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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

reorganize the work of the Party to
change and improve this. 1t means
to disregard the routine methods of
work and leadership--to break
through the wall. In order to make
the turn in the work and life of the
Party, it is necessary to politically
mboilize the Party membership for
work in the points of concentration
and concrete tasks and show in prac-
tice why and how to carry the main
tasks in the points of concentration.
Opportunism in Practice
The District leadership, particu-
larly since the recent meeting of
the District Committee, made steps
towards the political mobilization Of
the Party membership in that direc-
ton. However, as yet, we have been
unable to mobilize the masses Of
the Party membership toward that
aim.
There is in existence in the Party
opportunism in practice. That is,
there is nobody in the Party who
openly sails under the flag of op-
portunism, be it the right or cleft"
variety. But in practice, they do
sail under the flag of opportunism.
There is quite a resistance toward
changing the methods of work that
have been introduced many years
ago and influence not only the old
members of the Party, but the new,
fresh workers who come to the
Party.
Let us take concrete example:
The meeting of the District Com
mittee, in discussing the problems
confronting the Party in the points
of concentration, discussed tn e
problem of the stock yards workers,
and the resolution calls for can inn
mediate drastic improvement in con-
centration in the packinghouse in
dustry." Some additional forces
have been assigned to the stock
yards. Some activities have been
developed toward building the p.
Fl. W. I. U. But the strike of the
livestock handlers came as sur
prise to us, without the knowledge Of
anyone in the Party or union even
of the preparations for the strike.
The strike of the 800 livestock
handlers signifies the growing re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Fire 1,2OO MexicanS
From CWA in Texas
500 Forced Out of us.
by Starvation
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Corresponding
Ell PASO, Texas, Dec. 26.--Over
1900 aliens, mostly Mexican. have
been taken off the C.W.A. projects on
orders from Austin, Texas. They had
been on the job about ten days. The
sudden order to drop them from the
C.W.A. projects is one of the acts of
terror, in the campaign OF the gov
eminent and the employers against
foreign born Mexicans,
On Dec. 10, a trainload OF 500 Mex
leans from Los Angeles passed
through here. They said they were
forced to return to Mexico because
all of their relief had been cut of.
The Mexican Consul here has done
nothing so far with regard to the
discrimination against Mexicans in
giving out CW.A. jobs. The Ell Paso
branch of the International Labor
Defense is sending delegation TO
demand that he take up the question
Of discrimination against Mexicans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

tive office and asked them if they
wanted me.
The detectives rushed to my house
and took me down to the police sta
ton. They phoned the high sheriff
in Napoleonville. I don't know what
he told them, but he sent telegram
saying:
Hold. this Negro Cor numbering q
white woman. District Attorney COM
ing to interview him"
They kept me in the prison at Tu-
lane and Saratoga Streets for five
days.
On Wednesday evening the High
Sheriff Hemiel, and the district at
torney came and asked me what /
knew about the crime. The district
attorney was the same one who was
there that night at the lynching.
I told them didn't know anything
about the crime, but they said they
would hold me, because the people out
in the country wanted to get me bad
They put me in the parish prison
at Tulane and Broad Streets, holding
me on q charge of murder and being
a fugitive from justice for the murder
Of white girl found dead in a cane
field.
Saturday the captain of the prison
told me to roll out, and they let me
loose.
The girls step-father had confessed
he killed her himself.
| 7 have been lynched, and it wa;
two white workers who saved my life
I want to fight against lynching, ant
I know that as long as the Negro
and white workers don't join hand.
to fight lynching there will always b.
murder and terror against Negro anc
white workers.
I know that only by getting TO.
gether and fighting together we car
smash lynching.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
DOCkerS Pack Hall
in Norfolk To Hear
H.1d|S,n4.n.. S !, q, q Ct0,;dEGa
Marine Union Growing
Rapidly; Call for
United Front

