The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1935, Page 2

‘+ that if the workers want a strike, 2 DAILY WORKER, Strikers Hear |Hearst Conspired With Trusts To Rob Workers NB. C. Plans | harp Attack) Improved Picketing Is Sought by Men as Showdown Looms The coming week. will ve a crucial one in the National Discuit Company workers William Galvin, president the nside Bakery Workers Federal Union kers at Stuy- vesant School, Saturday eve- ning, The company, he reported, is making extensive plans, send agents to visit the homes of str ‘© round up scabs for a possible at- rempt to operate its plants this Strikers at this m ing de- week. cided that this week will be n by very intense strike activi picketing of stores. Six strikers arrested last week wi come up at the Tent Street and Sixth Avenue Court this morning. | arouse race feelin ym Page 1) culation During the .race, the Chicago American whipped up the inter- est of its readers to a high pitch of enthusiasm and gained hosts of new followers. With the race over, and the Chicago boy the vic- tor, as originally planned, Hearst’s newspaper INCREASED ITS AD- VERTISING RATES. Hearst achieved more popularity and more wealth by having tricked his readers and the nation’s popula- tion in a cheap and cowardly | meaner, | As a rabid spokesman for Amer-| ican imperialism, Hearst 1s ever on| r up race hatred and st as today Hearst the workers’ ranks nd imperialist war, so he tried to many years ago in one of his election campaigns. jHearst lied, were trying to break | down readers and build up newspaper cir- | ment. the organized labor move- Hearst called for deporta- tion of the Chinese, for a strict ban on immigration, and for other forms of persecution. He Employed Chinese At that time, the militant work- jers’ press was far too weak and the/| Chinese people ‘almost helpless to answer adequately the bombard- ments of vile lies and abuse belehed forth by Hearst’s newspapers The most outstanding and shameless part of the whole cam- | paign was that during its con- tinuance Hearst was exploiting Chinese labor on his California ranch at miserable pay and also non-union labor at his mines. Hearst, the great friend of union labor, is now leading the capitalist newspaper publishers in an effort to smash the Newspaper Guild. As a warning to employes on his news- | paper and news-gathering organi- zations, he has fired Lee Jennings, 4 Seek t r e highly able California journalist, There were 35 arrests of workers | eking =a seat in Congress, | hie! op ine nix fellow- mame the sizike beeen & medin Hearst was bent on getting out for |for activity in organizing his fellow Realizing that next week v¥ imself the “labor” vote. He di a showdown with the company here is increasing talk among the strikers for large committees to di rect and check on the various strike activities. / the meeting S: day one worker asked for a picket committee to check on the pick throughout the efty. Thus far, pick- To gain the support of the “1 rected his appeal to the workers of Am day ently slanders and abuses. “lowly proletariat,” so that he could be their servant, Hearst attempted to |stir the white workers against the | Chinese people. His newspapers ets merely gave in their number at |Shrieked with headlines about the the office and were assigned to cer- tain places. To this President Gal- vin replied that there are 44 shop delegates coming from the 22 de- partments in the plant, and they should be able to function for such duties. He promised that meetings will be called of this body. This was greeted favorably by many workers as thus far it wasn’t clear | for many if the shop delegates are | to conduct the strike. The United Council of Working Class Women, at its last central} body meeting with 31 of its branch- es throughout the city represented, took measures to make more ef- fective the consumer strike against | Nabisco products. The Council re- ported that its branches have suc- ceeded to stop many stores from handling the company’s products. In many cases open air meetings | were held in the neighborhoods to} win support behind the strikers. [Pine Strike | Holds Firm (Continued from Page 1) tempt to make the injunction per- manent. Hundreds of miners jammed the court which is heavily guarded hy | State Police. Efforts of the com- pany to recruit unemployed miners eo as strike-breakers is being com- batted by the Unemployment Coun- | ° oils, which issued thousands of leaflets throughout the entire ter- ritory appealing to unemployed miners to fight with striking min- “> ers, Action councils: are widely hailed - by strikers. Speakers for the Un- employment Councils are speaking at many local unions, urging the extension of the strike and mass picketing. At meetings at Ashley and Wan- amie locals Steve Nelson. Council Organizer, was enthusiastically re- ceived when he spoke for mass violation of the injunction Terrorism of the State Police is inereasing in all localities. They are boldly entering homes, beating