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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Stay Asked for in
ScottSboro Appeal
To Supreme Court
LID Demands Ala. Pay
Cost of First Appeal
Before New Trial

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. s.
Motion for a stay of all proceedings
in the trials Of the nine innocent
ScottSboro boys until the state OF
Alabama pays the costs of the appeal
to the U. S. Supremede Court has
been filed with that court by Osmond
K. Fraenkel, attorney retained by the
international Labor Defense, and will
be hear Monday, Nov. 10.
The motion cites the assignment
of $1,452.55 in costs, nearly all of 1t
for printing of the appeal, by the
U. S. Supreme Court to the state of
Alabama, which was the defendant
in the appeal, won by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, in a decision
handed down Nov. 7, 1882, granting
the boys a new trial.
With November ~ set as the date
for the opening of the new lynch
trial before XII Klux Khan Judge W.
w. Callahan, and with Attorney Cen
eral Thomas E. Knight calling for
the nine boys to be brought for ar
raignment to the lynch town of De-
catur, November 20, the motion, I'M
less decided Immediately by the Su-
preme Court, would have the effect
of delaying the trials.
No precedent has ever been set for
the decision of the court in so-called
criminal case, but the law calls for a
stay of all further proceedings by the
losing side in all Eases coming up
to the U. S. Supreme Court until
costs are paid up as assessed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

ders the strikers back to work. The
decision, crassly revealing the
strikebreaking role of the N.R.A.,
follows close on the heels of the
Swope-J ohnson plan of placing the
MIRA. in the exclusive hands of a
board of the biggest manufacturers.
The decision of the Roosevelt gov
eminent against the silk strikers is
the carrying out in practice of the
plan to strengthen the attack of the
big bosses against the workers. The
decision outlawing the silk strike
will be applied to all other indus
tries as the brutal answer of Roose-
welt to the wave of strikes of the
workers and farmers against starry
alton.
The Friday edition of the Pater-
son Call, in eight-column headlines,
announces "Silk Strike Outlawed By
Labor Board Edict." The Friday
Paterson News, also reflecting the
government policv Of openly declar-
ing strikes illegal, states, "Senator
Wagner Orders Silk Strike Called
Off"
The leaders of the United Tex
tile Workers Union have already
accepted the demand that the strike
end, and Frank Schweitzer, secre-
tary of the U.T.W. in Paterson, has
issued a statement urging the strik-
ers to return to work on Monday.
The decision calls for an average
wage of $25 for 40 hours work" for
the weavers. No minimum wage is
definitely set for other crafts. With
regard to the weavers, the minimum
wage is not guaranteed. The Pater-
son manufacturers state that they
will accept providing the same
scale is applied to the entire in
dustry."
General johnson has announced
that he will make a survey" of the
industry nationally to see what
steps can be taken to eliminate
unfair competition"
The decision thus means that the
strikers are instructed to return to
the mills, without any written
agreement guaranteeing a minimum
wage and with only vague promises.
The wording of the decision, if &C
cepted by the workers, enables the
employers to find many loopholes to
cut wages later. The decision is ac-
companied by warning from Sen
ator Wagner against future strikes,
stating ANY dispute arising out of
the application of this decision shall
be submitted to the National Labor
Board"
The threat means that the whole
force of the Roosevelt government
is to be brought against the silk
strikers, in case they do not return
to work, and a repetition of the ter
ror of Ambridge against the steel
workers, following similar govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
ONWARD TO WORKING CLASS POWER BY THE BOLSHEVIK ROAD
Red Parade
March in 3
BOr0S Tonite

NEW YORK.-With bands of
music, autos, loud-speakers mounted
on trucks, red flares, banners and
motorcycles, workers of New York
will parade through the working
class sections of Manhattan, Brook
lyn, and the Bronx tonight in sup
port of the Communist Party in one
of the biggest election parades the
city has ever witnessed.
The Communist Party issued a
statement yesterday calling on all
its members to join in the parade.
Hundreds of open-air rallies will
be held before marching and will
join the parades all along the lines
of march. The main starting points
are as follow:
Manhattan and Bronx: 6 pm
Rutgers 3d.; 6:45-Union So; 8
p.m.-72d st. and First Ave-; $3.50
Seth st. and Lexington Ave-; $50
both st. and Cypress Ave-; 9:45
Ave. and 161st St.,
Bronx: 10 p.m.-Wilkins and Inter
vale AYES, Bronx; 10 p.m.-Aller-
ton Ave. and Bronx Park East.
Brooklyn: $3.50 p.m.-Fifth Ave.
and 50th ST.; s p.m.-Tompkins and
Hart Sts.; $50 p.m.-Cleveland and
Blake AYES.
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ce which Marx had given us.

