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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
BY OTTO HALL

THE Herndon case Is one of the
Il most important case in the
history of our movement. There
never has been a case that has
brought forward so clearly, so many
important aspects of the struggle
of the American working class
against capitalist exploitation. We
have in this case the struggle of
the workers against starvation and
misery, and, as was brought out in
the trial, the struggle for equal
rights for Negroes and their right
of eIf-determination in the South
ern Black Belt.
This nineteen-year-old Negro boy
who shocked the white ruling class
out of their Smugness and put fear
in their hearts by his Bolshevik
fortitude and stamina, is typical of
the working class leadership in the
south that is developing out Of the
sharpening struggles in that sec
ton. The Camp Hill fight, the very
recent Tallapoosa struggles, in
which the Negro toilers have de-
monstrated to the entire world
their willingness to fight and their
revolutionary potentialities, are in
dications that in many sections of
the South they will be the ones
who will lead the struggles and
set the example to the white work
ers that the only way out Of their
misery is through organization and
struggle.
THE renegade Lovestonites and
L Cannonites, and the leadership
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
(Pickeps. Du Bots, Schuyler, etc.
have repeatedly spread the canard
that the Negroes in the South are
ignorant, backward, and so terror
lied that they won't fight. The
southern bourgeoisie would like to
believe this, but they are becoming
more and more convinced that this
is not true. They also thought that
the native southern white worker
wouldn't struggle, but the textile
workers in North and South Caro-
lima and Tennessee, and the fight
ing miners in Kentucky and West
Virginia have changed this opinion.
The vicious attacks of the south
ern capitalists against the workers,
Negro and white, and their at
tempts to suppress the revolution
airy movement that is developing
down there, shows that they realize
that they are sitting atop an active
volcano that is likely to erupt at
any moment. Due to the deepening
crisis, they are finding it more and
more difficult to bolster up among
the white workers the theology Of
race superiority that has served so
long to hamper the united fight
of the workers in that section. They
can no longer afford to pay the
white worker a little higher wages
than those paid to the Negro for
similar work. Consequently, the
white worker is beginning to lose
his feeling Of race superiority and
further is beginning to realize that
unless he fights for Negro rights,
he cannot better his own economic
condition. The way the white work
ers Of Atlanta rallied to the support
OF Angelo Herndon is an interesting
example.
Never before had the workers OF
Atlanta, Negro and white, and i'll
the whole South for that matter,
witnessed such smashing of favorite
southern traditions. The two Negro
lawyers. 3. j. Davis and John II.
Geer, native southern Negroes, in
their conduct Of the defense OF
Herndon in the courts astounded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
STATISTICS IN ARTICLE
ON STEEL PROVIDED BY
THE OPEN AND HAMMER"

STATISTICAL material used in
> the article New Steel Wage
Cut Plotted by Wall Street Meet"
which appeared in Mondays issue
of the Daily Worker was provided
by Kalmun Hecht, member of the
Research Committee Of the Pen
and Hammer, working under the
direction of Ira. Through an
oversight, this acknowledgement
was omitted from the article.
The Pen and Hammer Research
Committee is now at work on a
number OF projects, including
THE Effects of Poverty" Housing
in New York City" and has just
begun indexing the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

ting letters, but when it comes to
utilizing these industrial sections
for special distribution, we have re-
ceiyed, cooperation from none Of
them as yet.
AS for the shop workers them
selves, this special distribution has
greatly improved, and if continued,
this activity will have marked eff
feet on the character of the
Daily" as well as on it's circula-
ton.
ESPECIALLY now, when the Daily
Il Worker is conducting it's finan-
cial drive, must this activity be in
tensified. Such special distribu-
ton acquaints the workers in the
shop with the Daily Worker as
their champion, their leader in the
fight, and they can be approached
to contribute toward it's support.
But beyond the contributions that
will be collected in and around tho
shops, Is the other objective of the
correspondence and also of the fin
ancial drive-to root the Daily
solidly in the shops. Without doing
this, the pennies received as a re-
suit of a temporary interest are but
drop in an ocean. a sustained,
intimate interest in the Daily" fos-
tered through our worker CORES
pondents, means q solid base for
the Daily" i'll the shops, in the
fortressea which We must capture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
The Political Significance OF
the HerndOn Case

