The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1933, Page 1

Scottsboro Protests Called in Harlem ; Meetings to Be Held Throughout Country Help the Daily Lynch Terror | Worker Fight | With Your | Dollar Donations! | te Daily Central O (Section of the Communist International) orker ist Party U.S.A. | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper Vol. X, No. 288 _ 26 = «—-Bntered as second-class matter at tho Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8 187%, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents UDGE'S CHARGE TO DECATUR JURY UPHOLDS FRAME-UP SIX REDS. EXECUTED IN NAZI PRISON Sentence Ten More;} Arrest Thousands in| Anti-Communist Drive} COLOGNE, Germany, Nov. 30.— Continuing ifs savagry against all opponents to the Nazi murder re- | gime, the Hitler government today | executed six Communists in the | prison yard at Cologne here. They were charged with the killing of two Storm Troopers last February. Only Nazis, of cow were the wit- nesses against them. The workers were sentenced in July, A fruitless appeal postponed the execution until today. | On Tuesday, ten Communists were sentenced to death by a Nazi court at Dessau, cahrged with hay- ing shot a Storm Trooper. These sentences and executions | coincide with mass arrests of work- | ers, The jailing, during the pres- | ent week, cf more than 2,000 work- ers, charged with Communist ac- tivity, clearly shows the hollowness of the Nazi assertions that the Communist movement has been “crushed.” Nazis Finish } Plans MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 30.—The Fascist Bavatian Government. is | rapidly completing its plans to make | sterile “mental incompetents and | habitual criminals,” it was an- | nounced tod sons will be seized and made sterile, | fascist officials announced. is aimed | Tkers and | whom this | ill be used. It will | that the plot to Reichstag defend- | Wipe Out the The slow response has forced us to have lasted eight weeks. Space tant class struggle news, we are forced to reserve for our appeals, in order to save our paper in its death * ECAUSE our appeals have not been desperate and panicky, there is a false confidence that the need for funds cannot be very great. The contrary is true. The need of great as now. To put out a six and eight page Daily Worker capable of reaching the broad masses means more expense. 35-year-old press has added to the seriousness of the situation. facts must stir you into revolutionary action to save our only Daily Worker. * HERE are revolutionary workers action once they realized the critical situation of our “Daily.” delphia, Boston, and Seattle have gone over the top. But they are the only ones. If every worker, every workers’ organization went into action in the same spirited revolutionary manner, if every reader sent a dollar, our drive would go over the top, and our Daily Worker placed on its feet. | Comrades, there is not a minute to be lost. The stake is the life | of the Daily Worker. Creditors are clamoring for pay on overdue bills. | No matter how small an amount DAILY WORKER TODAY! Our “Daily Worker”! AFTER eleven weeks of campaigning, the Daily Worker drive for $40,000 is still more than $10,000 behind. * * Danger Facing to prolong the campaign which was we would like to devote to impor- and life struggle. * the Daily Worker has never been so The complete breakdown of our The * and organizations which took quick | Phila- | | | | you can send, RUSH IT TO THE | Rolph Supporters in Demand For Anti-Strike Cossacks to Sterilize Foes Refused to Act Against Mob, But Promised| rmany Troops Against Imperial Valley Strikers (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Nov. 30.—The San Jose lynchings have aroused | tremendous sentiment against Gov. Rolph. ‘The Scr:pps-Howard and even Between 200,000 and 300,000 per-| the rural press has called Rolph an open inciter of mob violence and “a destroyer of governmental authority.” proval, it is 2 matter of record that Rolph refused protection to the prisoners ® when called upon to do so. The fascist elements in California, of course, hasten to express full ap~ proval of Rolph’s stand, blaming “slow legal processes” and the ab- sence of the death penalty for kid- nappers. Meanwhile, a campaign for a state In addition to statements of ap. ‘Paterson Strikers ‘Sent Back to Work UTW Leaders Agree to | |sick benefits that are to be paid by |to drive home to the workers the |constabulary similar to the cossack system in Pennsylvania and elsewhere| has been initiated by the San Fran-| cisco Chamber of Commerce. This| Revise Wages in 60 Days Jobless Seamen, Relief Ordinance to Rally Jobless to Dec. 10 Convention, Section in Ordinance Gives Demands on Civil Works Jobs NEW YORK.