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Evening star., 1933-06-25

IT'S ALL part of grand tradition this
l. liking for long, tall drink! Certainly it
seems to be almost universally accepted as the
civilized way to drink after sundown.
So you'll find Canada Dry all over the
world Wherever the ancient custom has gone
The Champagne of Ginger Ales has followed
And the reason is quite simple. No other gin
ger ale makes such a good long, tall drink.
Evening star., 1933-06-25

Leave aside, for the moment, the remar
flavor of Canada Dry. its purity
sparkle and just consider its balan'
doesn't merely mix it blends! 1t ma
long, tall drink thing of delight -. no n
what else you use. Lemon or lime. ..z..u..u
The flavor of juniper or apple.
Canada Dry is famous, too, D.,
for its long life. Long after you 5,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
Threat OF Mass Action Sets
Back HilIy Ruling in Court

NEW YORK.-The opinion given
by Counsellor Hilly for the landlords,
that rent strikes are illegal has re-
ceived a setback in two magistrate
courts due to the threat of a mass
campaign against it by the Unem-
ployed Councils and New York Dis
trict of the International Labor De-
Tense and the determined resistance
to the ruling by workers in rent
strikes in all parts of the city.
Women Released.
Eight women held for picketing at
3039 Wallace Ave, $3.50 Holland, in
the Bronx, we're released by Magis-
trate DeLuca, 9th Magistrates Court.
Challenged by Samuel Goldberg, at
torney for the New York District.
I. L. D., on the legality of the TIilly
decision" DeLucca answered to the
effect that he could not consider it
legal.
Admits tt Is Illegal
Judge McIntTy, 9Th Magistrates
Court, also would not convict rent
strikers charged with picketing at
1887 Fulton Street. At the same time
while admitting that rent-strike
picketing was not Illegal, this magis-
trate trickily held two rent strikers
on charges Of disorderly conduct and
gave them suspended sentences.
Hilly's decision" was obviously
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03

The following letter, discussing
the Scottsboro case and other fun
damental issues, was sent to Frank
Crosswaith, Negro, and leader Of
the Socialist Party, by Loren Miller,
young Negro journalist Of Los An
geles, who was one Of the group
which went to the Soviet Union
to take part in the production of
the Aim, "The Black and the
White"
The letter follows in part:
ut was this very Scottsboro case
that set me thinking definitely on
the role that revolutionary, soci-
alist party ought to play in this time
of crisis. When the case first came
to public notice I was reporting for
the local newspaper-you remember
the Eagle. was, and am now, writ
ing that same column for which you
were once kind enough to write for
me.
II wanted to aid as best as I could
AL VlLIO OSOtOobO1O 1iSliGs IL
with, I was with the NAAC.P., at
least to the extent of thinking that
the organization could best fight this
Scottsboro case. Being in the news
paper business, however, I couldn't
help but know and appreciate the
fact that it was the International
Labor Defense that was responsible
for the case being brought to public
attention in an effective manner.
thought that the two organizations
could and would reconcile their first
differences and get together in
common defense for the boys.
wasn't very clear then, you see.
Knows Value Of Mass Defense
Naturally, I came into contact
both with the local LID. and the
national Office as the fight for the
