The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1934, Page 3

Ala. Negr Workers o Relief Strike on Foreed LaborWork! Fired, Denied All Relief ° After Strike on 10 Cent An Hour Job SELMA, Ala., July 9.—Nearly 100 unemployed Negro workers, taken from the relief rolls and drafted for road work at wages of 10 cents an hour, were cut off all relief for a period of two to three months after they had struck against low wages and rotten working conditions. Burton, county relief adminis- trator, engineered the system by which the Negro workers were forced to work ten hours a day, five and one-half days a week for 10 cents an hour wages. The Negroes, who were given back-breaking work in the gravel pit, declared in their demands that “ten cents an hour was not enough for working all day in the hot sun.” In each case, relief checks due to the Negro strikers on Thursday, were not issued after the strike, and all will be forced to re-apply for relief which, the Selma papers state, “will require some two or three months, and in the mean- time they will be forced to look out for their own subsistence.” By a Worker Correspondent SELMA, Al.—I am a relief worker and have been on relief for the past month. I worked for the R. F. C, at 75 cents a day, and was cut off when the C. W. ‘A. came along—they never would rive me a C. W. A. job. Now the Alabama Relief Ad- ministration is taking over the Jobs, but the work is so hard that one can’t do it. The Negroes are pat in the gravel pit and the white men are on the road cutting grass. I have a family of four. For 12 hours a week I get $3.60. Four dollars a month goes for rent, and with four to look out for, $3.60 won't go far. Dallas County is taking & group of miners from the relief rolls and putting them to work at 10 cents an hour—$5.50 for a ten- lar Tuesday meetings will be held at this place hereafter. Jobless Stop Akron Eviction AKRON, Ohio, July 9.—Over 500 Negro and white workers, mobilized by the Unemployment Council and the Communist Party here, gath- ered at the home of Anton Reiner, an unemployed shoemaker, and re- turned the furniture to the house after an eviction. The eviction took place a few days after George Missig, county relief administrator, statement to a committee of relief workers that no evictions would take place, and that the relief of- fice would take care of all workers unable to pay rent Lancaster Jobless Demand Adequate Cash Relief LANCASTER, Pa.—The Relief Workers’ League here will send a mass delegation to the City Council today demanding increased cash re- lief to all unemployed workers. The committee will demand $4 cash re- lief to all unemployed workers, $7 for each married couple and $2.50 for each dependent. Workers are urged to mass at the Court House at 3 p.m. to go to the City Council. Through the struggles initiated by the Relief Workers’ League and the Unemployment Council, the \ city relief officials were forced to abandon the commissary plan and institute a voucher system on re- | lief. On July 1 the commissary was abolished, yet the vouchers are for starvation amounts. To case No. 59, two unemployed workers on relief, vouchers for 50 cents were mailed on July 6 for one week’s food order. |'To case No. 3032, a family of four, a voucher for $1.25 for one week's food supply was sent on July 6. Organize to Stop Eviction | The Relief Workers’ League of | Lancaster urges all unemployed and employed workers to mass at) 532 Beaver the home of Lombardi, hour day, five and a half day | St., July 12, at 3:30 p.m. to prevent week. They had previously paid | the eviction and sale of the house- | 30 cents an hour. Sixty of the | hold goods of this unemployed | men struck. All were taken off | worker's family. relief and told that they will not get any more relief or relief work. * * Akron Relief Workers Demand Pay Rise AKRON, Ohio.