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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
Charlotte w orkers
Smash Race Bars;
Join Fight
Cheer Mrs. Williams
White Worker Exposes
Rape" Lies of
Bosses

CHARLOTTE, N. c., May 26.-A
fighting alliance of southern white
and Negro workers to save the lives
of the nine Scott5boro Negro boys
being railroaded to the electric chair
on fake charge of rape, was es-
tabliShed here Sunday with the pres
ence of Negro and white delegates
from 10 organizations at the local
United Front Scottsboro Defense Con-
ference. Among the organizations
represented were 3 churches, 3 mill
locals, 3 Unemployed Councils, and
the Communist Party The confer
ence was called jointly by the In
ternational Labor Defense and the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
The chief speaker and Honorary
chairman was Mrs. Williams, Mother
of 14-year-old Eugene Williams. one
of the framed-up youths. Mrs. Will
liams highly praised the LID for
rushing to the defense of the boys
against the legal lynching planned
by the Alabama bosses when other
organizations were praising the State
of Alabama for giving the boys an
orderly trial" She said;
II want to praise the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and want 10
say l am with them until ! am
dead and gone. Our boys were
being whipped and beaten until the
LID came in. I never heard Of
them before they came and looked
up us parents. They've done every
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The failure to raise $1,000 day is threaten
ing to crush the Daily Worker Pressing bills
for printing, paper. stereOtyping and other ma
terial must be met this week-but how? The
campaign to raise the $4,000 by July l that
is absolutely necessary to save the Daily Work
and safeguard it for some time in the future
has been on for exactly week, with what re-
suits? Despite our appeals, despite our
ings only $2,166 contributed thus far Instead
of $1,000 a day-the minimum needed-we have
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the SchIesingers, the John l.. LeWiSes and
every enemy of the working class?
Yet today, at this moment, the seeming I'M
possibe-the elimination of the Daily Worker
from our struggles-stands at our door. Not
only at the door of the Daily, but as we told
you yesterday, threatens many other COmmu-
mist papers which will be forced to suspend if
the Daily goes under.
Action is needed! So far the response to our
appeals though it has improved in the last
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situation if the Daily Worker should be forced
to suspend? For over seven years the Daily
Worker has been the firing line of the class
struggle. For over seven years it has been the
voice of the American working class-the only
English language workers daily in the cOun-
try. II has fought every battle of the workers
can you imagine the great struggles in the
mining, textile, needle trades industries with
out the Daily? Can you imagine the fight to
free the nine ScOttSbOrO boys without the
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)anger! Tagging Behind in Drive Is Crushing the DAILY

few days, Is far from enough The debts that
today threaten to crush the Daily must be met,
and only you meet htem. Only you, fellow
workers, of all nationalities, of all trades, black
and white and yellow, save the Daily Work
er! YOU your sh6pmates and friends must
give more than you can, you must see to it that
your organizations contribute at once! Our
Daily must be saved! Speed every cent you can
raise to the Daily Worker, so e. 18th ST., New
York City,
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HUGE SC0TISB0R0 CONF FENCES IN RLOTIE CHICAGO
The Masses Can Free Tom
Mooney and Other Political
Prisoners

