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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25
"A Pair of Cheap
Slippers>>Dark
Tan and Size p

THE Scottsboro fight has many
phases. But, as the following
extract from a letter of Glen Mont
gonlery, now 10, will show, there
is still another phase of the case,
another opportunity for you to
help:
And Mr.. Patterson, Secretary
Of the I. L. D.-Ed. Note) since
you all are going to have us
transferred I will ask you to
have some one to send me pair
Of cheap slippers dark tan and
size seven English toed. Now Mr..
Patterson don't want you to
think am choicery because 7
can't be for the circumstances I
am under. But really my feet
is small and honey. And a broad
toed shoe don't fit my feet. What
80 ever And as for color I lust
like dark tan because my mother
always likes tan for me. And of
course [ would ask my mother for
showes but she is unable to buy
them and you all are the only
ones can ask for support. And 1
will gladly accept them and APP
preciate them to the highest be-
cause I am in need of them and
it is getting real cool here and
concrete never stays warm In the
winter part Of the year"
The International Labor Defense
takes care of all sides Of this case
Olen's family needs you, Glen, still
in danger of death, should have
those "tan, English toed" shoes.
Support the Prisoners Winter Re
lief Can1paignl Send all contribu-
thong to: 30 r. 18th St, Room $40,
New York NJ z
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25
Red Troops Smash
9Th Suppression Army
Aided by Peasants
BULLETIN.


HsnkOw dispatches to the New
York Times admit the collapse of
Markings fifth Communist sup
preston" military campaign against
the Chinese Red Armies and the
entancipated masses in the Soviet
districts. Reporting the results of
several months of fierce fighting
on 150-miIe front in Hupeh Pro-
vince, the dispatch states:
THE government (Nanking)
forces have ceased attempts to adj
vance. The Communists are as
sisted by farmers, thus seriously
compficating the problem"
SHANGHAI, Nov. 24-Alarned at
the growing mass resistance to pro-
posals Of the League of Nations for
a further looting and partitioning Of
China under the guise OF 'interna-
tional control" for the 'reconstruc-
tion" of China, the United States,
French, British and German minis
ters are hurrying to Marking to main
tain the closest contact with the
Marking betrayers of China during
the Msnchurian discussions at Ge-
neva.
Behind the scenes, the Kuomin-
tang leaders are maneuvering prep
aratory to q plenary session of the
discredited Kuomintang party al
Marking in mid-December. a group
OF these leaders are trying to gain
power on the wave of mass resent
rnent against Chang Ksi-shek. r. v.
Soong, and Marshal Chang Hsueh-
lang, leaders in the present govern
n1ent.
The independent Canton group Of
the Kuomintang has split into new
sections, with Hu Han-nin and Chan
Chia-tang leading the opposing
camps. Chang Kai-shek is nego-
tiating for an alliance with either
FACTIONS. In the Northwest, where the
Japanese are busy fomenting the
disorders they are hypocritically de-
crying at Geneva, Yen Hsi-shan and
Feng Yu-hsiang have allied with
General Han Fu-chu. who has
emerged victorious from the recent
Generals War in Shantling Province.
G. g. WI and Sun 70 are organizing
2 Clique OF their own.
Meanwhile, the Generals War In
ezErhHar and KeTichoy Provinces
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25
us. Bosses Arm
Fascists Against
Chinese Masses

American volunteers organized in
the South China city OF Shanghai
Tor use against the revolutionary
Chinese workers have lust been
armed with the notorious American
sawed-off shotgun. Arms and NUM-
tons for this group of Americanl
fascists are furnished by the Wall
Street government The Interna-
tional News Service admits this In a
Shanghai dispatch of Nov. 8:
"Few people in the United States
probably are aware that the Wash
ington government furnishes arms
and munitions for this group OF
Americans who stand side by side
with detachments of other nation
alities on the firing line when dis
orders threaten the International
Settlement here
The disorders" referred to are the
revolutionary struggles of the Chi
nese toilers TO rid the country OF the
inperialist parasites. plundererz and
murderers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25
NEGRO SLAVERY To-Day
John L. StiVakes Stirring Novel
GEORGIA Niger"


nation
white ruling "ngger and Che oppression and conmptuO9s
horrible
rr.hr Of rspeetf o uss.Edtor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25
BY I. ANITER