—Calling particular attention to the Work Relief section of the Workers Municival Re'ict Or- dinance, The City Unemployed Coun- cil yesterday urged popularizatian of the entire Ordinance as a means of mobilizing workers around the Great- er N. Y. Convention Against Unem- | ployment to be held 10 a. m., Ds, 10 at Irving Plaza. The Work Relief (Civil Works) Section besides de- mending that all work on forced labor projects shall be paid at trade unicn rates, states’ that: “Trans- portation to and from the job and svecial clothing required for the work shall be furnished at the expense af the city.” Other provisions are for injury and the city to all such workers on the projects, and that no worker shall b>} denied relief because of refusal to accept work that he is physically in- cavable of deing. “Re-read the Ordinance,” con-| tinued the statement from the Coun- cils, make us of every single point vressing need for mess action in New York City to compel La Guardia to put the entire Ordinance into-effect.” Court Frees Four Arrested Lynchers Within 10 Minutes 300 Negroes Driven Out of Town as Mob Celebrates PRINCESS ANNE, Nov. 30.—It took | an Eastern Shore lynch court just! ten minutes’ to‘ free the four lynch- rs of George Armwood, Negro worker, whose arrest was ordered by Governor Albert C. Ritchie under pressure of the angry resentment and | protests of Negro and white work- ers. Three hundred Negro residents of Princess Anne were driven out of the town by police and mob leaders as part of the wild celebration which | 2 ¢ pected Friday. Actions in Harlem Saturday, Sunday Large Crowds Read Late Bulletins on | Decatur Trials NEW YORK. — Hariem workers, | seething with anger at the freeing of four lynchers of George Armwood by Maryiand cc.7» and the Decatur,| Ala., preparations for a new lynch} verdict aguinst the Scottsboro boys, will answer the lynchers with a tre- Mendous mass protest demonstration this Sunday evening at Rockland Palace, 155th Street and 8th Ave. Workers from all over the city will participate in the demonstration which is called under the joint aus-) pices of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International | Labor. Defense, | Pre the. demonstration at Rockland Palace there will be a huge | protest parade and demonstration this | Saturday afternoon starting at 2) o’clock from 131st Street and Lenox) Avenue. Saturday's protest action is organized by the Young Communist League, whiclr calls upon all the! workers of New York, youth and) adult, white and colored, to pour into the streets in a gigantic protest to stay the hands of the Alabama lynch- ers and show their solidarity with the | oppressed Negro masses and their re-| sentment against the lynch courts and | gangs of the ruling class. | Yesterday, the streets of Harlem | were dotted with excited groups of| workers discussing the Scottsboro case and the Maryland events. The sidewalks in front of the “Liberator” and the office of the Harlem Section of the International Labor Defense were crowded with grim workers, | BULL ETIN Huge Anti-Lynch '| 24 Hours After Governor Rolph Spoke | Part of the mob that, 24 hours after Governor Rolph condoned elle ake * Callahan Orders Second Scottsboro Boys to Trial Before Verdict on Patterson DECATUR, Ala., Noy. 30.—Judge Callahan, at 6 p. m. (Central Time) ordered the jury locked up until Friday. The jury began its deliberations at 5:02 p.m. The verdict is ex- . Defense Smashes Thru Perjuries of the Prosecution | Charge Is Whitewsh of State Witness, | Victoria Price By JOHN L. SPIVAK | (Special Correspondent ef Daily Worker) | DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 30.— | With a pious word of thank- | fulness, “You have the blegs- |sings that the Almighty God | gave us,” Circuit Judge W. W. (“Speed”) Callahan at 3:02 pm., sent the jury to deliberate the fate of Heywood Patterson, who has been rushed through his third trial for life in the Morgan County Court | House here. | Two minutes after the jury had | been locked up, Callahan ordered International Labor Defense law. yers to begin picking jurors for the trial of Clarence Norris, second of the Scottsboro boys. | , Callahan is determined to end | the Norris’ trial by Saturday night, SJudge’s Chargs Callahan began his hour-and-a-half |charge to the jury in a cold, hard | Voice that rang loudly through the |silenced court room, No one was allowed in while he talked. Only messenge? boys rushing with news- paper copy were permitted to enter | the room, At the end of his charge he told the jury to go into the room and lynching, hanged and burned the 19-year-old Negro worker, Lloyd PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 30—The ensely reading the latest bulletins on| deliberate, without having mentioned greeted the return from Baltimore of | D . d R li f Ar ‘campaign has received wide news-| erie ue lel, re ee | Paterson broad silk strike, after four- Hounded hy Perkins, Constantly Thr With Deportation; to Hold Protest YORK.