The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1934, Page 3

Deal. Standing before the “embarassed architects of the| New Deal”—as Kruck greeted ® the bankers and industrialists | assembled here for the 22nd/| annual meeting of the anti- union Chamber of Commerce of the | United States—this guest speaker journalist demonstrated that “all Sheynews that’s fit to print” is sin’ lly all the news the New Deal ;YOr can afford to broadcast. BY mixes bootlicking with sly ad- vice. He advised them to be more amiable about the New Deal demagogy for the sake of the corporate health of the financial and commercial advertisers of the lily white Times, the jour- nalism pro fes- sors’ idea of an unsullied virgin @@ . ae Df mnewspaper- “'g. Waldman dom. ah Discussing “The Outlook from | Washington,” Krock attempted to | prove to the satisfaction of his hard-boiled audience just why the “economic outlook” calls for “hope and examination.’ Krock would have us believe that “the various agencies set up under the emergency legislation have drawn to this city men and women representative of every element in the nation.” And that “for the first time in a peace era Washington may be said to re- flect something like an economic outlook.” With the inauguration of Roosevelt, Krock reminds his hosts, “the slogan was ‘Roosevelt or ruin.’” And he reminded these big business men, “You uttered and believed in it as much as any group in Amer- ica.” Now, he continued, they should not be stubborn and object to “na- tional planning.” Don’t think that “all forms of national planning are un-American and stifling t0 liberty,” admonished Krock. “What were the Louisiana Purchase, the Jackson} | Purchase and the winning of the! ‘West but national planning? Jef- ferson, George Rogers Clark, Gen- eral Dodge, E. H. Harriman, James | J. Hill, were national planners. The | population required expansion, and they provided the room, and the means of reaching it. “Presto, dom- ino, jingo! Railroad magnates like Harriman and Hill received thou- sands of acres of land for nothing from the government, divided both sides of the raliroads into real es- tate lots, sold the same, and thereby became “national planners.” In psher words, they planned for them- £ \ves on a national scale. Which } ings us back to the New Deal, the eimitted national plan of the Swopes, Morgans, Teagles, Johnsons and Harrimans. Yet, as a result of understanding the “underlying phil- osophy of the President” Krock sees “the President’s planning” as “all to the end that the country’s great yields of nature, labor and brains shall be more fairly distributed than | they have been.”(!) The Washing- | in sijer of the Times said: “In Washington we have gone enough along with the New eal to feel that we understand ‘the underlying philosophy of the President. At least, I feel sure of it. Not regimentation, not the era WALL STREET’S CAPITOL By SEYMOUR WALDMAN By SEYMOUR WALDMAN ‘ASHINGTON, May 4.—We are indebted to Arthur Krock, | chief Washington correspondent of the New York ‘Times, fo|{an eloquent explanation of one of the ways in which his | neyspaper functions as the administration organ of the New} ica we know. No’ at Roosevelts shall no longer go to Groton and Harvard because millions of other boys can’t go. Not pittances for ability, character and effort, be- cause fair rewards cannot come equally to all. The President’s planning, as I see it, is all to the end that the country’s great yields of nature, labor and brains shall be more fairly distributed than they have been. Only by planning, backed by political power, can this be accomplished. If you think that the previous distribution has been fair, or that human nature stands in the way of any better allocation, then you are wholly right in calling for the end of all the President’s works. I don’t to In addition, Krock would have us believe: “On the job in Washing- ton every day are the newspapers, dedicated almost without exception to giving the public truthful and useful information on which helpful criticism and remedial action are largely based.” The business men, suggests Krock, can supply “intellt- | gent debate.” 