The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1933, Page 2

AGE TWO DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, :umsDAY, JULY 25, 1933 HOPKINS ADMITS'C.C.C. Turned Into U.S. Ar RELIEF WITHHELD “FROM STRIKERS Strike Aid Promised, FOREST OFFICERS weit Make You ' But Aimed Against Militant Workers SHINGTON, hat work y I 23.—Making s on strike will Hopkins, emer- istrator admitted have heretofore been s, in an effort iately qualified his th the remark that applying for relief should vholly apart from any 1 which the wage earn-| The federal ike and even which strikers should given relief expect in this way to weed in strikes and are under the| utionary trade! RELIEF IN STATE SLUMPS BY 7 PLC. Don’t Waste Fare to| Find Job Says Officiak NEW YORK.—Relief expenses for June of Federal, state and local gov- “efnments in New York state have! dropped 7 per cent as compared to! “May. This is reported by the State| ‘Temporary Emergency Relief Admin-| istration Relief expenditures for| May were $1.02 per capita while in} June it had dropped to 94 cents. i] ‘Though relief expenses were cut the | Such men and will try to jail them. | Oo nces Welfare Councils of New York City | in their current report state, “that| requests for aid are increasing rather | than decreasing.” *°'To the tens of thousands who lost| FED WELL WHILE YOUTHS GET SLOP Recruit Writes of Camp Where Yancovitch Was Killed The letter printed below describ- ing conditions in the Yellowstone | | camp of the Civillan Conservation Corps comes from the camp in which 18-year-old Abraham Yancovitch was killed by one of the petty officers. The letter was addressed by a young recruit to his mother. ee ae WEST | Montana—This camp in my opinion is becoming more militarist each day, | in other words it’s the U. S. Army | called by a different name—the Ci- vilian Conservation Corps. The food is worse than any I have eaten in all my life. Never enough and either cooked too much or cook- ed too little. The officers eat steak and have eggs and otherwise they have excellent meals The officers require us to “sir’| them when we talk to them and are | drunk most of the time. The officers | bring prostitutes into camp for the week ends. That is some example to | set for the men, isn’t it. | Eight men have left the camp for | the road back to the city. Poor fel- | lows, they tried to get transportation, but were refused and so they were forced to hike back home. I do not think that they will have it easy as all authorities are on the lookout for | Many more are thinking of leaving | via the same method. The officers are becoming alarmed | ery effort to keep them here. | YELLOWSTONE CAMP, | ~ 6 | “Work for Joy | of Working”-F.D. President Roosevelt speaking over the radio to the youths in the forest camps last week said: “Through you the nation will graduate a fine group of strong | young men, clean living, trained to | elf-discipline, and above all, wil- ling and proud to work for the | joy of working.” | The killing of Abraham Yanko- | vitch in a Yellowstone Park camp, tories about conditions in the| iame and other camps sent t | the Daily Worker, show’ the kind | of “discipline” and “joy of work- | ing” that the Roosevelt camps are | carrying out. NEWS BRIEFS | darth 2 Billion Years Old. WASHINGTON, July 24>-Profes- | or A. ©. Lane of Tufts College, Bos- | ton, Mass., told the Sixteenth In- ternational Geological Congress in ses- | sion here that the time scales of the so-called radio-active clock, devised for measuring geological time by the disintegration of atoms of uranium, thorium, actinium and radium lead, | shows that the earth in its present solidified form dates back at least 1,852,000,000 years. Big Dam for Africa. NEW YORK, July 24—The J. G. White Engineering Company an-: the dispatch of a second ex- pedition to Ethiopia to complete sur- veys for a big dam to control the headwaters of the Blue Nile and jat the men deserting and trying ev- | make available for irrigation millions of acres of land in the Sudan and stheir last cent for fare to find a job| We _have a few poolrooms with | Egypt. United States capital is pene- on one of the Roosevelt public works| gambling going on in them, boot-| trating that part of the world which projects, Wilfred H. Winans, state | director of the National re-employ-| ment service was issued warning not} to spend any money for fate. He} Yisked the jobless to wait until prob-| ably