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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31
The Revolutionary Press and
the ScottSbOro Case
BY Cyril BRIGGS

and oppression of the Negro Peo-
pie. In this fight and other de-
Tense campaigns the Daily Work.
err is absolutely indispensable.
DRECISELY because the Scotts~
4 boro Case is an expression Of the
horrible national oppression of the
Negro masses, any real fight for the
ScottSboro boys must necessarily
take the character of a struggle
against the whole brutal system Of
landlord robbery and inperialist
national oppression of the Negro
people. The struggle for the Scots
boro boys and for Negro national
liberation is thus a direct menace
to U. S. imperialism, directed
against its weakest link: the ex-
istence of a brutally oppressed and
rescntful nationality, at the very
heart of American imperialism.
This explains the viciousnesS of
the attacks on the Scottsboro de-
Tense, the police attacks on white
and Negro workers demonstrating
for the freedom of the Scottsboro
boys, the deportation of militant
foreign-born workers (Yokinen,
etc. who rallied to the defense Of
the Negro people.
This explains the frantic mob
ilization by the imperialists of all
their corrupt agents in the ranks
of the working class and the Negro
people: the Norman ThomaSes and
Haywood Brouns, the Walter
Whites and William Pickens This
explains the attempts of the U. S.
State Department to disrupt the
European tour of the Scottsboro
Mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, and the
late j. Louis Engdahl-their ar
rest by socialist" and capitalist
police chiefs in many European
cities, their deportation from Bel
GUM, Czechoslovakia and other
countries.
This explains the vicious attacks
by the authorities of the State of
Georgia and the bosses and their
hSCAAtD lllOlL5AlOuO bAlC Oli
the growing unity of the white and
Negro workers, which is being
forged under the leadership of the
Communist Party in the Scots
boro struggle, as well as in the
mounting resistance of the toiling
masses to the bosses program Of
hunger, fascist terror and imperial
list war.
The Daily Worker is the weapon
Of the whole working class and of
the Negro people in the fight
against the rapidly worsening con-
ditions of the toiling masses, in the
fight against starvation and ma
tional oppression. Rally to the sup
port of the Daily Worker! The
Daily Worker must be saved from
Suspension! Rush funds at once
Mobilize your organizations, your
clubs, ETC., for immediate aid to
the Daily Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31

THE Scottsboro case presents one
of the most dramatic proofs of
the absolute indispensability of the
Daily Worker in the developing
struggles Of the toiling Negro and
white masses against the misery
and hopelessness of the capitalist
system and its increasingly muir
derous terror.
1t was the Daily Worker that
sounded the alarm when in March,
1881, the landlord court at Scotts-
boro, Alabama, attempted to rush
eight of the nine innocent Scots
boro Negro lads to the electric
chair, at the same time paving the
way for a living death of life inn
prisonment for the ninth boy,
14-year-old Roy Wright. 1t was
the Daily Worker that smashed
through the conspiracy OF silence Of
the capitalist press and the Negro
reforlnist leaders of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People. 1t was the Daily
Worker that rallied the white and
Negro masses behind the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights for a vigorous mass defense
Of the nine child-victims of capt.
talist justice, framed up on lying
charge of rape"
The mass fight has won several
tremendous partial victories. The
Negro and white workers, in joint
struggle have four times forced
back the outstretched murderous
claws Of the Alabama ruling class,
have four times forced the lynch
courts Of the United States to set
back the date of execution. The
mass fight forced the US. Supreme
Court to reverse the lynch verdicts
last November and to order new
trials for the boys. These great par
tial victories could not have been
achieved without the daily leader
ship, agitation and constant Vigi-
lance of the Daily Worker, eX-
pressing in its news articles and ed
itorials the clear line of the Com
munist Party in the fight to free
the Scottsboro boys, in the fight
against ruling class terror, against
national oppression Of the Negro
People and against ali attempts to
split and divide the working class
and disrupt the mass fight which,
life itself teaches, alone can free
the Scottsboro lads and other Ne
gro and white victims Of capitalist
class justice
The Scottsboro boys are still in
danger. The us. Supreme Court
verdict returned them for new
trials to the ScottsbOro court
which originally rendered the
lynch verdicts. The mass fight
must be intensified and broad
cred out to draw in new sections
of the working class, new sections
of inteIlcctuaIS and all elements
opposed to the brutal persecution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31
Revolutionary Propaganda
Popular and Concrete

