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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
URGE SCOTTSBORO
MARCHING CLUBS
Naturalization Comm.
Gives Next Steps

NEW YOR K.-Organization OF
"Scottsboro Marching Clubs" of those
who partook in the recent Free the
Scottsboro Boys March TO Washing
ton, was recommended by the execu-
tive committee of the National
Scottsboro Action Committee, Satur-
day.
The Clubs will take active part in
performing the tasks outlined by the
Committee in its fight to save the
nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys,
and to win democratic rights for the
Negro people, it was announced.
ct Is necessary that there be Or
ganized bodies to carry out these
tasks" the Committee said in its an.
nouncement. TT is proper that those
who partook In this historic march,
the first mass march to Washington
on behalf of the Scottsboro boys and
the Negro people, should be organized
together, and that they should fulfill
this function"
Concentration in states and cities
VI bAAC Dill VI SlNlA Ibikt1OO III bAAC
Negro people, in the form of city-or-
dinances, and state laws embodying
the same principles and demands of
rights, was also decided upon by the
committee.
Immediate perspectives for action
by the committee include the obtain
ing of million signatures to the
petition for the release of the Scots
boro boys, addressed to President
Roosevelt. Two hundred and five
thousand signatures were presented
to the president by the marchers.
The campaign for the passage of
these laws, as well as for the federal
bill presented to the president and
congress by the marchers will be
built around the slogan Of Mass Vio-
lation Of Jim Grow Laws" it was de-
cided.
1t will include canvassing of all
representatives and senators in Con-
gress, as wen as local and state leg
islators, and the exposure of all those
opposed to the Bill Of Civil Rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Police Expose COmpels
Court to Free Worker

Los ANGELES.-Larry Golfers,
young worker arrested in the May
Day demonstration at Brooklyn and
Cornwall sts., was released when
charges OF vssrsncy against him we're
dropped.
Golfers was exposing the police
frane-up on the stand with such ef-
fectiveness that the prosecution was
forced, in order TO cut short his ex-
posure, to stop the trial and dismiss
the case.
The trials OF the other eight work
ers arrested at the May Day demon
stration are to come before court on
May 81. They are Lawrence Ross,
Paul Stern, Max Shone, Joseph 10th,
A. Cohen, Sol Fisher, Sam Davis and
Daniel Seigel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Over 100 Victims in
Charlotte, N. C. Terror
WaveAgainst Negroes
BY q Worker Correspondent

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-About q
month ago street car motorman
was killed In a hold-up. There were
no witnesses to the crime but the law
claimed, that three Negroes did it.
Forty-fiv minutes after the first
killing another motorman shot and
killed young Negro worker. Wini-
fred, who was on HIS way to work.
A week later another hold-up took
place in town and this time Greek
cafe owner was killed. Again there
was no witnesses and again "the law
said that Negroes did It. Big dick
Gumshoe Littlejohn, chief of the de-
tectives, knows all about it, he says
-shhh, keep quiet, I'm closing in on
the killer.
In the meantime ever since the
first killing gumshoe Littlejohn's cops
are riding wild all over town picking
up Negroes off the streets, taking
them down to the police station,
beating the hell out Of them, put
ting them in the lineup and after
holding them four or five days turn
ing them loose.
l know a Negro worker who was
offered $500 by the law to help frame
up anybody for the killing of the
motorman.
SO far over 100 Negroes have been
picked up like this and beaten up.
Some have been beaten up right on
the street. Only last Saturday night
On Second ana Brevard Sts., a Negro
worker vas beaten and had his head
cracked and left lying In the gutter
by two rural cops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Slanderous Attack by
Renegades Condemned
by Yugoslay Club

