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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

WASHINGTON, April S. Two
hundred men, the first contingent
for the forced labor camps, will begin
working within ten days in the Allie
gheny National Forest in Northwest
ern Pennsylvania. The men will be
placed in camps near the place of
work
Already it is decided that besides
planting trees which was the work
originally intended for them to do,
they will be used for building roads
and clearing strips along the sides
of the ROADS. This is only the begin
ming and will later be followed by
using the unemployed for many other
kinds of work.
In the meantime, it is officially an
nounced that Robert Fechner, vice
president of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists, will draw the
fat salary of $4,000 a year. This is
the same as the members of the
cabinet. An advisory council for
Fechner will, including the war, agri-
culture, labor and interior depart
ments.
Many unemployed workers ON the
verge of starvation are forced to seek
entry in to the camps. Hundreds OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

The click Of billiard balls strike
sharply. While they play they talk
Of the Jews and the "niggers" too
plenty Of time to take care of
them if they are freed"
One or two, not sharing in this
statement, sit silent.
AROUND the Morgan County Jail
n five glaring flood lights throw
their radiance upon the red brick
building Never since it was built
was it so brilliantly lighted.
Twelve soldiers are always on
duty inside and with them is an
arsenal Of rifles and automatic
rifles, bayonets, pistols and tear
gas bombs. Across the street where
the militia is quartered Smiling"
Captain Burleson sits on make
shift wooden table and joshes his
twenty subordinates.
There were no whites nor blacks
around here" he announces cheer
fully. Il don't expect any t,Vuble
until the verdict is brought in and
if it is for acquittal--"
He shrugs his shoulders signifi-
cantly His soldiers Taught.
will your men shoot into
Southern white men to protect Ne
groes?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

winding alleys and roads branch
ing off.
In the daytime it is ugly, loath-
some sore on the face Of green
lands stretching around it, but at
night darkness hides its squalor and
filth. For three blocks unshaded
electric lights glare before each
dilapidated store where thin, raw
boned whites, trained from birth
in an unreasoning race hatred, are
willing to sell them food but not
willing to eat with them.
When the last store is passed
the darkness Of Niger Town"
covers you and you stumble along,
your feet scraping the rusty cans.
Squares of window paneS stare out
of the darkness. Forms loom
against them and vanish like shad-
owy ghosts. Vague voices reach you
through the darkness but as you
stumble uncertainty towards them
they become silent and you are
lost in world of darkness.
When your eyes grow accustomed
to the light from the stars powder
ing the deep sky overhead you see
a shack looming before you and
the ghostly whiteness Of shirt
near the ground. You know some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

strike truce declared by leaders OF
the Western New York Milk Prod
ucers' Association due to end today,
the strike of the militant dairyman
which met with brutal attacks by
the stat police last week, may flare
up anew. Meanwhile, state politi-
clans are seeking to kill the move
ment for higher milk prices for the
dairymen by putting over the Pitcller
Bill which is approved by Woodhead.
president Of the striking dairynens
association. The passage Of the bill
is expectd momentarily.
viii Not Aid Farmers
The Pitcher Bill is a double bar
relied weapon against both farmers
and workers 1t is deliberately vague
about giving the farmer better prices
for his milk, for which the dairyinen
are demanding minimum of three
and one half cents a quart. prod
uction costs them three cents
quartz. The Bill is designed to COM
pei the farmer to accept less than
the cost Of production by establish
ing a statewide minimum price" N
be paid by the Milk Trust
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
La Guardia Wants
Job As N. Y. Mayor
Tries to Get Mckee
Out of the Road

NEW YORK, April 3.-Forn1er
Congressman F. II. LaGuardia, who
was once candidate for mayor against
against Walker, is trying to pave the
way for the republican nomination
to the job again.
In a statement La Guardia said he
would support Joseph v. Mckee,
president of the board of aldermen,
if Mckee intended to run on fu-
sion ticket. This Is regarded as an
attempt to get Mckee to declare his
candidacy far enough in advance so
he can be eliminated, thus clearing
the way for La Guardia to run on
the republican ticket.
Modestly Nominates Himself.
Using one Of his old tricks that is
characteristic of his whole demagogic
career as spoilS politician, La Guar
dia dominates himself by stating that
persons unknown have asked him
repeatedly during the last few days
my plans in the coming municipal
campaign"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

