The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1933, Page 3

| OPENER 6 os BE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1933 Labor Sort Tom aes Run in New York Socialist Heads Who Denounce Tom Mooney as “Dynamiter” Sabotage Fight for His Release Again the Socialist Party leaders have openly broken with the work- ing class and have* joined hands with the capitalist ruling class. - This time it is on the question of the release of Tom Mooney. Speaking before the State Convention of the Socialist Party in Ohio, Clarence Senior, National Secretary of the Socialist Party, made the fol- lowing statement: “We were compelled to expel Tom Mooney from the Socialist Party because of his advacacy of violence and because of h's use of dynamite, In these words lies the true reason for the refusal of the socialist leaders to join the Mooney Congress. ‘The reason for their sabo. of the Mooney Congress is simple. It is merely that they believe that Mocney really guilty. They believe that Mconey is a “dynamiter’. They believe that Mooney is an anarch- ist. They believe that Mooney “advocates violence”. It is clear that if the socialist leaders believe that Mooney is guilty “of =the use of dynamite”, then they must also believe that Mooney rightly belongs in jail. The inescapable inference of Senior's statement is that this is the opinion of the present socialist leadership. The leadership of the Socialist Party thus joins hands with Prosecut- talist judge. it agrees with the Ii agrees with the capitalist class of uullty “of the use ef dynamite”. If agrees with t Mooney is a c) (0 belongs in jail. That alist Party refuses to join the working class forces at the e Committee of the Socialist Party has rejected Mconey Cong hich opens in Chicago pneu s waek's New Leader to join in the United Front to tes and Iccals”. of the Socialist Party give for this is that the Mooney Congress will nees in y will have little control over the the Mooney Congress is “a The ‘Mooney Con- y has final authority over self approved the plan pro- | ni mittee of 17 be set up to manage. stot include 17 representatives frem -the! , from’ rails arid “liberal organiza- gressive Labor Action, from the League from the Mooney Molders Defense Committee, umstances.could the number of Communists reater than three. If was: Mooney’s personal way have set themselves stubbornly agains any Congress because ,“it. js. a.Communist Con theWght of these undisputed facts, it was obvious that there must be a docSd¥Fe2son for the extraordinary hostility of the socialist leaders to the Meoney Congr ‘The reason for ¢. hostility has now come to light. It is revealed in ent of the National Secretary of oe Socialist eee made be- fore * Ohio S.zic Convention of the Party: mM OF Mooney’s“innecence is noe new among the Njeadets of As a matter of fact, it has been the uninterrupted belief of the Socialist Party leadership from the day Mooney was caught up in the toils of one of the most notorious capitalist frame-ups of our Whemthe workers of the world rushed to Mooney’s defense in 1917, when the-Russian workers stormed’ the American Consulate at Petrograd, what did the si Jeaders of California do? The Socialist Party re- fused to take any public stand on the frame-up. But privately one of the leading officizis of the state organization of the Socialist Party of Cali fornia sent out secret letters to many leading members of the S.P. through- out the country advising them to see to it that the Party should not sup- port Mooney’s defense, declaring that be was “an anarchist, and probably guilty”. After 15 years of the most thorough-going exposure of the whole frame-up, so that even the capitalist prosecutors can no longer affirm Mooney’s guilt as “dynamiter’, but must justify his imprisonment on the grounds that.he is a “radical”, Clarence Senior does not eyen see fit to temper his opinion of Mooney’s guilt with any such reservations, but categorically affirms that Mooney is guilty “of the use of dynamite”, But the Socialist Party does not openiy assert its belief in Mooney's guilt. It continues its policy of 1917 in maintaining two opinions of Mooney, one for its closed councils and one for public consumption. The statement of Senior was made before a closed Party’ Convention, and Senior warned his hearers that, “I am not speaking for