The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1933, Page 3

i] } \ “Hoste Phone: Olinville 5-1100 Detroit Welfare Urged to Break Diemakers’ Strike Free Press I Howls for Relief to Be Cut Off to Drive Men Back DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 27.—Efforts have been started to use the city ‘Welfare Department as a strikebreak- ing agency by dropping all strikers from the relief rolls. This is aimed directly at the tool and diemakers strike, in which about 12,000 Detroit Workers are involved. ‘This’ strikebreaking move is ex- pressed in all its brazen brutality in an editcrial in the Detroit Free Press of Oct. 26, entitled “Take Them Off the List.” In urging that strikers be denied relief, this reactionary sheet declares: “Certainly in times such as those We are passing througn, the person Who has an opportunity to earn a wage, yet quits hie job cor some trivial reascn, instead 0° retting out end hustling, lacks the cichtest claim to public consideration. “If such a person applies to char- ity to heip him continue living with- out work, he should receive only one Tepiy. He should be told to go back on the job or go hungry.” “he Unemployed Councils will vigorously combat all efforts to drop strikers from the welfare list. The Detroit capitalist press has begun to admit the sharp increase ia the number of workers on the Welfare rolls despite all efforts to cut off as many families as possible, This {s due to the collapse of the tem- Porary inflation boom in the auto- mobile industry, resulting in the shutting down or drastic curtailing of production in all plants. The number on the welfare rolls is now growing at the rate of over 300 a day, A, Wonderful Spot for Organizations’ : ffaits STUYVESANT GRILL AND OPEN AIR BEER TAVERN 137 Third Avenue Between 1th and 15th Streets GARMENT DISTRICT Phones: Chickering 4947—Longacre 10089 COMRADELY ATMOSPHERE FAN RAY CAFETERIA 156 W. 29th St. New York |) ae aes wes Garment Section Workers | | Patronize Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner 26th St. LICENSE NOTICES “i NOTION is hereby given that License Num- ber NYBi4127 has been issued to the dersigned to sell beer and wine at retail, under Section 76 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 70 Clinton @t., New York City, to be consumed Upen the said premises David Schwartz- men, New York, ¥. (Classified) GIRL COMRADE wanted to share apart- ment. All improvements, reasonable; 149 ‘W. 30th St. Cpl! all day Saturday and after work. Melnik. HAVE apartment to share with girl; $12 per month; 1436 Prospect Ave. Ant, 53, Facing Perk, FORNISHED room, one or two. Réeason- ‘able. Chensky, i408 St, Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, Bronx. LE will share four modern rooms, Call bet. 2 and 6 p.m. Apt. 1, 915 E. 12 St. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Ret. Pitkin and Sutter Aves. Brooklyn PRONE: DICKENS 2-012 Ps: 8-10 AM, 1-2, 6-8 P.M. Intern’l Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE ISTH PLOOR AM Werk Dene Under Perséuzi Care of Ts, Office C. K. TABACK, M.D. Lagy Physician 795 Linden Bivd. ‘cor. E, 58nd St.. Ereokiyn Office He 8-10 AM.0-3 PM, Mini 9-5549 WILLIAM BELL orrretay Optometrist pan. 166 EAST MTH STREET Neat Fourth Ave. N, ¥. ©, Phone: Tompkins Square 6-8237, MOT THAVEN 9-8749 DR. JULIUS JAFFE Surgeon Dentist 401 EAST 140th STREET (Corner Willis Avenue) fice Phon: Estabrook 8-263 DR. S. L. SHIELDS Surgeon Dentist ABu4 WALLAVE AVE. jorner Allerten Avenue DR. R. H. ISAACS Port of “Baltigiore, a4. has moved his to New York at 304 E. 178th Street, Bronx, N.. y. (Cer. Anthony Ave.) Phone: FOrdbam 1-i Office Hours: 12 to 2; 6 te # P.M. Sanday 10 te 12 ‘Neon Exposing Identity of George Armrvocd, Negro worker, Struggle for Negro Rights: Editor, Daily Worker, 50 East 12th Strect; New York City. Congratulations for your article unmasking the leaders of the mob which lynched George Armwood in Princess Anne, Md., in one of the most fiendish lynchings in the long history of capitalist violence against the Negro People and the American workingclass. Your investigation pre- sents irrefutable proof of the leading role played by State’s Attorney Rob- ins, Judge Duer and other officials in organizing the lynching and in instigating the vilest terror against the oppressed Negro masses. - The League of Struggle for Negro Rights