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for @ one-day strike in two schools.
Two hundred pupils attended meet
ing last night and unanimously en-
dorsed the proposal.
The strike action by the union
was made possible by the sharp
turn of the Philadelphia I. L. d. to
the shops, defending the workers
in their day-to-day struggles.
Patterson, speaking here today, de-
clared the strike action creates the
basis for broadening out and intensi-
flying the struggle for the Scottsboro
boys and the oppressed Negro people
and sets the example for the entire
I. L. d. of the tremendous possibilities
In this period for raising the struggle
for class-war prisoners to new
level.
NEW YORK. Brooklyn workers are
following up recent Scottsboro pro-
test actions with mass meeting to-
night at the New Born Church, $50
Osborn Street, Brooklyn
The New York district Of the In
ternat;OnaI Labor Defense issued an
urgent appeal yesterday to all Tag
Day collectors to Immediately re-
turn the boxes and lists to the dis
trict office, $40 Broadway. Receipts
for collections will be issued and the
organizations issuing the boxes
credited.
Bronx workers should return their
boxes and lists to 500 Prospect Avenue,
which will be open from to 10 every
night during the week,
100 Delegates at Chicago Conference
CHICAGO, Dec. Hover 100 del
egates and scores of workers filled the
Lincoln Centre yesterday for the
emergency Scottsboro anti-lynching
conference. The conference formu-
lated plans for immediate protest
actions and adopted a resolution to be
sent to President Roosevelt and Gov.
Miller of Alabama.
Detroit Conference Supports CaM for
Demonstration Wednesday
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 1.-THE en-
Urgency Scottsboro Antt-Lynching
conference at Ferry Hall last night
was attended by 100 delegates, who
planned protest actions against the
legal murder of the Scottsboro boys
and the threatened execution of the
four heroic Communist defendants in
the monstrous Nazi Reichstag arson
trial.
The conference supported the
call for a huge demonstration this
Wednesday at o'clock in the Grand
Circus Park. Thousands of leaflets
are being distributed, and open air
protest meetings held in all work
ing class neighb0rhoods today. The
demonstration will be held under
the joint auspices of the Detroit
League Against War and Fascism,
the international Labor Defense,
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights and the Communist Party.
Tomorrow, workers will picket the
German Consulate in this city, while
many organizations will send commit
tees to the Consulate with demands
for the release of Dimitroff, Torgler,
Popoff and Taneff and the thousands
of German revolutionaries held in the
concentration camps.
Last Wednesday night 400 workers
attended a protest meeting in the Mt.
Olive Baptist Church, Brush and
Willis.
200 at Cleveland Protest Despite
Snowstorm
CLEVELAND, Dec. 11.-Despite a
snowstorm last Friday night, over TOO
workers, the majority of them Ne
groes, attended the protest meeting at
Woodland Center. The chairman Of
the meeting, a member of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, stated that
the local N.A.ACP., disregarding the
disruptive tactics of the national Of
eicials, would continue to actively par
ticipate in the mass fight for the
Scottsboro boys.
Anti-Lyneh Meet in Canton Thursday
CANTON, Ohio, Dec. IA provi-
sional committee of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights has been
set up here and is preparing for
huge anti-lynching meeting to be held
1t the German Hall, 806 Tuscarawas
St., East, on Thursday night.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. H.
Plans were being completed today
for a huge Scottsboro parade and
demonstration in this city on Sat-
urday, Dec. 16.
Pastor Backs Protest Meet
CHESTER, Pa, Dec. IL. Under
police intimidation, the pastor Of the