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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-04-11
Shipping News

The Carib sailed for ST. Til omas yes
dav. Passengers: Rasm1S Peter en-,
Karen Petersea, Bodi Pet RS en-. Enid
Chrietiansen. Danpet Rlrretta. Euei u
ME Philips.
The Motorkoat 'Vlglant arriVe1
from ST. Thomas yesterday afternoon
with the following passengers: Aga'ha
Andrews and Dennis Valley.
The sloop Tomas Jose" arrived from
San Juan P r. yesterday afternoon
with gasoline consigned TO K 'bt. Z
Merwln
The schooner Resolution" arrived
from ST. Thomas yesteld day afternoon.
The S. S. Haiti from New York is
due at trederiks'ed tonight aud will
proceed for the lslan
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-04-11
PROCEEDINGS
OF HE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR ST CRolX

Continued from Tribune April l0fh.
The Chairman: Will the honorable
member please address the Chair and not
call upon the audience?
9th Appointed Member Joseph: Re-
ference has been made to them already.
9Th Appointed Member Joseph: Con-
.inuing, Today he Poor Farm is the
only recompense of the people who have
worked all their lives 10 this island. The
poor people of this island would be we'll
served if this Dill goes through because
they are promised bonus on their farm
products. / say this because this IS tne
chance have been working for. hoping
for and praying for; and now it has come
| am here 10 support it for the benefit OF
the people whom thsy say are going 10
be exploited o the case of Mr.. Ruggles
the moment he heard that quota was
put on sugar inthlS island he backed OUT
ard everything fell flat TO the ground.
and now the Governor of the Vlr-ln Is
lands has secured money 10 rehaOliitate
the island you are wing the people are
going to be exnoited If there is any
thing that is ridiculous is what has been
said about expoii lon. Gentlemen, l
thank you for listening 10 me so patient
ly. | am sure ! have not sal ! anything
you cannot agree with.
1st Appointed Member (M0orehe1dl'
Mr.. Charm IN. jlst want to let This
Council know that / agree that this bill
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-04-11

ST. Croix rum manufacturers wno had
found themselves in hopeless condl-
ton with large stocks of rum in their
warehouses and with no permission to
ship 1t 20 the UniIed States nave oeen
given much relief by he recent action
Of the Federal Alcohol Control Admins
trationwhich has authorizedunlimted I'M
ports of rum from the Vlrgin Islands IN
April. he Virgin Islands will be on quo
la basis but. in an effort to encourage
liquor price reduction large importations
have been authorized from all countries.
Lieutenant. Governor Lawrence ".
Cramer returned from 81. Thomas on
the SIS. "Ormes' yesterday.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-04-11
Thought for the Day
We'd. Apr. IL
We'd. Apr. IL

Wtu. 4 pT. II
TIE plrer We are the m)re temptations
we saall nave. out the more Victorious
wssl all CONS out of them
G. A, Studdert- Kennedy.
H. M. PlGOFT Rector.
st. Johns Church. Christidnsted
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-04-11
sT.CROIX TRIBUNE

Published daily except Sundays H 0
days at SO B Company st. Christisnste
st Croix y. l.. S. A. by St. Cr.i
Cooperative Society
Entered asseeond class matter on July
Ist 1922 at the Past Office at Christian
ted, st. Croix. Y /. u S, A. under the
Act of March 2rd. 1879
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
March Issue of "Sovie.
Russia Today Contains
Many Lively Features

