The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1934, Page 3

CALL FOR MILK STRIKE SOUNDED BY BENTZLEY, Warns That Vietory Against Wallace Plan Must Be Defended PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April 26.—Warning the dairy farmers of the milk shed here that their recent victory against the proposed Wallace milk reduction plan is only causing the same plan to be put forward under another guise, Lewis Bentzley, farm leader of the United Farmers’ Protective Association, urged the farmers of the Phila- delphia milk shed to strike against any efforts of the officials to put over a reduction program. “The milk companies are after some kind of cut in the milk sup- ply, through one form or an- other,” Bentzley stated. “This is their only way of maihtaining their huge profits. We have al- ready seen this in the action of Supplee Wills Jones, who was forced to withdraw his 30 per cent cut on the basic oniy because of mass resentment. But this means that the companies will only try another scheme.” Continuing his call for militant action against the whole Roosevelt- Milk Company program of reduced milk supply in order to boost retail prices in the cities, Bentzley de- clared: “When we farmers see the A. A. A, trying to put over a reduc- tion program making the small farmers, workers and children the innocent victims of their “starva- tion insurance” plan and the Milk Trust, the Interstate leaders, and the Milk Control Board trying to put across the same thing with another name—we know that there is only one road for us to choose. This is the way of the rank and file farmers—mass ac- tion, using our only weapon, strike action. “We have seen the leadership of | the Allied throw in its lot with the Milk Control Board and the Amer- ican stores. We don’t understand their program, which says it is against the basic surplus system, yet in favor of a classification plan with grades 1, 2,3 and 4. Isn't this the same thing with another name? “We demand the abolition of the basic surplus and classification sys- tems of buying milk. “We demand that the price of all Grade B Milk, 3.5 BF, shall be five cents a quart to the farmer on the farm and that the price charged to the consumer shall be lowered to!’ nine cents a quart. “We demand that the federal government buy all so-called sur- plus milk at five cents a quart on the farm for free distribution among the unemployed workers and undernourished children. “Abolition of the check-off sys- tem. “This is the program asked for by the great majority of farmers. ‘We call upon all farmers, regardless | of what organization you belong to —once and for all—put all the lead- ers on the spot by striking,” Bentz- ley concluded. | | | 4 Arrested Stopping Scabs at Campbell Strike in Camden CAMDEN, N. J., April 26— Four Campbell Soup strikers were arrested yesterday in front of the plant, as they stopped scabs from entering the plant, and re- sisted police attempts to drive them away. They were all dis- charged by Judge Pancoast. While police were breaking up the picketing at the plant, Man- ning, the Socialist leader of the union, was getting ready to sit down to another conference with the president of the company, Dorrance, before the National Labor Board. Force Closing of Gyp Employment Agency in N. Y. The Hotel Union Opens Campaign Against Labor Racketeers NEW YORK (F. P.) —One less racketeer lives off the hotel workers as a result of the cancellation of the license of the Vincent Employ- ment Agency, 1233 Sixth Ave., New York. The Hotel and Restaurant Work- ers’ Union, Amalgamated Food Workers, brought together 53 people who had been gypped by the Vin- cents Out of amounts from a for: dollars to as much as $60. Thtee had been sent to Florida, to Miami or Palm Beach, on false promises, Commissioner Rosalie L. Whitney ervoked the license, forfeited the Vincents’ $1,000 bond toward re- funding the $1,500 the workers have lost, and announced that they could not get a new license for three years. The union had a group in the Vincent office demanding return of unearned fees when an investigator for the license commissioner arrived and this helped along the process of lifting the racketeer’s license, Miss Rose Weiss, attorney for the A. F. W., had charge of the hearing for the workers. Union Opens Campaign It was announced yesterday at the headquarters of the union that this action against Vincent marked the beginning of a campaign against. syp agencies, labor racketeers and strikebreaking agencies in the city! of New York. . A meeting has been called at the union headquarters, 915 Eighth