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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Grand Jury Again
ReCesSes Probe"
OF Two LynchingS
Knight, Foe of 9 Boys,
Wants Postponement,
To Let Protest Die

TUSCALOOSA. Aug. PAT h {
Grand Jury, supposed to be "investi-
eating" the lynching on Aug. IS OF
Dan Pippen, Jr., and A. T. Harden
has been recessed again until Sept
S, in the hope that the general in
dignation over the lynchings will
have cooled off, and a whitewash Of
Judge Henry B. Foster, Sheriff r. l.
Shamblin, the two deputies and pri-
vate detective in charge of the Ne
groes when they were murdered, can
be passed off smoothly.
No attempt has been made to rec
oncile or even cover up the obvious
discrepancies in the stories told by
officials. Although a Birmingham
Negro paper has pointed out that a
boy on a bicycle could have reached
Birmingham from Tuscaloosa in less
than the four and half hours that
went by between the time the sher-
ifs car "speeded" out of Tusca-
loosa and the time the deputies re-
ported the lynching, no effort has
been made to even explain this dis
crepancy.
1t was a Negro doctor, B. B. Nit
chell, who turned Elmore Clark, acct
dental survivor of the lynching, over
to Sheriff Shamblin a second time
1t was learned here.
Attorney General Thomas E
knight Jr., notorious for his stub
born fight to legally lynch the
Scottsboro boys, asked for the recess
He is in charge of the "investiga-
ton"
In Justification for the lynching
and the violent election of Interna-
tional Labor Defense lawyers, the
Tuscaloosa News, local daily, say.
editorially:
Social equality never has been, is
not now, and never will be recog-
nized in the South. Those who came
to preach a different order always
have been, are now, and always will
be repulsed."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

full carrying out Of the decisions of
the United Front Committee.
The International Labor Defense
insists only that the minimum pro-
gram agreed upon be militant one
designed to rally the largest number
Of workers for united struggle.
At the last meeting of the United
Front Committee, certain decisions
were made which lead the lid to
state publicly its position as regards
them.
BY a unanimous vote, the COM
nlittee decided to extend an invita-
ton to the Socialist Party to join in
the united front. The Socialist Party
accepted the invitation, and desig-
mated Norman Thomas and Attorney
Weinfeld as It's delegates. Norman
Thomas has subsequently been elected
Chairman Of the Committee. The In
ternational Labor Defense heartily
agrees with this decision and well
comes the inclusion of the Socialist
Party.
At the same meeting, however, a
motion to invite the Communist
Party to send its representatives to
the United Front Committee was re-
jected on the grounds that the Com
munist Party was represented in the
persons Of the delegates from the
International Labor Defense.
While we, the lid representatives,
readily ACKNOWLEDGE membership IN
the Communist Party, it must be
categorically stated that the Inter-
national Labor Defense is non
partisa n organization embracing
workers of different political views
and stands ready to defend any
worker who falls victim to capitalist
justice regardless of his political af-
flliation or creed. The international
Labor Defense is an independent or
ganization having no organizational
connection with the Communist
PartS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Phila. Fur Strikers
Win All Demands

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August "a
The Fur Bosses Association formed
for the purpose of breaking the strike
Of the fur workers led by the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
we're compelled to yield to the de-
mands of the Union yesterday and
conclude a settlement
The settlement represents a real
victory to the workers BY its terms,
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union is recognized, and the
workers win increased and guaran-
teed minimum wage scales, equal
division of work, and ten legal holi-
days a year with pay The hours of
work are set at IS hours If similar
conditions are established for the
furriers in the department stores,
otherwise the hours will be 40. The
union feels confident that it will be
able to successfully conduct q drive
to establish union conditions in the
stores and all other places where
furriers are employed. An unemploy-
ment insurance fund has been estab-
Ished by the employers, TO be ad-
ministered by the workers.
The settlement was effected with
the assistance of Joseph Winograd-
ski, sent by the National Once of
the union to participate in the nego-
tiations. Great enthusiasm was ex-
pressed by the strikers for the results
gained
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
City Events
Midsummer Carnival

