The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1934, Page 2

‘age Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED NESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1 924 Chicago Committee Prepares to Greet Anti-War Delegates Ford, Urging Aid in ‘Daily’ Drive, Stresses Action in Harlem Wrade U nion Heads Gorman To Ask Delegation Urges And Other Figures Aid Congress Plans 109 Delegates to Ohio Youth Congress Against War and Fascism Greet Herndon, Prepare Demonstration Against Hitler Agent CHICAGO, IIL, Sept. 18—A broad arrangements com- | mittee for the Second U. S. C ongress Against War and Fas- cism has been set up here, consisting of many prominent local and national figures. The committee includes: Daniel Hart, president of Lodge 915, Ma- chinists (raliroad) A. F. of L.; George Koop, Typographers’ Union, A. F. of L., Socialist; Frederick L. Schuman, Profes- sor of Political Science, University of Chi- cago, and lecturer on international af- fairs; Dewey Jones, city editor, Chicago Defender, Negro newspaper; Florence Cu tis Ganson, secretary-treasurer, American Federation of Teachers; B. K. Gebert, dis- trict organizer of the Communist Party; Frank G. Spencer, Professor of History, Central ¥.M.C.A. Gollege. Rey. R. Lester Mondale, Unitarian min- ister, Ev: worker, Nei R.A. exec- utive in W: ditor, Railroad Unity William B. Waltmire, Methodist, secretary of Socialist Ministers’ Association; James M. Yard, former director of religious education at thwestern University, ex- ecuti , Committee for Defense of Human Rights Against m; Dr. H. M. prominent su Susan Scully, president Chicago Division of Illi nois State ’ Association, largest single teachers’ organization in any city in U.S.A., and others, An increasing number of Chicago locals of the A. F. of L. have elected delegates to the Anti-War Congress to be held here Sept. 28-30. Locals + y, Mass March For Relief Is Set (Continued frow N. Page 1) streets fronting Union Square at }10 a. m. Members of the Unemployment Council will assemble in East 15th and East 16th Sts. Immediately ; behind them will be the members ;of the Relief Workers League and }On East 17th Street members of |the white collar groups, the A. O. |P. E. E., the Emergency Home Re- |lief Bureau Employes, the Recrea- tional Leaders Association, the Un- employed Teachers Association, the |Emergency Workers in Adult Edu- }cation and the Actors’ Emrgency | Association will form. | Unions will assemble on the West | Side of the Square. On West 16th | St. the Steel and Metal Workers, jthe United Shoe and Leather Workers and the Furniture Work- jers Industrial Union will form \ranks. The Marine Workers and 637 and 275 of the Painters’ Union, | the Food Workers Industrial Unions and Carpenters Locals 1,784 and 504/ will assemble on West 17th St. On are among those who will be repre-| West 18th St. the Federation of sented. | Florence Hanson, national secre- tary-treasurer of the American Fed- eration of Teachers, has just been added to the Chicago arrangements committee for the congress. Housing accommodations for about 300 delegates have already been secured. However, arrange- ments committee members pointed out today that this is a small be- ginning for the job of securing sleeping places for three or four thousand out-of-town delegates. At the arrangements committee office in the Medical and Dental Arts Building, 185 N. Wabash Ave., activity on housing, finance, organi- zation, etc, is being intensified. Every effort is being made to insure the success of the congress. Herndon Speaks in Cleveland (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 18.— One hundred and nine delegates to the Youth Conference Against War and Fascism last Saturday, repre- senting trade union, Negro, college and sport organizations, enthusias- tically adopted a resolution against. war and fascism and voted to affi- liate with the league. Angelo Herndon received an ova- tion when he opened the conference and called for support of the dem- onstration against Fritz Gissibl, Hit- ler agent in Cleveland, under the auspices of the American League. A send-off banquet for delegates will be held at Congress Moose Hall on Sunday. All delegates have been asked to report. Classified WANTED, girl comrade wants room. Un- furnished. Not more than $13. Down- town. Tel. Gramercy 5-9680. WANTED fo oner week starting Satur —use of auto for motion picture camer ™man and assistant going to New Eng Jand to take newsreels of textile strike. See D. P., Daily Worker, all day Wed- Nesday. 