The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1933, Page 2

Page Two ATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIT 28, 19 ee BARRICADES Printed by Special Permis | | BY BR E R L | Ra sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 381 Fourth + Avenwe, New York City. Adi Workers are urged te read this book and spread Ht among their friends. BY KLAMS NEWUMRANTZ USTRATED #Y WALTER QUIRT STORY THUS FAR:—The workers of the proletarian district, Wedding, in Berlin, are preparing to 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, discos bat the owner of an ice-cream store on thelr sireet is a police spy. A telephone wire is attached secretly to the store. Meanwhile, pre- parations arc being made at the police-station to crush the coming de- motisttation. Wullner, a veteran policeman, who is a member of the So- cialist Party, is astonished at the military preparations which he wit- nesses in police station. The workers’ demonstration is attacked by the police. * = + ing out of the windows; sérted street a woman was pre irst. They suddenly} to her breast a wailing infant and to! vain she had at first tried to push rm archers | her way into one of the houses; with their open mouths and | difficulty she had escaped from a ‘aces, for theit voices and now the doors mg. Abt the ly closed against the police Steet ap- 1 eet only policemen with $ and swinging clubs Outside the “Red Nightingale” was | , , drawn up the transport lorry on which they were lifting the policeman Kurt h knocked out. He had not yet re- a gained_ consciousness. STRUCK IN FACE The woman with the child ha almost reached the end of the Women e ‘ d N6cked ifito| When suddenly a tw s trodden policeman ran up to her. Hei ative voice | lost all its color, but she wou! as drowned shout of firmly about the he r y that they It was apparent ad ial t trap trol that madd With a raised hi. policeman, young biocked her way ‘m and struck her across the silent white face. ee “Back=you red sow”, he shouted ‘ Ae and pushed the woman who had un- i consciously d her afm in seif- defense. He windéws t « watching. you'd kiil your own tnother——~ id woman shrieked. “Bloodhound!” ‘om ho “Blasted swine, you!” And suddenly a big stotie hed o his grinnifig face. Then rewvoiv- rs cracked. Peng ...-peng... peng... .! The first shots ricocheted ag e houses. “Close the windows!" The young policeman with a stream of blood riifhing across His pale, ter- tor-stricken face, r: up and down in the middle of the street. He aimed at every movement he could see be- hind the windows, ard fired. The stfeet was now occupied only the police. Thefe was not a civil- in sight. In some houses the ee had chased the inhabitants airs ahd actoss yards, t in- @ rooms. Ott of one of the port. Earlier on, wo carpenier: iién and children were to b like defsfiseless cattle S : = Ppa * é Out of the Pankstrasse peaied the , aming, booing filled Ron et it Gh ane je |Jong-drawn whistle of the com- e, u tw i suce i of clubs begat to crack Mander, twice in quick succes - These in oro q| Slowly and almost against the the police withdrew from the street A few mitiies lat these in fhe fotwatd diver * the street was ‘ police. A tert again filled with e crowd 1 brutality of the pe : wning of att h ‘Ow! he indigsation of the whole neigh- Fothood. Angty groups formed the on the Was only woman called out. IN “SELF-DEFENS “You wait—this evening the waertts will say at the police in self-defense’. jow hands heatd s Himself the begin the peoplé rushed nd tore them open men and children 5 Few in the ter- ere able to get into the broke heads Vor- acted Clu 13 rd so great the “Thank your ‘comrade’ Police tt who col ed could not ident for that!’ an old w woman shouted Into the face e distorted and furious volleemen immediate, mn Get dow’ of them a m the stairs. At) three police clubs ck of his head. ‘obably have been qui the hand, “I belisve—I wori't be a ning.” {Paul's loud voice: “Comrades, we ourselves are to blame, we should never have started a demonstration ‘|in such a short street which can so easily be out off.” A few workers were going incon- spicuosly from group to group: “Re- form the ranks—at the corner of the Reinickendorfer Strasse!” command was crashed helmet’s edge, a policeman, mouth wide ad of H d pa Draw Revolvers. mouth to mouth. The wo besid policemen gathering on all sides, who now rushed up with drawn re-|faces more serious and determined | ¥ Volyavs. had his scene. It| than éver was Thonia t in vain| Again the penetrating sound of the to stop tt to be con- Whistle gove the signal to form the to b ) the ¢ ght of the tanks. Tho workers ran quickly in- tm both side Ms to the roadway and formed them- © get selves in rows Of eight: “Quick hildren ito mareh!” . 