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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

years Now they want to be good to
me by not deporting me, or because
I still have some more energy to give
to them.
They closed me in a prison for two
months, where the eatable food was
only boiled potatoes and where I
could never see a ray of sunlight,
but only damp air, same as thou
sands of other toilers. And for
many workers who are closed in there
for deportation, smelling the swampy
air of the Hudson River-the treat
ment there is not different from that
of a New York flophouse, which you
all know. The only difference is
that if you got some money then
you can buy something different,
that is, not boiled potatoes. You
know they cannot lose their habit
to speculate even on human misery,
they don't even let you rest in the
night time, as those wards keep on
inspecting the rooms always, but :.
they're afraid of losing their job
Some job!
Not Permitted to Speak.
We cannot speak to anybody while
we are eating. They give us only ten
minutes. but they are afraid to lose
their jobi Do you need doctor?
Yes, was the answer one night of
man who was with me for less
than two weeks. He was very sick,
as his stomach, ulcerized by the star
walton, bothered him more than
usual; he could not eat the food,
without nutrition and spicy, allowed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
Send Funds for Ads, Greetings
Immediately for May 1 Issue;
Red Builders Activity GroevS

Only two weeks remain for Party
members and sympathizers to make
a thorough canvass, of workers homes
and workers organizations for greet
ings and advertisements for the May
Day edition of the Daily Worker.
This year it is doubly important that
great masses of workers be reached
for participation in May demon
strations, and the Daily Worker
must prepare to print thousands of
extra copies for this purpose. May
Day greetings from individual work.
ers lat rs cents a name) and ads
from mass organizations, accOmpa-
MED by liberals sums, should pour
into the office without further de-
lay. Every Party member, sympa-
thetic worker and reader, is also
urged to secure as many ads from
dealers as possible at 81 per column
inch.
Every remover opens a new account
if he subscribes before May /. These
are the terms to stimulate the drive
for 1000 new yearly subscriptions or
renewals by May Day, in order to
put the Daily Worker on more solid
financial basis and to insure its con-
tinuance in printing.
Red Builders Pick Up.
Baltimore, Md, Red Builders break
a months silence, announcing re-
organization. Eight members now
functioning. A. Colbe, secretary, con-
fesses:
1--WE fell asleep for a while. One
of our best sellers, COmrade Davis,
got job. Then there was lot of
bad weather and our sellers were
afraid to wet their toes (you see,
the toes are sticking out of the
shoes)."
We synpathize. Sales have i'm
proved, partly due, we think, to the
fact that NOW the Club passed a
motion" No checkers allowed be-
tween IL to p. m. Violators will
be expelled and ostracized. Colbe,
Thomas, Brown, Williams, Holloway
Hynes, Scott, McCallum now COM
prise the club, receiving 200 a day.
Going to have a blowout Saturday,
April IS, at 9 S. Greene ST." With
present regeneration the Club should
spread out beyond street corners and
tackle factory gates, metal plants,
mail order houses, not forgetting to
issue a leaflet drawing others into the
Club.
On the JOb-Rain or Shine.
bad weather" offers best oppor-
tunity for horlse-to house sub can
wasting, and suggest this to Balti-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
Kiagly Takes Sides With Floor Scraping Sub
Contractors Against the Floor Scrapers

see that Mr.. Kaigly is helping these
Jumpers to organize in an association
to protect them by making them all
unoin men.
Mr.. Kaigly is also supporting and
helping the Jumpers to cut our wages.
Where the union scale is 1920 Con
paper, the men are working for ST
day and down. We came across
a certain handscraper that was sent
out to scrape borders on a one fam-
lily house in Flushing. He made only
SO day. Deducting 40 cents for
car-fare, his wages amounted to
$3.50 a day.
This is the situation that the par
quet floor scrapers are faced with
We have TO fight the Jumpers and
the big bosses, who are supported by
the carpenters union and Mr.. Kiagly.
We, the parquet floor scrapers, have
formed an organization of all ma
chine scrapers and hand scrapers, to
force the District Council:
Cd The immediate abolishing of
all Jumpers in the parquet floor in
dustry.
90 To enforce union conditions
and union scale Of $500 a day on
every job.
CD To strike against wage-cuts
and blacklisting Of members of our
organization.
1t is the duty of every scraper to
go into a fighting organization of
this kind and to fight the Jumpers,
the big bosses and the N. Y. Dis
trict Council, with Mr.. Kiagly at
its head. j. O.
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2. Education and Child Labor.
3. Child Marriage.

