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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
7 FREED IN CAL.
RED FLAG CASE
Mass Protest Brings
Prompt Release

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12.-six
men and a girl, all workers, we're
being tried in Municipal Court before
Judge Steiger, notorious anti-labor
Judge. The vicious red flag law
was invoked against them.
Suddenly the judicial scene was
disturbed when a telegram was
handed to the Judge.
I'VE workers in mass meeting in
Monterey demand you drop the
charges against the seven workers"
it read. I'VE demand immediate re-
lease of all"
This is almost contempt of court, -
suffered the Judge looking up.
But it was not 1t was part Of the
mass protest by workers and had its
effect on the Judge. He read the
telegram. Later he dismissed the
charges.
The seven workers were Ruth CAST
mir, Anthony Casta, Nathan Thorn
ton, William Hines, Dewey Gear,
Robert Barrows and Tom Yonkers.
They were represented in court by
Leo Gallagher, International Labor
Defense attorney.
The seven we're arrested because
they displayed red flag on float
during workers demonstration on
Memorial Day against Imperialist
War.
The red flag law is the same under
which the conviction of Yetta Strom-
berg and four other women was OBJ
tanned, a conviction reversed by the
United States Supreme Court. She
was sentenced to from one to 10
years in jail, the others to terms
ranging from six months to five years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
DISAGREE AGAIN
IN NEGROES TRIAL
Witnesses ProveAskeW
Is Frame-Up Victim

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (By Mai) -
For the second time white jury has
disagreed in the case of John Askew.
Negro, whom the authorities are
trying TO frame up on murder
charge.
Askew is charged with the Staying
of Joseph F. Drake, white, special
officer OF the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way.
The jury disagreed on his innocence
although Askew proved through rec
ords that he worked in North Caro-
lima continuously from September Is
to September 81, 1882. The murder
took place September 10, 1892, near
here.
The employment records were pro-
duced in evidence and vouched for
by j. T. Boddard, white, Of North
Carolina, who employed Askew at
that time.
Uncontradicted testimony was
given by Florence Knight, of Taylors
vile, who electrified the court room
when she swore that the chief pre-
secution witness, James Briggs, Tay-
louisville, promised her from 500 TO
$500 if she would swear she saw
Askew near the railroad tracks on the
day of the killing.
The jury refused to bring in YER
dict of not guilty even though all this
proof of Askew's innocence and the
effort to frame him for crime he
didn't commit was further heightened
when Briggs identification of him as
the killer was completely rent to
pieces by the defense.
Briggs had said the man who shot
Drake-Briggs claimed to be wit
ness to the slaying-had black
mustache and wore striped overslls
Defense witnesses swore Askes
never had mustache and never vol
stripped oyerallS.
Only a growing mass protest from
the workers which the International
Labor Defense is mobilizing around
his case can save Askew from fur
Their torturous months in jail or pei-
haps execution after stin anothns
trial.
Rush funds at once for Askew's de"
tense to the National Once OF the
LID, Room $50. 80 e. 18th ST., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13

because there Is no work There Is
no work because there is overpro-
duction. There is overproduction be-
cause Capitalism is q planless society,
where workers suffer in the interests
Of the capitalist class.
In a society where there is plan
worked out by the workers under the
leadership of the Communist Party
there is no unemployment, as in the
Soviet Union. And babies do not
Gle of malnut7ition! There are
100000 born yearly, with the lowest
mortality Of any country in the
world And there is no discrinina-
tion against any race or nationality.
And there are no Lucy Cotton
Thomases who must have over 500
a day. while workers babies starve
to death! And there are plenty OF
schools for all, with the workers
government supplying free lunches,
Children under Capitalism must
fight for their right to live. And side
by side with their parents they do
just that. cat City Hall in New York
a thousand children, many of them
Young Pioneers, demonstrated with
their parents, carrying empty milk
bottles on which were painted in red:
Fill these up" As result Of this
demonstration free school lunches
were continued in many Of the city
schools where lunches had been
stopped"
And so throughout capitalist Amer
lea, the fight for relief goes on. The
fight for Unemployment Insurance
goes on! And the fight against CAPT.
talism, and the horrors 1t inflicts on
workers, and their children, will go
on, until there is no longer capital
ist society, and children will not suf-
fer under Capitalism, but will flourish
under Soviet Society.
SPREAD THIS scent pamphlet
among the workers and their chill
Cren,,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13