every one by the way they bearded
the BOURBON lion in his den. They
brought the question Of Negro
rights forward clearly and boldly
during the trial in the splendid
fight they made for the right Of
Negroes to serve on the jury. Never
in the memory of any Negro in that
court room had any lawyer at
tempted to stop white policemen
and prosecutors from referring to
their clients as "niggers' and
"darkies." When B. j. Davis OBJ
iected to these terms, the judge was
forced to sustain the objection.
ALL during the three days OF the
"A trial, the court room was crowd
ed with Negro and white workers.
The Jim Grow laws were broken for
the first time when Negro and
white workers occupied the same
benches. The court room became q
political forum; Negro and white
workers alike learned that the basic
reason the bosses were able TO keep
then. down below the starvation
leve, was through the southern sys-
tenn of Jim Grow and the national
oppression of the Negro toilers in
the black belt. The bosses through
their prosecutor, Walter LIE Craw,
made the Communist slogan OF
self-determination and basic argu-
ment against the defendant. LIE
Craw shouted that, 'if you don't
send this defendant to the electric
chair we will have q Red Army
marching through Georgia which
will take all of the land away from
the white people and give 1t to the
Negroes!"
Every opportunity the judge had
to overrule objections made by the
defense attorneys was utilized. The
prosecutors were allowed to use
every trick in the calendar to inject
race prejudice in order to inflame
the jury. A witness for the defense
Professor Evans, a native south
erner, and professor Of economics
at Emory University, and whom the
judge disqualified as an expert on
Communism, was asked the follow
ing questions by prosecutor Hudson,
former baptist preacher.
Question do you believe in
equal rights for Negroes?"
Answer: Yes under the law"
Question Would you want your
daughter to marry a Negro?"l E@
Answer: ITS against the law in
this state"
This question was allowed u
spite of the objections by the, d.
Tense. These tactics of the prose-
cution did not get them anywhere
with the white workers who crowd
ed the court room. Many openly
expressed indignation at the tactics
of the bosses.
THUS the fight for the release Of
! Angelo Herndon becomes one OF
the most important tasks facing the
working class today. AS q result of
this fight we are getting the sup
port of a large section Of the Neg
roes, including petty bourgeois In
tellectuals, who are attracted by
the raising Of the national question
in the struggle for Negro rights.
Also the white workers are in con-
siderable numbers supporting this
fight. The revolutionary movement
is going forward with increasing
tempo and the opportunity to break
through the terror in that section
was never better. Even the vicious
sentence given Herndon did not
dampen the spirit OF the workers.
Many Negroes said that they we're
going to Join the Communist Party
and carry on the fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

%,
Daily" has shown great evidences of new power and
growth. There is still for improvement but I'M
doubtedly witnessing great re-birth OF the
Daily Worker in the fire of the great class conflicts
now the order Of the day in the richest country
the world.
1t is catching up to the great time we are in,
and the speeded-up social forces
"Now is the time to rally to the Daily, and
to keep il in the arena. It is effective than
ever. and more needed than The battle for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Letters from Our Readers

We feel it is important that all
your readers should be made famil-
lar with the actual attitude OF the
Socialist Party in contrast to its
high-sounding, radical phrases.
Brighton Progressive Club,
l.. Lee, Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
'EVeryFactory
Our Fortress
Establish Intimate, Per-
rtanent Contacts With the
Workers.

