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

_ of iL Every Worker! Protest Death Verdict Today, 2 P.M. 131st and Lenox Ave., Harlem! Your $1 to the Will Help Daily Worker | It Fight | Lynch Law! Vol. X, No. 289 = ™ Untered a0 second-class New York, M. Y., under PATTERSON TORGLER, DIMITROFF TURN ‘STATE’ WITNESSES INTO AID FOR COMMUNISTS’ DEFENSE Coommunist Sentenced to Death in Berlin; American Workers Urged to Develop Mass | Protest Against Hitler Terror BERLIN, Dec. 1.—Richard tenced to death here today by charge of having set fire to s Linum. Barr, a Communist, was sen- a special political court on the everal barns in the village of Gerhard Kehler and Wilhelm Letsch, two other Commu- nists, were sentenced by the® same court to ten years in prison each for “inciting the incen- diarism.” | Seventy-nine Communists were ar- | rested in Westphalia today, charged | with “high treason.” | | | | NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—The sentence of death reported from Berlin today is but one more in a series of execu- tions of workers and workers’ lead- | ers throughout Germany, in a new and sharnened wave of Nazi terror. ‘All workers and working class or- | ganizations must build a mighty | protest movement against the Hitler | terror, it was pointed out here today. ‘The recent arrest of 2,300 Siminiset workers in \Germany, the treason | trial that more than 1,000 German | workers face, the frame-up proceed- ings of Torgler, Dimitroff, Povoff and | taneff at Leipzig, make immediate | protest ection necessary. | Cali mass meetnigs of protest, send | letters and telegrams to all German | consulates and to the German eni- | bassy at Washington! (Special to the Daily Worker) | AT THE GERMAN BOR-| DER, Dec. 1. (via Zurich, Switzerland).—A group of wit- nesses brought from concen- | tration camps by the Nazis to} testify against the four Communist defendants at the Reichstag fire trial | —George Dimitroff, Ernst Torgler, | Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneffi—| were turned into witnesses against | the Nazis under the hammer-blows | of Dimitroff’s and Torgler’s brilliant questioning. | The 48th trial day at Leipzig | also witnessed the court’s refusal | | | to call on Ernst Thaelmann, im- prisoned leader of the German Communist Party, to give his tes- timony in court. Dimitroff several days ago had demanded that | Thaelmann be called to testify on the political situation that existed in Germany last February. The court at the same time an-| nounced that it would not call on| Schleicher, Bruening, Papen or Hu- genberg. | Torgler Discredits Testimony | At the very beginning of the ses- | sion Torgler demanded the reading | of police reports from various dis- tricts in Germany, stating that no signs of an armed uprising ex-~} isted before or after the Reichstag fire. Such reports were read, from Kiel, Brunswick, Hessen and other districts. Dimitroff protested against the reading of so-called “confiden- ‘tial”—actually. spies’—reports on at- tacks allegedly planned against the Nazis, demanding that the testi- jony come from the secretaries of she towns named in these reports, ven if these secretaries are now eld for high treason. Then came the nine witnesses from the concentration camps and other places of “preventive cus- tody.” The prosecution, obviously seeking exemplary models from the camps where, they claim, “multi- tudes of Communists have been converted to Hitler,” succeeded only in producing miserable examples. ‘ Armed, But Not for Uprising. | One of these witnesses, Kalten- | berg, allegedly a former Communist Party sub-district leader, stated that he had been on “the wrong path.”, In reply to one of the judge’s ques- | tions, he claimed that many weapons | had been bought last Spring, but only} for the purpose of preventing a storm troop march on Berlin. Although Dimitroff repeatedly attempted to question Kaltenbach, the prosecutor did not allow his questions. But Torgler arose to question the Nazi witnesses and transformed even the renegade Kaltenbach from a witness for the prosecution to a witness for the defense, Under Tor- gler’s questioning Kaltenberg wes forced to admit that the Commu- (Continued on Page 2) | tard Avenue. | ° Actions Thruout U.S. Against Lynch Verdict PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1—An Em- ergency Anti-lynching Conference will be held in this city Sunday evening at Garrick Hall, 508- South Fighth Street, to formulate a pro- gram of action to save the Scotts- boro boys, and to fight the growing lynch wave. A citywide demonstration has been called by the Communist Party, sup- ported by scores of organizations, for Thursday at Broad and South Sts. The Communist Party has also called a section demonstration for Sunday. I. Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Councils, will speak at an anti-lynching meeting Monday night at Girard Manor Hall, 911 Gi- ee Protest Meet in Newark Tonight in Conference Sunday NEWARE, NW. J., Dec. 1.—A two-day anti-lynech conference will be opened at Dreamland Academy, 26 Beacon Street, this city, on Saturday night, | ec. 2. Richard B. Moore, General) Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights will report on the} nation-wide fight of Negro and white workers and intellectuals against lynching and on the program of ac- tion adopted by the recent Eastern Anti-Lynching Conference in Balti- more. The mass protest meeting will be followed by a conference Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock, at the same hall, with delegates from many or- ganizations attending to formulate plans to mobilize the entire workirg- class of this city against the lynchers. vier oe Detroit Workers To Demonstrate Tomorrow DETROIT, Dec. 1—A_ Scottsboro anti-lynching demonstration will be held here tomorrow (Sunday) noon, with a parade starting from Brady Street Playground, Brady and Rivard Streets, in the heart of the Negro dis- trict. The demonstration is called by the Communist Party to mobilize the masses to save the Scottsboro boys and organize action against the mounting lynch wave. HELP! Due to Scottsboro news we are compelled to omit the ap- peal for funds for “Daily.” Money is urgent! Rush Funds! Thursday’s and Friday's receipts .. Previous tot TOTAL TO DATE $30,059.42 matior ot the Pest Office the ——¢ Daily (Section of the Communist International) ' | America’s Only Working | | Class Daily Newspaper 1 { Aa EEG aE ee PENNE eS IAS ENS eA WEATHER: Weemer, Partly Cloudy. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1933 ORDERE ny IN HARLEM; MEET SUNDAY City’s W orke rs Plan | Huge Scottsboro | Protests NEW YORK.—David Schrit- | man, International Labor De-| fense attorney, just returned from the Decatur trial of the Scottsboro boys, will report on the trial at a monster protest meet- ing Sunday evening at Rockland Pal- | ee, 155th Street and 8th Avenue, 8 | I pm, | Lincoln Stefféns, prominent author + and member of the National Com- mittee for the Defensé 6f Political Prisoners, Richard B. Moore, General Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, William Fitzgerald of the Harlem Section of the Inter- national Labor Defense, James W. Ford, Harlem Section Organizer of | the Communist, Party’ and John| | Moore, Tallapoosa County, Ala.,/ | sharecropper, will be among the) | speakers, | | "The giant protest meeting will | be preceded by a huge demonstra- tion this afternoon in Harlem, be~ ginning at 2 o’clock, from 131st Street and Lenox Ave. The parade and demonstration, called by the Young Communist League, is sup- ported by scores of orgenizations throughout the city whose members will attend in a body with their | | banners and slogans. | The two protest actions. will climax | a@ week of open air protest meetings | in Harlem, whose working-class popu- j lation is seething with indignation ‘over the lynch preparations by the Decatur court, the charge of Judge Callahan to the. jury telling them |how to convict Haywood Pa ‘son | the lynching of Lloyd Warner in Mis- | uri this week and the release two | | days ago by Eastern Shore judges of | | which lynched George Armwood on October 18. Thousands of white workers will show their solidarity with the Negro! Masses by taking part in to-day’s| parade and to-morrow’s mass meet-| ° ing at the Rockland Palace. Emergency Meet on Lynchings | Sunday Many Organizations) Sending Delegates | | | Death in the Haywood Patterson NEW YORK.