miners, slugging them on the} street. The terror is so acute that “the Mayor of Plymouth was com- pelled to issue a protest demand- ing the withdrawal of the troops | when pressed by delegations from ~ the Unemployment Council and Lance Local. Rank and file leaders are press- | ing for mass picketing despite the injunction and are urging the or- ganization of flying squads and mobilization against police terror. A Women’s Auxiliary mass meet- ing was held today. The Commu- nist Party issued a statement today in thousands of copies pointing out the tasks before miners and com- demning the lack of proper lead- ership on the part of the district leaders to smash the injunction -- and win the strike. The statement urged militant mass picketing, fiy- ing squads, violation of the injunc- tion and unity of the unemployed with the employed. The statement also appealed to the U. M. W. A rank and file to refuse to be used as strike-breakers, to fight for unity of the miners of both unions . over heads of the misleaders and to organize a joint struggle for the betterment of conditions of the miners. Silk Workers Plan Strike é (Continued from Page 1) — strategy committee prepare a stop- rank Schweitzer, replying to the Tepresentatives of the rank and file, launched a tirade against the workers in the industry who he said are “impatient.” The N.R.A, he said has improved conditions for the workers. At this point a chorus of boos greeted him and it was only — With great difficulty that quiet was restored. Proceeding, Schweitzer stated, money is the first prerequisite. “Pay your dues regularly and have pa- tience” was his advice. He an- nounced that a $20,000 organizing campaign has been launched and | that four prizes will be offered to the best collectors—a trip to Ber- muda, to Florida, a Studebaker and an electric refrigerator. “Yellow Peril.” to the effect that the Chinese people were out to conquer Amer- ica and annihilate the white pop- | —the same workers he to- | | He carried scurrilous statements | ulation. The Chinese workers, This manner of dealing with reporters and editors is by no means new to Hearst. When, many years ago, Chicago news- papermen attempted to organize, Hearst immediately issued a hint to workers on his newspaper in that city. Those who failed to take his gentle hint were fired. And so Hearst showed then, as he shows today, that in spite of his pleadings and rantings, he is a bit- ter and merciless enemy of union labor. (To Be Continued) Communist groups has been tional executive secretary. a supplementary statement issued by the National Executive Commit- tee defining the recently passed Boston resolution as in no sense encouraging the united front in the states and locals, but, on the con- trary, warning the state offices and locals to continue to ignore any proposals for joint action made by the Communist Party. United Action Already Formed The warning of Senior to the that the united front must not be formed, or if it has been formed, that it must be discontinued, takes on unustial significance in view of the fact that Socialists and Com- munists are already fighting in joint action against the terrorism of the Arkansas landlords. Senior’s letter, addressed to all state secretaries states in part: “The comrades who signed the Monteagle letter [forming joint ac- tion —Editor] misunderstood the action of the N.E.C. in Boston. That action does not authorize the State Executive Committees to enter into negotiations for united front. Be- eause this interpretation was placed the N.E.C., by mail, voted an- resolution on the motion by Darlington Hoopes, a copy of Southern Socialist Party members | Socialist Party Leader Issues a Drastic Order Against United Front CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 10.—A drastic order forbidding any attempts to form a united front with any. Communists or sent to all Southern state and local offices of the Socialist Party by Clarence Senior, na- In addition, Senior has enclosed which I am enclosin; Glad Unity Is Rejected. “I understand that the State Committee of Kentucky has turned down the appeal [for uni- ted front.—Editor]. I hope that other State Committees will act in a similar manner.” The supplementary resolution | that Senior speaks of follows: | “That that part of the resolution on the united front adopted at the Boston meeting of the N. E. C,, which referred ‘to the obtaining of consent by Locals or Branches from the 8, E. C. in’ organized States and from the N. E, C. in unorgan- ized States, be interpreted in ac- cordance with our past practice to |apply only to cases where a local lor branch is confronted with an emergency which in its judgement requires united action with existing | joint committees, established for | the purpose of maintaining civil liberty, opposing fascism, etc. upon which Communist and /or splinter groups are represented, and that it | does not authorize S. E. C.’s to ne- | gotiate for or enter into state-wide | united fronts, nor does it