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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
Your Delegates!

tonight for the Land
of and from the farms of this
country they representatives to the May
the Workers Government!
These representatives
going accomplishments of the revolution led
by these accomplishments
capitalist America And they
shall report when they Tetun
farewell in New
they the steamer
Europe outward bound fol Europe Moscow
struggles here the workers and
off capitalist They Will tell the
that here in America the
striking capitalism May First
joining the struggle!
report! Tell them to let the Soviet workers
peasants you the Workers Fatherland from i'm
attack!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
MASS MEET TONITE
FOR MAY | GROUP
Show Solidarity With
Workers in USSR

NEW YORK. - The workers of
New York will give their answer to
the latest attacks on the Soviet Uni
on by the American engineer, Will
liam H. Grady, at the stirring mass
farewell to the May Day delegation
to Soviet Russia tonight at 8 o'clock
at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving
Place. The farewell will be a mil
itaont demonstration for the support
and defense of the Soviet Union
against all attacks.
Speakers at the meeting will be
William z. Foster, national secretary
of the Trade Union Unity League;
Frank Palmer, manager of the Fed
Grated Press; j. E. Snyder, delegate
of the San Francisco truck drivers;
R. Gonzales, delegate of the agri-
cultural workers of California, and
Negro and youth delegates. John
j. BALKAN, national secretary of the
Friends of the Soviet Union, which
has organized the delegation, will be
chairman.
After the meeting, the delegates
will be given a sendoff at the boat,
thethe Europe. AS they must leave
early, the meeting will start prompt
ly at o'clock
Replying to the attacks on the
Soviet Union that the American min
ing engineer, Grady, made in yes
terday's New York Times, John j.
BALKAN, national secretary of the F.
S. u, declared:
''The attacks of Grady and his
wife will be recognized by all work
ers and friends of the Soviet Union
for what they are-part of the cam
paign to stir up popular sentiment
against the first Workers Republic
as preliminary to an armed i'm
perialist attack. Grady says: The
Russian miner lives on cabbage soup
That is lie number 1. In addition
to cabbage soup, he gets meat, pota-
toes and other food products. He
says the Russian miners are ineffi-
Gent, because they are weak from
hunger That is lie number 2. The
Russian miners get plenty to eat,
SO they cannot be weak from hun
ger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
PROTEST MEET IN
HARLEM FRI. EVE.
Stop Legal Lynching
of 9 Negro Youths

NEW YORK.-Negro and white
workers will unite this Friday night
at st. Lukes Hall, 125 w. 130th St.,
in militant protest against the
frame-up and planned legal lynching
of nine young Negro workers in
ScotSboro, Alabama. The meeting,
which is one of a series being held
throughout the country to mobilize
the masses to stop this outrage, will
be under the auspices of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights.
William Patterson, former Negro
lawyer in Harlem, who has just re-
turned from a three and half years
stay in the Soviet Union, will ex-
plain how under workers rule the
question of the minority nationaH-
ties has been solved and the murder
GUS programs against the Jews, which
were feature of TsariSt capitalism,
replaced by working-class solidarity
and extension of the right of self
determination to all minority ma
tionalities in the Soviet Union. Com
rade Patterson will speak on the sub
ject Can Negroes Obtain Complete
Racial Equality in the United States
as Jews and Other Minority Groups
Have Done in Soviet Russia Under
the Communists"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
KING ALFONSO
OUT; FEARED
REAL REVOLT
Bosses and Socialists
Unite to Save the
Landowners
Masses Drive Forward
Communists Call for a
Toiler-Peasant Regime

