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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
MAY CAPTAINS
MEETING, APR. q

A meeting of the May Day Capt
aims, elected by their various clubs,
unions, language organizations, I'M
employed branches, etc, was held on
Thursday, April 10th, at 16 w. 21st
st.
At this meeting instructions how
to organize their defense groups were
given to them by representative
from the Labor Sports Union. 1t
was especially stressed at this meet
ing, the Importance of discipline on
the March on May Day. The line
of march given is as follows: As
semble place at Madison Square, 23rd
st. and Fifth Ave; from there we will
march West on 25th st. to 7th Ave.
North of 7th Ave. to 38th ST. West
of 18th st. to 9th Ave. South of 9th
Ave. to 18th ST. and East of 18th st.
to Union Square. 1t was pointed out,
as it was stressed to all workers that
we must assemble at Madison Square
1890 p. m. and start our march at
2:30 p. M in order to reach Union
Square at p. m, sharp. 1t was de-
cided that the captains are to form
their defense groups from their vari-
GUS organizations before the 23rd of
April, and on that day all captains
and their groups will meet for final
instructions at the Manhattan Ly-
ceum, Sc E. 4th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
5000 RALLY FOR MAY AT START OF HUNGER MARCH
All Aid to the Fighters for
Nicaraguan independence!

EVERY worker every anmperas who stands the side
tong will hail with the renewed
against American Imperialism by the Mica
undoubtedly the result of the
of the
toing peasants robbed by imperaist ccnoessonae
liberation it these
elements proetariat they which
struggle ultimate
Which guarantee the victory by independent action from possible
treachery bourgeois leadership.
Smsons policy supposedly for evacuation is
detestable impeia hypocrisy This
already policy February
and evacuated" daily.
warss speeding under full steam
native national differed by u marines definitely intended
Imperialism their
extension of these hypocricy
behind imperiaHst
operating marine units Behind such phrases
with
before the indignation of the class
OF United Sates
identical capitalists who millions
of this country exploiting
numbering the Ncaraguan people, Their fight fight
being
blood of class brothers comrades!
at
support fighting Ncaragun indepen
in
forefront of battle with hand fighting
their native so demonstration
States
for Ncaraguan liberation!
imperialism Hail
struggles of the Army of Liberation against the nadersl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Workers Rally to
Defense Drive
Must Smash Scottsboro
Paterson Frames

NEW YORK.-Tlle fight to free the
victims Of the Scotsboro, Ala, and
Paterson, N. J., frame-up cases is
gaining momentum. Thursday night
400 workers gathered at an open-air
meeting at 72nd st. and First Ave,
called by the Yorkville English
Branch of the New York District of
theInternationa1 Labor Defense, dem
onstrated their determination to
smash the frame-up of the eight Ne
gro boys in Scotsboro and the five
Paterson silk strikers, whom the
capitalist courts are trying to burn
i'll the electric chair, The speakers
at the meeting, D. Harmon of the
I. L. d. and Beverhold, a Negro mem
Der of the Workers x-Servicemen's
League, were enthusiastically APP
plauded.
The I. l.. D. is now holding OPEN
air meetings regularly in New York
and New Jersey, rallying thousands
of workers i'll defense of the victims
of these two infamous frame-ups. A
big indoor mass meeting will be held
next Friday, April "a, at p. m. in
ST. Luke's Hall, 125 w. 130th st.
William L. Patterson, militant
leader Of the Negro masses of this
country, who only recently returned
from Soviet Russia, will be one OF
the speakers.
House-to-house collections, to raise
funds for the defense of the two
cases, will be held Saturday and
Sunday, May and 10, the New York
International Labor Defense an
nounces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
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DIAMOND Foreign Policy Associa
ton dealze of fascm speaking Tuesday
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
OPEN AIR MEET
In B R @ N X
10 Mobilize for May
First

