The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1933, Page 5

DAILY WOR! RK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1 . Page Five WHAT ——— J WORLD! ores By Joseph Freeman RD. is a_hyward throughout the world. It is the name of a cheap, therefore popular, car. It ts also the symbol of a production system. Before the crisis it was fashionable for capitalist apologists in Europe and America (and this includes Socialists) to speak of Fordism as the antiddfe to Levitiism. Ford was the symbol of that “enlightened” capi- a tt which was the best safeguard against the “catastrophes” of Bol- she’ not Tedd a Unioit. They were happy at his beltline; they had no grievances, Every: Ford.jworker got $3 a day, owned his home, and was the proud possessor of a car, Naturally, a Ford. he crisisexploded this fairy-tale. The mask fell from the ruddy face of Dearborn’s “benevolent” despot. Ford's industrial tyranny—pointed out for years by tilifant workers—now became manifest to the world at large. In ‘Aprif1932, thousands of unemployed Ford workers crossed the line between Detroit, and Dearborn and marched to the Ford plant on the River Rouge. They came to make peaceful demands. They wanted work or bread. nate From Bridge,No. 3 leading into the plant, Mr. Sorenson, the general manager, and Mr, Edsel Ford, the president of the company, watched the Ford private police open machine gun fire on the hunger marchers. Joe York, a member of the Young Communist League of Detroit, and three otherworkers were killed. The day-of their murder by the Ford police is remembered as “Bloody Thursday.” ~ a . HEN I visited Detroit in August of this year, and again in October, workers: took me to see the graves of Joe York and his comrades, ‘These martyrs.of the Ford Massacre are buried in a cemetery near the River Rouge planti The militant workers of the automobile capital plan to erect 8 monument on the graves of Joe York and his comrades—a tall shaft which canbe seen from the River Rouge plant. ““¥ts inscription will be a warning to the Ford autocrats and a battle- cry to their slaves. . During both visits I went through the Ford plant, In August it was a melancholy sight; in October it was nearly desolate, Hundreds of ma~ chines were idle. Entire departments were empty, It was an industrial graveyard. The,most famous plant in America, was operating at 25 per eent of capacity, symbol of the capitalist crisis. + 319k . . M workers,from minor officials of the Ford company, from observa- iidn, I leattjed’a few things about “benevolent” capitalism. “In “prosperity.” when the Ford plant was working at full capacity, the ratio of overhead.to payroll was about 15 to 10. Now the plant is oper~ _ ating at about,25 per cent capacity, and the ratio of overhead to payroll * is -4-to- 1. The worker is therefore being exploited more than he was in 1928-29: Butcthis:increased rate of exploitation is not enough for Henry Ford. He has-betin cutting wages and increasing speedup to an unprece-~ dented? degree” Hé wants a still bigger rate of profit. e-has alo worked out some new ways of cheating workers. Ford is nothing if not original. The average daily wage of the Ford worker today is $4.,But Ford employs nearly 2,000 workers at about $2.50 a day, This is how he does it. Thousands of Ford workers fired during the erisis-ave compelled by starvation to apply to the “welfare” agencies of the city ©f Detroit, Same of them are sent back to Ford. He re-hires them not at the-regular plant wage, but at the “welfare’ wage—$1 a day. In addi- tion, the “benevolent” magnate gives them a place to live in rent free, and “groceries from his stores. * Altogetiiey, experts have computed, this totals $250—or $1.50 a day LESS. “than’ the ‘regular wage. It is only the fear of a scandal that pre- vents Ford from hiring more than 2,000 workers trained in his plant on this. -pifatical_ be sis, * ‘qVERE is another cruel trick, When you go through the Ford plant you ; eah see -aynumber of cripples around the place. They