TOM letter published this today answered
every worker action
the
by which concessions can be wrng from the unwilling
ruling capitalist that must be organized
Boshevk the
great
Party city
Mooney from the gaows in 1917 With such determination such
hrmness appeal class
Mooney be saved from his present living death in San Quentin
prison
Tom Mooney is but one man. but in the person of that one proe
symbohzed poeaian
prisoners being killed
Of capitalism throughout the world And when we say that Tom Mooney
working that not
only his liberty but the liberty and lives of thousands of others
and be successfully fought for by the working class
We will exception MONEYS
word "apahe and that word perhaps not his deliberate choice
workers apathec today but fast
q
history broken all capitalist countries with profoundly
disturbing
deeper abza
the stubborn capitalist economists admit that the
economic depression many Fifty
capitalist countless other millions
unemployed colonial countries The capitalist system has
the crisis that include (besides
periast Unon internal
starvation cuts and intensified slavery waged against the
working class
The unemployed increasing organization
marches together with the rising tide of strike struggles
against wage cuts and spedup are expression country
the revolutionary throughout the world Those who do
know this blind than the capitalist politicians who
hunger Greenwich Connecticut
hall with demand for food banner saying 1--WE
redhs reds The
whole world the building of
the socialist society by nation of eoooooo people the Union
Socialist Soviet Republics breaking the slavih
onceeared and supeitousy worshipped capitalist slavery
Versailles
the Plan
which
orng the bodies of thousands of working class political prisoners
imprisons admittedly
Billings which the Imperial Valley strike
imperialism which condemns the electric chair Negro
from 10 20 blood sacrifice its Jim
salst domination.
organize
experiencing almost directly blood
sucking corruption of imperialism
The time favorable for such drive The working
ready for becoming Not
apathy,
task of the workers revolutionary Party.
MONEYS the working
Soviet
land OF its origin the struggle the fascist agents
capanst CLASS ana against capitalist Itself
with
unaoiated with
distinctive features that
which
weak in organized action fail
with the fight Mooney Billings
pial Valley Schmidt MacNamara, Centraa prisoners
sosboro Negro boys and the hundreds others
Invisible of it and the
energetic building OF the revolutionary
already
forward of the
fascist leadership building
of
for
pushed ahead at full speed.
capitalist ruling fearful
by the babblng those capitalism
and
revolutionary CAPT.
workers. Fight Mooney and all Of omr
class prisoners, -,s s--,
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FIGHT TO SAVE 9 BOYS
SPREADS OVER COUNTRY;
MASSES RALLY TO DEFENSE
.2S5 DELEGATES
AT CHICAGO CONF.
Block Committees Raj
ly Masses

CHICAGO. May 26.-Two hundred
and eighty-fiye delegates, represent
ing 1872 Negro and white organiza-
tions with collective membership Of
over &c. 05g, attended the local United
Front Scottsboro Defense Conference
here on Sunday. The Forum Hall, at
1913 E. 43rd St, was packed to capa-
CITY with delegates and hundreds OF
visitors. The conference was unani-
mously voted the biggest in Chicago
in years.
Among the organizations repre-
scented were t8 Negro churches, Is
,egro clubs ana lodges and IT
unions
Tremendous enthusiasm greeted
the reports of Ed Williams, local
secretary of the League Of Struggle
or Negro Rights, and William Brow
der, district secretary Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, on the work
done so far in the courts and in
mobilizing the masses in the fight to
save the lives of the nine Negro boys
being railroaded to the electric chair
by the Alabama landlords and CAPT.
talists on a fake charge of raping
two white girls.
Cheer Telegram from ScOttsbOrO
Parent.
This was followed by still greater
outburst of enthusiasm at the read
ing of telegram from Claude Pat
terson of Chattanooga, father OF
Andy and Roy, two of the framed-up
lads, greeting the conference and
praising the work of the 1. L. D. in
the fight to smash the legal lynch
ing.
About 20 speakers, mostly Negroes,
took the floor. The sentiment of the
Negro workers was expressed by one
in the following statement:
This is the first time we knew
of this wonderful fight that is be-
ing carried on to save these limo
cent boys and against lynching.
We will do our best to help"
Scores n. A. A. &. r. Leaders.
The treacherous cooperation o
the leadership of the NJ A. A. G. P
with the Southern boss lynchers II
their attack on the fight to save thu
boys was sharply repudiated by sew
eral speakers representing stront
Negro organizations.
There was stormy applause when
Emil Gardos, speaking for the
Communist Party, called for a
fighting alliance of colored and
white workers in the fight to smash
the legal lynching and against the
Negro reformist misleaders who
hamstringing the defense.
Mr.. Tilford, a Negro newspape
man, told the conference that tn
leaders of the Negro reformist pres
and organizations had betrayed tn
boysl
1.-THE Negro race owes thanks 10
Communists. Rally behind them
despite all"
Exposes Oscar DePriest.
Miss Patricia Sharpe of the Uniol
Tabernacle Church sharply expose
the traitor, Oscar DePriest, an
called AL common people to unit
against the enemy rich class"
Comrade Rulis, editor Of the Wins
stressed the necessity Of unity of tn
foreign born and Negro workers Il
the fight against special persecution
Comrade Matheson OF the Trad
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Daily? Can you imagine the fight for the
Paterson five, for Tom Mooney, for the I'm
perial Valley and Centralia boys without the
Daily? Can you imagine the struggle for So
cial insurance, against starvation, against i'm
perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet
Union without the Daily?
Can you imagine any struggle of the work
ing class without the Daily Worker leading it,
organizing it, fighting all the time, hated and
feared by the Fishes, the VOLS, the Hllquts,
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received less Than S5UU day.
The appearance of the Daily Worker yester-
day and today has been made possible only by
the response to long distance telephone calls
sent to Chicago Cleveland, Detroit, PhiladeI-
phia and Boston. But what will happen today?
Will there be a Daily tomorrow? Will there
be a Daily during these coming critical weeks
when the workers of this country need it so
badly in their struggles?
Comrades, have you ever tried to picture the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27

