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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Labor Defense Forces
Anna Hall Release;
Another Tried Today

NEW YORK,-ChargeS of second
degree assault against Anna Hall, ar
rested April % at a demonstration
at a Brooklyn home relief bureau
we're dismissed in the Brooklyn
court, Snyder and Flatbush Ave.
Thursday morning.
Police who had charged her with
kicking one of them did not show up
court to testify against her because
of wide exposure of the frame-ur
through series of mass meetings
held by the West End Section Inter
national Labor Defense. The Ella
May I. L. D. Branch was especially
active in nobilizing mass pressure fol
Anna Halls release.
Until her release Anna Hall was
out on bail of $500.
Arrested for resisting an eviction
at 172 Willoughby, Brooklyn, Diana
Winter will be tried in the court
Smith and Schermerhorn SITS, this
morning, on charge of diso% -erly
conduct. She will be defended by
the N. Y. District LID.
At a hearing Wednesday, ITO E
2lst ST., Arthur Siroreza and 10.
seph Rodreguz were ordered held fol
special sessions to stand trial on q
framed-up charge that they held ur
a landlord, who, investigation by the
I, L. D. disclosed, used a gun or
Siroreza IN an attempt to collect rent
not due him. They will be defended
by the N. Y. District LID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Disabled Vet Urges
Fight on "New Deal'
at Washington Me ct

Observation-Disclosures as rep
resentative of the Veterans National
Rank and File Committee before a
local 4th of July meeting of the Con-
tinental Congress, Richard Lovelace
disabled World War veteran and &C
tive fighter in the class war, declared
that the American working class
could expect nothing but increased
starvation from RooSevelts new
deal" He called for mass action on
The part of workers, farmers and vet
Grams to defeat this dirty deal
The meeting was held in the shad-
ow of the Washington Monument, to
which the speakers frequently point
ed. Lovelace, contrary to custom,
PORTED to it with the remark; Our
forefathers freed this country from
the yoke of English exploiters, but
they failed to free the American peo-
pie from the yoke of exploitation.
George Washington to whom that
monument was erected, was an ex-
ploiter of labor. 1t is up to the work.
,rs and farmers of this country to
Tree themselves by their own united
'iction.'
Z. Gertrude Krupp of the Unemployed
Ind Tenants League introduced a
resolution that all workers and farm
ers be admitted to the Continental
Congress regardless of political be-
liefs. race or nationality. 1t was pass
ed without dissenting voice. The
resolution was aimed directly against
the policy Of excluding Communists
from the Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07

social democratic organizations for
the masses" is proven from our ex-
periences with the united front with
the YPSL. We can note that if 1t
were not for a consistent exposure
Of the YPSL' leadership we would
not have succeeded so well in es-
tablishing united front actions and
in breaking a section of the YPSL
membership from the influence of
their leadership. A particularly
sharp example of this is Cleveland
where only because Of scathing at
tack upon the attempts of the lead
ership to organize a separate anti
war demonstration on National Youth
Day, were We able to win the YPSL
membership for a united NYD.
Today the main barrier to form
ing united front of the toiling
youth, is the YPSL leadership. The
YPSL attempts to delve into history
and raise distorted recital of events
cannot change this basic fact. While
the history of the YPSL is a long
one of capitulation to capitalism, an
objective assistant of the ravages of
capital upon the youth and prepara-
lions for imperialist war, on the other
hand the YCL of America was born
out Of a struggle against this OPP
portunist line. The development of
the united front tactic and its con-
crete use by both organizations proves
who fights for or against capitalism.
The sabotage Of the united front to-
day by the YPSL leadership is only
one expression of its whole line.
After the war the best fighters
within the YPSL repudiated its posi-
ton of assistant to the Wilson war
program and formed the Young
Workers League, now the Young
Communist League. Since then the
YPSL lost all vitality but still play
ed its role Of stemming the tide Of
struggle OF the youth. Branded, to-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07

