~- Crow discrimination in Chicago. The demonstration was occasioned by the recent second conviction of Haywood Patterson, 19-year-old Negro boy, by| an Alabama lynch court and by a campaign now being carried on for Negro rights in Chicago. Negro and White. About half of the marchers were white workers and half were Ne- groes. More than 20,000 friendly spectators cheered the parade and many hundreds joined its columns from the sidewalk in the course of the march. In the forenoon the downtown streets were jammed by a parade of unpaid teachers. After proceeding from 33rd to 50th St. in a circuitous route through the jim-crowed, double-rent section in- habited by Negroes, the Scottsboro dem« ion. halted in front of the naked and rusting steel framework that was to have been the Wendel Phillips School, the construction of which has been abandoned by tho etty government as 8 “needless” ex- pense, as the school had been in- tended for Negroes, Support Mooney Congress. Speakers representing many organ- izations here addressed the meeting, which voted resolutions for the re- lease of the Scottsboro boys, for sup- port of the Free Mooney Congress) ter. which will open in Chicago April 30, and demanding that all workers’ or- | ganizations, and also the National | Association for Advancement of Col- ored People, the Universal Negro Im- provement Association, and the reli- gious organizations give their organ- | ized support of the Scottsboro boys and Mooney by participating in the coming huge May Day Parade, which is to wind up at the Chicago Stadium mass meeting in conjunction with the session of the Free Mooney Con- gress on May 1, Many organizations participated in today’s demonstration, although not. in a sufficiently organized manner. By unanimous vote of the demon- stration, a motion was passed that | chanted as the parade passed, “No | work, no rent, no work, no rent. : |The demonstration passed through rows of wooden houses, the doors, flocrs and even side-walls of which | have been torn off to be used as fuel by the unemployed during the win- A feature of the parade which at- tracted greatest attention was a pair of baby carriages side by side, one pushed by a Negro mother, with her baby, the other by a white working- class mother with hers. A Negro boy and a white girl car- ried together a banner demanding the united struggle of Negro and white masses to save the innocent youths condemned to die in Alabama. Chairman Lightfood and Secretary Newhoff of the International Labor Defense made stirring addresses, fol- lowed by a representative of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Speakers representing the Com- munist Party, Robert Minor and Bill Gebert, pointed out that never until | the successful carrying through in|/the Communist Party was organized ' Chicago of the campaign to save the| in Chicago had such demonstrations | Scottsboro boys depended upon the of Negro and white workers been ‘immediate strengthening of the In- possible, and urged the building of ‘ternational Labor Defense in this) the Communist Party without which | city by 300 new members. The mo-) there could no successful struggle | tion having carried, the crowd of against mass starvation. | workers on the street thereupon pro-, Throughout the long demonstra- ceeded to fulfill it by themselves en-| tion, Young Pioneers, both boys and listing the 300; about 350 yolunteer-| girls, Negro and white, darted about ing. the streets on roller skates selling the ‘Negre chiltixen om the sudelings ‘“Pignecs” ment to violence in the summation | of Solicitor Wade Wright of Morgan County; and in general that the ver- dict was against the weight of evid- ence. In support of his motion, Brodsky | presented affidavits of counsel, news- | papermen, and observers at the trial, proving definitely the charges of pre- judice and threats to the lives of | the boys, thelr witnesses, and law- | yers. |" Judge Horton declined to act on | the motion for a new trial, stating | |he allowed thirty days in which to | make a final motion to set aside the verdict. | Jury Was Tampered With | Following this ruling, Brodsky |created a sensation in the’ court- | room, every foot of which, including jthe Jim-Crow section set aside for Negroes, was packed, by demanding | that the bailiff who had custody of |the Patterson jury he called. Judge Horton at first refused, demanding the reason for the request “I have information that the ju received and made telephone calls while deliberating on the Patterson verdict,” Brodsky stated. The bailiff | | was called, and took a seat while the | roll was called for the Weems jury. Immediately, Attorney - General Thomas E. Knight walked over and began a conference with him, evid- ently seeking to frame a plausible | alibi for the phone-calls. An