The International Secretariat OF
the League Against Imperialism is
planning a campaign of exposure
against this hypocritical maneuver
and urges the African organizations,
in particular, to Immediately for
ward to its Berlin offices, "a, Fried
richstrasse, Berlin SW-48, Germany,
very carefully prepared documents
showing the real effect Of imperial
list exploitation and oppression upon
the child population of Africa. A
copy should also be sent as a pro-
test to the Save the Children Inter-
national Union, 331 Quai du Mont
Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland.
The League points out that All
the missionary, pllilanthropic and
other organizations supporting this
conference have the backing of the
various imperialist governments in
whose interest sione the conference
is being convened. 1t is necessary for
us to point out that the only inter-
est that the imperialist governments
have in saving" the children of
Africa is to obtain cheap labor for
the exploitation of the resources of
that vast continent. 1t is also clear
that an attempt will be made at Ge-
neva to make out that the rule of
the white man is necessary to save
the African children. For this pur-
pose they will point to child marriage
and other native customs as being the
real cause Of the high infantile NOR
tally.
The League, Against Imperialism
and for National Independence is one
of the organizations carrying on q
revolutionary struggle for national
independence for all oppressed ma
tionalities and subject peoples in
Africa, Asia, West Indies, etc. 1t has
affiliations throughout the world and
is one of the instruments through
which the white workers in the inn
perialist countries are being mobil-
lied for support of the revolution
airy struggles of the colonial peoples.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
PREPARE MAY DAY
IN SOVIET UNION
FOR 5-YEAR PLAN
Factories Organizing
Shock Brigades

+ MOSCOW. - Preparations for the
May First celebrations have COM
menced- in Moscow, under the slo:
gans: Fulfilment of the production
plan of the, third and the decisive
year of the Five-Year Plan, struggle
against war danger, international
education of the workers.
In many factories shock brigades
with the name "Mayday" are being
formed. In view of the fact that
the May First and the second ami
versary of the socialist competition
movement fall at the same time,
there will be a shock brigade review
in the works and factories. The May
Day celebrations have ben legally
fixed to extend over the 1st and End
of May On these two days mass
entertainments will be given every
where in Moscow. All the theatres,
cinemas, and circuses in Moscow give
free performances for the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

and Indian towns and villages
where the rising pr0letariat is
bringing to account the imperialist
vuitureS and their hirelings, the
Chang Kai-sheks and Gandhis.
The masses of China are gaining
steady victories, though STEPPED in
blood of thousands of working class
martyrs, ready and willing to lay
down their lives for their class. The
growing influence of the Indian
Communist Party is responsible for
the unmasking of the present mis-
leadership. The Indian masses are
beginning to recognize the true role
of Gandhi and Co, as enemies of
the toiliug masses"
The eight Imperial Valley prison.
erS call upon the International La
Dor Defense and all militant organ
izattons to demonstrate on May Day
against the fascist terror which aims
to crush the revolutionary leadership
of the masses" The statement con-
tinueS:
"The LID with all other revolu-
tionary defense sections of the
world will on May Day join the rest
OF the tOilers in the mobilization
for the coming bitter struggles. On
that day the lid will fuse yet closer
the bonds that unite the revolution
airy fighter in jails and prisons with
the struggling masses outside. 1t
will lead the masses towards bring
ing to a definite stop the lynch
ing and jim crowism against the
black masses, the deportation of the
foreign born workers and the re-
lease of all fighters now behind
the bars"
The greetings from the prisoners
end with q challenge that on May
First the workers of the world Will
serve notice upon the ruling class:
In the United States the work
ers will follow on May Day in the
footsteps of the International Pro-
letariat. The numberless millions
of unemployed viii on this day
serve notice upon the American
bosses that they will no longer
starve-they will fight for the right
to live, for bread and work."
Long Live May Day! Long Live
the U.S.S.R.! Long Live the World
proletariat!"
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Negro Boy Writes
Mother From Jail
Ask Fight For Life
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