Among the contributors to the
March issue of Soviet Russia To-
day, just out, are Susan H. Wood
ruff, Alice Withrow Field. Myrs
Page and N. Krupskaya. The
special feature of this issue is
Women and Children in the Soviet
Union" In addition, an article BY
M. I. Kalinin deals with the results
Of the recent 18th Party Congress
and its significance for the U.sSR.
and the world proletariat. Corliss
Lamont, in a review OF Sherwood
Eddy's book, What Can We Learn
From Soviet Russia shows what
liberals seem incapable Of learning.
There are letters from Soviet.
women workers which are intimate
and interesting pictures Of how
they live under the socialist state.
Soviet News Briefs deals with the
latest developments in various fields
under the Second Five Year Plan.
This issue contains So photos taken
recently in Soviet Russia, and seven
drawings and cartoons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
"YOu GIFTS the Seed and
The Cotton Is Mine"

list and (b) the landowner, always
manages to get them something
while he lets the white cropper sp-
peal to the government.
IL FER. and other government
and local officials hate to thin
of what will happen if federal relief
stops especially with the temper Of
the people as shown last year
~ Those who have not gotten
C.W.A. money resent not being on
the payroll with the result that for
two opposite reasons there Is
strong feeling Of resentment against
the Roosevelt government.
49, Few Negroes have been put
TO work on C.WA. projects because
the Negro does not vote and there
is 2 distinct tendency to give Jobs
to voters and thus strengthen the
local political machine.
IA The county land agent making
contracts with farmers to curtail
production upon government in
structions ignores the almost half Of
all farm workers here who are share
troopers
15) Only 20 per cent Of the farms
in this county are worked on
cropper basis but about half OF the
farm labor consists Of troopers.
49, Less than one out of every
Is farm owners in this couiSy is
Negro.
I'D The production credit ssso-
citation operating here as through
the whole South as a government
agency to aid the farmer is obviously
functioning only for the benefit Of
the large landowner and the cor
porstion-owned plantations
49, The rate Of interest this asso-
citation charges the small farmer
who tries to borrow from 1t makes
it prohibitive.
49, The small landowner conse-
quently feels very bitter convinced
again that the government is simply
run for the rich"
20) There is a distinct tendency
to approve increased taxation OF
the rich so as to take away money
from them and give il to. the poor
who have none" 49,.
I'd This view Of large taxes for
the rich is wide spread even among
the wealthy in this area.
20 There is a complete lack Of
faith in the honesty and integrity
Of the political Office holder whether
local state or national. THE mil
lionaires tell them what to do" Is
the generally expressed sentiment.
49, They feel that Roosevelt.
though, is for them; If he fails
in trying to better their conditions
they will tend to blame the million
aires, not his schemes.
This is the final instaIIment of
John L. spivak's account OF his
visit to BrOOkhaven, Mississippi.
In his series on Life In America. y
In tomoTrow's Daily Worker will
appear the first INSTRUMENT Of
Spivak's series on New Orleans,
Louisiana.
TO be cOntinuedl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13

