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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

night-according to Judge Gala
hans plans, the jury now being
picked. will be in the same room
deciding whether he lives or dies.
Through the early morning hours
in an almost filled courtroom the
droning examination dragged on. Out
OF the first panel called, five out of
seven said they had fixed opinions.
Out OF a dozen, only two were left
willing to serve. When Leibowitz
questions deeply into their opinions,
Callahan, following his procedure all
through the Patterson trial, inter-
rupts, II think you've questioned him
from a to q. Isn't that enough2"
A venire panel Of 100 was exhausted
without getting jurors for Norris
Case.
Another panel was drawn at $40
am, just as loud, indistinguishabie
sounds OF heated argument issue from
Jury room.
Last night when court adjourned
Callahan instructed the bailiff TO re-
turn the Patterson jury at $50. The
bailiff actually brought the jury in
about 7:30, while the courthouse
grounds and court were deserted.
While the jury was celebrating on
his life, Patterson was with the other
Scottsboro boys in the ancient, cor
demned Morgan county jail.
After several hours yesterday af-
ternoon and two hours this morning,
Is prospective jurors had been picked
out of a panel Of 112, and these
prospective jurors included men who
admitted having fixed opinions on
the case but thought evidence to con-
trary would make them change
opinions.
Thought no one actually knows
what is going on in the jury room
a rumor spread through the court
room that the jury stood at that
time 5 for death, 4 for life inn
prisonment and 8 for less than life.
There was no intimation of ac-
quittal.
Out of the new batch of prospec-
tive jurors sent for by the court
two were found available as pos
sible jurors even though Leibowitz
ODgecbeQ 10 one because OF MS
opinions. The court adjourned again
while the sheriff went hunting adj
ditional citizens for prospective
jurors.
At 1880 the total of prospective
jurors was 81. The law requires
minimum of 80 so as to give the
state and defense the proper num-
Der of Strikes" to leave IL which
will make the Norris jury.
At 1905 pm, with Fl hours
passed since the Patterson jury got
the case, of which seven and half
hours were actual deliberations,
Callahan adjourned court for one
hour. Both defense and prosecution
counsel watched the jurors faces
anxiously as they were led to dim
ner.
Their faces were hard to read,
All looked tired, several with grim,
determined sets to their faces; one
or two smiled slightly at the stares
of the attorneys and tbs sps<r
! tators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

face was lmmobile. Defense.
attorney Leibowitz said he
had nothing to say.
Leibowitz asked for one
month in which to make a
motion to set aside the YER
dict in the Patterson case,
that is, one month after the
stenographer transcribes his
minutes, which covers about
1000 pages.
The verdict was brought
in in the presence of Clar-
ence Norris, for whom a
jury was picked today, and
who goes on trial Saturday
morning. Eight of the jury
are farmers. 1t was neces-
sary to call additional pro-
spective jurors continually,
in view of the large numbers
who admitted they had fixed
opinions on the case. Attor-
ney Leibowitz's motion for a
change of venue on the
ground that this proved that
a fair trial was impossible,
was brusquely denied by
Judge Callahan.
The routine picking Of jury TO
the Norris case was resumed Will
ten feet from the jury box tn
Patterson jury was celebrating tn,
case. Norris sat directly alongside
the jury room door in a red sweate,
and overalfs, watching Leibowit'
examine prospective jurors. From
where he sat he could hear through
the door the muffled voices of TIL,
Patterson jury debating whether tt
send the first Scottsboro boy to b,
tried, to death.
Within two days-by Saturda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
MARCHTODAY
IN HARLE NJ;
MEET SUNDAY
City's w orkers Plan
Huge Scottsboro
Protests

