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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
Scottsboro Boys Appeal from Death
Cells to Toiling Youth of the World

} only ones helped us down here
been the International Labor De-
fens eand the League OF Struggle for
Negro Rights. We don't put no faith
In the National Association for the
Advancement OF Colored People.
They give some of US boys eats to
60 against the other boys who talked
for the LID. But we wouldn't split,
nohow. We know our friends and
our enemies.
Working class boys, we asks you
to save us from being burnt up on
the electric chair. Yves only poor
working class boys whose skin is
black. We shouldn't die for that.
I'VE hear about working people
holding meetings for us all over the
world. We asks for more big meet
ings. It'll take lot of big meetings
to help the l. L. D. and the L.S.N.R.
to save us from the BOSNIAN down
here.
Help us boys. We amt don moth
ing wrong. We are only workers like
you are. Only our skin is black.
"(Signed) Andy Wright Olen
Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Charlie
Weems, Clarence Norris, Haywood
Patterson, Eugene williams, VIII
lie Robertson"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
NATIONWIDE.
FIGHT ON WAR
ON APRIL 6
Workers in Many
Cities Prepare Dem
OnstratiOns
Defense of U. S. S. r
Protest Robber War
On China

Intense preparations for Ma
tional Anti-War Day, April 6,
are under way in many cities.
Huge outdoor and indoor de-
monstrations Of Negro and
white workers and sympathetic
elements are being arranged
for vigorous mass protests a.
gainst the robber war on
China, against the criminal
preparations Of the imperialists for
armed intervention against the Sow
let Union and its successful Socialist
construction. The fight for the
Scottsboro boys, against the decision
of the Alabama Supreme Court up
holding the lynch verdicts against 7
of the boys, will be in the forefront
of all the demonstrations.
Chicago TUUL Conference Supports
Anti-War Day
In Chicago, parades and meetings
are now beng held in working class
districts, with special attention to
the huge Negro district on the South
Side. Meetings are being held at
factory gates, special leaflets and
shop papers are being distributed.
The main anti-war demonstration
will take place on April at Union
Park, Ogden and Randolph.
In Indiana Harbor, an open air dem
onstratioin will be held at 4.30 p. m.
at Broadway and Alder Streets on
April 6.
In Gary, an indoor meeting is being
prepared Tor April at 730 p. m. at
1914 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

CHICAGO, April /. Unable to,
put over a go per cent wage cut on
$4,000 coal miners in Illinois, Ohio,
West Virginia and sections of Ohio
and Indiana the U. M w. A. officials
and the coal operators have entered
into an agreement merely to stop
work for a 30-day period and to act
to prevent the miners from conduct
ing militant strike. The purpose
of the silent truce" is to wear down
the men and then to permit the coal
operators to make their drastic cut
of from the so-called scale of 500
day to $500 or $500 and even less.
The vast majority of the miners
are on part time work, and the new
rates mean utter starvation for them
and their families.
The closing down of the mines on
April LIST in the Illinois. West Virgil
MIA and Ohio coal fields followed a
conference between the Illinois Coal
Operators Association and the Of
ficials of the United Mine Workers
of America
No agreement had been reached be-
cause the rank and file OF the UMWA
are dead set against wage slashes,
the men knowing they are faced with
starvation already, and that a fur
ther cut means death by hunger to
their families and the miners.
The UMWA officials. who in many
cases have acted with the state au-
thorities to Jail militant miners on
criminal syndicalist charges because
they called for strike against wage
cuts, are agreeable to wage cut snd
want to do all they can to help the
operators out. The wage cut of 60
per cent however. is too steep to put
over in one fell swoop. Hence the
compromise on shutdown, with no
preparations whatever for strike ac-
tiWty or organization for a militant
struggle against tht wage cuts.
All the capitalist newspapers recog-
nize the betraying nature Of the
Strike, the United Press saying;
Pvt the shut-downs in the Illinois
and Indiana fields we're described as
neither strikes nor lockouts. How
ever, mine operators of District an
nounced at Terre Haute, Ind, they
would reopen tomorrow with non
union labor
The bosses in many cases art going
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
u. s. EXPERTS
SEE EARLY WAR
DURING SPRING