author- ize locals or branches to propose | such activities.” Steel Workers HitBureaucrats (Continued from Page 1) A.A., it is safe to say there would be no organizing drive in steel. It is significant that Tighe, in sending out the orders of “expul- sion,” tried to wipe out every union sector where lay the danger of strike or an important plant of the big corporations—Duquesne (U. 8S. Steel, possible strike plant), Brad- dock (U. 8. Steel), Aliquippa (J. & L., possible strike plant), Weirton (Weirton Steel), possible plant), Youngstown Republic Steel (possible strike plant), Canton, Ap- pollo, etc. Not only this, Tighe has now at- tempted to “abolish” the First and Sixth Districts of the Amalgamated, which include in them the largest part of the heavy industry in steel and easily the majority of steel workers in the country. Comparatively few of the 78 lodges whcih sent delegates to the Feb. 3 conference have been notified their charters are revoked. Only the lodges which represent the greatest danger to the continuation of Tighe’s sellout policies have been “cracked down” on. Rank and File Determined But the determination of the rank and file to organize the industry is sweeping aside these obstacles. They are broadening the base of support for their movement to all possible brother unions, and to all strata of the populatoin which can be reached. Many local unions and Central Labor Councils in two cities already have voted their support. Letters of appeal are to be sent out. The meeting in Massillon, Ohio. of the Organization Committee elected by the A.A. lodges on Feb. 3, offi- | cially launches the organizing drive in steel. The steel workers are} determined to have a strong union, a democratic union, one which will fight for better conditions, strike | Dyers to Act For H. R. 2827 PATERSON, N, J., Feb. 10,—At a meeting of shop chairmen and del- |egates, Local 1733, of the American | Federation of Dyers, affiliated with the United Textile Workers and | with a@ membership of 12,000 has elected two delegates to go to Wash- ington to speak for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, H.R. 2827 at the hearings now going on. Joseph Yanarelli and John Lydig, the union’s organizers, are the two strike | delegates. | At the same meeting, upon read- ing the communication from the |Friends of the Soviet Union, re~ questing the local to elect one of its workers to be in the May First delegation to the Soviet Union, a decision was made to elect a dele- gate, The delegates, when they re- | turn, will report to their respective organizations on conditions in the factories, collective farms, and liv- ing standards of the people in the | Soviet Union. | workers, notoriously iow paid, higher Companies Admit Rise in Profits Under the N.R.A, By Carl Reeve What has the N.R.A. done for the one million textile workers of the country? The cotton textile code was the first code signed by Roosevelt. Un- der this code, Roosevelt and Gen- eral Johnson promised the textile wages, shorter hours, and restric- tion of the speed-up system. The promises of this “model” code were kept, as far as the interests of the employers were concerned. The profits of the textile manufac- turers went up under the N. R. A The report of the Federal Trade Commission on Dec. 31, 1984, re- vealed that 765 textile companies, for the 20 months from Jan. 1, 1933, to August 31, 1934, made a total net profit of $95,272,412, according to their own figures; 388 emopanies out of 2,600 questioned by the com- mission, refused to answer as to their profits. Strike Follows But for the million textile work- ers, the N.R.A. had different results. Wages became so low, the speed-up so unbearable, that on Sept. 1, 1934. over half a million textile workers went out on strike. The wages of the textile workers under N. R. A. have not only not increased, but they have gone down in this period. This was admitted in the report of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, ap- pointed by Roosevelt to report on the causes of the genera] textile strike. This report, based primarily on the payroll reports of the em- yloyers themselves, shows a big de- cline in avergae weekly wages un- der the code. Average Weekly Earnings The report declares: “In August, 1934, weekly earnings in the North were nine per cent less than in’ Au- gust, 1933, and were 18 per cent less in the South.” The following table shows the de- cline in average weekly wages in dollars received. When to this is added the greatly increased cost of living, the sharp decline in- real Wages can be understood. Average Weekly Earnings Aug. 1933 Ang. 1934 North Male $15.75 $14.48 Female 13.42 12.18 Senth Male $12.37 $10.29 Female 11.18 9.19 This includes wages of foremen and skilled workers. “Large categories of wage earners had a smaller res] income in Au- gust, 1934, than in July, 1983.” the report admits. “For a family with weekly earnings prevailing in July. 1933, the cost of goods purchased rose from June, 1933, to August, 1934 by 9 per cent and by 12 per |eent to October, 1934.” Purthermore, “In the North the purchasing power of the average worker was 15 per cent Jess in Au- gust, 1934, than in August. 