The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1934, Page 1

SS ae APPROACH SYMPATHETIC BUSINESSMEN, STOREKEEPERS FOR FUNDS. Yesterday's Receipts Total to Date .... ~$ 1,003.14 - $23,700.10 Press Run Yesterday—47,400 . as Daily ~QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NATIONAL EDITION Vol. XI, No, 254 ca Kew York, ¥. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Y., under the Act of March 8, 1878. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1934 (Six Pag: Price 3 Cents SCOTTSBORO BOYS TORTURED PATERSON DYERS STRIKE TOMORROW MILL STRIKES. | Cleveland District Answers Appeal " DEVELOP IN: FOUR STATES 15,000 Silk Workers May Join Dye Walkout Of 25,000 WOOL WORKERS OUT Allentown “Workers Talk| General Strike After Police Attack BULLETIN CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct, 23.— Tex workers at Roanoke Rapids, N. C., voted today to strike against discrimination and blacklisting of union mem- bers. It expected that the action wil! involve several thousand workers. It was also reported that mill workers in Concord are preparing to take up the question ef strike. Twenty-five thousand Paterson dye workers are ready to strike tomorrow morning. Fifteen theusand Paterson silk workers will hold a membership meeting Scturday to discuss the strike situ- | ——— 2 FACE LYNCH ation, In Allentown, Pa., textile and — cotton garment workers demand | a general strike following police | attack on mass picket line of the Freezer Shirt Company. Thirteen hundred woolen tex- tile workers strike in Burlington, Vt., at the American Woolen Mills plants, Three shirt factories in Troy, Y., of the Artistic Shirt Com- PATERSON. N. J., Oct. 23.— Twenty-five thousand dye workers here are preparing to strike Thurs- day morning. The manufacturers today were making frantic efforts to split the workers’ ranks, circulating in the shops asking the s to vote against a strike, claiming conditions are “satisfac- tory.” The dye workers answered, through their strike committee, pointing out that the weekly aver- age wage for last year was five dol- lars. In the last minute efforts of the Roosevelt government and the em- ployers to break the strike, Com- missioner Chappel, of the U. 8. Department of Labor, is now con- ferring with the leaders of the dyers union of the United Textile Work- ers Local 733 and the dye federation fficials. These leaders have agreed to confer. Chappel declared he will call them to Washington before ‘Thursday. A great danger to the strike, rank and file workers point ou’, is that the U.T.W. leaders will put over another betrayal, ending the strike by means of compulsory arbitration in another Roosevelt board. An- other danger is seen by rank and le dye workers in the fact that union leaders emphasize the one demand of the closed shop, an im- portant demand in itself, but keep jn the background the wage de- mands for $1 an hour and for the 30-hour. five-day week; and other economic demands. The rank and file workers see in this a tendency by the U.T.W. leaders toward the giving up of these demands to ar- bitration. Protest. Relief Seah Attempt Th2 Dyers Federation (U.T.W.) Executive today wired a protest to Federal Relief Director Hopkins against the attempt of. the dye bosses to use relief workers as scabs. The Paterson Unemployed and Re- lief Association has pledged full support to the dye workers, and has sent protests to Washington and to the lecal office of the reemployment service. A mass dyers’ rally is scheduled for Thursday afternoon at Hinch- cliffe Stadium by the strike com- mittee. Among the soeakers invited are the Socialist Party leader Nor- man Thomas. The Communist Party has sent a request to the Federa- tion for Moe Brown to bring greet- ings to the meeting from the Com- munist Party. G€neral Strike Urged in Allentown (Special to the D: Worker) ALLENTOWN, P2., Oct. 23.— Police today brutally attacked the picket line of striking shirt work- ers uf the Freezer Shirt Manufac- turing Co., carrying out Mayor Tewis erder that not more than ten vickets be allowed at one shop. On Oct. 22, the company an- nounced their intention of starting (Centinued.on Page 2) (Special to the Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 23.—The Buro of District Six, Communist Party, after consultation with Cleveland section organizers on the appeal of the Daily Worker to intensify the financial drive and complete the district's quota immediately, has decided to take emergency measures to do so. We challenge the other concentration districts— specifically Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh—to fulfill their PARLEY TOLD Crowley Tells Bosse s| U. S. Won’t Interfere In Their Business PROMISES T THEM AID| NRA PROGRAM BEATINGS USED BY AUTHORITIES FOR BANKERS, OF ALABAMA HELPING LEIBOWITZ TO MAKE BOYS DISAVOW THE I.L.D. 6 Fraenkel Makes All Preparations for Appeal To U. S. Court | pany went out on strike. | quotas ahead of us. raised only 20 per cent of its raised only 12 per cent. do much better. practically nothing and the change. COURT TRIAL IN ATLANTA Women Mill Strikers | Defended by Geer, Negro Attorney ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 23.