calis upon every Negro and white worker, upon every sympathizer with the liberation struggles of the Negro People, to support and back the Daily Worker and the Interna- tional Labor Defense in this splendid fight against lynching and all forms of ruling class terror against the toiling masses, black and white. The L.S.N.R. calls upon its members and all workers and sympathizers to mo- bilize in a relentless fight against lynch terror and growing starvation and mass misery, The Daily Worker's investigation affords. irrefutable proof that Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland had advance guilty knowledge of the plans to lynch Armwood. That is why Armwood was returned from Balti- more City jail to Princess Anne. That is ghy Gov. Ritchie ighored the warnings of the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun that “t::-e might be trouble in Princess Anc> that night.” Gov. Ritchie, despite those warnings, refused to order the re- moval of Armwood from Princess Anne, refused to. order: out: troops to protect Armwood—in sharp con- trast. to his policy of ordering out troops to shoot down workers strik- ing against the N.R.A. hunger codes. The L.S.N.R. demands the im- peachment of Gov, Ritchie as an accessory hefore the crime for the murder of Armwood. Ritchie's hands are stained with the blood of the murdered Negro worker. State's Attorney Robins, Judge Duer and other Somerset County of- ficials knew of the lynching plan. An eye-witness to the lynching, in a sworn affidavit, tells how he over- heard Robins endorsing the plans of the mob leaders. Sheriff Daugherty, Deputy Sheriff Dryden, State Police Captain Edward M. Johnson, and the Jocal commander of the American Legion, were in the mob that lynched Armwood. We demand the removal, arrest and persecution for murder of these officials and of other known lead- ers of the mtob. Fifty heavily armed State troopers and deputy sheriffs looked on while the mob took Armwood out of the jail, leisurely dragged him through the main streets of the town, tor- tured him, henged him in front of Judge Duer's home, and later drag- ged his body to the town square where it was thrown on a flaming pyre, while pieces of the rope with which he was lynched were distri- buted among the mob as souvenirs. It is clear that the State of Maryland affords no protection to the Negro People. We demand the disbanding and disarming of the K. K,/K. and all terrorist groups. We domans id the rights of Negroes and their white supporters to bear arms in self-defense! We demand the immediate and unconditional release of George Robinson, white worker, held in Baltimore City Jail on the charge of aiding Armwood to escape after his alleged crime of allegedly “grabbing” the arm of a white woman! The State and County officials who participated in the lynching of Arm- wood have carried through a farei- cal Coroner’s jury inquiry into the crime. Another such farcical inquiry is being prepared by the grand jury. We denounce these attempts of the lynchers to whitewash them- selves! We demand the dissolution of the present grand jury and the calling of a special grand jury, to convene outside of Somerset Coun- :ty, of Negroes and unprejudiced white workers, with the right of attorneys selected by the Interna- tional Labor Defenss to participate in the inquiry with the right of unlimited peremptory challenges of all prospective jtrors. The highest officials of Maryland are directly implicated in the lynch- bade, ot Armwood. demand that President Rovenvelt instruct Attorney Gen- eral Cummings to set in motion a federal grand jury inquiry, with the right of LL.D. attorneys to par- ticipate in the selection of the By MILTON HOWARD OP sino ‘TUESDAY afternoon, Roosevelt announced his new gold buying ree mi the same day, the Pacific fleet of the American Navy spent an en- tire afternoon polishing its long guns, engaging in complicated maneuvers, while almost a hundred bombing Plangs roared overhead. ‘These two events, seemingly so sep- arated from one another, explain one another. These two events are op- posite sides—of the same medal. ‘They both mean increasing capital- ist reaction, increasing growth of Fascism and war! The latest gold-buying, inflation- ary action of the Roosevelt govern- ment is another long step along the toad of intérnational currency battle, ® battle that flared up