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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-'I am a ma
" tive Albanian. I was reared In
Montgomery where my brother and
grandmother were born and my
father is a Kentuckian. SO I believe
have the right to call myself a
truly Southern girl. I am eligible for
membership in the UD.C. and the
OAR
1.-THE treatment I received May /,
when I tried to exircise my right of
free speech in Birmingham showed
me clearly for the first time that
the constitutional rights guaranteed
us are a mere fiction"
This was the statement made by
Jane Speed, white southern girl, who
was arrested on May 1, along with
two Negro workers who tried to de-
fend her from the brutality of the
Birmingham police, whens she adj
dressed May Day meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20

at l o'clock.
But. the whole police force, espe-
cially the motorcycle cops, were keep
ing everybody on the move and pre-
venting group from forming any
where. Finally group of about so
were modified on a corner, SO I got
on the running board of an auto
mobile and began to speak. l got no
further than Fellow workers, we are
here today because we refuse
to starve quietly in our homes. We
are meeting to organize struggle
for better conditions-when the cops
began coming from every direction
and soon outnumbered the workers.
One grabbed my arm and pulled me
off the car. The workers rushed for
ward to defend my right to speak
and to protect me, shouting, Let her
speak-shs has the right to speak,
etc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20
THE DECATUR
TRIAL

The white workers could see plainly
in the Decatur trial that Negroes were
kept off the jury not because they
lacked intelligence or ability, but be-
cause they were Negroes, They saw
that the exclusion of Negroes was
based fundamentally on the same
causes which excluded the poor
whites (the majority Of the toiling
white population Of the South from
jury service also. The white workers
saw that the Scottsboro boys could
not get fair trial under such cir
cumstances. They were dazed by
the testimony Of Ruby Bates. Some
of them still said the boys should
burn just as a lesson to Negroes any
way Others hesitated. and said that
both girls were liars and no good.
But many Of them knew and said
that no white girl who had been raped
by six Negroes would have the nerve
to lie about it and for that matter
it required plenty of honesty and
courage to tell the truth in the face
of the white lynchers in Decatur.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20
BY NAT ROSS

THE great effect upon large sections
OF the white toiling masses Of the
South resulting from recent develop
ments in the Scottsboro case is of
fundamental Importance. For de-
cades, the Southern ruling class has
successfully poisoned the minds Of
the white masses of the South against
the Negro people and created jim
crow system on the basis of it. AS
a result of the Scottsboro fight dim
light is beginning to shine thru the
darkness of prejudice, among the
white workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20
On the Anniversary of
TouSSaint L'Onvertnre,
Haitian ReVolntioniSt
inspiring Symbol of Haitian Masses in Their
Struggle Against u. S. Imperialism

he revolutionary spirit of the Haitian
masses cannot be crushed. Inspired
by the tradition Of the revolution Of
1871, workers and peasants militantly
carried forward the struggle for lib
Grafton despite the terror Of United
States occupation and the betrayal Of
the reformist nationalist traitors such
as Borno, etc.
On the anniversary Of Toussiant
L'Ouverture, let us raise the banner
of struggle in support OF the Haitian
masses, for the withdrawal Of U. s.
marines and the restoration Of the
INDEPENDENCE of the Negro republic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20
BY JAMES MALLORY


AN all-around useful man to the
n ruling class Of Alabama is Attor-
General Thomas f. Knight.
Knight has hardly finished the
bloody job of trying to send the in
nocent Scottsboro boys to the electric
chair. And now his employers-the
Alabama rulers-have given him a
new lob. They have delegated to
him the task OF keeping safe in the
hands OF officials and prison-con-
tractors, the dollars they wiring from
sweater. starved convict labor
Through Knight, the Alabama rul-
ers have filed suit in the U. S. Su-
preme Court, attacking the Hawes-
Cooper Act, which authorizes the
states to ban convict made goods. or
require that they shall be labeled or
branded.
A Good Reas1n-One Million Dollars.
The reason why the state OF Ala
bama is fighting so hard for its
right 10 work convict labor can be
told in three words-Oue million dol
lars, the amount of the gross revenue
which the state Of Alabama--that is,
her rulers, not her people as whole
realized in 1892 from the sale Of
convict-made shirts and cotton cloth.
T. C. T. Founded on Convict Labor.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Rail-
road Co., which dominates the for
tunes Of Alabama, was one Of the
biggest companies to be founded on
convict labor. The T. G. L got its
start on the basis of the convict
lease system, which Alabama was
forced to abolish in 1923 after the
mass protest that arose following eX-
posures Of tortues and murders Of
the ccnyicts in the mines.
Working for No Wages at all
Who gets the million dollars from
the sale Of shirts and cotton cloth
made in Alabama prisons? The state
officials get some. The rest gees to
the companies, who make use Of the
vicious contract" system. The state
officials admit that the factory equip
ment is owned by a private firm,
which buys the cloth from Alabama
and employs the convicts to turn out
the shirts.
The bosses newspapers are care
full to keep the name of this firm
secret. And what an opportunity for
this company! Why, they need pay
no wages at all to their workers.
The state feeds, clothes and shelters
after a Fashionable workers who
/ produce the shirts and cloth, and
the company need pay only sum to
/ the state officials as their share in
the booty That's doing even better
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20
Demand Pardon
for McDuffey