NEW YORK.-At the meeting of
the Yugoslav Workers Club held on
April Goth a resolution was adopted
condemning the SANDER of the Love-
stoneites against the club. An article
in the Lovestone sheet appeared on
April is under the heading Gang
sterism in the Yugoslav Workers
Club" 1t was signed "a Yoguslav
worker" but it is clear that it was
written by the renegade Gauchin.
Hall of the article is devoted to lying
statements.
The resolution repudiateS the at
tempt of these renegades to SANDER
the leaders of the Communist Party
and especially comrade G. Hathaway.
1t tells these enemies that: I'VE wish
to inform the Lovestoneites that our
Club did not have nor will have any
other political leader but the Com
munist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
MARTIAL LAW TO
ENFORCE JIMCROW
Zone Laid Out by Gov.
Murray Of Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, May II.
Smouldering resentment among the
large Negro population Of Oklahoma
City has developed following the ul-
timatum by Gov. William H. (Alfalfa)
Murray's declaring martial law over
three-block strip extending from
Eastern Avenue to Walnut st.
Governor Murray's action was di-
rected at enforcing the strict jim
crow rule against Negroes in Okla
homa City, who ordered them ito
confine their activities and opera
tons to definite, separate and segre-
gated areas
The governor told committee of
Negro business and professional men
who called on him following the an
nouncement of his ukase, that the
order for military rule in the jim
crow section was prompted by de-
sire TO avert bloodshed."
The zone laid out as the residential
and business district for Oklahoma
City Negroes is an area which begins
at the Fair grounds, one-half block
north Of East Seventh Street and ex-
tends to Eastern Avenue.
EDITORS NOTE: Negro and
white workers Of Oklahoma City
are asked to send the Daily Worker
additional details about jim-crOw-
ism and persecution Of Negroes
there. Enclose newspaper clippings
also.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
BOOK NOTES
MARKS CLASSIC ON PARIS COM.
MUNE CONTINUES NEW
MARKHAM SERIES

With the Civil War In France, by
Karl Marx, just issued, international
Publishers continues the series of
MARKHAM classics which when com
pleted will contain the principal
works of Marx and Engels, in revised
and new TRANSACTIONS, some of which
have not yet appeared in English.
This work, which is one of the most
brilliant historical essays ever written,
was read by Karl Marx before the
General Council of the international
Workingmen's Association (First In
ternationaD Just few days after
the bloody suppression of the Paris
Commune by the combined French
and German armies. 1t has become
an outstanding classic Of MARKHAM lit
erature.
This edition is specially enlarged
one. 1t contains the famous 1891 pre-
face by Friedrich Engels which in it.
self has become MARKHAM classic. To
this has been added still another
classic-Lenin's speech on The Les
sons of the Commune in which he
demonstrated the historic meaning Of
the first working class government
for the present movement and point
ed out the mistakes which the Com
munards had made and which partly
led to their defeat. II was by his
grasp OF the lessons OF the Commune
and the Marxst teachings on the
state that the Bolsheviks were able
to avoid the repetition of similar mis-
takes during the Russian Revolution.
The international edition of Civil
War also contains the two mani
festoes on the Franco Prussian War
of 1901 which we're written by
Marx and addressed ITO the Mem
bers Of the International Working
mems Association in Europe and in
the United States.
This is the most complete edition
Of this classic yet published in the
United States and is issued in pam
phlet (25 cents as we'll as in cloth
bound Marxist Library editions sd.
The Communist Manifesto 90 cents
and Wage-Labor and Capital 90
cents have already been published
in this series. and those to be pub
lished soon include The Critiquc Of
the Got ha Programme, Ludwig
Feuerbach, Germany: Revolution and
Counter Revolution, The Origin of
the Family. etc. Ob5ahnable at all
workers bocl;shops OF direct from
International Publishers 351 Fourth
Avenue, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
COST OF LIVING
Is STILL RISING
To Go Up More, Says
Journal of Commerce

CLEVELAND, May II. In the
midst Of the prosperity talk, from
all over the country news continues
TO come in indicating that the cost
Of living is steadily rising.
A survey Just completed by the
Cleveland press" shows that the
price of bread has risen / cent per
loaf. Meat has risen from 1 to S
cents pound, while -four has been
advanced several cents per sack. The
following list is given by the Press
comparing prices Of May with
March 8, showing sharp advances all
along the line,
Prices March 3-Butter, 1920 h.;
Eggs, 15-25c doz.; Beef, 1920 h.;
Porl-, 91a-11c h.; Flour, 1880 eighth;
Sugar, 47c 10 lbs; Oranges, 1890
doz.
Prices May 5-Butter, 25-29c h.:
Eggs, 1890 doz.; Beef, 20-35c h.;
Pork, 1910 h.; Flour, 1890 eighth;
Sugar, SIC 10 lbs; Oranges, 1880
doz.
Shoe Prices Going Up
The prices of clothes and shoes
are also moving upward. The In
ternational Shoe Company, one Of
the largest producers in the country,
has announced increases of SO cents
to 81 in its prices.
The Proctor and Gamble Soap
Company has announced the fourth
advance in its prices this month.
The wholesale prices of meats have
risen sharply In the last week, with
accompanying rises in the retail
markets.
Predict Still Higher Prices
The price of loose milk has Just
been raised again in New York City,
and retail dealers report that after
June l, the sale of loose milk will be
forbidden forcing the masses to pay
the increasing prices Of bottled milk.
Leading capitalist papers, like the
Journal Of Commerce, predict retail
price rises of from Is to IS per cent
for the next two months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
TRY TO FRAME UP
MOR0SS And WIFE
Use Anti-Red Law in
jackson, Mich.