and Others.-EDITOR's NOTE.
CLEMENT VOROSHILOV was
born in 1881 the son of a railway
worker In his youth he was a
shepherd, farm laborer and miner.
He began to 60 to public school
when he was twelve years old. In
1896 he began to work as a factory
worker in various steel plants. In
1899 he led the first strike and was
arrested on that account. In 1908
he joined the ial-Democratic
Party. In 1905 he participated in
the strike movements during the
revolution, was again arrested but
released under the pressure of
demonstrating masses. In 1906 he
participated in the Fourth. and in
1907 in the Fifth Party Congress Of
the Russian Social Democratic
Labor Party. At the Fifth Party
Congress he became acquainted with
Lenin.
From 1908 to the beginning Of
the war Voroshilov worked in vari-
Gus places on Instructions from the
Party, was arrested, exiled, escaped,
was again arrested and again sent
away. During the Civil War he
was successfully commander Of the
Fifth Ukrainian, the Tenth and the
Fourteenth Armies. His defense Of
Tzaritsin against the Whites, where
be closely collaborated with Stain,
is famous VoroShilov has been a
member Of the Supreme Revolu-
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him to go ahead. It was a song
about a white man talking to his
Negro cropper after he had signed
a contract with the government,
and two lines tell the whole story
"AccOrdin' to the contract has
signed.
You gifts the seed an the cot
ton is mine"
Are things any better now that
the government is spending money
down here?"
"Sho'. But We amt gettin' none
of it, one OF them laughed The
others joined in.
What do you get?"
"Nothin' Amt never got nothin. 3"
Did you ever get anything?"
"Sho. Us tenant farmers used to
get advances. Now we got to go to
the Red Gross. Cap'n says he can't
afford to feed us. He says we ought
to be satisfied we got place to
sleep"
Looks like you're worse off than
before the depression, doesn't it?"
He agreed, by nodding his head.
Only now he done brought his
whole family" one Of the group
added in cheerful agreement.
To summarize what has happened
in this typical county of the deep
Souths cotton area since the de-
preston brought his whole
! family:
l. Five out of every six persons
are living off government charity
2. About 4 out Of every 5 residents
in this county were literally starv-
ing when government aid came.
,. Government projects, like C. W
A, P. w. A., farm-loanS, etc, have
still left the overwhelming ma ority
of farmers penniless and dependent
upon charity.
4. Local politics played q great
part in distribution Of government
jobs, with the result that only a
few got them and feel somewhat
contented but the overwhelming
majority nurse a deep resentment
against the government.
5. Before government aid started
coming in here there was open talk
OF having revolution-like them
BahlsheViks: this talk has Quoted
down, but is still prevalent.
81 The Red Cross and FER. are
now distributing direct relief to two
out of every five families in the
county. The Red Cross has no more
flour nor clothes and the FER is
cutting down on its portions of
relief.
. One out of every FIVE farmers
who owned his own land lost it
for non payment of taxes. some
times as low as 500.
81 Most FER. and Red Gross
aid is going to troopers because
they have been hit harder than the
small independent farmer.
81 Few troopers are getting anv
sort of allowance from the land
owner. Those who do, get from
SO to S21 for the whole season be-
tween March and August.
10) Fewer Negroes in proportion 10
their population appeal for federal
aid than whites because (a) they
know whites are on the preferred
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
By JOHN L. SPIvAK

BROOKHAVEN, Mss
wandered along a Lincoln
County road this morning.
Several Negroes were burn
ing the stubble of last years
growths. trash" they called it.,
preparatory to blowing for the new
crop. got to talk with them and
asked whether they had benefited
by the government contracts for re-
stricted blowing.
l knew from previous experience
that the Negroes innermost feelings
are not opened to a casual white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13

m a n. L q e y
agree with him
no matter what
they + e a l y
think. T h e Y
h We learned
n o t to expose
t h cir thoughts
{ o o o pc n y.
They frequently
express t h E i T
feelings in song
and when, in
q n S " 2 r to my
question o n e
Negro laughed
and asked if he
could sing me a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
7 RlIs
BY SENDER GARLIN,

ONE Sunday morning last April, got off the train in
v Atlanta Georgia had from Decatur Ala where,
few days previously Haywood Patterson had been
fenced to die in the electric chair by the fair minded
Judge James H. Horton
In the Fulton Towers Prison in Atlanta another
Negro youth convicted old preWar Civil law passed
to prevent slave instructions He faces 1920 year term
on the Georgia gang Angelo Herndon His crime"
the fight for relief for the unemployed Of
Atlanta,
workers press first went Jr, the
Gus Negro lawyer John Geer had defended
Angelo Hndon carrying fight for his release
1t was the path followed in the
seottsboro fight boldly and for the first time
in the deep South put demand the International Labor
Defense for Negroes jury the fore at the same
time the whole issue Negro oppression and the violation OF the
rights guaranteed the Constitution of the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13

tionary Military Council since the
end of 1919. He took an outstand-
ing part in building up the Red
Cavalry. After the Civil War, Voro-
shilov was successfully commander
of the North Caucasian and the
Moscow Military Districts. He has
been Peoples Commissar for the
Army and Navy and chairman of
the Supreme Revolutionary Mill
tary Council since 1925.
Tomorrow: VASTLY BleHcher.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
TUNING In
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Heyavood Patterson, From Death Cell,
Thanks Wexley for Scottsboro Play

