The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1933, Page 2

ds ‘are Two FOR INCREASED R DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY APRIL 24, 1988 LIEF Organize Struggle Against “The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die” Rings Thru Living Costs William Green, president of the American Fede! has helped the Wall Street hunger government in every Offensive against the standards of life of the toiling masses, now comes forth with the statement that there rising cost of living that will result from inflation He says wages must keep pace wi is the usual Green “joker” attached conducted with “legitimate” means. all who knoW Green's 0] jon to ation of Labor, who stage of its fierce By ROBERT CHASE NEW YORK.—The streets of Har- Harlem Streets From Thousands in Protest March there is a bend between those on, marchers as they passed was a great | overhead this conversation: must be a “fight” against the rapidly | jem rang out for block with cries of | the sidewalk and those on the street. | hum, like a giant wheel in motion. | Today they are not mere spectators,| The streets were alive with motion | A Negro still under the infiuence of the slander spread by the leaders ith the rise in living costs. But there to his statement—the fight should be What this is can be understood by every form of mass struggle and his attempts always to defeat such struggles by urging reliance upon pleas | with the government whose special against the workers’ standards of lif Green's present statement is no‘ job it is to carry out the offensive fe. thing more than demagogy to try to head off the growing struggles of the toiling masses against hunger. When | such a smashing attack is made as is contained in the Roosevelt inflation proposals, all the misleaders of labor are called to action to help carry it out. But workers must not be deceived by such trickery. There must be | organized the sharpest struggles against this latest and most vicious attack. In every shop, factory, mill or mine,,on the railroads, on the waterfront, meetings should be held, committees hunger drive. In all unions, in all workers’ organizations, in all neighborhoods, this question should be taken up and de At every relief station there should be organization and action for | | Gontinued and increased relief. Under the following slogans the struggle can be organized to smash this latest and fiercest attack of th 1, For increased relief and wages to meet inflation prices! 2. Fight for immediate relief and unemployment insurance. 3: Against relief cuts! 4, Against forced labor! Against 8. A public works program to tear down the slums, to build sanitary Unemployed workers employed on public houses and hospitals for workers. works to be paid regular trade unio: 6. The use of all war funds for relief and unemployment insurance. 7. Housewives organize and fight Not the deceptive paralyzing policies of Green, but mass resistance; mot retreat but relentless struggle against the toiling masses into a counter-offensive against capitalism. ~ SCOTTSBORO PROTESTS of action set up to resist the capitalist cisive action taken. e hunger government: wage cuts! m wages. it against soaring prices. is demanded to turn this offensive NEWS BRIEFS | Against | cae | Herriot Arrives Today. | Wilmington Mooncy-Scottsboro Meet | NEW YORK, April 23. — Former! WILMINGTON, Del., April 23—A, Premier Edouard Herriot, represent- Tom Mooney-Scotisboro mess protest | ing the French government in the meeting, organized by the Interna- | Parleys with Roosevelt, arrives Mon- tional Labor Defense, will be held: ay morning on the Ile de France. hero Monday night, April 24, at 8‘ In an interview on the boat he said pm., at the Community Civic League, | that in all preliminary discussions in| 407 East 11th Street. | France there was put forth the neces- . ° | sity of reaching an agreement with Overflow Denver Hall. | & “government atteched to the gold} x | standard” but that events the past} DENVER, Colo., April on few days made the “situation es- Hall, at the Five Points, Negro sec-| sentially different now”. He has not| tion of Denver, was overflowed at ®| yet received from Paris instructions Scottsboro protest meeting Monday, | ‘ HL pon 23 under the auspices of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. . ry SAN FRANCISCO, April 23—Sun- day, April 30, has been set aside as “Seottsboro Day,” by the Negro Church Alliance, comprising fifteen churches. Special advance advertis- ing’ of these services is being done. Speakérs from the International La~ bor Defense wili address the congre- gations. «2 TORONTO, Can,, April 23.