NORFOLK, West va.-FoK hun
dred longshoremen were present to
hear Roy B. Hudson, secretary OF
tbs Marine Workers Union, speak
here In the largest meeting held in
years on Monday, Dec. II.
This interest in the meeting is due
10 the rapid growth of the union,
which gained 140 new members in
the last five weeks, as well as the
cease against the International Long
i'shoremen's Association officials,
sponsored by the rank and file.
Hudson reported on the code hear
ings held in Washington Nov. g. He
exposed the role of Millner and his
henchmen. He called for the build
ing OF a united front of action be-
tween the workers in the I. l.. A.,
its rank and file groups and the
NJ. w. I. u.
Hudson showed what had been
done through united action in other
ports and explained how conditions
could be changed in Norfolk. He
praised the local for their strong
Idllh tlAAI Il4C -NOAAllhlVOOOy WAAO NcN'
taking matters into their own hands
despite the misleaders. He praised
Local 1921, who had the CUTS not to
take it lying down and come out
in an open fight against Millner.
Jeff Nichols of 1921, who was a
delegate to the hearing, gave a SPLEEN
did report, opening his remarks by
bluntly stating: Il represented the
coal trirniners' code of the rank and
file I. L. A. committee, which was
endorsed 100 per. cent by my local.
I told the shipowners what you told
me to tell them, and 1 will do it
again if you send me-
Alexander Wright Of the M. w. I,
sU. and Negro leader Of the Com
munist Party in Tidewater, va, ex-
posed MiIlner's red scare and his re-
cent attacks on the I. Il. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

unions means to leave the insaffi-
GENTLY developed or backward work
ing masses under the influence of
the reactionary leaders, agents of
the bourgeoisie."
What actually can be done inside
the A. F. of L. unions is signified
by the fact that we have Party
members in 85 locals and over $50
members OF the Party are also men,
berS of the ALL. Around this force
we can organize a powerful opposi-
ton movement In some Of the
unions where we are actually de-
veloping work, some results have
been obtained. These results bust
be popularized among the members
of the Party and convince them of
the importance OF working inside the
A. F. of L. Particularly is it i'm
portant to concentrate work among
the members of the A. F. of l.. in
the decisive unions, such as ma
chinists, transportation, especially
railroad brotherhoods, packi n g.
house, building trades, etc. That
is, to concentrate on the unions of
the A. F. Of L. in the industries OF
concentration and that is where we
are particularly weak, or in many
cases, have no contact whatever with
the workers organized in the A. F.
of L.
The response of the strikers, the
livestock handlers, during the strike
to the slogans issued by the P. H.
w. I. IT,, giving them guidance in
struggle, helping them, therefore,
to win the 10 per cent increase in
wages after the decision made by
MIRA. and union bureaucrats to
refer all the demands to the ar
bitration board, shows that the work
ers organized in the ALL. will re-
spond if we approach the problems
properly.
Concentration Around Big Shops
The entire work of the Party in
Chicago must be concentrated
around penetration into the shops
and in the locals Of the A. +. Of l..
Without clearly understanding this,
without taking organizational steps
in every unit. section and district
buro itself, work cannot proceed.
In making the turn, as demanded
by the Open Letter and as planned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Western Regional
Anti-Lynch Meet
Called for Jan. q

SAN JOSE, Calf, Dec. 27.-Jan.
81 has been set as the tentative date
for a Western Regional Anti-Lynch
Conference, in which representatives
from eleven states will participate,
it was announced by the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights and the
International Labor DENSE.
Delegates to the conference will be
elected from California, Oregon,
Washington, New Mexico, Utah,
Nevada, Colorado. Arizona, Montana
and Idaho. Clubs, unions, churches
and all organizations of workers,
over ali these states, are now being
approached to elect delegates. The
conference will be held in this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Portland Workers
Defend Negro Lad
500 Pledge Fight to
Save Jordan

