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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Carolina Supreme
Court Sets Death
For Framed Negro
IL. D. Charges Court
Purposely Erred to
Quash Appeal

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-The North
Carolina state supreme court, DELHI
erately passing on an incomplete APP
peal to justify its lynch-maneuver,
has ruled that John Lewis Edwards,
Negro boy framed on charge Of
numbering a street car conductor,
must die December 8.
The International Labor Defense,
handling the appeal, have charged
that the clerk Of the court, and the
court itself, deliberately made an
error" in passing upon the papers
filed in the appeal before they were
complete, after notifying the I. L. D.
attorneys that the case would not
come up until spring.
This gave the supreme court an
excuse to throw out the appeal on
technica grounds, though the evil
dence clearly showed Edwards in
nocence. This n1aneuver, the I. l.. D.
charges, is evident in the setting of
SO close date for the execution
another attempt to prevent action to
forestall the legal murder.
Stay of execution is being demanded
by the I. L. D., while its lawyers
prepare the necessary papers to conf
plete the appeal. The LID. has asked
that ell workers and workers organi-
cations throughout the country, help
stop tl-;3 local Scottsboro legal lynch
ing b. rushing protests to Governor
Eheringhaus, Raleigh, N. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Masses in Harlem
Parade,P ledgeFight
for Scottsboro Boys
Minor Urges Solidarity
Of Negro and White
to Save Boys

NEW YORK.-Thousand OF New
York Negro and white workers
marched Saturday in Harlem to pro-
test against the massacre of the nine
innocent Scottsboro boys by Southern
lynch justice. Thousands m lore
cheered from the sidewalks.
Massed at six concentration points,
the workers marched from 18th st.
and LenoX Ave, to 18th st. and It'll
Ave, then returning to the meeting
place at 131st Street and Lenox Ave.
Immediately following the I. w. O.
band which led the parade was line
of girls each bearing one letter of the
message, STOP LYNCHING" A float
depicting Gov. Ritchie of Maryland
hung in effigy with the inscription,
1--WE shall not forget him as the MUIR
derer Of Fuel Lee" There were pla-
cards stating Mass Protest Will Save
the Ecottsboro Boys" Full Social and
Political Rights for the Negro"
The crowd we're SO large that two
meetings were necessary to enable all
to hear the speakers though they
spoke throut anpliflers.
Robert Minor received g tremen-
dous ovation, redcubled when he de-
clsrcd that THE Scottsboro boys are
the symbol OF Negro oppression" and
that it was time to meet the lynch
ers with we'll organized defence corps. +"
Charles Krunbein, District Organizer
of the Communist Party, declared
that "It is the task of the Comrnu-
mist Party to lead in the struggle for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
BY JOHN MILLER

NEW YORK Standing under a
huge red banner, bearing the ham,
nner and sickle and the Soviet star,
Con,Inissar for Foreign Affairs
Maxim Litvinoff warned 1,5OO guests
assembled in his honor, among them
leaders OF American finance, politics
and culture, of the danger of war
which hangs over the world. He also
read them lecture on the achieve
n1ents of the October Revolution.
Litvinoff spoke at dinner and re-
ception given in his honor at the
Waldorf Astoria Friday night. on the
eve Of his sailing for home after OBJ
tanning the recognition Of the Soviet
Union by the United States.
The affair was under the auspices
OF the American Russian Chamber
Of Commerce and the American
Russian Institute. The POSTMASTER
was Col Hugh l.. Cooper, builder of
Muscle Shoals, who for q number Of
years has served as consultant for
the Soviet Union on important en-
gineering projects, including Dnie-
prcstroy. The only other speaker out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27

side of Comnlissar Litvinoff and
Colonel Cooper, was Colonel Raymond
Robbins, who was sent to Russia in
1917 as member of the American
Red Cross Mission. All three speak
ers stressed the achievements Of the
Soviet Union and the Importance of
recognition for world peace.
AS the guests entered the Waldorf
Astoria ballroom band struck UP
the American national anthem. This
was Immediately followed by the In
irrational, for which all the guests
Ienained standing.
Litvinosf Frank On Live Issues
The outstanding characteristic Of
Conmissar Litvinoff's speech was its
frank reference to burning issues of
the day He minced no words either
about the war danger or about the
revolutionary basis of Soviet society,
and took pains to describe those So
Wet achievements which, by their
striking contrast, bear directly on
fundamental problems in American
capitalist society.
He made clear that In signing the
religious clause In the recognition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Rush Tag
Day Funds!

