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The Omaha guide., 1933-02-11
VOLUNTEERS WRECK
CONDEMNED BUILDING

Washington (CNS) A gross mis-.
understanding concerning the Legal
meaning Of the word Condemned. in
the Southwest section Of the city
leads a group of volunteer house
wreckers to swoop down on a building
SO placarded at 4~19-421-423 First
street, southwest, and dismantle the
structure in short order.
It seems that great numbers Of the
populace in the Southwest section
think that when a building is con-
demned it can be dismantled by who
soevsr will and the materials appro-
priated and utilized in any manner
whatsoever.
Leastwise that is the impression
Fourth Precinct police obtained from
their Investigation Of the razing OF
two-story brick dwelling at 419 and
421 First St., southwest, and the
partial dismantlement of the thirc
at 423. The wrecking Of the build
ings apparently was only an over
night job.
James Thompson, AZ, colored, 142
G street, southwest, was taken into
custody in connection with the case
and was held on a charge Of investi-
cation. Thompson said that some one
told him that the buildings had been
condemned, that the materials were
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devices build up some employment
II least by releasing purchasing pow
er and airily casts aside the difficult
les involved in pricing commodities
in terms Of units Of energy. His OPP
ponents. such as Mr.. Sloan of General
Motors on the other side, seem to be
totally oblivi0us to breakdown all a
bout them Of the c~apitalistic system
Of economies and would have the peo-
pie believe hat adjustments econom-
ically we're smooth and automatic.
The mutual obfuscation continues.
the business panic penetrates to
greater depths and we pass through
our fourth winter Of unemployment,
with a possibility Of a fifth, a sixth,
and a seventh On the docket.
TO this columnist here are but
two answer to our present chaos and
collapse. We must either devise an
intelEgenily planned credit and
money system which will put unem-
ployed women and men and idle cap
i.al to work producing for human
needs; or. we must socialize u pro-
duetive mechanism for the same end.
In 50 many words. society must serve
as q deus-ex-machine to save capt.
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free for the taking and he might as
well "come on wei and get some Of
it."
This is the second time that Fourth
Precinct police have been confronted
with the unauthorized wrecking Of
buildings and the theft Of the mater
ials. About a year ago they were
confronted with a similar case when
building near the Capital were wreck
ed
The Omaha guide., 1933-02-11
OMAR BAKING COMPANY
18th and Nicholas Streets
Omaha, Nebraska
DR.. G. B. Lennox, M. D.,
1602k North oath ST.,
Omaha, Nebraska
Dear Sir

