The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1933, Page 2

Page Two BARR! IN BERL! BY KLAUS NEWKRANTZ ILLUSTRATED by WALTER THE STORY THUS FAR:—The Wedding, in Berlin, are preparing to the ban issued by the Socialist Police worker, Kurt Zimmerman, an active QUIRT DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY APRIL 26, 1933 N Printed hy Special Permis on of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. AR Workers are urged to road this book and spread among their friends. workers of the proletarian district, demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite Chief, Zoergiebel. Anna, wife of the 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 poli iceman, 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. * S PAUL with Kurt went out into; the street, they were brought up sharp by the sight of a regular forest ot shining red flags. There was scarcely a single window from which a@ red flag, however small, was not waving. From several windows large red streamers were hanging: “Down with the ban on the demonstration and “Win the streets on the first of * pointed Paul as deputy leader of the street cell for the first of May. Paul was the. oldest party member in the cell and had lived for over twenty years in the alley. He had only re- mained silent about Hermann’s sug- gestion because he did not like to offend an old comrade. But he knew already that it had been a mistake The situation was likely to become NEWS BRIEFS'Scores of Unions Pick Delegates for ‘Free Mooney Congress’ in Chicago 30 Planes for War Games, LOUISVILLE, April Fifty army planes from Seliridge Field, Michigan, arrived here yesterday to take part in the army war games that start May 15. The trip from| | Detroit to Louisville, 360 miles by air,| 9 3 was covered in less than two hours.| (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) These are the first pursuit planes of pees |a number of groups that will partici-| BUFFALO, N. Y., April 25-One o! pate in the most elaborate army the largest and most successful con- maneuvers ever staged in peace-time | ferences for the ffeedom of Tom Moo- United States, They will take| ney and war er a front extending through | p69} delega ntucky, Ind and Ohio, center- | Red here wher Ac ndiana 0, center- | Bed san : 7 mn 4 | ganizations met in Carpenters ing at Fort Knox, Kentutky. Lenynreays Fs the use of which was donated hy the District Council of the Carpenters | Brotherhood. A large number of rank Proposes Baltic Entente, STOCKHOLM, April 25.—Carl) and file members of the A. F, of L ‘Lindberg, member of the Swedish] unions attended the conference a lament, proposes that the gi visitors. They promised to t try to create an entente back to their 1 jcomptising Sweden, Norway, Den-) ong ali motions adopted at the con- mark, Finland, Bsthonia, Lithuania, | f oy RRA! sacibeeanin Peat Latvix and Poland. This proposal is| ference, to their me ‘ship. Ie turthbe attempt at alignments | Campbell of the Molders Union, Local against the Soviet Union and also is|®* Was elected as the permanent regarded as a maneuver by those| Chairman of the Free Tom Mooney supporting British policy against, Conference. Headquarters will be France to bring these states closer! opened soon in one of the main sec- |to British imperialist policy on ail! tions of Buffalo to continue the fight European questions, The proposal to| for the freedom of Tom Mooney and ions the entire include Poland is merely an attempt for the collection of 100,000 signatures. | to conceal the anti-French nature of| Among the organizations present |the move, as it is recognized that| were the Proletarian Party, United ver . | Pole involved i s Party, I, W. W., Communist May.”* one of them was painted | Very serious, and in a case like this|Poland will not be involved in such} Workers Mey amen and sickle and the legend: (all Dersonal considerations had to be|an alignment because of ite vastalage |Party and ¥. C. L. ‘The 8. P. was ‘Long Live the Soviet Union—Fight | for Soviet Germany!’ On the corner of the Wiesenstrasse a red streamer hung across the street bearing in auge letters the words: “Red Front! \\_ Men, women and children with red \pal carnations in their) button- 6] were standing outside the| houses. Many children were carrying amall paper flags which they had) made themselves, showing a clenched fist, a Saviet Star, or a sickle and Hammer. Even some of the small traders of the alley had decorated their shop windows with pictures of Lenin,, Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemberg. or with a large red five-cornered star. Kruckmaxe had decked out his whole cigarette shop festively for the oc- easion. The front page of the Rote Fahne—special May Day edition, was pasted up on the walls of several houses. The inhabitants were stand- ing in front of it, reading the text and discussing it. Between 9 and 1 o'clock, more and more workers were coming out into the surrounding streets, walking to and fro in loose groups on the pave- ments. Everywhere red carnations shone from the jackets of the men and the blouses of the women. There was such a crowd outside the “Red Nightingale” that Paul could scarcely push his way through. fine bloody idea, he swore to him- self, to send Hermann to Branden- burg, today of all days, that out-of- the-way hole! Hermann was the only man in the alley who was ca- pable of keeping these masses firmly under control. Paul felt uncomfort- able, he knew that he was not a leader by nature. duty wherever he was sent. But he Noticed that the indignation of the \ people over the ban on the demon-| stration and the provocative proc- lamations of the Police President was getting too strong. The slight- est cause might lead to a dangerous explosion! Outside the “Red Night- ingdale” he saw a considérable num- ber or social democratic workers who had never before taken part in dem- onstrations organized by the Com- munist Party, but who today were obviously prepared to join the dem- onstration against the ban of their | own party comrade. Strong Police Force At the door of the “Red Nighting- dale” a courier reported that a strong police force was cutting off all the streets leading to the Koslin quar- ter. In the Guardians’ building in the Pankstrasse, a hundred yards away, a whole company of police was hidden. The Nettlebeckplatz had been turned into a police camp. In several houses of the Reinickendor- fer-Strasse flying squads had been stationed in the entrance halls. On the streets themselves only the usual patrols of the local police were to bé seen, who at present were remaining neutral. From time to time the small mobile lorries of the police manned} by six to ten officers dashed at full speed through the streets. It was their task merely to report on the situation. Kurt, who was standing next to Paul when he received the report of the courier did not fail to notice the undecidedness of Comrade Werner. He knew Paul as a reliable old party comrade, nevertheless he had not considered Hermann’s choice correct when the night before he had ap- NEWARK, } GRAND CONCERT Slovak Workers of Newark For Benefit of DAILY WORKER Sunday, April 3 At WORKERS HOME 52 West Street ding Jack London 5’ Dramatic Club and others MUSIC BY RED STAR BAND ADMISSION 25 CENTS Elaborate Chab— Daily, Worker Central Party USA COMRADE George Wishnak Manager of Daily Worker Is making a tour and will visit the following cities for the organiza- tion of the circulation campaign for the DAILY WORKER: dangerous red-hot spark in the sea of grey, pale faces. Two or three began, then the whole street was TOLEDO singing the song of the “prisoners of ‘April 28 want’—- “The International . G In the Reinickendort Strasse the ne DETROIT blinds rattled down before the win- il 29, 3 dows of the large shops. Iron bars April 29, 30 clattered as they were drawn in haste \ across the entrances. The bloody a4 3.4 May Day of 1929‘had begun. May 2, 3, } (To Be Continued) | é { nie MILWAUKEE { “The Chicago Mooney Congress, May 5, 6 | April 30 to May 2, will be a big step dropped. He decided not to leave Paul for one moment during the day and to help him as best he could. In the “Red Nightingale” you could have walked on the heads. The rooms were overcrowded with work-| ers with caps and jackets decorated with red carnations or badges. Ten minutes ago somebody had discovered a “stool pigeon” in one of the rooms; he was soon thrown out into the street, after a sound beating up. One to France, Cee ogee | | “promised” to be represented. Many A.F.L. Unions Thirteen A. F. of L. locals with 24 Joker Wants Straight Flush. | | NEW YORK, April %—John F. | Hylan, one of the clowns Tammany Fs Enno RRR RGAIEGLS once had in the office of mayor El eet Laenertrrn Sredae this city, is out for the job on &| men 6; S. U, of N. A. 4; Brotherhood Hreubieeas Geral ey hen nis | of Railway and Steamship Clerks campaign insignia with the ‘board Of | rodwe 922 (this organization donated elections yesterday. It is a hand |'¢55): Carpenters Locals No. $74, 368 holding lott the ace, King, queen, | jd 360; Bakers No. 10; Glaziers No Tae en eee |660; Journeymen Plumbers; Granite jabsent in spite of the fact that they | | Stifles Mooney Trial | Judge Louis H. Ward, who pre- | sides at Tom Mooney’s ttial, and | who is seeking to limit evidence | which would expose the California | frame-up system. } jty-four hours are included from the | Maxwell, Pa., and Wesiville, Ill., lo- cals