'"The successful accomplishment
of this task winning the major
ity of the working class requires
that every Communist Party shall
establish, extend and strengthen
permanent and intimate contacts
with the majority of the work
ers, wherever workers may be
found. From the 18th Plenu1n
Resolution, e. G. C, I.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

ments calling for support of the Daily Worker for
$4,000 to save it from suspension.
Gold one of the editors Of the New Masses
and the author of Jews Without Money" is known to
readers of the Daily Worker the author of many
sketches and articles that have appeared in the Daily
during the last few years.
Dos Passos author of "Three Soldiers. "42nd
Parallel" and 1919 and Anderson whose latest book,
Beyond Desire, is based the textile struggles in
the South, are considered among the greatest living
American writer's. Both members of the National
Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners and
Anderson was delegate to the World Congress
Against War, held at Amsterdam last summer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
BY ANNA ROCHESTER,

THAT the crisis has hit the cap
1 italist class is beyond question.
Million dollar incomes declined
from 513 in 1929 to rs in 1881.
Bank failures are rising again.
The insult collapse last April has
been followed by a fairly steady
trickle OF big receiverShips. Strong
railroads have stopped paying di-
vidends. There is trouble ahead
for insurance companies and saw
ingS banks because more bonds
are weakening and farmers and
city real estate owners can not
meet their mortgage payments.
A few capitalists are down and
out, and many are suffering be-
cause they have to cut down ex-
penses, with the loss of their spec
ulation profits that made the
prosperity of boom years. But
expensive shops, night clubs, opera,
winter resorts, are still going
strong. The total Of interest and
dividend payments by certain
group of banks, industrial corpora
tons and government units up to
the middle of 1932-as tabulated
by the Journal of Commerce
was still above the 1928 level.
The banks closest to Morgan and
Mellon have not cut their divid-
ends. The chief Rockefeller COM
panies are still paying on their
common stock. The gulf between
the top capitalists and the masses
of workers has never been wider
and deeper in the United States
than it is today.
Whatever may have happened
to their incomes, several facts
show that the power of the chief
oyerlords has actually been ex-
tended during the crisis.
l. Big private banking houses
which underwrite municipal bond
issues and then sell them through
the lesser banking houses to the
broad capitalist public have taken
upon themselves an open dictator
ship over municipal policies on
budgets, wages of city workers and
relief funds. One example among
many was seen in New York City
in the autumn of 1882, when the
banks refused loans to the city
unless wages of municipal workers
we're cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

hampered the growth of the movement for Socalized
economy in this country. The workers and producing
elements who will have to create the society are
dependent for their ideas and their information
press for profit and in the interests of the exploit
ing groups.
sit would be hard indeed if at moment
when need fifty Daily Workers. the single
daily paper that represents conscious and ag
gressive section of the working class should go
out of business THE DAILY WORKER is the
only daily have and we've got not only to keep
il going, but to build it up into great news
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

Ut terribly important that the Daily Worker keeps going writes
Sherwood Anderson letter the Daily we America
go always
thwnps only the Daily Worker.
appeal of noted joined with
calling action the Daily Worker!
Writers artists neectuals generally well workers should
their the Daily alive by contributing
they and collecting their friends
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
BIG BANKS FEWER
AND STRONGER

2. Increasing concentration Of
commercial banking national
banks, trust companies and state
banks other than savings banks
has been going on ever since 1921,
but the pace has been enormously
speeded up by the crisis. The total
number of banks dropped from 3d.
812 in 1921 to 25,330 in 1929. Then
in the three years of crisis, to June
80, 1882, another 6,064 went out of
business, leaving 19,046-the small
est number in more than 20 years.
Banks are bigger and fewer and
nearer to the leading power of Wall
Street than they have ever been
before.
IN December 81, 1882, according
" to the New York Times write
up of a tabulation in The Financial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

sherwood Anderson the Daily Worker the battles
the working this front must take stan
Passes, who also $40 donation. declared
active honest the backbone of
impossible without hold large scattered
together common thought
written
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Three Outstanding Writers
Call for Aid to "Daily"

THREE outstanding American writer's Michael Gold, John
Dos Passos and Sherwood Anderson have issued state
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

E--J-IAEL follows:
wi Ih Daily Worker has become as necessary to the American
luionary Iskra' A
collective anyone
with what de"oion Daily
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-17
EGG ROLLING AT WHITE HOUSE IS
 JOYOUS EVENT
President and Mrs ROOse= welt Present Presi= dent Told Players He Would Like to Join in

