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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26
STEWART CARHART

NEW YORK-A story OF rapid
explosions from Camp Terror for the
slightest infringement of rules or in
dication of belief that camp condi-
tons might be improved, was told by
Florence Meyerson, who with her
sister and another girl whose name
was withheld, were expelled from
camp July IL.
Miss Meyerson told of how the
girls in the camp were kept in con-
slant state Of terror; for bad as were
conditions in the camp, life on the
streets of New York for homeless
girls without money or friends is a
worse prospect. The camp authori-
ties play on this fear of the girls,
ruthlessly breaking any attempt at
protest against the repressive rules
and UNBEATABLE food with the weapons
Of explosions and threats.
These three girls, it was explained,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26
Carter Describes Highlights
of Tour to Help Nine Boys

Shall Not Die"
A farmer said ''When young boy
like Lester Carter, born and raised
in the South, comes here to tell how
they are numbering workers like him
self by the wholesale, it is time for
workers like myself to wake up in all
parts Of the world"
In Campbell, Ohio, the Mayor sent
his car to ride us around, but we did
not use it. He spoke at the meeting
welcoming Mother Patterson to his
town. Richard Moore asked how long
it was to the election. The reply was
three days. Then he exposed the
mayor, telling how this same mayor
had jailed Negro and white workers
for speaking on the ScottSboro case
1t was interesting to know and see
the hundreds of people who are in
the struggle. Hundreds of youths are
in the struggle, too. That makes me
fight harder. hope the tour from
here to California will be as success
full as this one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26
BROAD PLAN FOR
TERRAIN DEFENSE
LAID BY IL. D.
Unity Committee to
Call Wide Conference

NEW YORK.-Plans are being laid
by the New York District Of the In
ternational Labor Defense for the
setting up Of broad united front
conference and campaign, based on
a program of action, to free Athos
Terzani, anti-fascist worker framed
for the murder of Anthony Fierro,
anti-fascist student, it was an
nounced today.
The plans include the reconstitu-
ton of the present Anti-FasciSt
Unity Committee into a Provisional
Committee for the Defense of Ter
zani, and the immediate broadening
of the executive of this organiza-
ton to include representatives of the
LID. and of the American Civil
Liberties Union, and of the General
Defense Committee of the I.W.W.
From this committee, according to
the present plans, a call will go out
to all working-clasS and liberal or
CARNATIONS for broad united front
conference for defense Of Terzani
on the basis Of struggle against fas-
cism in Italy, Germany, and at
home.
This, it was pointed out, will
broaden the defense to include other
than Italian anti-fascist elements,
and bring wide strata of American
and foreign born workers into the
struggle.
The present executive committee
of the Unity Committee, consisting
of Carlo Tresca, anarchist, Giovanni
Montana, of the italian Socialist
Party, and Gino De Bartolo, editor
of the Italian working class paper,
"L'Unita Operaia," the LID. said,
is too narrow as presently consti-
tuted to carry on broad defense.
The LID, it was pointed out, has
led and initiated the activity in Or
ganizing the defense of Terzani, both
on legal and mass basis.
The LID. has already forced the
release of Michael Palunbo, anti
fascist worker framed on a charge
of felonious assault in connection
with the murder by Philadelphia
Kahki Shirts of Fierro, has issued
leaflets calling on workers of all
tendencies to support the fight fol-
Tenants release, has advanced
funds to forward the defense, and is
conducting Investigations which will
I be of Importance in smashing the
frame-up against Terzani.
The first meeting between the ex-
ecutive board of the Unity Com
mittee, and representatives of other
organizations, to form a provisional,
defense committee, will be held
| Wednesday.
Attorneys in the case will be 10.
seph Brodsky, chief counsel for the
LID, Isaac Shorr, leading crirni-
nal attorney, and counsel from the
American Civil Liberties Union,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26