King Alfonfo XII, the latest cables
from Madrid say, has resigned. Thru
this act the capitalist newspapers try
to make it appear that a bourgeois
democratic republic is about to be
proclaimed in Spain and that mat
tiers fill be settled "peaceably."
The resignation of King Alfonso
followed municipal elections through
out Spain which gave an overwhelm-
ing majority to the Republican forces,
showing the revolutionary temper of
the masses. The elections came aft
er whole series of general strikes
nj which the revolutionary working
class forces were coming more and
more to the forefront.
The Republican bourgeoisie, with
the aid of the socialists, had repeated
conferences with King Alfonso in or
der to arrange a settlement thereby
avoiding mass uprising and saving
the basic structure on which the mon
archy rested-the feudal landowners
and the grip of the Catholic church
Niceto Alaca zamora, leader of the
republicans, with full approval of the
socialists. held many conversations
with the king. After these conversa-
tons the king said he would resign
provided certain terms were agreed
| to.
The Communist Party is calling
upon the masses to continue to fight
| for their demands, to expose the
formal resignation as not a compile
ton of the bourgeois democratic rev.
olution. but an attempt to staye it
off and keep the feudal elements in
power through other and republican
forms. The Communist Party of
Spain is calling upon the Spanish
workers to fight against the absolut-
iSt monarchistS, against the bour-
geois republicans and against the al
lies of the bourgeoisie, the social fas-
cistS and anarchists. The program
of the Communist Party of Spain
around which it is rallying the mass
es, regardless of the formal resigna-
ton of the king, declares for the fol-
lowing demands:
For a general wage increase! For
the Seven-hour day for industrial
workers, for the six-hour day for
miners and young workers! For the
introduction of social insurance at the
cost of the employers and the state.
For the immediate appropriation of
all big landowners and the Catholic
church. Abolition of all church priv
ileges, expulsion of the religious or
derS. Complete independence of the
national minorities in Catalonia and
in the Basque provinces up to sep
aration from Spain. Evacuation of
Morocco and of all colonies. For the
overthrow of the monarchy not in
workers or by the formal resignation
of King Alfonso, but by the estab-
lishment of workers and peasants
government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
Trade Union Unity League Calls on Workers to
Smash Legal Lynching of Negro Youths i,, Ala.

In Alabama, where the magnates
of the United States Steel Trust have
formed 'holy alliance" with the
slave driving white plantation own
ers for the most shameless oppres-
sion of the toilers, black and white,
the ruling classes and their agents,
the A. F. of l.. takers, are preparing
mass state lynching Of nine young
unemployed Negro workers, from the
ages of IA to 20.
The present lynching does not diff
fer in substance from any of the
hideous murders of Negro workers
directly at the hands of lynch mob.
Only, in this case, the lynchers have
clothed themselves in the garb of
boss class legality. The lynchers
make up the jury. one of them is a
Judge, Others have adopted the role
OF prosecuting and defense attor-
neys.' This hideous mockery is ex-
posed by the bosses court itself,
which beforehand promised to the
mob the same results as would be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15

Girl Hoboes,' is the head Of inch
story in the New York Amsterdam
News and that papers support to the
southern slave drivers and lynchers.
The Chicago Whip and The Negro
World are among scores of Negro
reformist papers which altogether
ignore the frame-up and planned
legal murder of these nine youths.
Also, while scores of working class
organizations and workers mass meet
ings are laundering their protests
against this CHASTITY, murderous
frame-up, there has been not one
word of protest from the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, the Universal Negro
Improvement Association, the Urban
League or any of the hundreds of Or
CARNATIONS controlled by the Negro
reformists who thus as frequently in
the past. again expose themselves as
traitors to the Negro masses and be-
trayers of the Negro liberation
struggle.
Negro workers. Repudiate the mis-
leaders! Join the mass revolutionary
struggles against lynching, against
boss persecution of Negro and foreign
born, against starvation and for I'M
employment relief and insurance. De-
monstrate May First!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15