lave gone over your letter very
carefully and wish to let you know
that we have never shown any part
iality between races. if we had a job
we thought a man could handle. We
have in our employ two colored men
at the present time, both holding
very responsible positions. One man
is in charge Of our barns and the
other is night engineer of u plant,
When we operated the store on north
oath street, we employed colored girls
to operate the store and we wish to
assure you that at any time that we
can use people Of your race, we would
be glad to add them to our payroll.
Very truly yours,
Omar Bakig Company.
F. J. Wear, Sales Mgr.
DR.. G. B. Lemox, M. D.
1602h North Oath Street
Omaha, Nebraska
Omar Baking Company,
45th and Nicholas ST.,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
/ received your letter of August
18th in reply to the one | wrote you
concerning the employment stu
alton among your Colored customers,
and I highly appreciate the consider
alton and information that was given.
| am sure your customers apprec-
late knowing that you have two Col
ored men at the present time, but
are wondering; are we not entitled to
more than two? However, realizing
conditions of today, and no doubt you
have never before been approached a.
long these lines, we believe you will
do whatever you can to show that you
are appreciative Of our patronage.
We appreciate using your bread, and
try to show same by paying in return
the necessary amount that is required
for these products.
Since this body of people are put
at the bottom of the list as to consid-
Grafton, perhaps not by you, but by
the majority of concerns. we wish if
possible, you would kindly work one
or two more in here and there; in
proportion to the sum we spend with
you. Often we are looked upon diff
ferently than we should be; thinking
we are only suitable as janitors, barn
men, etc., but there are men and wo-
men in our group as. capable and
trained for any positions as are 9th
ers; and are just seeking ~opportunit-
les to manifest their ability.
1t is unfortunate that your store
operating on North oath St., some few
months ago, could not stay open, as
we highly appreciated the consider
alton given to the Colored girl en-
ployed. l believe it was somewhat
difficult; owing to the location, and
SO many Of your wagons passing each
day, bringing fresh bread, making it
more convenient than having to go to
the store and purchasing bread a day
old, and this I believe is the main
reason the store was not successful
We greatly appreciate the consider
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Will cOInc muCH SOOHeT TdIHeT IHdn
in the remote distance.
Skilled engineers will be Of vital
Importance in either of the above
named venture, and their support for
a new order is an almost necessary
prerequisite for its success. For the
T~echnocrats and the public to think
hat the owners of industry will vol
unfairly abdicate in order that the
engineers may run society is but an
other eut-cropping of that wildly ro-
mantle optimism which has so be-
fuddled the average American mind
md made US the largest of
patent medicines in the civilized
world. Struggle and Organization
win win POWER; nothing else will
do this job. A militant organization
Of workers by brain and hand into
Unions. Bodies of the unemployed
and active Political Parties is what
we need in this country. Should fin
al catastrophe come, only such bod
les as these could save society from
dissolution and mad terrorism, and
organize 1t effectively for the future
years. To the degree that the gospel
of Technocracy may serve to energize
and women to participate in this
active way, it will be a great boon.
However, should we expect that the
Tower of Babylon" would fall with
the mere sounding of the Technocrat-
ic trumpet. then we shall most decid-
eddy be deluging ourselves and swal-
in another Of the social nos
trums which we have for long. de-
upon to grasp US from our
puzzlfng and yer present troubles.
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alistic society from its occasional
breakdown by creating at such times
fresh money purchasing power for
socially need purposes or else step
in and MANAGE INDUSTRY 1T
SELF. This last development seems
almost inevitable; it probably will
materiaize in due course of time, and
unless the first step is acted upon it
will come much sooner rather than
in the remote distance.
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cry week and you'll read the truth
exposed Politically, wherever war
ranted, regardless Of party connect
ions.
ASA d. HERRING, COUNTY FARM
DEMONSTRATION AGENT, HELD
FOR MURDER

Raleigh, NC, (CNS) The arrest OF
Asa D. Herring, Sampson County
farm demonstration agent, and four
other race representatives at Dunn
Harnett County, for murder, caused a
sensation in mid-central N. Carolina
last week. Herring is the husband OF
the Negro school supervisor of Harm
EFT County. Herring's father was an
influential Negro leader of Sampson
County for forty years, dying three
months ago at the end of a life of
signal usefulness in the service of his
people as teacher and farm agent in
Sampson County, just to the south
Of Dunn.
: The five men were lodged in jail
and charged with the first degree muir
der of Jacob Hill, prominent Clinton
Negro. Herring is held as chief ac-
cesory before the fact. Hill, brother
in-law of Herring, was found dead by
police on the morning of January 16
on a byroad one mile north Of Dunn
with a .32 caliber pistol ball in the
head. Hills car was found 200 yards
from the dead body stained with
blood.
The arrest in quick succession last
Friday of Johnny Lee, 81, Paul Holm
es, %, Asa D. Herring, IS, Joe Ham,
27, and Howard Williams, % came
as a great surprise to the general
public but it was the result of infor-
nation given the Dunn police that
tended to show that the murder of
Hill had been planned for several
weeks at the instigation of Herring
who is alleged to have promised to
pay Johnny Lee the sum of $500. 90
to pull the job. At least two trips
were said to have been made to Gin
ton before Christmas at night to car
ry out the murder plot.
Johnny Lee claims to have been
paid since the murder $75 Of the 5000
promised him by Herring. Inform
alton already given the police is that
Johnny Lee on Sunday night, January
Is, after securing Paul Holmes as a
companion, enticed Jake Hill who was
visiting Herring to 60 with them out
on a byroad a mile north of Dunn to
get some stolen goods which Lee and
Holmes r supposed to have hidden
in the woods. It was on this ride
that Jake Hill was shot through the
head while in the car. Johnny Lee
fled from the car with the pistol. la
ter found in possession of Dave Rob
erson to whose home Lee went after
the killing. Holmes said he started
off with Hills car leaving the dead
man by the side of the road. but a.
bandoned the car a short distance
from the scene of the crime. 1t ap-
pears that Howard Williams was not
in on the killing, he being implicated
only in an abortive attempt in Gin
ton three weeks prior to the actual
killing in Dunn.
The murdered man and his wife,
Herring's sister, were stopping at
Herring's house in Dunn on the night
of the murder. It is claimed that
Herring took his sister back to Gin
ton early on the morning following
the disappearance Of Hill without re-
porting the disappearance of Hill to
the police, either in Dunn or Clinton.
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Dir. Lennox On the Job