LOS ANGELES, Cal-Mcre than
1880 homeless girls knocked at the
doors OF the Salvation Army, Y. NJ.
G. A.. Y. w c. A., Family Welfare,
Jewish Social Service and community
chests for shelter in one night, a
survey made simultaneously in 800
cities shows. OF these, 9,769 were
moving from town to town, jobless,
and 1,430 were minors. The same
night, 3,155 families, representing
14,137 individuals, asked for lodging.
OF these 1887 were women. 2,708 of
them between the ages of Is and 90
The children numbered 5,544. On
the night of the survey 1856 women
we're found sleeping in hobo camps
along railroad tracks
These statistics are fragmentary
Girls are shy at reporting, and social
agencies say the number of women
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26
PICK BRONX BOSS
FOR FEDERAL JOB
Public Works to Feed
Tammany Machine

WASHINGTON, July 25s The
Rronx boss of Tammany Hall, Ed
ward j. Flvnn. was selected for the
post of Regional Federal Public Works
Administrator taking in the states of
New York, New JERSEY and Pennsyl-
vania. The cost for which Flynn was
selected is the most important Of the
ten regions into which the Public
Works administration for handing
cut $3,30o000 is divided.
This selection will give Tammany
a coed share Of the 9urds allotted for
this region Already deep in graft
from money assigned for relief pur-
poses which is now being "investi-
gated" by grand jury, this post will
give it additional funds to feed its
machine
The Bronx boss has been on the
"outs" somewhat with the New York
city administration His man for
mayor was Joseph v. Mckee who held
the Office temporarily when James j.
Walker was removed.
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Squirt Production Chokes Warehouses Workers Can't Buy

0URING the short squirt in produc-
- ton, Stimulated by imitation, such
huge stores of goods were piled up
that the leading capitalists had to
hire new warehouses to store them
in. The increase in production did
not bring about an increase in pay
rolls, and as officially admitted, en-
ployment Jagged far behind.
SO low has the purchasing power
of the masses dropped, SO deep is
the poverty of the toiling population,
that these huge SURPRISES were
smashed without any great increase
in production for the first half of
1888 as compared to 1882.
George w. Bolton, writing for the
financial section of the New York
Evening Post, Saturday, July %,
sums up the prosperity" achieved
during the reign of Roosevelt, and
he finds the following comparisons:
Despite the rapid upturn, steel
ingot production for the first six
months of 1883 was only 8,989,192
gross tons, compared with 7,688,210
gross tons for the first half Of 1882.
Only huge forward buying in June
made possible the improvement over
last year.
Gar loadings up 10 last week
were 13,7S0,941, a decline of 81 per
cent from 1882.
Electric power output for the
year to last week was slightly less
than l per cent under 1882"
Thus, totalling up the Roosevelt
prosperity" it amounts to a drop in
these important lines except steel
production.
But where did this steel go?
THE same writer answers this ques-
ton as follows
Ut is indicated that about 50 per
cent Of 1888 steel production is in
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the form of invisible inventories.
The steel companies hold large sup
plies of senlifinished steel while
thousands of small steel consumers,
such as producers of locks and
hardware, have also accumulated
inventories"
But this is only a small extent oil
the total overproduction and stock
ing up.
The automobile manufacturers
have not only been stocking auto
mobiles but have their warehouses
full of steel, cloth and other raw
materials SO that they will not have
to buy for long time.
out of 100000 shoes produced
" half went into the warehouses and
not to cover the feet of the mil
lions of unemployed or employed
workers.
Here is another startling fact Boil
ton tells us;
Zone of the largest chain groc-
cry systems, which normally keeps
on hand twenty days supply of
flour, is understood to have pur-
chased its requirements until next
June that is. for whole year,.
And again:
Leading department stores are I'M
derstood to have filled their own
warehouses and to have leased adj
ditional, ones
NOW that the warehouses are bulg-
~ ing, what will happen to produc-
ton?
A number Of the big stores ar
stocked up for year 10 get the
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benefit of higher prices, SO that pro-
duction can actually stop in their
line without causing them any in
convenience.
These facts show why Roosevelt's
promise of 100000 jobs is a lie out
of the whole cloth.
There is another angle to this
stocking up.
THE steel and auto bosses are de-
hberately stocking up preparing
to smash major strikes which they
expect for higher wages. They do
not feel Roosevelt will be successful
in holding back the mass discomfort
and that strikes will break out. They
want to be in a position to have
goods on hand so that they can be
better able to smash strikes.
In the Offices of United States
Steel Corporation, General Motors,
the big coal companies, and other
huge corporations the strategy Of re-
sistance to strikes is discussed every
day.
We get faint but important echo
Of this in the financial papers pub
lished for the big bosses and bank
ers.
TOR example we learn the follow
ing from the July 2lst issue of the
AnnaIist, the foremost financial
sheet. D. w. EllsH orth, summing up
an article on the present business
situation end the industrial recov-
cry act says;
FINALLY, there Is the danger Of
strikcs. Tho N7.icn1l iE.a:;=t;.si
Recovery Act has already s.imulat-
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Pippen and a member of the same
singing club, was arrested, and a
rumor was spread that Harden had
confessed to watching Pippen COM
nit the crime. Harden now says:
tits all a lie. Neither of us had
anything to do with it." Ernest
Clarke, another member of the same
club, was also arrested. No evidence
was offered by the officials as to the
possible guilt of Harden or Clarke,
and it appears they were arrested
just to complete roundup of mig
gers"
All Five Indicted.
Willie Unison, the owner Of the
field in which youngPippen was work
ing, came before the grand jury to
testify that the boy had been at
work with him-and was quickly clap
ped into jail.
A special grand jury was called.
All five of the Negroes were indicted.
Pippen, Jr., and Clarke, were charged
with criminal assault and murder.
Harden is charged with being acces-
sorry to the crime. Dan Pippen, ST.,
is charged with obstructing and in
terfering with the investigation. The
charge against Unison is not known.
Lynch Mob Gathers.
Tuscaloosa, seat of the University
of Alabama, and thus one Of the
centers of higher learning in the
South, lost no time in organizing a
lynch-gang. On the evening of June
81, the lynchers stormed the Tusca-
loosa County Jail The prisoners
however, had already been removed.
Judge Henry B. Foster, before whom
the case is scheduled to be tried.
gave out a statement the next day
to the effect that the crowd was
friendly and had been drawn to the
jail only by curiosity" Thus does
the judge attempt to forestall de-
nland for a change of venue.
The court, the local press an
nounces, intends to appoint counsel
for the Negroes. With appointing
counsel for Negroes framed in the
South, vie have already had expert
ence in the Scottsboro case. The
greatest fear of the local lynchers-
those in the court and those outside
its that the International Labor
Defense will enter the case The /.
L. D. has already entered the case,
and has secured retainers from the
relatives of the defendants.
Attempts are being made to ter
rorize the local Negro population.
The landlords, merchants, and en-
ployers of Tuscaloosa are warning
the Negroes with whom they have
contact that they tell the l. L. D.
to keep out of this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26
Hunger Faces Girls Who
Leave Camp IT error"

