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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Il 600 ALA. MINERS STAY ON STRIKE, DEFY ROOSEVELT
Call ALI Out
Today For
ScOttsbOrO0
Boys Tortured! Lives
in Danger! Join
Mighty Protest

NEW YORK.-The streets
of Harlem will resound this
afternoon at 5 pm. with the
demand that the Alabama
jailers stop their systematic
torture of the Scottsboro
boys, as Negro and white
workers from all sections Of the
city Join in tremendous demon
stration for the immediate, uncon-
ditional and safe release of the
nine innocent boys now held in
Jail for over three years.
The demonstration, which is ar
ranged by the International Labor
Defense, will take place at 131st
st. and Lenox Ave. Similar demon
STATIONS are being held throughout
the whole world today-Interna-
tional Scottsboro Day.
The district International Labor
Defense issued warning yesterday
that the lives of the boys are in
danger, through brutal torture and
starvation. The statement declares,
in part:
''The boys have been thrown
into solitary confinement. Warden
Rogers has made threats upon
their lives. On one occasion he
brandished a loaded revolver at
one of the boys, threatening to
kill him.
I'VE must raise our voices in a
mighty protest against this brutal
treatment of the Scottsboro boys.
We must unite our ranks and
spread the fight to free the Scots
boro boys. Only the mass protests
of workers all over the world has
stayed the murderous hand of the
Southern white ruling class. Only
the organized power of the Negro
and white workers united in a
mighty protest will be able to free
the Scottsboro boys.
"All out today, 5 p. M, in a
mighty protest demonstration!
NEWARK, N. j., April 24.-The
first Scottsboro protest meeting to
be held in this town is arranged
by the International Labor Defense
for Friday, pm, at the First
Baptist Church, Franklin an d
Montgomery St.
Speakers include Sam Strong,
New Jersey organizer Of the LID,
and Rev. G. H. Groce, pastor of the
church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
NY. Workers to Greet
5 ScOttsbOrO Mothers
Arriving Saturday
PROTEST FRAME-UP
Freedom of Boys To Be
One of Central Slogans

NEW YORK.-Five of the Scots
boro Mothers will march at the
head of the giant United Front May
Day parade into Union Square next
Tuesday. They will also be pres
ent at the evening celebration in
Madison Square Garden.
The five Scottsboro Mothers who
will arrive in this city on Satur-
day are coming up from the semi
feudal South to join in the protest
of the tens of thousands of New
York workers who will thunder
their demands against Hunger, War,
Fascism, wage cuts, unemployment,
increasing attacks on their living
standards and for the freedom of
the 9 Scottsboro boys, Angelo Hern-
don, Tom Mooney, Ernst Thael-
mann, German Communist leader,
and other class war prisoners in
capitalist dungeons throughout the
world.
The mothers are: Mrs. Viola
Montgomery, mother of Glen Mont
gomery; Mrs. Josephine Powell,
mother of Ozie Powell; Mrs. Ida
Norris, mother of Clarence Norris,
Mrs. jamie Patterson, whose son
Haywood Patterson has been three
times sentenced to burn in the cleo
trio chair by the Southern lynch
courts.
Freedom of the Scottsboro boys"
is one of the central slogans around
which tens of thousands of work
ers are rallying. Fight Against
Lynching; Against jim Crowism and
Segregation; Death Penalty to the
Lynchers," are other dema n d S
which will be carried by the march
ers.
The ScottSboro Mothers will ar
rive from the South at All pm.
at Pennsylvania Station this Sat-
urday. Thousands of white and
Negro workers will greet them at
the station.
On Mothers Day." May IL, the
five Negro mothers plan to arrive
in Washington, D. G. They will
demand of President Roosevelt that
he Immediately free their sons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
United May 1st
Demonstrations

NEW York. - Union Square
2:30 to pm, preceded by two
monster parades. Evening cele-
bration at Madison Square Gar
den, 7:30 pm.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Capitol
Park, facing Jefferson County
jail.
DETROIT, Grand Cir
Gus Park.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. - Public
Square at 4::3O pm.
CHICAGO, Ill.-Grant Park.
SOUTH CHICAGO. = At Goth
and Greenbay Ave, 4 pm.
PATERSON, N. J.-Sandy Hill
Park, at noon.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Old Court
House, Broadway and Market, at
4 pm.
BOSTON, Mass.-Charles st.
Mall, Boston Common at IL
o'clock.
AKRON, Perkins Square
at 2 pm.
NORFOLK, Va.-At Gone Park
Pavilion, East Princess Anne
Road and Bolton St., at pm.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Berger's
Park.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
PittSbur Oh, Kansas
JObleSS Storm Red
OsS-Relief Office
Demand Jobs or Relief
To All Unemployed
Workers