boys went on. One Of the first things
that drew me closer to the LID.
was its campaign for mass pressure.
You know, was once a lawyer and
know that behind the scenes this
public opinion exerts the determining
role in the law.
"Nor can see how the case can
be disentangled from the socio-eco-
nomic system that makes 1t possible.
It is plain, as you once pointed out
to me, that lynchings exist because
Of the relation Of the Negro as an
exploited class to the rich whites Of
the nation. It seems to me that II
you take the case as an isolated piece
of injustice" you are Just shutting
your eyes to the plain implications
Of the whole business and are deny
ing what you and I, as Negroes, know
to be the plain facts: that the case
In its broader aspects has happened
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national guard and plain clothes men
before the apartment in which Lei
bowitz is living but the attorney re-
quested that the guard be removed.
Negroes Back Defense.
Negro leaders of the community, as
well as the Negro masses, are re-
spending enthusiastically to the issue
Of the right of Negroes to serve on
juries, and Negro witnesses remain
unmolested due to the worldwide at
tention which the Scottsboro case is
receiving.
One locally prominent Negro de-
ciared: IF a mob comes from the
outside TO try to attack the boys
they won't have ii so easy" An
other said: "If the Reds are re-
sponsible for all this, I'm with the
Reds"
Despite the efforts of the leading
whites to influence the Negro Min
isters' Alliance here, many are openly
sympathetic to the defense, and state
so in their churches.
Friday night, william A. Christol,
Negro bearing credentials from the
Birmingham I. L. D.; Muriel Rukey-
ser, a member Of the National Stu
dent League who is writing about the
trial for the National Student Re-
view; two other white workers and
one Negro, were arrested and held
four hours by the police, who later
released them after confiscating their
personal papers. They were ordered
to appear before Judge Horton to
morrow morning. Christol who was
authorized to raise funds for tn
ScottSboro case, declared that he viii
appear in court.
Defense Moves.
Two moves TO be made by the de
Tense in proving that the nine Scots
boro Negro boys are absolutely limo
cent of the charges against them, and
that these charges we're framed, have
been revealed by the L L. D.
An important exhibit in the case.
it was stated, will be a miniature
train, q replica of the now famous
freight from which the nine boys and
two girls were taken by a sheriff's
posse in April, 1881. Using this
miniature, the defense will prove that
it was impossible for any such at
tack as is charged by the state to be
made, and that the movements Of the
boys over the train as described by
prosecution witnesses were inpos-
Sible.
1t will be proved by this replica
also that the testimony of witnesses
at the first trial, who claimed they
saw the attack" from such various
points as haystacks and farm roofs
along the right-of- way, must be false,
since it was impossible for them to
view portions of the train they claim
they looked into.
Another important move by the
defense will be the introduction OF
medical evidence which will prove
the impossibility of the stories told by
the two girls, Victoria Price and
Ruby Bates, at the original trial,
about the mythical attack"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
What Is the Socialist Party Doing
to Aid the Nine Scottsboro Bows?
?IorenM ksofF FRANKIE

