The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1933, Page 1

Page views left: 0

You have reached the hourly page view limit. Unlock higher limit to our entire archive!

Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.

Text content (automatically generated)

| } | | < * Give a Fellow-Worker Your Copy of the ‘Daily’ When You Are Thru With it. Discuss the News With Him! Central See on Page 3 Communist Party Central Committee Statement on the Fight for Social Insurance, orker nist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) Congress Voted $238,000,000 for War Ships, But Refused Jobless Relief; Demand a Special Session to Enact Unemployment Insurance Dail Orgaryet Pravda’s WEATHER—Today possibly westerly winds. See Page 5 for Special Articles on National Recovery Act; See on Page 6 Cable on Moscow Editorial on World Economic Conference showers; slightly wa>mer; Entered as sccomd-cines matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 187%, Vol. X, No. 145 = NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Thomas Joins Roosevelt in Fooling the Workers In the socialist New Leader of Saturday, June 10th, Norman Thomas, 4m praise of Roosevelt's “Industrial Recovery” Bill, tells his readers: “Nevertheless the labor clauses in the bill as introduced into Congress rightly used will give the workers an enormously power- ful weapon for progress toward genuine socialism.” ‘Thus, according to Thomas, the Wall Street government, under the leadership of Roosevelt, has adopted as the very keystone of its legis- lative program, a bill that is a weapon for labor. The very clauses in the béll, the so-called labor clauses, are precisely that part of the act that deprives labor of all gains made during decades of struggle. It guarantees to the employers that the federal government will back them up with all its power in any attempt to stamp out the closed union shop. That is plainly stated in Section 7, part of which reads: “No employee and no one seeking employment shall be required fs 2 condition of employment to join any organization or to re- frain from joining a labor organization of his own choosing.” a, Every worker who has participated in strikes to enforce recognition of the right of the union to decree that no one shall work in an orga- \ nized shop who is nos a member of the union will instantly realize what that clause means. It means that the full power of the government will be thrown in the balance to*compel him to work with scabs or rats who, because of treachery or strike-breaking, may have been excluded from the union. . It means, in the last analysis, the destruction of the unions in the factory. A further provision not merely approves class collaboration, but de- crees that labor shall not attempt to act independently but must act in collaboration with the management. That is plainly set forth in section 1 of the bill which Thomas says is a powerful weapon for progress toward genuine socialism. Stich a clause as this one could well be incorporated in any regulations of a fascist state: “To promote the organization of industry for the purpose of cooperative actiof among trade groups, to induce and maintain united action of labor and management under adequate government sanctions and supervision.” Such language is unmistakeable. It doesn’t say it will only en- courage such class agilaboration. It says it will INDUCE and MAINTAIN it, And it will do s® under government sanctions and SUPERVISION. For labor that means that any attempt of the workers to act INDE- PENDENTLY of the management, that is to strike AGAINST the manage- ment is a violation of federal law. Hence the government can step in and proceed against workers with its army, its police, its jailers and its courts. In brief, it means the abolition of the union shop, the outlawing of strikes, the enforcement of compulsory arbitration, and gives the Presi- dent of the United States, the chairman of the executive committee of the capitalist press, the undisputed power to dictate wages, hours and conditions of labor. But labor cannot and will not accept this slave code. As soon as the real nature of the hill is plain to the toiling masses, this country will be swept with a wave of strike struggles. That the capitalists and their agents realize. For that reason, the Greens, the Wolls, the MacMahons, the McGradys and the Thomases are all acting in concert to try to demoralize and defeat the workers in an effort to help the capitalist class put over the infamous “new deal.” Readers of the Daily Worker have the task of energetically combatting false theories such as those put forward by Thomas. We have the task of organizing the masses against this new law, and for the maintenance and improvement of the workers’ conditions. Warships Instead of Bread The building of “public works” has begun. Roosevelt has given the ‘word. What are these benevolent public works? Bombing planes, cannon, destroyers, battleships and submarines! ‘Thirty-two°modern and fully equipped war vessels, in the next three years, at an expenditure of $238,000,000! Such is the very first act of the Roosevelt Public Works Program. Preparations