The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1934 Page Three Unemployed Fight The Entire Soviet Union Celebrates Tear Gas Attack in Spring Evictions Constable Sale Stopped in Philadelphia by | Jobless Councils | NEW YORK. — Struggles against; evictions, led by the Unemployment Councils, are increasing throughout the country, Herbert Benjamin, na- tional secretary of the Unemploy- ment Councils, declared yesterday. Reports of eviction struggles in Philadelphia and Minnesota show, that the unemployed are resisting} the spring drive of the landlords to! dispossess them, Benjamin said. The Unemployment Councils de-| mand no eviction of workers for| non-payment of rent, and free rent, gas, light and water for all unem- + ployed. Struggles against evictions and against foreclosures of workers’ homes are reported from Pitts-| burgh, from the west, and from| other industrial centers, Benjamin| declared. | oe ae | BLUE EARTH, Minn., April 15.—| More than 100 farmers successfully | fought off the sheriff and his 25 deputies for hours here Thursday, as the sheriff attempted to evict Roy Wooley, a farmer, and his family. After a hand-to-hand fight in which four deputy sheriffs were injured, the sheriff used tear gas to} rout the farmers. ’ | Roy Wooley, his son Robert, and Emil Koskovich, as neighbor, were | jailed on charges of “resisting an officer.” PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The con- stable sale of the household goods of Anderson Wiggins, fil and jobless) worker, was halted by the action of | the Unemployment Councils here. | The Councils demanded that the relief bureaus pay the rent, which| the County Relief Board has re-| Deatedly refused to do in spite) of a certificate from Wiggins doctor | stating that moving might cause instant death. Small Farmers Fill Court House; Seek Passage of HR 7598. Cattle Dying for Lack’ of Proper Feed; No Seeds for Spring HANCOCK, Mich.—Hundreds of workers and farmers crowded into the County Court House here and | demanded hay for their starving | stock, immediate relief, and pledged | Members of the expedition had been people, including the families of | | saved. A’ government order, how-! Captain Voronin, Bosun, Markoy, The last Pavlov and others. support of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598. A delegation was elected to go to | the county agricultural agent at Lansing. The condition of the vast major- ity of small farmers in this vicinity | is getting constantly worse. Their | stock is deteriorating for lack of | proper feed, and they have no sup- | ply of seeds for the spring sowing. | They are unable to get any relief trom the government officials. Mooney Re-Trial Writ Is in Wash, Rescue of 109 Cheliuskiners From Ice Flow Off Siberian Coast 6 Airman Who Took Part in Rescue Receive Order of Lenin | (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., April 15 (By Cable)—The ses of workers| and peasants of every corner of the! Soviet Union, the largest country in) the world, were united today beyond} the geographical barriers of its] mighty mountain-ranges, its great) steppes and raging rivers, in their) profound joy in the victorious and successful rescue of the 109 Soviet workers who had been marooned on an arctic icefloe since the sink- ing of the steamer Cheliuskin on February 13. From every section of the great land of the dictatorship of the pro- letariat, from the White Sea to the Caspian from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean came messages of greeting, of joy in the rescue, of ac- clamation of the intrepid flyers who accomplished the history-making feat, and messages to Stalin, leader of the great Party which guides the destinies of the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, All of the airmen who par- ticipated in this difficult rescue have received the Order fo Lenin | and a full year’s extra wages, not | merely as bonus, but as a sign of Soviet Radio Station Which Aided Rescue of Polar Expedition The radio station at Cape Wellen, shown here, , was in constant communication with Camp Schmidt, | | where 109 Soviet workers were marooned for two | months on an ice floe off the Siberian coast. When the country’s and government's deep pride in, and gratitude for their daring and heroic feats. Ship Sank February 13 The 109 members of the crew of) the Cheliuskin, headed by Professor Otto Schmidt, were marooned on an ice-floe off the Siberian coast more than two months ago, when | the arctic ship sank on February 13, after being crushed in the ice. The crew saved a radio transmitter and receiving set and kept up constant communication