—On a background of police raids and ar- rests of workers and lynch incite- ment in the local boss press, the trial of Annie May Leathers and Leah Young, white textile women strikers, was opened today in the court of Judge B. Wyatt, who pre- sided at the lynch trial at which heroic Angelo Herndon, now out on bail pending appeal, was railroaded |to an 18 to 20 year sentence on ithe chain gang. John Geer, Negro attorney and one of defense counsel, challenged the constitutionality of the old slave jaw under which Leathers and Young are indicted on charges of “inciting to insurrection.” The Fulton Grand Jury, which indicted eight Negro workers last week on charges of distributing “in- surrectionary” literature, is plan- ning to start an “investigation” of all working class activities here in an effort to “burn out” Communism. Solicitor General John A. Boykin today said he would ask for indict- ments against William Weiner and Max Bedacht of New York. Be- dacht is national secretary of the International Workers Order, of which the eight Negro workers are members. The International Labor Defense, which is organizing mass and legal defense for the defend- ants, has appealed to all organiza- tions to rush protest telegrams to Judge B. Wyatt’s court and So- licitor General Boykin, both of At- Janta, Ga. Canadian Government Tries to Deport O’Daire, Facing Jail in Ireland SASKATOON, Oct. 23.—The Ca- nadian Government is trying to de- port Patrick O’Daire, young revo- lutionary song writer to Ireland, where he faces a long term of im- prisonment as a deserter from the Irish Free State Army. O'Daire is due to be released within a few days after serving an 18-month term at Prince Albert jail for taking a leading part in a pro- test demonstration of relief workers last year. O'Daire, who was active in the Irish republican revolutionary move- ment, deserted the Free State army when he recognized that that army Was an armed agency of British im- Pperialism in Ireland. He has lived in Canada for over five years. The Canadian Labor Defense League is urging all workers’ organizations to immediately send ovrotests to the Hon. W. A. Gordon, Minister of Immigration, Ottowa, Canada. Vote Communist for a Soviet America! Some Ohio sections—Section 3, Cleveland, and East Ohio—have already gone over their quotas. But among the sections which are holding back the complete fulfill- ment of the District’s quota are Youngstown, which has quota and Dayton, which has Akron, Toledo, Columbus, Cin- cinnati and Section 2, 11 and 16 of Cleveland should also The large language buros have done District Buro calls upon the Jewish, Hungarian, Italian, Greeks, Slovak, and Ukrainian organizations to take emergency measures for a decisive JOHN WILLIAMSON, District Organizer. ANTI-FASCIST UNITY PARLEY [S$ ARRANGED Italian Barcauvot CP: To Meet With S. P. Italian Group | Steps toward the realization of a Fascist prisoners in I’aly have been taken by the Italian Bureau of the Communist Party and the Italian Federation of the Socialist Party. Committees of both Par‘ies will soon meet and arrange definite plans for united front action “for the liberation of political prisoners of Italy and for the sending of an international delegation to Italy.” Greatly influenced by the estab- lishment of a united front of the Communist Party and Socialist Party in Italy, the Talian Federa- tion of the Socialist, Party, respond- ing to the repeated appeals of the Communist Party, addressed a let- ter to the Italian Bureau of the Communist Party declaring that “the leading committees of the So- cialist Party have authorized the Italian Socialist Federa’ion” to take steps toward realization of the united front. Socialists Send Letter The letter of the Italian Socialist Federa‘ion to the Italian Bureau of the Communist Party follows: “Dear Comrades: “The leading committees of the Socialist Party have authorized the Italian Socialist Federation to be- (Continued on Page 2) Says hdininisration Is ‘RECORDS A} ARE FILED Opposed to Real Social Insurance By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) Francis Marion Law, president of | united front in defense of anti- | | the American Bankers Association, | Deposit Insurance Cornoration. who the association’s sixtieth annual convention here this morning with an address hailing the close work- ing arrangements between the | bankers and the Federal govern- ment, reminding his colleagues that |the country wouldn't stand for “a do-nothing program.” them not to be impatient with™the little that’s being done for the unemployed and destitute. “Facts and figures must be faced,” he ceutioned, Indicating the big business drive that. is getting under way against the mounting mass sentiment for enuine unemployment insurance. at. the expense of. the employers and the Government, such as is pro- posed in the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, initiated by the Communist Party, Law at- tempted to console the reactionary | bankers who are opposed to any relief with the promise that “many of these measures” (relief, etc.,) the emergency passes. Law, who conferred with Presi dent Roosevelt just a few days bi tion, warmly approved the Roose~/ velt