such murders, but typical cross-sec-
ton OF them, will be released Short
ly by the International Labor De-
Tense, it was announced.
Recorded Lynchings
Following is the list of recorded
lynchings for the first six months
of 1885,
/. Harry Ross shot and killed Jan.
3 by three white men, outside Of
Memphis, Tenn They reported they
were taking him into the city to
lay charges of having made i'm
proper proposals to white woman"
against him, when he tried to es-
cape" from their moving car. 81
2. Fell Jenkins, 20, was beaten to
death by three white farmers at
Aycock, La, January IL. They said
he had been trespassing on the
property of one of them.
3, 4, and 5. Three members Of a
Negro family of fishermen were
hacked to death on Tavernier Is
land, one of the Florida keys, Jan.
10, by an invading gang of white
men. All further information, in
Guiding the names of the victims,
suppressed by the authorities.
6. Robert Richardson was shot to
death in Baton Rouge, La, Feb. Q.
while attempting to escape from
o gang of %, headed by deputy
sheriff which invaded his house on
a report, given out later, that he
had annoyed q white woman"
Z. Nelson Nash, "a, was hanged
from tree by gang Of men at
Ringgold, La, February 10. 49,
8. George Jeter, died February 10
at Aiken, S. c., from beating ad-
ministered by three white men who
later said he had stolen their
whiskey"
9. Levon Carlock, 10, beaten, tor
tured, and shot to death by six
policemen "out on lark" in Mem
phis, February rs, 1893. Police call
ed on a white prostitute to say Car
lock had raped" her, at a time
when he was sitting by his wifes
sick-bed.
10. John Williams, lynched during
first week of May, 1888, by a mob of
Seventy-five led by a sheriff. 1t was
charged he had stolen a hog.
II. Will Kinsey, as, lynched May
IL by mob of forty, following dis
pute with his landlord in which his
brother and the landlord were both
killed. Kinsey, wounded by the land
lord, was taken by mob from q
physicians office.
II and 10. Jerome Boyett and Har-
vey Winchester, both white, held on
murder charges, were taken out Of
Huntsville, Tenn. Jail and lynched
by mob of armed men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07

ing them to join the United Front.
At the Continental Congress in
Washington, I was the only Phila-
delphia delegate who urged a United
Front with the left wing organiza
lions.
Sayitz, one of the Philadelphia
Y.P.SL. leaders said that charges
would be brought against me for
speaking about the United Front
without his consent. When I returned
to Philadelphia charges were immed-
lately brought up against me.
They charged me with participant
ing in the United Front May Day
demonstration which was alleged to
be Communist demonstration. They
charged me for outrightly inviting
Communist speakers to school, which
is false and lie. They charged me
for standing for the United Front and
speaking about it without their per-
mission.
Through these facts every Y.PSL
member can see the role Of the lead :
ers. They expell militant and active
members, or any member who dis
agrees with any Of their policies.
JOHN BRUSHKIN,
Former member Of the Y.P.S.L.,
Circle No. ], Philadelphia, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Youth Expelled from Y.P.S.L.
for Supporting United Front

EDITORS NOTE:-We print in
abridged form letter from former
member of the Young Peoples So
cialist League In Philadelphia who
was expelled for his activity in sup
porting united front movements. Re-
Gently the National Secretary of the
organization, George Smerkin. was
similarly expelled for being active in
united front activities in Chicago.
This is the policy of the leadership
Of the Socialist Party who are using
the method of expulsion to weed out
those who are active in supporting
the united front Of the working class.
Dear Editor:
I was recently expelled from the
Young Peoples Socialist League in
Philadelphia. I consider it my duty
TO inform the workers concerning the
treachery of the Philadelphia Young
Peoples Socialist League CY.P.SL)
leaders. was member OF Circle
No. 7, for a period Of a year and a
half. The members of my circle can
point out that I was one of the most
active members Of my circle.
At every Executive Board meeting
that ! was present was the only
one that spoke 10 the members urg-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
SOCIALIST RADIO
STATION REFUSED
FOR BONUS TALK

