The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1933, Page 2

UF PAGE TWO 1933 BARRICADES | NEWS BRIERS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, ay “The Jury Says We Needn’t Bother, They’il Do the Job —hy Burek ‘TAMMANY SUMMONS BRIGGS TO COURT 10 STIFLE SCOTTSBORO PROTEST Unemployment Still R 5 - WASHINGTON, April oh ra —— _ mineecnmnecociont Printed by Special Pormis. I palate ; he department of labor is compelled ‘ ee " i h r N # INTERNATIONAL in it i ; NEWS ITEM: The bailiff NEW YORK.—Oyril Briggs, editor | test against the Alabama lynch courts IN B E R L i RUBLISHERS sai. South in its reports, distorted to be as fa- a f ihe see fot Ht a of the Harlem Liberator, has been in the Scottsboro case. " i Vorable as possible to capitalism, that bapa aig Nar tak lead AS bi ated Rds summoned to appear before the| In an interview with the DAILY s Avenue, Mew York City. unemployment is still increasing and Patterson, one of the. nine Scott | magistrate today at 170 E. 123rd St.) WORKER reporter yesterday Briggs Court. Briggs has been singled out| told how the landlord had tried to by the landlord, Bachrat, of 2149) make him cut off the loud speaker | Seventh Ave., where the Liberator by which the Liberator was helping that wages are decreasing still faster, In its report for March it shows that there has been a decrease in employ- | boro boys, admitted that the j received phone calls from the out- side while deliberating on the ver- AH Workers are urged to read this book and spread BY KLAUS NEWKRANTE LLUSTRATED BY WALTER QUIRT it among their friends. THE STORY THUS FAR:—The workers of the proletarian district, Wedding, in Berlin the ban issued by the S' worker, Kurt Zimmerman, are pri paring to demonstrate May Day, 1 alist Police Chief, Zoergiebel. i an active member of the Communist Party, , despite Anna, wife of the ment of 4.2 per cent, as compared | th Webrner ri ee ; office is located, and the police in|/to mobilize the workers of Harlem with February, while wages have dict. an attempt to stifle the growing pro- | for the march to Washington to save fallen 82 per cent for the same ~~ ——-~--~<-<<<<<« | the Scottsboro boys and enforce the period The employment index is fixed at 55.1, with 1926 as the base of 100, while the pay roll index was placed at 33.4 per cent. | RECRUITING ON FOR SCOTTSBOR |13th, 14th and 18th amendments of | the U. S. Constitution. | Tuesday police ordered the Libera- | tor to cut off the loud-speaker. At ‘covered that the owner of an ice-cream store on their street is a police Macon Test Again Postponed. ledtare we. cienar tui belie oie spy. A telephone wire is attached secretly to the store. Meanwhile, pre- | AKRON, April 19.—New difficul- | | tora attack. The loud-speaker, which wNations are being made at the police-station to crush the coming de- | ties arose ‘today that caused, for the monstration. cialist Party nesses in the police station. young policemen there * Wullner, a veteran policeman, who is a member of the So- is astonished at the military preparations which he wit- * able man, showed him # new police fifth consecutive time, postponement | of the trial flight of the Macon, sis- ter airship of the ill-fated Akron | The trial flight was to start at 5:30 this morning, but had to be aban- ~ TREK TO CAPITA | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) march to provide trucks and cars; | had been cut off for a few hours, ; Was turned on. Three cops came | rushing towards the Liberator office. Immediately a score of workers blocked their way and prevented TONG the | their entering the office. One cop /, esate H ‘of about| order from the District Commander: |4oned for reasons the navy “ex- | to appeal to people to come to Wash- | drew his gun, but was promptly made Pee tei, METH ‘cr. noticed| Police District North, Dept. 1, perts” refuse to disclose. ington by hitch-hiking, by freight | to put it back in his holster. The Pe seer Bull, Nr. 2044-29, iow and looking down Wiesenstrasse down 2” he asked Wul- to him. you see behind the Panke, ream, flows, sse tenements stared ab- the window. excited expression my first in a low e with i s @ great honour for us East Prussians to have been in this dangerous hour.” d in silence ands. Then aking to him- is a queer feeling suddenly e this . . . power, don’t you Otherwise the town folks us, especially those time voice