The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1933, Page 2

Page Two Admit 20 p.c. of Children FORM COMMITTEE in U.S. Are Starving Labor Department Rep ort Says 90 Per Cent’ of Miners’ Children Are Underweight WASHINGTON.—At least one-fift! are suffering definite injury to their mitted by the Children’s Bureau of The partial survey the Bureau made the percentage arrived at by the vey includes the children of rich. No estimate is given of the effects on Negro children who are the worst suffe nder the depression. Insufficient food or the wrong kind of it, poor housing conditions, lack of medical care, and in many cases | the anxiety and the | “the effect of nse of insecurity that prevails wherever there is no work” all have ntributed to the slump in child th found by the bureau, says the report In New York City malnutrition has jumped from 16 per cent in 1930 to 21 per cent in 1932, among 300,000 school children examined. From 1927 to 1929 mainutrition was only 13 per cent, continues the report. Malnutri- tion is the capitalist word for slow starvation. “In Detroit 18 per cent of the children in eighteen schools selected for a “hunger survey” were not re- ceiving enough to eat, is a further, admission by the bureau. Sixty per cent of children tion in this city were also found to be anemic In Springfield, Ohio, malnutrition increased 29 per cent in 1932 over Hall Johnson Singers at Stadium Tonight—W hiteman To Conduct on Friday There will be four conductors at the Stadium this week, Hans Kind- ler, Hans Lange, Paul Whiteman and Willem van Hoogstraten. last concert will be given Wednesday night. The Hall Johnson Negro Choir will appear tonight and Tuesday night, presenting a program of old favor- ites and many new arrangements. This evening Lange will conduct the following orchestral numbers: the Brahms “Academic Festival” Over- ture, the Beethoven Second Sym- Phony, the “Tristan and Isolde” Pre- | Jude and Liebestod, the“Afternoon of a Faun” Espana. On Tuesday Lange directs the “Mignon” Overture of Thomas, | the Mendelssohn “Italian” Sym- phony,, Barnett’s Divertmento, Jo- hann Strauss’ “Roses from the South” waltz, and Two Slavonic Dances of Dvorak. Kindler's final program on Wednes- day includes the Wagner “Meister- singer” Prelude, Tchaikovsky's “Pa- thetic” Symphony, Mossolow’s “Iron | Foundry,” Johann Strauss’ waltz, “Artists’ Life,” and Lisat’s “Les Pre- ludes.” The Thursday and Saturday pro- grams are under the direction of Willem van Hoogstraten, returning as reguluar conductor for the remain- Ger of the season. Thursday the program will include Schubert’s C * major Symphony; Overture to “Russ- lan and Ludmilla,” Glinka; Scherzo from Symphony No. 4, Glazounow; Eight Russian Folg Songs, Liadoff, and Polovtzian Dances from “Prince Igor,” Borodin. Saturday’s program will have Bee- thoven’s Overture to “Fidelio,” Brahm’s Symphony No. 3, the Bach Prelude and Fugue in E minor, the Gluck-Mottl Ballet Suite, the Johann Strauss waltz, “Wine, Woman, and Song,” and Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice. Paul Whiteman, guest conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony _rches- tra, augmented by his own men, will be heard on Friday night. In case of rain this program will be postponed until Friday night, August 11. suffering malnutri- | Kindler’s | and Chabrier’s Rhapsody} h of the children of the United States | health through starvation it was ad- the Department of Labor last week. does not include 1933, Though workers’ children are the only youth victimized by the crisis, that of 1928. | Ninety per cent of children ex- amined in the coal-mining regions of two states as early in the crisis »as 1931 were all under weight by 10 per cent or more. The children of Maryland mill towns are reported as having “ccon- siderable malnutrition, as evidenced by loss of weight, loss of color and loss of general muscular tone and subcutaneous (underskin) fat.” There are no percentages mentioned. The only reference to Negro child- ren is made by a physician in At- }lanta, Ga., who reports that there has been a decrease of a quarter of pound im the average birth weight of Negro babies since 1927. Register Co mmu nist |This Month If You Will Be Out of Town NEW YORK.—Qualified voters who |expect to be out of the city during | the registration period, which begins | Oct. 9 next, may register from now | until Aug. 31, between 9 am. and 4 | p.m. weekdays and until noon on Saturdays, at the Board of Elections’ | ofices in their respective boroughs. The ofices are located as follows: Manhattan, Room 1835, cipal Building, Chambers St. Brooklyn, Room 600, Municipal | Building, Joralemon and Court Sts. Bronx, 442 E. 149th St. Queens, 89-31 161st St., Jamaica. Richmond, Borough Hall, New | Brighton. | Though the Communist Party is | officially on the ballot in New York State, workers must be sure to regis- | ter the Communist ticket. | 10,000 At Picnic For Daily Worker NEW YORK.