—*ifteen thousand estimated to be “on the| eatened | NEW ing jobless. in the pot of Acents of the immigration bureau are systematically questioning sea- men and checking records in the charity flop-hor: (which are not | free to the seamen in most cases) and deporting these workers. Mili- tant seamen are the first to feel | Vailey and citrus fields got a prompt, ever put over on the workers by the their blow, of course. | The responsibility for relief of seamen is not assumed by the city | government and the only relief ap- paratus is in the hands of shipping} bosses. The so-called Haight com- mittee, headed by the Rockerfeller maritime attorney, has attempted to cut off this miserable relief and has heen checked only by the seamen, led by the Unemployed Council, The amen are fighting for immediate | lelief at the hands of the city relief ipparatus by special taxation of the Ihipping concerns, Charities Are Scab Agencies The various charity institutions. away out in front being “Mother” Roper’s Seamen’s Chu-ch Institute, stand openly exposed before the sea- men as scab agencies. Only mass action by the seamen has won any relief from these agencies, some of them having hundreds of thousands of dollars in reserve. Solidarity With Seamen This Sunday, the seamen are hold- ing a conference for action, spon- sored by the Water*ront Unemployed Council, 140 Broad St.. in behalf of the jobless sailors. This is one of the first steps in a fight that will be the most serious yet underta’-n, Every workingclass organization should send its greetings and pledges of nid to these ‘vorkers. Every Unemployed Council s‘iou mt the demad for inclus’on ‘ants of the government, city nd national, wrested by th- Protests against the cor immigration terror in t hould be sent to Madzm- | striking contrasi. when Visalia workers) Sponsors of the constabulary sys- tem give as reasons the “lawless violence” in the cotton fields and | pretend that the cossack system will benefit the workers. ‘The trial of Pat Chambers, leader of the cotton strikers, provides a On the first day of the trial, came to greet Chambers, they were met by a mobilization of police, ma~ chine guns, etc. Chambers, charged with violation of the California cri- minal syndicalist law, faces 28 years in prison, The trial shows all the character- istics of a vengeful frame-up, ‘with landowners and growers on the jury. The strike threat in the Imperial promise of militia from Gov. Rolph. |teen weeks, was officially declared |settled here by Abe Greene, city editor of the Paterson News, whom |the Textile Workers Union leaders, in settling out the strike, accepted as| |their arbitrator. The formal an- nouncement is that the silk strikers will be returned to work on Monday morning, |. The vote was kept a secret by the U.T.W. leaders, no announcement being made as to the tabulation of the vote, In the agreement, the U.T.W. leaders are sending the ten thousand silk workers back without any in- crease in wages. The agreement gives up the right to strike and calls for a revision of wages every sixty days./ The agreement is one of the worst A. F. of L, leaders, N. Y. of the “Christmas Club,” of the Serial of which James F. Nathan, General Federal Home Loan Bank System and incorporated under the state banking laws, is refusing to pay its depositors by invoking the 60-day banking law of New York which pro- vides that depositors may be called ‘pon to present 60-days notice of withdrawals of deposits, ° When interviewed at his office at 172 Fulton St. Geo. Palmer, secretary, of the bank, and members of the Board of Directors stated that “the nstitution is in a ‘sound and liquid condition,’ but owing to the ‘humane’ renner in treating with mortgages, e find that as a building loan insti- ution we are not in a position to pay. ‘n a review of our accounts we have “ceided to place the burden ‘evenly’ ‘n all accounts.” In an effort to cover up the bank's cen assets, Mr, Palmer further said vat: “Although we have been in- rumentsl in saving the homes of 000 of our members, we have b2en creed to forectose in cases where no vitempt’ has been made to pay.” This, Mr, Palmer hopes, will serve > two-fold purpos: of covering up ins in Washington, us company’s grabbing the homes of Bank Refuses to Pay Christmas Club Depositors NEW YORK.