so violently, at the time of the becently wrecked lon Economic Conference, be- tween Great Britain and the United States, the two. largest imperialist ® | | League for Negro Rights|_ ™ Demand Lynchers’ Arrest. L. S. N. R. Congratulates the Daily Worker for| Killers of Armwood jurors with unlimited peremptory challenges, The L.S.N.R. proposes to the work- ers, black and white, of Baltimore, the holding of a mass public trial of the lynch officials and. mob lead- ers on the basis of the exposures brought out by the Daily Worker's investigatio’ into the Armwood lynching, with invitations to the Maryland officials to. appear and defend themselves before the work- ers. ‘The lynching of Armwood, ‘and of Matthew Williams two years ago, on the lynch-infested Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the farcical investi- gations which followed these crimes, Plainly show that the Negro people have no rights in Maryland, The Civil Rights Bill proposed by the L.S.N.R. and taken to Washing- ton by the Scottsboro Marchers has been ignored by the white ruling class. The adoptien and enforce- ment of this bill would be a step forward in securing the constitution- al and democratic rights of the Negro People. “We demand the enactment and enforcement of this bill by Con- gress and all State legistatures! ‘The same officials who helped to lynch Armwood have arbitrarily denied a stay of execution to Euel Lee, and have set Friday morning for the execution of this framed Negro worker, despite overwhelming proof of his innocence, despite the flagrant violations of his constitu- tional rights by the Maryland courts. By the time this statement appears, Huel Lee may be dead—another murs dered Negro victim of the blood-lust of the ruling class, another tortured body flung into the faces of the Negro People in the attempts by the ruling class to terrorize us into ab- ject submission to their program of Starvation and war. The L.S.N.R. appeals to all work- ers, and to the: broad masses of the American people, to thunder their denunciation of these bestial crimes against the Negro People. Organize mass meetings and dem- onstrmtions immediately! Build the fighting alliance of the white and Negro toilers against the comrion exemy—the white ruling class! De- feat the lynch terror! Smash the attempts of the ruling class to crush the resistance of the Negro masses, to isolate the Negrocs, and thus deprive the white workers of a necessary ally in the struggle against capitalism. Death to the lynchers! Build the League of Struggle for Negro Rights into a mass. organi- zation, as a real neeepte against the lynchers! 350 Jewelry Workers In Strike for More Pay NEW YORK.—A walk-out of 350 base metal workers of local 111 of the A. F. of L. Jewelry Workers’ Union occurred last weck, inspired by the ‘recen; strike of the precious metal workc’s. The workers are on strike against weges of $8 to $13.50 @ week and are demanding a 30-hour week, $18 for helpers and $35 to $48 for skilled workers, and recognition of their union. The strikers, most of whom are young boys and girls, are concenirat- ing théir forces at the Benrus Watch Co.,: where police, despite provoca- tion, have been unable to break their Picket line. The strikers meet at the World Building, Park Row. Unit 4, Section 1, Gives House Party for ‘Daily’ NEW YORK.—A House Party for the Daily Worker will be given this Sunday night by Yuit 4, Section 1, at 335 East 13th Stret, Apt 12 1-2. Good refreshments, fine program. Gets Life Sentence For Stealing Nothing CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 27—Fer Stealing a billfold with nothing in it, a Middlesex jury ‘sentenced John , 47, to life imprisonment today. PICKET IN FURNITURE STRIKE NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The workers of Grosfeld Furniture Company, 31st St. and First Ave. went on strike last week against low wages. Their boss, who has a store and show room) at 320 E. 47th St. is trying to recruit scabs. The strikers are picketing both places, another as deadly rivals for end ist world supremacy. Armed with dictatorial powers greater than th possessed by a President even during periods of war, Roosevelt, in the last few days, turn- ed toward America’s European im- perialist rivals, and sent an explosive shot in their direction. That is a fundamental meaning of all the financial hocus pocus about gold, prices, Os, . war does " poosevelt, do when he bids up the price of gold? In effect, he is reducing the cost of pro- duction for Wall Street monopoly capital. How does he accomplish that? By reducing the buying power of every dollar (since every dollar now is worth less in gold) of the workers’ wages. And this permits the capitalist, own- ing , the employers, to grind more it out of each and every powers of the world, who face one It is a grim irony, and an inevit- | | en eee | "W YORK.