DETROIT, Mich, May 25.-The
mass response of the workers and
poor farmers of Western Michigan to
the hunger march now on the way
to Lansing to demand relief for the
unemployed has been such as to
arouse great enthusiasm among the
marcherS.
At Wayland five hundred workers
turned out to greet the vanguard
of the Michigan unemployed march
ing on the state legislature. Seven
hundred toWnsmen lined the streets
of Plainwell and showed their SYM
pathy with the marchers.
At Kalamazoo a crowd estimated
at 1000 was at hand to greet the
marchers and give them a send-off
Battle Creek, home of the infamous
speed-up Kellogg Corn Flakes Fac
tory, witnessed mass turnout Of
5000 workers.
Food, money and gasoline we're
freely donated by the workers in all
these towns. The city governments
in each instance refused to lodge,
feed or assist the hunger marchers.
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Ill. Hunger Marchers To Go
To Capital To Put Demands

CHICAGO I-Placng their demands for immediate cash
relief for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed and their
families Illinois, the Illinois state hunger march will march
into the state legislature at Springfield Monday June 18th
The day previous will be occupied with the formulation of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
5000 OUT
NSEND-OFFIN
KALAM AGO.
Masses Turn Out to
Cheer, Welcome the
Hunger Marchers
BULLETIN.

OWOSSO, Mich., May 26.-The
Detroit section of the Michigan
Hunger March was forced back by
the entire police force of Flint, the
General Motor town. Gas and &C.
ment trucks blocked the road and
the police were fully mobilized with
guns and black jacks against the
,narchers. The marchcrs arrived
at Owosso. Michigan, demanded
and received food from the city ad-
ministration. The marchers will
reach Lansing at : p. m. tonight.
PONTIAC, Mich.-Oyer 5000
auto workers, including many un-
employed, demonstrated at City
Hall in a Send-off for the State
Hunger March on Lansing. The
workers showed their militant sup
port of the demands for immedi-
ate relief of the unemployed at the
demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
SAN QUENT IN PRISON
California
Nay IL, 1881
Dear comrade:

Fully rea1zin
In
minority to give their efforts
The Comrades Workers
spirit
knowth
the
United Front of 1abors forces in this fight
te,
xacted that recipient Will
without saying pamphlets
and the
at and
of
and will thereof
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The Daily Worker is your paper. II
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save it. Collect funds from
friends and shopmates
and rush to 35 Z. 18th
St., N. Y. c.
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ON Mooney
Molders' Defense Committee
Robert Minor
FORMED BY MEMBERS or
MoLpERs UNION NO.
P. o. Box I475
San Francisco

Robsrt Minor
Editor, The Daily Worker
New York City
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The Washington times., 1931-01-22
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
Society Rallies in Support
of Bal Boheme of Arts Club