for WAR! This is the reality behind the Public Works Program which was supposed to feed the 17 million hungry, unemployed workers in this country. This is the reality behind the Roosevelt Public ‘Works Program which was to deal a death blow to the capitalist crisis. ‘The hypocritical philanthropy of the Roosevelt Public Works Pro- gram is dropped. And it reveals the biggest war program since the last. .imperialist world slaughter! ‘What has become of Roosevelt’s grandiose election promises of Un- employment Insurance? Roosevelt has trampled on these promises. It is a war construction program, which Roosevelt gives the starving workers instead. Rear’ Admiral Emory Long voices the gratitude of the navy imper- falist war clique when he says, “This is the first time since the World War that we have bad a definite navy policy. We now know what to expect.” ‘The imperialist clique in the navy is overjoyed. They recognize in Roosevelt an imperialist war maker after their own heart. Cynically, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy proclaims the construc- tion of bombing planes and destroyers as a blessing to the 17 million jobless American workers. “Thousands will be hired”, he says. How many thousand? Fifty thousand at the most, by their own admission! And what will be the wage scale on this grim Public Works Pro- gram? Roosevelt's navy masters are silent. But Roosevelt has already given them the lead. Roosevelt has proclaimed the dollar-a-day wage in the military Reforestration Camps. And the navy war-mongers will | faction, financed by New York"bank- U.S. ENVOY INTER VENES AT HAVANA Mediation by Welles, New U.S. Ambassador; HAVANA, June 16.—The interven- tion of United States imperialism in the affairs of its Cuban semi-colony took shape yesterday as a plan for the new American Ambassador, Sum- ner Welles, to mediate between the brutal Machado dictatorship and its bourgeois opposition, the Menocal! and Gomez “outs.” President Ma- chado’s accepance of such’ mediation was followed by the acceptance of the A.B.C., the secret anti-Machado terrorist organization which repre- sents the interests of former Presi- dent Menocal and ‘other sugar mag- nates. The last four years’ bloody struggle for dominance between the Machado ers and maintaining its power by a reign of terror, and the bourgeois’ opposition, greedy for the rich plums of office, has finally become a “scan- dal” which Washington can no longer ignore. Now, when the resulting un- rest and strife are beginning to hit the pocketbooks of the American im- perialists, the mask of non-interven- tion is cast aside and intervention is openly resorted to. Welles, Latin-American Agent of U. S. Imperialism Welles, the principal agent in this» intervention, is one of the State De- partment’s experts on Latin-Amer- ican affairs. He wrote the new con- stitution for the Dominican Republic which legalized the U. S. Marines’! occupation of that country, and is expected to rewrite the Cuban con- stitution and election laws within the next few months, to provide for a vice-president to whom the butcher Machado will turn over his power, pending an election. Whether U. S. Marines will supervise the election, as in Nicaragua, has not been an- nounced yet. Congress Ends, As It Began, With Attacks On Living Standards Roosevelt's Slash of Veterans’ Pay Upheld, After Three Days’ Sham Battle Foreed Labor, Huge Navy, Swindle of Small Depositors Part of WASHINGTON, June 16.—The extraordinary session of the seventy- third congress came to an end last night. oclock and the house eleven minutes later. attacks against the standards of life of the toiling masses. To the very last | the monstrous crime of robbing the war veterans of their pensions and compensation haunted the political shysters in the United States Senate. For three days the sham fight over whether or not $38,000,000 should be restored to the war veterans held up journment. Last night by a vote of 45 to 36 the Senate approved the Roosevelt slash against the veterans in its entirety. Immediately it was rushed to the house and passed. Continuous Attack on Toilers Never in the history of the coun- try, with the possible exception of war-time legislation, has there been rushed through so many violent assaults upon all oppressed sections of the population. ‘The first act of the Roosevelt ad- ministration in putting into effect its “new deal” was to declare the bank holiday, thereby wiping out some seven billions of dollars of depositors’ money, The customary appropriations were made for the armed forces, while the government carried through savage wage cuts against federal employees. Hundreds of million were given vo the big bankers and industrialists, while every demand of the starving millions for federal relief and un- employment insurance was treated with scorn. The Forced Labor Conspiracy The next fruits of the “new deal” soon ripened into the “reforestation” scheme, which enabled the govern- ment to herd 250,000 unemployed young workers into forced labor camps, under military control, in Secret City Report Will Propose Sales Tax and Wage Cuts and Relief Cuts Berry Attempts to Protect Bankers by Asking People to Buy New City Bonds Which Will Guarantee Loans RE ee convict garb at less than one dollar NEW YORK.