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The daily worker., 1933-12-07
Critic ICES Attorney s
Slur on Southern
Working Class

NEW YORK-Faith in the fight
Of the International Labor Defense
to save the Scottsboro boys, and sharp
criticism of anti-workingclaSS express
sions used by Samuel s. Leibowitz
attorney retained in the case by the
LID, were expressed today by Les
ter Carter, one of the star defense
witnesses in the Decatur trial, on his
return from the South.
THE white workers OF the South
are not lynchers," he said: Il am
white Southern worker myself, and
I have talked with many others, even
during my last trip South. They are
being melted to lynching by the white
boss press, but many Of them are be-
ginning to realize that the lynch
policy is policy of divide and rule.
THE remarks made by Attorney
Leibowitz in his summation to the
jury, about myself and other white
Southern workers, don't help a bit
in winning them over-no matter
how brilliant the rest OF his defense
was.
Attorney. Slandered Southern
Workers
II want the whole workingcIass to
know that my name, and the whole
white Southern workingcIass, was
slandered by the defense attorney.
Il want to do all can to save the
Scottsboro boys, but still have to
live in this country, and I have to
live with the workers. I believe any
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
DECATUR TRIALS PROVE NO
JUSTICE IN BOSS COURTS

their services to that class by ap-
pointment to the Supreme Court
bench. They represent not only the
capitalists of the North but the cap
italists and landlords of the South.
They have consistently shown their
bitter hatred of the toiling masses,
All of their past decisions have fav-
ored the big corporations against the
workers.
Yerdicts an Attack on All Workers.
The Decatur yerdictS are an at
tack on the entire working class, as
are the growing number of lynch
ings throughout the country They
are part Of the sharpening offensive
against the working class, reflected
in the fascist trend of the N.R.A., the
smashing of strikes, in the attempts
to outlaw strikes, the use of military
drum-head courts against militant
strike leaders, the attempt to destroy
the revolutionary unions, the denial
'of the right OF workers to organize
into unions of their own choice, the
building up Of company unions, the
Strengthening of the bureaucratic
leadership in the American Fedora
ton Of Labor and the deportation
drive against foreign-born workers.
These attacks are sharpened against
the Negro masses, but are at the
same time directed against the whole
working class, against all forces fight
ing for relief from the burdens Of the
crisis which are being increasingly
shifted to the backs Of the toilers.
Answer the Lynch Lords! Build
Mass Fight!
The Negro masses are aroused.
They are convinced that the Decatur
trials are a travesty on justice. The
white workers throughout the couln-
try are rallying to their defense. 1t
is possible to build UP a tremendous
movement for the defense not only
of the Scottsboro boys, but of the
entire working class, and for the
national liberation OF the Negro
people.
The International Labor Defense,
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, the revolutionary trade
unions, with everywhere the Commu-
mist Party and the Communist frac-
tions acting as the driving force, must
further develop the worldwide mass
fight against the Scottsboro verdicts,
against lynching, on the broadest
united front basis.
Into every shop, every factory, every
neighborhood, every school, every
rural district with the message of
militant struggle against the lynchers.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07

off the ship. This was received en-
Enthusiastically by the longshoremen.
One OF the lila. delegates asked an
MWI.U. delegate If the M.wI.U.
would support the longshoremen as
the longshoremen had previously sup
ported a strike led by the M.WI.U. He
was told that the MWI.U. would give
its fullest support to the rank and file
longshoremen, and was met with
cheers.
That evening the president Of the
LILA. approached an MWI.U,
delegate and officially asked for sup
port. He even went with a commit
tee to the police station and de-
manded permit for an MWIU.
delegate to board the ship. However,
1t was refused. A joint picket line
was then formed, and the I. l.. A.
officials agreed. The I. L. A. asked
that in case of any arrests that the
International Labor Defense should
give legal advice and defense.
The next morning approximately
600 longshoremen were mobilized
around the docks and over hun
dred seamen. The police were also
mobilized, as usual, with riot guns
and other war material. Launches
were used to patrol the ship with,
although the police boat was tied
aft Of the Munloyal and would not
allow the launch In closer than a
hundred feet of the ship. The I. L..
A. officials permitted the M. w. I. o..
to use the launches any time they
wanted them, and seamen and long
shoremen were picketing together by
land and by water.
Scabs Chased Away
Around eight o'clock scabs we're
discovered in the docks ready to
work.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07

