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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
BOYCOTT BOSSES
PRIMARIES, N. Y

NEW YORK. = In a statement is
sued today, the N. Y. State United
Front Communist Election Campaign
Committee urged all workers to boy
cctt the primaries on Tuesday, Sept.
goth.
These primary elections are
screens for making the workers be-
lieve that they have a voice in the
nominations of boss candidates, the
committee stated. Actually they are
an attempt to display the strength
of the boss parties and to mislead
the workers into voting for so-called
independent candidates who, like
those they supposedly oppose, are
tools of Tammany and Wall Street"
No Communist candidates are on
the ballot at these fake primaries,
and workers are urged to stay away
from them, and to vote only on No
vember 9Th, and to Vote Communist
on that day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
ANACORTES
JOBLESS
CONVICTED
Workers Demonstrate
And Secure Release
Pending Sentence
JOBLESS TOOK FOOD
Mill Strikers Mass at
the Trial

ANACORTES, Wash, Sept. 49,
The hunger raid defendants, Moe,
Anderson. Trafton and Wollertz,
were found guilty of grand larceny
and riot late yesterday afternoon by
jury composed mostly of rich
farmers, after six hours of delibera-
ton. Marshall was found not guilty.
Rows Of deputized thugs in front
of the Judges bench were unable to
prevent the most dramatic and big
gest demonstration in the history Of
Skagit County as the verdict was
read. Over a thousand farmers and
workers militantly participated in it.
After the demonstration in front
of the court a mile-long parade with
trucks and cars was held through
the town. The parade passed in
front of the judges home with the
red flag flying atop the first truck.
X Released Pending Sentence.
The trembling authorities released
the convicted men on their own rec
ognizance pending the day of SEN
tence when all Western Washington
will march on Mount Vernon.
The workers employed in the only
two mills running in Anacortes
struck for higher wages Friday at
noon in order to attend the last two
days of the trial. The workers on
the county road job struck Saturday
morning to attend the trial and al
most brought with them the county
trucks.
The unprecedented mass resent
ment at the trial forced the county
commissioners to call an emergency
meeting yesterday in order to fur
nish immediate relief to the starv-
ing workers, this being the first step
for relief by the county
The International Labor Defense
is intensifying the fight for the rights
of Moe, Trafton and Anderson, Com
munist candidates.
A telegram demanding a new trial
for the convicted workers was sent
to Judge Joiner of Mount Vernon.
Defend Themselves.
The magnificent closing speeches
of the defendants who fought their
own case without counsel brought
out the class isues submerged by the
judge during the trial when he de-
MED that the starvation conditions
or other contributing circumstances
we're admissible as evidence.
The judges charge to the jury was
directed to obtain a verdict of guilt
declared that anyone even passively
present when groceries were taken
must be considered guilty of grand
larceny and riot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

to carry on Communist propaganda
They tried to get me to say that
I intended talking politics" and
that / was trying to interfere with
the local conditions in Klodno ]
told them I didn't know anything
about conditions in Klodno, that /
didn't know enough yet to talk poll
tics, and that ! felt ! didn't know
enough yet about Communism to be
good Communist.
Arrested At 1 A. M.
At first they said they would re-
lease me after the meeting, which
went on without me. was over. But
they lied. They announced instead
they would lock me up for the night
demanded the right to go to a
hotel and said I would pay for il
with my own money.
This they refused me. 1t was ]
o'clock in the morning when they
put me into cell and locked me UP.
Some of the comrades had re-
manned close to me all this time
But they were forced to say at last
Good night"
At that moment I never felt SO
much alone in all my life. admit
that nearly broke down and cried
But in that very moment I re-
solved not to shed single tear in
any boss-class Jail or prison. And ]
didn't, although the three nights fol-
lowing we're even worse than the
first.
Sunday night spent in the Prague
police station fighting off the bugs
and vermin. shall never forget
And the next day, Labor Day in the
United States, Sept. S, was taken
to the Fispann Prison, where depor-
tees are interned before being sent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
Il GO TO PRISON FOR THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS-MRS WRIGHT
the Mass fensSt the Lynches!

