The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1933, Page 3

ah ear ALICE BURKE IS ILL IN| NEWS BRIEFS BIRMINGHAM JAIL; WAS| ACTIVE AMONG JOBLESS Wretched Food, Unsanitary Conditions in Prison Endangers Militant’s Life | NEW YORK.—“My pulse stops beating for a couple of seconds and re- vives again. There's a nurse here and she says that the pulse of dying people ts like this”, In these words, written in a letter from her Birming- ham jail cell to a friend here who received it yesterday, Alice Burke dis- closed she is so gravely iM that her life is in danger. Wretched food and the unsanitary conditions of Birmingham prison s —— @have brought this leader of the un-| SUNS. Both of them were beer run- On the Defense Front Scottsboro Group in Washington -Demands Freedom for Mooney WASHINGTON.—Negro and white employed in Birmingham to death’s| door. | | LL.D. Wires Demands The International Labor Defense| | today telegraphed the warden of the} | jail demanding she be placed in a} men of Asbury Park had signed ap-| says: |hospital under the care of her own | Physician. | Alice Burke, with Wirt Taylor was jarrested as a result of a demonstra~ | tion by the unemployed demanding | relief from the city authorities, | “Writing this in bed,” she wrote. “T've been feeling quite bad since last BAY STATE VOTES REPEAL BOSTON, June 14—Massachu- setts voted for repeal of the prohi- bition amendment by more than four to one yesterday. It was the eleventh consecutive state to ap- prove the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. The prohibitionists have not yet carried one state. In the rural districts, hitherto dry, the prohibitionists were badly beaten. REVOKE DEAD MEN’S GUN PERMITS FREEHOLD, N. J., June 14— County Judge Harry Traux yester- day revoked the licenses of Ma: Greenberg and Max Hassel to carry ners and gangsters, slain in Bliza- beth on April 12, He also revoked the permit of Waxey Gordon, pro- fessional thug who became wealthy as a bootlegger who, was supported by the police. Prominent business Plications for permits for the gang- stefs to carry guns, AGED WORKER KILLED BROOKLYN, N. Y., June | John Anderson, 69 yeats old, of 28) Ashland Place, was ‘killed yesterday when he fell from a ladder on which |he was standing to erect a sign in Baldwin By SENDER GARLIN 'AKING exception to the article, “All Quiet! Says the Civil Liber- ties Union,” which appeared in the |Daily Worker on May 31, Roger | Baldwin, the secretary of the or- |ganjzation, has sent us a letter | which is, published in full in an ad- Joining column. Baldwin's letter. and his re-itera- tion and emphasis of the general position of the Civil Liberties Union on the persecution of militants is a { pamoite vindication of the article in the “Daily.” In his letter of criticism Baidwin ‘The one encouraging point of our summary of the last year in the field | of civil liberty was that the attitude | 14__| of federal and state governments has ‘Jg| markedly improved, as shown by the | actual record of cases and of bills in Congress and state legislatures.” This |} is a re-wording of the original A.C. L.U. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK: THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933 Confirms Daily Worker Analy | of A.C.L.U. Report in “Letter of Protest” Ignoring Deportations, More Use of Troops, Says Federal, State Terror Has Lessened New York To the Editor of the Daily Worker | Sir:—The criticism of a report by the American Civil Li des Union, voiced by Sender Garlin in the Daily Worker of May 31. would have been | fairer if Mr. Garlin had used the material of our news release of May 14 | in its entirety instead of lifting particular phrases used by the New Re- | public in an editorial. As a journalist with pretensions to accuracy, he | should know the Unio: attitude well enough by this time not to draw conclusions f: isol d statements, The one encouraging point of our sum: ‘y of the last yi field of civil liberty was that the attitude of federal and siate gov has marked proved, as wn by the actual record of ca, bills in Congress and state legislatures. We specifically stated attitude of lccal authorities—police, sheriffs, prosecutors—had not im- proved, and that the chief attacks upon the rights of propaganda-came from them. We also stated that the most conspicuous cases before the country—Mooney, Scottsboro, Herndon, the Kentucky miners, the Cen- | tralia Lw.