with the Soviet radio station at Cape Wellen, cooperating with their rescuers. ce Cheliuskin, is one of the Soviet) pl} Union's most famous scientists.. | ce For two months, sparing neither | Karem that three airplanes are on} a government! their way here. commission guided the rescue work./ our last smoke signal, and cutting) Planes crashed; steamers sent to the] of our radio. risk nor expense, rescue tasted conditions similar to those which had sent the Cheliu- skin to its ocean graves. Many were| injured. But the work went on, Slowly, surely, the rescuers brought everything in readiness for the feat which the capitalist world thought) impossible. Then, with the lives of 109 marooned men hanging in the balance, the first rescue of the ten women anw two children of the expedition occurred. The work went, on. In groups of two and three—| every member of the marooned| crew was transported back to| safety from the ice. Commander| A) Schmidt, badly injured, refused to} w! leave the ice floe until all other. wi tor in, thi ever, forced him to leave. six—all officers, were rescued last Thursday. Such, in brief, Captain Voronin and Radio Opera- | tower. chief of the expedition. | expedition. The leaders are left for the last. of all the Cheliuskinites rapidly. families of members of the polar expedition, | Cheliuskinites congratulated each) is the record of: other. Soviet will which overcame all ob-) Cheliuskin, united to make possible the further Stalin, conquest of the vast Before the Rescue | arctic region. | T= conditions under which the} rescue of the Cheliuskinites pro-| eded is not without interest. The| ‘last radio telegram from’ the ma- rooned men was worded as follows: | “Aretic Ocean, Schmidt Camp, April 13, 1:05 a. m.: The transfer Otto Schmidt, of the Cheliuskinites and valuable leader of the expedition aboard the) freight to the mainland was com- leted on April 12, Now we have re- ived a telegram from Cape Van We are lighting Within a half hour, r Krenkel are leaving camp, leav- ig a Soviet flag hoisted over the Alexei Bobrov is temporary| “The weakest are saved first, then} e rank and file members of the} Families Hear of Rescue In Archangel, news of the rescue} spread Here live many of the On the evening of pril 13, a meeting was held in nich participated the parents, ‘ives and children of the rescued Smiling and joyful relatives of the On the proposal of the! this modern epic of courage and brother of the rescued stoker of the! Glove Men Strike. in Schenectady Already Out | SCHENECTADY, N. ¥,, April 15.—| Two of the seven groups of glove | | 3,400 Fall River Textile | Workers On Strike, Two Plants Completely Shut Knit Goods Strike 900 of the 3,000 Men » | gonquin and American Printing Cos. | and the textile division of the Ark- wright Corp. | FALL RIVER, Mass., (F.P.)—3,400 orkers are still striking at the Al- At the latter plant 650 walked oyt, | |“Proud of Party and Government” radio transmitter consant communic: Molotov, Voroshiloy Kuibishev; also to the heroic air-| men who participated in the rescue. In the first telegram the relatives! of the rescued men write: Greet Comrade Stalin “Joy and happiness are merely weak, helpless words. define the feelings which we ex- perieniced on hearing of the rescue! of our relatives? We are tremen- the arctic ship, Cheliuskin, sank on February 13, after being crushed in the ice, the crew saved a |“ and receiving set and kept up ation with this station. statements: “Today, when our husbands and fathers are already out of danger, our first thought in joy and triumph | is to apply to you, our pride and our |®Umberless first-class plants, re- great friend. We know that since Cheliuskin on its voyage, you at- tentively watched the courageous work of our relatives. We know exploits of her son: | scepticism the very pos: Kin of Rescued Men Hail Stalin; Soviet Flag Left on Arctic Tce best men of the writes “Izvestia the Soviet e torial which ex basis of this unprec “The land of the received with the greatest pride radio messages from the remote North bringing news of the heroic s “Izvesti ‘The greate: authori t fearless such as Lé , people of world fame, while its due to the heroism of o nevertheless regard rescue by airplanes. | “Capitalism Cannot Understand” “But the ‘miracle’ happened, which is unclear even to the best men of the capitalist world. Our glorious heroes flew under inhumanly diffi- cult conditions, f fr in blood-freezing . snowstorms, suffered fail ed their lives, but grim ant victory. 