—Hun- dreds of mass meetings and protest | demonstrations against the lynch- verdict of death handed down to Hay- wood Patterson, first of the Scotts- boro boys to be re-tried, are being| organized all over Canada under the leadership of the Canadian Labor De- tense League, sister organization of the International Labor Defense in the United States. CHICAGO, Il. Two Year Anniversary Enter- tainment, Cabaret and Dance Northwest Side Women's Council No, 3 SATURDAY, APRIL 29th, at 8 P.M. 2736 W. Division Street Se yer cent of proceeds to the Dally Worker | LL, Yesterday—“Dumb Driven Cattle” ‘oday—The Builders of a New World! YE LATEST SOVIET MASTERPIECE ALL-YALKING, WITH ENGLISH TITLES CHICAGO PREMIERE “1VA N” Week Beginning Wednesday, April 19th ‘With a World-Famous All-Siar Cast Presented by International Workers’ Order PUNCH AND JUDY THEA., Van Buren at Michigan. 25¢. to 1 P. M. She, to :30 P. M. 46c, Evenings and Sunday COMRADE George Wishnak Manager of Daily Worker Is making « tour and will visit the following cities for the organiza- tion of the circulation campaign for the DAILY WORKER: on what the policy shall be on the | question of international currency | problems. De ae | | O'Brien Threatens Critics. | | NEW YORK, Aprii 23—The Tam- | many Mayor O’Brien who was put in| office to boost the subway fares to} try to help the bondholders and sal-| yage from bankrupicy the city of New York, in a speech yesterday be- | fore the National Democratic Club, | threatened with “criminal prosecu- | tion” anyone who tells the facts about | the precarious condition of city -fi-| mances and credit. “It is unpatri- otic”, said O’Brien, “for public men or through the newspapers to dis- credit the credit of the City of New York”. That outburst is a confession of the fact that the city cannot raise | through ordinary means the money | to pay the $140,000,000 issue due May ist, If anyone can discredit the) | redit of the city more than the pil- | laging of Tammany has already done | he will have to go some. ier gin To Fire 19,000 Federal Employees. | WASHINGTON, April 23—Lewis | W. Douglas, director of the budget, |4s to further carry out Roosevelt’s| hunger program by taking off the | federal payrolls 19,000 federal em- | ployees who have been in service 30 years. This is done under provisions | of & “retirement” ° plan. | . 8 Alabama Schools All Closing. MONTGOMERY, April 23.—Altho finding enough money to maintain its {lynch and chain-gang courts, the state of Alabama is preparing tc) | close all schools in the state. More} than 85 per cent of the schools are| now closed and the whole system | | faces utter collapse because there is |no money “available” for educational purposes, Increase in Nervous Diseases. | NEW YORK, April 23.—The crisis | has brought a tremendous increase in cases of people suffering from nervous | diseases, according to the report of the Neurological Institute of New York. Most of the increase is due to “financial strain” says the report. O the 62,801 patients in the hospital } | during the past two years, most of} | them were unable to pay full fees The Scottsboro boys shall not die,” ‘On to Washington,” and “Black and White, Unite and Fight,” coming from the throats of 1,500 Negro and white workers in line and thousands following on the pavement, as the mass Scottsboro protest parade made its way through the heart of Harlem, Saturday. Soaring overhead was the plane of ionel Julian, Negro aviator. On s plane, in huge letters, was “Free the Scottsboro Boys,” and “On to Washington.” ‘The parade was thick with placards and banners as it started from 134th Street and Lenox Avenue, going north to 140th Street and then on its route through Harlem, “Mass protest will free the Scottsboro boys,” “Demand Negro and White Jury,” “Fight Scottsboro Conditions in Harlem” were some of the slogans carried. Especially prominent were the banners carrying the spirit of Harlem today, “On to Washington”! Heading the parade were two Negro youths bearing a huge banner, “The Scottsboro Boys Are Innocent! Stop Further Trials! Demand Their Free. dom!” Directly behind them, and perhaps the most stirring sight of the day, were three Negro couples, each push- ing a baby carriage. Their cries for the nine innocent victims of the white ruling class took on a symbolic meaning as they wheeled their in- | fants. Further back {n the parade was a group of 200 Negro children, adding their youthful voices to the chorus. They are the Scottsboro cases of Harlem. Their clothes are ragged and they are thin. A great cheer went up at 114th Street and Lenox Avenue as a large group of Spanish workers fell in line. Three cheers for the Harlem Liberator were sent up when a group of 500 organized by the Liberator joined the march when it passed their offices at 2749 Seventh Avenue. Your revorter has been to many demonstrations in Harlem, but none were like this. There was a new ele- ment today. In other parades most of those on the