alton you have given, and the same
| am sure, will be magnified in each
Colored home.
Thanking you very much for the
consideration you have given, and
will give, 1 am
Respectfully yours,
DR.. G. B. Lennox.
The Omaha guide., 1933-02-11

nacracy. The
noted advocate Of
this theory il Mr..
Howard Scott,
who aloofly refus
ed 10 consider a
detailed discus
sion Of his figur-
es or the honest
t~o-goodness truth
that ~labor-saying
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Birth of Much Needed Organization
Effected!

Erected!
The Community Civic Improvement
Club, is perhaps, a very much needed
enterprise formed to effect much
needed improvements in general with
in our immediate environs. Some Of
the most finest moves to be made in
this organization will be to delegate
an investigation committee to report
as to the conditions of our housing
problems, our sewerage troubles, our
streets, and our alleys, etc., 1t is
finally agreed that on the account of
the impending city election that it
would be a great step to initiate
should this Club help in their meek
and humble manner in the indorse-
ment Of those worthwhile candidates
who would agree to give Colored peo-
pie more jobs and positions on a basis
of the competency of individual to
hold same in the event those endors-
ed candidates win; these are the prin-
ciples of said organization.
Five ideas. aren't they folks? They
are worthy of deep consideration and
a just trial.
The Omaha guide., 1933-02-11
."Johnny
Horizons
Political
DOPE"
WELL FOLhSl
TECHN0CRACY; IT'S SOCIAL,
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
ASPECTi
BY John Benz. Horton. Jr.

The current topic looming in the
mind Of men Is the debate over Tech
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-06
Continue the Workers May Day Solidarity Fight Hunger, War
Flags Instead of Bread

customary proclamation for the annual
Mothers Day.
The proclamation reads There are throughout
pcedenty children
Of their breadwinnes lacking
many necessities Of life"
propose these conditions? he
and their children Federal I'm
employment Insurance? He does not
Instead program
clothing mothers ard children America
ashed the the Federal employees And for
81 that the RIG under Roosevelt gives for relief gives SO to
interest payments bonds
ow Roosevelt alleviate the suTeing Of the mothers
and children?
the Of
public buildings show by tokens and
affection for mothers and to do all that we can through
for the relief of mothers and children who be in
OF the necessities of life"
which this Overlooking bounty Of the
the following announcement:
others Thomas Lndberg and his wife
yesterday Lndberg
years addressed friends said We have
suffered enough"
with
left note saying she unable endure longer the sight OF the
slow starvation of her children.
Only young
tr find his child dying sarva
tion his young wife suicide.
examples misery working
There millions millions of working class mothers in Amer
the fingers of hunger
cutchng their children who cannot heed the cries of
fol ood
thousands working
mothers the factories and textile mills of American capitalism ong
to twelve hours day at starvation
millions of American children Of five
capitalism this
striking the
Hundreds of thousands of American mothers and children
because poverty prevents them from having proper care at child
birth.
wants kilograms Mothers
American
the armed fist of the state, with clubs and machine
the mothers children America need immediate
relief and Unemployment They will ape the
onou hypocrisy OF Roosevelt who feeds them words while ne dooms
them to starvation.
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CAMDEN Fifteen hundred work
ers at Court Plaza.
PATTERSON Seven hundred
workers turned out to Governor and
Bridge Streets in the May Day de-
monstration.
PASSAIC-Three hundred workers
participated in the parade and de-
monstration. Many joined the Party
at the evening meeting
NEW BRUNSWICK-Two hundred
in the May 1st demonstration,
NEW YORK
NEW YORK CITY-One hundred
and fifty thousand workers partici-
pated In the greatest May Day de-
monstration ever held in this city.
JAMESTOWN -Four hundred
workers participated in the May Day
demonstration.
PoRTCHESI.ER - Three hundred
at the meeting
TTHACA-TT1e police arrested Fred
Berkowitz, q student Of Cornell Uni
versity and broke UP the May first
meeting attended by 400 at Dewitt
Park.
SCHENECTADY - Three hundred
at the meeting.
ROCHESTER, One thousand
marched through the streets and
were joined BY another thousand in
the demonstration at Washington
Square.
YONKERS Three hundred at
the meeting.
GLOVERSVILLE Three hundred
at the meeting.
ALBANY - Police broke I'D the
meeting by chasing the workers away
from the speakers stand.
ILLINOIS
CHICAGO Fifty thousand IN
Union Park and $4,000 participated
in the parade.
ROCKFORD A parade started
from Northwestern Park and pro-
ceeded to Playground Park where
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-06

