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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13

statement printed in the Daily
Worker on April !.
In view of the increasing attacks
on the unemployed and employed in
the form Of Rooseyelt's new DEAF
by q federal salary slash and insti-
tuCing forced labor the letter empha-
sizes the need Of fighting, Il. Against
any cuts in wages. For increases in
wages, for the shorter work day
without reduction in pay, for nil
pimum wage 2. For adequate local
and federal relief to the unemployed;
for federal unemployment insurance.
Against the Roosevelt forced labor
measures.
Tt concludes by proposing to the
Congress Committee to arrange a
meeting Of your committee with our
representatives in order to work out
ways and means Of making the Con
tinental Congress a part Of the broad
united front struggle of the work
e-s IN this country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
Letters from Farmers Throughout
Country Describe ImboVerishment
Half of Farm Town
Now On Relief, Cut
To S1.50 Per Week
(By a Farmer Correspondent.)


NANPA, Idaho.-The rev" Logs
don, Welfare director, reports that
the organization had 7e2 families on
relief here at the peak-about 1000
ndividuals-which would be practi-
cauy half the population of the town
and announces that the appropria-
ton for April has been cut to $500
and all labor projects" have been
abandoned. Relief has been cut to a
maximum per family of $3.50 (ex-
elusive of Red Cross flour, which is
being again distributed free) per
week. Winter is broken, and it is
perfectly evident that those unem-
ployed not fortunate enough to OBJ
tain work with ranchers at a wage
of SIS to $40 a month and board
for the summer will be expected to
subsist on grass, which will soon be
green.
A couple of misguided individuals
in the organization are helping out
that idea by opening warehouse
for the storage and distribution of
donated supplies (pctatoes, onions,
etc, TO be contributed by busted
farners) thus-so they Imagine
making the unemployed independent
Of capitalist charity" Even II their
ventures were to succeed, they would
simply be relieving the bourgeoisie
of the burden OF providing for the
iobless workers, and assisting and
endorsing the vicious and immemo-
rial, bourgeois practice which COM
pels "the poor to feed the poor"
Idaho has a Criminal Syndicalism
law on par with CALIFORNIA; and
Just as many enthusiastically to
population-frothing at the mouths
and straining at the leash with hot
desires to be permitted to enforce
It to the hilt. s. II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
LID. Needs Funds to
Push Appeal of Negro
Boys to Higher Courts

"Thc lynSl verdict against Hay
wood Patterson must be appealed to
the courts at the same time as
the workers of the entire world
raige still louder their protests
against the frame-up of the nine
innocent Scottsboro boys.
at must be taken to the State
supreme court Of Alabama as well
as to the United States Supreme
Court.
"The trial of Charles Weems,
second OF the Scottsbcro defend
ants is due TO begin in Decatur,
Ala, this coming Monday. His trial,
TO be held in the same lynch at
mosphere i'm which Patterson was
railroaded, will be followed by trials
for tire remaining innocent Scots
boro boys.
These trials viii cost thousands OF
dollars for legal expenses, transpor-
tation and feeding of witnesses,
publicity, etc.
Thousands OF workers have de-
clared THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
SHALL NOT DIE!
Translate your bitterness against
the lynch courts into action. Rush
your donation TO help this fight
TODAY to the International Labor
Defense, Room 430, 80 u. l1th St.,
New York, n. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13

