The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-11
Dollar Journalism
in Europe
By J. LOUIS ENGDAHI4.

TtiE two American newspapers, the New York
L Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Tribune,
maintain editions issued in Paris characteristics
OF collar journalism.
One of the biggest news stories in Europe to-
day for the American masses is the tremendous
response to the appeal of the Scottsboro Negro
moCher Ada =. 1ght, not only for the lives Of
her own two s,..s, but for all the Scottsboro
NegAo boys.
LurokeGn labor laised the Scottsboro demand
On May FIRST and again Oh May z, Scottsboro
duy, in the face lot Police attacks resulting in
deaths Wounus, arrests When the Scottsporo
mother arrived in hamburg, the Social-Demo-
cratic police denied her the right to speak in
that city and threw police guard around the
American embassy in Berlin. In fascist Hungary,
young workers have raised the cry for the lib
Grafton OF TIE ScoC,sbo4o boys before the Amer
lean embassy in Budapest In Vienna, the Amer
lean ambassador is the invited guest Of the
social democracy at the opening Of the munich
pal housing project dedicated TO George WASH
ngton, but is compelled to listen to workers de-
nlanding the release Of the Scottsboro boys,
leaflets are scattered carrying the same demand.
and the police claimed the dollar ambassador in
flight had his automobile stoned and there are
20 arrests.
This growing upheaYaI of European labor,
boys, acclaimng the ScottSboro Negro mother
wherever she goes, does not. exist for the Pari-
sian boulevard editions of Wall Streets mouth
pieces in New York and Chicago.
To tell the truth would be to unmask the
European capitalist allies of lynch mob justice
in the United States especially the European
social democracy, the socialists of Germany,
Czecho-Slovaka, Austria, Switzerland, France,
in year when floods of social demagogy are
being let loose in the United States in the effort
to hold the working class voters for the parties
OF capitalism, including the American Socialist
Party that has again nominated the preacher
the Reverend Norman Thomas. as its candidate
for president.
Much was said about Mothers Day but
nothing about the Scottsboro mother. The big
gest story is not the fight for the living Negro
children but the finding of the dead Lindbergh
baby. Columns and pages are devoted to the /
military reception given by Wall Streets army +
heads in Paris to the so-called Gold Star
Mothers, the victims of dollar imperialism's
participation in the last world war. But there
are Negro mothers in this delegation The
race line is sharply drawn as if no Negro worker
victims fell in the world war
The Negro mother crossing the, Atlantic to
build the unity of labor in its struggle against
class and national oppression, and the response
she has received, far oustr1ps in significance, in
fact comparisons become odious, with the cross.
ing by airplane of Amelia Earhart. Yet the
latter becomes the center of an avalanche Of
publicity.
1t has remained fol the Paris edition of the
New York Herald, however, to start discus
sion on what self-styled mothers" of pet dogs
should do at the cinen1as. The original contribu-
ton started off with this paragraph
THE other night at cinema I had the most
annoying experience. always go everywhere
accompanied by my child Can adorable peking-
ese) and the film was absolutely ruined for me
by the barking of the other dogs" and concluded
with, "even when we returned home, my pet
was SO upset by the vulgarities of the intruders
at the cinema that he kept me up all night"
Side by side, however, with this discussion,
there is the parallel acclaim that is supposed to
have greeted an editorial calling for "Fascsn1
In America" This is dollar journalism in Europe.