sidewalk were spectators, still doubtful; but today there was no doubt, Today, as one Negro said, “We are all;on the march.” Today | are participants, forming an iron ring of solidarity behind the policy of the | International Labor Defense and the Communist Party. This parade is | made out of Herlem and is part of Harlem. Eighty per cent of those in line are Negro residents of Harlem. Buy Daily Worker Never before was so much revolu- tionary literature sold on the streets of Harlem. The Daily Worker, the Harlem Liberator, numerous pamph- lets, were bought avidly, like in a | hunger. Many gave nickels for a new | penny pamphlet on the Scottsboro jcase. “Keep the change for the | boys,” they said. Three Negro women came out of a store as the parade passed. They | watched, excited, moved. One said, (“Tm going home and leave my bundles and join in.” “I am, too,” another joined in. | | “Let's hurry; I want to march for | | our boys, too.” Mingling with the chant of the TRY TO RAILROAD CYRIL BRIGGS, | and comment. “That's good, that’s good,” 3 Negro said, feelingly, to another. “It makes me fecl big, something in here,” he said, putting his hand to his chest; “feels ike a new thing has been | born.” “Yes, brother, a new thing is born. It’s a new people, and we're a-march- ing for our rights.” “It will put the fear of God in the hearts of those white lynchers,” ran the comment of many. Two Negroes were talking. One held the idea that the Negro people should fight alone, and the white workers fight their own battle. The other looked at the white and Negro workers passing, and answered, slowly, solemnly, as if after great study, ‘No brother, we can’t go alone. We must go together with our white brother. We must fight together; that is our salvation and their sal- vation.” At another point your reporter EDITOR OF HARLEM LIBERATOR | Trial Tomorrow; Charged With Speaking fc~ Scottsboro Boys NEW YORK.—In an attempt to | stifle the growing protests against the j Decatur lynch verdict, the Tammany | police are seeking to railroad Cyril Briggs, editor of the Harlem Libera- tor, to jail. The charge against Briggs is based on the pretext that the use of a loud speaker in the Harlem Liberator’'s campaign of ex- posure of the Scottsboro frame-up is a “violation of city ordinances.” The hearing, set for last Thursday, was adjourned to tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the Magistrates Court at 170 Bast 121st Street. Briggs will be defended by the International Labor Defense. Negro and white workers are urged to pack the court in militant protest against this out- rageous attempt to jail ome of the outstanding leaders in the fight for the Scottsboro boys and the rights of. the oppressed Negro psople and Without Permit exploited white workers, Landlords Withdraw Charge The charge against Briggs was orig- inally made by Bachrach & Bach- rach, landlords of the building at 2149 Seventh Avenue, in which the office of the Harlem Liberator is located. Frightened by the fierce indignation of the Harlem workers, the land'ords have sent frantic apol- | ogies to the Harlem Liberator, declar.. ing they will not press the charge. The Tammany police, however, are attempting to carry through the frame-up. They have singled out | Briggs for their attack on the Sc |boro mass defense in recognition of the tremendous role being played by the Harlem Liberator in rallying the masses of Harlem to the fight for | the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and the national liberation of the Negro people. Text of Negro Rights Bill to Be to Congress by Scottsboro Marchers NEW YORK.—Following is the text of the “Bill of Civil Rights,” to put teeth into enforcement of the i3th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U. S, Constitution, which are supposed to guarantee the demo- cratic rights of the Negro people. The bill, drawn up by the Na- tional Scotisboro Action Commit- tee, will be presented to Congress by the “Free the Scottsboro Boys” Marchers, who will also demand the immediate, unconditional, and safe release of the nine innocent Negro boys from President Roose- velt, . Section 1. Citation of Title. mie ‘This | title may be referred to as “United | States Civil Rights Law.” Section 2. Application. This title shall apply in all states, territories, possessions or colonies of the United States and in the District of Co- tumbia, Section 3. Elective Franchise. No person shall be deprived of the right to stand for and run as candidate | for any office, or to vote at any election or referendum or to enroll with any party by reason of any qualification requirements directly or indirectly to exlude voters because of their race or color. Section 4. Jury Service. No person | shall be exluded from service on grand or petit juries in any court of the United States or any State, territory or other jurisdiction where this title is applicable by reason of any quali- fication requirements devised directly | or indirectly to exclude jurors because of their race or color. Section 5. Schools. No person shall be excluded from any school main- tained in whole or in part by public funds by reason of any qualification requirements devised directly or in- directly to exclude pupils because of their race or color, and it shall be unlawful to make any distinctions because of race or color in providing such accommodations, whether the | and 14,498 could not pay anything. ee ae { | Adirondack Forced Labor Camps. | SYRACUSE, April 23.