The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1933, Page 2

Page Twe Fight Grows to Save. Negro Sentenced by Lynch Court to Die Legal Murder Set for Dee. 8; LL.D. Files Writ CHARLOTTE, N. ©., Dec. 3.—A writ | f certiorari has been brought into| ae state Supreme Court at Raleigh, m the case of John Lewis Edwards, | tegro youth framed for murder, and | sntenced to die Dec. 8, by the In-| srnational Labor Defense. The writ emands bringing in of all records in “ye case, and is accompanied by & jotion to reinstate the appeal, which ga fraudulently passed on by the fate supreme court. This motion in- ues a stay of the exec . campaign organized by ie TLD. 0 sae Edwards’ life, has} een extended into Virginia, Florida, labama, and Georgia, with the Caro-| inas as the center of a wave of meet~ } ngs and protest actions. Resolutions jlemanding the immediate freedom of | Yawards, are pouring in on Governor) “heringhaus from every part of ey South, and from the North as well. Mass Actions Win New Trial for Negro Boy Facing Death PORTSMOUTH, Va., Dec. 3.—A new ‘tial has been won for John Askew, Yegro lad framed on murder charges and sentenced to 30 years in the pen- tentiary, and date set for Dec. 19. The Askew Defense Committee, @ united front in which the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the iocal N.A.A.C.P. branch are participating, has retained Attorney Emest Merrill, of Norfolk, and Attorney Walker, of Portsmouth, to conduct the case. rit | Seeks Witnesses for Worker Arrested at White Guard Meet NEW YORK. —~ Dolia Myshne, one of the workers beaten up and ar- rested by police during the anti- White Guard demonstration at Wash- ington Square two Saturdays ago, has nm a charge of “felont-| He is now out on $1,000 to the police assault on} hne are urged to report at once at the office of the New York district of the International Labor Defense, 870 Broadway, to help prevent the railroading of this worker to jail. He was beaten and arrested at Uni- versity Place and 14th 8t. Sidelights on the Lynch Trial (Continued from Page 1) | ciation secretary, felt keenly the re- | flection upon himself of the charges about “Jew money” which Solicitor Wade Wright of Morgan County had made at the Spring trial, Jews were looked upon with suspicion. Tt was taken for granted that a Jew was a Communist, or at least in secret | boys and against lynching. |egation will demand the abolition of | Call Scottsboro Demonstration for Sat. in Union Square (Continued from Page 1) 1 } to call a demonstration in Union} Square for one o'clock Saturday. Responding to a wire from Lang- ston Hughes, National President of} the L.S.N.R., the delegates voted fur-| ther for the organization of protest) strikes in every school and factory} against the infamous lynch verdict by the Decatur court against Heywood) Patterson. The conference voted to send a del- egation to the New York Mirror to demand the retraction of the vicious report by that paper on the Scotts- boro protest demonstration in Harlem Saturday. A delegation will also be} sent to the Central Trades and Labor Committee to ask for endorsement, of the mass fight to save the Scottsboro | ‘The del-| all Jim Crow rules in the A, F. of| L, unions. | ‘The main report to the conference was made by Richard B. Moore, Gen- eral Secretary of the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights. | BALTIMORE, Dec. 3.—Negro and white workers at a Scottsboro pro- G DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1 JTTERS OF NEW YORK | sympathy with the terrible reds. He |was trying to show that the Jews | were not in sympathy with the reds, | and that in fact, the Jews were try- ing to do everything possible to get| the reds out of the Scottsboro cases, | and turn the defense of the boys over to nice, Southern lawyers, who would try them as “criminal cases” and never bring up the sore subject of | Negro inequality and persecution—the test meeting im this city today pledged to build a tremendous mass campaign around the struggle for the Scottsbore boys and against lynching. An Emergency Conference will be | held tomorrow night, while on Mon- day night a meeting at which L Amter will speak on unemployment and the struggles for relief, will be a center of music and gayety | source of the “rope” was in the South| linked up with the anti-lynching |—and the deliberate exclusion of Ne- | groes from Southern juries. | Mr. Fidelson and I discussed the} | cases and the I.L.D. activities in them | for more than two hours. Mr. Fidel- | Son was a “liberal.” During the con- | versation, the subject came up of re- | porters at the last Spring trial. In | the course of a desultory discussion} HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 3.