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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-14
Council IN Session

Center council, S. B. A., will hold
an open meeting for members and
friends at 11615 East Maryland
street, Tuesday night. There will
be music and dancing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
Only Mass Struggle Can
Compel Relief NOW

THE democratic especially that calls itself
liberal carrying try arrest the
Wall street
make that nothing until Roosevelt
1naugated March
able capitalist further cuts and hunger
battles the to fool the
peacefully submitting starvation in the expectation that
Roosevelt will something relieve their suffering after he officially
takes
Washington correspondent chain of
Tucker December 49, INDUCES the following deception
probably virtually barren of
result legislative mpaSse
President the low
legislator Presldent-eect Foose-
welt to call special session Immediately after March L.
What capitalist press NOW
United
They
position And
that
the prediction promises OF Roosevelt
would deal for the forgotten
shibboeth catch the the dis
deceptive
of the workers farmers
relief insurance for aid to the
During the
everything assist carrying out the Hoover
because they both
effect Will be continued
under Roosevelt if they have their way
is only That the thing
desperately
of the ong against their
action the
country the tong masses Negro
unemployed
capitalist
thru with immediate relief for the starving masses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
BY SAM NESIN. rt
Organizer Of the Trade Union
Unity Council.

ORGANIZER Oh tne lEdue bHIOH
Unity Council
THE 9th Anniversary of t h
DAILY WORKER is an occa-
sion for every worker to celebrate
and pledge greater support to our
own fighting organ. 1t is the only
American working class daily in
the English language, through
which workers speak OF their
struggles.
Workers who are themselves in
volved in struggles in shops, in
strikes, for unemployment relief,
against discrimination, high rents,
eyictions and in opposition move
ments within A. F.. of L. locals
against betrayals and racketeering
are themselves the writer's of many
of the articles in the Daily Worker
The Daily Worker supported the
Hunger March to Washington, the
Veterans Bonus March, the Farm
ers' Conference for Relief, the A.
F. of L. Rank and File Conference
for Unemployment Insurance at
Cincinatti and fights for the free
dom OF Mooney and the Scots
boro boys. II is the unflincl,ing
spokesman CT the militant trade
unions of the Trade Union Unity
League and the Unemployed
Councils. The Daily Worker is in
the forefront fighting against i'm
perialist war. for the defense OF the
Chinese people and the Soviet I'm
ion, where workers rule and unem-
ployment has been aholjshede II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
Social Insurance and
Mutual Insurance


their families Practically every working class
family actual poverty haunted by the fear Of
the professional Of deprived
Of any income through menpoynen WORKERS race SsS d t
dependents.
For decades the American capitalists succeeded in maintaining
hons that blinded the absence
social improving
ty they ability with savings;
they their uncertain workers existence would
the economically secure existence petty capital
lS's
But now the permanent prosperity The
either eaten up most cases have been quda SPu
debated real estate values and by ocd nome
Meantime the aes also destroyed all hope for future
idr down into the orng class The Dole that terribly
shapes itself in the eyes OF the
thus
becomes the all ovcrshadOwing ssueo
EVEN before the present crisis recognized
the need for better no Insurance But the capital
ac S 80 eSerbin If these Mutual BENEFIT Societies Instead
being the workers until they could get the
helping the capitalists defeat social insurance
mutual s benefit ors oaia7 ussd
really the only effective form OF solving
although it clear that mutual benefit socets cannot soe
problem complete loss Of income of the workers in case CT uneL
leaders also pockets the expense
Shows that former Cabinet minister
ania and close advisor OF the president Of the United STATES hSq
o a Charity lottery swinde
Only the class conscious workers oeptsred s ay
ing Order proearan rana order me
workers the most effective mutual aid
~ t4s 0T P g Order does not waive the right Of the
the contrary it considers its duty to hgn
e1ce such as condition which would prevent
such emergencies
Joining the International therefore only
is form Of participation IN working class
sssop % % to- the cspst ieadership Of the fraterna
the international Workers order.
Building the International Workers order the
gahzed fighting strength of the American workers class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
By Burck