We printing partial summary of the May Day de-
monstrations many Cities especially from the West
reports in yet Even this partial report
indicates record May Day the history of the American
workngclass
In every part of the country was witnessed militant de-
monstrations raised high with the slogans
against hunger for immediate adequate cash relief and for
federal unemployment insurance. against fascism and i'm
perat preparations and for the defense OF the Soviet
Union.
Through the country the May Day demonstrations
sign of the growing unity Of all oiers in the struggle
against capitalist offensive This united front built
despite the opposition of the Socialist and F. of L. leader
ship
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-06
Party Life
Broader Leadership
Vital Need in Party

The Party Life" column which
appeared in the Wednesday, April 26
issue of the Daily Worker is not only
useful, but is of utmost Importance.
Now that the field OF activities for
the Party is increasing daily such an
outlet in the Party press for discus
sions and Qualifications of Party life
and policies will be most valuable.
While at formal meetings the ajor
campaigns of the Party are discussed
and decisions for activities made,
at informal discussions among Party
members the organizational weak
nesses of the Party are discussed with
great seriousness.
The major weakness which occupies
the minds Of many serious and de-
voted Party members is the marrow
leadership" that prevails in all phases
of Party organizational activities.
AS one conlrade expressed himself ::
THE narrowness Of leadership in the
Party is almost reaching a choking
point"
At one instance a comrade re-
marked to me: Look how he is try
ing to do everything himself, trying
to work himself to death rather than
to involve more comrades to help him
out in his work and bring better re-
suits"
81 think" he continued, "a good
leader is the one who gathers around
himself group of actives and de-
velops a broad leadership"
think this question of broader
nd~rshin" should be discussed in the
Party Life column and experience OF
cases where broad leadership was APP
piled should be brought to light.
&C. HI. b.
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demonstration of thousand work
ers was held,
CASEYVILLE - The May Day
meeting was addressed by the Com
munist Justice of the Peace who was
elected recently 1t was held in the
Township Hall.
EAST ST. LOUIS Five workers
arrested despite the fact that the
police gave permit for the meeting
MICHIGAN
DETROIT Sixty-five thousand
participated in the greatest May Day
demonstration in this city.
HANCOCK Six hundred marched
In this copper mine town.
ONO
CLEVELAND - Fifteen thousand
workers jaInmed Public Square.
TOLEDO - Two thousand workers
from all parts of Lucas County part
icipated in the May LIST demonstra-
ton in this city.
COLUMBUS - Over 500 in the
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tee of to go to the police station
two blocks away and demand that
the evicted widow be cared for at
once. 1t was now II p. m.
The speaker exposed Berman, the
Democratic captain OF that district
and said: II see Berman in the crowd
he made a lot Of promises during the
election, here's an opportunity to keep
them" Berrnan kept silent and in
order to prevent further exposure
before the workers, many Of whom
voted for him, ordered the police to
dispense the meeting.
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you understand now, Paul? The
revolution does not come, as If Stain
said, when I press button today
there is armed Instruction in Ger
many, but it must grow gradually,
with every action, with every econo-
mic struggle, with every political mass
strickland that's what the 1st of
May is. It's no holiday, Paul, out
there on the streets! Why don't the
workers sit still any longer, now they
are being shot down and batoned?"
He banged his flat hand on the paper
in front of him. 1.-THE growing in
dignation of the massesl And il we
of the Party don't see this, then we
are tagging behind and they will lose
confidence in us. But we ere the
| leaders and must always be at their
head" And as If he wanted to sum-
Marie all he had said, he continued
self defense-Paul--iS not armed in
Surrection but only in this way will
we grow in strength, until one day
we shall be able to give up the de-
| fensive and go over to the attack"
Kurt was silent and looked self
consciously out of the window after
his long speech. Presently he turned
round Paul was still looking at the
paper in front Of him. In large, bold
type five letters headed the article
J LENINi He saw the masses on the
streets, the batoning, shooting police
the red flags shot down, the worker
Heider lying in the dark passage or
the floor with his torn open belly E.
He saw stones in the hands of the
! proletarians.
LENIN SAID IT!
Paul was a functionary Of the ole
social democratic school, raised in tht
long past revolutionary days OF So
cial- Democracy. His thoughts and
feelings moved within the limits Of
the old accustomed methods of agi.
tation and struggle. He felt himself
that they were out of date today, that
what he saw outside required com.
pletely new tactics. The capitalist
system Of today with its intensified
exploitation was putting the you'll
through harder training in the class
struggle than those who had gont
before. Perhaps Kurt was right, afteI
all! He did not grasp it all quite a.
quickly. But, it was true. There OF
the page it was printed in plair
language, language everyone coult
understand. And then-Lenin ha<
said it!
He rose and went with Kurt int
the street in silence
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of the largest rubber centers in the
world had demonstration OF 1900
on May Day.
WISCONSIN
MILWAUKEE, About 1000 in the
demonstration in Red Arrow Park.
RACINE-Over 1000 demonstrated
on Monument Square.
OSHKOSH-Two thousand march,
ed through the heart Of the city.
BELOrT Two hundred work
ers came to the meeting
KENOSHA-One thousand at the
demonstration.
FOND DE LAC-A May Day meet
ing held here for the first time was
attended by 100.
LA CROSSE - The demonstration
was In Cameron Park. Two thousand
workers were present.
RACINE Thirty five hundred were
at the demonstration In Monument
Square. The Socialist Party which
rejected the united front proposal on
ly had about 200 present.
ALABAMA
BIRMINGHAM Twenty hun
dred Negro and white workers were
in Ingram Park, in this important in
dustrial center Of the South.
DELAWARE
WILMINGTON - The police force
which used tear gas and clubs on the
National Hunger March delegates
last December, this time broke UP
the May first meeting.
MASSACHUSETTS
BOSTON - Twenty thousand
joined together with the state hun
ger marchers in the May first de-
rnonstration on Boston Common.
MINNESOTA.
MINNEAPOLIS - Five thousand in
the demonstration despite cold and
rain.
CROSBY May first was proc
lain1ed as an official holiday by the
Communist Mayor.
CONNECTICUT
NEW HAVEN More than 1900
at the May Day demonstration.
NORWICH One hundred at the
May Day meeting
NEW LONDON One hundred
workers at the May Day meeting.
BRIDGEPORT Over 900 In the
demonstration.
STAMFORD--Five hundred work
ers at Town Hall Plaza on May Day.
MAINE
ROCKLAND Two hundred and
fifty workers at the meeting. In the
evening sixty workers went to IN,
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ALL. City Workers
Strike i'm Cleveland at
rs Per Cent Wage Cut