next TWO years, forces the 1mpoYer-
ished farmers to start paying rent
at a rate fixed by the court. This
rent goes to the mortgage holder
after payment of taxes, insurance
and other debts. If rent cannot be
paid, the farmer losses possession Of
his property.
Goes TO Higher Court
Despite these heavy burdens on
the farmers, the banks, insurance
companies and other mortgages were
apparently divided on advantages Of
the law to them.
The Hebron court declared that
the moratorium law" impaired the
obligation of contract. The State Su-
preme Court will undoubtedly soon
act on the action Of the district court
when the case comes up for ap-
peal.
The decision today was based ON
the attempt to foreclose a $4,000
mortgage against a farm of 400 acres
owned by Mrs. Ida Stephens.
Milk Strike Looms Again
ALBANY, April with the milk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

flash of lightning rising from q
riokety porch in the foul streets
Of once forgotten. people, 3
clear cry that they were man
who would not be frightened any
more.
THE business life Of Decatur
pulses weakly on Second Street
this Saturday night. Here white
farmers and Negro share choppers
within s. five-mile area come to
buy their provisions or to stand
about on street corners in small
clusters and feel that they are hui
man beings again. But this Satur-
day only a few whites and a few
Negroes have come, for the nine
Scottsboro boys are in the Morgan
County jail three blocks from Sec
ond St., and fifty Scottsboro whites
have been in town since the trial
began.
Trouble is in the air. Some say
the Jail might be attacked.
So Second Street is virtually de-
serted for a Saturday evening.
Peaceful farm workers, not sharing
in the feeling Of race hatred, dinly
aware Of their common interest
with the Negro people, who had
come to town, came early, stocked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

Orders is orders" he says evas-
lively.
AS I turn to go he calls cheer
fully.
III give you some news If you
want it. That Patterson boy is in
a cell by himself. Had a fight with
kOzie Powell"
over what?"
oh this Patterson boy woke up
dreaming the other fellow who
sleeps in the same cell, was chok-
ing him, and smacked him. They
mixed it up before either was
awake"
knew why Haywood Patter-
son, heavy with restless sleep, had
jumped upon his cell mate with
despairing cry, for / had seen
the shadow Of the hang1nan's
moose which he saw during his
waking hours. He had told me
how ne dreamed of the mob hun
CRY for his blood. With the shad-
Ow of the gallows facing him IN
jail during the day and the ter
ror of lynching TO haunt him
when he tries TO sleep, I won
dered why he only dreamed Of
being choked. Others would
have been stark mad by nov,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
GERMAN SEAMEN INTERVIEWED IN
Y.SAY THEY'LL FIGHT PAY CUTS

telling Of acts of solidarity in other
countries spurs the fight against
fascism. We are also certain that
the carrying Of literature to German
lockers by American crews will help
Since we are illegal, any such help
may fall on virgin SOIL, so to speak.
We hope and are certain that further
mass protest action will occur in
America.
O-Since you are Illegal, do you
receive any literature of working
class organizations?
Illegal Literature
Ave have. (Sone illegal Com
n1unist pamphlets and leaflets we're
shown u.s.. But only from the Com
nunist Party and Red Trade Unions.
The Social Democrats have issued
no illegal literature with program
Of resistance to Hitler and the bosses.
Q.-Is the Communist Party active
in your home port?
A.-Thousands of Party leaders
and members have been Jailed but
the work of the Party goes on. 1t is
too firmly rooted in the shops, ships
neighborhoods and other places to
be ousted. It is not Party that quits
under fire, that we know definitely.
The Red Front Fighters, Of which
we are members, has steadily grown
in our home city.
Red Front Fighters Grow
Q.-Hasn't the Nazi terror been
able to smash it?
A.-The Nazis have not succeeded
in locating it or its members. We
have been illegal for q long time.
A Social Democratic official first
drove us underground. We meet and
drill regularly and are present at all
workers demonstrations and strikes,
etc.
Q.-The American capitalist press
concentrates on anti-semitic outrages
Is this the only persecution Of Hit
ler's government?
A.-The Jews are yictinnized by
Hitler but they are far from the only
targets of his policy. True, some of
the non worker jews are outraged.
0.-Are the Jewish bosses mis-
treated?
Nazi Attack Workers
A.-(Lsughter). No. Jewish capt.
alists are regular contributors TO the
Nazi war chest. 1t is the German
working class that is being attacked.
rTThare YVES Sonne discussion with
the delegation on the latest acts OF
the Socialist leaders. The delegation,
all non-Communists, were acquainted
with most of these deeds.
Own the workers be defeated
by these betrayals?
A.-These acts are making more
and more Socialist workers under
stand what the Communist Party
means when it appeals to them over
the heads of their leaders. Now the
German working class is gathering
strength unequalled before; a real
united anti-Fascist movement that
will create Soviet Germany is being
made.
The crew were given literature
which they took back with them, and
expressed their agreement with the
translation of the interview. The Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union dele
gate, who made the interview pos
sible. and the DAILY WORKER re-
porter then sneaked off the ship,
GLIDING the Nasi spies on board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
Worker WarnsAgainst
Petty Racketeer i'm
Jacksonville, Florida