More than ever before, the Bal Be-
heme of the Arts Club of washington
is creating q tremendous interest
throughout the city in all social and
art groups of the Capital The 1881
Bal Boheme will take place at the VIII
lard Hotel Monday evening. February
2. in reality, but atmospherically it win
be staged in the Court of King LOoney
XIII, ION the Moon" with visiting am
bassadors and representatives OF the
greater and lesser planets much in ev-
idence throughout the high ceremonies
incident to the occasion.
The Bal Boheme Office in the base
ment of the Arts Club, at 2015 street,
is busy place, taking orders for tick
cts and reservations for boxes for this
gala event of the Winter season here.
Mrs. John E. Gaynor, who for several
years has presided over the assignment
of boxes at the Bal Boheme Is again in
service this year, while Mrs. John Otto
johnson, who was chairman of last
years successful Bal is chairman of
tickets.
The book for the spectacle-or the
big stunts ready for the action of
the Executive Committee, headed by
william F. Baker, which will meet at
the Arts Club Tuesday evening of this
week, January 6, at half past 8 o'clock,
to consider matters in connection with
the casting and assembling OF the play
ers of important roles in the event,
which always takes the form of lurefu
pageantry and masque.
The poster contest, which opened in
December, will close January 10, and
all posters must be in the hands of the
committee, headed by Mrs. Louise
Rochon Hoover, on or before that date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
Mount Pleasant Chapter
Announces Annual Fete

The annual dance and card party
of Mount Pleasant Chapter, No. "a,
Order of the Eastern Star, will be held
Friday evening, January %, at the New
Shoreham Hotel
The event is being sponsored by tbs
following past matronS and past
patrons of the chapter: Mr.. and Mrs.
Coleman Champion, Mrs. Clarence
Keiser, Mr.. and Mrs. Noble LArner,
Mr.. Charles Morgan, jr.; Mr.. Edward
Swan, Mr.. George Smith, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Sherman, Mrs. Charles Taylor,
Mr.. Ralph Wolfe, Mrs. Sarah Williams
ard Mrs. Helen Everett.
The dancing will start with q grand
march led by Miss Mildred Woodcock,
worthy matron Of the chapter, and Mr.
Charles Taylor, the worthy patron.
Tables are being reserved for many
of the members Of the chapter who
will entertain at bridge during the
course of the evening.
Mr.. Alfred Sherman Is chairman Of
the committee in charge of all arrange
ments and is being assisted by COM
mittee of 20 members of the chapter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

The wording on the posters has been
changed by the Executive Committee to
read: ARTS Club Bal Boheme, The
willard. February 3D." but in all cases
where the posters have been completed
and delivered, the committee will accept
them for the contest, and the words
ARTS Club" viii be added.
The judges for the prizes are Mr..
James w. Harley, Mr.. James Rotto Mr..
Grin F. Baliou, Mrs. Duncan Phillips
and Miss Eleanor Parke Gusts.
Following the announcement of the
prize winners in the 1881 poster contest
the original posters will be displayed
throughout the city, announcing the
ball.
The Costume Committee, comprising
Miss Harriet Garrels, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hammond Hoyt, and Mr.. F. Shepard
Taylor, will be glad to assist all persons
DESTROYS of obtaining information re-
garding the last word in apparel to
be worn ION the moon" although it is
needless to say all kinds of fancy dress
will be worn by the hundreds Of persons
on the ball room floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
Girl Scouts Planning
For Spring Festival,
Opening on April 81
District Organization. Hav-
ing Mrs. Hoover as Hon
Orary Commissioner, to
Entertain on Elaborate
Scale.