—The following statement by by ait air mail, congratulating the | Daily Worker for its exposure of the leaders of the mob -which lynched was received yesterday from Richard B. Moore, acting in the name of the National Committee of the League of ILY WORKER, NEW YORK EXECUTIONER! ALBERT C. RITCHIE Judge OnStand Asks Jail for Daily Agent Greenstein Sentenced To 2 Days by Same . Judge NEW YORK. — Judge Harris, who presided at the trial last Wednesday of Morris Greenstein, who was atrested for selling the Daily Worker, took the stand against Greenstein when the trial was continued yesterday in the Second St. and Second Ave, court. Harris, intent on railroading Green- stein to jail, testified that the de- fendant refused on Wergresday to obey his orders to stop selling the Daily Worker, Harris had given the defendant a suspended sentence, with the proviso that he stop selling the working-class daily. Greenstein then threw his bundle of Daily Workers ont he judge’s desk and told him he would continue sell- ing the Daily Worker as long as he lives, whereupon he was sen- tenced to two days in jail. Greenstein was defended yester- day by Joe Talbert, International Labor Defense attorney. Fannie Horowitz, another I.L.D. attorney, who defended him on Wednesday, took the stand to testify for the defense against Judge Harris, The trial judge gave Greenstein a sus- pended sentence. Photo Workers Out at Wheelan Studios Demand Union Recog- nition, Pay. Raise NEW YORK.— Workers of the Wheelan Photo Studios, 377 7th Ave., struck Thursday, under the leader- ship of the Photographie Workers Union for wage inereases, shorter hours and recognition of the union. Over 200 workers are employed by this concern, one of the largest in the country, specializing in depert- ment store photography. All phote- graphers are urged to support the strike and come to the union head- quarters, 5 E. 19th St. DRUG CLERKS STRIKE NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The clerks at Lindeman’s Drug Store; 152 Riv- ington St., went on strike against an 80-hour week, mistreatment, abuse and a spy system. When they first organized to better these eontlitions, the leader of the group, a member of the Pharmacist’s Union was fired. The clerks then went on strike, to the support of which the Pharma- cist’s Union of Greater New York ap- peals to all east side workers to rally. Cleveland Workers _ Call Meet Against Soviet Union’s Foes CLEVELAMD.—The workers of various mass organizations in this eity plan a masa@ meeting and demonstration against the local White Guardists, who-have called a “Russian Day” to fight the rec- ognition of the Soviet Union. The meeting will be held at the Ukrainian Labor Temple, 1051 Auburn Aye., at 11:30 a.m, tomor- row. The demonstration will fol- low, Father Kappanadze, with the aid of Hamilton Fish, called the meeting of White Guardists. Local workers were urged to attend the anti-Russian Day me¢ting a8 a counter demonstration, and in [support of the USSR. For Talk Of Union; AFL Head on NRA) Says He Is Waiting for| Streetcar Men To | Be Spontaneous BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 27.—Clarence | F. Conroy, Secrétary of the Street | Oar Men's. Union, which hasn't been in existence since the 1932 strike on the I. R. C., has a nice office in the Céfrans Building, is sole A. F. of L. | representative in the N. R, A. nego- tigations, and makes a fat living col- lecting $1 apiece from union men to represent them before the State Com-| pensation Board in case they get hurt. But he's too biisy to organize even an A. F. of L. union among the Streetear men, Seventy-seven I. R. C. employes risked their necks recently to vote in favor of an outside union, | instead of the present corrupt, crooked, boss-controlied company | union, Two were fired for talking for an outside union. Still Conroy was quoted