ob- | jection to this procedure, made by | Brodsky, was over-ruled by Judge | Horton, The conference was apparently fruitless, and Knight and the bailiff walked into the private witness room for further talk. Brodsky again pro- tested, calling the attention of the court to this action, but Judge Hor- ton refused to interfere, Jury Gets Phone Calls Finally called to the stand and questioned by the judge, Bailiff Brit- ten admitted phone calls to and from jurors during deliberations. He “ex- | plained” that one was for a drug- | gist, another for a clothes-cleaner, \a third for a sick wife. Under close examination by Brods- | ky, however, Britten admitted he jhad no knowledge of what actu- lally was said over the phone, who was called by the jurors, or who call- ed them, ‘Theret ominously calling the wert of ths sour, dees Scottsboro NegroBoys | Wm. Patterson, National Secretary of I. L. D. grand stand play, Sunday night, to turn the issue of the lives of nine innocent Negro boys facing death in Besrigeate into its own political foot- all. |__The issues of life and death to the | Negro people, an@ to the poor white | workers of the South and of the | United States, were sidetracked for a | lying eulogy of Tammany by Mayor) | O’Brien, John H. McCooey, Brook- lyn Democratic leader, in what was supposed to be a Scottsboro protest ilies at Arcadia Hall in Brook- yn William L. Patterson, national sec- | tetary of the International Labor De- |fense, billed to speak at the mee ing, was put off by the Tammany | politicians until 1 o'clock in the morning, when over half of the fif- | teen thousand who jammed the hall | to hear about Scottsboro, had left. In a stirring speech, which held | the 6,000 Negro and white workers | in the hall glued to their seats even jat that late hour, he exposed the | maneuvers of Tammany, in a lash- ing attack upon O'Brien, McCooey, and the other demagogues, exposing | their lies and their motives of di- the masses against the Scottsboro | lynch verdict. | O’Brien Praises His “Relief.” | When Patterson rose to speak, the Tammany demagogues, who had al- ready spoken, and who were on the platform with him, rose and left the hall. Mayor O’Brien’s speech was a ful~ some eulogy of the “relief system” of New York city, which keeps thou- sansd of Negroes and white workers in starvation, and has resulted in thousands of deaths in Harlem, the East Side, Brownsville, and other Poor sections of town from hunger, cold and sickness. “I haven't read the record, so I | Mayor O'Brien said. | “This country was founded on justice,” Magistrate Sabatini, no- ‘toriousty vicious in his treatment of Negro and white workers, said, plead- ing with the workers present to put ‘thetr faith im the 5. S. Supmame verting the huge surge of anger of} j can’t say much about Scottsboro,” | Exposes Politicians NEW YORK.—Tammany made a) Court, | Referring to the statement, earlier jin the evening, of Samuel 5S. Leibo~ | witz, ternational Labor Defense trial attorney in the Scottsboro cases, that he was “not a Communist, but | that the International Labor Defense {had given him a free hand in the Jegal aspects of the case,” Patterson made the point, first of all, that the ji. L. D, is not a Communist organ- | ization, | “At- the same time,” he said, wa must remember that it was the cal} of the Communist Party which first of all brought the Scottsboro infamy | before the workers of the world, rous- | ing them to protest. Where were the Democratic, Republican and Socialist | parties at that time? They were | content, and would have been only too glad had it been possible, to bury Scottsboro, to forget it, to burn the | Scottsboro boys themselves, because it is their system, the system which |they support, which demands the ming of these boys. “AS bodies, the three capitalist parties have never turned @ finger for the Scottsboro boys. On the contrary, they have worked for | their burning. | “Why are these Democratic speak~ ers here tonight? They are here be- | cause the masses are here. They are here because the masses are in tur- moil, demanding that the Scottsboro boys shall not die, and they are afraid. They are afraid of this up- heaval. They are here to divert it, They are here because wherever the people are, there they must be, to save themselves if they can.” Mrs. Janie Patterson, mother of Haywood Patterson, although adver~ tised to speak at the meeting, was at first refused the floor on the in- |sistence of the Tammany represen | tatives, and the Rey. Harten went | so far as to announce that she would | not speak. The insistence of the workers, who | shouted for her, demanding that she be given the platform, forced the demagogues, seeking to make politi-+ cal capttal owt of the lives of the Seottebors hows, to pent hee to | spomie vinegar A