a week for working night and day
in a white folks" home. So Andy
and Roy Haywood, who palled to-
gether, decided to go to Memphis to
look for work. Andy's aunt lived
there and she would support them
until they would perhaps find jobs.
So they hoped a freight headed
in that direction. Then came the
arrests.
The nine youths are in constant
danger Of being lynched. Their food
and bedding is not fit for pigs. The
bosses newspapers are all excited
that they dare raise their voices
against being electrocuted for a
crime they did not commit and on
the word of two notorious prosti-
tutes.
From investigation in the neigh
borhood I learned that the two white
girls, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates,
are well known as prostitutes in that
section, where they have piled their
trade for number Of years.
Andy's mother, her eyes red from
weeping, showed me this letter from
the Scottsboro jail:
"Why 1 am sitting down, think
ing of no one but you, mama.
"They didn't give me a fair trial.
They are going to kill us for moth
ing. You know / would not do a
thing like that. They got me all
for nothing.
when they move me / will write
back to you.
From your son. ANDY.
"Scottsboro, Ala"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
MAY
LIN ALL us. CITIES

Intense May Day preparations are
going on all over the United States.
United Front May Day conferences
have been held in many cities, pre-
pairing the basis for a mass struggle
against unemployment and wage
cuts; for unemployment insurance
and for the Defense of the Soviet
Union.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Widespread prep
arations are being made by the work
ing class organizations here for the
May Day demonstration. Speakers
that appear before organizations are
greeted enthusiastically. When the
May Day committee appeared before
the Brotherhood of Maintenance of
Way Local No. 1929 the membership
enthusiastically supported the dele
cation as against the representative
of the District Council who tried to
scare the membership that these del
egates are Reds, etc.
Workers Expose AFL Jim Crow
This local is a Negro local and the
membership threw in the face OF the
representative of the district council
that when they had a banquet Or
ganized some two months ago, the
members of Local No. 1927 were eject
ed from the hall, although it was
organized by the Maintenance of Way
locals of which they are part.
Conference Held on April 10, PM.
All delegates that have been
elected are asked to send in their
credential to the May Day Commit
tee, 1901 Franklin Ave. We also an
peal to all working class organiza-
tons to raise finances in order to
beable to issue sufficient leaflets for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

morians; also to Michael Petruska,
Cleveland, Ohio, whose selling point
is the Public Square. Utilize rainy
days for building delivery routes,
talking to workers families, ac-
quainting them with revolutionary
unions, unemployed councils, thereby
doing more for the movement than
getting rain-soaked and pneumonia.
Fred G. Hunt, Jamestown, N. Y, uses
bad weather as an explanation for
mot being able to get out, having
the papers pile up on our hands"
Plenty of unemployed workers and
their families to canvass in James,
town, too, Fred, rain or shine. How
ever, glad you're taking steps, via
conference to put Daily on stable
basis. Toledo, Ohio, organizes a Red
Builders Club "tO increase the cir
culstion in this section" Clark Har-
rington writes: Gall sellers, CORE
spondents we're present. City was
divided into different sections for
work. Raise of 40 made in bundle
order"
Good example of Daily as Or
ganizer is seen in Bethlehem, Pa,
where, according to R. W., "an Or
ganizational committee of unem-
ployed workers, several women work.
ers, Negro and young workers, num-
bering between 10 and Is, was formed
in a home in the same neighborhood
we've been concentrating on with
Dailies. They expect a regular Daily
Worker agent in charge as soon as
this committee is formed for this
neighborhood unemployed council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

