The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1933, Page 1

All Out to. St. $8,500 MORE } | Will Put $40,000 Drive Over the Top. Sen | | d a Dollar! | (Section of the Comssunist International) rker ist Party U.S.A. Arena Tonight 8 P. M.; Hathaway Reports on Scottsboro America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper Vol. X, No. 293 Mew York, N. ¥., under the Aet Entered as second-elass matter at the Post Office af of March 8, 187%, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1933 Price 3 Cents DEATH VERDICT FOR SECOND SCOTISBORO BOY; JUDGE SETS EXECUTION OF NORRIS, PATTERSON FOR FEB. 2 3,600 STORM HOME RELIEF FOR BACK PAY Starving WorkersFight forManyWeeksWages; No More Jobs NEW YORK. — Five thou- sand relief workers, unpaid for two and four weeks, stormed the offices of the city work re- lief bureau at 245 E. 28rd St. here yesterday demanding pay owed them. The men had been employed by the city under the Department of Sani- tation on civic odd-jobs under the Home Work Relief. Not having been employed on “constructive” jobs, they do not come tnder the Civil Works Administration. At the office of the city C.W.A. it was said that these men had been dropped on Nov. 20 from the Home Work Relief by the city at a saving of $1,700,000. No provision had been made to transfer them to C.W.A. due | to the total lack of new projects. When questioned, men in the line said that moriey had been owed them by the ¢ity for one, two, and in Many cases, for as. many as, three Weeks. A line of about 300 had formed at} 8 a.m, when the offices opened. Half- pay was given to some of the men. At 2 p.m. police charged the group, now sw to 2,000, and sent home (all who did not have cards informing them that they were to be transferred to C.W.A. At Innwood Park, between 207th and 215th St. 900 Home Work Relief workers who were forced to come on their day off to receive their pay, were forced to wait in line all day. At the close of the office at 5 p. m., | 200 workers who were still unpaid crowded into the office. The police- man stationed there drew his gun and. threatened to shoot a Negro worker if he did not leave im~- mediately. Pressed in by the work- ers behind him, the Negro could not| retreat. These workers, many of them skilled | tradesmen, had been employed by the | city laying pipe lines, building stairs and clearing lots at $18 per week, but | are to be giveri $15 per week under the C.W.A. Bear Mt. Workers Win More Gains from (.W.A. Here Train Fare Granted New York Workers After Strike NEw YORK.—Free ‘transportation to and from the job, better trans- portation facilities, and the promise of field hospitals for the care of the injured were won by the Bear Mountain strikers when a delegation representing the men put additional demands to the Civil Works officials Under the new ruling the tran- sportation charge of 50 cents per day for all Bear Mountain workers will ae for skilled men; work- ition for all injured on and from work, and i ef Hl s | the forefront of the fight on the pick- Party Calls Special General Membership Meeting for Tonight To All Party Members! To All Revolutionary Workers! To All Members of Mass Organ- izations! NEW YO RK—The District Secretariat of the Communist Party calls you to a special and urgent general membership meeting this Thursday evening, Dec. 7, at 7:30 sharp at St. Nich- olas Arena, 69 W. 66th St. Clar- ence Hathaway and Richard B. Moore will discuss the funda-~ mental political meaning of the new lynch wave in relation to the growing fascist manifesta- tions in the country and other burning tasks before all revolu- tionary workers. | | i } | | 2 Pickets Arrested In 12-Day Cleveland Steel Strike Fight Strike Solid; Workers) Demand Written | Agreement | CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 6.—The ar- rest of two pickets yesterday on as- sault charges marked today’s fight between scabs and strikers at the Morse-Rogers Steel Co. at 1515 Fair- field Ave. One scab was sent to the hosvital with head injuries when} strikers overturned-the car in which | the company was importing scabs into | the plant. Scores of windows were also broken as strikers stoned the plant and chased many strike-breakers from the plant. This is the 12th day of the sttike. | The company has been stalling on signing the agreement to recognize the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union and to meet the other de- mands of the strikers. Although ver- bal agreement has been reached on many points the workers demand 2 signed agreement and that all scabs be dismissed by the company. The strike is solid, with girl strikers in et lines. S.M.W.LU. Ccavention The growth of the union in Cleve-| land is leading to a convention which | will set up a new district in Ohio. The convention takes place on Sun- day, Dec. 17, at 9 am., 1237 Payne Ave. All union locals, organizing groups, and opposition groups in the A. F. of L. unions are asked to im- mediately elect delegates. It is urged that fraternal workers’ organizations send fraternal delegates to enable the S.M.W.LU. to