because he was always go-| that is; Mob, the police on duty made a baton 26th April, 1929. “Re offences against the demons- | ation ban it has been reported that the actions of individual policemen have not been sufficiently decisive. When stones were thrown by the charge, but neglected to arrest the | ringleaders. The command is not ‘added after a short| Satisfied with this, but is of the opinion that when a number of men have recourse to their batons, it should be possible to arrest, and bring ed round. His face|in some of the demonstrators. Signed: BASEDOW.” | Wullner was almost surprised to find that they did not ask even more. hidden | Slowly the situation began to dawn | on him. He felt that what was plan- ned was no less than a revenge ex+ pedition against the Koslinerstrasse, although those gentlemen were care- ful not to talk openly in these terms yet. He remembered quite clearly | how the cononel, when informed at/| an inspection that on the first day/ of the ban on demonstrations, eighty red flags had been hung from the England Bans N. Z. Silver. WELLINGTON, April were today notified that the Bank of England will not accept English silver coins from New Zealand or Australia, The reason given by Lon- don is that banks there hold a large 19,—Banks | surplus of silver and do not want to risk increasing it, They advise the dominions to attempt to exchange it for gold and ship that metal to Lon- don, where there now exists the greatest gold surplus in the history of the Bank of England. Hylan Offers Himself Again. NEW YORK, April 19—John F. Hylan, twice mayor of New York, who fell out with Tammany, an- nounces his candidacy again, He is! trying to capitalize the issue of the five-cent subway fare, which O’Brien and Tammany are plotting to do away with in favor of higher fare. Hylan was the mayor. of the real estate speculators. U. 8. Soldiers Held By Japan. TOKYO, April 19—Two United | Leibowitz Says Decatur Tammany Frames | cars and other conveyances; to ap- peal to all those workets who can af- ford to come by train and bus. The Communist Party position in at @ mass meeting in St. Luke's Church, 125 West 130th 8t., at 8 p.m. tonight. Speakers at this meeting will be S. Kingston, organizational secretary of the C. P. in Harlem, Sam Brown, representing the Young Com- munist League, Clarence Hathaway, New York District organizer of the C. P., and William L. Patterson, na- | tional secretary of the International Labor Defense. Harlem Parade Saturday The line of march for the Scotts- boro Protest Parade in Harlem, Satur- day afternoon was announced today by the Action Committee. Many branches of the U.N.IA. have an- | nounced that their membership will participate in full uniform with ban- ners and with the Bright Light S. C. band of the organization led by L. C. Perry. At least one other Negro band, and the W.LR. band will par- ‘crowd downstairs jeered the cops as | they retreated. | Charles Alexander, William Patter, | son, national secretary of the LL.D.; | the Scottsboro case will be presented | Leonard Patterson, Harlem organizer of the ¥. C. L., and others spoke at the protest meeting that continued outside. Oscar Horton of the Lib- |erator staff was chairman. A col- lection of $10.50 was taken for the Scottsboro case. Indignation is sweeping Harlem at |this Tammany attack on those who |are in the forefront of the fight for {the Scottsboro boys. The courtroom lis expected to be packed at 10 a. m. | today, when Briggs appears to answer the charges of the landlord. Most of the tenants in the build- ing have signed a statement con- demning the action of the landlord, Briggs announced. The I. L. D. will defend the right of the Liberator to spread the call for Scottsboro pro- tests. SCOTTSBORO TAG DAYS *RIDAY AND SATURDAY Lynch Hot Before Trial Negro in Local | windows of the twenty-three houses; States soldiers are held by Japanese in the Kolinerstrasse, had gnashed| military authorities for photograph- his teeth and said: “Well, my lads, ing Japanese troop movements near NEW YORK.~—To help meet the immediate need of fands for carry- y won't laugh I ticipate. art mowing them expect, once z I succeeded in down! In Inster! hitting an on a_ bottle times in succession with an army pistol at a range of fifty yards. By Jove, I am look’ rd to the day eiter Tow! in astonishment: you that there'll be Wednesday? russian looked surprised. burst out laughing, The by now: “Who on earth has t hi ld this 9” You Red trash.’ her wo LANNED REVE! When Wullner evening from h: GE pa “The Chicago Mooney April 30 to May 2 toward my freedor Congress, ‘'—Tom Mooney. SPLENDID LARGE Hall and Meeting Rooms TO HIRE Perfect for BALLS, DANCES, LECTURES, MEETINGS, Ete. IN THE ESTONIAN New | WORKERS HOME | 27-29 W.115th St., N.Y.C. | 27-29 Phone UNiversity 4-0165 tater’) Yorkers Order | | DENTAL DEPARTMENT | x0 FIFTH AVENUE | sth FLOOR | Dr. AW Wor ents of ©. WEISSMAN ‘DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY | 107 Bristol Street | Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B’kiyn | PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 | ottice Hours: a10 A, | cites Dr. WILLIAM BELL | OPTOMETRIST | 106 K. 14th St., near 4th Av. MFET YOUR COMRADES AT THE oe | Cooperative Dining Club| ALLERTON AVENUE Cor, Bronx Park East Profetarian Prices Pure Foods GARMENT DISTRICT Garment Section Workers Patronize Naverr Cafeteria 323 7th AVENUE Corner 28th St. communists | smoothly phrased. ly armed for nothing, 2 periog of service for that and a/ Tredwell, one of the career men of mpt a revolution With | perfect character. id us a good deal more’ of jeg will be a big step’ PREPARING AMMUNITION. | three | this trash will be cleared out on May| Matsaochwang, China. That was clear enough. | Wullner had three more months| to complete his tenth year of service. | He knew the Police Act which had} been passed with the help of his; Social Democratic Fraction by_the| Landtag in 1927 only too well. They would not be able to dismiss him on} account of “insubordination” or “breach . of. discipline” as it was soj| He had too long) But this shame-} | ful law contained a certain para-| heart, so hotly had it been discussed | | at the time. : “A police officer can be given notice! ve before completing ten years| service even if the conditions| of : stipulated in paragraphs 9 and 10 are; UP 8s there is an intense interest| any just and impartial verdict to be | ne young policeman, aysent, if he does not possess the ®Mong the masses here in regard to! arrived at at this time.” ies as he learned) capabilities necessary for a proper| the chain-gang and lynch. law sys-| from the room with-| discharge of his duties, especially the| tem practi mental and physical freshness and| the power of quick decision and en-) returned in the eygetic action, indispensable for the! round, the in-| police service; in certifying this con-, spector who valued the calm, reli-! gition the judgment of the superior! officer is to be taken into considera- | tion.” | | That was a fine bit of work! Who-! ever refused to participate in this ac-! | | tion would simply be declared de- void of the “necessary mental and| physical freshness,” and would then| have to try and find a new job at| the age of forty-two. They were caught all ways! | For a moment he wondered| whether he should not ignore the} official channel of complaint and go! aight. to the Police Chief person-| ally. After all he was a Party com- | rade. He could not help laughing} to himself. Not for nothing was it| known to all the policemen that the dent. wall. only have the same result, During the evening he discovered, when he was alone in the captain's| room for a moment, that the big boxes that were placed there, con-| | tained steel helmets, hand grenades. two light, and one heavy machine- guns, and about 400 Carbines, Model 98. | ~ | 'HANGING in the builder’s hut on} Tuesday morning, Kurt noticed} that something was the matter with his fellow-workers. He was too tired to start talking to the others at once. He had scarceiy found time to sleep. | The street-unit paper, the “Wedding- | Prolet” had had to be folded and| bound. Anna had helped but still} it was three o'clock when at last the! stacks of papers were finished. The unemployed comrades would be dis- buting then at the factories and the houses of Kolinstrasse that They were ready for May| Day here on the fob too. It was understood that not a stone would be touched. The workers on the nearly} finished skyscraper of the Karstadt| Store in Neukolin had even decided to hoist a red flag on the tower to- morrow. It won't be easy for the} others to get up there and to teke! it down... If only this last working day were | finished! From day to day the heavy work became harder and harder for him, He had rarely been able to sleep for more than three or four hours during the last week. Well, after the Ist of May there will be time enough for that. There was no h for it. In these days party | wo-k was more important than sleep- |ing and eating. He tightened the [leather belt over his old working It helps to keep the bones} . 