—The latest maneuvers of the city government in the prep- aration of an elaborate campaign to levy new tax burdens and salary cuts upon the masses was to be presented today to the Board of Estimate in a secret report prepared by a special tax committee consisting of high city officials and Tammany leaders, It is reported that among the suggestions certainly profit by this guidance. A military construction program at coolie wages—this is the muni- ficent gift of Roosevelt to the suffering American masses. The workers demand that the three billion dollars allotted for a Pub- lc Works Program be spent in the building of homes for workers, clear- ing the slums, building of new schools and hospitals. ‘The workers demand union wages on all Public Works construction. . The workers demand Federal Unemployment Insurance to be paid by the government and employers. ‘ aH Roosevelt's military public works program will not lessen by one jot the sufferings of the 17,000,000 unemployed workers. It will not provide work. It will not provide the starving workers and their families with adequate food and shelter. It is preparing them for slaughter in the next imperialist war!. Social Insurance Campaign ‘The statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on developing a mass campaign in the struggle for soclal insurance appears in the Daily Worker today. All of Page Three contains valuable articles . on this campaign as well as material on the benefits of full social in- »surance which exists in the Soviet Union. ‘Trade union locals, Unemployed Councils, and other unemployed podies as well as all workers organizations ¢an, well gain by a study of this material. : - ‘We urge especially every unit of the Communist Party to take up the statement for discussion at the next meeting and use it as a daily guide to action contained in the report are a city income tax, a sales tax, a stock trans- fer tax, increase in water rates and proposals for further salary cuts. The city administration has, up to now, rejected all proposals to tax stock transfers, bank and insurance surpluses, tax-exempt properties and higher incomes. Plan 8-Cent Fare. It is also reported that a confer- ence of Tammany and city officials decided two days ago upon an in- crease of subway fare to 8 cents to go into effect after the November elections. It has been stated that the city government, headed by Mayor O’Brien, has definitely pro- mised the bankers that the subway fare will be increased. This received strong confirmation from the fact that one of the two letters sent by Mayor O’Brien to the bankers has been carefully kept secret, and that the reports of an increased subway fare have not been met with any de- nials by the city administration, which in the past has vociferously proc! its intention of main- taining the 5-cent fare. The city administration has defi- nitely guaranteed the Wall Street bankers who hold $436,000,000 of loans which fall due on December 11, that the city will raise at least $30,000,000 Ff new revenue within the near fu- ure, A delegation of Wall Street bank- ers, headed by Winthrop Aldrich, Rockefeller’s leading financial agent, and Frank Polk, one of Morgan’s agents, recently renewed $200,000,000 in short-term loans which it holds. The interest rate which the city must pay is 5% per cent, at least 3 per cent higher than the prevailing rates in the money markets. This costs the people of New York City $1,000,- 000 every month in extra interest payments. Propose Bond Issue. Comptroller Berry, a leading Tam- many official, has come forward with a demagogic scheme to divert the at- tention of the city’s population from the plunderings of the city govern- ment and the bankers. He proposes that the people of New York “fight the bankers” by themselves buying “Baby Bonds,” that is, bonds of small denomination, $100 and $500. This scheme, of course, does not “fight the bankers.” It also has the advantage to them of raising the value of the bonds which they now hold since the pro- posal of the city to sell new bonds at a lower rate of interest will in- crease the value of the bankers’ bonds with a higher rate of interest. Will Cause Higher Taxes. ‘The whole scheme is doomed to failure for the simple fact that, the masses of the people are impover- ished. Thousands of small home owners are finding it impossible to pay their taxes. They cannot buy bonds, If -the city issues “Baby Bonds”, they will eventually land in the hands of the Wall Street bank- ers, who alone have control over enormous funds and credit. The final futility of the whole scheme as a solution for the financial crisis in the city’s budget lies in the fact that the interest and principal on the new bond issue will have to be paid just the same as the interest on the present bonds held by the bankers. The issuance of Baby Bonds will only add to the already intoler- able financial burden ‘on the city’s budget. They will necessitate heavier taxes in the end. More Wage Cuts. Behind all these financial maneuv- ers of the city administration lurks