an office will be establistied in| their locality and then probably some | “dfthem may get a job. | 4°“ DISCUSS TOBACCO CODE , “NEW YORK—A mass meeting of | 4bBacco workers will be held Wed- nesday to discuss how the Industrial Recovery Act affects the workers of the tobacco industry. The mass meeting has been organized by the ‘Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union. Demands affecting wages and work- ‘ng conditions will be formulated at | ‘the meeting. The meeting takes Place at the Cuban Club, 1413 5th Ave., 8p. m. ——— LICENSE NOTICES | NOTICE is hereby given t t license num- | ued to the an-| light wine at under Section 76 of the Aleolohic ge Control Law, at 76 Clinton St.,| New York, N. Y. to be consumed upon the said premises. Clinton Kosher Delicates- sen Corp., 76 Clinton Street, New York, aM. ¥ KOTICE is hereby given that license num- Meer NYE. Sot has been terued to the un dersigned to sell beer and lizht wine at/ fetail, under Section 76 of the Alcoholic | Beverage Control Law, at 122 University | Place, New York, N. ¥. to be consumed upon the said premises. University Eats 2 University Place, New York, N.Y. “DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 8 P.M. Office Hours: - Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE LTR FLOOR ‘All Work Done Under Personal Care of Dr. C. Weissman | DAYTON 9-4000 D. BACKER | _ INTERVALE | Moving & Storage Co., Inc. BRONX, N. ¥. 962 WESTCHESTER AVE. % | NEEDLEWORKERS APPRECIATE THE LITTLE | WATCH REPAIR SHOP R17 SIXTH AVENUE, AT 28TH STREET ¥. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL # DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 ‘For International Workers Order BROOKLYN ‘FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS ~ SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE ‘Brighton Beach Workers WELCOME AT “Hoffman's Cafeteria @82 BRIGHTON BEACH AVENUE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize GORGEOUS CAFETERIA 2211 86th Street Noar, Bay Parkway Fresh Food ‘at Proletarian Prices | after that period the food standard} | returned to its former level. | Roosevelt's leggers with their rotten corn whis- key and, as usual in the case of army} camps, prostitutes seem to come like | flies to ply their trade. | | We have had three food riots since | we have been in this camp. After the | food riots, we received fairly good food, When we) tried to present our case via spokes- | men for all, we were labeled reds. That means all of us are reds, agi- tators sent here to disrupt the peace and good will of the government. WHAT'S ON Tuesday WORKERS’ SCHOOL SUMMER TERM opens this week. Registration is accepted | this week for arly course before its first | session, at the school office, Room 301, 35 E. 12th St. Special 20 per cent sale on all books and/ pamphits, now goig on im ALL SEC-| TION headquarters. This sale open to all! individual workers and units. (Brooklyn) Mass Meeting on National Recovery Act at Conéy Island Workers’ Center, 27th St. and Mermaid Ave. Questions, discussions. Admission free. Tonight at 9. Earl Browder will lecture on “Roose- vent's New Deal and War Danger” at Pre- mier Palace, 505 Sutter Ave. Auspices Hinsdale Workers’ Club. Proceeds for Com- munist Party. (Manhattan) | Lecture by J. Schiller on “Will the National Recovery Act Bring Back Pros- perity.” On Wednesday at 8:30 pm. at French Workers’ Club, 40 W. 68th St. Ad- mission free. In English. has hitherto been regarded as the domain of British imperialism. Priest to Bless Autos. NEW YORK, July 24—Two masses are to be celebrated tomorrow at St. Christophers’ Church, Baldwin, L. TI. St. Christopher is the patron saint of motorists and several clergymen from New York will assist the Rev. John J. Mahon in blessing automobiles during the day and evening. Pes gr Boys Killed in Wreck. WILKES-BARRE, Pa, July 24, — Two boys were killed and eight in- jured in the wreck of a Delaware & | Hudson freight train on which they were riding in search of work. One of the dead was identified as John Venzik, 15, of Hudson, Pa. The other boy has not yet been identified. He appeared to be about 17 years of age. . . Hunger Wages for Children. WASHINGTON, July 24—Penn- sylvania is shown by a labor depart- Ment survey to Be one of the stateg using child labor to manufacture shirts. These children get as low as $1 a week, while women and girl workers in the same factories got $2 to $6 during a busy