Washington, April 17-UP)-- President Roosevelt, surrounded by members of his family, started the traditional cgg-rolling festivi- ties on the White House grounds to-day by appearing briefly on the south portico and welcoming his child visitors. The president, smil- ing, walked to the railing of the portico and remarked:
 ''I wish l could come down there and join you" Then, as an after thought he added: "There seem to be as many adults as there are children" A roar of laughter swept through the crowd and, still smiling, the president turned and went indoors to his work.
 With MT Roosevelt were Mrg Roosevelt, Mrs Anna Roosevelt Dall, their daughter, and her two little children, Buzzie and Sistie.
 Mrs Roosevelt held Buzzie in her arms and ho waved in the same fashion as his distinguished grand father did when he welcomed the thousands who came to enjoy the holiday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-17

Members of the local Council of &oy Scouts will participate Tor Troop and council honors in the Bird house building contest Thurs Bay evening at the Second Congre- rational church. The contest IS part of the local scouts program tn the Thomas H. Beck award for Conservation of Wild Life foster ed by the State Board of Fisher les and Game of which Thomas H. Beck of Wilton is chairman. < Troops and scouts desiring to Compete in this contest are to sub init their entries for judging at the contest exhibit which will be Conducted in the class rooms at the Second church at 8 o'clock. ( Each exhibit is to be properly marked with the name of the scout, and the troop of which he 5g member.
 Rules of the contest:
 1. Any number of scouts from c troop may compete.
 9. Not more than three bird houses may be intered by any one scout.
 3. All bird houses to be placed out of doors in suitable places for the use of birds.
 4. Pictures (snapshots) to be taken of houses placed as evi- dence and submitted to council office before final awards are made. Many scouts and troops have been working on their bird houses for tho past month since the first announcement of the Thomas II. Beck award was given, and it appears that from tho evil dence already gathered that there
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-17
Entries For Judging
 To Be Exhibited At Second Church
Rules of Contest Are Announced Winner in State to Receive Thomas H. Beck Award - Scout Camp
 5 Committee Meets Tomorrow

is going to be some close judging. as well as some very fine pieces of craft work in the line of bird house construction.
 Contestants are requested to have their houses in the exhibit room by seven-thirty so as to give the judges sufficient time to make proper classifications and awards.
 The camp committee of the Boy Scout Council will meet tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at the coun- ell office to consider further plans for conducting the two Boy Scouts camps fostered by the Waterbury Council Boy Scouts of America.
 These two camps are Camp Sepunkum, situated at Mt Tom, in the Town of Morris, which has been conducted each summer for the past 1G years, and Camp Nor ris Buck at Hitchcock, the week. end and short term camp.
 The committee will consider necessary repairs to be made, to- gether with plans for needed equipment and general policies with reference to staff members and leadership.
 Members of the committee are, George E. Erskine, chairman; Louis A. Walsh, Walter II. Dea- con, Thomas F. McGrath, William B. Pape, Lewis J. Hart, James A. Phelan, Chauncely r. Goss, 3rd; Dutton Noble. Milton Burrall, Jr, and Henry c. Griggs.
 Of this committee. Milton Burrall Jr is chairman of the sub-commit- tee having the responsibility of the, supervision of Camp Morris Buck. Dutton Noble and Henry C. Griggs are also members,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-17
Third Prosecutor
 to Be Fought
tContinued from Page IJ

At the present time Waterbury's city court has three prosecutors. 1t Is generally agreed that for a city the size of Waterbury a staff of this size Is too great. Therefore, in making up the 1888 budget the ad- ministration made no appropri- ation for the third prosecutor and prepared a bill, subsequently,, which calls for the elimination of the job. It is this bill which will come up for hearing soon.
 Republicans here and in Hart ford are predicting that the third prosecutorship will be retained. hence reports that the support of the bill eliminating the post would be passive, in that 1t would be fu- tile fin view of the republican strength at Hartford which seeks to govern local matters despite attempts to economize.
 A couple of weeks ago Ansonia attempted to cut down its court costs in the city, but failed under a g.o.p. landslide vote. Last week Bridgeport attempted to eliminate its third prosecutor. but the dem ocrats failed under the over whelming majority of the rcpubil- cans.
 That Waterbury is to be treated similarly Is practically t forcgone conclusion despite Mayor Hayes efforts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-17
Beer Law in
 Conn Sleeps On
(Contlnued from Page D