THE Daily Worker Is being pub
lished under the most strenuous
difficulties. The breakdown OF our
press has forced ms into extra ex~
pense TO get the paper out.
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not know from day 10 day how
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ing the required $4,000, Comrades
Every bit of IL must be raised II Ne
want our Daily" to continue.
Only two Districts, Seattle ana
soston have gone over their quotas.
Not another District has as yet
raised its quota.
IMMEDIATE ACTION is IMPEE-
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territory and raise your Districts
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
UNEMPLOYMENT CROWS COST OF FOOD RISING STEADILY
WIN STRIKE In
GLOVERSVILLE;
RECOGNIZE UNION
Independ. Union Gets
Wage Boosts; Frees
Arrested Strikers

GLOvERSVILLE, N. Y,
Nov. 26.-The militant strike
of the tannery workers of Glow
ersville has been won. Under
the leadership Of the Independent
Leather Workers Union, the bosses
were compelled to recognize the union
shop committee, to agree to wage in
creases and the release Of all arrested
workers.
T71e 1000 enthusiastic strikers will
celebrate with Victory March today.
They hail the Needle Trades Union
and their militant leader Solomon for
aiding them win the seven-week
strike.
These strikers fought their way
through red scares, Burns detectives,
a hostile yellow press, NRA arbitra-
ton, strike breaking boards, i'm
prisoning bosses and scabs in the
mills, and thus forcing the employers
to surrender.
Strike leaders throughout all these
attempts at intimidation, pointed out
that the Communist Party is the only
party supporting the strike and that
it is the only party which supports
all struggles Of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Labor Board Kills
StOckyard Strike
Called for Friday
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-A strike
in the stockyards of Chicago, scene OF
the historic struggle of 1921, has been
squelched by the National Labor
Board at the demand of Union Stock
yard and Transit Company. Officials
flew to Washington last Friday, it
was learned today, and made their
plea to Chairman Wagner OF the
Labor Board, who complied imne-
diately.
The strike had been called for noon
Friday. Seven hundred fifty workers
were directly involved and it was ex-
pected several thousand others would
Join them. Wagner wired the Anal
gamated Meet Cutters and Butcher
Workmen "a. F. of L. and the Live
stock Handlers Association "a state
chartered, independent union) in
structing them to hold off until the
Board could investigate, and also tele-
graphed the regional labor board in
Chicago to inquire into the situation.
A Labor Board official said today both
unions telegraphed compliance.
This same strikebreaking tactic has
been used by the National Labor
Board in several other cases. 1t
means see-sawing the workers between
Washington, which acts directly when
the bosses interests are at stake, and
regional headquarters, to whom the
national office passes the buck when
the workers interests are pressed.
Must Organize TO Answer Betrayal
The stockyard workers Of Chicago,
working under the harshest speed-up
and with the smallest Of wages, have
been betrayed by the officials Of the
Amalgan1ated and the Butcher Work
ers unions. Now they have the task
of answering this treachery, which
robs them Of their demands, by or
ganizing their rank and file opposi-
ton,
The stockyard workers should unite
all workers, regardless of what union
they belong to, or whether unor-
ganized, by electine united front shop
committees to enforce their demands
on the employers, the NR.A. and their
reactionery- officialn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
NRASendsP otatOes,
Bread, Milk, Soaring
High '32LeveI
US. Reports Commod-
ity Price Now at Peak
Since March

