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International Labor Defense
namely, to raise all questions Of
denial OF constitutional rights in
volved in the cases. When once
more we were faced with an appeal
to the highest court of the land,
we would not be fulfilling our duty
70 these boys and the cause they
7ymbolize if we did not exert every
effort to enlist the services of the
same attorney who had successfully
handled the appeals Of the boys in
that court.
Insofar as Mr.. Leibowitz is con-
cerned. he came into the cases with
full knowledge of the worldwide
protest movement that had been
developed by the international La
Dor Defense and he acquiesced to
our expressed determination to con-
tirue and intensity this movement.
Insofar as the appeal TO the
United States Supreme Court was
concerned, frankly, we did not con-
slider Mr.. Leibowitz in that role;
we are advised that he has never
argued an appeal in the United
States Supreme Court in his en-
tire professional career, and in
deed, it is our information that he
is not even admitted to practice in
that court.
viii Continue Struggle
awe affirm that our struggle for
the freedom of the nine innocent
Scottsboro victims will go on I'M
abatsd; we will intensity our efforts
to develop an even wider and more
effective mass defense movement
throughout the United States and
the rest Of the world to STAY the
hands Of the exAcutioners and force
open the doors of Kilby and Jeffer-
son County Jails so that these in
nocent boys may be released. Fol
the furthersnce of that purpose and
in the interests of the rights Of the
oppressed Negro people we will con-
tinue to cooperate with anybody and
any organization that is actuated
by the same purposes. We will cal
conferences to support the Scots
boro defense; we will join confer
ences with all others for that pur-
pose; we will organize demonstra-
lions and parades; we will strength
en- and build the growing unity Of
black and white workers in support
of the defense; in short. we will
carry on that policy which has ad-
mittedly wrested the Scottsborc
boys five times from the electric
chair and has kept them alive
through the last three and one-hsli
years.
cat this time it is highly neces-
sary to set forth the history of the
Scottghoro cases snd the connection
of the International Labor Defense
with them.
History of Case
"On March 25, 1881. nine Negro
boys we're arrested at Paint Rock,
Alabama. and charged with at
lacking Two White glrls-Ruby Bates
and Victoria Price. On April 9th
the trials of these nine boys began
at. Scottsboro before Judge E. A.
Hawkins; they were represented at
the trials by an attorney named
Stephen Roddy, of Chattanooga,
Tennessee, who was retained by a
group of ministers at the sugges-
ton Of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
BY April 9th four trials had been
completed and death sentences had
been pronounced on eight of the
Scotsboro boys.
AT this time the international
Labor Defense. though it had not
vet entered the legal defense Of
the Scottsboro boys. already had
initiated protest ovemen
against the verdicts, which was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
Sound Education

A newspaper man went to visit a public school the other day. It was in Missouri, and he wanted to be shown. He came away feeling that he had missed a lot which today's children are taking in easy strides" "To the casual observer" he reports, "the three R's are pretty much submerged. I discussed newspapers with a group of student reporters who kept me gasping for the answers, heard the boys in agriculture class review problems of hus- bandry with the air of veterans, and ob- served the execution of political meeting in which nominees for school officers were chosen. Frills, some folks would call these things but the youngsters get chance to learn good many things their fathers had to find out while playing for keeps."
 It is getting to be the regular experi- ence of doubting elders who visit schools to find that the youngsters are making practical use of their education as they go along. They get out excellent little school papers, in which the writing is generally we'll done and the spelling is good. They know tremendous amount about electricity, engines of all kinds, ra- dios, and so on. Through their student governments they are solving, within school walls, many problems similar to those of the world outside. It is interest," ing to find, too, that usually this work is spoken of in terms of good citizenship.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
. Thought for Today
The Reason Why

