The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1933, Page 2

N.Y. Trade Unionists, ° Vall Cops to Drive Seamen from Meet: Yfficials Fear Attack n Marine Board Plan NEW YORK.—Five police cars were Ned out by the officials of the In- ‘national Seamen's Union to pre- mt 100 seamen from attending 2 ass” meeting which the officials vd called Wednesday night The seamen came to the meeting to quest a report and explanation of @ plan for a National Maritime ard recommended by I. S. U, offi- ls at marine code hearings on No- mber 9. This measure designed to siablish harmonious relations be-/| veen the seamen and shipowners” ould outlaw strikes,make arbitration mpulsory and force the seamen into e bankrupt 1.8.0 The plan was denounced by del- ates at a pecial conference calied the Marine Workers’ Industrial nion last Su: Although invited, > repr atives of other ade unions responded to th rence call and the officials who had) onsored this strikebreaking measure fled to put in an appearance. The| pted a statement Board which | ne code nferenc ainst e nittees on the ships t to enforce it ng the plans cided on @ seamen s ed at the I the entrance) ral known gang-| no one to enter al of the cffic 3 Starving to Death Win Immediate Relief Thru Block Assembly | rediate relief, k, Bas and elec- f 8 Negre work- d to death by Block Assembly in| on today from the| ome Relief Bureau. he family of Mrs.| Wright wes dizcovered by canvassers | ‘rom the Assembly, immediate action | anization of a| proceeded to | From Starvation: Weighs Only 10 Lbs. | STEUBENVIL! 0. two-year-old baby Martha Thomas, Weighing only 10 pounds is in the Gill Memoria! Hospital today with | her life flickering in the balance against two years of starvation and/ rickets. She was found yesterday together | with her mother Mrs. Lucille Thomas | end two cousins, children, all living together in an abandoned house. For | two years since her husband died Mrs. Thomas has been living on the coun- | tryside caring for all three children. She was not receiving any city relief. Noy. 20.— A + | number of students DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 193. ro M Navy Yard Workers Demand Roosevelt Return Pay Cuts NEW YORK.—Brooklyn Navy Yard workers are writing directly to President Roosevelt to declare his stand on the question of re- turning pay cuts to federal em- ployes, it was reported to the Daily Worker today. The letter tells Roosevelt that although he promised in a speech last July to review the conditions of the federal employes and to re- vise wages in accordance with the rise in living costs, a 15 per cent pay cut received in July, 1932 has not yet been returned. In the face of a 30 per cent rise in prices, the workers are demandnig return of the pay cut by January 1. Restaurant Owners Ask Wage Reduction A Code Hearing (By a Worker Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, — The notoriously low minimum wages of 28 cents per hour under the proposed ; Restaurant Code of the N. R. A. now under hearing in Washington are being bitterly opposed by the Restaurant Owners’ Association as being too high. At the hearing, Mr. Miller of the Restaurant Owners’ Association of nd d: “We employ a great for their board nd to pay anything near the wages demanded would be a terrible . We will have to ask trator Whiteside, presid- ing, after making the usual plea for the widow and only son said, “I am of doing away with i I am opposed to a wage so high that tke industry would commit suicide.” Apparently he too favors the In- na idea of no wage at all. di '|Winter Arrangements At Camp Nitgedaiget BEACON, N. ¥.—Camp Nitgedaiget, the only workers camp open during the winter, urges all workers to sperm their winter vacations here amid bigger and better proletarian activi- | ties and surroundings. There is still enough room to accomodate several hundred workers. Many sport and cultural activities:have been arranged to assure a good time for all and at the same time support the workers revolutionary movement. Workers and organizations should make ac- commodations in advance. City Events Red Center Banquet All mass organizations, trade unions, party units, friends and sympathizers, are invited to send delegates to the Fourth Annual Red Center Banquet to be held Sunday, Dec, 24th, at the Workers’ Center, 50 East 13th Street, 2nd floor. Members of the Central