PITTSBURGH, Kan, April "a
Hundreds of unemployed stormed
the Red Cross-Federal Relief Ad-
ministration Offices here Tuesday,
brushed past the police guard, and
demanded immediate jobs or cash
relief to all unemployed workers.
w. A. Beasley, Crawford County
Commissioner, and former news
paper publisher, was knocked I'M
conscious when he attempted to
hurl tear gas bomb into the midst
OF the workers and families.
Which the workers arrived at the
building, spokesman entered to con-
fer with Beasley about the size of
the delegation. He returned to the
workers, and as the elected dele
gates followed him back into the
building, Beasley hurled the tear
gas.
Pittsburgh, Kan, is an important
mining city and railroad terminal
center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Aero
Strike Is Solid;
1000 in Meet.
600 Arrow Strikers
Mass Before
Plant
Especial to the Daily worker)

HARTFORD, Conn, April "a
Over one thousand of the 1900
Pratt-Whitney aircraft workers con-
tinuing on strike, met last night to
hear the report of the committee
meeting with the boss. The continu-
ance of the strike means the hold
ing up of orders for air mail and
war planes. The bosses refused the
workers demands.
The A. F. of L. has small group
Of polishers and machinists in the
plant and the Communist Party
warned the strikers that group of
A. F. of L. leaders may be used in
trying to put over sell-out. The
A. F. of L. members are also on
strike. The strike is led by the In
dustrial Aircraft workers Of
America independently and the
strikers are demanding increased
wages and union recognition.
1900 strikers of the Arrow, Hart
and Hageman Electrical Co., con-
Quoted militant mass picketing in
front of the plant, with over 900 on
the line today. There are over 900
women in this strike and the women
were active in the mass picketing.
Trucks have been stopped by the
militant picketing. The Arrow strik-
ers are now meeting to hear the
report of the strikers committees
meeting with the boss.
The speech of Earl BrOwder,
general secretary Of the COmmu-
mist Party, last Friday, is still be-
ing discussed on the picket lines,
in the streets and elsewhere. "a
great speaker Z. q real organizer
:. the Communists are OK" are
the comments of the workers on
PROVIDERS speech.
Yesterday Mayor Beach instructed
over 100 police and plainclothesmen
to break up an unemployed demon
stration at city hall, and refused to
see the workers delegation. The
police attack was brutal, many
workers being dubbed. The Unem-
ployment Councils are preparing a
mass march on City Hall for relief.
They pledge solidarity with the
strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
BY PAT TOOHEY
Especial to the Daily Worker)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April
24.-The 21,000 striking coal
miners of Alabama remained
on strike today, rejecting
Pres. Roosevelt's proposal that
they return to work under a
new N. R. A. wage schedule which
does not grant their demands. AT
the same time district wide strike
Of 5000 iron ore miners is probable
The ore miners are now demand.
ing recognition of the international
Union Of Mine, Mil and Smeltel
Workers "a. F. of l..
Three ore mines of the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Co., and the
Raimund ore mine of the Repub-
lie Steel Co., voted to strike unless
their demands are granted. The
steel workers Of the Thomas Blast
Furnace of the Republic Steel CO.
met today and put Is demands
before the company, threatening
strike.
The coal operators are trying te
use the tonnage rate of pay to get
the increase in wages conceded
them cut down to 10 per cent. The
decision maintains the
wage differential, the lower wage
scale, for the South. The decision
of the N. r. A, setting a wage scale
of $3.50 a day, is 81 below the scale
for the coal fields of the North.
Yesterday deputies and thugs
prevented a march of strikers on
the Overton Mine of the Alabama
Fuel and Iron Co., II miles from
Birmingham. This was after the
~ R. A. order came through or
dering the miners back to work.
forces have been in
creased everywhere. The National
Guard is still on duty.
The slogans of the Communist
Party are taking effect and the SEN
timent of the miners is against ac-
cepting lower wages for the South.
Robert Gregg, president of the
Coal and Iron Co., spoke
to the T. c. I. strikers and de-
the Communist Party. The
T. C. I. put "a extra deputies in on
duty, fearing steel strike.
Four successful united front May
Day conferences were held last
Sunday. A large turn out of coal
and ore miners and steel workers
is expected, to hear Clarence Hath
away, editor of the Daily Worker,
speak at the May First meeting.
special to the Daily Worker)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April "a
Massing around the Fisher Body
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LOngShOremen Of
NorfOlkPrepareTO
Act under M.W.L.U.
Set Up Dock Commit
tees; Ford To Speak
on May First
Especial to the Daily Workerl