THE Socialist Party boasts Of its
L achievements in Milwaukee. They
told us during the election cam
paign about NilWaukee's fine sew
ers, the municipal treasury, the re-
lief system. The capitalist papers
and journals we're loud in praise of
Milwaukee. This Socialist city
was held up as a model Of what
could be accomplished in any city
Of the country. If this could be
done in Milwaukee, then why not
in New York? If Milwaukee could
effect such progress, why not adopt
Milwaukee methods in the other
cities of the United States? AS a
result, while recently running as
candidate for Mayor Of New York,
Hillquit could correctly say that the
election of a Socialist mayor would
not produce any revolutionary
changes" in New York.
And how right he was! HiIlquit
did not talk about the mass hunger
in Milwaukee, the brutal smuggling Of
the unemployed by the Socialist
Mayor Hoan's socialist police. He
said nothing about forced labor in
Milwaukee, the cutting Of the city
employees wages and the miserable
conditions and wages in the mills
in Milwaukee. This the Commun-
lists told the Workers-only to be
contradicted by the Socialists.
MILNAUKEES
STARVING CHILDREN
This time, out Of their own
mouths, the Socialists convict them
selves. In the New Leader Social
list party organ) issue Of November
10, 1892, we read the following:
"Children Kept From School BY
Lack of Proper Clothing"
MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Reports
made to the Milwaukee county
boards committee on institutions
revealed that many children are
kept from schools because of lack
of clothing. Hitherto the board
has limited its distribution of
clothing to shoes.
"ChiIdren in my district are so
ragged they cannot be sent to
school," said Socialist Supervisor
Robert Buech. I'VE have a COM
pulsory education law, but poverty
has become SO abject, that chill
dren are out of school because
they do not have enough rags to
cover them. Private relief agen-
cies say they can no longer furn-
iSh clothing because of lack of
funds. So it would appear that it
is up to the country to take ac-
ton.
Socialist Mayor M. " Baxter.
Of West Allis, confirmed Buech's
statement that private agencies
are unable to provide clothing.
''My office is directly over the
West Allis headquarters of the
Family Welfare Association" the
mayor said, land know they are
unable to supply enough clothing"
There are hundreds of families
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25
Follow Up the ScottSboro
Victory!

THE humorous white Negro toers esodng
from the legal the nine
hngmans hand has been halted but stu
Gigantic and powerful revolutionary millions of oers
throughout victory for the entire working class
unconditional the nine scosboro boys is over
on the fairness and justice" lynch will
tighten the hangnns moose around the necS OF the nno
the mpial butchers to their re agents in the
energetcay Ge indignation and wrath of the
and equality" bloody
the been temporarily vrested from the clutches
nch by the worldwide protests of the toi The
guarantee of the scotsboro not
Of the modifying
lions of the broadening the united front OF revolutionary
struggle
THE scotsboro helped crystalline
proved millions Of
revolutionary methods struggle as against reorms capauon to
white ruling The deepening discomfort and political awaken
for the
beon The scooo case has welded strong links in the chain
national oppression of which this bzen framep is but
But the work rest here There danger OF possible slack
9Tnoeu It's b oe , S u % even g S G New i3
utilize the
scotboro heights the action for their
already International
Labor Defense and the revolutionary organizations
into the
the most backward sections Of the white
oppressed
initiative the the
the factories the unemployed
gandon Everywhere
rally the hroade the white and working
class solidarity, defeat the united Of attempts
murder the
united front
life vitality
they Immediately begin in
tratg the Negro refor organizations and of L. unions Through
the building the Scosboo
hoods factories schools adheren
the Scottsb0o boys.
THE further struggle for the release the
concey linked with the
mob violence and lynch
determination to every
of discrimination repression connect
this struggle with the Scottsboro
Major attention must be penetrating
struggle for the Scotsboro Court
hands the back the
denned them death 1t therefore all where
the national oppression Of the sharpes
that the Ugence of the Negro
vent the preparation of this yncng. rapidly
developing mass struggles for unemployment relief
which makes possible determined part of the
Southern toilers for the Of he boys
Let the voice Of the working
Gne demand Unconditional freedom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25