NEW YORK.-David Schrit-
man, international Labor De-
Tense attorney, just returned
from the Decatur trial Of the
Scottsboro boys, will report on
the trial at monster protest meet
ing Sunday evening at Rockland Pal
&c, l55th Street and 9th Avenue, 8
pm,
Lincoln Steffer1s, prominent author
and member of the National Com
mittee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners, Richard B. Moore, General
Secretary of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights. William Fitzgerald
of the Harlem Section of the Inter
national Labor Defense, James w.
Ford, Harlem Section Organizer Of
the Communist. Party and John
Moore, Tallapoosa County, Ala,
sharecropper, will be among the
speakers.
The giant protest meeting viii
be preceded by a huge demonstra-
ton this afternoon in Harlem, be-
ginning at 2 o'clock, from 1S1st
Street and Lenox Ave. The parade
and demonstration, called by the
Young Communist League, is sup
ported by scores Of organizations
throughout the city whose members
will attend in body with their
banners and slogans.
The two protest actions will climax
a week Of open air protest meetings
in Harlem, whose working class popu-
lation is seething with indignation
over the lynch preparations by the
Decatur court, the charge of Judge
Callahan to the jury telling them
how to convict Haywood Patterson
the lynching of Lloyd Warner in Mis-
souri, this week and the release two
days ago by Eastern Shore judges of
the four arrested leaders Of the mob
which lynched George Armwood on
October IS. ~
Thousands OF white workers will
show their solidarity with the Negro
masses by taking part in to-day's
parade and to-morrow's mass meet
ing at the Rockland Palace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

In the meantime the discomfort
among the workers rapidly grows.
The widespread strike struggles which
have swept the country, involving
hundreds of thousands of workers
and tens of thousands Of poor farm
ers, show every sign of growing over
into still more determined struggles
of the masses of the toilers, Negro
and white, workers and poor farmers,
against the increased misery and suf-
fering brought on by the deepening
crisis and the collapse of Roosevelt's
the Communist Party has always
pointed out, namely that Roosevelt's
promises we're only designed to con-
ceal new attacks against the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

Central Committee OF the Commu-
mist Party calls on all workers to
read the article carefully for the
correct line in the struggle against.
unemployment.
BY I. AMTER
The Roosevelt administration,
through its appropriation of $780,
100000 for the so-called civil works
program, is endeavoring to conceal
the disastrous collapse of the New
Deal" and the continuous deepening
Of the crisis.
Production in all important indus
tries is declining, with resulting in
crease in unemployment and part
time work. The occasional flare-ups
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

in single industries which Roosevelt
attempts to interpret as recovery"
do not alter the basically downward
trend Of the crisis.
MIRA. a Miserable Failure
The N.RA., with its promise OF
5000 900 jobs, Of shorter hours, of
higher wages, has miserably failed.
The Administrations public works
program, with the exception Of the
military and naval expenditures, is
still paralyzed by bureaucratic red
tape. Official spokesman now post
pone the launching of the public
works program at least until spring,
thereby openly abandoning the very
plans which were to provide the
promised jobs 10 the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Actions Turnout
U.S.. Against
Lynch Verdict

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. IAN En-
Urgency Anti-lynching Conference
will be held in this city Sunday
evening at Garrick Hall. sos South
Eighth Street, to formulate pro-
gram of action to save the Scots
boro boys, and to fight the growing
lynch wave.
A, citywide demonstration has been
called by the Communist Party, sup
ported by scores of organizations, for
Thursday at Broad and South SITS.
The Communist Party has also called
q section demonstration for Sunday.
I. AInter, National Secretary of the
Unemployed Councils, will speak at
an anti-lynching meeting Monday
night at Girard Manor Hall, Gil Gil
rard Avenue.
Protest Meet in Newark Tonight
in Conference Sunday
NEWARK, N. T., Dec. IA two-day
anti-lynch conference will be opened
at Dreamland Academy, Is Beacon
Street, this city, on Saturday night,
Dec. 2. Richard B. Moore, General
Secretary of the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights will report on the
nationwide fight of Negro and white
workers and intellectuals against
lynching and on the program of ac-
ton adopted by the recent Eastern
Anti-Lynching Conference in Balti-
more.
The mass protest meeting will be
followed by a conference Sunday
afternoon at l o'clock, at the same
hall, with delegates from many or
CARNATIONS attending to formulate
plans to mobilize the entire working
class of this city against the lynchers.
Detroit Workers To Demonstrate
DETROIT, Dec. Ia Scottsboro
anti-lynching demonstration will be
held here tomorrow Sunday noon,
with a parade starting from Brady
Street Playground, Brady and Rivard
Streets, in the heart OF the Negro dis
trict. The demonstration is called by
the Communist Party to mobilize the
masses to save the Scottsboro boys
and organize action against the
mounting lynch wave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Workers Effort Roosevelt Fulfill His Promise Of Jobs

ers' living standards, their determine
ton to fight grows and their strug
giles take on more revolutionary forms
and vigor.
Struggles Haunt Roosevelt
Roosevelt saw this changing mood
among the masses; he fears the
threatening mass struggles OF this
winter struggles that will see the
further unif1cation of the workers
ranks, employed and unemployed. Ne
gro and white, with the poor farmers
also resisting Rocsevelt's starvation
program.
The strike struggles CT recent
months, the mass actions Of the I'M
employed, the fear of still greater
struggles this whitehall these are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