dozen times over to other Negroes.
Therefore, have come to under
stand, Negroes ought to use the case
not only to fight the particular issue
but to educate those other Negroes
who cannot ordinarily see that our
ills flow from capitalism. For it seems
to me, if Negroes are ever to be
educated as to the workings of CAPT.
talism with its mock trials, its lynch
ings, its poverty, its misery, its un-
employment, they must be educated
with particular instances in which
you can show them the inter relation
Of the particular injustice to the
whole social order.
when the LID. undertook the
task of arousing the whole world to
this case and at the same time used
it as the basis for an educational
campaign they enlisted my support.
That the campaign has led me on
to see even more clearly than I ever
saw before the whole rotten social
structure and how it works is it.
self case in point for the argument
that have just advanced.
Disgusting Tactics
Nov to the particular point. I
have read a number of Socialist re-
leases, particularly one by Parker,
in which the LID. has been vicious
ly attacked for its part in the case.
These releases insist that the Com
nunists are using the boys as stalk
ing horses and have no interest in
saving them. Such tactics, frankly,
disgust me. The whole purport Of
them seems to me to offer aid and
comfort to our common enemy: the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
STRIKE VICTORY
IN MILWAUKEE
Furniture Strikers and
Jobless Unite

MILWAUKEE,, April 2.--After five
days the strike in the Marquardt
company has been settled with vic
tory for the strikers. From now on
the pay will be increased from seven
teen to twenty-seven and a half
cents for piece workers, and increas-
ed twenty-five cents for day work
ers. The shop committee was recog-
nized. There is to be no discrimina-
ton against strikers.
Unite Employed and Jobless
This time when on March goth,
forty workers from the iron depart
ment went on strike the Trade Union
Unity League worked with the
strikers and the Unemployed Coun-
ellis modified the jobless for picket
ing. Within few days all depart
ments were out and the scabs were
prevented from entering despite q
large number Of police.
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and 18th amendments to the con-
stitution. Yet he continues to regard
himself and to be regarded as a lead
ing Socialist. Is this the attitude of
the party? If not, why doesn't the
party take some action against this
sort Of thing?
Then there are those repeated ut
terances from Southern Socialists,
who must be taken to voice the opin-
ion of the party, to the effect that
the Southern party must be some
shade Of lily white-what else do
you and the other leaders make Of
the statement of the Texas lieuten-
ant governor candidate who said that
the South wouldn't tolerate voting
for a Negro for so years. Or those
other statements made in the New
Leader as late as 1881 that the South
ern movement must be conducted
Southern style, meaning that
Negroes must be Disseminated
against, if the movement is to thrive.
Jim Crowism of Norman Thomas
Norman Thomas spoke in a jim
crow hall in Virginia That much
is admitted. I know or have heard
that he attacked jim crow when he
spoke there, but left-handed attacks
while bowling to the institution at
tackled in words means nothing.
Then again, when Oklahoma
barred the party from its ballot, 1
read Thomas appeal to the governor
asking If he knew that a great por-
ton Of the states voters were to be
disfranchised. Didn't Norman Thomas
know, or did he ignore, the fact that
the state of Oklahoma disfranchises
thousands Of Negro citizens every
year? Why doesn't the party fight
this Acknowledgement on a straight
out basis rather than by such silly
appeals to state executive, Gov.
Murray, whom it knows or ought to
know is one Of the most vicious
enemies the Negro had.
"In closing let me say that these
questions are not mine alone, they
occur and recur whenever the young
er Negro intellectuals, now shifting
to the left almost en- masse, talk
about the Communists and the Soci-
alists. I think that we are entitled
to an answer. I am not asking you
these things as a Communist Party
member because I am not member
of the party. l am asking as one
class conscious Negro to another. I
hope that you will find time to
answer me as frankly as I have
queried you"
Sincerely yours.
LOREN MILLER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
NEW INDICTMENTS
ON ORPHAN JONES

SNOW HILL, Md.-In a clear at
tempt to insure the killing Of Fuel
Lee Orphan jones' whose conviction
on framed murder charges is to come
up for appeal second time in a few
weeks, the Worcester county grand
jury, has returned two new indict-
ments charging him with murder.
AS result Of a fight waged by the
International Labor Defense, the
Maryland supreme court had re-
versed Lees conviction at the first
trial on the ground that Negroes were
excluded from both grand and petit
juries. On the second trial Lee was
once more convicted on the frame-up
evidence as at the first trial.
Seeking to nullify the victory Of the
LID, on the question Of Negro jury
service, the authorities placed two
Negroes on the grand jury which yes
terday returned two murder indict-
ments against Lee, but they made
sure that they picked the proper
kind" of Negroes-businessmen who
shared the same class prejudices as
the white members of the grand
jury.
The LID. calls for protests against
this lynch frame-up to be sent to
Governor Albert c. Richie of Mary
land, demanding the immediate un-
conditional release Of Fuel Lee, and
dismissal of the new indictments
against him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
JObleSs Seamen
Force Relief

NEW YORK.-The struggles Of the
joblesS seamen under the leadership
of the Waterfront Unemployed Coun-
Gil have resulted in partial, but sig
nificant victory. The Haight Emer-
gency Committee, which claimed to
be broke and announced 1t would cut
of relief on April l, has been forced
to extend this relief to June /.
The H. E. c. made this announce
ment Friday. after a demonstration
of 300 jobless seamen was held Thurs
day at Whitehall Street and Coenties
Slip, across from the Seamen's
Church Institute. The demonstfa-
ton adopted resolution demanding
that the Haight Committee continue
relief and extend it.
"'rhe fight must go on until thers
is not q hungry seaman or hsrbor
worker in the port of New York. The
shipping bosses must be made to pay
for our miserable conditions" said q
statement of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
Special ScOttsbOrO
Page in TOmOrrOw's
Issue of the Daily
A SPECIAL scottsboro page vii