WASHINGTON, Nov. rs. -
AS a result of the Roosevelt
inflationary price-raising pro-
gram and gold price manipula-
ton, the costs of the most
common food necessities are now
from Is to ~ per cent higher than
they we're six months ago, the Bureau
Of Labor Statistics revealed today in
its latest retail price report.
At the same time, during the week
Of November 13, wholesale commodity
prices reached sle peak of the ad-
vance which begsn eight months ago,
Commissioner OF Labor Statistics Of
the U. S., Isador Lubin announced
yesterday. The whole commodity
price index is now at peak Of 71.71,
compared with 500 in March.
Slash in Real Wages.
This sweeping advance in the costs
OF daily food necessities has ac-
tually resulted in deep slash in the
average workers real income.
This is confirmed by the report
issued yesterday by the American
Federation of Labor head, William
Green, who could not conceal, in his
latest report, that the weekly real in
come of the average worker in this
country, as measured by his ability
to buy daily necessities, has been
driven down below the level of March
when Hoover was in office.
Even Green's carefully doctored
figures revealed yesterday that the
real income of the American workers
is now ID per cent below the March
level, six months ago. Actually, the
decline in real income is far greater
being closer to 10 to Is per cent.
The rise in the costs Of food was
strongest in bread, eggs, milk, lard
all cereals Gas a result of the Roose-
welt grain destruction program, but
ter, rice, canned peas and peaches,
(COnttuued on Pn0e y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Workers Will Hail
Soviet Recognition
in n. Y. Wednesday

NEW YORK.-Recognition of the
U.S.S.R.-the latest victory of the
Soviet Union-wilI be celebrated
Wednesday night at the Bronx Coli
scum, fifth st. and West Farms by
thousands of New York workers.
Preparations have been made by
the Friends of the Soviet Union ard
the IGOR, under whose joint aus
pieces the affair has been arranged,
for outstanding speakers and per-
formers to take part in the celebra-
ton. The meeting will begin promp-
tly at 8 p. m.
An outstanding array of talent
will present a Recognition Cycle"
to Soviet music, by the New Duncan
Dancers, assisted by a group Of
twenty. Countee Cullen, famous
Negro poet, Corliss Lamont, DIR.
Harry r. Ward, M. J. Olgin and
Herbert Goldfrank will speak on
What Recognition Means"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Paterson Strike Is
Sold Out by U. 7. W.
Leaders Agreement
Right to Strike; Wage
Demands Abandoned
in Silk Struggle
BY CARL REEVE

PATTERSON, N. j., Nov. 26.-The
United Textile Workers Union lead
ers, after four days OF secret con-
ference with the silk manufacturers,
have prepared a betrayal agreement
which means complete defeat for the
10000 broad silk strikers. This SELL
out agreement, which has not been
made public as yet, includes an
agreement not to strike again and
sets up compulsory arbitration
board" The U. T. w. leaders agree
to acceptance of the 50 per 100000
pick rate, about $1S week, and even
less, but also agree that the wage
clause shall only last go days, after
which wages shall be revised. The
wage rate now accepted by the U. T.
w. leaders is the same rate or less
than that which the strikers rejected
nine weeks ago in the Infamous
Washington truce" which MacMa-
hon tried to force upon the strikers.
Admit Wages Cut
The joint statement OF the manu-
facturers and the U. T. w. leaders,
issued by Abe Greene, city editor of
the Paterson News, who sat in the
secret conferences as impartial
chairman, admits that the wage
agreement is unsatisfactory to the
strikers. The statement tries to
soften the blow by saying "the silk
workers of Paterson, as a loyal and
faithful people, patriotic and good
citizens, are entitled to higher rate
of compensation than circumstances
today will permit"
The q. T. W. leaders, to cap the
climax of their betrayal, agreed to
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ministration will dictate the wages
and working conditions of those on
forced labor, in order to assure a
constant supply of cheap labor on
government jobs The decision means
that tine Roosevelt government is
preparing to smash expected strikes
and protests of the unemployed
workers as soon as they learn that
the forced labor plan of Roosevelt
will reduce wages and will keep many
unemployed both off relief lists and
off forced labor as well.
The board of three will be under
the direction Of Senator Wagner Of
the National Labor Board who has
broken a number of strikes already in
the interests of the employers. Plac-
ing all labor on public works funds
under the direction Of Wagner will
put the government in position to
exercise terror against unemployed
workers who protest against low
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Scottsboro Defense in Danger

unless funds sc to
Decatu immediately
International Labor
Decatur
the Callahan that all
the slightest delay the stated
Defense its immediate drained
defense must be Immediately
of Sc0ttsboro
dollar TODAY
working class solidarity
International Defense Room 49, so East
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Litvinof Warns of WarDanger, Points
to Soviet Progress, on EVe OF Departure