'Scottsboros' in many places. A
follow-up of court proceedings in
these cases would undoubtedly
show swift death sentences or long
Jail sentences on no evidence. The
murder of Isaac Minis and Percy
Irwin in the death chair in Ala
bama in March for the theft of SO
cents, is such legal lynching.
POLICE MURDERS.
If the murder of Negroes by po-
lice, Jail guards and white "citi-
zens" be included in the list of
lynchingS for 1932-and these MUIR
ders are, in truth, lynchings-then
the number reaches we'll into the
hundreds. The year 1882 has seen
a terrific number Of such cases.
There is, however, no adequate
record of this phase Of lynching,
since, in the first place, the shoot
ing of Negro by a white police
man is so common as to be hardly
news, and, second, there is a
definite attempt to cover up the
facts of these killings. 1t is ex-
tremely significant that the nine
cities highest in the homicide list
for 1881 are all southern cities.
TERRORISM ON
THE INCREASE.
Highly organized terroristic acOiv-
itics against Negroes was reported
from almost every nook and corner
of the county in 1892. We men
ton only few instances:
The attempt to terrorize Negro
railway workers by the murder Of
some of their number. The ter
rorization of the Negro farmers
near Dresden, Tenn, by organized
bands of might riders. The fog
ging of highway construction
workers near Starkville, Miss.
From every part of the country
come reports Of the revival of the
Ku Klux Khan. 1t is obvious that
the increasing militancy of the Ne
gro masses is leading the white
landowners and bosses to try to
crush their spirit by organized ter
ror.
LYNCH FRAME-UPS.
The attempt of courts and Of
ficials to murder the nine Scots
boro boys has continued through
1882 Other outstanding instances
OF lynch frame-ups are: Fuel Lee
i'm MARYLAND. less Rollins in Okla
floma; Angelo Herndon in Allan
ia; six Negroes in Washington, D.
G. logan Circle case; Willie
Brown in Philadelphia.
How shall the workers fight
1ynching? This vital question
will be dealt with in an article
soon to be published in the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
The significance of the 9th
Anniversary OF the DAILY

combats the vicious lies OF the
social-fascist and capitalist press
i'll their attempt to prevent the
truth Of the great achievements
Of the Russian workers becoming
known. The policy and contents
of the Daily Worker" demon
strates that it has no interests sep
arate from the workers as a whole.
At a time when one and a half
million are unemployed in New
York City alone and 100000 fami-
lies have been evicted within the
last months, when wholesale
wage slashes are taking place,
when our children are crowded
into class rooms to satisfy the
bankers, while thousands of teach
ers remain unemployed, at a time
when the Tammany government of
New York announces the dismiss
sal of thousand foreign born hos
pital workers to be replaced by a
smaller number Of native born at
a wage reduction of 40 per cent;
the need for the Daily Worker"
es an instrument for organization
and struggle is greater than ever.
The duty OF every worker, every
trade union organization is not
only to spread the Daily Worker
but to support 1t financially. The
9th Anniversary Celebration OF the
Daily Worker which takes place at
the Bronx Coliseum on New Years
Eve must be made a huge success.
Hail the 9th Anniversary of the
Daily Worker.
fnps Mya osw hSht&As DealAf n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
LyncherS Take Huge Toll in 1882; Facts
ShoqV Negroes, Whites Fight Lynch Terror
Mr.. Ham Fish in Debate: A
Portrait OF a Demagogne