NORFOLK, Va, April PA mass
meeting of three hundred coastwise
longshoremen, representing seven
docks, last night unanimously voted
their willingness to take action for
the demands of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union. 1t was decided to
call special dock meetings and elect
action committees on each dock, to
prepare for immediate action for the
demands for higher wages and rec
ignition.
Three dock meetings are scheduled
TO take place tonight. The sentiment
and spirit of the workers for action
is good. The longshoremen voted to
rush preparations for the May Day
meeting, at which James w. Ford,
prominent leader of the Negro work
ers, will be the principal speaker.
Roy Hudson, national secretary of
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union and Wright of Baltimore,
pledged the support of the Balti-
more unemployed seamen in the
action now being prepared by the
Norfolk longshoremen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Orders for May Day Issue Of
Daily Worker Must Be Wired

NEW YORK. = Workers organi-
cations and industrial workers who
have not yet placed their orders for
the 24-page May Day edition must
rush their orders by wire to the
Daily Worker, so E. 18th ST., New
York City.
In New York City, orders can be
placed at the District Daily Worker
Office, IS E. 18th ST., or at the fol-
lowing section headquarters:
Manhattan: SO Ave. C and So w.
18th ST.; Harlem: 81 w. 115th ST.:
Lower Bronx: 699 Prospect Avenue;
Upper Bronx: 2075 Clinton Ave. and
Room 8, 685 Morris Park Avenue;
Brooklyn: 1872 Myrtle Ave; South
Brooklyn: 1880 Seth ST.. Boro Park:
81 Graham Ave, Williamsburgh;
1919 Pitkin Ave, Brownsville; jam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
.azi Blast Is
Broadcast in
W ashington
Correspondents Given
Fascist Propaganda
Memorandum
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, April 24-In one
of the boldest propaganda efforts
made in the United States since
the AXeman's Swastika was en-
broidered on the beak of the Prus-
sian Eagle, Hitler forces here
launched a barrage today which
screams abuse and wild lies against
the Jews, the French government,
the Soviet Union, Communism and
BolShevism," the millions of work
ers who refused to swallow Herr
Goering'S fairy tale about the
Reichstag fire and nearly every
thing else that conflicts or appears
to conflict with what is described
as the "self-assertion of Germany"
The latest Hitler publicity also
emphasized the Nazi policy of
bracketing their program with the
Roosevelt New Deal, Berlin proudly
and correctly infers fundamental
similarities.
Today's Hitler morsel is known
as Memorandum No. s." by DR..
Otto H. F. Vollbehr, Nazi propa-
gandist operating out Of Washing
ton, who was the recipient of ST.
100000 given him by Congressional
Act in 1880 for his collection of
about 5000 books, including the
famous Gutenberg Bible. The
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lions have been made into helpless
cripples. Millions of women have
been widowed and their children
orphaned, to millions of women
there has come unquenchable grief
and suffering. Not enoughl Misery
and deprivation, famine and star
walton, rule throughout Germany,
France and Russia. Belgium how
ever, and Poland and Serbia, whose
blood and marrow have been sucked
out by the vampire of German
militariSm are like vast cemeteries
and heaps of ruins. The whole
world, the Wanted civilization of
Europe is being destroyed by the
unleashed anarchy Of the World
War.
Capitalists Profit
And for whose benefit, for what
purpose are all these terrors and
bestialities? So that the Prussian
junkers, and the capitalist profit
takers who are joined with them,
can fill their profits by the sub
lection and exploitation of new
lands. So that the intriguers of
heavy industry. the exploiters Of the
army, can take harvest Of gold
from the bloody fields Of corpses.
So that the money! cbbsrs can do
a usurious business in WaS loans
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Arrest 2 Workers in
Chicago; Cops Try to
StifIe Mass May Day
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, April 24.-Charged
with FASTING May Day posters
calling on workers to support the
Workers Unemployment and So
cial Insurance Bill CHR. 1899,
which is pending in the U. S.
Congress, two workers are be-
ing held for deportation by Fed
eral authorities.
The workers, John Berg, "a,
and Uno Paivio, 80, were ar
rested Saturday night, suppo-
sedly on charge of violating a
city ordinance. The Interna-
tional Labor Defense will de-
mand their immediate release.
Police are using every means
to stifle the mass turnout of
tens of thousands on May First
in q march for which no permit
has yet been granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Detroit Meeting Tonight to
Fight May Day Ban; Scottsboro
Mothers to Lead NY. Parade
Workers and Students
Flooding Mayor COuzens
With Protest
OPPOSITION FLOPS
Protest Meetings Being
Held All This Week

