The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TL JESDAY, APRIL 25, BARRICADES on of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 301 Fourth BY KLAUS NEWKRANTI ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER QUIRT Avenve, Mew York City. A Workers are urged to toad this book and spread it among their friends. THE STORY THUS FAR:—The workers of the proletarian district, Wedding, in Berlin, are preparing te demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite the ban issued by the Socialist Police Chief, Zoergiebel. Anna, wife of the worker, Kurt Zimmerman, an active member of the Communist Party, discovered that the owner of an ice-cream store on their street is a police spy. A telephone wire is attached secretly to the store. Meanwhile, pre- parations are being made at the police-station to crush the coming de- monstration. Wullner, a veteran policeman, who is a member of the So- cialist Party, is astonished at the military preparations which he wit- nesses in the police station. The day of the demonstration arrives. * * * E had already forgotten that an / tice of the desperate protests of the hour ago he had spat in disgust at | secretary. this “comrade. “Gentlemen—I ask you—this is “Room 08.” ‘They knocked and en- | ®s@inst all regulations!” tered. Tolle was surprised that the; “Blast your regulations,” grimly thought Tolle to himself and pushed the little weakling out of the way with his broad shoulders. The heavy boots of the three sank noiselessly into the carpet President's ante-room was so Cosy He had imagined it to be far more ‘e and cold, something like the | drooms at police-stations where one has to wt one’s change of ad- | dress, Behind a desk at the window ees i 5 Terror In Santo Domingo. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. il 24.— The United States imperialist lacke General Trujilio, is preparing to hold on to the job of president of Santo Domingo by jailing, exile and terror against his political opponents, More than 30 opponents have been jailed in the few days. There is & strict censorsnip on publicati news in the press, and ma stantly rifled so that criticism | government cannot be circulated by private Gener: Trujilio the Un himself “elected’ for a four-year | drive against political opponents try to hold on to office without even the pretense to an election, a) Win Right to Meet In Philippines. MANILA, P. I., April 24—The sec- retary of the interfor and labor has} been forced by widespread and in- dignant action of workers and peas- jants to revoke the rules prohibiting | meetings. The Communist Party. of jthe Islands is taking a leading part in the fight for free speech, press and assemblage, and organizing work- ers and peasants around that issue and the f and nt against hunger. More the Philippine g immediate and more sat a gentleman who looked at them | the window behind the long trailing | imperiali posed in the curtains. ‘Slowly he turned. A pair | fake Hawes-Cutting-Hare “indepen- your business, gentle- |of frowning eyes behind pince-nez| dence” bill recently approved by the 4 looked suspiciously at the three work- | United States congress remained vurpos i men who without any previous for- . a Ce the ae he | malities were now standing in his Macon In Second Plight. himself, He pushed the |70em% AKRON, April 24—The naval ety tb tues wean Rusiaees ” ship, Macon, sister ship to the ill- " fated Akron, “We want to see the Police Presi- Now Kurt took the matter in hand. | atlantic dent,” Tolle sa self-confi- | He took a few paces toward the man. | ond flight tod eeranined dence. The ge the desk; “You're the Vice-President, Dr.’ teen how! in fine w Weiss, aren't you? There ard. “That's right.” 7 m of Bergmann é Co, uily el Well, gentlemen, I but the Presi- con- aid regre’ nt is ant > documer ill cer- on to him es soon aa have been in- to the Presi- poek ership o him en he d patronizingly at f to say, “See that didn’t know who But now hurry my comrade, see!” up the little book, owner and pen- te on the white edge Then he again smiled turned the book with “I am really awfully gentlemen, but the best you can do is to leave your letter here.” Tole his two colleagues. “No, no, you give our kind regards | to your chief and tell him we know | few moments at the three workers. what's on,” Kurt said rudely, had more than enough of this. course he would not receive three simple proletarians in his holy of ies, today of all days when he had mol important things to worry about!