Committee will address the ban- quet, Boro Park Workers Club Changes Address A membership meeting of the Boro Park Workers’ Club will be held to. day, 8 p. m, at the new headquar- ters, 4704 18th Avenue. Lecture on Unemployment Insurance The Vyse Ave. Block Committee is iving a lecture today at 1304 | Southern Bivd., Bronx, on “Social and | | Unemployment Insurance.” Admis- Call Emergency Meet on Lynchings | (Continued from Page 1) ‘against the fascist lynch orgies. | Mooney, Scottsboro, Angelo Hern- | |don, are proof that official America | is not opposed to fascist violence. | |The fourty-four lynchings of Ne- groes, the aftermath of Princess | Anne, show that it is not opposed |to lynchings. More and more will! jit resort to these means in an at- ‘tempt to prevent unity of the op-| | pressed white and Negro masses and their organization for struggle—for | the liberation of the Negro people |and the emancipation of all the ' totlers. | | How hypocritical is the position | of those who rave against Hitler’s | | fascist lynchings and dodge the | question of their American coun- terpart! Those who refuse to | fight against lynching are aiding | the rise of fascism in the United | | States. } | The alarm must be sounded which | will rouse the broad masses of the people to instant action. Against this monstrous menace the entire might of the imperilled people must be organized and arrayed. All forces must be united—the Negro people, the workers.and poor farm-/ ers, the decent middle class elements | | and honest intellectuals—to stop the | | savage onslaught of fascist, ruling- | class bynch violence. | The time has come for decisive | } action. To work out a program for this necessary united action, an | Emergency Conference is hereby! jcalled for Sunday, December 3, 2 | | Pp. m., at the International Workers | Order Hall, 415 Lenox Avenue, New York City. All organizations are urged to send delegates and to join in the fight to stop the rising, fas- cist lynch fury. | | National Council of the League | | of Struggle for Negro Rights. | Langston Hughes, President, | Richard B. Moore, General Sec’y. | —National Executive Committee | of the Internat’ Labor Defense. | | William L. Patterson, Nat'l Sec’y. Chicago Workers Hold Mass Funeral For Militant Negro CHICAGO, Nov. 28. — In a mass funeral on the South Side, Chicago workers paid their tribute to Fred Walls, militant Negro worker and leader in many eviction struggles, who | Passed away on Noy. 1. Walls was a member of the Communist Party | and of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. Born Oct. 24, 1882, Comrade Walls suffered all the disabilities and per- secutions imposed upon the Negro People by the white ruling class. He was out of work for a long time and could not obtain proper medical treat- ment, This was the main cause of his death. Comrade Brown Squire acted as chairman at the funeral, with Joseph Gardner speaking for the Workers | Ex-Servicemen’s League and Patty |Kenkins for the Communist Party. |Left Wing of Cooks’ | |Local 325 to Fight) 'Gangsterism in Union) ‘ NEW YORK.—Jim Parianous, who | was brutally clubbed by gangsters, | |sent by the officialdoni of Counter- | men’s and Cooks Local 325, where he) \is running as an opposition candidate was reported better today by au-| thorities at the Unity Hospital. When seen yesterday, he called on the work- ‘ers in the union to continue the | fight to sweep gangster cliques out | of office. The left wing members of Local 325 will meet on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in denying her protection of the} against Patterson and parties. You | DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sater Aves., Brooklyn PRONE: DICKENS 2-9022 Office Moers: $18 A.M. 1-2, 68 P.M. Tompkins Square 6-9132 Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Rassion and Oriental Kitehen | BANQUETS AND PARTIES | ‘88S East Lith Street New York City | | | | | | | = | for Brownsville Workers! . Hoffman’s RESTAURANT & CAFETERI | sion free. at the Labor Lyceum to map plans Workers’ Trial Projetarian trial against H. Fried- man, member of the Litvinoff Branch, 64, I. W. O., will take place tomorrow at 371 Saratoga Ave., Brooklyn. oo #1 4S To Celebrate Newly Organized Union The Curtain, Drapery, Bedspread and Pillow Workers Union, will cele- brate their newly organized union and their