establish the widest Possible base amongst the steel and metal workers of the city. Lecture on Cuba H. Greene will deliver a lecture on Cuba tonight, 8:30, at the Henri Bar- busse Branch of the I. L. D., at 2 W. 88rd St. IN December 4, Chicago had raised only $2,700.95 on its quota of $5,000. It lags behind Districts such as Boston, Seattle, Philadel- phia which have gone over the top, and even behind a number of other districts whose showings are not of the best. In the half week ending Dec. 4, Chicago sent in only $34.39, . . A SHOCKINGLY bad example is set by the Trade Union Unity League of Chicago which has not : of closed busses, must very minimum of de- 4 ge 2 uw Chicago Slumps in Drive! SET UP NEW CENTRALIZED NRA MACHINE Gives Roosevelt More Power to Crush Fight Against NRA Codes (Daily Worker Bureau, Washington) | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. | 6.—President Roosevelt is or- | ganizing a National Emergency Council that will spread sub- | ordinate councils throughout | each of the 3,000 odd counties of the United States to supply in- formation to citizens and corporations | on new deal agencies. i It was emphasized today in the White House circles that the effort is not to propagandize but to clear up confusion as to how individuals} and corporations may benefit from| new agencies such as Federal Relief, | the N.R.A., and the AAA. It was said that much unavoidable confusion has existed, giving rise to problems, which could be solved if every one understood just. what agencies exist and how they function, National Emergency Council mem- bers will include the heads of Fed- eral Relief, the A.A.A. the Farm Credit Administration, the Home Owners Loan Corporation and Sec- retaries of Interior, Agriculture, Com- merce and Labor. Under this coun- cil, state directors and county emer- gency councils will be set up. Whether they will be paid with Federal funds has not been deter- mined, but apparently there is money to supply if necessary. It is expected, however, that many local council of-| ficials will serve on a volunteer basis. Obviously this new set up will ex- tend the nation-wide new deal bu- reaucracy which already constitutes @ powerful political machine domi- nated by Roosevelt. cae J ee The creation of this new Emer- gency Council by the Roosevelt government to co-ordinate the work of the various NRA agencies means that the Roosevelt government is tightening still further its control of the local and state government ap- paratus. It means that the Roo- Sevelt government is moving ahead to an ever greater co-operation with monopoly capital for the stamping out of all local unrest and resist~ ance against the NRA codes. The centralization of this apparatus to break down opposition to the NRA codes is another step of the Roo- sevelt government along the road to increased Fascistization of the government. Lindberghs Land in Brazil NATAL, Brazil, Dec. 6—The Lind- berghs completed a two-thousand mile trip from West Africa, landing here late this afternoon, Cs these poor showings with the record of the Bulgarian organization which has raised $50 on a quota of $15; with the Work- ers’ School, $34.62 on a pledge of $25; with Waukegan, Section 8, $221.57 on a quota of $200. Section 5 has raised 97 per cent on its Pledge of $225; the Women’s Coun- clls, $40.25 on a quota of $50, soe IESE figures prove that where action is taken and workers ap- proached, funds for the “Daily” are easily raised. Lack of space pre- vents an extended listing. But most of the working class organizations of Chicago have made little, and in some instances, no effort to save our Daily Worker, The danger facing our “Daily” is such that from day to day its life is in Jeopardy. We cannot believe that you, comrades of Chicago, are willing to gamble with the life of the only American working class daily newspaper feared by the boss class. We appeal to you to get into immediate action. Join your fellow workers in the nationwide battle to save our “Daily.” ACTION MUST BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY! \Total to date ......632,65755 s ® | Mass Fight to Save Framed Negr Sweeping U.S. as Defense Plans || THE WORKERS’ VERDICT! Decatur Trials Prove: N Justice in Boss Courts wood Patterson, 19, were today Callahan. _—————________-# 'Many Scottsboro ‘Actions This Week ‘All Over Country Big Demonstration Saturday in Union Sq. NEW YORK.—Scottsboro protest | | demonstration Saturday noon in| Union Square. Scottsboro meeting this evening at 804 Forest Ave., near 158th St., Bronx. | Protest meeting at 30 Main St., | Mineola, L. I., tonight. | Demonstration at Washington Ave. | and Claremont Parkway, Bronx, this | afternoon. . PHILADELPHIA. — Pre ration Th five o'clock, Broad and South Sts. st parade y atter- arting from O Answer Lynch ‘Verdicts! Build Mass Defense | Which Alone Can Wrest Boys from Lynchers By CYRIL BRIGGS The Decatur lynch court has again spoken in tones of undisguised hatred Dimitroft Clashes With Nazi Judge in ‘Fire Trial Session CLEVELAND.