—He drew old Tolle out of the room and slammed the door furi- ousiy, “The bloody crew!—Well, Tolle, this is you ‘comrade’ President .. . he's now sitting together with his officers and planning everything for tomor. Tow's blood bath. Do you think thai he'll sacrifice one minute of his pre- cious time to see a mere social demo- ic worker?” Vhen old Tolle was really in a rage he said nothing; he merely spat tobacco juice. Unfortunately, as they came in he had taken his chewing tobacco out of his mouth and care- fully stored it in a little tin. The young non-unionist laughed. “Well, Tolle, have a good look round, perhaps this time tomorrow you'll be here again in the bug castle with your comrade—but ind the bars.” A few door: ler on Kurt read ancthe> na Vice-President Dr, Weiss. E irfes Room 203. AGAINST REGULATIONS “Come on, m: just try this one, t aid eterminedly knocked he door, This time did not op to talk to the secrets in the ante-room, but the en: eing the door room open ado, of they and w large SPLENDID LARGE | Hall and | Meeting Rooms Pertect tor BALLS, DANCEs. LECTURES, MEETINGS, Ete iN THE New ESTONIAN WORKERS HOME mile and ; » {delegation from ve us all right,” | looked round bewildered at He had | Of | no- | An undersized man was standing at | comp! Republicans Organize WASHINGTON. 3 advantage oi the deepenin “We've come as a celegation from 2 building workers employed by the | firm of Bergmann and Co. in order | | Protest against the ban on the |iStration to fulfil any of lis, May Day demonstration and against | Mv7etl0 a. ee the Police President's threat of shoot- | fection Promises, the | republics: “i . ov \ have set up an organization under ine} the name “Republican Federal Asso- The Vice-President tock thin | ciates,” headed by Ogden L. Mills. to | black cigar speckied with green spots | prepare for the congressional elec- from his mouth, biew the smoke into | tions in 1934 the room and lazily waved his hand . . “T am very gentlemen, but Getting Rid of Near-Beer. that is not the business of my de- NEW YORK, April 24—New York- | partment. For that you must see the who could afford to buy heer have Police President himself.” Just what I have already told the “Josetti,” “Manoli” Ks d the workers of the “Berlin Build- nd. Jacob Ruperi, ing Comp: he thought to him- United States Brewers’ Associa- elf. Why do these fellows always (tion, admitted that the beer distrib- ome to me? And his next thought |Uted contained less than 3 per cent e to get rid of “near-beer” they had s: the man in the ante-room is{0f alcohol. The last test of his brew, an idiot, hell be dismissed at the |He said, rated 2.86 y nt, but ef- | regblertostinicy, foris are being meade to bring it up “The Police President does not re~ |*0 the maximum allowed by the gov- ceive Berlin workers, and since you . are his deputy, we at least want to | teke back your reply to our col- Malvooney sud ‘Garter Rares, leagues NEW YORK, April 24.—Former The Vice-President looked in sur- police. Sebun in oney, aware ae prise at Kurt, Then he turned aside, | tgmmany beer commis | carefully removed the snow-white ash | ino befor, K : “4 “9 ie {ing before the Knig! from his cigar by touching the heavy | at the Hotel Astor. praised pesere fans My reply? T have | ovBrien for the selection of Ji | already told you that this is entirely | Baion as his su | outside my sphere of competence.” sf . | gal eee ee eee enen all's! of the New York Socialist Party, fe ag ea Wis eect 34 na Juluis Gerber, who congratulated ie i : 0) Bolan on getting the police commis agree with the ban, and the order? sion’s job and wished him success. May mes 8. sor. The former with the secretary or what is your opinion about it?”