Concrete Proof of Treacherous Co.
operation Of Negro Reformists and
their Press with Southern Boss
Lynchers! Here's How Most Import
ant of the Negro Reformist papers
Treat Frame-up and Death Sentence
of Negro youths in their current is
sues. Reading left to right: Troops
Guard Trial of Boys in Alabama" is
headline of 10 inch story in Chicago
Defender, which gives illusion of fair
trial" and protection" by the Ma
tional Guard; 5000 Whites See Rape
Trial in caption of a inch story
in the Afro-American which peddles
the boss lie of rape against the 9
youths; 80 Indicted for Rape in Ala
bama," heads an. 8-inch story in the
Pittsburgh Courier, which also peddles
lie of guilt; ''Nine Men, Accused by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15

against hunger, wage-cuts and speed
up for unemployment insurance, and
defense of the Soviet Union, in
mighty numbers on May First at
Madison Square, % st. and 5th Ave,
IL noon and join the march from
there to Union Square.
The statement calls upon the work
ers to make this May Day. the day of
renewed and intensified mass struggle
against the new wage slashing con-
spiracy of the bosses. May Day be-
longs to the working class. 1t is the
day of International Working Glass
Solidarity and Determination on May
Day. They therefore organized their
allies and lackeys, the socialists, the
fascist officers and leaders of the vet
Grams of foreign wars, the blood
thirsty czarist white guard gangs in
an attempt to prevent the New York
working class from demonstrating on
May Day. This insult to the reyolu-
tionary fighting tradition of May Day
this dastardly provocation against
New York workers was organized by
the grating Tammany police.
Workers, young and old, Negro and
white. working class members of the
socialist party, condemn this act OF
treachery on the part of the socialist
party leaders. A socialist demonstra-
ton is an anti-working class demon
stration.
Rally on this May Day of struggle
against capitalism. Answer the de-
portation and persecution of foreign
born. Rally in struggle against the
fies w9vo of lynchings and dis
the Negro masses -
employment insurance
mobilize for defense of the fatherland
OF the worlds working class, the Sow
let Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
Shoe Pickets Defeat
Gangsters: MeetThurs.

NEW YORK. - Gangsters beat up
an active shoe worker, Alexander
Chamer, on the picket line at the
Fifer Shoe Shop yesterday. When
they tried to do it again in the eve
ming, they found the pickets had
organized for trouble and the scabs
and gangsters got the worst for it.
An important membership meet
ing will be held tomorrow at Union
headquarters. 16 West 21st ST., of
the Shoe and Leather Workers In
duStrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15

ments upon the political rights of
the workers in general and particu-
larry the Negro workers. Vagrancy
laws are being increasingly enforced,
chain-gangs are lengthening. New
and more vicious laws are being en-
acted. directed against the working
class and primarily against its lead
ers. Hand in hand with this, the
white slave-drivers have unleashed
the most merciless terror against the
workers. Besides the lynchings.
dozens of Negro workers have been
brutally murdered by armed police
thugs and sheriffs.
Bosses Whipping Up Race Hatred.
The reasons for this new wave OF
terror are not hard to find. The
growing militancy and determination
to struggle on the part of the Ne
gro and white workers against their
vicious oppression, the increasing
unity in the struggles against unem-
fCONTJNUEn nv pACH, r,KyuI,p.N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
To March from Madison So.
To Union So. on May Day
Rally on May to Answer Attacks of Fascists
and Socialists; For Struggle on Unem-
ployment and Against Wage Cuts

NEW YORK.-The New York Uni
ted Front May Day Conference call
upon workers to mobilize at Madison
Square, % st. and Ave. May First,
and march from there to Union So
The New York United Front May
Day Conference. composed of dele
gates from over 300 working class or
CARNATIONS, in statement issued
yesterday, calls upon the New York
working class, Negro and white, native
and foreign born, workers ex-service-
men and working class members and
followers of the socialist party, to an
swer the provocation of the police and
socialists, to mobilize in a struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
Resisted Attempts of Seven White Men to ThhOw Them
Off Moving Freight Train; Defeated Whites
RetaEated With Fake Rape Charge
To Demonstrate May First Against the Legal
Lynching of Negro Working Boys
Mnrderous Frameup and Death Sentences Ignored By
Negro World and Chicago Whip, SOft-Pedaled By the
Amsterdam News Pittsburgh Courier, Others