3 s ason why ‘the Bol- sheviks maintained power,’ for the Nikolai Butakov, the) cluding members of the families of |SAme teason why the ragged Red stacles—this epic of an entire coun-| meeting unaniffiously decided to| Schmidt, Bobrov, Krenkel, etc., sent | AT™my of a hungry country ruined try united to save its own fighters,| send a telegram of greetings to|a letter to Stalin which contains,|>Y the capitalists completely re- and| among other things, the following | Pulsed the invasion of numerous in- terventionists and executioners of | | the counter-revolution; for the same |reason why the proletariat, led by jits party of steel has constructed jmodeled the countryside, uprooted Can they) the first day of the departure of the | the kulaks, rendering decisive as- stance to the peasantry in its turn- ing toward collective farming; for; the same reason why a gigantic] dously thankful to Comrade Stalin,| that since the moment of the ceta- | creative energy has unfolded on all mendous cares, he found time to| look after the Cheliuskinites, taking a big and human interest in their| fate. | “We shall never forget the self- sacrificing courage of the Soviet air- men, the Polar workers, the Soviet | sailors risking their lives every hour | while fighting for the safety of our | relatives. Through you we warmly | thank the Party and the government | and the many millions of toilers of | the Soviet Union for the attention, sympathy and care shown towards the Cheliuskinites. “You have saved not only our husbands and fathers, but you have | saved heroic fighters for the mastery | of the Arctic. Thanks to your ef- | forts they can again stand in the} ranks of the foremost fighters of | the Soviet North. | “We are proud and glad that we | | bear the name of ‘citizen’ in so great | joy., Accept a country; proud that we have such | a Party and such a government.” Pp sis ati ELATIVES of the rescued Cheli- uskinites living in Moscow, in-| plane remains unclear even to the| Arrest 61 in Phila. Police Attack Pickets At. Two Plants Special to the Daily Worker SAN FRANCISCO, (FP.)—John | Finerty, attorney for Tom Mooney, | has returned to Washington leaving | the filing of a petition for a writ of | habeas corpus in the Mooney case | with Atty. George Davis. | The petition will be filed in the lederal district court, where it is ex- pected it will be denied and it will) be appealed to the U. S. Supreme} Court, The attorneys hope that the | tase will be brought before the dis- trict court in San Francisco in May, | when Finerty and Frank P. Walsh, New York attorney, will come to argue it. cutters in Gloversville, 900 of the 3,000 employed in the in- dustry here, voted on Thursday to strike at 5 P. M. Friday. The strike vote was influenced by of the A. F. of L. union, and the successful . strike of the workers rank and file in the opposi- tion_groups of the A. F, of L. union ‘warned all the workers against any arbitration moves to break the strike, and called for a broad rank and file strike committee to rep- resent all the workers in the 200 . Shops. — BOSTON — involving | the rank and file opposition group | leather | causing a complete shutdown of the | plant unit, because of their un- | satisfied demands that | operate exclusively on a 6- and 8- | loom basis. 1,200 Vote to Jom ~ Glove Plant Strike [To Start Picketing Mill Today GLOVERSVILLE. 'N. Y., April 15. SECOND ANNUAL CONCERT and DANC given by the WORKERS’ MUSIC LEAGUE Wednesday, April 18 Ritz Palace —8P.M.— 218 Huntington Ave. 12 Choruses—English-Jewish-Lithuanian-Russian Mass Chorus of 450 Voices—Music by Bert Orris and His Musical Reviewers SANDS : SPEAKER: CARL Admission 35¢ reet the Daily Worker on International Solidarity Day MAY DAY Greetings © scnaenth Rooananidciscnacsso es MOONE ss clerisastoaes All greetings mailed before April 22nd to the DAILY WORKER, 50 rast 137 St., New York will positively appear in the May Day Edition ‘The forces of the striking glove workers were augmented today by | 1,200 of the Fulton County Glove | Mills. The Fulton County workers, | members of the International Glove | Union, Local 69, A. F. of L., voted | unanimously last night to join the 2,300 already on strike for higher wages, Picketing of the mills will begin tomorrow. Union leaders co-operating with the bosses have already taken steps to betray the strike. ing particular care that the move- ment does not get out of their hands, When a motion was made by a worker at the strike meeting last night that the strike, picket and relief committees should be chosen dent, explained that the hand- picked shop chairman would take | care of all. The glove workers, 95 per ¢ent of whom are highly skilled, have had their wages slashed 25 to 35 per cent by the N. R. A. codes. 