to speak here because the COMMIT
nists are mixed up with it. He says
he speaks because the Communist
Party and the lid have saved the
lives of the Scottsboro boys. He calls
for unity on this issue Of all Negroes
at this time. The crowd cheers him.
A worker is visiting contacts given
him by his union, the Laundry Work
ers Industrial Union. They are all
Negro laundry workers. He visits five
OF them and tells me that they all
asked the same question. How does
the union stand on Scottsboro?" They
all join when he explains that this
is q revolutionary union, that it has
called its membership to demonstrate
at Union Square. Other union COM
rades take note of this, Scottsboro is
shop issue as well.
VUORKERS whistle from their homes
w to Scottsboro collectors n d
throw their nickels out the window.
One rolls into the sewer at 135th st.
and Lenox Ave. The giver, three
stories up says, wait minute He
gets another and this time it is pick
ed up and put in the box.
A horse and wagon travels the
streets with signs, Negro and white
unite to free the Scottsboro boys"
A Negro worker dressed in convict
stripes sits in the electric chair rep
lica in the wagon. Men and women
run up to give money to the driver,
for the Scottsboro boys They are
determined that the real chair-the
chair, which is the lynch moose in a
different form, shall not claim its
innocent victims.
Wednesday morning. The weather
seems to be in conspiracy against
the workers. Rain pourS down with
no sign of clearance. Yet at 10 am,
hours before time for the march to
Pennsylvania Station to meet Mrs.
Patterson, crowds stand before the
Harlem "Liberator" office to listen to
the loud speaker. They are mobil-
izing to meet i'll Union Square. We
are certain that the greatest demon
stration Of Negro and white workers
in history will take place in spite of
all difficulties. Harlem is on the
march against the lynchers' verdict
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS SHALL
NOT DIE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13

a march in this part OF Minnesota.
AT first the County Commissioners
acted as if the whole thing we're a
joke. They laughed when the farm
ers' and workers committee told them
about school children fainting in
schools because of hunger. They
snickered at the reports of hunger all
over the county. They refused to
consider cutting their own fat SAL
aries in order to increase relief for
the starved farmers and workers.
They reeled out the old lie that their
salaries were fixed by law There
fore they couldn't be touched. But
i'll the end they were forced to &C
cept committee of farmers and
workers to distribute relief and so
cut out political favoritism and dis
elimination.
Important Victory.
This is very important victory.
The Farmers National Conference
has laid down in its fighting pro-
gram the demand for $500,000,000
cash relief. All relief must be given
in kind and distributed by commit
tees of rank and file farmers. Farm
ers in all sections of the country
should corner relief representatives
and squeeze the same demand out
Of them.
Farmers and workers in Itasca
County are now back in their locali-
ties modifying more workers and
farmers for greater marches. They
are working for big May Day Dem
onstration to be held in Bovey at 2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13

oIlS OI GIlS lille 1ilIlOCEIlb OCOItSpOIO
boys, to death.
On March 18th, at the Forum Hall,
a conference of 226 delegates, repre-
senting 1876 organizations, with a
membership Of approximately $4,000,
declared that the national oppres-
sion OF the Negro people of Chicago
must be smashed. A concrete pro-
gram was drawn up aro adopted in
order to carry out thc.'' declaration.
An address was drawn Up and dele
cation was elected to present 1t to
the City Council of Chicago.
The demands are as follows.
Better Housing
I. The immediate tearing down OF
all condemned, diIapidated buildings
in Negro neighborhoods throughout
the city, to be replaced by new, mod
ern apartment buildings which are to
be rented at the same rate as like
buildings are rented to whites. In the
construction of these buildings, en-
ployment is to be given to Negro
workers, skilled and unskilled along
with white workers. To finance this,
the incomes of the industries such
as the stock yards, steel mills, and
the landlords who have extracted SUI
per profits and rents from us, should
be taxed.
2. The immediate resumption Of
work on the Wendell Phillips school
at 49th and State Sts, employment
to be given to Negro, skilled and un-
skilled, along with white workers in
completing it.
8. That the city clean up inlrned-
lately all streets and alleys, repair
lights on dark streets in the Negro
neighborhoods, this work to be done
by the unemployed.
4. The immediate abolition Of po-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13

The letter which the
Fort Slocum, follows
April g. 1888.
Dear Mother and Father
Saturday at / having good
will be here for Then place in the
south We eat plenty of beans The days long We
bed o'clock and get o'clock We don't here This
the military Work in the oresEdtorl.
The that in the lying; anything
nothing. for 10
Paper send truck for them
With like monkeys cold How
all We learn how shoot
P. s. They two needles sleep We beds
like in Sing Sing Jail should the big drive
Your loving
will be back months Tell soldier like hxk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
Workers On Relief
Work, On Roads, Not
Paid Since February
tBy a Farm Correspondent