of the United Mine Workers of | America, Practically every local of | they have all taken up active work on at 12 o'clock noon. At the same time of After & | & motion was adopted to request the dinette on | City Commission for a tag day to 7 si provide food and transportation for the marchers to Washington and Reject U CHICAGO, IIL. three and a hal: motion to gffic: Free Tom Moéhey held in Chicago. nds, ’ . the City Central Committee of the| The Conference will meas again Nisinainn SR RAE Geen _ | next Sunday at 11 o'clock in the same Chicago Workers Committee on Un-| ho) vith recommendations £0 bring employment, (Socialist controlled) dditi 1 delegates lens voted 39 to 34 against participating | *¢d!onel delegates from organiza~ in the Congress. tions not represented-at the previous Much indignation was aroused thi SEH UOHE MERE ite tore = among a } rtion of the dele- | i . i gates by these attac particularly | @blished at 385 Springfield Ave., 62 4 West St., 26 Beacon St., 33 Boston from those who were d es to the S Chicago Conference in violation of St» ahd various other points in the the instructions from the Executive | Td Ward. | Committee of the Chicago Workers’ | Committee on unemployment, not to | participate. In fact, those delegates who came to the Chicago Conference have become so convinced of the necessity of United Front action that French Workers Active in Mooney Cam| The French section of the Inter- | national Red Aid has issued, in the |name of its Committee of Initiative |for the Mooney Congress, in part, various sub-committees of the con. /*Mefoliowing statement: | gress Organization Committee. | national fod Ald hae ter @ nulnber ss ,of years taken an important part in Plan Newark Parade | the vast campaign to free from pris- NEWARK, N. J., April 25.—Sixty- | on, where they are dying, Tom Moo- four delegates representing 35 organ- | ney and Billings, victimns of bour- izations with a membership of 9,749 | geois justice in America. The new attended the Mooney-Scottsboro con- | trial, consented to by the American ference held here Sunday. | bourgeoisie, marks the first victory in After adopting a resolution con-| that long struggle which has taken demning the lynch verdict against | place in all countties. The outcome Haywood Patterson, the Congerence | of the new trial depends on the sole decided to call a Scottsboro parade | action of the working mass action, for May 6, to culminate in a/which must be powerful in order to demonstration in Military Park save Mooney.” Al He would do his} could sympathize with the workers| Fs 4 a ‘ joutside for repeating the dose a sec Bh bots ee tie) en Jond time. Only { inicken- | » tam dorfer-Strasse ins ho linerated, be g| Taraiano and James Petrocelli, re- | police patrol. = | publican inspectors in the twenty- | Wh > a .._| third election district of the Second Whenever @ stool pigeon was dis-| acsembly District, are on trial before covered, the police were not long in Supreme Court Justice McNammee jcoming to his rescue. Kurt saw that! ang a jury at the county court house. jit was @ great mistake to have made|-They were republican inspectors, but |the “Red Nightingale” of all places,| stole votes of their own party to help | Which was known to the police as a| out Roosevelt-Tammany candidates. Party centre, the meeting place! |mney stole all the votes of the Com- when the situation was still) munist and Socialist, parties, accord- rloped it would have been very|ing to statements of the prosecutor. for the police to surround the * * . arrest all those inside andj} |thus to separate the political and or-| ganizational leadership from the| masses. | | i Arms |amusements of any kind on Sunday. | In the smail hall at the rear, Kurt The corrupt political machine wants jand Paul met the other comrades of | to keep all theatres, ball games and the street cell. Old Father Hubner} other amusements closed in an ef- had also kept his word. He sat at| fort to increase church membership the table in his black and shiny Sun-|and increase the business of the day suit with a red carnation in his|plind-pigs and brothels which flour buttonhole ready for the signal to/ish with the protection of the Moore | start. Kurt could see that much administration. § passing through the old man’s * mind. For ‘the first time in forty years he was to participate in a May Day demonstration which had been banned by a social democratic Police President. . . . “Thomas!” Paul shouted through the passage. His voice was com- |pletely drowned in the noise. He pushed his way through the workers ‘and approached an undersized com- |rade, wedged in a group in heated Philly Bars Sunday Amusements. | PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—Under} @ sweeping order of Mayor J. Hamp- ton Moore, there will be no public) Building Trades Head Dead. WHEATON, Md., April 26.