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 1.-THE eight
Young Negro workers sentenced to death last
week in Scottsboro Alabama, were interviewed
last night by Allan Taub, attorney for the In
ternational Labor Defense. Taub also inter-
viewed Roy Wright the 14-year old defendant for whom
msra ordered by Judge A j. Hawkins result of the
rising protest of the working class against this frame
and legal ynchng All nine young workers welcomed the
aid of the international Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
Warns Only Mass Pressure Can Put Stop to
Scotsboro Outrage Calls for Mighty Protest
of Negro and White Workers and Building
of Gigantic May Day Demonstrations

preston Of the Negro toilers. Tens
of thousands of workers are unem-
ployed and starving, drastic wage
cuts and speed-up have been estab-
lished in the steel mills, lumber
camps, etc. Misery and poverty
stalks the countryside. Diseases of
under-nourishment are rampant.
Death rates are mounting The
ruination of the masses of share
choppers and tenant farmers is 60
ing on at an unprecedented pace.
These are deserving en- masse from
the farms, increasing the unemploy-
ment and misery of the city workers.
In addition to this. the bosses are
making the most drastic encroach-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
The ScOtsbOrO Case
Vol. VIII. No. 81

Stop the legal ynching of Negro woringclass boys!
Demand trial before jury composed of workers,
at least half to be Negroes!
Equal rights of Negroes in all courts!
The National Guard is tool of the land and
capitalists
An armed volunteer guard of Negro and white workers
to defend the prisoners against these ynchers!
Landlords are melting the starving white tenantfarm
and Oppers to lynch Negroes; the ndOds and
capitalists and the Negroes starving the tenant
fl rmers both white and black
Demand immediate cash relief for starving farmers and
unemployed workers-NegOes and whites equally
Demand the cOniscation of the land fOm the landlords
for the Negro and white tenants and choppers!
Negroes can never get "jusce" in the courts of the
white capitalists and landlords!
Demand the right of self-determnaon for the Negro
people-the right to Negro state in the Black Belt!
Down with peonage jim Crowsm and persecution Of the
Negro people! For full equality!
For fighting alliance of the oppressed Negro people
and the oppressed white workers and tenant farmers!
Stop the lynching of Negro working class boys!
Death to lynchers!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15

The nine youths, none of
whom are over 20 years of age,
unanimously denounced t h e
trial as frame-up. They de-
clare that they had a fight with
seven white men on the freight train
on which they were all cumming"
their way. The white men tried to
throw them off the moving train, and
the youths vigorously defended them
selves, The white men got off the
train and had them arrested on the
fake charge of raping two girl pros
titutes with whom the white men we're
riding.
Double Crossed by Defense" Attorney
Fourteen year old Roy Wright de-
clared he had been double crossed
by Steve Roddy, of Chattanooga, one,
of the attorneys appointed by the
court to ''defend" the youths. Wright
declared Roddy distorted his testi-
mony
After sentence of death had beer
imposed, the nine boys we're removed
to Gadsen Jail on Thursday, whers
on denouncing the trial as a frame
up and demanding food they were
taken out of the bull pen" where
they we're confined, handcuffed by
twos and terribly beaten with clubs.
Bad cuts are still visible on the faces
of several.
All of the nine boys were unem-
ployed and looking for jobs except
DIN Montgomery, who was on his
way to a free county hospital to get
his eyes tested, and Charlie Weems
of Atlanta, who was on his way to a
construction job.
The 1. L. D. is taking immediate
steps to demand new trial, with
Negro workers on the jury.
May Day Demonstrations to Protest,
In the meantime working class re-
sentiment against the frame I'D and
planned legal lynching of these work
ing class youths, who we're tried and
sentenced within 48 hours and whose
execution is set for July 10, is rising
throughout the country, as the work.
ers prepare to make May Day a day
of gigantic, militant mass protests
against boss terror, against starva-
ton and continued lay-offs and wage
cuts. against the bosses preparations
for war against the Soviet Union. The
May Day demonstrations will demand
unconditional release of these framed
Negro lads, as we'll as stop to lynch
ing and deportation, and for imrne-
date relief and unemployment in
Surance.
United Front Formed in Ohio
In Cleveland, New York and several
other cities protest meetings have al
ready been held of thousands of
workers who have vigorously protested
the frame-up and death sentences
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
2 Unemployed Kill
Selves: No Food