had complained against the food and
the stringent rules that gave the
girls no leisure time to themselves
and the camp authorities determined
TO expel them.
The opportunity to expel the threo
girls came Tuesday July II, when
the girls were told that jobs awaited
them in the city. I'VE were wary, "
Miss Meyerson said. 1--WE knew OF
other girls who had been gotten out
of camp under the pretext of giving
them jobs-jobs that they weren't
suited for, at all.
80 we told them that if we were
given permission to return to camp,
if we found we were untitled for the
job. we would gladly go to New York
and be interviewed"
This permission was denied, and
the girls refused to leave the camp.
The morning of the day they left
the girls were asked to sign the pay
roll for the S. that is presumably
spent by camp authorities for their
weeks expenses. Shortly afterward,
llISy WS4S corACu W olSIl IL uSc1ll lO4
next weeks expenses"
Later in the morning Miss Meyer
son was told that she, her sister and
her friend were to leave camp i'm
mediately.
Despite their protests, the three
were elected by policemen.
Miss Meyerson said: 1--WE landed
here broke. We had no chance to
get in touch with friends and we
wandered around for hours before
we found an artist who befriended
us. We all three slept in his bed
where he slept that night, I don't
know"
The work these girls do in camp
is not difficult, Miss Meyerson eX-
planned, But it is administered
blindly The authorities never con-
slider the capabilities of the girls fol
the work. She said that work con-
sic Of waiting on the tables, dish
washing, keeping the place clean. Nc
account is taken of the strength Of
the girls. One of them, anemic anc
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The act is designed to stop strikes.
This was clearly pointed out last
week in ain article to the New York
Sun by it's Washington correspond
ent, David Lawrence, who said.
"The Government can also
authorize the employment of any
kind of labor TO suppiant the labor
that strikes or refuses to accept
the Government G.ctstion I'M
picycrs affected by these outbreaks
(strikes) already are appealing to
the Government Unauestion-
ably a fys.em OF arbitration will
be evolved with a machinery Of
cancellation in labor disputes and
the snal authority will be the Fed
eral Government
CTRIkES are maturing from other
y quite definite causes.
1t is a fact that initiation is max
ing the conditions OF the workers
more miserable and intolerable, it is
a fact that the new stage of the crisis
is weighing more heavily on the entire
working class that is laying the
ground for resistance on major
scale.
The bosses are preparing in every
way to crush the rising struggles and
temper of struggle on the part Of the
workers They are stocking up. They
are tightening the bonds by the slave
codes loosevelt is preparing the
blanket slave code. And last, but not
least the A. r. Of L. is working hand
in-glove with Roosevelt to stave eff
what Roosevelt and the bosses fear
most--a huge wave of strikes for
higher wages and to defeat the plans
of the bosses to ride out of the crisis
by smashing attack against the
workers through initiation end higher
nriccs. q well as through prepare
tons for war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26
BY LESTER L. CARTER.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-My tour
with Mother Patterson and Richard
B. Moore from New York has been
successful. There have been quite a
few funny things that happened on
the way. In Erie, Pa, the meeting
was held in a court room. We ex-
posed capitalist justice in the place
where it is handed down.
We have had very large crowds,
even as far South as st. Louis, Mo.
There we had an audience of more
than 5000 people. The people of the
small villages come as far as 30 miles
to hear the story of Scottsboro and
many Of them say, Speak all night.
We will stay and listen" One fellow
said he thought the people were fool
ish until he heard us tell the story.
Then he said "If that is what you all
are fighting for, then I will fight
with you until all the farmers come
to town roaring, The Scottsboro Boys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26
Negro Rights, Issue in
st. Louis Strike