are supposed to “ ye “working. But they sre so helpless they cannot possibly do any work, Ford knows this: “Why are’theysthere? I was told these were men maimed for life while at s’0%k in thé Ford plant. They are receiving some slight compensation. “sit MeUwdfa is “on principle” against workmen's compensdtion, 5 ‘Therefore, though these men can do absolutely nothing, 2° against the (big. ~ they are compelled to report to the plant and to pose as “workers,” Let “the world ere i * anything fom nothing! Jn order te: create the impression that they are working, the cripples must not talige they must not read newspapers. They are prisoners for X ny. owever, has a kind heart. Since these cripples cannot walk, Bet to “work.” ‘Their families place them on street-cars to the River Rouge plant. From the street-car stop they are trans- to thé factory in Ford automobiles, generously provided for this “purpose by, their master. ‘ * * . pork special, * AS Y¥QU go-threugh the departments where men are at work, you can se: ‘forsyourself>that the phrase “industrial slayery” is brutally literal, . Hated for their masters is cut visibly into their drawn, sallow faces. = ‘Wéhtry Ford more bitterly than most workers hate their bosses. iis ‘smug hypocrisy. They loathe his repulsive pretense of ‘benievolént” capitalist. . When the foreman passes by, the men lower their heads, or look the other way. Hostility hangs heavy between the slaves and the straw boss who yetls, “Step.en it!” and rawhides them by socking his fist into their “The Ford autocrats do not mind this hostility. They like it. They even insist-on it, Hereis a story some Ford workers told me: Last yeai Messrs Sorenson and Martin, general mane visited the superintendent of Building B. S want-you,” they said, “to fire 25 men in your department, at ‘s of the plant, ‘Which 25 men?” the superintendent asked, “Any 25-men,.It makes no difference.” “and why should I fire 25 men?” - -“fere's the-xeason,” Messrs. Sorenson and Marvin explained. “You are the only superintendent whom the men like, ‘They don’t turn their heads avedy°When YOU pass. They sometimes even smile to you, It has even been reported thé You occasionally smile back. We don't want that kind of superintendent, We want a man behind whose back the workers say: “There goes that son of a bitch!’” The superintendent ripped off his badge and quit, Several weeks later the Ford company. asked him to come back; he was too capable to let go, But he West, job In the end anyway, On “Bloody Thursday” it was discovered tha brother was a Communist who was active in the hunger, ms ws a Helping tire y Worker through Michael Gold. Céntributjori® received to the credit of J.’*hael Gold in his Socialist conypatttion S, Luttinger, Edward Newhc's’, Helen Luke, Jacob Bureland aise $1,000 in the $49,000 Daily Worker Drive: (NOTE: A contribution of $5.55 previously listed from the Irish Work- evs’ Club was from this Club located in the Bronx.) evi. Be... $0.25 Anonymous 1.00 *, 0, Rud, Kay, ys ae Bees 1.00 ot, GHEE ne owe Max Radoff ., 1,00 ~ Steitén Br, T, b Boro Pk. Wkrs, En 1.50 M.. By Stevens > A. Jacobsen). TOTAL TOcDATE .. & Previous Totai . “titis illysign was fostered by Henry Ford himself, Ford’s workers did Field to Represent John Reed Club at | Chicago Farm Meet) NEW YORK.—As part of its oe mediate program to draw writers and | artists closer to the embattled work- ers and farmers, the John Reed Club is sending Ben Field to represent it* at the Farm Conference in Chicago, Field is a former farm hand. He! has written many stories, sketches | and articles, which have appeared frequently in the Daily Worker, New Masses, Producers News and othet | publications, | age and Screen the Shubert Theatre on Friday night, Noy. 24, a week ahead of the original schedule. The cast is headed by Judith Anderson and includes Kent Smith, Moffat Johnston, Jose Ruben and Lionel Stander. “Champagne Sec,” now playing at the Shubert, will move on Monday to the Forty- fourth Street Theatre. Robert