8 morning. (To Be Continued) DOWNTOWN DISTRICT COMRADES | Grand Opera Hand Laundry | 202 BIGNTH AVENUE, Near 25th. lier Gar \TRONIZE | VERN’S CAFETERIA | 'Tth Avenue at 30th St. | Best Food at Workers Prices SE | Workers Welcome at Ratner’s Cafeteria LUNCH 101 University Place (Just Around the Jorner) | SOL’S SANDWICH | | 115 Second Avenue | Food Workers Industrial Union. | t i Telephone Tompkins Sqrare 6-9760-978) | | Road; One This is part of the war preparations of United States imperialism against Japan. | Two years ago American aviators were held for photographing Japa-| nese naval bases and_ fortifications for the use of the United States “military intelligence (spying) ser- vice.” oi Would Stop Chain Gang Film.. - STOCKHOLM, April 19.—Roger C. United States imperialist diplomacy, now American Consul General for as getting quite nervous graph, number II, which he knew by| Sweden, has taken steps to induce the Swedish government to bar the| picture play, “I Am a Fugitive From) a Chain-Gang,” from the country.) He is afraid it will fan the flames of | Protest against the Scottsboro frame-| iced in the United States, | Mexico Censors Poverty Pictures, | OWitz answers the lynch-court judge's EL PASO, Texas, April 19.—Juarez | police across the border in Mexico| confiscated a motion picture film showing ragged and starving Mexi- can children which was intended for exhibition at the Chicago World’s| Fair. There is a law in Mexico pro- hibiting taking pictures showing pov-| erty. Prnters Get Another Cut. CLEVELAND, April 19.—Cleveland Members of the Typographical Union in the job printing plants took an- other 4 per cent wage-cut today on the basis of a decision of an arbi- trator, who was imposed upon them by Charles P. Howard and the offi- cials of the International Union. British Seaman Killed. NEW YORK, April 19.—Basil Car- diff, a 21-year-old seaman of Liver-| | reactionary colonel above all, was thz| pool, England, was killed when he| When young men stood et the en- intimate friend of the Police Presi-| fell from a scaffolding on the White | trance to the Decatur courtroom and | grappling hooks, Letter to Horton Points to State’s Program of Lynch In citement NEW YORK.—A letter to Judge | James E. Horton of Decatur, taking | exception to his attempt to place re- | sponsibility for the prejudice and | lynch-hysteria of Decatur and North- | ern Alabama upon the defense of the | 3 Scottsboro boys, was made public yes- | with his hands, leaped in the air|the kind of Negro oppression here terday by Samuel 8. Letbowitz, chief | like a frenzied rooter at a football in New York that many who thunder trial attorney for the International “You are quoted in one of the lead- | ing metropolitan journals as follows:” | Leibowitz writes. “The statement (referring to re- | marks attributed to me concerning | the jury that convicted Patterson) | must of necessity make impossible | Recalls First Trials In this long letter, Attorney Leib- remarks: “The prejudice you refer to was there long before the trials were transferred to Decatur. This preju- dice .. . was first manifested when | these poor unfortunates were hurried | through the machinery of justice at | Scottsboro to the tune of ‘There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.’ | | You will recall that these defendants | were represented by a local Scottsboro | lawyer, “The prejudice was intensified by | the motion made to quash the indiét- | ment and the yenire because of the | systematic exclusion of Negroes from | service upon juries, solely because of their color... . Your statement that | the defense ‘had made out a prima facie case’ will go down !n history as a momentous declaration. “This prejudice was intensified ‘deserts death in the electric chair’ . . . The chief prosecutor made no attempt to punish the perpetrators of this outrageous act... . “... The prejudice you speak of | was intensified by the Attorney Gen- eral when he applauded vociferot game, and shouted with glee at a | Labor Defense