in Satur- day’s Buffalo Times as saying he would wait till there was a “spontan- ous demand among the men” for a union before he'd start organizing. What he means is that he will let the men be squeezed by the com- pany union till’a real union starts up —then he'll revive his A. F. of L. union, if necessary, to help the bosses | break any real union’s strike moye- ment. National Events Lecture on Germany BALTIMORE,—Dr. Albert FE. Blum- berg, of John Hopkins University, will lecture on “The Situation in Germany Today,” tomorrow night, 8:30 p.m., at International Bookshop, 509 N. Butaw St. Admission 2c. Proceeds for Daily Worker Drive. ee re Tag Day to Aid Victims of Fascism CHICAGO.—Committee to Aid Vic- tims of Gefman Fascism is holding a city-wide tag day tomorrow to close the week of protests against fascism and collection of funds. A meeting will be held in the large hall of the Coliseum. A.F.L. Officials Expel Drivers in Dye Trade For Calling Strike NEW YORK.—Drivers in the clean- ing and dyeing trade who went out on strike last week, defying the wishes of the officials of their A. F. of L. union were execluded from a union meeting to which they were called last week and were told that they had been expelled from the ‘union, ‘The strikers, who aré joining in a Cleaners’, Dyers and Préssers’ Union, declare that they are going to fight to a show-down to oust the officials of their local. The result of the fight for the rights of the drivers depends latgely on the spreading of the strike to other shops. The executive council of the Retail Tailors and Cleaners of Greater New York met Thursday and recommend- ed a general stoppage on Monday to compel the wholesalers to come to terhis with the inside strikers. Tail- ors and retail drivers are urged to join the strike by the striking driv- ers of local 185. Lovestonites Unite With Scabs, Gangsters to Build AFLFur Union| NEW YORK.— Scabs, underworld and Lovestoneltes joined hands in an attempt to révive the defunct Fur Joint Council of the A. F. of L. at a meeting at the Rand School this week, The meeting was called to “build the union with the help of the NRA” and a‘temporary council was elected to function until July. Three Lovestoneites were elected on the Joint Council after they dem- onstrated their devoted interest in the cause of smashing the Fur Work- ers’ Industrial Union. Baretz, a fur worker and one of their members delivered a slanderous attack on the Industrial Union, which won him 160 votes and helped elect Lena Green- berg and Inpirater who had been able to get only 30 of the gangsters and s0abs to vote for him. The Loveston- ites have thus achieved unity with the murder of Morris Langer, the gang- sters paid by the fur bosses and the strike-breaking A. F. of L. officials. When the workers in the shop where Baretz is employed learned that he had the scab agents, they made him understand the in- | plant of the Todd Shipyard jdown truck. As they were riding united front with the strikers of thé} assault and battery. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933 |Drydock Bosses in ‘Scab Herd Attempt) Strike in Fourt thWeek; 4,000 Out in North and South NEW YORK. ers of Mobile, A Boston reported out, ke of the dryd its | fourth week y cers of the Robbins Dryd Ba. the first to stril At present. trike involves over 4,000 organized and un workers who demand 0 nition and wage increases. Seventy wel agents in Philad Police are concent bins plant, 1 being held insi night. The A. P. of L. officie beep with the N.R. The Steel and 1 Ih lustrial Union has issu for setting up yard cor unite all the workers and tie-up the Plants 100° 17 Workers Injured Relief Truck Br eaks NEW YORK.—Seventeen workers | were badly injured several d ago when a truck taking them from the| | Bear Mountain station to a relief job| in Bear Mountain, fell apart. The overcrowding was the direct re- who complained that the men were not coming to the job on time. The men, fearing to lose their jobs, crowded into the dangerou run- the mountains, one side of the tr caved in and the men fell out w the truck was going to top speed. Asiidents on this Bear relief project are very frequent. a day passes, but that two or three men are hurt in blasting rock,’ FacesFrameupCourt Jail Girl for Defending Self Against Thug MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.