16 Glide From the Nettelbeckplatz glittered had ranced I i ihe silver ensigns on police helmets. fat b “Down... with the... May Day ban!” the stairs “tong ive the Communist Party!” Y “Down with the social-fascist r his | ctarvation goverhment!” nck his might agains This time the shining uniforms he door. “All of you, get into the did not startle the workers. Calmly tenements they marched down the street to- He had to kick Kurt before he| wards the Nettelbeckplatz to the could get him to hide somewhere. strains of the “International”. For a ie raging young policemen out- side could not move the door. They rushed back into the street, cursing. In the middle of tle almost de-| Terice, Daily SUNDAYS N 0 W 7 vthing i Tickets Ageiioe 8 i ray including moment Kurt thought he noticed An- na’s fair head between the workers’ ofps in front of him, (To Be Continued.) MENTS. KUHLE WAMPE” ‘st (WHITHER GERMANY) | (h HERTHE THIPLT. Stor of “Maedehen| In Uniform” | Broadway and 42nd Street KS 2KO CAMEO, RENE CLAIR’S “LE MILLION” parking. Hilarious Satire on Present- Day Society! Soreamingly Finny! FXTRA: GANGSTER ATTACK ON NEEDLE TRADES UNION wonxers Acme Theatre UTH &T, AND UNION SQUARE AMUSE RINGLING BROS«=BARNUM« BAILEY =| CiRCUS “served Seats) | ldvoe Bouts Bvery Altera 3000 BALCONY APFERSOON AND NIGHT HGRETS NOW at Garden, Ole PUAKGi LaDERER a DOROTHY Glen | #0 JEFFERSON 105 4,#|NOW T A in LER TRACY and UNA MPERKED UTUMN CROCUS Gow !in “CLEAR ALL WIRES” ir. paekine. went y. | Added Features (NFRANAT. MACHING’ to, Wéd,, Thurs. and Sat., 30 | ‘ith Chester Morris and Generiers Tobin 46rH eeng, 6:30. Mat In| V ith a helpless movement of | member of that party by this eve-| From another group one could hear | ' {he owed Pa The Fighting Vet By H, £, BRIGGS The Case of Arthur H Arthur Hale, who took part in th first Bonus 1 and last wit Hunge p é police of Wi ington, D. C. After a brutal beatin for reasons known only to the sadistic thugs who wear the blue un this vet was thrown into ja kicked kc almost unconsciou H Dape and personal belo) er aken from him, Not being able to hold [4 released framed him for deporta alien. Although 33 is to be 4 on as ar yeat His attor is 409 Colw Buildir a case d nort of all mer Field Notes dolla s of Va x mill Col e on mareh—den Economy Bil Salt Lake Reporis. Three thousand mer y more to fo oon, YORK, Pa up fo I comment 1 Force cap’ us a fair deal Beer, Bonus and Bread. yAUKEE A few hey could drow n demanding cc Rank sa ms hangove! vice. ington “You'll Find a F ighting Union in Tallapoosa County, Ala.”’ ROOSEVELT LACKEY TRIES TO HEAD OFF NEW BONUS Attacks National Liaison Committee Which Organizes Bonus March for May 12 — WASHINGTON, April 27.—The Roosevelt hanger goverfinent is mobilit- ing its henchmen to try to head off the gathering together of veterans threughout the country for a new bonus march on Washington that will reach the national capitol on May 12th. Senator Thomas, democrat of Oklahoma, and Representatives Patman, and Rankin, de-@—-—— - . sipi, are operating , Véteral compensation the dual named Ernest | $900,000,000, condemning hundr ht of Oklahoma City, who said| thousands of veterans to he commanded the Okiahoma unit of| the tanks of the destitute veterans who came to Washington) Ployed. last year. Already Flocking Into Washington The movement to Washington has already begun, ith some former soldiers alre unem- Leave It To “Friends” In Congress | In an appeal ageinst the bonus ch, organized by the National | Committee, which includes) ‘: the Américan Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Na- al Officers’ Bonus Expeditionary the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s | Albright, spéaking for the t administration