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Fraternal Groups Included The International Workers Order, |the Fraternal Federation for Social | Insurance, the Icor and other frat- |ernal groups will mass in West 15th \st. The League of Struggle for Ne- | gro Rights, the Workers Ex-Service- |men’s League, the International |Labor Defense, the Labor Sports Union and Friends of the Soviet Labor Board Aid By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | (Continued from Page 1) th the backs of the workers Il as the formal guarant the Constitution, reports y textile section of the cou U.T.W. headquarters in the Carpenters Building, describe the Junity and cementing of the mili- |tant picket-line spirit. | “The lines are tight and growing longer. More mills are closing and the strike becomes stronger every day. The workers are determined not to go back to the mills until their demands are met,” Third Vice-President John Peel, in \charge of Southern Division Heed- quarters at Greenville, S. C., wired Washington. | He reported also that “the spe- cial guard situation {s terrible,” and that “it is my seasoned judg- ment that if it were not for the |provocation purposely practiced by this riff-raff force of so-called spe- cial deputies, there would be no trouble.” Last night’s “scene” in Danville, Va., he declared, “was a disgrace and outrage to any civi- lized town and America.” The po- lice, he explained, simply confis- cated the strikers’ cars. “It was all t a 1 Byrd, social|/the Workers’ Unemployed Union.) framed and our boys would have | |been annihilated if one false move hed been made. . .. The police |finger-printed and photographed |them just on disorderly conduct charges. .. . In Greenville we hav: been asked to vacate the hall we have used since 1929. It is owned by the Mayor.” Horace Riviere, fourth vice-presi- dent, reporting from the New Eng- |land Division, said: “Our lines are in perfect condition. Yesterday three more mills were closed in Rhode Island and two in Maine, jone of them being the largest unit of its kind in that state. There is absolutely no indication of a break {of any kind in New England and | |the workers are determined to see it through to the end. This was shown yesterday when in a down- pour of rain we had the largest picket lines of any day since the strike began. There are but a few | mills in operation in New England and we predict that before the end of the week there won't be any in statements that claim some mills have re-opened did not | tell all the facts in the case. It is| true that a number of them at- tempted to open under so-called protection of guards and militia, but the workers did not go in to | Union will form on East 18th St.| On 18th St. between Broadway and | |Fourth Ave., the Inter-Professional | | Association for Social Insurance, | |Social Workers Group, Social] | Workers Discussion Club, English | | Workers Clubs, the Workers Inter-| |national Relief, and ‘nurses and |hospital groups will form. | | The Young Communist League, |C.C.C, Protective Association, Na- | tional Student League and other | youth groups will form on East 19th St. |_On East 19th Street between) Broadway and Fourth Avenue the) John Reed Club, Pen and Hammer, | Dance Groups, Theatre Union, Film jand Photo League, Artef, Workers |Laboratory Theatre, Artists Union, |Pierre Degeyter Club, Workers Music League and United Front Supporters will form. | The anti-war and fascism groups jand the Anti-Imperialist League wil} |mass on East 20th St. The Wo- |men’s Councils will form ranks on |East 20th Street between Broad- way and Fourth Ave, On West 20th St. the language groups and foreign-born Workers’ Clubs will jassemble. Children, Young Pio- |neers, I. W. O. schools, etc., will assemble at Rutgers Square. In the order named the various streets above Union Square, march down Broadway, parade Easé on| Fourteenth St. to Second Ave. | Turning East on 12th St. the line |of march will go to Avenue C and |parade to Fourth St, Turning east, |the line will march to Avenue D, land parade to Henry St., down | |Gouverneur St. After being joined | | by the children, the paarde will file down Madison St., through New} Chambers into Park Row, and a} mass meeting will be held on the! City Hall Green, | Acting on the decision of Monday | night's meeting of the Associated | Office and Professional Emergency Employes, all the workers in the | Social Welfare Department walked | | off the job yesterday to protest at | ; City Hall against the LaGuardia | relief tax schemes. At the Port Authority Building, central office of the Works Depart- | ment, the 350 members of the A. P. E. E. distributed leaflets calling) for a complete walk-out. Col. Wil- gus, city work relief administrator, ordered that all workers who left the job would not be paid and would be fired. The A. O. P. E. E. immediately lodged a protest with Mayor LaGuardia and demanded the firing of Wilgus. The A. O. P. E, E. yesterday de- clared that a mass picket line would be thrown around the Port Author- ity Building today. At the call of the Harlem Unem- ployment Council, 300 workers massed at the Harlem Relief Bu- reau at 181 West 135th Street de- manding immediate payment of re- lief checks. A mass delegation of | twenty-one workers was elected to place their demand before Mayor LaGuardia. | Two thousand leaflets were dis-| tributed by the American League} Against War and Fascism, calling} for a mass meeting in support of the unemployed. The meeting wiil be held tonight at 8 o'clock at St. Phillips Chuzch, 215 West 133rd/} Street. CO, | strike work, “In New England the workers are protesting the use of United States | Army equipment now being used by the militia as a strike-breaking | agency. They believe the War De- partment ought to take immediate and thorough action to stop the | persecution of strikers with supplies furnished by the Federal govern- ment.” Gorman, however, has steadily re- | |fused to support the workers’ pro- |tests against troop violence by sparing President Roosevelt the | embarrassment of an official union leadership protest against the | strike-breaking use of Federal equipment by State militia. Also, Gorman is not anxious to ask Roosevelt for an explanation as to why the powerful Democratic ma- chine in the South hasn’t sent word to its vassal governors to discon- tinue the militia strike-breaking | and stop the deputized thugs’ use of gas and machine guns against unarmed strikers. The U. T. W.