NEW YORK-A request by the
Workers x-Servicemen's League to
the Socialist Party to permit the use
of its radio station (WEVD) for the
support of the bonus payment did
not even receive a reply. The vet
Grams organization wanted to an
nounce a demonstration for July 1st,
the day when Roosevelt's economy
program" for the veterans went into
effect. A registered letter was sent
TO the Socialist Party asking cooper
alton in allowing us the use Of Debs
Memorial Station (WEVD) SO that a
representative of our organization
can broadcast our program and plan
of action"
The request was especially made
since at the recent Continental Con-
gress controlled by the socialists in
washington, resolution was adopted
in favor of the continuation of dis
ability allowances to disabled vet
Grams, as we'll as the payment of PEN
sions"
Empty Gesture
During the bonus march in Wash
ington last year the Socialist Party
opposed payment of the bonus. 1t
has changed it's position since, but
as the action IN rebuffing the re-
quest of the veterans shows, its sup
port was only an empty gesture and
it still opposes payment of the bonus
Station WEVD is sustained by a
fund from the Forward" Jewish So
cialist daily, and serves as an outlet
for the Socialist Party. It's use is
barred, however, for support of pay
ment for the bonus or appeals to
organize the workers.
The workers Ex-Servicemen's
League is an organization of veterans
throughout the country. 1t is now
pushing forward on an even greater
scale the fight on Roosevelt's Econ
omy Program" against the ex-service-
men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Socialist Youth Leadership Rejects United Front

The letter does not deal with a
single problem facing the mass of
American youth. 1t offers not a
word on the two month period of
silence and sabotage of the united
front. 1t is designed entirely to turn
the attention of the YPSL member
ship away from the great need of
the present moment for united &C.
ton and upon the impossibility of
the united front between the two Or
CARNATIONS. YPSL and YCL mem
bers however, have demonstrated
concretely that united action can be
attained in New York. Detroit, Cleve-
land, Chicago and many other places.
The wish is father to the thought,
when the YPSL members declare it
impossible.
The letter is based entirely in at
tempting to prove that the YPSL is
for the united front and the YCL
is a hindrance to such. The YPSL
leadership innocently complains.
How can you accuse us of being
the most dangerous enemy in the
ranks of the working youth" and
still form united front with US.
Thus while attempting to confuse
themselves with their membership.
the YPSL leaders feel that the unit
ed front can be formed only after
the YCL agrees to cover over the
past treacherous actions and their
true anti-working class character and
program. This we will never consent
to do
Cannot Refrain From Criticism
During the course of united action
we will refrain from criticism, but
cur basic position regarding the real
character of the YPSL we refuse
to change. The correctness of the
statement Of ManuilSky at the 10th
Plenum of the ECCI that "the united
front tactic means a most irrecon-
cilable struggle against reformist and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Membership forUnited
Actions
BY DAVE DORIAN

After two months, the National
Committee of the Young Peoples
Socialist League, finally answered
the appeal of the Young Communist
League for united action Of the Amer
lean working youth in struggles
against economic misery, fascism and
war. Before we received this answer,
blanket edicts against unity were
sent to all circles of the YPSL. wait
for negotiations nationally" (while
the national committee refused to
take step in this direction), wait
for unity by the internationals'' was
the cry. SANDER of the vilest kind
was resorted to. 1.-THE Communists
wish to stab you in the back" "they
aim only at disunity," the YPSL
member was forced to digest or spit
out in disgust.
The lies of the YPSL leadership
plus the frenzied attacks upon the
Communists were rejected by many
members of the YPSL. Throughout
the country united actions of YPSL
and YCL members took place. This
was notable in Chicago. Cleveland
and Detroit.
Membership for United Action
Although these united struggles
have been only a slight beginning,
the YPSL membership are already
learning very important lessons be-
tween words and deeds, between re-
formist and revolutionary mass &C
ton, between the treacherous lead
ership of the YPSL and SIP and the
revolutionary leadership of the YCL
and CP A deep ferment is taking
place in the ranks of the YPSL.
The expulsion of the four YPSL
leaders in Chicago, and the removal
of George Smerkin, National Secre-
tary, has been met with much re-
sistance by the membership,
1t is because the YCL is being re-
ceived so well by many members Of
the YPSL, who showing their will
ingness to enter into united actions
with us despite the leaders, that the
YPSL leadership feeling this great
pressure finally was forced to answer
our appeal. Their answer like the
statements, articles and pamphlets
Issued by them has the aim of hold
ing in leash the membership of the
YPSL and raising certain illusions
on the united front before them. It
is only logical continuation of the
expulsions and mass revoking Of
YPSL Circle charters, carried out to
prevent united battle against capt.
talism.
The whole heart of the letter is
contained in the following words:
"A united front has not existed up
till the present because of the fact
that the Young Communist League,
following the line of its Information
al, has had no genuine desire to join
with us in such joint activities. Com
munist policy in the past has been
described by your own leadership as
having no other purpose than the
destruction Of the Socialist movement
Of which we and millions of our fell
low workers are part and to which
we are devoted"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Poverty Forces Father of Sick Baby
To "SelP His Vile to Richer Rival
Jobless Couple M a d e
Manufacturing Pact
to Save Baby
BY EDWARD NEWHOUSE