ST. PAUL. Mimi May ia dele.
cation of 80 representatives OF Negro
and white workers organizations, lee
by the International Labor Defense
appeared before the state Pardos
Board to demand a pardon for Err
nest McDuffey. Negro frame-up VIC
tim who is serving a T-yesr term ir
the st. Cloud Reformatory. Gov.
ernor Olson and another Farmer
Laborite are members Of the Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20

stem in his own hand. When he was
first arrested, his glasses were broken
by the thugs, and he has had none
since. 1t is impossible for him to
read. Protests should be sent at once
to the warden of jefferson County
Jail, Birmingham, Ala, denouncing
the binding of the boy by refusal Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20

prison authorities to pay any atten-
ton to this, which is a definite
medical need.
THE boys are, in my opinion,
greatly suffering from the food,
which is pretty bad Regular Ala
bama prison fare.
"But the mistreatment of the boys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20

has been to some extent abated. SO
far as it was carried on directly,
both by their militancy and by tbs
worldwide protest. 1t has been re-
placed by such framing methods as
slipping a knife into the cell, hoping
the boys would sometime lose their
temper
Haywood Patterson is very mill
tant. and understands well the mill
tant policy OF the LID. Considering
the isolation in which the boys have
been kept, their general understand
ing of militant policy is really ex-
ceptional. They are very brave and
aggressive
Sympathizers should Immediately
be modified to send the boys itera-
ture. They will all read and study
together Other things they should
be sent are shoes. shirts, overalls,
tooth paste, cigarettes, and other such
necessities"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20
Scottsboro Struggle StirS
White Toilers of the South

The rape DOGGY" Of the Southern
explCiters had received a smashing
blow in the nose and the white mass
es saw IL.
THE Southern white toilers we're
i greatly impressed by the wonder
full fight OF the International Labor
Defense. They were hearing about
the mass actions Of all peoples the
world over. And right in their own
community they saw growing unity.
In Birmingham, Scottsboro meetings
were held where Negro and white
sat together and where white work
ers and intellectuals called for the
freedom OF the Scottsboro boys. They
saw on May / in Birmingham, Ala.
how Negroes don't rape white women
but defend them from police thugs
who try to arrest them, even 20 the
point of beating the cops.
The white workers saw how Tom
Mooney, whom many Of them idolize
almost unnerved Tom Knight when
the latter received MONEYS wire in
the Decatur courtroom demanding
the freedom Of the Scottsboro boys
The white workers are being reused
by the growing struggles Of the Negro
masses in the South. That Is why
you will find many white workers
sympathetic to the LID. on the
Scottsnoro issue. That is why for the
first time since Reconstruction you
will find deep-going interest, dis
cussion and curiosity among the
white masses on the Negro question
PREJUDICE STILL
DEEP
OF course, It would be Just as
wrong not to mention the sCill exist
ing deep-going prejudice of the mai
GRITTY Of the white toiling masses. II
is a fact that winning the white
masses for the fight for Negro lib
Grafton is one of the most important
and ct the same time one Of the
stormiest tasks Of the Revolutionary
movement in the South. The Scots
boro case, among others, has helped
to throw new light on the struggle
More and more sections Of the white
toilers see in the fight for Negro
rights and freedom their own saliva.
ton from the hunger terror and re-
dictionary schemes Of the jin-croY
and lynch rulers of the South. That
is why the united front Of all toilers
in the South for their common inter
ests becomes the all-burning issue OF
the day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20

This article is taken from the
first issue Of the new Southern
Worker published May 12)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20
BOURGEOIS LIE TO SAY THAT YOKE
OF NEGRO SLAVERY LIFTED IN U.S."