Death in the electric chair
This what a-whte jury in Decatur, Ala, ordered for
Haywood Patterson last night
Judge Callahan stepped in the traditions of the Ku klux
the around the neck of Haywood Patterson
his charge to the jury
He left it to the jury to draw the tight.
WORKERS OF NEW YORK! Stop the imminent lynchings
of the Scottsboro boys-wheher judicial otherwise!
Flood the streets of Harlem today at o'clock in the might
lest demonstration in the history of this ethyl
Communists militant trade unionss - all those who for
than two have fought the lives of the innocent
Negro boys
DEMONSTRATE! PROTEST. RALLY TO THE DEFENSE
OF THE VICTIMS OF SOUTHERN RULING CLASS JUSTCE!z
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Civil Works Program
Tries to Cover Up
MIRA. Failure

EDITORS NOTE.-The following
article by I. Amter, national secre-
tary of the Unemployed Councils.
exposes the Public Works and Civil
Works program Of the Roosevelt
administration as an attack on the
working class of the United States.
The article analyses Roosevelts
program, gives the demands of the
unemployed and employed workers
in combating unemployment, and
the organizational steps necessary
In achieving these demands The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Emergency Meet on
LynchingS Sunday
M any Organizations
Sending Delegates

NEW Notwithstanding to the
call for immediate action to save
the Scottsboro boys and mobilize
against the wave of lynching raging
throughout the country, hundreds
of organizations are sending dele
gates to the Emergency Scottsboro
anti-Lynching Conference to be
held this Sunday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the International Work
ers Order Hall, AIS Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
PATTERSON ORDERED TO DE
Scottsboro Boy Declared Guilty by Lynch Jury;
Only Mass Protests Can Halt Electrocntion
BY JOHN L. SPIvAK
Especial Correspondent of the Daily Worker


DECATUR, Ala, Dec. LATTER "deliber-
ating" for 10 hours and 80 minutes, the all
white jury trying Haywood Patterson,
brought in verdict of guilty, with the rec
ommendation that the innocent Negro boy
be put to death in the electric chair.
Judge Callahan, whose charge to the jury
was clear order to convict, deferred pass
ing sentence until date to be fixed later.
The jury reported about p Central tme) that it
was ready to give v ct and Patterson ordered
brought into the from the fisy Morgan county
Jail nearby.
The Negro boy handcuffed, brought into the court
few minutes later by six deputies Pattersons
fixed the floor entered and he licked his lips
nervously.
Lining up before Judge Callahan whose outrageous
charge virtual instruction to convict the jurors handed
their verdict J. H. Greene the Circuit Court Clerk who
read from it:
Eve find the defendant guilty charged and fix the
penalty DEATH"
When the verdict Of guilty brought in Psttersons
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
A Job or Relief fol,
Every Worker,
Is Demand

haunting the Roosevelt regime. 1t is
these facts-the combined mass pres
sure Of the toilers-that now causes
Roosevelt to come forward with his
so-called civil works program, his ap-
preparation OF s4ooooo,0oo for inne-
date civic odd-jobs, with the prom
Use OF Jobs for 100000 workers at
wages ranging from so cents to 81.
an hour. This partial victory Of the
GCoSti,lusd on Pogo -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
TORCLER, DIMITROFF TURN
STATE WITNESSES into AID
FOR COMMUNISTS DEFENSE
Communist Sentenced to Death in Berlin;
American Workers Urged to Develop Mass
Protest Against Hitler Terror

BERLIN, Dec. Richard Barr Communist, was SEN
death today by special political court the
Lnum
Gerhard Keller and Wilhelm Letsch, two other Commu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Detroit Workers To Demonstrate
Tomorrow
H E LIP!