agreement, the Soviet Union merely
reiterates its well-known position on
religion
Saying humorously that he and
President Roosevelt tried to propa-
gandi5e each other, Conlnissar Lit
vinoff said:
1.-THE President submitted me to a
kind of religious propaganda, and I
in my turn tried TO persuade him OF
the soundness of certain principles
expressed in the will of the famous
American, Stephen Girard, who
thought it best to exclude all ecclesi-
astica1 activities from the college
which he founded in Philadelphia. !"
Stresses Capitalist Crisis
Nor did Commissar Litvinoff n1ince
words regarding the scuteness Of the
capitalist crisis.
THE upheavals caused by the
great war in the political, economic
and social structure of the capitalist
world" he said, mot only have not
ceased, but are displaying a tendency
to extend still further their destruc-
'Nt1-.tsrped en- psys e7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Workers Real Wage
Below March, Green
Admits in Report
Unable to Hide Decline
in Living Standards
Under NRA
Daey Worker Washington Bureau)

(DaAy Worker Washington Bareaul
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. -
Unemployment in October in
creased as against the previous
month, William Green, Presi-
dent of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, announced today III
an official statement based on Trade
Union reports and Government sta
tistics"
Green reported that 1o,076,o0o
were out of work in October as com
pared with 1o,065 900 unemployed tn
September.
In addition, says Green reports
from trade unions show alb per cent
out of work in the first part Of No
vember, as compared with 21.7 pei
cent in October"
Wages Below March
Green also admits the drop IN real
wages since the Inauguration of the
MIRA" The individual workers rea'
income Is SIN below March By IL
I per cent?
Despite the fact that the unem
ployment increase is higher by hun.
dreds of thousands If not millions
because Green is necessarily lin1iter
to reports of his own A. F. Of L. trade
unions and the indispensable gov.
eminent reports, in addition to the
millions OF workers who report to No
organization, Green continues Il
ballyhoo the MIRA.
The head of the A. F. of L. bureau.
cracy attempted to explain away "thii
slight increase" as due to the fac
that although unemployment gainec
little in October the gain was no
enough to absorb those seeking wori
for the first time"
Both these records Indicate cav
Green "that the MIRA. program il
keeping the employment situation
! under better control than is usual a
this time of year." He says nothine
about the millions of workers he ant
gvernment officials announced, woulc
be back to work by the fall.
Spread Work Grows
| How little the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration program of pay
ing premiums to well-to do farmer
for ploug1ing under crops has llelpeC
the farm laborers is shown by Green.
own figures that 'lay-offs affectins
5000 on arms, $4,000 in canneries
we're reported for October.
The hundreds Of millions pouret
into the railroads by the Reconstruc
ton Finance Corporation and tn,
Public Works Administration resulted
in lay-offs affecting 1000 workers
Green's figures as far as the labor
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Ruby Bates Rests
After Operation;
Still in Danger
Not Yet Able to Make
Deposition for the
Scottsboro Boys

NEW YORK. Ruby Bates, Scots
boro defense witness, was resting
easily in New York Hospital yester-
day, after undergoing a major opera
ton Friday, the international Labor
Defense announced, but she is not
yet out of danger.
It Is doubtful whether she will be
in a condition for several days, to
make a deposition answering the
questions drawn up by Attorney
General Thomas z. Knight Of Ala
barna, and Joseph R. Brodsky, +. L. D.
lawyer, in regard to her testimony
at the trial Of Haywood Patterson,
last spring, when she recanted her
previous forced testimony Of "rape"
and became the chief defense witness,
it was said. Julius Appelbaunl, OF
80 Broadway, has been commissioned
by the Decatur court to take this
deposition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Experts Testimony
on Forged Jury Roll
Ruled Out by Judge
Prosecution Plan to
Railroad Negro. in
Three Days
BY JOHN L. SPIVAk
Especial Correspondent of the
Daily Worker.)