raising Of the $3.50 necessary to trans
port Ferrara to the country Of his
own choosing
The seaman who told me about
Ferrara continued with a description
Of activities in the Island.
Every Sunday they make us go
out and listen to . religious service,
only they call it a concert. Last
Sunday we organized the concert.
When we were taken out, we start
ed singing the International and
they did dare try to stop us.
Over half Of the crowd joined in
or applaudcd."
AS we sat talking and he unfolded
his hopes of activity when he arrived
in his home country, a group of So
ciety people came by the door by
which the deportees entered.
"They Look Us Over
Every day some of these people
come here and look us over as if it
were ZOO or something" A Negro,
another deportee, came into the
room. A tired looking woman, his
wife, rose and waved to attract his
attention as he looked over the room.
THAT fellow was called out by the
chief guy here and he slapped him
around for no reason at all. He sent
letter to Washington but they just
whitewashed everything"
How are &le mems spirits?' I
asked the sailor
Some get kind of downhearted, >
he answered. 81 tell you right now,
many talk too much before the IL.
D. lawyer sees them and it 1t much
harder for the LID. afterwards,
Workers should refuse to talk to ar
resting officials"
Ellis Island, in the school text
books, is still described as the gate
way to the new world for those flee
ing European hardships' Today it
is more clearly revealed than ever
for what it really is; wire enclosed
cage, where is centered one OF the
most vicious drives against workers.
"AIl outl" 1t was the rasping voice
Of the guard The smiling faces of
some of the visitors gave way to sad
ness One little tot, just able to
walk, didn't know that the man was
his daddy and he would not see him
again.
We all marched onto the ferry
boat. The government gave this much
free! A young worker in the clothes
Of the Civilian Conservation Corps
forced labor camps) stood by me
We struck up a conversation. He
was to go to the mountains of a state
/ that to him was as terrifying as any
wilderness, he had ever heard about
His relative, to go to land where
there were hungry just as the one
he was leaving.
I asked him what he thought.
He looked at me and hesitated
then said: II think there's going to
be another war but not like 1914
It's going to be like Russia, poor
people fighting for something to eat
and place to live. Anyway think
that" The statue of liberty was be-
hind us now and we slipped into the
pier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
BY JOHN ADAMS.

By JOHN ADAMS.
Many Of the workers here are now
sympathetic to the Communist Party
and have promised to become active
in the revolutionary movement when
they arrive in their home countries.
They now understand things from
their own experience"
One of the is seanen held at Ellis
Island told me this when I visited
him at the Island last week. 1t was
in the nature of a proud report that
tie revolutionary workers, held there,
were carrying on their work. The
aeamen were arrested and held for
deportation several weeks ago after
they resisted an attempt to evict them
from the Jane Street Y M. G. A.
We were seated on a bench, shared
by two Negro workers, one Of whom
was being deported to the West In
dies. The Negro deportee was tel
ling his visitor about the food protest
that had been sent to Washington.
Guards Everywhere.
THE food is rotten and so some
fellows started a letter which we sent
to Washington. I got ten signers my
self. Today, they sent some big shot
from down there" he said.
All around the room people were
seated Guards covered the room
from every angle. Wives and children
were saying farewell TO their fathers
and husbands.
A nervous young Italian was try
ing to identify deportee. The guard
said that no one answered to the
name he had given At the door, the
guard had brought one who tailed
with the description of the visitor.
ut was Ferrara."
mo, no, that is not him, the young
Italian answered. But I looked at
that door and raised my fist in Red
Front. 1t was Ferrara, militant anti
fascist fighter He did not know me
but saw my salute. With a smiling
face, he returned it. The guard
pushed him back into an inner room.
The seamen told me that Ferrara
had the admiration of all the de-
pcrtees in his section. Waiting dur
ing harraSsed weeks, expecting to go
momentarily to the ship that would
deliver him to Mussolinis torturers
and hangmen.
But on the outside, the fight was
going on. The LID. had rallied the
workers and the government has been
forced to grant Ferrara the right OF
voluntary departure.
Between the dungeons of Mussolini
stands just one thing: the immediate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
Negro Voters Barred
From Va. Primaries