—Protest mee Friday night at Woodland C Woodland and 46th Sts., preceded by a parade starting at o'clock. ae BUFFALO, N. Y.—Demonstration ‘Thursday night, with a parade start- ing at 6:30 from Pennsylvania Ave., to be followed by a mass meeting in ‘ ERE | the Sharp St. M. E. Church, Dolphin (Special to the Daily Worker) | 34 ‘Eiting Sts AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Dec. | e |6 (Via Zurich, Switzerland) —Official | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn | Bulgarian documents were read at ency Scottsboro anti-lynching con- | | | ee An Eme! | declared. “ and blood Iust against the oppressed Negro people. An Alabama all-white jury has returned another lynch death verdict against one of the Scottsboro boys. Jndge Callahan, who in his charge to the juries openly directed the lynch verdicts and on both occasions neglected even to instruct the juries to consider a possible acquittal, has @ celebrated the new verdict by identified with the Stegan Dimitrof concerned in the Sofia Cathedral Ex: | Plosion, | Dimitroff’s supposed connection |with the Sofia explosion had been} the 52nd session of the Reichstag fire | rire teat eee riuane) trial at Leipzig today which definitely | feren¢e wil vi |stated that the Communist defendant, | Tare ° . . George Dimitroff, was in no Way! -toLEDO, Ohio—Protest demon- tration Thursday afternoon at 4 | J o'clock in the County Courthouse | Park, | ° CHICAGO, Il—Demonstration on} * @ speedily setting Feb. 2 for the electro- cution of Haywood Patterson and LL.D. Wins 30-Day |broadcast far and wide through Nazi | Saturday afternoon, with parade, be~ and publicity channels to dis-| ginning at 43rd and Indiana Ave.,| 0 Boys \“It’s a Frame-Up,” Norris Tells Judge After Jury Brings Guilty Verdict Against Him Appeal Stays Executions; Defense Attorneys | Get More Guards as They Leave Decatur ° DECATUR, Ala., Dec. 6.—Clarence Norris, 21, and Hey- sentenced te die in the electric chair at Kilby Prison, Alabama, on Feb. 2 by Judge W. W. | Sentence was passed immediately after a verdict of guilty had been returned against Norris, the second of the Scottsboro boys to be tried, by an all-white jury of farm- ers at 11:30 this morning (central time). Patterson was convicted Jast Friday, This is the third death sentence for Patterson and the second for Norris. “I have been sentenced three times to the electric chair for something I’m not guilty of,” Patterson defiantly told Judge Callahan, whos speed-up | tactics and prejudictal rulings in “fa- vor of the prosecution had alded in railroading both boys. “I have been framed, fudge,” Norris ou are sending an inno- cent man to the electric chair.” In sentencing first Patterson and then Norris, Judge Callahan had said: “T order the warden of Kilby prison or deputies assigned by him to put you to death by causing electricity of suf- ficient voltage to be applied, and that he cause it to go through your body. the current to be continued until you and may god have mercy soul.” Aiter deliberating 16 hours, the jury brought in its verdict against Norris. , | fixing the penalty as death in the electric chair, the same as in the case of Patterson, the first of the de~ |fendants to be retried and convicted. “It’s all a frame-up,” Norris said, “I am not guilty as charged.” Announcement of the appeals auto- mati y postponed the execution of both boys. Although every rule of even capi- talist law was violated in the conduct of the trials by Judge Callahan,” de- clared Joseph R. Brodsky, chief coun= sel of the International Labor De- fense, “it will be a fatal error to de-~ pend passively on the hope that the decisions will be reversed by the higher courts.” “The International Labor Defense will utilize every legal resource in this fight, but we know that only the immediate mobilization of mass protest of millions of workers throughout the country can prevent Clarence Norris. ‘The two trials have been conducted without the slightest pretense of im- partiality or justice. The mask of “impartiality” and “fairness” stands stripped from the capitalist courts. The trials are convincing proof that only the mass fight, developed to’ even greater heights, can wrest the Scotts- boro boys from the bloody hands of Reprieve for Negro Sentenced to Die RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 6.—A thirty-day reprieve for John Lewis the lynchers and their courts. Lynch Incitement Prelude. ‘The trials were preceded by a campaign of lynch incitement throughout the South: the double lynching of Dan Pippen, Jr., and A. T. Harden in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the lynching of Dennis Cross, a paralytic Negro, in the same town; the fiendish lynching of Geo. Armwood in Mary- land and a whole series of murder- ous attacks, still growing in volume, against the Negro masses, including the lynch murder of James Matthews by a guard on Welfare Island, and the Tammany police-instigated man hunt against Negro workers in Cen- tral Park. ‘The lynch preparations against the | f, Scottsboro boys and their defenders were given the stamp of approval by the white ruling class and its courts this legal