is continuing with unabated fury and
bloodshed. The troops of Gen. Liu
Hsiang, leader Of the faction oppos-
ing the provincial governor Liu Wen
hui, yesterday captured the city of
Luchow, whose population has been
bombed twice within the past two
weeks by Liu Hsiang's military planes.
Street fighting is continuing in
Chengtu where three factions are
struggling for possession Of the arse
nal.
The Generals Wars reflect both
the struggle for loot and power by
the Chinese war lords and the
schemes Of their impelialist masters
FOR the partition Of China
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25

mo'nin' TO de bus"
yeah The white man eyed
him meditatively. Got the fsre?"
Yes, sub
OMNIBUS QUESTIONS
The boy hastily showed his care
fully folded dollar bills
The man rubbed a two days
growth of beard.
Live in Americus?"
mo, sub, I live in Ochlockonee
county, sub"
Got relations in Americus?" the
man persisted,
mo, sub, no. ain got no re-
lations dey."
Den whut you goin' there fo'?"
I'm goin' lookin fo' wuk,7 the
boy explained nervously.
ooh. No work whey you come
fum?"
yes, sub. No, suh,' he STAN
mered
whey you fixin' to sleep this
ev'nin?"
DAVID twisted his hat nervously
" in his hands.
"I doan know, sub. I fingered
maybe"
Yeah" said the man decisively.
"You fingered. But figgers 1
doan lax to see darkies wanderin'
roun' loose in this here town in de
ev'nin'. Better come along with
me"
"AIistuh, I ain wanderin' roun'
loose. I'm jes lookin' To- place
tub eat an sleep till de bus
leaves"
yeah. I'll give you a place to .
eat an sleep. Come along"
you ain de law?" David asked
miserably.
yeah. Tim dc law an I doan
lax no Migrants roun' here"
''THE LAW"
81 ain no vagrant, Cap'n. I got
eight dollars an I'm on my way
tub Americas. Please doan lock
me up. I never hut nobody an
I'll git out O. here dis eV'nin if you
let me 60"
Come along" the law said
bruskly, taking him by the arm.
IN the small cell in the county fail
1 David's bitterness surged in re-
bellious hate that startled even
him. He shouted furiously, banged
on the iron door, cried ana cursed.
A voice several cells away
shouted:
"Whuts de matter wifi you, mig
ger? You gone out o. yo' haid?"
When the justice of the peace
solemnly imposed a fine for yag-
rancy on him, the boy kept his
eyes on the wooden floor of the
court room.
SLAVES WANTED
A white farmer approached with
a grin.
Il need lii hep out on my
place" he said aniably, AN I'll adj
vance you the fine if you'll come
an work it off. Pay you twenty
five dollars a month"
David Gid not answer.
"Whut say boy?" The sheriff
poked his shoulders. Tits a lot
better'n workin' it off on de roads"
Il ain goin' tub sign nothin',"
David said Sullenly.
make him sign!" the farmer ex-
claimed angrily. "These damn mig
gers"
Cant make him sign" the sher-
iff laughed. TITS against the law.
This buck mus a-worked fo' a
farmer befo'p
UIS belly shook with laughter.
III 81 don't want him after the
second pickin'," the planter pro-
tested.
"TelI il to him." the sheriff
gIinned. There's plenty work ]
i'll this county. We kin use'm. :
We're short o. convicts anyway
TO finish the road TO Jeff Bea-
cons place."
Continued TOm0rrow.)
CAUGHT AGAIN IN THE NET
OF WHITE RULING GLASS LAW,
TO WHOM UNEMPLOYED Me-
GROES ARE LEGITIMATE PREY,
WHAT HORRORS AWAIT DA-
VID ON THE BARBAROUS
CHAIN GANG? DON'T MISS TO-
M0RROW'S INSTALLMENT OF
THIS SMASHING EXPOSURE!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-25
INSTLLMENT %

escaping Of
planter Deeng
sometimes murdered David Jackson Negro lad being driven to the
county planter Who has his aid they
turn to courthouse After wrangn finally
to let David viii off his advance
takes the boy the next county gives him $40 leaves him to take
the bus for Ameus from where David expects TO to Macon and
q
The Washington times., 1932-08-16

