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

labor. These owners propose to pay
$3.50 per week to white men, $3.50
to Negro men, So to white women,
and S. to Negro women.
Violations Of code provisions, mis-
cradle as the conditions would be at
best, are occurring wholesale. For
example, this story came to Mas
Byrd: Negro delivery boy in At
lanta earned S. a week before the
MIRA was enacted; the code for his
industry set the minimum wage for
him at s12 week; when 1t went into
effect, the storekeeper agreed to pay
the delivery boy $12, but on condi-
ton that the boy pay 81 week for
rent" on the bicycle he used In his
work! So he actually received ex-
actly the same numerical wage as he
had before NRA. brought q great
increase in the cost OF his living.
Many hotel mattresses wrote into N
RIA. headquarters and explained that
the supposed increase" in their
wages were more than eaten up By
new requirements that they room and
board on the premises, at prices far
above the alleged raises. Scores Of
restaurant workers complained Of the
same thing.
No Negro Representatives On Boards
Discrimination against Negroes In
the distribution Of public unemploy-
ment relief Is an old story-and Miss
Byrd has seen 1t increase with the
New Deal, particularly on federal
aided projects such as the Public
Works Administration and the new
Civil Works Administration programs,
In Arkansas, hundreds Of Negroes are
still working in the fields of rich cot
ton farmers for a supposed wage OF
so cents q day, and even this they
rarely receive in cash-while men-
ployed whites are going back to some
regular pay-envelope. Whites always
come first in Unemployment, Miss
Byrd has found; it Is the recognized
policy of administration just as truly
as if there were q written agreement
between local and federal officials.
There are MIRA. agencies which
should be dealing with at least some
of these abuses. The MIRA. officials
who hear and agree to code proposals
might insist upon equality for Negro
labor, but they don't. And not one
Negro sits on these boardsl The La
/ Dor Advisory Board can present de-
mands for labor in the actual ap-
| plication of the codes, but the only
labor representative" there are A.
r. of L. leaders VIGOROUSLY addicted
| to conscious discrimination against
Negroes. There are many Compliance
Boards throughout the country which
could stamp out violations aimed as
Negroes, but there again they don't,
and there is no member Of the Negro
people on these boards to guard its
/ interests.
All of these matters Miss Byrd has
pointed out to her associates. But
they respond only, "Give us a memo
randun on it," They sharply warn
her that her work is mere research"
In fact, when authorities gather TO
settle affairs vitality touching Negro
problems which she was called in 10
advise upon, she is kept out.
This is what the New Deal means
to the Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
To Fingerprint All
Citizens, Proposal
Of i. s. Senators
Aimed at Activities
of Militant Workers
and Organizers

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA pro-
posal to fingerprint all citizens OF
the country will be carried by Sena-
tor Royal S. Copeland of New York
to the Senate, it was announced
today.
Copeland is the Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Crime and
Racketeering. The proposal for a
sort of Federal Scotland Yard with
universal fingerprinting has long
been o favorite one with the Senate
Committee. Despite its alleged pur-
pose OF curbing criminals, the
speeches of many of the Senators
of the Committee have given clear
indication that the proposal is
aimed at the activities of revolu-
tionary workers and labor Or
ganizers.
Many of the Senators making the
proposal are intimately connected
wit h corrupt political machines
which protect organized crime and
racketeering. The use of universal
fingerprinting viii become another
weapon to track down militant
workers and organizers. The pro-
pcsal is another evidence of the
growing Fascination Of the govern
nent.
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the first Of them back and told them
they better stay out cause we in
tended defending ourselves. They
looked at the comrade in the bed with
the shotgun raised up at them and
then they saw another comrade
through the door and he had q gun,
too, SO they ran back to their autos.
Every one Of us stood our ground"
The two mob leaders" begged to be
allowed to leave, they begged for
mercy, for their lives, they promised.
They left. They couldn't get out of
there fast enough" Mary WEIGH says,
a quick, Pickering smile turning her
lip-corners up and lighting her face.
We Went Ahead
There Is note of triumph in her
voice as she says, after that time,
they didn't try to break up no more
meetings. We went ahead and they
never bothered us again the way they
had been doing.
She tells me Of perhaps even
more significant incident in Charlotte,
North Carolina, just this year. The
organizer for the Young Communist
League, a young Negro worker, was
accused Of insulting white girl and
a mob was forming. Ten white mill
workers heard Of the plan and spread
the word.
Ten white mill workers In the south
spread the word: 'Lynching. A lynch
ing Is scheduled. They're going TO
lynch the Y. G. l.. organizer" And
when the lynch mob formed they
were faced with workers, white and
black, who told them: "You don't
lynch him before you lynch u.s.
He Wasn't Lynch
He wasn't lynched. Mary WEIGH
explains. Those men that carry you
out and beat you up or hang you to
tree-they don't want to die any
more than you do.
Start right when they start, start
before they start, and organize our
forces against this lynching.
III they can organize forces to take
Negro out and lynch him, we can
organize enough to prevent theml"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Fire Dept. Lets
Negro Family
Burn to Death
(By a Worker Correspondent