—Wil- liam J. Spencer, secretary for twenty- seven years of fhe building trades {department of the American Feder- jation of Labor, died at his home |here last night after several months’ illness. He was sixty-five years of jage and was formerly general secre-| | Plumbers, mfitters, Gasfitters | discussion. It was Thomas, the or-| . ‘i . |and Sprinkler Fitters’ International ganizer of the marchers. | Association, “Thomas, how are things with your people? You are certain that none . « |tary of the United Brotherhood of| ©, jot them has anything hidden on him, We march unarmed.” | Paul did not say this, because he |was afraid. It was the strict in- | Struction of the Party, and Hermann had especially warned him only the night before, to insist that on no account should anyone carry arms in | the demonstration, “Well, you know, Paul,” Thomas answered as he tightened his belt, | “I can’t look into everybody's pockets. ji have warned them about it not |don’t think that there’s one who has anything on him.” | “Keep your men firmly in hand, | Thomas—we'll have a good deal to face outside.” The faces of the two | workers were grave, a tremendous responsibility rested on their shoul- ders, | Paul looked at his watch. “Ten| o'clock, Thomas, give orders to form} |the ranks. Time to start.” There was a movement in masses outside when the door of the “Red Nightingale” opened and the workers streamed out. A woman ,Shouted something out of a window. | Everybody pushed his .way to the pub. | A penetrating whistle cut the air} twice in quick succession. They| knew this signal. That was Thomas | “Close the ranks. Forward march!” | ; At once disorder ceased. Th once, but ten times, at least, and I} the | at 239 W. 28th St., unable to support | Electric Shock Kills Worker. HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., April 25.— Charles Lewis of Tomkins Cove was instantly killed when he came in con- tact with a heavy charge of elec- tricity while working on a conveyor in the plant of the New York Trap | Corporation yesterday afternoon, ee oe Tries to Deceive Farmers. NEW YORK, April 25.—In the cur- jvent issue of “Good Housekeeping,’ | Professor Raymond E. Moley, a mem- |ber of the Roosevelt “brain trust” and assistant secretary of state, tries |to fool the farmers into believing | | that the soaring of prices due to in- |flation will benefit him. He does not explain that inflation will raise the prices of everything the farmer has} to buy. . Mother Jailed for Abandonment. | NEW YORK, April 25.—Mrs. Jo-| sephine Tafferilli, a widow working | at starvation wages in a dress shop oe oe ja@ 5-year-old son, left him near the | | Halsey Nursery, hoping he would be cared for. She was arrested and} locked up in jail on a charge of aban- donment. PORE Moore to Boost Milk Prices. TRENTON, April 25.—Governor A. ‘arry Moore, lackey of the corrupt! lague machine of Jersey City, in a | sound of, the whistle gripped the/ message to the state legislature, rec- Hanae Gauied ih Getic noe ommends a bill to set up a milk 1a » © e1 ogether, formed); j each in place, and turned the York, who set up such a board to feeling of nervous apprehension into| <0" ™! |that of ordered security. ise prices of milk to consumers, A three-} 0, at 3 p.m. | cornered red flag which appeared in the front between the third and fourth rank was greeted with loud cheers. May Day Begins The commanding voice of Thomas suddenly pulled all together. For a moment there was almost uncanny silence. Like the resounding blow of |@ hammer the short command rang }out clearly and sharply over the heads of the ranks standing eight abreast, “Attention. Quick march!” The first step was the signal for an| outbreak of wild enthusiasm. The| windows were thrown open when the hythm of the march beat against the walls of the houses. A resound-' ing young voice shouted: “Down—| with the—demonstration ban!” | There were some who shuddered as the whole street shouted in unison “Down . ... down. . . down . A thunderous roar of protest! |. The black mass of the workers |taking up the full width of the street ged forward, At the head, the three-cornered flag glowed like a and pay dairy farmers low monopoly prices. The dairy trust will benefit thereby. Raise Crops for Bankers. WASHINGTON, April 25.~A bill to | permit loans to farmers for summer ‘following or winter wheat passed the | house and senate and is to be signed |by Roosevelt, It provides that the | bankers have first claims on all crops jraised by farmers who have to get loans to carry on. Hence the farm-! ers will work for the bankers, who will have their men at the first place | of sale to get their loans and in-j terest. WARD KEPLER, DAYTON, DIES Mistreatment in Jail Kills “Daily” Agent (By a Worker Correspondent.) DAYTON, O.