in the Scottsboro cases. | point which he thought a witness had | boy,s 1 made that was favorable to the p: ecution. During the entire trial, as | You well know, your attention was | napping. called to his smirking and, sneering behavior, to his bully-ragging of wit nesses, and to a ‘general deportment which prejudiced the unfortunate de- fendant before the bar... . Defense Means Business “The prejudice, already e: was highly intensified when the Sc leltor for Morgan County, Wade Wright, referred to Sew: money from New York,’ to Lester Carter as ‘Car- | terinsky,’ and to Mr. Brodsky of d: fense counsel as ‘the creature with | the long nose and pack on his back.’ | “Prejudice was highly intensified when the Attorney General, pointing at the defendant during his argument to the jury, referred to him as ‘that thing.’ “Again evidence of bigotry and Scottshoro Case Edwin Griffin Jailed) for 25 Years Is Innocent | NEW YORK—A local “Scottsboro,” | | “concern” for the Scottsboro main silent on; the case of Edward Griffin, has also found the revolutionary workers of New York ‘The Daily Worker prints of this case as a warning sections not to lose sight oi the fact that there are raily acts of Negro oppression which we must fight if we are to prove our leader- ship to the Negro masses. Edward Griffin, 18, of 183 McKib- ben St., was sentenced Wednesday, April 12, to 10 to 15 years for man- slaughter and 5 to 10 years for carry- ing a knife. Griffin was accused of | slaying Benjamin Salite, 202 Varet | St.. on Dec, 3 of last year. A cap was found on the body of the slain man with the initials of the owner | and the name of the store from which it was purchased, the initials were not those of Griffin. The police interviewed the store in which the hat was sold. The store- their the fac to Pari boros of New York, the Harlem Hos- pital butchery and for the freedom of Edward Griffin, framed on murder charges in Brooklyn, will be raised in banners and slogans along the line of march. Dozens of open air meetings all along the route will fall into line as the parade swings by. The line of march announced is as follows: Mobilization at 134th Street and Lenox Ave., up Lenox to 140th, west to Seventh Ave., south to 131st, east to Lenox Ave., down to 114th, East to Fifth Ave., up to 116th; west to Seventh Ave., north to 135th St., and West to St. Nicholas and Eighth Aves, March Conference Sunday. Final mobilization for the Free the Scottsboro Boys March to Washing- ton will be arranged at the second Scottsboro conference to be held Sun- day at 2 p. m. at Imperial Hall, 160 West 129th Street. This conference will be attended by the 233 delegates present. at’ last Sunday’s meeting, with the expected addition of hundreds ‘more. -Dele- gates are being elected daily by clubs, | Demand for an end to the Scotts- | | | j unions, churches, and other organi- zations, it was announced. SCOTTSBORO TORCHLIGHT PARADE IN BRONX TO- MORROW: THEN MEET NEW YORK—Mrs. Janie Patter- hatred towards the Negro and any-| keeper claimed to know who had |son, mother of Haywood Patterson, | one who attempts to get a measure | bc ef justice for him, was most graphic- ally demonstrated by Attorney Gen- eral, when in his address to the jury he offered as a reason for not calling important Negro witnesses, the | fact that: “We in the South do not call a nigger to corroborate a white witness no matter who the white witness may be.’ “The prosecution must now realize He might as well take off his| Star motorship Georgie, berthed at|hawked pamphlets ending in a ring- | that we mean business; that we will | c: coat for good, and hang it up on the! Pier 61, North River. He was paint-| ing plea ‘that Alabama and the world | not nussyfoot on the Constitutfonal | To make an attempt would] ing the outside of the boat. His body| will finally see justice claim its own | question and that we will fight hon- was recovered from the water with|and the Negroes receive their just | orably and diligen ly for the freedom ' of nine innocent men.” i zht the hat. He “Sdentified” | Griffin. This was a store in Grif- | fin’s neighborhood and the store- | keeper would not have to put other nitials in the hat if it had been Griffin who rerchased ‘it, since he | claimed to know Griffin, Griffin | was at the funeral of an aunt at| the time of the crime. | The facts are clear. The Daily | Worker ted the story months ago. | The ILD issued a statement that the | was a frame-up. The court | de it impossible for anyone to see Griffin except the Tammany lawyer | who got $1,000 whether Griffin got the death chair or went free. How the Scottsboro Frame-Up Was By HELEN MARCY of 2,500, with its half empty stores |sure ‘nuff. If not—we'll hang ’em.”