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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
DRIVE TO EXPOSE
TORTURE SYSTEM
LID. Shows Its Link
With Scottsboro

NEW YORK. A nation wide
campaign to pubhcize the exposure
of the horrible torture system of
chain gangs in the South, as re-
vealed in John l.. Spivak's book,
Georgia Niger" now being pub
lished serially in the Daily Worker, is
being launched by the international
Labor Defense, William L. Patterson,
national secretary of the organiza-
ton, has announced. z
1.-THE ultimate victory of the Negro
and white workers in the Scottsboro
case" Patterson said, depends upon
the intensification of the fight of the
International Labor Defense against
the national oppression of the Negro
people in all its forms. The case is
not in any sense an isolated one. To
Illustrate the plans of the white
southern landowners to lynch, by
legal or ordinary means, the nine Ne
gro boys in the ScottSboro case, the
workers must fight against the entire
system Of which this frame-up is only
part.
Appeals to the government au-
thorities and to the other fosterers of
this torture system will certainly not
be sufficient to eradicate, or even to
permanently modify it. They will be
completely ineffective unless they are
backed by mass pressure. Any ap-
proach to the struggle based upon il
lusions of obtaining Justice and fair
play only creates the same illusions
as are fostered by the misleaders and
by their open capitalist supporters in
the Scottsboro case, and serve the
objective purpose of continuing the
oppression of the Negro people,
The I, L. D. campaign will include
lecture and slide tours of the north
and south, together with other means
Of arousing mass pressure and mass
resistance to these torture instru-
ments of the southern slave hunters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
STUDENTS STRIKE
HITS JIM-CROWISM
Fight Expulsion of 2
From Ark. School

MENA, Ark, Dec. 4-Thirty- -four
students went out on strike against
the expulsion Of Henry Forbes and
Jack Copen, Communist students who
have been leading the struggle at the
Commonwealth College for the right
of Negro students to join the school.
The strikers represent rs per cent of
the student body.
Commonwealth College is a liberal
labor school controlled by a self
perpetuating association and located
near Mena, The association owns
the property and lays down rules for
the conduct Of the school,
During the past few months the
students have forced the association
to adopt a more radical program for
the school. The expulsion move
came when the students demanded
admission rights for Negro students
and the right of the students to par
ticipate in the conduct of the school.
The expulsionS are an attempt to
stop this pressure from oelow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Unemployed Council
Forces Restaurant
To Pay Back Wages

NEW YORK.-The Lower East Side
Unemployed Council, with headquar-
tiers at 1876 East Broadway has just
forced the restaurant boss at Malicho,
on Grand ST., to pay Mike zadansky,
626 East Fifth ST., the $40 back wages
that he had refused to pay.
zadansky made a contribution to
the funds of the Council for the con-
tinuation of its work. Zadansky
pointed out that other workers, whose
pay had been held back by Malicho,
who had filed suit in the courts, but so
far the cases have not come up, and
the charges the workers had to pay
in the suit have almost amounted to
the sum due them.
On the same night the Council
forced this payment of back wages,
it stopped an eviction at 1888 Madison
St., putting back the furniture that
had been thrown out.
All unemployed workers are urged
to report at any time to the Coun-
ellis headquarters to assist in the in
creasing work of organizing the work
ers against evictions and persecution
by the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
BRAZIL, PERU IN
NAVAL CLASH
u. S, Pushes SIh am
peace" Moves Behind
Scenes
By CURT.