—It {s with sadness in my heart that I must write to inform you that our Daily Worker agent, Ward Kepler, 40 years old, has died. Comrade Kepler was in jail for 30 30 days because of his fight for free speech for the workérs of Dayton, When he came out, he continued to spread the Daily Worker, and for this he was sentenced to 20 days in jail. This time they placed him in front of ‘a door in the cook house, to peel potatoe: id as a result he contracted a h cold which loa) - coward my freedom,”—Tom Mooney, to his death. \ jout the treacherous Cutters; Bricklayers No. 43; Int-r- national Union of Operating Engin- eers; three TUUL delegates including one from the Brotherhood’s Railroad Unity Movement, recently organized; mass and fraternal organizations, among them the Workmen's Circle No. 990; Unemployed Councils and Defense Organizations; the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, etc. The sum of $66 was collected for the expense of the 17 delegates which were elected by the conference to the Chicago Congress. A large mass meeting for the send- off for the Buffalo and vicinity dele- gation was approved and will take place Wednesday, April 26th at 8 p.m. at the Harugari Temple, 1257 Genesee St. . Credentials Continue Coming In CHICAGO, April 25—Among the redentials for the “Free Tom Moo- ney Congress” received the last twen- Demonstration In Lackawanna LACKAWANNA, N. Y., April 24— The demonstration frere on May 1st will start one o'clock from the Work- ers Center, 128 Ridge Road. Marching through the streets to Ridge Road, Center Street and the so-called Rol- |land Section and to City Hall. Then to Memorial Hall to the State Relief uarters to protest against in- adequate relief and for the demands of Unemployment Insurance. “The Chicago Mooney Congress, | | April 30 to May 2, will be a big step toward my freedom.’—Tom Mooney. | the Progressive Miners of America | have already elected delegates, and it | | was expected that they will be rep- | resented one hundred per cent. Credentials were received from the Chicago District Executive Committee jot the Metal Trades Industrial | Unions. International Association of | Machinists, No. 84, of Chicago, has | elected one delegate. Painters Local, | Union No. 275, of Chicago, Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Unions of | NEW YORK —Theodore Dreiser, Chicago, Carpenters Local Union No. | leading American writer and H. L. 504, of Chicago, and the Unemployed | Mencken, editor of “American Mer- DREISER, NOTED U. Framed-up L resented by one delegate each. | ing the Free Tom Mooney Congress Salt Lake City Conference | in Chicago from April 30 to May 2. On April 20th, a Free Tom Mooney | Dreiser said that “Mooney has no Conference was held at Salt Lake |illusions about obtaining justice in City, Utah. Among the organizations | the capitalist courts” and is depend- ented were three Farmers and jing upon “mobilizing the support of Workers Leagues, the S211 hs the working class of America and of Building Trades Council, Division the world to free him from his living 382 of the Carmen, Ladies Aux.iary.{ hell.” of Division 382, Barbers Union 377,| Dreiset’s full statement follows: Painters, Decorators, and Paperhang-| “Tom Mooney has been granted a | ers of America, Carpenters Local 184, | new trial. It has been set for April Among the other organizations rep- | 26, and is based on an unused indict- resented were the Workers Ex-Ser-/™ent for murder in connection with vieemnen’s League, Unemployed Coun- |the bombing of the San Francisco cils and the Unemployed Couneil | Prepatedness Parade in 1916. Working Womens League, | “The verdict of the new trial can- {not legally effect the verdict of the ~| original hearing. Still, it is Mooney’s |first opportunity to mount the wit- Des Moines Mooney Conference | De ness stand and openly expose the DES MOINES, Ia—A Tom Mooney | trame-up which sent him to prison | Conference and mass meeting will be | for life. With this frame-up once held here at 7 p.m. on Wedr | Jay./and for all conclusively proved, it | April 26, in Car Men's Hall, at 7th | will be impossible for Governor Rolph land Walnut. any l6hgét to deny a pardon. | Four delegates to the Free Tom Moo-| “Ed Cuhha, who, with Charles M. ney Congress in Chicago will be | Fickert, originally prosecuted Mooney, | Councils of Philadelphia will be rep- | cury” have issued statements endors-| elected at Wednesday's conference. says he can convict Mooney and Los Angeles Workers Resist Attack on F, S. U. Meeting LOS ANGELES, April 25.