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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Nine Gallup Strike
Leaders Released
From MN. Prison

GALLUP, New Mexico, Nov. %
Word was received here today that
all nine leaders of the Gallup strike,
who were being held in violation of
the terms of the strike settlement,
have been released.
These nine strike leaders include
the following six who were held i'll
the military stockade in Gallup:
Henry Sumid, representing the Ma
tional Labor Research Association;
Carl Howe, of the International La
Dor Defense; Clarence Lynch, T. L. D.
attorney; Charles Guynn, of the
executive board of the National Min
ers' Union, and Frank Georges of the
NM.U. from Utah.
In addition three strike leaders al
ready sentenced have been released
from the penitentiary in Albuquer-
que, according to reports received to-
day. These are: Herbert Benjamin.
national organizer of the Unemployed
Councils; Robert Roberts, of the N
M. U. and George Kaplan of the
I. l.. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Rush Funds to Aid
the Scottsboro Bows
to |. L. d. Today!

Every days delay in collecting
and turning over TO the Interna-
tional Labor Defense of funds for
Scotts5oro crippies and endangers
the Scottsboro defense.
The ScottsborO defense is in seri-
Gus danger from lack of money to
collect and keep together witnesses
In Decatur, to provide physical pro-
lection for them and the i. l.. ID.
lawyers, as well as for the Scots
boro boys, and to maintain the
legal corps and witnesses, William
L. Patterson, national ]. L. ID. sec
rotary, said today.
Judge Callahan Is rushing
through the trials not only to rob
the Scottsboro boys of their legal
right of adequate time to present
the defense evidence, but to cripple
the defense through huge added
expenses.
The lynch danger grows hourly.
Answer Judge Callahan with
mass action, and with an immedi-
ate resDonse 10 the appeal of the
1. /. D. for funds TO carry on.
Don't hold collections a single day.
Don't delay moment In sending
in your contributions.
Rush funds to the national Of
flee of the I. l.. d., Room 4S0, 80
e, 18th St., New York City,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
1000 PHILA.
.J0BLESS HIT
CIVIL WORKS
Demonstrate Aga in S t
Forced Labor, for
Higher Relief

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov.
20. - Two thousand workers
demonstrated hese against
forced labor, for higher unem-
ployment relief, and for unemploy-
ment insurance, at the Reyburn
Plaza today. A delegation to the
Mayor was refused admittance. The
delegation then went to the relief
headquarters, accompanied by the
whole demonstration, and headed by
the elected committee of Is.
The committee saw the relief di-
rector, presenting its demands, while
the workers waited for an hour,
shouting slogans and demands. The
relief director refused the demands
and the committee reported this to
the workers. The demonstration
pledged to develop neighborhood
struggles,
The National Unemployed Con-
vention, to take place in Washington,
.. c., on Jan. Is, was Endorsed. Res
olutions demanding the release of
the Scottsboro prisoners and the
framed up prisoners in the German
Reichstag fire trial, were passed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
us. Rivals Prepare
To Beat Off Attack
OF Cheap Dollar
Roosevelt Jacks Gold
Price to 1888;
Prices Rise

WASHINGTON Nov. 20. - The
Roosevelt government pursued its
|inflationary measures still further
today by raising the price for gold
another 8 cents to 1898. This brings
the dollar still closer to so per cent
devaluation.
This Is permitting American ex-
porters to penetrate into markets
formerly dominated by the British
pound.
The result is that British impe-
rialism is preparing for resistance
to the Roosevelt initiation. London
banks are openly calling for the in
tensified use Of the famous equal
ization fund against the dollar.
France, Canada and Japan are
throwing up higher tariff walls in
an effort to beat off the competition
Of the cheap American dollar.
As the treasury financing APP
proaches, 1t is altogether likely that
the Roosevelt government will again,
IS it did a short while ago, pretend
to make turn away from infla-
ton, with a renewed inflationary
drive afterwards.
Although commodity prices are not
showing anything like the response
they did in the first stages of the
Roosevelt Initiation, they are at the
highest levels of the year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Callahan SnarlS at
Defense Witnesses;
Creates Lynch Spirit
r efuses to Wait for
Deposition Made by
Ruby Bates
BY JOHN L. SPTVAk
Especial Correspondent Of the
Daily Worker.)
BULLETIN.