the definite threat of wave-cuts in the near future for salaried city em- Ployees. Realty and business inter- ests close to Tammany and the city administration are increasing their clamor for “retrenchment” in the city payrolls. And, as has been the case in the past, the “retrenchment” will be made at the expense of the lower salaries city employees, particularly the school teachers, who last year re- ceived a 6—8 per cent wage cut. The Tammany officials of the Board of Education are already insisting that the teachers will soon be faced with the choice of lower wages or loss of tenure. The way for salary cuts is being ‘speedily prepared- Legislative Record The senate adjourned at 1:12 It ended, as it began, with a day. These workers are trained by army officers and no attempt is made to conceal the fact that these victims of the “new deal’ are regarded as potential reserves for the armed forces of the government as it pre- pares for imperialist war. The “New Deal” Becomes Law After the adjournment of Con- gress and before he leaves tonight for a cruise along the Massachusetts coast—the first journey of his sum- mer vacation—Roosevelt signed a Series of bills that conclude his so- called emergency legislation program, all of which were calculated to help the rich and rob the poor. The keystone of the whole edifice is the “industrial recovery act,” which establishes a dictatorship over all industry, enables the finance cap- italists to further consolidate power into their hands by using the power) of government to wipe out competi- tors, outlaws strikes, enforces com- pulsory arbitration, dictate wages, hours and conditions of labor. Under this bill there is to be a further) extension of militarization of the young manhood of the nation under the “public works” clause, which 4 administered solely by: army” Officers. Attacks Farmers; Scorns Relief With the same cynical contempt with which the Roosevelt adminis- tration treated the demands of the starving workers, the impoverished farmers were denied any relief what- soever. Instead, there was passed the | “farm relief-inflation” bill, which, in addition to carrying the legalization of unlimited inflation which already has caused the cost of living to soar, came to the aid of the farm mort- | gage holders by placing at their dis- posal $2,000,000 for “refinancing.” Thus the government throws its forces behind the loan and mortgage- sharks who prey upon the farmers. Not one penny of this goes to any impoverished farmer. Demands of the farmers for can- cellation of their debts and exemp- tion from taxes were met with this vicious legislation against them. The same sort of rotten deal was given the impoverished small home owners, but an additional $2,000,000,- 000 was appropriated to help the mortgage sharks who prey upon them. The Glass-Steagall banking bill just passed is designed to wipe out small banks, centralize control of banking still more in the hands of Morgan & Co., and other Wall Street brigands, through establishment of a wide system of branch banking. This, combined with the emergency bank- ing act, passed early in the session, gives the President war-time control over credit, currency, gold and silver and takes the nation off the gold standard. The Muscle Shoals bill is purely a war-time measure which permits the development of that great hydro- electric and nitrate project and in connection with the great steel works at Birmingham will be the pivot for a highly concentrated unit for pro- duction of war materials. Such are some of the high-lights of the Congress just closed. .They constitute a challenge to the toiling/ masses that should be and will be met with determined action against this, the worst capitalist offensive | Judge Lowell in refusing to extradite | , white rulers in the South in openly Accuracy of D. W. Reports on Germany Praised by Seaman (By Seaman Correspondent) “I have just returned from Hamburg, Germany on the ‘City of Newport News’ of the Balti- more Mail Line. I was a seaman on this ship. We spent one week in Hamburg. While there, all the conditions I saw and everything that I could find out about the activities of the Communist Party coincide with the reports of the Daily Worker. “I wish to inform you that my experiences in Germany sustain the validity of your reports of the continued functioning of the Communist Party despite Fascist terror. Your reports of the grow- ing resentment of the masses against Fascist terror and the in- jcreasing number uniting under the leadership of the fearless Communist vanguard has not been exaggerated in any case.” —A Seaman. EXTRADITION OF GEO. CRAWFORD ORDERED TO VA. LL.D. Hits Ruling of Higher Court NEW YORK. — The International Labor Defense yesterday learned that the U. S. Circuit Court in Boston had reversed the ruling of Federal! George Crawford, Negro, to face trial | in Virginia on a framed-up murder; charge. | “The I. L. D. vigorously protests | against this decision,” Frank Spector, | assistant national secretary of the organization declared. The decision of the highér court condones the vi- ‘cious “system of persecution of the Negro population and approves the denial. of