7 eee HAT are the facts? Why are they not news “fit to print” in the New York Times, the breakfast table adornment for the financiers and merchants, whom Krock aptly dubbed “the parents, wet nurses, governesses and tutors of the Roose- velt revolution?” As General Johnson proudly and readily admitted last winter, the N.R.A. was conceived by bankers and industrialists. “Hotel rooms (filled with business moguls) were smoky with planning,” declared the General. And as for the fascist second Swope plan, said the Gen- eral, why that plan was almost “a joint announcement.” We worked on it for years, and so on, and so on. Which explains why “every ele- ment in the nation” was not repre- sented in a capitalist crisis project meant to exploit and tyrannize poor farmers, sharecroppers, migratory agricultural workers, marine work- ers, militant steel, coal, textile, rail- road and auto workers. Which ex- plains why the Communist Party, aware of the fascist character of the New Deal, was, from the start opposed to the N.R.A. Which ex- plains why even the American Fed- eration of Labor officialdom, though part and parcel of the Blue Eagle structure, had to admit that the N.R.A. codes have resulted in a Jowering of the already depressed standard of living of the working class. Which explains why, despite the puerile rhetoric of Mr. Krock, there is no substantial difference between what Mr. Hoover called “rugged individualism” and what Mr. Roosevelt is pleased to call “individual self reliance.” Which explains, finally, why Mr. Krock is head of the Times Wash- ington Bureau. Once again it was shown that ac- tion or speech, especially in the present period of fascist tendencies, impending imperialist wars and ever-growing class consciousness of the worker, is either for or against the worker—that there is no in- between. There is no doubt for whom the Krocks of the New York Times and similar sheets act and This ts the first part of an in- terview with five of the mothers of the nine Scottsboro boys, by Otto Hall. The second part of this in- terview will be published in Mon- day's Daily Worker. These five mothers are going to Washington on May 13, Mothers Day, to see the President, and demand from him the immediate freedom of the nine boys who are being mistreated in the Birming- ham jail, and who have been im- prisoned for nearly three years, despite overwhelming proof of their innocence, A send-off meet- ing will be held Friday night, May 11, in St. Nicholas Arena. By OTTO HALL “I'm going to Washington to see the President about my boy,” said Mother Ida Norris, when the writer asked her about her intended trip to Washington on Mothers’ Day. “Do you know,” she said, “that me and my boy Clarence were born in Wamm Springs, Georgia, where the President lives in the winter time? Well, we're going to find out what kind of a deal Mr. Roosevelt gives his home town folks,” she said, very determinedly. All five of these mothers were born down in “Dear old Georgia,” where the “Honeysuckles Bloom” and “Everything is Peaches,” ac- cording to the song writers. Poets can sing, novelists can spin roman- tic yarns, about southern belles, gallant colonels, Negroes singing in the cotton and such tripe, but to see the careworn faces and toil- ridden hands of these mothers, and to hear their stories of a life of hard work and privation, one gets a real nicture of that feudal hell, known as the “sunny” South. This is the South stripped of its halo of romance and exposed as one of the most benighted, disease-ridden, poverty-stricken sections of this great United States. Where the Bourbon rulers have made both Negroes and “poor writes” their beasts of burden. Encouraged by May Day I found the mothers still talking about the great May Day demon- stration, in which they participated, and they told me how encouraged they felt when they heard the tens of thousands of workers pass Union Square shouting: “The Scottsboro boys shall not die.” They told me that they know that the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which has the support of all those workers, will save their boys. The stories of these mothers, which in many respects are similar, give an accurate picture of the op- pression and enslavement of the f 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1934 “They Shall Not Die!” Cry of Thousands On May Day | | | den Tuesday night. On the platform at the Madison Square Gar- Left to right: Vioia Montgomery, Ruby Bates, Mamie Williams, Scottsboro Mothers at Communist Meeting ty Ida Norris, Janie Patterson. mother, is not in the photo, the other Josephine Powell, Negro nation in the southern “Black Belt.” Nearly all of them came from large families and have had to toil on plantations as sharecroppers or plantation “hands” and went to work at an age when children in more fortunate circumstances were still in nurseries. The average age of these mothers when they “set out to chop cotton” was seven years. Mother Viola Montgomery says she was about six years old when she started to chop cotton on the plan- tation of George Felkner, who was the richest plantation owner in Monroe