Ave., Monday, April 30, at 8 p.m., to take up the question of driving the gyp agencies out of business. Down tools May Ist! Rally the fight against the N.R.A.’s attacks on living standards and workers’ organizations, «eee Tl Be Seeing You Toniake +12 @ Jobless Council AT THE | Film and Photo League DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934 Confident Workers | Will Free Him Ry MYRA PAGE HE sombre walls of Fulton County | walls of Fulton County Prison, | where Angelo Herndon is entombed, | rise in the very heart of Atlanta, | “cultural center of the South.” The | | jail doorbell jangles several minutes | before the jailer bestirs himself from his comfortable chew and gossip- ing with a bluecoat, to let us in. We spy him eyeing us idly through @ grilled window, like some slow- witted Bossie behind a barbed-wire fence. The heavy door swings back. He takes us into his office. My com- panion, member of a well known Atlanta law firm whom the Inter- national Labor Defense has just in- terested in the case, produces his card. The jailer’s waddling person exudes an ingratiating importance. And what may he do for us? “We came to see a prisoner—An- gelo Herndon.” The keeper's jaw sags. dern nigger! You come to see him!” | Perplexed fear in his eyes, his bear- ing resumes its old hardness. He | Surveys me and I him, with mutual contempt. To think that this bi- ped has in his keeping that rare | spirit and working class fighter, An- gelo Herndon! |. He may manhandle and insult as he likes our young comrade, sen- tenced to 20 years on the chain- “That gol | Asks News of Workers’ Struggles an | Heroic Negro Organizer” PENNA. FARM LEADER’ mend mercy Sentence was from 18 to 20 years on the Georgia chain gang. Jack Spivak in his book Georgia Nigger.” showed what a torturous death-trap these gangs are. The jailer shoots a stream of "bacey into the spitoon. “That gol dern nigger! The one I get all them telegrams about—demanding I re-| lease him, Imagine that! Demand | ing!" At my involuntary grin. | (Comrades, let’s send more and| | | more!), the keeper's fury pulls him| § to his feet. “That blasted coon! | Oughta be on the chain gang, that’s | what. Where I'd put him too,”| (Yes, but for those wires!) \i Not Visiting Day “For Niggers” | Remembering the lawyer's quite | wide connections, our host jingles his keys. His bearing modifies. “What you mixing up in such a case for?” he queries, adding quickly, | | MYRA PAGE —or starve?” I called my friend. “Come on. This ain’t visiting day| We both sat down and began to for niggers, but seeing as it’s you,| read the handbill. Near the bot- Mr. Langley.” | tom was the announcement of a meeting called for 3 o'clock in the heart of the town by the Unem- His glum waddle precedes us to a| high steel door, one side of a barred cage. Within are penned human) ployed Council. All the way there beings. In the half-light, at. square | I said to myself, ‘It’s war. It's war. |peepholes stand bedraggled white, So I might as well get into it now | |men, receiving their families. On the outside, staring through the bars; The Negro youth finds white and at their father are three small chil-| colored workers uniting—something dren with their worn mother. Their| new in the South. His friend is faces, and the man’s are wet, strick- | afraid, but Angelo joins, goes to his en. He is a “Poor White,” tenant | first demonstration. When the Na- | farmer or millhand. Nothing cruel | tional Unemployed Convention is in his face. However, he may have | held in 1930 in Chicago, he is elected | {broken the rich man’s law, it is|a delegate. The Kluxers distribute | clear that poverty has been his| threatening handbills, stage night- as any other time.’ | Georgia Supreme Court. Jailer Scowls as White Woman Shakes Hands with Famous Prisoner the case, he has not seen Herndon before. In all this filth, | [7 ; that lad hes kept himself clean as '| Nurses, Supervisors a whistle de and out ore} ‘ eis right.” he whispers hurriedly, “he | in Ten-Minute Strike just doesn’t belong here.” “Ls : i We introduce ourselves at Chicago Hospital Herndon puts out han comrade!” The words ring through |} (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) the gloom. We shake hands; the jailer glowers. “What kinda monkey business is this,” he fu ite woman ng ha Herndon Speaks of Dimi News of U.S.S.R. We hear him, and shake again. Barely a quarter of an hour we're allowed; we have to talk fast. He x speaks, not of himself, of his/} the demands was prese: joy that Dimitroff is free. He is|| Paul Gebhard, bus: eager to hear more news of the|| and