Sinclair, director, and Michgel Blankfort, assistant director, have filled the seventy-two speaking parts of “Peace on Earth,” which the Theatre Union will present at the Civic Repertory Theatre on Novem- ber 29. The cast includes Robert Keith, Clyde Franklin, Walter Vonne- gut, Halliam Bosworth, Thomas ©, Cooke, Frank Tweddell, Donald A. Black, Millicent Green, Ethel Intro- pidi and Carolyn Newcomb. “| WAS in the Navy for four years. answered my question in: regard to military service. ony of the endless questioning néc- essary for my report, I stated in question form, been. interesting work?” me?” ‘one of youth and health. I couldn't possibly . . reconcile young man of the picture with. this emaciated skeleton who held the photo in his trembling hands. to the Home Relief Bureau to ask for aid. After every plea he was promised an “investigation.” day, a nurse from the ' Visiting Nurse Association, and a public school teacher called the office and in indignation, family was desperately hungry, and facing eviction. * IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY Short Stories from the Experiences of a-Home Relief Bureau Investigator. as told to HELEN KAY The Deserter 33 He stood in front of me still | holding the picture in his hands. Bit he pointed to it. “It was this boy that: voluntarily joined the Navy-to fight for his country,” he said. He pointed to himself, “but it won't be this man.” His wife pleaded with me not to mind him, “Ever since he came hack from the, Navy he hardly talks I was on a destroyer,” the man T hesitated. To break the monot- “That must - have The man-turned pale. “Yes,” “he “ ”» i; The Drums Begin” Coming) seniea, “very interesting. “It de- -| t2 enybody. He's. $0 gloomy and be- To Shubert Theatre Nov. 24 | stroys « lot—and-it sure destvoved | Sides he often gets convulsions.” | ap me.” He walked over to one of-the | The poor woman had tears in her “The Drums Begin,” a new play bY) drawers and pulled outa picture. |.©¥eS. “Tom,* please stop,” she Howard Irving Young, will open at| « begged him. « “Look,” he said, “can you recognize “Stop!” he yelled. “Oh, yes, this is a great country to fight for, 2 country with brass bands and gold medals, and little children like these.” He pointed to his three children standing there terrified. They were immaculately ‘clean, pitifully thin. “They cry fora piece of bread or & glass of milk, and I can't give it to them. Yes, a great country, Miss. But this time someone else will have to do the fighting for it, Not I.” He walked out of the room in his anger, I. looked at the- picture. It was the stalwart This man had come many times He finally stopped coming, One » . EE days later, I came to noti- fy the family that the Home Re- lief Bureau could not do anything. He would have te apply to the Bu- reau of Veterans for aid. reported that the WAS only then that was given at in Henry Ford’s “enlightened” system nobody gets | instructions to “investigate” this family's case. I found this man, @ war veteran, sick, his wife preg- nant, on her knees scrubbing the floors of the large hallway. This, in addition to taking care of the heat- ers, was to make up for part of the rent. Tt was this man, the head of the family, jobless, starving, that I must ask questions concerning background, relatives, property, in- surance policies, and everything about him and his iamily, Then I would have to fill out the report, and perhaps he'd get relief of some sort. “Growing Pains,” the Aurania Rou- verol comedy, will open at the Am- bassador Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 23, instead of Friday, as originally announced, “The Curtain Rises,” now at the Ambassador, will be trans- ferred to another theatre. Recent additions to the company include Patricia Morrison, Murry Rhyness, Loraine Hays and Claire McQuillen. Richard Maibaum’s “Birthright,” a play of life under the Hitler regime, now playing in Newark, is announced for next Tuesday night at the Forty- ninth Street Theatre. Sylvia Field, Thais