Due to ScottsborO news we
are compelled to omit the APP
peal for funds for Daily
Money is urgent! Rush Funds!
Thursdays and Fridays
receipts 962.58
Previous total ............ 29,096.84
TOTAL TO DATE s3o,059.42
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Within two day+by Saturday
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Every Worker! Verdict Today PM m Ave.

Your 81 to the Daily Worker
Will Help It Fight
Lynch Lawy
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-30
MAN
TAKES BRIDE
Henry 4. JOhanSen WEEDS Idaho Girl
I'm Logan. Utah, Last
Saturday.

Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Johansen of
north of Askov, received word during
the past week that their son, Henry,
was marred Saturday, March %, at
Logan, Utah.
Henry was practically reared in
this community having come here
with his parents at the age of eight
from Coulter, Iowa. He attended the
village schools and for the past few
years has been employed by the To-
pager Construction Co., of Albert Lea
in the construction of large buildings,
as re-enforcer.
Mr.. Johansen's bride is Miss Alma
Lish of ,Rockland, Idaho, whom he
met while with his company at
Pocatello. Idaho, for the past year.
They will go right to housekeeping at
Wieser. Idaho, where the company
has another building contract
Henry's length of time with his firm
and his steady work in the time of
depression will vouch for his ability
and desire to make good.
His many friends here will con-
graduate him on his wedding and will
wish him and his bride many happy
and cOntented years together.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-30
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
BY GEORG STRANDVOLD

Fifteen years ago the world was
stirred by the Wilsonian doctrine that
the Great War was being waged ito
make the world safe for democracy
and Ito end all wars"
Now, in 1888, it appears that de-
mocracy has collapsed, and the fact
that nearly all countries are still
more heavily armed than they were
Immediately before the outbreak of
the Great War does not seem to bode
we'll for the fulfillment of that other
aspiration.
Dictatorship has replaced the dem
ocratic form of government in several
of the major countries, the latest to
join the ranks being Germany.
HitIer's Power.
ment, which was elected on March 5.
was officially opened with a speech
by Chancellor Adolf Hitler who, a
couple of days later, proceeded to
wrest all legislative powr from the
parliament, bestowing it upon him
self, and giving himself such author
ity as no other prime minister just
now enjoys-with the possible eXcep-
ton of MussOlini in Italy
OF course, it was neatly done ac-
cording to all the rules of the game,
for the groupings within the. parlia-
ment had been so skilfully manipu-
lated that it was very easy for Hit
Ter to secure vote of AL to "a in
favor of the enabling bill giving him
the dictatorial power he coveted.
He now rules. practically supreme:
No longer is the signature of the
president required on government de-
crees; no longer is it necessary to
dicker with a legislative national as
sembly about laws-the Hitler cabinet
will enact whatever laws seem neces-
sary; no longer will the people be
given an opportunity to vote for or
against national laws, for the author
ity now given the chancellor carries
with it the right to eliminate from
the constitution such paragraphs as
may be considered obstructive and
obnoxious; treaties with foreign coun-
tries may be-and no doubt will be
concluded by the chancellor without
previous discussion by the national
council and by the parliament which
has been sent home on a four-year
vacation; Hitler himself has the right
Continued on Page -
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-30
WORK RELIEF IN
COUNTY EXPLAINED

Mrs. A. E. Eddy, chairman OF the
Pine County Emergency Relief Com
mittee, writes the following statement
to the public in regards to the work
relief program:
THE Pine County Emergency Re-
lief Committee wishes to make a clear
statement in regard to the Work Re-
lief Program which it is sponsoring.
1t has no money to pay workers, and
we have no jobs to help out unem-
ployment, generally speaking. We are
trying to make arrangements with
town boards and village councils in
the county so that all able-bodied
men who are in need of and accepting
our relief orders may work them out
for the improvement of the towns
in which they live. Some are maxi
ing the mistake of thinking that we
are an employment bureau. This is
not the case. Work is given only
to those men whose families on in
vestigation are found to be in need
of relief. Only enough work to earn
the actual relief allotted to the fam
lily is given in each case"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-30
TWO ESCAPE IN
TRUCK RIDE
kingSdale Man and Former ClOvertOn
Resident Jump From Truck I'm
Duluth to Save Lives.