DETROIT, April 24.-The May
Day Unity Committee which meets
Wednesday night in the Finnish
Hall will send another delegation to
Mayor CouzenS and Police Commits
Sioner Heinrich Pickert on Thurs
day challenging their flimsy pre-
text in denying Grand Circus Park
for the May day demonstration
because it is newly seeded up"
The committee will place before
the mayor and police commissioner
an alternative demand for Cadillac
Square, where workers demonstra-
tons were formerly held up to
few years ago.
The Committee today sent a letter
to Couzens and Pickert asking a
joint conference on this question.
Evidence is already on hand that
the police are attempting to prevent
any publicly with respect to the
police ban on workers May Day
demonstrations in this city. Police
scout cars are being diverted from
their regular work to pick up dis
tributors of May Day leaflets.
Couzens Move for Counter Meet
Flops
Indignation among the workers
against this arbitrary denial of their
rights of public assemblage and
free speech is growing. Students
of Ann Arbor yesterday sent a pro-
test to the mayor. Protests are
pouring in daily from various work.
ers and sympathetic groups.
Mayor Couzens planned for a
counter meeting on May Day to
detract from the United Front dem
onstration against Hunger, War and
Fascism. General Johnson, N. R. A.
dictator, was supposed to have been
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aica: 1929 Liberty Ave-; Mineola,
L. l.: so Main St.; Long Island City:
4206-27th st.
Red Weekend
April % and 20 will be Red Daily
Worker Days throughout the coun-
try. Every class conscious worker
is called upon to volunteer his or
her revolutionary service for spread
ing the May Day edition of the
Daily" on these two days.
Sell the Daily Worker in your
neighborhood, in your shop, in front
of factory gates. at every intersec-
ton where workers pass to and
from work. Help deliver a power
full blow at the wage-cutting Roose-
velt-N. r. A. administration by
spreading the May Day edition of
the Daily Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
LerrOuX Cabinet
Likely to Resign

LADIsID, April 24-The cabinet
of Alexandra Lerroux is expected to
resign very soon, perhaps tonight.
This regime, placed in power by
the Spanish ruling class to break
with a strong hand the growing
revolutionary front of the workers
and peasants, has failed in its task
although it resorted to the most
vicious methods of terrorism since
the overthrow of the monarchy in
1881.
General strikes which quickly took
on political character as the state
declared them illegal, sent its muir
derous special police force against
Them, and employed the army for
l.cab duty, are continuing in many
! parts Of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Artificial Silk Strike
May Call Out 10000

MARCUS HOOK, Pa.-Demand-
ing 20 per cent increase in wages,
the workers in the Lewistown and
Marcus Hook plants Of the Viscose
Company, makers of artificial silk,
threaten to spread the strike to all
five plants Of the company unless
their demands are met.
Should the strike spread to the
Meadville, Pa, Parkersburg, w. Va,
and the Roanoke, Va, plants, 10000
workers involved would tie up more
than one-nalf of the artificial silk
production in the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Protest Eviction

The Harlem Italian Workers Cen
ter modified it's membership to
protest the eviction of Margaret
Donaghey, wife of an unemployed
veteran, and the mother of five
children, from her home at $50 E.
115th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Win Relief for Negro Worker