Lawton, Harold Elliott and Alan Bunce are in the cast. I came to the door as an ambu- lance pulled up. ‘Two men in white uniforms were carrying the woman out on a stretcher. Her face and hands were black with ashes. I introduced. myself to the nurse. ‘The nurse explaffied that the wo- heaters. Her cofdition showed that she was very ich -indernourished, overworked and fatigued with wor- would most lfk¢ly lose the baby she carries. ax Stet I wanted to.apeak to the man, But when I saw his angry and des- “Deluge” To Be Shown At Jefferson Theatre Saturday | aie | “Deluge,” with Peggy Shannon, Sidney Blackmer and Lois Wilson will be the principal screen feature TUNING IN at the Jefferson Theatre beginning Saturday. “Torch Singer,” with Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez and David Manners will be shown on the | same program, Beginning Wednes-)| day, Nov. 22, the Jefferson will pre-| sent “Captured,” with Leslie Howard, Margaret Lindsay and Douglas Fair- TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Mountameers Music 1:15—Billy Baehelor—Sketch 7:30—Lum and Abne: 1:45—The . Goldbergs—Sketch | banks Jr. “Ladies Must Love,” with ioe Land Orch.; Soloists < ete June Knight, Neil Hamilton and Sally} %00—Captein ‘Henry ivu.¥ Boat; Charles ONeill is on the same program. | s9,99—whiteman ‘Oreh} Deems ‘Taylor, George Brent and Margaret Lind- Natrrator | 11;00—Prances Alde, Sopran | say play the leading roles in “From | Headquarters,” a new Warner Bros. screen drama now playing at the Strand Theatre. The, picture was ditected” by William -Dieterle from a story by Robert N. Lee. Workers Invited To Photo | Exhibit, “America Today” 11:30—Hollywood Tribute a WOR—710 Ke F700 PM Sports Ford Prick 1:15—News—Gabriel Heater ano to Radio City } 7:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch 1:45—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano Duo; John Kelvin, Tenor ' 8:00—De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, Tenor 8:15—Little Old New York—Harrison Grey Fiske 8:30—-Lone Star Rangers 9:00—Jack Arthur, Songs; Ohman and NEW YORK.—The national photo | Exhibition “America Today,” which opened Wednesday night at the head- (quarters of the Film and Photo | League, 116 Lexington Ave. (near) 28th St.), will be on view every night in the week from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m, (except Mondays and Thursdays) | and from 2 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. on | Saturdays and Sundays The exhibi- tion will close Dec, 15. All workers jare invited. Admission is free, Arden, Piano 9:15—Family Welfare Committee Dinner, Astor; Speakers, Pormer Governor Alfred E, Smith, Mrs. Dwight Morrow | 10:00—Saxophone Quartet 10:15—Current Events—Marlan Eugene Read | 30—The Jolly Russians 00--Weather Report 02—Moonbeams Trio 30—Childs Orch. :00—Bestor Oreh, WIZ—760 Ke 7:00 P, M.—-Amos 'n’ Andy 1:16—The Three Husketeers—Sketeh | 10:18—Deep BR 7:30—Michael Bartlett, Lustgarten, Violin 7:45—Mario Cozzi, Baritone 8:00—Captain Diaindnd’s Adventures— Sketch 8:30—Advent ‘Tenor; 46 40, Health—Dr | Bundesen 8:45—Revelers Quilfta | 9:00—Death Velley Days—Sk :30—King Oren 10:00—Concert @rcho> 10;30—R Jer-—Gentre Program; Spesk lomet-Arthur Woods, J. B. e Kennedy, and Others 11:30—eotti Orel 12:00—Kerr Oree | 12:80 A. M.—Danee ~ WABE=860 Ke 4:00 P. M.—Myrt and Marge 7:15—Just Plain” BIN—Sketch 7:30—Jeannte Lang ahd Paul Small, Songs Denny Ores 1:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00-—Elmer Everett Yess—Sketch 8:15—Singin’ Sam <i. 1; Hopkins Orch. Mare Committee— 9:00—Citizens Fanifiy Talk i 9:15—Kate Smith, Songs; George Piano; Harry Richman, Son! ; Helen ‘Oreh, 10:30—News Bulfetins qi: Phil Regan, Tenor Jones Oreh. ~ Nelson Orehs,., Lyman Orch man had faihted ivhile fixing the | ry. The nurse “aso ‘stated that she | Herman | 10:45—Coneert Qrclu; Gladys Rice, Soprano | June. Walker | | Who plays one of the leading roles in Motiere's “The School for Hus- the Theatre Guild Produc- tion now current