HAMPTON, Va,-The democratic
party in this county which has a
population of 10000, over rs per cent
of which are Negro, has announced
that Negroes will not be allowed to
vote in the coming Democratic pri-
maries.
Holt, chairman of the local Demo-
cratic committee categorically told a
lawyer representing Negro Democre-
tic voters that they would not be al
lowed to vote.
A similar situation exists in Texas
where the Roosevelt's New DEAL
Party has carried the fight to the
Supreme Court to prevent Negro
voters from having share in select
ing the candidates for whom they
vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
OUSTED TEACHERS
ON TRIAL TODAY
Burroughs, Begun Face
Board of Ed. at 2

NEW YORK. Williana Bur
roughs and Isidore Begun, two teach
ers recently suspended without pay
for their activities in behalf of Isl
dore Blumberg, another teacher dis
missed from the public school system,
will face the Law Committee of the
Board Of Education at pm today.
The scene Of the hearing will be the
Board OF Education building, 500 Park
Avenue.
Many parents and teachers are ex-
pected to be present to protest the
framed suspension of these teachers,
whom the school authorities are at
tempting to Dust because of their &C
tivities in the salary fights and the
Parent Teachers associations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
TO ALL SECRETARIES OF MASS
ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS,

All secretaries of mass organi-
cations, clubs, L w. o. branches,
Women's Councils, language or
CARNATIONS, ETC., are invited to
attend a very important meeting
called by the District Committee
of the Communist Party on Thurs
day, June Is, at $50 pm, at the
Workers Center, IS East 18th
Street Second floor.
This meeting is a continuation
of the meeting held on June LIST at
which Clarence Hathaway, Dis
trict Organizer of the Communist
Party spoke. 1t is very important
that all secretaries attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
I'D a 7 B T I'D q Z
With the ssDaily"

ented convincing arguments why
she should read the Daily" After
ten minutes Of talking, this work
ing woman, now grown old, replied
that "All my life I've read moth
ing but the Bible, but if what you
say Is true, IN take that copy"
We sold her DaiIies three Sundays
in rcw, and now she is receiving
the paper three times a week from
a route carrier who delivers in that
neighborhood. This is just one
example Of the many new readers
we have gotten in the carrier routes
in our locality. We intend to con-
tinue making the formation of car
rier routes the chief item on our
weekly order of business"
Another simple way that is cap
able of achieving good results is by
the delivery of sample copies. Par
ty units and clubs should arrange
with the carriers how to work this
plan out definitely. The carrier
should deliver the sample copies and
at the end of the week, on a Red
Sunday. the Party and clubs should
canvass the workers who received
these free papers. One carrier ex-
plains how he delivered free sample
copies for a week in a house where
40 working class families lived. Al
the end Of the week when he can
vassed the house, his simple methods
Of work brought him ten new read
efs of the Daily. Once again this i;
an illustration of what can be ac-
complished very simply, when we arc
determined to do something.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
by a Home Relief Bureau
Investigator

Bf a hULlE NACAAIA OuAVSh
Investigator
John OBrien, Tammany'S Moral
istic mayor, has spent recent weeks
trying to put over the auto tax, the
most brazen hold-up that ever filled
tin box Yet, what have the job
less received for relief in actual dol
lars and cents?
Small Fraction for Relief
During the ten months from No
vember l, 1881, to September l, 1882,
the city government spent a total Of
SS5, O54,621. SO for all forms of home
and work relief OF this sum
50 1872, oO2.91 was or will be returned
By the state government out Of special
funds provided for this purpose. The
S25,222, 628.9s actually spent cut of
city funds represents merely one
twenty sixth of the city budget of
SeJ0, 600, 600 for 1888.
The rgan-owned government Of
Nav York City and its upstate
branch at Albany have demonstrated
corclusively their unwillingness to
permit the jobless to live decently if
it causes the slightest dent in the
profits Of the bankers.
To this end the Unemployed Coun-
els of Greater New York have pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
Taback Trial Today.