ment. The Industrial Union leaders
have also made this clear before the
Planning Board and the Provisional
Committee of the Amalgamation
movement.
zimmerman IS trying to compare
the leaders of the Industrial Union
to that of the Brockton Union where
the officials oppose amalgamation,
and is spreading false lies about the
activity of the Provisional Committee
in winning the workers over the heads
of the leaders. That these are lies
is indicated in the fact that the In
dustrial Union leaders have taken an
active part in the formation of the
Amalgamation convention while the
Brockton officialdom has prevented
the membership from participating.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
.LOvestone Clique
Refuses Aid to the
SCottSbOrO Boys
Zimmerman Sabotag1es
Meeting, Rejects the
Sending of Wire

NEW YORK.-The Lovestoneite
machine of Charles Zimmerman
voted down motion to participate
in Saturdays Union Square demon
stration for the Scottsboro boys Tues
day night at the executive board
meeting of Local % Of the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers
Union "a. F. of L..
With Nelson, chairman Of the
meeting, and other Lovestoneites,
Zimmerman also voted down mo-
ton to send telegram to Judge
Callahan protesting against the rail-
roading of the ScottSboro boys to
death on framed-up charges. The
Lovestoneites spoke against financial
support to the Scottsboro campaign.
At the opening of the meeting, for
the first time Chairman Nelson de-
clared that the session must be closed
and the hall was cleared and an
executive session was held. The men,
bers of the local were indignant.
Executive board member Silverblatt
protested against the chairs ruling,
and stated that this ruling was
against all past procedure and
against trade union democracy. The
Lovestoneite Nelson said that an
executive board member had asked
for executive sessions, and the I, L.
G. w. U. constitution provided for
such sessions. Nelson refused to rec
ognize Silyerblatt's counter motion
for an open session, with union
members allowed to be present
A committee Of the International
Labor Defense then came to the
board, requesting the board to call
all dressmakers to Saturdays united
front demonstration and further re-
questing that financial aid be con-
tributed for the Scottsboro campaign,
which is led by the International La
Dor Defense. In order to bury the
request for financial aid 1t was re-
ferred by Zimmerman and Nelson to
the financial committee, and Nelson,
member of the financial committee,
said he would see to it that nothing
is contributed.
Silverblatt then made a motion
that the board send telegram to
Callahan to protest the lynch verdict
on Patterson, and (2) to call on all
dressmakers to participate in this
Saturdays demonstration at Union
Square at noon. Zimmerman refused
to recognize these two motions. Mel
son then spoke. and said the local
should not be "the tail end of any
organization. Nelson urged the
dresssaakers not to participate in
Saturdays demonstration, and not to
send any telegram.
Silverblatt appealed from the de-
cision of the chair in refusing to put
his motions for defense Of the Scots
boro boys. Silverblatt spoke on the
Importance of supporting the Scots
boro case, the fight for the Negro
workers, against lynching, and the
issues involved in the case. Zim-
norman then railroaded through the
vote against support Of the Scotts-
boro boys.
The International Labor Defense
urges all dressmakers to refuse to
allow the Lovestoneite-A. r. OF L.
officials of Local % to sabotage the
Scottsboro case. The I. L. D. urges
all dressmakers to come out in masses
to the Union Square demonstration.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07

One of the launches, loaded with
seamen and longshoremen, went past
the police boat and landed and
started after the scabs. The police
Went into the docks and when they
did about 500 longshoremen and sea-
men crashed the docks. The scabs
were chased off the docks and up the
street. Afterwards about rs police.
armed with machine guns, mobilized
on the docks, but picketing continued.
About l o'clock the lila. officials
made an agreement with the company
for the increase and the longshore-
mems strike was called off by the
officials.
The crew Of the ship few minutes
later came to the M. w. I. U. hall
and drew up their demands, and
when told that the I. L. A. officials
would put the longshoremen back to
work they decided that they would
strike for their demands anyway.
They went back to the ship and pre-
sented their demands to the company
agent and the captain. At first they
were threatened to all be paid off
and fired, so the ships committee
told the company that they would
stay out until all demands were won.
The company agent then went ashore
looking for scabs and every place he
went he was laughed at by the sea-
men.
Officials Break Unity
In the meantime de1epates ff,nyy, Tho
M. w. I. U. went to see the I. L. A.
officials to get them to support the
strike by knocking the longshoremen
off. The !, l.. A. officials refused
not by issuing fiat statement but
by maneuvering around.
Next morning strong picket line
was modified. but the longshoremen
The daily worker., 1933-12-07

make the mistake of thinking that
"the administration completely for
got its ideals when it accepted the
invitation" or that 1T has repuai
ated its own standards"
ALI Columbia has repudiated are
its PROFESSED standards. Isn't &
Just a wee bit insane to talk of
"non-commercial ideals? Do yoH
know the type of non-commerciai
gentlemen who compose Columbis's
board OF trustees?
William Barclay Parsons, dsreCsos
In numerous corporations.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, directo
Of Equitable Life, son-in-law Of VIII
liam Rockefeller, chairman OF the
Remington Arms Co. and the Union
Metallic Co. He's the on-conmerciai
individual who cleaned up "a mil
lion in the Midyale Steel deal and
made two million by cornering th'
market in munitions machinery dur
ing the war.
Frederick Coudert, corporation Law
yer and director In National Surety
and Equitable Trust.
Herbert L. Satterlee, Morgan attcF.
ney and Morgan son-in-law.
Robert S. Lovett, chairman o
Union Pacific Railroad and director
In dozen other roads.
Bishop Manning OF the Morgan Oh
Trinity and Stephen Baker Of tn,
Bank Of Manhattan and j. P. himself
COME Of these are no longer active
" but their SUCCESSORS are equally
on-commerciaI. Columbia hasn't
repudiated its standards. The Tour
nament Of Roses started out ~
real estate promoters gag and
hasn't the University's President
Nicholas Murray Butler himself laid
down the law that ''The duty Of one
generation is to pass On to the next,
unimpaired, the institutions 1t has
inherited from Its forbears"? Just 80
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
Continued from Page u

adequate protection to the boys and
their defenders. The lynch gangs
were openly invited to take their
prey. This maneuver failing, Judge
Callahan constituted himself the chief
lyncher. He became the prosecuting
attorney He harraSsed the defense
at eve step He constantly inter-
fere 9TH the right Of the defense
p -4eys to ross-eXamine the state
witnesses who were perjuring them
selves. He protected these witnesses
at every point in their contradictory
testimony. He joined Attorney Gen
eral knight in inciting race hatred
against the defendants and their at
torneys. He permitted Knight to
openly coach the state witnesses in
Ehe very court room itself. He brushed
aside the overwhelming evidence of
the boys of the charge of rape"
brought by Victoria Price, and re
pudiated by Ruby Bates, whom Vic
toria Price claims to have been raped
at the same time and in the same
box car, He refused delay to allow
the defense to present the deposition
Of Ruby Bates in the Haywood Pat
terson trial. And when it was pre-
sented in the trial Of Norris he
ignored it,
Capitalist Press Admits Travesty
of Justice.
The capitalist press is now ready
to admit that there is no Justice in
Alabama. This admission is Wrested
from them by the glaring events Of
the Decatur trials. They now declare
that the trials were 80 raw that
the U. S. Supreme Court will readily
grant a reversal Of the death verdicts.
But this is an attempt to calm the
angry masses, white and black, and
to build UP anew the illusions among
the masses in the 'impartiality'' and
Justice" Of the capitalist courts. The
Alabama courts are now diScredited
before the masses. The masses are
therefore asked to place their trust
in the U. S. Supreme Court, which
rhsy are told will see that justice is
done.
But what is the U. S. Supreme
Court but an instrument to maintain
the oppression OF the Negro People
and the exploitation of the black and
white toilers? Who are the nine old
men on the court of last illusions? i?
They are trusted representatives of
the capitalist class. They are gentle
men who have been rewarded for
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
Lester Carter, in Interview, Hits
Statements of Leiboqvitz in Decatur

other worker would feel the same
about it. The following is from the
address to the jury by Attorney Lei
boWitz:
Ask yourself the question whether
those two hoboes would have carried
their girls down to another car to
share them with the other tramps.
1t isn't often that hoboes can get wo-
men to lay around in cars with them.
When they can they will not want
to share them with others"
Would Risk Life for Class
Many times you have heard the
question: Why doesn't the American
worker wake up. The above is one
Of the reasons.
"When Mr.. Leibowitz tries to ac-
cuse me Of past mistakes as though
I were still making them, When he
tries to discredit me because of my
past, must protest. Every day I
am becoming more class conscious. I
willingly risked my life to help de-
fend the Scottsboro boys. would
do as much for any member of my
class. 7 resent having my past
thrown up to me. I resent the South
ern workers being called lantern
iawed morons' and know as we'll
that the leaders of the International
Labor Defense have protested against
It,"
Patterson Criticizes Leibowitz
The following statement on Leibo-
witz' remarks in regard to Lester
Carter was made today by william
L. Patterson, national secretary OF
the International Labor Defense:
"The attempt on the part of Mr..
Leibowitz to disregard the testimony
The daily worker., 1933-12-07

a dope-your correspondent S
attitude was described as one
of bland unresponsiveness.
But in the rest of the metro
politan press even the first day Of
repeal failed to moderate the orgy
of copy inspired by the prospect
The Times devotes to it two solid
columns Of news, while the Mirror
splurges an entire sports front page
including q detailed analysis of the
effect Of atmospheric conditions or
each Bown game since 1916. The
Daily News head on the story an
nouncing the Columbia Spectators
long editorial about the contest reads
Heavenly Daysl Spectator Put.
Blast On Tripl" Editor Beichman'l
piece has met with the universe
scorn which attended Reed Harris
DARKER, Daily Mirror colunlnist
L and editor, counters with "The
fact that the boys on the football
team will get only q battering at
the Rose Bowl fighting for dear
old Columbia, whereas Editor
Beichman, who ia talking about
commerciaIisnn, doesn't have to
soil his lily-white hands as he
pounds out his editorials in the
security of his sanctum, knowing
that he will share in the profits
OF The Spectator. :"
From the Times head we learn
that Columbia Is Facing Loss of
Ferrara," the co-captain-elect hav-
ing failed his midterms In French
and physics. But for the Spectator
at is not a question of personaIi-
ties so much as it is question OF
principle"
Let me quote you parts Of the edi.
torial which may be bid for pub.
licity or partly healthy document
"T'he squad has just completed on,
OF the most successful seasons il
Morningside history. Now the team
is to be sent 5000 miles away to show
its unique ability in booting a tin,
pigskin before mobs for whom thi
university signifies solely a good foot
ball team. Cut, tut, E. NJ
"T'he men who accepted this invita-
ton (to the Pasadena game) vii
not deny that the game is a tire
mendous money-making proposition
no matter how much will be dis
tributed to charities. Further, tn
men who fell all over themselves be
fore this hullaballoo have betraye,
the trust placed in them If we re
allze that Columbia University ha
been leader in intercollegiate foot
ball on a sane and decent level.
"The administration completely for
got its ideals when 1t accepted thi,
invitation. 1t means a tremendou
squirt in the ballyhoo and sophomore
enthusiasm deplored in recent year,
by men and women-including Presi.
dent Butler-who have seen the grow.
ing vices which such unmitigatec
emphasis was developing.
Columbia University had it,
chance yesterday to show conclu.
sively that intercollegiate football i.
not public (Tut, tut, E. NJ spec.
tacle for profit. Tt had its chance tt
stand out as pre-eminently a uniyer.
sity devoted to the advancement o,
learning and research. BY permitting
the football team to strike out fol
Pasadena 1t has repudiated it's owr
standards.
THE Lion has joined the circus"
1F course such unmitigated en-
+" phasas" Is wrong. But don't
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
S,RER!'@!!R !! Il s &
AS@ SdWu4d Ha7zozkde -
The Lion in the Circus

NOT very exclusively indicated here yesterday the foot
ball team of Columbia University has been chosen play
Stanford the Pasadena real estate promotion gag entitled
the Tournament of Roses.
The Bowl Game is annual affair and although this is
the first time that New York team has been honored-
anybody who thinks $4,000 an honor is either red
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
Talk on Child Health