—tTen thousand read- ers and sympathizers of the Daily | Worker attended the “Daily” Picnic yesterday in Pleasant Bay Park, par- ticipating in the festivities and pledg- ing their support to the working- | class paper soon to come out in six Pages daily. Thugs Guard Scabs In New York Scow Strike NEW YORK.—Scabs, hired at $3 a day for 10 to 16 hours work are be- ing engaged by the Asper Detective | Agency, at 10 W. 61st Street to break the strike of the scow trimmers in Brooklyn. The strike is aimed against the starvation wages paid by the George A. Carizzo Paper Stock Corporation, which has a subcontract from the Brooklyn Ash Removal Company. ‘The Detective Agency is paid $3.50 a@ day for the men, keeping the 50 cents for itself. Agents of the com- pany, carrying revolvers under special permit’ supervise the work. These thugs receive $6 a day. | | | LABOR UNION MEETINGS NEEDLE UNION FORUM. Moissaye J. Olgin speaks Monday at 2 p.m. at Bryant Hall, 41st Street and 6th Avenue, on Recoy- ory Act and War. FURRIERS’ FORUM. Charles Alexander speaks Monday, 2 p.m., at union office, 131 | West 28th Street. riven by Hunger, Jobless Toil at Feverish ‘Pace for Three Hours Dail Mine Owners Afraid to Drive Them Off By HERMAN MICHELSON WILKES-BARRE, July 30—At six o'clock in the morning the night cop goes off duty at the D & H strip mine. The day man doesn’t come until 9. During these three hours the unemployed miners arrive and take over the place. They come with wheelbarrows and bags, picks and shovels, and set to work, at a killing pace. Even watch- | ing them through the mist from far away across the huge culm piles, the black refuse mountains which grow up around each mine, they can be seen to move with terrific speed, back and forth, up and down. They'te working for themselves. It is a good half-mile to the end of the operation itself; many of them have miles more to go. A man fore- ing himself at top speed may get out in the three hours with two wheelbarrow loads, each load being two 80 or 90 pound bags. The barrow has to be pushed through soft ground, over railroad tracks, up heartbreaking grades; those who haven't barrows stagger out with a single bag on their backs, When it rains, it's impossible to work. The company has been forced to “tolerate” the picking of its coal; | but only after its cops found the) job of driving out the miners some- thing they didn’t care to tackle. They tried police dogs, and the miners sank their picks into the vicious animals’ heads, A couple of hun+ dred hunger-driven miners, each with a pick in his hands and knowing how to use it, determined to hold on to his chance to make 50 cents or so by crowding a full shift of work in- to three man-killing hours—the D. & Hi. isn’t bothering them yet awhile. That's the way the day starts, in the Wyoming Valley. for many hun- ls of unemployed miners, ae fae A car containing a constable and three uniformed policemen rolls up lo 114 North Fulton Street, home of y;| | The constable gets out, the three cops | remain in the car. the place. The constable has an eviction notice. Yankoski slams | the door in his face, locks it, and starts off at a dead run for the hall of the Unemployed Council, 325 East Market Street. In a few minutes! he’s back with William Scott, of the Council. The constable has been | | idiotic enough to appeal to some of} the unemployed workers who sur- koski, his wife and children, to carry their few belongings out on the street. | | They are telling him to go to hell.| The three cops sit in their car, grin- ning, and asuring such of the work- ers as will listen that nothing will} happen. “Do you see that door?” Scott asks the constable. “It’s locked. Well, if you want to start something, break it down,” “Who are you?” the constable de- mands, and Scott, who is the Young Communist League representative on the council, tells him. The constable insists he’s got an order to evict Yankoski, also to séll his furniture for back rent. “No eviction, no sale,” Scott says. The constable takes a quick look around at the crowd of Yankoski’s neighbors, who are growing more menacing — and at the cops, who know the crowd’s temper and sit mo- tionless. The constable offers a com- promise. Will the Unemployed Council agree if the county finds the Yankoski’s another home, moves them in there and everything. Scott Says yes—if the home is decent, and Yankoski gets a receipt for a year’s rent paid in advance, The constable says he'll have to talk to his