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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
POLICE RESCIND
JIM-CROW LAW
AFTER lid ACTS

NEW YORK-Followin the i'm
mediate action by the International
Labor Defense against the JIM Grow
ruling ordered for New York last
week, the polioa department in q
letter to the LID. Saturday denied
the Issuing of such an order. The
denial is looked upon as an evasion
of responsibility for the ruling which
calls for the arrest of Negro and
white workers walking the city streets
together.
The letter from the Police Depart
Inent. signed by Thomas F. Gilligan,
Acting Secretary to Police Commits
sioner Bolan, reads as follows:
The Police Commissioner directs
me to acknowledge receipt of your
communication Of July 6, 1898, and
to inform you that no order, such
as you refer to, has been issued in
this Department"
That the order was issued was re-
vealed in the testimony of a police
man during the trial of Cyril Briggs,
last Wednesday Briggs, Negro editor
Of the Harlem Liberator, mistaken
for white man was attacked and
arrested on the night of July End
while accompanying a Negro woman
to her home in Harlem. The capt.
talist press published an item to the
effect that such an order was issued.
The Police Departments denial fol-
lowed a demand by the LID. that
this order be withdrawn. The LID.
pointed out that this order introduce
ed southern Jim Crow laws into this
city, and declared that it would de-
fend any Negro or white worker
molested under this order
Denial that this order was issued
is merely an evasion of responsibility
for laying down this Jim Grow Law.
The order was given in an attempt
to stop the growing unity of Negro
and white workers in the struggle
for the freedom of the Scottsboro
Boys, and in the fight against boss
oppression" stated the LID.
Further proof of the actuality of
the order by the police was seen in
the qui1zing by policeman Friday
of Negro and white workers riding
in an automobile at 34th st. and
Fifth Ave. The cop lectured them on
the "inadvisability" of Negro and
white to mix.
AS an open challenge to the OPP
preston of the Negro race and of
the white workers as well, Negro and
white workers are urged by the LID.
to keep in mind the huge Scottsboro
Mass Demonstration in Union
Square, Friday, July 81, pm, and
to rally to it in overwhelming num-
bers.
NEW YORK.-The immediate re-
moval of Police Commissioner John |
Bolan and Magistrate Katz of the
121st Street Court Jim Grow judge.
was demanded at meeting of the
Harlem Section Committee of the In
ternational Labor Defense, at its
meeting last Saturday at II West
13ist st., because of the police rul-
ing that Negro and white workers
may not walk together nor organize.
This entire membership of the LID.
is prepared to defy this order,
Branch organizers, representing
over 1000 Negro and white workers
signed the demand,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

king regime, was closeted for many
days with Roosevelt in Washington.
Soong, millionaire banker, and
landowner, is the head of the Soong
Dynasty, the virtual ruling house OF
central China. Soong is the con-
Meeting link between Wall Street and
the Marking regime. 1t is through
the banks controlled by the Soengs,
that financial arrangements are made
for support Of the Marking regime.
He reported to his imperialist mas
tiers on the growing difficulties OF the
Marking regime, and the great losses
that would ensue to United States
imperialism if Chang Kai Shek's re-
gime were to founder. Soon there
after, the Roosevelt government ar
ranged for a $4o,00o,00O loan to
Chang Kai Shek through the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation This
loan was made in the form of cotton
and wheat. There is a very interest
ing sidelight in connection with this
loan. Chinese war lords usually pre-
fer cash from their imperiaIst mas
tiers. Soong's associates quickly over
ZANE the difficulty. They proceeded to
transform the wheat and cotton into
cash by selling it to Japan Ito be
used in the further war preparations
IN Manchuria and the North OF
China). The cold cash can then be
used for graft distribution and for the
purchase Of arms to continue the war
against Soviet China.
QUT these are but midget steps COM
y pared to what followed, and what
is to come. The United States very
soon thereafter announced and be-
gan naval building program equal
led only by the rapid naval armine
during the last World War. The to-
tai budget for the navy under the
Roosevelt regime is now 1886, Al, 00t
An increase Of 100 per cent over
that Of the Hoover government. And
Hoover was by no means blind to the
value for Wall Street of the Chinese
market. The very first allotment
from the $500 900 900 public work,
fund under the industrial recovery
act was the sum Of $4,000 900 fol
the building Of 81 warships. Score
tary OF the Navy, Swanson however
did not rest there. He asked for ar
additional sum- of $l14,0o0000 HI
announced his naval policy to be as
follows: ITO create, maintain and
operate navy second TO none.
To develop the Navy to maximum
In battle strength To organize
the Navy 80 that expansion only will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