A special feature of the Midsum-
mer Carnival under the auspices of
the Workers International Relief
which will be held tonight at 5 p. m.
at Golden City Park, Brooklyn, will
be a talk by journalist who has
just returned from Germany and
has been an eyewitness of the
Reichstag fire. lie has seen Torg-
Ter and some of tine other German
class war prisoners.
The carnival includes a program
Of revolutionary music and songs
by the International Relief Band,
several skits including the Worlds
Fair, by the Workers Laboratory
Theatre, and a regular Soviet film
show.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

Jail mate of Tom Mooney in San
Quentin, sentenced to AZ years as
the leader of the Imperial Valley
strikers, and finally released through
the mass protest of workers led by
the International Labor Defense,
called on those present to enlist in
the fight for the freeing of the pres
ent day class war prisoners.
Comrade Specvor told of the
frame-up Of Tom Mooney, in San
quentin for II years because, like
Sacco and Vanzetti, he led in the
struggle of the workers, of the Scots
boro boys, framed up in Alabama and
sentenced to die because they are
Negro toilers, just as Sacco and Van
zetti were prosecuted because they
were active in behalf of the foreign
born workers; of the deportation
cases against Edith Berkman, Massa-
chusetts textile worker; Sam Paul,
unemployed leader. still held In Jail
in Providence, r. l., and facing de-
portation because he refused to tes-
tify against himself; and Of the
lynching of the Tuscaloosa Negroes.
There was loud applause when
Comrade Spector said, Let us pledge
ourselves to carry on the fight not
only to free these class war prison.
ers, but to destroy this rotten frame
up system of capitalism and set up
instead working class society"
Jack Mccarthy, district secretary
of the Trade Union Unity League,
completely exposed the National Re-
covery Act. They give us more blue
eagles" he said, "but the conditions
OF the workers keep getting bluer
and bluer." Mccarthy spoke of con-
ditions Of the workers in the shoe
and textile industry of Massachusetts,
and the necessity for the workers
building their own unions.
Jessica Henderson, chairman of the
NE. committee for the Defense of
Political Prisoners was chairman. She
went into the lives of Sacco and
Vanzetti, and OF the role played by
the Boston society" Lowell, Fuller,
Strotton, Grant, Thayer, ETC., in car
rying through the murder of Sacco
and Vanzetti.
Prof. Harry Dana, like Jessica Hen
derson, connected with the Sacco
Vanzetti defense through seven long
years Of the fight, read the letters
of Vanzetti to him which appeared
in the Daily Worker From Cam
bridge where I live" said Harry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

Dana, 'At sunset you can look across
at the skyline beyond the Charles
River, and see the Bunker Hill monu-
ment, monument TO liberty" On
that same skyline, can be seen
standing the Charleston Jail, where
Sacco and Vanzetti were put to
death"
Dana, who was delegate to the
World Congress against war spoke OF
the activities of Sacco and Vanzetti
against the bosses world war, and Of
the necessity, in carrying forward the
struggle for which Sacco and Van
zetti died, of fighting against the
danger of new bosses war at the
present time The fight of Sacco
Vanzetti will not end until capitalism
is overthrow, Dana said.
Resolutions were sent to the Gov
Miller Of Alabama demanding the re-
lease Of the Scottsboro Boys, to Gov
Rolfe demanding the release of
Mooney. The release of Sam Paul OF
Providence was also demanded.
The speech of Hector Thomas, of
the Scottsboro Committee. Negro
worker showing the Scottsboro fight
as the same fight as Sacco-Vanzetti,
was one of the most enthusiastic re-
ceived. When the resolution was in
troduced demanding the death pen
atty for the shefii-. the Judge and the
lynchers who had hand in the
lynching of the Tuscaloosa Negro
workers, there was great applause.
LYNN, Mass, Aug. 22.-After po-
lice had succeeded in preventing a
scheduled Sacco-Vanzetti-S cottsboro
Demonstration today in front of
Lynn City Hall, 200 workers gath
cred on the Common. Police made
attempts to demoralize the workers
here also, but militant protest by
the Lynn I. L. D. forced the open
ing OF the bandstand
The meeting was addressed by
Manuel Blanc. Dist Org. Sec'y of
the I. L. D., who pointed out the in
cressing terror under the N. R. A.,
giving as an example the recent
sell-out of the Lynn shoe strike, and
Howard Carter of the Boston Scots
boro Action Committee, who drew
the lessons of the Sacco-Vanzetti
case and called for real solidarity
of Negro and white workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
BronxdaIe Action Committee