the general public, but to the Convention of the Socialist Party.” . The socialist loaders’ opinion of Mooney’s guilt is therefore not for public consumption. On its official May Day manifestos, the Socialist Party lists the “de- mand” for the release of Tom Mooney. In the harsh light of its deeds and its most recent utterance of its national secretary, how hollow, how hypocritical is this demand of the Socialist Party. The Socialist Party turns a deat ear to Mooney’s own wishes for a united front at the Mooney Congress. But it does more than that. The insistence of Norman Thomas and Julius Gerber, that the hostility to the Mooney Congress must be enforced “in the state and locals” means nothing more than ‘that the Socialist Party leadership is determined that those socialist locals who have elected delegates to the Congress shall not be permitted to send these delegates, - focialist locals all over the country, from the mining fields, and from the west, have elected delegates to the Congress. But the socialist leader- ship is setting up an elaborate sabotage of these actions for the release of Mooney. These actions of the socialist leadership with regard to the ‘Mooney Congress, are a continuation of their policy of sabotaging working class unity for May Day, of their policy of standing in the way of all working class resistance to capitalist oppression. “Free ‘Tom Mooney” say the socialist leaders ‘before the workers. -But behind ‘the backs of the workers, in their own councils and in their ‘séeret letters, the ‘socialist leaders say, “Mooney advocates violence. Moo- ‘ney uses dynamite. Mooney is a criminal.” May Day this year marks the 17th year of Mooney’s imprisonment. May Day this year witnesses more determined preparations than ever on the part of the working class for the unconditional release of Tom Mooney. ‘The treacherous provocative statement of the National Secretary of the Socialist Party, the refusal to join in the Mooney Congress, the sabotage ef the mass movement among socialist workers for a united: front at the Mocney Congress—all these actions will not break the unity of the whole working class in the historie fight to free Mooney.” ON TO THE CHICAGO CONGRESS! THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD DEMAND THE RELEASE OF TOM MOONEY, VICTIM OF CA~I™**13T FRAME-UP JUSTICE! FOR A UNITED WORKING OLA‘“3 FPONT ON THE DAY OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY, | Appeal for “Help | in Scottsboro March Vis reparation, | NEW YORK.—Under the pres-| | |sure of the growing response to | | the Scottsboro March on Washing- | ton, May 8, the National Action | Committee, is sorely in need of | volunteer workers at its quarters, 119 W. 135th St. e workers, typists, and others jurgently requested to report daily jfrom 9 a, m. on. Transportation is still the major |problem of the march and every |worker and sympathizer is asked {io make every effort to obtain are SET UP “FISH” ‘COMMITTEE IN ILLINOIS STATE 'Governor Horner to to Probe Union sna CHICAGO, IIL, April 21. |lican representative from Chicago,| | R. V. Libonati, the House of Repre- | sentatives in Springfield passed a | motion to name a Committee of five) | members of the State Legislature to | investigate the activities of the Com- | munists in Illinois, that is, to create a |“Fish” Committee for Illinois. The setting up of such a Commit- tee at this time is an attempt to | detract the attention of the terror) | carried on by the Democratic Gover- nor Horner and his administrati particularly the miners @ statement, that he, | being charged with Communism, re- quesis Horner to investigate charges j that the P. M. A. are Commiunis! ts. | of the workers and placing faith in Governor Horner. lead to defeat. The itulation and answer by exposing tht campaign of terror, persecution, star- vation and wage-cuts carried by Gav- | ernor Horner and mobilize masses of workers in struggle against it. ASK FOR AID FOR | | NEGRO WITNESS ‘Testified in | and Negro workers of the country, | with E. L. Lewis, of Chattanooga, v | tim of Ku Klux Klan terror becai | he testified ‘n defense of the Scoits- | boro boys, was made today by William L. Patterson, national secretary of the Internationa! Labor Defense, | WhiJe he was in Decatur court on | Monday, April 17, waiting *to ‘repeat in the Weems trial his