NEW YORK-The Women's Coun-
Gil of the Bronx forced the Home
Relief Bureau to grant relief to a
Negro family which, although reg
istered for relief, had been put off
by the H.RB. for one year.
The Women's Council, of 951 Leg
gett Ave, Bronx, urges all working
class women to join in their fight
for cash relief to all unemployed.
The council meets every Thursday
evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Fisher Men
Halt Scabs
In St. Louis.
Cleveland
Ala b ma Ore Miners
and Steel Workers
Threaten Strike
BRASS MEN OUT
Auto Parts Strikes Are
Spreading
BULLETIN

TARRYTOWN, N. Y.
April 24.-Seven thousand
Fisher Body workers voted
to walk out on strike here
this afternoon, demanding
higher wages, it was re-
ported to the Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
Police Jail Fifteen
c. W. A. Pickets
Mass Picket Line Broken
by Police

NEW YORK-Fifteen workers
from the C.W.A. Railway Co-ordina-
ton Project, part of a delegation of
so workers who started to picket Col.
DeLamater's Office at Ill Eighth
Ave, were arrested yesterday when
the police broke up the mass picket
line.
The workers demanded that they
be paid their full wages of $21 a
week at which they are listed, in
stead of the present wage rate of
SIT week.
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special to the Daily Worker)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April "a
Massing around the Fisher Body
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
default has occurred in the conditions
of that certain mortgage dated the 9th
day of March, 1926, executed by Eliza
beth A. Watson and Thomas Watson,
her husband, as mortgagors, to Lena
Johnson (whose name has since been
changed to Lena Anderson as mort
gage. filed for record in the Office OF
the Register of Deeds in and for the
County of st. Louis, State of Mime
sofa, on the Bird day of April, 1926, at
IL M. and duly recorded in Book SIG
of Mortgages on Page 101, and that no
action or proceeding has been instituted
to recover the debt secured by said
mortgage or any part thereof, and that
there is due and claimed to be due on
said mortgage, including interest to date
hereof, the sum of Six Hundred Fifty
seven and 05-100 Dollars ($657 05), and
that pursuant to the power Of sale
therein contained, said mortgage will
be foreclosed and the tract lying and
being in the County of st. Louis and
State of Minnesota described as follows,
to-wit:
Lot Six Co and the Easterly One
half (Ely.2) of Lot Five go in
Block Seven Cd Anderson's Third
Addition to Virginia, excepting min
erals
will be sold by the Sheriff Of said
county at public auction on Saturday,
the 7th day of April. 1884, at 10
o'clock A. M. at the County Court House
in the City of Duluth in the Office of
the Sheriff in said county and state to
pay the debt then secured by the
mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said
premises, and the costs and disburse-
ments, including attorneys fees allowed
by law, subject to redemption as pro-
vided by law.
Dated January II, 1884.
LENA ANDERSON,
formerly Lena Johnson
Rosemeier & Montague Mortgage.
Attorneys for Mortgage
Am. Exchge. Nat. Bank Bldg.
Virginia, Minnesota. 2-16 3-23
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16
Winter Sports Day
On Sunday, Feb. Is.

On Sunday the north half OF st.
Louis County plans to hold its winter
sport day at Virginia. AT this time all
clubs interested IN entering contestants
may do so. There will be contests in
snow modelling, skating races for men,
women, boys and girls, toboggan races
that must have five to form a team,
broomball, ski sliding, ski jumping and
cross country ski races. There will also
be a queen contest.
The program is to start promptly at
10 A. M, and will continue until P. M
Beatrice Atkinson of the Hibbing Re-
creation Department viii be in charge
of information and entries. Harold
Aaase, assisted by Robert Gorton, will
have charge of the broom ball contest
c. s. Chase of Hibbing, assisted by Don
McFadden, will have charge of to-
boggan races. Ole Grinder, assisted by
August Neubauer, will have charge OF
the ski races.
Everyone is asked to bring their own
toboggan and skis, and if enough en-
tries are made there will be snowshoe
race. The Lakeland Auxiliary plan on
furnishing the "eats" for the day.
The recreation committee of the St
Louis County Club and Farm Bureau
Association extends an invitation to
everyone in the north half of st. Louis
County to participate in this event
Entries will be taken beginning at 8
O'Clock Sunday morning, Feb. ID
Special events are to be run off for the
c. c. c. boys, which will no doubt be
tobogganing and broomban. If the G
G. c. boys have skates, the COMMITTEES
will be glad to have them enter.