week this sum- mer. || FRESNO, Cal. — Captain Flem- FORCED T0 WORK HUNGRY, WRITES WESTERN YOUTH |Negroes Jim Crowed; | Refuse to Work Until | Given Better Food ming, a hard boiled officer, left one of Roosevelt's (slave) camps as sud- denly as he arrived. A “Jim Crow” C.C.C. two miles from the county prison camp in the San Bernardino mountains called Captain Flemming after 278 colored workers refused to do any work under the miserable conditions, discrimination and chau- vinism that existed in the camp. Captain Flemming arrived in the afternoon in full military regalia and that evening he called the boys together and gave them a lecture on how the Government demanded $1 worth of work for $2 pay that the Government was giving them, and | how that he was going to see that this was done. He talked on patriot- ism, and how we should love this | country (that’s starving us to death) and a lot of other war hysteria, but when he had finished he was greet- ed with 'a big Bronx Cheer. The next morning at 5 a.m. Cap- tain Flemming was awakened from my Unit; Bulldozing Captain Told to Get Out | Under a monument on Riverside American soldiers in the last imperialistic world war, these “heroes of 1917” are living mainly on what they can find in the garbage cans. In Shadow of Monument Drive dedicated to the bravery of his slumbers by shouting and sing- ing. On -investigation he found 278 | Negro boys marching around his | cabin shouting, “Down with Flem- | ming,” and singing revolutionar; songs. The captain asked: “What th hell do you want?” The answer came back unanimous, “We want you to | get out.” Finally after a hurried con- | ference with other officers it was decided that Flemming would leave. The following morning the cook dropped two cases of eggs, and the boys refused to work without eggs, so at noon 4 hearty meal was dished out, Still the boys refused to work, realizing that the camp is a place to prepare them for war, they are taking a definite stand against all discipline and the miserable condi- tions that exist. I have just been fired from the General Grant National Park of Fresno for refusing to work 7 days a week, I was arrested and held two days and was then kicked out of camp. A lot of the boys would do the same thing but they are afraid be- cause we are under military disci- pline, and the lieutenants even ex- pect you to salute them and stand at attention when you talk to them. The conditions up there are terri- ble; besides the food isn’t fit to eat, except when there are visitors around. We go to work hungry many times. If you are caught loafing just once they threaten to dis- charge you. As most of the boys have folks that get nothing but the $25 pay that is sent for our work they fear to lose it. All the Negro boys are put off in a camp by themselves and they have it tough- er than us. Every morning and evening they remind us that this {s our country, but when we were on the bum and tried to sleep out some place the cops showed us that there wasn’t any of' it ours, and chased us from one town to another. A lot of the boys are talking about organizing but they don’t know much about it. Wish I could send them some Thousands More Use City Clinics As Poverty Grows ! irth Clinies Handled 345,000So Far This Year; “Keonomy” Closes Food Handlers Clinics NEW YORK.—Inability to pay for) adequate medical care is causing thousands of persons to seek the as- sistance of the Health Department clinics and still other thousands to go without the medical care and su- | Ppervision which they should have ac- cording to the report issued by the Health Commissioner of New York, “Because of the extensive unem- ployment, the pressure on the Health Department’s clinics and health sta- tions has become so great that an in- crease in the department’s facilities is imperative,” said Commissioner Wynne. The report continues, “Despite the | decline in the birth-rate, a similar in- creased demand has been made on our baby health stations. During 1927-29 the attendance averaged 550, 000 annually... .. The number has| continued to so that during the first six months of this year the at-| tendance at our baby health stations | has already exceeded 345,000.” During the three years 1927-20 the tuberculosis clinics handled over 55,- 000 patients, in 1932 attendance rose to over 98,000. The first six months of this year saw 61,000 use the facili- ties. The venereal disease clinics han- dled 143,000 