A worker from jacksonville, Florida,
warns against racketeer who is ex-
plotting the interests and sympathies
of workers and others for the Soviet
Union for his personal advantage.
This individual goes by several names,
one of them being "Iocky.'
He approaches people with small
circular in which there are few
facts about the Soviet Union and
tells story Of how he wants to go
there to work in the telephone in
dustry and is collecting dimes in
order to pay his fare.
This" writes the worker, lis a
barefaced lie and an attempt to ex-
plott Our comrades"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
French Auto Workers
Fight Lock Out

PARIS, April 5.--Announcement by
the Citroen Automobile Co. that it
was closing down the Javel plant
which employed 1900 workers, re-
suited in a militant demonstration of
more than 1900 strikers in protest
against the lockout. Police broke up
the demonstration. Fifteen thousand
strikers are reonrted to have re-
turned 10 work at reduced wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
Toronto Authorities
/ Move to Act Against
] Left Wing Students

TORONTO, Canada. - Reaction
airy measures to suppress radical
student activity in Toronto Univer-
sity and High School circles is seen
in action taken by the provincial
government and Canon Cody presi-
dent of the university. 1t is under
stood that the Students League of
Canada and the High School Stu
dents League will be singled out for
action by the authorities.
For some months Toronto stu
dents have been publishing left
wing paper, The Spark and The Stu
dent Voice. The recent anti-war
meeting held by Toronto students
stirred I'D considerable interest
Iaraonsss 6ns students and evoked
sharp lssacAs In the capitalist press
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
ORGANIZED GANG OF 200 KLANSMEN
MOVE ON DECATUR, ALA, JAIL

had searched all Of Chattanooga for
such a place as Victoria Price de-
scribed as "Callie Broochi's" and had
not found it.
She was followed by General
George w. Chamlee of Chattanooga,
chief Scottsboro defense counsel who
testified he has lived for 25 years
on Seventh Street, Chattanooga,
where Victoria Price said "Callie
Broochi' lived and has never heard
of such person. This was a wealthy
business neighborhood.
Vets Wire 10 Scott
NEW YORK.-The National Com
mittee Of the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League today addressed a
sharp wire to DR.. Z. Scott, who was
charged with responsibility by the
government for recruiting Negroes
into the imperialist war. Scott was
at one time secretary to Booker It.
Washington, and is at present the
treasurer of Howard University, a
Negro institution.
The wire follows.
On behalf of four hundred thous-
and Negroes recruited in World War
We demand you wire Governor Miller
Alabama for change Scottsboro trial
to Birmingham stop Demand De
Priest others do likewise.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
In the U. S. for Twenty
Years, NowFacedWith
Deportation to Italy

SAN FRANCISCO-For 20 years
Giuseppe Greco has lived in the US.
He established window washing
business and secured the contract to
wash the windows Of the San Fran
cisco Post Office. Then he joined the
Trade Union Unity League. He Yves
arrested during a Communist dem
onstration, and has been ordered de-
ported to italy, where his life will be
in dagger because Of his Communist
Affiliations.
The District Court Of Appeal has
decided against him, and unless fur
Their action can be taken, Greco must
40 to almost certain death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