Cyrus F. Ca: movement, the Soviet Union. In his || hospit pocket is a “Daily Worker’: he is || on a real stril So eager to enter as much as he can into things, even from his cell |to be a part, He ire that the American workers will soon sot him free. So am I. But Angelo Herndon has been waiting now, case has been appealed Since Jas’ October he has waited for a deci- sion. Workers, unions, mass organi- zations, will you raise sueh a pro Pittsburgh Mass Youth Delegation to ° test that the Judges must gran St R ] f t a new trial, and Angelo Herndon | ODS c ie U be set free? gang for having organized Atlanta’s jobless in a march to the Fulton County Commission to demand re- |Nef. This alone has been his | “crime.” | Herndon’s Militant Defiance Infuri- ated Slave Drivers What had most infuriated the Coca Cola and mill and cotton in- terests controlling Georgia was his | main crime, The jailer pushes the woman and children aside, unlocks the door. We | pass through, and the door clanks |to behind us, Beyond another steel jdoor, in a cage further removed |from sun and air are the colored | prisoners, The Jim Crow system is very strictly enforced here; white | defiance of Jim Crow. That “damn |™en, be they thieves, murderers or white nigger” had dared organize | dope add ets seal. “superior” £0 unemployed councils and demonstra- | ®Y Negro. So the Georgia state tions that included both colored and | !@W rules. }white. This was open rebellion! In- | From the narrow stone floor stag- clting to riot! |ger tier on tier of musty cramped cells. This damp shaftway is like The orderly demonstrators won | their demands. The Commission | ‘ose in an East side tenement, only found an extra $6,000 for relief. (But | the stench is worse. It is high noon get that Red!) Some days later, | Outside: here the gloom seeps to as he was entering the post office | Your very bones. The tomb of the for his mail, Angelo was arrested. | living dead. For 11 days he remained without any| In a nasty key, the jailer drawls charges placed against him. Mean- (to a keeper, “Bring that nigger while he was treated to trips to the | Herndon down here.” The cry electrocution cell and similar diver- echoes up the tiers, “Herndon! sions, “to make the bastard talk.” Somewhere a key clicks, a barred Terror proved useless. door is thrown back. He starts Old Slave Law Dug Up | down the tiers, this son of an Ala- Finally the Red-baiting Solicitor |P@m@ coal-digger who began work Hudson bethought himself of an old |!" the mines too as a lad of 13, T law directed against rebelling slaves, |Tecall the simple terse words in and resurrected in recent years for | Which he recorded his first acquaint- the rebelling workers. So in the | ance with the revolutionary move- |summer of 1932, Angelo Herndon | Ment. was charged under a law dating back | How Herndon Joined Revolutionary to 1820, “for inciting to insurrec- Movement tion.” The penalty was death. “One day a friend and J, in “For six months before I was) Search of work, happencd to come tried,” the 19-year-old organizer, across some handbills stuck to 2 writes, “I was forced to live in a| post. We snatched one off. We cell with condemned men. I al- | did not take time to read it right most died from starvation and lack! then. After looking over Bir- of medicine.” After three days of a| mingham for work, we set out for | farcical trial, he was found guilty.| home. I took the handbill out of | But the wide protest roused by the) my nocket, I saw the startling LL.D. caused the jury to “recom-| headline, “Would you rather fight File Meet, Get Workers Aid Pyrniture Workers |shirt parades. Angelo’s relatives try | | to persuade him from going to the | convention for fear their home will be bombed by the Klan. He goes | | anyway—and returns to begin or- ; ganization work among the miners. The big T.C.1. corporation orders his arrest, So at 17, he is hand- cuffed to a white organizer and | comrade, and thrown in jail. They For the message I bring from our comrade in Fulton Prison is grave, urgent. True, no terror or imprisonment can break our young comrade’s spirit. But they | may break his body. In a nine- | | by-twelve-foot cell they have kept | him penned up with four other prisoners, condemned men. He has been forced te listen, night after }are charged with vagrancy, sen-| night, to their bitter cries. Al- tenced to a year’s hard labor on the| though wracking to a sensitive chain gang—but the IL.D, has; nature like Herndon’s, if they | them acquitted. | thought by this to break his Arrested Many Times for His | morale, they have