at the Empire Theatre. perate look, I pretended not to have noticed him and walked away. Several weeks passed. During those weeks we were called again by the Bureau of ,Disabled Veter- ans, They informed us that they cannot ascertain whether the man’s illness is a result of the war or not. They, therefore, have held up the case for “further investiga- tion,” and have referred the fami- ly_to our care, T was finally given a food ticket to take to the home of this war- veteran, Even before I reached their door, I gathered from a friend of theirs, that this devoted hus- band and fatner had deserted the family. He couldnt bear to see his babies starve. The wife was in the hospital, deathly sick, She had had @ miscarriage, “Yes—We Haye No me * ‘Tomorrow: Coal.” WHAT'S tions the War gue, 33 ATTENTION. ALL for speaker t Lee LL.D. me ts at 15 ar a Union e Can Friday, Nov. by 1 2 7, muss rally to greet Te South Sth St. at 8 p. Auspices Nat Turner Br. LL.D. Chicago Gsturday, Ex-Service- men’s Lea: thelr 4th Annual T Good Program. mittee to Aid sm will hold ent at 706 B. 105th Withdraw the “Red Front” Magazine from Ciculation! (AN EDITORIAL.) Hp A publication called “Red Front,” published by the Central Commit- tee of the Red Front Fighters’ League and dated November, 1033, there is a first page article the intent of which seems to have been to fight Fascism. But the article serves a directly op- posite purpose. It alds Fascism! Atier describing a document sent jout by supporters of Hitler in the United States, the article in “Red Front” says: “Sixteen million Germans of American birth—16,000,009 potential, if not already actual, Fascist, aided and abetted by such strongholds of bigotry as the Ku Klux Klan, Khaki Shirts, Silver Shirts, and so forth, is a serious menace to the workers in their struggle to organize and de- feat plans {to outlaw their untons.” Should such a statement aj rin the capitalist press we would not hesitate to brand it as a vile slander against the millions of workers and farmers of German descent who live in this country. Evidently the editors of “Red Front” proceed on the as- sumption that whatever happens in Germany meets the approval of all upon the tojling masses in revolu- tionary upsurge. One would get the impression trom the article that this | ufamous system of political banditry, organized assassination, and cultural barbarism, is not imposed by the minority of bankers and industrialist upon the toiling masses, but that it is a particular form of depravity of the whole German nation which also enlists the applause of Germans all ever the world and sweeps into its ranks all those of German descent even unto the third and fourth gen- eration. Certainly no paid pen valet of Hi .- and Goering ever made such 5 -ontastie claim, YL ihe “Red Front” does not hesi- tate iraduce those of German desc. in this country and to ig- nore wompletely the history of our labor moyement and the brilliant and heroic pages written by ‘German- American working men and women: Such: a statement fosters national- ism:and: chauvinism, one of the prin- cipal i oat of the ruling class in pursuit their policy of preparing imperialist war as a capitalist at- tempt to find a way out of the crisis, those of German blood everywhere. Such an illusion does not expose Hit- ler, but supports him.and the Fas- cist myth that the German. people support the Hitler tyranny. Nowhere in the entire .atiicle » is there one word about the class char- acter of Fescism as a defense of de- caying capitalism anda fierce assault ee eet . pasate, deplorable as this slander. of the German-American masses, is the headline ‘of the article—a streamer, across the page—whieh: vonds: “‘SJows Half Niggers'—Naz!s.” The implication of such a headline ‘s that ff the Jows were “half Ne- groes” it would in some way reflect upon them. To publish such a quo- tation from the agents of the cut- throat Hitier regime in this country as a headling is ay insult to the Ne- gro masses and is a vicious form of | white