—More , Harriet Prenter and Dr. Leon Ardz- | revoke the permit because “the Com- | than 600 workers in the Workers Cen- ter last night, protested against the smashing up of a meeting of 3,000 workers arranged by the Friends of the Soviet Union in tho hnie High Scliocl day. at ing was part of the campaign for the recognition of the U. S$, 8. R. by the United States. Compelled to permit the use of the school auditorium, the authorities brought forward the notorious “Red Squad” headed by Capt. Hynes and The | the American Legion to wreck the meeting which was to have been ad- dressed by Dr, J. C. Coleman, Dr. Robert Whitaker, Upton Sincfair, Dr. Ryland, Sidney Terwilliger, who worked in the Soviet Union as an engineer, Loren Miller, Negro jour- | nalist, just returned from the USSR, Thomas R. Lynch, an attorney, Mrs. rooni. Demand Hall Again | Earlier in the evening a commiitoe jof 25 appeared before the Board of iducation to demand the use of the Polytechnical Auditorium for another eeting for May 6. Workers | backing his demand by letters and telegrams, and resentment against the action of the Red Squad and the | Legionnaires is running shigh. The | F.S.U. has announced that it will | institute criminal suits against the | Red Squad and the legionnaires. Over 2,000 people remained ia their seats for over one-half of an hour after the lights were put out by the | “Red Squad” and a large group of Legionnaires, | Capt. Hynes had appeared before the Board of Education a few days previously and asked the Board to are | | Thugs Put Out Lights When Hug> Crowd Gathers in Polytechnic miunists will create a riot and de- | sttoy public property.” They recon- | sidered the permit and voted 4 to 3 to let the F.S.U. use the auditorium. Thugs Put Lights Out Ah hour before the meeting started ; the “Red Squad” and about 30 Legion | thugs were on the school grounds. |The ayditorium was filled at 8:10 and Dr. James C. Coleman called the meeting to order, He said several words when suddenly the lights went out. Three minutes before, several | logionnaires and a “red squad” thug | were seen walking in the side door of the school. They ovdered the jan- itor and engineer of the school not to move and turned the switch off. | As the lights went off, legionnaires | | walked down the aisles to the stage and shouted “there will be no meet- jing here tonight.” One legion- ‘naire in the back shouted, “let the EXPOSE ST. PAUL MAYOR AS SPLITTER. AT UNITED FRONT MOONEY MEETING Slanders Defense Committee; Refuses to Back ST. PAUL, Minn.—A Mooney mass meeting was held Friday night at the Labor Temple Auditorium under the auspices of the Free Tom Mooney Committee, where Norrin spoke for the Socialist Party, Wm. Schneider- | man for the Communist Party and Mayor Wm. Mahoney for the Farmer- | Labor Party and the Central Trades and Labor Assembly. Warren Creel of the Young Voters’ Liberal League, a Farmer-Labor youth organization, |acted as chairman. During the course of Schneider- man’s speech, while he was pointing role that the Gompers, Wolls, and Scharrenbergs played in keeping Mooney in jail, the chairman interrupted him and or- dered him not to “attack” anybody. Turning to the audience, Schneider- man declared: “The Communist Par- ty does not believe that Mooney means by the united front that we should hide the crimes of the labor misleader's who sabotaged the Moo- ney campaign. I have only repeated Mooney’s own words in e@@csng them. But we do welcome the part- cipation of the A. F. of L. rank and § workers and their local unions ore: Fer ni¢d here regardless tue acts of the A. F. of L. lead- os Resolution ership.” The | plauded, The chairman acted quite differ- ently during Mayor Mahoney's speech, which not only attacked the Com- munists and insinuated that the Moottey Molders Defense Committee is a “racket,” but declared that “Moo- | mey is old and decrepit, and he hasn't got the fire he had 16 years ago.” This slander against Mooney, who has rejected bribes and compromises which might have freed him if he would keep his mouth shut, and who is a heroic symbol of uncompromis- ing class strugsle against the ex- ploiters, caused great indignation among the workers in the audience. While the Farmer-Labor Mayor spoke about “class justice in California,” there sat in the audience a victim of class justice in Minnesota, Fred Le- ‘quier of the St. Paul Unemployed | Council, who served six months in jail under Mahoney’s administration, for fighting evictions. When a resolution was introduced by the I. L. D. demanding the release of the Scottsboro boys, the whole | aiwece stood up in a rising vote with the exception of Mayor Ma- honey, who was the enly one im the ‘hall remaining seated, whole audience ap- | gas 