The Bronxdale Action Committee
has organized concrete program of
activity for the coming week, such
as protest meetings against the Tus-
caloosa lynching. and race discrimi-
nation at the Bronxdale Pool.
Today, Friday, will be held many
open air meetings throughout the
Bronx. In addition there will be a
mass meeting at pm. at the Co.
operative Auditorium, 27o0 Bronx
Park East, Bronx N. Y, where Jim
Allen, author of Negro Liberation"
is announced as the speaker. All
workers are urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

the former because he feels the
would not draw, and is disinclipf
to meet Callahan because the latte
is 2 left-hander.
BY moovering some of these run
ning sores, the military gentleman
would have us believe we're on the
road to eliminating them. After rak.
ing in on a series of trumped up
matches, the Garden is coming to
the realization that they stand to
lose at least as much as the dis.
gruntled fans. The Man-to-M Man line
is last resort, an extra dose OF
poppycock, as Tunney would have it.
Setups will be done away with only
with the discarding of the entire
managerial. promotorial and profes-
sional arrangement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

Tense for Terzani, the New York
District Of the International Labor
Defense has made every effort to
bring about broad united front de-
tense campaign involving all working
class, fraternal and liberal organiza-
tons. The International Labor De-
Tense declares that the fight to free
Terzani must be based upon a mill
tant campaign against fascism in
general, against the menace Of fas-
cism in America in particular, and
that such campaign is OF vital i'm
portance to every worker,
Starting from this premise, the N.
Y. District of the I. l.. D. approached
the Italian Anti-Fascist Unity Com
mittee, composed Of various Italian
organizations, with the proposal that
a provisional committee be formed
to call united front conference and
lay the base for a real united mass
campaign Of struggle.
This offer, after some discussion,
was accepted, and committee formed
consisting of representatives from
the Italian Unity Committee, the
American Civil Liberties Union, the
General Defense Committee and the
International Labor Defense.
THE lid made its position clear at
l the start, declaring that 1t would
not bargain its principles nor its
program for the sake Of unity; neither
would 1t attempt to force its pro-
gram and principles upon any other
organization. The lid is ready and
willing to enter into a united front
for mass struggle on the specific issue
of defense for Terzani. AS long as
the other organizations are willing
to unite and mobilize their members
and followers for the realization of
the demands which bring us together
the LID stands ready to cooperate
and to do its utmost for the success
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
L. d. Answers S. p Attempt to Weaken Terzan Defense

real murderer, and showed him to
the police. This man was held and
questioned by the Assistant District
Attorney and later released. Terzani
was then held for homicide and Pa
Jumbo was charged with felonious
assault.
The International Labor Defense,
through quick and effective action,
succeeded in exposing the frame-up
against Palumbo, secured his release
on bail, and finally forced the. dis
missal Of the charges against him.
Compelled to release one of its in
tended victims, the prosecution re-
doubled its efforts to frame the
other At special hearing OF the
Grand Jury, at which no defense
witnesses appeared, Terzani was in
dicted for second degree murder.
The motive here is clear. Not sat-
isfied with the death OF one anti
fascist, the ruling class is attempt
ing to railroad another to a long
prison term in an effort to check
the growing struggles of the workers
against fascism. The ruling class is
thereby giving direct, support to the
Khaki Shirts in their campaign of
terror against the workers, and is
stimulating the growth OF the or
ganization itself, just as it is now
trying to revive the Ku Klux Khan
in the South.
The Terzani case is the outgrowth
of the development of fascist tenden-
cies in the United States, crystallizing
into such bands as the Khaki Shirts,
which are fostered by the wartime
methods and wartime psychology
accompanying the National Recovery
Act, and which receive direct, If not
open, support from the government.
REALIzING the seriousness Of this
IN case, and the need for an ener-
getic struggle against fascist MUIR
der gangs as the only adequate de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Straight from the Shoulder