chauvinism, regardless of the intent of its authors, how deeply the*vi propaganda against the Negro work- ers and farmers -has sunk into the ranks even of these who claim to fight in the ranks of the working class against capitalism. The very appearance of such @ thing serves 10 “Yemind us sharply that the fight against white chauvi- nism must be intensificd and every manifestation of it relentlessly ex- pee and exterminated, Such a eadline is absolutely impermissible in-any publication professing to speak for the toiling’masses. It is particu- larly. nefarious when it appears in a pvblication calling itself “Red Front,” inasmuch as the splendid traditions connecied with that name are made to serve as # medium for chauvinist propaganda. - » Sr ata 1E “Red Front” is an organization containing. many members not in the Communist. Party. It is called a “defense. spért organization,” and tries to playa part in the class struggle, according to its statements elsewhere in the paper. But in such an=-organization the Communists must work as a fraction that strives to guide the ¢rganization along cor- rect lines, Certainly there is not one * jiota of Communist influence dis- played in the article under criticism. ‘The publication “Red Front” gen- shows lack of guidance. Not of which the one we quote is the worst exan , but it sh a nin of adv n and irr: bility that is inexcusable in any wor ing elass publication For € there appears an advertisement stat- ing that a certein theatre thet ad- vertises in many ~ Communist and other working class publications does not advertise with e “Red Front,” hence it ouzht boycotted. It would be interesting to know when and where: and under what condi- tions such a decision was reached— whether it was a decision of any re- sponsible members. or. just a brain- storm of the, editor or. editors. "The whole issue is of such a char- ter that it not oniy must be critic- ally analyzed and ‘condernnsd, but remaining cepiss shoutd be de- streyed and ihe organization should withdraw it from sale, Furthermore, the next issue should contain the most searching enalysis of the er- ters and on the basis of self-critie- ‘sm an attempt should be made to overcome the damage done by such chjectively fascist and -ehauvinist propaganda, rors the Communists inside the ““R: Front” must realize that they have a heavy responsibility to the organi- zation and to the whole working class. (The Scottsbor in Interview, People and Their Fr BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 15. | “They'll have to kill us first!” We're not going to get lynched in o Boys Speak, “To All Our ds”’ 1en | Decatur. We refuse to move a peg without we have the milit tect us at that there trial.” From behind the bars of Jefferson County Jail in Birr : young § Davis, Jr., fense attorney, and throuzh him “‘to| rds passed all our people and their friends.” nouthed “cap- With simple bravery and outstanding | tal of threats hurled desemning bovs, who have|through the bars by favored gtoups become out the world for Negro right | this new threat Seven months ind prison bars. Can't Tell Whole Truth “We've been through hell,” one of the boys said. They told of the “tight- ening up” by the authorities ever since the new trial date was set. Mail is consistently withheld from them. ‘They are given bad focd. At times they are even made to sleep on the concrete floor of their cell, They are constantly threatened by guards and “visitors” in an attempt to break their spirit. It is impossible to learn the full extent of this brutal terror- Wation, for the boys cannot speak even to their attorneys without fear of worse torture in the long days and the thick walls of the prison, “We catn’t ‘tell the whole truth longer nights when they are entirely | at the mercy of their enemies within | wood Patterson told the attorneys. of visitors, but, mostly, the intermin- able bearing down of time—the hours the days and weeks—nothing to do, nothing to read, nothing but wait helplessly there behind