The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1934, Page 1

| NEGRO YOUTH | Workers! Vote Red on Election Da CALL FOR COLLECTIONS AT THE NEXT MEETING OF YOUR Saturday’s Receipts Total to Date Press Run Saturday 98; 700 ORGANIZATION $ 1,258.62 » $26,833.70 Vol. XI, No. 258 a> % Entered as second-class matter at New York, N. Y., under the Act Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) the Post Office at of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934 y and Join— the Communist Party NA EDITION (Six Pages) TIONAL | Price 3 Cents DYE STRIKE SOLID ON FOURTH DAY _ AUTHORITIES REFUSE TO ACT IN LYNCHING IS TORTURED AND KILLED | KillersAsinouneced Their | Plans in Press 24 | Hours Ahead U. S. WILL NOT ACT ILD Organizes Prot Demands Death to the Lynchers MARIANNA, Fla. Oct. 28— Claude Neal, 24-year-old Negro youth, was fiendishly tortured to death near here last night, his body mutilated with knives, riddled with bullets and then dragged behind an | automobile for several miles and S'rung up to a tree in the yard of the court. house here. State and county officials of Florida and Ala- bama and the Federal authorities refused to lift a finger to prevent the plans of the lynchers, which were publicly announced twenty- four hours ahead through invi‘a- tions in the local boss press and by runners along the countryside for | “all white People to turn out to! watch the fun.” | Only after the lynchers had car- ried through their hideous crime were Florida guardsmen called out, | and then not against the lynchers, | but for use against indignant local | Negro workers, who sought both to protest the lynch murder and to protect their homes from the lynch | gangs that had begun to terrorize | the Negro population, raiding the | Negro section of the town and set- | ting fire to several houses. Bud Gammon, another Negro, was ar- rested and threatened with lynch- ing for striking a white man, Wal- ter Cook, in self-defense. Cook has | not been arrested. | U. 8. Won't Act Neal was kidnapped early Friday morning across the Florida-Ala- bama state line, after he was handed oyer to a joint Florida-Ala- bama ‘lynch committee” by Sheriff G. S. Byrne, in charge of the jail at Brewton, Ala., where Neal was | confined, following his arrest on a charge of murdering a whi’e woman in Marianna, Fla. Directly after the seizure of Neal by the mob, the shetiff issued the usual statement, that “the Negro had confessed.” Transported in a motorcade across the Florida line, Neal was| held. captive by the lynchers for 24 hours, while they prepared the lynching and broadcast invitations. Although the attention of the Fed- eral government was called to the kidnaping by the International La- bor Defense, which warned of the announced plans of the lynchers, Attorney General Cummings an- nounced on Saturday, several hours | before Neal was lynched, that the: U. S. government had “decided there was no basis for Federal ac- tion.” Neal met an agonizing death on the banks of the Chipola River. He was brutally tortured in the light of bonfires, while a mob estimated at 2,000 looked on and cheered in fiendish glee. Burning brands were | Boston Fulfills Pledge (Special to the BOSTON, Mass., filled to pass seventy-five per cent mark through last night’s affair, Jewish organiza- tions brought in two hundred dollars, Armen- ians fulfilled quota seventy-five dollars, total raised last night four hundred and eighty-two dollars—bringing us up to eighty- >ven per cent stop Over top soon. Daily Worker ) Oct. 28.—Pledge ful- ALICE WARD. | ‘BACK I.L.D.’ 4 SCOTTSBORO MOTHERS URGE A stirring appeal for mass sup- Dort in the fight to save the lives | of the Scottsboro boys was made yesterday by four of the Scottsboro ' mothers—Mrs. Viola Montgomery, Mrs. Josephine Powell, Mrs. Ida Norris and Mrs. Ada Wright. In their appeal the mothers of the framed-up Negro boys call for mass backing of the International | Labor Defense atid the Scottsboro- Herndon Action Committee. At the same time they urge Mrs. pane Patterson, whose son, Haywood, condemned to die in the elecirie chair on Dec. 7, to “join with us again under the banner of the or- | | 8anization that has saved the life | of her boy as well as all our boys.” | The appeal of the Scottsboro | j mothers follows: | “At this crisis in the fight for | the lives of our boys, We. Scotts- | boro mothers, call upon all people to support the International | Labor Defense and the National | Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- | mittee in the fight for