-A. F. of L. policy of supporting the Roosevelt anti- strike arbitration program by at- tempting. to drive the workers into the arbitration folds of the em- ployer-dominated Winant textile “inquiry board” and by requesting the A. F. of L. chant of “have faith in the President,” manifested itself | concretely today when Gorman re- fused to reply to a reporter’s ques- tion about the important problem of Federal relief to strikers and their families. Observers and Newspapermen here expect the textile sirike to land shortly “on the President’s door- step” after the latter returns with Vincent Astor from the yacht races, Few doubt that Roosevelt’s open | intervention is what Gorman is hoping for and that is something Roosevelt would like to avoid as long as he can get his lieutenants to take the straw-man whipping from the N. R, A.-A. F. of L, top dogs. As vhrased gingerly today by the United Press, the press associa- tion of the Scripps-Howard news- paper chain (a strong Roosevelt backer), “tightening of textile lines suggested today that personal intervention by President Roosevelt ultimately may be re- quired to settle the deadlock... . The President is known to have been hopeful that he would not be! required to undertake the type of personal arbitration which was re- quired to settle several previous major strike threats.” The “threats” referred to were the auto, steel and marine strikes, the “tightening strike lines” of which Roosevelt | “personally” broke. Expect Winant Report . The Winant Board is expected to tum over its recommendations in a few days to Secretary of La- bor Perkins, who will transmit them ¢o Roosevelt. DEMONSTRATION POSTPONED NEW YORK.—The anti-fascist demonstration against the arrival of 350 Italian fascist students called by the National Siudent League, Stu- dent League for industrial Democ- racy and other organizations has been postponed until Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. Workers and students are urged to rally at the | foot of W. 57th St, Removal of Troops | By CARL REEVE | a | (Continued from Page 1) | vokea by the police and this re- ;|Sulted in unwarranted physical as- saults by the officiers upon the workers gathered at the meeting in that city. Urge End of Troop Rule | “We urge you to restrain the mill | owners from employing local or im- ported guards. We urge you to state that the National Guard will not be calied out in Massachusetts. “We feel that this matter is of such public concern at the moment that the Governor of Massachusetts | Should issue a statement to the ef- | fect that armed guards will not be |tolerated and that the National Guard will not be used in the strike.” Ely Evades Issues Governor Ely tried to evade the | issues raised by the members of the delegation by switching to a dis- sonal political beliefs of the del- egates regarding the profit system. But he was not successful in this maneuver because many of the del- egation had had personal contact his statements that he knowledge of imported | guards” with definite proof. Throughout the two-hour inter- ey Ely attacked picketers, re- “has no armed jis not peaceful.” | Ely claimed “in- timidations” by strikers and his key- note was his duty to “protect the right of workers to work.” In dismissing the delegation Ely | said that he “will not call out th | guard unless convinced that major- ity of workers in a mill want to work, and if so, they should be protected against intimidation, vio- lence and disorder.” Ely stated re- peatedly that it is unlawful to picket where the workers are not yet on strike, and that the strikers should mind their own business and stay home, He thus attacked the flying squadrons. His whole line was op- Posed to pickets even talking to workers regarding striking or join- ing the union. He also told the del- egation to mind their own business and stay away from strike. The members of the delegation proved conclusively that armed guards, both local and imported, are doing the intimidating and caus- ing the violence and disorder. Pow- ers Hapgood and Mary Donovan gave personal examples of how pickets in South Barry and else- where were treated to fire hose and driven off public highways by num- bers of police and armed guards. Allen Taub, on behalf of the | Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners, stated: “We know: that you are aware of the fact that armed guards have been imported into the State in violation of the | law. You are conversant with all) phases of the strike and we cannot | accept your profession of ignorance of imported and armed guards in North Dighton and _ elsewhere.” Taub repeatedly brought the Gov- ernor back to the demands of the strike, for decent wages, against speed-up and better conditions. “When a textile family has to live on a salary of seven or eight dollars a week, and sometimes less,” he said, “this is not a peaceful rela- |tion between mill owners and em- |ployees!” Taub was answering Ely’s claim that the strikers are disturb- ing the peaceful relation between employers and workers who want to work. Offers to Eject Taub “We repeat the demands for civil rights for the strikers, the right to strike, to picket, to distribute their own press, to organize into their own union, to assemble,” Taub con- cluded. “We insist that you with- draw all armed guards and declare you will not call out the National Guard, It is the armed forces which provoke violence. You have shown here that you and your | State machinery are operating in the interests of the mill owners.” At this point Governor Ely rose in anger, and for a moment it looked as though he would strike Taub. He came over and placing his hand on Taub’s shoulder, told him to moderate his language or he would put him out, Refuses to Hear Reeve I spoke as the staff correspondent. of the Daily Worker and as a mem- ber of the Communist Party. When I declared whom I represented, Ely, slamming his cigarette package on the desk said, “I refuse to hear you. I will listen to a Socialist but I will not have a Communist speak in my office. Keep quiet, I will not listen to you.” However, I persisted and spoke, I insisted on the right of the Communist Party and its mem- bers to function in the strike and jelsewhere, declared that the Red scare now being Paised in Mas- sachusetts as well as in Rhode Is- Jand is a smoke screen to use strikebreaking measures. I spoke of the broad united front character of the delegation and declared this delegation is united on the ques- tion of the right to strike, and civil rights for all strikers, and with- drawal of armed forces from the strike area, the right to picket and to organize. I insisted on the right of the Daily Worker to func- tion and operate unmolested and demanded freedom of the workers’ press, “In Lowell yesterday,” I said, “I |was followed by three carloads of |armed thugs. The papers this |morning distorted the facts. They said I was threatened by strikers. This is untrue. The outside thugs who followed me were personally directed by Leo McHugh, protective |union official whose wife is the cousin of Mayor Bruin of Lowell. cussion of Socialism and of the per-| with the textile strike and exposed | peatedly declazing that “picketing | , These hired gangsters who followed me were under the direction of a | clique at the leadership of the pro- |tective union in Lowell which is ‘ee fhaes strong-arm methods against all militant workers in a vicious ‘Red’ scare. It was only after I | phoned New York that gang- | sters were called off. This protec- tive union clique is led by a Demo- cratic politician, Jeremiah O’Sul- |livan, not a striker but an attor- |ney and a candidate for Congress. |O’Sullivan and his clique are | ing gangsterism into the union ip under cover of a ‘Red’ lea | Sc (Special to the Daily Worker) LOWELL, Mass, Sept. 18—A jraging “Red scare” is being drummed wp here by capitalist | Press, as police are raiding and | seizing every available copy of the ;Daily Worker, and intimidating all | workers selling it to the textile pickets. | The Chief of Police declared that |the “Daily Worker will be run off |the streets of Lowell.” | Gangster methods incited by the | officials of the Protective Union resulted in several militant pickets being fiung out of the union hall. Their whereabouts are still un- known. | Relying directly on Governor |Ely’s statement today, the mill owners threatened to open the Fall River Mills on the “right to work” principle enunciated by the Goy- ernor. In Lawrence, the police attacked | Mills. ‘Increase Raids ‘On Militants In Alabama (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 18— | A new wave of raids on Commu- | nists here is now being carried on | |by a police red squad under the | |lcadership of Moser and Cole. Adie Adkins, 66, a Negro working woman, was arrested Monday and charged with distributing litera- ture advocating overthrow of the government by force. Police traced an express delivery package of leaflets to her home, and sur- rounded and searched it Sunday. Twenty-five thousand printed C. P. leaflets were seized in this and other raids in an efiort to break the textile strike. The leaf- lets were headed “To All Alabama and Georgia Textile Strikers, On To Victory with Flying Squadrons and Mass Picket Lines.” Raids continue as Scott Roberts, head of the Alabama Textile Man- ufacturers Association, announces he will confer with Governor Mil- Jer in an effort to drive Commu- nists from the strike area. SovietLeagueEintry Shows Peace Policy (Continued from Page 1) ment, relies on a population of a | 170,060,000 Soviet citizens, among whom the last remnants of class differentiation have been liqui- dated,” Kun adds further. “This Soviet