Communist International the Negro
Question in the u States Reprinted THE
aunst NEGRO Question 25c), Library
Publishers, o. Box 14S Station D City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20

The International Labor Defense
has called on all workers and SYM
pathizers to send funds both for
carrying on the legal and mass
campaign of defense of the Scots
boro boys, and for providing the
Scottsboro boys with the things
necessary to make their prison life
bearable. Funds should be sent to
the International Labor Defense,
Room 430, so East 18th St. New
York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-20

A Toussaint L'Ouverture anniver-
Sary meeting-in support Of the
Haitian masses against U. S. inn
periaffsm-will be held tomorrow,
Sunday, at o'clock in the after
noon atsP. S. 1879, at 149 w. 14Oth
Street,in Harlem. Speakers VIII in
cIude William L. Patterson, national
secretary of the I. L. D.; Harold
Williams, of the Harlem Liberator';
Joshua Kunitz, of the National
Conlnsttee for the Defense of Poll
ticalr Prisoners; J. ZamOre, and
Robert B;sbane, of the Dumas Lit
erary Club. The meeting is ar
ranged BY the Nat Turner Literary
Sociefys-E-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02
Sylvia Is Fearful
OF Surgeons Knife

New York, Aug. 2.-(P)-The fear
that a surgeons knife may sever her
from the films forever was voiced
Wednesday by Sylvia Sidney as she
explained why she left Hollywood in
the middle of a picture.
Il underwent one operation in
Hollywood for a throat ailment," she
said, speaking with difficulty. If it
doesn't take I'll have to have another
operation for the complete removal
OF a gland, which will leave a scar on
the outside of my face.
If that happens it will be impos-
sible for me to 60 on In pictures. And
I can't go on with the picture was
making until I find out"
On Monday Miss Sidney boarded q
plane and left Hollywood, where she
was making picture with Maurice
Chevalier. Paramount officials, de-
claring her departure would cost them
100000, have filed complaint with
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences. Miss Sidney was In
formed on her arrival here last night.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02
Sympathy for Farmer
Declared Widespread

Regina, Canada, Aug. 2-RHu
has become popular to sympathize
with the desperate position OF the
farmer because his suffering has
reacted upon other groups. Bernard
w. Snow, Chicago, told delegates to
the worlds grain conference In an
address prepared for delivery Wednesa
day.
Agriculture, he said, must receive &
higher reward for its service to hue
manity, and then pointed out that
the world as whole, suffers not from
a food surplus but from immobility Of
supplies.
"The difference between the past
and the present is that In the ages
gone," he said, mankind struggled
with nature for sufficiency Of supply
while today the outstanding world
problem is man-created interference
with distribution"
Snow known as an international
authority on agricultural problems
said most of the attempts to restrio3
competition in the grain trade had
been applied to the processes Of dis
tribution with growing tendenc1
to deliberately block the channels a
international trade.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02
GIFT BAG PLATFORM
Garrison, North Oak

0dIIASOu, NOICu LAX.
August l, 1888.
The question arising In the minds
OF a lot Of people over the state IS:
TO whom will this paper, incubated
by the LANCER Administration ana
known as the Leader, belong7
Well that is very easy to answer. To
whom should 1t belong? As far as
I can discern it should and ought to
belong to the principal one that made
the League q success in the recent
campaign, and that was none other
than William LANCER. It was common
knowledge that the league had not
and could not raise any campaign
fund to speak of, SO it became COM
mon chatter at their convention that
IN order to beat the "Shafer Admin
istration" they would on account of
their financial condition, be required
to select some one able and ready to
finance his own campaign. And who
else than William LANCER could do
that at the time? He went into bat
tie, yes and fought their battles hard
and,Well. And just because he select
ed the "Gift-Bag" or Andy Gump
platform and could not muster
enough jobs to 60 the rounds; now
they and others holler both long and
loud and against the very man that
brought to them what and all they
asked at the time. to defeat the
"Shafer Administration"
Now, hobo like, and after the
wrinkles are out Of their hungry pots
because Of few feeds off the state.
and after the smoke Of the battle has
!eft clear sky, these same favored
1ob-hunters cry Wolff No, this paper
by right should not belong to the ex-
ecutive committee, Erickson. Vogel
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Cole, Gayle Kelley, Louise Beall, Rob-