— Two} |on that, I mentioned some of the| Scottsboro protest parades were held Avenue. } On Thursday night, at 6:30, a protest parade and demonstration will take place, starting at Penn- sylvania and Laurens, os campaign. Both meetings will be | held at the Elks Hall, 1528 Madison | ‘The court, in setting Dec. 19 as the | things Southern reporters had tried date for the new trial, attempted to/ to suppress during the last trial. He prevent the preparation of the legal) asked whether the News Age Herald steps necessary to expose the illeg@l| reporter, Ralph Hurst, had been one exclusion of Negroes from grand and/ of them, and assured me that what- petit juries, but the committee has) ever 1 told him about Hurst would announced they will have as many be for his own information and guid- witnesses on hand to testify on their | ance. motion to quash the indictment and| ] toi him what I have publicly the jury panel. stated: that Ralph Hurst deliberately | Mass meetings are being held all|tried to suppress vital news during | over the Tidewater region, to expose /the Spring trial when that news) the whole frame-work of Jim Crow, | pointed favorably to the defense, es- | lynchings, fascist terror and nafional| pecially his deliberate effort to sup- oppression of the Negro people, in the} press news about the two mob ac- Scottsboro, Russell Gordon, and As-| tions during the trial presided over) kew cases by Judge Horton. | ass is ‘When I finished my conversation | Militia Deports Seven Leaders of commission, was trying desperately to get the I. L. D. to drop the defense of the Scottsboro boys, so as not to} \bring up the tender subject of the exclusion of Negroes from juries in Alabama and the rest of the South. | ithat the “liberal” groups which he| New Mexico Strike | represented, including the inter-racial | i (Continued from Page 1) deportations are aimed toward smug-| gling in the U. M. W. A. and smash- | With the I. L. D. out of the picture, southern lawyers would “defend” the boys, either get them off or get them long penitentiary sentences and the most important issues in the case, excluding that of saving the lives of ing the strike settlement. All workers | and organizations are urged to im-| 9 a equal rights, including the right to mediately send protests to V-| serve on juries — would be forgotten the boys — the fight for Negro tonight in the Hartford Negro sec-| tion in preparation for the ‘demon- | stration called by the Communist | Party and the Young Communist | Léague for Monday. The Young Peo- | ple’s Socialist League has been invited to participate. Kansas Workers Protest Decatur | Lynch Trial FORT SCOTT, Kan., Dec. 1—The} Fort Scott Unemployed Council today wired Judge Callahan a _ protest| against his lynch charge to the jury and his hindering of Internationa’ Labor Defense attorneys defending the Scottsboro boys. The Western Union at first refused to accept the wire, but later surrendered to the de- mands of the workers. Demand Arrest of Missouri Lynchers ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 1—Unem~ ployed Council No. 7 of this city wired a demand today to the Gov. of Mis- souri. Harlem Beer Garden Aids Scotisboro Defense NEW YORK—The Sunset Beer Garden, 760 St. Nicholas Ave., has raised more than $82 for Scottsboro defense, which was immediately turned over to the International Labor Defense, it was announced by | | Hockenhull at Santa Fe, New Mexico,| ang the south would be able to re- and Gen. Wood at Gellup, New MexX-| turn to its peaceful exploitation of | ‘ico. |the black man. | Major Woods had previously at-| When I left this “liberal” erstwhile | tempted to force nine of the arrested | secretary of the Young Men’s Hebrew | strike leaders to sign a statement| Association who was trying to save/| agreeing to leave the state upon their | the good names of the southern Jews, release from the jail where they were |I looked around the city room. Ralph being held few days ago. The|Hurst was nowhere in sight. I had prisoners refused to sign the agree-|not announced my name to Mr.| William 1, Patterson, national ILD secretary. White Collar Group Protests CWA Wage | past. Helping the Daily Worker throug! Paul and Marcia Previous Total . TOTAL TO DATE.. “Mayor-elect La Guardia proposes to make New York as soon as he takes office.” —News item. h Del: Thousands H it Scottsboro Frame-Up in Harlem March (Continued from Page 1) marchers. From one tenement win-| dow a middle-aged woman, her face} shining in a broad smile, waved a| red flag as the parade passed by.