There will be six open air meetings
tonight in the Bronx under the aus
pices of the Communist Party, Sec
ton 5, to demand the immediate
withdrawal of the American marines
from Nicaragua and that the hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars spent
daily to carry or this war, in the
interest Of the Wall Street bankers
in Nicaragua shall be used to give
adequate relief to the millions of I'M
employed workers and their families,
who are staving today in the United
States. r
These meetings will also protest
against the attempt to legally" lynch
the 8 Negro young workers in Scots
boro, Ala, and to prepare the work.
srs OF the Bronx to demonstrate their
willingness to fight for unemployment
insurance, hi~fer wages, shorter
hours, against cyictiops ard imp-r-
alist wars end tor the defense of the
first an6 only proletarisp fatherland,
he Soviet Union. on May LIST at Madi-
ION Square at 1890 p. m.
The meetings will be held at the
following places at 8 p. M, 139th st.
md Brook Ave, 161st st. and Pros
,ect Ave, wilkins and Intervale
AYES, Washington and Claremont
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Working Class Women
Actively Preparing
May | Demonstration

NEW YORK.-Councils of working
class women are in the midst of prep
arations for the May LIST demonstra-
ton. Open air meetings are held in
the market places and around public
schools
Lectures on May LIST as a day of
working class struggles are being held
in the various sections where local
councils are located.
April 18th and 26th are set aside
as the Red Sundays when the coun-
Gil members will canvass the work.
ing class houses with leaflets, pampfl-
let's, and the Working Woman"
Funds are being raised to help the
May First United Front Committee.
The Councils of Working Glass
Women call upon the wives of the
workers to come to Madison Square
on May First at 12'- to
demonstrate against the high COST OF
living, high rents, and to demand UNI
employment insurance, and free
lunches for school children.
The Council Of Working Glass
Women calls upon the working class
mothers to keep their children out OF
school on May First and to take
them along TO Madison square, 23rd
st, and Fifth Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Wage Cuts, Unpaid
Labor Imposed On 2
Hatters' Locals

NEW YORK.--LocalS and of
the United Hatters Of North Amer
lea held meetings Wednesday at
Stuyvesant Casino and Beethoven
Hall, respectively. The members of
Local z had a 10 per cent cut in
wages and in add ion had to do
three extra bows for nothing. The
girls of the local agreed to accept q
10 per cent cut, but the secretary of
the local made them vote at the
same time for accepting the three
extra bows. Thus the girls had to
accept both the cut and the extra
work, without the privilege of voting
down the extra work.
In Local the officials of the
union brought in recommendation
to lower the basic wage of $3.50 per
dozen hats to $3.50, 1926 and $3.50
per dozen, depending on the kind of
work. Their argument was chat the
local would get more work, because
OF the decreased price, but it would
in reality mean that the other To-
Gals would also cut the wages. SO
there would be no increased work for
one local, but a general wage cut for
81 locals. The workers, however,
we're swindled into acceptance. think
ing that it would mean more work
for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

for a charter for a separate union
can only be understood as trick to
split the strike.
Especial TO Daily Worker
SHENANDOAH, Pa, April II. -
Eight thousand miners are striking
here against the closing of Locust
Gap mine and the lay off of hun
dreds by the Philadelphia and Read
i'll Coal and Iron co. The entire
district seething with anti-LeEis
and anti Brennan sentiment, which
local leader, Dougherty, is taking
advantage of to put himself at the
head of an opposition movement. The
miners, however, regard Dougherty
somewhat askance, remembering
what happened in the case of Wilkes
Barre, where the local Tomicheck-
Nfaloney-Davis gang sold out the
miners after pretending to lead
them against Lewis and the district
officers.
District President Brennan was at
the meeting yesterday of 1900 min
ers at Locust Gap He was over
whelningly outvoted after he talked
himself blue n the face trying to
scare the men back to work. He told
them that if they won equalization of
work they must take ten per cent
wage cut. He howled about the sane
tity of the contract. He called the
strike outlaw. He declared there els
no remedy for unemployment" al
though he knows very well that the
sentiment is strong among the min
ers for state unemployment insur-
ance.
The National Miners Union is call
ing upon the men to:
l. Organize a rank and file strike
committee in each mine to lead the
strike under the slogan, Don't let
the officials interfere!"
Q. Elect a general rank and file
strike committee and spread the
strike to all Pennsylvania & Reading
Coal g. Iron colleries.
3. Get all the union locals of other
districts to endorse and aid the
strike.
4. Each local strike committee to
work out demands to present to the
company.
5. Fight against arbitration and
the Cancellation board, don't let the
takers send you back to work until
your demands are granted; fight for
the six hour day; no reduction in
pay; unemployment insurance for all
unemployed miners,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Masses in Nicaragua SUPPORT Armed Fight
Against Wall St. Troops; Hoover Sends More