Cole, Gayle Kelley, Louise Beall, Rob-
ert Alderman.
Red Cross Swimmers Button
aWardad:
TEST
Flossy Dohn, Laura Ellsworth,
Norma Peterson, Dede Barrett.
Certificate awarded.
TEST vi
Lester Dohn and Woodrow Shep-
ard.
Certificate awarded.
TEST VII
Lester Dohn.
Certificate awarded.
Junior Life Saving
John Peterson, Jean Speaks, Lor-
rain Berg, Jean Baker, Currie Con-
rad, Robert Gussner, Rogert Vogel,
Arnold Anderson, Leonard Kositzky,
Kathleen Kohler, Eugene Schmidt,
William Mcdonald, Jack Mcdonald,
Anne Dolan, Louise Beall, Robert
Alderman, lone McConkey, Wick
Cook, Frances Kohler, Jack Slattery,
Gayle Kelley, Dayton shipley, Har-
riet McGraw. Constance Cole, Mil
dred Kensrud. Betty Simonitsch
George Brynjulson, Charles Conner.
Junior Red Cross Life Saving en-
blem awarded.
Senior Life Saving
Harvey Erlenmeyer, Woodrow Shep-
ard, Lester Dohn, Frances Slattery
Betty Haagenson, Neva VetteK
Senior Red Cross Life Saving en-
blem awarded. .
Examiner Test
A. G. Van Wyk, Harvey Erlenmeyer
Melvin Munger, Betty Haagensen, Es-
ther Olafson.
Red Cross examiners emblem
awarded.
Boy Scout Tests
Bob Vogel ..... Athletics, Swimming
Bob Tavis 49,. Athletics, Swimming
Richard Shafer Athletics, Swimming
Robert Alderman
Swimming, Merit Badge
ouuuy 6eau
Swimming, Merit Badge
Buddy Beall
Life Saving Merit Badge
Leonard Kositzky ..................
Swimming Merit Badge
Leonard Kositzky
Life Saving Merit Badge
Robert Alderman
Life Saving Merit Badge
Girl Scout Tests
Gayle Kelley
Swimmers Merit Badge
Phyllis Brainerd ..............
Swimmers Merit Badge
| Gayle Kelley
| Life Saving Badge
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02
Minnesota Planning
Large Road Program

st. Paul, Aug. 2.-(P)-More than
1000 miles Of roadways will be i'm
proved under Minnesota's $lO600, 900
FEDERAL aid highway program now
awaiting formal approval from Wash
ington, State Highway Commissioners
N. w. Elsberg announced Wednesday.
The tentative program Elsberg an
nounced provides for 900 miles Of BIZ
luminous treatment at cost OF 81
10000; IS miles of concrete paving
and incidental work, SLOTS, 900; 200
miles OF grading. $2,470, 900; construc-
ton Of "a bridges, $l,154,OO0 removal
OF center piers from Is underpasses,
$4,000; seven grade separations,
s25s,o0o; landscaping. 100000; work
IN cities Of the first class. 1850. 900.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02
Peoples Forum

Editors Note)-The Tribune vel.
comes letters on subjects OF inter-
est. Letters dealing with contro.
versial religious subjects, which
attack individuals unfairly, or
which offend good taste and fair
play will be returned to the writ.
ers. All letters MUST be signed.
II you wish to use a pseudonym,
sign the pseudonym first and your
own name beneath 1t. We will re-
spect such requests. We reserve
the right to delete such parts Of
letters as may be necessary to
conform to this policy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02

temper in st. Louis Monday.
The fine was ordered when Hide
brand hurled the resin bag to the
ground in disgust at being removed
from the box after he had walked
three men and allowed one hit in the
wild seventh-inning eight-run rally
that enabled the Browns to win IL to
8. Smarting under that order, the
young pitcher exchanged hot words
with johnson before Tuesdays game
in st. Louis and was ordered suspend
ed indefinitely.
II hope this fine will make him see
he has to subordinate his feelings to
the good Of the team" johnson said
Hildebrand said he would present
his case before General Manager Billy
Evans here Thursday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02
ASK REDUCED RATES
ON WHEAT SHIPMENT
Free Transit Privileges De-
manded For Cleaning,
Mixing and Milling