A group of prison-like cells now
under construction at the Lorton
Reformatory will soon be ready to
accommodate prisoners of the type
heretofore sent to Atlanta and
Fort Leavenworth.
These cells will serve as a warn
ing to honor system prisoners,
whose unbarred dormitories are in
striking contrast to the new build
ingS.
The new buildings, surrounded
by a high wall, will contain in
dustrial shops, where shirts,
socks, underwear and other
wearing apparel are made. An
additional foundry is being con-
structed which will double the
institutions capacity to mold
manhole covers, CRATES and the
like for the District government.
Last year this phase of the re-
formatory'S activities netted a
clear profit of $4,000.
The reformatory has just
opened its new hospital, which
compares favorably with the av-
erage city hospital. There is also
a chapel and theater.
Among it's 1000 prisoners there
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
ATOM CRACKERS
/. SPLIT LEAD;
f. RAD|UM NEXT
BY KARL III. Won WIEGAND
Copyright. 1882. by Universal
Service, Incl

BERLIN. Aug. 16.-With man
made thunderbolt of 2,500,00C
volts, DR.. Fritz Lange and DR.
Arno Brasch. Germany's famous
atom-splitters, said today they
have performed the sensational
feat of releasing energy equiva'
lent to 100000 volts by split,
ting an atom of lead.
These scientists now have
succeeded in splitting nearly the
entire periodic table of chemical
elements compiled by Dmitri Men,
deleoff. famed Russian chemist,
Lead is eighty-second in the table.
Of this table of elements, sill
yer has the atomic number At,
platinum 78 and gold 70.
Lange and Brasch passed by
platinum and gold directly to
lead, and they are now approach.
ing the task of splitting an atom
OF radlum, which has the atomic
number of 88.
The two Germans split the lead
atom and transformed it into
helium and hydrogen. both gasses.
When the new 10000 0,000.volt
apparatus in the Institute of
Physical Research here is com
pleted, DR.. Lange and DR.. Brasch,
1t is understood, will be ready
TO add true alchemy to the list
of sciences by endeavoring to
transform one metal into another.
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
SCHOOL CLOSES
I WITH EXHIBIT

The summer school and nursery
of the Southwest Community
House will close tonight with an
exhibit and demonstration at SOL
Second st. S. w.
Nearly 200 children have been
enrolled in the work this summer,
showing a large increase. The
center is rounding out its eleventh
year under the direction Of Mrs.
Alma j. Scott, its founder.
Along with the regular summer
activity, the center has helped
the unemployed with the distribu-
tion daily of nearly 1900 loaves
of bread.
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
Plan National Home.
For RedemDtOriStS

Construction of a $3.50 900 build.
ing to provide national academic
headquarters for the Rederptorist
Fathers on land near Catholic
University, will be starCed soon, it
was announced yesterday
The building site IS located on
the east side of Seventh st. N. E.,
between Hamlin AMI Jackson Sts
The building will be of three
stories and will have both class.
room and dormitorJ facilities for
students.
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
COED IS BRIDE OF CONVICT

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 16.-On
the eve of his departure to spend
two years in the Virginia State
penitentiary here, Marion Glib
son, jr., 18.year-old housebreaker,
married Miss Virginia Astrid
Swanson, 18, of the University of
Virginia, at Charlottesville.
Accompanied by the Rev. ]. w.
Bouldin, pastor of the Hinton
Avenue Methodist Church, Miss
The Washington times., 1932-08-16

Swanson went to the Jail, where
her finance was being held, and
there the ceremony was per-
formed.
Gibson was sentenced last week
by Corporation Court Judge A.
D. Dabney for participating in
the burglarizing of a fraternity
house at the University of Vir-
ginia. His cousin, Earnest Gibson,
l8, also was sentenced for taking
part in the crime.
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
Mt. Rainier Police
Seeking Gas Thieves

Led by Chief Eugene B
Plumer, Mt. Rainier's police force
is maintaining all.night vigils of
late in an efforC to capture the
thieves who have been siphoning
gas from parked cars.
Three youths who gave Wash
ington addresses were held for a
while for investigation in connec-
ton with the thefts, but were re-
leased when the raids continued
while they were in Jail.
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
Obliging Judge Jdils
Inebridte 100 DGVS