the bar& and hope that their fellow-workers out- |side will be able to defeat the lynchers, Have Faith In L. L. D. There is a song the prisone: I’ve counted the days, babe, | I've counted the stars, I’ve counted a million Of these prison bars. | It is this terrible feeling of hope- lless, gripping defeat which the Scottsboro boys have had to strug- |gle against. And their conversation, |their wonderful spirit after eimost |three years of persecution in prison, shows that they Lave won out. “We have faith in the LL.D.,” Hay- sing: “Please send our greetings to the Ne- |gro people and to all thelr white now,” one of the boys explained, and | ¥™pathizers.” went on, “We don’t never want to| It has been only a relatively short live in the South no more when once |time since Haywood Patterson was we go free. Don’t want to even think | released from a month in solitary | Thursday OR AL review of 1933 “New Masses” | | by Arts Comm. for Pen end Hammer, 314 W. 2ist St. at 8 p.m. Open forum follows with “New Masses” editors participating in disou: LL. Br32 pm. Ni g F BDITH - 5 MAN 1,L.D. neets & 1252 50th 8 ‘op floor, Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m. Inte ig speaker on the Reis 6 trib. what would a been of us if hadn’t been for the LL-D,” Ruby Bates’ heroie stand in their last trial was discussed admiringly by the ‘imprisoned boys. “We're so glad “That -was a brave thing for a southern white girl to do for us boys.” | “We sure hope Miss Victoria Price |.tells the truth. this time,” they said, New Trial Very Soon “This time” is only @ bit more than two weeks, away. Ben J. Davis, Jr., | tall, husky, trim Negro attorney from Atlanta, Ga, the man who braved the wrath of Georgia’s white masters | to defend Angelo Herndon and to take active part in many fights for | freedom, enters Jefferson County's |impesing new courthouse with D. R. | Schriftman. | From the barred windows of the seventh and eighth floors, can be | heard the eries of prisoners: Inside, | an elevator whisks them up past the offices of the petty officials, past the gossiping “cojonels” and the venom- ous deputies who stand about the halls, the clerks, who sit on the desks —filled with hatred for the Scotts- boro boys and all they have come to |stand for. They go up past meeting rooms | ace, the rooms used by the local So- list Party and other groups “in r” at this castle of reaction. From \f \these rooms there has certainly never even a whisper of protest at y held behind bars and con- \erete but a few floors above. | Finally, the boys. They are eager. |Roy Wright flashes into a tremend- |ous White-toothed smile as he grasps the visitors by the hand. Haywood 4 | Patterson, with his fiery, alive, frank } leyes meeting their's as he grips their {hands strongly. Olen Montgomery |peers uncertainly through the bars }in his almost blindness. | Eaeh of them, all of them, so tre- | mendously glad te see these friends, | to be able to talk to these men, white and black, who come with good news, not threats, to be able to send, | through ‘them, messages to their mil- | lions of friends throughout the world. “Keep Up Mass Struggie!” “Tell all the I.L.D. to keep on to struggle to get us free,” one of the Miss Ruby Bates tol’ the truth then.” ) confinement. And it is this steady | faith of all the boys which has key |them from despair even under |hot words of Warden Dan Rogers, | who told them: “I wouldn’t give 50 cents a pound for you if you ever | go to Decatur,” and the regular curs- ings of “Captain” K. C, Dement, who once tried to rouse otaer prisoners to kill the Scottsboro boys, Anti-Lynch Conference News of the wave of lynching throughout the South, promises that they, too, will surely be lynched in Decatur. Such things are of almosi daily occurrence. The Southern District of the LL.D issued a statement following the in terview, calling for intensified activi- ty in preparation for the new trial or Nov. 27, for protests to be sent to the warden, Jefferson County jail, Bir mingham, Alabama, against the | withholding of mail and reading | matter from the Scottsboro boys, anc against their persecution and mis- treatment. “The widest possible rep< resentation at the Alabama Anti-, Lynch Conference right in Birming; |ham on Nov, 26, and similar actions throughout the country, are the only, means for withstanding the lyncte preparations of the ruling class f | the coming Decatur trial,” the state: | ment says. /Hitler’s Coffin One | of Many Thrillers at John Reed Club Pa | NEW YORK.