besides the revivified battle
against American Imperialism
by the armed forces of the
Army of Liberation and new
troops of workers and peas
ants, is the fact that great
masses of the population are
supporting the anti-imperialist
fight.
Reports from Managua state
that a large Sandinista force
under the leadership of Pedron
Altamirano, had arrived at San
Pedro del Norte and was pre-
pairing to storm Bluefields, one
of the leading cities OH the
East coast Of Nicaragua.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

While Hoover prints state
ments in the capitalist press
about a Change in policy" to-
ward Nicaragua trying to init
mate there will be no reinforce
ments for the marines, the
latest news from Managua
tells of. the constant arrival of
battleships loaded with Wall
Street armed forces to attack
the growing struggle Of the
Nicaraguan workers and peas
ants and the Army Of Liberia
ton.
"a determined counter
offensive against insurrec-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
YOnkers to Hold
Open Air Meeting
to Rally for MAY

YONKERS. ALI workers Negro
and white. are urged to attend an
open-tir meeting SATURDAY, April H.
at z p. m. at the Larkin Plaza, New
School Land and Nepperan Ave. This
open-air meeting is being given un-
der the auspices of the Communist
Party OF Yonkers for the prroe OF
mobilizing the workers for the c7m-
ing Tntorr2 iional WORKERS Hclio7,,
MaY /. an workers should attend
this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
$50 MARCHERS LEAVE
PITTSBURGH TODAY:
LOCAL MARCHES BEGIN
5000 Anthracite Strikers
Stand Firm; DEFY Brennan
Local Leader, Dougherty, Tries to Utilize
Widespread Anti-Lewis Sentiment; NMU
Urges Miners Take Control Themselves

Capitalist press reports indicate the strike of eastern
Pennsylvania coal miners all of District of the United Mine
Workers of America is still going strong and that preliminary
efforts to force the back to work pending Cancellation
have failed.
There is indication Of strike breaking tactic
the part of the district officials Of the L. NJ W. is the
sderation of Undoubtedly nspred) request" of few
dozen miners at the Locust Summit Central Breaker for
Separate union The idea of appealing to the district officials
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Convicted on Flimsy
Testimony Of One
of Girls
Wimbley, Co. Attorney
Said go. Has Juice
to Burn 9 Niggers"

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April II.
Additional facts discovered today
by the International Labor Defense
representative further exposes the
vicious frame-up nature of the case
against nine IIegro youngsters, eight
of whom have been railroaded
through to death sentences in the
circuit court at Scottsboro, Alabama.
The eight young workers were con-
vlcted ON the unsupported testimony
of Victoria Price, a notorious pro-
stitute with jill record in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. The other girl, Ruby
Bates was unable to identify any OF
the defendants on the witness stand
in spite of the active aid of the pro-
secutor, Both of the girls are known
as prostitutes throughout Southeast
ern Tennessee and northeastern Ala
bama.
The story of the youngsters that
they were not together on the train
is supported by statements of white
workers who declare the nine boys
rode on widely separated cars, and
that none of them had any part in
The fight o q group of colored
men with white nen,
The white men who we're riding
with the two girls do not accuse
any of the defendants as those who
threw them off the train.
As result not single one
of he white men was put on the
witness stand. They were kept in
Jail until the trial was over and
then tod TO get out of town.
There was a tacit agreement
between the state, the defense"
attorneys and the mob leaders
that there was to be no mob
lynching this time, that instead
the boys were to be treated TO a
court lynchiiag.
Wimbley, Scottsboro attorney
for the Alabama Power Company,
who was one of those appointed
by the judge n defend" the boys,
said Alabama Power Company
has enough power to burn nine
niggcrs." The trial judge charged
the jury TO "takc this case into
jury room as good Southern cit
liens
After the first death sentences
we're pronounced there was tremen-
dous cheering in the courtroom and
thousands demonstrating outside
with brass band demanding death
sentences for all remaining cases.
The date of trial was deliberately
set for the day of the opening of
a local fair in Scottsboro, which
drew in additional thousands from
the surrounding districts. The trial"
was staged as an additional feature
for the fair.
Roy Wright, IA, the only one of
the youths not yet sentenced to the
electric chair, told International La
Dor Defense lawyer: "All eight are
innocent. If they arc going to be
killed by the State let them kill me.
too, instead of keeping me in prison
for life.'
Workers of Chattanooga are being
modified for a protest meeting here
tonight against this murderous
frame up and death sentences for
eight working-cl youths,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
MASS MEETING
FOR PATERSON 5
Come Out Sunday In
Passaic for Defense