proletariat, which has allies in the entire revolution- ary working-class and the toiling masses of capitalist countries and colonies, has already proved that the socialist system is not only su- perior to the capitalist system of chaos but also indicates the only path for the elimination of this chaos with all its calamities for the toilers,” he says. “The Soviet Union, the bulwark against imperialism, is the first state to use its economic power and | might for the well-being of all toil- ing mankind, and not for the pres- ervation of oppression and the ex- ploitation of the toiling masses. The socialist Soviet Union, which, during the October Revolution first showed how imperialist war should be ended, has always used its growing might to strengthen the struggle for peace, not only for the peoples of its own country, but for all toiling mankind,” emphasizes Kun, Victory for Soviets “The invitation of the Soviet Union to the League of Nations, where hitherto new imperialist wars were secretly prepared, where ‘plans for new divisions of the world were discussed, is a victory for the Peace policy of the Soviet Union, but not yet by any means a guar- antee of peace. Two most mili- tant fascist states—Germany and Japan—which previously deserted the League of Nations, are not in- cluded among fhe powers who signed the invitation of the Soviet Union. They left the League pre- cisely because they supposed that, as imperialist contradictions sharp- en, even the League might hinder the outbreak of imperialist war,” he points out. “They conducted attacks against the entrance of the Soviet Union into the League of Nations until the“ last moment because they looked on the Soviet Union as the only State which might really fight against war and fascism. “Among the powers signing the invitation, however, not only fas- cist states were absent, but such classic examples of bourgeois de- mocracy as Switzerland and Bel- gium. This merely shows that not jonly fascism or bourgeois democ- racy determines the attitude of capitalist countries to the Soviet Union, but also their temporary for- eign political interests, temporary attitude to various lead- states, ;& picket line before the Pacific | and their| ing imperialist powers or groups on questions of war or peace,” Kun Police and Thugs Attack Pickets (Continued from Page 1) | concealed in ihe plant, joined i vicious attack against the wori beating many men and women with their clubs and chasing them for five or six blocks until the line had land Sam Friedman, Socialist Party leader, were arrested by police just | before the attack began. In a short meeting of workers who were on the Botany picket line, | practically all of workers were of | the opinion that the leaders who arranged the picketing were to blame for the attack against the workers. Dell, of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, | who at earlier meeting in Paterson | had promised that workers from the Amalgamated Clothing and I. L. G. W. U, in Passaic would in picketing, later denied that he {hed made any such promise when the workers asked him where the Amalgamated Workers were. Dyers Strike Stressed It was announced at this same | meeting, however, that the Amal- | gamated and I. L. G. W. U. work- | ers in Passaic would come out on | strike either Wednesday or Thurs- day, 4,000 strong, to join with Pater- |son siik workers in closing down} |the Botany plant. Several militant worke-s pointed out to the picketers at the Passaic meeting that the | most important problem before the | Paterson silk workers was pulling the dye shops in Paterson, | which are still running because of | | the delays of local and national | union officials in calling the strike Workers who wen: to Passaic learned from today’s experience that | pulling out the dyers is an absolute | necessity. Earlier today Sam Fried- man, S. P. leader, joined with | hear Crouch, but on the steps lead- | Keller at the Paterson mass mecting “i in urging that the workers pickes|™4ssed rural police, deputies and | Passaic and not’ worry about the dyers, Y. C. L. Meeting Called There is rising sentiment among silk workers here for picketing the dye shops. Action on the part of many workers in demanding that a} membership meeting of the silk union be called, resulted in hun- dreds of union members signing a petition demanding that the meet- ing be called, The Young Communist League, which has taken an active part in all strike activities in both Pater- son and Passaic, is calling a mass meeting for all textile workers in this area which will be held to- morrow night in Oakley Hall, Mar- ket St., Paterson. The speakers will be Gilbert Green, national sec- retary of the Y.C.L.; Martin Rus- sak, Communist candidate for Congress, and Frank Carlson, dis- trict organizer of the Young Com- munist League. Newark Workers Meet (Special to the Daily Worker) NEWARK, N. J. Sept. 18— Workers in Newark joined in an enthusiastic meeting here Monday night to show their solidarity with striking textile workers. More than 500 workers, almost half of whom were Negroes, listened to reports on the textile strike and particularly | on the Paterson situation, The