affiliation with the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, tomorrow, with their first affair to be held at | Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. Unemployed Council Dance To finance the activities of the Waterfront Unemployed Council, a | dance and entertainment will be held | 0n the police cordon, but were finally for fighting gangsterism and defeat- ing the officialdom of the union in me coming elections. | |Longshoremen Fight | | For Larger Crews | NEW YOR K—Several hundred longshoremen crashed through the police lines at Pier 48, Morgan Line dock, Monday afternoon in a fight for more jobs. The men had been waiting all day to “shape” for jobs and when the workers were selected the men de- manded that more men be hired. | The demand was refused and the | police were called. | Their anger, increased by this ac- | tion, the dockers made three attacks GUTTERS OF NEW YORK FILET 9 SOLE MARGUERY BouLnBar NY, “es ZL eS ore 2 : so —= es LONG 1BLANO DUCKLING GLACE BISQUE “ORION OEM - Tass s3e. CHouR St GERMAIN —$o%, Lewman “Mrs. G. B. Adams, walking her dogs for exercise, has found two men within the last six weeks dead on park benches from starvation.”—News Item. “An increase in children suffering from ‘malnutrition’ is reported in N. Y. City schools.’—News Item. “Speaking to a group of bankers, Governor Lehman said he was thankful that we had been spared from famine.” —News Item. JUDGE CALLAHAN’S CHARGE TO JURY UPHOLDS FRAME-UP OF NEGRO BOYS (Continued from Page 1) are expert enough to look for it. 10k at the witnesses’ conduct on the stand. How does he look, act, by the way he talks? How he uses his common sense? What sort of a story does he tell? You have the right | to look at that and weigh it.” | “No finger can be pointed at a woman’s erring past or her future | law,” the judge said. Judge Callahan declared: “The strong presumption under the | law is that the woman in this case | did not and would not yield to the Negro defendant,” the judge said. “Aiding in the attack is as serious and punishable as the attack itself. | The conspiracy is as punishable and | each conspirator of the attack is guilty whether or not he was one to actually accomplish the act. “The existence of a conspiracy must be determined by you jurors from the party’s conduct. The de- fendant must be shown guilty be- yond a reasonable doubt. “Two main things to be considered are that the woman must have been attacked within the definitions given in order to determine fist if the crime was committed and if so, then the question is whether this defend- ant actually aided and abetted or conspired in the attack. “This is a suit not of Victoria | Price against Patterson and other | parties but of the State of Alabama have only Patterson to consider and | it doesn’t matter what happens to the others. | “The offense is complete when the woman is made to yield through fear of violence. “Outside of certain conditions, force is an essential element. When | the mind is overpowered by show of | violence or resistance ends because |of physical fear and acquiescence is thus obtained, the offense is com- plete. “The law does not compel the woman to resort to violence to re- sist.” ‘ Through his wohle charge he per- sistently used the word “he” or “his” instead of she. “When a man testifies for himself he is an interested witness,” the court continued, “and his testimony must be considered in the light. The law does | not require that you be satisfied of his innocence to an absolute certainty. The rule is that you must be satisfied of his guilt or innocence of a reason- able doubt.” The court concluded his amazing | charge to the jury, by the following | statement; “Before the laws of Alahama and our nation, ali men stand on equal lines. He is entitled to and should receive equal administration of the law, no matter what his color or race Knight demanded death for Pat-| terson, declaring there was no middle way. He based most of his appeal for the electric chair “to save our) own daughters from the rapist.” This time, instead of harping on preserv- ing the purity of the “white woman,” which he emphasized at the spring trial, he refers only to “women,” “I don’t care how low Victoria is, we cannot forget she is a women,” he emphasized. Chamlee’s charge that the boys were fraed mwas countered by Knight in furious insinuations that the “de- fense framed its case.” Smarting also from the defense accusation that the state hid Dr. Bridges, who first examined Victoria Price after the al- leged attack, Knight cried angrily: “Dr. Bridges was in court ready to testify, if the state saw fit.” Dr. Bridges, at the spring trial testifying for the state, became vir- tually a defense witness and the state refused to put him on this time. Proudly admitting that he was playing upon passions of the jury for the sake of “white womanhood of Alabama,” Attorney - General Knight demanded the death penalty tor Heywood Patterson. Attorney Leibowitz demanded that Knight's appeal be included in the record, and moved for a mistrial. Judge Callahan promptly overruled the motion. and adjourned court be- fore charging the jury “to give thanks to an all wise being who has seen us through the troublesome day.” Finishing his address, Knight vir- tually apologized for the court ex- cluding vital testimony regarding Victoria Price's sexual relations in Chattanooga on the night preceding the arrest, saying that the court was absolutely justified according to law. “The State of Alabama conducted this case according to law and has not made it a circus for the world to watch.” Immediately thereafter, carried away by his own eloquence, Knight, clapping hands and hopping about excitedly, cried: “You cannot avenge Victoria Price, but you can prevent this terrible thing from happening to some other women.” Leibowitz jumped up and demand. ed that this statement be taken down by the stenographer because it was an appeal to passion. “You're right!” Knight shouted. “It is an appeal to passion.” “The attorney-general has just ad- mitted appealing to passions of the jury,” Letbowitz returned sharply. “IT move for mistrial.” “Motion overruled,” Callahan snap- ped, “Yes, we all have a vassion to pro- tect the womanhood of the State of Alabama,” Knight returned furiously. “I want everything else the attor- ney-general says taken down in anhattan Lyceum Tonight! Celebrate USSR Victory! Flophouse Food Shown Cause of Many Ailments CHICAGO, TI.—At the open hearing of the flophouse workers te which the Chicago relief heads were invited to defend themselves, it was clearly proved that thou- sands of workers are being crimi- nally starved in the flophouses. According to doctors who testi- fied at the hearing, the type of food served has an acidity two times above normal and tends to cause anemia, extreme physical and mental weakness, constipation, and infectious diseases of throat and sinuses, Call Strike in Laundry When A.F.L. Official | Approves Discharges NEW YORK.—A strike was called | at the New Shore Road Laundry, 6216 17th Ave. Brooklyn, when three workers were fired by the boss with the consent of A. Rosenzweig, busi- ness agent of the A. F. of L. Local 810 of the Laundry Drivers, Chauf- feurs and Helpers Union. The agreeemnt to fire the workers was made with the union official after the boss complained that the workers did not bring in enough business. ‘The union forced the workers back to work after promising that a min- imum wage would be provided and no further discharges permitted. The case of the three discharged workers is being considered by the union, but no steps as yet have been taken to reinstate them. The shop was for- merly under Industrial Union control and the boss did not succeed in mak- ing any such arrangements for firing workers with its leaders. | Huge Anti-Lynch Actions in Harlem | Saturday, Sunday (Continued from Page 1) speakers at the Rockland Palace} meeting Sunday. Other speakers will include Richard B. Moore, General | Secretary of the League of Struggle | for Negro Rights, and J. W. Ford, Communist section organizer in| Harlem. Volunteer workers and speakers are urgently needed for work in Harlem and_ should report to the Liberator office, 2162 Seventh Ave. | NEW YORK. — 2,000 Brownsville | workers demonstrated yesterday in | potest -against.the.rising lynch wave and the ghastly mock trial at De- catur, where Haywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro boys, is facing an early lynch verdict. eo * « NEW YORK.—Protest wires were | |sent to Judge Callahan in Decatur yesterday from meetings held in the various departments by the workers of the Majestic Metal Product: Com- pany, 200 Varick St., where 500 workers are employed. cs NEW ORLEANS, Ia., Nov. 30.