hep, listen, Hanl-what In he'll did
you mean telling us the Conmu-
nists are anti-religious, and NOT
atheists? Do you call that fair?
Anti religion, it would seem, means
that we're kept pretty busy just
worrying about it. - The million
unemployed aren't exactly worried
about whether our crowd are re-
ligious or not. Maybe a guy who's
been thrown. on the skid road after
thirty years (you yourself told US
about HIM is wondering whether
or not the laborer is worthy Of his
hire
There are one or two other mat
tiers I'd like to clear up, too, Ham,
You're against dictatorship. You
said SO yourself. You're against
the kind they have in Russia and
the kind they have in Italy, aren't
you? But how about our own die
tatorship? You didn't know we
had one? Come, come, such
naivete from a college mani
YOU made one concession, though,
l Ham. We liked that part
where you told about telling the
socialists that if they did have a
revolution in 10000 years, the
Communists would take it away
from them the next morning. That
was pretty cute of you, Haml 10000
years is a nice comfortable dis
lance off, isn't it? And in the
meantime, there's that little nuis-
ance of The unemployed. AS
someone from q Jail once wrote to
Odd Mcintyre, THAT red you see
in the sky amt all sunrise, mister
And that line about its the same
old depression" wasn't bad But
it's different people who are ex-
periencing it, Ham, new people;
people who have been made lit
crate. People whom your class
has socialized, at the machine.
People who have been around,
maybe, and heard about the Soviet
Union. People who know about
class struggle when they strike,
when they march, when they go
to meetings. Different times, Mr..
Fish. And, by the way, Ham, when
are you going TO get around to
answering Meanings question. The
one that went Something like this:
"What has capitalism to offer the
worker IN the future?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
BY NANCY F.

A LARGE man, Ham Fish. So
n tall he has to raise the micro
phone each time he takes the floor
to speak. A large man, somehow
hollow-loolSing Like hay-Stack,
tied in the middle, Ham Fish. But
the breath of life has been breathed
into this hay-stack, and this hay
stack swaggers, swings its arms and
acts for all the world like human
being. But what is this it is say
ing? Answer these questions, Mr..
Nearing. Do you give allegiance to
the Red Flag or to the American
Flag" Why, it's not human be-
ing after all, it's Ham Fish acting
like Torquemada impersonating
Ham Fish. Well, well, we'll, and we
all thought we were going to hear
a debate.
We came to hear Communism
blasted all TO hell and the world
saved Gin the vaults Of the National
City Bank for the peepul and the
working man. What's that, you
say, hollow man2 Il believe in the
peoples right to rsyolution?"
Mighty white of you, Mr.. Fish.
Next time we're in Washington
we'll call on you, You can nurse
our rounded for us, Mr.. Fish, and
maybe you'll buy us sandwich,
maybe. What's that? You
don't want an imported revolution.
Oh, don't worry about that. Mr..
Fish, we'll give you a genuine,
made-in America revolution. In
fact, we're getting it ready for you
right now.
ME liked the way you played up
W TO us in the gallery, Mr. Fish.
We liked the way you complained
about never knowing where the
Socialists are. OF course, we didn't
relish your calling us comrades, we
thought we detected a bit of q
Sneer when you called us comrades,
Mr. Congressman. But maybe
we're a bit supersensitive. Maybe
we just remember nightsticks and
tear gas and Tom Mooney, too
we'll Maybe we're just a little
edgy about guys who sit on plat
forms and "bury the Ratchet" so
sportingly. Maybe our CUTS are too
delicate.
But, listen Ham Ga comrade can
call you by your first name, can't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
Letters from Our
Readers
Praises New Features
and the Editorials in
the Daily Worker

DetrolC, MlcIhgan
Editor, Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
/ want to write you few lines
in appreciation of the improve
ment in the Daily Worker, not only
the contents, but the way it is writ
ten, especially the last page with
the editorials and fiction like
Michael Colds articles on "Ihe
Negro Reds Of Chicago
The serial, John Spivak's, "Geor-
gia Niger" l take it as fiction
based on facts. Words fail me, to
express my revulsion against this
insidious form of slavery that Is
SO silently creeping upon us, not
only the Negroes, but the white
workers as well. 1--WE see it every
where, the forced labor for the
dole.)
This book should be read by
every man, woman and child in the
United States. 1t now sells for
$3.50 a copy. The price is so
high that the workers simply can
not buy it. Now, is it not possible
to have this book put out in q
cheaper addition with a paper COW
er SO it could be sold for Is centsf
u. HARRIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21