failed. But it Activities | Arrested several times after that | |for organizing the miners and un- | | employed, he is sent into the Black | | Belt to organize the sharecroppers, | and barely escapes a lynch mob. Him Free | He is active in the Scottsboro cam-| Suffering from the terriffic food paign, the Dred Scott case of the|and air, Angelo has only escaped egro people in the South. The serious illness through the extra | Birmingham underworld tries to| food supplied him by the LL.D. He! | frame him in connection with the | was examined recently by two prison | Willie Peterson frame-up, but fail. | doctors, one white and one Negro. Herndon, sent to Atlanta to organ-|The white doctor actually made no | ize the unemployed, although barely | examination but lectured our com- | 19, is already schooled in the fight, | rade on “bein’ a bad nigger. Stop | and able to meet whatever comes. | givin’ out these statements,” etc. | Herndon Appears! Eyes Unafraid, | But the Negro doctor did examine | Spirit Unbroken jhim, He reported that Angelo| The steps grow nearer. Down the | Herndon is threatened with tuber- | jail stairs comes a slight, upright | culosis, and requires sunshine, fresh | jfigure in a white shirt and tan|air, special food. Also his eyesight |trousers. There is no mistaking; |is extremely bad. An immediate | | his eyes are unafraid. change is urgent. Not even Fulton Prison can break| Of all this, Angelo says little, ex- @ revolutionist. cept as I question him. But as the| The jailer glares his hate. “Visi-| jailer demands we leave, we see | | tors!” He thumbs at us. The youth | Angelo standing there in the gloom, | |crosses over, a slow, modest smile| waiting. Waiting to be set free, | |lighting his face. Visitors are rare, | to come back to his comrades and | ;and our call unexpected. I see my| place in the ranks. Surely he shall | | is not easy. We must see that he is immediately accorded the rights of a political prisoner, until set free, Waiting for Workers to Set | | lawyer friend’s amazement. New to/ not wait long, or in vain! Prepare To Unite (NOTE—The following news of the veterans marching to Wash- ‘of Fairmont, W.Va. ; quarters. Meetings were held in the | | parks with hundreds of workers lis- | Unions in Boston | Demands End to Negro | Mas Delegation of 150 Discrimination | PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 26.— Wholesale evictions and mass star- vation of the unemployed of Pitts- burgh are the immec e plans of the Welfare Agencies here. In or-| der to start this general attack upon the unemployed, the relief heads planned first to slash the miserable relief given to the Negro and young workers. After putting through this, the Welfare Agencies planned to make a general attack upon all unemployed. Rent payments were and only the united action of the unem- ployed will save 63,000 workers from eviction this month. Shoes and clothing are being denied to single workers, and Federal Surplus Food orders are stopped Youth and Negroes Act On Saturday, April 21, a mass delegation of 150 single workers | marched on the relief headquarters to protest relief cuts and demand cash relief to all unemployed single | cut workers, Mills, the relief admin- istrator, was “out.” The committee determined to stay until Mills met with them. Mills -appeared:-whiie: the members | of the delegation were-singing “Sol- | idarity.” The workers demanded: (1) no cuts in relief to single workers; (2) cash relief; (3) free rent, shoes and clothing; (4) recogni- tion of elected committees of workers; (5) no discrimination against Negroes, and special treat- ment to Negro workers because of the great increase in tuberculosis among young Negro workers; and (6) endorsement of the Workers’ | Unemployment and Social Insur- | ance Bill (H, R, 7598). | After being forced to admit that present relief was nothing more than starvation for the unemployed, Mills was forced to promise that re- lief would not be cut, and that if} Page Three Body Wracked, Head Unbowed, Angelo Herndon NEW ORLEANS SEAMEN dSovietUnion PLEDGE SUPPORT OF BALTIMORE STRUGGLE Plan Fight for Worker Contro!