testimony in ; the Patterson trial which smashed the lying story of Victoria Price, home was burned to the | ground by KKK agents, and all his Lewis’ | belongings destroyed. |. The arm of the southern lynchers reached across state boundaries to | terrerize Negro witnesses who dared come forward to help rob them cf Lewis and all other wit- sses, Negro and white, as well as the International Labor Defense at- | torneys, had received frequent threats | of violence because of their defense of their prey. x | the Scottsboro boys. | Patterson catied on ympathizers to show in the fight for the defense of thc | Scottsboro boys and for democratic | rights for Negroes, by sending contri- | butions for the rebulding of his home, | and to sustain him, to be sent dir- | ectly to this victim of the lynchers’ terror, Contributions should be Mr. E. L. Lewis, 2200 Central Ave.,| | Chattanooga, Tenn. LEO GALLAGHER RUNS FOR JUDGE Mooney Lawyer Op- poses Chum of Rolph LOS ANGELES, April 28—That the Mooney case will play a part in the May 2 primary elections here 1s) obvious from the fact that Leo Gal- lagher, attorney for the Internationa! | Labor Defense and defense counsel in the new Mooney trial, is running for municipal court judge against Thurmond Clarke, intimate friend of Governor James Rolph, Gallagher has waged a relentles:| fight for workers’ rights in the courts of the Pacific Coast. He was attorney case, has battled against the criminal) syndicalism laws of California and the raids of Captain Hynes “Red Squad,” and was discharged from the Southwest University Law School for defending the Free Tom Mooney runners who raced about the Olympic games track last summer, Clarke is the friend of “Sunny Jim” Rolph, who as mayor of San Fran- cisco, heard the complete story of the Mooney framé-up.when Draper Hand, detective who had charge of perjured witnesses, confessed. Rolph, now Governor, still refuses a pardon to Mooney. Clarke, notorious for his hate of militant workers while on the bench, once answered a defendant's question as to whether he believed in equality for Negroes by saying: “Don't be MAY DAY, ridiculous ” A Trotskyite Asks | (By Mail).| —Yesterday, on a motion of Repub-| on in the State against the workers and in Illinois. | Gerry Allard, a Trotskyite, plays into the hands of Homer by making | because of} Suclr a policy will! miners and workers in the State of Illinois must reject this cap- Decatur; ‘Home Burned by KKK NEW YORK.—Appeal for concreie ssion of solidarity by the white | all workers and their solidarity sent to) for the I. L, D. in the Imperial Valley | SPEECHES AT MOONEY MEET _ SHOW UNITED FRONT FIGHT (The following are excerpts from speeches made at the United Front onstration in the af the Communi g of the Scot arid the fi g of Tom Mooney, j as we released them from the elec! chair and from the hang ied through working | cla under the lea of the | Communist Party of the United States. We have found during the entire rs velopment of the strugg! ind for th: se of Mooney release of the a other organizations in the work ceclaiyely ¢ and leader ‘Tom Mooney for his relea He is taking those steps that to mobilize the entire work- Mooney in issuing the the “Chicago Congress that will open} next Sunday, called this conferer nce | on such a is that it provided he] ibility for the working c together in one united Lae struggle for the freedom of Mooney, for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and for the | own struggle agai jare being ma: as _repres capitalist ci st the attacks that} tive of the Ss. American together many sections of the work- ing class movement, Here in this hall tonight, ganizations. Here on ine platform we have speakers viewpoints. We | ig | We have Socialists, we have liberals urrender of the rights And in the audience we know that here are many members of the So- cialist Party. But, comrades, we have to state that the Socialist Party hi not yet seen fit to join in thi gle for the release of Mogney, in the oro boy: the every | class that is today being constantly | | Presced down by the onslaught of} American capita The Socialist Party Executive has seen fit to reject the united front | offer made by the Communist Party. The Socialist Party Executive has also seen fit to reject the united front offer made by ‘Tom Mooney and by th Ts bod Tom