—A committee rep- resenting 693 relief workers here who have signed a petition demand- ing guaranteed weekly wages of not less than $15 met with George Missig, county relief administrator, on July 2. Pointing out that the present wages of $9 a week on F. E. R. jobs forces starvation conditions upon all relief workers, the com mittee demanded that Missig state | his position on the workers’ de-| mands. the workers are not satisfied with present wages they can quit the jobs | and apply for direct relief. The relief workers will meet to- night at 8, at 401 S. Main St. Regu- Mr. and Mrs. Lombardi and 11 of had [made a/ their children, the youngest only three months old, are to be evicted and their furniture sold. en tae | Speed-Up, Mass Firing at Greenville, Miss. By a Worker Correspondent GREENVILLE, Miss—The Chi- laborers for $1.25 for an eight-hour | day. Due to the speed-up and hard cago Saw Mill here is working the work in the heat, workers faint on | | the job. Two weeks ago 300 were lai taken back. ATTENTION NEWARK! who can accommodate comrades with sleep- | ing quarters on Saturday, July 14th, please notify Jack Rose, 7 Chariton St., Newark. from throughout the State who are at- tending the District ratification confer- ence. men | ‘d off and have not yet been | 2™my is ready should it be called Missig’s reply was that it| |All Newark comrades and sympathizers | v J? ¥ WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1934 The War Set-Up in Washington EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third of a series of articles on war preparations by Seymour Waldman, Washington correspon- dent of the Daily Worker. HE post world war orgy of nationalism, caused partly by American capital- sm’s reaction to the refusal of he Soviet Union to obey the headlines of the New York Times and collapse into the arms of impatient British, Amer- ican, Japanese and French finan- ciers, resulted in the National De- fense Act of 1920. Jingoism plus a concerted anti-radical drive directed by the then Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer (now a close Roose- yelt advisor) produced legislation designed to keep the country in a perpetual state of readiness for war at a moment's notice. It was Amer- ican capitalism’s announcement that it recognized the existence of the Soviet Union as the greatest threat to its safety. The National Defense Act of 1920, as amended June 4, 1934, aside from its purely technical and military provisions, attempted to provide for the: organization of production in the nation’s industries so that a sufficient number of troops for a major war may be supplied prompt- ly on the outbreak of hostilities with all the materials necessary for wag- ing war. It virtually amounts to mobilization of the basic industries of the country. How Industry Is Mobilized Under this Act, the Assistant Sec- | retary of War was ordered to card index and line up the key produc- tion facilities of the United States. “The essential elements of produc- tion,” says the “Industrial Mobiliza- tion Plan—Revised 1933,” “are raw materials, labor, power, finances, facilities (factories), | tation. |the most efficient things.” Thus far, responsible of- ficials declare, about 12,000 fac- tories have been contacted by the Department’s traveling war sales- men and visited, inspected, ap- proved, and placed on the key list of the War Department as ready | to begin war production literally at & moment's notice. In addition, about 14,000 “pa- triotic” industrialists have received | reserve officers’ commissions. Thus, jin the event of war, the dividend ;patrioteers will drive their |slaves not only as employers but and transpor- The problem is to assure use of these wage |also as employers with army officer | belts around their well-fed waists. In Assistant Secretary Woodring’s opinion, “a proper car- of War trying out of the industrial mobili- zation plans formulated in my of- fice will ‘take the profit out of war,’ and accomplish in large measure th purpose of those who have adyo- cated @ ‘universal draft’ of property, money, and civilian labor. And |such @ plan is adapted in peace as life and ration our civilian popula- |tion. The plan is there and the | upon to act.” | Mobilization of Middie*Class | The bankers and industrialists who financed Mussolini's and Hitler's brown battalions prob- | ably never even dreamed of such |elaborate plans as those which ac-| We must provide for over 200 delegates | tivate and guide the Roosevelt ma- chine. fascisti But blue prints and em-| | ployer-officer conferences are not’ fighting to protect in war to coordinate our economic | By MR. MOR SEYMOUR AN © | Butte Copper Stri WAL DMAN ONTROLS BOTH The above is a reproduction of a full page advertisement of the General Electric Company, House of Morgan adjunct, in a recent issue of the Army and Na’ Journal. enough in the capitalist campaign to keep the workers chained to star- vation, misery, and oppression. In addition to propagandizing workers with the fiction that they have a stake in American capitalism’s for- eign