JACKSON, Mich, May 17.-Char-
ges of criminal syndicalism" have
been placed against Ernest Moross
and his wife Kate, militant workers
active in Mosherville.
Their arrest was effected thru a
subterfuge, state troopers originally
charging them with driving with i'm
proper license plates.
MoroSs and his wife we're return
ing from a meeting in the Workers
Hall, 624 Oak St., and driving along
the highway when troopers followed
close upon them in their cars and
ordered them to halt when they
reached their garage. Refusing to
leave their machine, the workers
locked themselves in, securing the
doors by tying ropes and rubber
hose from one door handle to the
one on the opposite side of the car.
After the troopers twisted the
door handles off and started break
ing the windows, Moross seized
tire pump and his wife hurled a
two-quart glass jar, but it missed
connections and went crashing to
the cement floor Of the garage.
Following a struggle the cossacks
succeeded in smashing the doors
open an dragged the couple off.
Mrs. Moross resisted so vigorously,
however, that they were forced to
pick her off the floor and carry her
into the police machine.
Workers Of jackson are indignant
at the brutal frame-up against these
miltants and announce they will
fill the courtroom when their trial
is called ON May 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

verdict against Patterson should be
set aside and a new trial granted,
it was indicated by the national Office
of the LID. today. These will in
clude: exclusion of Negroes from the
grand and petit juries prejudice and
terrorization of defense witness and
defense counsel; prejudical errors
made in the trial; Indictment to VOL
ence in the summation of Wade
Wright when he made his now famous
statement about buying Alabama
Justice with Jew money from New
York" and In general that the YER
dict was against the weight of evid-
ence.
VIII Present Affidayits
In support of the motion for new
trial, the LID. will present aff1davitS
Of defense lawyers, newspaperlnen
and observers at the trial, proving
definitely the charges of prejudice
and threats to the lives of the boys,
their witnesses and their attorneys.
While the exclusion of Negroes
from jury service will be the key
point in the demand for the throwing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Ala. Gang Whips Negro
Boy; Say He Bantered
With Young White Girl

GREENVILLE, Ala, May II. -
While denying reports that a young
Negro boy was lynched near Georg-
lana last Sunday night, the sheriff's
office today admitted that the lad
had been yiciously beaten for insult
ing white girl.
This is the story as told by one
Of the sheriff's deputies:
There's nothing to it. A little
white girl about IL saw a Negro boy
walking along with Negro girl.
"she said, is that your grip And
the Negro boy said, No, you're my
girl
Later the girl told her father
about 1t and they took the boy out
and whipped him. That's all there
was to it,"
The deputy said be did not knew
the Names Of the girl OF Of the re
gro boy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Unemployed Struggles Get
Results for Workers

the last
STATIONS and of the Every
with energetic resistance by the
What have gained by the demonstrations the results
struggles?
The capitalist rdcues these demonstrations
that it's best fight against the the
The Down Town Unemployed Councils in New
their delegates visited the Committee Unemployment
Der Of that Central Committee asked What
The DAILY WORKER printing reports demonstrations
parts of the the
workers would have live without
struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

out of the death verdict against Pat
terson, other issues will also be
strongly put forward. Among these
will be a charge which created a
sensation in the courtroom when
first made by Attorney Joseph r.
Brodsky-namely, that the jury re-
eeived and made telephone calls while
celebrating" on the Patterson YER
dict. This alone. the defense feels,
is sufficient to warrant the setting
aside of the verdict.
WIN Describe Terror
In the argument before Judge Hor-
ton, the LID. lawyers will review
the whole lynch atmosphere which
prevailed in Decatur during the trial
and show that 1t was impossible to
expect fair trial. under these cir
cumstances.
In the event that Horton refuses
to grant new trial, the defense will
proceed with its plans to appeal the
verdict to the Supreme Court OF
Alabama,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Commissioners Reject
Demands of TOilers
in Aberdeen, S. d.