Mooney thru- And, comra ve to state umaiite before "this hering here tonight that the So- | pressing issues. |Party was passed out to the 63 dele | Bates of the Socialist Party Con- |vention. Comrade Sandberg, Kil rick and Verne were | make the appeal of the Communist Party. The entire seven old Die- Hards of the Socialist Party took the floor to speak against the com- jmittee being given the floor. How- ever a dozen rank-and-file delegates spoke in favor. By a close vote, the! idelegation was given the floor for! |five minutes, |. Comrade Sandberg was not called | to time however' and took twenty; minutes to read the call and make when, in stressing the desire of unity of the workers, he mentioned that | at a membership meeting the Young Peoples Socialist League had voted unanimously for united front action with the Young Communist League. Later a committee from the Cleve- land United Front Tom Mooney Conference approached the conyen- tion urging the Socialist Party to send a delegate to the conference. Of the 107 organizations represented at the Mooney conference with 191 delegates, conspicuously absent. In order to prevent the conven- tion sending a delegate to the Tom Mooney conference, Senior, National Secretary of the S. P., took the floor. He said the resolution passed by the National Executive Committee of the! are ing on of their} ‘oday by Roosevelt | The Mooney Congress is bringing} we have workers of all or-| rug- | uggle for the freedom of the Scot- | nor in the struggle for) needs of the working | cialiss Party Executive Committecing of the A call for the united front issued by District delesated to) 0° the appeal, There was soine applause | the Socialist Party was| To om Mooney ne | must assume the responsibility before the American working class for this | deliberate and conscious policy of, | splitting the American working cides in this struggle. (applause). front of the a united is Comrades, working clas front of the w j established. It will through the bringing the workers that are on the bi of a cl the release of Mooney sues. It will unite all of memb: of the S: And we zoe the ist Party and of the Sociali: 11 those organiz: st Party shad are re: as laid down by leaders, Ma : ' a merger of the two gree 4 actions before the Ame | tod: the defense of Tom Mooney and the defense of the nine Scotis- boro boys. And thes of the: [avs the N mn people a whol t only is it si ie ag is the begin of “the liberat San FE rancisco Mbriey Demonstration Passing ' Thru Chinatown of the Communist ®- "|S. P. deeming it al or state organizations take these united fri should now be inter hibit.’ He then launched into a me of misrepresentation and_ in: such as Tom Mooney had been ex- |pelled from the S. P. for advocating | the very thing he was later convicted | on—dynamiting. (This betrayal of} tof Mooney wes fuly exposed in the | | Daily Worker of April 28—Editor).| + He said he had received a confi-| | dential letter from ‘Tom Mooney. He {did not produce it but made no| scruples about betraying its supposed contents. Mooney had written that the Socialist Party should not take part in the Chicago conference unless it was abject enough to abide by the ceceision of the Communist faction. ‘The Mooney conference, he said, was merely a racket to raise money to pay Communist functionaries. When the delegates to the S. P. reported back to the Cleveland Tem their visit, a motion was passed de- manding an apology from Senior,| who is National Secretary and a ret- raction by the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. jis freed. | Communist | them also the Socialist Party. |to Me” column in the World-Tele- | am, Broun was a member of the So- list Pa for about two years and he Negro masses with proletarian ruggles of can Wo} S as a whole,| d this merger of these two revolu-| y s is necessary for the| carrying on of a revolu-| cessful | tionary st st Tuggle in. this le ee ; A. J. MUSTE, The best thing about Tom Mooney is that he has refused | to buy his freedom from the ruling| Precisely because of tt to us to see to it that Tom Mooney The only way Tom Mooney | and the Scottsboro boys can be freed | | is a working class that is not divided. | We submitted our proposals to the| Party. We submitted| The} y immediately agreed Up to the present , the executive of the Socialist | has