NEW YORK, July 6.-With her
| husband jobless and their baby, Ray
needing both food and medical at
tention, Lillian Parks took the only
way she could see that would pro-
vide the child with adequate care.
She became the adopted wife" OF
another man, with her husbands re-
luctant consent, wrung from him
by the walls of the starving infant
They held out for long time.
But one night when the babyS
cough turned worse and he began
crying for food. they agreed to have
Lillian live with Frank Coffey, an
admirer of hers before she was mar
ried.
A few days later she moved into
Coffey's apartment in Newark.
Coffey knew of the arrangement
between the couple. He knew of
their love for each other. He made
the stipulation that Parks was never
to see her or the child under any
circumstances That was the arrange
ment upon which by poverty they
were compelled to agree in So
ciety which regards the family as
its cornerstone, the basis of its in
stitutions.
Parks and his wife state now that
they were honest in their agreement
to abide by Coffey'S demand. But
after a while Parks got Job which
paid him So week and while Cot
fey was at work, he began to visit
his wife and child. He gave her
81 of his earnings each week to buy
extra things for the baby.
Then one day drawn by love for
his wife and baby, he came and
Lillian had present for him. She
unwrapped a package and there was
a suit of clothes which he needed
badly.
But Parks wouldn't take it. He
could get by with the suit he had.
he told her. That money he had
given her was for little Ray and he
wanted it spent that way.
Subsequently Coffey found the re-
jected suit hidden in closet. He
confronted Lillian with it and she
eNiAAANbCO l4C4 AlIoOdIlUi NlolUS. NllSIl
she told him she was still in love
with Raymond, Cotfey went to the
police station and demanded her
arrest on statutory charge. When
reminded that he was equally guilty,
he consented to being arrested too.
Then detectives arrested Parks for
violating the child welfare law.
When their case came up today in
the Family Court all three told their
stories and were released on proba-
ton by the judge.
Raymond and Lillian walked out
hand in hand. I'VE love each
other" he said, How can they ex-
pect a man to support a family on
an eight dollar job he's always Just
on the point of losing?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Chain Store Owners
Refuse to Pay Tax

ST PAUL, July eight operators
will refuse to pay state chain store
tax under the new law enacted by the
1888 Legislature, the Minnesota Tax
Commission was advised today. M. j.
Doherty, st. Paul attorney, said the
payment of the total of s31 $50 due for
this year would be withheld. He said
the operators commended the law was
unconstitutional.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07


account the increasing number of
police killings or Negroes which are
becoming more popular as substi-
tutes for the fashioned lynchings
Tor which mobs of hundreds were
ctten organized; nor does it count
legal lynchings, which have also be-
come more popular with the white
ruling class as it becomes more diff
Acult even in the South to draw
white workers into lynch-gangs, or
20 stem the tide of protest from
Negro and white workers following
such mob lynchings.
Lynchings Not Reported
Many lynchings, it was also point
ed out, are never reported anywhere,
and others are recorded only in sin
gle paragraphs in perhaps one small
town weekly published in the region
in which it occurred. News agen-
cies are showing a constantly grow
ing reluctance to carry news of
lynchings over the wires, with the
result that the appearance is Great
ed that lyncnings are on the de-
crease. The same applies to police
lynchings, legal lynchings, and lynch
murders by less than three persons.
In its campaign against lynching,
peonage, Jim Grow, and all forms
OF national oppression against the
Negro people, the International
Labor Defense is pushing its cam
paign for passage of the "Bill of
Civil Rights for the Negro People, y
proposed by the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, endorsed by the
National Scottsboro Action Commit
tee, and presented to the President
and Congress by the Free the Scots
horo Boys marchers.
Section 10 of this Bill provides
that:
"Any person who aids or parti-
oipstes in lynching or other act
of violence directed against a per-
son wholly or partly because Of
supposed fnferiOrity' of race, color
or nationality, or directed against
a person because of alleged or sus-
pected crimes associated in public
tradition with supposed 'inferiority'
of race, nationality or color, shall
be considered and adjudged guilty
OF crime punishable by DEATH"
The LID. raises the slogan Of
Death to Lynchers," and demands
the application of the death penalty
in these cases and in the increasing
number of cases of wanton murder
OF Negroes by police or individuals,
Which now go completely unpublished.
A survey of police lynchings, and
lynch-murders during the first six
months of 1888, as reported in the
press and estimated to cover less
than one per cent Of the total of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
NEW CITY HOUSES
TO RENT BEYOND
WORKERS REACH
Highest Bid Accepted
by Mayor O'Brien on
Construction Job