NIOFA, Tenn. - The R,F.C. plan
here is putting men on road work.
Some men started to work in Febru-
airy and they haven't been paid off
yet. ] got on in March. Six in my
family and l was assigned to four
days work q month and the boss
said today we arc about out OF money
and the men that's doing the work
hasn't had a payday yet. / have work
ed two of my days but don't know
about the other two. When, I don't
know or can't find out when pay
day is. The paper states the R.F.
G. is paying $3.50 but its s1.25 a
day. One dollar and twenty-five
cents for nine hours work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
Farmers, Blocked in Neav
Organization, Capture Old

revolutionary spirit. We resolved UNI
animously that from April on we
would demand that the trust pay us
6 cents a quart for milk and also
pay us for surplus. 1t was also re-
solved that if we cannot get these
conditions we would call a milk strike
on May l.
Our victories in passing these mil
liant measures was received with
great enthusiasm by all the farmers
who intend to stand strong and fight
if they have to.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
THOMAS A COLUMBIA PROF.

NEW YORK.-Columbia Unlver-
sity. which last week fired Donald
Henderson, economics instructor, be-
cause he was too active in the Ma
tional Students League, today an
nounced that Norman Thomas, So
cialist Party leader, will be men,
Der of the Summer Session.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
''Let Our Negro Boys Co." Is Demand
of Militant Harlem Demonstrators
I'm Not Red Love the L. D. Says Speaker One Of
Many Fiery Meetings Scoring Scottsboro Lynch Verdict
pWts2 -
BY JOHN ADAMS,

RKHd VI ar of Dtenc
ec pdha
Of d.
the o. in t Haywood Patterson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
NOTE:

Letters from Negro farmers from
the Black Belt, the district where the
sharecroppers' trial will take place,
will be published in the Daily Worker
on Saturday, April %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
Mass March Thru
Chicago South Side
Set for Saturday
Demand Better Housing, End of Police Terror
No Discrimination in Jobs

mass
p starting
st.
Preparations this march gained with the
rising against verdict condmnng Haywood Patterson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13

The executive OF the modern state
is but a committee for managing
the common affairs Of the whole
bourgeoisie.--Commun st Manifesto.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
WORKERS AND FARMERS RELIEF
COMMITTEES FORCE WAY ONTO
FEDERAL RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS

GRAND RAPIDS,
This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13

NEW YORK.-In a frantic effort
to supply the quota for the forced
labor camps here, special delivery
letters were sent to the unemployed
TO report to the Emergency Work
and Relief Bureau. But the response
is very slow, as facts become known
Of the conditions inside the camps.
From Fort Slocum young worker
writes Il run a truck for them"
While truck drivers get So to 81
day, the unemployed on Roosevelt's
new deal' jobs get less than dollar
a day and at the same time are
compelled to pay eXhorbitant prices
for cigarettes and other articles at
the camps.
Over 300 have already left the
camps. At Fort Slocum, James Pc
trozzella, Of 1861 Sixty-fourth Street,
Brooklyn, organized group Of fiji
teen who left the camp together. Dis
satisfaction at Fort Slocum has taken
the form of breaking up of dishes
and other open expressions Of resist
ance is manifest among the men.
To inStill military discipline
among them, they must pledge to re-
main for six months and TO obey
those in authority"
Army Plays Big Part
WASHINGTON, April IL. - The
first fifty camps have been design
ated in national forests in different
parts of the country. The men now
in the army camps receiving nilit~
airy training will be shipped to the
national forests for work on forced
labor jobs.
1t is believed that the Army will
play more important part than Or
iginally announced. Therefore the
selection Of young workers between
the ages of 10 to Is as the first re-
cruits for military training. which
serves as a part Of the feverish war
preparations.
Ordinarily laborers in the logging
camps average twenty dollars a week,
while the unemployed will not get
cent, as their pay will be given to
their dependents who are taken of
the Welfare Agencies lists from
which relief up to the present was
supplied
N--~-ss-------~---=------~----~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-13
Over 800 JoblesS Leave Labor Camps in
n. Y, Same Reports from Other States