superior. | Scott invites himself along to the! conference, but the constable is now in_a hurry to get away. The Yankoski’s are still in their house, and the constable, who needs the sheriff there personally to break Muni- | Workers begin gathering around4 round him for help in evicting Yan-} ON KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL WORK (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I am one of the| workers employed on the relief jobs at the King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn. I would like, through the Daily} Worker, to call upon alf the workers | employed on relief work at the above | place to unite more solidly and carry | | on what we have initiated until now. On July 17, when we were told that there would be no pay, a group of twelve workers refused to go to work, unless we were paid for the previous week. Whereupon one of the officials, a Mr. McKenzie, told us we would get paid the next day. The next day, when we were gath- ered at lunch discussing the situa- tion, we decided not to start work until we were paid. One hundred and fifty workers gathered in pro- test and refused to go back to work.| Two committees were elected to| pull out: the workers who had not | as yet responded. Then the officials | of King’s County were forced to call | of King's County were forced to} phone the paymaster of relief} progress if the men wouln not im- mediately receive their pay. He promised the money would be paid by Wednesday at the latest if we re- turn to work, Since we are not an organized body we took their promise Yor granted | after a strike of two hours and re- | turned to work. | | Kindly print this in the Daily! } i} DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933 Demonstrating in New York for protesting the cut in relief and for organizing the unemployed to fight for their right to live. the release of workers jailed for | Worker and give instructions how to) proceed with our work. A Class-Conselous Worker, | ike? ae We suggest you get in touch with! the Bronx Action Committee of the) Emergency Relief Workers at 1400 Boston Road. These workers are in- itiating a city-wide organization of workers on relief jobs.—Editor. Comrade B. raises a fundamental problem in connection with the work | of our Party. Does the Open Letter | deal with the inner Patty life? Can the Party carry out the Open Letter | | unless the entire Party membership | is roused to action and the work of | the units is improved? The question | of the inner-Party life is first of all the question of improving the mass | work of the Party. There can be no | Separation between these two funda- | mental problems. As soon as the unit will become the leader of the workers in the factory or territory in which it works, as soon as it will |Teact to all the burning issues con- | | fronting the workers, as soon as its | membership will be among the work- ers, knowing their problems and giv- ing leadership, so soon will the unit | take on a new spirit and new enthu- | Siasm. The inner Party life-depends | jin the main on the solution of the | fundamental task. At the same time | every district and section committee | must simultaneously take steps to en- | | ich the inner life of the unit, which | means to bring political life into the unit. Already the resolution of our 14th Plenum, which should be studied again very carefully in connection with our discussions on the Open Let- | ter, emphasized the following: | “The work of the lower Party or- | ganizations must be basically chang- | ed. Nine-tenths of all the work of the lower organizations must be con- centrated directly on the work | among the masses, and not, ‘as at present, in countless inner meetings. ‘The center of gravity must be shift- | ed to the development of the lower | organizations, to the sections and units. The methods of leadership, The Inner Life of the Party and Mass Work An Answer to A Question Raised by a Comrade on the Open Letter Dear Editor: The Open Letter exposed our| | | weaknesses in unemployed work | | and outlined our tasks to overcome | them. Good. The Open Letter did likewise for our work in gen- | eral. Fine. They are both timely.