—Two forced | | labor camps with 200 men each are| being set up in the Adirondacks, the | college of forestry announced thru | | Dean Samuel N. Spring. “These two! | camps”, said Dean Spring, “will be | | under the diseiplinary control of th } | army, but the work will be laid out | by members of the faculty of the State College of Forestry and the State Ranger School.” | Urges Militia Against Workers, character or separate accommode~- tions be equal in quality or not. Section 6. Transportation. No person shall be denied accommoda- tions in any train, ship, motor vehicle, trolley car or other public conyey ance because of race or color. Section 7. Hospitality, No person shall be denjed admission to any inn, hotel, restaurant, cafe ,theatre, music hall, or other place of public amuse- ment, entertainment or lodging be- cause of race or color and it shall be unlawful to make any distinc- tions because of race or color in pro- viding such admission. Whether the character of the separate accommoda~ tions be equal or not. Section 8. Housing. No person shall devised | . PITTSBURGH | WASHINGTON, April 23-—In a April 22, 23, 24 pees to the white house yesterday | sovernor Harry A, Moore, of New! CLEVELAND | Jersey, sharply opposed the talk of April 25, 26, 27 | oe ae about reducing ex- | Penditures for state militia. Speak- TOLEDO | ing for the bankers and big industri- April 28 | alists of New Jersey, where there DETROIT ond been many bP gti struggles, i@ governor said all present mili- April 29, 30 tary forces must be maintained other- 4 ’ wise there might be “serious conse- CHICAGO | quences” during this “period of unrest | May 2) 3.4 | that may even surpass our most pes- |be denied the right to own, rent, occupy or otherwise enjoy any home, apartment or other living quarters because of race or color and it shall be unlawful to make any distinc- tions because of race or color in providing living accommodations whether the character of the sepa- rate accommodations be equal or not. Section 9. Employment. No person shall be denied employment by any ip aes apprehensions”. Moore is a Bi the tool of the notorious Hague or- MILWAUKEE | ganization of political graft and cor- May 5, 6 | ruption in Jersey City. He was one ———.of the first suspporters of Roosevelt pearson, firm, corporation or political subdivision because of race or color, and it shall be unlawful to make any dise tion whats because of race or color in providing working cconditions or in the payment of | | wages and, or salaries in any gainful employment. | Section 10. Profession. No person | shall be directly or ind: tly or in |any manner whatsoever, denied the | |right to enter into or pursue any! profession service, trade or occupation | because of race or color, nor shall | any person be discriminated against in the pursuit and or practice of| such profession, service, trade or oc- | cupation because of race or color. | | Section 11, Labor Unions. No | person shall be denied membership lin any labor organization, union, | benefit association or other organi- zation of workers or consumers for mutual betterment because of race or color. Section 12. Civil Appointments. No person shall be deprived of the right to apply for appointment to any office or position of the United States or of any State or other poli- tical subdivision where this title is applicable and of the right to take any examination for any such office or position because of race or color, and it shall be unlawful to refuse to jappoint any successful applicant, to any such office or position because of race or color of said applicant. Section 13. Army and Navy, No person shall be discriminated against in the armed forces of the United | States, on land, at sea, or in the air, |or in any schools maintained for the | training of officers or enlisted men |for the several branches of service, because of race or color. | Section 14. Hospitals. No person | shall be denied treatment and ac- commodations in any hospital, clinic or other institution for the treat- ment of bodily and mental ailments maintained in whole or in part by public funds