Brazilian Warships are reported to
have claShed with Peruvian war YES
sells on the upper reaches of the
Amazon River. One Peruvian vessel
was sunk. The Brazilian Govern
ment is rushing troops to the Peru
Wan borders near the town of Le-
ticia, where Colombian and Peruvian
troops are engaged in one of an
increasing number of undeclared
wars raging over wide regions of the
criSis-torn capitalist world.
The Bellanca Aircraft Corp, of
Wilmington, Del, is filling an order
OF ten military planes for the Bra
lillian Government. u. S. munition
makers are rushing orders for CO.
icmbia and Brazil, as we'll as for
Bolivia in its undeciared war with
Peru, for Japan in its robber war
on the Chinese People and for the
butcher Marking Government in
its war on the revolutionary Chi
nese masses,
The Brazilian Peruvian naval clash
is another step in the extension of
the undeclared war between Peru and
Colombit. The government of Ecua-
dor recently modified troops against
Peru. Brazil and Chile announced
their intention to protect the "neu-
trality' of Ecuador, The conflict re-
fleets the present extremely sharp
struggle between U. S, and British
imperialists for markets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Legislature at Special
Session Plans to Cut
Wages All Over State

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dec. 4.-The
special session of the state legisla-
ture, which Acting Governor Leh-
man has announced for Dec. 9, is
being called not merely to put over
big wage-cuts for New York city en-
ployes, but for workers in other cities
throughout the state. This was made
clear in a statement issued last night
by Lehman, who came here to ad-
dress Inner of the State Conserva-
ton Association. One of the largest
groups to be effected will be school
teachers.
At the same time Lehman also
/ stated that, despite the constant in
crease Of mass misery and starva-
ton. the question Of unemployment
and veterans relief would not be
taken up.
The special session of the Iegisla-
ture has been called at the behest
OF the Wall Street bankers who con-
troll the New York city, as well as the
state government and who are de-
termined to slash at least 10 per
cent from the wages of low-paid
civil employees while the unemploved
are left to starve.
The big demonstration for vinter
relief in New York City on Tuesday
at noon will protest against this
wholesale wage-cut drive, which has
the backing of Roosevelt and the
entire Democratic Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Charity Dope Peddler
annoyed" at Workers
Who Want Cash Relief

There are 100000 workers in this
city who are suffering from real dis
tress, 100000 city "unfortunates"
whom "we' should help as we would
our neighbor, Harvey D. Gibson,
chairman of the Emergency Unem-
ployment Relief Committee, said
sweetly to 200 block chairmen at a
substantial luncheon recently at the
Hotel New Yorker.
Mr.. Gibson confessed he felt at
first ashamed going around asking
workers for money, but that he was
pretty hardened to 1t now, and in
fact has come TO believe that he was
doing the workers favor.
The fourth winter of the crisis has
made 1t dreadful for the capitalist
landlord of New York, John D.
Rockefeller, Gibson said. Rockefeller
has thrown 100000 the committees
way, and the Rockefeller Institute
$75o.0oo, which is only half last years
donation.
Mr.. Gibson also said he was deeply
annoyed because impoverished work.
ers spurn the food tickets and the
inferior food at the Municipal Lodg-
ing House, and want cash instead.
The committee is suffering from a
Sinking spell' because it is not COL
lecting the money it expected to, he
also revealed.
Not through the miserable boss
charity peddled by Gibson, but
through organized struggle for re-
lief. on a city, state and national
scale, will the unemployed win their
demand for the right to live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
A. c. w. Still Helps
Bosses Cut Wages

NEW While Hillman and
the other officials of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers of America
are making fake gestures of de
handing wage increases" from the
bosses, they are at this very time
showing in practice that they are
just as much as ever in league with
the bosses who keep forcing wages
down.
At the Brotton Hall Shop, 140
Fifth Ave, rs to 80 workers were
thrown out of their jobs, and, with
the permission of the A. G. w. Off
Gals, the work was sent to Amalla
Cosana, 500 Broadway, where it is
being done at much lower wages.
At the Change Shop, 381 Broome
ST., the boss has owed the workers
$700 in wages for some time, but the
union has taken no steps to collect
the money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