patients, an increase of 80,000 patients over the 1927-29 level. The first six months of 1833 92,000 men’ and women used the clinics, As an “economy” measure, the Food Handlers’ clinics were for the most part discontinued, turning the work over to private physicians, In summerizing, Dr, Wynhe reports, “Altogether the clinics and stations mentioned dealt with an attendance of 692,000 in 1927-29 and face a load of 1,061,000 during 1933 . . . an in- crease in the load of over 44 per cent.” 15 BOOK BAZAARS NEW YORK. — Fifteen book ba- zaars, in as many sections of Man- hattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, opened last week and will last until August 3. Books and pamphlets of the working class movement are be- ing sold at 20 per cent discount The books on sale cover theory, working class history, the Soviet Union, economics, present conditions, The sales are being conducted at the following addresses: 96 Avenue C; 56 W. 25th St.; 1413 Fifth Ave.; 27 W. 115th St.; 569 Prospect Ave,, Bronx; 2075 Clinton Ave., Bronx; 182 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn; 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn; 62 Herzil St., Browns- ville; 1109 45th St., Brooklyn; 148-29 Liberty Ave. Jamaica, L. 1; and 27 “Western Workers” to help them. Protest Frees Four Held in Eviction CLEVELAND, O.—Four workers ar- rested here while attempting to re- Place the furniture in the home of an evicted worker were released with- in two hours,’ without charges, when the International Labor Defense or- ganized protest telephone calls and sent a committee to Chief of Police Matowitz demanding their release. The protest against the eviction, in which 4,000 workers participated, re- sulted from the activities of the Small Home and Land Owners Fed- eration. The International Labor Hudson St. Yonkers, N. Y. Defense here has pledged its support in all their struggles. “Labor” Rocheteors and the Attack on the Red Unions By H. M. WICKS ‘War on gangsterism and racketeer- ing is proclaimed as part of the pol- icy of the Roosevelt administration.) Business must be freed of the racke-| ‘srg McGrady Were Really tg Attack the Racketeers in the Labor Movement, He would Have to Open Fire on His Life-Long Associates at the Head of the A. F. of L. m1 teer, say the prophets of the “New! ment the practice of using specially| there were no receipts for money, no Deal.” For weeks on end we have heard this refrain. But the rackets} remain as powerful as ever and no} attempt is made to eliminate them| because they are an integral part of | decay. | But behind this pretended war on/ the whole system of capitalism in| racketeers is a further assault upon| the toiling masses in pursuit of beat-| ing down to still lower levels our) standards of life. | Mr. McGrady On the Job What form this new attack, coin- ciding with the introduction of the “New Deal” is taking, is indicated by the activities of Mr. Edward P. Mc- Grady, former legislative agent of the American Federation of Labor, and now assistant to Miss Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor in| cabinet. McGrady an- nounces that he will lead the attack; on racketeering in the labor move- ment. That is the only concrete statement on the “great moral cam- paign” to come from any member of the Roosevelt administration. If Mc- Grady were really to attack the racketeers in the labor movement he would have to open fire on his life- long associates at the head of the A. F. of L. But he doesn’t intend to} attack these people. His aim is di- rected at those who have always fought against racketeering in the labor movement, namely, the Red unions and the militant oppositions inside the A. F. of L. The Origin of “Labor” Racketeering With the building up of big trusts at the close of the last century and their rapid growth and the revolt of labor against their tyranny the em- Ployers, in addition to the regular} Police forces, began to recruit pro- fessional _strike-breakers. Special private detective agencies, such as| Pinkertons, Baldwin-Feltz, Burns,| Sherman, etc., went into the business | of supplying private armies of thugs,| and specially selected armed thugs as scabs. It was to combat these ele- ments that there first began to de-| velop in the American labor move-j | of their methods. selected individuals to defeat these private armies. The bureaucracy seized upon this opportunity to substitute the action of individuals or