| The marchers broke into the Inter- national and from other tenement windows handkerchiefs beat time to the music, A slim erect young Negro worker | led the Red Front band, head | held proudly. In his unifo- of a/ vanguard fighter in the gr >role- terien revolution, he wa: good symbol of the new world currents that are sweeping through the Negro | nation. Several ranks behind him marched a strange figure out of the African This was a giant old man, several inches over six feet in height, - with a great cloud of white hair and a fierce white beard. This was a} religious sectarian with a long pil- grim’s staff who is known in Harlem and Chicago and other Negro centers as the Provhet. It was a cold December day, but the old man marched in bare feet. In his own strange manner, this impressive giant who looks like a Biblical monument, has also been swevt into the revolu- tionary stream. He is an enthusiastic figure at all the Red demonstrations, and shouted the slozans as he marched in this Scottsboro demon-| stration. “Unite and Fight!” hi. wnent, and the striking miners by re- fusing to return to work until all their leaders were unconditionally release, forted Major Woods to free them. Benjamin Greeted In Denver Herbert Benjamin, national organ- ixer of the Unemployed Councils, ar- rived in Denver, where a big welcome demonstration greeted him. Benja- min was sentenced to a year in prison for addressing a meeting cf Gallup strikers and wnemvioyed while on a national speaking tour for the Un- employed Councils. He was uncondi- tionally released from Albuquerque, New Mexico penitentiary following the strike settlement. Johnson Says N.R.A. Will Outlaw Strikes (Continued from Page 1) promising him support, and revealed that only recently they came to him and again promised support. Other speakers at the meeting were Joseph Ritchie, local A. F. of L. organizer, ‘nd several other A. F. of L. officials) of Philadelphia. Workers Must Accept “Sacrifices” Johnson was asked to take up the question of the taxi drivers strike and the strike of the Budd auto workers, both in Philadelphia, but he declined to meet with the union organizers on this question while in Philadelphia Johnson gave a strong hint of the) further attacks of the N. R. A. on the workers living standards. He urged the workers to accept these “safri- fices.” He said on this point, “with the well springs of industrial credit dry and with the reserves of many in- dustries dried up and the progress of retovery slow, we must measure our rations to the grain in the barrel, and in this I bespeak the co-operation of all of labor.” WORKERS--EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE ‘Nosy Hopkin: Brooklyn, N. Y. 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City Wholesale Opticians ecluatsin Tel. ORchard 4-4520 jometrist Factory on Premises Eres ‘By Dr. Opt | Fidelson. | to see him. | | ‘That night I walked into Attorney | miemgae | General Knight’s suite at the Molton | NEW YORK.—Protesting that the |Hotel in Birmingham, We talked|C. W. A. program makes their status for three hours. In the course of our| worse than before, a delegation of leonversation the Attorney General! four from the Temporary Emergency told me that I had Lay ad ea Ree Association which has a mem- what we had discuss an the | bership of 2,400 white collar workers, charges I had made that the Birming-| appeared Saturday before C. Van ham News Age Herald reporter had/Hyning, Assistant Director of the deliberately tried to suppress vital | Civil Works Administration. ne ee ee pea eso from | acre, White, collar workers, doctors, re W | dentists, architects, technicians, all Ee ee Bot that in- | Mighly skilled, who had been trans- who immediately spied everything |¢y Relier to the CWA, stated they |the moment I left. I mention this) are hej; from 30% so that the reader may get a good | are ns pale Seo Ne eee |hour. The C. W. A. provides wages No one knew I had been Cuts for Skilled Men notion of the reliability and honesty | of the “liberal” element in the heart} of Alabama which has been “trying” | to do things for the Scottsboro boys. | And before I close on this, it is not| from 50¢ to $1.20 an hour for skilled workers. They are kept working six days a week to ail hours of the night, spokesmen for the delegation declared. Yes, it was a folk uprising in Har-/ lem, The feeling that once went| | into the singing of the svirituals now went into the International. The | kids on roller skates who had joined |the march learned the new message as they chanted, “Negro and White, unite and fight!” There were some angry faces here and there, bitter- end Garveyites. They would stand on the sidewalks in groups, and argue that Negro and white could never get together. But other Negro work- ers would argue as passionately that the same bosses who encouraged jlynchings were the ones who shot jdwn white workers in strikes, It jwas the same enemy. and he could be met only by a united front. And other bystanders would shake their heads thoughfully, and say, “Mavbe you are rieht, we must study this new thing.” All Harlem was a great forum on amiss to mention that knowing what Saturday, the sidewalks, the stoops, the beauty parlors, the restaurants. From roofs there fluttered storms of leaflets, in every poolroom the Daily Worker was being read and debated. One saw the revolutionary literature in every hand. On Saturday Harlem learned again that the Scottsboro boys are as dear | to the heart of the revolutionary white workers as to themselves. Those are OUR boys, and they shall not die! Ask Volunteers for Scottsboro Aid NEW YORK.