this fall, it was announced. Carol
Weiss King has been retained by
the LID to prepare the necessary
legal steps.
The three leaders involved are
Crisanto Evangelista, fiery young
leade rof the Philippine peasants
and wca,ers against the oppression
OF American imperialism; Guillermo
Capadocio, general secretary of the
Proletarian Labor Congress, and Alb
elardo Ramos, BY their conviction
on the charges of sedition, sustained
by the Supreme Court of the islands,
the Communist Party, the National
Peasants Confederation, and the
Proletarian Labor Congress, and
other workers and peasants organi-
cations have been illegalized in the
PHILIPPINES.
Ban Labor Defender"
The Workers and Peasants De-
tense Society, sister organization to
the International Labor Defense,
was declared Illegal when it took up
the defense of the workers leaders
The Labor Defender, organ of the
international Labor Defense, has
been banned from the PHILIPPINE
Islands for its championing of the
cause of the workers and peasants
leaders.
The LID has sent a call to all
organizations sympathetic to the
cause OF the PHILIPPINE workers and
peasants, and to all opposed to war,
to send protests against the impri-
sonment of the as workers and
peasants leaders in the PHILIPPINE
Islands, to Governor Frank Murphy,
Manila, p. l., and to Secretary OF
war Dern, at Washington, D. c.,
demanding their immediate release
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

be necessary in the event of war
To encourage the art of naval war
fare"
But the real significance of this
feverish naval arming can be seen
more openly in the featured articles
of the liberal World kilograms spe-
cial correspondent to the Far East,
Roy w. Howard.
Returning to the United States
after a long sojorn in the orient,
which included an interview with
Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Mr..
Howard proclaimed that a war is
rapidly brewing in the Far East for
the domination of China and the
only policy for Wall STREET was i'm
mediate arniing for war. He dec
clared that "a building plan should
be launched At once which will bring
the American navy to full treaty
quota at an early date Roosevelt
had already gone him one better by
providing the funds for this.
Howard outlined Wall Streets
tasks in China as follows:
WN Manchoukuo, Japan has
created another Alsace-Lor-
raine, from which She will never
be busted except by force OF
To-day America faces the alter
native Of continuing indefinitely
. futile protest against Japan's
Manchoukuoan program of rec
ognizing that other nations less
content than ourselves with their
present territorial boundaries are
not yet prepared to accept foreign
concepts Of idealism IL or when
these concepts clash with their ma
tionalistic interests.
'Since It is now obvious that
there Is to be no peaceful restora-
tion Of Manchuria TO China, the
United States might, il approval
were assured, advantageousIy send
commission to ascertain what, in
the light Of existing actuaIities, our
future course should be with re-
gard to this alleged republic being
fcstered under the Japanese tute-
Iage.
And, finally, we should imme-
diateIy commence building the
American navy up to treaty quota
q move which could not be regarded
BY sny nation q other than the
logical and to-be-expected result Of
the collapse Of the anti-war and
disarmament programs.
But II today's situation teaches
anything, II Is that In the Far
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
New Prosperity
Turns Shipyard
Into Graveyard
By a Marine Worker Correspondent

BY q Marine Worker Correspondent
HOBOKEN, N. 1.-THE workers of
the United Dry Docks Fletchers
Plant have never been too prosper
GUS. The company is known for its
Graft System and most of the ia
coming jobs have been given away
to private contractors.
B. But for the last five weeks this
plant has turned into a graveyard.
No ship has entered or left. Only
two ships Of the American Export
Line, which are laid up here for
many months, mark that this place
is supposed to be a shipyard, The
whole plant is picture of desola-
ton and emptiness, while the CAPT.
talist press continues its false reports
of business upturns and job crea-
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
REPORT HORTON
WON'T PRESIDE
AT NEW TRIALS
Meanwhile Refuses to
Set Bail for Nine
Scottsboro Boys