¥ riginated before the year which we were re that the Sis Funeral of striking coal miner killed by militia in Southern Dlinots, workers at the Free Tom Mooney|Sunday (the letter was dated June| press Yelease. These and other | Mr. Garlin perverts these statements of unassailable fact into a mess meeting Sunday night at John|11), and took some aspirin and other | ‘TOMt of 646 Myrtle Avenue. Wesley AM2#Z. Church adopted| tablets, but they didn’t seem to do |me any good. | THREATEN MILITARY REVOLT statements, incidentally, were quoted ing us with the optimistic illusion that e hing is quiet and all is from the Civil Liberties Union re- ers held in Allegheny County jail The local government of the Pa- by immigration authorities were cific Gas and Electric Co. which That’s plain nonsense, as he or anyone who follows our work should dered to be deported immediately put Mooney and Billings in jail. resoliti . 5 ee lease, and not taken second-hand y ordere lepor' y 5 resolutions demanding the immedi-| Nea ; SOLONIKA, Greece, June 14.— & 2 ic editorial, as { Know by the daily and undiminished struggles in which we are engaged | when Judge Schoonmaker, who The local government of Henry inte, SRT Yesterday, I felt very ill, so had) phe jocal paper “Makedonia” re-| from the New Republic editorial, as | eB bs | : \ ate release of Mooney and Warren the doctor. He told me that my pulse | eta ehat ante tonteae aad regu-| Baldwin asseris, in and out of the courts. There is no let-up in the work done in co- | also presided at the C. B. Thomas | Ford which murdered four unem- K. Billings, both of whom are serv-| beats only 40 times a minute and nor- ee officers have been trying to start| i Bw operation with the International Labor Defense and other defense bodies, | hearings, refu-ed to issue writs of | ployed demonstrators at Dearborn, ing life sentence in San Quentin pri-| mally its beat is from 68 to 80. Also son on framed-up charges and voted to send it to Governor James Rolph, Jr. Secretary of the International Labor Defense, cam from New York to | my temperature is below normal. | | “This seems strange as you know! | that I’ve always been normal. I took| worse this morning. | Very I | $ such as doing away with parliamen- Frank Specior, assistant national |S°™* medicine yesterday but feel even! tarism, fighting against economic | @ military revolt the past few days.| The officers plan a “putsch” to be| carried out under fascist slogans ALDWIN underlines “federal and state governments” in order to draw a distinction between their at- titude and the attitude of local au- thorities. disaster tide of Communism. and stemming the rising| Even ignoring, for the moment, this | suppression, but its sources and character. We need not go into the many specific errors due apparently to Mr, Garlin's use of the New Republic editorial rather than our press release, They are too numerous to cite. | | nor independently, What we were talking about was not the amount of | Very truly yours, habeas corpus for them. } The local government of Tam- “Those includede in the orders are | Joseph Shaffer, Charles Vuich, | James Evans and Joseph Renalo- vieh. “Evans has a wife and an infant | baby who are in direst destitution. many which murdered Steve Ka- tovis in the Bronx in 1930. And so on through the whole country! The local governments, their courts, sheriffs, police and the whole appara of terrorization and sup- 3 : | hairsplitting distinction, let us ex- | He was arrested in Uniontown, Pa., ssion are—broadly speaking—tied pddress the meetiig, He. told: | Mere are my symptoms: Very weak] <n e ie cuipeppin UAP- | amine how tenable is the position of 4 bg aetonrarnalend ) | last December while ina hall mak- |to the national government by @ a Nand story ‘of Mooney's MWe, in) all over, and erage Bad Seadachs, STALICU PANIES the american Civil Liberties Union. ‘4 ‘american Civil Liberties Union) / ing arrangements to feed the Na- | thousand threads. The local banks, jail having serve months in San} a a up in le red} | as ‘ i | tional Hunger Marchers expected | mills and shops are interwoven Quentin as one of the Imperial Val-|pimples—and constant need to sneeze.