A SPECIAL ScOttsboro page will
n appear in tomorrow's issue of
the Daily Worker.
This will include: An exclusive
interview with the Scottsboro boys
in Morgan County Jail by our own
correspondent; a vivid description
Of the life of the Negroes and poor
white workers, as we'll as the gem
eral Setting" of the Decatur trial;
the story Of how Judge Horton,
presiding at the trial, tried to in
fIuenee Negro correspondents and
how they are at present being
Swallowed in Decatur.
Original individual drawings of
the ScottsbOro boys made on the
scene, as well as q photograph of
the group taken in the Birming-
ham County Jail, viii accompany
the articles.
Don't miss Tuesdays issue of
the Daily Worker! Order an ex-
ira copy for your friend or shop
mattel
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ruling class of the South. Let me
ask you specifically some questions ::
What is the Socialist Party doing
to aid the boys?
Don't you agree with me that the
only way to help the boys now is to
join in on their side and that the
only way to join them is to aid the
LID, their representative?
Don't you think that those who
still shout that the LID. is trying
to hang the boys are themselves aid
ing the bosses who will be quick to
seize on this Misunderstanding of -fu-
tility Canned to flame by supposed
friends) and thus burn the boys
while they smirk that that is what
the Communists wanted?
Don't you think that this is the
time for all real friends of the boys
to come to their aid2
The Real Test
why doesn't the Socialist Party
do something beside stand aside with
its holier than thou attitude and
its gesture of support to the
N.A.A.C.P., an organization long since
out OF the case?
Finally, don't you think that the
real test Of a party for Negroes is
its willingness and ability to fight
for their common every day de-
mands?
There are a few other questions.
One of them concerns Haywood
Broun, one of my youthful enthusi-
asms. Nobody seems to deny that he
once wrote that If he we're a can
didate for Office he would not sane
ion any efforts to enforce the 18th
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03

and Mr.. Tidwell, one of the three
county jury commissioners was in
structed to go down the list and call
off all the names he knew. OF course
they all turned out to be white
And so will everyone Of the others
listed in this book.
The issue has been placed sharply
That it goes far beyond merely the
question Of exclusion OF Negroes from
juries is conceded by the editorial
writer in the Birmingham News. Con-
Guiding long editorial on the sub
ject, he writes:
whether the obviously punitive
amendments 18th, 18th and 18th
Ed, set up in the heat of pas
sion against the South Immediately
following the war between the
states, shall remain infiexible at
this late date, TO the Obliteration of
the principle of state rights, is a
matter of more interest TO the
South than TO any other section
of the country"
AGAIN, as in the days of slavery,
n the cry Of states rights is being
raised, with the foregone conclusion
that the amendments won as the
result Of the revolution Of the Civil
War decade we're obviously puni-
tive" and that they should be Sc
"inflexible" as to be totally inopera-
tive as far as the Negro is concerned
This battle cry, however, will prove
to be antiquated. Old issues have
reappeared, but this time in a new
content and with new classes at
dagger points The solution of this
problem history has long since
taken out Of the hands of the old
contending classes of the Civil War
Days-the slaveowners and the north
ern bourgeoisie. 1t has placed it in
the hands Of the working class, OF
the Negro masses on Southern plan
tations The struggle for its solu-
ton adds fire to the all-encompassing
struggle against the bourgeoisie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
Judge Admits Mob Danger.

/ AAiuAlJ Vi DCCdblls
Judge Admits Mob Danger.
The undisguised prejudice of the
Ventremen was shown when, during
the questioning by Leibowitz, a pros.
pective juror arose and objected
heatedly, declaring: I'VE are not &C.
customed here to choose jurors thai
way"
The first official admission of the
danger Of mob action was made by
Judge Horton when, in addressing
the jury following their selection
said: THE citizens know their duty
Is to abide by the decision of the
court. There is no other way to en-
joy liberty 1t would be a blot or
any Of you to let anything, any ac-
ton OF yours, mar the course Of JUS
tice.o
Feeling Running High.
Feeling in Jackson County. where
Scottsboro is located, is running high
with resentment growing due to the
mounting cost of the trial which this
county-and not Morgan County
where the trial is being held-must
bear. Characteristic sentiment among
jackson County residents who are
bitter at the prospect of a long
drawn-out trial is: I'VE should have
strung up those niggers long ago"
Especially after the heated argu-
ments in the court on the issue
pressed by the defense showing sys-
telnatic and deliberate exclusion Of
Negroes from Morgan County juries
Leibowitz, I. L. D. attorney, wal
called Russian Jew Niger who
ought to be hung"
Scottsboro Mob Formed.
Further evidence of the sinister
forces growing which endanger the
lives Of the Scottsboro boys is seen
in the fact that Immediately after
Judge Horton on Friday over-ruled
the defense motion to quasn the
venire of white jurors, an organized
crowd Of so left ScottSboro following
their declaration that they would
come back about the middle Of the
week." thus revealing the extreme
danger of Xtra-legal action in the
event that Haywood Patterson is &C
quilted.
Photographers hired by the de-
Tense to take pictures in Paint
Rock, Jackson County, the scene
Of the arrest of the Scottsboro
boys, we're threatened by mem
acing crowd. In Decatur poor
whites" stepped in decades of
vicious prejudice against the Negro
AS a result of ruling class propa-
ganda-declared: 'If they don't
burn wen string 'em up. They'll
never get out alive"
Following the receipt by defense
attorney Leibowitz of threatening let
tiers, and as result Of verbal threats
muttered in the courtroom, Judge
Horton placed seven members Of the
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made at the behest Of realty coz
porations in order to encourage po-
lice to be more aggressive in break
ing up rent strikes.
Victory for Tenants
This setback in their plans e a
decided victory for the tenants and
should stimulate them into wider
action against the exorbitsnt rem
tails the landlord robbers try TO put
over on them.
Organization plans started by the
Council and I. L. D. against the pc
lice terror and Hilly ruling viii no
doubt also be intensified, spurred BY
these victories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
HOSPITAL HORROR IN BIRMINGHAM
Young Doctors Practice on Negro Patients