tice which Marx had given us.
A reaction land at times healthy
reaction of unripe proletarian rev.
olutionists) against the non-Marxian
"sky-pilot" opportunism Of the S. p.
and against the dead pseudo-Marx-
ian sectarianism Of the s. L. p, was
the great wave of anarcho-syndical-
ism after 1907 when the I. w. w.
broke from DeLeon. Up to the very
moment Of the october 1917 Revolu-
ton in Russia, the I. w. w. repre-
sented still vital reality as an or
ganization Of the unskilled masses,
and momentarily presented magni-
ficent heroism and martyrdom in the
struggle against war. Being non
MARKHAM and never having risen
above the theoretical level of petty
bourgeois anarchist syndicalism, the
I. w. w. then rapidly sank to its
present state OF decay.
And all of the parts Of this kaleido-
scope were in fact-really an adap-
tation to American capitalist life and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Japan Moves Troops
Toward Soviet Line

PEIPING, Nov. 3.-Japan has
reversed its previous stand and
permitted Chinese forces with ar
tillery and machine guns to po-
lice the "demilitarized" area be-
tween China and Manchukuo, thus
releasing a whole Japanese divi-
sion for operations against the
Soviet Union, it was revealed to-
day.
Japan has suddenly withdrawn
ell it, forces from the "demili-
1arised" area, 50 they can be
hurled against the Soviet Union
ut short notice. This new policy
reveals complete collaboration of
the Marking government with
Japsn's anti-Soviet plans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
White House Hints
Approval Of Swope
Fascist Proposals
fWashington nureaul

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 81
The White House today character
lied the Swope plan as very inter-
esting and affirmed in response to
question that the time for putting
such a project into action is not
now opportune.
In discussion Of the proposal,
significantly, there was no refer
ence to the Swope-Johnson pro-
grams admitted intention to draw
industrial control into a few hands
of the nations biggest business in
terests and outlaw strikes.
1t was said at the White House
that the present temporary mechan-
les of the N.R.A. will ultimately
evolve something permanent, that
many plans for this will be forth
coming in the next three or four
months and undoubtedly something
will be evolved to meet the two-fold
object of MIRA. The latter were
explained as the prevention Of big
economic swings such as occurred in
the past, and the amelioration of
conditions at the bottom Of the eco
nomic scale. 1t was in this connec-
ton that the Swope plan was
termed very interesting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Mass Anger Forces
Talk of Federal
Probe of Lynchings
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
(WashinRton Bureaul

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. - The
Department of Justice today in
formed the Daily Worker that fed
eral investigation of the lynching
Of George Armwood IN Maryland
and Dan Pippen, Jr., and A. T, Har-
den, in Tuscaloosa, Ala, Is now re-
ceiving serious consideration in the
Department.
I'VE are now studying both of
these matters" an official close to
Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings, said. "If we have authority
to investigate, we will use it. Both
questions are in the hands of an
assistant attorney general.
The demands for investigation Of
the shameful Princess Anne lynch
ing were transmitted to Attorney
General Cummings by Louis Mac
Henry Howe, secretary to President
Roosevelt, who received them from
a delegation of white and Negro
Spokesman for mass organizations.
The. group, led by William L. Pat
terson, secretary of the Internation-
al Labor Defense, gave Howe evil
dence to show that constitutional
rights are being scotched by the
failure of Maryland authorities,
from Governor Richie down, to
bring about prosecution of known
leaders of the mob who murdered
George Armwood, Negro worker.
The attorney general personally
received specific demands for fed
eral prosecution of Sheriff R. l..
Shamblin of Tuscaloosa. Ala, who
deliberately delivered Pippen, Har-
den and Elmore to bloodthirsty
mob. The gang murdered Pippen
and Harden and attacked Clarke
and left him, apparently believing
him dead, on lonely Alabama road.
The case was presented by spoke5-
men for the LID, the American
Civil Liberties Union, the National
Committee for Defense of Political
Prisoners and the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Coll
ored People.
That was last August. The attor-
ney general asked the delegation to
submit brief. This was done, and
weeks having elapsed without ac-
ton. two more memorandum were
submitted. on Aug. "a and Oct. 10,
respectively, by the International
Juridical Association.
And in these communications the
whole train Of the barbaric events
that led to the mass murders is
traced for the attorney general,
along with summary Of the two
other lynchings which followed in
Tuscaloosa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
pite of Position of American Imperialism