County, Ga., where she was born. She said that she was sup- posed to have been paid the “liberal” sum of 25c a day for her work at that time, but never saw any money. The “Colonel” said it all went for her “keep.” After she was grown up, she chopped cotton for 65c a day. Mother Montgomery was born on this plantation 44 years ago and was one of a family of seven girls. The father, a plantation laborer, died when she was very small and all of them were forced to work in the fields from the time they could barely toddle, She married when 15, thinking to escape this slavery, but found that instead of escaping so much toil she had to work even harder than before. She began to | Louisville Socialist | Branch Joins United Front May Day Celebration LOUISVILLE, Ky. May 3— Three hundred workers attended the United Front May Day meet- ing held jointly by the Communist Party Unit, local Socialist Party, Pen and Hammer, and the Interna- ist Party hall. The assembled workers wildly |cheered the speech of Philip Zim- merman, of the Pen and Hammer Club, who pointed out the necessity of a united struggle for a Soviet America, against the rising tide of Fascism and imperialist war are preparing to go on strike on of individualism or of the Amer- “ARE THE JEWS A RACE?” reduced from $2.50 to $1.25 now at Workers Book Bhop, 50 E. 13th St. Manhattan Saturday DANCE given by Manhattan Local C. W. at 418 W. 53rd St., 8 p. m. Negro Refreshments. Contribution 4 Jazz Band. jc. IRISH READING CIRCLE. Gertrude Hutchinson speaks on “Literature and other phases of the new social order in the Soviet Union. 11 W. 18th St., 9p, m. DANCE—CONCERT — FILM — refresh- ments at West Side Workers Center, 2642 Broadway between 100th and 10ist’ Sts., 8:30 p. m. Subsoription 5c. ENTERTAINMENT for the Relief Victims of Austrian Fascism. Palm Casino, 8 E. Fourth St., 8:30 p. m. John Bovingdon, N, Tallentire, Jazz Band. Admission 35c. KIDDIB CARNIVAL — Office Workers Union, 114 W. 14th St.. 8 p. m. Dancing to 5-piece jazz band. Singing, gemes, re- freshments. Subscription 35c. Come dressed like kids. HOUSE PARTY given by ¥. ©. L,, 117 E. 100th St., apartment 3, 8 p. m. Refresh- ments—Entertainment. Admisison 25c. FESTIVAL and DANCE at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St. Ausvices: N. T. W. IU. Admission 35c, UNITY THEATRE, 24-26 F. 23rd &t., present African Festival. Horton's Shologa Oloba. Admission 35c, 9 p. m. THE BURGENLAENDER Workers Club, 350 E. 8ist St. First Anniversary Celebra- tion. Labor Temple, 243 F. 84th St., 8 p.m. DANCE OF WRITERS Union at 224 W. urth St. Sheridan Sq. above Stewards. esentations by Theatre Union and Thea- Collective. Red Hatters band. ‘aturday FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE presents ‘Hands Up,” a brilliant satire on the Civil War. 12 E. 17th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. ‘5c. PUERTO RICAN Workers Center, 1888 Srd Ave., between 104th and 105th Sts., We ti | of Entertainment-Dance ds for Relief of Victims of Austrian Fascism JOHN BOVINGDON NORMAN TALLENTIRE Jaz Band — Refreshments : Edward Dahlberg, Sender Sponsors: Garlin, Mike Gold, Bill Gropper, Dr. Luttinger, Bob Minor, ‘Joe Pass. Palm Casino, 85 E. 4th St. SAT., MAY 5th, 8:30 P.M. Tickets in advance 25c; at door a5¢ Auspices Downtown Section I. L. D. speak, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Great Inauguration Pro- gram: Grupo Arte Proletario, Mellas’ Club Artistic Group; Revolutionary Poetry; Dancing to Caribbean Orchestra. THEATRE COLLECTIVE Spring Party “Red Roast” Art vs. Propaganda. John Bovingdon and Theatre Collective Dance Group. Dancing to Negro Orchestra and refreshments. 52 W. 15th St. Adm. 35c. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance at Ger- man Workers Club, 79 E. 10th St. Dona- tion 15c. EIGHTH ANNUAL Celebration Ball. Famous Negro Jazz Band. Dancing till 2 am. Adm. 30c. Harlem Progressive Youth Club, 1538 Madison Ave., near 104th St. DRAMATIC NITE and Dance. American Youth Federation, 144 Second Ave., 8:30 p.m. Skits, recitations and good jazz band. Subscription 25c. Bronx MAY FROLIC DANCE and ENTERTAIN- MENT given by Young Communist League Section 5. 2075 Clinton Ave, 8 p. m. Pepito & Orchestra. “Del” in chalk talk. Admission 25c at door; 20c with ticket. DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT given by Relief Workers League. 