not. yet agreed to ne Communist (boos) and it looks there- fore as though in spite of all the| efforts that have been made there) | will not be this May Day one single} united front May Day demonstration. | Well, if it doesn’t come this May bro da it will come the next May Day. (ap-| use). And we must continue to| se those reactionary officials of | the S. P. who stand in the way and! we must conti to hold out the! hand of comradship to those branches end members of the 8. P. who want the united front (appleuse). CLAYTON POWELL: Negro (Min- | ister of Abyssinian Church in Har-| lem), ‘The world canot-better itself oa it realizes that we are of one com-| mon blood and common strain and} common desire, working towards a | common cause of freeing of mankind wherever over. The churches . . I must tonight | admit that they all have failed. No| an we fight as a race by our-| We must unite. rhs of any other meeting w York City tonight, this ne most important meeting being they may be the vein The churches are trying to save! ouls but they pave failed to save | these prisone! HEYWOOD BROUN: I am not au-| thorized to speak for the Socialist ty. Iam not here tonight to de- nd the Socialist Party, but I may the! , Hathaws | 10,000 Negro ay frankly that I think the Socialist | crowded Bronx Coliseum rty made a fatal mistake in fail-|night and raised a thunderous de- The Mooney F Mother Mooney on left with Moon: Demonstrate On May Day Fc or Freedom of Mooney, Scottsboro Boys cts in Court brother on right, Big Unite d Front N. Y. Meet Demands Mooney Liberation 9,000 in Coliseum Soave Sonkadtet Party Police Charge Against Mooney Broun, Re NEW YORK.—Between and white Powel 9,000 wo! Thursda’ ing to authorize this meeting (cheers,|mand for the freedom of Thomas pape |Mooney, the Scotsboro boys and all say the Socialist Party made a/class war prisoners at a united front fat mis! nat the w ugh, all of those is a rotten world | i that we must have another one.” | [RETRACTION FROM S. P. DEMANDED. HEYWOOD BROUN ‘BY CLEVELAND MOONEY CONFERENCE CLEVELAND, 0., April 22 ( 22 (By Mail) —The - Socialist Party of Ohio ind { its convention keld im Cleveland, April 21, evaded taking united front action with the Communist Party on May Ist, Tom Mooney and other | UITS THES. P.. | Scottsboro boys a bribed Jail in Birmingham, Ala., jread NEW YORK. — _ — Heywood Broun, mployed by the Scripps-Howard yndicate, today announced his re- enation from the Socialist Party in column published in his “It Seems has been a condidate for Congress } en that party ticket. . because it seems to me} meeting called by the New York Free d front in the Mooney|Tom Mooney case and in the Scottsboro case ought | Fr and is broad | the who | man, Congre mana s Committee ing editor of Palmer, Cheer Delegates The 8 delegat ed from trade clubs, eulix and political to the, Mooney Con- which opens in Chicago on Sunday, were wildly cheered by the | audience. A call for support of the Scottsboro |march to Washington brought a sect es tech Pract every speaker look for-| at ward to May 1 as the greatest in New York's history and criticized the jaction of the Exccutive of the So- cialist Party for its splitting tactics and cooperation with the police. Great enthusiasm punctuated the br led the an ly re- onment class-war prison United Front Plea of of Party Patter of the Henr on, Ward of the Union nary and director of Civil Liberties Union. Cons: absent was the Socialist Party ex for the unofficial presence of He; wood Broun, columnist and socialis News of the attack upon the in the Jefferson was from the Daily Worker to the audience by William L. Patterson national secretary of the Interna- 'WILLIF BROWN IS ‘VEN LIFE TERM ' Betrays ches! awyei In resigning, Broun stated that “a| ‘Boe in Philac Jelphia othfulness, almost a timidity, has cen the inheritance of the Social- ist Party. It has remained out of movements which {it should have en- tered, largely to guard a paste jewel called prestige.” Broun declared that he had been | criticized by the socialist officialdom | for speaking at united front Scotts- boro meetings, In the very fact of resigning from the Socialist Party, however, Broun | revealed that he is very much un- der the ideological influence of the/torney rose in court w! leadership of that organization by | tered a plea of guilty, ‘nearing at the Communist Party— | was supported in his plea by J | characterizing its fight for the de- mands of the veterans as “every kind | of pension graft” and the struggle for as “the surest possible way to per- petuate race differences.” The direction In which Broun seems to be going is indicated in his state- ment that he is “thinking very seri- | | Mooney conference the results of! Self-Determination for the Black Belt | continue to develop PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April. 