| The Vice-President looked for a! HARLEM LEADER Rae IN COURT TODAY |in a curtously colorless voice. If I|_.NEW YORK—Cyril Briggs of the must tell you What T think I dan'y| Harlem Liberator, whom the police think at all!” And after a short|2%e attempting to railroad to jail for | His eyes passed from the grave | looking face of old Tolle down to his | wrinkled and worn bricklayer’s hands, | | which hung heavily down at his side. | “I DONT THINK AT ALL!” boro Boys, will be arraigned this morning at 9 a. m. in the 170 East 'URT would have loved to burst out| 121 Street Court. He is charged with laughing when they had left the| Using a loud speaker on the Scotts- room. “Did you hear that, Tolle? | boro Campaign at the Liberator of- He doesn't think at all! What is he ‘ice, 2149 Seventh Avenue, here for? He hasn't got to work| with his hands, and he can’t with his} brains, Smokes polsonous black | cigars and looks out of the window. || ‘Talk to the chief about it!’ Talk to my uncle! Swine all of them.” | The other young worker laughed ' = Stage and Screen | at the sally. Tolle was silent. He! wy, : | was thinkog nee “aig ent. ait Workers Play to Open Soon j would hardly believe him, when at| “1931” the Sifton play in rehearsal the next branch meeting he told! :ow by the Theatre Collective, is be- ; them about this afternon. ing rewritten by the authors in co- |, “The Vice-President without a/ operation with the directors. A great h jaughed the young worker. |part of ihe proceeds of the production, No he's got a head all right.” an-/ scheduled to open in May, will be swered Kurt,” but he's one of those| devoted to the relief of victims of | respectable democrats, you know, who | German fascism. } about it, I can do nothing.” —————————————— lent of | pause he added: “Talk to the chiet| Dis activities in behalf of the Scotts- | iSentence Negroes and! Whites for Demandirg | Jim Crow Law Repeal ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 24.—Four | | Negro and two white workers were | sentenced to from 30 days to six months in the house of correction by Judge Nicholas Green of the Cir- cuit Court here, following an attack, upon th: by police when they ap-| passage of the Jim Crow repealer| | bill, since defeated. The delegation of 35 was attacked | March 16, after they had left the ty capitol and while they were boarding | ee a bus to return to Baltimore. Ac- M 7 ie cording to the testimony in court of| oO re Cae ecee ‘tmmore, | Police Ohlef Myers of Annapolis, this| | ment Association, addressing the | 2ttack was made on direct orders of | Harlem Scottsboro demonstration 0Vernor Ritchie, on Saturday. The trial, it was pointed out by : | Bernard Ades, International Labor Defense attorney who appeared to defend the victims of the attack in court, was illegal, as it was held without Grand Jury action. Judge Green refused to permit Ades to ex-| amine prospective jurors. Those sentenced were Louis Ber- ger, Baltimore organizer of the ILD, | white, six months; James Sales, Ne-| gro, three months; John MeCauley. white, three months; Wilbert Davi Negro, 60 days; Eugene Solomon, Ne- gro, 30 deys, and John Hutchins, Ne- gro, 20 days. East St. Louis Cops Attack Scottsboro | Protest March of 200, | EAST ST. LOUIS, Tll—A Scotts- boro protest parade of 200 here was attacked and broken up by police. ‘Three workers were arrested. The In- | ternational Labor Defense ig mobil- | | izing all its forces for a huge demon- | stration on May 1, connecting the | Scottsboro protest with defiance of | policy of suppression of all free mbly in East St. Louis, Bicycle Brigade for May 1 NEW YORK.—All workers owning bieycles or motorcycles, who wish ‘to enter the motorcycle or bicycle brig-| ade in the May Day parade, please Volunteers are urgently needed by | send their names and addresses into| the Harlem section of the Interna-| the Labor Sports Union office, 313) tional Labor Defense to assist in the) Broadway, at once, mags of clerical and technical work | piled up by the Scottsboro Campaign | in Harlem. Report at 77 W. 131 St.! gress, April 30 te May 2. NEED VOLUNTEERS IN HARLEM| LL D. WORKERS AND INTELLECTUALS SEND. MONEY FOR SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE | Cost of Court Transcripts, Investigations and Records to Total $10,000 NEW YCRK.