3919 Third Ave. cor. 172nd St. Real good time., 8 p.m. DANCE at Tremont Progressive Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave. Dancing till dawn. Ex- cellent jazz band, 8:45 p. m. PARTY and DANCE at Mt. Eden Youth Br. F. & U., 1401 Jerome Ave. corner 170th St. Admission free. PARTY given by Unit 16, Section 15, at 1505 Boston Road. Postponed for next Saturday. SOVIET PICTURE “Shave” folowed by a dance at Prospect Workers Center, 1157 So. Boulevard. PACKAGE PARTY given by George Dim- itroff Br. LL.D. at 2018 Continental Ave., near Pelham Bay Subway Sta. Brooklyn ENTERTAINMENT and W. E. 8. L. Post 204 at 579 Broadway cor. Lorimer St. Play by Workers School Thea- tre Grop. Admision 15c. ANDRE CIBULSKY, I. W. 0. Symphony Orchestra, Dance Group in program at Coney Island Workers Club, 2874 W. 27th St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices: Karl Liebknect Br. 1. W. D. 122. CONCERT and DANCE at United Council of Working Class Women, 1813 Pitkin Ave., 8:30 p. m. Workers Lab. Theatre skit. DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT given by New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave., between Avenues U and T, 8:30 p.m. Jabz band, etc, HOUSE WARMING PARTY at New Youth Club, 647 Wyona St., 8:30 p.m. Dancing and ‘entertainment. SPAGHETTI PARTY at Brownsville Workers Club, 1440 East New York Ave. Auspices: Nathan Green Br. LL.D. Sunday HENRY SHEPHERD speaks on “The Sit- uation in Cuba as I Saw It," at Harlem May 5. WHAT’S ON JOHN REED CLUB FORUM. Bernhard J. Stern speaks on “Modern Race Theories and Nazism.” 4340 Sixth Ave., 8:30 p. m. SYMPOSIUM at Pen & Hammer Club, 114 W. 2lst St., 8:30 p. m. “Psychology at the Crossroads” by Psychology Commit- tee. NEW THEATRE presents a Symposium “Broadway and the Propaganda Play.” Speakers: John Howard Lawson, Michael Blankfort, Paul Sifton, Virgil Geddes, Frank Merlin. Also Workers Lab. Theatre in a new play. Arving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Admission 25c. UNITY THEATRE 24-26 E. 23rd St., pre- sents African Restival Horton's Shologa Oloba, 9 p. m. Admisison 35c. “THE STUDENT in the Revolutionary Movement,” open forum at Tom Mooney Br. I. L. D., 323 E. 13th St, 3 p. m. Speaker Max Kapple Admission free CONCERT OF CHAMBER Music at Tre- mont Progressive Club, 866 E Tremont Ave., 8:30 p. m. Cohen, Fristsmen, Hafter and others in a program of Bach, Bee- thoven, Shubert and others. MEMBERS meeting of the “Magnet” a newly formed youth club. 1083 Bergen St. near Nostrand Ave. Brooklyn, 5 p. m. All invited. COUNCIL 5 of Coney Island will serve a Russian Dinner at 2918 W. 30th St., from 1 until 7 p. m. Price 35c. JOSEPH NORTH speaks on ‘‘Revolution- ary Literature” at Brighton Workers Cen- ter, 3200 Coney Island Ave., 8:30 p. m. Auspices: Bill Haywood Br. I. L. D. WM. L. PATTERSON speaks on “The Role of the Intellectual in Workers De- fense’ at Bedford Center, 1083 Bergen St. Boer Nostrand Ave., 8:30 p.m. Admission ic. WALTER ORLOFF lectures on “The Ger- man Situation,” at Ella May Br. I. L. D., 4109 13th Ave., 8:30 p.m. Admission 10c; unemployed 5c. WALL PAPER discussion of Council 10 at Bath Beach Workers Center, 87 Bay Second St. Refreshments. PARTY AND ENTERTAINMENT, New Dance Group, 22 W. 17th St., 8:30 p.m. FAREWELL PARTY, Entertainment and Dance for Comrade leaving for the Soviet Union. Downtown Br. F.8.U., 122 2nd Ave. T pm. FRANK WAR LECTURES, “Hollywood on Parade” at Fordham Progressive Club, 7 ‘W. Burnside Ave., Bronx. 8:30 p.m. E. M. MALKAS lectures on ‘American Youth and the Crisis” at New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Philadelphia SENDER GARLIN of the Daily Worker Staff speaks on “The Evolution of Theo- dore Dreiser,” this Saturday night, May 5, at Boslover Hall, 701 Pine St. Auspices Philadelphia John Reed Club. ‘ Detroit, Mich. SPRING SEMESTER FROLIC of Work- Workers School Forum, 200 W. 185th St. Room 214 A, 3:30 p. m. Admission free. ers School, Sat.. May 5th, 8 p.m. Danish Brotherhood Hell, 1775 W. Forest Ave., near 12th St, tional Labor Defense, at the Social- | Louisville street railway workers | May 1 Meet Pledge Support toDockers Give Rousing Welcome To James W. Ford, Negro Revolutionary (Special to the Daily Worker) Negro and white workers jammed cism and War and a mass violation of the jim-crow edicts of the South- not gain admittance in what was the most enthusiastic and impres- sive May Day demonstration ever held here. Most of those present were dock workers demonstrating their deter- mination to struggle for their de- mands, already presented. Ford Gets Ovation Upon the entrance of James W. Ford, Negro vice presidential can- didate on the Communist ticket in 1931, a wave of cheers and applause shook the hall. Ambrose Harris, a worker on the Southern Dock, acted as chairman. H. Terry, of the Chesapeake Dock, made the welcom- ing speech to Ford. Robert Nash, Communist Party Section Organizer of Tidewater, and Alexander Wright, Secretary of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union here, were enthusias- tically received. A good portion of Ford’s speech was devoted to arousing mass in- terest and support for the struggle of the dock workers. The meeting pledged its whole- hearted support to the demands of the dock workers and to the mass fight for the freedom of the Scotts- boro Boys, Angelo Herndon and Ernst Thaelmann. “Plenty in S. C. But The Ruling Class” By a Worker Correspondent COLUBIA, 8. C.