} of Seamen’s Relief Seaman Correspondent Relief and forced port. practice ars ago with ations , without to be voted by Council. Policemen ca work-slips out to the fi ™men who were selecte From these great deeds, the United States Government be very useft saw that Early could , So he was given a free hand in experimenting with the lives of the unemployed in Louisiana, where more than a third of the population was de= pendent upon relief. Due to being used for experimental pur; seamen in the port of h suffer all the more present, experiment consists in finding out how long sailors can live on 90 cents a week, with forced-labor at- tached! A seaman who took part in the Baltimore gies for control of relief described the members of the New Orlea local the steps by which the Baltimore victory was refully pointing out the made in Baltimore so that these could be avoided here in the course of a similar fight. Circulate Petitions As the first steps to be taken, he Proposed circulating two petitions, The first, to all seamen em- ployed and unemployed, contained @ straight cenial that any relief was being given to seamen in this port and a st mt that the starvation-poli here, in New Or- leans, with forced Jakor in the bar- | gain, is a disgrace and an insult, The second- asked: all bu and concerns in-the -vicini water-front, who know the seamen’s needs and conditions, to back their demands for better conditions, One solid demand in this is, that sea- men be provided housing and food in one or more buildings on the water-front, instead of being scat- tered all over the city as they are now, separated from each other and removed from the possibility of finding jobs. Demand Workers Control ‘These proposals met with a warm response, and a committee was elected on the spot to draw up the demands, with the entire mass meeting volunteering to cooperate workers’ delegates pointed out fla-| eases of discrimination, he) | — ington, is signed by ten of the | tening. the reports of the committee were | in putting the program over, The MOTION PICTURE COSTUME BALL | Workers Are Urged To| veterans in the march—Editor). | The veterans then marched for Joe Kiss Proposes One |°ect relief would be increased. pg tbc Seite ean te eee Te Omaha, On Tuesday the veterans + ‘ Admits Negro Discrimination | ba Ng fe aH Sy a WEBSTER HALL, 119 E- 11th St. Send Mass Protest OMAHA, Apr. 24 (By Mail) —The | were scheduled to leave for Chicago, Industrial Union Mills at first denied that discrim- | Used in attempting to bs eat a , © Nicktledeon Show Ras : California delegates to the Veterans | where we will be present at the i s ination against Negroes was a prac- |e nat a militant front would | @ Sound Movies will be taken olutions Haat Ae ware ent, 12 be | May Day demonstzation: The supply n Furniture Site 24 the Toca) aueboles, but a8 the | oo. them’ through: iba seminal | held at Washington on May 10 to| truck had to be abandoned in Salt Celebrities from Stage and Screen @ Cel b demand the cash bonus, have ar-|Lake City due to lack of funds, It| Exhibition of New Russian Photos greeted this with shouts: “We'll sce (s pecial to the Daily Worker) | it through!” GARDNER, Mass., April 26—Full| porn. solidarity was expressed by the| @ Hi Rubin’s Odd Time Leblang’s; @ Exhibit of Photos by Marguerite Bourke White, Ralph Steinér, Irving Browning, Berenice Abbitt, Alfredo Valente, Film & Photo League. ns in advance $1; al door $1.50. Available at Workers Bookshop; Film & Photo League, 12 E. 17th 8 Support Film and Photo League in its fight against Nazi_and anti-working closs movies. GR. 5-9582. FAIRMONT, W. Va., April 26—| Six workers, members of a commit- | tee of 15, representing the East Side local of the Fairmont Unem- ployment Councils, were arrested at the Marion County Relief offices on April 21 at the orders of the relief officials. The committee was trying to get relief for four fam- ilies who had been denied relief. Charged with “disturbing the peace,” “rioting,” etc., they are now out on bail of $500 each, secured by the International Labor Defense. i These cases will come before the rived in Omaha, Nebraska. Our first stop was Sacramento, where we were taken care of by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League Post and the Unemployment Councils. We found that in Sacramento the Un- employment Council has won much relief for the jobless. We left Sacra- mento, some by train and others by truck and automobile. The truck carries the supplies. was sent back to Los Angeles, At Rock Springs, Wyoming, we went to the Federal Relief, and were told to sell our cars before we could get help. Then we went on to North Platte and parked in front of. the Federal Relief and stayed until we got gas to go on to Grand Island. In Grand Island the police offered to feed us, but didn’t give us ;8as, SO we went to the Farmers Gardner furniture workers in con- | nection with the heroic strike strug- | gles of the Boston furniture work- ers led by the National Furniture Workers Industrial Union, The courts at Boston have issued two