— The International Association of Projectionists and Sound Engineers of North America, composed of Southern white workers, sent a vigorous protest today to Judge Cal-/| ljahan. | . NEW YORK.—A protest resolu- tion was adopted and forwarded to Judge Callahan at the last meeting of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, DAVENPORT, Iowa, Nov. 30. — The Scott County Unemployed Coun- cil wired a protest to Judge Callahan today. * s | NEW YORK.—In a wire to Presi-| dent Roosevelt, the American Civil} Liberties Union joined the nation- wide demand for adequate protection for the Scottsboro boys and their attorneys in the Decatur trial. Relief Swindles in Hillsboro Disclosed by Hunger Fighter CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 30.— That there are over 100 false names on the padded relief rolls of the township |of Hillsboro was disclosed by the Un- employed Council thru its organ, the Cook County “Hunger Fighter.” People long dead had orders issued regularly in their names. Unknown ° Ie Unit 9, composed of Negro veterans. ‘ Cea aia Gus Flaubert of Lifebuoy love and venerate him—took a watched his line coach and the the team. AD-COACH FLAUBERT of Lifebuoy College—Goosie Gus- sie to those of us who have learned through the years to seat on the sideline bench and two backfield assistants work He mopped his brow with a discarded sweatshirt as befitted the true-blue son of the gridiron. “How can I answer that man scarcely knows where he*® stands on the eve of a big game | like this. All I can tell you is | it'll be no walkover for Rinso. Win or lose, the heliotrope will know} they'd been in a fight. I know they got a lot of stuff under their belt, but that’s what we got Huysmans for, eh boy?” Affectionately he rumpled the hair of his triple threat man. “Go out there and do some kicking, kid,” he sald to the 238-Ib. fullback whose astonishing feats | have given Lifebuoy its place in the headlines. Huysmans shed his hood and gal- loped to the far corner of the field. | “That boy . ..” Gussie said medi- | tatively, “that boy ... just a sopho- | more. Last year he didn’t know a! football from a hole in the ground. Look what we done to him, He's go- | ing places, that beauty. He's one) little dogie that’s bound to get along. That one wasn't an inch under 60 yards.” | eae | sam of the boys who knew that| Huysmans had played semi-pro for years winked slily behind Gussie’s back. Gussie certainly was a card, the way he tried to put things over on us. “All these fellows from the old Naturalist Aggies are like that,” whispered Lardner, who had been dead and buried for some weeks, “it’s | the old Balzac training.” “That is hooey,” I said. “That is all hooey about old Honore de. He| was @ showman, that’s all. He knew} how to pack them in. The Naturalist shift was used decades before his! time. He didn't have a thing to do| with the Romantic spinner either. A} vastly overrated coach.” | Ring sneered and brushed a few | ashes off his cerements with that | | scornful loose wrist motion he had. “Listen mug,” Ring said, “if it hadn't been for Balzac there wouldn't have been a Flaubert and if not for Flaubert there wouldn't have been a Zola and if not for Zola there wouldn't have been a Dreiser and if not for Dreiser there wouldn’t have been any Sylvia Syd- ney.” “Sylvia Sydney played with Gary Cooper in ‘City Streets’ when ‘An American Tragedy’ was just a lot of words on paper,” I said. “Il | thank you to keep her name out of this.” “Here, here,” Gussie said, with the masterful ring in that voice which has transformed whipped squads into viciously invincible, | animated machinery, “None of that | in this ball park.” | 8 | T'S all he said. Yet from that | moment on her name was taboo in Lifebuoy Stadium, Gussie was a leader of men, a maker of men. Pen- cil in hand, we hung on his words. “If I had material at this place, | Rinso wouldn't have a loo’--in. Take | a squint at them ends. Fast, yes,| But no weight, no weight. They're brothers, you know. Edmond and ules Goncourt. Shifiy, deceptive | joys but you can’t stop Rinso with welters. I can’t use them more than two quarters, why, they'd be ground question, boys,” he said. “A under them heliotrope heels. Tell you a funny thing about that couple. They go into their dorms after prac- tice and write in a big diary. All the happenings of the day. Ask tkem