‘ But one problem they have not | touched upon — Inner Party life. Now experience has shown that it | reeks with’ very little activity, ir-| responsibility, little political de- velopment, due to few discussions and lack of theoretical training, and, especially poor handling of new comrades. Resolutions were of no avail. How can we expect improvement in mass work when such a situa- tion exists within the Party? I was surprised that the Party Con- vention, the udarniks of the move- ment—did not see fit to mention, | not to say thoroughly discuss, this problem in its Open Letter. Or is it too significant yet? Would it not be foolish to clean and polish a car and then take it | apart to see that it functions well? If so, then let the Party make a determined effort to clean the in- side of its house; only then will it be successful in outside mass work. H. Blanco, , Unit 31, Sec. 5. | | | assistance and of checking up on the work of the lower organizations by the higher organs must be a method of personal guidance in ac- cordance with the special conditions of the given field of work, of the | given enterprise and not simply the | Miners Dig in H win a fight with all of North Fulton Street before the eviction takes place. Stella Petrosky is only 32 and has eight children—all Young Pioneers. | There are triplets, the youngest, seven years old. Separated from her miner husband, Stella gets a food) ticket fron: the County Relief of $7 a week, for which she has to go down as early as five or six in the morning, and wait hours in line.) They live in a little unpainted, crumbling house that the Relief Board provided for them when the | owner, who is totally blind, was him- self taken to the “Retreat,” the coun- ty poor house. While Stella is down at the Poor Bureau battling for her food ticket | the State investigator arrives, Not} finding her in—he carefully avoids going through the house, ducking through the alley to the backyard— he fastens on one of the three board- ers, Walter Shimunia. Shimunia, as a single man, is entitled to $1.50 a week relief. The investigator pro- duces a large yellow questionnaire. Questions rain on Shimunia — age? religion? citizenship? compensation? income? social ‘standing? have you got a car? have you any money in the bank? any insurance? Sign this, so that—thanks very much, good- ye. Buttonholed himself as he is leav- ing, the investigator turns out not to know very much. Has lived in Wilkes-Barre all his life, believes conditions are “65 per cent down” since the crisis started. But one thing he does know, even without going through the house—he'd rate the social standard of Stella Pet- rosky’s home as “very bad.” “Must have aiways lived like that,” he remarks, preparing to go. And is very much surprised to find that the County Relief Board picked this decaying, insanitary hovel as a place for a mother to bring up eight chil- dren. A particularly mean feature of the relief administration here: If you have a car they take the license Plates away before giving you relief, | | | | cars at ridiculous prices. A strong belief exists among the workers that the taking away of license plates is part of a® arrangement mutualiy Profitable to certain used car deal ers and relief officials. Si coe Nothing to do, no place to go, no carfare to go with if they had the un- employed drag through the days standing on street corners, waiting for something to happen. There a tiny municipal swimming pool ih town. Workers’ children swim in the river, which is polluted with the sew- age of other towns and the refuse of three hospitals, * The Unemployed League is meet- ing in Kingston. Marvin McCarthy, Socialist Party luminary, paid in- vestigator of the Luzerne County Poor Board, and very close indeed to the respectable element, is running his little show. A worker comes in with a grievance. He had got a job cleating up the debris of a store where there had been a fire. He exhibits his “pay’—a basket of food damaged by fire and water—uneat- able. McCarthy jumps at him: “Did you steal that?” The worker is scared out of the hall. Outside, he puts'on a one-man demonstration; plants the basket of food down in an open lot where passersby can see it, and improvises a sign: “This represents wages for 8 hours work.” He and others picket the place, and anyone who wants to know can find out from them what the Socialist party is doing to lead and help the unemployed. McCarthy, of course, refuses to act with the Unemployed Council, won't make any united front demonstra- tion, turned down invitations to join the Hunger March a week ago or to protest the cutting of relief by 20 per cent: “I don’t want to see the streets of Wilkes-Barre running with blood,” he says. Several coal company officials are with his league, lawyers and busi- ness “leaders” support him, oe 8 ter Yankoski, unemployed miner. down the door, knows he'll have to so that you won’t go joyriding. The result is the forced sale of workers’ Signs on, every hand point to a | the hands of a few comrades.” , ¢ism, for the development of initia- | the unit, and introducing regular edu- uge Pit Between sending out of circulars. In all | lower organizations, committees | must be formed which actually work collectively, and a ston must