—Thousands of small depositors, many of them members dent, wiil be unable to withdraw their Christmas savings. The Serial Building Loan, 170 Fulton St. New York, member of the Building Loan and Savings Institution, Manager of Western Union is presi- Sens. Se unemployed members while pretend- ing inability to pay its depositors. The Serial Building Loan and Sav- ‘ings Institution, officered by wealthy and influential directors and man- agers of the Western Union Te graph Company, is atempting to play one group of workers against another by refusing to meet its payments, By its investments in inflated Jand values and homes sold to workers by land sharks and development com-~ panies at robbery prices, it now finds itself unable to pay its obligations to its worker-depositors, ‘These workers’ pennies, nickels and dimes, accumulated over a period of @ year, are being made to carry the bank in a condition “scund” enough to pass the notoriously lax banking laws of New York State. Worker-depositors should {mmedi- ately unite and demand the full pay- ment on demand of their savings. The wealthy officials of the company must be held personally responsible even to the extent of their own sal- arles and resources for the full and |man; William McQuay of Pocomoke | solutely no attempt to press the arrested lynchers. The Negroes | departed in broken down Fords and} trucks, hastily gathering up their few Personal belongings. ‘The four lynchers arrived early yes- terday afternoon in a luxurious limousine, accompanied only by the Warden of Baltimore City jail and| a ‘couple of deputies. They were’ hailed as returning heroes by over 3,000 Eastern Shore lynchers, among them the “best citizens” of the region. | These Jatter forced their way through the jubilant lynch crowd to throw) their arms around their fellow-lynch- | ers and slap them approvinsly on the | back, The freed lynchers are William | H. Thompson, druggist and a leading citizen of Princess Anne, who sat on the coroner’s jury “inquiry” into the Armwood lynching; Irving Adkins of | Somerset Heights, a railroad fore-/| City, a chain store on-rator, and Wil- liam Hern of Shad Point, a store- keeper. The ten-minute “hearing” took nlace before Judge Duer, who signed the order of habeas corpus for the return of the lynchers to the East- ern Shore, and Judge John L. Patti- Circuit Court. The State made ab- the charges against the men, although Ritchie had earlier declared the evi- dence was “entirely sufficient” to convict the four and three others who were tipped off on the impend- ing arrests and temporarily d'sap- peared. Ritchie today offered the day, althouzh the entire press of the nation carried the story, eC Ve ANNAPOLIS, Md., Noy. 30.—Pro- tests against the arrest of the four Eastern Shore lynch leadevs were voiced by Republicans and Demo- crats in both houses of the Mary- land Assembly now in scssion here. A memorial sivned by 21 members of the House of Delegates from the Eastern Shore denounced the arrests as “unwarranted, uncalled for, inde- fensible and is a diszrace to the Com- nonwealth of Maryland.” Syracuse Anti-Nazi Meet SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 30.—The Syvacuse Committee to Aid the Vic- ms of German Fascism will hold son, president of the First Judicial! excuse that he had not been notified | the hearing would take place yester- | the Scottsboro trial. Four street| meetings were held last night with an | average attendance of 300 at each. John Moore, a Negro share crop-} per from embattled Tallapoosa County, will be one of the main (Continued on Page 2) | Cleveland Emergency Conference for Sunday CLEVELAND, Nov. 30,.—An emer- gency anti-lynch meeting will be | held this Sunday at 10 a. m. at the | Woodland Unemployed Council Hal!, 3843 Woodland Avenue, to mobilize | Cleveland workers for immediate actions to save the Scottsboro boys. | Appeals to all their members to | attend were issued tolay by the Communist Pa-ty, the Unemployed | Councils, the International Labor Defense, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the revolutionary | trade unions. Many other organi- zations are supporting the action. Trade Unionists to Celebrate Victory of USSR. Tonight Unions, Shops Called to Come With Their Banners NEW YORK.—Members of trade unions of this city together with their sympathizers will celebrate the recognition of the Soviet Union with a concert and mass meeting spon- sored by the Trade Union Unity Council tonight at Manhattan Lyceum, 65 East 4th St. Ben Gold, militant leader of the | Needle Trades workers, will be one jof the leading speakers. Dr. Young, Negro physician, who has just re- turned from the Soviet Union, will give a first hand report of condi- tions in the Socialist fatherland. Andrew Overganrd, secretary of the ‘Trade Union Unity Council, will preside. Appropriate music for the occasion | will be presented by the Ukrainian Chorus in a program of Soviet folk a4 mass meeting Sunday evening at Socialist Headquarters, 566 South. immediate payment of the workers’! sevlngs, Salina St. Funds will be collected « (for the victims of Hitler terror, songs, by M- Dmitrishus. well known, Russian singer. The Pierre Degey- ter Orchestra will offer string music. Eugenes Nigob will be at the piano, % framed on charges of “attacking” a white girl in St, Joseph, Notice the gruesome remains of the lynched Nesro in the also the presence of three uniformed policemen in the crowd looking unconcernedly on, Emergency Conference Sunday on Lynchings Call Urges All Workers and Organizations to Rally Forces to Save Scottsboro Boys NEW YORK.