to show you passages. They got a swell one on Huysmans’ thirty-five vard lateral in the Mulsifiel game. They write and write. Really the clever- est things. Edmond, particularly. He collects chinoiseries.” reat « “WHAT do you expect to do in the Rinso game?” one of the boys asked. “Call me Gus,” replied the maker of men,'a true son of the soil, “if we don't lose we'll either win or tie. They got a powerful bunch and if you don’t think Hunk Bau- delaire is tricky look at <he one he slipped over on General Johnson. See here, the minimum code for quarterbacks is $40 and Rinso was the first in the conference to sign up but if you think Verlaine him- self is getting more than $25 your scouts aren’t as reliable as mine. Say, Hunk’s whole offense is built around that Ing, Verlaine. Bau- delaire is an old prep school run- ning mate of mine and although I never could get him to attend Naturalist Aggies I’m not the squealing kind. But you boys trot over to Huysmans and ask him if he’s got any kicks coming. Ten dollars over the N. BR. A. code for every Lifebuoy man. My team fights. You know what Mae West says. It’s not the men in your life, it’s the life in your men.” Goosie Gussie, as we boys like to call him, realized he had made a slip. He tried to divert our attenticn by repeated exclamations over the vigorous Joris-Karl's punting prow- ess. “Mr. Flaubert,” one of the boys sald, “is it true that you were seen three times this week at the Coconut Grove, dining and dancing with the aforementioned lady?” “Yes. What of it?” “That, approximately, is what we would like to know?” "My relation to Miss West is purely platonic.” Gus said. “She hes been my very dear friend for weks and_weeks.” “Quit stalling, Godsie,” said Ring, who knew him best. “What's the lowdown, you pixie, you lepreschaun, give us the doit.” “The doit?” “You hoid me. The doit.” “Well,” the Lifehuoy coach said, “if you must know it's this: I gotts keep her occupied to make her lay off my boys. Why the hell do you think we dropped the Mulsified oP CARL BRODSKY All Kinds Of INSURANCE 799 Broadway N. Y. C. STuyvesant 9-5557 CHAIRS & TABLES TO HIRE Dayt. 9-3504 Minnesota 9-7520 American Chair Renting Co. 3. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens %-1273—4—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5339 For International Workers Order COSTUME 12th Aneual MORNING FREIHEIT Saturday Night, BALL Dec. 9th ST. NICHOLAS ARENA | this Saturday night in the Interna-| driven off the docks. record,” Lei! ‘ite isted. is. When the law fails, eventually ge Sie Sata rte Pitkin Corner Saratoga Aves. | The Modern Bakery Allerton Avenue Comrades! || | | was first to settle Bread Strike | and first to sign with the FOOD WORKERS’ -. INDUSTRIAL UNION |, 691 ALLERTON AVE. || CITY AFFAIRS BEING HELD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE “Friday, Dec. ist: Veteherinke and Entertainment at 6 Allen St. cor. Gi i Bakers Women entertainment, _ ments free, Admission Ie. “Saturday, Dec. 2nd: tional Seamen’s Club, 140 Broad 8t.,! at 8 p. m. Trade Union Directory «-. CLEANERS, DYERS AND PRESSERS UNION 223 Second New York City Ali 4267 FOOD WORKERS 4 West 18th Street, New York City Chelsea 3-0505 FURNITURE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 816 Broadway, New York City Gramercy, 5-8956 METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 35 East 19th Street, New York City Gramercy 7-7842 NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 181 West 28th Street, New York City Lackawanna 4-4010 COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City Wholesale Opticians The coastwise longshoremen of the | Morgan and Clyde-Mallory Lines are | organizing under the leadership of | the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union |for no less than 22 men in a gang, |a minimum of 85 cents an hour | Wages, $1.20 overtime, rotation of jobs, controled by Jongshoremen. \Children Forced to | Beg in Boston, Mass. | | BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 0.