| If you look through the files of | strung around the courthouse, mud-"| He appealed to my white womanhood | the Southern Worker, official organ | dy, dreary—yet an unmistakeable| to agree with him. of the Communist Party in the South, you will find that the “Lynch Law” column was never at 2 loss for sub- ject matter. Week after week, in an unending procession, appear lynch- ings, attempted lynchings and other outrages against the Negro masses in the South. It was my job to edit the “Lynch Law” column. Every day I would clip from newspapers of the largest cities in the South. and _ hidden among insignificant items, I would find: “Negro Tenant Shot By Land- lord,” “Negro Lynched in——", “3 gro Will Be Electrocuted Wed.; Stole $3,” “Negroes Driven From Jobs On Shot.” Innumerable cases of lynching that neither the NAACP. not Tuskegee Institute were able to find, or willing to re- port—were exposed in the columns of the Southern Worker, But one day the “Times” of Chat- tanooga, Tenn., where the Southern Worker was published, printed glar- ing headlines of nine Negro rapisis who had desecrated the beautiful idyll of white womanhood in the South. The capitalist press frothed at the mouth, and spouted columns of vituperation against the “bestial crime” calling for mob action in no uncertain terms. We read that the nine “fiends” were to be arraigned the next day in Scottsboro, only 60 miles away. As @ Tepresentative of the Communist Party and the Southern Worker 1 was sent to Scottsboro to report the case and the status of the defense, since the papers had stated that the | boys would be defended by a Mr. | | Roddy, a lawyer for the Negro Min- | isters Alliance of Chattanooga. Indicative of the lynch spirit aroused by the press of Birmingham and Chattanooga was the fact that quite a number of persons from sur- | rounding towns and counties came tenseness about the groups of lanky, weatherbeaten, snuff chewing poor | whites who lined the pavements. ‘The owner of a lunch counter told me that these farmers had come in | from the neighboring country the night before. All night they had hung around in just this manner— | waiting, ominously waiting. | Flanked by a cordon of National Guardsmen, with bayonets fixed, nd story, house. seared, marched from the two red brick jeil to the court- Mr. Roddy Like the stage of an amateur play- house, there was a raised platform in the courtroom on which sat the judge—around him the boys, and on | the outer edge of the horseshoe, fac- ing the audience, the guardsmen held on_to their guns. Seats were at a premium. Guards were stationed along the stairs lead- ing to the courtroom and those who succeeded in getting through were sea @‘ied for arms. It didn’t take long. Mr. Roddy, half drunk (his visits to an asylum for treatments for delerium tremens are well known in Chattanooja— would not commit himself as being the lawyer for the boys. The judge appointed a number of lawyers from Scottsboro as the defenders of the boys, even though these men had already been assigned to the pro- secution, | We learned later that Roddy had | tried to influence the boys to plead guilty, but they refused to do so. In clear voices they all answered, “Not Guilty!” “Lynch Them!” The court is cleared. As the boys are led again to the rickety jail, shouts of “lynch ’em", “hang ‘em’, resound through the air, The crowd pushes on to the fail. Many have been drinking. One, into Scottsboro on that day, expect- | charged with corn whiskey, says to ing the “grand spectacle” charred bodies. | I wandered about the little town | of nine | me, “I say, let ‘em ‘lectrocute 'em bastards. Ma brother-in-law is on the jury list. He'll make ‘em burn, In front of the jail ave the guards- men. The miserab‘2 poo! | my side seems to be somewhat of an organizer—and thats all a mob needs | organization. He runs about trying | to get the thing started. Them boys | (the guardsmen) won't shoot at us— if only they would put their bayo- |nets away.” If he were not a poor | white, but a business man ¥ fluence in the community, the nine Tj va Wr ve be saw nine young boys, very nervous | Nesto boys would have been doomed. A mother with a babe in arms | gloats over the fact that several men she knows have guns ready for use. {Daughters of well-to-do landlords, who buy their clothes at the fashion- able “Vogue” shop in Chattanooga, {stop in their roadsters and laugh | coquettishly to their beaus, pointing |to the mob waiting for its prey, Poverty of White Workers. Farmers as a rule are poorly, clothed. But these poor whites had| lived through years of depressed cot-| ton prices. For two years they stag- gered their meals with relief from the Red Cross. They looked hungry. I saw one cap on which I counted 20 patches. Others were in tatters—| in the full sense of the word. And | these bits of humanity — poverty | stricken and long sufferinz—enflamed by @ blind fury inspired by the mas- ter class for generations—waited out- side the jail, hoping to get a chance to murder those who were their brothers. | Negroes living in the town hide in| their homes. | Compare this with the hundred Ne- | groes who zealously attended every day's proceedings of the trial of Hay- | wood Patterson in Decatur last week. They were there for one purpose— | to defend the boys. A new courage jhas been born in the Negro masses | of the South, caused by the two years | | struggle conducted by the Interna-| | tional Labor Defense and the Com-| munist Party. | The word is given out. The bus) has arrived to take the prisoners to. ,Gadsen jail. The crowd pushes for-| ward to rush the jail door, but) Bleaming bayonets are in the way. | th in-| 1 Discovered The Negro boys come out, and hur- riedly jump into the bus. The guards lay down their guns and climb into} the cramped bus. The driver, a| is jammed, ‘The blood | mob comes nearer, The Gad- heriff, now responsible for the of the prisoners, forces the} to turn on the ignition. The has reached the bus, but it) off, only a few seconds ahead. | surge after, running down the muddy road in a frenzy but the bus} flo outdistances them. They re-| machine hung: en ety driver G groups. Two years later, at cl in Decatur. Alabama, of these same nine b they will try again. | First Wise to “Daliy”, That night the Deily Worker got the first telegram about the Scoitts-| boro case—a forerunner of _ the) splendid struggle it has waged in its| pages ever since. And so ended the first page in the) history of the now famous Scottsboro case. The International Labor De- fense visited the mothers of the boy prisoners the very next day to get their permission to undertake a world- wide camnaign to save their sons. But not to be forrotten ts the Southern Worker—which carried the news of tho Scottshovo case into every Nevro shack—on the South Carolina cotton plantations, in the flery heat of the steel rolling mills in Birming- |’ ham, in the Alabama con! mines, the Micsirsippi swamps, the Florida pine forests. Tens of thousands of copies, read falteringly by a half-illiterate people, often in whispers, aroused the slumb- ering militancy of the Negro masses of the South. That's why a Camp Hill! That's why a Dadeville! The on organizer. Now after ceasing publication be- cause of financial difficulties, the) Southern Worker will appeer again. Eagerly the newly awakened South- ern toilers await the first issue. Workers of the North should give their unstinted moral and especially financial support to the leader of a new, militant generation of fighters in the South, , climbing the hill in small mut-| _ ‘cuthern Worker was a forum and) will be one of the main speakers at a Scottsboro demonstration tomor- row, Piiday night, in the Bronx, un- der the auspices of the Bronx Sec- tion, N. Y. District International La-~ bor Defense, at Ambassador Hall, Claremont Parkway and Third Ave. Two torch light parades led by brass bands and a series of open air rallies in the line of march will pre- cede the indoor meeting. All mass organizations in the Bronx are urged to participate in the | parades which will start at 7:30 p. m., at 161st Street and Prospect Ave- nue in the Lower Bronx, and at 188th Street and Belmont Avenue, in the Upper Bronx. Both parades will unite at Claremont Parkway and Washington Ave., for the march to Ambassador Hall. Additional Scottsboro protest meet- ings this week in Greater New York are in part as follows: Thursday