pASSA1C, N. j., April TIA De-
Tense mass meeting for the freedom
of the five Paterson workers will be
held Sunday at 2;so p. m. at the
Russian National Home, 15s Fourth
ST. Passaic.
1t is an attempt to stop the con-
spiracy to kill our fellow-workers.
An interesting program has been
arranged The speakers include Israel
Amter. The Workers Laboratory
Theatre of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief will perform play,
Buy Now"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Rebel Forces Mass for Attack on Bluefields,
Important City on East Coast; War
Ships Land More Marines

ZIONIST forces in Northeast
ern Nicaragua was begun
toda'-, by United States Mar.
ines, National Guardsmen
and aviators," says a United
Press cable from Managua
dated April IL.
This followed the report that
eight yankee tools of imperial
list corporations who had been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

treating the Nicaraguan work
ers like dogs had been executed
by the insurrectionist army
'fter an armed battle in which
the eight Americans took part
in shooting Nicaraguan work
ers.
Masses Support Fight.
The outstanding feature of
all the stories from Nicaragua,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
1000 Parade Streets
Of Philadelphia AS
los Begin Hike
Score Ala. Lynchers
Will Demand Right to
Speak in Norristown
BULLETIN.

EORRISTOWN, Pa, April IT,
The hunger marchers from Phila-
delphia arrived here at p. M, and
by their numerical strength and
nliIitancy forced the town author
tiles to capitulate and held mass
meeting which even the capitalist
press admits numbered hundreds.
The authorities had threatened TO
call in the state police to break up
the march, PottstoEn is next, with
q big outdoor demonstrate tomor-
row afternoon, The rnarchers are
singing and cheering all the way.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April IL
six thousand workers, employed and
unemployed, msssed into the city hall
plaza here today at 9 a. m. as a pre-
liminary mobilization for the May
Day demonstrations against capital
ism and fer unemployment insurance.
and to soc s44s Sss safa4l1g o. tlGs as res7
OF Philadelphia's l95 hunger march
ers, starting for Harrisburg, a hun
dred miles away. -Four thousand Of
the crowd accompanied the march
ers through the streets to the out
skirts Of the city. The denlonstrs-
ton passed through working claeI
neighborhoods and was cheered by
workers on the way and by the hos,
iery strikers of Kensington.
The capitalist press is boycotting
all news of the march,
The marchers will fight the Norris
town threat TO use the state troopers
on them, They demand tine right
to hold meetings in Norristown. and
to stop over there.
Denounce Legal Lynching
Speakers Of the Trade Union Unity
League and the Councils of the I'm
employed addressed the Philadelphia
city hall meeting, which adopted the
following telegram to be sent to Gov
ernor Miller of Alabama;
1--WE thousands of workers as
sembled at the city hall plaza in
Philadelphia to send off our hun
ger marchers to Harrisburg to pro-
test the railrOading of nine Negro
boys in Scottsboro, Ala, to the cleo
trio chair. We are convinced the
nine Negro boys are framed up and
are innocent of the charge placed
against them. We therefore de-
mand the immediate release of the
nine Negro boys and the abolition
of all Jim Crow laws"
Miners On the March.
MINERSVILLE, Pa, April IA
delegation of jobless miners and
their wives starts from here Sunday
at 10 a. m. on the hunger march to
Harrisburg, At noon they hold a
meeting in st. Clair. at 3 p m. an
other at Frankville, at 3 at Shen-
andoah, at 4;i0 at Ashland. at at
Mt, Carmel.
A delegation starts from Mahonoy
City to meet the Minersville march
ers at Shenandoah.
The delegation will stay over Sum
day night at Mt. Carmel, then pro-
coed to Shamokin and hold a noon
meeting there, then go on to Sun
bury and then to Harrisburg.
The hunger marchers will assure
the striking members OF the Ma
honey Valley of their solidarity and
that the unemployed will not scab.
they will declare the solidarity of
the struggle of the employed and
unemployed workers.
(SEE PAGE FIVE FOR FURTHER
NEWS.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
FRAMING OF 9 NEGRO BOYS
FURTHER EXPOSED; PLOT.
BY STATE, MOB, DEFENSE"
WORKING CLASS in
MIGHTY PROTEST
Demonstrate May Day
Demand Released