by reason of any quali- fications devised directly or indirectly to exclude persons because of race or color, Section 15. Peonage. No person shall be held to service or labor | against his will, nor shall any person be held to labor or service by reason of any lease, contract or other agree- ment, or in liquidation of a debt or obligation, whether or not volunta- ‘Every Crime in the South Is Hung Onto Defenseless Negroes (By a Sharecropper Correspondent.) TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, Ala. T am a farmer, 66 years old. I was |in my home town week before last, | talking to a lawyer about the whi! man that killed his wife. He the white folks wanted to take three Negroes without any evidence at all, and mob them. He said when the crowd of 45 men got to this white man, he toid them that the Commu- nist Negroes did it. So they wanted the Negroes, and all that saved them wos the sheriff told them that was his business and he would run it. He sent for track dogs. Then they found who really did it. | This lawyer also said Communists | were all right. Everything was to- gether but the farme:, and it was | time that they were getting into a‘ unt rily incurred or entered into, or by reason of any court to enjoin ihe performance of work in victation of agreements or to prohibit labor~by persons convicted of crime and con- fined in penal institutions, provided they are paid the prevailing wage Seale existing in similar industries. But it shall be unlawful to permit any private persons to employ such convict labor directly or indivectly or to make any arrangements where- by they shall have any control over such corivicts by the payment of their fines or by any other device whatsoever. Section 16. Right to Bear Arms. No person shall be deprived of ie right to beer arms in self defense | or to keep such arms in his home because of race or color. Section 17. Jurisdiction of Proceed- ings. The district courts of th2 United States shall have, concur- rently with the courts of the several States, cognizance of all crimes and offenses against and violations of the | preceding sections, regardless of the amount in controversy or diversity of citizenship. Section 18 Offenses. Any person who shall violate any of the pro- visions of any of the sections of this title numbered 3 to 15 inclusive, or who, having a duty of selection of any person as juvor, employee, officer or otherwise under any of Said sections, and who shall exclude or fail to select any person because of race or color, or Who shall con- spire with any other person to prevent anyone from exercising the rights and privileges granted by said sec- tions shall, upon conviction therectf | be guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined not less than $500.00 nor more than $5,000, any may also, in the discretion of the court, be impris- oned for not more thon one year. Section 19. Civil, Penalties. person injured by the deprivation of any of the rights and _ privileges granted by sections of this titic numbered 3 to 15 inslusive shall have a right of action for damaces or an injunction against the person res- ponsikle therefor or in lieu the:eof, and in addition to the penaities pro- vided in Section 18 thereof may recover the sum of $509.00 for each violation of any of such prov'~'ons, to be recovered in an action of debt, with full costs. Section 20. Lynching. If any state or governmental subdivic'on thereof ‘fails, neglects or refuses to provide and maintain protection to the life or person of any individual within its ction against a mob or charged or one who has the power or authority as such officer, to protect the life or person of any in- dividual that may be injured or put to death by any mob or riotious as- semblage, such state or refusal be deemed to have denied to such person equal protection of the Jaw of the state, and such state or the govern- mental subdiyis‘on thereof wherein said act shall have ovcurred or by who such state or municipal officer shall be retained shall forfeit $10,000 which sum may be recovered by an action therefor in the name of the United States against such state or of the N. A. A. C. P. and others of their stripe, said “We should go to Washington alone and keep out the reds; they are only doing this for paganda.” | The other answered sharply, “If it wasn’t for the Reds and the Inter. national Labor Defense, the boys | would be dead now. The N. A. A. C, P. hired a Ku Klux to defend the boys. The Communists got the whole | world to fight for the boys,” and then jhe repeated a lesson which has been driven home to the Negro masses these last few weeks. “It was mass | pressure and militant fighting that stopped the lynchers, and will set the boys free now.” Speaks for Communist Party Today, as in St. Luke’s Hall Thurs- r | pr ‘more demonstrated their understand- jing of the role of the Communist Party in the struggle for the libera- tion of the Negro masses when they gave a great ovation to the represen- tative of the Communist Party, a Negro worker, Charles Alexander, the parade ended in an outdocr dem- | onstration at 135th Street and Fifth Avenue, Garvey Movement Speaker. | William Fitzgerald, Section organ- |izer of the Harlem International Labor Defense, spoke. Another speaker was Mrs. Williams, @ direct representative of the Universal Ne- gro Improvement Association (Gar- yey movement) from Jamaica. Although she said her organization | was sol'dly in the fight for the Scotts- boro boys, she still carried the narrow policy of the Garvey movement, and sald that “The Negroes must fight their battle alone against a white world.” The response of over a thousand Negro workers who listen to a correc- tion of Mrs. William's statement by Charles Alexander showed that the | Negro people have their eyes wide epen and know just what part of the hite world” they must fight. Alexander said, “The white work- ers are our allies; our fight is against the white parasites, the white ruling class and against all oppressors of the Negro and white people.” The reply to this was a great cheer. Presented family if any, of the person so put to death: If he had no family, then his dependent parents, if any. Section 21. Duties of Officers. The district attorney m als, dep- uty marshals and commissioners of the United States are hereby re- quired-to institute proceedings against any percon who sail violate anv o the provisions of Sections 3 to 20, hereof inclusive and any disirict at- torney, commissioner, marshal or |other officer who shall willfully fail jte institute and prosecute the pro- ceedings herein required or who shall refuse to receive or execute any process duly issued in any such pro- | ceeding shell be liable to a fine in | the sum of $1,000 for the benefit of the party aggrieved thereby, and day-night, the Negro people once} who was one of the speakers when | |Gen, Picture Slides of NEW YORK.—Confidential sources have revealed to the Daily Worker \that a closed anti-Soviet meeting of | |the Military Order of Foreign War officers was held last Thursday night in the little used Picquot room on the |fourth floor of the Waldorf Astoria. High ranking officers, active and retired, men from the political world, including a number of judges, were present. | The greater part of the evening was spent in showing slides and pic-| tures of fortifications and the gen- eral layout of the land on the fron- tiers between Poland and the Soviet Union. Views of Baku and Bessa- rabia, and rivers and harbors in the U. S. 8. R., received special atten- tion, A lecturer gave detailed in- formation of the scenes to the spec- tators. Many of the scenes were airplane views. Significant among those present,| particularly in connection with these |military pictures, was General Mc- | Arthur. It will be remembered that he has just returned from a trip in Europe that covered especially the states bordering the Soviet Union. AND WAGES TO MEET INFLATION PRICES ‘SECRET MILITARY MEETING IN N.Y. STUDIES SOVIET FORTIFICATION MacArthur and Other Army Chiefs Scan U.S.S.R. Defense ; His trip was with the known pur pose of preparing the military as pects of the anti-Soviet imperialist front. The whole tenor of the speeches made, our informant told the “Daily,” was of war-like anti-Soviet, anti- Communist character. One of the judges present spoke against Communism, promising his support in suppressing the anti-war activities of workers in the United States as his contribution to the anti- Soviet plans. The judge announced that he recently dealt out sentences to some “political prisoners,” and promised that from now on the pen- alties will be more severe. A search through all the news- papers failed to reveal any report of this meeting, indicating its secre character. This meeting contains more signifi. cance when related to the trial of th British spies in the Soviet Union. The American imperialists have pic- tures of fortifications and intimate scenes of the Soviet Union. How did they obtain these? DETROIT, Mich—The following is a call for a United Front Anti- Fascist Conference which is called for Wednesday, Avril 26th. This call was sent out by the Communist Party, Socialist Party, Proletarian Party, I. W. W., Young Communist League, Young Peoples’ Socialist League, Pro- letarlan Youth Leatue, and other workers’ organizations. UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE AGAINST FASCISM. Dear Friends: The organizations listed below are calling for a united front of the work- ing class to protest against the spread of fascism throughout the world. We have seen this menace creep over Europe