be put to the state of affairs in which the work is concentrated in The Open Letter, which deals with | the mass work of the Party, again emphasizes throughout that these tasks can be carried out only if the! center of gravity of our Party work | is shifted to the development of the} lower organizations, and continues: “At the same time the Party must | carry on a systematic struggle against the bureaucratic isolation of the apparatus from the Party mass~ | es, against the suppression of in- | ner Party democracy, for the de- | velopment of political life in the lower orranizations, particularly in the factory nuclei, for the develop- ment of thorough-going self-criti- tive in the lower organizations and for the improvement of its func- tioning cadres. Every Party mem- ber, and especialiy every Party func- tionary, must be a real organizer of mass struggle in his particular sphere of work.” The District Leadership, section leadership, should give systematic at~ tention to the lower organizations, help them to develop broad inner democracy, to discuss all the prob- lems of the mass work confronting cational activities. It is incorrect therefore to separate these two prob- lems. A mechanical “house cleaning” without a basic change in the mass work will not make the fufidamental change in our units called for in the | totals $20,000. The trial will | has issued a statement which says | Will Fight for Worker | FRAME 6 CHICAGO JOBLESS LEADERS FOR ‘CONSPIRACY CHICAGO, Tl.—An indictment of | conspiracy and assault with intent | to kfll has been drawn up against Delia Page, Poindexter, May Wer- nicki, Jessie Smith, Charles Hamp- ton and Harry Coe, Negro and white workers active in the unem- ployed movement, Bail for the pote e held in Judge Prystalski's court, August 9. The International Labor Defense | in part, “This attack on the work- | ing class is primarily directéd against | the Negro workers. These workers were viciously beaten at hunger demonstrations and Poindexter was beaten at an eléction campaign meeting at the ordets of Oscar DePriest. Poindexter is a leader of the workers on the Southside, one of those active in the Sopkin’s strike of the dress workers, which was suc- céssfl; in the mobilizing of Negro and white workérs on the South- side; the builder of the Unemployed bor Defense; and the leader of the Washington Park Open Forum, which more than anything else has brought the Chicago workers into the movement for defense of the Scottsboro boys. “The Recovery Act which calls for brutal suppression of the work- ing class is responsible for these indictments which followed imme- | diately, upon fhe passage of that Bill.” Workers are urged to list prop- erty with the I_L. D., whieh can be used for bail \for these framed workers. The I. L. D. also urges that protests be sent to State's At- torney Courtney, Mayor Kelley and Oscar DePriest, Negro Congressrian, who is supporting this attack on the workers, FORM COMMITTEE. TO AID TERZANI Framed in Fierro Death | NEW YORK.—Organization of a united front anti-fascist Terzani Defense Committee to direct and co-ordinate the work of defending! Athos Terzani, anti-fascist worker | framed on murder charges in the | death of Anthony Fierro, anti-fas- | cist student, was announced by Her- | bert Mahler, recording secretary of | the orgenization meeting. Fierro, was killed by fascist gangsters be- longing to Art Smith’s Philadelphia ' Khaki Shirt organization in 8 | Island City, July 14. . | An_ executive committee was, elected consisting of Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liber- | ties Union, Herbért Mahler of the General Defetise Committee, Law- rerice Eméry of the International bor Defense, Carlo Tresca and ‘orges of the Italian anti-fascist unity committee. Plans for calling together a broad united front conférence of work- ing-class and Mberal organizations, to undertake activities in defense of Terzani, are under way, it was an- nounced. An invitation was ex- tended to the Socialist Party to send representatives to the Tergani De- fense Committee. The statement of the Committee says in part: “The menace of Fas- cism is such a reality in the United States that it has already caused the death of a young student, Anthony Fierro, and the indictment for mur- dev of an innocent worker, Athos Terzani. Such a reality calls for im- mediate solidarity all working class organizations and parties, “For this reason, the committee calls upon all lovers of liberty and all working class organizations to unite in action, despite differences of theories and priniciples, for the de- Open Letter. fense of Terzani.” pretty clear realization on the part of the ruling class here that the whole district, crushed