the lives and freedom of all the nine in- nocent Scottsboro boys. “We want only the I. L. D. and its lawyers to have charge of our boys’ cases, because it has for more than three and a half years, with its worldwide mass protest, saved our boys’ lives. In April, 1931, when our boys were first framed on a fake rape charge, the I. L. D. came to our rescue when we were unable to help ourselves, and since then the I. L. D. has never failed us. “Attorney Samuel Leibowitz and some New York Negro mis- leaders led by William H. Davis, publisher of the Amsterdam News, Reverends L. H. King, Richard Bolden, A. C. Garner, Dr. George E. Haynes, and others are trying to take control of the cases of | King, and Rev. | Donawa, Aaron Douglas and other 4 MOTHERS TELL STORY OF THREATS By Cyril Briggs Fifteen hundred persons as- sembled at the Rockland Palace last Friday night heard from the | lips of four mothers of the Scotts- | ‘boro boys the details of the traitor- ous alliance formed by Samuel Ss. Leibowitz, renegade defense attor- ney, and a group of Harlem Negro misleaders with Attorney-General Thomas E. Knight, Jr., and other Alabama lynch officials, in an effort to oust the International Labor De- fense from the Scottsboro case and to scuttle the defense of the boys | at this critical moment, with the | legal lynching of Haywood Paiter- | son and Clarence Norris, two of the boys, decreed for Dec. 7th by the} Alabama Supreme Court. The crowd gave a tremendous | ovation to the four mothers, and to| Angelo Herndon, hero of the At- lanta “insurrection” trial, and his attorney Ben Davis, Jr., now editor of the Negro Liberator. The four mothers, whose revela- tions of how they had been brow- beaten by Leibowitz’s gangster sec- | retary, John Terry, Rev. Alonzo H. Richard Bolden, two Harlem ministers, evoked the | fiercest indignation of the Negro and | white persons present, are Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of Clarence Norris; Mrs, Ada Wright, mother of Andy and Roy Wright; Mrs. Montgomery, mother of Olin Montgomery, and Mrs. Powell, mother of Ozie Powell. | ‘They were greeted as they ascended the platform by James W. Ford, Communist candidate in the 21st Congressional District; Harry Hay- wood, National Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Right Samuel S. Patterson, Dr. Arnold veterans in the fight for the lives and freedom of the boys. Repudiate Leibowitz SOVIET VOTE TO BE CAST IN NOVEMBER President of U. Ss S. R. Discusses Advances Of Soviet Power HAILS FARM WORK Proletariat With the Soviet State (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 28 (By Wireless) —Early November, which will find | America at the polls in the year of | the most acute misery of her work- ing population, will also mark the; time when, half-way around the world, the creators of Soviet power | also go to the polls, voting! for the growing strength of their | « AS MARCHERS will dictatorship over capitalism. Discussing the significance the coming Soviet elections in an article in yesterday's Izvestia, Mik- hail Kalinin, President of the U. S. 8. R., declared: “Here (in the U. 8. 8. R.) it can safely be said that the | masses are nowhere bound by so close ties with government or so or- ganically interested in the general | policies of the government. And this is quite natural and as it! should be. “The proletarian state, drawing its strength from a close union with ‘the working class and peas- ‘antry, can’t fail but to be bound to | them by ties of kinship and blood- relationship—it is their own g0vy- ernment. “We have reached the present election: campaign with great achievements to our record. Nat- urally, these have not been achieved without cost (or they wouldn't be counted as achievements). They (Continued on Page 2) Asturias Miners Wage Heroic Fight on Troops |Of Spanish Government OVIEDO, Spain, Oct. 28.