—The trial of Elizabeth Marcello, Classy Leather Goods Co. striker, started here on Wednesday, with the court and com- railroad Her’ on framed charges of Pocketkook workers of this pany came out on sirike last week, the first strike in this town since 1922, and one of the company rats, Ray Graziano, tried to attack Eliz: beth Marcello, She defended herself and was jailed, Graziano being freed on the request of Mr. Rosenzweig, who is a Socialist. Sh is being de- fended by Defense. Organizer Lader national Pocketbe: ‘ came up and told the workers not to picket. He left town without making any efforts to help the workers win their strike. The strikers are going ahead with picketing and have adopt- ed the policy adv by the Trade pee Unity League ik sais er. n of the Inter- s* Union | Barbusse Speaks In Irving Plaza Hall at Meeting Tomorrow NEW YORK.—A capacity audience is expected tomorrow night at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., to hear Henri Bar' noted French novelist and fighter against imperial- ist war, lecture on Literature and War. Barbusse will leave for France shortly to resume the anti-war Work he interrupted temporarily in France to help make the American Anti-War Congress a success. The meeting tomorrow night will be under the joint auspices of the John Reed Club and Clarte, French workers’ club. Other speakers at the meeting with include Michael Gold, Daily Worker columnist, Joseph Freeman, editor of the New .Masses, and H. W. L. Dang, grandson of the poct. Corliss Lamont, formerly of the philosophy department at Columbia University, will be chairman of the meeting, nese, dignation they felt. Vote Communist—for Minor, Bur- roughs and Gold. As Bear Mountain | ts The truck was an old 1913 model. | sult of an order from the foreman, |. up}* Mountain | Not | Middletown Striker pany showing every sign of trying to| \ com- the International Labor} | Lynching ED FROM PAGE ONE) three, conversing in whispers. Ev- lery few minutes the hea iron- barred gate leadige to the outer world would open and another wit- | din. Se en dressed in ba with grim smiles peut ‘Come to See the Party’ Shore men,” reporters whis- “That's w here e to see the party. D. counsel, desperately for the door a moment. e Euel Lee to be present,” he said. | d to feel that there was | some soul among. those who would see him die, I _ will) wait outside the execution cham- ber. I couldn't bear to see him) hanged.” | | He looked haggard and wor | Silence again descended on th groups waiting in the lobby. The clock read 10 minw to 12. A reporter went off to the ward- 's office and pulled a flask of aes ym his pocket. he said, shaking his head. | East Shore man watched him Geer aka bothio aucun and grinned. SPagaeLy a deputy sheriff stood | he stairs leadi: to an upper| & “Gentlemen,” he said tensely, u will all form in line.” His voice quivered. He coughed and wiped his white face. Deathly Silence in Death Chamber “I must ask you to maintain com- | silence int the death ch r. And take your hats off whi in there.” This was ditected at the officials citizens from the Eastern [plete jand Shore, who might not be inclined to their hats off when just a} i In a deathly silence ses started shuffling to- s shelf upon shelf zation—while going to see} man lynched. Down an ircular stairway where only one man could pass at a time and, |suddenly, they were in the prison rd. The high walls against the darkness, The windows |were lit as for a party. Past red- painted brick buildings and then shoes struck cobblestones with a startling clatter’ In the. semi- darkness they looked like an in- vading horde, and the shuffling sound which had marked their tread now became an ominous clat- ter. Men hunched their shoulders as if to ward off blows and} breathed heavily. Suddenly they were in a high, narrow, white- shed room. Five powerful lights blinded them coming out of the darkness. And there before them was a rope with a hangman’s knot tightly tied around the noose, They shuffled into the death chamber where a black man was fto be lynched. . They could. not take their eyes off the rope that hung om an iron ring in the ceiling rectly over the trap-door through which a man was to hurtle to his death in a few minutes, The trap-door was high, built in a platform about 20 feet from the cement floor. An iron chain strang across the narrow death -cell