between ris- ing prices and reduced relief, living on the verge of starvation, needs only a spark to set off an explosion of mass action. The order is out to ease up on the police regime of op- pression; free speech has returned to Luzerne County, in a measure. The police and the mayor didn’t like the idea of a Hunger March: this wasn’t the time, they told the Unemployed Council, people were in @ bad frame of mind. When the Council announced the march would be held anyway, they gave in. Per- mits for mass meetings used to be impossible to get; now a. permit is 4 more or less a formality, and there hasn't been any broken up for a long time. Cs ae There are meetings and meetings. Last night, at the Hotel Sterling, the business men of Wilkes-Barre had the pleasure of hearing what they were assured was actually the very first of Roosevelt's spell-binders in behalf of the hunger program—Ben- jamin A. Javits, a writer for Forbes Magazine. The meeting sent a wire to Gen. Johnson “recommending” that all business men sign the “blank- et code” and so forth. What they learned from Javits, who was tumul- tuously cheered, was this: “The National Recovery Act is a charter granted to the business and economic interests of the nation.” After praising the “fairness” and “practicelity” of Roosevelt's program for putting all wages on the United States down to the level of English factory workers, Javits let out a few figures indicating how soon the mil- Jenium may be expected to arrive. He said: “There probably are 7,000 indivi- dual codes to be adopted and approy- ed. Say that 500 of these are the most important. If it takes only Work-Shifts | Special Correspondent Describes Struggles in Wilkes Barre, Heart of Coal Region one or two.days for each of them to | be approved, it will take some time before we can go forward and ef- féctuate the New Deal.” Five hundred important codés— one of two days fot each—say 750 days. In more than two years all the codes will be signed. ‘The In- dustrial Recovery Act ruhs for two years. The business men didn’t stop to figure it out, they cheered, adopt- ed a résolution, and went home. Ce ee Another mee! ~— the regular weekly meeting of the Unemployed Couneil. John Muldowney reviews the work of the cothcll, the struggle against relief cuts, the fight to reinstate workers arbitrarily taken off the lists, battling discrimination 4 Negroes, berg’ active mem| the council—a re of day to day end hour to hour fighting for the workers. ’ Lithuanians, Irish, Polish, Italians and Negroes are represented in the Council. Théy get up one by one, to tell their experiences, register griev- ances, and action. That is the keynote of this meeting—mass action by all the workers. The council grows slowly, but it grows. Every unemployed miner who finds a-committee ready to go down with him to the relief board to fight Srobenendbt tot Aa: ir and for it, down with him. Around the benches were sitting white unemployed, pa- tiently taking the bureaucratic de- lays and indifference of the relief officials, Not Donaldson. Pita & smug little afMociatried to down, Donaldson threatened to kick for him. The white work: 5 Council, and the International La- | peared in the Birmingham Post, on October 20: | have not been treated yet. It seems SPEIGNER PRISON, WHERE 5 DADEVILLE CROPPERS ARE, CALLED BRUTAL HE! L-HOLE ‘One Inmate Was Killed, 21 Wounded When | Guards Fired on Peaceful Group Last October Speigner Prison, down in Alabam; By JIM MALLORY a, is a hell of a place. That’s another reason why we've got to put more punch into our fight to free the five Tallapoosa croppers, who were sentenced to prison becaustp | they had the guts to organize into a w |'son Simpson, and Clinton Moss—have ; of Montgomery, the state capital and the hang-out of the Black Belt aris- | tocracy. A lot of the big landlords who were anxious to see the membe:s of the croppers union put behind! | bers, have swell homes in Mont- | gomery. ‘There was a riot in Speigner, fid- | | dle of last October. Here’s what hap- | pened: a guard discovered a group| | Of prisoners gathered about one of | | the prison walls, He said later thai | | they were battering a hole in the | wall. Without warning or hesitation, | he fired into the group. Carl Single- | ton, one of the prisoners doing two years, was shot and mortally wound- Wounded 22 Inmates | The prisoners were in the open air enclosure at the time. Singleton was | carried through there on 2 stretcher. Anyone could see he was dying. Years | | of abuse by guards and wardens,| topped by this murder! The men went wild with anger. The guards fired into the mass of | helpless prisoners with shotguns. Twenty-two fell wounded. | For several days Warden A. B.