DECATUR, Ala, Nov. s9.-The
jury trying Haywood Patterson viii
get the case tomorrow morning.
While waiting for DR.. Reisnan Of
Chattanooga to arrive, Leibowitz
got Solicitor Bailey of jackson
County, who originally prosecuted
the Scottsboro boys, on the stand,
over Knights and CaIlahan's vocif-
erous objections. The court finally
agreed to permit the defense to ask
Bailey one question. Leibowitz
asked him If he paid any attention
to Victoria Prices step-ins and
whether he noticed any stains i'm.
mediately after she claimed to be
raped. Bailey replied that he paid
no attention to them. Callahan
after waiting an hour for DR.. Reis-
man decided not 10 wait any longer.
He ordered the prosecution and the
defense to start sun,nnatjons 10 the
jury.
Bailey, who had sat quiet all dur.
ing the trial, opened MP for the state,
believing as usual and demanding
that the jury find Patterson guilty.
and sentence him to death In the
electric chair. Knight followed with
q similar plea for death.
Leibowitz In a two-hour surrn,a-
ton pointed out the lies of Victoria
Price, GiIly and other witnesses,
showing the contradictions in their
testimony between this trial and the
former trial In a touching, ringing
plea he asked the jury to set Pat
terson free.
DECATUR, Ala, Nov. 29.-
Indifferent to the fact that
Haywood Patterson's life hung
in the balance, Circuit Judge
WV. ("Speed") Callahan today
refused continuance of the trial until
tomorrow morning to give the defense
time to get Ruby Bates testimony.
Ruby's interrogatories Questions
and answers regarding her original
story Of being attacked by ScottShoro
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
TORGI.ER CLAIMS
RIGHT TO STATE
PARTY POSITION
Must Try 6, 900, 900
to Try Communists"
Dimitroff States
Especial to the Daily worker

AT The GERMAN BORDER, Nov.
% (Via Zurich, Switzerland Facing
the hostile Nazi court at Leipzig on
the 47th day of the Reichstag arson
trial, Ernst Torgler, former head IF
the Communist Party fraction in the
Reichstag, demanded that the pre-
siding judge give him the opportunity
to present the Communist Partys po-
sition. The judge denied this i'm
mediately, saying that he would be
given a chance to do so tomorrow.
George Dimitroff, who, together with
Torgler and Blagoi Popoff and Vassil
Taneff, faces death by the Nazi
frame-up machine, cited Marx and
Lenin, the Communist Manifesto and
other Communist International docu-
ments in a brilliant defense which
put the prosecution itself on the de-
fensive.
"The program and aims of our
movement" he stated, "have often
been openly proclaimed. If YOU
want 10 accuse the Communist view
point and policy, then you must
. JIM DIN Il&A1OQa sJCA tAsGAAbS WA ~ .Hhs
The trial opened with detectives
giving evidence that consisted mostly
OF readings from Communist Party
leaflets and resolutions. This evil
dence was aimed to prove the police
assertions that the Communist Party
had fixed the date for an armed in
surrection for February or March. No
single document, however, brought
forth the slightest proof of these po-
lice assertions.
Dimitroff again stated, as he did
yesterday, that all the evidence used
against the Communist Party merely
confirmed his thesis that the Party
had fixed no date for an insurrec-
ton and that the Party was in no
way involved in the Reichstag fire.
The presiding judge, embarrassed by
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
A Challenge to Chicago:

m Nov. rs Philadelphia wired the
UDaily Worker, piedging to raise
$500 over its quota O. 60 ~" -"
challenging Chicago to raise its
quota.
Philadelphia workers went into
immediate action to fulfill their
pledge and their revolutionary
challenge. Holding a second affair
for the "Daily" they raised 500, an
amount they pledge to rush to our
PAPER very shortly. With this addi-
tional $500, Philadelphia will more
than go over the top in the $4,000
drive.
Meanwhile how does Chicago
stand? 1t has not answered the
revolutionary challenge by Phila-
detphia. So far 1t has not even
raised so per cent of its quota.
Comrades of Chicago, what is your
answer to this challenge?
THE achievement of the workers
in Philadelphia Is not only
challenge to Chicago, but to New
York, Detroit. Cleveland and other
districts which, by still tagging
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Richie Apologies
For Using Troops
Against Lyncllers
Mob Violates Grave of
Armwood, Lynch
Victim

SALISBURY, Md, Nov. 2a. - The
grave of George Armwood, Negro
worker lynched on Nov. 10, was vio-
lated yesterday by the lynch mob
which fought 300 militiamen, sup
plemented by State police, in an at
tempt OF release four of the arrested
leaders of the mob which took Arm.
wood out of the Princess Anne jail
dragged him leisurely through the
streets, hanged him to a tree befor.
Judge Duer's home, and then cast
his body on a blazing pyre. 1t is re-
ported that Arnwood's head has beer
decapitated from the body and mailed
to Governor Ritchie of Maryland, who
under pressure Of mass indignation
ordered the arrest of seven known
lynch leaders.
Richie Apologies for Use of Troops
Ritchie today issued an apologize
defense for the use of troops against
the Eastern Shore lynchers. He in
timated that his intention in ordering
the arrests was actually aimed at
Sllitewashing the lynchers. Accordina
to his plans, the arrested men were
to be taken before a Somerset County
court in the knowledge that the court
would have refused to tndict them,
just as States Attorney Robins had
refused to arrest them. Richie could
then have claimed that he had full
filed his duty in attempting to pros
ecute the lynchers. This dastardIy
plan was temporarily defeated by the
actions Of the lynchers themselves In
attacking the troops. Richie de-
clares:
1T was General Rockford's In
tention to take the men before
magistrate In Somerset County nj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30


Dear Comrades:
THIS urgent message must be taken up
without one hours unnecessary delay in
every organization throughout the Party.
The beastly murder Of the 19-year- Negro and
in Missouri, coming Immediately upon the heels of
the approval OF the lynching in California by the
governor Of that state clearly indicates that nation
wide drive OF violence and terror against the Negro
people is being developed aid to fascist develop
mentS in the country. The ruling classes trying
to direct the rising indignation Of the suffer-
ing starvation and misery in the fifth year OF the
crisis The terror is directed in the first place against
the Negro toilers just Hitler gathered his fas-
cist forces the basis of srtsemitism the ruling
class of this country is organizing its fascist troops
on the basis of oppression and lynch terror against
the Negro tolers.
1t is in the light OF this situation that we must
view the events at the trial of the Negro boys at
Decatur, Ala.
1t has become clear that even the capitalist
press longer conceal the fact that the trial
is empty sham intended only to give slight pre-
tense of legality to the intended wholesale murder
of innocent Negroes. Long ago it became apparent
that the honest admission of of the white women
witnesses supposed to have been a victim, that the
frame-up and the boys innocent would
not change the determination of the Alabama white
ruling class without seriously credible accusing
the state proceeds toward the murder which the Ala
bama ruling class considers politically necessary in
order to obtain support in wide campaign Of
tzation against of both Negro and white popu-
lation. The suppression of even the right to cross
question clearly perjured witnesses, to in
quire into the states evidence and glaring
traditions has given the latest proof of the nten-
tons of the state
~ The local Alabama press is playing up sensation
ally the action of Governor James Rolph of California
the would-be murderer of Tom Mooney, in supporting
the recent lynching at San Jose. We are informed
that local newspapers with large headlines announcing
Roph's approval of the California ynching are being
conSpcuousy displayed in the courtroom within sight
of the jury with the approval of the judge who has
lost no opportunity to lay favorable ground the
lynching of the Scottsboro boys
Many indications that the trials Of the boys
now appearing before the court will not completed
before the state and county authorities ntigated by
Attorney General Knight and encouraged by Gov
ernor Miller, will organize their own mob or gang
to murder the defendants and probably their at
torneys and witnesses
THE Central Committee has decided that it is neces-
to speak very frankly to the whole Party mem
bership about the grave danger that the Party may
which center about this trial in Alabama There are
torcal significance, its tremendous immediate mean
ing to the struggles of the American working class and
the Negro people today 1t not possible to foresee
the exact form in which the offensive against the
Negro and white will be Immediately expressed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Call Off Chicago
StOckyardS Strike;
Get Pay Increase
Stockyards w ork er S
Compel N. R. A. to
Grant 10 PC. Rise

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 29. -
The strike of livestock handlers
of the Union stockyards was
called off today after a ten per
cent increase in wages was granted
the strikers. Late yesterday after
noon, the Chicago Regional Labor
Board of the N.R.A. on which Fitz-
patrick Of the Central Labor Council
and Sam Levine of the Analgamated
Clothing Workers are represented, de-
cided together with the union Off
Gals involved in the strike to refer
the strike to arbitration and send the
men back to work.
The proposal was rejected by an
overwhelming majority of the strikers
when it was presented to a mass
meeting of strikers last night, and the
strikers declared their intention of
continuing the strike.
Faced with defeat in thei.. strike
breaking action, the officials, the
N.R.A. and the Union Stockyards and
Transit Co. arranged to bring Pro-
fessor Hutchins, head of the Uni
versity of Chicago and of the local
MIRA. board, to address the strikers
near midnight. Hutchins offered the
ten per cent increase, which was &C
cepted by majority of the strikers.
The strike was called for a return
of the 1929 wage scale which would
increase wages from 35 to rs cents an
hour to 60 to 80 cents an hour.
The number of strikers involved
was grossly exaggerated in the press.
According to reports of strikers, about
1000 workers were involved in the
strike. The Packing House Workers
Industrial Union raised the slogan of
spreading the strike, which met with
an excellent response among the
strikers. Attempts to recruit strike
breakers failed utterly. In view of
this situation the officials of the
union and the companies worked to
end the strike.
Because the Industrial Union was
gaining influence in the strike, an
obOoNh vac l4AoOC vi dAi1Oll llCdSldudl-
tiers at 37th and Halsted last night
and windows we're broken Efforts
were made to halt meeting of the
Industrial Union called to spread the
strike by police, packers and A. F.
of L., who put pressure on the owner
of the meeting hall to refuse the
use Of it.
The Industrial Union today issued
a leaflet to the strikers anaiyzlng the
lessons of the strike and calling for
building of the union to prepare for
further struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Call Los Angeles
Anti-War Congress


LOS ANGELES, Calf, Nov. 30
The United Committee for Struggle
Against War and Fascism has issued
a call to all organizations to send
delegates to united congress against
war to be held Sunday, Dec. 10, at
the Orange Grove Theatre, 730 s..
Grand Ave.
Fright here in Los Angeles" the
call reads, groups of Hitler SYM
pathizers are spreading fascist prop
uganda, the XII Klux Khan and its
ilk is sowing seeds of race and religi-
GUS hatred to divide the people and
make them an easy prey for fascisn.
Military parades and naval air ma
neuvers prepare us to accept war
willingly"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Mob Of 5000 Storms
County Jail; Hangs,
Burns Young Negro
Machine Guns Pointed
at Crowd as Empty
Gesture
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Nov. 20
Patterning themselves almost
completely upon Mondays

completely upO n Mondays
lynching in San Jose, Calf, an
armed mob last night stormed
the Buchanan county jail here, seized
Lloyd Warner, 19-year old Negro
boy and hanged him, after torturing
him into insensibility.
After hanging the young Negro
from an elm tree near the jail. the
mob set fire to his clothing and in
short time his body fell into bon
fire below. Nearly 5000 men and
concentrated by stories of mob vio
lence in various parts of the country
are estimated to have participated
in the killing of Warner.
The Negro youth, who was charged
with having attacked" white
woman here last Sunday evening, was
turned over to the 1ynchers by Sher-
if Otto Theisen after several hours
OF mild resistance.
Informed that the mob was gather
ing about 10 o'clock in the evening,
Governor Park-instead of rushing
militia to the scene-dispatched sew
eral military tanks which we're In
effectual in the face Of the mob OF
nearly 10000.
The mob opened up the tanks and
pulled the men out.
An iron pipe was used to batter
down the jail here. 1t is significant
that an iron pipe was also used to
batter down the Jail in San Jose,
Calf,
Machine guns and sbotguns were
pointed at the mob, but this had
no effect on the mob, which felt
confident that this was only an
empty gesture.
Officers in charge excused their
lack Of decisive action on the ground
that they feared casualties, particu-
larly among the women onlookers."
After the young Negro had been
hanged, hundreds of men and women
gathered about the pyre-shouting,
laughing and singing. When fresh
fuel was added from time to time,
thus lighting up the gruesome spec
tacle, photographers snapped pictures
without the aid OF flashlight powder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Federal Govt Will
Not Act Against
Rising Lynch Wave
Eye Witness Tells of
Mob's Fight to Free
Armwood Lynchers
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-An Ala
balna-bred newspaper man told me
today that the bravery Of two Negro
bellhops helped to save him and six
others from the fury of the Salisbury,
Maryland, mob yesterday.
1.-TWO Negro bellhops in the Wico-
nico Hotel shunted us from room to
room, out Of sight and reach of a
yelling, lynch-mad Eastern Shore
mob intent on giving us a severe
beating, tar and feathers and a ride
out of town on rail-" said Eddy Gill
more, 26-year-old Washington Daily
News reporter. Perched upon his
desk, he rubbed his chin reflectively
and exclaimed:
II want to tell you, those two Ne
gro boys had CUTS, If they hadn't
hustled us from one safe place to an
other, We would have been thorough
ly mauled."
Eastern Shore Plans Big Welcome To
Jailed Lynchers
Gilmore also declared that Federal
troops would be the only means Of
obtaining all the leaders Of the Prin-
cess-Anne mob who lynched George
Armwood, and that without change
of venue it will be absolutely i'm
possible to prosecute the Eastern
Shore lynchers."
'Why, only this morning 1 talked
over the phone to chap who was
one Of the Armwood Iynchers," Gill
more related. "Hc said, we're going
to welcome back the four men held
as Armwood suspects when they
arrive here for kabeas corput pro-
ceedings.' I asked what he thought
would happen II by the sIirnmest
chance Judge Duer ordered the SUI
spects held. This fellow replied,
Z don't need TO Think know. The
Eastern Shore citizens will take
them from the authorities, and it's
going to be pretty dangerous for a
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
MiSleaders Conceal
Silk Strike Vote
Expected to Send Men
Back to Work on
Monday