An action has been filed with the
Board Of Railroad Commissioners ask
ing for reduction in intrastate
freight rates Of grain, grain products
and seeds throughout the state. The
complaint asks for single-line and
joint-line rates without additional
charge over the single-une basis for
a joint line haul. It also requests
rates for North Dakota as favorable
as the interior scale applied to Min
nesota and for a free transit privilege
on at least two stops.
The action in effect asks that II q
car Of wheat Is shipped from a point
on the Great Northern line west OF
Grand Forks, it can be unloaded,
cleaned and mixed at the state ele-
vator for milling purposes and again
loaded and shipped to other points
in the state for milling and when I'M
loaded at any other point no transit
charge shall be made by the railroad
companies for the two stops.
The action is brought by the North
Dakota Mill and Elevator association
North Dakota Terminal association
Farmers Grain Dealers association
Greater Grand Forks Traffic associa-
ton, Chamber of Commerce Of Fargo
Interstate Seed and Grain company
Magill g. Co., and the Fargo Mill
Company.
At present transit charge Of one
cent per hundred pounds Is allowed
the railroads for stopping grain at
the state mill and further charge
Of one and one-half cents per 1OC
pounds is allowed for milling in tran
sit privilege at any point between
Grand Forks and the ultimate desti-
nation in addition to the continuous
mileage rates. The present charges
were set by the Interstate Commerce
commission In q case decided In Geb-
ruary, 1928.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02

That lump you feel an hour or
50 after eating, is a symptom of
slow stomach. This very common
condition can be remedied.
Instead Of taking soda, or any,
thing else you must take the rest
of your life, try some diapepsin.
Each tablet saves half an hours
digestion time. If your stomach is
one hour slow in emptying, just
take two tablets of diapepsin and
all that gas, sourness, and distress
after meals will be gone.
One box Of Pape's Diapepsin
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02

nor Whatnot; but to William LANCER
alone it should belong and as recon-
pense for his labors in the defeat Of
the "Shafer Administration" That
was their wish and cry, and that was
what he delivered to them.
This executive committee is install
ed for no other reason than to have
check on the administration and is
Of no avail in any other particular
And because of success now they and
others wish to grab-in on the find
ings and feebly ask, LET me drive
please" No, to William LANCER and
to none other should credit go. He
put in his time and money and ought
to be recompensed in some way for
his delivery to the Bunch" am not
supporting William LANCER nor his
system of collection, but am staunch
In my belief as to whom this piece of
machinery ought, by right, belong.
And owing to their walls during the
convention at which time William
LANCER was nominated: Now to the
victor belong the spoils and if Bill is
not q Victor then show me up.
j. e. SULLIVAN.
Editors Note:
This letter contains considerable
transformation but the Tribune d,
prints 1t In line with its policy,
which is to give everyone oppor-
tunity to express his views in this
column.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02
Southeastern Press
Group Plans Meeting

Casselton, N. D., Aug. 2-(P-Edi-
tors Of southeastern North Dakota
the sixth district Of the State Press
association-will meet Friday, Aug. II
at Lisbon, it is announced by Dwight
w. Porter, publisher of the Casselton
Reporter and president of the district.
The meeting was cheduled first for
La Moure but was changed by district
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02

will test your stomach and correct
your digestion time. Then eat any.
thing you like, and it will digest
like crackers and milkl Keep on
with diapepsin few days, until
the stomach is doing its work with
out need of help. When it slows
down, take diapepsin again, it's
good for the digestive system and
can't hurt you.
Pape's Diapepsin may end all
your stomach trouble: and =
certainly worth tryingl
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-02

officers on request of w. e. Jones Of
Libon, publisher Of the Ransom
County Gazette, who year ago In
vited the publishers to his city.
Round-table discussions will occupy
the meeting, scheduled to begin al
40 p. m. in the Lisbon National
Guard armory.
Comprising the sixth district ara
Stutsman, Cass, LaMoure, BarneA
Ransom, Richland, Dickey and Sar.
geant counties.