CLEVELAND, o., May 5.--A. F. Of
!. workers employed by the city ad-
ninistration here are out on strike
against a Is per cent wage reduction
About 300 workers are involved. The
wage cut was previously put into eff
ect against the unorganized workers
N the city's payroll. Since Mayor
Miller came into office early in 1882,
sages of union labor have been cut
70 per cent. This is the first strug-
lie of the union, against it.
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BOOK NOTES

James S. Allen, special Daily Worker
correspondent at the Decatur trial,
and selling at 10 cents CO.
There are two additional pamph-
let's dealing with specific aspects of
Negro oppression. LYNCHING, by
Harry Haywood and Milton Howard,
traces the causes of lynching and
suggests how to fight it. 1t sells at 5
cents a copy. THE CHAIN GANG,
by John L. Spivak, describes the con-
ditions he found on personal inyesti-
cation of the chain gangs and road
stockades in Georgia.
These pamphlets are obtainable at
workers bookshops or may be ordered
from Workers Library Publishers, Box
148, Station D, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-06
THE SCOTTSBORo CASE AND
THE NEGRO QUESTION

The verdict guilty as charged" with
the punishment fixed at the electric
chair" which was handed down in
the Decatur courtroom against Hay
wood Patterson, the first Of the
Scottsboro boys to be retired, has
electrified the world. The storm of
protest was immediate and sponta-
neous.
The issues raised so dramatically
at the trial in Decatur, Ala, are dealt
with the Negro question. These are
with the Negro suestion. These are
THE AMERICAN NEGRO and NEG
RO LIBERATION, both written by