literature a TACT, the consciousness
of our individual Party members
must be SO awakened that there
will be no time that they will not
carry with them the necessary pam
phlets, not only relating to the inn
mediate struggles at hand but those
which will bring the workers to see
their struggles on a higher level
than just their immediate demands.
THIS can only be done when we
will wipe out the petty bourgeois
theology so prevalent among our
comrades-"Oh, I'm q poor sales
man, cannot sell literature" or,
II don't see why we should force
literature down the workers
Threats. They must realize that
we are not just selling literature,
that the energy that they put into
seeing that pamphlet reaches the
hands of worker is Just as inn
portant as the energy they put into
walking on picket lines, partaking
in strikes or any other physical
action against the capitalist Sys-
tenn. We must realize that in this
period of the upsurge of the revo-
lutionary spirit among the work.
ers and even among some of the
petty-bougreoisie, there is no place
for feeling that literature is forced
down the workers Threats, but that
the workers, when approached and
when explained the contents and
value of the given pamphlet, will
gladly take it. And to organize
these workers into our political
army, we must give them the ne
cessary literature that will explain
to them the political side of their
struggles.
3-"TO organize our Party into a
mass Party on the basis Of Bolshe-
vik inner-Party democracy based
OH iron discipline, into a revolution
AIRY STAFF of this political army"
This task can be greatly facilitated
when our comrades have thorough
ly digested the decisions and reso~
lutions Of our Party, have under
stood the political Importance Of
these resolutions, have made the
Marxist-Leninist teachings Of our
Party part of themselves, not just
as a cloak or figure of speech and
phraseology, but as a guide from
which every one Of their actions
spring. And this can only be dono
by the constant reading and study
ing of our theoretical literature.
This goes hand in hand with our
last point--"To enlarge, strengthen
and renew young, virulent workers
into leadership. And leadership
does not only mean the activity of
these comrades in their various
fields of work but in the political
correctness with which they lead
the workers in their struggles. And
this again necessitates the study
and the further study of our litera-
ture, and not merely dependence
on the experience gained in their
fights against the bosses.
nF COURSE, it is not to be con-
" strued that only by the above
will the four tasks as laid down
by Comrade Gusev be obtained.
But, by combining the proper dis
tribution of our literature with our
work in the shops. in the unions,
aud in the block, by using the lit
erature as q means of closer con-
tact with the workers, this will
make for better approach to the
fulfilllnent of the four basic tasks
laid down by Comrads GussY. 90,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31
'EueryFactory
Our Fortress
Establish Intimate, Per-
manent Contacts With the
Workers.

"The successful accomplishment
of this task winning the major
ity of the working class requires
that every Communist Party shall
establish, extend and strengthen
permanent and intimate contacts
with the majority of the work
ers, wherever workers may be
found. From the 18th Plenum
Resolution, E. c. G. 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31
BY ROBERT FRANKLIN.

by hObEhl fhANNJlNs
rOMRADE Gusey in his article in
v the Communist International
No. 10 and the January issue of
the Communists lays before COM
rades of the American Party four
tasks that must be fulfilled before
we can as q Party become the re-
quiSite force TO cope with the cap
talist system in this period "At the
end of the sterilization Of capt.
talisln.
1.-(Page 49) ITO direct the basic
strategic blows against social
democracy, to win the masses
away from it, TO isolate it from
the masses
To show the correctness OF COM
rade Gusev'S analysis of the under
estimation of the danger of social
democracy, we can cite our weak
blows against the Socialist Party in
New York City, the weakness of
the Party to arise to the situation
in the last part of the Election
Campaign. The New York District
has printed pamphlets by Comrade
Amter and the National Office,
pamphlets by Comrade Olgin-ex-
posing the Socialist Party. The re-
Spouse Of the membership was very
weak. So far, in period of over
two months, there has been APP
proximately $4,000 distributed. The
wide distribution of these one-cent
pamphlets exposing the anti-work-
ing class role of the Socialist Party
among workers wherever contrac-
ted, tlle factory, the shop or the
block-would certainly go a long
way to undermine the influence of
the S. P. among these workers. The
comrades in the New York district
felt it seems that 1.-THE election cam
paign is over, we do not hear the
Socialist Party ON street corners
any more, therefore we shall wait
till next year when there is a new
election. Then we will come out
with our broadside against the So
cialist Party"
ME HAVE at hand at present the
w knowledge of where the social
lists got their strongest vote i'll the
city. 1t would be no mean blow
against social-fascism if the Party
in those sections would systemati-
cally organize house-to-house
campaign with these pamphlets ex-
osing the Socialist Party ard try
to win those workers away from
the Socialist Party influence. In
these unions controlled By the So
cialist Party, our comrades working
there can approach these individ-
ual workers with socialist leanings
or sympathies, talk to them. be-
come friendly with them, not as
Stunning q deadly air of enmity; get
these workers on the basis Of your
talk, to read these pamphlets and
the results obtained will soon be
apparent.
SECOND MAJOR TASK
The second task that Comrade
Gusev points QUITO win over
the majority Of the proletariat end
poor farmers, to train them in a
series Of fights and to convert them
into on rpolitical army" The full
filling of this task prosupposes an
intimate Contact with workers
But, TO quote Comrade Lcnin,
without revolutionary theory.
there can be no revolutionary prac-
s,sc.' There must be u tying up
with constant systematic distri-
button of our literature. TO make
this systematic distribution OF our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31
BY JOHN SCHNiIES.