Haywood Patterson, one of the
nine Scottsboro boys, has sent the
following letter Of appreciation to
John Wexley, upon learning Of
'They Shall Not Die" Wexley's play
based on the Scottsboro frame-up.
Patterson, who is now in a death
cell in Kilby Prison, Montgomery,
Ala, sent the letter to Wexley thru
Joseph r. Brodsky, chief counsel OF
the International Labor Defense.
Haywood Patterson's letter fol-
lows:
MY dear Wexley:
This certainly is . great mo
ment for me to take the pleasure
In trying TO write greater friend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Inside the Prison

WE 40 minutes with Herndon -yar old boy VINO
started life as the OF 49, Although kept IN
what was virtually cell almost six months HerndonS spirit
breste FIRE and whenever have
visited class war prisoner gone inspired by the
z and these wokersoated as they are
from the physical Of the class struggle.
Herndon Scotsboo the tactics OF the de-
fense the reactions Of asked about Tom
Mooney about the progress of the unemployed He pleaded
for books work in prison. and when LETT
he eagerly took the magazines newspapers sticking
my pockets
@You may do what you HerndOn," the Negro
before white ruling judge and
iury during Atlanta. you indict him. You
NAV in will other thousands OF
really want to do something about the
ndict the whole social system But
role to defend the system under
which toling robbed and oppressed
Comrades! Herndon. Think Of it's
on chain gangl already spent in this
Atlanta dungeon you 10 s Those of
who have impaeny waiting for subway
street-ca that arrivngDo YOU KNOW
HOW LONG 10 YEARS IS?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
PHILADELPHIA

10TH JUBILEE Concert of the Freiheit
Gesange Fsrein, Friday March Is. at $50
pm. Academy Of Music, Broad and Locust
Streets. Oratorio 'Tzwei BREEDER" Sym
phonv Orchestra and soIofsts Tickets at
popular prices from members Of chorus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Listen, [ Am
.ACOn1nnunist
By DON WEST

I am a Communist
A Red
A Bolshevik
Do you, toilers Of the South,
Know me,
Do you understand?
Do you believe the lies
Capitalists say
And print about me7
You farmers,
Share troopers,
Renters.
Factory Workers.
Negroes, poor whites.
Do YOU understand me,
Do you see
That I am you, ...
That I, the Communist.
Am YOU? -
I am Don West, too,
The poet,
The working man.
But the poet
Is a cry for justice
The Communist is the tempered soul
OF a hundred million toilers
Marching to victory
A new world
A working mans world ...
I am the son
OF my grandfather.
His blood pounds thru
My veins, and cries out
For justiceI
am the poet
Who sings to the south
And she responds
With sobs Of misery ...
I'm not foreign
No body
With calloused hands
Is foreign to us
I'm Don West
Raised on a Georgia farm
The son of my mother
And a Communist.
That means
want bread
And homes
And clothes
And love
And beauty
For all your hollow-eyed babies
! want songs on the lips
And JOY in the eyes
OF your anxious mothers
Who scrub
And hoe
And weave in a factory.
You toil-hardened men and women,
Whose backs are twisted
Making profits for capitalists.
/ am building new world
Yet not I,
But you
WE!
For We are the Communists,
We are the toilers.
Did you ever hear Of the
SOVIET UNION,
Where our comrades
Have laid their burdens down
Have taken what was always theirs
And dismissed the loafers,
The Capitalists? 81.
They are calling us
To rise
To organize,
To be free.
And do you hear me9 =.
I'm speaking,
I, the poet,
Don West
Communist,
Bolshevik,
Red.
Working man,
Southern toiler
You will hear me
And you'll believe,
Because I am you,
You are me,
And 4
We
Are power
tKennesaw, Ga,)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
VOrOshiIOv and Other Leaders
OF the PrOletarian Red Army