elementary Constitutional rights of the Negroes. “Tt gives aid and comfort to the flaunting the 13th, 14th and 15th Constitutional Amendments.” The mighty campaign the I. L. D. conducted and is carrying on for the Scottsboro boys and all victims of national oppression compelled Judge Lowell to make his decision in the Crawford case. The I. L. D. will raise the campaign to a yet higher stage for the freedom! of the Scottsboro boys ind in behal! of the rights of the Negroes and backed by masses of white and Ne- gro people of the United States will prevent the extradition of Crawford to Virginia, as well as the extradi-| tion of every other Negro who is faced by an ail white hand-picked jury to do the bidding of the white master. The I. L. D. calls upon all Negro and white werkers and middle class people to close ranks and present a united front against the whole vi- cious system of oppression of the Negro masses, Philipsburg Jobless Strike; Demand Pay - in Cash for Work PHILIPSBURG, Pa. June 1, — Several hundred jobless men who had been working on highway work here, walked out as a protest against working for food orders. The strik- ers demand payment in cash. They are members of the Osceola Mills, Sandy Ridge and Philipsburg Un- employed Leagues. This action follows after the Har- risburg convention of the Pennsyl- vania unemployed organizations which decided to conduct strikes where jobless were forced to work for food orders. The convention was attended by the Unemployed Leagues and the Unemployed Coun- cils of Pennsylvania. | temporarily ECONOMIC CONFERENCE DEADLOCKED AS U. 8. BLOCKS CURRENCY MOVE Carry on Struggle ot One Problem Can Be Settled As Powers for Position in the Alignment for War Woodin Blocks British-French Proposals to Temporarily Maintain Currencies BULLETIN LONDON, June 16.—For the first time since the end of the World War, Germany officially demanded that her lost African colonies be restored to her. The Germans raised this demand before the World Economic Con« ference here, the proposal being submitted to the Economics Committee, The Germans suggested that return of her former colonies might in- crease her capacity to pay her foreign debts. * . LONDON, June 16.—To outward appearances the Worla Economic Conference is marking time. is waiting word from Washin The pretext is that it gton regarding the attitude of the administration toward an agreement to temporarily main- tain currencies at a given lev itself is paralyzed before the impos- sibility of solving any problem it pretends to want to solve, there are being carried on behind the scenes a series of intrigues between represen- tatives of the various capitalist coun- tries. French and British delegates were greatly disappointed over the an- nouncement from Washington that he United States had not agreed to | attempt to maintain currency by any artificial means such as was pro- vided in the plan put forth. That plan proposed pegging the dollar at about $4.05 to the British pound. The French openly state that unless ;Some agreement is reached to stop fluctuation of currency France will also go off the gold standard and in- tensify the currency fights. The pegging of the dollar was to be maintained by operations through the sterling equalization fund, with the American treasury agreeing to share with the British treasury the responsibility for any losses on deal- ings. To guarantee the British treasury against such possible loss; the Federal Reserve Bank is to pur- chase British government securities and deposit them in the Bank of England. All these elaborate plans to try to reach a currency agreement are threatened by the statement of Secretary of the Treas- ury Woodin that nothing of the sort has as yet been approved. Each Fights Aga'nst All In the innumerable conferences taking place outside the conference and committee rooms the United States delegates strive to win sup- porters tor its imperialist policy, par- ticularly in regard to making agree- ments over tariffs and loans with the representatives of the various South | American governments. It is announced that 41 countries have adhered to what is described as) a world tariff truce. Examination of the conditions under which the truce was accepted reveal so many Te-| servations that it is certain it will not} be operative. Each of the countries strives to gain maximum advantages for itself in foreign trade at the ex- pense of others. Silent on Soviet Proposals The leading delegates of the cap- italist countries strive to ignore the proposals of Litvinoff, chief of the Soviet delegation. Far from striving, like the capitalist countries, to enter into the world scramble for markets through tariffs and other restric- | tions, the Soviet Union proposed to purchase more than a billion dollars’ worth of goods from other countries. The Soviet spokesman further pro- posed to do away with all restrictions of trade, etc. The capitalist spokes- | man, of course, could not accept such {@ proposal because of the competitive i SCOTTSBORO BOYS FLOGGED IN CELL, LL.D. IS TOLD NEW YORK.