directed by Merven lie Roy. A re-
view by David King workers Film
and Photo League.
THE advertisements in the capitalist
4 press, the billboards on the fences
around vacant lots and the front of
the theater that is showing 81 Am a
Fugitive From a Chain Gang" will
sizzle with the producers and exhib-
itors' screams that here, at last, is a
picture that tells the whole truth,
exposes a vile practice to the public
eye But just as you've been fooled
by truth about SEX films coming
out of Hollywood, so you'll be fooled
by truth about government and JUS
tice" films coming from there.
When the film shows the chain
gang, it's shown only as a stage for
our hero, and more falsely, as a
single injustice having no connection
with our otherwise pure beautiful
and justly administered courts and
government.
Neither do they show you the truth
Of a whole class and a whole race
prosecuted and oppressed by this
noble American institution. Our
hero, white and looking, re-
turned from that romantic World
War, begins to whine Realistically
about the lack of romance in his
factory, escaping from his hamper
ifanp routine 10 ,.iHn tho
down the country, until mistaken
crime in carefully unidentified state
lands him in a chain-gang, where we
are privileged to see the mental and
physical tortures he, as a sensitive
individual, undergoes there. He es-
capes, rises in the world to the post
of skilled and wealthy engineer, is
betrayed, returned to the chain-gang
(sonle more mental and physical
torturel, escapes again, leaving the
film dangling in the air, an unfin-
ished statement, less than a half
truth. Where do we see the corrup-
ton of the courts, the maneuvering
Of the politicians and bosses who fill
the gangs with workers who protest,
Negroes who demand their rights?
No, we're not allowed to see any
of this because it's not relative to
the distressing adventures of Paul
MUM, Paul Mum does not play the
part of a Negro, so we are shown
none of the facts available in Spi-
yak's book, Georgia Niger" The
part the Negro race plays in the Aim
is curious one. We are led to
suppose that a Negroes life in
prison camp alternates between sing
ing songs and sweating picturesque
ly. Nothing is shown of the separate
quarters for Negroes, special punish
ments (tortures), lynching or casual
murders of Negro prisoners. Paul
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
50 MORE FARMERS
G @ 7 @ CAPITAL
Demand Moratorium
on Taxes, Mortgages

MARSHALTOWN, Iowa, Dec. q
Eighty farmer delegates for the Ma
tional Farm Relief Conference IN
washington Dec. ITO, started We'd
nesday from this city. Most OF the
delegates in this group come from
Nebraska, North Dakota and Mon
tana.
No Forced Sales.
The National Farm Relief Confer
ence will meet in Washington Dec
7 to 10, with representation from al
the farm states, some SO state dele
cations being already assured. The
delegates are all elected at mass
meetings called by the United Farm
ers League or local bodies on a uni
ted front basis, or are elected by
the rank and file of such farm Or
CARNATIONS as the Farm Holiday
Association, Farmers Union, Grange,
etc. whose leadership opposes the
conference.
The conference will work out q list
of demands centering upon those OF
a moratorium on payment OF taxes
and mortgage debts, no foreclosures
or tax sales, and real relief WITHOUT
relief or discrimination, for the
ruined farmers.
The demands will be presented TO
Congress.
SIOUX CITY, Ia Dec. 2. - The
northwestern column of farmer dele
gates to Washington reached here
Monday afternoon from Sioux Falls.
The delegation had held demon
stration in Sioux Falls to demand the
release of Alfred Long. sentenced
to 80 days for leading the farmers
strike movement there.
Four hundred and fifty assembled
here to greet the farmer delegates
at meeting held Monday evening.
Speeches of welcome we're made by
Pete Legget, farm strike leader In
Iowa and by Secretary Orville Of
the Sioux City unemployed council.
The delegates had dinner pre-
pared for them with food collected
by the unemployed council here.
There will also be mass meeting
to welcome the delegates back from
Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
FORCE HOSPITAL
TO TAKE WORKER
Starvation Cases Here
Expose Mckee