Unemployed to Be Used in Other Jobs Besides Work Forest Truck
Drivers for Less Than 81 Day. Jobe Organize Demonstrations
p The Down Town um%%ed Council
eHf at h ngof this fucedL
n he
Evening star., 1933-11-29

NJ Velvet Mules, trimmed with
rabbit fur: varied colors. 81. Other
Slippers. Sl.25 to So.
NJ Iace.irimmcd Dance Set of
French crepe. Sizes II to 10. 81
Other Dance sets to SIS.
N.3 French Crepe Slip. tailored or
lace-trimmed style. S2.25. Other
Slips to IS
N-4 Wool Sweater. crew neck. long
sleeves. 81. Other Sweaters to S5
MS Girls Wash Dress, S2.25
Others To Sl0.s5.
N.6 Children, Wool-lincd Slippers.
$l.75. Other Slippers. 81 to $3.50.
NJ Personality Bcrct. indyidual1cd
with ones initial, 81.
N-s Boys Jersey Suit. sizes , to g.
S2.25. Other Suits to $5.95.
NJ Ski Suit. with eldc,fastcning
front. sizes , to &. S7.95. Other
Suits. S3.95 to sl3.75.
Mo Girls Raincoat with matching
bcrci. Sizes 3 to 10. S3.95. Other
Raincoats to S7.q5.
Nil Leather Jacket for girls 1 to
e years, S5.95. 8 to 20 years, S6.s5.
All items on this page from Fourth Floor
Because Of market conditions. prices
are Mbjecf TO change withom notice
w A SHIhCTON
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-03
Daily an Absolute Necessity

The White Guards, working hand
in hand with the imperialists, ably
served by such anti-SoYiet propa-
gandists as DR.. Will Durant and
Isaac Don Levine, are preparing the
way for the long expected attcS
upon the U.S.S.R. In this situation.
we cannot get along without &
paper which organizes militant OPP
position to imperialist war, which
exposes the enemies of the Soviet
Union, which popularizes the
achievements Of the Soviet work
erS and peasants and mobiles
American workers in defense and
support of Socialist Construction
WHILE the F.S.U. is a non-party
w mass organization, real United
Front of all true friends of the
Soviet Union, regardless Of poll
tical affiliations. it must be recog
nized that the Daily Worker is the
only organ Of a political party
which takes consistent and TN
equivocal stand in support and de
Tense of the Soviet Union. The New
Leader, the Forward and other or
gans of the Socialist Party are fl
led with editorials and statements
of the Socialist Party leaders, re
fleeing the most vicious ISLANDERS
of White Guard and imperialist
enemies Of the Soviet Union--be-
sides their own fantastic inven-
lions about terrorism, starvation
ETC."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-03
General Electric
Speeds Work on
Orders for Macy
(By . Worker Corresp0ndenil

Wy 81 NOthCI NUAICSIOAuEuhl
SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-Stock De-
partment Building No 46 Of the Gen
eral Electric Company at Schenec-
tady. N. Y. is one department that is
working as though there was no cri-
sis. 1t is running day and night,
five and six days week, turning out
automatic controls for the big guns
on warshipS. These automatic con-
trolls can be operated by radio.
Only the best workers are employed
on this work because it needs abso-
lutte accuracy. The company has seen
to it that only reliable men are in
this department. One of the require
mentS is that every one doing TINS
work must be a citizen. No one
from the other shops in the works is
allowed to enter or to speak to any
one in this department during work.
ing hours. Not all the equipment
for the automatic controls, however,
is made in Building No. As. The
production of several parts is scat
tered through the plant
Workers in Building No. 46! The
Automatic Controls that you are now
producing are TO be used against
workers of other countries, your own
class brothers and against yourselves
when you protest against the worsen-
ing of your own conditions. AS soon
as this order is finished you will find
yourselves in the same situation as
the 1900 fully unemployed workers
and the thousands of other workers
Shaving on part time work in the G.E.
Get together to set up your shop
committees and together with all the
workers in the G. E. fight for better
conditions and against war which the
bosses are preparing for us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-03