| ATHENS, Greece, June 14—The| “The attitude of the state govern- y “ 94 ley case prisoners. George B. Murphy, chairman of the Washington Scottsboro Action Committee wes chairman. The meet- ing also voted adopticn of a reso- lution proposed by Sophie Ros of ‘the local ILD, demand- release of the three Negroes ned to death in the Logan My pulse stops beating for a couple of | Seconds and revives again. There's a| |nurse here and she says that the) pulse of dying people is like this.” Damp and Dark | Many confined in the prison have} disclosed the terrible conditions ex-| isting there. There is nothing to read,! the dampness of the concrete floored | cells is almost unbearable, sunlight Goes not penetrate the gloomy cells. reformist trade union federation of| ments has improved,” says the A.C. Athens has decided to vote for those|L.U. How then explain the calling capitalist candidates in the elections | out of the National Guard against | | of July 2 who promise to give them) the farmers in Iowa and Wisconsin, | \against the textile strikers in New | Hampshire, granite strikers in Ver- JAPANESE FIRE ON SOVIET | mont, coal miners in Illinois, in ad- PEASANTS dition to the use of state troopers MOSCOW, June 14—Reporis from against the dairy farmers of New Chabarovski state that a group of| York state recently. peasants working in their fields near jobs in the various municipal offices. that “the attitude of federal and , trict, including June Croll, Ameri- state governments has markedly can-born organizer of the National improved”? Textile Workers Union are being| | In his letter to the Daily Worker | held for deportation. Baldwin says: “We specifically stat-| Twelve workers, a number of them ed that the attitude of the local au- | leaders of the National Miners Un- | thorities—police, sheriffs, prosecutors | ion, are facing deportation. |—had not improved, and that the In Pittsburgh, C. B. (Jack) Th jchief attacks upon the rights of | as has just been convicted and faces to pass through that town the next | day. “Like the others, he was seized | because of his activities for the workers. He is one of the leaders of the National Miners Union.” Other deportation cases are re- ported daily from numerous cities | throughout the U. S., including De- troit, Cleveland, Chicago, San Fran- cisco, etc. the big financial interests which rule the nation through their politica) arties * As a liberal with pretensions to radicalism, Mr. Baldwin should know these elementary facts. Riled by New Republic The director of the American Ctvil Liberties Union is as much irked by the New Republic editorial as by the Daily Worker article—and for dif- = : i vk “ ” Propaganda came from them.” Again, | sia a 20- year feder-| “Ait this has occurred since Roose- | ferent reasons. What annoys Mr. Scot! >, The food is revolting, and prisoners| troysend” yards feeon whe ait” | cigar ahaha Pakage stdivaapitlesecr Seerningiabiodes idl al prison term, to] vel took office, Does this show | Baldwin apparently, 1s that the New | Scottsboro Protest " are allowed no exercise. | thousand yards from the Soviet-| go brutal, in fact, were the at-|the amount of suppression, but its be followed bY) that “the altitude of federal and | Republic in drawite tte conctuslons l Meet in Pittsburgh The ILD. telegram signed by Wil- | RibaEL Wy Tipabass OME wat poten | a the Vermont granite strik-| sources and character.” | deportation. state governments has markedly (from the glowing report of the A.C. ete ake jliam ©. Patterson, national secretary | cnine guns, One peasant was set-|°o 27. porte, that rank-and-file) Corsiniy Mr, Baldwin will not | At the trial) improved"? \L.u., naively expressed its full po- PITTSBURGH, PaX-Ruby Bates, "in resnization, follows: iously wounded and his horse was| sdonted a vesciulion der nissan | say that local officials have the | Thomas, who! We do not at this time desire to|jitical meaning, namely, = complete Mrs. Patterson’ and: Richard B.|_,A#0e Burke reported very ill. Re-| xined. For several hours the woun.| “ome? ® resolution denouncing the | Sttnority to call out the national was first arrested! + 5eat the many cases cited in the | whitewash and clean bill of health Moore will spek at asScotishoro mass |@Uest he immediate removal to hos-| dea ‘man could not be removed bes| “Cts Of the militia. | guard and declare martial law. | in on, cuiction | original article, but only to empha- | for the Roosevelt government. ing at the BethelChurch, Wy aaa for care under own physician.