BIRMINGHAM AlaThis is how calie Johnson murdered
Gale johnson Hospital She
they
she died before she could get
happens hospital practice
Negroes with
unemployed beginning rally
This workers letter horrible conditions the
in hospitals whatever practices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
CBy Our Special Correspondent


DECATUR, Ala. (By MaiD. - THE
" niggers here are becoming a little
uppitty already as q result Of this
case" remarked a Decatur business
man when local Negro testified in
the court that he had never seen or
heard of a Negro serving on a jury
in Morgan County.
Dramatic clashes between the de-
Tense and the state over the right
of Negroes to sit on juries have &C.
CURED throughout the first week Of
the second Scottsboro trial. 1t is
now generally being said that the
nine boys are no longer on trial. it
is rather the exclusion Of Negroes
from the 'law"-but one aspect Of a
more general exclusion-Which has
thus far held the center Of the stage,
"State in a Corner"
With persistent logic and direct
ness the defense has pushed the State
of Alabama into a corner from which
there is no getaway. 1t has shown
that Negroes are excluded from jury
service Systematically by having
Negroes themselves testify to that in
court. Negroes have come voluntarily
to prove that they are eligible for
jury duty and have never been call
ed or even considered for jury SER
vice Hundreds and even thousands
of Negroes from Jackson and Morgan
Counties are ready to do likewise.
With his every word Attorney
General Knight Of Alabama has
simply supported the self-evident
truth that there are no Negro Jurors
in circuit or state courts in the South.
When he tried to show that Negroes
are excluded not because Of their
color but because they are not quail
fed for other reasons, witnesses ap-
peared about whom there could not
be the slightest shadow of a doubt
that they are fully qualified accord
ing to all the conditions of bour-
geois law.
PRACTICALLY every one of the
twelve Negro witnesses Of Morgan
County who testified in court on
Thursday was incidentally, gradu-
ate of a college, some of them from
a number of universities. They were
either preachers, doctors, school
principals or responsible for other
important social work. They testi-
fed not only because they had the
personal courage to brave the storm,
but because that courage was given
them by the mass defense movement.
1t was apparent from the whole at
titude Of the prosecution and the
court that even these upper-class,
relatively highly esteemed" mem
bers Of the community were made
to keep their place"
"None Of EN- Fit"
When H. J. Banks, 55-year-old
local Negro business man, was to
be cross-examined by the prosecu-
ton, the first. thing Attorney-Gen-
eral Knight asked was for his first
name. And he continued to call him
Henry" as if he were addressing a
child, although Mr. Banks was old
enough to be the Generals father
And when the witness quite heatedly
refused to answer an insinuating
question placed by the prosecutor, the
action was so unprecedented that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-03
HUNT NEGRO SHAREHOLDERS

DADEVILLE, Ala manhunt is
on in Tallapoosa County for twelve
Negro hare-croppers against whom
indictments charging assault to muir
der were handed down by an ALL
white Grand Jury here Saturday. Five
others named in the indictment have
been in Dadeville Jail since the attack
upon the troopers, December 10, when
deputy sheriffs, aided by Tuskegee
Institute, murdered four Of them.
The International Labor Defense,
which is defending the share troopers.
has called for an immediate food OF
protests to Governor B. M. Miller at
Montgomery, Alabama, and Sheriff J.
KYLE Young OF Dsdevile