—Volunteer speak- ers and technical workers are ur- sentiy needed for Scottsboro de- tense work. They should report at 326 Lenox Ave., daily after 11 a.m. The Harlem Section of the Inter. national Labor Defense is also appealing for two typewriters to facilitate its work. The district office of the LL.D. yesterday issued a call for all members of the LL.D. and sympa- thetic workers to report at its of- fice, 810 Broadway, Sunday, for the distribution of lezflets for the icottsboro protest meeting at Rock- land Palace, 155th St. and 8th Ave. Sunday night. C. P. Sustaining Fund Committee to Hold Its First Meeting Tuesday NEW YORK—The first meeting of the non-party cliy committee to build a Sustaining Fund for the Communist Party will be held Tuesday, 7 p. m., at the District Party office, 50 E. 13th Street. Plans for a city wide cam- paign will be made at this meeting. The members of this committee were selected last Tuesday at a meet- ing held in Irving Plaza, from among sympathetic trade union and fraternal organizations including the Jewish Workers Clubs, International Work- ers Order branches, Women’s Coun- cils, Food Workers Union and the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Hurst had done during the spring trial Hurst was again sent to cover | the third Patterson *~ ; | |a few days ago. What Hurst did at| | this trial will be told in this story. | | (To Be Continued) Wwe | Lasser Breaks Pledge IN.R.A. Threatens to| Made to Anti-War Outlaw Strike of ie saree N. Y. Shoe Workers On Sept. 30, at the American Con- (Continued from Page 1) gress Against War and Fascism, an | announcement was made that efforts | would be made by the writer of this | article and D. Lasser, executive sec- |retary of the Socialist-controlled N. j the masses of unemployed in the them to return to work on a piece/ | meal basis, so that the bosses could} exclude the leading strikers. The} workers, however, Biedenkapp said, | are wise to this trickery and will act) accordingly. “It should be distinctly understood,’ he said, “that there will be no settle~| ment in any shop where the workers} are not given their full rights. Every! striker must be reinstated with a sat-| isfactory wage increase. In every| shop or factory where even one work-| er is discriminated against, the strike | will not be called off and a constant) campaign will be carried on to force! the manufacturer back into line.” “The Union and strikers are well) | aware of the fact,” Biedenkapp con-| tinued, “that the bosses want all the/ scabs they can get in the hope of be-/| ing able to utilize the January 2nd| referendum, as per the National Labor | Board ruling, as a mean to defeat the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union from organizing the entire industry in New York and vici- nitty. The workers will, however, guard themselves against these bosses’ attacks no matter how long the strike will last.” Y. Workers’ Committee on Unem- ployment, to bring about a united front within two weeks of the Un- employed Councils of New York and he Workers’ Committee. The Con~- gress correctly sensed the importance | of the building of this united front | and the relation of unemployment to the war situation, and heartily ap- plauded it. The two weeks have long passed. | An informal conference has been) held between the two above-men- tioned, together with Comrade Sulli- van, secretary of the N. Y. Unem- ployed Council. ‘Lasser attended the conference to get “information” and our proposals. These were presented to him in the clear-cut manner which the Unemployed Council uses. Lasser Refuses Unity The only reply to these proposals is a letter dated Nov. 11, in which Lasser explains why no united front can yet be formed. It is not the)! question of program which stands} in the way. Tt is clear that when the three other unemployed organiza- tions in New York, with the aid of the “ministers’ union,” United He- brew Trades, International Ladies’ Garment Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union and the So- cialist Party, can muster only 332 marchers with Norman Thomas at their head on Oct. 6, then this “pow- erful” united front is not mobilizing city of New York. The proposals of the Unemployed Councils are clear: 1. All working- class organizations shall participate in the united front. 