politicians, eud more coming in ev b: y day. But} the main forces are being brought! together in many conferen held throughott the coun temper of the conferences is a guar- antee that tens of thousands, sibly hundreds of thousands, | flock into the capitol and demand anot see where the leaders of vement expect to help our| with another march on Wash-| i We will fight for our rights but we will do it in a peaceful man-| net through our fmends who are in office Units of the former bonus | march will be in the May 12 march. | How fiiendly the Roosevelt admin- tion is to the demands of the ns is seen in the fierce attacks st them by Roosevelt hinielf| took from pension funds and’ dteds of millions for the Amt imperialist war nachine shall pa veterans what it ov them, adjusted compensation, or their the government owes them ened or misled by these supporte! who are now opetil; pigeons for the government. Special Southern Nowa Service io... ONY Wormers Cut Lixpose Oppression 25 pc, in Cleveland ATLANTA, Ga—A group of white| land Negto Southerners have organ-/ Mayor Adds Another zed the “Southern Press,” an intér- 1, national news-gathering ser- e, to present to Negro and white hentic, detailed exposures hings, both illegal atid legal. tvice will also deal with other s againet the Negro people in , and thé working-class as 5 Percent Reduction CLEVELAND, O—Wages of city workers were cut 25 per cent last by the city council. Later the mayor, ried that some of the most | got around the council decree ant Negro and liberal white) ing oity workers payless vacations so spapers of the South aré sup-| as to make up the 30.2 per cent re- porting this new agency, | duction. CORRESPONDENT TELUS OF LIFE AND Sure Did Tal! About Union,’ Widow awe to rich | their stock fc mythical, at th to pad s became alien ha one was Cute James, Negro share-cropper of Reeliown, Ala, in “this cou 3 ) all his life, and his father bef of | jhis kinfolk live in 00, {and one of the |son, his brother | in Dadeville, with fot . . How or other eropps . mple, bu impli andlord of med Cliff James HE story of R fraught with th ations. old the thugs that r not a cent and that they'd better give up the idea of tak- ing the stock returned, with |reinforcements—four deputies alto- gether, well- pplied with rifles and ammunition (much more potent than the old Civil W: uskeis which the coppers had to heir lives). The deputies stopped a few feet from the shack and fired more than one hundred rounds of ainmunition at the Ne embers of the Sharecroppers : to help f James defe —and his livelihood, Jim MeMullen was Killed on the spot. Cliff James, Ned Cob and | Tommie Moss were wounded, Cliff | James later died in jail, after writh- ing for hours—in a delirium—on the | filthy, damp cement floor of his cell in the county jail, his clothes ripped off of him, Cliff James had only one bullet In him when he was turned over to “the law” by officials of Tuske- gee Institute, but an autopsy afier his death revealed two bullet holes, ... Was the Negro sharecropper wantonly mutdered in his cell? . * ° LIFF JAMES’ brother-in-law, Jud- son Simpson, so his wife told me, wasn't even at the James cabin at the time of the shooting. “Judson was sitting on this chair here,” Mrs, Simpson told me. “A lot of machities stopped, and the mob crowd ran through the door—I di remember how many there were. They hit me over the head and bloodied me. The mob crowd cursed and swore about ‘damn niggers.’ One of them, the head man of the mob crowd, pul his gun against Judson’s head hot hiin—twice. Then they went off, shooting at us through the | fields, as they ran...1 reckon they | _— ; er would have no excuse for seizing | the mill owner. i ‘The Landlord Writes | to “My Good Colored | \ Customers” ‘or the thugs. They came with dang- ‘ng ropes. led away-—<a Cliff STRUGGLES OF SHARECROPPERS ames’ Widow told me—— 2 mules | 2 cow: 9 calve 1 heifer | Mrs. Cliff Inmes (left) and Mre. | And everyihing else they could lay Milo Ben (right). Their hus. their hands on, Ludis James said. | hands wefe murdered by landlord's | “They hauled away sll the corn, too, and left only a bit for the hogs and =| the children—but all that is gone | dep {{ Judson for dead.” | now.” A neighbor=a