—“This is borrowed money, but I want to keep those | Scotisboro stamps after that last outrageous verdict,” writes a worker from Navesink, N. J., sending dollar bill in to the International Labor Defense, | Room 430, 80 E. lth St., for a sheet of stamps. Hhis letter is typical of the scores of Scottsboro stamp letters received by Belle Taub at the I.L.D. We gete. — | letters from Negro school teachers | who sell their stamps to the children, ' tuals who have sent stamp funds to the LL.D. are Oswald Garrison Vil-| lard, former editor of the The Nation; Paul Blanshard, Socialist and Execu- tive director of the City Affairs Com-| mittee of New York; Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law Schoo! Cornelia Otis Skinner, famous act- ress; and George S. Counts of Co- lumbia University. | Here are excerpts from other| Scottsboro letters: | “We, a small group of interested citizens and taxpayers (of Cleveland) | | ops his ears with cotton wool when chief gives orders to shoot. He can’t stand the sight of blood—looks out the window in the meantime and “LITTLE OL’ BOX” OPENS AT PLAY- HOUSE—"MAN BITES DOG” DUE qT DAY smokes. All one gang!” “Little Ol’ Boy,” a new play by Albert Suddenly cld Tolle had lost all fear pein, opened at the Playhouse last night. of these unca::ny corridors with their he opus deals with reform school life. The many locked doors, he hated the|company includes Ara Gerard, Burgess smooth shaven faces of the clerks|Meredith, Edwin Philips and John Drew who looked at him suspiciously, he| °°! . i | hate PEAR Si es mr Bites Dog.” a comedy of tabloid | hated the officers who rushed p St | journalism by Don Lochbiler end Arthur! him in their high-polished boots.| gerton, will be presented by ‘Theron Bam- Those were the boon companions of| berger’ on Tuesday night at the Lyceum | our “comrade” Police President, who | Theatre The lsrae ae is headed by Leo| clicked th, jonnelly, Victor Kilian, Raymond Wslbur, es Nf toale heals bel caw ley pe Dennie Moore and Lillian Herlein. { fi “Hilda Cassidy,” a melodrama by wil-| jand his class comrades in the name} iam Jourdan Rapp and Henry and Sylvia | of Zorgiebel and the old party. Lieferant opens at the Martin Beck Thea- | | “Swine... the swine... .” That | tre on Wednesday night with Stella Adler | was all 1 in the title role. Others in the large cast | ple pelt wa anf ovieaee 98 toe include Sylvia Pieid, Howard Phillips, Mar- | (Raenecwcd ity ie |S ic S| garet Baker, Edward Emerson and’ David ! ly. High up on al Merris. roaring steam hammer working in| the middle of the street at the Neue| Colton and Cerleton Miles, “9 Pine Street,” a new play by John; based on en | ‘a desire to help the I.L.D. save the appreciate in the highest every move | you have made in your fearless and | sincere effort to get justice for the) nine boys.” “I deeply regret not being able to send more than 10 cents to the de-} fense of the Soottsboro boys, but) this small amount is no measure of my interest,” writes a Minneapolis minister, { “Oh, how I boiled when I read| about the trial of the Scottsboror lad.) Our hearts are with the LL.D. in all it undertakes,” says a family of workers | in Durkee, Ore, | from unemployed workers living in camps, from intellectuals, and from | groups of people all over the country. Everywhere there is a great resent- ment against the Decatur verdict and} Scottsboro boys.” The I.L.D. is calling for a million pennieg from “Save the Scottsboro” stamps to file the appeal within the next 30 days. Cost of court trans- cripts, investigations, and records will Million Pennies to Aid Scottsboro Defense NEW YORK.