meeting, which Shapiro, un- employed leader, presided over, heard Martin Russak, Communist candidate for Congress; Jack Rose, and the New Jersey district organ- izer, Sazer. The workers sent protest telegrams to the Governors of South Carolina and Rhode Island. A provisional committee made up of representatives of all working class organizations in Newark was elected to provide relief for the tex- tile strikers. It was announced that by Monday a truck load of food would be sent to the striking silk workers in Paterson. A CONGENIAL PLACE TO EAT Empire Cafeteria Proletarian Prices Fresh Foods 125th Street at Lenox Ave. LERMAN BROS. STATIONERS and UNION PRINTERS Special Prices for Organizations 29 EAST 14th STREET New York City ALgonquin 4-3356—4-8843—4-7823 WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Direction: Zexington Ave., White Plains Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. station Office open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. been entirely dispersed. Eli Keller | held after they had been dispersed, | join with the Paterson silk workers | Cites Pap formisis and Other er’s Role In Spreading Unity Of Negro and White Campaign Should Intensify Baitle Against Re- Imperialist Lackies, Says Negro Communist Leader By James W. Ford In the present period it is not the question alone of maintaining the Daily Worker. expansion are absolutely necessary. ward, the “Daily” must be spread far and wide. Workers | bring the message of unity o Further growth and ravid If we are to go for- | vole ‘Textile Workers By HARRY RAYMOND (Continued from Page 1) City and Tarboro, the Fienberg Hosiery Mill was 100 per cent out teday in Rock Hill, S. C. Last night a meeting organized by the Communist Party to protest against the use of troops against the strikers was broken up at the Charlotte courthouse steps by local police, deputy sheriffs and vigi- Jantes, and Paul Crouch, district was arrested and held in jail for two hours. ered in front of the courthouse to ing up to the building there was hundreds of Ku-Kluxers, who openly admitted that they were out to lynch Crouch. Only a Communist would do what Crouch did last night. Fear* lessly, this tall, lean man from) Wiles County, N. C., strode up the | court house steps at 17:30 p.m.) Lynchers were all around him. Si- lence fell over the crowd. Even the lynchers stood awed as Crouch re- moved his hat, surveyed the audi- ence, and said, “The Constitution of the United States says——” Police and Ku-Kluxers seized | him. They pushed him off the steps. They kicked this most out- standing citizen of North Carolina. Some spat at him. They called him | a “son-of-a-bitch.” They told him to go back from where he came They yelled “Lynch him.” But there were too many sympathetic | workers on the court house lawn | for the small band of lynchers to | carry cut their threat. So Chief of Police Vic. P. Fesperman ordered Crouch to be taken to jail “for safe Answer Challenge in Concord, Goldsboro, Bessemer | organizer of the Communist Party, | About a thousand workers gath- | It must Negro and white to the mil- ‘lions of workers, impoverished farmers and members of the middle class, who need our leadership in | their search for a way out of capi- |talist misery and imperialist war and oppression. Class-conscious workers—white j and Negro readers of the Daily 'Worker—must carry the $60,000 campaign to levels and corners not yet reached by our Party and revo- lutionary press. The unemployed, the share-croppers, the stirring masses of America and its colonies | need the guidance of our “Daily” in | their day to day struggles for bread and ultimate freedom. | I especially appeal to the workers of Harlem, the national and inter- national center of Negro life, to go |forward with the present financial campaign of the Daily Worker. Through this campaign we should stiffen our struggle against the re- |formists and other lackies of im- perialism who have their origin, and are most brazenly and shamelessly active, in Harlem. Let us turn the flood-lights of Communism on thege breeding nests of chauvinism, anti-semitism and petty-bourgeois nationalism, which are the main social props of the white rulers. Only our daily press can maintain the constant offen sive and vigilance needed to combat, these reactionary influences. Each penny raised for the Daily Worker is a blow to jim-crowism, to the lynch-rule of the Southern bosses, to the plottings of the would-be saviors of the Negro peo- ple who point to the hell-holes of | the imperialist colonies as a haven for the doubly oppressed Negro masses. The Daily Worker is our best answer to these. DR. J. SAMOSTIE 220 East 12th Street Skin, Urinary and Blood Conditions Lady Physicians in Attendance for Women Hours 9 to 2—4 to §—Sunday 9 to 1 keeping.” On the way to jail Fesperman | flourished a piece of paper that he | took from Crouch. “Here’s the speech he was going to make,” the chief said. I looked at the piece of paper and saw written there that | section of the Constitution which | is supposed to guarantee the citi- zens of this Inad the right of free speech and assemblage. 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