of masses of white workers into the
anti-lynching struggle this last
year, under the leadership Of the
Communist Party and other mil
liant organizations; the growing
unity of Negro and white workers
in many struggles, gave the lynct--
ers good reason for their fear.
WHITEWASHING LYNCHINGS.
Official bodies, from coroners'
iuries to the national government,
have carefully whitewashed lynch
ings that could not be altogether
kept from the world. Very few
arrests were made. With the ex-
ception of light sentence in one
case in the Ironton lynching, and
extremely light sentences in the
cases of murder of Negro railway
men. no convictions were obtained.
We cite here a few instances of
the fine art of whitewashing as
practiced in 1882:
The lynchers of Luke Murray,
in Ohio, with one exception, went
ScOt-free. The death of Shad-
rack Thompson by lynching was
termed suicide" by the coroner.
In the investigation of the muir
der of Negro firemen. the prob
lem Of who organized the muir
der ring and paid for the kill
lings was carefully Sidc-stepped.
In almost every ease. cOr0ners'
juries reported that the lynched
person had been killed by "per-
sons unknown. -Four white
1yncherS who murdered a Ha-
waiian native in Honolulu, were
freed by pressure OF the U. S.
government after they had been
found guilty.
This year saw also the official
whitewash of three lynchings that
took place in 1881: the whiteWash
of the Salisbury, Md, lynching by
the county grand jury and the re-
fusal in West Virginia to indict
the men arrested in connection
with the lynching of Tom jack
son and George Banks.
OFFICIALS PREFER
LEGAL LYNCHINGS.
An enormous number of 'rope-
and-faggot" lynchings were pre-
vented by officials who believed
that a legal lynching by judge and
court would be far more safe in
view of the rising resistance Of the
Negro people. What must be noted
about these near-lynchings is the
following: in practically every case,
the officials persuaded the lynch
crowd to give up It's victim or vic
Tins on the promise that swift con-
Viction would follow in the courts
in other words, that there would
be a legal lynching. This has I'M
doubtedly led to the repetition of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
J. Louis Engdahl>A Tribute
to q Reuoluti0nist

.proletariat left by the death OF
Comraoe Engdahl must be filled by
fresh forces from the ranks of the
working class which he loved, for
which he fought. which he did so
much to train, organize and lead
in whose cause he died.
BY the death of Comrade Eng
dahl the Communist Party, the In
ternational Labor Defense, the OPP
pressed Negro masses and the en-
tire working class, have lost g skill
ed and courageous fighter against
the daily Entertainments of capital
ism and for the World Revolution.
His memory is craven deep in
their hearts and his name will be
inscribed high i'll the list OF those
who helped to build the American
revolutionary increment which will
free them from the horrors of capi-
talism and erect the Soviet United
States of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
JObless TerrOrized
BY. Canada Police

TORONTO, Canada.-Reports IN
Toronto papers and from Port Ar
thur state that IA unemployed work.
ers were arrested in demonstration
of transient jobless who refused to
be shipped TO slave camps.
Attorney General Price, it Is re-
ported personally undertook TO mete
out punishment to the workers who
had dared protest against the mis-
cradle conditions,
Provincial and RCMP officers, to-
gether with local officers at Sioux
Lookout, participated in fighting ths
unemployed. Members OF the xaScist
Canadian Legion were called in by.
the police 10 helr best sp ys~ ~
amnInyeds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
DECEMBER COMMUNIST CONTAINS
IMPORTANT ARTICLES ON CURRENT
PROBLEMS AND EVENTS

THE UNITED FRONT POLICY AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST
SECTARIANISM- Editorial
THE SCoTTsBoRo DECIsIoN-By Harry Haywood
TIE EXPANDING INTER rNPERIAL1sT WARS LATIN.
ANIEFTCA-By William Slnons.
THE UNITED FRoNT-A TACTIC OF STRUGGLE NOT PEACE
u. B John williamson
fDISTORTE3S OF THE REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE OF THE
Z AMERICAN PROLETARIAT-By James S Allen.
SITUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES AND TASKS OF THE con-
MUNIST PARTY THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
BY S
HOW UNEMPLOYED continued from last months ssue)
ti. by John Irving,
BOOK REVIEWS
NDEx-VoLtnzE Xf-aes2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
Stories from Boss.
Press Reveal 3 z.
Lynchings in Year
BULLETIN.