| cause the Japanese repeatedly fired| 1" Hllinois, where the bosses boast | a anc | Eades charged) size some of the most striking ex- | SEL Hw. d Elm Steet, on Friday,| ite, Responsibity, roca cree, Net| when others approached him. eons wursralminded” | governor | Wow as to attitude of the federal] § Talssly to wenots | Smples of persecution by both state |“PHERE is no let-up,” writes Mr. othe ministration.” ? Sine ee [RIEL pibleing altar snvene eRe. government whose attitude the cai the constitution | #24 federal governments. | 4 Baldwin, “in the work done in The meeting has been arranged by | = SPREAD FASCISM IN RUMANIA) 222ins' on ae x i i e soul om A. C. L. U. feels has shown such Cc. B. THOMAS of the United) bd bd ° | co-operation with the International the local International Labor De-| BUCHAREST, June 14—Fascist|@rm coal fields. In Illinois, too, the | es f » With the sa@pport of the \Seottsboro Mooney activity, supported by the govern-| legislature has appointed a commit- “marked improvement.” f ., | States. Inasmuch as he was a mem- | The deportation drive against mil- | tee to investigate “Red” activities for | HAT must not be lost sight of, in- | Labor Defense and other defense | ber of the Young Workers (now the | cidentally, is Mr. Baldwin’s ac- | bodies, nor independently.” Scottsboro Action Committee, * iment is increasing every day. In | itant workers has not only not| Young Communist) League at the|ceptance of the distinction between| We are confident that the Inter- phe scitiwme Meet Called in Iowa | Czraovitc, sibix and Brasoy “storm| tbe purpose of enacting Fepressive | ssckened since the advent of the|time he applied for his navuralization | the state and federal governments on |national Labor Defense welcomes MOONEY PICNIC IN\CLEVELAND.| detachments” have been organized | !4¥s. | SIOUX CITY, Iowa—A Provisional CLEVELAND. O—The Cleveland) committee has issued a call for a Tom Mooney Action Committee has Guneed a mass picnic on Mooney’s behalf on Sept. 4, Labor Day, to be followed on Sept. 17 with a united nt conference to which all organ- zations working for Mooney's release Will be invited. |Conference for the release of Tom | Mooney and the Scottsboro boys, on |June 17 and 18, at'Tom Mooney head- | quarters, 623 Fourth Si. Delegates from 11 trade unions and |Seven fraternal organizations are on the Provisional Committee, | with’ pictures of Hitler. | Sovernment steals from its victims. which are terrorizing the farm pop- In Brasov the fascist shop- keepers are decorating their win- dows with swastika emblems and A special bureau of the Hitlerites has been or- ganized and is financed from Ber- lin with money the Hitler bandit ulation. tional” pensed with, civil courts were sus- | pended, courts martial were estab- | lished to try jailed farmers, and cer- tain areas were put under martial law. This has occurred since Roose- velt took office. Does this show | In Towa the customary “constitu- | forms were ruthlessly dis- | Roosevelt government. but hes ac-|papers, the authorities declare that he| tually heightened. Sixteen marine} must necesarily have perjured him- workers who resisted eviction from) self when he swore to support the! a Y¥. M. C. A. are now in Ellis! constitution. Island facing deportation. At least E itical: Repeater to. hai _ And as we are writing, the follow- | Germany, Jugoslavia and other fas-|19& item comes to us from Pitts- | cist countries. paren Fight workers in the Boston dis-| “PITTSBURGH, Pa.—four work- © such co-operation and united front actions. If such struggles are to be the one hand and the local authori- | ties on the other. Let us see: The local government (John D. Rockefeller) which murdered the | Ludiow, Col. miners and their fam- ies, The local government (in Brain- | tree, Mass.) which murdered Sac- | co and Vanzetti in the electric | chair, | really effective, however, they must be carried on with the full recogni- tion that the federal, state as well as local governments are increasing their attacks against the working class of this country. Any other attitude only creates a false optimism which leads to inaction and defeat. JUNE 178 EVENING | 15,000 ARE EXPECTED TO BE AT OPENING OF THE CONVENTION A PAGEANT weiss itis FOUR SEPARATE LANGUAGE CHORUSES WILL SING SEPARATELY AND IN ONE UNITED CHORUS Opening of the Convention of the Speakers: JACK STACHEL . J. FEHER INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER SATURDA CHICAGO, ILL. EARL BROWDER BEN GOLD R. SALTZMAN J. SCHIFFEL WM. WEINER, Chairman MAX BEDACHT D. KASUSTCHICK . Admission 20 Cerits | t i COLISEUM Wabash Ave. and 15th St. M. OLGIN