—Responding to the call for immediate action to save the Scottsboro boys. and mobilize against the wave of lynching raging throughout the country, hundreds of organizations are sending dete- gates to the Emergency Scottsboro anti-Lynching Conference to be held this Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the International Work- ers Order Hall, 415 Lenox Ave. Negro boys— The charred corpse of Lloyd Warner, 19. year-old Tegro, who was lynched and burned | the four arrested leaders of the mob| to death by a frenzied lynch mob at St. MARCHTODAY |Save the Scottsboro Boys from This ie at the left. electric chair— last night. DEMONSTRATE! PROTEST! RALLY TO THE DEFENSE OF THE VICTIMS OF SOUTHERN RULING CLASS JUSTICE! Joseph, Mo., last Tues:ay leer on the face of one of the Fate! ee a night. Note the pectators” This is what an all-white jury in Decatur, Ala., ordered for Judge Callahan, steeped in the traditions of the Ku Klux Klan, threw the noose around the neck of Haywood Patterson in his charge to the Jury. He left it to the jury to draw the noose tight. WORKERS OF NEW YORK! Stop the imminent lynchings of the Scottsboro boys—whether judicial or otherwise! Flood the streets of Harlem today at 2 o’clock in the might- iest demonstration in the history of this city! Communists, militant trade unionists — all those who for more than two years have fought to save the lives of the innocent —— | | (Hight: Pages) Price 3 Cents TODE Scottsboro Boy Declared ‘Guilty’ by Lynch Jury; Only Mass Protests Can Hal t Electrocution By JOHN L. SPIVAK (Special Correspondent ommendation that th Judge Callahan, w The jury reported about was ready to give a \ jail nearby. room, a few minutes later by nervously. their verdict to J. H. Greene, read from it: “We find the defendant penalty as death.” When the verdict of guil face was immobile. Defense attorney Leibowitz said he had nothing to say. Leibowitz asked for one month in which to make a motion to set aside the ver- dict in the Patterson case, that is, one month after the stenographer transcribes his minutes, which covers about 2,000 pages. The verdict was brought in in the presence of Clar- ence Norris, for whom a jury was picked today, and who goes on trial Saturday morning. Eight of the jury are farmers. It was neces- sary to call additional pro- spective jurors continually, in view of the large numbers who admitted they had fixed opinions on the case. Attor- ney Leibowitz’s motion for a change of venue on the ground that this proved. that a fair trial was impossible, was brusquely denied by Judge Callahan, The routine picking of a jury for the Norris case was resumed while ten feet from the jury box the Patterson jury was deliberating the case. Norris sat directly alongside the jury room door in a red sweater and overalls, watching ~ Leibowitz examine prospective jurors. From where he sat he could hear through the door the muffled voices of the Patterson jury debating whether to send the first Scottsboro boy to be tried, to death. Within two .days—by Saturday Workers’ Mass Effort Must Civil Works Program Tries to Cover Up N.R.A. Failure EDITOR’S NOTE.—The following article by I. Amter, national secre- tary of the Unemoloyed Councils. exposes the Public Works and Civil Works prozram of the Roosevelt administration as an attack on the working class of the United States. The article analyzes Roosevelt's program, gives the demands of the unemployed and employed workers in combatting unzmployment, and the organizational steps necessary in achieving these The in single industries which Roosevelt attempts to interpret as “recovery” }do not alter the basically downward | trend of the crisis. N.R.A. A Miserable Failure The NR.A., with its promise of 5,000,000 jobs, of shorter hours, of higher wages, has miserably failed. The Administration’s public works program, with the exception of the military and naval expenditures, is Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party calls on all workers to read the article carefully for the correct line in the struggle against. unemployment. pi 3 By I. AMTER The Roosevelt administration, through its appropriation of $400,- 000,000 for the so-called civil works program, is endeavoring to conceal the disastrous collapse of the “New Deal” and the continuous deepening of the crisis. Production in all important indus- tries is declining, with a resulting in- crease in unemployment and part- time work, The occasional flare-ups pone the launching of the public works program at least until spring, thereby openly abandoning the very plans which were to provide the { still paralyzed by bureaucratic red| tape. Official spokesmen now post-|crisis and the collapse of Roosevelt’s|also resisting R In the meantime the discontent |among the workers rapidly grows. | | The widespread strike struggles which | have swept the country, involving, |hundreds of thousands of workers) jand tens of thousands of poor farm-| ers, show every sign of growing over| into still more determined struggles of the masses of the toilers, Negro} and white, workers and poor farmers, | against the increased misery and suf-)| fering brought on by the deepening! | promises. As the workers see what| the Communist Party