NEW YORK-Judge James E.
Horton, now vacationing in Florida
while the innocent Scottsboro boys
whom he had in his power to free
await new lynch trials, in Birming-
ham county Jail, is reported as being
unwilling to conduct the new trial
for Haywood Patterson, according to
word received here by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. The an
nouncsment was made, it is re-
ported, when Judge Horton declined
to fix bail for the Scottsboro boys,
announcing that he had "disquali-
fled" himself from further presid-
ing in the case by having formed
an opinion"
Judge Horizons reason for this
stand, it is understood, is that he
has been prosecuted" by Attorney
General Thomas e, Knight of Ala
bama and Ex-senator Thomas Hef-
I'm, for granting a new trial to Hey
wood Patterson. Helm recently
sent a letter to Attorney General
Knight in which he Viciously at
tackled the Scottsboro boys as rap
ists'' and offered to help Knight get
another judge for future trials.
Meanwhile, Judge Horizons vaca-
ton in Florida is holding up the
argument on writS of habeas corpus
demanding the release of the boys
on bail, which have been prepared
by Gen. George w. Chamlee of
and Osmond K. Fraen-
KEEL of New York. lid attorneys.
The lid is pressing the demand
for the immediate, unconditional re-
lease Of all the Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
Worker Writes Pledge
of Support to LID.

NEW YORK"I will fail the lid
when l die" is the message sent to
the national Office Of the Tnterna-
tional Labor Defense by a worker
in Washington, Pa, enclosing three
dollars, the receipts from sale Of
Scottsboro penny stamps.
Dear Comrade," the letter reads,
Just a few lines to let you know I
will fail the LID when I die,
Antonio Rea"
The penny stamps, in sheets of
100, may be obtained from the na-
tional office Of the LID, Room 430,
80 East 18th Street, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
Mother Bloor, Noev II,
Hailed AS Rebel Fighter
Active in Scores OF
Strikes Throughout
the u. S.

1T wasn't the history of Ella
Reeve Bloor but rather the history
of the American labor movement
which Comrade Trachtenberg gave
you" Mother Bloor declared in
response to the tribute on the oe-
cassion of her list birthday. Her
speech in full follows:
Comrades, it is much better to be
alive and feel as young as I do than
to have my ashes sitting here. Don't
you think so?
want to say a word to the young
comrades. You perhaps chafed al
the history that Comrade Trachten-
berg gave you here this afternoon
But want to tell you that it wasn't
the history of Ella Reeve Broor. 1t
was the history of the whole Amer
lean labor movement, and I want to
tell you, comrades, that it is a good
thing to have human expression
once in while One trouble is this (:
that the American comrades are so
afraid of being sentimental, that they
forget the deep underlying idealism
of the Communist movement of the
world. And so today, greet you,
not as an individual, but as one who
stands for all that is ideal in this
movement, as one who stands for
better comradeship, for better work
among the masses, not turning to
the masses" all at once, but staying
right with them, having your roots
in the masses. We talk about turn
ing to the masses, instead of sticking
right in with the masses
I want to greet you again and
pledge myself, and this pledge is that
you needn't worry about having a lot
of old fogies OF II around. If wasn't
so terribly tough, it would be my
ashes here instead of me. want to
say that have made contract with
my oldest son, solemnly sealed, a
contract which consider very sacred
O1Apt tAiS iiiiRiSiSC SOltlS dtOuiiQ tdlA-
ing about the past and looking kind
of weary, and the minute 1 lose faith
in the working class and the farmers,
l want him to tie me up to the bed
post and keep me there. And during
every year of my life, it has been the
greatest compensation, the greatest
satisfaction to know that there are
ar1f1jaS of Hyo,tth hooG ~, tho r,;y,as
back on the farms, back in the tex
tile mills of the South, youth who
have come to me and said, I'VE
thank you for giving us our start in
this movement" And SO pledge
myself to stand firmly always for the
youth, and always to have my faith
in the working class.
Now comrades we must conquer,
but it means hard WORK. 1t doeSn' {
mean bureaucracy, it doesn't mean
sectarianism. 1t means work with
your mind, with your body, with your
hands, everything you have got, and
it is not a sacrifice, it is a privilege,
it is a great privilege to march in
this class struggle of ours, to organ
ize, to build from the bottom, not
to hand down from the top. And so,
friends, today I salute you because
you have got the youth here, because
on have got so man young people
here and because you have got so
many back there watching for you,
waiting for you. And when you GO
back, tell them that this was an
extraordinary conference where the
workers and farmers, the black and
white together, pledged ourselves to
victory for the workers and farmers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
SPECIAL NOTICE