airy proletarian party. entrenched in
the depths OF the industrial work
ing class. 1t was there that the
chain broke. But the thing that
broke was a chain. 1t was a chain
Of worldwide imperialist states,
single world system.
The Russian revolution became
the greatest creative event of all
history an event after which all
things in all countries must change.
It was land Isl the mortal blow to
an old world. and the birth OF a
new.
The proletarian revolution that
broke out and triumphed in Russia
was and Is as natural force in
developing the American proletarian
revolution as, for instance, the dis
covery Of America in 1892 was an
inevitable and natural force in
breaking down feudal restrictions
and paving the way for the bour-
Continued on Page -
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to the imperialist system. Each
school was, in its own unconscious
way, conforming to the American
imperialist system. Each was an I'M
conscious product of the relatively
high standard of living of this Cuba
footing imperialism and its chauvi-
mist theology, or Gin the case of some
sections of the I. w. W. a product
of blind reaction against it on the
part Of the unskilled proletarian sec
lions, chiefly of the West.
1t was inevitable that in this
country of strong imperialism, these
conditions would produce such re-
suits.
DUT other historical conditions in
u the old Czarist Russia (within the
same world complex produced a
weakest link" of imperialism, and
at the same time produced also the
strongest revolutionary culture of
theory inseparable- practice and
the strongest and boldest revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

were overlooked. In this country OF
highest wages, the trade union move
ment, through its official leadership,
openly declared its enrnity to social
ism. It declared its solidarity with
capitalism In claiming for 100 per
cent white American" skilled work.
ers, . share in the loot Of imperial
ism. Ohcial labor" (best repre-
scented by Mathew Vol after Samuel
Gompers) became the most agrees
sive baiters Of inferior" peoples,
biggotted discriminators against Ne
groes, open apologists for lynching,
and organizers Of strike breaking
against the unskilled masses.
Tho Socialist movement itself, prior
to the effects Of the Russian Revolu-
ton, was in that general state Of
opportunistic corruption pictured BIZ
Lenin in his pamphlet, Estate and
The theorists of the
Socialist Party Of the pre-war years
were such men as Hilquit, Spargo,
and. yea, the Reverend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
By JEROME ARNOLD