Colonel John Reed Fitzpatrick, the
new president of Madison Square
Garden, has surveyed the boxing sit
uation and decided to adopt a brand
new policy. to be known hereafter
as Straight from the shoulder Deal
ings-with Public. In our private
catalogue it's filed as Line Number
102X.
1.-THE first thing I learned about
boxing" reminisces the Colonel, was
the rule of a fight manager-never
to agree to his man fighting any one
who has the slightest chance of lick
ing him. If we don't change that,
then boxing is lost" The Garden lays
its cards on the. table and wants
the public to know the deterring fac
tors in promoting good matches"
> For instance. Jimmy McLarnin
could defend his welterweight title
against either Billy Petrolle or Andy
Callahan, but is not anxious to meet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
More DreSSmakerS
Leave Shops to
Continue Strike
Bosses Advance Dues
to ILGW-to Deduct
from Pay Envelope

NEW YORK.-The dress strike is
by no means ended. Hundreds OF
workers were reported returning to
the strike halls today to continue
their strike against Sweatshop con-
ditions after being told by the con-
tractors that their wages will not
differ much from the amount prior
to the strike,
International officials are now
having the active cooperation OF
the National Dress Manufacturers in
obtaining dues from the workers
Dressmakers report that the work
ers' dues are being advanced by the
contractors, who pay the union and
then expect to deduct the exorbitant
dues from the workers pay.
Settlements continue to be made
by the Industrial Union, with many
real increases won for the workers
Police arrested 81 needle trades
workers. mostly in the garment CEN
ter, today as the workers continued
picketing the shops.
Code Hearings
Delegates of the Needle Trades In
dustrial Union in Washington, after
waiting for a day and a half, had
still not been called to speak at the
hearings on the dress code. as we
go to press. All Wednesday the
floor was given to the employers
representatives and administrators
in whose ranks Dubinsky is sitting
in place of Hillman. Hearings
started with a boastful speech by
Grover Whalen declaring that he
has settled everything in the New
York situation, and he received the
unanimous approval of the employ
ers and ILG.W. officials present.
The first day of the code hear
ings was devoted to settling differ
ences between contractors and job
bers The code submitted by the
jobbers was denounced by the con-
tractors and insiders who are resist
ing the efforts OF the jobbers' asso-
citation to swallow all other associa-
lions. Out-of-town contractors are
arguing for still lower wage scale
1t is apparent already that agree
rnent on wage scales will be mere
formality, with none of the groups
taking responsibility.
The hearings are expected to last
for several days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
ZazuIiak to Speak

William zazuliak, militant leader
of the automobile workers of De-
troit, who was arrested on the picket
line in the recent strike there and
held in prison five months as host
age for the surrender of his wife,
later ordered deported, will speak at
the New York Conference for the
Protection of the Foreign Born, to
be held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E.
4th ST., Saturday afternoon.
Organizations are urged, in a
statement issued today by T. j. Nc
Henry, national secretary of the Ma
tional Committee for the Protection
of the Foreign Born, to send de1e-
gates to the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
LID. Representatives
Show Non-Partisan
Character of Body

In addition, the representatives of
the LID, while members of the Com
munist Party, are not authorized to
act on behalf of that Party and have
no power to mobilize the member
ship OF the Communist Party for &C
ton against the frame-up of Ter
zani.
In view of these facts, we, selected
as the representatives Of the Inter
national Labor Defense, wish to de-
clare that the decision Of the United
Front Committee to exclude the
Communist Party for the above rea-
sons endangers the creation of real
united front embracing all sincere
anti-fascist organizations of tn e
working class. The Importance of the
Communist Party in such campaign,
and its record of militant struggle
against fascism and for the interests
Of the working class, cannot be de-
MED. To attempt to exclude it from
such campaign is to weaken that
campaign and does not lead to unity
Of the working class. Our organiza-
ton, the LID, has expressed its agree
ment with our position.
The International Labor Defense
will continue to work for complete
unity in the fight for Tenants free
dom and against fascism, and pledges
to do everything in its power to rally
the greatest number Of workers to
this struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Communist Month in Unity

The management of Camp Unity
has decided to turn over the profits
of the Camp for the month of Sep
TENDER to the Communist Party to
aid the Party in carrying out its
many campaigns. This comedies
with the 14th anniversary of the
Communist Party in America and
the 10th anniversary of Camp Unity
Programs for the month will be
under the control of the District of
the Communist Party. Rates will
be the same. Call NEStabrook 8-140O
for further information.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Daily Carrier Route
Planned for Jamaica