The Marine Workers Industrial
Union must secure sleeping accom-
citations for large number of out
of town Delegates to It's Convention
will be needed begin
ing Saturday, July Is. All comrades
who can put up men comrades for
q few nights should Immediately get
in touch with the Marine Workers
Industrial Union at 14o Broad st.
or call, at any time, Whitehall A.
1858.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

terson, national secretary of the
international Labor Defense.
lid Refuses to Yield.
Motion to open the default, caused
by the manoeuverS of the American
imperialist government of the Phil
lipines under the governorship of
former mayor Frank Murphy of De-
troit. will be filed at the opening
of the U. S. Supreme Court term
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

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Might, After All Is Right" Says Liberal As
He Urges Roosevelt to Speed Warship
Building in Name of peace"
By HARRY CANNES

NEW of the maturing
- the prelude and symptoms of the impending in
Pacific In the Pacific Wall ST.
japanese of the Chinese
While the London berest clash
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
OFFICIALS BLOCK FIGHT
FOR RELEASE OF THREE
PHILIPPINE MILITANTS
Failure of Solcitor-General to Forward
Records Delays Appeal by |. L. d.

NEW YORKFailure Solicitor
translate and forward the records of the three
peasant leaders sentenced long
default the
to the u yesterday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

The weakening Of the Marking
government as the result OF the Jap
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
TAKOMA HEADS
PLAN MEETING

Appointment of town officials
for the year, work on a budget
and selection of a successor for
E. Barrett Prettyman, corporation
counsel, who has been named to
a Federal post. by President
Roosevelt, will occupy the town
council of Takoma Park at the
first meeting of the new council,
Monday night.
The meeting will be closed to
the public, said Mayor Frederick
L. Lewton. and will be held at
his home instead of the Carroll
Avenue fire hall.
Regular and special police. the
superintendent of public works,
the chief of police, town clerk
and dog catcher are among the
offices to be filled at the meet
ing. Committee assignments on
the council will also be made.
Members of the new council
include Mayor Lewton, John
Adams, Peter Remsen. r. G.
Sherburne, Millward Taft, Col. A.
L. Conger and Major c. Leonard
Bower.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
OIL MEN STOP
Gas TAX PAY

Gasoline retailers in nearby
Maryland and Virginia were dealt
a serious blow yesterday when oil
companies suspended the practice
of paying all or a part Of the
State gasoline taxes in the two
communities.
The Virginia tax Of S cents per
gallon had been halved by SER
vice station owners and the oil
companies. The Maryland tax is
cents per gallon.
Gasoline went up 2 cents in the
District as we'll, but this increase
is practically nullified by a 2-cent
reduction on all cash purchases
of gasoline. Officials of the COM
panies claimed that the credit
business was costing them 2 cents
per gallon in bookkeeping.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
CASE
UP To JUDGES

FREDERICK. Md, June g.
Two judges who have heard the
case against State Senator Emory
L. Coblentz today began their
consideration of a verdict, but no
decision will be handed down for
several days, it was indicated.
Coblentz, former president of
the closed Central Trust Com
pany of Maryland, was charged
with accepting deposits when he
knew the bank to be insolvent.
Final argument on both sides
was made yesterday, and tram
script of trial at Cumberland
on a similar charge last year was
read into the record by stipula-
ton of both prosecution and de-
Tense to avoid the necessity Of
calling witnesses to testify.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
COUNTY STREET.
LEVY EXTENDED

BY virtue of authority vested
in them by the last session of
the Maryland legislature, the
Montgomery county commission
ers have extended the special
assessments for street improve
ment work in suburban Mont
gomery county, effective July l.
A resolution adopted by the
commissioners declares that the
unpaid balance of all open &C,
counts for that purpose shall be
considered the total assessment
against the property named in
the account.
It is to be reassessed so that
the annual payments will be half
the original payment and that
instead of taking five years, pay
ments will last for ten years.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03