Washington military experts
openly hinteG yesterday that
the japanese should send more
troops into Manchuria to crush
the struggles of the heroic
Manchurian masses and insurgent
soldiers. American imperialism thus
again expresses its support for the
Japanese in their butchery Of the
Chinese people and its desire that
the Japanese imperiahsts should
speed up their plans for armed in
tervention against the Soviet IN
ion, with Manchuria as the principal
base for the Japanese operations
TIL; New York Times reports;
Military experts here feel that
Japan must have greatly increas-
ed forced in Manchuria before or
der can be restored"
The japanese puppet government
in Manchuria has imposed an en-
barge against the shipment Of wheat
to Vladivostok, Soviet port in the
Pacific. according TO a Washington
dispatch to the New York World
Telegram. The dispatch alleges that
the Soviet garrisons on the Siberian
border are further strengthening
their positions. 1t reports Washing
ton officials as admitting that such
steps would be in self-defense, 1t
says:
"These moves were viewed In in
formed circles here as directed to-
ward defense in case Siberia should
be invaded by Japan. Toxic has
denied that Japan has any such
intentions
Another Washington dispatch re-
ports Washington officials as anti
cipating major warfare" in Man
churia during the Spring. 1t says:
"The situation in North Man
churia is extremely grave and there
is every possibility of major war
fare there during the Spring, con-
fidentiaI reports reaching here to-
day indicated"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
Ten Years OF Communists
Press in the United States

revolutionary unions-Tampa, Ken
lucky, California, etc., on the Com
munist Party (outlawing in Tampa,
Kentucky, etc..
The dangers are overshadOwed by
far by the possibilities, and therefore
it is the duty of the Party and its
members TO penetrate ever more into
the masses Of workers in the shops,
particularly Of war industry.
The first and most powerful
weapon of the Communist Party and
the revolutionary movement in the
fulfillment of this fundamental task
is the Communist press. Millions OF
workers synpathize with the Soviet
Union. They must be informed on
all the developments in the Soviet
Union in the building up Of Social
ism. They must be informed about
the provocations against the Soviet
Union through the capitalists, their.
agents. the socialdemocrats, the re-
negades, white guards, etc. (plot to
assassinate Stain, Chicherin, etc).
They must be instructed about their
duty in defense of the Soviet Union
and the Chinese masses.
Carrying out this tSak in ar excel
lent manner is our DAILY FREI-
HEIT, which is winning the workers
in ever larger numbers for the re-
voiutionary movement, not only in
sentiment--but especially in ORGA-
NIZATION. The Freiheit is one Of
our best instruments in bringing this
about.
All workers should attend the de-
monstration at Madison Square Gar
den on April 2, in demonstration
against imperialist war, for defense
Of the Chinese masses and the Sow
let Union, in protest against the
savage lynch verdict against tbs ming
Negro Scottsboro boys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
TO ALL WORKERS, EXPLOITED
FARMERS, NEGRO AND WHITE,
MEN AND WOMEN!

There is only one way out of the unprece-
dented misery and oppression OF the toilers. This
is the way of united and organized mass strug-
gle. If the working class is not to be plunged
into still greater poverty, into the slaughter
house of new world war, 1t must fight with all
its might against the economic and political Of
fensive carried on by the capitalists and their
government.
The Communist Party calls upon the workers
to establish this united fighting front around the
following demands
1. Unemployment and social insurance at
the expense of the state and employers
2. Against Heover's wage-cutting policy.
3. Emergency relief, without restrictions by
the government and banks, for the poor farm
ers; exemption of poor farmers from taxes,
and from forced collection Of debts.
4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self
determination for the Black Belt.
5. Against capitalist terror; against all
forms of suppression Of the political rights of
the workers.
6. Against imperialst war; for the defense Of
the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union.
1t calls upon the workers to organize this united
resistance in the coming election campaign by
sending delegates to the National Nominating
Convention to be held in Chicago on May 18th
and 29th.
All workers and farmers. Negro and white, and
their organizations; all persons and workers or
CARNATIONS prepared to support militant work.
ers' platform and candidates. are invited to par
ticipate.
Participation in this convention is not limited
to members and organizations of the Communist
Party. o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