—One of the many thrillers promised by the John Club at its “Cockeyed World Party” this Saturday night at its headg - ters, 430 Sixth Ave., is Hitler’s coffin:- | with only the lid remaining to ba- nailed on, Each one will have od |chance to drive a nail or two intcls the coffin. i 4 Another interesting exhibit will be thed | original brue eagle, Its feathers wile \be plucked at the “Cockeyed Worlcet Party,” the proceeds of which wiln- go to the Daily Worker $40,000 Driveef |" Admission 15 cents, no rubbedl~ | t rt { boys said. checks accepted. pel | Then another: “Mr, Leibowitz and | ca Se oaae Bir mp ath the other LL.D. lawyers sure beat | Music Notes a |them all last time, but we know we | In correcting such =] |can’t never go free without all the |mass of people protesting.” |” Soviet Recognition Brings Hope an Yot|} “Gan you get news from the out-/| there serious political mis- | siqe?” asked Attorney D. R. Schrift-| |man, who accompanied Ben Davis linto the jail. The boys immediately ~ |referred to the impending recognition {of the Soviet Union. “We're real glad they're going to recognize Russia,” one of the boys said enthusiastically. They recalled the demonstrations of the Soviet workers in their behalf, and the en- thusiastic reception given Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the boys, by the Soviet masses on her Euro- pean tour with the late J. Louis Eng- dahl, Davis. brought. greetings from An- gelo Herndon, still held without bail | The Beethoven Association will giny2? their first concert of the season 0%. Monday evening at Town Hall, witha Greta Sueckgold, Egon Petri, Frit’), Reiner and the Manhattan String). Quartet as the participating artists. jay Alexander Heimann, pianist, wil}, give his second recital this Sunde) evening at Town Hall, ed. eccwestwen the WHITE COLLAR WORKER HELPSith NEW YORK.—A_ white | worker sending in a contribution the Daily Worker states: “Here se5- a pretty belated donation, which ns mow, however, can be used. I re-OP- ceived a request for it from @ com/™= rade some time ago. Please don'nce publish my name or I'll lose my job."S€5- Contributions are never too Jatebor comrades. Send them in. AMUSEMENTS RS SHOLO Vida AMERICAN PREMIERE | FIRST PICTURE of the YIDDISH MARI “Laughter ThroughTears” “The Moscow Art ‘Theatre actors enurht the essential spirit Men of Sholom Aleichem's representations.” — Daily Worker. state, civil M ALEICHEM’S tg at isi Dialogue—English Titles ACME T ria AS seks a Nous wink You WEAR A COAT - WOR se YUE courr ples PRR otha! CARRY ONE FITHER | Be eye ne a Qseruc SHADE! 3 ame) Mae Cet oF You Wore THAT MM ARREST F OUTFIT, PANTS, SROES ANO BHIRT: Shovine the Lie Down Their Throats! “IT STOOD RIGHT BESIDE MARTIN AAO HE DIDN'T GUESS IT GOT caucar LYING f by QUIPT Mth STREET ang UNION SQUARE ies HEATRE XK NTS, Joan Bennett and. an w she to RKO Greater Show Season —— exo Jefferson iit St # | Now MADGE EVANS and OTTO KRUGER in “BEAUTY FOR SALE” also: “HEADLINE SHOOTER” with FRANCES DEE and Laurs HOPS CREW! in ? 45th St. Bi ur, & Sat, Plymouth jh: On Saturday the Daily Worker has 8 pages. Increase your order for Saturday! “Her Master’s Voice” JOE COOK in OLD YOUR HORSE A Musical Runaway in 24 Scenethreo inter Garden ®""" Ev Th ¥ and Saturday at "EN MINUTE ALIBI WTHEL ith Eves., 8.40, Mats. Tues., Wed, Sat., baat) |) THE THEATRE ety a AH, WILDERNESS! 7 is ‘on W. of Biws: By. SiofatssThurs.aSa6820 OMS MOLIERE’S COMEDY WITH MUSIC 9 eme The School for Husbands o with Osgood PERKINS—J1 WALKER | EMPIRE ‘ovis |