PORTLAND, Ore. Dec, 27--Five hum
dred workers packed the Library
Forum last night in a protest meet
ing against the lynch death SEN
tence against Theodore Jordan, 2S-
year-old Negro worker, framed up
by the Pacific Railway Company for
the murder Of a white steward of
that railway.
The meeting, which was addressed
by Belle Taub of the international
Labor Defense, adopted a resolution
condemning the frame-up and de-
handing the unconditional release
of Jordan. The resolution was
adopted despite vicious attack on
Jordan's defense by Donald SWEET
tIand, local Socialist leader. Work
ers, indignant at the attack, threat
ened to throw SHETLAND out of the
hall and were only restrained by the
pleas Of the chairman.
Scottsboro Conference In January
CLEVELAND, Dec. 26.-A call for
q Scottsboro anti-lynching confer
ence, to be held in the latter part
of January, was issued last night by
the Provisional Committee Of the
Anti-Lynching Conference at its
regular meeting.
This is the first conference of its
kind to be held in this city, and will
express the growing indignation of
the white and Negro workers against
the rising lynch terror throughout
the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
LEWIS GETS $4,000 YEARLY
FOR STRIKEBREAKING As
PRESIDENT OF The U.M.W.A.
Resolution to Demand
Cut in Graft Salaries
of UMWA Heads

PTTTSBURGH, Pa.--In the Unfsed
Mine Workers OF America Conver1-
ton, which opens in Indianapolis,
Ind, on Jan. %, the high salaries
OF strikebreaker John L. Lewis and
other officials viii be attacked BY
rank and file delegations.
John l.. Lewis hands himself the
exorbitant salary Of $4,000, and
equaIt- salaries for his assistant
striLehreakerE.
The following resolution should be
taken up in all U.M.w.A. locals and
presented by as many delegates as
possible at the national convention:
whereas: The salaries OF the
United Mine Workers officers are
exorbitantly too high: President,
$4,000: Vice President and Secre-
tary- Treasurer, $1,000, and appointed
organizers $1,000 day or more and
ali other expenses which usually
supass the regular salary; and
whereas: The wages Of the miners
were cut to the bone in addition to
the mass unemployment and part
time employment; and
whereas: The high salaries and
expenses Of the many officers re-
ouires high dues paid by the MEM
bership whose earnings are not suffi-
Gent for the existence Of their fam
lilies; therefore be it
Resolved: That no officer OF the
United Mine Workers Of America.
shall receive more than $4,000 per
year as salary; and be IT further
Resolved: That the expenses Of
the officers of the o. NJ. W. A. be
limited to travelling expenses alone,
that is, to train fares and sleeping
rooms, and in no case TO exceed SO
per day in addition to the train
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Workers Force Big Dairy
To Reduce Price of Milk

ised the Unemployed Councils Com
rnittee that it would consider the
matter. Forced by the mass protests
of the workers, it finally decided to
lower the price to 10 cents q quart.
The Council, however, is carrying on
the fight for a cents quotation. The
Milk dealers are already beginning
to retreat on this, selling three quarts
for a cents, with all smaller pur-
chaSes at 10 cents quart.
The Unemployed Council revealed
that the rising prices Of milk do not
benefit the small farmers here in the
vicinity, since they do not get any
part OF the increases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

SUPERIOR, Wise, Dec. 26.--Led by
the Unemployed Council here the con-
sumers succeeded in forcing the milk
companies to reduce the price Of milk
from = TO 10 cents quart.
The Council circulated petition
throughout the working class neigh
borhoods. getting over 500 signatures,
which read as follows:
I'VE demand that paSteuriZed
milk, Grade "A containing at least
3.S per cent butter fat shall be sold
at no more than 8 cents a quart,
with at least so per cent Of this to
go to the farmers who sell the mix"
The Milk Dealers Association prom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Pen and Ha m m e r
Joins Campaign for
Mass Sale of Daily