ST. LOUIS.-At the G. Mathes Co,
where a strike is on for two weeks
against sweatshop conditions, the
company has declared that it would
not employ Negro workers, although
it has employed them for the past
nine years. Raising the issue of Negro
rights, the union is making this ac-
ton of the boss an important issue
among the Negro masses here and
is calling for mass picketing to de-
fend the rights of the Negro people
to work and to live.
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by Irving Schwab, LID. attorney.
Schwab has been refused permis-
sion to visit four of the prisoners.
The fifth, Dan Pippen, Jr, was inter
viewed in Birmingham jail, to which
he had been transferred from Tus-
Caloosa. Schwab reports that the boy
has been terribly beaten with sticks,
to secure fake confession, and that
his head is bandaged up. A fight
for the right of its attorneys to visit
its clients in Tuscaloosa is being
made by the LID.
Wholesale Arrests.
The Tuscaloosa authorities had
10 arrest someone for the crime, so
they picked up a Negro boy on the
say-so of white man who owed
him some wages. The boy had a
couple of pals, so they arrested them
too. The boys father reported to
the officials that his son hadn't been
out of his sight that morning so
they put the father behind the bars.
Then the Negro in whose field the
boy had been working the morning
of the crime, came before the grand
jury to report that fact-so they ar
rested him tool"
This is the way in which Schwab
sums up the frame-up of Dan Pip
pen, Jr. 20-year old Negro boy and
of four other Negroes, for the MUIR
der of Vaudine Maddox, 21-year old
white girl, in Tuscaloosa, Ala, Al
though Schwab and his co-attorney,
Frank B. Irwin of Birmingham. have
not been permitted to see their eli
ents in Jail, they have gathered
enough evidence to prove that the
Tuscaloosa case is one of the most
brazen of recent frame-ups.
Evidence of White Slayer.
On Monday, June II, about 8
o'clock in the morning, Vaudine Mad
dox left home. On Tuesday, she was
reported missing A search began
Wednesday revealed her dead body
lying in a ravine.
All the evidence in the case, the
local officials said pointed to MUIR
Ger by an acquaintance OF the girl.
1t was shown that Vaudine Maddox
had sat or stood on a log near the
rsvi1e, evidently chatting with
someone. A pail Of flour she had
been carrying was still sitting by the
log, undisturbed. The local press
went so far as to say that for these
reasons, it was impracticable to sus-
pect Negro. The murderer, the
papers pointed out. was without doubt
someone whom the girl considered
a friend-that is. a white person.
On Friday, June 16, Dan Pippen,
Jr., a Negro boy of 20 was arrested
and charged with attacking and
numbering Vaudine Maddox. The
arrest was made because a white
man, who owed Pippen money, said
that he had seen the boy near the
scene of the crime on Monday morn
ing.
No Evidence of Guilt.
Young Pippen had been working
all Of Monday in the field of Willis
Unison, Negro. Dams father, Dan
Pippen, ST., told the officers that his
son had been with him in the Jirni-
son fleld-and was promptly arrested
for interfering with the investi-
gation".
A. T. Harden, IS, close friend Of
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Is JObless on Trial
Today for Picketing