NEW YORK, Dec, 4.-Cases Of
starvation and sickness coming to the
attention of the Daily Worker con-
tinue to expose the miserably in
adequate city relief" system,
A homeless and unemployed worker
who collapsed on the street was taken
to the headquarters of the w. I. r.
at 146-5th Ave This organization
called for a city ambulance and de-
manded of the ambulance doctor,
DR.. Monroe, Of the BellevieW Hos
pital, that the worker be taken there
for treatment.
Although the man was obviously
in a serious condition, the doctor
stated that the hospital is over
crowded with emergency cases and
that he is continually "bawled out"
for bringing patients there.
Ambulance Forced to Take Worker
The worker, who was in such a
condition that he could not speak
coherently, was finally taken in front
of the ambulance where a crowd
AttiSfA1y SdGlASlCN' - lE W -otdilQClo
seeing the critical condition of the
man, expressed their indignation and
forced DR.. Monroe to take him into
the ambulance. Several persons
wanted to accompany the sick man,
but were not allowed to ride in the
ambulance.
Workers who followed the ambul-
ance found on their arrival at the
Bellview Hospital that the sick man
had been dumped out at the gates
without being taken in. A crowd
that gathered around him as he lay
on the sidewalk demanded his adj
mission to the hospital, but no med
icaI attention could be secured. When
asked why he took the sick man into
the ambulance in the first place, Dr.
Monroe replied that he wanted to
get away from the crowd. The I'm
employed Council took up the fight
in this case, and the man is now in
the Hospital.
Family Denied Relief
At about the same time it was re-
ported to the Daily Worker that M.
Cushing, an unemployed worker with
his wife and two children, had spent
the night riding in subway trains,
having no other place to stay. They
had been turned down at two relief
agencies on the grounds the family
is too small to warrant relief
Daily reports of this kind expose
the statement made by Mckee last
Wednesday that mo one needs to go
hungry or homeless" in this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
W einstein Trial Set
For Tomorrow In
Bronx County Court

NEW YORK, Dec. Sam Vein
stein, the framed-up furniture work
er who is being charged with man
slaughter developing out of strike
that took place in Brooklyn, is
coming up for trial at the Bronx
County Court, Arthur Avenue and
fremont, Tuesday, December 6, at
10 am. Workers are urged to attend
the trial.
Various organizations are respond
ing to the call of the I. L. D. to raise
funds to cover the immense cost of
the defense. The workers of the
Hinsdale Youth Center, 313 Hinsdale
Street, will hold mass meeting and
concert on Saturday, December 10,
at pm. for that purpose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
PROTEST SHARKS
ROBBERY OF $40
Call Demonstration at
Muller's Today

NEW YORK-The License Bureau
still allows the brigand Muller
Agency, 1l73 Sixth Ave-. to continue
rcbbing the workers. Since last year
the Muller Agency has had IA work.
erS of the Sixth Ave. Job Agency
Grievance Committee of SO w, 3sth
st. Jailed for interceding for robbed
workers.
Last Friday a worker reported he
had been sent out on one of those
fake jobs of the Muller Agency which
was supposed to pay $50 a month,
and for this the Muller Agency took
$40 down, and was to take $40 the
first pay day. The job did not ex-
list and the shark refused to return
the money. The Sixth Ave. Commit
tee has called demonstration to be
held at IL am. this morning in front
of the agency.
The Sixth Ave. Job Agency Griev-
ance Committee has just forced the
Hanover Employment Agency, 1247
Sixth Ave-, to return SO taken from
Nancy Lee, homeless telephone oper-
ator, for job which netted her SO.
The agency charged 81 to provide
a job paying $50 monthly as tele-
phone operator at the Georgian
Apartments, 168th ST. and Broadway.
The girl was fired because she be-
came ill on the job. She slept three
nights in the 50th ST. bus station,
on subway trains and in the streets.
The agency refused to give back her
fee until 1.-THE Fighting Sixth" COM
mittee picketed the place.
Other Victories.
Other victories of the grievance
committee included the return of SIS
to worker by the Academy Employ
ment Agency, 1881 Sixth Ave. This
worker went to work as a vegetable
man at SIT Fulton Ave-, Brooklyn,
but found that the job had been
misrepresented because he had to do
cooking, dishwashing, etc. A COM
mittee of made the job shark come
across.
"The Fighting Sixth" also recently
forced the Public Service Employ
ment Agency, 1888 Sixth Ave, to re-
turn $7.40 in fee and carfares taken
from Sylvia Tomanelli, 701 E. 175th
St., and Alice Runner, 345 43rd ST.,
Brooklyn.
The committee also forced the
Academy Employment Agency, 1871
Fifth Ave, to give back $210 taken
from Alfred Bohmke, 346 E. 84th ST.,
for a job which lasted only a week
at the Radio Coffee Shop, 849 Tenth
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
owe Demand"
First ChiIdren's
Pamphlet Is Out