Two men we'll known in the east
ern part of Pine county, w. T. Carl
son of Kingsdale, and Roy Lewis for
merly of ClOvertOn but now living
in Duluth. narrowly escaped death in
that city Saturday when the truck in
which they were riding ran out of
control when the brakes failed to hold
and crashed into a building. Follow
is the account given in the Sunday
Duluth News Tribune:
Two men narrowly escaped death
Saturday when a truck ran wild down
the Sixth Avenue hill and crashed
through the walls of the public mar
ket building coming to rest inside the
structure.
w. 7. Carlson of Kingsdale, driving
the machine, and Roy Lewis, 21O2
Minnesota Ave-, formerly of Clover
ton, riding with him, jumped from the
fast moving truck and escaped SER
ious injury. No one was in the build
ing located at PIP N. Sixth Ave. E.
According to reports given police
the brakes failed to hold when the
truck loaded with tin cans and tins
was coming down the hill above
Fourth ST.
Carlson jumped from the speeding
truck at 4th ST. Fighting to head
the machine away from certain de-
struction at the foot of the hill
Lewis turned it toward the curb at
the Bird st. intersection and leaped
to the ground. The truck carreened
across former tennis court and
ripped through the market building
with a crash heard for blocks.
A Duluth man recently was killed
when truck struck his car on the
hill. Last summer three employees of
circus died when their heavy truck
roared down the same grade and
jumped an embankment at Second
Street.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-30
MANS MUSING TO A MULE

Over the hill trailed a man be-
hind a mule drawing a pillow. Says
the man to the mule:
Bill, you are a mule, the son OF
a jackass, and | am a man made
in the image of God. Yet, here
we work, hitched up together year
in and year out. often wonder
if you work for me or if work for
you. Verify, | think it partner
ship between a mule and fool,
for surely l work as hard as you,
if not harder. Flowing or cultivat-
ing we cover the same distance,
but you do it on four legs and
on two. |, therefore, do twice as
much work per leg as you do.
''Soon we'll be preparing for
corn crop. When the crop is har-
vested | give one-third to the land
lord for being so kind as to let me
use this small speck of Gods uni
verse. One-third goes to you and
the balance is mine. You consume
all of your portion with the excep-
ton of the cObs, while l divide
mine among seven children, six
hens, two ducks, and banker. If
we both need shoes, you get EN-.
Bill, you are getting the best of me
and | ask you, is it fair for mule.
son of a jackass, to swindle man
"a lord of creation-out of his sub
stance?
why, you only help to pillow and
cultivate the ground, and | alone
must cut, shock and husk the corn
while you look over the pasture
fence and hee-haw at me.
'All fall and most of the winter
the whole family, from Granny to
the baby, picks cotton to help raise
money to pay taxes and buy a new
harness and pay the interest on the
mortgage on you. And what do
you care about the mortgage? Not
a damn! You emery cuss, / even
have to do the worrying about the
mortgage on your tough, migrate
full hide.
About the only time | am your
better is on election day, for | can
vote and you can't. And after
election / realize that / was fully
as great jackass as your papa.
Verify l am prone to wonder If pol
tiles were made for men or jack
asses. or to make jackasses of men.
Tell me, Willum, considering
these things. how can you keep a
straight face and look so dumb and
solemn"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-30
4 Real Governor,
Say County Men

Sincere and true is the impression
gained by two Pine county men. to-
gether with about 30 others out over
the state who were fortunate enough
to be chosen as representatives from
the National Holiday Farmers group
Wednesday of last week, to have an
interview with Gov. Floyd B. Olson.
N. p. Nedegaard of Askov, and
Charles Beckman of Rock Creek, were
the two men from the county to meet
with the governor and their impress
sions are stated in the above words.
People are being led by man of
courage and action in Governor Oh
son, says Mr.. Nedegaard, and his re-
ceptiOn of the farmers did not only
carry the expected and easily said
salutation, glad to see YOU but it
rang true and his every move and
word coupled together with his past
deeds are sufficient proof that he is
with the masses of his people whole
Mr.. Nedegaard stated that about
10000 citizens of the state took part
in the Holiday demonstration in ST.
Paul and that he thinks the orderly
demonstration will do much toward
getting agreeable legislation passed
Mr.. Nedegaard and Mr.. Beckman both
are members of the county board of
the Holiday association.