murder but started pro- ceedings to disbar Bernard A“- for daring to defend the framed Negro. In Washington, the U. S. Supreme Court reversed a decision by the late Judge Lowell of Boston and handed George Crawford over to the Vir- ginia lynch courts. Judge Acted As Prosecutor, Tt was under these auspices that the Decatur trials opened. Judge Callahan at the very outset ind in the provocative refusal to afford i (Continued on Poge as Edwards, Negro worker framed on murder charges and sentenced to die Friday, Dec. 8, has been forced from Governor Ehringhaus by mass protest against the lynch-verdict organized by the International La- bor Defense. Meanwhile, defense lawyers re- tained by the I. L. D. are perfect- ing the papers to force the Su- preme Court to reopen the case. A recent decision of the state su- jae court was hurriedly made be- ‘ore the appeal papers were com~ pleted, after the lawyers had been informed the case would not be docketed until the spring term. A series of successful protest meetings have been held in the last ew days in Charlotte, Morning Star. Hudson Grove, Columbia, and other cities, not only in the Caro- linas but also in other Southern states. Scores of churches, clubs, and other organizations have sent resolutions to the Governor de- manding Edwards’ immediate re- lease, : A strong campaign is being or- ganized, connected up with an ex- posure of a group of renegades from the I. L. D., which is doing its best to help police in breaking up the campaign, even calling police to break I. L. D. Meetings. The I. L. D., pointing out the danger of a let-up in the mass cam- lulged | paign, permitting the lynchers to go through with their murder plans at the end of the 80 days, has called for intensified prot | press leredit the courageous Communist de- fendant. No sooner had the statement been read than Dimitroff stood up and sig- nificantly addressed the crowd, “Lis- |ten to that,” he stated, his finger (Continued on Page 2) | on the South Side. Become a Regular Reader | Order the Daily Worker at your corner newsstand for regular news on the Scottsboro case and the Negro liberation struggle. the judicial murder of these inno- cent Negro boys and ensure their freedom.” So tenses was the atmosphere |against the ILD. attorneys, that |Judge Callahan granted them per- | mission to leave the court-room be- |fore the hostile spectators. were al- |lowed to depart after the jagainst Norris had been returned by ck Woe Ten Years of Working Class History Twenty-Four Pages; 250,000 Copies Minimum DAILY WORKER will be tert years old in January. Our 10th anniversary edition will be published January 6th ‘Twenty-four pages and a sale of at least 250,000 copies is our aim. ‘The anniversary issue will be of great historical value and of lasting | worth. It will be # history of ten years of class struggle, with the role of the Daily Worker in these struggles clearly pictured. Pull pages of earlier issues of the Daily Worker will be reproduced, including the first issue of January 10th, 1924, and those issues showing the stand of the paper at the vital moments of the class struggle since | (death of Lenin, Sacco-Vanzetti execution, August Ist, 1928, March 6th, | 1930, the beginning of the Scottsboro case, the big strike struggles, etc.). American Communist leaders, William Z. Foster, Earl Browder, Robert Minor, and many others will have special articles. Leaders of the world Communist movement, the Communist Inter- national, and of the various Communist Parties (German, Polish, Eng- Ush, French, ete.) will send articles and revolutionary greetings. Workers from the shop and farm, from the ships and docks, from the mills and mines, are invited to send articles and letters greeting our ten years of struggle. [bse mmiethet eee Sean ap ipegor ahi eas Malet ‘The New York District of the Communist Party thinks not! They have placed @ cash order for 100,000 copies. They challenge the other districts of the Party to show @ similar appreciation of this anniversary edition. We believe they will. We are awaiting word from Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and the other districts. We are | injured the jury. pe Three deputies were assigned to ac- company the defense lawyers from here to Chattanooga, Tenn., late® day to avert a possible mob against them. ae Philadelphia Taxicab Strikers Hold Out Against NRA Sell-Out layed in c g in the National Labor Board in the strike of the 5 |taxicab drivers against the delphia Rapid Transit Co. peti 3 linstead called another conf of the employers and line with its policy of wearing out the strikers. Ye The militancy of the strikers continues. At least five more today in prt tacks against the strikers as continued to hold out against = sell-out by the N. R. A, a EAS Meeting Against Starvation STATEN ISLAND.—Neighborhood Committee of Action will hold a meet~ ing of Negro and white against starvation and i ui awaiting orders from all workers’ organizationa Send in orders now! Begin now to prepare for the sale of this feeus night, 8 p. m., at Shiloh on Henderson Ave, West .