by the immigration authorities. But
the doctors! Ahl That huunanitary
service, however they call it, that
man was there not to be cured, but
to be deported. The doctor, him,
the member of the humanitary SER
vice, could do nothing for him Z.
that man is still there, and is still
sick. Will they finish to insult our
misery and even our spiritual indie
pendence by making us believe that
they are taking care of us with their
sweetly hypocritical, cynical pre-
sumptions faces and voices?
And then cautiously keeping away
and making us die if in case we
really need something? If in case
we really need some assistance?
Damned, how can those authorities
be all the same? What the hell,
they do not want any trouble in TAX
ing care of us toilers. Their duty is
only to make the racket and graft
on our name. We got to be taken
care of by our own authorities and
fight and supported by those who
don't wait for us to die before giving
us any relief with the excuse of in
vestigating things that they never in
Vestigated. They just want us to die
so we won't be able to trouble them
any more after they have weakened
our physical and moral system and
speculated on our health in shop
speeding-up, too many hours of
work, small pays and high living
standard.
An Italian Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
TlIPERIALISTS HOLDING FAKE
MEET ON AFRICAN CHILDREN
AT GENEVA DURING JUNE
League Against Imperialism Calls On Negro
Organizations to Aid in Exposing Deceit
full Gesture of OppressOrs
Missionary Lackeys Behind Move Have Back
ing Of Imperialist Governments and Will
Defend White Mans Rule in Africa

BERLIN, April 9.-The League
Against Imperialism and for National
Independence has sent communica-
tons to a number Of Negro organiza-
tons in Africa and the United States
exposing a fake International confer
ence on African children to be held
in Geneva, from the 22nd to the 25th
Of June, 1881. The conference is call
ed by an imperialist agency parading
under the deceitful name Of the Save
the Children Union. The agenda pro-
posed for the conference is as fol-
lows;
l, Tnfantile mortality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:
We were a group of four parquet
floor scrapers. We are members in
the carpenters union that went up
to the N. Y. District Council of Car
penterS and Joiners of America to
complain that the sub contractors,
or, as we call them, Jumpers" in the
parquet floor, machine scraping in
dustry are continuously cutting our
wages and that they have black
listed us on account of belonging to-
an organization that was founded by
the parquet floor workers scrapers.
Make Demands.
This complaint was told to Mr..
Kiagly, the president of the District
, Council, and we also told Mr.. Kiagly
That we are all family men, in that
I'VE have children to support. We
asked him to put us on to work for
"a couple of days on certain Jobs
Evhere there is floor-scraping, and
ywkere we know that the men work.
ing there did not get union wages.
Mr.. Kaigly told us that he can't do
anything to the Jumpers, because
these people have invested money in
machinery, and, # you can't get any
work, get out of the line!
We told Mr.. Kaigly that it is
against the constitution of the Car
penters' District Council that lump
ers or sub-contractors exist in the
trade. He told us that those lump
ers are all union men, that they
carry cards and you can't prove they
are Jumpers. Now, we can clearly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
CALUMET SECTION
Mobiles MARCH
Gary Jobless Councils
Hold Mass Meetings