—We all see very plainly the New Deal of the Roose- velt government in the damn Southland. also one can see thou- sands of Nezroes and white work- ers walking the streets and roads all over South Carolina. Nothing to live on. The bosses say, “Go to the rivers and catch all the fish you can.” Also they tell us to go and pick blackberries this summer. There is plenty of everything in South Carolina, but it is in the hands of the damn ruling class in South Carolina. This is also true in all the states of the union. ‘We Negroes want the day to come soon when this damn new deal will be something of the past. When it comes to the Negro we get plenty hell here in the Southland, yes, hell, right and left, more hell than the white worker gets. “L000 in Norfolk NORFOLK, May 4:—One thousand | Cone Park Pavilion May Day in a} mighty protest against Hunger, Fas- | ern bosses. At least 1,000 more could) It Is in Hands of. havve ohildren so feft, she said,| that it looked like she hardly got through having one, than she was “big” with another. She was the mother of six, only three of whom are still living. When her boy Olin, who is now in prison, was about four weeks old her husband got into trouble and was sent to the chain gang for a term of years, leaving her to take care of the children. Her oldest daughter died from ne- glect because she had to toil in the field and couldn’t give her proper care. Because she had to go out and work a few days after Olin was born, she has been in bad health ever since. This is the life of the average Negro toiler in the South. Olin Supports Family Her oldest boy married and there was nobody to help the family but Olin, who worked at a boarding house for $3 a week. He told his mothey that he was tired of working there and not getting anything for it so he was going to Chattanooga to see if he couldn’t earn more money. Mother Montgomery says that she never saw him any more until she saw him in Kilby prison. Mother Norris, the President's fellow-townswoman, does not know her age but thinks that she is around 45 or 46 years old. She is the daughter of @ sharecropper and has worked since she was seven| years old. | She says it seemed as though their family could never get out of | debt. The harder they worked, the more they owed. She married at 17,| thinking that she would have an| easier life but like the cthers, found | she was taking on more trouble and work. She is the mother of 10 children, eight of whom are living and two are dead. She has been a widow for 10 years. She left Warm Springs to get away from the plantation and moved to Mo- line, Ga., her present home. She took in washing and all of her children had to go to work. Her boy, Clarence Norris, now in prison, was working in a saw-mill for 50 cents a day. He also took a job on a peach farm, picking peaches, but the pay was so small, that he de- cided to give it up. He told her) that he was going away to the| North where he could make more money and be better able to take care of her. He said that he “wasn’t going to follow nobody’s mules no more.” He went to Atlanta where he caught the train to Chattanooga. He never met the other boys until he got on the freight train. She says that she did not see him any more until she saw him in prison, (To Be Continuued.) 1,500 in Jamestown’s Mightiest May Day | JAMESTOWN, N. Y., May 3—One thousand five hundred workers | demonstrated here in the largest / May Day demonstration in James- | town’s history. Five hundred par- | ticipated in the parade to Memorial Park. Workers in several shops |came out in a body. | The meeting was addressed by speakers from the Scandinavian Workers’ Club, the Young Commu- nist League, Women’s Council, | Communist Party and the industrial | unions, AG Be 6, | Wilkes-Barre Workers Smash Ban on Meetings WILKES-BARRE, May 3.—Eight |hundred workers demonstrated in Kirby Park, May Day, with almost |as many policemen mobilized by a | terrified boss class. It was in this | city last year that Mayor Loveland | refused strikebreakers the right to | meet anywhere in town, but yes- terday the Mayor and his cops were forced to listen to John Parkes, |leader of the strike, who was barred | |from addressing strike meetings, 1600 Washington Carpenters Strike ‘Demand $1.37 an Hr.; Reject Arbitration (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, May 3.