ABERDEEN, S. D.-The demands
OF the unemployed workers and farm
ers for increased relief were rejected
by the county commissioners.
The united front committee of
Unemployed Councils of Aberdeen
and the farmers of Brown County
demanded from the commission: Cash
for all r. F. c. work at SOC an hour
minimum, allowing 80 hours a week
for family OF 2 and increases &C.
cording to size of family. They also
asked that the Red Gross supply
flour, clothing and shoes. And there
should be no discrimination in relief
distribution.
Since the organization Of the Coun-
ell many victories we're won, such as
gaining relief increases, payment of
rent and unity of workers with the
farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
New Trial Hearing for
HerndOnSet fOrMay u

ATLANTA, Ga, May 17--Hearing
ON motion for new trial for An
gelo Herndon has been set for May
81, 1t was announced today. The mo-
ton will be argued by Benjamin j..
Davis, Jr., and John H. Geer, Negro
attorneys for the International Labor
Defense assisted by Ansel Morrison,
young white attorney Of Atlanta.
The hearing will be before Superior
Court Judge Lee B. Wyatt, original
trial judge. 1t was Wyatt who SEN
fenced Herndon to 1920 years OH the
chain-gsng.
Protests should be sent to him care
of Fulton County Court. Atlanta. Ca,
demanding the immediate, uneopdi-
tioilal release of Herndon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
The "Daily" Must Weld
Fighting Spirit of the
Miners in Pennsylvania
Increased Circulation in the Coal Fields Is
Necessary to Combat New Roosevelt
Pinchot Terror Offensive

must be pushed with all energies IN
the Pittsburgh district. A substantial
circulation of the Daily Worker
among the miners is the main
method of reaching thousands of
miners. 1t Is stimulant to strug-
gle, it is an organizer Of struggle.
1t cornbats the lies and programs Of
the capitalist press. 1t reflects the
fightirg state of mind of the miners.
1t shows them that they are not
alone. That millions of workers are
with them in the struggle. That
their conditions of struggle, the ter
ror used against them, are the same
throughout the country.
The special Saturday edition will
make subs easier for the impover-
ished miners, who can club together
for a subscription. The Daily Worker
can also be utilized in carrying for
ward the circulation drive of the
Mine Worker. An increased circula-
ton of the Daily Worker and the
Mine Worker, and an increase in IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

terature sales Especially Of the
numerous penny and two-cent
pamphlets) will lay the foundation
for broad organization Of the miners.
that will be able not only to resist
the terror of Sheriff Seaman and his
agents among the American Legion
and United Mine Workers of America,
but also to successfully conduct win
ming strike-struggles for increased
wages, increased relief and unem-
ployment insurance. 1t will help to
break down the illusion, still strong
among the miners, that Roosevelt
and Pinchot are trying to better their
conditions.
Every unit and all Party members
should carry the circulation drive Of
the Daily Worker into the mass Or
CARNATIONS. There is mistaken
idea among some of the comrades
that the Daily Worker is only Party
organ.
1t is much more. 1t is the work
ers' paper!
Daily Worker agents and workers
correspondence should be developed
in all the mass organizations. 1t is
only in this manner that the Daily
Worker circulation will be increased
in our district.
The comrades in the Pittsburgh
district did very well in the Daily
Worker financial drive, almost doub-
ling their quota, with equal spirit, the
same thing can be accomplished in
the present circulation drive. Set
realizable quotas and organize real
drive in connection with the develop
ment of local struggles, and there is
no doubt but that the Pittsburgh
district will go over the top in this
campaign as it did in the last one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
By JACK TOMBSTONE.