white farmer— | Lee | came and took Jad. Simpson, Negro “Oliff s tid talk pretty about | harectopper, to his home where he | the union,” his wife had told me eared for him and hid him from the organized mobs which raged ugh the countryside like prairie Scores of whites refused to the lynch mobs, and as a re- It sheriffs of five counties were when I asked her about his activity as leader of the Negro sharectop- pers. eo 8 5 PARKER, General Merchan- ott ‘i |W dies—This is tne sign which hangs oe a Aig fe Ube feerults f0F | setore 9 large store on the main age « alsin street of Notesulga. Nearby is located Latot Judson was arrested and | his guano mill, which furnishes fer- dragged off to the jail in Dadeville, | tinzer to his Negro tenants and crop- while his two sons remained to tend pers who have to get credit from | the crops—so that the landlord Park- | Parker, the merchant, to pay Parker, | | was he who| | caused the killing of Cliff James, by sending his murderous deputies to seize his stock. e their mule and: cow—after their father away. After the brut taking killing and the murderous “nigger-hunt” which drove scores of Negro croppers into the Hatred for Parker and the whole swamps where some of them spent | murderous Jandlord system of the cer sent the sheriff and his | South flared up among the share- n to the Cliff James farm, This|croppers. “He's got a bad heart ir me it was a pleasant, jaunty ride] him, that man,” Ned Cobb's wi* Negro family of Montgomery, Aln., for whom Unemployed Council is fighting for relief. giant fetwor' 4,009 | Ports in the capitol | bombing planes. Second 10 per vent salary cut in 1 than a year will go into effect May 1|George Cr workers that the jovernment that can fing | Clerks, township officers, police and billions for the bankers, and hun- | firemen. bonus, Wassermann, which is nothing other than back pay| George F. Schwartz, éalestnen arid one a postoftice clerk | Could not and would not receive « These veterans will not be fright-|are in jail here chatged with devis- | | jing a new sort of of Waters in the last bonus march,| They circulated a petition to nom- acting as stool-| inate for the coming city election one week, including even the laborers who | trades Workers’ Ind’ are only putting in two or three days | eight embroidery sho, work a week. This was put through | tied successfully here. métchant-landiord Parker, he would lose trade in hie store, fear that the Negro cropper off his land, and above ell—fear of the growing powér and influence of the Sharecrepptrs Union. 33 NEW YORK, April 27.—Six huge airline tansports, capable of cr ing the Atlantic Ocean, the 1. ever to be built in United to be started.+ Contrac $i 000 have Glenn H. Mariin Md., and with the are volving with the tim: Aviation Compe Conn. The planes ar: Pan-American in- made Co., of kor= been to be operated Airways, the airways of Alaska and China in a Although called trans- ships are useful for these Another Pay Cut at Cranford CRANFORD, N. J., April 27.~The for all en the city in inoluding rtment, Bice? 3 New Election Racket NEWARK, N. J., April 27 Edwin two of Louis Place and them ction racket. ‘John T. Congelton.” No such per- son exists, but the name is similar to that of Mayor Jerome T. Congelton. The idea was to get money from the mayor to have the other Congleton withdraw ftom the campaign. The mien confessed. | Chicago Embroidery Strikes Won Under Militant Leadership CHICAGO, Il—A strike conducted under the leadership of the Needle trial Union in has been set- The workers | won a minimum rate of 50 cents an who demanded & 30.2 per cent cut, | hour, vhich is an increase of approxi- WARCH Airline To Build Huge Planes | of Bridgeport, | holds that the whose | J. 8. Constitution, range South America, and/ d arribbean and include the key | Tim NEWS BRIEFS ‘No Fear of Decisions On Rights for Negroes’ | Huntsville, Ala. Times Says Ways Exist to ‘Cireumvent’ Rulings on Jury Service HUNTSVILLE, Confidence in cumvent any a “cir- which usion of a violation of ment to the Wes expressed to- in an editorial in the “Huntsville Ala. April their ebilit co to ng’ Negroes from jur {the Fourteenth amend The paper is published in the home town of Victoria Price, perjured pro- secutioh