only adherent of Marks revolution
airy teachings in the United States.
The ensuing article, "All in the
Name OF Marxism," takes up in de-
tail the present cleft" maneuver;
of the Socialist Party, its attempts
TO reclaim" Marxisnl, which it
had completely outlawed during
the period Of so-called prosperity
Theory Is Our Guide to Action"
by Comrade Browder, and the RE
lation of Theory to Practice" by
Comrade Don, show the indissoluble
intcr-connection Of revolutionary
theory with revolutionary practice
The popular price of 5 cents for
this important little pamphlet
should be stimulant for wide sale
and distribution. Order your copies
immediately from the workers
Library Publishers, Box t48, sta
ton d, New York City. Make this
pamphlet available to all workers
IN your locality,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-03
"WORKTNG WOHAN"
NOV 4 WAGAZLNE

'HThe Working Woman" has
changed into a magazine. The
March issue is just off the press.
The price is cents 1t contains
Women Fight For Bread On In
tsrnationaI Women's Day" by
Charlotte Todes; "The White
Scarf" by Grace Lunpkin; Julia
Martin story by Grace Hutchins.
The attractive red cover and pho
tograph of two working women call
TO others to Answer the Call For
international Women's Day
There are five pages of workers
correspondence and story by
a, Russian housewife who went TO
work In a factory
AL sections and districts are
asked 70 order special bundles for
;1NsSy international women'S Day
Iueeesuozs Write to "The Working
E1naahp 10 w. 18th St. New York
Fftrf.ft6s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-03
CONSCIOUS POLICY OF
EDUCATION NEEDED

The union must pursue a conSci-
GUS policy Of educating the work
ers and consistently exposing all of
: the attempts to discredit the class
struggle policy by the agents of
the bosses and the reformists. 1t
is necessary to also discuss the
lessons of the strike movement in
all Of these locals, showing the
workers not only the economic for
ces, but the role of the political
state in its attempt to defeat Or
ganization. There is no doubt that
the strike movement in Detroit has
been a factor in deepening the fl
nancial instability and giving a
blow to the whole ruling power of
the automobile kings. The whole
financial crisis, resulting in stop
ping the banks from making pay
ments. is, no doubt, helping to
hasten the discomfort and fighting
spirit of the masses in Detroit.
The Detroit strike movement with
its many lessons should particular
ly teach our revolutionary unions
that when every member begins
systematically and patiently to car
ny on work inside of the factory,
taking mp the smallest grievance
and fighting against all wage cuts,
Systematically formulating correct
demands and preparing for strug-
giles. 1t is possible to win the con-
fidence of the masses of workers
and lead victorious strike struggles
also in the heavy in6astries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-03
The Capitalist Crisis Hits
the Schools

This is the second of a series of
articles dealing with the effects
Of capitalist crisis on the SchOOlS)
NEW YORK.-By June IL, 1882,
the teachers had given over S2,225,-
900 for school relief. Over $4,000 chill
dren were fed daily, and some 10000
pairs of shoes had been given away.
Toward the end of the year, the sal
airy cut from Albany was seriously
contemplated. A short time before the
Sum said: SALARY cuts plus relief
contributions would be too much it is
conceded by school officials" The
treasurer of the fund also stated:
'+rheir contributions amount to a
voluntary cut in salaries" In Janu-
airy the salary cut was official. The
substitutes had already suffered a cut
by not being appointed to regular
jobs, which in the normal course OF
events would have been done. "a
regular appointment carries with it
salary increases and vacation money,
intead of q day-tO-day wage) The
regulars recently got another cut
when 1t was announced that part of
their salary would be deducted for
any absence. Before from 20 to 60
days a year we're allowed with no
deduction.
Board Tries Coercion.
Naturally, with so many wage cuts,
with families to support and with
the uncertainty of having a job
mounting every day, even the more
conservative teachers began protest.
ing against these voluntary" con-
tributions of anywhere from l to 5
per cent demanded of them. The
Board forgot it's own statements and
held pep talk after pep talk urging
that relief be continued. The super