IN yesterdays Daily we gave
some of the lessons and expert
enceS during the course of Our ac-
tivitieS, but there are also other
experiences we gained. First and
foremost, we saw sharply how we
were tagging behind, and the strong
tendency which existed of lack of
confidence III the perspective for
successful strike struggles. This
was the reason for our isolation
and our failure to root the Party
and the union in the shops.
Our leading fraction in the strike
was not fully prepared for a short
and successful strike. 1t failed to
see many difficulties and obstac-
les. AS a result of this, leading
members of the fraction catered to
some of the illusions among the
workers and failed to see clearly
the role of the Socialist Party and
the I. w. w. in the strike which
was one Of trying to confuse the
workers and bring about demorali-
ZdGlOI OF GIl6 SCrlke.
Prior to the strike, during the
course of the strike, and generally
in our agitation, we did not suffi-
GENTLY differentiate between the
social-fascist leaders and the work
ers under theiy influence, and in
this manner break the workers
away from them. Thus members
of the Socialist Party who worked
in the plant fought against the
idea Of developing the strike; especi-
ally was this the case with one
member of the S. p, who consci-
ously tried to maneuYer. as late as
the day before the strike, TO dis
rupt the strike preparations and
prevent united action on the part
OF the workers. In this he did
not succeed.
The T. w. W. followed the same
policy. Some Of them work in the
Briggs Vernon Highway Plant. Our
eagerness in getting q general
strike committee Immediately elected
without making any attempt to
study some of these elements, made
it possible for two members of the
I. w. w. to be elected on the strike
committee and one of them to be-
come chairman of the Negotiations
Committee. This paved the way
for these two to bring in their
leadership from the outside. In fact,
leader was called in from Cleve-
land and they began very skill
fully to place him in the forefront.
He succeeded in making two
speeches to the strikers, and in
the second speech, he took advan-
tage of the shortcomings Of the
strike committee and particularly
opened fire against its leadership
the Auto Workers Union.
He talked about intelligent &C
tion-no violence-no outside forces
on the picket lines, only workers
with Briggs badges-and made it
plain that he was definitely at
tempting to take over leadership
in the strike. But this action con-
WINGED our fraction of how serious
the situation was; that the stu
alton developed as result Of the
failure of our fraction to carry out
the decisions previously decided
upon (Which called for q simple
and practical plan of picketing, the
getting out of signs and posters
and to increase the seriousness
among the strikers, convincing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31

so bad that it doesn't make much
difference whether they are fired
or whether they go on the relief
lines. But they do not want to be
fired. What they want is to be
convinced by us that we know how
to fight for these practical issues
as well as for highly political issues
and in practical manner. In
discussing these matters with the
workers we try to make them the
practical organizers and from this
we saw the great value Of the prin-
ciple of personal contact. The
workers themselves bring up these
issues.
THERE is a skeptical attitude to-
i ward conferences of this kind.
The comrades say, ooh, it is the
same old thing What's the use?"
+ think we should expose this idea
as wrong. The comrades below say
that the change must come from
above, that if we can't get our di-
rections from the steel union, from
the center or district, then what
the hell can we do? II is up to
the comrades here from the vari-
GUS shops, the unit and section Or
ganizers to actually make the turn,
naturally, with the assistance from
the center. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-20