28. — Betrayed by his lawyer, N. C. Nix, who pleaded him guilty despite proofs of his innocence and a previous re- versal of a death sentence against him, Willie Brown, Negro boy framed on charge of muzdering @ seven-year old white girl, was sentenced to life imprisonment here today. Although the International Labor Defense had been as by Willie Brown's mother to help in the d fense, and David Levinson, I.L.D. at- en Nix e to protest, Nix Robert E. Lambertson. The LL.D. announced tha ss protest to {force the release of Willie Brown |and would expose the betrayal of Nix nationally, at special mass- | Meetings called to support the Scotis- |boro defense and march to Wash- The Mooney conference condemned | ously of starting a new political par- the refusal of the Socialist Party of} ty.. Ohio to send a delegate to the Ioca!| just one member, and T doubt that Tom Mooney conference. i) there will ever be any more.” .In the beginning there will be as ington, raising the Willie Brown ca a local Scottsboro which must be combated. Nix’s move was prompted by po- ‘ederated Press, acted as chair-|k y, W. L. Patterson, Muste, Heywood 1 Among Speakers tional Labor Defense, who urged the workers, upon leaving the Coliseum, send wires either individually or for their organizations to Gov. B. M. Mil- ler of Alabama, holding him res ponsible for the safety of the Negro boys. Scattered through the hall were groups of brie from many or- ions stinguished by their bs Ss, =e as they came marching into the hall were greeted with thun- | derous cheers and applatse‘The Pros- pect Workers Club marched in with a band that from time to time during e meeting ngs. played revolutionary Varied Program Interspersed with the speeches was music by the Workers International Relief Band and singing by the Uk- rainian Mass Chorus, with the entire udience joining in many songs. A member of the Young Pioneers, a girl of nine, stirred the workers with a simple child's song of Tom Mooney to the tune of Merrily We Roll Along,” which ended with: United We Will Break the Wall, Break the Wall United We Will Break the Wall, Break the Wall And Free our Comrade Tom | Negro and white working-class ty was colorfully portrayed by a Black and White”. onel Julian, Negro aviator, com- r of the Abyssianian air force, ane with a banner “Free the ‘0 Boys” and “On to Wash- has been seen soaring above nd picturesque guest. When id, “We are gathered here to- ght comrades to plan the biggest m on May Day and we wi 1 not only be on the streets but be up on the clouds né@ protecting you with ¢ audience sent up a er. the auditorium filled as the speakers pilloried who are trying to split the he s with a “boo” those 'Y | United Front particularly the leaders of the Socialist Party. Especially strong indignation was ei -|when Clarence Hathaway told af | Clarence Senior's terming of Tom Mooney as a “dynamiter.” (Excerpts from’ speeches made mt the meeting will be found elsewhere on thi page.) HIT POSTPONING OF MOONEY TRIAL Labor Defense Calls for Great Mass Protest. NEW YORK. — Immediate mass protest . throughout the country inst the decision of Judge Louts H. Ward of the San Francisco Su- perior Court to postpone the Mooney trial is called for by William L. Pate terson, of the International Labor active in the Mooney de- Defense, n declared that the “post- is only the most dozen moves already made Chamber of Commerce and through their tools, the secuting attorneys and the judge, _ to prevent the exposure of the frames " 1 vhich sent Mooney to prison for “Judge Ward has attempted we! }eontert the trial into a star ¢! ber hearing, with all workers, teB- \umony, files, and exhibits sl how and why he was framed, litical motives of whitewashing the discredited police department of Phil- ‘adelphia which engineered Wiltte Brown's frame-up, > i —