possessions and hence should be willing to stab and shoot down other workers (who get the same tale from their own impe: America’s Astors, Schwabs, Taylors, Morgans, Rockefellers and other rulers seek to get collar, the small business m the working class a domestic mili- tary base to protect the monopoly fruits of the N. R. A The trigger finger rujers of th country are straining every nerve to set up what the Chamber of Commerce of the ited States called a “citizen army.” Hitler gave them their historical name—Storm Troops. These misled and brutalized workers, farmers and clerks, would be prepared to meet “any emergency that might arise,” according to the plans of the corporation heads and their military marionettes who stage Army Day. Imperialist demagogy realizes that the “rape” of another little Belgium—its cruel exploitation of African natives in the Congo 1s not mentioned in polite imperialist so- ciety—wouldn’t fool the masses to- Imperialist war planners have decided that that sort of game won't hold water now. The fathers of the Nav cond to none” and the steel corporation inspirers of “national defense” campaigns have decided that, in the main, it is to be “our’ markets in the Far East which must be protected, “our trade lan which must be kept open by a few hundred thousand tons of floating and flying armor. The worker will be given to understand that only by Amos A. Fries, A. E. F. head of the “our trade lanes’ Crawford Case A Classic of | N. A. A.C. P ‘Defense ‘Aitorney Vies| With State in “Proving” Crawford’s “Guilt” By HARRY HAYWOOD (Continued from Yesterday) EPLYING to Helen Boardman’s charges that he helped to send | George Crawford to a life-term in the Virginia penitentiary, Houston, attorney for the National) Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sinks still deeper | into the mire of treachery. The) theme-song of Houston's article in the Nation is this: “Crawford was guilty.” Vying with the prosecution in diligence to produce evidence damaging to Crawford, Houston , puts forward one argument after another to show that “Crawford is guilty.” the NAACP de- fense to hunt up certain alibi witnesses f or their client, buc theze was ampie time for them to “discover” an abandoned set of Crawford clothes in Wash- ington, and to lint Ee dig up a record Harry Haywood of petty thievery for Crawford. With such energy on the part of the defense to convict a client, is it any | wonder that the prosecution needed to go to very little trouble in the case? Crawford had a record of pre- vious offenses, said Houston. What does this prove? That Crawford is “criminally inclined,” as Houston insinuates? No! It ‘oves that Crawford is one more in that enor- mous number of Negroes persecuted by the police, picked up for any offense and none, hounded and driven by the agents of the ruling class. This petty persecution serves the purpose of keeping the Negroes in a state of terror and fear; it serves also the purpose of creating a background for future frame-ups against almost any Negro the state wants to hound. Did Houston expose the real meaning of this “previous record” of Crawford's? No! Instead he used the previous persecution of his tlient in the way the lynchers use \t—to help convict an innocent ma Houston did not even pursue the ordinary legal tactics of an ordinary lawyer in an ordinary case. He sat at its table of the defense. but his Charles | There was not time for| heart and soul, talents and his energies, were at the groes, his mind and his|all struggle for the rights of Ne- the relations between. the disposal of the prosecution, of the | white lynch-rulers and their Negro |lynchers’ courts of law. | To the suggestion that der dures hands in horror. sible! Who ever heard of a Negro | being threatened, tortured, beaten, | intimidated in the South? Who Houston raises gentlemanly procedure between white police and detectives and terous! |. So, when the case closed, an in- |mocent Negro sat behind bars. for life, all evidence having proved his innocence. Every opportunity to fight for the rights of the Negro people had been ignored, brushed aside. And in the face of this, Walter White, speaking in the name of the N. A. A. C. P., hailed the) Crawford case as “one of the most distinguished victories for justice to the Negro yet won.” Is this the way the N. A. A. C, P. fights a new Dred Scott case? Is this the way the N. A. A. C. P. establishes a new “underground rail- road” from slavery to