0 and one cartridge of tear eas was exploded but did not affect | any of the workers ptesent. They de- |manded the meeting to go on in the jdark but th hoodluns kept on shouting. Several times some of the “liberal” speakers scheduled appealed | for the crowd to file out the au- ‘ ditorium but they were shouted down. Crowd Demonstrates By that time provocation increased, but the discipline of the workers was splendid. They continued shouting | slogans and singing songs. Hynes, by | that time called on the uniformed po- lice who came in scores and cleared ithe stage. He was boced down when | he came to the stage and announced that he'could not permit the meet- ing to go on as “it was out of his ‘control.” The hall was cleared by the police. crowded around the school grounds shouting slogans to vote for the work- ers candidates in the local elections and against fascism. The workers demonstrated around the school for | about a half hour before police suc- | ceeded in dispersing them. \ Four workers were later arrested when they protested against the breaking up of the meeting, One woman worker was knocked about by a thug arid Comrade Putman came to her defense. He was clubbed by the thug and arrested. The four workers were released later in the evening without charges. ‘The lying capitalist sheet, the “Ex- aminer,” says that lights were put out by “a mystery man” and that Hynes had to disperse the meeting as it was out of his control with At that time over 3,000 people were | S. NOVELIST, BACKS “FREE MOONEY” CONGRESS H. L. Mencken Also Issues Plea for Release of abor Prisoner hang him. Mooney, in reply, has challenged Cunha and Fickert to as- sist the prosecution. Utilities Fight Trial. “But the utility corporations which framed Mooney are afraid to see him again take the stand. They are leay- ing no stone unturned to quash the indictment and prevent the trial. Four such moves have been made. “First, District Attorney Matthew Brady moved for a dismissal of the indictment. Then he threatened to withdraw from the ¢ase. Attorney General Webb advised against this, suggesting instead that he apply for a writ of mandamus from the Ap- pellate Court, quashing the indict- ment. Brady now states that he is preparing a synopsis with which to move for dismissal the opening day of the trial. “On April 15th, a former assistant district attorney argued at a court hearing granted him that a new trial will constitute “double jeopardy” and is therefore unconstitutional. “Though insisting that he is op- posed to the trial because ‘there is no evidence to warrant a conviction,’ Brady, under the guise of being friendly to Mooney, is in reality do- ing him colossal harm. The trial is Mooney’s _ greatest = chance for gaining freedom. To deny him this chance is not only bru un- just; it means that the State of Cali- ‘fornia, is determined to keep Mooney in prison, | Know They Cannot Convict. | “For many years the corrupt poli- | Ucians and the big industrialists of | the Pacific Coast have been crying that Mooney is guilty. Here is their |chance to prove it. They know they cannot. They know, furthermore, | that their part in the framing of | Mooney will be exposed. Hence they jare fighting tooth and nail to halt ) the trial. | “But the trial must be held. | “Tom Mooney has no_ illusions |about obtaining justice in the capi- |talist courts. He knows that he will jhave to force justice from them by |mobilizing the support of the work- ing class of America and of the world to free him from his living hell. “He has, therefore, issued a call for a Free Tom Mooney Congress in| |Chicago from April 30 to May 2, ap- |pealing to all working-class and sym- pathetic organizations of every na- |ture, regardless of creed, sex and |color, to be represented there and to |decide upon the most effective meth- ods to rally the workers of the world for the freedom of Tom Mooney and the defense of all working-class pris- oners,” . BALTIMORE, \Mencken, editor of the |Mercury” and popular critic, enders. ‘ed the Free Tom Mooney Congr jin ‘Chicago in a statement in which | ‘he labeled the Mooney case as “an intolerable disgrace’ to the whole United Stat His statement declares: “The Mooney case hes long been | an intolerable disgrace, not only to the State of California, but to the |whole United States. Certainly, not even the, most ftantic enemy of Mconey can argue that he was con- victed beyond a doubt; to all impar- tial men it must be plain that he ;Was the victim of a gross and trans- ‘parent frame-up., If I believed him guilty, which I do not, I'd still be~ lieve that it was an outrage ch pub- ic decency to send him to prison on such preposterous evidence, and a! the urging of persons who are s¢ notoriously bent upon denying hir | his common rights.” Ma., Aprli 25.