This article WdS LUritten
Just before neWS arrived of
the murder of six Negro
shdre-crOpperS in the Ala
bama Black Belt by sher-
ifs and other agents of the
white landowners. The
enormous number of lynch
iHgS and police murders of
Negroes in 1892 has as one
of its main objects the
crushing of the attempts at
organization on the part of
the starring Shdre-crOp-
perS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21
By BILL DUNE.

THE death of Comrade j. Louis
Engdal1l is a tremendous loss
not only to the International La
Dor Defense but to The entire reyo-
lutionary movement in which he
spent his adult years.
Comrade Engdahl died, exhausted
by his ceascless laborS in the cause
of the oppressed Negro masses, at
the end of a phase Of struggle in
the Scottsboro campaignWhich dealt
deadly blows to American imperial
ism throughout Europe and brought
partial victory.
Conrade Engdahl died in Mos
COW, the capital of the World Revo-
luton.
l believe he would have chosen
such place and time if he had
had to bargain with a death that
would not be denied.
WITH tireless energy, Comrade
W Engdahl worked and fought in
the class struggle with burning
enthusiasm which came from his
revolutionary anger at the robbery
and oppression OF the working class
and his hatred of the capitalists
and their institutions.
HELPED TO BUILD
PARTY
With his entry into the Comnlu
mist Party, his work on the weekly
lot
Worker, of which we were the joint
editors at various times, Comrade
EngdahI began a new life. Freed
from the strangling reformism of
the Socialist Party and its hamper
ing influence in the struggles of
the working class, Comrade Engdahl
threw himself into the work of
building a mass Communist Party
in the United States.
He was, a comrade who realized
to the full the need of the masses
for a revolutionary press and the
need for the working class to learn
how to use its press. He worked not
only as an editor but as a teacher
and agitator He loved revolution
airy journalism in all its aspects
political, literary and technical. For
months on end the editorial rooms
and plant of the Daily Worker were
practically G mi d e Engdahl's
home. He worked, ate and some
times slept there.
1t was Comrade Engdahl who was
largely responsible for building the
Labor Defender into mass paper
and improving its contents. He was
one of the first comrades who took
the initiative in organizing the
groups Of worker correspondents
which are now an indispensable
feature of the revolutionary press.
Comrade Engdahl was known and
respected by thousands of workers.
His death has brought sorrow to
all Of them and many are the ex-
pressions of grief evoked from work.
ers by his untimely end. His revo-
lutionary career linked the old and
the new-the period before the war
and the Proletarian Revolution in
Russia with the present period when
the working class and colonial peo-
piles Of the whole world, led by the
Communist International and its
sections, are moving forward in
powerful battalions TO the victori-
Gus struggle for the conquest of i'm
perialism in the name of all the
oppressed and disinherited.
u
TIE gap In the ranks Of the adj
vance guard Of the revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-21

Tor all these reasons, it is I'M
questionable that many lynch
ings were prevented through fear
Of the wrath of the Negro and
white workers.
In at least two instances, orga-
ni2ed groups rescued Negroes
about to be lynched and set them
free. The first instance was the
case Of Alex Dorsey, Negro miner
and organizer for the National
Miners Union, who was torn by
rank and file miners, Negro and
white, from the hands of two car
loads of lyncherS at Bridgeport,
Ohio, in June.
Lawrence Bulford, a poor Ne
gro farmer, got into an argument
with a white man while his farm
was being sold at auction. When
a lynch crowd gathered, two poor
white farmers appeared with level
led shot-guns and drove the lynch
ers off.