NEW YORK.-Leon Taback, club
bed. then arrested at a demonstra-
ton of jobless at Bronx Home Re-
lief Bureau, will go on trial today in
the Bronx Court, Bergen Building on
framed-up charge of assault. He
will be defended by the NJ Y. Dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
CONCENTRATE ON ONE
OR TWO BIG HOUSES!

One of the simplest ways in which
our Party units, workers Clubs and
individual sympathizers can do their
bit in the formation Of routes is
through the correct utilization OF
Red Sundays. Instead of the old
method Of going out Sundays to sell
the paper to whoever comes along,
the Party units. etc, should concen-
trate mainly on number Of houses,
having Red Sunday sales only in
these houses. Soon enough readers
in that locality will have become in
terested enough in the Daily to ne
cessitate the formation of carrier
route. The simplicity OF this idea
is contained in the experiences Of the
comrades in Unit IL, Section Is of
the Communist Party whose locality
is in the Claremont Parkway section
OF the Bronx. They tell the follow
ing story;
USED TO READ BIBLE
"While selling Daily Workers on
Red Sunday" says the organizer,
I'VE came across an old Negro wo-
man living on the top floor of an
old tenement house. We succeeded
In selling her a Daily Worker. This
was accomplished after we pres
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13

trict I. L. D.
The 1. L. D. and the Leon Taback
Defense Committee calls on workers
to attend the trial in large numbers,
pointing out that legal defense can
be effective only If powerful mass
pressure is exerted by the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
HUEY LONG UNDER FIRE

WASHINGTON, June IL. - S. T.
Ansell, retired general, whom Huey
Long, senator from Louisiana, at
tackled recently in connection with
an investigation of fraudulent voting
in Louisiana, has filed with the sem
ate a petition asking for inveStiga-
ton of Longs activity. Ansell charges
that Long appeared before the SEN
ate committee lin drunken condi-
ton, was vulgar in speech and man
ner and abusive to the chairman and
counsel" 1t is also charged that
Long packed the hearings with his
armed, turbulent and intimidating
henchmen," and that 'by fraud and
intimidation he has eXtorted large
sums of money from public employees,
business people etc"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
NEWS BRIEFS
SELL DAWES BANK FURNITURE

SELL DAWES BANK FURNITURE
CHICAGO, June 12.-The furniture
of the Central Republic Bank is
being sold at a secondhand furniture
store. This is the bank of Charles c..
Dawes for which he obtained an
$50 100000 loan from the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation shortly
after he resigned as head of that
corporation. The bank still exists,
technically, but everything is con-
Quoted from a desk in LaSalle ST.
Even this ghost will soon vanish, but
the $e0,0O0,Oo0 is safely in the hands
of the former vice-president of the
United States and his gang.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
REPEAL VOTE INDICATED FOR
IOWA

DIES MONIES, June I'm a
straw vote conducted by the Register
and Tribune, Iowa is Ga per cent for
repeal of the prohibition amendment.
This state has always been regarded
as one of the rock-ribbed dry states,
but all decisions were made by action
of the legislature On June 20 the
voters will ballot on the question.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13

Arrange door-to-d door neighborhood
distribution Of the Daily Worker; at
the same time canvass for new sub
scriptions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
NEWYORK>>
Metropolis of
HUNGER
ARTICLE s

ARTICLE
12S00O0 Obe the provision of
which the
thus The following article the
the unemployed the cis
present system of unemployment presents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
NEW ANTI-LABOR ACT

NEW YORK, June 12-The Tam
many police commissioner, Bolan, is
carrying on a drive against alleged
criminals on charges of "consorting. :"
A score or more we're arrested over
the weekend on that charge. 1t is
not necessary to suspect one of any
crime under such law, The new
act permits arrest Of anyone found
associating with known criminals"
that is to say with anyone who has a
Jail record. Under the provisions Of
that law workers can be arrested
simply for associating with some mi
litant fighter in the labor movement
who. because of his activity, might
have been arrested two or three
times. Tammany is using the act at
present to drive out some of the
small fry of the underworld who COM
pete with Tammany's own favorites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13

Have you approached your fol.
low worker in your shop with .
copy OF the 'Dailyf II not, 10 -
TODAY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
LEAVE FOR FOREST CAMPS

NEW ROCHELLE, NJ Y, June IL.
More than 1000 victims of Roose-
velt's forced labor plans who have
been training in the army camp at
Fort Slocum are leaving for Fort
Lewis, Washington, where they will
slave in lumber camps under military
RECOMMENDATION, for a dollar day. The
lumber workers were getting from
$3.50 to SO a day for the same work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
Attention!