A Daily Worker reporter recently
interviewed the crew of a German
ship. The crew was represented by IA
men, mostly from the black gang
or firemen, etc. To protect the crew
from Nazi reprisals, the port in
which the interview was held and the
home port and name of the ship
are being withheld.-(Ed. Note).
Q.-How long since you left Ger
many?
Ave left our home port about a
month ago.
Q.-Have you been notified Of any
wage cuts since Hitler came into
power.
A.-No However We have been no
titled Of increases in taxes, which
amounts to the same thing.
Q.-What specific increase in taxes
has Hitler decreed?
Avery male citizen of any city
must pay a tax, sort Of head tax,
IS to 80 marks annually. There has
been an increase In taxes that are
supposed to go to pay the unem-
ployed benefits.
Union Underground
One crew member exhibited pay
sheet for three days amounting to
nine marks, ($2.25) from which two
and a half marks had been deducted
for taxes.
Q.-The government has forbidden
trade unions. Is the German section
of the International Of Sea and Har-
Dor Workers affected by this?
Ayes. The government has taken
over the reforrlist unions and driven
om union underground. This doesn't
mean that our activity stops. We
are in communication with our union
center and receive instructions and
literature. At the present time the
government is planning 80 per cent
wage cut. Our wages at present are
very low. Under the leadership of
the ISH and the RGO Red Trade
Union Opposition) we will fight this
cut.
VIII Fight Wage Cut
Q.-Can you fight the cut just on
your ship without permission of the
union?
A.-Ow union Is not a bureaucra
tic machine. we can and viii resist
on our own ship and try to spread
the fight to other ships and to the
dock and harbor workers. This is
what we are in the ISH for, to fight
the bosses. This is its policy, policy
Of class struggle.
Q.-What are your wages?
A.--Coal passers receive &c marks
a month. firemen. etc. around 108
marks, some deck workers get 1l3
marks.
Q.--Why is it that most Of the ISH
organization on your ship is down
below?"
A.-The black gang and deck gang
are the most proletarian sector Of
q ship. Nazi thugs can ship as stew
ards and for other light work and try
to intinlidate US. but they have no
hold among basic workers, on ship
or shore.
Glad Of Solidarity
The delegation we're informed OF
the activities of American workers
in the anti-fascist fight. They we're
asked il they thought this would
help them.
Awe are happy TO hear Of this,
livery report mat reaches Germany
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

VloW up WhU q UuIIuIt OF WIIEdJ,
Then comes this farm relief gag
by the government which cuts the
bankers bundle, replaces the twine
band by one made Of steel (steaD,
which enslaVes the farmer and his
children right down to the last
chicken he owns. 1t is only short
time until the separating will take
place, as the farmer cannot exist
with prices such as potatoes 20 cents,
eggs 5 to 7 cents a dozen, butter fat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

They call it Vine Street, or Mig
ger Town" here in Decatur and so
forgotten are these streets where
the black people live that the boss
white folks who run the city and
it's mills and own fX'ms AROUND it,
never even troubled to name the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

IA cents a pound, wheat 90 cents
and so on. The farmers have lost
their sense of feeling, after being
trampled in the mire these many
years, but can see his head rising
He is looking for a better day and
when he joins hands with all the
working serfs he will overthrow the
which made them slaves
and then only can we live in world
with love, justice and harmony for
all. ].
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

and weather beaten clap
board cabins resting on red
brick stills on either side of
the roadways. When it rains here
the red Alabama clay becomes soggy
and water forms in puddles and
runs in rivulets under their homes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
Threaten Lynchings If
the Scottsboro Boys
Are Freed by the Jury
By STANLEY GIBSON
.neciaI Daily Worker Correspondent.

DECATUR, Ala, April Beyond the railroad tracks
here streets where forgotten people rising They
wind in all directions bumpy unpaved roads Scared with
holes wagon ruts and Uttered with rusty ash and
broken bits of furniture There sidewalks for the shacks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
Negro Farm Women
Clean White Homes
for Relief Flour
BY a Negro Farmer Correspondent.