instruction. Naval Academy, Annapo-
Lieut.. William N. Gullett. detached
U. s. S. Greer about May 2; to U. 8. 8.
Eagle So.
Lieut.. Wayne r. Loud. orders issued
by commander In chief. Asiatic Fleet,
modified; to U. s. S. Idaho.
Lieut. Ernest r. Perry, detached
U. S. 8. Hannibal about June /; to in
struction, Naval Academy, Annapolis
Md.
Lieut.. Charles E. weakley, detached
U. S. S. Omaha in May; to U. s. s.
Lea. Dispatch orders March 10 to
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. re-
voked.
Ensign Thomas w. Rogers, detached
U. S. S. California in May; to commu-
nication duty with commander, Battle
Force.
Lieut.. Gerald D. zurmuehlen. de.
tached U. S. s. Teal in June; to in.
struction, Naval Academy, Annapolis
Md.
Construction Corps.
Lieut.. Robert Morgan, orders, Janu.
airy Is, revoked, detached Navy Yard
Puget Sound. Wash, in April; to home
relieved all active duty.
Lieut. Frederick M. Kirchmier. orders
January Is revoked; detached Office Of
inspector Of naval material, New York
N. Y; to home, relieved all active duty
Supply Corps.
Comdr. Charles C. Copp. detached
Bureau Supplies and Accounts. Navy
Department, in June; to Asiatit
Station.
Lieut.. tJunior Grade) William
Laxson, detached Navy Yard, Mare
Island. Calf, about March 81; to dut,
as assistant to officers In charge, Nav
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-20

purchasing and disbursing ofhee. San
Francisco, Calf.
Dental Corps
Lieut.. (Junior- 0rade) Louis D. Nit
chell. IT,. detached U. 8. 8. Milwaukee;
to Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Va.
Lieut.. (Junior Grade) Frederick v.
Tully. detached receiving ship at San
Francisco. Calf, April 10; to D. B. 8.
Milwaukee. i
Medical Corps.
Capt. John B. Mears, detached
Naval Station Guam In July; to re-
ceiving ship ut San Francisco.
Lieut.. George r. Cooper, detached
University Of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis,
on May /; to Naval Medical School,
Warrington, D. G. Additional duty
naval unit, Edgewood Arsenal, Edge
wood. Md.
Lieut.. Charles r. Wilcox, orders April
modified: to Naval Station, Guam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-20
NAVY ORDERS

Lieut.. Comdr Harold H. Little, de-
tached Naval Academy. Annapolis, Md;
to home, relieved all active duty.
Lieut. Comdr Albert H. Rocks. or
ders March Is modified; to duty as
Secretary of Academic Board and aide
to superintendent Naval Academy, An
napolis, Md.
Lieut.. Comdr. Warren A. Shaw de-
tached command U. S. S: Fairfax; to
home, relieved all active duty.
Lieut.. Comdr. william D. sullivan,
detached as officer in charge, Navy
Recruiting Station. Cincinnati Ohio,
on Nav IS: to U. S S. Texas as engi-
Lieut.. Comdr. Ray H. Wakeman, de-
tached command U. S. S. cambridge;
to home. relieved all active duty:
Lieut.. Comdr. Philip v. H. Weems,
detached command U. S. S. Hopkins;
to home, relieved all active duty,
Lieut.. Comdr Louis P. Wenzell, de-
tached Navy Yard, New York. N. y
to home, relieved all active duty:
detached Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Nd: to home relieved all active duty:
Lieut.. Herbert A. Anderson detached
u s. S. Trenton about June l; to DUTY
with inspector of naval material, Cm-
Lieut.. Burton B. Biggs, detached
Naval Ammunition Depot, Fort Mlmm,
Philadelphia, Pa. about May /; 10
u. S. S. Richmond.
Lieut.. Jesse H. Carter, detached as
assistant naval inspector OF ordnance
Ford Instrument Co., Long Island CITY
N Y. in May: to U. S. S. MISSISSIPPI:
LENT William S. G. Davis, detached
U S. S. Patoka in May to Branch Hy-
geographic Office, Galveston. Tex, as
officer in charge.
Lieut.. Willard NJ Downes, detached
aide and flag lieutenant on stan COM
mander Submarine Force; to U. 3. ..
William B. Preston as executive omcer.
Lieut.. John N. B. Ginder detached
U. S. S. Brooks in May; to U. s. 5.
Lieut.. walter F. ,Hinckley, detached
Navy Yard, Washington, D. c., in May;
to U. s. s. Arkansas. -.
Lieut.. Asel B. Herr, detached Marine
Corps School, Marine Barracks, Guam
tico, Va, about May 81; to U. s. 8.
Saratoga.
Lieut.. Robert E. Mason. detached
Navy Yard, New York, N. Y, in May;
to U. S. S. Louisville.
Lieut.. John " McElduff. detached
Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Va,
in May; to U. S. S. Wyoming.
Lieut.. John J. Patterson, Sd, detached
command u S. S. Quail in April; to
aide and nag secretary on staff, COM
mander Minecraft, Battle Force.
Lieut.. Arthur L. Peasants, jr., de-
tached U. S. S. Golf about June /: to
staff. commander Destroyer Squad
ron 10.
Lieut.. Owen Rees. detached U. s. S.
Litchfield, about June /; to U. s. S.
Rigel
Lieut. Paul s. Slawson, detached
Naval War College, Newport, r. l., about
May q; to u S. S. Whitney.
Lieut. Francis B. Stoddert, detached
IS assistant inspector Of naval material
New York. N. Y, in May; to U. S. S.
New York.
Lieut. Francis Taylor. detached Navy
Yard, Puget Sound. Wash. in May: to
u. S. 8. Buchanan as executive officer.
Lieut.. Theodore F. AScherfeld, de-
tached U. S. S. Tattnal in April; to
U. S. S. Hannibal.
Lieut.. Wilhelm K. Busck detached
U. S. S. Melville In June; to instruction
Naval Academy Annapolis, Md.
Lieut.. Karl ]. Biederman. detached
u. S. S. Nokomis abount June /; to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-20
GEN. MA REPORTED
ALIVE IN GERMANY
Chinese Hero Arrives in Der.
lin With Gen. Su and Gen Ii
and so Others.
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN. April 2o.-A general, Ma
Chan Shan, reputedly the Chinese ma
tional hero whom Japanese military
leaders claimed was killed in battle last
July in Manchuria, arrived today from
Tomsk. Siberia.
With him were two other Chinese
generals, Su Ping Wen and Ii (appar-
emily Ii Ching-Ling, former Governor
of Chilli province and Manchurian
commander several years ago. and
about so other Chinese officers and SOL
diers. women and children.
Gen. Su was leader of the Chinese
uprising against the Manchukuo gov
eminent last Fall in Northwest Man.
cnaria. He fed across the Siberian
border with remnants of his army IN
early December and the Soviet gov
eminent refused Japanese requests for
his eXtradition.
The generals refused to talk except
to indicate an intention to remain In
Berlin for some days.
They were expected to 60 to Paris
next.
None of the men wore military uni
forms, all dressing in European style
clothes, with heavy overcoats. The
women and children were mostly IN
Chinese garb.
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Capt. Robert q. Heiner. uncompleted
portion orders issued by Commander in
Chief Asiatic Fleet revoked; to instruc-
ton, Naval Medical School, Washing
ton. D. G. @
Capt. Kent G. Melhorn. detached
Bureau Medicine and Surgery, Navy
Department. on June /; to U. 8. 8.
Relief.
Capt. Richard A. Warner, detached
rs member Naval Retiring Board; the
Naval Examining Board for officers Of
Medical Corps and Board Of Medical
Examiners. Navy Department, on June
!: to duty ~ medical oflcer in COM
mand Naval Hospital. Boston. Mass.
Civil Engineer Corps.
Lieut.. Paul J. Halloran. detached
Navy Yard. New York, N. Y. about
April 20: to Marine Barracks, Guam
tico Va
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
ChOrea, or st. Vitus' Dance
Durable in All Its Forms