2 Dressmakers’ Shops | Strike in New York | NEW YORK.—The workers of the Bon Ton Dress Co. and Puritan Dress Co., are continuing their strike against the jobber Goldman Frock, 1384 Broadway, despite all efforts on the part of the jobber and contractors, with the assistance of the officials of the International to demoralize the ranks of the work- ers, All dressmakers are urged to come to the picket line to help the strik- ers, who are fighting under the leadership of the Dressmakers’ In- dustrial Union. Workers of the Foremost Sport- wear shop, 1385 Broadway, who are also on strike, have requested that workers come and assist them the mill! , They are tak-| from and elected by the rank and! file, Harry Paxon, the union presi-| PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 15—| -one knit goods strikers were! rrested here yesterday after the} strikers answered the police attacks | | by fighting back, when the police! | attacked the picket line at Bergman | and Booth and the Coane plants. | Both of the plants were trying to | resume operations for the first time | since the general strike was called, and heavy police guards were | thrown around the plants. | Rose Buck, one of the strikers. S| was run down by an automobile) [yj | carrying the scabs. The driver was not arrested. When the strikers appeared | | court, one striker was held for the | | Grand Jury in $500 bail, seven were | | held on disorderly conduct charges, and the others were released. | | The strikers jammed the strike | | headquarters yesterday, discussing | in their determination to continue} | their struggle in spite of police ter- | ror and provocation. ‘Force NRA to Admit | Worker Was Fired for Work in Pipe Union NEW YORK.— After a hearing |held on Friday, April 6, at the |N. R. A, headquarters, 45 Broadway, |New York City, the New York Re- gional Labor Board, presided over by Mrs. Herrick, was forced to hand down a unanimous decision against | the Reiss Premier Pipe Company of | West New York, New Jersey. Ac- |cording to this decision, Michael | Orlando, vice president of the Inde- pendent Smoking Pipe Makers Union of America, and chairman of the union members of the Reiss Premier Pipe Co., was finally found to be, after five months, discharged by the company expressly for his union activities. The decision is further forced to| state that Michael Orlando is en- titled to his back pay for the period of five months since he was dis- charged. 30 Chicago AFL Locals | To Meet Apr. 22 on Workers’ Bill, HR 7598 CHICAGO, April 13—A confer-| ence of 30 Chicago A. F. of L. lo- cals that have endorsed the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill CHR. 7598) will meet at Flanert’s Hall, 1638 N .Halsted St., on Sun- day, April 22nd, at 10:20 a.m. The conference will formulate picket. plens for securing eg en-| é | because though overloaded with tre-|strophe you were the direct orga- nizer and inspirer of all rescue measures, at the head of which stood one of your closest colleagues, Kuibishev. We know that your close |attention accompanied every new airplane, steamer, dirigible, hurry- ing to the aid and rescue of our relatives, imprisoned by the icy ele- | ments. Hail Soviet Arctic “We felt this care every day, as our relatives felt it on the distant polar ice-floe. These things inspired us to confidence in success and vic- tory. “Behind your care stood the force produced by our country under your leadership. “Therefore, today, when our rela- tives have left on the ice floe only the proudly waving red flag of the Soviet Union, a symbol that the Arctic is and will be the Soviet Arc- tic, we must share with you our our great gratitude.” Pie Te “Tzvestia” Comments on Feat 'HE “miracle” of the rescue of the Chelyuskin castaways by air- Phila, C. P. Members Will Hear Report of National Convention PHILADELPHIA.—On April 18, Wednesday, there will be a general membership meeting of the Com-| munist Party in the city of Phila- delphia for the purpose of reporting on the National Convention of the Communist Party. All Party mem- bers must be present at this meet- ing, which is of very great im- tance. This meeting will be held in the Hungarian Hall at 1144 North 4th Street at 8 p, m. sharp. Food Workers Hail ‘ReturnofMartenez. Jail a Year, Now He Faces Deportation By ROBERT CHASE NEW YORK.