—A drive for a “mil- lion pennies from the Negro and white workers of the country” to be used in defeating the effort of the white Southern ruling class to lynch the nine Scottsboro boys was launch- ed today by the International Labor Defense. “Save the Scottsboro Boys” stamps, workers, Already many Negro and white churches, schools, trade unions and other organizations have enlisted in the campaign for a million pennies. In numerous Southern schools, ac- cording to the I. L. D., teachers showed the stamps to the children peared before the capitol to demand| :; MEMBERS OF THE PIERRE DEGEYTER LUB are urged to attend in full for © 7 QUALITY SUTTER Vegeterian and Dairy Restaurant 584 SUTTER AVE, (Cor. George) Brklyn || ‘THEATRE COLLECTIVE—Workers wanted with or without experience for the produc- tion of the play 8 pm., 181 W. gist Bt, WILLIAMSBURG SOVIET TALKIE, Rehearsals nightly | Cafeteria! |, AVALON will be “ 4 | n April 25 and 26, at the Classic ‘The- | 1610 KINGS HIGHWAY | 180 Tompkins Ave. (cor. Pulaski 8t.) o PE N DAY AND NIGART Admission 10 cents, From 3-11 p.m.—15 DEWEY 9.9512 “RENDEZVOUS” | | cents, i, as Wednesday ALL BUGLERS AND DRUMMERS! Report to top floor—40 W. 18th 8t.—for practices, at 2 p.m. Alex Homan, MEMBERSHIP MEETING, BRONX SEC- TION, LL.D. All branch and exesutive meet- ings called off. Every I.L.D. member of th: section must appear at 702 %, Tremont Ave. we | Per Brownsville Proletarians | SOKAL CAFETERIA 689 PITKIN AVENUE | Koni fo original story by Donald’ Blackwell and) 27-29 W.115th St., N.Y. es wishes here hung ® small,| William Miles is scheduled for Thursday | ‘es owes Wl NOE! | 91R0G+Fi evening at the Longacre Theatre, with Lil- Phone UNiversity 4-016 (To Be Continued.) Man Gish as the star. The supporting cast Includes Raymond Hackett, Roberta, Beatty, - | Frederick Burton and ielen Claire, WHAT'S ON | SEE PEE | mori paeartsiene —_—_— CIRCUS IN THIRD WEEK AT MADISON | BROOKLYN Tuesdan SQUARE GARDEN | in sheets of 100, to sell at one cent a The Big Show-Ringling Bros. and Bar-| Stamp, have been issued in the cam- a & par Sirens, eg] in its third| paign for the defense funds, The | Week at Madison Square Garden, The man- \ | record of the appeal from the lynch agement has rearranged the prices for the | balance of the stay here, which ends on| Verdict for Haywood Patterson, first May 8, and features some 3,000 balcony | of the boys tried last week at De- seats at $0 cents. The Durbar, the chief| catur, Ala., alone will cost $5,000, | spectacle and which opens the big show, | A z4 beds [Mes over two thousand people and William L. Patterson, national sec- retary of the Internatonal Labor De- mals, Clyde Beatty and his 40 lions and tigers continues to thrill the audience ev-| fense, said yesterday. Additional jery afternoon and evening. Con Colleano, | mers | somersauiting star of the wire; Alfredo co-| Money is required for the necessary | dona, in his thrilling acrobatic act; Ed and| steps through which the safety and | are eoney; Hugo Banohint, hui maa freedom of the boys will be obtained. jectile and the many other acts grip the $ oniookers at every performance. Buffalo, The International Labor Defense | Bill's Wild West Show, which is another, appealed to the workers everywhere | feature of the circus, has some of the fin- 5 i Jest riders brought on here from the West, | 5° Fend ieie pennies. io. BAWED ey The animals, of which there are many new | headquarters, 80 Hast 11th St, New | apecies never before seen hore; the hun-| York, for their stamps. dreds of clowns, in many new antics; some| Tt urged that those able to do so to 80 elephants and as many eamels—ail lend | send §] for @ sheet of stamps so that Sider mare SOY, a ee they can resell them to their fellow- attending classes and explained the issues underlying the Scottsboro case; and many of the children eagerly bought stamps “to saye the nine in- nocent Seottshoro boys.” In other places, lodges, Negro as well as white veteran associations, groups of workers in factories, hotels and stores, the stamps are being sold. Learn how to sing and speak correctly | Sctentifie, mental way of singing and elooution Stammering and all defects of voice removed permanently Metropolitan Opera House Studios 1933 Scottsboro Demonstration Saturday in Harlem CHARLES ALEXANDER, bring- ing the message of the Communist Party to the Harlem Seottsboro demonstration. Frame Three Negroes to Life Terms on the Florida Chain Gang GREENVILLE, Fla.