By a Negro Farmer Correspondent.
CAMP HILL, Ala-The Red Cross
has changed their plans. They used
to give the flour away but now you
have to work for it, or else you
won't get it. OF course we had to
work hard enough as it was. They
would give you a blank to have
signed. You have to walk all over
Camp Hill trying to get someone to
sign it.
But since they changed it, you
have to walk like hsll to some old
MISS house to clean up before you
get flour.
A Farm Woman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
NEBRASKA DISTRICT COURT VOIDS
STATE FARM MORATORIUM LAW
Dairymen's Strike for Higher Milk Prices In
Upstate New York May Start Anew

OMAHA Neb April The Nebraska farm mortgage law the
District affected s5G0OO0OOO
ga
passed legislature
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
Farmers Beginning to Hold
Ub Their Heads and Fight
(By a Farmer Correspondent

BOISE VALLEY
the problems
would be solved they
they have discovered there other things
middemen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

fight against the boss capitalist class.
We are further organizing workers.
farmers and everything else that
must strive for a living. Fight for
the freedom Of the Scottsboro boys.
By Red Dot,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
MATERNITY TOLL is HIGH
KILLS EMPLOYMENT AGENCY
BILL

ALBANY, April 5.--The senate yes
terday killed the bill providing for
state licensing Of the employment
agency racket. In New York City
and other big cities these job-sharks
prey upon unemployed workers, get
ting fees from them for jobs that
do not exist. They are also recruit
ing centers for scabs and thugs in
every strike. Tammany doesn't want
to interfere with them because they
are part of the political corruption
that enables Tsmmany to keep 60
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
NeW'S Briefs

NEW YORK, April Son Satur-
day, Army Day, there will be
parade in cOmmemorat.on of the
entrance of the U. S. into the
World War in an attempt to foster
the war drive of American i'm
perialism.
But the tens of thousands of boys
who sixteen years ago were sign
ing up and other tens of thousands
in New York who were drafted viii
not be present. OF those still alive
large number would not look well
in parade clarifying American
Imperialism. We're they to parade
1t would resemble a hunger march
half starved, ragged, i'll stray
CLING men who are regarded as out
casts by the government Of the
ruling class in whise interests alone
the war was fought.
MATERNITY TOLL is HIGH
NEW YORK, April 5.--SiSty seven
per cent of the deaths of mothers
from childbirth could be prevented
in New York state, DR.. George w
Kosmak, editor Of the American
journal of Obstetrics and G.tnecol-
ogy," told the Medical Society at its
annual meeting in the Waldorf-As-
toria. For two decades there has
been no improvement in the percen-
tages Of deaths from this cause de-
spite the great advances made in
science. 1t is due to the fact
that poor mothers haven't proper
medical and hospital attention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
A Farm Woman

BUILD the working class paper fer
The working class into a powerful
weapon against the ruling capitalist
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06

say. Mrs. Beatrice Maddox, sister
of Roy and Andy Wright, the next
witness on the stand testified she
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
NEW COAL WAGE CUT DRIVE

CINCINNATI, April 5.--Under the
guise Of improved labor conditions"
the big coal marketing agency, the
Appalachian Goals, Inc, at meet
ing Of directors planned another drive
against the standards of life Of the
coal miners through wage cuts. The
agency represents more than 140
mining companies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
FORCED LABOR FOR NAVY

WASHINGTON. April s.--Chairman
vinson Of the House Naval Affairs
Committee yesterday had a confer
ence with Roosevelt on the adyisa-
bility of using forced labor under the
fake unemployed relief scheme" to
work on the building of stronger
units Of the United States Navy. He
reported that Roosevelt appeared i'm
pressed with the suggestion which en-
tails labor recruiting" at 81 day,
the same as in the forestry service.
FISH RAVES, AGAINST REDS
WASHINGTON April Cd. Ham
Fish, the professional red batter who
was VIGOROUSLY identified with white
guardist forgers, frame-up artists and
professional perjurers in his "investi-
CATION" of Red activities, never lets
an opportunity go by to come for
ward with more absurdities. This
time he wants congress to inyesti-
gate whether the Communists had
anything to do with whipping up the
storm that wrecked the naval siFsi1ip
Akron" on Monday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
Glad OF Solidarity

The delegation we're informed OF
the activities Of American workers
in the snti-fascist fight They were
asked il they thought this would
help them.
Awe are happy TO hear Of this,
livery report mat reaches Germany