Noon: — Social Problems |Club, N. Y. University, Washington Square Park, in Room 809; Thursday night: Tremont Workers Club, 2075 ite at| Scottsboro man, pretends that the, Clinton Avenue; Ella May Branch LL.D., 4109 13th Avenue, Brooklyn; Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 50 Moore Street. Friday Night: — Grand Club, 380 | Grand Street; Bill Haywood Branch Friday Night:—Cli Grand Club, 280 E. 3th Street. ing the appeal of Haywood Patter- son’s lynch sentence to the higher courts and for the further defense of all the Scottsboro boys, the M. Y. | District International Labor Det/ense has announced a Scottsboro Tag Day | this Saturday and Sunday, April 22 | and 23. | All members of the LL.D. mem- | bers of all macs ate called upon by the N, ¥. District of the LL.D. to mobilixe for carry- ing the two Tag Days through suc- cessfully. Call for boxes at Room 340. 30 East lith Street. Establish Tag Day Stations at once in your neighborhood. WHAT'S ON Thursday— LECTURE—Frank Palmer of the Feder- ated Preas will speak on ‘Twisted Head- lines” at the Nature Friends Center, 13 E. 1th 30_p. m. tonight. LECTURE—DAVID OSTRINSKY Who hes lived .on a collective tatm for two years will"speak on “The Agrarian Revolution in the Soviet Union” tonight at 8:30 P. M, at the Bast Bronx Branch of the F. 8. U., 1304 So, Bivd., near Freeman St. Station, Bronx. * DOMESTIC WORKERS’ SECTION of the Food Workers Section of the F.W.LU. meet- ing tonight at 18 W. 126th Bt., 8:80 p. m. BRANCH 800—I.W.0, regular meeting of the branch tonight in room 204, 60 %. 13th St. ‘There will be a lecture on the German situation. UNDERWEAR WORKERS ATTENTION! Comé to our Open Forum on “Trade Union- ism” tonight at Irving Pi Irving Plaza. Aus; Section of the N.T.W.L.U. Admission free. Come and bring your fellow workers along. FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA re- hearsal tonight at 8 p.m. Everyone must be present. PELHAM PARKWAY WORKERS’ CLUB meeting tonignt at 8:30 p. m. at 2128 Cruger Ave., near Lydig Ave. Diseussion on New Club rooms. Bring your friends. W.ES.L. POST 75 meets every ‘Thursday 8:20 p. at’ Palestine Hall, 1733 Pitkin Avenue (near Osborn St.). All rank and file vets invited. ‘TOM MOONEY MASS MEETING will be held in Brooklyn Labor Lyceum tonight under the atispices of the Mooney Moulders Defense Sub-Committee. (BORO MOONEY MASS MEETING :30 p. m. at 4109-13th Ave., Bilyn. Main speaker: Joseph Tauber, legal dept. of LL.D. Auspices: Ella May Branch, I. L. D, Friday LECTURE—Dr. B. Liber, author of the Healers, ete. Subject: The Child, Home and | Pamily, tonight at 8 p.m. Grand Plaza, 621 E. 160th St., near Prospect Ave., Bronx, Auspices: Ohildren Relief Org. PIANO RECITAL by Ralph Leopold, world famous pianist. Program of works by Bach, Chopin and others. ‘Transcriptions of Tris- tan and Isolde and Vaikyrie by Leopold. Plorre Degeyter Club, 58 W. 19th St. at 8:15 p. m. Admission 28¢. (Lester piano used.) Saturday JOHN REED CLUB, 450 Sixth Avenue, Party and Dance, 9 p. m. Vernion Grits | fith’s Orchestré entertaiiment, refresh- mente. Subseription 28¢. | Suuda SOHN Keep ote, 450. sixth Avenue, Sundey Forum, 2:30 p.m, Professor H. W. L. Dana, leading Amerfoan authority on | soviet drama, iMustrated with many lan- ‘tern slides of Soviet productions. Admis~ sioa 26. _AMUSE MENTS “KUHLE (“WHITHER EXTRA! SYMPOSIUM ON HITLER Hathaway, Dani- berg, Thomas and others 1000, ‘ i ereonmaeemnneere ASTOUNDIN FEATURE! GIRAFFE - NE WOMEN trom BURMA Tickets Admitting Aimel. 1 0°2.50 Ve sooo Rieter Box seats $5.1 tx a Ras. EAT. | PORE Row at cir be pecan, Soviet Russia Solves J, First 100% the Jewish Problem ¢,Jomm, THe The Return of Nathan Becker ONNE BID Iypys jes Dialogue Titles in English EUROPA, 154 W. 56th. Cont, from 11 A.M. The German Proletariat Speaks! The Truth of the Communist Struggle in Germany With H@RTHE THIELE, Gtar of “Maedchen “In Uniform’ COMPLETE ENGLISH DIALOGUE TITLES : CAMEO WAMPE” GERMANY”) BROADWAY Starting & @4 STREET | Saturday “A SECOND BEAU GESTE” “GLOS | PUS womexs Acme Theatre \TH ST. AND UNION SQUARE John Krimsky & Gifford Cochran prosent The Continental Success The 3-Penny Opera A Batiric Comedy ‘with Muste Aith 6. & 8X0 JEFFERSON 6. #|NOW “Island of Lost Souls,” ** Chas, Law | AUTUMN CROCUS 5... ACTH ST. THEA’ ray. Svgs. 6:30. Mats. Wed. Thurs, and Sat., 2: Prices—All performances $1, $1.50, 92