has always) pointed out, namely that Roosevelt's | promises were only designed to con- * ers’ living standards, their determina- | tion to fight grows and their strug- gles take on more revolutionary forms | and v Struggles Haunt Roosevelt } Roosevelt cha: ng mood | among the the| threatening mass strw this winter — stru: s that further un the work ranks, employed and unemployed, gro and white, with the poor farm of Force Roosevelt To Fulfill ‘His Promise of Jobs A Job or Relief for Every Worker, Is Demand haunting the Roosevelt regime. these facts—the combined mass pres- will see the| Sure of the toilers—that now causes | Roosevelt to come forward with his/| so-called civil works program, his ap- propriation of $400,000,000 for imme- liet, breught into the courtroun from the flimsy Morgan county It is} of the Daily Worker) DECATUR, Ala., Dec. 1.—After “deliber- ating” for 10 hours and 33 minutes, the all- white jury trying Heywood Patterson, brought in a verdict of guilty, with the rec- e innocent Negro boy be put. to death in the electric chair. hose charge to the jury was a clear order to convict, deferred pass- ing sentence until a date to be fixed later. 5 p. m. (central time) that it and Patterson was ordered The Negro boy, handcuffed, was brought into the court- six deputies. Patterson’s eyes were fixed on the floor as ertered, and he licked his lips Lining up before Judge Callahan, whose outrageous charge was a virtual instruction to convict, the jurors handed , the Circuit Court Clerk, whe guilty as charged and fix the ty was brought in, > & pclae {night—according to Judge Calla- |han’s plans, the jury now being | picked. will be in’ the same room deciding whether he lives or dies. Through the early morning hours in an elmost filled courtroom the | droning examination dragged on, Out jof the first panel called, five out of jseven said they had fixed opinions. |Out of a dozen, only two were left | willing to serve. When Leibowitz | questions deeply into their opinions, | Callahan, following his procedure all | through the Patterson trial, inter- |rupts, “I think you've questioned him |from a to z. Isn't that enough?” A venire panel of 100 was exhausted | without getting jurors for Norris | Case. Another panel was drawn at 940 am.; just as loud, indistinguishabie | sounds of heated argument issue from | jury room. Last night when court adjourned Callahan instructed the beiliff to re- turn the Patterson Jury at 8:30, The | bailiff actually brought the jury in about 7:30, while the courthouse grounds and court were deserted. While the jury was deliberating on | his life, Patterson was with the other Scottsboro boys in the ancient, ¢on- demned Morgan county Jail. After several hours yesterday af- ternoon and two hours this morning, 25 prospective jurors had been picked out of a panel of 112, and uae | prospective jurors included men lo | admitted having fixed opinions on | the case but thought evidence to con |\trary would make them change | opinions. ‘Thought no one actually knows what is going on in the jury room a rumor spread through the court- |room that the jury stood at that time 5 for death, 4 for life im- | prisonment and 8 for less than life. There was no intimation of ac |S bat ot h batch of jut of the new batch of prospee- tive jurors sent for by the ps |two were found available as g | sible jurors even though Leibowitz objected to one because of his opinions. The court adjourned again while the sheriff went hunting ad- ditional citizens for prosp jurors. are At 1:30 the total of prospective jurors was 27. The law requires a minimum -of 30 so as to give the etate and defense the proper num- ber of “strikes” to leave 12 whith will make the Norris jury. Ly, At 12:05 p.m., with 21 houts passed since the Patterson jury, the case, of which seven and a hours were actual deliberat 4 | Callahan adjourned court for one hour. Both defense and prosecution counsel watched the jurors’ faces anxiously as they were led to din- ner. Patterson’s velt's starvation | diate civic odd-jobs, with the prom~ heir faces e hard to read, program, ise of jobs for 2,000,000 workers at! Aj) looked tired, several with grim, The s of recent | wages ranging from 50 cents to $1.20/ determined sets to their faces; one months, employed, the fear of siill greater) promised jobs to the unemployed. ‘ceal new attacks against the work-|struggica this winter—all these are! f the un-| an hour. This partial victory of the/ or two smiled slightly at the (Continued on Page 2) jof the attorneys and \tators. r | | | | | | |