CINCINNATI, Ohio college HID
Sunday morning, about 2:30 a. m,
I returned from Daily Worker
house party, Nov. 25th Soon as 1
got in bed, in the doghouse I live
in, I heard the subdivision fire bell
ringing, but no engine, because in
this Negro section, in spite Of all its
Lighthouses and rat holes there's no
fire prevention.
Thus 1t happened that at 3 a. m,
Sunday, the wife Of one Of our COM
rades, and his four children were
burned to death, and comrade Bill
Parson, the father Of these children,
died in the hospital later.
Just across North bend road from
the steel subdivision lines the lily
white bosses live in flreproof homes.
Not far away they have fire sta
items, but two blocks away a woman
and four little children burned to
death and the fire department. q few
blocks away, did not come near.
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small impoverished farmers together
into our union known as the Share
troopers Union. In this union a re-
cent decision was made and is being
carried out to refuse to sign the check
that the Wall Street Cov7''-----~ ut
sends the blood sucking big landown.
ers instead Of those who really do the
work tilling the soil to grow the cot
ton and then are forced to pillow it
under.
The Alabama Sharecroppers' Union
which has a membership Of 5,000, gets
together Fnd (orn.ulotes d7'nanH5 to
be presented before signing the check
or they do not sign. One of these
demands is that at least one half OF
the check must be paid to the signer
And other demands to suit their con-
ditions.
Why can't the sharecroppers of Ar
kansas organize union Of the Ar
kansas sharecroppers. Under the
guidance Of the militant T. U. q. l.
md the League OF Struggle for Negro
Rights.
Editors Note: This situation has
been drawn to the attention of the
Communist Party in Arkansas End
an organizer win no doubt get busy
Immediately.
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victim of the mob and hid him some
where else.
'Tt was about thirty-five OF us. It
was twenty eight men and two
women.
They crowded into the small, two
room home and each took what he
or she could for weapon. I'VE had
chair backs and pieces Of wood and
hoes and the woman Of the house, she
had a shot gun In bed with her.
IF they come in to mob us, we're
going to fight till we die" they de-
cided. Comrade WEIGH gave instruc-
lions. She explained that they could
get guns from some of the mob.
Defend Ourselves
when the fight starts. Just don't
start nothing. But we can sure de-
fend ourselves" They waited. In that
sitting cabin. packed in with space
about the door and papers tackled
over the windows, they waited.
Cars drove into the street and
stopped. The Khan mob was out in
force. There were between thirty and
thirty-five autos, according to count
made. Two Of the white mob leaders
policeman one Of them, threw open
the door.
They was surprised to see US there
They thought they was just going tc
take that young boy out alone, beat
up his nanny and papa and string
him up to tree. They wanted to
know what was we doing there.
"They started searching the men
folks but the man Of the house he
wouldn't let them search him for his
pistol. There was a little bit Of q
rumpus. Then the rest OF the mob
men came up there.
Pushed Him Back
II jumped to the door and pushed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