2. In the neigh-/| borhoods, the struggle shall be based upon the united front of the unem- ployed organizations, unions and mass organizations against the relief bureaus for jobs or relief, against. evictions, Negro discrimination, etc. The program and methods of strug- gle and leadership shall be worked out by these organizations in confer- ence. 3. We shall try in advance to work out joint proposals; if this is not successful, separate proposals shall be presented and the confer- ence shall decide. Lasser Proposes Delay How does Mr. Lasser answer this, after agreeing to the proposals adopted at the conference on un-| employment held the Congress Against War and Fascism, to the ef- fect that “joint city and neighbor-| hood committees shall be set up for) joint actions in demand for food, for government relief of unemployed youth, for unemployment insurance,” etc.? In his letter of Nov, 11 Lasser} states that “our central commitiee does not favor any ‘understanding’ with the Unemployed Councils before we approach other unemployed groups, «. . Our central committer | ployed Union. ° prefers to discuss the matter with THEM first before we go into more detailed discussions with the Unem- ployed Councils.” Lasser also informs the Unem- ployed Councils that the Lovestone- ites have. accepted the leadership of Norman Thomas by merging their or- ganization (Association of the Unem- ployed) with the “Workers’ Commit- tee.” “Workers’ Committee” Guilty The “Workers’ Committee” leader- ship thus is guilty of preventing the united front of the unemployed or- ganizations of New York. At a time when the unemployed of New York, as of the whole country, face the worst, attacks during the five years of the crisis, Lasser and the Workers’ Committee reject the public agree- ment made at the Congress Against War and Fascism for a united front between the Unemployed Councils and the Workers’ Committee. The Unemployed Councils call upon the rank and file of the Workers’ Committee to repudiate this act of sabotage of their leadership. At the Anti-War Congress a delegate rep- resenting a Socialist-controlled un- employed organization of Springfield, Mass., accused the §S. P. leadership of sabotaging the work of the unem- ployed organization, A delegate from Cambridge, Mass., accused the 8. P, Jeadership of wrecking the Unem- This union has since been rebuilt and is now affiliated to the Unemployed Council, A woman delegate from Washington, D. C., ac- cused the S. P. leadership of pre- venting the united front of the Tax- payors’ League aud the Unemployed | 933 Callahan Speeds 2nd Scottsboro Boy to Death Verdict Trial (Continued from Page 1) forth next to the train, as the nine Scottsboro boys were being led to the jail. This completely discredited Victoria Price's testimony that she “iad fainted from the “attack” on her a8 soon as she had alighted from the train, Victoria Price herself, retelling her cooked-up story of the “attack,” was caught in a lie when she claimed that one of the Negro boys had hit her on the head with the “butt-end” the deputies for a pistol and handed it to her. She could not tell the muzzle from the butt of the gun, and when Leibowitz asked her where her charge came from, she answered: “I know what they told me.” Leibowits was agein reprimanded by Judge Callahan, who flared up when the defense attorney objected to Victoria Price’s continual glances toward Knight. Leibowitz asked her whether she was looking for signals, whereupon Callahan shouted that he would’nt permit “such tactics” in his court. In examining Arthur Woodall, a store-keeper who was called by the State to testify that he had taken a fifty-cent piece and a pen-knife from Norris, Leibowitz asked the state wit- ness: “Were you yourself in the Scotts- boro court-house as a defendant charged with murder since this case started?” Callahan immediately protested the question frm the bench, but not be- fore Woodall had answered “Yes.” Woodall admitted under cross-ex- amination that when he had testified before Judge Horton last spring, he had stated he did not know from which one of the Scottsboro boys he Girls Arrested at White Guard Rally on Hunger Strike BOSTON, Mass. hunger strike in protest againat the removal of their privileges by the — A three-day Charles St. started last Monday by the three girls serving a 15-day sentence for interfering with a White Guari meeting. The girls, Bessie Lewis, Lillian Katz and Ella Brooks are in a weakened condition. No visitors are allowed in to see the girls, and all their mail is being confiscated. The prison authorities have refused to permit a private physician to examine them. NOTICE: New York District of the Inter- national Labor Defense needs two typewriters immediately. Comrades are asked to communicate with the District Office, 870 Broadway, tele- vhone GRammercy 17-2489, City Events | | cit Dressmakers’ Meeting A meeting of dressmakers will be held today right after work by the Left Wing Group, Local 22, ILGWU, at Memorial Hall, 344 W. 36th St. Shoe and Leather Workers’ Meeting ‘Three meetings of shoe and leather workers will be held today and tomorrow. Stitchdown workers will meet tonight, 6:30, at