NEW YORK. - Kindling wood -
that's what the neighbors called the
two-story frame house at 361 Bristol
St, Brooklyn, where eleven Negroes
were burned to death early yesterday
morning by raging fire "of unknown
origin"
The origin of the fire may be I'M
known. But the rapid way in which
the ravenous fire ate into the rotten
walls and interior is no mystery. The
house is made of dry, weather-beaten
wood-the kind Of finder you put into
a stove to start fire. The only means
OF exit from the top floor is an old,
rtckety staircase which was the first
thing to burn. There's a fire-escape
but it reaches only to first story nee
essitating drop Of about fifteen feet
to the street. The alarm was turned
in few minutes after the fire had
started by Mary Edwards, IA, a Negro
girl who saw the smoke from her bed
room across the street at 203 Livonia
Ave. But it was almost twenty min
utes before the first engines arrived,
and the house was already ablaze
from bottom to roof.
The trapped Negroes never had
chance. Most of them we're children
who, finding the only means of exit
barred, ran screaming from room to
room until they fell from the smoke
and flames. The dead we're:
Marjory Singleton, 16.
James Singleton, Is.
Freddie Singleton, 7.
Daisy Harden, %.
June Harden, 6 months.
Mrs. Beatrice Lindsay, IS.
Robert Lindsay, AZ.
Robert Lindsay, Jr., 8.
Jessie Harris, 40.
Mildred Lindsay, Is and William
Harden, 81, died later in the hospital
from their burns. Juanita Harden,
S, was severely burnt and Is in Beth
Ell Hospital in critical condition.
Thre others, Dan Login, Roland Sur
back, and Charles Smith were burnt,
but not seriously.
Mrs. Lindsay was an active worker
In the Amboy Street strike last spring
and was chairman of the recent Con-
ference Against the High Cost Of
Living held in Bronxville. Her hus-
band was going to vote Communist
for the first time.
The only one who escaped I'M
harmed was w. B. Carter, Negro
preacher, who escaped by crawling
through q window in the back of the
bottom floor where he slept.
II was awakened by a cracking
sound about In the morning" he
told the Daily Worker reporter. 1.-THE
kitchen was full of smoke. There was
great rushing noise. got up and
ran to the door. As opened it the
ceiling In the kitchen fell with
crash. ran to the back and got out
through a window"
A glance upwards from the interior
Of the hall tells the story of an angry,
roaring fire. From the bottom of the
stairs huge patches Of grey sky
peaked through the charred rafters
Of the flre-eaten roof. The hall, the
rooms were black and numerous holes
In the walls show where the fire had
burnt through.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
CAPTIVE Mine
STRIKERS GET
DIRTY DEAL
Lewis Kin Helps Keep
Union Demand from
Capital Con f a
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.--The cap
tive miners delegation, led by the
United Mine Workers of America to-
day, admitted to the Daily Worker
that they did not protest to Ce''H-a
Hugh S. johnson, N. r. A. Admins.
traitor, against the Presidents a-.--.--
breaking agreement with Johz l.
Lewis and the steel owners.
The delegation was escorted into a
conference with General johnson by
A. Dennie Lewis, brother Of John L..
Lewis.
1--WE are just going to talk over
the situation with General Johnson"
william Hynes, President Of District
No. 4, U. M. w. A., and head of the
delegation, replied, when asked
whether he would demand full union
recognition.
1--WE are going to see what the
Presidents agreement means"
"Are you here TO protest against
the Presidents declaration?"
"No, we just want an explanation"
"Hines. are you going to continue
picketing until you get full union
recognition?"
''I cannot answer that now"
Martin RyaIl; so-called insurgent
leader, fully supported Hines.
mo, we are not here to protest.
We are just here to have this agree
ment explained" he said.
The delegation, which answered
the Daily Worker Correspondents
questions, in spite Of Lewis efforts
to prevent their being questioned,
consisted of 8 miners, including the
leaders.
General johnson, without making
any announcement, escorted the
delegation to the White House to
see President Roosevelt.
The statement of Hynes and Ryan
are especially significant when con-
trasted with their announcements
last week in Washington that they
were demanding full union recogni-
ton before returning to the pitts.
The delegation spent most all today
visiting Lewis brother in his luxuri-
Gus quarters in the fashionable
Carlton Hotel.
Even some of the conservative
newspapermen here characterized
the delegation as just a junket at
the expense of the striking miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Tenants
Win Rent Strike

The rent strike which had been
going on for two months at 8l2
Suburban Place, Bronx, has been
settled with a victory for the
striking tenants. The Charlotte st.
Centre Of 14A7 Charlotte st. with
whose help the strike was sgc-
cessfully carried through, appeals
to all the tenants of the neighbor-
hood to come to the centre and
help organize = block committee.
Only through strong, united or
ganization can tenants fight for
and win their demands. Let the
unity Of the tenants Of S12 Su-
burban Place be an example for
all the tenants Of the neIghbor-
hood. Come to the Charlotte St.
Centre and help build . strong
organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
By MILTON HOWARD

1t is veteran Bolshevik fighter,
a seasoned and trusted representa-
tive of the Communist Party and
the Soviet Union who will land in
this country when M. Litvinov, So
Wet envoy to the United States,
steps off the Berengaria this Tues
day and Immediately takes the train
for Washington.
Lityinov comes to discuss with
President Roosevelt the possibility
of establishing complete diplomatic
relations between the United States
and the Soviet Union.
His invitation by the United
States Government is tribute to
the extraordinary victories of the
Soviet Union in the field of indus
trial development and diplomacy.
Once Snubbed In Europe
Fifteen years ago, as the repre-
sentative of the new Soviet Govern
ment, born out of the fires of pro-
letarian revolution, Litvinov was the
most snubbed diplomat in Europe.
Today he no longer has to wait
III dHtS-IoOlIlS VI ldCe VIC naughty /,
cold stares of the Foreign Agents Of
the European powers.
Today, Litvinov, as the represent
alive of the Soviet Union, the only
country in the world that has es-
capped the devastating effects of the
world crisis, walks boldly into the
conferences of European diplomacy
and takes his place at the forefront.
Outstanding Diplomatic Triurnphs
Even the most practiced of CAPT
talist diplomats grudgingly admit
that his is the most outstanding rec
ord of diplomatic triumphs in the
world today, triumrhs all dedicated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Lit, inov, Fighter for Peace,
Is Staunch Bolsheyik