witnegs in the Scottsboro trial, afd the lynch center of north- ern Alabama, Referring to the raising of “this issue in the Scottsboro and Talla- poosa trials and the recent action of Judge Low a Negto, to Vii s, the édi- ginia from torial says: “A Massachusetts federa! judge | yesterday granted a writ of habeas corpus to a Negro, wanted in Vir- ginia for the murder of two white women on the gtotind that Virginia does not allow Negroes upn juries, and therefore that the defendant fair trial. “The question of Negroes on Southern juries was raised in the first of the Scottsboro cases. Tt was also the first point raised in the trial of several Negroes, now in progress at Dadeville. “A ruling from the United States supreme court on this moot ques- tion is not far off. | Elwood City Workers Join Protest 35 per cent over the préevious|to the ¢ i wage, recognition of the shop com-|the signature of the minister, mittee aiid reinstatement of all work-|J. B. Easley, demanding the uncon-‘ the Negro people of otte of the first ‘ors on strike, FLWOOD CITY, Pa.—One hundred and fifty Negro members of the Trinity A.MLE, Chureli gave Abe Lewis, Youngstown secretary of the International Labor Defense, an en- thusia: leome and pledged sup- rt to Scottsboro case. The Social Club immediately organized a study citcle, subscribing to the Labor Defender as the first material for study A sharp telegram was dispatched rnor of Alabama over Rey. ditional release of the boys. “But even it the court holds that, under the 14th Amendment, Ne-~ gtoes have been legally excluded from sefvice on juries, enforcement of the ruling will still be a different | thing. There are a good many Ways of citeumventing it.” PLAN DELEGATION ‘AT IMPEACHMENT |LL.D. to Submit Facts on Negro Rights NEW YORK.—Announcement that a delegation will be sent to testify before the housé judiciary commit- | tee against the impeachment pro- | ceedings being instituted against | Federal Judge James A. Lowell, of Boston, for tefusing to éxttadite George Crawford, Negro, to Virginia | to be tried for murdet, Was made | today by William L. Patterson, na- | tional secretary of the International Labor Defense. The delegation will submit proof that Judge Lowell's contention, that it is impossible to obtain a fair and impartial trial in Virginia is true not only for that state, but for the entire South, Patterson said. Tes~ timony will be brought forward to show that the denial of democratic | rights guaranteed to Negroes under | the 13th, 14th, and 15th ametidments | to the U. S. constitution precludes | fair and impartial trial not only of Negroes, but also of white workers. “Judge Lowell's action arises out of the movement to fight for these democratic rights initiated by the In- | ternational Labor Defense in its legal battie against Negro exclusion from J in the Scottsboro case,” Pat- | terson declared, | “Now that the repercussions of this | fight have actually forced denial of jextradition of a Negro from Boston | to Virginia, the Republican ahd De- | mocratic parties are mobilized to rob fruits of this fight.” i Mrs. Judson Simpson, wife of sharecropper just convicted in Dade- ville frame-up trial, and her three cons, photographed before their shack in Reeltown, Ala. told me, referring to Parker, Ned Cobb, too, is now on trial in Dade- ville, charged with helping Cliff emés protect his stock which meant fe for his wife and seven children, And as hatred for Parker sank deep into the hearts of the Negro czop- pers, so fear grew in the heart of the Fear that would move Parker knew that in every cabin in Tallapoosa County the Negro crop- pers called him a murdere:. | his power over thent slipping. Bo he decided to write to his “Good Colored Customers"—a form | wheedling sanctimony, recking with | hypocritical piety. He saw letter, full of | ‘The landlord's letter, & copy of | | which the writer managed to obtain, | follows: W. 8. PARKER General Merchandise Notasulga, Ala., Dec. 29, 1932, To My Good Colored Customers: I feel I would be unfair to you and myself to not let you know that I feel safe in saying I know you was not a meiiber of the share Croppers Union. Much less in sympathy with it. I say this because your actions have proven that to