1933. In the South it was at least 25 per cent less.” Summing up the real wages of the cotton textile workers. the Roosevelt government report de- clares: ** “The average weekly money earn- ings of males and females in the North declined about eight per cent. Their real income declined about 18 per cent. The average weekly money earnings for males and fe- males in the South decreased about 18 per cent. Their purchasing power diminished by about 25 per cent. Real earnings of almost every worker was less in August, 1934, than in August, 1933. In the North the average real earnings declined 15 Per cent, in the South 25 per cent.” When the code was first effected in July, 1933, it was ballyhooed as giving a minimum wage of $13 for the North and $12 for the South. This minimum wage was low enough, but the workers were de- liberately fooled. They soon found out what this minimum meant. The code stated “at the rate” and the hourly minimum wages were com- puted on the basis of a 40-hour week. Every week of work less than 40 hours, brought weges below the minimum, And the hours worked under the code have averaged 36, In addition, the report admits that the minimum wage has tended to become the maximum, that the skilled wage rates went down. Un- der the code, exemptions of learn- ers, laborers, cleaners, etc., from the minimum rates, gave chances for a single wage earner at average|- EW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1935 Cotton Textile Code Slashes Wages, | Increases Speed-up for 1,000,000 | STUDENTS STRIKE IN PARIS pe Seene at a recent strike of students in France. A ctions like this took place throughout the Latin Quar- ter as the strikers mobilized to convince non-strikers to join them. chiseling, and especially women workers and Negroes received shock~- ingly low wages under the code. MacMahon and Gorman While the wages were being ham- mered down under the code, ac- companied by a terrific speed-up, what did the leaders of the United Textile Workers do? First they ac- cepted the code, and Thomas Mac- Mahon helped to formulate it. The leaders of the United Textile Work- ers Union continued to heap praises on the N. R. A. while it was lower- ing the workers’ living standards. As late as August, 1934, when the textile workers were clamoring for a strike, Francis Gorman, vice-pres- ident of the U.T.W., declared to the national convention of the union: “I think we have reason to hope that it [the.new Labor Relations Board] will he better than any agency of its sort which we have had before. . . I am sure that some satisfac- tory arrangements can be worked out with the administration at Washington.” And Thomas MacMahon, in the December Textile Worker, declared: “I have every confidence in the committee appointed by President Roosevelt. I believe they will decide fairly and according to factual evi- dence presented, either at hearings held in Washington or in various localities throughout the country, under the direction of an impartial chairman appointed by them... . “No one can sit for five minutes with our President and retire with- owt feeling that in the makeup of this splendid man, there is beating underneath his skin a heart that feels for suffering humanity and a brain that has within its many cells, solutions for the difficulties we have encountered, are encountering, and will encounter in the future... . Textile workers must have hope. God knows you have been patient.” Meanwhile, while MacMahon and Gorman heap praises on the Pres- ident, he is reorganizing the N. R. A. so as to sharpen the wage cut drive. Roosevelt signed the wage- cutting code, led the strikebreaking forces against the general textile strike, signed the curtailment of May, 1934, which cut down the earn- ings of the textile workers 25 per cent, and is now in the midst of a drive to smash the A. F. of L. unions and legalize the company unions. Scottsboro Hearing Soon In U.S. Court (Continued from Page 1) Leibowitz and George W. Chamlee are attorneys of record in the case of Clarence Norris. This is a mat- ter of public record in a document signed by all four attorneys, filed | with the clerk of the United States Supreme Court. Although no public statement has been made by the I. L. D. or its at- torneys in the appeals, all friends of the Scottsboro boys regard this as a definite step toward a unified defense in the U. 8. Supreme Court, and to prevent the splitting apart of the cases in their presentation before that court. The agreement was made follow- ing filing of a motion in the court, by Leibowitz, asking for a change of attorneys based on a retainer obtained in January from Clarence Norris. “Kid” Davies Lies The I. L. D. is not only continu- ing its efforts for the lives and free- dom of Norris and Patterson and all the Scottsboro boys, but is daily intensifying and