Reviewed by JOHN ADAMS
WE DEMAND" by Helen Kay,
issued by the National Committee
of the Unemployed Councils and
the Young Pioneers of America.
Price 2 cents. p. o. Box %, Sta,
One hundred or more lie.
THE story of "Anyboy and ANY,
girl Anywhre" Is an important
weapon In the arsenal of the fight
ers against hunger, the working
class.
This is a primer for children that
is really understandable by them
and presents the answers to their
questions about unemployment in
their own language.
Its introduction mentions that it
was issued on the eve of the leaving
Of the children's delegation to
Washington. That little group of
Young Marchers" that has made
history in the struggles of the IN
employed. Its widest distribution
will aid in the organization of chill
dren and through them their par
ents in the con1rning struggles of
the winter.
1t is woven around the death Of
Freeman Violette, Jr, of Albany.
Freeman was a veteran-owrker's
son who died in his classroom while
the champion of the forgotten
man" was campaigning and delud-
ing workers on how he would over
come the crisis if they would only
put their trust in him. Freeman
was a school child in Albany, the
capitol city of Roosevelt's stated
The explanation of capitalist
overproduction is so simply brought
in that no child will fail to grasp
it. We hope that every revolution
airy worker and his organization
will order this pamphlet immedi-
ately and thus guarantee the next
of the series in the fight against,
child misery, hunger and labor.
Circulate it widely among child
rem.
The failure to mobilize wide
struggles of children has been one
of the weaknesses of the unemploy-
ed struggles so far. Thus the
pamphlet is also a primer for adult
workers. Read it and learn the
language and thoughts Of the chill
dreni
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
800 HOSPITAL
WORKERS FIRED
Foreign-Born Kicked
Out by City
BULLETIN

I'm
NEW YORK.-The Department
of Hospitals has announced that it
has fired 800 foreign-born EN-
ployes. They will be replaced by
native-born workers at reduced
wages, Commissioner J. G.. william
Greet announced.
NEW YORK.-'Twenty- foreign
born nurses at the Bellevue hospA& !
psychopathic department were no1-
fed Saturday that their services
would not be required after Decem-
Der IS.
Many of the workers affected have
been undergraduate for seven and
eight years. Formerly those nurses
living outside of the hospital received
$l25 per month, and those living in
the building 500. Now all will get
$40 monthly, regardless of where
they live. A new requirement to
help lay-off both hative-born and
foreim-born is that each must have
at least two years of college besides
being a high school graduate.
Nurses in other departments will
be notified today either that they
are to be laid off or are to receive a
cut in pay. Nurses might look at
what has happened to general help
who have been there number OF
years. Many receiving $50 month
were laid off and rehired at $50 per
month.
A meeting will be called this week
for the nurses to come to and plan
resistance to the lay-offs and the
wage cuts which the lay-off makes
possible by splitting native and for
eign-born workers The nurses
should demand no lay-off and wage
cuts and hiring of more nurses to
stop the terrible strain wnder which
the staff is now working.
At the same time that nurses are
being fired, sick workers have been
coming to the Daily Worker to tell
how they are being turned away or
thrown out of beds when they are
hardly able to walk, with Bellevue
Hospital giving as the reason that
there is lack of facilities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
RoLPH THROUGH WITH
MOONEY"

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. A.
Governor James Rolph, Jr, tool of
the big open-shop bosses who want
to keep Tom Mooney rotting in San
Quentin jail till he dies, declared to-
day he was through with the Mooney
case" The workers of the world are,
however, not through with the
Mooney case; they are rallying be-
hind the campaign of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, determined to
force the release of this great labor
martyr.