NEW YORK.-Similar lies have
appeared recently in the American
bourgeois press, which together with
the whole imperialist press, is busy
Slandering the Soviet Union in a vi
cious campaign designed to deceive
the masses and win them for the
plans Of the inperialistS for reac-
tionary war against the successful
construction Of Socialism in the So
Wet Union.
Only yesterday the New York
Times carried a dispatch from Buch-
Arrest which tries to give substance
TO the lie that Red Army soldiers
have shot down fleeing" Soviet
peasants with the additional lie that
a commission appointed by the So
Wet Government and the Rouman-
ian government is to investigate the
shooting" AS an added touch, the
dispatch adds that the investigation
may take place on Soviet soil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

On April 2 at Madison Square
Garden, the tenth anniversary of
the Freiheit will be celebrated. This
is an event of great Importance TO
the Communist Party as whole and
to the centric revolutionary move
ment. Ten years of the Freiheit is
also ten years Of Communist press
in the United States.
There was a Communist press in
the United States before 1922, but it
was not OF continuous character. The
attacks of the capitalist government
on the Communist Party and the re-
volutionary movement in January
1920, and the driving of the COM
munist Party underground, made the
work of the revolutionary Party diff
ficult. But, like all revolutionary
movements, the Communist Party
persisted and with its persistence
grew the need of revolutionary dali
lies, and out of this came the Daily
Worker, the Freiheit and many other
papers.
We rejoice in the tenth anniver-
sary of the Freiheit, but this re-
joicing must be a signal for the
working class. We must not close
our eyes to the dangers confronting
the revolutionary party and its press.
The capitalist class OF the United
States, facing the acute crisis, which
is growing deeper, facing the grow
ing revolt of the workers against
hunger and wage cuts, is plotting
further attacks on the workers and
is preparing for war against the Sow
let Union. In order to carry this
out, they are making savage attacks
on the foreign-born workers (deport-
ations), on the Negro workers
Qynchings, Scottsboro), on the revo-
lutionary unions deportation for ac-
tivity in the TUUL, outiawing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
BIG PROTEST
APRIL 6 ON
SCOTTSBORO
Defense of Boys to Be
In Forefront of
Anti-War Meets
Demand Their Release
Protest kilograms
Pour in on Gov.

The fight against the Scots
boro lynch verdicts, against
tn savage national oppression
of the Negro masses, will be
in the forefront of the nation
wide anti-war demonstrations next
Wednesday, April 6. In many cities
preliminary meetings are being held
in the Negro districts to draw the
largest possible number of Negro
workers into the demonstrations.
In Kansas City parade and dem
onstration of Negro and white work.
ers through the thickly settled Negro
section of the city will be held on
April 6. 1t will be lead by band
and truck bearing an electric chair
surrounded by eight Negro youths,
synbolizing the boss terror. The
parade will start from 18th and Pa
SEQ at p m. 1t will proceed through
the most important streets of the
Negro section, winding up at 2 O.
clock at 18th and Paseo, where the
big anti-war demonstration will be
held. The demonstration will raise
the demand for the immediate and
unconditional release OF the Scots
boro boys, of Jess Hollins, Negro
young worker Of Oklahoma, and of
Tom Mooney and other class war
prisoners.
Preliminary meetings and open air
rallies are now being held. A canvass
is being made Of all Negro organiza-
tons by the >Scottsboro-H ollins De-
tense Committee, urging them to
take part in the demonstrations. Ir-
enc Hollins, young wife of jess Hol-
Inns, is taking most active part in
this work. Comrade Hollins has al
ready signified her support of the
struggle of the revolutionary move
ment for Negro rights by becoming
a member Of the Young Communist
League.
Comrade Hollins was one of the
main speakers at a recent protest
meeting against the Alabama lynch
verdicts. The meeting was held at
the Workers Center, Kansas City.
Other speakers included Mother Ella
Reeves Bloor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
Is ARE ARRESTED
AT SCOTTSBORO
MEET IN CHATTA.
Duncan, KY. Miner, Is
Held for Murder"