CuTdDle III All ALS COAuAS
The popular name for Chorea
is st. Vitus dance. 1t is q nerv-
Gus affection and is charac-
terized by spasmodic and irreg-
ular contractions of various
muscles; twitchings, one might
say.
Although chorea is associated
in the popular mind with chill
dren, adults may develop the
disorder. When they do, 1t is
always a much more serious, as
we'll as violent disease than in
children.
From the age of S to Is is
the period when children are
most likely to have chorea.
Girls are more prone to it than
boys. Cases often develop after
the advent of puberty. Strangely
enough, cases of St. Vitus'
dance in colored people are
rare.
Chorea may occur in differ
ent degrees OF severity. Only
mild spasms, say Of the face
muscles, may be in evidence.
Then, again, the muscular con-
fractions may be so violent
that the term "maniacal
chorea," which is applied to
them, seems justified ...-
In the ordinary case the child
The Washington times., 1933-07-18

Their first opponents ap-
preached. two sleek-h aire d
young men, who introduced
themselves as Mr.. Sanderson
and Mr.. Mari. Julian had met
the two before but he blandly
pretended not to remember.
Obviously Mr.. Sanderson and
Mr.. Marr disliked Haverholt
and would not have been in
terested in his niece had she
been a reigning movie queen
instead of white-faced fright
ened girl. The two were dis
ciples of Reuben Blair, shout
ers for his system of bidding.
They considered Haverholt a
fake and very nearly said so.
Rudely ignoring his presence
and Patricia'S, they seated
themselves at the same table
and began discussing past tri-
umphs, limiting at future ones,
working deliberately on the
girls nerves.
Cant you see how easily
It's going to be, Patricia? Hav-
erholt interposed deftly, his
(cOntinued on 2nd. Comic PGss)