—That in- | sufficient relief handed out by the |eity of Boston is dooming the unem- ployed to slow starvation and forcing them to send their children out on the streets to bes, is shown by the Community Health Association in a report to be made public in a few days. “Conditions are particularly bad in East Boston, Charlestown and South Boston, and in Charlestown children are being sent out to beg. In order to save on rent, families are living in crowded quarters.” The report goes on to criticize the city for its lateness in distributing coal to the unem- ployed. The bosses don’t support the Daily Worker, Its support eomes from the working class. Have you done your share to help the “Daily?” Rush your contribution to the “Daily,” 50 B 13th St, N. ¥. City. government will fail.” With the resi of the summation | being taken down. Knight concluded “There was something in the argu-| ments about the defendant being a Negro,” Judge Callahan concluded, unconyincingly. “I'd be ashamed of you if that entered into your search for truth, No man is worthy of being in the jury box who would reach & verdict on such contemptible grounds,” The courtroom was jammed with spectators and prospective jurors for the Clarence Norris trial when Cal- lahan ordered the Patterson jury brought in to hear finishing summa- tions by General W. W. Chamlee of Chattanooga, Southern associate de- | fense cousel, Knight, and his own | charge to the jury. | ‘The prospective jurors were ovdered | to leave the courtroom when Cham- lee began his summation. Tall, spare and elderly, Chaimlee in simple, touching language expiained his early connection with the case; how the boys were terrified by the mob when he saw them, how no lawyers were present to really defend them, and how not even the judge knew who their lawyers were. During Chamlee’s address Patter- son leaned forward in his chair eye- ing him with pathetic hopefulness. The young Negro did not take his eyes off Chamlee during the whole hour’s talk. in avother minute. Caillehan, instead of charging the jury immediately, apnarently decided to adjourn court until one-thiriy. “In appreciation of this day of thenkfv'ness for benefits given us by all wise being, I will adjourn court to give us all a chance to go to our firesides,” Callahan said sclemnly. Census Being Taken for $2 Head Tax in State of Michigan IRONWOOD, Mich.—At the pre- cent time a census is being taken of all the population of Michigan over 21 years of aze—to find out how many are eligable to pay the “Head Tax.” This tax which has beon passed by the State of Michi- gan, demands the payment of $2.00 a year by every one over 21 years of age. This money is supposed to form a fund for the payment of old age pensions. A maze of restrictions make only & comparatively few workers over 70 elegible to this old age pension paid for by unemployed and starving workers. Only Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government can Knight followed immediacely to con- clude summation for the state. adequately provide for en old age fund, people who have never lived in Hills- boro are getting regular food orders. Workers who have never received re- |lief have their names inscribed on} the reliet rolls, and orders which they never receive are issued in their) names. i ‘The orders were cashed at Mizeri Brothers Mercantile Co, in Hillsboro, | which company forced its clerks to, make out false orders on the penalty of losing their jobs, The orders were written out by Haley, signed and distributed by Os-) born and Fritz Rehasia was the so- called investigator. The orders were OK'd and passed by Reverend John Evans, of the Hillsboro Methodist Church and chairman of the local relief commission. { The findings of the Unempioyed Council wore taken to the Montgom- | ery County states atiorney, who not only refused to act but threatened the council if it disclosed its findings. Jobless Youth Get | Relief for Widow HAYWARD, Cal.—County relic? was given to Mrs. Berganciano, a} widow with 5 children, consistently | refused aid by the offiicals, after a delegation from the Youth Section of the Unemployed Council visited the The Prolctarian Cartoonists of YOSSEL CUTLER 66th Street near Broadway In a Wrestling Match in Cartoons and Chalk Talk EET KING DAVID’S Negro Jazz Band Orchestra ADMISSION AT THE DOOR — 50c TICKETS IN ADVANCE ONLY — 35c Tickets on Sale at Workers Book Shop,50 E.13th St. the Morning Freibett VS. BILL GROPPER * MONEY CAN BE MADE By Unions, Orgenizations, and Clubs, at I, L. D. ANNUAL BAZAAR FEBRUARY 21 - 25 MANHATTAN LYCEUM Help the LL. D. and Your Organization Financially. — — Sond Delegates io ——- —— BAZAAR CO Saturday, Dee. 2nd, at 2: relief bureau. NEFERENCE £0 P.Mb., 108 EB, 14th St.