—Fight-_ miners under the leadership of the united | ing against heavy odds, front of Socialists, Communists and Syndicalists waged a heroic struggle in Asturias against the fascist government. Twenty-six persons were killed and twenty-four wounded when a troops column commanded by Colonel Aranda was reported to have pursued revolu- tionaries into the mountains flanking the valley of Nalon. The clash took place near Bimenes. Numerous weapons were said to haye been collected. | torney General Thomas Knight our boys. We don’t know what purpose they have in mind, but we do know that they have been having shady dealings with At- of Alabama and other enemies of our boys, helping them in their attempt to take our boys’ cases away from the I. L. D. If they The four mothers, length and without notes, re-af- firmed their unbroken faith in the ILD. “as the only organization that | come to our aid in our time of need and has been with us ever since.” They one and all repudiated Leibo- | witz and his Negro agents, and in- dignantly denounced their intrigues | speaking at| The campaign of spreading stories of atrocities committed by workers and the avowed intention of stir- ring up the sentiment of the people in favor of the fascist court-mar- tials has provoked nothing but a storm of protests, delaying mo- Socialist and Communist workers \Cites. Close Ties of the! Conference Again Asks Funds Quickly To Aid Marchers NEW YORK.—The United Ac- tion Conference has again ap- pealed to all workers and organi- zations to rush Hunger March funds immediately to the head- quarters, 11 West Eighteenth Street. The appeal for imme- diate funds declared that with the refusal of the Mayor of Al- bany and Governor Lehman to make provisions for the Hunger Marchers in Albany, the march- ers will not have sufficient pro- visions while in Albany. Refusal of the owners of halls to rent a meeting place because of pressure from official sources has forced the Hunger March Committee to incur additional expenses in Albany. A meeting hall has been secured only at a prohibitive rental. All collection boxes, lists and contributions must reach the Hunger March headquarters at once, has left the countryside incredulous, | mentarily the intended execution of | POLICE MASS NEAR ALBANY (Special to the Dally Worker) |. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 28—Albany have been mobilized to greet the | Hunger Marchers” who are now ; moving toward the State Capitol to present relief demands to Governor | Lehman. Information has beén re- | ceived by the United Action Com- | mittee of the capitol area that the National. Guard is being mnbilized | and have been holding secret meet- ings for the past six weeks in prep- _ aration for the march. ) City authorities still refuse to grant a parade permit to the marchers or to house and feed the marchers while in Albany. Or- ganizations throughout the State | have been called upon to send im- mediate protest resolutions to Mayor Thatcher of Albany. The United Action Committee | here has been informed that Gov- | ernor Lehman will refuse to meet with the marchers under the pre- text that the election campaign will | not give him time. Little doub? exists among the workers here that the policy of discrimination against the marchers is being dictated to Police Chief Smurl and Mayor | Thatcher by Lehman. A meeting will be held here to- night at the Albany County Relief Union, 186 South Pearl Street, at 8 o’clock to prepare a greeting for the marchers who will arrive Wednes- day morning. All workers have been asked to attend this meeting, which will elect delegates to the two-day convention of the unem- | ployed. A monster mass meeting will be held Wednesday night at 8 o’clock at the convention hall, Oddfellows Temple, on Beaver Street. TROY, N. Y., Oct. 28—An open- air meeting on the City Hall steps was held here Saturday night. De- spite a bitterly cold wind 150 work- ers remained to elect delegates to \from per 'F. of L.; to arouse workers for a PITTSBURGH AFL. PARLEY MAPS ACTION for Social Insurance and Relief HITS SUSPENSIONS |Repudiates Executive Board’s Policy of Dividing Workers By Tom Keenan (Special to the Dally Worker) (Additional News on Page 2) PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 26.— | With the number of delegates at- tending increased to 170, at the last! report of credentials committee, the A. F. of L, rank and file con- ference continued this ited as delegates met in industry groups to lay the basis for coordniating fu- ture work in unions, various indus- tries including mining, steel, metal, food, needle trades, building trades, ete, The conference has drawn up 2 program of action on the basis of | the following vital issues: Campaign | jfor the enactment of the Workers’ | | papers today stated.that ‘560. Se oer ae and Social cher | Pafice Bill; for organizing ail the unorganized, in preparation for a joint struggle with the organized workers to gain higher wages, bet-| ter conditions, higher living stand- ards, shorter hours and to provide for the jobless; stopping of all sus- pensions and expulsigns for non- payment of dues as result of unem-} ployment; exemption of unions capita tax. where