HAGERSTOWN, Mr., April o.
Albert Baker, 46 year old unem-
ployed worker, committed suicide
here by hanging himself in a shed
at the rear Of his home. He could
not bear to see his ten children
beg for bread every day.
The police say he killed himself
because he worried over unem-
ployment."
NEW YORK-Henry Wagner,
an aged unemployed worker, killed
himself by taking gas at his home
at SO 43rd Ave, Jamaica. He could
not get work or bread.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
UNEMPLOYMENT IN GERMANY

Berlin reports state that on March
18th Germany had 100000 unem-
ployed, as compared to 3,041 900 in
March 1880, and 2,484,O00 in March,
1929. Differently than in the United
States, the German government pays
unemployment insurance, which while
inadequate, helps keep the jobless
alive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
secured from Illegal lynching.
16 Lynched This Year, Legally.

Already this year, eight Negro and
two white workers have met horrible
deaths at the hands of the bosses
lynch mobs. Only few weeks ago
six starving Negro workers we're
legally lynched in South Carolina.
This new outrage is taking place
in surroundings of the most frightful
sufferings of the masses of Negro
and white workers all over the coun-
try. In the South. particularly in
Alabama, through which runs the
Black Belt, the offensive of the white
ruling classes is taking particularly
sharp forms, due TO the slave Cd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15

Fight iynching. Fight deporta.
ton Of foreign born Elect dele
yates to your city conference for
protection Of foreign born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
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CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
IT WOULD'T DO

Il have a raging toothache.'
DO as I do and repeat one hun
dred times: Get behind me, pain"
Then I should have lumbago."-
Buen Humor. Madrid.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
AROuT TO BE

He: They tell me you stutter
when you're about to be kissed.
She: Y-y-ye-s, that's Right.
Smiths Weekly, Sydney.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
coon ADVICE

Lady ito gentleman filling up
pipe): Pipe smoking always makes
me sick.
Gentleman: Then I advise you to
give up smoking,-Vart Hem, Stock
holm.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
OUT FOR GOOD

Wife of Manager: You say my
husband is out? Where has he gone?
Office Boy: I don't know. madam.
Wife: Perhaps his secretary could
tell.
O. B.: Certainly she could. She
has gone with him.-PaSsing Show.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
MAYBE HE r TT

Fact u.s." said the one man, II mar
ried because I was lonely as much as
for any other reason. To put it terse-
ly. I married for sympathy"
Well" said the other man, you
have 1e."-Scarboro. England. Post.
Too many people think co-opera-
ton consists in going through a re-
volving door with the other fellow and
yet doing nothing to make it revolve.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
TAKEN UNAWARE

His uncle was giving him a lecture.
You modern boys want too MUCH"
he said. do you know what 1 was
getting when I married your aunt?"
mo-" replied the nephew, land I
bet you didn't either."-Pele Mele,
Paris.
UNUSUAL
They were discussing a mutual
friend.
Yes" said Bacon, II saw Fish the
other day and he was treating his
wife in a way that I wouldn't treat
a dog"
Good gracious!" said Hammond
in shocked terms. What was he do
ing?"
He was kissing her."-Answers.
ENLIGHTENING THEM
Wife: Why do you always stand
at the front door whenever I sing?
Don't you like to hear me?
Husband: It isn't that, I want the
neighbors to see that I'm not beating
my wife.-Answers.
France has one-fifth of the worlds
gold, but, of course, she won't use it
to settle her debts while brass serves
as we'll.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
NOW YOU TELL ONE
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

II want to change this can of as
paragus for some tobacco"
"Sorry, but we only change food for
food"
Then give me chewing tobacco
Kasper. Stockholm.