The Daily Worker begins today the publications Biographical
series Army Today we publish high
points in the life of Clement yOroshHov popular
msar the Red Navy succeeding days pub
lh accounts Of the lives Budenny VASTLY Bueche
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
A New School
in St. Louis

Here Is news Of new school just
established way down South in st.
Louis, Missouri, at 1913 N. Garrison
Ave, with students composed mainly
of active fighters in the trade unions
in factories, they inform us. They
have classes in Principles of Com
munisn, Political Economy, Strike
Strategy, Colonial and Negro Prob
lens, Party Organization, English
and Russian, Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday evenings at T:30 p. m.
And as a result of the st. Louis
Workers School they have noted a
decided increase in the sale of the
Daily Worker and other revolution
airy literature down there.
How many students have you,
comrades? Let us hear more about
you.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union in Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, has opened a class in Trade
Union Strategy and Tactics at 755
South Main St., j. Miller, Organizer
of the local, instructing, and they
are calling for donations of pamph-
let's or books on the Trade Union
movement. Hw about consulting the
newly established Los Angeles
Workers School? The address is
224 S. Spring ST., Room Alb.
Miscellaneous
Notes
The Workers Cultural Center
Board of Directors has decided &c
give the use Of its building for the
full time Minnesota District Train
ing School, scheduled to start April
22nd, and last for our weeks. There
will be 80 students, from cities, min
ing towns and farms of Minnesota,
Northern Wisconsin, and Upper
Michigan.
San Francisco Workers School, 121
Haight Street, began their Spring
Term last week.
Chicago Workers School, 1892 S.
Michigan Ave, began their Spring
Term yesterday. They write in that
the building they are now housed
in used to be a rich mans mansion.
The New York Workers School,
IS East 18th Street, has opened
registration for it's Spring Term.
The Spring Catalogue shows 50
classes scheduled, and many new
teachers in its staff of 46. There
are eighteen classes in Principles
Of Communism, and II classes in
Political Economy, the largest
number the school has ever Of
fered In one term.
(Send communications for this
column 10 A. Markoff, Room 301,
IS East 18th Street, New York
Cfty.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
| What's Doing
In Workers
Schools of US.

From Philadelphia comes a short
short story with a sad ending. It
seems that in Philadelphia there can
be no Workers School because they
have no money and they have no
forces. So they broke up the Work
ers School, and that was the end
Of that
No money! Was there ever a
Workers School with money? The
Workers School of Brownsville had
no money either, 50 they ran
banquet for which they modified
all the mass organizations In their
territory through the fractions,
and raised q nice little sum to
start with. Everybody who sold
Ave tickets for this banquet got a
course free. They recruited a
committee Of 100 TO raise S100.
They distributed sheets of Ave and
ten cent stamps to be sold for the
benefit Of the Workers School Of
Brownsville. And then they had
money,
No forces! This from a city with
population of nearly two million!
What about the comrades in the
John Reed Club? What about the
comrades in the Pen and Hammer?
Do not depend on Party members
alone. One comrade in charge of
the work in the school is enough.
That is all that the Boston Work
ers School has. The rest of the
people who work in the school can
be people from mass organizations,
sympathizers, people who are in
tereSted in education in general. II
you look for them, you will surely
find them, and they will be only
too glad to give their time and their
energy to build Workers School
in Philadelphia.
We hope TO receive a longer
story from Philadelphia very
shortly, and we expect q happy
ending.
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than you are. OF course 1 hardly
realize just how to express nv
sincere appreciation to you, what
you are putting forth in my be-
half. And I am sure gratified to
hear of the play, "They Shall Not
Die" oh, I trust that 1t will be of
great success and 1t only gives me
great joy to realize that / have
the heartfelt sympathy OF you an.
L wish the play viii bring forth
good results. Please extend my
sincere appreciation to all Of the
workers.
Yours truly,
HAYWOOD PATTERSON.
Ktiby Prison, Montgomery, Ala,
March 5, 1884,