the! majority of members are unem ployed; all headquarters expendi- tures to be reduced in accordance with the reduction of revenues from above measures; for withdrawal of all A. F. of L. officials from all N.R.A. or other Governmental, State, Federal, or other Govern- | mental positions; to force full Executive Council, in their effort | to improve conditions and co- opera¥von to these locals in or- | ganizing into industrial unions; For jone industrial union in each in- dustry; for rallying all unions against the use of injunctions, troops or other military, or other wise strike-breaking measures to break strikes; For an organized drive to wipe out gangsterism and racketeering from all unions; for the policy of sympathy strikes and for the repudiating of the Execu- tive Council's action in sabotaging such struggles. Other points in the program are: For joint action of all unions, re- gardless of affiliation, in support of strikes, condemning the policy of A. F. of L. officialdom, against in- dependent unions outside of the A.) determined fight against company unions; against N.R.A. labor boards and similar government agencies, | and for the right of workers to join unions of their own choice, to choose their own representatives, to strike and picket; and to give all) the Hunger March and contributed Pledges Joint Action) support to Federal locals from the| | Report 16 Per Cent Job Drop in State Of Massachusetts |] BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 28.—Em- |] Ployment and wages in 1,599 rep- || Tesentative Massachusetts manu- || facturing concerns dropped dras- || tically during the first half of || September, according to a report || just issued by the State Depart- ment of Labor. The survey re- || Ports that jobs dropped 16 per |} cent as compared with the cor- responding period in August. | A survey of the State made in June by the Massachusetts De- partment of Labor showed that 1,808,840 employable persons lived in the State. This figure did not include students, housewives, persons unable to work, retired and aged persons or those not |] seeking jobs. Of this number, || 344% per cent, or 624,526 were || employed whole and part-time. |] On the basis of these figures, |] the latest available, 99,924 work- j] ®rs were added to the unem- ployed in the two week period during Peer eines TEXTILE MEN IN SOUTH ASK FOR RE-STRIKE CHARLOTTE, WN. | N. C., Oct. 28— Local unions,ofthe United Texiile Workers Union from eight mills of | the Concord, Charlotte and Gas- tonia areas demanded of U. T. W.j| |leaders permission for an immediate restrike, at the meeting yesterday | of the Western Carolina Textile Council. The U. T. W. leaders succeeded in| | postponing action on the strike de-| mand on the grounds of the |U. T. W. Executive Council meeting |held in New York Friday. They suc- | ceeded in postponing action until, |another meeting of the West Caro- eee Council, to be held in a few |days. The Roanoke Rapid Workers |are going ahead to strike six mills there tomorrow. | NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Many local |unions have demanded permission to strike their textile mills, against | discrimination, blacklist, stretch-out, | Wagecuts and eviction, growing out jof the settlement of the general strike, it was admitted by Francis Gorman, leader of the United Tex- tile Workers Union, following a meeting of the Executive Council of the union here Friday afternoon. Gorman, after the meeting, admit- ted he feared a “new crisis of im- pends,” and ‘repeated he and the Council is trying to prevent strikes through arbitration moves. Gorman, who sold out the general strike, Council of the U. T. W., in a des- strikes. He is trying to give strike sanction only in individual miils, in order to split up the struggle and prevent a new broad strike move-| ment in the textile industry. 