NEW YORK.-The Pen and
Hammer Club, its membership
composed OF professional workers.
placed an initial order for 200
copies of the "A page, tenth an
niversary edition of the Daily
Worker.
Members of this club have vol
unteered to canvass on Red Sat-
urday and Sunday, January 9th
and It'll, with this issue Of the
Daily" which comes off the press
on January 9Th.
The Pen and Hammer Club IS
also planning to send a greeting
to the Daily Worker on its tenth
victorious year. How about the
Pen and Hammer Clubs in other
cities? Rush your orders and
greetings!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Il Was Shot At and Tortured
Then the Real Murderer Confessed"
Louisiana Negro Continues Story of Escape After Being
Hanged Tell Experiences at Meeting in Harlem Tonight

tai, which is Negro hospital Of Dill
lard University. Doctor Rhodes there
dressed my head. He is Negro doc
tor.
My mother had told him something
about what happened to me, and he
asked me some more questions. 1
told him, and told him not to say a
word to soul, because the lynchers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Detroit Challenges
Chicago on Sale of
Anniversary Daily

DETROIT, Mich.--Workers pres
emit at o general membership
here not only enthusiastically APP
proved the order Of $4,000 copies
Of the "a page, tenth anniversary
edition Of the Daily Worker, but
pledged 100 per cent mobilization
to sell every copy ordered Of the
January 9Th edition.
Detroit challenges Chicago Dis
trict to order 10000 copies. This
Is more than a fair challenge
since the population in Chicago
Is more than double than that Of
Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

handling Of these matters.
Through the Unemployed Councils
the workers are rapidly learning all
about the corrupt administration in
this town. The screw is now being
put on which is the beginning Of
large lay-offs ON these relief projects,
speeding up of those retained, and
conditions to be made as miserable
as possible.
The workers of this town have to
be modified through the Unem-
ployed Council to organize and fight
for better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Floods Damage Crops in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. II Heavy
rains caused several landslides in this
vicinity and have flooded large areas,
causing damage to cultivated lands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
5 Lives Lost as 3 Ships Founder

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich, Dec. IT.
Eight lost their lives as two tugs
sank in the worst storm in years on
Lake Michigan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

Rush your orders for the Jan. 8
Tenth Anniversary issue of the
Daily Worker. "A Pages. The big
gest and best Daily Worker in the
history of our paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
BY NORMAN THIBODEAUx
As Told to Louis Colman

AS soon as I fell, the sheriff and
two other men picked me up quick
and threw me into a car and got in
after me, and they drove away.
We're going to kill you anyway,
niger" Deputy Richards said. you'll
never get away alive"
One Of the men in the car was
Harry Codeaux. He had q big old
pump-gun. The other two, the sher-
if and the other, had revolvers.
"Nigger," the sheriff said, "say you
killed that white girl and We'll let
you loose"
knew better. I didn't say anything
except that was innocent.
Niger" he said, we're going to
show you yet what happens to mig
gers who want white meat"
They took me out to a gravel road
about five miles, then they turned
down a dark old road called Valance
Road, and said:
Get out, niger"
I got out and started to walk. The
blood was caked all over me. I was
all blood, blood. The moon was shin
| ing bright and I made for the sugar
cane. walked about twenty feet and
somebody yelled.
Run, niggerl"
1 started to run and they shot at
me three times. I could hear the
bullets singing beside my head before
I heard the sound of the shots.
They were revolver shots. Coudeaux
never fired his pun1p-gun.
I fell fiat into the sugar-cane and
| they thought I was shot. I heard
one of them say:
1--WE got the niger"
They backed out and went away.
I lay in the cane a while, resting
They could never have found me In
a week once i got into the cane.
After while I made my way to a
lady's house I knew. knew her son
They let me in, but they wouldn't dc
ANYTHING for me. She went back to
bed. They wouldn't wash of my
wounds or anything. They were
scared. About four O'Clock it was
time for them to get out to work in
the canefields, and they said to me
that I had to go.
I'VE don't want the sheriff TO come
here and hang us all" the lady said
went back through the cane tc
my uncle's house. On the way ]
passed close by to some white peoples
house, and / heard somebody say:
1--WE had cheap fun last night down
at the bridge"
ont tn nv IIncIe's house and he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
National
Events