CHICAGO, Aug 16 QN.S).
AL Burke's yearning for a long
soiourn in Jail was gratifted to-
day. Sentenced to work out a
fine for So for intoxication,
Burke pleaded:
make it more, judge. Jail Is
the only place 1 can find EN-.
ployment."
The judge said:
Fifty dollars, and you can
work it out in jail at half a
dollar a day."
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
2 HELD ON BEER CHARGE

Charged with transportation
and possession of beer, James
Bowen and John Bennett, both
Colored, of California, Md, we're
placed under $500 bond apiece by
u. S. Commissioner J. Frank Par
ran at Upper Marlboro, yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
CRlSPS ON HONEYMOON

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Aug. 16
QN.S0.-Jane Murfin, famous
scenarist, and Donald Crisp, we'll
known motion picture director,
were honeymooning today in
northern California following
their quiet marriage at Ventura
late yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-08-16
LORTON SHOPS ENL LARGED

are 16 "lifers," while about 500
others have sentences Of more
than five years.
Evening star., 1932-05-22

America" published in London in 1763.
Taking advantage of the scouts ignor-
ance, the shop owner pretended that the
work was not very valuable and paid
only 81 for it. Then he removed iden-
tification marks and sold it to another
dealer for $3.50, and this dealer later sold
it to the New York Historical Society
for $3.50. Now it is back in Harvard
again.
Confronted with revelations of this
character, it is small wonder that the
great army of book collectors and deal
ers should become somewhat panicky
for in such cases it is not a question of
lacking skill enough to detect counter
felt, but of having acquired the gen.
uine article only to discover that it is
stolen goods.
In addition to directing the activities
of band of book thieves, it was charged
that the convicted man had expanded
his field to include the counterfeiting of
Evening star., 1932-05-22

select the volumes they want, hide them
about their person and walk of.
At one university the librarian was so
impressed by book scouts" glib chat
ter about rare books that she took him
for learned professor and virtually gave
him carte blanche to the stacks An
hour later, as he was leaving, the libra
rian bade him friendly good-by and
asked him if he had found what he
wanted The truth was that he had not
only found what he wanted, but was
walking off with it hidden under his
coati
Some of the book scouts have de-
veloped an amazing technique in stealing
books from under the very eyes of OBJ
servers. few months ago authorities
received a tip that book scout" was
planning to make raid on the Brick
Row Book Shop in New Haven. de-
tective and the manager of the shop
were warned and furnished with the
Evening star., 1932-05-22

mans description, and they were wait
ing for him when he came in and began
to browse around as though he were
customer.
The detective had been called in not
to arrest him, but to watch him and to
prevent theft. The sleuth and the man
ager feigned a conversation, in the
meantime keeping sharp eye on the
visitor. A few minutes later the latter
walked out, apparently empty handed,
stopping at his automobile before enter
ing another bookshop across the street.
Out of that shop he walked a few min
utes later, boldly carrying a book in his
hand. As he started to get into his au-
tomobile another detective who had been
stationed in the second shop arrested
him. And then under the rug in his
automobile they found another book,
valuable folio volume, measuring feet
by 10 inches and inches thick, and this
huge volume, it turned out, had actually
been stolen from the first shop, under the
very eyes of the first detective and the
manageri
flourishing outlet for such stolen wares,
but the owners connection with the
thefts was often more than that of
mere fence, it was charged. Evidence in
dicated that he directed the activities
of many of the scouts" telling the
thieves what volumes he wanted, where
they were to be found, and in some in
stances even financing the thief when
he had to journey to an out-of-town col
lection.
It was under this mans direction, wit
nesses declared, that the Brander Mat
thews Memorial Library at Columbia
University was plundered. His scout
brought him 10 volumes obtained from
this collection in several visits. But the
shop owner was afraid that some par
ticularly desirable items might have been
overlooked, so he wrote to Columbia,
asking them please to be good enough
to send him their privately printed cata-
logue This was obligingly DONE The
shop owner inspected the catalogue, saw
that one especially delectable volume
had not been taken and sent his agent
back for it.
AIUeT OpIalHing StOieH VOiume ne anu
others of his fraternity would remove the
identification marks, which is easy ex-
cept when they are made by perforating
the pages, and then the book would be
sold at less than market price to some
dealer who was innocent of its history.
THE history of one such stolen volume
has been traced One of his scouts"
brought him a rare volume from Har-