Administration’s foreign and domestic economic policies and em- | braced Roosevelt's September 30 | “fireside” radio talk. in which the | his inauguration, openly and frankly | business and banking by calling for a cessation of strikes and voicing | the hope of continued “individual | | initiative and the incentive of fair| profit.” This Presidential talk has become the bankers’ theme song. It is expected that Roosevelt. in his Constitution Hall speech to the bankers tomorrow night, will con- tinue along the same lines. Before hearing Law, the bankers received divine blessings from the Reverend Oliver J. Hart, Rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, who delivered the invocation. Admits Bankers Get Aid Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, who followed Law, reassured those bank- ers who lay awake nights in fear of Government “interference” in their business. “I want to emphasize the Point,” said Crowley, “that the Gov- ernment is here to aid you—not to Tun your business.” He also in- (Continued on Page 2) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 23.—| Law asked} will and should be eliminated. when | President, for the first time since} bowed before the ultimatum of big} | Says He and Pollak Are | fore the beginning of the conven- | | | | | Desired To Handle Case for I. L. D. Attorneys for the International Labor Defense, as indicated by a letter made public yesterday by Os- mond K, Fraenkel, I. L. D. attor- | ney, are going ahead with all prep-/| arations for the appeal to the United States Supreme Court against the death sentence set for Dec. 7 of Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro defend- | ants. Mr. Fraenkel’s letter, addressed to the I. L. D., is looked upon as an answer. to the efforts of Samuel Leibowitz and his reactionary allies to wrest legal control of the Scotts- | boro case from the I. L. D. which has led the struggle to save the lives of these nine boys for the past three and one half years. “All the comm*nications I. have received from the defendants,” said Mr. Fréenkel, “are to the effect that | ] they desire me, together with Mr. | Pollak, to- handle this appeal to the | United States Supreme Court, You can be assured that we are doing everything possible toward this end and will continue so to do.” He stated that the records in the case have already been certified to the Supreme Court and acknowl- edged by the court clerk. He further stated that the money for the printing of the records in the case hes been paid, and that the brief for us? on the application for cer- tiorari will be ready for the printer by the end of this week. Mr. Fraenkel's letter follows in full: Fraenkel’s Letter Oct. 23. 1934. International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street. New York City. Re: Scottsboro Gentlemen: I wish to advise you with regard to the present status of the ap- peals in the. cases of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. Immediately upon the denial by the State Supreme Court of my application for a re-hearing, I requested the clerk of that court to certify to the United States Supreme Court. the entire record in the State court. On October 12, I was advised that this had been done and was informed by the clerx of the United States Supreme Court that the certified reccrd had been received by him. After having been informed by the clerk of the United States Supreme Court of the cost of the printing, required ly that court, I forwarded the exact money and daily expect to receive ) 2 (Continued on Page Save the Nine Scottsboro Boys AN EDITORIAL 'HE Scottsboro boys have not lost their faith in the fight that the working class of the world is waging to free them from the lynch verdict of the Alabama courts. As they watch the days march toward December 5th, the day on which the ruling class plans to electrocute them, the workers are also keeping faith. Every letter that they them, Workers and Sympathizers! boys! of the LL.D., in their behalf. Urge them to stand fast, panied by LL.D. will save them. And back up your letter by where, these Scottsboro boys. receive from workers, that the working class will never rest until they are freed Show Write to them and tell them of your struggles, of the struggles such effective legal defense as has been provided by it becomes a question of letting them know every hour that is another sign to your determination to free the despite the efforts to deceive and terrorize them. Emphasize that only the mass actions of the workers, accom- the increasing your activities in behalf of the innocent Negro boys, a hundred-fold. Rally the masses every- in your unions, in your neighborhood, to save the lives of The tremendous mass response, as shown in the numerous Scotts- boro protest actions last week in Harlem, and other places, to the fight to prevent the legal murder of the Scottsboro boys on Dec. 7, and against the forces trying to dis- rupt that struggle, is reflected in the action of several Negro news- papers, which have come out sharp repudiation of Samuel S. Leibowi'z, renegade defense attor- ney, and his Negro lieutenants. and Labor Defense. The Atlantic City Telegram of Oct. 19 carried a bold-faced front page editorial signed, “The Publish- ers,” Negro people generally to support the I. L. D., as the only organiza- tion capable of, and willing to, carry through the militant policies neces- sary for a proper defense of the boys. The paper praises the I. L. D. for fearlessly raising the funda- mental issues of Negro rights—right of Negroes to serve on juries, etc.