and we can seé the beginnings in this country. We must awaken the workers in America to their danger. The rise of the Hitler regime in ermany has led to brutal attempts to suppress the Jewish peoples and intellectuals in the form of pogroms, trade unions, social democratic, Com- | munist and other workers’ organiza-~ tions. We propose. our conference to take up measures in support of the | German workers and against the bloody Nazi rule, which is denying | all civil rights to the German work- | ing class. The conference will be held in the Northern High School Auditorium, Woodward at Clairmont, on Wednes- day, April 26th, at 7:30 p.m, Your CALL ISSUED IN DETROIT FOR UNITED. FRONT CONFERENCE AGAINST FASCISM organization is strongly urged to send one delegate. If your organization is a central body controlling more than one branch it is entitled to three delegates. Fraternally yours. The following proposals will be made by the Provisional Committee to the conference: 1. Conference shall develop wide campaign in all organizations for, adoption of protest against fascist terror. 2. Mass meetings to be held in neighborhoods in name of confer- ence. 3. That we shall set aside day to be known as Detroit Anti-Fascist; Day. To consist of meetings to be held in public parks all over the city. To culminate in a gigantic parade and mass meeting against fascism Conference shall issue call to ali workers’ organizations to participate in Anti-Fascist Day, and # special in- vitation to be issued to Jewish anti- fascist conference to participate in anti-fascist day. 4. That on the Anti-Fascist Day, the conference shall organize a city- wide Tag Day to aid the victims of the fascist terror. 5, That there shall be two report- ers at this conference, a representa~ tive from the Socialist Party and one from the Communist Party. That the two reporters shall meet to di- vide between them the points to be raised in the report. SPANISH SAILORS REPORT STRUGGLE ‘Drafted on Warship, | Now at New York Representatives of the Communist Party and Young Communist League shall, on conviction thereof, be aboard the training ship Sabastian de deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and Eleano brought revolutionary greet- be fined not less than $1,000 nor ings from the Spanish workers and more than $5,000, and may also, in peasants to the Daily Worker last, Any | |the discretion of the court, be im- | prisoned for not more than one year. Judgment for the penalty in favor of the parity aggrieved or a judgment ; Upon an indictment shall be a bar to either prosecution respectively. Section 22. Aid of Armed Forces. Tt shall be lawful for the President of the United States or such pers as he may empower for that purzes2 to employ such part of the land, naval or air forces of the United | States, or cf the militia, as may be |necessary to aid in the execution of judicial process issued under any of the preceding sections or as shall be necessary to prevent the violation and enforce the du2 execution of the | Provisions of this title. | Section 23, Speedy. Trial. When- ieee the President has reason to be- | likely to be committed against the provi ions of this title within any judicial ‘district it shall be lawful jfor him, in his discretion, to direct that any United St: judge, trict attorney, comm: mer and/ or |marshal shall attend at such place {and for such time as he may dosit- nate for the purpose of the more speedy arrest and trial of persons so charged. Section 24. Review of Proceed ’ngs. All cases arising under this title shall |be directly reviewable by the United States Supreme Court without re- gard to the sum in controversy. Section 25, Lmitations, No per- cen shall be pyoseeuted for any of- ;fense hereunder unless the indict- ment is found or the informa‘ion filed within five years next after the commission of the erime and'a like period of limitation shall apply to any proceeding to recover a penaliy or in any civil action for damages or an injunction, Section 26. Severability. Each of the sections numbered 3 to 20 inclu- separate laws and all the other pro- visions of this title Shall apply sep- arately to each of them and the ef- fectiveness of no section hereof shall be deemed affected by the invalidity of any other section or part thereof. Section 27. Laws Repealed. Sec- tions 31, 32, 44, 45, 56, of Title 8 are hereby, repealed. Section 28, Laws Continued. Sec- tions 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53 are hereby reenacted and numbered respectively 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 (in each case where the word “section” appears it shall be deemed amended to read “any of the sections subdivision thereof for the use of the of this title”), ve that offenses have been, or are! sive shall for all purposes be