Damas- zek’s Hall, 12 St. Marks Pl. Shoe workers will meet in Brooklyn to- night, 6:30, in Lorraine Hall, Broad- way and Flushing Ave., and in Man- hattan, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. Slipper workers meet tomorrow, 6:30, at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East 4th Street. Knit Goods Shop Chairmen Meeting: Shop chairmen and shop commit- tees of the Knit Goods Dept., of the N. T. W. I. U., will meet at 5 p. m., today, at Union Headquarters, 131 W. 28th Street. Socialist Unemployed Leaders Break Unity Promises Unemployed Council Calls on Rank and File for Unity Council. Since then, the Taxpayers’ League has affiliated to the Unem- ployed Council of Washington. Expelled for Unity Move Two locals of the “Workers’ Com. mittee” of New York have been ex- pelled for forming a united front with the Unemployed Council in downtown New York. This is the re- cent record of the Socialist-controlled “Workers’ Committee,” which ts mere- ly o reproduction of the actions of the Socialist Borders of the “Workers’ Committee” of Chicago, who openly refuses the united front, and of the Socialist Lieberman of the Unem- ployed League of Pittsburgh, who sabotages the united front and has expelled members of the Unemployed League who participated in the united front and the splendid march on Nov. 28 in Pittsburgh. Rank and file of the “Workers’ Committee”: Build the united front in spite of your leaders! These So- OF THE WORKERS WILL ACHIEVE OUR AIMS. Your leaders TALK united front and unity, but IN PRACTICE THEY REJECT IT. This is what the bosses want. The more they can keep us divided, the better they can rob us all. Your leaders in this direction and whether con- sefously or uncensclously are carry- ing out the wishes of our enemies, Unity ia meeded: Lot's get itt had taken the pen-knife and the/ fifty cent piece. Callahan announced that he would sentence Heywood Patterson at the ond of Clarence Norris’s trial. jail authorities was | clalist leaders think they have you in| their pockets. ONLY THE UNITY} are doing everything in their power | Dear Eddie: Sherrill, As a matter of fact, passed their “firm” resolution, as well as the whole past his- tory of that organization, indicate that the whole business was just a stage show put on to satisfy the wealthy Jewish supporters and the many A. A. U, athletes who were de- manding action. On the day following the passing of the resolution threatening boycott of the 1936 Olympics, both Avery Brundage, A. A. U. President, and Frederick Rubien, Secretary-Treas- urer, hastened to give assurances that they contemplated taking no such action. Said Mr. Rubien: “I don’t think that we will have to go to the full extreme of our resclution and | boycott the 1936 Games.” As long ago as last March, the La- bor Sports Union sent to the heads of the A. A. U. and to many of its clubs a resolution urging protest against the smashing of the German} | Jewish and labor sport movements by the Hitlerites, and calling for a boycott of the Berlin Olympics. | While a few of the smaller clubs re- | sponded, not a word was heard from the high moguls themselves. The} |following month, however, after | pressure from prominent Jews, Brun- | dage, in answering a letter from the managing editor of the Jewish | Times of Baltimore, uttered a num- | ber of high-sounding phrases con- jcerning the “fundamental Olympic Protocol of no discrimination be- | cause of class, color or creed,” and) threatened that the American Olym- pic Committee would demand the re- j;Moval of the 1936 Games from Ber- lin if Germany persisted in its dis-| crimination against Jews. . e 8 June, just before the meeting of | | 4 the International Olympic Commit- | tee, which was to take up the mat~ | ter of final approval of place for the | next Olympics, Major General Sher-/ rill, one of the American delegates, made similar blustering threats in response to telegrams from the American-Jewish Congress, and to petition from twenty prominent American athletes. The International Olympic Committee then went into secret session and emerged from the 1936 Games firmly pledged to the Nazis because Germany had “given assurenees” *“-¢ Jews would be per= mitted to compete for the Gei.2.2 Olympic team “as a principle.” This meaningless wind was hailed as a victory for the “democratic principle in sport” by the A. A. U. and the American Olympic Committee. The destruction of Jewish sport organ- izations, the exclusion of Jews from the Nazi-controlied national sport bodies, the fact that Hitler admit- tedly intends to use the Games to spread Nazi propaganda and to in- crease his prestige internationally, were of no import in the face of the Nazi “assurances.” Certainly we have no basis for believing that the latest blasts from the A. A. U. are not as much empty noise as those in the spring. * * rea fact, the idea of the