—H. L, | “American | Party Life PARTY LIFE—I8 ITS USE FULLY UNDERSTOOD? By i. A ‘The need of this column is mnie terial from the field, from comrades who are in close touch with workers. Another need in the column is ma~ terial for discussion on problems, 3 is not necessary to hesitate to write because one hes not finished « project. The problems that arise and must be solved are in their nea- ture not isolated to any particule section. Therefore they should iw presented in this stage a& well ay accomplished projects. ‘The column is not closed to non- Party workers. They, too, can and often do, have helpful and even sharp analysis of our Party work to present. Suggestions. In line with these few ideas, I of- fer some suggestions. First: Comrades who are engaged in work and feel doubtful about their line as developed, etc., should discuss it with other comrades con- cerned. Secondly: The points raised in articles should be answeted by com- rades who can answer them from their own expetiences, Thirdly: ‘The Party and the Party press is always in need of material telling about what workers are thinking and saying. The comrades should call meetings with non-Party workets and have them give their ideas on the Party. This material should be answered by the comrades present, i.e, questions raised, etc. All of it should be: sent to the column for the general benefit of the Party membership. Fourth: The comrades engaged in agrarian work should report all of their work. This material is of ut- most importance to the Party mem- bership at present, I am sure that a little thought and more comrades will realize that they can make use of the Party Life col- umn to excellent advantage. Let us jmake it a real force in raising the level of our work. * oma’ > Overcome the Fear of the Masses. In Conneaut, Ohio, there was a person J. who had been agitating for Communism for a full year pre- viows to the presidential election. Comrade J. did not know if there were any Party members in the town. Comrade J. was given collection lists to aid the Daily Worker. J. sold five copies of the Daily Worker twice a week. Being eager to study Com- munism, Comrade J. began to in~ quire about a Workers’ School. He finally discovered such a school through personal inguiry at the Dis- trict Office in Cleveland. He regis~ tered, paid his own tuition, and then went back to Conneaut, During the presidential campaign Comrade J., with other non-Party comrades, was active in agitational work and also in distributing pamphlets. The re- sults ‘were that in the fourth ward precinct the Communist candidates received 25 votes. All these facts were fully known to the Party com- rades in Conneaut. As a matter of fact there were even Party members living in the precinct where J. can- vassed for votes. Yet in spite of this at no time did Comrade J. receive an invitation to join the Party. However, Comrade J. did succeed in getting into the Party, but not through any fault of the ‘Conneaut Comrades. When the National Hun- ger March was being prepared, a comrade from the section was sent to help carry through the preparatory work. While in Conneaut he came in contact with Comrade J. and filed out an application for him. Shortly after the section organizer came there and he was accepted. Recently through Comrade J's ef- forts the unit agreed to accept two new members. The old members, however, proposed that the new mem- bers should be put in s separate group | with one or two of the older com- jrades teaching them Communism. Further, that these new recruits should not attend any of the unit |meetings for about three or four weeks. Fortunately in this particular instance the plan’ was not carried jout, Comrade J. was instrumental in jgetting besides these two members, |another one; also he was indirectly responsible in getting a fourth re- | éruit. All these new members ate native born. In conclusion I wish to make an appeal to all Party members. When you see and know of a good worker do not hesitate to ask him to join the Party. Also it is not a good pol- jicy to accept new recruits and then to keep them from a unit meeting |for a given time. These are secta- tian tendencies and we as Party members must overcome them. —K. Jersey Factory Employment Declines. TRENTON, April 25.—Factory em- ployment in New Jersey declined 3.9 ‘per cent in March, while payrolls | dropped even more—83 per cent— according to the report of State La- bor Commissioner Blunt yesterday, | { CHICAGO, Ill, Two Year Anniversary Enter- _tainment, Cabaret and Dance Northwest Side Women's Council No. & SATURDAY, APRIL 29th, at 8 P.M. 2736 W. 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