in- junctions against the Boston Local of the NF.W.L.U. Joe Kiss, National Secretary of | the union, addressed a meeting last, was forced to admit that the prev- alence of tuberculosis among the Negro unemployed was due to dis- crimination. When the delegates} pointed out cases of discrimination | in the city-owned bath houses and | pools, he was forced to admit the statements, but “regretted” that he | could do nothing about it. Before the last point could be taken up, Mills ran out on the delegation PRING FESTIVAL TONIGHT, MANHATTAN LYCEUM April 27th, 1934— 66 E. Fourth Street PY 0: 658s: Unity Theatre—“Death of Jehovah” — Mara Tartar Latvian Chorus — New Duncan Dancers Dancing te Buddy Walls and His Brown Buddies TICKETS Room 301, in advance at the Workers School Office 38 East 12th St.—25c—at the Door 38¢ Booths with products of the National Minorities of the u, Re S. R. CARNIVAL — BAZAAR — DANCE Sunday, April 29th From 2:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Central Opera House 205 E. 67th St. Admission 35 Cents. Given by Friends of the Soviet Union Supper-Entertainment-Bargains-Fun Comradely Atmosphere Marshall Foods 797 BROADWAY, N. Y. C. [near lth St} ~ Pure Foods at Popular Prices COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City EYES PXAMINED Ry JOSEPH LAX, O.n, metre Opto t Wholesale Opticians Tel, ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises May Term of the Grand Jury. Mass support will free them, and send | them back to the Unemployment Council to continue the struggle for increased relief and higher wages | for all workers. This attempt to} smash the struggles of the unem- ployed and terrorize the workers of West Virginia must be stopped by | Sending protest resolutions to Sher- iff H. C. Toothman and Prosecutor W. R. Haggerty, County Court House, Fairmont, West Virginia. Chicago, Ill. 3rd ANNIVERSARY 1G cEreBration At Roseville the police arrested | Union and they gave us 25 gallons. 14 of the marchers and threw them| On the road we ran down two into jail at the county seat, charged | jackrabbits and used them for stew. with vagrancy. The International! We are holding meetings wherever Labor Defense defended them. | Tuesday to the United Furniture} with a parting feeble excuse for| and Allied Trades Workers Union| no’ endorsing the Workers Unem- | of Gardner, Mass., which has over | ployment and Social Insurance Bill. 1300 members. After Joe Kiss} Sea STR SGC cold and exposure in boxcars, the | S| | we can. After three nights of suffering | George Morphis, Box 785, Rock In Rock Springs we met presented the facts of the struggles | Women Plan Fight ‘Appeal for Negro remainder of the vets arrived in| the workers’ battles there almost | Salt Lake City, where the W. E.S.L.|alone. The workers should write turned their hall over to us as head- | him. Butler Co, Ohio, Cropper, May 22. Relief Strike Solid Workers Urged To Pro- Middletown Strikers. Hold Mass Meet Industrial Union. | The workers at the meeting adopt- | ed and sent a resolution protest- ing against the issuance of the in- Junction to Judge Alonso Weed of | Boston and Mayor F. W. Mansfield. | - At the meeting it was also de-| NEW YORK—The burning need cided to adopt a motion on the elec- |of united action of working-class tion of a committee of five with two | housewives to bring down grocery alternates to meet with the National |costs, particularly to hold down Executive Board of the N.F.W.LU.|and reduce the price of milk, was to discuss the possible affiliation | emphasized by delegates attending |the Annual Conference of Working | Class Women at Manhattan Ly- jof the N.F. W.I.U, in Boston, the | on High Food Costs members of the union decided to | rings, Wyoming, who is fighting| take steps for a possible affiliation | to the National Furniture Workers | Lay Basis for National Organization | test Lynch Death Verdict Given by JOHN REED BR. 1.W.0. 506 | a | Ex-Servicemen’s Leader | | Speaks in Toledo, Sun., | (Special to the Daily Worker) Saturday — Folkets Hus April 2¢th 2783 Hirsch Blvd. — CABARET - CONCERT — Dancing Will Follow :-: — Admission 25¢ — Starts 8 P.M. — MAY ist | Celebration MADISON SQ. GARDEN \ 7:30 P.M. Reserved Seat $1.06 i General Admission 25 cents Communist, Party, N. Y. District 50 East 13th St. RALEIGH, N. C., April 26—The International Labor Defense has issued a call for a mighty protest campaign in the case of Emanuel Biddings, a Negro sharecropper, who sits on death row at the Cen- tral Prison in Raleigh, N. C. Bid- dings was sentenced by the landlord courts of North Carolina because he dared protest against robbery by his landlord and because he defended himself from being killed by this landlord. An appeal has been filed, and will come before the State Supreme at Raleigh and demand a new trial jfor Biddings. Protest, wires should be sent to the Supreme Court on the 22nd, Court on May 22. Workers’ and | farmers’ organizations should send | protests at once to Governor Eh- | ringhaus and to the Supreme Court | CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 26.