—A joint call for an Emergency Conference to organize united action of Negro and white workers and intellectuals against the ing th out the for Negro Rights lynch wave ra: League of Strugg! urged to send delegates. The call fi The ghastly events of the last few days show the rapid rise of ferocious fascist lynch terror. Lloyd Warner is savagely burnt to death at St. Jo- seph, Mo., wt the Prin Anne mo) atta tate officials and guardsmen arresting the lynchers of George Armwood and drives the Ne- gro population from their homes. The brazen protection of the Cali- fornia lynchers and the vicious in- citement to lynching by Governor Rolph throws oil upon the spreading flames as-the Alabama lynch lords speed the massacre of the nine inno- cent Scottsboro boys. year there have been 44 known Negro victims and four white, It is unmistakable that this rising lynch terror is of the same mold as the frightful orgy let loose by the bloody Hitler butchers. The capital- ist press is filled to Governor Rolp! Mooney, The court ns in Di tur, where the lync! provocative Judge Callahan holds sway with a jury of white farmers despera de- termined to maintain cheap, di slave labor, has been flooded with copies of the Southern press, laud- ing Rolph to the skies. Murder be- comes an object with which to man- euver to c:ush the masses into star- vation and slavery, The President of the United States refuses to speak or to act of Tom (Comtinued on Page 2) ~ | tional country was issued yesterday by the and the International Labor Defense. All organizations are ollows: St. Louis Workers Plan United Fight | Against Lynchers ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 30.— | Aroused by the hideous lynch- ing of Lloyd Warner, 19-year- Already this! old Negro, at St. Joseph on | | Tuesday night, a number of |organizations are preparing for a united front protest meeting to be | held at the City Hall here. A provisional committee to -ar- range for the meeting is being formed, consisting of the Interna- Labor Defense, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Ur- ban League, the National Associa~ | tion for the Advancement of Col- ored People, YMCA, Socialist Party | branches, etc. | The meeting, which will be the | first step in the development of a mass movement against the lynch | wave, will demand the arrest of Sheriff Theison who turned the ‘young Negro over to the lynchers, National Guard officers, and others ig authority at the time of the lynching. a single word about acquittal. Both Leibowitz and Knight rushed to the bench and whispered to him, whereby he stared in surprise at them and resumed charging the jury, adding |casually that if in the event that jthe evidence does not substantiate the charges, it was their duty to acquit, | Just before he concluded he gave the jury a strong hint that it conld find Patterson guilty and give him @ penitentiary sentence of from ten years to life. Callahan read the charge from 2 |prepared paper. The whole charge was filled with legal phraseology, | which it is very doubtful, the jury of farmers could understand. He then ordered them to retire to the jury |toom, which is the room used by the defense for its witnesses, It was 3:02 p, m. ‘The court stressed in its charge that \“f fear of force were present, rape |is es‘ablished. even though the wom- co will be held this Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the In- |an did not fight for her honor or Workers Order Hall, 415 Lenox. Ave. her life.” “The attitude of the defendant's social and racial defenses should be | weighed by you,” he cautioned. “Even \if Victoria Prive made no effort to \resist and penetration occurred, it is ‘rape. It doesn’t matter if she con- | sented.” | “The law says,” he added, “That when the woman is a white woman, it is a strong presumption that-she did not yield voluntarily to a Negro. |It holds true no matter how despised |the woman may be, | It is also a principle of law involved |that any person that advises or en |courages in the violation of the law jis just as guilty as the person who actually violates the law. The pun- jishment is the same. | “The evidence of Victoria Price is |enough if you think it is corroborated by Orville Gilley.” Attorney-General Knight grinned and looked very pleased. | (Callahan said nothing about his |refusal to adjourn the court in order to get Ruby Bates’ tories, which arrived this morning at 9). The court then stressed that | State's failure to call certain es must not be considered. “All you have to consider is what the witnesses who. appeared here before you tes- tified.” The court continued: “You should look at the witnesses’ gountenance. God almighty Mae put you them there and it is there (Continued from Pag