—Life-terms on the Florida chain-gang were handed out last week to five Negroes, on framed charges of murder, The five were arrested Wednesday, along with freight train, The body of a brake- man had been found beside the track, The white men were released within a few hours, but the five Ne- groes W held and the third degree used to make them sign confessions. Florida third degree is as notorious as the murderous chain-gangs of the state. Thursday, they were indicted, and Thursday afternoon sentenced to life on the chain-gang. Such a sentence is equivalent to death. a Hitch-hike, drive, walk to the Chi- On to the Chicago Mooney Con-| #0 Mooney Congress, April 30 to| May 2 NAACP Crowd Lines Up for Scottsboro Boys | MONTCLAIR, N. J.—Great enthu- siasm for the Free the Scottsboro Boys’ March to Washington was ex- pressed by three hundred persons at a meeting called by the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Col- ored People, addressed by Frank Spector, assistant national secretary of the International Labor Defense, Sunday. Spector was introduced at ithe meeting by Roy Wilkins, assistant national secretary of the NAACP, ;The meeting, held in Hillside School, was presided over by the Rev. J. C. Love. A collection of $90 was taken. 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Studio 43 4-2004 = Special reduction te comrades *17 SIXTH AVENUE, AT 26TH STREET two white men, on a} ATTORNEY GENERAL KNIGHT LEADS — ATTACK ON SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA Practically All Education for Negroes Now 962 WESTCHESTER AYE. ‘Tuskegee Attorney’s Son | to Prosecute Croppers 'Frame-Up Trial of Five Negro Sharecroppers Opens in Dadeville Today By SENDER GARLIN TUSKEGEE, Ala., April 24—Rich- ard H. Powell, S:., of the town of Tuskegee and the father of Richard H. Powell, Jr., who will prosecute the | five Tallapoosa Negro sharecroppers | when they go on trial in the Circuit Court at Dadeville on Tuesday, is the official attorney for Tuskegee Insti- tute. This was learned today by the writer, and gives further proof of the ciose connection between the Tuskegee officials and the landlords who are seeking to crush the Share- |croppers’ Union by imprisoning its leaders. | Walking into the spacious offices |of Dr. R. H. Moton, head of Tuske- |gee, I asked Moton point-blank whether it was not a fact that the | Institute of which he is a director | had turned over the dying cropper, Cliff James, to Sheriff Reilly of Ma- | con County, after the Negro had come }to the Tuskegee hospital for treat- | ment following the murderous attack upon the croppers by deputy sheriffs jon December 19, last. With a bullet in his back, weak from loss of blood and without food during the two days and nights he had tramped the high- | Ways with the sheriff's posse upon |his heels, Cliff James had come to | Tuskegee to seek medical treatment. | Replying to my question, Dr. Moton said blandly: | “Cliff asked to be turned over to | the law; he thought he'd be safer in | Jail.” i Negro Croppers Know Better plausible alibi—Moton informed me | that “according to Alabama law we're compelled to report such cases at once.” Negro however, and particulariy those who knew Cliff James, his courageous character and his implacable hatred for “the law” say that Dr. Moton lies —and they say se without hesitation. | | | stitution in the South. It has its own Negro police and enforces compulsory | military training upon its more than | 1,000 male students. What is more, Tuskegee boasts of the highest rank- ing Negro officer in the U. S. Army— specializing in military strategy—in | charge of its military corps. A moment later—seeking a more | croppers in this section, | Tuskegee is the largest Negro in- | | tect’ Cliff James from the mobs | which Moton implies he feared! Throughout the entire interview, Dr. Moton revealed clearly his close associations with the powerful white landlords, bankers, politicians and those who rule over the exploited and starving croppers. Doesn't Like’ “Daily” Sprinkled in his own suave talk were references to the leading land- lords and merchants as “my white friends,” while his mention of the croppers of his own race was made gingerly and with unabashed conde- seension. Moton grows reminiscent as the in- terview proceeds. “When I first came down here 12 years ago some of my friends had said to me before my departure: ‘Why do you want to go down there among those savages?’ And I replied, I’m going down there to live among them, suffer with them and be lynched with them.” The head of\ Tuskegee, an institute whose estimated value, including holdings, is $12,000,000—and whose donors include John D. Rockefeller and Julius Rosenwald of Sears-Roe- buck—lit a fragrant cigar and puffed away at it contentediy. Dr. Moton and his crew at Tuske- gee are evidently writhing under the exposure made by the labor press, and particularly the Labor Defender and the DAILY WORKER, of their role in connection with the Talla- poosa killings. In the reference li- brary of the Institute I found a com- plete file of clippings on the case with the DAILY WORKER stories marked in red. The DAILY WORK- ER, Dr. Moton had confided, had “said some rather sharp things about me and ec.” it No wonder! While at Tuskegee I learned that someone connected with the institution had turned over to the authorities the names of those croppers alleged to have participated in the clash which resulted in the killing of Cliff James and three other Negro croppers. Irving Schwab of the International Labor Defense is conducting the legal fight for the freedom of the five now jailed. Despite repeated threats by Sheriff Kyle Young and warnings that he would be “horse-whipped” if he did not terminate his connection with the case, Schwab will appear | And yet Tuskegee could not “pro- in court when the trial opens. | Shut Off; Teachers of Schools, more than 85 per cent of | schools. In Alabama where the lynch law prevails, the first schools to be | shut down were the Negro schools. | As there are 5,888 schools in the state, and half the population is Negro, practically all the Negro schools have been shut down. Teachers Get Scrip Teachers have been getting $44 a month. Part of their salaries have been paid in scrip. Merchants will no longer accept this scrip. In some com~ munities the teachers are working for board and keep. Families of the com- munity take turns in boarding them. In other places teachers sleep in the schoolhouses and live on vegetables, given them by the parents, which they cook on the schoolhouse stove. The state owes these teachers $11,- 000,000 and issued warrants for the back pay. These non-interest ‘bearing, | non-negotiable warrants are still out- standing. It is doubtful whether they will ever be redeemed. Attack Education First Alabama is the fifth state in the U. 8. in the number of illiterates. The state legislature recently passed the Fletcher budget and financial control act, providing that at the Get Worthless Serip j According to a report issued by Dr. A. F. Harmon, State Superintendes.. the elementary and secondary schools | of Alabama have shut down. More than 700 white teachers are out of work, ; and 2,400 schools have been closed to 265,00@ white school children. | In this report there is not a word abowt the conditions ef the Negro PC ae end of each fiscal year unpaid ap~ propriations should cease to be obli- gations, Shortages were to be pro- rated among the various depart- ments. Under an opinion by Attorney General Knight, education bears the heaviest burden, amounting to 75 per cent. This is the same vicious Knight who is lusting for the blood of the nine Scottsboro boys. Knight is now preparing an opinion in which he will attempt to separate the “essential of government from those whieh may be scrapped in times of financial stringency.” To such bigot- ed tools of the boss class of the South education is not an essential phase of government. Here as in the North the first act of capitalism during a crisis is to show its barbarism by shutting schools and cutting school appropriations to the zero mark. BRONX I. L. D. MEET Bronx Section membership meeting of the International Labor Defense will be held Wednesday, April 26, 8 P. m. at 782 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx. All Branch and executive meeting: are called off. 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