May Day in the Pittsburgh terri
tory was not only day OF workers
demonstrations but the beginning Of
increased government terror, planned
in Washington.
1t was no more coincidence that
almost at the same hour on May
Day that arrests took place in the
Finleyville section, the Avella strike
headquarters were raided, the homes
of almost every striker entered, their
relief flour taken away and that re-
lief stopped.
1t WAS no mere coincidence that
the Communist Party Office was
raided and that workers were picked
up on the street while going to a
demonstration that had city per-
nit
Nor was it mere coincidence that
30 local leaders were arrested on the
fake charge of demonstrating with a
permit, and although the judge was
shown the permit, all of them were
sentenced to prison without even be-
ing allowed to plead guilty or not
guilty, or TO defend themselves.
1t was no accident that those ar
rested on March 4 are suddenly
brought to trial, or that in every case
the Federal authorities were on hand
to Immediately deport those who hap
pened not to be citizens.
No, this is the organized manner in
which the Roosevelt Pinchot govern
ment. in order to put over the new
attack upon the living standards Of
the workers, sees the need Of ruth
lessly abrogating the rights that
workers are supposed to enjoy under
bourgeois democracy. More and
more, because Of the rising fighting
temper of the workers, fascist meth
DDS against them and their fighting
organizations are being used.
Must Spread Literature.
While the state of terror is so
great in Ayella that no two persons
are allowed to speak on the streets,
and deputies go into the mines to
threaten and bulldoZe the miners,
other strikes develop, such as the one
at the Isabella mine, while still other
strikes are in preparation. The weak
ness in the whole situation Is the lack
of organization.
This, in turn, is due to the weak
ness in our agitation and propaganda,
the very poor distribution OF itera-
ture and the lack Of a strong work
ers' press. The weakness of our
Party. the National Miners Union,
and the narrow scope of the united
front cannot be separated from our
backwardness in spreading literature
and in developing broad circulation
of the Mine Worker and the Daily
Worker Poor theological prepara-
tons and inadequate propaganda, are
forerunners of weak organizational
preparation.
This state of affairs makes it i'm
possible for the workers to resist ter
ror The workers see the same lies
published in all capitalist papers,
and unless we build our own workers
press where the workers side can be
told, and the Daily Worker and the
Mine Worker utilized as organizers,
We will not be able to weld the strong
fighting sentiment among miners in
to militant, organized struggles.
Daily Combats Lies.
The circulation drive now being
conducted by the Daily Worker for
5000 new yearly subs and 10000 new
subs for the special Saturday edition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Boston Doubles Own
Quota in Sub Drive

NEW YORK.-The following
telegram was received yesterday
from r. Cooper, Boston Daily
Worker representative:
Please send out 500 subscrip-
tion-blank books Immediately by
special delivery. Must have them
as soon as possible. Our quota
raised from 500 Saturday subs
to 1000. Full report later"
This is the first district that
has voluntarily set for itself the
task of exceeding the quota sug-
gested for 1t by the National
Office. What news from the
other districts?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Party Life
On Distribution of
Literature i'm Parade

The following letter was sent to
the Daily Worker from the Agit-Prop
department of the New York District
Of the Communist Party.
Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
In the May 10th edition of the
Daily Worker there appeared a let
ter signed s.. r. on the Anti-F Fascist
parade held last Wednesday. The
worker in this letter raised the ques-
ton that short coming noticeable at
the parade was the absence of any
leaflets stating the c. P.'s POSITION on
Fascism being distributed along til.
line OF march.
This is net SO. The New YORK Dis
trict Of the Communist Party issa3d
and distributed at the parade 10000
leaflets stating the Party'S position
on Fascism and Anti-Semitic attacks
against the Jews in Germany.
We desire you to announce this
correction in the next issue OF the
Daily Worker.
Cornradely yours,
District Asitprop Dept.
Editors Note:-While the fact is
hat 10000 leaflets we're printed for
the occasion, the fact that worker
writes in to say that he saw no dis
tribution of any leaflets shows that
there must have been some weakness
in the organization of the distribu-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

July rs, 1s32.--In Toledo, Ohio
workers led by the Unemployed
Councils force county and city auth
critics TO appropriate $4,000 for re-
lief for unemployed after the relief
had been Fundamentally Worker
news.
August 90, 1S32.-East Bronx IN
employed Council forces City Relief
Bureau to give an unemployed worker
rent check after it had refused it to
the worker previously Daily Worker
news.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Letters from
Our Readers
Daily Only Paper
for Rank and File

Dear Comrade
/ have been reading the Daily
Worker for a period Of two years.
Comparing it with other radical pub
dcations, find it to be the only
paper that is putting UP a fight for
the rank and file, and as a result
of reading the paper finally de-
cided TO become member of the
Communists Party. / don't mean to
be a meRlher oDly-but to be an ac-
i've worker Of tie Party.
Comradely,