freedom? |many honest supporters of the N. A. A. C. P. have asked themselves | the question posed by Helen Board- man in her article: “Is the N. A. A. C. P. retreating?” Miss Board- |man also asks: “Has the South's best tool in establishing such a pro- cedure (legal lynching) been the N. A. A, C. P.” | To the second question, we may | answer unhesitatingly, yes. But to! |the qusetion, “Is the N. A. A. C. P, Retreating?” we give a different re- ply. No, the N. A. A. C. P. is not retreating. The treachery of the N. A. A. C. P. leaders in the case of George Crawford is but the logical climax to its treachery in the Scotts- cases and other events. The treach- ery in the Crawford case is only the logical outcome of its whole theory, its whole policy, its whole basis of existence. The N.A.A.C.P. Repudiates Struggle The N. A. A. C. P. is not retreat- ters, to the white lynchers. going forward, inevitably, logically, inescapably, along the line of re- Ppudiating all struggle for the rights \of the Negro people. Says Houston: “Racial relations in Virginia were improved as a re- sult of the trial.” This sounds in- credible. Yet Houston's statement , in a certain sense, true. By help- ing to jail Crawford, by abandoning In the face of such treachery, | bore case and many other legal) ing. It is going forward on the line | of non-resistance to the white mas- | It is} witnesses against Crawford were un- | cials—were his | How could the lynchers of Virginia Duress? Impos-| fail to appreciate the contrast be- ever heard of enything but the most | Negro men and women? Prepos-/ lieutenant S—such as Charles Hous- Negro | ton and other N. A. A. C. P. offi- considerably improved. tween the suave and polite behavior of Houston and the behavior of the | attorneys for the Scottsboro boys? The lawyers of the I. L. D., had no regard for the feelings of the jlynch-courts. They were deter- mined to free the boys; they w determined to expose the whole monstrous frame-up and the basis for ‘it; they were determined to fight for every right that the state of Alabama had denied to the Negro people. The defense of the Scotts- boro boys was neither suave, nor|Negro unemployed, |rallying cry of the Scottsboro boys was a bat- tering ram against the ancient walls of discrimination and oppression. The attorneys in the case, following the policies of the I. L. D., knew that they could gain nothing unless Scottsboro became a for millions through- world struggling against out the | oppression. Reward for Treachery The lynch-rulers of Virginia wi delighted with the contrast pre sented by the attorneys for the Crawford defense. They took Ho ton and his aides to their bosom If we leave out of account the starved share-croppers and tenants and plantation workers of the Vir- ginia farms, the sweated workers in Virginia’s mills and mings, the the victims of e Scottsboro | The advertisement makes clear the and “our” foreign markets ( by the same class who sweat | tear-gas and shoot him at home} will he be able to protect and in- sure his share. The mimeographed a ased last winter nouncement by the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, cribed the patriotic ac- ned for “National De- (February 12) by such Morgan- Or der of the World Wa tion of Patriotic ie nited States Na , the 2 C Societies, the erve Offi- r Patri- This spread thru the cap announcemen correspondents, said: ‘ Chapters and Posts of the partici- bating organizations, Speak: Bu- ave been organized to furnish on National Defense . before ‘aternal and Patriotic Or- jons as well as Educational spea Civic, gan Institutions. Essay contests are be- ing sponsored among students at schools and college: sub- jects as v ities of the Army 2 f the Soldier, 'y Second to None,’ ‘Preparedness—A War Preven- tive,.“‘The Navy and Our Trade Lanes,’ etc., with prizes and honor- able mentions to be awarded to the best thereof.” t's what you call propagandizing war-mindednes At 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, 1934, over J. P. Morgan's onal Broad- sting Company's National Pr Club Building, Washington, D. C., studios, “national defense” speeches, under the ck mship of General Chemical rfare Service, were radioed throughout the land. Said McSwain, the chairman of the House Mil Affairs Commit- Treachery Co-operation of NAACP Lynchers Welcome Fine Leaders tions in Virginia were improved as a result of the trial.” Says Houston: “For Crawford to have demanded a second trial in order