l ~ (Continued from Page D
 local control bill. issued a state-
 ment defending 1t, and denied the
 statement of Governor Cross that
 tho "new beer bill originated with
 the political liquor allies who have
 been active since January. The new bill, he said, was neces- sary because of the many perni- cious features of the missions bill" Among these was the provi- sion for saloons under the "syno- nym tavern, Alcorn said. The commission bill says beer only may be sold in taverns. There Is no provision in the Judiciary committee bill that says how or wehre beer is to be sold, except that places of sale must conform to local zoning ordinances. Towns that barred liquor before prohibition also are given protec- ton under the new bill not af- forded them by tho governors bill, Alcorn said. Those which pro- hibited liquor in the past may do so again by passing necessary ordinances at once, while under the other bill sales would be per- mitted in all towns until the ques- ton of local option could be voted on at fall town elections. More than 100 towns were "dry" before prohibition, Alcorn said. Roy C. Wilcox, republican lieu tenant governor, joined in the fight with the assertion that Governor Cross appears desperate that his views be accepted regardless of counter opinions.
 People are entitled to disagree on public questions without being accused of dishonestly and hypoc- rlgy," Wilcox said. "I differ abso- lutely with the governor on the subject of beer regulation, just as absolutely, as I resent his stubborn inslstance that his ideas, and only his, be accepted by the legisla- ture."
 General interest in the matter was reflected in the increased number of letters received in newspaper offices expressing ideas on the subject. Various organiza- tions also have adopted resolutions on the matter.
 Meanwhile many thirsty people continued to drive over the state lines to try the 3.2 bere and bring back n case or two, as the state law does not prohibit transporta- ton of the stuff.
 New Haven, Conn, April IT, UP) The general assembly was criticized for "its dilatory tactics" in dealing with beer control legls- lation by the Brewery Workers association which endorsed Gov ernor Wilbur l.. Cross central control plan at q meeting here Sunday.
 "The legislature has fooled around too long with this matter" said President Eugene Treiber. "The people of the state are be- coming disgusted with the lack of action by the general assembly and at the injection of politics into the entire matter. Why not give the Cross plan tryout. If 1t Is found later that the plan is not feasible or practicable 1t can be changed"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-17
RIVERS RISING IN NEW ENGLAND
 AFTER STORMS
If More Rains Come There Is Much Fear That Floods Will Do Great Damage

Boston, April 17-(UP)--North- ern New England rivers, still rig ing gradually as result of last weeks storm, today were at a stage where it was feared rains within the next 36 hours would cause flood conditions.
 Rains at Montpelier and White River Junction, Vt, over the week. end made the Connecticut River bank full' from Wells river south to White River Junction, but the White river was taking care of the surplus waters.
 The Merrimack river was at an abnormal height in New Hamp- shire and Northern Massachusetts but was several feet from flood stage. At Manchester, N. IT., the water was 76 inches above the Amoskeag Falls dam, but during the floods of 1927 it was 12O in- ches above.
 At Lowell, locks and canals of- ficials estimated the rate of flow of the Merrimack of 10000 cubic feet a second, against flood flow of 45,OOO feet. Lawrence mills re- ported no immediate flood dang CT.
 The Sudbury and Charles river In Massachusetts were flooding woodlands but no damage to dwellings was reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-17
MARRIAGES IN
 AUSTRIA ARE IN MUCH DEFAVOR
10000 of Them, Which 2 Involve 2OO,OO5 Chil- dren, Not Recognized
 By the Catholic Church

Rome, April 17-(UP)-Chan- cellor Englebcrt Dollfuss of Aus tralla left today by airplane for Vienna, without awaiting the arri- val of Guido Schusching, his min ister of justice, en route here to negotiate concordat with the vatican.
 Ut was understood Schusching would seek to settle the question of the so-callcd dispensation mar riages between divorced persons which the churches refuse te recog- nize. At present there are 10000 such marriages in Austria that in volve 100000 children who are illegitimate in the eyes of the church, and, therefore, must be treated as ilegitimate by the church under Autrlan laws.