| Smith refused to give out the names | of the wounded men, while misezable | friends and relatives waited before the jail gates or bought up one news- | Paper after another. Prisoners Protest Hl The affair started such an uproar | that even the Alabama officials were | forced to pretend an “investigation.” Of course nothing came out of it. Meanwhile the following letter ap-/ “Editor, the Post: “We, the inmates of Speigner Prison, wish to inférm you that a thassacre happened here Sunday | night in which one inmate was kill- ed and 21 wounded. Also one free man, who was on the office porch, was slightly wounded. We have had no investigation, only the pollywogs | who were here during the last ad- | ministration. The men are lying | in the dormitories with wounds that we have no warden here, as one or two of the guards run the prison. “We men appeal to the public for some aid, as we are helpless here, being shot down like dogs. You can investigate the prison and sec where thé bullets went into the dormi- tories, being shot from outside the front gate. ‘If they don’t work us to death, they starve us. All they have not done is pOison our well. There are lots of m@n here who are unable te do manual labor on the food we get and they are punished with Speigner’s about twenty miles north >— | lawful inion. Three of them—Ned Cobb, Jud- been transferred to Speigner, leather, We yio11d like to have some personal investigation. “One of the guards who did the shooting was some time ago fired from Atmore (Atmore is another Alabama state prison) but some« how he w: again hired by the state. It secms the guards here think a prisoner has no feelings whatever. . Inmates from Speigner Prison, Speigner, Alabama.” Prison Is Fire Trap g is a fire trap. It was burned down a few weeks after the massacre. But when it was rebuilt, it was built in exactly the same way as before. The whole building is of wood. Floors and all, A spark from a cigarette butt can any time start a sheet, of flame roaring over the whole structure. There’s a cotton mill in Speigner, Also a cotton plan’ n. The prison- ers work from sun up to sun down, Last year the Alabama government made one million dollars in clear profits out of the labor of its con- victs. e—abuse by guards—killing la- ber—poisonous food—leather—mas- sacre. That’s what our heroic crop- pers, leaders of their people in the Biack Belt, are up against in Speig- ner. Ask any prisoner who’s been there He'll tell you what I've told you- that Speigner’s a heil of a piace. 16 in Newark Court Plead Not Guilty in Youth Day Freme-Up NEWARK, N. J., July 30.—Sixteen young and adult workers who were arrected for participating in the Na- tional Youth Day demonstration in Perth Amboy on May 30 pleaded not guilty to frame up charges of un- assembly and assault and battery. VOICE OF BORO PARK CONFERENCE TONIGHT BROOKLYN, N. Y*The" section- wide conference called by the “Voice of Boro Park” will be held at the |1109—45th St. Center, tonight, at 8 p.m. - Delegates and worker corre- spondents have been elected by many workers’ organizations in the terri- tory, which includes, besides Boro Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Flatbush. b AMUSE MENTS —— DYNAMIC STORY OF THE NORTH! American Premicre of Soviets’ Daring “Conquerors of the Night” THRILLING TALKIE OF ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE OF ICE- BREAKER “MALYGIN” TO ARCTIC REGIONS. (ENGLISH TITLES. MUSIC BY LENINGRAD SYMPHONY ORCH. THE WORKERS Achievement! THEATRE 14TH STREET AND UNION SQUARE Cont. from 9 A.M. MIDNIGHT SHOW SATURDAY MUSIC TADIUM CONCERTS" Phitharmonle-Symphony Orchestra Lewisohn St HANS LANGE, EVERY NIGHT at &: PRICES: 25¢, 50e, $1.00. (Circle 7-7575) RKO ith St. & I Jefferson ha ae. * | Now Robert Montgomery and Jimmy Durante in “HELL BELOW” Added Feature:—JOE E, BROWN in “ELMER THE GREAT” All Comrades LTH (CE [NEW HEA Meet at the NTER CAFETERIA| —< Fresh Food—Proletarian Prices 59 ©. 13TH S1.. WORKERS’ CENTER——— Under the Supervision of a Unlimited number of new cars given by oi classes for ladies. License guaranteed — driving in traffic — YORKVILLE AUTO SCHOOL former New York Inspector individual lessons on ur expert instructors 204 EAST 80TH STREET PHONE: REGENT 4-2890 be 4d -S C.” Week Spend YOUR Vacation in Our Proletarian Camps —~ NITGEDAIGET UNITY BEACON, New York City Phone EStabrock f£-1100 Camp Phonh Rsseon 751 , WINGDALB ~~ New York Proletarian Atmosphere, Healthy Food, Warm and Cold Showers, Bathing, Rowing, Ath!eties, Sport Accivities NEWLY BUILT TENHIS COUNT IN InTSzDATGET Vacation Rates: $13.00 per (INCLUDING TAX) Cars LEAVE FOR CAMP from 2309 Bi Fridey and Satitday 10 6. m., 8 p. 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