THE trial the going
Although
boys innocent Of the with which they charged the white
lynch rulers Of the South they
ynched
evidence that the ruling class organizing to lynch the Negro
boys during Immediately after the like the
ynching that years
last months, is brutal attempt the ruling
the rising the country espe
cay In the South against the increasing impoverhment exploit
alton Of the Negro oers that accompanying the deepening
the economic crisis.
Not only the ruling class in the the whole ruling
the Roosevelt
terror This terror the
all the country
and Negro toles successfully resist the
that developed by the capitalists throughout the
united
Negro workers The struggles the tos
attack against the Negro neparable
sharpening struggles between country
THE the through
elimination unions through
lsuvnst policies through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

troopers were told that they would
have to accept their share OF the
pay In trade.
It seems that these Choppers had
begun holding mass meetings to find
some way out to alleviate their
miseries. A lawyer Jones, 7 believe, is
the name, from Little Rock, came and
advised them to join the Red Cross
This learned by asking my sister to
tell me just what he said in his talk
She did not know of him before or his
record.
This misleader Jones has the nerve
to come and ask the sharocroppers
to join the same Red Cross which
discriminates against Negroes as they
did for instance in 1881 during the
drought and also in the flood swept
zone of several southern states.
A Common Enemy
1t is a fact that the big landowners
do not care any more for the white
Sharecrcrpcrs than they Go for the
Negro sharecropper. The sharecrop-
pers Of Alabama, Camp Hill and Tus-
caloosa and other counties, what are
they doing about precisely the same
situation with which they are con-
fronted. They are organizing Negro
and white sharecroppers, tenant and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

through their SoftneSs. She sits
reStlessly, telling me Of how the work.
ers in the Carolinas had actually
stopped lynchings by action.
Rape Accusation
1t was her brother who had been
accused of attacking white woman
in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The &C
cusing woman had been meeting a
friend secretly and, on the point Of
being discovered, one night, screamed
that Negro had attacked her. A
roundup was made and, pressed, she
hsd said, ct think that looks like the
one"
Storekeepers closed their stores, bar
bers came out Of their shops with
their customers and loungers, the pool
rooms were emptied, and the world
flew through the town like wildfire.
From somewhere rope appeared. It
was in the spring of the year and the
word travelled, too, through the fields
where the Negroes we're chopping the
cotton and blowing the fields.
Lynch for Lynch
They threw down their hoes and
they said it was going to be lynch
Cor Inch" It oil happened so quick
". But when the lynchers appeared
the jailhouse surrounded
BY the Negro workers. The orders
we're announced: you don't come
within block Of this jailhouse. You
touch that boy and we will take care
OF that lying white women"
There was no lynching in Fort Mill
that day.
THAT was even before we knew how
TO organize" it is explained. I'VE just
organized for that time because we
had to 90 it. Now we can do it
better" Comrade Mary WEIGH is now
q leader OF the workers, she is a Boil
shevik. She tells again of Green
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Gets 10 Years on
Frame-Up Charge
Of s. Robbery
(By Negro Worker Correspondent

(By . Negro Worker Correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind went into
the Superior Courtroom once, and
listened to Judge Baker give workers
from 10 years to life in Michigan
City Indiana State Prison. The In
ternational Labor Defense had a case
Of a Negro worker accused of vag-
rancy and Of robbing a street car
conductor Of SO on Sept. 8, and Judge
Baker gave him Is years, when this
worker had witnesses to prove he was
at another workers home and stayed
all night on the night OF Sept. 8,
and never left there till q. m. next
day.
But Judge Baker took the officers
word, when the oliver pulled a pistol
out Of his pocket and said he found
the pistol on this worker, and Judge
Baker gave him Is years in Michigan
City, Ind. Prison.
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vile, S. c., where the Ku Klux Khan
had been maintaining q reign of ter
TOY AGAINST workers organizations.
X. X. X. Stops Meetings
IF maybe three or four Of us
women would stand and talk together
ON the street they'd come up and ask
us what kind of meeting we was hold
ing, and what we was talking about"
Any meeting in house was raided
by these nlobs, led by the police and
the cotton mill overseers. Then the
leaders would be taken miles away
from the town, dubbed and beaten
and left in the ditch. Anyways, we
kept growing and building the organ
ization," this comrade says, simply.
Then one white sto-ekeeper picks
on one of our members, about his girl
says this young Negro by has In
suited him cause he went with his
own colored girl.
Talked Back to White
Our comrade, he took UP for him
self and told the man so, and that
night they passed around the word
10 go get that boy and to lynch him"
Mary WEIGH called some of the men,
oers of the I. L. D. and the union
together. They met in the house Of
one Of the workers.
II explained to them what 1t was
all about and what the white bosses
was fixing to do.
I'VE decided we was going to stop
this here lynching. We said even II
some of us do get killed we was sure
we could get some of them. We got
to defend ourselves" They went to
the home of the young prospective
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Negro and White
Solidarity Defies
Terror of Bosses
(By a Worker. Correspondent

(bY WORKER. correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-The In
ternational Labor Defense got the
Unemployed Council Hall to start
d branch for the I. L. D. and
they had an entertainment Nov.
IS, and q crowd came and said
they were going to run the Negro
and white workers away from TAO
N. Haugh st. next Saturday If
they came and started a dance
with Negro and white workers.
But the I. L. d. had a crowd of
so Negro and white workers for
the first entertainment.
The Unemployed Council is 60
ing to have Chill supper on Dec.
2, and the Unemployed Council is
ready for those stoolpigeons to
start something. The Unemployed
Council had a supper on Nov. 10
for over $50 Negro and white
workers at TAO Haugh st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Fight Lnchng Attend the Anti Lynch Rally At Rocand Palace Sunday
$3.50 of Negroes
in Columbia, S. C.
Are Out of Work

BY q Negro Worker Correspondent
COLUMBIA, 8. C.--Ninety-eight
per cent Of all Negroes are out of
work in this city.
This is part Of the New Deal.
At the present time 5000 Negro
children are out OF school in
Columbia, S. c., and also about
1000 white children. The city is
not giving relief, nor the State of
South Carolina giving any relief
1t all. II there ever was time
that we need the Communist Party
IN South Carolina, now is the time.
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Negro People Get
4 JOkers in "Neev
Deal, Says Expert
Negro Woman, Economic Expert, Jim-C rowed
in NRA Bureau, Shows How Roosevelt Codes
Aim to Divide White from Black Worker
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker, Washington BureAu)

WASHINGTON, 1.-The
the Dealfou
Mabel She the
admnStraton--and she herself has
could rot be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Sharecroppers Unpaid After
Destroying Cotton for Govt
Mass Meetings in Arkansas Held to Take VI
Plan Of Action; Alabama Choppers Refuse
to Sign Checks for Landlords
tBy Negro Worker Correspondent)

CHICAGO, InMy sister is
with the rest of the
counties, o their
My sister pwed under
but not paid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
1--WE Stopped Their
Lynching,' y Young.
Negro Woman Tells
Relates How Negro Choppers and White
Workers in South Carolina Dispersed Lynch
Mob by Determined Resistance
An Interview by Boris Israel

husky carries
itself bottled determination That's
his WE'LL"
young mouth,
surprisingly fighting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

NOTICE
WILL the ccmrade who lost his coat at
the Once Workers Dance please adyer-
TIE in Daily Worker. giving description,
name and address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Trade Union Unity League Sounds Call to SAGE
Scottsboro Boys and for AntiLynch Struggles!