to the unsuitable peace policy of
the Soviet Union and to the tri-
umphant building of the Socialist
Power.
And this is all the more astound-
ing when one remembers that Lit
vinov, who has so triumphantly
crossed swords and vanquished the
most astute and willy capitalist dip
lomats of Europe, has never had
one day of formal training as a dip
lomat.
The greater part of his life has
been spent as trusted representa-
tive of the Central Committee of the
Bolshevik Party of Russia, led by
Lenin.
Worked In the Factories
Born in 1876, he began his politi-
cal career in 1898 as a revolution
airy propaganda among the factory
workers of Russia. While engaged
in this work he was seized by the
Czarist police and imprisoned. While
in prison he met some Of the Boil
sheviks of the revolutionary news
paper, Iskra. He Joined this group.
Soon after he was deported to East
ern Siberia by the Czarist secret
service police.
However, his ingenuity was a
match for the Russian police and
he escaped from Siberia and fled to
Switzerland. Not long after, at the
calling of the historic Second Con-
gress of the Russian Social Demo
cratic Party where, led by Lenin,
the Bolsheviks broke away from the
opportunist wing of the Russian So
cialist Party, Litvinov became a
Continued on Page 81
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Workers Throughout America
Celebrate Red Anniversary.
To Pledge Defense
of U.SS.R.;; Support
All Red Nominees
Meetings Planned in
Hundreds of
Cities

NEW luna OIhSfS III
hundreds of cities and towns
of the United States will join
tomorrow and Tuesday with
millions of workers throughout
the world in celebrating the
day on which, sixteen years
ago, one-sixth of the world was torn
from the grip Of capitalism.
They will greet the workers OF the
Soviet Union, who in the sixteen
years since November 7, 1917. have
created achievements unparalleled in
the history of the world.
In the United States, torn by the
final crisis Of capitalism, suffering
starvation, misery, and the desperate,
ruthless efforts Of the capitalists to
smash their resistance and herd them
to war as the capitalist way out, they
will celebrate the victorious advances
Of Socialism, and the end Of crises
and unemployment in the Soviet
Union.
At thousands Of meetings through
out the land, the American workers
VIII draft and send their greetings
to their brothers In the Soviet Union,
who have shown them the reyolu-
tionary way to final freedom.
While hailing the achievements Of
the workers of the Soviet Union,
who seized all the productive powers
of their country from the grip of
capitalism, and, in Is years, trans
formed the whole land and them
selves with it, the workers of Amer
lea will look forward with renewed
courage to their own Nov. 7, when,
in their turn, they will smash the
(CoNttrMed on Paoe y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
BY ROBERT MINOR

Communist Candidate for Mayor Of
New York;
4 THOUSAND incidents OF class
"A struggle from the California
cotton-fields through the coal mines
and steel mills Of Pennsylvania, to
the silk mills Of New Jersey and the
shoe factories Of New York, reveal
the Communist Party more and more
as the native revolutionary Party OF
the American working class.
And precisely because It Is the
native growth Of q revolutionary
movement historically due -precisely
for this reason, 1t is profoundly In
fiuenced by the Russian Revolution.
Rain does not stimulate seed to
growth, except when the seed is
there and the ground Is rich.
Up to 1917 the revolutionary move
ment In the United States was in Q
primitive state that might almost
seem incredible If It's historic causes
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TOWARDS A SOVIET
AMERICA!

You can help hasten the day when shall celebrate
Victorious Workers and Farmers Soviet Republic in the
United States by building strong the Daily Worker which
agae organizes and mobiles the forces for the desc
ton of capitalism in America The drastic drop receipts in
the $4,000 Drive this week mpers the life of Revou
tionary Organizer the Daily Worker Rush funds to at
once! Help it fight for A SOVIET AMERICA
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Hathaway to Speak
at Washington Meet
On MIRA. Tonight

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Clarence
Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker, will be the main speaker at
. mass meeting at Jerusalem Hall,
1909 18th St. NV, at o'clock this
evening. He will speak on the
MIRA, which The Daily Worker has
been carrying on consistent attacks
and exposes.
The meeting Is being arranged by
he local Daily Worker campaign
coeUnittes.