to challenge the jury issue would have put him in the position of not letting well enough alone.” A life sentence—well enough! The conviction of an innocent man— well enough! An all-white jury to | on the case—well enough! “It would,” Houston goes on to say, “have taken him off the defen- sive and placed him on the offensiv against the county. The law itself, \ the very Pe polite, nor considerate of the feel- | Virginia's jails—then we may truly! |is that ‘the Negro can gain full citi- ings of the lynchers. The defense! say with Houston that “ ‘racial re! Saved By Workers. Victory Joins Fight on Lynch Courts DETROIT, Mich., July 9—James Victory, Negro worker recently ac- | quitted on a charge of assault through the efforts of the Interna- | | tional Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, has just issued a statement regarding his arrest and acquittal. The statement follows: “I was framed because I am a Negro. I was freed only because the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights mobilized thousands of Negro and white workers, who fought shoulder to shoulder in my defense, case. It grows out of the terror- ization and slave-driving of the “My case is another Scottsboro Negroes by the ruling class. Just | as the I. L. D. has fought to save the lives of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, so they fought and won for me. “I appreciate the splendid work of the I. L. D. and the L, S. N. R. as well as that of the able at- torneys headed by Maurice Sugar in behalf of myself as well as the entire Negro people. I thank all those Negro and white people, who so quickly came to my defense. “What happened to me, might happen to any Negro. to speak under the auspices of the International Labor Defense and Iam going | D., as this le the League of Struggle for Negro. JAMES VICLORY Rights, and tell my story. “I have joined the International Labor Defense. I am asking all my friends and all the Negro people to join me into the I. L. is the only way to suc- sfully defend the rights of the Negro people. “(Signed) JAMES VICTORY.” |zenship and equal rights only with | the cooperation and good-will of the dominant majority. The prob- |lem before the N. A. A. C. P. was not simply to force the issue, but to force it in such a way as to pro- |voke the minimum amount of resistance.” (My emphasis—H. H.) “Let the Lynchers Be” And there’s the kernel of the |matter. There’s the basis of the policy of the N. A. A. C. P. No of- |fensive against the lynchers. No | offensive against the system of Jim- |Crowism. Cooperation with the | dominant majority—that is, with |the white rulers. Do not struggle, do not raise your voices in protes' Join hands with the white rul Depend on the courts—even though these are the courts of the lynchers. Depend on the judges—even though they wear beneath their official |robes the regalia of the Klan. Do | nothing to disturb the relations be- tween master and servant, oppressor | and oppressed. For the N, A. A. C, P. represents | that small group of Negroes who live well by virtue of segregation. |To the Negro real-estate dealer, | Jim Crowism is salvation, a means of | livelihood. To the Negro insurance | broker, the policies of the white in- | surance companies give him a path |to wealth. Within the Jim-Crow confines, within the walls that hem in the Negro millions and keep them in untold suffering, the Negro up- per class grows rich and fat. To this group, Jim-Crowism is the breath of life. Then why attack t Why abolish it? Why not do hing to continue it in power, of the agonies of the 's to whom (To be Continued) ism is a crushing burden? | | Must Be Spread t Montana Power Reactionary 4 rf Ut asion is Leaders’ surance The law u k ba re provide for the mobiliz of « Block Spreading f of the a w industrial, resources Ps 2° Of Strike navy for indus can be readi the event of con P. H. Drewry, ing Democra House N: pinch- ing Chair out that our navy” is main ned in s support the natior commerce and to gu: nental and overseas the United States of Vir pos: It own ac that no real Ame achings fault with such a E 1 other words, mply means the United States must Rendaldaye that ) protec p P its c¢! be to support interests, and lop asis mir its foreign com- Sw followed with the obvious | foe on the ground stor’ false temen “But the human mo! is even in historically fails : eme: es a ay pipefittersy the United States “has never fought More careful of her young. She