—Pete Martinez is back in the rank of the militant food ‘workers. It is a year and ten days since the steel gates of Wel- | the police brutality, and expressing | fare Island clanged shut on Pete the | fronts of labor and struggle. | “All this is because our coun- try is the country of the prole- tarian dictatorship, the country of | Socialism, where the toiling | masses have hecome the masters of life, where they themselves are making their own ‘destiny,’ where | they themseives are forging their | | own future happiness, and the | happiness of all of humanity. | “This is the reason why the ocean | of their energy is limitless, why the | ground is so fruitful for the creation | of heroes of the flesh and blood of | |the wide national masses, in the | | first place of the proletariat and its | militant, indestructable Party. | “These brave fighters in a great cause never for a moment aban- doned their loyalty and unswerving discipline. This is no drill of a fascist” barracks, no ‘corpse-like obedience’ which is implanted with capitalist army. “Here is the severe, innate dis- cipline of a people united in ardent loyalty to the noblest cause on earth —the struggle for Communism.” (To Be Continued.) Chi. Judge Bars, Jails ILD Attorney | Strikes at Militant De- fense for Workers | (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, April 15.—Ben Meyers, International Labor Defense attor- ney, was arrested on a contempt of court charge as the answer of Judge J. William Brooks in the Jury Branch of the Municipal Court here Friday to Meyers’ request that the | judge rescind as unjust a recent order barring the lawyer from the court. Meyers was held in $2,500 bail. Meyers had asked a worker being tried whether the I. L. D. had been; notified of his case. The judge charged Meyers with “soliciting” and “let him off easy” by barring him permanently from the court. | When Meyers appeared, with two | other I. L. D, attorneys to demand |hhis reinstatement and the court's ‘compliance with the request of 12 | Workers going to trial that morning| that Meyers handle their defense, | |the judge founu Meyers “guilty” of} | contempt of court. The I. L. D. is| urging all workers and lawyers to) rods into the stupefied soldiers of a | | Retail Prices Now 30 Per Cent Above Last Year's Level NEW YOR: policy. Sin have rer War Industries of Hartiord on Strike (Continued from Page 1) These workers are entering their second week of The ma- jority 's are women. ri it was the The | here too, is young, for the most fier but perienced in the ways of meeting the A. F, of L. bureau | crats A delegation of strikers from the company’s porcelain plant in Wash- ington, New Jersey, came to the Strike meeting to pledge their unity and solidarity. Around 550 are on strike in New Jersey. Don’t Want N. R. A. I spoke to one of the most active strikers. It was a closed meeting, but after showing my Daily Worker credent I was cordially admit- ted. told me that the employ- ers offered the men, especially the skilled mechanics, an increase in pay. The strike is for a 20 per cent | raise all along the line. The men flatly refused. “What'll you do if the labor board comes in?” I asked, “We don’t want them in!” was the em- phatic reply. “We are fighting our own battle. We dont want anything to do with them.” Because of the great increase in strikes here for union recognition, the Manufacturers’ Association is lining up solidly behind the bosses of each struck shop, insisting on the open shop. How the N. R. A. is used to uphold this position of the bosses is shown in the Under- wood company’s reply to the work- ers’ demands, After promising the workers a 10 | per cent wage increase, the Under- wood officials, in a special circular | issued to all the workers, says: “The company has complied and {will continue to comply with the provisions of the N. R. A... , Com- petent legal advice (undoubtedly the competency of the Manufacturers’ Association) is to the effect that | any agreement to’employ only mem- bers of trade unions would be ille-) gal under the N. R. A. The com- pany cannot agree to do this.” In the aircraft strike, the presi- dent of the independent local re- vealed the strategy of the A. F. of L. top officials. They took him out to dinner, he told the strikers, “and paid for it.” They promised to sup- port the strike, telling him what a splendid struggle they are putting up. Then they pulled the cat out of the bag. With the militant avia- | tion strike in Buffalo and Hartford, the A. F. of L. officials see great Pickings in bringing these workers under the fold of a national avia- tion union. This would ease the worries of J. P. Morgan, who con- trols the aviation production indus- try, and the. A. F. of L. officials hope it would clip the militant claws of this young and fighting union, Union Has Majority The Industrial Aircrafts Workers of America, an industrial union, as