out of the country. Instead of re-
leasing me, the interior minister,
through his own paper, called me a
"Bolshevik Negro Woman" in big
headlines, and "a Black Communist" "
Fight Is Not In Vain.
So on the fourth day they sent me
out of the country with Comrade
Engdahl, declaring we were "unde-
sirable foreigners" They told me
that T. G.. Masaryk, president of the
Czechoslovakian Republic, was at
one time-when Hohenzollern and
Hapsburg ruled in Germany and Au-
stria and there we're no Czechoslo-
vakian Republic-professor In the
University of Chicago, which I have
heard called the Rockefeller Stand
ard OIL University.
Everyone knows of the Ludlow
Massacre of women and children in
the strikers tent colony, when the
coal miners went on strike against
Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company.
I was wondering if Masaryk was
preparing such a massacre for the
coal miners of Klodno. Going to
prison for the first time has started
me thinking about many things.
The police accompanied us on the
train as far as the Austrian border.
to see that we were safely out OF
the country
The Austrian comrades greeted us
on our arrival at Vienna and began
arranging meetings to take the place
of those denied us in Czechoslovakia.
And I see that the newspapers
everywhere are discussing the action
of the Czechoslovakia government
and the Scotsboro campaign. Per-
hapS did not go to jail in vain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

And, I will say now, that l am will
ing to go again, and for longer
time if it will help the cause in which
SO many millions of workers are
struggling.
Same Workers.
They arrested me at Klodno, in the
coal fields near Prague. in Czecho-
slovaka. I had never heard of
CzechoSlovakia, or of Prague, or
Klodno, before they we're included
in our European tour. But the work.
ers here we're just like the workers
that I saw in the twelve other coun-
tries I had visited One woman
comrade who greeted me at Klodno
had been delegate to the Amster-
dam Anti-War Congress.
They told me that Klodno was the
birthplace of Anthony j. Cermak
the democratic mayor of Chicago
He had been to Klodno only few
weeks previously. He had been ac-
claimed by the government and
toasted by it's officials. / remember
Mayor Cermak's police in Chicago
murdered three of my people, shoot
ing them down in the streets during
an unemployed demonstration against
tn eeviction from their homes OF
some jobless Negro workers. I have
heard much more aboue the police
terror in Chicago.
That makes it easier for me to
understand why should be arrested
by the friends Of Chicago's mayor in
Klodno, over here in Czechoslovakia
in Europe.
was arrested before I ever spoke
at or even reached the Klodno meet
ing. They dragged me off to the
police station and tried to terrorize
me into admitting that ] was trying
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

Editors Note: The following
article by Mrs. Wright, mother of
two of the Scottsboro boys, was
written during her Imprisonment
in KlOdno, Czechoslovakia. 1t is
the first extended article Mrs.
Wright has ever written. Mrs.
Wright's arrest and imprisonment
is part of the efforts instigated by
the United States government TO
disrupt her European Scottsboro
Defense tour. These inspired at
tacks on the mass fight to free the
nine innocent Negro boys are in
creasing as Oct. 10 nears, the date
set by the U. S. Supreme Court for
a review of the infamous lynch
verdicts against seven of the boys.
The workers of the whole world
must repel these attacks and build
the mass defense which alone can
stop the bloody hands of the boss
class lynchers and free the Scots
b0ro boys.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
Roosevelt and Companies
Agree on Railroad Wage>Cut

Roosevelt ut clear that all The
employed transportation entitled
to INDUSTRY AFFORD
PAY"
THE committee of nine representing all railroad
Chicago: that 20 cent
employees effective
1888 NECESSARY" IN Y. Times, Sept 10l
executives the "cut because that
afford to Thus Roosevelt Though
he definitely the
centw Gu the Rail Road workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
COMMUNISTS ON
ILLINOIS BALLOT
Socialists Lack Many
Thousands Signatures

CHICAGO, Ill, Sspt. 49, = The
workers delegation from the Chicago
mass meeting of September 10, filed
with the secretary of the state in
Springfield, yesterday, 34,787 sigma
lures on petitions to place the Com
munist ticket for state officials on
the ballot. The presidential and vice
presidential ticket was already on.
The legal requirement for state
ballot is $4,000, but the state officials
were making trouble, and demanding
more names, so the workers gave
them more names.
The Socialist Party has so far
failed to file its state ticket, and
Monday morning is the latest date
at which it can be placed on file.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

could even understand my being ex-
PEELED twice from Belgium, coun-
try which tyrannizes over so many
millions of my people in the Congo,
in Africa.
But I didn't think that they would
ever send me to Jail and to prison,
just for trying to save the lives of
my two sons.
Yet, have been to prison in our
struggle to save the Ccottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
! War Vets Child Dies
In Classroom of Star
walton, Brother Dying