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 1.
An orderly Scottsboro protest
meeting was stopped here by the
police last night. Workers were just
beginning to gather. About wtenty
had arrived when two carloads of
police, armed with rifles and pistols
surrounded the group and arrested
fifteen.
The police we're accompanied by
Police Captain Perkins and Judge
Fleming. The arrested are Jane
Dillon, Sam Borenstein, w. II.
Duncan, Idela Boynton, Adam Will
son, Charlie Holt, J. w. Hurston,
Fred Starr, Jim Williams, Perry
Hill, william Boynton, Ben Nor
rison, John Montgomery, Thomas
Montgomery and Richard Robinson.
They were all piled into one
patrol wagon and were jim crOwed.
The charges are disorderly conduct,
lettering, vagrancy and blocking the
street.
The meeting was being held on
an upaved side street ws:ere there
were no traffic. Dillon and Boren-
stein are out on $3.50 bond each.
Duncan is being held on suspicion
of being wanted for murder in
Kentucky" Continuation la asked
by the prosecution on the grounds
of investigation"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

only effective method at this time to
smash the go per cent wage cut drive
of the coal operators.
The National Miners Union Is
calling on the $4,000 miners now out
and hogtied to organize local rank
and file strike committees, to go into
action into real, mass struggle
against the wage cuts; to form
united front Of all miners, regardless
of union affiliations, and to prevent
their betraying officials from carry
ing out their plan Of wearing down
the miners in order to help the coal
operators put over their wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
.gainst the Soviet Union.

against the Soviet Union.
During the past few days numer-
Gus reports described as from "spe-
cial correspondents" have been pub
lished featuring "Ukrainian revolts,
hunger riots in Moscow" etc.
These reports are pure and simple
inventions. A good example OF the
lying character of these reports is
the dispatch by the bourgeois Tele-
graph Union published in numerous
German newspapers, according TO
which fierce collisions occurred in
various parts Of Ukrania on Easter
between religionists and atheists
when the latter attempted to inter
fere with Easter celebrations"
The clever bourgeois correspondent
forgot that there are no Easter cele-
brations in the Soviet Union at the
time of the Easter celebrations in
western countries, that all branches
OF the Orthodox church holding Eas-
ter celebrations will hold them the
first and second of May this year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

the train by mob and framed up
on rape charges.
"At the trial they give us in Scots
boro we could hear the crowds yell
ing. Lynch the Niggers.' We could
see them toting those big shotglns
Call at fair trial?
"And while we La; here In Jail,
the BOSNIAN make us watch EN-
burning up other Negroes on the
electric chair. This is what you'll
get,' they say to us.
What for? We amt done Moth
ing to be in here at all. All we done
was to look for Job. Anyone Of you
might have done the same thing
and got framed up on the same
charge just like, we did.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

MONTGOMERY Ala. April From the death cells in
Kby Prison. where thy ehav beeen held under conditions of
the most CHASTITY torture since the mock trials the lower
at Scottsboo Aa the eight Scosboro boys send the
following appeal to the young workers the whole world to
rally the fight to smash the hideous rameup and
lynch murder verdicts
From the death cell here in Kilby Prison. eight of
Scottsboro boys is writing this to you 4
eve have been sentenced die for something we amt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
Workers, Comrades:

Workers, Comrades:
Millions of workers and farmers are
starving in the midst of plenty. I'm
employment continues to rise. Wages
have been and are being ruthlessly
slashed under Hoover's regime of hun
ger and oppression. The standard of
living of the vast millions of toilers are
being driven down to pauper levels.
Capitalism has exposed it's bankruptcy
and it's inability to feed the working
people.
The big business interests, in order to keep
up their high profits and swollen fortunes, are
violently attacking THE workers standards on
all fronts. Increased exploitation and oppres-
sion and new inperialist wars are the two-fold
means being used by the boss class to get out
of the economic crisis.
Imperialist war; with its bloody sacrifice of
workers lives, have already started in the Far
East against the Chinese people, war which
is being Systematically developed by the robber
nations into war against the workers father
Iand-the Soviet Union. In fear Of the growing
strength of the Soviet Union, where no crisis or
unemployment exists the capitalists are organ
izing their forces for intervention. War against
the Sovets is an immediate danger.
United States imperialism behind the screen
of peace maneuvers and sham pacifist phrases
is rapidly preparing to throw its forces into this
robber war.
The capitalist politicians-republican and
democratic-aided by the leaders of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and the socialist party
are forcing through their starvation and war
program against the workers by means of terror,
by suppressing the workers rights, by means of
beatings, lynchings and murders. The fight for
the defense of the standards of living of the
masses and the rights Of the workers to fight
against starvation and war the burning is
sues before the millions OF toilers today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