broadening its mass campaign to force a reversal of the lynch decrees in the United States Supreme Court. No matter who the attorney for the Scottsboro boys may be, the I. L. D. will double and re-double its defense of widest mass pressure—the decisive factor which has thus far halted the hand of the Southern lynchers, This is in sharp contrast to the statement of Dr. George E. Haynes, executive vice-president of the American Scottsboro Committee, who declared that “unless the boys repudiate the I. L. D,, we will wash our hands of them and Jet them take their medi- cine.” Certainly if the lives of the Scottsboro boys were the first con- sideration of the unscrupulous Dr. Haynes and his crew, nothing could prevent him from joining the fight to save them. The statement that the “I. L. D. lawyers failed to file the Patterson appeal in the time specified by law” is not only a shameless lie, but it Ironically, MacMahon closes his editorial, quoted above with a re- phrasing (without quotation marks) of. Karl Marx’s famous slogan. MacMahon says, “The workers have, as I see it, nothing to lose but their chains.” ‘The textile workers are no longer satisfied with the honeyed words of the MacMahons and Gormans re- garding Roosevelt's benevolence. ‘They are preparing strike action. CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—Taking his cue from Cordell Hull's recent anti- Soviet action, Hiroshi Saito, Japan- ese Ambassador to the United States, launched a tirade of war talk |against the Soviet Union in a speech | before Council of Foreign Relations yesterday. So important a bid for Wall Street support for an anti-Soviet war did the Japanese embassy consider this speech, that copies were sent to the leading bankers, munitions manu- when necessary, “Not another union, but a fighting, living A.A.”—that is| the slogan they are determined to| realize Dutch Police Attack Workers AMSTERDAM, Holland, Feb. 10. (U.P.).—Several Communists were Wide interest is displayed in the coming elections for organizers and general manager of the local. The | weleome the first sailor released | sian propagand: injured today when mounted police charged hundreds of persons gathered at the Central Station to facturers as well as to all influen- tial capitalist newspapers in the United States. J. P. Morgan & Co., the National City Bank and the Chase National Bank were among those to receive | finely printed copies of this proposal for U. 8. support to a Japanese war against the Soviet Union. Justifies Aggression Declaring that “the effect of Rus- in China “was to Rank and File candidate for general | after the mutiny on the cruiser “Die | ineite Chinese agitators to campaign manager, is Sarkis Phillian } t | Zeven Provincien” in 1933, against so-called capitalistic na- | tions,” Saito stated that “it is not |unnatural, therefore, that Japan | should take measures looking to her | own security.” | He developed his idea of “security” | as the complete domination of Man- churia, and the crushing of the movement of liberation in China. “The policies of Japan with re- | gard to the Far East,” said Saito, | “are clean cut and definite.” But he omitted mention of this policy which he had so clearly defined in an interview with the Philadel- phia Evening Bulletin, on Dee. 11, 1934, when he said: “If we find it necessary for the peace in the Far East, Japan will Swallow North China no matter what other powers say or do.” He proceeded, however, to a dis- | tortion of the facts of the situation ; in Manchuria. \ “The war between the Commu- nists and the central government of | China that has been going on since | 1927 is the result of that Russian attempt—when not only propagan- dists and political agents but also Japanese Envoy in U.S. Assails U.S. S. SAITO MAKES WAR TALKS IN CHICAGO—B ANKERS GET COPIES OF SPEECH rs military leaders were sent from Mos- cow to southern and central China to direct the revolution in that country.” Conceals Alliance This reference to the Chinese So- viets avoids the fact that Japan has recently entered into an alliance with Chiang Kai Shek to supply arms and ammunition to attempt to destroy the Chinese Soviets. The height of hypocrisy was reached when Ambassador Saito said: “In the first place our country wants to see no repetition of mili- tary or political invasion of China.” This is uttered only two weeks after Japanese troops shot down Chinese men, women and children in Chahar, and after the invasion of the Bor Nor area in the Mon- golian People’s Republic. The am- bassador also conveniently forgot the invasion of Shanghai in 1932,; when Chinese troops and marines bombarded Chapei killing 10,000 unarmed Chinese people. The “slight matter” of the armed seizure of Manchuria with its 30,000,- brands the “Amsterdam News,” which makes it and its owner, Kid ‘Davis, as among the worst enemies of the Scottsboro obys, and the struggle for Negro rights. This argument has already been set forth in the brief of the State of Alabama as a “technical” reason