t. U. U. C. TO HOLD ANNUAL NEW YEAR
DANCE
CH1CAGo-The Trade Union Unity League
Is celebrating its strike victories ut Its an
nuai New Years Ds6os- Ion The aeseai.ar Of
Dec. 80, at the Peoples Auditorium, 24s7 W.
Chicago Ave.
I. W. o. YOUTH BRANCHES TO HOLD
CONCERT
PHILADELPHIA.-The International Work
ers Order Youth Branches will hold con-
cert Friday, Dec. 20, at 507 South Eighth
St. An evening OF entertainment has been
planned.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF l. ". o. TO
HOLD CONCERT AND DANCE
PITTSBURGH, Ps.--In celebration OF its
participation in the $4,000 membership
drive, the Central Committee Of the Inter
national Workers order will hold a con-
cert and dance at Slovak Hall, Si6 Court Pl,
Saturday, Dec. 80 at s:iS p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

we're still after me. The paper in
New Orleans published that when they
heard 1 was alive they said they
would lynch me again as soon as
they got hold of me.
SO DR.. Rhodes called up the detec-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

prison in Atlanta. Ga, the Scottsboro
Boys and Tom Mooney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF 1. v. o. TO
6.as.6.Ex.-r
SECRETARY OF ERNST TORCHES
TO SPEAK

CLEVELAND, ohio.--Anns Schultz, secre-
tary 20 Ernst Torgler, will speak on the
present situation in Germany and the Fight
Against Hitler Fascism, Friday, Jan. II. at
Prospect Auditorium, 1872 Prospect, 1850
p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
News Briefs
Z Filipinos Killed in Church
Panic

MANILA, Dec. II. - Seven we're
trampled to death in a church when
a cry Of fire, shouted by someone
who mistook sparkler for blaze.
precipitated q panic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

How two white workers saved him
from lynching by q Louisiana mob,
and how another Negro was lynched,
was told in the first installment Of
the following article. published in
Yesterdays Daily" Today he tells.
in the concluding article, OF what
followed the first attempt to murder
him. He speaks tonight at a
meeting called by the international
Labor Defense and the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, in Tenn
pie Baptist Church, 26O Lenox Ave-,
at eight o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

Los ANGELES i. L. d. BAZAAR
Los ANGELES, Cal.-All branches Of the
I. L. D. in and around Los Angeles, together
with afiliated organizations. are pushing
preparations for the I. L. DIS fourth annual
bazaar to be held Jan. 26, n and 2s, at
27o3 Brooklyn Ave.
Evening star., 1933-01-06
ROOSEVELT TO GET
PRESIDENTS DATA
viii Confer With Secretary
Stimson on Foreign Situa-
ton When Convenient.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The pages of the Hoover book on
recent American relations with foreign
powers are to be opened to President
elect Roosevelt for his guidance in deal
ing with international questions after
March 4.
At time convenient to the incoming
Chief Executive, Secretary of State
Stimson will sit down with Mr. Roose-
welt and supply him with all the in
formation, experience and policies
which have governed President Hoover s
administration in the last four years.
Request Made Yesterday.
The request for the conference was
made by Mr.. Roosevelt yesterday and
President Hoover Immediately announc-
ed that 1t would be arranged to suit
his successor elect.
No details as to what would be dis
cussed were made known. but 1t was
assumed that Mr.. Roosevelt desired to
shape plans for prompt action after
March not only for dealing with war
debts, but with the Geneva Arms Con-
ference and the proposed world eco
nonic parley as well.
On Far Eastern Situation.
Other information which the new oc-
cupant Of the White House probably
will seek concerns the Far Eastern sit
uation, which has been brought to the
foreground again, and recent develop
ments in South America.
The meeting between Mr.. Roosevelt
and Secretary Stimson will serve to
bridge the. gap between the incoming
and outgoing administrations When
the Democratic leader rejected Mr..
Hoover's suggestion TO participate in
appointing a joint commission to deal
with war debts, disarmament and world
economies, he made 1t clear that he de-
sired to avail himself OF all possible in
formation and expressed a willingness
to consult freely with the President.