To all Unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League
To all Unions affiliated to the American Federation of Labor
To all Independent Unions
To all Organized and Unorganized Workers.
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(CIdssified)

FURNISHED Room, single. double, kitchen
privileges: 3i5 E. 18th st. Apt. /.
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last, 237 E. 42nd ST., NY.C
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-05-04

fishing, and swimming. There will be
religious services on Sundays. Per-
mission to leave camp for limited
time outside of working hours may be
granted, and visitors may be permit
ted to visit the camp, under the general
rules which will be established.
O. What II a man gets sick or has
an accident while he is in camp or on
the job?
"A A He will receive free medical care
and hospital care if needed. So TAR as
accidents are concerned, he will come
under the United States compensation
law governing federal employees.
@. What will happen at the end OF
the six months2
A. The man will turn in the CLOTH
ing and camp equipment he received
from the Army, he will be sent back
at government expense to the recruit
ing station where he originally applied,
or to his horne, if that is a shorter dis
lance from the forest camp than the
recruiting station is.
@. To sum it all up, what does
man get out of this offer2
A. Six months of hard but healthy
outdoor work in the forests or national
parks in an enterprise that is for the
benefit of the people of this country.
Six months of camp life, food, cloth
ing, shelter, medical service, and rec
reation, plus $50 a month cash allow
ance for himself and his dependents.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-05-04
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate Of Scott ]. Jaqueth, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, the administrator of the
estate of Scott J. Jaqueth, deceased, to
the creditors of and all persons hav-
ing claims against the said deceased,
to exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers. within four months after the
first publication Of this notice to the
said administrator at Libby, Montana,
in the County of Lincoln, State of Mon
tana, the same being the place for the
transaction Of the business of said
estate.
ERFORD E. JAQUETH,
Administrator Of the Estate Of said
G1Sfe ia4Ss.t
T,atea 81 ..asv, fsoes.s.a. this 25.h
a4V o. laaGs. 1000.
Br.ACEFORA 4 BLACKBOARD
Attorneys for Petitioner.
as27-ml8-4t
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-05-04
Fortine News Notes

Mr. and Mrs O. G. Johnson and
daughter Betty of Rexford were Wis
itors here Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Alvin Curtis was i'll the first
of the week.
Mrs. Donald Barnum Of Whitefish
was the guest Of Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Barnum for several days last week.
Arthur Berg has returned from a
months stay in Kila and has gone
back to work as section foreman with
a crew of six men.
Mrs P. v. Klinke fell down the
porch steps Of her home last Wednes-
day and suffered painful injury to
her knee. She was confined to her
bed for few days but is now able
to be about again.
Mr. and Mrs. Award Erickson and
family drove in from Glendive the
latter part Of the week and will make
their home here, residing for the pres
ent with Mrs Erickson's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Gale Mr. and Mrs
Ed. Fairchild also accompanied them
and will remain for few days visit
The engineers on the new road con-
struction and a number Of the men
employed on the work spent Sunday
at their homes in Kalispell.
AT the school meeting on Saturday
night c. o. Winklev rendered his resig-
nation as trustee.
An unusually large crowd attended
the dance at the johnson hall OH
Saturday evening. Music was fur
nished by Whitefish orchestra.
The first real rain this spring came
to this section last Friday morning
Nearly half an inch was recorded.
Mr.. and Mrs. P " Klinke were Kali
iepaIl yicitnrr an "Wednesday
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate Of Gilbert Browning, De-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, the administrator Of the
estate Of Gilbert Browning, deceased,
to the creditors Of and all persons hav-
ing claims against the said deceased,
to exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within four months after the
first publication of this notice to the
said administrator at Troy, Montana,
in the County Of Lincoln, State of
Montana, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business Of said
estate.
ERNEST w. STARR,
Administrator of the Estate of said
Deceased.
Dated at Libby, Montana, this Gath
day of April, 1888.
BLACKBOARD g. BLACKBOARD,
m4-25-4t Attorneys for Petitioner.