steamfitters, stationery oe cess fersbieis adds her intelligence to instruction wii ae @ war of aggression or for mat ena wo Sat hae Papen ‘| engineers, ineluding pumpmen. gain. oe ees rd fa pen in The picket line is so poorly ora And furthermore, in case anyone | ™@Nner that instills self-confidence | ¢anized and weakly manned that and independence in her child should be so impolitely accurate as | ®"¢ : The officer who wrote the piece to mention the Spanish-American scab pumpers find no difficulty in going to and from the mine prop- and World Wars, he continued, “It|(°" 9 ity ke even put KOme)| erties daily. now becomes ne: ’ for the U Buse Hoe SEELee, PS MEY Arbo keer file of the workers S. to build about 102 warships, tha tablish mass picket you ever hold 1 they bring to London Treaty is, up propos pris are porn baby to yo mmittee of 47> for anced power among the nat me not, ti ced by the he won Th Really played this committee un tep by step this of Paul Smith, and equalized sea-por tion the the along ye of William garded as the greatest Sack “end to Ge, BELA on. He is ta o Montana for world aff But anyw to stand on, bis, feet, A deel 4 ; a Se refully balanced and erectly| The question of financial a of false snunde |in difficult paths. He is to|ance to the strikers is not an acitisnn ane the me si doi avoid pitf: to use all of his since at the very beginning of the ERE AeMGE Ec ibonea Gane ties in reaching his desired trike, in both Butte and Great Sera Both his body and his mind are| Fails, t a Won tes eee nile rate prepared for a battle to gain the y and demagogues such a iaibenceeueta: bes: that life holds for as Sen on K. Wheeler and tion producing’ front greet natural| e has learned to care for obo Oe a ae resources the things which the| Ne Tealizes that he has dependents| come out with such ipesnas Not world must have, it 1s evident that|£0P Whose care he must exercise his | ONE strcker it 7 Ha go abies have, it is jent tha aiaaeRingbearags e County Reilef ard is no the continued welfare and prosper-| CY Maly ehrOre g to make a split between the ity of the country depends upon % ate strikers | i aploy v os ae eo ineae upon! in the belly of a War Department |‘ttikers and unemployed bs V zation of these seacoas cannon, carries on in such fashion stopping ce elief jobs on the boundaries to build up a trade and they have the extra bur- commerce that will be far greater until he is big SROuaE to “watch the than any developed. For the pro. | other fellow who is likely to be an tection of this commerce there must | CHeMY, oF an irresponsible, careless vi ik be a navy equal to any. Our navy | Scoundrel who may carry a gun and |, meeting nay be depended upon to do its Mold ee Up 1d THe ancora’ and t attempt to in our history, as it has always | Peaceful purs the Olcni-| St, the unemployed against the done, if the country supports it as|, The last paragraph of the Olchi- | strixers it should.” pee. Ga ane is the familiar; ‘The action of the F. E.R. A, Mrs. W. E. Ochiltree, the National war should come again we| soos thet the rik aan file te aeane ee te ee such well trained men the miners. If the Militant Miners did the fingo mother-son | and officers in army, navy, marine | Unions will appeal to the rank and dio bedtime h and air forces that it will clear our|file in other ons and cary poet Ciied tbe folowing We public conscience of a neglected|through its organization of a mass partment Everybody! “If it be true that the hand that lullaby: “Good Eve duty. If we never have to fight an enemy or meet an aggressor we will have given our sons what they de- serve, a training of mind and body that will prove to the World that we believe that ‘Self preservation is the first law of nature.’ USA Be Continued) picket line with the support of the Militants in their own sympathetic organizations and take the initia- tive in bringing out the workers in the Anaconda Power Co., there is every chance that the reactionaries will be defeated in their plans to | sell out the strikers in Washington rocks the cradle rules the world must also follow that early ing begun in the cradle will so in- fluence the growing child that he will be able, when he reaches the t @ Time is Nature's ally in the slow growth of the per- fect pearl. © Time, too, is our ally in the slow aging “THERE TS NO For process through which we put every barrel of Jacob SUBSTITUTE THEME? Ruppert's Beer. 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