— Three hundred and fifty strikers on the Butler County Federal Emer- gency Reef Administration work relief met at the City Auditorium in Middletown, Tuesday, deter- mined to continue the strike until all demands are granted. Middle- town is a company-owned town of the American Steel Company, The workers unanimously voted down the proposal of the A. F. of L. as put forward by Barker to return to work at 40 cents an hour. An} ; employed steel worker put forward | the proposal of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union to fight for the full demands. astically voted to continue the strike, rejecting the relief officials’ invitation to a meeting to sign up for return to work. All efforts of the Socialist, Party, the A. F. of L. |Labor Council and Relief Director The assembled workers enthusi- |- at Bonus March Rally, TOLEDO, Ohio, April Levin, National Organizer of the) live, and the hardships that any scene in his st Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, | *8¢ in food prices would impose on declared that ° ceum, Sunday, April 22. | Mrs. Williams, a Negro delegate | from the Crown Heights section, vividly described the unbearable starvation conditions under which The entire meeting was then turned into a delegation, to visit and welcome the Soviet ship Kim which had docked in New Orleans about an hour earlier, The del- egates were met by Soviet sailors, who showed them conditions aboard a@ workers’ ship from a workers’ country. They left the ship more than ever determined to back the Baltimore seamen and to carry out the plans adopted at the meeting a few hours before. —E. B. Down tools May 1 against wage cuts and for higher wages! San Francisco Cooks Continue Their Strike Despite AFL Officials SAN FRANCISCO. April 22 (By | Mail) —Three hundred and fifty cooks continue on strike over the heads of the A. F. of L. officials. The internetional president of the Hotel Workers’ Union sent a telegram designed to break the stri The wire was as follows: ike has not been author- ized by International. Adyise re- main on jobs, Appeal to Rogional igned) FLORS, “International President.” John O'Connell, ceerstary of the caking role and continued refusal to 26.—n, | Negro families of that section must | Central Labor Council. came on the now on tour rallying support for them. Her stirring appeal stressed arbitrate will ou'lew the union by the Bonus March on Washington,| the importance of organizing these |the A. F. of L.” will speak in Toledo, Sunday, Aoril | 29, at 8 p.m., at the Veterans’ Hall, | 137 N. Erie St. | All ex-servicemen in Lucas| Negro women in the struggle against the rising cost of living. In another inspiring report, Mrs. Lopez of the Spanish section of Down tools May 1 against the Wagher strikebreaking bill and for the workers’ right to strike! County are urged to attend this|ed Hook, Brooklyn, related the | —————_.__ aon oe meeting and a special invitation is| experiences of workers in that ter-| cluding many not affiliated with given to all who participated in the | ritory in obtaining relief through | the United Councils, last Bonus March in 1932. failed. Trades Council is so discredited among the rank and file that an- united action. The sessions of the conference | Browning to bragk the strike have | were opened by the report of Clara| plan steps to lo’ | Bodian, secretary, giving a review | for future work. The basis was laid for national A new execu | was elected, ive committee of 25 hich will immediately ver the prices of milk and other grocerics, through Hoese, president of the A. F. of L. of past work and outlining plans; d2monstrations, mass meets, Iéaf- \lets, petitions and more militant measures if necessary. The Couh= other Moulders Local of the A. J. | unification of the fight against the |cils demand support of such mease of L., Local 283, following the sim- | high cost of living, by securing con-/| ures by all working-Class women. ilar action of a mouiders union last week, voted to oust him a ‘certed action throughout the coun-| A ' {pear try of all Women’s Councils, in- more detailed report will ap- later Hy