The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09

Okraln1an HAL WlCn a cdpdCI
rs The meetings were all marke
protests against the war on China,
against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts
and determination to defend the So
Wet Union.
L o. Ford Of Cleveland was the
main speaker. Tremendous applause
the robber war against China and
greeted his speech as he denounced
calfiled for defense of the Chinese
People and the Soviet Union. Other
.,peakers included SAMPLES, for the
Metal Workers Industrial League,
Walker for the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights and Dixon for the
Young Communist League.
.Te. Walker spoke on the Scottsboro
case, exposing the lynch verdicts
and the national oppression of the
Negro masses. The meeting voted
unanimously to send a protest tele-
gram to Gov. B. M. Miller Of Ala
bama demanding the immediate re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys Most
of. the workers present we're from
the steel mills.
u NILES, O., April 8.-Over 300 steel
workers attended an anti-war dem
onstration at Central Park in spite
of police refusal to grant a permit
and the threats by the police and
american Legion to break up the
demonstration. The meeting con-
cluded with the workers pledging,
with raised fists, to fight under the
leadership of the Communist Party
= against imperianst wars and to de-
fend the Chinese People and the So
Wet Union.
: WARREN, O.--25O steel workers
'- demonstrated against imperialist
war and for the defense of the Scots
boro boys. They pledged support
for the United Front Anti-War Con-
ference which viii ltake place Sunday,
April 10, at the Building Trades Hall
and for the May Day anti-War dem
constructions.
NEW CASTLE, Pa.-7oo workers
demonstrated at the Central Fire
Station against war and the Scots
boro lynch verdicts. Comrade Mar
shall was the main speaker. Abe
Jewish, a worker delegate Just re-
turned from the Soviet Union con-
trasted the unemployment and mis-
cry in this country with conditions in
the Soviet Union where there is no
unemployment, where wages have
just been raised II to 20 per cent,
and the material and cultural con-
ditions of the masses are constantly
improving.
INDIANA HARBOR,l Ind.-The
mass anti-war demonstration at
Broadway and Adler st. was attended
by 80 0workers, 20 per cent of whom
we're Negroes, 20 per cent youth, 20
per cent women workers. The
speakers included Herbert Newton
working class Negro leader and men,
Der of the District Committee Of the
Communist Party, District 8: Rice
and Stella Chapa of the Young Com
1nunist League, and Morton of the
Steel Workers Industrial Union.
An anti-war resolution and q
Scottsboro protest resolution were
adopted by thunderous "ayes." A
number of workers joined the Com
munist Party and the Young Com
'rnunist League.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.-Over 500
workers, the biggest crowd seen In
the South End in two years, demon
strated at Grove Park Wednesday
night against imperialist war, for the
defense of the Chinese people, and
the Soviet Union.
p Speakers exposed the robber war
the Chinese masses, the rapid devel-
opment of the imperialist moves for
armed intervention against the So
Wet Union, and the vicious frame-up
against the Scottsboro boys.
Ross Armstrong, Of the Unem-
b, .polyed Council. pointed out the re-
suits of the last World War. He
pointed to the miserable conditions
of the New Bedford textile workers
as some Of the fruits of "the war to
save the world for Morgan" The
crowd applauded Armstrong; ex-
posure Of Mendoza, the bullying dick
who was put on the welfare depart
ment to intimidate and insult work.
ers seeking relief. Mendoza who was
present at the meeting to spy on the
workers soon after skunk away.
In addition to Armstrong, speakers
included Kravf, district organizer OF
the National Textile Workers Union,
and Walter Peters, section organizer
OF the Young Communist League.
BOSTON, Mass.--Over 400 workers
attended the anti-war demonstration
in the Franklin Union Hall. A SER
les Of open air meetings preceded the
central demonstration. Amidst the
greatest show of militancy and deter
mination to fight against the bosses
and their war plots, the workers
adoptcN resolutions demanding
Hands off China, Hands off the So