ALBANY, Sept. 18.-While Cover
nor Roosevelt is touring the country
demagogically speaking about the
forgotten man., forgotten" child
died in his own state capital city.
Freeman J. Violette, Jr., nine year
old son Of war veteran dropped
dead in his class room this week from
starvation. One of his brothers is re-
ported in the hospital, near death,
also The boys father has been out
of work for two years The child, just
before he died from malnutrition,
told the teacher he hadn't eaten in
"a hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
OWNERS WOULD
JAIL STRIKERS
Ask New Law; Tenants
Should Organize

NEW YORK.-The Bronx Land
lords Protective Association met Sat
urday and announced plans to have
Legislation introduced making rent
strike agitation misdemeanor,
thereby subjecting the agitators to
arrest and Imprisonment.
They also tried to make up a black
list of those who engaged in rent
strikes.
Rent strikes, led by tenants leagues
and house committees, working with
the Unemployed Councils have forced
many landlord to recognize the
crisis, and cut his rents, and the
landlords don't like 1t.
Workers and unemployed workers
should be on guard against this
scheme to make something like serfs
of them, to be jailed If they resist
the heavy demands of the landlord.
A big Communist vote this year will
make the legislature pause before
passing such laws. More resistance
to high rents will bring them down.
The landlords Association also at
tackled any scheme for tax-free build
ing of workers tenements, fearing
these might lower rents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
BY MRS. ADA WRIGHT

I never dreamed that had the
strength to make seven months
tour of the United States and then
to cross the Atlantic and for more
than four months now to carry on
in the European Scottsboro campaign.
There have been many difficulties.
But my love for my two sons. the
overwhelming desire and hopeato see
them free again, with all the Scots
boro boys, with the growing desire,
that I did not understand II months
ago, to achieve something for my
race and my class, have kept me
strong. I grew to understand the
police attacks upon our meetings. I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
James A. Ford Defense
Conference on Monday

A special United Front Conference
for the defense Of James A. Ford,
Negro worker of the Bronx, has been
called for Monday, tonight, Sept 10,
8 pm, at Boston Road, Bronx, by
the Bronx Section of the Internati-
onal Labor Defense.
Ford, was viciously railroaded to
one year in Jail by Jim-Crow judge
for attempting to take photograph
of the Jim-Crow BronXdale swimm-
ing pool.
Workers are urged to elect dele
gates from their mass organizations,
fraternal orders or clubs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

the cost of
"A scheme competition which will
rates
5More consolidation of ownership the hands
big finance capital reduced with
onalzaton directed by therefore
employment
to holding companies to In
terstae
nothing Even carried would result for the
mission dictated by the nancers who holding
tory campaign
railroad owning mironaires
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
Party on Ballot
Today in Indiana

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 18.-
Petitions to put the state and ma
tional candidates of the Communist
Party on the ballot in Indiana will
be filed tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

The socialist candidates lack thou
sands of signatures.
Signatures to put Communist can
didates in Cook county Gncluding the
city of Chicago on the county bal
lot will be filed Tuesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
TO INTENSITY TRADE FIGHT

CHERBOURG, France, Sept. 10
Minister of Merchant Marine Leon
Meyer says he is planning decree
to compel foreign importers to use
SO per cent of ships bearing the
French flag.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
BRAZIL REBELS CLAIM GAIN

SAC PAULO, Brazil, Sept. 16.-The
spread of the rebellion to include an
important part of the state of Santa
Catherine is claimed by Gertulio
Vargas from rebel headquarters. He
stated the rebels have gained con-
troll of section of the Porto Union
Railroad, near Ponta Grocsa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

from the treasury which cant find penny"
for unemployment relief. These millions will
be LOANED for practical purposes DONATED.
to avowdIy bankrupt corporations, and will fall
into the hands Of the banks.
"A free hand for mergers in the interest
of the big capitalists and to wipe out the small
Ter stock owners.
3-Taxes and regulations TO raise the price
of fares and freight rates on bus linse and motor
trucks, to allow railroads to charge more, to raise
the nrice of gnnds the worker huvs. and increase
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