NEW YORK-Fifteen workers ar
rested on disorderly conduct charges
while picketing the Home Relief Bu-
reau on Westchester Avenue, July
10, will be tried today, $50 am. in
the West Farms Court on 1s1st ST.,
Bronx.
They will be defended by the In
ternational Labor Defense and work
ers coming to the court.
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weak, asked that she be given work
wiping dishes, as she was not strong
enough to clear off the heavy dishes,
as she had been assigned to 90. This
was considered INSTRUMENTATION and
refusal to work.
The general story of camp life, told
by the girls, agreed with the details
in the two stories from camp CORE
spondent printed in the Daily Worker
recently.
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Strikers Wounded
BY Deputy Sheriff
Ordered Arrested

LANSDALE, Pa, July 25.-War-
rants were issued today for two
strikers of the Dexdale hosiery
mill who were shot by deputy
sheriff from the roof Of a mill.
The strikers, Claude Seller and
Wilbur Kreibel, are charged with
melting to riot, assault and bat
terry and disorderly conduct.
They were shot in the leg by
bullets while picketing together
with hundreds Of strikers at the
mill last week.
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Building Soviet Canal
Regenerates Prisoners
Convicts Become Shock Brigaders On Far
North Socialist Construction

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Russia
arctic White
printed
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i. |. D. LAWYERS BARRED
FROM SEEING TUSCALOOSA
NEGROES Held FOR MURDER
Five Are Held for Killing, Which Local Press
Admits was Committed by White Man
BY JIM MALLORY.

BIRMINGHAM July 25Attempts
the Negro population of Tuscaloosa Alabama effort
tenatnal Labor Defense from defending
which admitted to be of
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OVER $4,000 WOMEN ASK SHELTER
in ONE NIGHT, AGENCIES REPORT

should be multiplied by at least five
to get only a rough total for those
cities covered by the survey.
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The weapons with which the
bourgeo sic felled feUdalism to the
ground are now turned against the
bourgeoisie itself. But not only has
the bourgeoisie forged the weapons
that bring death to itself; it has
also called into existence the men
who are to WELD these weapons
tie modern working class-the
pro-eearans. = Communist Mani
festo.
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NJ b In Mississippi
Hangs Negro Accused
of Insulting Woman"

CALEDONIA, Miss, July %
On the excuse that he had 'in-
suited a white woman" a Negro
whom authorities did not trouble
to identify vas hanged by an or
ganized mob here Friday.
NEW YORK, July ga teIe-
gram to the sheriff of Low1des
County, Miss, from william l..
Patterson, national secretary of
the International Labor Defense,
today, demanded the immediate
arrest and death penalty for all
officials and other persons impli-
Gated in the lynoliing of Negro
at Caledonia. A similar telegram
was sent to Governor Mike Sonnet
Conner OF Mississippi.
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POSTPONE TRIALS or II yoBLEss

NEW YORK.--The trials of II
workers on disorderly conduct charges
for demanding jobless relief was
postponed in Coney Island Court
yeEt.-day to Tuesday, Aug 8.