groups of individuals for collective struggle. These offi- cials, no less than the employers, feared the initiative of the member- ship in labor struggles., Hence they did everything to stifle it and the use of professional gangsters was one Those who ob- jected to such procedure and urged mass action instead, were intimidated b y the officials and the gangsters they hired. The whole policy even- tually came to be aimed at reducing the membership to a condition where they did not rely upon their own. power but upon the intrigues of their paid officials. Rich Source of Graft In the present anti-racketeering campaign the known record of the origin of gangsterism is distorted to prove that it sprang from organized labor when, as a matter of fact, it was the traitors to organized labor, the bureaucrats, who adopted tried and approved methods of capitalist gangsterism, first against scabs, and finally against their own member- ship even in protection of scabs. It is a known fact that gangsters work hand in hand with the police and political machines, The use of gang- sters required also pay for police pro- tection of the gangsters. This proved a rich source of graft for union offi- cials besides furnishing them a direct; link with the police, the courts, the jailers. In short, they became a part of the corrupt political machines—in New York the Tammany machine, in Philadelphia the Vare machine, in Pittsburgh the Mellon machine, etc. The graft for the union officials con- sisted in the fact that they handled huge sums of money collected from their members under the pretense of paying it to gangsters and police of- ficials. Sometimes they paid the lo- cal gang leader to “take care” of the local police, to “fix” judges, and for other expenses incidental racketeering. In such transactions accounting beyond the recording of the fact that a given amount was spent for “organtzational” activities, or in Some cases they fecetiously re- ferred to it as expenses for the “edu- cational committee.” If any member questioned such procedure he was silenced by a strong-arm henchman of the machine and told he shouldn’t ask questions about such matters. If he persisted he got the “bum’s rush” out of the meeting. In this way the officials were able to pocket substan- tial rake-offs without ever having to give an account of the treasury raid- ing. Revolutionists Opposed Racket In the old line unions the revolu- tionary workers, and the militants generally, always waged a fight against gangsterism, Not that there were any objections to dealing harshly with scabs. Use of gangsters was re- jected by revolutionists from the viewpoint of working class tactics as the worst poosible form of substitut- ing individual action for mass action, This opposition, to be sure, aroused the fury of the labor bureaucrats who had so carefully built up the tradi- tion of gangsterism as a weapon de- signed to paralyze the action of their own membership and to aid the bosses. One of the first things done after the close of the World War by the militants in the labor unions through- out the country was the raising of the banner of struggle against gang- sterism as an integral part of the task of unleashing the initiative of the membership and engaging the enemy in open struggle. ‘Use Gangsters Against Members As the left wing forces began to ~vow and play a leading role in many parts of the movement the trade union officials who had been most involved in gangster tactics used thugs and gunmen against their own membership. In a whole series of post-war strikes—mining, textile, _ needle- trades, printing, railroad—the, reac- to| tionary officials, with the use of gangsters, on recruiting of scabs, not infrequently against the striking membership of their own unions whom they branded as con- ducting “outlaw” strikes. ‘This was particularly flagrant in New York, where the “socialist” lead- ers of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the clothing workers, the fur- riers, used Tammany police and gangsters against the militant left wing. It was in this fight of the rank and file of the membership against the racketeering tactics of Sigman, Schlesinger, Hillman, Du- binsky and dther fakers that this same Mr. Edward P. McGrady, the Tammanyite who is now assistant secretary of labor in the Roosevelt administration, along with the no- torious Matt Woll, took an active part in defense of the racketeers against the rank