NEW YORK.-Dora Rappaport, a
member of the United Council of
Working Glass Women and of the
Daily Worker Volunteers, has ordered
so copies of the Daily Worker every
day and pledged to establish a car
rier-route in Jamaica, L. I.
Jamaica workers who are willing to
help her in building this route are
urged to communicate with her at
9l10 138th ST., Jamaica.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Alexander & DOishon
of Post 191, w ESL,
AttentiOn-Return

Where are you? Has anything
happened? If you are safe and left
on your own, be men and return.
If you are safe and do not return
you place yourselves in the ranks of
the enemies. The rank and file Of
Post 1911 must go ahead and will 60
ahead whether you return or not.
Mistakes can be made. If anyone
sees these comrades, please bring
this notice to their attention. !.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Shoe Workers Meeting

The Shoe Repairers' Labor Lyceum
meeting. which had been enormously
announced for yesterday, is definitely
arranged for tonight at $3.50 pm, at
949 Willoughby Ave. near Myrtle
Ave, Brooklyn.
The workers of greater New York,
will assemble Sunday morning, Au-
gust 27. 10 am, at Irving Plaza Hall,
corner 18th st. and Irving Pl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Knitg00ds Workers in Union
Drive

, NEW YORK.-The organization
drive among the knitgoods workers
is spreading to more open shops.
On Tuesday the workers of the Re-
public, 204 Wallace Street, Brooklyn,
went out on strike for wage in
creases. The strikes of the Starr
Knitting Mills, Brooklyn, and Bella
cier Knitting Mills, in the Bronx
are still on. All knitgoods workers
are called upon to support these
strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Socialist lie ad er S
Move to Exclude
Communist Party

lttempt of the Socialist Party to
exclude the Communist Party from
The united front committee which
Is defending Terzani, was made
yesterday by William Lawrence
and Lawrence Emory, LID. repre-
sentatives on the Terzani Defense
Committee.
THE frame-up of Athos Terzani,
1 anti-fascist worker, for the muir
der of Anthony Fierro, fascist
student. is the latest in the long
chain Of frame-ups which mark the
history Of the American working
class.
Fierro was killed at a meeting of
the KHAKI Shirts of America, Inc"
held on July IA, 1888, in Astoria,
Long Island. Art Smith, leader of
this terrorist gang, whose program
calls for the establishment Of a fas-
cist dictatorship in the United States,
provoked fight against several Ital-
ian anti-fascist workers present in
the hall
Fierro, young student, only few
years from Italy where he had felt
the effects Of Mussolini's murderous
regime, rushed to the aid of his COM
rades who were being beaten. One Of
the Khaki Shirts, later identified to
the police, jumped on a bench, pulled
a gun and fired. Anthony Fierro fell
dead, the first victim of an armed
band Of Fascist terrorists of Ameri-
can origin.
When the police reached the hall.
Art Smith pointed out Terzani and
another antifascist worker, Michael
Palumbo. as the guilty ones. Both
Terzani and Palunbo had seen the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Lynch Protests Today

A street demonstration will be
held today at p. m. at 125th st,
and 9TH Avenue by Post 2 of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
who are leading protests against the
four lynchings that occurred last
week.
An open forum will be held, on
the cases Sunday at p. m. at 1877
West 12Sth Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
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Weighty Matters
BY EDWARD NEWHoUsE

Despite the spectacle of his Yanks helpless ounderng
before Clint Browns deceptive shoots Joe Mccarthy insists
that chances catching the Senators have by faded
The benching of Combs Sewe Ruth and of the rest
and insertion of fresh strength the of Walker Dew
Larry Farrell and Byrd have dspated the ethargc at
ude which has been cumming up the Western invasons
least the Yankee boss whistles in the dark.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Iron and Bronze Workers

A meeting of the Inside lroa and
Bronze Workers will be held to-
night at 8 p. M. az the Labor
Temple, 243 E. saith Street, Room
10. Shopmen of local 81 and work
ers in the unorganized shops are
called upon to ioin the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Urge Aid for Daily
on Western Tour

Workers of Denver, COLI Salt
Lake City, Utah, San Francisco
and Los Angeles are urged to
give full cooperation to Mac
Harris, representative of the
Daily Worker. now on tour of
these cities to boost Daily cir
culation.