30,000 dye workers are now out in three states and the silk workers are dis- cussing strike action. Gorman admits that 25,000 are called the meeting of the Executive | perate effort to forestall spreading | TO PICKET ALL PLANTS IN PATERSON Negotiations Are Broken Off Abruptly With Mill Owners WORKERS FURIOUS Say They Won't Return To Shops Unless All Vote on Settlement PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 28. — Speaking before a Communist election rally, most of those being present being silk weavers and striking dyers, Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, out- lined the working of the New Deal, and showed it is the direct cause of the conditions they are strik- ing against. “The N.R.A. is a system of codes which mean eight to twelve dol- lars a week for you,” Hathaway said. | Other speakers were Moe Brown, Communist candidate for Gover- nor of New Jersey; Martin Rus- sack, Communist candidate for Congress. Brown, leader of the 1933 dyers’ strike, showed how the militant policy then of the National Textile WotKers Union and the Communists laid the foundation for the union which has now accomplished a hundred per cent strike. By George Morris (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 28—The fourth day of the dyers strike finds the ranks completely solid, while negotiations which extended until | late Saturday night were broken off with no headway toward a settle- ment. At the Roseland Ballroom meeting held Saturday every strik- {er was called upon to turn out for picketing at his own shop Monday and not return to work until the shop votes for the settlement. The deadlock in the conferencesshat- | ters the hopes of an early settle- ment on the basis of a tentative agreement in Washington, provid- ing: thirty-five hour week at the present scale for forty hours with a twenty-three dollars a week min- imum and recognition of the union | with the understanding there will be no interference from the ent= ployers and an impartial board to hear complaints. Union leaders denied that any final agreement had been made and at Saturday's Roseland Ballroom mass meeting Ammerato, head of the dy federation (U. T. W.), stated, “Don’t believe any rumors in the newspapers. There is no set- | tlement.” ' Sentiment Tremendous But while the workers také-dittle stock in newspaper reports the-dé= mand is increasing to know—what are the tentative proposals—and what settlement basis the leaders are providing. The militant —senti-= (Continued on Page 2 taken from the bonfires and ap- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) sentenced to death, funds for their expenses. (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) LS.U, Seamen Walk Out: In Alaska as M.W.I. Longshoremen Strike PORTLAND, Ore. Oct. 28. — James Williams, a Portland sailor, was slain in the Ferry Building here on Friday by Leo Baker, a strike- breaker. Baker is under arrest charged with murder. (Svecial to the Daily Worker) JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 28.—Long- shoremen led by the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union are on strike here demanding the West Coast scale of wages and working condi- tions. Ship crews organized into the International Seamen's Union (A. F. of L.) on the Yukon, North- western and Northland steamships have taken united action with the longshore strikers. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 28.— Longshoremen, organized in the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Assoc'- ation (A. F. of L.) here, organized a rank and file strike and won their main demand, for all hiring to be done through union-controlled hir- ing halls. Numerous parties and candidates are appealing to the electorate to support them in the coming Congressional, State and local elections. Through- out the country there are four major parties, the two old capitalist parties, the Socialist Party, and the Communist Party. In some states there are other parties, But they are, in the main, part of the other parties, as for example, the Progressive Party of LaFollette, which runs on the platform of support for the Roosevelt “New Deal,” or the Farmer Labor Party of Minnesota, which is a combination of the Socialist Party and the La- Follette progressives, and nationally supports the Democratic Party. Of these four main parties, the Democratic Party of Roosevelt and the Republican Party of Hoover make their appeal as they state, not to any particular class, but to the “people as a whole.” These two parties claim that they represent the interesis of all the people, that they represent alike the interests of J. P. Morgan and the evicted tenant, Tienry Ford and the auto workers, the gentlemen of the steel trust and the stesl workers, the bankers and the bankrupt farmers, the lynch- ers of the South and the Negro people. The Socialist Party, while claiming to be a party of the workers, makes its appeal especially to the work- ers, but stresses that it represents the interests of all citizens. The Communist Party alone states openly that it represents the interests only of the workers, the poor farmers and the lower middle classes. It states openly that it fights against the