kept es from getting in the way the doomed man when he was w of shot into eternity. Witnesses Tense The witnesses cleared their. throats, They breathed with diffi- the sound of their was like a gust of sweeping through the narrow chamber, death They wiped the perspiration from their hands with. handkerchiefs, each man looking at the other with a set face. Beads of perspiration stood out on some and the labored |breathing seemed to increase in jintensity until it filled the execu-| tion chamber. The vague sound of indistin- | guishable voices floated down from a white-washed door leading ‘to the platform. A guard appeared car- rying a stretcher which he placed in a corner. On that a man now living would be carried out dead in_a few minutes. It was two minutes after mid- jnight. The minutes dragged. difficult breathing increased until the tension became almost unbear- | ers to hide the stran that bound his arms, a shiny black face that blinked at the bright lights that Slared at his last moments on th ‘Three guards led him to the ceyter of the trap-door, His head wer silhouetted against the bright light directly behind him, leaving Inflation Attack on Workers’. Wages Part of Aggressive Imperialist Expansion able result of the fundamental con- tradiction in the ¢apitalist system, that the Roosevelt program, described by his publicity agents as a program to raisé purchasing power, has actu- ally driver? down the purchasing power of the workers to the lowest levels of the crisis. widens mr, than that.| and ig program more It “permits American itnpérialiom, American monopoly industry, te uti- dersell its European rivals in the struggle for world foreign markets. How does it do that? It works way. As Roosevelt cheapens G American dollar, the value of Buro- pean money rises. By paying in dol- lars, which are cheap, and which they can now get in large quantities by converting their own currencies into dollars, the Buro) market can procure bargains in the American Market. Naturally, the result is that the foreign markets try to buy from American manufacturers. And this Means profits to Wall Street impe- Tialism. means that Wall Street gold pe yal on Apne bog ae in the fens for tore Bet there are two itobs that must be noticed in this process. ‘The first is that the foreign mar- ket advantage that Wall Street cap- italist imperialism obtains through the Reosevelt inflationary program rests on the fact that the American Working class is being robbed to a Breater degree than ever before through this same inflation! It is the slice that the Roosevelt inflation program hacks out of the Wall Street imperialism to beat its European imperialist rivals. By the Roosevelt inflation, it is the Amer- who, in a lowered standard of living, of hunger and privation, the imperialist victories of Wail Street in its fight against British imperial- ism! * Bvt still) another and ‘ extraordi- narily significant thing happens in this inflationary process. And that is, that while the Roose- velt government helps Wall Street imperailism to beat its rivals through cheapening the dollar, the other im- Perialist countries, Britain, France, Japan, etc., leap to the counter-offen- sive by cheapening their own cur- rency even, more than the dollar! And that starts a mad, desperate race among the great imperialist * 8 American working class that enables jean working class and small farmers pay for Roosevelt Gets War Machine Ready to Back Up Inflation Fight powers of the world to give one an- other financial stabs in the back through inflation, The fight for markets gets” more furious, more feverish as the crisis deepens. The inflation blows increase in intensity and frequency, The im- perialist antagonisms rise to extra- ordinary tension, And the explosion of imperialist war begins to loom sinisterly near. ‘That is what is happening now. the collapse of its N.R.A. economic program. It is driving ahead toward aggressive, brutal, imperialist expan- sion, At home, American capitalist eco- nomy is checking in its own “sur- plus,” its own contradictions. Tt is trying to save itself by smash- ing outward toward the world markets. Hence the Roosevelt price raising, gold-buying program. Naval Fleet, lot P poole the accumulated struggle | p, loomed | The | jable. | “Good-bye. The words came clearly through the white-washed door. Kuel Lee had started on his