for throwing the Patterson appeal out. The Negro-hating attorney- general, Tom Knight, who will argue in the U. §. Supreme Court R. 000 people is explained as follows by Saito: “It may be asked, then, why we interfered in Manchuria several |yeers ago. That territory was never ® part of China proper. It had been brought into the empire by the Manchus when they conquered China 300 years ago.” Featured by Hearst A territory having been part of China for 300 years is considered free booty for the Japanese im- Perialists, and because the Soviet Union on the border of Manchuria | where Japanese imperialism is build- ing military roads, air bases and in- creasing its army for attack, or- ganizes to defend itself from attack similar to that made on Manchuria. Saito declares that to meet this “danger” Japan invites the assist- ance of the United States. Saito’s speech is given extemely favoralsle treatment by the Hearst anti-Soviet press as well as by the Chicago Tribune, which has long been inciting for war against the Soviet Unior for the Alabama lynchers, and Kid Davis’ Amsterdam News, are there- | fore in perfect agreement. The I. L. D. exploded this lie when it | forced the United States Supreme | Court to review the Patterson as | well as the Norris cases. | Statement About Norris Untrue | The statement that “Norris, how- ever, has stuck steadfastly to Mr. Leibowitz during the defense fight, ete.,” is no less untrue. Until quite | recently, both Norris and Patter- son repeatedly wrote letters of con- fidence to the I. L. D. and to my- self personally. After Norris and Patterson first signed with attorney Leibowitz, I visited them and both of them sent letters of renewed con- fidence to the I. L. D. and to At- torneys Joseph Brodsky and Fraenkel. When Messrs. Fraenkel | and Pollak obtained stays of execu- tion for Norris and ‘Patterson and later filed the writs requesting re- views of their cases in the United | States Supreme Court, they did so | upon retainers signed by both Nor- | ris and Patterson. This was done | well after the so-called “defense fight” was begun. On the contrary, | Norris remained steadfast with the I. L. D, and its attorneys until the terror of the lynchers against him beeame so fierce and inhuman that he could not possibly bear it. His mother, Mrs. Ida Norris, now on tour under I. L. D. auspices for the Scottsboro defense, has steadfastly maintained her faith in the I. L. D. defense policies and conduct of the | case, behind which all the Scotts- boro mothers stand. The present agreement between | the attorneys actually strengthens the legal defense since it prevents any possible controversy in the Su- preme Court between the attorneys themselves and gives them the pos- sibility of spending all their energies on the vital issues (exclusion of Ne- groes from juries, exclusion of Ruby Bates’ testimony from Patterson trial) as presented in the defense briefs, which were prepared in line with I. L. D. policies by the attor- neys retained by the I. L. D. Such unity of legal defense is in eecord with the united front volicy of the “controversy” with Leibo- clearly stated at the very inception of the “contraversy” with Leibo- | witz. The National Scottsboro- Herndon Action Commitee which supports the defense policy of the I. L. D. in the Seottsboro case has also made three united action proposals to the “American Scotts- boro Committee.” All three have been flatly rejected. Every effort has been put forth by the I. L. D. and by the Action Committee to accomplish unity in the defense. Boys Are First Consideration The record of the I. L. D. in or- ganizing and leading the Scottsboro defense for almost four years proves that the lives of these boys are its first and only consideration. The attacks and slanderous dis- tortions of the “Amsterdam News” against the Scottsboro defense and the LL.D. are nothing new. This yellow sheet has followed a disrup- tive policy, and finally lined up with the Alabama lynch courts to try to throw the Patterson anneal out of the United States Supreme Court. William H. (Kid) Davis has many times exposed himself as an un- mitigated liar, in close competition with anti-labor William Randolph Hearst. Kid Davis sent a telegram to Haywood Patterson last Oc- tober in which he stated that the I. L, D. was “bulldozing the Scotts- boro mothers.” When a delegation of four Scottsboro mothers and others visited him, he squirmed but he was forced to eat those words. Before 5,000 Negro and white workers at Rockland Palace last August Davis promised to turn over every cent he collected for Scottsboro defense to the IL.D,, but since then, alt! h he has col- lected large sums money for Scottsboro defense, he has’ not turned one red conper to the I.L.D. In fact no one knows what Kid Davis has done with this money, as neither he nor his handpicked American Scottsboro Committee have made vublic any accounting whatsoever of the funds they have faithlessly dragged out of honest and sincere contributors. Kid Davis’ game is clear. He Writers Quiz NAACP Chiefs On Crawtord | Demand Explanation on Desertion of Framed Negro Worker The officialdom of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N. A. A. C. P.) ig asked to explain their desertion of George Crawford in a letter ad- dressed to the N: A. A. C. P. by sixe teen prominent Negro and white in- tellectuals. The writers demand | that the N. A. A. C. P. reply to the charges of Miss Martha Gruening that Charles Houston, N. A. A. C. P, attorney, betrayed Crawford framed Negro worker sentenced to life in Virginia, in order to protect Virginia’s anti-Negro court system, Miss Gruening’s charges were pub- lished several weeks ago in the New Masses,. with confirming documents, In their letter to the N. A. A.C. P. | the intellectuals state that the si- | lence of the organization in the face |of the charges is “even more in- |credible than the charges them- selves.” They also state: “Kither Dr. Gruening, who is a lawyer as well as a journalist, has misstated the facts, or else Dr, Charles Houston, dean of the How- ard University Law School and |chief defense counsel, has mis- | handled the most elementary rights of his client. “If Dr. Gruening is right, then a possibly innocent man is serving a life sentence for the sake of what seems to the N. A. A.C. P. an im- provement in the interracial rela- tions of the South. “On the other hand, if the N. A, A. C. P. is innocent of having sacri- ficed the interests of its client to a mistaken notion of social expedi- ency, it seems to us that it should clear itself of these charges by an- swering them in detail in a public statement.” The letter was signed by E. Franklin Frazier, Horace Gregory, Louis Hacker, Abram L. Harris, Sheila Hibbon, Suzanne La Fol- Jette, Helen Woodward, Benjamin Stolberg, Ralphe Bunche, Louis Adamic, Charles Angoff, Carleton Beale, Harry Block, Sterling A. Brown, John Chamberlain and Em+ met E. Dorsey. Sharecropper Leaders Held LEPANTO, Ark., Feb. 10.—A wave of terror, led by the plantation owners and reactionary politicians, is sweeping Arkansas, home of back against their living’ conditions. cropper organizer, is behind bars in Lepanto, Ark. facing charges of “barratry by inciting litigation.” with the Communist Party, Attorney J, C. Mosby said he would base his trial on the fact that “Rod- Communist Party which has head- quarters in Russia.” : Labor Defense, was beaten along with other workers, when they against the terror. Lucien “Koch, of Mena, is in jail on charges sim- ilar to those against Rogers. Talk on Fascism F. Ward, of Union Theological Sem- inary, will speak on “The Drive Toward Fascism States,” at the K. A. M. Temple, 4959 Drexel evening, Feb, 12, The meeting is jointly sponsored by the Christian American League Against War and Fascism. Dr. Ward is president of the League. works hand treacherous Negro misleaders—the Dr. George Hayneses, the Reverend A, C. Garners, L. H. Kings, Rich- ard Boldens, et al—who have their own interests to serve. Their in- terests are to prolong the miser- able oppression of the Negro masses. under the capitalist system, so that they too along with their white ruling class masters can continue to exploit them. Kid Davis intends to build the circulation of his lying sheet, at the expense of the lives of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. The experience of Attorney Pol- lak in successfully arguing the first Scottsboro appeals, attests his un- questionably brilliant selection by the I. L. D. and recommends him tc the attorneys for Norris in the present appeals, There should be the closest cooperation of all at- torneys in both cases, thus insuring the best defense for both Norri: and Patterson. oi It remains for the Negro masse: and white workers, all friends 0 the Scottsboro boys and Angele Herndon and all sympathizers anc Scottsboro defense, Funds Urged E Telegrams, protest resolutions letters, must flood the United State Supreme Court demanding the free dom of the Scottsboro boys an are available by the thousand a the offices of the I. L. D., all ove the country. Funds must be rushe’ to the national office of the I. L. D Fyom 610, 80 E. 11th Street, Nev Y¥*-k City. . Scottsboro ~ Herndon conferen must be set up all over the count drawing together and--welding forces fighting for the lives an: freedom of the Scottsboro boys Angelo Herndon, and for the fs jplete liberation of the Negro peopl’ Place here, Tuesday ° Angelo Herndon. Protest post card ° thousands: of starving sharecroppers * who have recently ‘begun to ‘fight © Ward Rogers, Socialist and share- - Alshough Rogers denies affiliation | City gers is Communistic in nature, and § that his proposals are those of the Bob Reed, militant young worker ° and member of the International - sought to arouse mass protests - director of Commonweather College - CHICAGO, Ull,, Feb, 10.—Dr. Harry | in the United | Social Action Movement and the | in glove with the - fighters for Negro liberation tc unite in joint activities for tht —