never done. Us poor boys been
sentenced to burn up on the
electric chair for the reason
that we is workers-and the
color of our skin is black. We
like any one of you workersKr ieta
is non of us older than 20. Two of
us is IA and one is 10 years old.
"What we guilty Of? Nothing but
being out of job. Nothing but
looking for work. Our kinfolk was
starving for food. We wanted to help
them out. So we hoped freight
just like any one of you workers
might done-to go down to Mobile
to hunt work. We was taken off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
$4,000 Miners Out on Strike in Coal
Fields Face U.M.W.A. BETRAYAL

ahead with the idea of hiring scabs,
and the UMWA officials do nothing
about it, keeping the men from
picketing.
The Associated Press states: I'm
Illinois and Indiana the shutdown
was neither a strike nor shutout
There was no agreement to continue
operations"
The The same capitalist service
declared: mo trouble was expected in
any Of the fields"
In only one instance was a DEM
onstration of any kind planned and
that was at Bellaire, Ohio. In all
other mines the UMWA officials are
doing all they can to prevent picket
ing or militant strike activities, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
By MYRA PAGE.

MOSCOW, April 1-As part of the prep
arations for capitalist armed intervention
against the Soviet Union, the bourgeois and
Socialist" papers in the European capitalist
countries are intensifying the campaign of lies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
Bourgeois Reporter Slips in Reporting
CLASHES" on Easter Holiday Coming
May l and 2
Workers! Answer the War Preparations
Against the Soviet Union! Demon
strate April s
Soviets Increase Wages II to 20 Pc
While Bosses Prepare War

MOSCOW April IA per cent the
heavy will effect today
the the engineering personnel in
light hevay
Communist Party formerly received the lowest
pay, the wage increases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
For Working Class Unity IN the Election Ca,ubGigm!
Against the Hunger and War Offensive OF the Capitalists!
For the Workers Ticket>>> Candidates of the Com
ma.nist Party Against Candidates of the Bosses

ALI workers organized in trade unions, workers
fraternal organizations, or other bodies; all I'M
organized workers, through meetings called in
factories. mines, or in their neighborhood; all
unemployed workers through their Unemployed
Committees and Councils are urged to partic-
ipate In the local conferences which will be held
in all cities from May 5th to May 22nd Subject
to the call of local Party committees) and from
these local conferences elect delegates to the
National Nominating Convntiou
National organizations supporting the aims of
this convention may elect two delegates each
direct to the Chicago Convention District Com
mittees OF the Communist Party may elect one
delegate direct.
The Communist Party which calls this Con-
vention, is the only Party which has forewarned
the working class OF the present crisis and the
attacks Of the bosses, and urged them TO prepare
1t Is the only Party which has consistently or
ganized the fight for unemployment insurance
and carried on an aggressive strike policy in the
industries against wage cuts and against every
attack upon the workers rights
Fellow workers. the capitalist system is bank
rupt. The. workers need and must fight for
new system system of Socialism On the basis
OF a united and militant struggle for the defense
of the living standards of the workers the tcileYs
must fight their way out Of the crisis; they mist
abolish the capitalist system and establish
Workers and Farmers Government.
Join In the local conferences send delegates to
the Chicago Convention. Forward to fighting
united front against the explorersi
Central Committee, Communist Party,
U. S. A.
All correspondence relative to the election cam
paign should be addressed to the National Cam
paign Committee, IS East 18th Street. 9Th Floor,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
Demonstrate at
Ford's Exhibition
of New Model Cars

DETROIT, Mich, March 81
Workers greeted the exhibition of
the new Ford Models today with
several demonstrations despite the
heavy detachments of Murphy's
police at the display stations. Five
Max ireland, organizer of the
Young Communist League, was
sentenced to 30 days in Jail today,
for speaking at Ford's plant last
month during the preparation for
the bloody Ford Hunger March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

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