last walk, The Last Few Minutes And suddenly he appeared. a black cape thrown about his should- And the ceaseless maneuvers of the Page Three 2 Buffalo Men Fired Seventy WeldersHit Reporter Describes State of Euel Lee his face in darkness. A’ guard | swiftly placed the noose around his jneck and pulled the knot tight un: | der his right ear s the rope tightened around his he uttered a faint “Oh.” A ne jblack hood was slipped over h jhead. The prison chaplain com |menced droning, “Our father who art in heaven” and suddenly th yerv was drowned by a terrif lerash. The trap-door swung ope and Euel Lee’s body 4urtled through the door with sickening speed, only to be brought short i ir. And there it dangled. lack man in a black cape whos: onizing face was hidden by black hood. And only his stockinge: feet reaching helplessly -te th ground six feet below him. A “God almighty,” a scared voice whispered. n the deathly | room. Hody The seven stillness of the Swings for Seven Minutes body swung aimlessly. Fo: endless minutes Buel Ler wung in mid-air. The hooded head hung limp wit! the hangman’s knot cutting deer under the black hood. His neel had been broken, For seven minutes witnesse: watched the swinging body anc en at a sign from the prisor physician a guatd commenced low: ering the body so that it could b 2 Inch by inch Buel Le was lowered. The body swung anc swayed. Men caught their breati at the gruesome sight of a dea body jiggling in the air, They turned tne dead man’s bacl |to the witnesses while the docto applied his stethoscope. For an in |terminable time he held it ther and then stepped back. The stretcher was placed unde it. Gently—far more gently thar jany man had ever treated him iy life—they laid his body out, And the proud and christian stat: of Maryland was satisfied that i d taught black men their lesson ijOUT OF TOWR AFFAIRS Daily, Worker Boston || OCT. 28th: District Daily Worker Dance at the National Textile Workers Industriel Union Hall, 10 Beach St, Adm. 26c. Norwood, Mass. Dance and Entertainment at ish Hall. Don Polveres Orchestra will furnish the music. Program starts at 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia OCT. 28th: Dance and Entertainment given by the Office Workers Union at the Pen and Hammer Club, 136 §, 8th St. Adm. 20c, Gola Affair held by Unit 909 at 2456 30th St. Adm. 0c. Unemployed Good time assured, Wilmington, Del. OCT. 27th: Xe. the Workmen's Circle Hall, 223 Ship- ley Street. David Levinson, Phila. attorney, recently returned from the Soviet Union and Germany will speak on “German Fascism.” John Reed Club of Philadelphia will stage @ new play and chalk talk. Prei- heit Gesangs Ferein will sing. Ad- mission 25c. Cleveland OCT. 28th: Dance at the Lithuanian Workers Hall, 920 EB. 79th St, at 8 p.m. Sterioptican lecture with slide of State Relief March views from the Soviet Union at Unemployed Work- ers Hall, 3874 Payne Ave., at 8 p.m Gary, Ind. |} OCT. 28th: | Banquet given by Unit 3 (Tolleston) at 1948 West 10 Place, at 9 p.m Admission free. vie fine dinner will be served. Los Angeles NOV. 5th: Extraordinary Concert, Music, ' Rn tertainment and Drama to be jhele at 214 Loma Drive nt 8 p.m. | OCT, 28th: Concert and Dance given at Worker: Home, 1543 E. Ferry Ave, at 8 sig OCT. 29th: | Concert and Dance given it Hall, 3016 Yemay slam Dance starts at 5 p.m. 8 p.m. Artists from Ceneda, pices Section & P.C. Dance and Concert by Section 5 6 Pinnish Hall, 5969 iéth St, ‘ A well known Soviet film will b shown at the following places on th dates listed below for the benefit ¢ the Daily Worker; OCT. 30th: Solvay Guilt Hall, W. Jefferson an Harrington. OCT. 31st: Assembly Holl, 12th St. and Olair moint, NOV. Ist: Yenians Hall, stranck. NOV. 2nd: Finnish Hall, 6969 14th St, at Mi Grew Ave. NOV. 3rd: Martin Hall, 4959 Martin Ave. | | aus 3014 Yemans, Mer The Roosevelt government faces of the halls’ mentioned above, | All showings begin at 7:30 shi mission 18. Tickets good of the halls listed abov California ‘The great Soviet film “1905 ea fram M. Gorki’s famous “Mother” will be shown in the % lowing cities on thé dates r the touring with this film. . Oct. 30—Berkeley low for the benefit of Worker. Comrade Ed, Nov. 2 to 12 inctustye--Le Angeles, yA or t sounded like a shoui Lecture and Entertainment given at , Very elaborate anc ° RONMOMOE aw TOSS BOOMHDSHMarvree ar 1e