GARY, Ind, April Interpretations
for the Indiana Hunger March are
going ahead full speed in the Calu-
met section. The unemployed coun-
ellis of Gary, Hammond and Indiana
Harbor are holding mass meetings
and pushing work to build the coun-
ellis and rally the unemployed and
employed workers. The delegates will
be elected by the councils and then
endorsed at the May Day demon
strations. Many Negro workers will
take part.
The plan calls for an auto caravan
of ten cars leaving the Calumet sec
ton on May 2, and passing through
Michigan City, Elkhart, Fort Wayne,
Huntington, Marion, Anderson, and
then to indianapolis. Stops will be
made in each city to hold meetings,
distribute literature, and make con-
nections. A squad is going out next
week to distribute leaflets announc-
ing the coming of the hunger march,
ers, and calling upon all workers and
farmers to join in.
Cut Off Relief.
The delegations will reach Indian
apolis Sunday evening, May 3, and
take part in a demonstration before
the governors office on Monday.
Their demands will be that Governor
Leslie Immediately act to provide the
counties with money for immediate
relief of the starving thousands Of
Indiana unemployed. All the coun-
ties of the state are cutting down
on the miserable SIS a month in
groceries now handed out. Soup
Kitchens are closing. The marchers
will also demand tllaI The govern
ment pay the rent of unemployed
workers, pay gas, light and water
bills, furnish meals and milk for the
children, and pay unemployment in
surance Of SIS week to every I'M
employed worker out of taxes on the
rich.
Local Struggle.
The demand which is being fought
for most by the unemployed councils
OF the Calumet section is for S25 a
month in cash TO be paid imme-
diately to every unemployed worker.
This demand is getting wide support
by those who are sick of starving on
the miserable rotten groceries now
being handed out. The councils are
also presenting particular cases to
the Township Trustees and demand
ing immediate relief for them. Many
workers now get relief who were
formerly refused The councils also
forced the politicians to reveal the
fact that grocers were overcharging
tn unemployed workers. Shifting the
blame from themselves the officials
threaten to arrest some of the
grocerS.
A dance and social will be held
Saturday night at the new Central
Workers Hall, 18th and Jefferson.
auspices of the Gary UNEMPLOYED
Council. This dance will be for the
purpose of raising money for the
State Hunger March. Every worker
should attend. Admission 25 cents.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
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cross ties just as the freight was pull
ling out of Chattanooga, They were
on this car until taken off at Paint
Rock. Their car was near the end
of the 40 car freight. They noticed
several others on the train, including
six or seven white boys on one of the
first cars, but saw no fight and no
attack.
Saw Fight Between Colored and
White Men.
DIN Montgomery of Monroe, Geor-
gia, who had been staying with a
cousin in Chattanooga, caught this
train to go to a free clinic in Mem
phis, He is suffering from serious
eye trouble. He got on an oil tank
and was on it until taken off at Paint
Rock.
Ozzie Powell was also riding by
himself and knew nothing until
hauled off the train by the white
mob.
The four boys from Chattanooga,
Roy Wright, and his brother Andy,
Haywood Patterson, and Eugene Will
liams had been friends for years, were
all unemployed, and decided to seek
jobs ON the river boats at Memphis.
They got on an oil car together near
the end of the train. AS the train
was leaving Stevenson, Ala, moving
slowly, they saw twelve or fourteen
colored men and six or seven white
men fighting on a car near the front
Of the train. The white men were
forced off the train.
AS the train slowed down for
grade between Stevenson and Paint
Rock the 10 or IA colored men also
got off. Being completely innocent
of any crime, none of them made any
attempt to leave the train and we're
sitting on the same tank car they
had boarded in Chattanooga when
the train was surrounded by heav-
lily armed mob at Paint Rock.
Girls At First Denied Boys Attacked
Them.
The nine boys, the only Negroes
left on the train at that time, were
brought together and shown to the
two girls, Victoria Price and Ruby
Bates, who at the time declared that
none of these nine boys had done
anything to them. Only under press
sure of the lynch mob in Scottsboro
did the girls finally agree to accuse
them of rape, being prodded especial
ly by the state solicitor, who kept
saying, GO ahead and say they did
it; that boy attacked you, didn't
hep" etc.
Boys Beaten To Force Confessions.
The nine youths were beaten twice
in the Gadsden jail before the trial
in efforts to extract Confessions" In
spite Of lying reports given out by
the sheriff to the capitalist press, no
confessions were made. The nine
also refused to follow the advice of
the crooked boss lawyers appointed to
defend them to plead guilty and
beg for life Imprisonment.
On the night of the first day of
the tial, befoe any of the defendants
had testified, Clarence Norris, who
turned states witness. was taken into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
Sacramento Worker Victim of Cheap Graft

The next day the worker did a
days work and was told by the
foreman that his job was done and
there was no more work to be had.
He gave the worker So for the day,
out of which he took 81 as an en-
trance fee for insurance, leaving
the worker 81, which was used to
get him back to Sacramento.
All workers, demonstrate against
such graft and fight for unem-
ployment insurance.
"A WORKING FOOL
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Detroit Prepares.

DETROIT, Mich.--On April 10
united front May Day conference will
be held here at 1343 E. Ferry, where
all workers organizations are urged
to send delegates. There will be a
mass open-air demonstration and
parade on May I, beginning at 1890
p, m. The parade will start at Ferry
and Russell and at p. m. there
will be a demonstration at Grand
Circus Park, In the evening at
7:30 p. m. there will be a mass in
door meeting, concert and celebra-
ton at Danceland Auditorium.