Leslie C. McNemar, newly ap-
pointed associate editor Of the
District Federation of Federal
Employees, is an attorney in the
office of the Judge Advocate Cen
eral of the Navy, and a resident
Of Clarendon, Va. He is presi-
dent of Navy Department Branch
of Local No. and a delegate Of
Local No. 2, and a delegate to
the District Federation.
He is native Of Illinois, a
graduate of Eureka College, and
a doctor Of Jurisprudence from
the University of Chicago. He
was professor Of international
law and political science at
George Washington University
from 1910 to 1915, and for two
years debating coach and direc-
tor of athletics there.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
TAK0NA' s. BEER
ROW|N COURT

A rule to show cause why they
should not be restrained from en-
forcing the $1,000 beer license fee,
recently set up by them, was is
sued against the mayor, council
and police force of Takoma Park,
Md, yesterday by Judge Charles
w. Woodward in the circuit court
of Rockville. 1t is returnable
June 16.
The injunction is sought by At
torney Joseph C. Cissel, of Rock.
vile. in behalf of three Takoma
Park merchants who will be
forced to pay a fee of $1,000 to the
town after paying Federal tax
and receiving State license un-
der present arrangements if they
would sell beer.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
|C| |RL GREETERS.M'N 'NEMAR JOINS
ON VACATION FEE. STAFF

ANNAPOLIS, June 3. - With
the first and third classmen of
the Naval Academy on the high
seas, bound for the Madeira
Islands on the U. S. S. Wyoming
on their annual summer training
cruise, the "girl greeters" of An
napolis will have a vacation.
The greeters are an organiza-
ton of local girls who act as
hostesses for the midshipmen,
and with the social festivities at
tendant on the annual June week
they have been busy.
Now, however, with only the
second class left. the girls will
have little to do until the return
of the midshipmen on July q.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
COUNTYSTUD|ES
ILLEGAL BILL

Negotiations between the Ar
lington County Commissioners
and representatives of a firm
which sold the county fire ap-
paratus are being carried on to-
day in an effort to settle differ
ences which have arisen since the
contract under which the equip
ment was purchased was declared
illegal.
The equipment was purchased
on notes that extended beyond
the term Of office Of the board Of
supervisors that ordered them
and Is illegal, Commonwealth At
torney Lawrence Douglas ruled
recently.
1t is expected that some means
of compromise will be gained
within a few days and that pay.
ment on the equipment will be
resumed.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
S|ROV|CH PLAN,
IN PRINCIPLE,
APPROVED
Federal Employees Like Idea
But Believe lob Is Too
Much for One Man

The proposal of Representa-
tive william 1. Sirovich CD, of
New York, that a liaison officer
be named to act as a sort of
court of civil service appeals,
has brought into prominence
the question Of establishing such
a court, preferably, the Federal
employees seem to hold, one that
would comprise more than a sin
gle officer.
The Sirovich plan has won
widespread appreciation so far as
the principle is concerned but it
is felt generally to be inadequate.
Such a job, it is contended,
would be too large for one man,
and it is pointed out that the
Sirovich plan does not provide
for staff for his liaison officer.
The Civil Service Commission
on many occasions has asked
power to perform just the func-
tions contemplated in the Siro-
vich bill but Congress has paid
no heed to its suggestions. Now
that Sirovich has raised the is
sue, 1t is thought, Congress
might give more heed to the pro-
posal of the commission.
The commission, according to
those who favor it's assumption
of the duties Of civil service
court of appeals. already has the
necessary machinery, and could
undertake this new work with a
minimum of expense.
Sirovich and Chairman Mitchell
Of the commission have discussed
the whole matter thoroughly in
the last two days.
The Washington times., 1933-06-03
P PANAMA AIDES
LOSE LEAVE

Employees of the Panama Canal
stationed in Panama who quit or
lost their jobs between June 80,
1882, and March 30, 1888, can
not be paid for any accrued Gu
mulative leave that might have
been credited to them, under a
ruling of Comptroller General j.
r. McCarl today.
Although otherwise leave sta
tus of canal employees is not much
affected, the economy act. in eff
feet during that period, sus-
pended all annual leave with
pay.
Ordinarily annual leave is Gu
mulative in the Canal service, up
to 100 days.