Registration now going on
for Fall Term of Workers
School, IS E. 18th ST., 3rd fl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
New w. E. S. L. Post

NEWARK, N. IA new post OF
the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
was formed here Saturday, and has
set up headquarters at 1856 Spring
field Avenue
A mass meeting will be held under
the auspices Of the new post Monday
at z p.m., at Military Park to elect
delegates the Cleveland Conference.
Two delegates have already been
elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
VET DELEGATES
MEET in N. Y.C.
Prepare for National
Conference

NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Thirty-
three delegates to the Veterans
Rank and File Conference, to be held
in Cleveland Sept. %, "a and Is, met
here today in the Stuyvesant Casino
and worked out the plans to draw
masses of veterans into militant
fight for the bonus.
All posts of the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League in the city of New
York we're represented at the local
conference, which was addressed by
S. ]. SLENDER, who returned Friday
from the Anti-War Congress held
recently in Amsterdam. Emanuel
Levin, national chairman of the w.
E. S. L., made the main report,
which urged more intensified fight
against the cutting off of veterans
disability relief allowances.
Among the delegates were six Ne
gro veterans, who were cheered when
they called for a sharper fight
against Jim crowism and discrimina-
ton against Negro ex-servicemen.
A delegate representing post of
Spanish American war veterans told
the conference that his post was
unanimously behind the fight for the
bonus of the veterans of the last
war. He urged united struggle of
al 1.-The vets against the attempt of
the government to cut off and re-
duce pensions of the Spanish-Amer-
lean vets.
One of the delegates represented
b post of the American Legion.
A demand for the increase in dis
ability allowances for veterans who
served during peace time was also
raised and adopted by the delegates.
The New York delegation to the
Cleveland Conference will leave for
Cleveland Tuesday at pm. from
Union So. After send-off meetine
of unemployed and unemployed
workers in solidarity with the veter-
ans. Reports were received from
Connecticut and New Jersey that
large delegations from these states
will be present at the National Con-
ference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

What Is Your Unit Doing for
the Daily Worker Circulation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
VOTE COMMUNIST

Against Imperialist War; for the
defense Of the Chinese people and
Of the Soviet Union. &
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
THIRD POCKET BATTLEsHIPp

BERLIN, Sept. 18.-In line with
the increased preparations for war,
the construction of Germany's third
pocket battleship" was announced
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
ROOSEVELTS RAILROAD SPEECH in
SALT LAKE CITY PAVES WAY TO 20
PER CENT CUT FOR R. R. WORKERS
Propose Raising Cost of Living by Limiting Bus and Truck Lines
Naturalization Increase Unemployment More Banker Control
WHAT ROOSEVELT'S
R.R. PROGRAM MEANS
Millions to Banker Owners, More Jobless, and
Approval of the 20 Per Cent Pay Cut

Actually the HOOver present policy in spite of KoOse
velt attempt
millions of dollars through the Reconstruction Finance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR
Against hoovers wage-cuvtins
policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

VOTE COMMUNIST
Against capitalist terror; against
all forms OF suppression OF the
political rights of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
PLAN Catholic FILM COMPANY

DUBLIN, Sept. 18.-An Irlsn lllm
company, under Catholic auspices, is
planned here, it was stated by the
Rev. Father Bell, of the Society of
the Divine Word. Bell spoke of how
the company could be used to "coun-
teract the march of Bolshevism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
! KILLED IN ARMY FLAMES

SPEzIA, Italy, Sept. 18.-Seven
were killed yesterday in a collision
between tyo army seaplanes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19

The Daily Worker needs YOU
I'm its mass Circulation Drive
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
SHIP OFF SPANISH MOBILES

1aAD2ID, Sept. Frightened by
tae growing strength shown by the
VIC. &e-'5 OF Spain, the government has
placed los members of the nobility
and G-1icsrs ON board the steamship
x jlna in Cadiz harbor for exile at
Villa Cisneros, on the African coast.
BJs.1css men are said to be pessi-
lnis.ic over the fact that the Cortes,
10 sting il October. will be forced by
The workers to pass some relief
LleG. 5ures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
In the Days
NeUvS
REIcHsTAG ELECTIONS NOV.