its name implies, was organized by machinists who split off from the A. F. of L. machinists’ union after these worthies took $5,000 of the men’s money and tried to put a crimp into their organization and fighting spirit. Though organized in the first week of January, 1934, the union has the majority of the 2,000 men organized; and the rest are flocking in mow. Despite the fact that the Chance | Vought men have not been called last act in a frame-up to remove| protest the barring and arrest of|out, though President La Vista told him from the front line trenches of ithe Cafeteria Workers Union of which he was an organizer. He was arrested during a strike at the Adell Cafeteria. Pete is another proof that the bosses cannot crush working-class fighters through terror.. “In a few days” he said with a steady, grim) smile, “I'll be back on the front line the same as before.” For nine months Martinez was unable to get the Daily Worker through regular channels, but the Militent a Trotzkite paper, came {regularly. Only after protesting did he finally get the “Daily” Several books sent him were never received. Anyone following Martinez around the day he returned would have been warmed through with what affection workers welcome back their comrades-at-arms. Hearty, strong handshakes, and just a few words, packed with feeling, “Why, Pete you so and so, glad to see you back!” While the workers welcome him back, the bosses and their govern- ment are plotting to snatch him away again. Deportation proceed- ings have been started against him. He was taken from the jail to Ellis Island and is out under $1,000 bail. If the workers want to keep Mar- tinez in their ranks they will have to fight for him. Pete brought back a message from two other working- class prisoners who were also framed | for their activity in the union,| Manuel Lopez and Mirabau. Both} are counting the days when they will be out to join the fight again, dorsements to the workers bill, and demand its immediate enactment by Congress |Meyers to Judge Brooks, at the! | Jury Court, City Hell, Chicago, | Workers to Expose | | Strikebreaking Role | of Lovestone Group NEW YORK—A pit | —A picture of crim-j inal activities against the fur work~- ers committed by the Lovestonites {in conjunction with the notorious underworld gangs will be revealed at the three public trials which will | take place on Thursday evening, | April 26th. | The trials arranged by the Fur- | tiers Industrial Union and the City | Committee of the Workers Clubs will take place in the same evening | at Ambassador Hall, 3885 Third Ave., | Bronx; at the Hinsdale Workers | Club, 568 Sutter Avenue, Browns-| | ville, and in Coney Island at the | Workers Center. The union will bring to the trials many witnesses, facts and docu- | ments to prove the open strike- breaking activities of the Loyeston- | ites against the fur workers. Ben Gold, I. Potash and J. Winogradsky will be the accusers. Renk and file workers will testify. The Love-) stonites will be given every chance to defend themselves. | Pennsylvania Blind Workers End Strike’ WILKESS-BARRE, Pa. (FP)— | After being on strike since August 1933, 25 blind workers for the Penn- sylvania Blind Association in Wil- kes-Barre, have returned to work.) |The strike was called because of a) $2 a week wage cut. A compromise them to be ready for a hurried walkout at any moment, the union | officials at the meeting declared: “We have our demands drawn up. |They must sign on the dotted line. We will negotiate with them. But we say this. One no settlement, all no settlement. This is distinctly understood.” The aviation strikers are de- manding: (1) Full union recogni- tion; (2) increase from the 40 cents an hour code minimum to 65 cents an hour, and from the average of 90 cents for the higher skilled workers to $1.05 an hour. In the event of a ent in hours, weekly wages to be adjusted to remain the same. Special demands are put forward for apprentices, The white-collared workers, a ation engineers and draftsmen, approached union to work out some forms of |common action with the workers.) ;An auxiliary of these engineers and’ draftsmen is being discussed in or- der to involve them in the walkout ment and the indus‘rial union or- ganization of the men, Strike of N. Y. Laundry Workers in 2nd Week NEW YORK.