The only possible construction that can be placed upon the returns from the recent primary in Massachusetts is that the voters of that state favor continuance or the Presidents national recovery program:
 Here is something for the voters ot Connecticut to null over between now and November 6, not something miles away, but right in their own next door yard.
 For the first time in a primary in the Bay State, more votes were cast for demo- cratic than for republican candidates. The total vote for the three democratic candidates for governor was 439, ,778. The total vote for the candidates for governor on the republican ticket was 353, 3,791, a difference in favor of the democrats of 85,987.
 That the old Puritan commonwealth IS changing is clearly disclosed by the votes of the past four years. In 1880 the demo- crats boiled for the head of their ticket 213,OOO; in 1882 it had advanced to 317,OOO and this year it was increased to nearly 438,O00 The combined percentage of four and two years ago was 39 per cent of the total primary vote. This year It had jumped to 53 per cent.
 The plain implication is that Massa- chusetts, like Maine, not only endorses the policies of the President, but in a manner to leave no room for doubt. In anticipa- tion of the relief and recovery and reform advocated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1882, the most populous and industrial of the states forming the seat of conservat- ism in the country gave him a majority of 63, ,189 out of total vote of 1,537 ,O9S.
 After year and half of actual ac- complishment by an administration whose every effort clearly has been dedicated to the public interest, the people of Massa- cfusetts have gone much further. In a total primary vote of 793,569, or less than half the total vote of two years ago, they gave the democratic candidates margin of 85,987 over the republican candidates. And for the very palpable reason that s the democratic candidates pledged fealty to the President and his program. Con- necticut state democratic candidates have done likewise, in view of which it should not be hard for the voters to decide which party is the better bet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
In Line Of Duty

The news that 137 doctors, nurses, and laboratory workers in Los Angeles were stricken with infantile paralysis, during their fight against an outbreak of the dis ease, is grim reminder of the fact that these people very often undergo risks which the layman does not dream of, in their effort to save the lives of others.
 In some epidemics the doctor and nurse can be protected by serums or vaccines. In others, however, there is no certain protection. Doctor and nurse must take their chances with everybody else = and, of course, by going into sickrooms daily, and undermining their resistance through overwork, they simply increase the danger to themselves.
 It is thing worth remembering. It is too easy to overlook the quiet unasum- ing heroism that members of the medical and nursing professions are constantly displaying, day after day, in the perform ance of their duties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
So They Say

Perhaps you will say that when our money has been devalued we can bring it up again That is impossible once it has no longer any value. You cannot revive the dead.
 Decentralization does not mean that industry will move from Chicago to the Tennessee Valley from New England to California. It does mean that the workers will be gradually taken from the tenements in tke crowded sections of the city and moved to the periphery of metropolitan areas Henry R. Hartman, president U S. Chamber of Commerce.
 He called me name and he didn't Smile There was nothing else I could do but hit him. I'm very fond of MT (Herbert) Marshall and I'm sorry had to do it.
 John Monk Saunders, firm writer.
 It is business-a great thriving business and we in England who sail yachts because we love sailing never win the Americas cup un- til we make it a business, too.
 Captain T. O. M Sopwith.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06

dertaken on the Washington monument Mrs Hiram Johnson once made a transcon- tinental telephone call in the in- terest of her pair of Pekinese dogs. From California she called Washington wet" in whom she had confidence to ask what to do about case of pos- terior paralysis in her Pekinese. NINE CARS, ONE WALKER
 While members of the cabinet sit with the president in the Blue Room of the White House, their cars stand in a long line in the driveway; two Lincolns, one Cadillac, three Packards, one Pierce Arrow, two, Bucks, nine cars for ten cabinet officers. The secretary of state walks from his office across the street. Diplomatic social func. tions have lost caste since repeal made good liquor available everywhere .,. Anna Dall tends to "Eleanor Blue'' even in dust cloths. The rag she carries in the pocket of her blue sedan is that famous color. Frugal soul, she is conserving the upholstery method. The cars window glass is spotted with fingerprints of small children, Sistie and Buz- zie.
 BEER
 For eight months the White House has been trembling at the thought of the repercussions which might ensue from the serving of the famous 3.2 beer at the last Christmas party. When finally it did pop out, everyone dropped dead to find that nationwide public opinion was almost solidly with them. What the papers failed to publish was that the attempted recommendation of the beer party at the Metho- dist Convention in Atlantic City was inspired Gin fertile soil, to be sure) by several very close to the republican political throne Despite Billy Mitchell's demand for more airships, none is on the horizon. Navy Secretary Swan son is convinced they're of no great military value, and that their cost should be spent on airplanes.
 GROWING PAINS
 The new National Labor board is taking no chances. In antici- patton of vigorous legal chal- lenges by employers it is plan- ming to enlarge its personnel .. Four new lawyers will be added in the near future, with more later on Of the 29 cases of Kidnapping worked on by Super- Detective Hoover since the en- actment of the federal Kidnapping law, all but three have been cleared up. Seventy-one of the gangsters involved got sentences totalling LII years, two were lynched, and three others com mitted suicide.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Harry Roosevelt, naval assist ant secretary, plans a quiet little hunting jaunt into the Maryland mountains in November. He is going to 6 famous hunting club which Andrew Mellon is one of the leading members The club has thousands of acres of virgin timberiand and its own rangers who. spend the spring gathering eggs from the nests of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
Economic Pressure