—Forma- tion of a broad strike committee to see that workers’ demands are won and to prevent strike-breaking moves by International President William Hutchinson, is urged by the Rank and File Committee in the strike of 1,600 Washington car- penters. A leaflet is being issued | urging the strikers to stand firm for | a return to the $1.37 an hour scale and for the six-hour day. expired April 30, was put over by the International office on the lo- cal membership without its consent or vote. Workers, therefore, fear another such sell-out in the pres- ent strike. They have expressed this by voting down all proposals for arbitration, whether by Na- tional Labor Board or by Interna- tional officials. Sixty-five per cent of men now striking are employed on govern- ment jobs let out to contractors. Contracts were signed when the $1.37 scale was in effect, so that when the wages were cut to $1, contractors were able to pocket the difference. P.W.A. and Emergency Relief workerrs, who were puutting in two days a week, have joined the strike, and the Unemployment Council has issued a circular sup- porting it. The U. C. urges the jobless not to scab. Iti is organiz- ing joint action to have strikers placed on relief and to fight for passage of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insuurance Bill, H. R. 7598. 'Richmond Workers. The contract for $1 an hour, which | ~ SmashJimCrowism | In May Day Meet Support Fight for Nine | Scottsboro Lads Herndon,Thaelmann RICHMOND, Va., May 4.—Negro and white workers defied the bosses’ edict of jim-crow separation in a militant May Day demonstration here. As a result of the fighting} mood of the workers, the city au-| thorities granted a permit for the May Day meeting for the first time} in the history of this Southern city. The demonstration was held in Bryan Park, where banners and slogans demanding full equality for the Negro masses and the release of the Scottsboro Boys and Angelo Herndon were cheered to the echo by the assembled workers. Resolu- tions were unanimously adopted demanding the freedom of Herndon, the Scottsboro 9, Ernst Thaelmann and all class-war prisoners. The workers cheered a resolution pledging them to a struggle against imperialist war and for defense of the Soviet Union. 200 in Compton Meet Defy Police Threats COMPTON, Cal. May 3—Two hundred workers in this small town defied police threats of violence and attended the May First demonstra- tion. The police, balked by the mili- tancy of the workers, tried “persua- sion” to disperse the demonstrators. This failing, they arrested a worker at the edge of the crowd. The meeting thereupon turned into a line of march to the jail, singing the International and de- manding the release of Gerald Sherman, the arrested worker. Within 20 minuutes he was released. MIDDLE VILLAGE BALL Saturday, May 5th Queens Labor Lyceum 785 FORREST AVENUE Ridgewood Take Myrtle Avenue “L” or Metropolitan Avenue street car. Stop at Forest Avenue. Admission 50 cents —PHILADELPHIA— CONCERT ... DANCE Movie Showing “War Against the Centuries” SATURDAY, MAY 5th, 8 P.M. at 2523 E, Thompson Street Auspices: South Slavic Workers Club Admission 30c. Refreshments | fice. “I am ready to abide by the | Page Three | 3000 Seattle Workers Thrills Seottsboro Mothers! Protest Torture of Milk Monopoly Tries To Choke Farm Fight With Boycott Order ROCKVILLE, Conn. an effort to break the r M militant opposition to the of the Milk Trust, the C Valley Milk Producer: established a boycott on produce of 17 leading farm These 17 include pra t full leadership of about 3,000 farm Connecticut milk jonop This latest move of the monopo must be defeated by all the m producers if they are not all to be chained to the robbery of these large companies who get rich on the products of the dairy farmers Strikers Battle the Police; SP ‘Leader’ Sits in His Office Campbell Workers Re- fuse to Swallow Labor Board Betrayal CAMDEN, N. J., May 4.