—A report that the nine Scottsboro boys now confined in the Jefferson county jail in Bir- mingham, Ala. are “being flogged daily” has reached the national of-| fice of the International Labor De- fense. The source of the information cannot be divulged for obvious rea- ‘sons. ‘The report said that they are kept in a small cell and not permitted to see visitors, or even communicate with the outside world, Every de-| yice is used by the prison authorities to prevent any intimation of their | ill-treatment from leaking out. Protest Wired. Immediate demand that this vi- | cious mistreatment of the Negro boys | be stopped at once, and they cease | being held incommunicado were made in a telegram to the warden of the prison by Frank , OS~ L. D. The telegram follows: Learn prison guards torture, flog otherwise brutally mistreat Scotts- boro boys continued Birminghm jail Internationa! Labor Defense de- mands you immediately order vi- cious illegal attacks these nine in- nocent boys stopped stop Demand remove punish guards guilty these inhuman cruelties stop Holding you responsible well being health lives these nine boys.” A similar demand was sent to Gov, B. M. Miller of Alabama. Spector also instructed Gen. George Chamleee, chief of the I. L. D. Scottsboro legal defense corps to make an immediate demand he be allowed to visit the boys. At the same time, all I. L. D. dis- tricts and branches, liberal organi- zations, trade unions and others were protest to Governor B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala., and to the warden of the jail at Birmingham. Hearings Approach, News of the vicious persecution of | the nine innocent Scottsboro boys | was revealed as preparations are un- der way for arguments on a motion | for a new trial June 22 on behalf of | Haywood Patterson, convicted and) sentenced to death again after his {recent Decatur, Ala., retrial. Judge James E. Horton, who presided over the retrial which resulted in the lynch-verdict, will hear the argu- ments at Athens, Ala, ‘The next day, at Decatur, Judge B. L. Malone is scheduled to conduct el. But and predatory nature of capitalism itself. it is certain that not one of the problems of war debts, tariff barriers and currency stabilization can be settled. With the continued disin- tegration of world capitalist economy there is no possibility of such a con- ference resulting in anything other |than further intensification of the conflicts that are rapidly developing to the point where the discussions |over conference tables will yield te open warfare. CALL WORKERS T0 PICKET FUR MARKET MONDAY NEW YORK. — While the scab agents of the A. F. L. and bosses and | strike-breaking Young Peoples So- while the conference | clalist League members of the New York Printing Press Assistants Union Local 23, are busy enlisting more | strikebreakers, the striking fur work- ‘ers are continuing determinedly in | their struggle against the bosses. In spite of the interference ot Ed- ward MacGrady who has pleaded that the manufacturers hold out for another week, yesterday, three new important shops have concluded set- tlements with the fur department of the Needle Trades Workers Ind’ - trial Union while negotiations with others are going on. Mass Picketing Monday Arrangements are being made for a mass picketing demonstration on Monday, 7 o'clock at which thous- ands of fur workers and sympathizers will participate. The strike committee Issued 3 statement yesterday saying that the latest attempts on the part of the bosses and A. F. of L. to enlist aid of the industrial and alien squads, who together with gangsters are ter- rorizing the workers in an attempt to bring them to the so-called furriers union will be of no avail. The fur manufacturers who want to have their work done will have to settle with the union that the fur workers belong to—the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union. Pot dea, A special meeting of the fur strike committee will take place today, Sat- urday, 12 noon on the 6th floor of the Industrial Union, All members of the strike committee are requested to be on time when important deci- sions will be taken up. News F lash BOSTON, Mass., June 16.—A de= cision was handed down yesterday by the United States Circuit Court of appeals reversing the decision of Federal Judge James A, Lowell” in granting a writ of habeas cor= pus to George Crawford, Negro, which would have stopped his ree turn to Virginia to face a framed- up charge of murder. The reversal was made on the ground that the question of exclusion of Negroes from the Jury, on which point the writ of habeas corpus was granted, was a matter to be raised in the courts of Virginia. The defense will appeal to the United States Sup- reme Court, FOUR INNOCENT NEGROES 3 SLAIN IN MANHUNT SENATOBIA, Miss.—During the manhunt that covered several states juvenile court hearings in the case of Roy Wright and Eugene Williams, the two youngest of the Scottsboro boys. These proceedings will take sistant national secretary of the I.'oalled upon to rush telegrams of| place at Decatur, for Jessie Williams, Negro accused of murdering a deputy sheriff, four other Negroes were killed by posses, No action has been taken against the murderers, eer

Other pages from this issue: