The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1935, Page 1

Scottsboro Verdict Affects the Basic Rights of Negroes By HARRY HAYWOOD The decision of the U. S. Supreme Court te review the cases of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris brings sharply before that court the burning question of jury rights for the Negro people. The white ruling-class says to the Negroes: “You are not fit to take part in political life. You may not sit on juries, White You may not hold office. You may not vote. | men may sit in judgment on you, but you may not sit on juries has become, along with the denial of the right te vote, the symbol of the political status of the Negro people, particularly in the South. The first appeal of the Scottsboro boys te the Su- preme Court also raised the jury question. But the court managed to side-step that particular issue, although it was forced by the world-wide outcry against the Scottsboro frame-up to reverse the lynch-decision against the boys, of the right of the Negro people to serve on juries. The International Labor Defense demands that the verdicts against Patterson and Norris be reversed, and gives as its basic argument the fact that there was not a single Negro on the jury that convicted them, or on the grand jury that indicted them, and that the barring of Negroes from juries in that county is a systematic practice. The Supreme Court must now answer this question, and it must be made to give the right answer. It must be made to reverse the death sentences against the boys, the Negro people to serve on juries. It can be made to give the right answers by the storm of protest from every corner of world. Thus, with the decision on the Scottsboro case, there is bound up the most fundamental rights of the Negro people. Such a fight deserves the heartiest support and cooperation of every Negro, of every militant white worker, of every honest intellectual. To cont e fight, to lay the necessary papers before the Supreme Court, funds are urgently needed. Rush these funds to the In- ternational Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, The basic issue raised in the second Scottsboro ap- peal to the U. S. Supreme Court is precisely this question | in judgment on either white men or members of your own race.” This denial of the fundamental right to sit and it must be forced to admit the constitutional right of New York City. i) i | | | || | i | | \) | | | | —_— —— $14,712.77 Has been contributed since July 9, 1934, to the Scottsboro-Herndon Fund of the I. L. D. $10,287.23 More must be raised at once to seve them. Vol. XII, No. 15 => Daily, Worker CONTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. undi ler the Act of March 8 1878 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1935 (Six Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents AID PLEDGED TO HR. 2827. BY CONNERY Chairman of Committee On Labor Promises Support to Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15,— Congressman William P. Connery, dr., chairman of the House Com- mittee on Labor, supports the Work- | ers’ Unempioyment and Social In-| surance Bill, and has pledged to} hold hearings on the Workers’ Bill, and support it on the floor of the! House. The pledge to support the Work- ers’ Bill is contained in a letter of | Connery to Benjamin Waite, of the Lynn Sponsoring Committee for | Unemployment Insurance. | endorsement of H.R. 2827 by mén Connery is particular- ly significant in view of the fact | that Conn-cry is the chairman of the | Commisies to which the Bill has) beon referred. | The Committee on Labor has the power to recommend the Bill out cf Committee and to the floor of | the Ho Therefore, Connery’s | picdge of support means, if carried | out, a probability that the Labor | Commitee would report the Bill to the House. | “T will be glad to support this Bill in Committee and on the floor of the House,” says Connery’s letter, which is reproducsd on this page. ' 1 State Bill Is Pushed BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 15.—The ‘Workers’ Unemployment. Insurance | Bill (H.R. 2827) dated January 12) was introduced into the Massachu- | setts State Legislature yesterday as) a result of the tremendous mass} sentiment for the Bill aroused in the preparations for the National | Congress and strengthened after the return of the delegates. The| Bill was introduced on the petition | of Benjamin E. Waite, who was one of the delegates from the Cutters’ | Local of the United Shoe and| Leather Workers Union in Lynn, and Myer Klarfeld, a Communist | shoe worker of Boston, long known | to the Bostc.. shoe workers for his leadership of the rank and file in struggles in the shops. The Workers’ Bill was introduced | by Representative Arthur E. Paul of Boston and was signed by five other representatives and oue State Senator. In a few days a Bill will be printed and given a number and} the dates for the hearings will be set. The United Action Committee for Unemployment and Social In- surance, which the delegates who returned from the Congress are planning to set up, will issue a call to all organizations to rally support for the Workers’ Bill in the State legislature, to get additional en- dorsements of every possible repres- entative and senator and to bring the widest possible delegations to the hearings. The Workers’ Bill, as introduced in the State Legislature, has a final section saying that it shall continue in effect until such time as the Fed- eral Workers’ Bill H.R. 2827 shall be passed by Congress and shall htve gone into effect. Relief Heads Issue | Order To Starve Out cait of the National Scottsboro- to the central demonstration Southern Marine Men NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 15.— In order to starve the unemployed seamen, who are on strike against the dollar a week forced labor on the relief projects here, has been issued by the Louisiana Relief Ad- ministration according to reports which reached here today. The State administration has is- sued instructions that any one fail- ing to report to work is to be denied all relief benefits, Strikers are to be docked for time oi and anyone abosent for three days is to | be refused relief, as well as work | relief, thereafter. | A coastwide strike against forced | labor is being organized by the sea- men who have carried their protests | to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, LABOR COMMITTEE H. R. CHAIRMAN BACKS 2827 Congress of the Biter Motates Bonse of Representatives: Mr, Benjamin By Waite COMMITTEE On LABOR Reever, B.C Jammary 7, 193. ‘Lynn Sporsering Comal ttee Unemployment and Seeie) 48 Mader Street yan, Wateschuset te, Dear Yr. Tatter Ingurance In reevonee to your inquiry as te whether T wil) support Be Rs 2827, 74th Congre: ‘a D1] to provide for the establishment of usexpleyment, old age, and social {ngurance, and for other purposes) introduced by tr. Tunes of Min.saot! all hearings on th: may I say that ‘I will de glad te ‘Bill whieb has been referre4 to the Ceanttree on Labor, avd I will be glad te eumcort thie Bill {a Cosetttes, and on the floor of the Ronse. With all personal good wishes, I an Streerely, RRA AEE RS Facsimile of letter sent by Congressman William P. Conner) Willian Ps Connery Jre Jr, chairman of the House Committee on Labot, pledging support for H. R. 2827, the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. City Hall Plays F ootball With the Unemployed At Relief Investigatio PSN a EEE 2 The unemployed of New York City were again kicked around yes- | terday as the Aldermanic commit- | tee investigating relief, punting | deep into Mayor LaGuardia’s terri- tory, voted to turn over their find- ings on Precinct 7 of the Home Re- lief Bureau to the Fire Department, Department of Sanitation, Tene- ment House Department and Health Department. The bureau, located at 27 Sheriff | Street in the lower East Side, was | found to be “an absolute fire hazard” by testimony revealed at Monday's session of the committee. A paint factory, on the third floor of the building, added to the fire danger. Turpentine and other in- | flammable liquids soaked through | the floor into the relief office, it was | disclosed. The second floor of the building, built to maintain twenty- five persons has in excess’ of 300 working on it daily. The same recommendation was also made about Precinct 32, at 179 | West 135th Street, Harlem. Photo- |gzaphs were introduced into the testimony Monday showing plaster (Continued on Page 2) TO BE HELD AT GARDEN Earl Browder To Speak On Life and Work Of Great Leader What is the revolutionary way out of the crisis of unemployment, poverty and hunger into which de- caying capitalism has driven the toiling Negro and white masses? | What is the dictatorship of the pro- letariat? These and other fundamental questions in the teachings of Lenin, the great leader of the Russian revolution and teacher of the world working class, will be fully ex- plained at the Lenin Memorial Meeting at Madison Square Garden, next” Monday “evening. under “the auspices of the New York District | of the Communist Party. | The entire program of the meet- ing has been arranged as a tribute to the life and work of Lenin, as | well as an answer by New York | workers to the recent attacks on the Boston District Leads In Greetings to Daily Anniversary Edition The Boston District of the Communist Party leads all the other districts in the number of greetings collected for the special anniversary edition of the Daily Worker. All workers and organizations who rush their greetings NOW can still get their names on the Honor Roll. | The Daily Worker calls upon the Party Districts to send all the greetings they have at hand, immediately, and make a iast minute call throughout their territories. | POLICE ATTACK STRIKERS SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 15.—When 125 garage strikers, led by a woman, tried to stop 16 former strikers from returning to work in |a struck shop, police attacked and routed them. The. city-wide Scottsboro parade and demonstration to be held ea Harlem this Saturday noon, at the Herndon Action Committee, was en- dorsed yesterday by the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Com- munist Party. The action is called to celebrate the tremendous partial victory achieved by the world-wide mass | fight in forcing the United States Supreme Court to agree to review, for the second time, the death ver- dicts against Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. All members of the Communist Party, all sympathizers, all friends of the Negro people, were urged to mass at 2 p.m. on Saturday at 126th Street and Lenox Avenue, in a call issued by the New York Dis- trict Committee of the Communist Party in support of the demonstra- tion. The call directs sections and units to mobilize their entire mem- bership and all sympathetic organ- izations in theix territory for the Communists Call for Support Of Scottsboro March Saturday | demonstration. Advance mobiliza- tions are to be carried out in the sections, followed by a mass march in | Harlem. The District Office of the Inter- ,national Labor Defense has also | called on all its branches and af- | filiated organizations to rally to the | demonstration. “Our partial victory in gaining |mew hearings for Haywood Patter- son and Clarence Norris in the United States Supreme Court,” the I. L. D. states, “is only the begin- ning of a real drive to complete victory. Saturday's demonstration is the first step.” “International Labor Defense branches and affiliates are urged to turn out with their banners and placards, and to approach all or- ganizations in their territory to unite in this gigantic city-wide ac- tion for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys, for the rights and liberation of the oppressed Negro masses." Communist Party and the distoriion of the statements of Lenin by the Hearst press, and the attempts of imperialist-supported terrorist bands | against the lives of Soviet leaders, as dramatically shown in the cow- | ardly assassination of Sergei Kirov, beloved Bolshevik leader. Eaz1 Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, who was in the Soviet Union at the time of the Kirov assassination, will give his first hand observation on the terrorist plot, as well as discuss the | perspectives of struggle for the | American working class. James W. Ford, Harlem Section Organizer of the Communist Party, will speak on “Lenin and the Negro.” Charles (Continued on Page 2) Students Will ‘Discuss World Strike Action By Publisher strike tmpends at mill NEW YORK.—Plans for an inter- | national strike of students to take place April 5 will be discussed to- night at the New York School of | Education auditorium by members | of the student delegation which has | just returned from student con- gzess held in Brussels. ‘The strike pian will be embodied |in the general report which the | delegation will deliver on the Bel- gian conference which was at- eight countries, including anti- fascists from Germany, Austria and Italy, as well as a large group from the Soviet Union. Serril Gerber, League delegate from California, and Morris Milgrim expelled from City College and delegate from the | League For Industrial Democracy will deliver the main report. ford Salender official delegate from |New York University, James Mor- genthau of Columbia, Lionel 'Florant, Negro delegate from Howard University, Thomas Russeil |of North Carolina University, and George Edson of New Hampshire, ; who comprised the American dele- | gation, will also speak. MESA Presents Strike Demands in Cleveland (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) fo} ND, Ohio, Jan. 15.—De- manding graduated increase in Wages, observance of seniority rights, more equal distribution of |members of the Mechanics Educa- | tional Society of America in Trus- con Steel voted unanimously for strike unless their demands are met. at the plant about 85 per cent are members of the M.E.S.A LENIN RALLY U. $. LINKED tended by 500 students from thirty- | National Student San- | WITH RACINE TERROR DRIVE Government Agent| | Drove Car for Kid- napers of Communist RACINE, Wis., Jan. 15—Terrorist | attacks on workers and their or- | ganizations here during the past two months have been linked by a | sensational exposure to the Racine | Association of Commerce, American Legion leaders and an agent of the United States Department of Jus- tice. xe As a result of these revelations, | Nick Bins, 44, Racine gangster | and strong-arm man, was arrest- | ed in Waukesha in connection with the kidnapping of Sam Her- | man, Communist organizer. Her- man was seized in broad daylight | on Dec. 13 in a crowded street in | the downtown business section. | His kidnappers flung him i car and took him “for a ride,” with | the announced intention of killing | him and dumping his body in the} river. They demanded to know the whereabouts of John Sekat, another Communist organizer, saying “Sekat is in for the same thing you are going to get.” Sekat —was recently railroaded to jail on a trumped-up charge. The linking of the Association of Commerce and other business groups to the reign of terror against the working class, is the dramatic climax to a skillful investigation | conducted by members of the Mil- | waukee branch of the American League Against War and Fascism, | an enterprising newspaper reporter, and several liberals. Bins, the arrested gangster, was | trapped into an admission that he | had been hired by members of the Association of Commerce to do (Continued on Page 2) | Guild Cites Diserimination. At a meeting of the Newspaper | Industrial Board, held Monday at | Hotel Warwick, 65 W. 54th St., New | |.York, the American Newspaper | Guild charged the Boston Herald- | Traveler with refusal to enter into | collective bargaining with its edi- | | torial workers and the discharge of | two employees for union activities. |The two discharged are John C. | Beale, vice-president of the Boston | | Traveler Chapter of the Guild, and | | Travis Ingham. Cases of exploitation of editorial workers were cited such as $27.50 a| week for a police reporter, and| $22.50 for a dramatic critic. Further hearings are still to take place. To Hold Benefit The Brooklyn Eegle Unit of the, American Newspaper Guild is hold- _ing a dance and entertainment on Saturday night, Jan. 19, at Amer- ican Legion Hall, 160 Pierrepont St. | (Borough Hall Section), Brooklyn, | to raise funds for the Newark! Ledger strikers. Tickets can be ob- tained at the Guild’s headquarters at 49 W. 45th St. Newark Strike Gains NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 15.—Follow- ing rejection of arbitration proposals | as made by L. T. Russell, publisher of the Newark Ledger, the American Newspaper Guild leading the strike of his editorial workers, yesterday submitted proposals before a joint | | arbitration committee of the Essex! | Trades Council, and Allied Printing | Trades Council which have inter- |vened in the strike situation. | One of the main points submitted jis that a grievance ‘ committee} upon discharge of employees. | Declaring that Russell's offer to. | arbitration is more evidence that) ‘he is cracking under the strain, | strike activities will continue full ‘blast. \ The Saar Decision : [AZI terror in the Saar was the decisive factor in the plebiscite out- come. Now it is running rampant, riding high and wide. The heroic leaders of the anti-fascist united front, Socialists, Communists, and even Catholic priests, are slated for the hell of the concentration camps, torture or death. The anti-fascist front now exposes before the whole world that the League of Nations’ “neutral” troops sent into the Saar to “safe- guard” the democratic carrying through of the plebiscite refused to extend the slightest protection to the anti-fascists who were threatened with beatings and reprisals if they did not vote for return to Fascist Germany. In fact, the foreign troops made themselves scarce at voting time leaving the field to the Nazi terrorists. The capitalist press throughout the world, tawing its cue from the Hitler poison propaganda machine, brands the plebiscite outcome as a vote of approval for fascist rule in Germany. This is a scurrilous lie. The Saar population who for 15 years had been ruptured from their brothers and sisters in Germany, veted—not for fascism, not for the bloody, heinous rule of the Nazi butchers—but for the annexation of the Saar to Germany. Hundreds of thousands in the Saar who hate Hitler with a fierce and relentless bittern loved still more the desire to join their brothers in Germany. Tens of thou- sands voted to join Germany knowing thet they would then have to carry on the most bitter struggles, at greater odds, against the fiends who have brought Germany to economic catastrophe, to barbarism, and on the brink of a new imperialist war. ‘he Saar’s inclusion in Germany will bring with if, one of the most potent forces now for continuing, in ever sharper forms, under new con- ditions, the battle for the overthrow of fascism throughout all of Germany. The issue of the return to Germany in the Saar is now shoved into the background. But the fight against Hitler, against the avalanche of fascist violence, brutality and murder becomes the dominant burning question in the Saar as it is throughout all of Germany. Now the masses in the Saar will be confronted each day more acutely with, not only the most severe fascist terror, but the misery of fascist rule in the shops, in the factories, mines, and in the trade unions The living standards of the Saar masses will be forced down. Over 40,000 are slated for forced labor camps. An equal number are marked for the concentration camps. All of the trade union rights won by the Saar masses in long years of struggle will be crumpled and tramovled into the dust with the entry of the Nazi hordes. Every minute brings still more alarming news of the carrying out of the vengeance against the anti-fascist ieaders. Max Braun, Social- ist leader; Fritz Pfordt, Communist leader, brave fighters against the Nazis in the Saar are threatened with death. In the United States we must now more than ever energetically rally all anti-fascist forces for the defense of the Socialists, Commu- nists and Catholics who stood true despite threats of reprisal. Socialists! Can we permit Hitler to bring his rule of death and tor- ture into the Saar without some immediate united front action in the United States against it? Are we going to let these precious, critical moments go by without immediate response of unified ranks against the Nazi pest now rushing into the Saar? Let us take immediate action for the defense of all anti-fascist fighters in the Saar! Let us immediately call joint meetings to demand of the Hitler fiends: Hands off the heroic anti-fascist masses in the Saar! Postal Messenger Boys Win Three-Hour Strike OMAHA, Nebr., Jan. 15.—Twenty- five Postal Telegraph messenger boys here won a 90 cent minimum guarantee for an eight-hour day | after striking twice within a few hours. The messenger boys, without any organization to back them, struck Of Avondale Company BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 15.—In order to prevent an impending strike in the Avondale Cotton Mill, Donald Comer, the owner, is trying to form a company union. The workers in this mill now have less pay and more speed-up follow- ing the sell-out by Gorman of the general textile strike, and the sen- | timent for strike is strong. | first for the 90 cent minimum Men who scabbed during the gen- | Shortly after winning this demand, eral strike have joined the company | they struck again against favoritism union, which has in all about sixty- | which had been shown a messenger five members. who had not struck with them. Wilentz and Reilly Suppress Evidence in Hauptmann Trial | best proof so far adduced of his own | statement that the kidnaping and murder was an “inside” job com- mitted by four persons. Dr. Condon, who admits that he ordered the money box built by Samuelson, testified last week that By Allen Johnson FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 15.— Attorney General Wilentz stated to- day that he would not question Abraham Samuelson, Bronx carpen- ter, concerning the latter's state- | y had forgotten the address of ment that he constructed both the | gamuelson’s e-tablishment. Samuzl- ladder allegedly used in kidnaping | son disclosed that his establishment the Lindbergh baby and the box) was one block from Condon’s home. which Dr. (Jafsie) Condon used to. Disregarding ithe affidavit that carry the Lindbergh ransom money, | would bolster his case tremendously | although he has known the carpen-| put would also bring Dr. Condon, ter’s story for months. |Lindbergh’s agent, closer to the Samuelson’s affidavit also stated | criminals, Reilly went ahead with that Hauptmann was accompanied | preparations today to prove that by three accomplices when the Nazi | Isidor Fisch, the Jewish furrier who adherent crdered the ladder one/ died penniless in Germany last year, work, and control over discharges, ,should be set up which will pass | week before the Lindbergh baby was | committed the kidnaping and mur- kidnaped. der of the Lindbergh baby and then Proves Own Statement | wrote the ransém notes over Haunt- mann’s signatu.. It is expected Edward J. Reilly, Haupimann’s | that his star witness will be Henry Out of the 500 workers employed | the strike committee declared that | chief defense attorney, also declared Uhlig, former roommate of Fisch’s that he would not use Samuelson’s | affidavit although it contains the/ (Coftiadad on Page 2) 4 i FRANCE SHUTS OFF ASYLUM FOR VICTIMS Official Voices Satisfaction on Plebiscite Washington (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Jan. 15 (By Wireless).— Braun and Pfordt, the leaders of the nnited front struggle against Hitler in the Saar Region, told representatives of the foreign press today that “We shall con- tinue the fight. Even here in the Saar the fight will go on. Our defeat shows the impossibility of struggling against fascism within the democratic framework.” The Manchester Guardian cor- respondent reported that the con- centration camp near Neunkir- chen was ready. Arrests of Com- | munist and Socialist workers are reported as the Nazis took over control of towns. The “Liberte,” the organ of | Tardieu, one of the leaders of the most reactionary section of the French capitalists, wrote that “the plebiscite marked the begin- ning and not the end of the con- flict. The Nazis will now strive to obtain sanction for rearma~ ment. Soon the question of Alsace-Lorraine will come to the fore as Germany works to regain all the territories lost in the war.” (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.—Under- Secretary of State William Phil- lips teday voiced the pro-Nazi sentiment of the State Depart- ment in commenting on the Saar plebiscite vote. He declared that the result of the election is cer- tainly very s2iisfactory from the official point of view. SAARBRUECK. Wireless). Following instantly upon the official radio announce- ment by the League of Nations that 90 per cent of the plebiscite had voted for return of the Saar to fas- cist Germany, Nazi forces let loose Jan. 15 (By a storm of bestial vengeance and terrorism that left all observers and correspondents here aghast. Terrorism and intimidation, which numerous reporters of the world’s news agencies admit the League's armies and police did not lift a finger to prevent during the voting, now rule over the Saar. Asy'um Refused Refusing asylum to the tens of thousands of anti-fascists, the French government has closed the frontier and trapped the helpless victim. within the sinster rule of | the gatlows and the concentration camp, Here in Saarbruecken weeping and frightened women, children, crying ior protection, continue to swarm the Socialist headquarters. “The police are in the hands of the Nazis and we cannot depend on them” was the story everywhere. The promi: of Herman Roech- ing, Saar industrialist, “to settle” with the enemies of Hitler, is bear- ing terrible fruit. The horde of Storm Troopers and Gestapo—Se- cret. Police—agents. who no longer need their fiimsy disguise, are seiz- ing and imprisoning all members of the United Front of Socialists and Commvnists upon whom they can lay ir hands. Suspected with be- pathetic towards the heroic struggle for the status quo, 120 of the Saar police force were arrested. Nothing more has been heard of them. Leaders Stand Solid By late this afternoon the cen- ter of the United Front, the only place of refuge in the entire Saar territery, was beseiged by exult- ing fascist out for bleod. Commu- nd Socialist leaders were re- solute in their determination never to leave the Saar while the anti-fascist masses were so dan- } gerously beset. Although official authority to take over the Saar will not be ceded by the League for at least a week, and despite the appaling violence to be seen everywhere, the imperialist directors of the international | (Continued on Page 2)