The Board Of the Girl Scouts of the
District of Columbia, incorporated, Mrs.
Herbert Hoover, honorary commits
aioner, with the expressed interest and
cooperation Of the International Girl
Scouts Organization, will present in
Washington q great Spring festival
during the week beginning April 81 at
Constitution Hall
The Board of the Girl Scouts in
missioner; Mrs. b. r. Cheatham, first
deputy commissioner; Mrs. Arson
Phelps Stokes, second deputy commiss
sioner: Mrs. Frederick Atherton, third
deputy commissioner; Mrs. Earl w.
Chasee, recording secretary; Mrs. VIII
liam Mckee Dunn, corresponding Sec
rotary; Mrs. Monte Appel, treasurer;
Mrs. Harris Franklin, assistant treasurer,
and Mrs. Frederick II. Brooke, Mrs.
Henry II. Father, Mrs. Amos Fries, Mrs
Theodore Wilkinson, Mrs. George Scri-
ben, Mrs. Samuel D. Sturgis, Mrs. T.
Turner Smith.
It Is hoped, according to Mrs Gerrit
8. Miller, tr., commissioner of the Girl
Scouts, that this will become an annual
affair and viii be a worthwhile factor
In the development Of the Girl Scout
movement. both nationally and inter-
nationally. The festival viii be unique
gtratiOn of international cooperation.
It will present the dancing, music and
the art Of four countries in four
major scenes and will present the peo-
pies Of many countries in the finale.
The State Department has expressed
its interest in this festival, and four
countries have been invited to present
major scenes in the spectacle. These
countries are Mexico, Japan, Canada
and CZechoslovakia.
Already over 800 of the leaders Of the
city have volunteered their services In
this enterprise and are going to give
their entire time to make it a success.
The ofacial beginning of production ac-
6vities viii be at meeting to be held
at the Carlton Hotel the night Of jan
uAry z at 1880 O'Clock At this
meeting will be present the Board Of
Directors of the Girl Scouts Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, Inc; the production
STAFF, the promotion staff and all of the
participants who have been chosen 50
far in the dancing, singing and dra-
matte groups.
The Executive Board OF the Girl
Scouts announces that the general
chairman of the special Executive Board
being created for the purpose Of carry
ing out this enterprise is Mrs. John
Allan Dougherty. Her name is synony-
nous with achievement In all types Of
large civic and charitable affairs. She
VIII return from Chicago soon and will
complete the formation Of her Executive
Board. This board will be composed of
leading personalities Of the city and
they will be announced in the near
future.
The producers Of the great spectacle
will be the Duf1eld & Triner organi-
cation of Chicago, af1liated with the
Thearle- Duf1eld Corporation, the largest
producers Of feature creations in the
world The production viii be under
the general direction Of Chalmers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

Brooks Fithian, who for many years has
been nationally known as an outstand-
ing director in the realm Of artistic
SpectacleS. Mr.. Fithian maintains his
Office at the Roosevelt Hotel. Mrs. Helen
Ray Hagner has been appointed the
promotional director for the enterprise.
Under her leadership will be managers
of publicity, speakers, exploitation and
sales and the staff secretary. This
group, with the 200 or more assistants,
will comprise the promotional staff.
Mr.. Kurt Hetzel, as musical director
on the production staff, Is another well
known Washingtonian and enjoys the
confidence of musical Washington. His
task will be the organization of male
chorus of SO voices, women's chorus
Of rs voices, a children's chorus Of 80
voices and mixed chorus of 200 voices.
He will also select and cast over 20
soloists in principal singing roles in the
production. Mr.. Hetzel has been doing
intensive research work on the musical
setting for the production and all music
used in the various scenes will be au-
thentic and typical of the countries that
the music represents.
Among those who have already been
given parts in the cast of this produc-
ton are Misses Harriet Anderson,
Laura Barley, Catherine Berry. Mary
Stuart BirdSall, Clara Boiling, Mary p
Bradley, Eleanor Calvert, Margaret
Calvert, Jane Crosby, June Cushing,
Betty Edison, Lillian Emory, Virginia
Glazebrook, Rosa Hayes, Mary Ingra-
ham Henry, Jane McHarg, Margene
Musser. Isabel Perry, Sallie Hews
Phillips, Betty de Beauvais Richards,
Lucille Swift, Marjorie Talman, Suzanne
Wallace and Betty West.
1t is expected that Mrs. John Allan
Dougherty will be in Washington to
present the notables that will constitute
her Executive Board at the meeting
Wednesday at the Carlton Hotel
Participation in the pageant in any
department is by invitation only.