A. A. U. fighting against discrimination in sports is ludicrous. Avery Brundage boasts naively that some years ago, when the National A. A. U. cham- pionships were scheduled to be held in New Orleans, and it was discovered that Negroes would not be permitted to compete, the games were shifted to some other city. Who would not permit Negroes to compete? The Southern Association of the A. A. U. itself. And today, several years after this event, a letter from the Secretary of the Southern Associa- tion to a Labor Sports Union mem- ber, a facsimile of which appeared Trade Union Directory ++: CLEANERS, DYERS AND PRES.ERS UNION 288 Second Avenue, New York City Algonquin 4-4267 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4 West 18th Street, New York City Chelsea 3-0505 FURNITURE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 81% Broadway, New York City Gramercy, 5-8956 METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 35 East 19th Street, New York City Gramercy 71-7842 NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL Us 181 West 28th Street, New York City Lackawanna 4-4010 CHAIRS & TABLES TO HIRE Dayt. 9-5504 Minnesota 9-7520 American Chair Renting Co. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves, Brooklyn PRONE: DICKENS 21-5012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. (Classified ) LARGE ROOM for rent. Reasonable. Ap- ply all wee. 820 Suburban Place, Apt. 34 (ind Bt. and Borton Rd.). a | WOMAN COMRADE to take care of 4) children for 2 weeks. Room and board. | Q. Kalua, 100 E, 116th mR GIRL couple; kitchen ROOM Fo! or wrivileges; 147 a. aand St., Apt, 1. Hitler and the A. A. U. leaders immediately after they® In your column on the Amateur Athletic Union and the | Berlin Olympics you left the impression that the A. A. U. was | firm and sincere in its stand against the Olympics, but that this was changed at the meeting of the American Olympic Association mainly through the activities of Major-General the utterances of the A. A. U. in the September issue of the New Sport and Play, states that Negro athletes are not permitted to com- pete with whites. Yet we have never heard of a single action taken by the A. A. U. concerning the en- forcement of the “democratic prin- ciple of sports” within its own organ- ization. A few years ago, several American track and field stars toured Europe Included in the group was Eddie ‘Tolan, Negro sprint star who today holds both the Olympic and world’s records for the 100 meter dash. Throughout the trip Tolan was forced to eat by himself, sleep by himself, and was completely isolated by his white teammates. Their treatment of him was so shameful that many European newspapers commented on it indignantly. But not an official word was heard from the A. A. U. These are only a couple of instances of so wide and flagrant & condition that sport writers have commented on it often. Yet the A. A. U. has the guts to proclaim itself the champion of free sport competi- tion, regardless of “class, color or creed.” Os: @ IN all their discussions and resolu- tions on German sports, neither A. A. U. nor Olympic officials ever mentioned the destruction of the great labor sports organizations, built through years of sacrifice, whose members numbered hundreds of thousands. are today virtually excluded from all sport participation in Germany. Technically they also are barred from Olympic competition unless they are ready to prostrate themselves pub- licly before the altar of Hitler, and to perform a number of other com- plicated ceremonies to show that they are completely purged of the effects of their “Marzist” associa- tions. But we do not find the A. A. U. of the Olympic Committee de- fending the “protocol of no dis- crimination” against’ these athletes, to say nothing of protesting against the disbarment of these hundreds of thousands of athletes from all sports. Clearly the statements and resolu- tions of the A. A. U, and American Olympic Committee threatening boy- cott are hypocritical demagogy, madc« because of pressure from prominen: Jews, Ivany of whom have given financial support to these bodies, and from rank-and-file athletes in the A. A. U. Further action to put boy- cott into practice, and to develop the struggle against Hitler’s suppression of labor and Jewish sport organiza- tions will depend on the extent to which the anti-Olympic sentiment is developed among American athletes This is one of the problems whicl the Labor Sports Union will have tc ‘These labor athletes © sat face at its National Convention sy New York this Christmas. The campaign for the World Spartakiade, the great international workers’ athletic meet to be held in Moscow next summer, should prove an excellent weapon in the mobiliza- tion of America’s labor sportsmen for the struggle against the 1936 Olympics. Comradely, MAC GORDON. 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