bankers, the capitalists, and the rich, Misery of Unemployment What are the workers suffering from today? Unemployment is the big curse of the working class. Close to 15 millions are unemployed. Mil- lions are on part time. Those still with jobs feel insecure in their jobs. How does each of the four main parties react on the question of unemploy- ment? The Republican Party under Hoover has aiready proven that it is concerned not with the interests of the unemployed, but with the preserva- tion of profits for the rich. The Republicans in power in the various states and municipalities are proving this every day. They are opposed to ade- quate relief to the unemployed. They oppose un- employment insurance. The Democratic Party of Roosevelt has also at all times considered in the first place the interests of the capitalists, the rich. Only as a result of Whom Shall the Workers Support in the Coming Elections? ‘By JACK STACHEL |; forced to givé relief to the unemployed. The relief given to the unemployed is far from adequate. No. more than a small fraction of the total wages lost through unemployment is being paid out in relief to the unemployed. This in itself indicates the lot of the unemployed under the Roosevelt New Deal. The Roosevelt government also is con- cerned primarily with the profits of the capitalists. While profits have increased tremendously in the recent period, the Roosevelt government has refused to tax the rich and provide unemp!cyment insur- ance. S. P. and the Jobless The Socialist Party, which claims to be a party of the workers and exploited masses, and while forced to talk about unemployment and the need for more adequate relief, even for unemployment insurance, has in deeds exposed itself as the sup- | porter of the capitalists, and also interested mainly in the preservation of capitalism when put to the test. The Socialist Party refused to organize the unemployed for struggle for relief and unemploy- ment insurance. When faced with the growth of the Unemployed Councils that really took up the fight for adequate relief, instead of uniting the the rising struggles of the unemployed were they | forces of the workers for the building of the Un- employed Councils, they went out to organize new unemployed organizations under, Socialist Party control. They were more concerned with Socialist control than with the fighting unity of the un- employed. They have refused to support the only genuine unemployment insurance bill now befcre Congress—the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill—or to crganize the united action of the unem- ployed organizations under their leadership with the Unemployed Councils for relief and unemploy- ment insurance. Where the Socialist Party is in control of the municipal government, as in Mil- waukee and Bridgeport, they have given the same deal to the unemployed that the Republican and Democratic Mayors have. They sent their police to break up workers’ demonstrations and have jailed the militant leaders of the workers. This shows that, despite all their talk and pretense, when it comes to a showdown they are pledged to preserve the interests of the capitalists, the rich. The Communist Party, of all parties, has at all times fought for the interests of the unem- ployed. Even before the Wall Street crash the | Communist Party had already taken up the fight (Continued on Page 2) [Chain Store Owners ‘Lock Out 2,200 Clerks In Atiack Against Union CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 28.—= | The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea |Company, the largest grocery chain in the country, last night ame |nounced that it would lock out. its |2,200 workers, and close its 428 | stores and two warehouses on Mon= day, The pretext of labor diffieule ties was given by the company as | the reason for its action. | The Meat Cutters Union and the Retail Clerks and Managers Union lof the A. F. of L. have been or- ganizing the workers despite in- timidation and coercion by the company. The unions had beef picketing the warehouses, and the company, according to union men, had hired “100 gunmen and thugs. to make trouble.” The company’s lockout seems to |be in retaliation to a strike call that shut 100 stores early yesterday | m ng, according to T. S, Farrel ,of the Cleveland Federation of La= |bor. Mayor Davis has moved ta |help the company, assuring them |that he would provide them with protection, and if they would: sug= | gest anything more the city admins jistration would “respond wholes heartedly.” E: