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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
POWERS CASE IS
STARTING TODAY
Defend Jobless Leader;
Fill the Courtroom!

NEW YORK-The trial of George
E. Powers, militant hunger fighter
who was arrested on April 81, 1882,
at City Hall while 10000 workers were
demonstrating in protest against the
closing of the relief bureaus, was
postponed yesterday for technical
reasons till today.
Powers will be on trial for riot
ing, melting to riot, and assault on
police" The case was revived on
March /, to keep the militant leader
out of the March demonstration
and as an attempt to terrorize New
York workers.
Powers has been out on $35, 900 bail
since the time of his arrest on a
charge based on statute 2o90, which
has been used only once or twice in
the last ten years. He will be de-
Tended by Joseph Tauber, attorney Of
the International Labor Defense.
All workers must show their solid
arity by coming to the General Ses-
sions Court, Part 8, Franklin and
Centre st. at 10 o'clock sharp today.
This is not trial just of an indiyi-
dual but of all the working class. The
only way that Powers can be freed
is by the support of the entire
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
AUSTRIA FACES
FASCIST RULE

VIENNA, March 9.-Under the pre-s
text of seeking to ward OF fascist
dictatorship in Austria, Chancellor
DollfuSs yesterday assumed dictator-3t
ial powers and at once issued seriesn
of DEGREES forbidding assemblages andal
curtailing the freedom of the press
The DEGREES are directed at the works.
ing-class moving into struggle againshe
starvation and the increasing threats
of fascism. They are thus aimed tos
prepare the way for national gov
eminent, composed of fascist and
other reactionary elements, such as
has been imposed upon the toiling
masses of Germany.
The Austrian Social Democraticy
leaders are following closely in thel
footsteps of their German comrades
whose road of treachery to the
working class they, in fact helped
to map out-with the usual dema-
gogic threats of struggle against fas-
cism" and the usual call to their
followers not TO start the struggle
against faselsm unfit "all constitu-S
tional means" have been exhausted
In a manifesto just issued their
leaders Just like their German COM
rades seek to hold back the nlasses
while fascism is consolidating It's
power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
Tag Day Stations
for the Daily Worker
Emergency Drive

LOWER EAST SIDE--11 Gin
ton St., So Avenue G, Workers
Center; 165 E. Broadway, East Side
Workers Club; 122 Second Ave.
MIDTOWN. N. Y.-259 w. 25th
St., 4l9 w. 53rd St., 1871 w. 18th
st. Saturday only, 1903 Lexington
Ave.
HARLEM.-650 LenOx Ave, at
Workers Center; Is w. I26th ST.,
Finnish Hall; $50 L. 81st St.. Hun
garian Workers Home; 347 e. T2nd
st., CzechOslovak Workers.
LOWER BRONX.-lI57 South
ern Blvd. 801 Prospect Ave, 569
Prospect Ave-, 800 Z. I3Sth st.
UPPER BRONX.-27OO Bronx
Park East, 2075 Clinton Ave, near
l80th st., 1910 Boston I'D.
BRooKLyN.-764 4Oth Street
Brooklyn, 1109 45th ST., 2006 10th
St., 9th and Mermaid, Coney
Island Center; 1878 seth ST., 1876
18th st., Workers Center; 70 Myr-
tie Avenue.
BROWNSVILLE.--105 Thatford
Ave, Brownsville Workers Youth
Club; 1878 Pitkin Ave-, Brooklyn
Workers Center; SIS Binsdale St.,
Hinsdale Workers Club; SRA YER
mont st., e. N. Y. Workers Club.
WILLIAMSBURG.-6I Graham
Ave-, 226 ThrOOp Ave, GS5 Rodney
St., 46 Ten Eyek st.
JAMAICA, L. I.--148-29 Liberty
St, Workers Center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
Lenin >On
Democracy"

Take the fundamental laws OF
modern States, take their internal
administration, take the right of
meeting and freedom of the press
and the sO-called equality of all
citizens before the law, and you
will see at every step evidence of
the hypocrisy of bourgeois demo-
cracy, with which every honest
and intelligent worker is familiar.
There is not single State, how
ever democratic, which does not
contain loopholes or limiting clau-
SEES. in its. constitution, which
guarantee the bourgeoisie the legal
possibility Of dispatching troops
against the workers, of proclaim
ing martial law and so forth, in
the case OF the disturbance of
public order, that is, in the case
of disturbance by the serYile
class of It's servile conditions, and
of attempts 10 strike a non-servile
attitude. -.
Proletarian democracy. cS which
the Soviet regime con. flutes one
of the forms, has GIN 30 the
world hitherto unknown expan-
sion and development of demo-
cracy for the gigantic majority of
the population, for the exploited
and laboring masses. 49,.
("The PrOletarian Revolution"
by n, Lenin.)
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HaverhiH shoe strikers to turn thel
present walkouC into a real strike!t
the officials OF the Protective and the
bosses are speeding up efforts TO putn
over the sell-out agreement and havea
succeeded in obtaining favorable
vote among the stitchers and others
locals OF the Protective. .
Members Are Militant.
The rank and file strikers are or
ganizing mass picketing and pressing
ahead to spread the strike. without
the approval of the officials thell
have succeeded in bringing the
workers Of five more shops into the
struggle. The militant Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
is rallying the workers to defeat this
brazen sell-out, and TO fight for all
agreement which will force the bos.
ses to grant their shop demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
MEMPHIS COPS
KILL PRISONER
Prisoner Is Beaten to
Death by Dicks

MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 9.-Pres-
sure of the International Labor De-
Tense campaign against the murder
Of Levon Carlock, young Negro, by
six Memphis police officers, has forced
Police Commissioner Cliff Davis,
Mayor Overton and other city Off
Gals to the point of ridiculous
squirlnings in their attempts to evade
the spotlight being placed upon their
killings of Carlock and now Of Lloyd
Lowe.
After lloyd Lowe, 30, white, ar
rested as Suspect" Of robbery, died
at the General Hospital yesterday
afternoon five hours after he had
been taken there unconscious dir
ectly from grilling by two police de-
tectives, William Raney and Floyd
Wiebenga, City doctors claim he died
Of brain hemorrhage," although
they admit abrasions on his body
and a deep cut on the right side of
his upper lip.
A Crude Lie.
"fe fell against a radiator" is the
story the police give out, trying 10
convince the thoroughly aroused
population that this latest third de-
gree victim had planned to throw an
epileptic fit.
Long and intricate explanations
following frantic conferences have
been attempted as q result Of the
charges brought by the I. l.. D. and
the flood of protest kilograms and
resolutions which continue to pour
into the Mayors and Police Com
miSsioner's Sanctums, from workers
throughout the country, as a part of
the tremendous mass offensive being
modified TO stop lynchings in Mem
phis, under the slogan, "Levon Car
lock must be the last"
Young Widow Militant.
"I'll speak. I'd speak till I'd drop
if it could help the struggle" Eula
May Carlock said, looking into the
tiny fire which warns the room
where she lived with her young hus-
band Levon, before that Saturday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
RECOGNIZE U.S.S.R.!
DEMAND FRIENDS
OF SOVIET UNION
Conferences Sunday in
New York and Thru
out y. S.

The Mass Conference called by the
Friends of the Soviet Union for Re-
cognition of the Soviet Union will be
held on Monday, March 18th, 8 p,
M, at Manhattan Lyceum, &c East
4th Street.
Resolutions demanding recognition
of the Soviet government by the
United States Government have been
passed by several locals of the A.
F. of L., among which is local Union
SO OF Stone MasonS in Yonkers, by
Socialist Party and Y. P. S. l..
branches, as well as several I. w. o.
organizations and the Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers Union of Kensing-
ton, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Friends of the Soviet Union
has asked all its members and sym
pathizers to introduce the resolution
in organizations to which they belong
and also to elect two delegates to
the conference on Monday, March
18th.
The resolution on recognition reads
in part.
Whereas, there is a growing SEN
timent in favor of recognition of the
Soviet Government by the Govern
ment of the United States and the
extension of trade relations between
the two countries, which would be
of benefit to thousands of American
warkers and farmers and
Whereas, the workers and farmers
of the Soviet Union have abolished
the system of exploitation of labor
and are building new social system,
under which material and cultural
gains are shared by all who work;
and
Whereas, the non-recognition po-
Icy maintained by the United States
Government for IS years is against
the best interests of the American
workers and farmers as well as those
of the Soviet Union.
I'VE therefore favor the immediate
establishment of unconditional Dip
lomatic and trade relations with the
Soviet Government"
Mass conferences of delegates from
workers organizations will be held
throughout the country on March IL
and on the day of the New York
conference, March 10. The Friends
Of the Soviet Union appeals TO all
organizations to elect delegates to
these conferences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
; Locals Call
Carpenters to
Big Mass Meet
Plan Action Against
Unemployment an d
Vile Conditions

NEW YORK-The Joint Committee
of Carpenters Locals 209O, 1854 and
PITT have called a big mass meeting
of all members Of the Brotherhood Of
Carpenters, New York City, for this
Saturday, March II at / p. m, in
the st. Nicholas Arena, Goth Street
and Columbus Avenue, and issued
the following call lin part):
THE carpenters are now experience
ing very cgitical situation. Our
trade is almost totally disorganized
Efficient machinery and new build
ing material have eliminated so per-
cent of the woodwork and IS percent
of the remainder has been cut out
by the crisis. The result is that IS
percent Of the carpenters are now
unemployed suffering great misery
and starvation.
This depIorable situation must
wake us up to action. For years and
years we have waited for our leaders
in the District Council and General
Office to take action For years the
members have been demanding from
our officials to remedy our condi-
tions. But our voices fell on deaf
ears. The HuteheSon leadership in
New York disregarded all proposals
in the interests of the members. Fines
and explusions--tills is their answer
to our demands.
What is taking place now, never
happened in the history OF the Bro
therhood Of Carpenters. There are
no more agreements, no wage scales,
and no union conditions. The mem
bers are not permitted TO have their
say. The locals are mere dues COL
lecting agencies. Autocracy, burocracy
faVoritism plus reaationary laws are
wrecking the once militant Carpen-
ters Union. Tens Of thousands OF
members have dropped from the Bro
therhood because of their inability
to pay dues.
%. The Joint Committee OF the
Carpenters local unions 1000, 1853
and PITT are now calling q big mass
meeting for the purpose of discussing
and adopting measures to remedy the
situation in the trade and In the
Union.
"The meeting is Of great importance
and it is the duty of every carpenter
to be present at the meeting and
voice his opinion"
Some of the demands that will be
discussed at the meeting, are:
/. Put stop to all forms of wage
cuts and speed-up and for real con-
troll on the jobs and shops In the
form of elected shop and job commit
tees, independent of any business
agent who does not aet in the favor
OF the members.
2. For the hour day, S day week
with guarantee Of minimum scale
of wages.
3. To demand relief for the un-
employed members from the City ad-
ministration by sending delegates TO
the Commissioner of the Welfare and
also to the Board Of Estimate de-
manding the enforcement of the
Public Works program.
4. To demand from the General
Office and District Coucil the lower
ing of the dues and per capita tax
and exempting the unemployed men,
bers from paying their dues, during
unemployment.
5. For federal Unemployment in
surance at the expense of the State
and the employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
NAUS CONTINUE
TERROR DRIVE
Murder More Workers,
Attack Jews
lBy Imprecor Cablel

Wy AAhPAE@VAA NoNbANi
BERLIN, March 9.--The National
Socialists are continuing their cam
psign of murder and repression
against the working masses of the
country.
Last night detectives, accompanied
by uniformed and special police, raid
ed the headquarters OF the reformist
Trade Union Federation in Berlin.
The statement issued by the trade
union officials declares that unofficial
National Socialist attachments par
ticipated in the raid, during which
doors, desks and closets were broken,
and pictures and photos destroyed.
5. P. Minimizes Terror
The Socialist Party has lodged a
protest to the PruSsian cabinet
against isolated acts" of terror. The
| Socialist Party thus triess-to MAIN
tain the fiction of the Hitler cabinet
that there is no organized terror, but
that any excuses are the unauthor-
lied acts of individuals. The rep
resentatiye Of Vios-C Chancellor Won
Papen, who is Commissioner OF
Prussia, gave the usual promise to
take measures to prevent such acts.
The National Socialists have &C.
cupied the buildings of the trade
unions and the Socialist Party in
Wurzen, Bautzen, Nielsen and Sch
warzenburg. In WurZen shooting oc-
CURED, resulting in a number Of in
jured. The police have now admitted
that two workers we're killed during
the occupation of the Breslau trade
union building.
In its determination to wipe out
even the mildest opposition, the Hit
Ter government has arrested two lead
ing bourgeois paciflsts, Kuester and
Lange, chairman and secretary, re-
League, "for reasons OF state Sc
curity."
Anti Semltic Outrages
A wave of anti-semetic outrages is
sweeping the Ruhr industrial district
In Essen, Bottrop, Muenster and
other towns Jewish business places
have been shut down and synagogues
attacked. Branches of the American
Woolworth stores have also been
closed. Where Jewish business places
have remained open, they have been
picketed by uniformed National Socd-
alists to prevent customers from en-
tering.
The Communist worker, Hellpach
was found shot dead in the streets
Of Bochum yesterday.
Unknown persons, through their
| political utilization can easily be
guessed, yesterday broke into the
home of Johann Barbnik, q worker
and shot him in the stomach. He
is now in the hospital and is not
expected to recover.
The Communist Party of Germany
though practically illegal, is building
through underground channels the
united front of the masses for strug-
gle against the fascist terror and die
tatorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
FOR new HEARING
ON VENUE FOR 9

CHATTANOOGA, March "a vi
gorous effort will be made by the IN
ternational Labor Defense attorneys
to reopen the hearing on their mo-
ton for a change of venue for the
new trials Of the nine innocent
Scoottsboro boys.
At the hearing Monday, Judge A.
Z, Hawkins, under pressure Of the
worldwide protests against the at
tempted legal lynching of the Scots
boro boys, accepted the motion for a
change of venue, but selected the
small town of Decatur for the new
trials. He rejected the proposals of
the /. l.. D. attorneys that the new
trials be held in Birmingham. The
town of Decatur is like ScottSboro a
rural center of, a backward popula-
ton whose minds are still completely
poisoned by the race hatred prop
uganda Of the white ruling class.
The 1. L. D. attorneys are prepared
10 present evidence that feeling
against Negroes is almost as strong
in Morgan County, site of Decatur.
as in Jackson County in which
Scottsboro is situated. In both jack
son County and Morgan County
there are communities where Negroes
are not permitted to stay over night,
and where insulting signs face Negro
travellers warning them as, Niger,
don't let the sun set on you here"
If the trials are held at Dectaur,
they will be presided over by Cir
nV,if y,,l EJArtrr. ~ Afhaf1c Ala
While Horton has not yet set q date
for the trials h has expressed will
ingness to con enc special session
of court at the earliest possible date
and in other ways cooperate with
the State in speeding through the
trials. Attorney General Knight, Of
Alabama, already has declared that
the State is ready to proceed with
the trials on March 20.
The defense attorneys are vigor-
elIsly pushing the fight against the
exclusion of Negroes from iuries in
Alabama, and will continue to push
their motion for the quashing of the
indictments against the ScottSboro
boys on the grounds that Negroes
were excluded from the Grand Jury
bringing in the indictments, and
from the petit jury which rushed
through the death sentences against
eight OF the boys without permitting
them to communicate with their pa
rents or arrange adequate legal de-
tense. The defense attorneys will
also demand separate trials for each
Of the boys.
Protests backing up the defense
demands should be rushed immedi-
ateiy to Gov. B. NJ Miller, Montgom-
cry, Ala, and to Judge A. E Hawkins,
ScottSboro, Ala.
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complete betrayal OF their interests
the rank and file shoe workers are
active, in trying to prevent the work.
ers from accepting the fake agree
ment.
Strikebreaker Wood Arrives.
With the arrival of Charles G.
Wood, labor conciliator OF the U. S.
Department of Labor, the stage is
being set for the surrender Of the
strike. Wood is notorious for his
strike breaking activities against the
New York and Brooklyn shoe work.
ers. In 1929 he figured as the chief
tool of the bosses in cancelllng con-
tracts of the militant Independent
Shoe Workers Union. locking out
1000 workers and instituting a reign
of terror against the shoe workers
of New York Fearing the increasing
.militancy and determination of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
i. w. O. SCHOOL RAISES SIS

NEW YORK.--The International
Workers Order Children's School 3,
Of Brownsville, which has raised its
quoa of SIS in the Daily Worker
drive, calls on School l, also in
Brownsville. to follow its example.
1t also urges all its members to take
part in the Daily Worker Tag Days
on March II and Ia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
FERTILIZER FACTORIES IN
JAPAN SPEED MUNITIONS
Women and Men Work Is Hours a Day Under
Dangerous Conditions
Explosions Take Heavy Toll of Lives; Unite
for More Pay, Better Conditions
BULLETIN