me. And T am as proud of the fact that I feel that way about you as you are. Wor that spirit is the worst thing that I have ever known of. As you know T started out with your color, (Making profit out of Negroes—S. G.). I feel safe in saying, that I know I have always had at heart the poor class of people problems as mtich 80 as possible for any living being to have. T wish it was possible for me to let fi know how I have felt about those thet had been led off. (Those who joined the Share- croppers Union—8. G.). I have Spent the best part of my life for their welfare. And if I have ever mistreated atry of them I do not know it. I khow they complained about over charges. But I charged them no more than f did you of any one else. Just for the sake of argument, Say I did, Is that the way to adjust masters. I tried every way I could think of to get Cliff to cooperate with me. For I have realized for some time there was somethin: rious the matter with him. As well as some others. Well this makes me feel so bad that I wish I could get it off my mind. But it is on us and we must not give up. As I have told lots of my customers in these uard times we must not give up. After all as bad as it is I feel they are to be pitied, . For their ignor- ance was taking the advantage of and the hard times to get them to the point to where they were. And T figured they picked me out as about the easiest one to try to put the job over. So tvhen you think of all this knowing me as you do it is awful hard on me for as I have already | said I know I have tried to do as much as was possible for all the people in this section, And the greatest percentage of my custom- ers are your color, And I got a great pleasure out of dealing with all so long as their spirit has been like yours. And I have not lost confidence yet for there are a few that has not shown they are in sympathy. (With the unions, G.). And lots that has no doubt have already seen their mistake. I felt jike T wanted to Jet you know how I felt. And wanted to Jet you know your way of living and acting is appreciated now as never before. And I do not want you to think I'm saying that you lives have not been appreciated. But I have a reason for appreciating your life now as never before. And I want you to know that it is not | only me, The whole state appre- ciates citizens like you. You have always stood fot the tight thing | and you know that always pays. There is never nothing so bad but there is some good. And I get this thought out of this bad affair. Pos- sibly if if had not beén for this you would never had the opport- tunity to know what your lives are worth to your country, And I would never thought to have let you know how I appreciate you. For when you turn as some others have I do not desité to be here any longér. (Signed) . 7 W. 8. PARKER. . | * GNIGGERS ain't fittin’ te sit on | juries,” Tidwell, the jury ¢om- missioner of Morgan County had tes< tified in the Seottsboro frial, when asked Why Negroes are systematically excluded from both gtand and petit | juries. | Landlord Parker most ¢ettainly | serves on juries... What’s more he | has a thing of two to say to Solicitor Richard H. Powell and former Con- gressman Bowling, the circuit judge, | both of whom are seeking to send | five ee to the Alabama | penitentiary ‘or long terms. In many Southern states Negroes ate expected to recite the constitution of the United States from memory, and interpret it to the coniplete sat- | isfaction of the white masters of the | South before they are permitted to | vote. | But no such qualifications are ex- | pected of Landlord Parker whose lei- | ter to the croppers is, among other | things, a “classic” of literary comipo~ | sitton. The “home” of Judson Simpson and his family, the first place raid- cd by the sheriff's posse following the attack on the sharecroppers, “] LIVE IN THE LAST END OF THE WORLD” (By = Negto Worker Correspondent) SOUTH NORFOLK, Va--I live in this last end of the world where they | forget that people live. We only ges one sack of flour, and that fs cut off and what shall I do? They tela | me at the police station a single man {can't g@t anything more than a sack of flour, T have been out of work for oe months and can’t get noth. | |