deemed! | week. | Im reply to questions they furnishéd some very interesting informa*ion on the conditions of workers in Spain since the revolution. | ; The peasants supported the oust~- jing of the monarchy on the slogan of “land to the poor farmers.” They supported the socialist party when! jit claimed to be for this slogan.) , Since the revolution, the government has seized only a few estates and is| still drafting legislation as to their | distribution among the peasants, The! socialist ministers sit quietly and cone on no fight for the realization of the peasants’ aims. Under the leadership of the Com- |munist Party a wide united front of ped peasants and agricultural labor- jers has taken place. The peasants have seized land in many places. The Province of Extramadura is in a con- stant state of revolt. The majority of the land has been seized by the peasants and they have to constantly to retain it. There have been ‘es of peasants by Civil Guards, who are mobilized in large sumbers for concentrated attacks, In the main, however, the sailors re- port, the peasants“have been able to hold their land successfully. | Questioned as to the sentiment of | the Spanish workers and peasants towards the Soviet Union, the sea- men reported that there is widespread sympathy with the U. S, S. R., and a4 great amount of litcrature on the Soviets is published and sold through- | out Spein. In 1951, a delegation of | 25 Anarchists and Socialists, rank and file members, were sent to the |U. 8S. S. R. On their return they were hailed at great mass meetings of Spanish workers and jailed many times. The Anarchist workers par- ticularly were singled out for arrest, as their leadership and press are in’ the forefront of the slanderous at- tacks on the U. S. S. R., and the delegation completely repudiated the position of both Socialist and An- archist leaders. Daily demonstrations, they stated, go on in Spain against Hitler, and Italian fascism. The Spanish work- ers have been roused by the Commu- nist Party to great vigilance against fascist. gangs and the workers strike quickly against anything that smacks of fascist budding. ‘The American consulates have been the scene of stormy protest demon- strations for the Scottsboro boys and the Cuban consulate has been stoned | in Madrid in solidarity with the rev- \ LL.D. BRANCHES FORMING RAPIDLY NEW YORK.—Harlem has formed seven new branches of the Interna- tional Labor Defense since the in- famous Decatur lynch verdict was handed down it was announced today. Applications are still flooding into the local offices of the LL.D. Eight hundred applications were in the of- fice yesterday. New branches are being formed daily. The first nine are being named after the Scottsboro bays. Downtown on Monroe and Jackson streets, 1500 Negroes occupy six ten- ements. The first street meeting held on this block, thirty Negro work~ ers signed up in the LL.D. They form a branch, In a meting in Atlantic City, 300 out of an audience of 1000 joined. From the most impoverished sec- tion of the workers, the Negro work- ers, the International Labor Defense is receiving funds that represent sacrifices of unimagined _ severity. Seottsboro is a fight. The LL.D. is the arm with which the workers, Negro and white, are holding back the lynchers. Thousands of new members will make that arm into s mighty ferce that will stay the lynehers and guazantee that the Scottsboro boys shall not die! NEW YORK, April 23.—The Camp- us, the student paper of City College urges an undergraduate boycott of the college drill of the Reserve Of- ficers’ Training Camp unit set for May 29th. It describes the day as “Jingo Day,” and says: “If we stay away end provide no audience be- fore which the “stuffed khaki” can stunt, the parade will prove a re- | sOunding flop.” clutionary workers under Machado’s dictatorship. The sailors are drafted tor two years. They come mostly from the fishing fleets and are taken when they are 19, The army drafis vouths at 21, for a similar period of time, Wages start at $2 a month and maximum is $3.50. Sailors must pay for each replacing part of their uni- forms, etc. On this trip the officers have exhausted the ship's treasury by dining and wining women on board in the different ports, Under the leadership of the Communists on board the men took action to force payment of wages in New York, They won their demands. Most sailors and dockworkers in gpa are affiliated to International of Sea and Harbor Workers, militant international to which Marine Workers’ Industrial Union of the U. S. A. is affiliated. They have been at sea for four months and the officers prevent the men from listening to the radio, for fear that revolutionary action in Spain might be felt on board. provides a clue to h ‘aitiiation ic OW turouleas the ” Sra AT ie