NEW YORK.-Josepf Brodsky, well
known New York attorney of the In
ternational Labor Defense, left for
Birmingham yesterday morning to
help line up the defense for the nine
Negro youths, victims Of q courtroom
lynching at Scottsboro. Alabama,
where sentences of death were passed
OF eight of them,
Brodsky viii cooperate with Allan
Taub, I. L. D. attorney who has been
in the south for several days now,
and with George w. Chamlee, lead
ing attorney of Chattanooga, Tenn,
who has been engaged for the case
by the l. l.. D.
Negroes Hitch Hike to n. Y. G, TO Ask
Aid of the /. L, ID.
Two Alabama Negro workers ar
r1ved IN New YORK CITY thursday TO
ask the L l.. D. to fight the legal
lynching of the nine youths, They
had hitch-hiked from Alabama, TAX
ing 16 days to get here, and were UNI
aware that the ]. L. D. had already
entered the case.
Members of several Negro churches
and organizations have joined the ma
ton wide protest, repudiating the CO.
operation with the southern boss
lynchers by the Negro reforn1ist press
and reformist organizations like the
National Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People, The National
Urban League, the Universal Negro
Improvement Association, etc, which
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

Parkway. 24lst st. and White Plains
Road and 163rd st, and st. Nicholas
Ave,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
Rum Boat Capture Upheld in
Report by LoWman to
Canadian Legation.
BOATSWAlN COMMENDED
FOR HURRYING FIRST AID
Killing of Rum Runners Master
Declared Incidental to Legal
0verhauling of Craft.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Capture of the Canadian rum-runner
Josephine K by the Coast Guard patrol
boat CG-145 off New York last Saturday
night, resulting in the death of her
captain, was upheld yesterday by the
Coast Guard board of investigation.
The report of the board was made
public by Assistant Secretary Lowman
and transmitted to the Canadian lega-
ton by the State Department.
1t commended that the Josephine K
was landing liquor, was within the H.
mile limit, and that the patrol boat
the rum-runner when she attempted
to escape.
Boatswain Commended.
The board recommended that Karl
Schmidt, boatswain in command of the
patrol boat, be commended for his
capture and his prompt action in secur-
ing medical attention for the fatally
wounded captain, william p. Cluett.
Stories told by members of the crew
of the rum-runner that Schmidt was
intoxicated when he boarded the rum
runner were described as false.
Lowman'S statement, which contained
the report Of the board, said Schmidt
hoisted his Coast Guard ensign and
pennant, whereupon the rum-runner
Immediately fled in the dark without
lights and was pursued by the CG-14s.
Fired Blank Shots.
The patrol boat, Lowman continued.
then hailed the rum-runner, sounded
her claxon repeatedly, lighted her dis
tinguishing flag and fired three blank
shots as a warning to stop.
When the rum-runner continued her
effort to escape, he said, the patrol
boat fired four solid shots well clear Of
her and then sent two solid shots into
the fleeing vessel.
The I board Of investigation found
that Schmidt carried out in all respects
the law governing the boarding Of YES
sells and the prevention of smuggling at
sea. It said that while the death of
the master of the Josephine X was re-
grettable, It was unavoidable and unin-
territorial