PATERSON, N. j., Nov. 29.-The
United Textile Workers Union lead
ers, now selling out the silk strike,
have agreed with the manufacturers
that the tabulation Of the vote on
the strike agreement will be kept
secret and not published. The U.T.W.
leaders took secret vote. The agree
ment gives up the right to strike,
gives up all wage demands, and sends
the strikers back to work defeated.
The U.T.W. leaders will, it is pre-
dicted, order the 10000 silk strikers
back to work Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
MISSOURI NEGRO LYNCHED; DECATUR VERDICT AWAITED
First Ambassador to
Soviet Union Sails

NEW YORK.-William G. Bullitt,
the first American ambassador to
the Soviet Union, sailed from New
York yesterday on the President
Harding. BuIIitt was member of
the U. S. mission to the Soviet
Union in 1917 which was headed by
Colonel Raymond Robbins. He was
accompanied by his family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

Comrades are needed TO help
in important work In reference to
the Scottsboro case. Unemployed
YCLers are urged to report dur
ing the day time, to the offices of
the international Labor Defense
in Harlem, $40 Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Need scottsboro Volunteers

NEW YORK.--t00 volunteers are
needed at once for special Scots
boro emergency work in Harlem.
Report to the Alrlem Headquar-
tiers of the 1. l.. D., 326 Lenox Ave,
any day during the week from 0
=. m. 70 II p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
Unions of Jackson,
Mich, Demand That
Vol Resign AFL Job

JACKSON, Mich, Nov. ga
resolution asking the resignation
Of Matthew VOL, third vice-presi-
dent of the A. II. Of L., was
unanimously adopted here last
night by representatives of the
yackSon ur,ions, IL was reported.
VOL has taken the the lead in
alta a,zirg Tire Soviet Union, the
foreign bern workers, and in sup
porting every fascist move di-
vccted against strikers.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30

Help the Daily Worker Fight
Lynch Terror With Your
Dollar Donations!
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-05-11
MAYOR SPEAKS
FOR POPPY DAY
Auxiliary to Sell Little Red
Flowers to Raise Relief
Funds for Needy

Poppy Day is the day for per-
sonal tribute to the men who lost
their lives in the country's serv-
ice," Mayor A. C. Anon explain
ed. at is day when all can show
that they still remember and hon
or the sacrifices made by those who
defended America during the
great war crisis, and that they are
carrying on for America in time of
peace. The poppy is patriotic
symbol which means honor for the
dead and service for the living.
sNo price will be asked for the
American Legion Auxiliary pop
pies. The Auxiliary wants everyone
to wear poppy and contribute for
the flower according to his means.
All contributions will be used for
relief work among the disabled
veterans and their families, the
bulk of the money going to support
the relief activities of our local
Auxiliary Unit among needy fam
lilies in this city"