NEW RK.-After few min
ltes whispering among themselves,
he Board OF Estimate approved the
highest bid for building construction
On its S16,000.000 Chrystie- Forsyth
SITS. site on the lower East Side. Old
lenements we're thrown down where
rent was about 81 per room, with the
announcement that this would be a
Stun clearing project The new
houses replacing the slums will rent
at S10.75 a room. Workers who lived
in the old tenements will not be able
70 move into these apartments at
such high rentals.
Out of three bids offered for the
construction job, Mayor O'Brien
and his henchmen selected that of
Sloan and Robertson, involving the
greatest cost and the highest rentals.
The reason given is that this higher
rental will yield greater returns to
the city but report has it that John
McCooey, Brooklyn Tammany boss,
is behind the Sloan and Robertson
firm.
Hides Backers,
Mr. Sloan refused to divulge the
hackers Of his plan. Il am not at
liberty to divulge their names" he
said but they are among the most
responsible members of the COM
munityn Persistent reports have it
that Edmund Mccarthy, son-in-law
of John McCooey. is definitely "in-
terested" in the Sloan and Robertson
project.
The federal government will supply
S8,850000 from funds assigned under
the Industrial Recovery slavery
Act, out of an estimated cost Of
SO ,289, 708 for the construction. Tam
many politicians are eagerly waiting
their share of the spoils.
The houses will be elevator apart
ments, IL floors high, with 1927
apartments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Workers Resist Cops;
Put Furniture Back

NEW YORK.-Despite the efforts
of police to prevent them, workers
put back the furniture Of an unem-
ployed worker, Chaliakian, who, with
his family, had been evicted from
his home at 24o East 18th st. We'd
nesday.
The Block Committee at 3O2 E. 2sth
st, attempted to get relief from the
Home Relief Bureau When this
and an appeal to the rental agent OF
the building failed, the workers took
matters into their own hands and
carried the furniture back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
CORRECTION

In the Daily Worker on July 4, on
page 4, there appeared an item on
the World Congress of Youth Against
War and Fascism. 1t stated the date
for the New York City Wide Con-
terence, as July 10. This should be
corrected to July 16 at the Church
IF All Nations, Second Ave, at 1
om All y,~7g workers and students
organizations >Te urged to send their
delegates to the conference on the
9Th
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Council Forces Aid
for Yonkers Worker
Relief Heads Fired

YONKERS, N. Y.-After being
fired from a relief job because he
had a ss8 policy he refused to cell,
Vincent Contrino was put on che
Yonkers relief list after the local Un-
employed Council sent delegation
with him to the Home Relief Bureau
The IS workers composing the dele
cation were at first refused admit
lance to the Bureau which is at 65
Main St., but finally forced the Off
Gals there to hear them and to give
the iobless worker relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
Busy Mayor To Umpire Game

NEW YORK, July 6.-Mayor
John Patrick O'Brien who is too
busy to see unemployed delegations
has consented to umpire the an
nuaI baseball game between the
Aldermen and the City Hall re-
porters. Other busy" men to at
tend viii be Postmaster General
Farley, John F. Curry and John
II. McCooey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07
NEWS BRIEFS
Marriage Rate Falls

WASHINGTON, July 6. - A new
sll-time marriage low of only 787
marriages for each 1000 of popula-
ton was set in the third crisis year
Of 1899. For the first time in twenty
one years the number of marriages
in this country fell below the mil
lion mark There were only 981 ,759
in the year, rs per cent decrease
from the year before.