wan AC@ulAiEt huCAt thSg atD ~
tablishing garrisons in preparation
for a descent on the plains Of
North China, proper, bringing ia
paneSe imperialism nearer to the
q. s. spheres of investments IN
China and further sharpening the
developing war situation between
the two imperislist powers. PrAe-
tically all of Jeh0l Province has
been brought under control of the
Japanese military as result Of
the betrayal of the defense by the
Kumintang miiitariSts. The shat
tered Chinese forces in Jehol are I
reported in night toward Peipips. :
Most Of the fertilizer factories In
Japan are busy night and day manu-
featuring chemicals for warfare in ,
China.
The great fertilizer factories. Tsu-
rimi and Sumitono, have increased
their schedule three times over thai
Of last year. The Mike factory Ole
the Mitsui produced 100000 tons OF
fertilizer" the first quarter Of this
year as against 10000 tons durins
1892. n
There is under construction at ther.
present time for the South Mani
churia Railroad, a tremendous face
tory for the purpose of manufac-n
turing fertilizer" This factory for
the manufacture of munitions is the
largest in the Japanese Empire andy
is located near the border of the,
Soviet Union The South Manchuria
Railroad ranks with the great CAPT
talist organizations of the world and
is considered important enough bye
the japanese government to be con-
trolled by government appointed
directors. :
Women workers as we'll as MEM
are working under extremely danger
Gus conditions in these fertilizer
factories. Most workers are WORKING.
IS hours a day with no overtime pay
The men receive 1.76 yen (37 cents
for this IS hour ady. The women
receive one yen or less for the same
labor.
Any complaints on the part o.
the Workers result in immediate.
dismissal. Though unorgsnized, these,
workers are daily becoming more.
militant.
Recently in the Japan Fertilizer,
Co factory in the province Of Miya-'
zaki, (Which was built at the begin
ming of the Manchurian invasion in,
Sept. 1880 an explosion in the gly-
cerine section of this alleged fer
tilizer plant caused the death Of
scores of men and women Workers. |,
The Japan Fertilizer Co refuses TO-
compensate families OF the murder
ed workers or TO pay the hospital BILLS
of the injured.
The surviving workers are uniting,
to protest these terrible conditions,
and TO demand increased pay for,
the workers working directly in the,
dangerous departments OF Theses
fertilizer factories, as well as conc
pensation for the families of the,
dead workers. These horrible con-
ditions exist throughout the japanese
Empire. q
Workers, stop the shipment of raw
material used TO manufacture am *
munitions to Japanl
From the "RODO SHIMBUN'-s
Feb. 5tb, 1888.
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BASEBALL LEAGUES PLANNED

Because of information received in
the Labor Sports Union office of the
formation Of indoor Cor mushbalD
baseball teams among young work.
ers for the coming baseball season,
the L.S.U. has decided to organize
both a mushbali baseball league and
hardball league. Calls and entry
blanks are being prepared. A mush-
ball league for girls, and stickball
leagues organized on local scale
for juniors, are being planned.
JUNIOR CARNIVAL HELD
The Juniors had a chance to strut
their stuff at the carnival held last
Sunday at the Labor Temple in Har-
lem. An open jumping meet and a
basketball game between the tradi-
tional rivals, Vesa and Kaytee Juni-
ors, featured the event.
While the Vesa team ran away
with Kaytee on the basketball court,
40 to Is, some of the field events
were quite close.
The meet was held under the aus
pices Of Vesa A, c., and sanctioned by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
ZANGARA PLEADS GUILTY

MIAMI, March 9. - Arraigned in
connection with the death of Mayor
Cermak Of Chisago, Giuseppe zan-
CARA today pleaded guilty to charge
of first degree murder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
HAVERHILL LASTERS VOTE DOWN A
FAKE AGREEMENT OF THE OFFICIALS

the workers the officials the Workers Protective
arbitration"
rejected By 900 las their meeting today Recognizing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
the Eastern District of the Labor
Sports Union.

the Eastern District of the Labor
Sports Union.
Results of jumping meet:
Trl-event for boys under Is;
Won by: Saari-i0 points.
Second y. Hanson-s points.
Tri-event for girls under Is:
Won by: Linden--l3 points.
Second Karpluk--li points.
Tri-eyent for boys between 10 and l6.
Won by; Ferndez-l0 points.
Second Cruz--8 points.
PING PONG TOURNEY FOR
BENEFIT OF DAILY" PLANNED
The Red Sparks A. c.. Labor Sports
Union club in Brownsville, and the
sport section of the Brownsville
Youth Center have applied for a
sanction from the L. S. u. for Ping
Pong tournament in Brownsville
within the next few weeks. All pro-
ceeds OF the tournament are to go TO
the Daily Worker" The affair will
be held at the Brownsville head
quarters on March %. Entry blanks
can be gotten at these headquarters,
los Thatford Ave, or at L. S. U.
office, 8l3 Broadway. N. Y. g,