—As the strike of the workers of the Spic and Span Laundry enters its second week the strikers remain 100 per cent solid. The union has issued an appeal to all working-class women of Harlem that they should refuse to give their bundles to this laundry unless they settle with the union and grant the demands for the enforcement of the State Minimum Wage Law and waa effected, Recognition of the shop committee the executive of the & and to include them in the agree-| Gunmen Threaten W. U. Messenger Boys at Meeting Office Representatives Will Meet Tuesday To Plan Strike Company thugs ern Union mes- senger boys who met at the Office 14 W. 14th Workers Union Hall at ake steps against the to call a strike he industry ion and nounced be admitted tournament hat the boys to a hand announced and ns for hikes and swimming meets for the boys. Before the meeting, two thugs threatened the boys with guns. In the middie of the meeting two other d up to the chairman ened “to bump him off ng lated by the company from each telegraph com- n meet on Tuesday trike plans and ike meeting of all the messenger boys. The proposed code for the indus- try will further cut the pay of the messenger boys, which has already been slashed $1.50 to $2 a week since jthe code hearings. Minneapolis Postal Telegraph messengers struck last Tu y and won a 25 per cent increase, and on Wednesday the De- troit Western Union boys struck and won a 20 per cent increase and union recognition. In Oleveland the Western Union and the Postal Telegraph messengers are striking for wage increases and union recog- nition. presentatives Jury Whitewashes Jail Torturers of Scottsboro Boys (Continued from Page 1) Feagin, head of the state prison board, and the state Supreme Court, all at Montgomery, and te Sheriff Hawkins and Warden F, L, Erwin of Jefferson County jail, at Birmingham. The appeal in the case of Hey- wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- ris, sentenced to burn by an all- white jury, is now before the state Supreme Court, which has so far failed to set a date for a hearing. Call On All May 1 Meets to Wire Protests I, L. D. districts and the sections of the International Red Aid throughout the world, calling dem- onstrations for the release of the Scottsboro boys April 25, will sup- port the May 1 demonstrations here with telegrams, cables and protest j resolutions. All May 1 demonstra- | tions will also be called on to send | telegrams of protest to Alabama of- ficials, supporting the Birmingham demonstration, Meanwhile, more details of the mistreatment of the Scottsboro boys {in Jefferson County jail, and the complicity of the N. A. A. C. P. lead- ers in their torture, were bared by the I. L. D. The N. A. A. C. P. leadership first. employed a Negro spy, a Mrs. Hook, who obtained access to the prison by arrangement with the lynch- authorities, and volunteered to take in all packages, etc., sent to them by sympathizers. The I. L. D., not knowing of her connections, and unable to get to the boys directly, accepted the offer. More Proof of Dastardly Role of N, A. A. ©. P. Leaders Mrs. Hook, however, told the boys that all these comforts were sent them by the N. A. A. C. P., and used the visits to attempt to under- mine the I. L. D. and break the boys’ solidarity. But when she catled on them to break with the I. L. D. and accept a lynch lawyer provided by the N. A. A. C. P. and the lyrchers, the hoys turned over her letter to the I. L. D. and de- nounced her. Mrs, Hook was exposed before the masses, and fled the city. Following this came the direct use of the prison authorities, espe- cially Deputy Warden Dan Rogers, who used and are still using physi- cal torture and murder threats in an attempt to force the boys to ac- cept N. A. A. C. P. “defense.” Pickens Mocks at Boys’ Faith in Workers. When William Pickens, accom- panied by three local lynchers, vis- ited the boys to try.to persuade them to denounce the I, L. D., he | mocked them when they stated they had faith in the workers of the | world and expected to get out. | An investigation by the I. L. D, revealed a farther plot, in which Taggart had purposely tried to the restoration of Mont- blind and give the N. A. A. C, P. betrayers opportunity to charge this to the I, L. D. Glasses were m- | mediately obtained for Olen Mont- | gomery, and the I. L. D. could find none of the difficulties Taggart had held up as excuses. He had stated that he could find no optician who would examine Montgomery’s eyes, | But the first optician the I. L. D. | representative went to readily ‘agreed to do so, and the glasses | were provided. and the Laundry Workers Industrial Union. Immediate relief is needed for the strikers, many of whom have fami- |lies and children to support. All contributions should be sent to the union headquarters, 258 Bast 138th Street. On Sunday at 12 P. M, at Irving Plaza Hall a conference is being held to unite all launcky werlsemg jn action,