and file of the membership. This is the individual chosen to wage war against “labor racketeers.” No part of the Roose- velt “new deal” is more sardonic and hypocritical than the selection of Mc- Grady for this job. Likewise in the United Mine Work- ers of America it was John L. Lewis, one of those now active in putting over Roosevelt’s Industrial Recovery (Slavery) Code, who used gangsters to maintain himself in office against the will of the overwhelming major- ity of the membership of his union. Professional murderers roamed the coal regions, particularly Lewis’ stronghold in the Anthracite, and with machine gun fire tore to pieces leaders of the rank and file revolt against him. George L. Berry of the as pressmen gave membership cal to professional thugs and stool pigeons to help the publishers break strikes of pressmen and to forcibly «deprive the membership of the right to vote against Berryism. Similar acts were repeated against the militant rank and file in the textile industry by MeMahon and his thugs. Generally it can be said that in has made necessary the organizing of new militant unions the use of racketeers has reached its worst stage. McGrady Cannot Make It Stick. Now comes this McGrady, whose whole career is inextricably bound up with the Iabor racketeers, the agents of the employers and the tools of the Roosevelt hunger government, and tells us that he will war on labor racketeers. But this is only the cloak he uses to wage war on the militant unions and the rank and file opposi- tion within the old line unions—the only force in the labor movement that has a tradition of relentless and im- placable struggle against racketeers. It is indicative of the Roosevelt poli- cles as carried on by McGrady that those who are consulted as repre- senting labor in the discussions on the “industrial codes” are these same labor racketeers, while the unions af- filiated to the Trade Union Unity League are rigorously excluded. But if McGrady, in his attempts as an agent of the government, thinks he can forward the Roosevelt hunger program and proceed to regiment workers for industrial conscription as part of the imperialist war prepara- tions, he is mistaken. He will not be able to get away with it. His whole record and that of his associates will be laid bare and his hypocritical mask ripped off and thrown back into his brazen face. The workers, employed and un- employed, native-born and foreign- born, organized and unorganized, Ne- gro and white, men, women and youth will, as they increasingly re- sist the blows of the employers and their government, develop rank and file committees of action, rank and file leadership that will beat back these attacks, | ‘The best reply to the hooligans, hired by the bosses and the labor takers who try to beat up workers demonstrations, in the shops and the picket lines, is the building of workers’ self-defense corps and the mobilization of the membership of all labor organizations and their sympa- thizers for mass struggle against gengs. It is not the government or the bosses who will smash those industries—mining, needle trades, textile—where the splitting tactics of the bureaucrats and the smashing of the organizations of labor, in the labor movement, but the work- ers themselves by their own might, as an integral part of the struggle against the capitalist offensive, monet But Pussyfoots do not believe that any man in Peterson's position would repudiate anything except the court which convicted him.” This is the editorial comment of the Birmingham World, Negro weekly paper, in answer to a vicious repudiation of mass protest to secure the freedom of Willie murder charges. The statement “asking that the I. L. D. stay out of the case” was issued in Peterson’s name by Walter S. Smith, N. A. A. C. P. lawyer who is conducting his legalistic defense. announcement that it would make the saving of the life of Willie Peter- son a national issue. N. A. A. C. P. Pussyfoots Peterson has been sentenced to die | August 25, on charges which every-} one except the N. A. A .C. P. attor-| neys defending him, and the white ruling class which seeks to legally lynch him, recognizes are nothing more than a crude frame-up, The LL.D., it has been announced, besides exposing the frame-up with facts which the N. A. A. C. P? lawyers, fearful of offending their white masters, have kept out of court, will| organize nationwide mass protest to save Peterson's life. | “We assumed reasonable ‘roup of men would see the obvious frame-up and that it would take only a few minutes for our Supreme Court to decide in our favor,” says the Bir- mingham World, repeating here the} illusions common among reformists| and eyen among sincere but con- fused friends of the national libera- tion movement of the Negro people. “They failed to take anything into consideration other than that a white woman said ‘this is the Negro.’ | “Let Them Go to It!” | “The white dailies carried stories alleged to have been given by Peter- son’s lawyer and coming direct from Peterson, repudiating the Interna- tional Labor Defense. We do not} believe that any man in Peterson's! position would repudiate anything| except the court which convicted him. If the International Labor De- fense can save him where we have failed, LET THEM GO TO IT... . “The woman on whose testimony Peterson was convicted knows he is not guilty, the judge knew it, the jury knew it, and the public knows it. And what we cannot see is how the Supreme Court judges could sustain the decision in view of these| facts... . “It might be that everybody knows that he is innocent, but keeps it to himself and forgets the whole thing. A good old mass meeting or two and| a few radical talks might wake the judges up to the fact that though our efforts are feeble in instances, we deeply resent the mistreatment of one of our brethren.” I. L. D. Comments “The Birmingham World recognizes the power of mass protest, which has so far saved the lives of the Scotts- boro boys four times, but takes the bite out of its editorial-with ifs and perhapses,” the Southern District of | the I. L. D. said today in a statement ; commenting on the editorial. “Tt is certainly extremely doubtful teat a BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 21—“We | Peterson, Negro veteran framed on| It was issued in answer to the LL.D.} Birmingham World Denies Peterson Rejected [.L.D. Negro Paper Admits Power of Mass Protests on Other Issues ; that Peterson ever heard of the I. L, | D. announcement,” the I. L. D. said, |“and doubly doubtful that he would | repudiate it. But when the Birming- ham World recognizes the frame-up character of the case, it should also recognize the ruling-class character of the courts, and expect just such a verdict as was handed down against Peterson ag the result of a purely legalistic defense. “The Birmingham “World is mis- taken also.when it speaks of ‘a few’ mass meetings and ‘a few radical talks’ freeing Peterson. It will take a mass movement, with hundreds of meetings, passing resolutions, and the setting into motion of hundreds of | thousands of both white and Negro workers, to force the U. S. Supreme Court, which now will have the cas¢ before it, to relinquish the lynch hold of the white ruling class of the South from Willie Peterson.” NAACP. TRIES T0 DODGE BLAME IN PETERSON CASE Protests Continue to Condemn Betrayal of Negro Veteran BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 24—A& statement repudiating the mass de- fense of Willie Peterson, framed Ne- gro veteran, issued by Walter S. Smith, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s at- torney, in Peterson's name has ar- oused such a fury of mass protest against the N.A.A.C.P. leadership that the Association is seeking to dissociate itself from the case. Statements issued in regard to the case are now issued from a defense committee or from the lawyers, and the N.A.A.C.P. is not mentioned in them. Previously, the N.A.A.C.P. had boasted both locally and nationally of its defense of the Peterson case, A number of local Negro printers, infuriated by the N.A.A.C.P. betray- al, and seeing in the LL.D. the only hope for saving Peterson, have of- fered to print any LL.D. leaflets on the case free of charge. Meanwhile, it was revealed that John W. Altman, who with Smith, is engaged by the N.A.A.C.P. to “de- fend” Peterson, is one of the Bir- mingham landlords particularly vi- cious in he eviction of Negro tenants, A copy of an eviction notice “in favor of John W. Altman,” signed by Sheriff Hawkins, and served on John Bell, Negro worker, of 1933 17th St. North, Birmingham, has been turned over to the LL.D. by the recipient, IMPORTANT All unemployed Y. C. L. mem- bers are requested to see Comrade Hermann at the Y. C. L. office AS SUUN AS FUSSIBLE about an important emergency matter! 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