D. Slatkin will speak at Co-opera-
tive Colony, 2700 Bronx Park E, to-
night at $3.50, on how to protect health
OF workers children.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07

Louis Engdahl Branch, I. L. d.
To Be ReOrVanized

J. Tauber, International Labor De-
fense lawyer, will speak at the Scan
dinavian Center, Sill Fifth Ave-,
Brooklyn, at meeting tonight. p.
m, to reorganize the Louis Engdahl
Branch of the I. L. D.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
Dressmakers' Forum

Left Wing Group, Local "a, IL.G.
WU., will hold an open forum today
at / p. m.. at Memorial Hall, 344 w.
36th st., on why Our Administra-
ton Is Destroying Trade Union Dem
ocracy."
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
Helping the Daily Worker
Through Ed Newhouse

Contributions received to the credit
of Edward Newhouse in the Socialist
competition with Michael Gold, DR.
Luttinger, Helen Luke and Jacob
Burck to raise $1,000 in the $4,000
Daily Worker Drive;
Evelyn ..................., 2.T
Previous total ..........,..... 547.es
Total TO date .S550.7t
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
Two Meetings on Unemploy-
ment and Relief

Downtown Committee of Action
will hold two meetings tonight on re-
lief at which local politicians, home
relief bureau officials and social
service agencies will speak. Cher j.
silifsky Club, 122 Second Ave-, and
East Side Workers Club, 165 East
Broadway, both meetings at D. m.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
Unemployed Dressmakers'
Meeting

Unemployed Committee OF Dress
makers will hold a meeting today,
1880 p. M, at 140 w. 36th st., to
discuss the organization Of dress
makers to fight against starvation
and evictions.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07
City Events

Painters Fraction Meeting
Postponed
Alteration Painters Fraction
Meeting will be postponed on sc-
count of Party membership meet
ing tonight.
Hospital Workers Meeting
A membership meeting of the
Hospital Workers League will be
held tonight, 8 p. m, at SO E. 20th
Street.
BOro Committee Against War
and Fascism
American League Against WaI
and Fascism calls all Manhattan
Boro delegates to the U. s. Anti
War Congress to a meeting tonight
8 p. m, at Bronx Union Br. YMCA
470 East 161st Street.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07

Around eight o'clock scabs were
discovered in the docks ready to
work.
The daily worker., 1933-12-07

Total to date ........,...s5 .s55o.7'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-24
The Big Gold Rush

The whole world now, seems to be en- gagged in gold rush - the greatest in hls- tory. The project seriously considered in California. for the state government to f- nance an army of gold diggers. is merely one evidence of the new movement. The Northwest Mining Association, in the state of Washington. has asked the federal govern ment to join the gold hunt. The search for new gold it says If urged by the government, would develop into a great patriotic movement" It wants to ncorpor- ate in the half-bllion dollar federal unem- ployment relief plan a provision for grub stalking amateur miners and financing min ing schools.
 Gold production both here and abroad has been rapidly increasing during the de- pression. The worlds output. about $400,- 100000 in 1929, had risen last year to $500.000,000. beating all records. Amer can production, which was steady at about $45,000,000 year during the prosperity wave. has risen steadily during the last three years. There are more idle men wanting something to do and with the deflation of commodity prices gold is worth more. So hundreds of thousands are banning gold in the Rockies and 'the Pacific states and for egn gold fields.
 An enlargement of gold production pro- notes prosperity. Some of the greatest prosperity periods in modern history have been traced to rich gold discoveries begin ming with the Spaniards' footing of Mexican and Peruvian gold and ending with the gold strikes in California. South Africa and Alas ka. Increase in the gold supply, it is agreed, is the safest form of inflation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-24
Fewer Bank Officials

From the news story telling about the process of re organization of two large banks one learns that under the new regime there will be fewer vice presidents assistant vice. presidents and other executive officers. A small group of men is expected to control all the affairs of the banks. Directorates will not be passed out to industries that deposit large accounts"
 That will be real reform, from the standpoint of economy and efficiency alike, Over organization of that sort is one of the things wrong with banking. It has been so widely recognized that jokes about the num- Der of bank vice presidents and their general uselessness have become commonplace in humor magazines and vaudeville and radio testing That banking wisdom and sound ness did not increase in direct ratio with the number of vice presidents and directors is quite evident now