If Bruno Hauptmann's $10 bills had not led the police. to his door just when Z they did, the investigation into the burn- ing of the Morro Castle would have been front page news longer. And if it had, we might have been forced to recognize the fact that something is badly out of gear in the machinery of ocean transpor- { tation.
 For it is futile to suppose that the Nor TO Castle tragedy will be cleared up" if the exact cause of the fire is discovered, or if this or that officer is deprived of his ticket. The whole case is just one more symptom of bad situation which seems to extend to all maritime nations these days.
 There was delay in sending out the sos, there was confusion and lack or discipline among the ships crew, many lives were lost that might have been saved. These are the grave charges < that have been made. They don't apply to the Morro Castle alone. They were true when the British ship Vestris went down; they have been true of other post war sea disasters.
 And they reflect pressure which eco- homie circumstances have put on the an- cient business of carrying passengers across the sea. The captain has lost his old independence. The home office is, or can be, in touch with him every minute by wireless; the temptation to save their money and reputation by deferring to the very last minute call for help is almost < Irresistible.
 For if the captain issues such call, and then discovers that he could, after all, have got his ship through unaided, his head is apt to come off when he reaches port = and every captain knows it. Fur thermore, ship makes no money lying in port. For this reason the 'turn around" is quicker now than ever before. Ships spend little time in port between voyages = crack liners, very often, are at their piers only a few hours between one voyage and the next.
 Az result, it is hard to keep crews. Sailormen like their shore leave. Person. nel of the ships company changes from trip to trip = so discipline inevitably suf- fers. and the necessary emergency drills faiI to result in smooth, perfectly work ing machine.
 Add to alI this the fact that passen- eers nowadeys want ships to be super. kolsIg, with fine panelling In the cabins. much gini-crackcry, and the like. Because 6f fhIs, ateoI ships are fitted with flimsy, iaf|ammabIo passenger quarters - and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06

Washington, Oct 6.-One of the most amazing and closely guarded diplomatic secrets is that regarding Japan's several proposals for an alliance with the United States. The Japan csc, however, did not put it as crudely as that. They used the word Non-Aggression Pacific Pact, but it meant the same thing. The idea, first proposed by Viscount Ishii just before the London Economic Conference, bobbed up time and again, but not until recently would the Japanese definitely take No for an answer.
 LOST OUT ALI AROUND
 Marion Smith, one of Roose- velt's new labor arbiters, once sent a bill to the Public Works Administration for teaching law to PWA lawyers. Smith had come up from Atlanta, Ga., to try to get a PWA grant for a sewer, claimed PWA lawyers. know nothing of law. He got neither the sewer nor his ex- pense bill. Minnesota's ex- convict Representative Francis Shoemaker makes TO bones of the fact that he considers him. self a dangerous man. His self penned Congressional Directory Biography contains the follow- ing: "A self-educated editor, edi- torial writer, traveller, lecturer, farmer and lifelong student of nAI l. stormy petrel of Minnesota poli- tics with a reputation for tip- ping over and wrecking political machines"
 TOO MUCH WORK
 Jim Moffett's yacht, tied up at a wharf along the Potamac, may be a restful place for the Fed eral Housing chief himself, but not for his Filipino servant. Late parties and early breakfasts eclipsed the night, so he resigned, took an easier job at a lower wage PWA propect number 1-1P-1876 is not the Paducah high school building or the Grand Coulee Dam, but recon- struction of the executive offices of the White House Jo- seph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Securities Exchange Commis- sion, once persuaded Harvard dignitaries to conduct a course of lectures on the movies. Ken- nedy, a Harvard alumnus and motion picture magnate, man aged the program Build ing stone specialists of the Bu- reau of Standards estimate that you will have to live two hun dred years more before you will again see any major repairs un-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
A Book a Day
Tells Of Honors In Women's Prison
 By BRUCE CATION