REICHSTAG ELECTIONS NOV. 6
BERLIN, Sept. 18.-New elections
will be held on Nov. for the Reich
stag, it was decided by the Won
Papen cabinet yesterday.
COLOMBIA PREPARES FOR WAR
BOGOTA, Colombia.-A total of
$9,500,000 was voted for war pur-
poses b ythe Colombian Senate, fol-
lowing the capture by Peruvian Off
ce4S Of Leticia, Colombian border
town.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR:

1. Unemployment and Social Insurance
at the expense of the state and en-
ployers.
a. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy.
3. Emergency relief for the poor farm
ers without restrictions by the govern
ment and banks; exemption of poor
farmers from taxes, and no forced
collection of rent or debts
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
0 4 xAsFFf1Es

william saw was a bat. 1 have
been wondering why the club
hasn't been broadcaSting on
Tuesday and Friday. 1 think
we should have our two periods
q week. also think we
should have some more con-
tests"
Listen! Listen!
Evidently Faryl hasn't been
reading the column. We broad
cast regularly on Tuesday and
Friday at o'clock. And as
a rule we carry a notice to
that effect each day. He must
listen in tomorrow. Remember
over VOL at 4 o'clock.
Teresa Ruddy, 1865 Newton
st. N. W.:
The big black thing Will
liam saw was a BAT"
Arthur Sislen, $50 Ninth st.
N. E.:
Il read the column today
and / think what William saw
was a BAT. 1 don't blame
him very much. however, for
thinking it was mouse.
Bats DO look like mice.
so THERE!
81 am very sorry and l
hope you will excuse me for
not writing for so long a
time, but 1 was very busy
making a forestry notebook. /
saw a friend of mine, Norman
Wertleb'S picture in the paper.
He won the medal, as you
know. 1 received a yellow rib
bon as third prize. The way
the pictures are appearing in
the column our fine club must
be growing. l have two new
members. They are Sidney and
Dolores Alpert, 4O1 V st. N. w."
Bernard Glassman, 4O1O Eight
eenth st. N. W.:
In williams letter he says
he saw a mouse. You say he
didn't. What he probably saw
was a bat because mice don't
have wings"
Gilbert Walker, jr., 5164 Full
ton st. N. W.:
II want to join the club. I
am interested in reading. 1
read the Adventure column
every night and listened to Kit
KarSOn. That is why 1 want to
join. 1 go to the Francis Scott
Key School. 1 go to the home
of a boy who belongs to the
Adventure Club very often. He
Is in my room at school. We
both are in the fourth grade.
After school we usually go to
the woods and play. On Sunday
we go rabbit hunting. l am
nine and he is ten"
The Washington times., 1932-12-23

Listen for this afternoons Ad-.
venture Club program over
VOL.
We go on the air at 4 D. m.
and EVERY member Of the
club, especially those who have
radios of their own, should
listen in. You won't hear from
us again until next Tuesday
and that will be too late for
Kit KarsOn to wish you Merry.
Christmas.
1t lis 4 o'clock this afternoon
over VOL.
Our new club member, Miles
Gilbert Arnold, 62l Elliott ST.
N. E., was one year old on De
cemoer 18.
Our birthday congratulations
are coming a bit late but they
are, nevertheless. most sincere.
We wish Miles Many More Of
EN-. He can have whole lot
more and still be Of Adventure
Club age.
Another new member is
Ruth Louise CRuthie to u.s.
Megly, $40 Concord Ave. N. w.
Ruthie writes:
The Washington times., 1932-12-23

81 W o uld
like to join
your AdVen.
ture Club. /
h e ard Gu
over the ra-
diO tod ay
q n d i Ger
tainly did en-
joy your talk.
/ have been
home fro m
sch OOl sick
I o r t w o
weeks and l
watch every
day for the
funnieS. am
The Washington times., 1932-12-23

eight years old"
It's a Bat
The mouse with wings"
which William Bernstein saw
in his adventure has been cor
rectly identified by the club
members as a bat.
Here are a few Of the bat"
letters:
FaryI Alkire, 300 Nineteenth
St. N. W.:
II think the big black thing
Evening star., 1932-08-06
Try Family Farm Project.

HAYTI Mo. (P).-Buying a 405-acre
tract near here at tax sale, IL men
themselves for community farm prof.
ect." None has more than 40 acres.