—The| Campbell Soup strikers continued their mass picketing of the plant| yesterday, and gave the police a} militant battle when they tried to| disperse them. When several pick- | ets were arrested the whole picket | line marched to police headquar-| ters and demanded the release of | their comrades. The most significant thing about this demonstration of militancy was the fact that it was wholly the work of the rank and file, none of | the Socialist leaders (so-called) of | the Industrial Canners Union tak- | ing part. | While the rank and file were | Picketing the struck plant and bat-| tling the cops, Frank J. Manning, | Socialist organizer of their union,| was sitting in his office awaiting a| decision on the strike from the Na-| tional Labor Board. While 300 strikers, Wednesday, were storm- ing police headquarters, Manning announced to the press that he had confidential information that a de- cision would be handed down the same day. When this announce- ment failed to halt militant mass picketing this morning, Manning | made haste to dissociate himself | from such activity. “I expect a decision from the La- bor Board soon,” he said in his of- decision, too.” That this sentiment is not that! of the strikers was clearly demon- strated by the pickets this morning. | PITTSBURGH U. C. TO SHOW MOVIES | PITTSBURGH. —The Allegheny Unem- | ployed Councils will show two films, ‘The Porty-First” and “A Jew at War,” in the| Carnegie Lecture Hall, Schenley Park, Oakland, Pittsburgh, on Friday, May 11 8 p.m. | slogans | sheriffs and vigilantes who filled |each window of the building, and | Were sold. . | Thaelmann on May | Signs and Floats Expose Misery of Unemployed; Workers Demand Relief By LOWELL WAKEFIELD Editor, Voice of Action) EATTLE, along the side Building the parade boomed the Internation indows in the offices The locked doors and a big sign on the committee reported baick— te offcers, “Closed for May mo The march then proceeded to the county-city buildi: stretching out for block, with hundreds of banners and signs and floats park before the county-city build- ing, the demonstrators heard the Speakers of the day, shouted their at the politicians, police, to the workers imprisoned in the tanks on the top floor. The militant spirit and solidarity of this May Day will long be remembered in the Northwest. ¥. P. S. L. Member Supports the United Front A member of the Young Peoples Socialist League, whose militant res- olution on May Day appeared in the special May Day issue of the “Daily Worker,” greeted the demonstration and pledged unity with the revolu- tionary struggle against capitalism over the heads of the leaders of his organization. Lowell Wakefield, edi- tor of the “Voice of Action,” acted as chairman. Hundreds of copies of the Daily Worker and the Voice of Action Signs in the parade called attention to the new double size of the Voice of Action, and urged the workers to buy it as the only working-class paper of the Northwest. Four indoor mass meetings wound up the May Day celebrations. | Packinghouse Workers Talk Strike in Towa; Streetcar Men Get Cut SIOUX CITY. Iowa—The work- ers in the packinghouses here are beginning to prepare for a strike. The Communist Party has issued a leaflet calling on the packinghouse | workers to organize and to strike for better conditions, The street-car men have received an $18 a month cut and the ten- sion is high among the transit worke ers. WORKERS! Safeguard your money If your want to keep your money in a safe place, to receive a good return, and yet have it readily available, then you should put your money into SOVIET GOVERNMENT 7% Gold Bonds YOUR MONEY IS SAFE These bonds are backed by all entire'wealth and the good faith of the Sovict Union. They are the bonds of a nation which has had a steady economic advance in the face of a world-wide depression. Furthermore, the Soviet Union has scrupulously met every obligation throughout the sixteen years of its existence. This record has convinced even the most skeptical and antagonistic of conservatives of its financial strength and integrity. YOU ARE PROTECTED FROM INFLATION The bonds are issued in units of 100 and 1,000 gold roubles, and are based upon a fixed quantity of gold. (There are 0.774234 grams of pure gold in each gold rouble.) Both interest and principal are paid to you in American dollars at the if the value of the dollar should be further reduced, the amounts which you would receive as interest or as principal would be cor- tespondingly increased. As a matter of fact, Soviet Government gold bonds that were purchased a year ago have risen as much as 70% due to the reduction in the gold content of the dollar. YOUR MONEY IS READILY AVAILABLE You have the guarantee of the State Bank of the U. S. S. R. that it will repurchase your bonds on demand at their full gold value plus interest at any time after one year from the date on which you buy them. However, should you desire to convert all or part of your holdings into cash during the first year, this frm will upon request resell your bonds for you. 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