DECATUR, Ala, Nov. Is. -
With an allowance of only three
days for the trial in which Ala
bana seeks his life, Haywood
Patterson goes on trial tomor-
row in the Morgan County Court
house for the third time on the charge
OF attacking two white girls in a
freight car.
Three days-Monday, Tuesday and
WedneSday-that is all the time the
state of Alabama and Circuit Judge
w. w. Callahan, who is presiding,
Will give to Negro when his life
Is at stake.
And while the jury is "deliberat-
mg," Judge Callahan will rush CLAIR
ence Norris, another of the Scottsboro
Boys, to trial on Thursday morning.
TOO Much Publicity"
Alabama does not want to spend
any more time on the Scottsboro
cases. They have attracted too much
attention already, 1T has been over
publicized" in the opinion of Judge
Callahan, SO the jurist intends to
''deburlk" the internationally famous
Scottsboro cases.
Judge Callahan is determined to
rush these cases through even If he
has to continue with the late night
sessions which marked the past two
days of court It is reported that If
he tries to force the international
Labor Defense attorneys into night
sessions, Uhey will refuse to attend
on the grounds that their health is
being impaired and that they will
not be rushed in matter where
mans life is at sake.
F-a1ne-up Carefully Planned
Callahans plan to "debunk" the
Scottsboro cases, from publicity
point of view, is we'll planned. The
Clarence Norris case, scheduled to
start Immediately after the Patterson
case, will be repetition Of the
evidence taken in the Patterson case.
Newspapers throughout the country
will give much less space.
Immediately after the verdict is
brought in the Norris case, probably
by next Sunday. Judge Callahan will
adjourn court for one week. Dur
ing that time the news interest in
the case will have died down, and
when more Scottsboro Boys are put
on trial for their lives, the repiti-
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Negro liberation"
Among the other speakers present
we're William Patterson of the Inter
national Labor Defense, Leonard Pat
terson Of the Young Communist
League, Richard Moore and Fitz-
gerald of the League Of Struggle for
Negro Rights and Sam Stein OF the
I. l.. D.
When Robert Minor raised his hand
and called for pledge to fight for the
cause of the Scottsboro boys every
hand in the audience flashed up In
answer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Roosevelt Board Set Up
To OUTLAW All Strikes
On Forced Labor Jobs
Government Moves to Keep Down Wages and
Stop Protest Against Non-Union Conditions
on Public Works Jobs

uuonizaton Of workers
forced labor jobs the Roosevelt
which TO
disputes these jobs The setting
Roosevelt sd
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Recognized increased Prisoners Released

RUSH TAG DAY FUNDSl
Help the Daily Worker Meet
Pressing Bills!
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DECATUR, Ala, Nov. Is. -
With an allowance of only three
days for the trial in which Ala
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Evening star., 1933-12-11
IL FORBIDDEN VALLEY
z1Es4sa4- BY u;liamn Byron ('lo.Osu4

the lake that was old Johns Winter
home.
On the south shore, where log cabin
nestled under the pines, his gliStening
amphibian was riding at anchor. With
great sigh of relief he clipped his
weary paddle and headed for the ship.
An exultation lightened his weariness.
Time and distance, mans two old enc
mics in the vast North, dwindled to
nothing when one stepped into q plane.
Smash came out Of the cabin and
caught the prov Of the canoe as 1t
nosed ashore.
"Hullo, old mani I began to think
you wasn't going to show up at all"
He noticed Curtis haggard face, the
lines Of exhaustion. From your looks,
you just did get here"
How long've you been waiting7"
"Three days"
"Have any trouble finding the placer"
mot q speck. That chart was q
beaut" Out of sympathy for Curtis
tiredness, he nobly suppressed all the
questions boiling inside Of him. what
d'you say-what's on deck?"
Curt beached the canoe and united
the mooring ropes Of the plane. Were
leaving here. You take the controls
Inside the cabin he unfastened the
MECHANIC SeaG anu rear place, StOWeu
them in the fuselage cubby, and made
himself pallet on the floor.
Smash climbed in with the coiled
ropes. Where to, old man? North.
east, south, west or straight up?"
South" Curt bade. ITO Vancouver.
And don't let any ducks roost on your
pontoons while you're getting there"
Smash started the motor. stood out
upon the lake, lifted the strip onto the
step, took off, and circled for altitude.
High enough to clear the ranges. he
headed south.
AS he passed over the first towering
snow-cap, he glanced down at his part
ne. With parachute for pillow and
an arm bent under his head. Curt was
dead asleep.
1t was the stopping Of the engine
that reused Curt. He had become so
accustomed to the throbbing roar
through many hours that the sudden
silence Jared him wide awake.
He sat up, trying to place himself
With helmet askew Smash was slumped
down in the pilots seat. dog tired,