LOST ON PROSPECT WORKERS
CLUBS ExCURSION--iadies' wrist watch
Please return to WORKERS zukunft Club, 81
Second Ave. Reward givenl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
BY ALVIN WALKER
OVER 20 CARRIER ROUTES
ALREADY ESTABLISHED

At the present time about 20 car
riers are delivering the same num-
Der OF routes In the Bronx ard Up
per Manhattan. Scattered in other
parts Of the city are a few other
routes. This is so, since the Bronx
and Upper Manhattan were first
chosen as suitable places for the ex-
pertinent. Soon we expect the routes
to be city wide.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
WHAT'S ON
Tuesday

DRAMATIC tsINGINGl CHORUS BEING
ORGANIZED BY WORKERS LABORA-
TORY THEATRE, w. /. r.. sing, dramstizs
and compose songs, $3.50 pm, AZ y. 18th
st. (notc address,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
FILE APPEAL
FOR GONSHAk

NEW YORK.-A notice of appeal
from the conviction of Sam Gonshak
secretary of the Downtown Unem-
ployed Council sentenced by Judge
Aurelio to two years on "disorderly
conduct" charge, has been filed by
the International Labor Defense in
the Appellate Part of the Court OF
Special Sessions,
me appeal follows the ruling OF
Supreme Court Judge Bernard L.
Shientag upholding the sentence of
labor-hating Aurelio, although he
made yelled admissions that the l. L.
D. argument stating the sentence was
not only outrageous but illegal is
bonafide.
Delegation to See Lehman.
A campaign is now in progress To
elect a delegation to see Governor
Lehman and to present minimum
of $4,000 signatures on petitions de-
manding Gonshak's release, the re-
moval of Judge Aurelio, the removal
of police and civil guards" from
Home Relief Bureaus and for the an
nulment of Section OF the Parole
Board giving a judge the power to
hand out a 2-year sentence of dis
orderly conduct charge.
The hearing on the appeal will in
all probability be heard June 20 in
Criminal Courts Building, Smith and
Schemerhorn St., Brooklyn.
The hearing is legally open to the
public and workers are urged to at
tend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
BASIL MANLEY GETS JOB

WASHINGTON, June II. - Presi-
dent Roosevelt has nominated Basil
M. Manley to be a member of the
Federal Power Commission. Manley
has long posed as a liberal" He
spends much of his time as a sort of
liaison officer between officials of
labor unions and government Off
Gals. He has recently been employed
by the New York power authority.
He was a member of Wilson'S war
labor board, an agency for bounding
militant workers out of the war in
dustries and helping keep wages
down.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
INDICT VOLS FRIENDS

NEW YORK, June 12.-Indict-
ments in the federal court charging
racketeering have been returned
against 81 individuals, "a corpora
tons, three trade associations and
the racketeer officials at the head of
the American Federation of Labor
fish workers union" For years
these have been carrying on eXtor-
tion activities against all who would
not fall into line with the racketeers,
Only last week Matt Vol, notorious
red-baiter and president of the
American Federation of Labor pub
licly announced that there is no
racketeering in the New York fish
industry.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
COTTON SNAPS
UP AND HOLDS
STRONGLY

NEW YORK, Dec. % U.N.SJ.
The cotton market today made
a noble response to the Admin
istration's silver purchase policy,
futures scoring gains running to
81 a bale at the opening and
holding most of this in the face
Of profit ;aking later in the day.
At the opening call there was
hardly anything for sale, except
for some active liquidation of
January created by circulation Of
first day notices. At New York,
notices amounted to 19,700 bales
and at New Orleans they totaled
7,400.
Midway through the first hour,
futures receded slightly from the
peaks as some traders rushed to
take profits. There was scat
tered selling from local traders
and the South.
Midday prices were up 13 to
16 points, with January up IA
at 9.96, March up 16 at 10.15,
May up IS at 1929, July up 16
at 1914, and october up 13 at
1851. Dece ber, 1884, was
quoted at 1915.