Chain gangs and Tammany-con-
 trolled jails are not, 1t seems, the
 only spots where the human race
 demonstrates its incapacity to act
 as its brothers keeper. There is
 also the prison for women, where
 sister gets just as raw a deal as
 brother ever got.
 gather this from reading "Fe-
 male Convict a sensational and
 disturbing book which was ghost
 ed" for some anonymous woman
 by Vincent Burns, brother of the
 Robert w. Burns who fled from a
 Georgia chain gang and co-author.
 with him. of the famous book de-
 scribing that experience.
 "Female Convict" tells what hap pened to girl who was caught de- frauding 0 department store and sent up for a seven-year stretch It gives you the feminine counter- part of the kind of prison recently described by pr Louis Berg in Revelations of a Prison Doctor:"; the kind of prison that SinclaiI Lewis put. so unforgettabiy. into "Ann Vckers."
 It is a miserable. disgusting tale Vtth1tto HtU " DeaFsU aba oaD' honest persons who ought not t1 he entrusted with dog pound; | first offenders thrown In with hard. cned criminals; filth and bad food and vermin-infested living guar. ters and general. ail-nround brutal. ity mixed in . way fit to persuade any prisoner that society is q mean and implaeable enemy.
 Unfortunately. "Female Convict is very badly written. ft lacks per. suaslve power for that reason. Iti disclosures may all be true as EOS. pei-but tho author doesn't com. pel you Co believe them. as these otheF books compelled you. And that. for an expose Of this kind, C q fatHi defect.
 Publlshsa by MaesuIsy. Che beoh seiis for te.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
Chuckle eCorner
OIL IN FUN By John Labadie

Orange oil comes from the wed- ding "pear.
 Lemon oil does not come from Germany. even if 1t does have the Rhine.
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. takes his oil seriously, even if 1t is crude. Read where a doctor, visiting . gas station patient, had his oil changed. Said it makes his case better.
 Every youngster thinks there is whale in castor oil. Always blub- bers when he takes it.
 Heard that q Heights young lady got her dates mixed and said every thing was oil in a jam.
 Like the time the iceman kissed our maid carrying 6 pound of but ter and she gave him an oiled right.
 And a certain Weatmont woman doctotring her hubby. after rubbing his chest with glycerine, tucked him in, saying "Now blast your hide."
 Our Heights bright girl said her reason for wearing a rain coat on a sunny day was because the local beauty parlor had an cd saying women with oil skins will be treat ed free.
 And take, for instance, the old fiivver. After continually feeding the crank case on q long ride you feel like an oil day sucker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
Press Comment
SMALL TOWN ELECTIONS
(New London Day)

The outcome of the "small town elections" in Connecticut will be claimed by both parties as an indi- cation of victory, no doubt, in the coming state election. There are, as a matter of fact, encouraging signs for both major parties to be seen in the. results; how m u c h significance they have in- predict ing the outcome of the November voing is another question, how ever. The republicans, as 1t hap pens, have the more cause for jubilation, for they made conn fortable net gain in the number of towns in control of members of their party. It is unsafe to assume, however, that this means the re. publican state ticket will win eas- fly. Small town elections are in most cases settled on local issues and personalities. Often they have little or no bearing upon the state or national elections.
 The net gain in towns, the vic. tory in Middletown, the close result | AAA SnVoO ANCtVy1 served to encourage the republi. cans but, as explained heretofore, they are not conclusive evidence of trend that will extend to the state elections and be reflected there. Few of the town contests involved the principles of the new deal or of state policies. If anything the results of the cleo. tions showed that the residents of Connecticut communities still elect their officials with considerable in- dependence. Reports came in from many sections, for instance, of a greater than average number of split tickets. Most of them indicat- ed that the voter cast a ballot for some one or two candidates. not because of his political affiliations but because of personal approval Of good man."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
THE WET VERDICT (New Britain Herald)

As all careful analysts of state sentiment have been aware for years, Connecticut Is and has been of a piece with Rhode Island. New Jersey and Maryland on the dry. wet question. Only one man of po- litical prominence ever confidsd in us his sincere belief that the state might not be as wet as the wet men thought 1t was: md he was Prof Levitt. who some years ago was of such a distinctly dryish sem timent that he saw dry pavements on rainy days.
 As only Ave of s2 Connecticut ttowns went dry on Monday, the wet sentiment throukhout the state seems to be well authenti- cated. Even the fact that the sz which voted are only part of the galaxy of towns In the state there is no reason to think that the sen. timent throughout the state has been changed since repeal.