— involved in the historic case. “If this be Communism, long life to it!” the editorial declares, concluding with the following call to the Negro people to join hands wih the Ne- gro and white workers in the I. L. D., the Communist Party and other organizations fighting for the boys: “Will you join hands with your white brother in defense of your eight condemned brothers? Will you let them die on Dec. 7 in bot- tomless despair? Do you really care whether they live or die?” The Baltimore Afro-American Paterson Communist Party Issues Statement Pledging Support to Paterson Dye Strikers The Communist Party of Pater- son has issued the following siate- ment to the Paterson dye workers, who are striking Thursday, pledging the strike unconditional support: To the Dyers Federat‘on, To Local 1733, To All Dye Workers, Fellow Workers! Greetings! The Communist Party wishes to make its position known to all workers of the dye shops in con- nection with the impending strike. The Communist Party pledges its full and unconditional support for the winning of all the demands of the dye workers as conta’ned in the new contract. The Communist Party as a whole, as well as every individual member, will work tire- lessiy to help the dye workers win the following main demands: $1.09 per hour for men, and 72 and 1-3 cents for women; 30 hour werk; 100 per cent union shop, Tone Communist Party declares to the dye workers that the first con- dition necessary to win the above demands is the full mobilization and preparations for strike. ‘This includes: Offers Strike Pians a) Electing a strike committee in every shop. b) Enlarging the existing General Strike Committee by electing rank end file workers from egch shop. From such a strike committee an enlarged Negotiations Committee should be elected to cerry on all negotiations with the manufactur-" ers. c) The immediate setting up of a relief committee, picketing com- mittee and Defense Committee. da) The organization of a city- wide solidarity moyement of the employed and unemployed workers to include the Central Trades and Labor Council, the Scc‘alist Pariy, the Communist Party, the Unem- ployed and Relief Workers Associa- tion, the American Federation of Silk Workers and other labor or- ganizations to help win the dye strike, e) Above all, the formation of mass picketing beginning with Thursday morning, to close and keep closed all dye houses until all demands are granted. Warns Against Boss Schemes The Communist Party warns the dye workers against arbitration schemes of the bosses and their agenis, It is through such a policy of arbitration that Gorman, Mac- Mahon, Eli Keller, etc. with the help of Roosevett, have betrayed the general strike of over 500,000 cextile workers, and drove the work- ers back into the mills without a | single demand granted. The dye boss: thru their agents (General Haskell, as well as the well known labor misleaders. MacMahon é& Co.) are having se- cret conferences and pianning to keep the dye workers from going on strike. bosses refuse to grant your de- mands. Instead they want the dye workers to accept the Roosevelt “six month truce.” Such a “truce” will At the same time the, give nothing to the workers. Since last year the cost of living has gone up and continues to go up. This, together with the system of part time work and lay-offs, has greatly reduced your wages. Your demands therefore are justified and must be won. A victorious strike of the dye workers will mark a great step for- ward in the struggle cf the Ameri- can working class for better living conditions and for freedom from bosses’ rule and exoloitation. The Communist Party is with you for the winn'ng of your demands. Dye Workers! Join the Commu- nist Party, the only Party that leads | the struggle of all workers against capitalism. Reed the “Daily Work- er,” the only Englich daily news- paper that helps the workers to | fight and win. one united struggle of all dys Forward t9 victory! ) COMMUNIST PARTY, 3 Governor Street, Paterson, New Jersey (Signe in | endorsement of the International | calling on its readers and the | | | once. jreason why he does not w Negro Papers Benounee Leibowitz, , Support LL.D. likewise denounced Leibowitz and | his cronies for playing with the | lives of the boys: “The death sentence for two of the boys is set for Dec. 7. The, second. appeal to the United States Supreme Court must be made at Therefore, any disagreement now as to who shall represent the boys and file the appeal subjects the lives of all of them to unneces- sary risk and threatens to destroy |the magnificent fight for justice in Alabama which the I. L. D. has thus far carried on. “So far as we can see there are no involved issues. The I. L. D. employed Mr. Leibowitz in the cottsboro cases. He accepted the assignment with his eyes open. “If he has now discovered any to act for his employer, he has a perfect right to withdraw from the case as he announced on Oct. 4. “Certainly he has no right, and it is highly unethical for him to attempt to push his employer, the I. L. D., out of the case entirely and assume the position of coun- sel-in-chief. Raps Face-Saving Maneuvers “To save his face, there is the ministers had asked him to take this step, but it seems fairly evident ‘at what Mr. Leibowitz is doing is| to inject himself as counsel into a} ease which the I. L. D. has con- ducted with success since April 1931. : “Maybe the I. L. D. is guilty of all the charges Mr. L but he has not proved them. “Besides, he who makes such| charges ought to come into court with cleen hands. Instead, he} opens himself to the charge of un- ethical practice by injecting himself into a case in which he is not owitz mekes, Properly employed as an attorney.” Detroit Police Organize Fascist Youth Group) DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 23.—The police department has begun to or- ganize a fascist youth group called the Boys Safety Patrol. bers wear badges and are supposed to help the police in their work. As part of their campaign, the po- lice raided Martin Hall last Thurs- | day and confiscated leafiets which exposed the fascist nature of the Safety Patrol. Immediately the hall, protesting against the raid | and pledging to fight the growth of such fascist organizations as the Safety Patrol. The Young Communist Leazg the Communist Party and other or: ganizations are crganizing a cam- Paign to combat the crganization of | the Safety Patrol and to win the routh away from fascist influcnces. Communist Candidates Are Leaders in the Fight for the Right to Organize, Strike, Picket, | The mem- | the} young workers held a m2eting in| Ben Davis Tells Story of How Pressure Was Used in Prison LIES TOLD TO BOYS Lawyer’s Aides Worked With Attorney-General of State By Harry Gannes That terrific pressure and beat- ings were used abate the Scotts- boro boys by the state authorities of Aiabacss working with Samuel S. Leibowitz, New York criminal lawyer, in an effort to get the bi to dissvow the International La Defense and put themselves at the mercy of the lynch officials, was revealed today Ben Davis, Jr., by editor of prominent N just vi: Jefferson County prisons. death in the electric chair 7. Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris ere subjected to the mest fiendish assault of the Alabama government officials in. n_cffert. to. wrest the case from a the International. Labor, Defense, | which for over three and a heif years, by its mass ities and | legal ciefense, has been able to save their iives, activ! In an interview with the Daily E orker yesterday, Ben Davis, the attorney who defended Angelo Herndon, described h: to the nine Scottsboro boys in Alaba jand to their mot , and told of the antic efforts of the state | auti rking with the New Yor attorney Leibo and hercus Negro minist to cause a rift between the boys and the International Labor Defense. “Release” Promis®d Davis revealed that John Terry, “private secreta and bodyguard |of Leibowitz, had held a confer- ence with Attorney General Thomas Knight, of Alabama, and ; Claude Patterson, father of Ha wood Patterson, re promises of immediate rele: were made to the boys if they would reoudiate the International Labor Defen and entrust their lives to the hands of the very lynch authorities who | were responsible for their frame- ;up indictment and sentence of death in the e! ic chair. |_ Ben Davis, Mrs. Wright and Mrs. | Ida thers of Sccttsbsro | boys, and 's. Montzom= jery and Mrs, Powell, who are leay= ling Georgia today, will tell of the s S of all the forces the I. L. Dacto down and break ee ir connections with the I. L.D., a ma ecting Rockland | Palace, 155th St. and Eighth Ave, Friday night. | Warden Beats Patterson Norris “I was present with Mrs. Norris |vsiting Haywood Patterson and | Clarence Nor: ilby prison,” said Bern Dav “Heywood began jto tell me the story of how brutally jhe is treated in jail. The warden cursed him and told him: ‘You “are |the worst nigger we ever had to | deal vith in Kilby prison. You jare more trouble to us than all soners we have here.’ ce Patterson kept on jtelling me the details of the | brutalities. against him, and the Werden Walls became furious and | told him, ‘Nigger, shut your sot damn mouth!” “But Haywood bravely continued his stery of his brutal treatmsnt; ‘I'm net treated decently here at all. They throw my food at me’ he said, ‘and they call me all sorts of son of a bitches, and talk about mother. cursing her end calling all sorts of vile names becaus? {she fcught with the I L. D. to save imy life, and the life of the ether boy: “I stcod by there while . the jWarden visibly became more furi- jour,” said Da “His face got red ard tyitched. He had a loaded stick in his hand. He thrust it tho bars at Haywood, striking him in the ribs. But Hay- |weod Kept on talking, telling his compicints to mse. Then the ly rden beseme enraged an” vinient, ite ovr presence, and struck thim on the head, At the same | time, he used the dirtiest language ued on Page 2) (Conti: