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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Students Hold Meets
Protesting Terror

NEW YORK. of enthusi-
astic meetings being held in Eastern
colleges on the Scottsboro, Herndon
and Tuscaloosa cases. is made to
the National Committee for the De-
Tense Of Political Prisoners by Allan
Taub. assistant secretary. who is
touring the schools speaking on
these cases.
After a meeting in Dartmouth col
lege, Hanover. N. H, under the
auspices of the Junto club, 200 stu
dents present voted unanimously to
send kilograms of protest to Judge
w. w. Callahan, of Decatur, Ala,
who presided over the trials Of
Clarence Norris and Haywood Pat
terson, and railroaded them to a
death sentence. and to Governor B.
M. Miller of Alabama.
This was the first occasion on
which these college students ever
participated in a protest action
against oppression and terror.
Taub addressed another, smaller
group, in Hanover, and followed
with meetings at Smith College,
Northampton, Mass, and at Am
herst College, Amherst, N. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
'JRC Annual Ball
Attracts Mass
Organizations

NEW YORK-Due to a number
Of requests from members Of mass
organizations who wish to attend the
annual John Reed Club Ball to be
held Saturday, May 18th, at Irving
Plaza, the John Reed Club has de-
cided to reduce prices from sl.00 a
ticket to 40 cents.
The ball is being given by the
John Reed Club and the John Reed
Club School Of Art, and is especially
noteworthy for its array Of talent
and entertainment. Otto Soglow,
well known artist, will give an orr
ginal humorous skit whose theme is
The Little King, the famous comic
strip character. Lou Bunin, famous
artist and puppeteer, will present
his marionettes in a new show writ
ten for this occasion.
A hot Jazz band will play till early
hours. Tickets for the John Reed
Club Ball can be obtained in ad-
vance at the John Reed Club 430
Sixth Avenue, and the Workers
Bookshop, 50 East 18th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Vanderbilt Is Star in
Phoney Anti-Nazi Film

war, but no mention is made Of the
equal culpability Of other national
ist rivals. A war scare is raised,
one that is calculated to prepare
the ground for workers in America
to be ready 10 give their lives 10
defend this fair country Of liberty,
democracy and equality"
Perhaps the most sinister piece Of
distortion is the sympathetic treat
ment Of the former Kaiser and his
grandson. Prince Louis Ferdinand.
the present pretender to the Hohen-
zollern throne. Prince Louis Is
quoted as saying that the Kaiser
was never and will never be a Jew
batter, that some Of his closest
advisers and ministers were Jews,
and that the reason for this is that
I'VE (the Hohenzollerns) are the
true democrats"
Workers, filn-goers beware the
movie companies. the Edwin Hills,
the Cornelius Yanderbilts, bear
ing gifts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

THE trucker dumped a load Of
plates beside Joe's press. Paused
a moment, and said quickly before
going away, "Garvey sneaked into
the bosses Office fifteen minutes
ago. He's still in there"
yeah? Thanks" One-two-t three
four, Joe's body moved as the time
study man prescribed, and the hun
cry NAV of the press ate up metal.
He watched that frosted glass door
down at the far end of the machine
filled floor. His minds eye saw in
side.
Stabely would be sitting at his
desk, his lean, sharp face with the
little brown moustache inscrutable.
Carney would be leaning over, talk
ing in that oily, throaty voice of his,
a fawning smirk on his lips. Selling
out fellow worker for a chance to
keep his job.
The door opened and Joe saw
Garvey come out and look about
furtively. Their eyes seemed to
meet for second and Garvey hest
tated, and walked to the Mushroom.
Joe stopped the press. His ways
we're direct. Down the aisle he
walked with long firm strides, and
the friendly eyes of fellow workers
followed him, understanding. In
shop as in prison news travels fast.
He banged open the door of the
lavatory.
HARVEY cringed back into a cor
" ner. II didn't squeal. Honest,
joe" he whined.
you lousy rat!" A red mist
swirled before Joes eyes. A sweep
ing urge to crush and maui made
the banded muscles of his arms
writhe and creep. His left hand
crushed into Garvey's neck and his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Needle Workers to
Celebrate Hyman's
30 Years Work

CHICAGO, Ill, May 4.-The
Chicago Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, as well as all other
needle trades workers, are preparing
to celebrate the 50th birthday and
80 years of activity in the labor
movement of Comrade Louis LYMAN,
President of the Union. The
celebration will take the form of
mass meeting called for Tuesday,
May 8 at 8 pm. at the Peo-
pies Auditorium, 2457 West Chicago
Avenue. This will be followed by
banquet on Friday, May II, at
the same place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
AmatO in "Andred ChenieT'"
At HtppOdrOme Wednesday

Pasquale Amato will sing the role
of Gerard in Andrea Chenier' at
the Hippodrome on Wednesday eve
ming. Norma Richter and Giuseppe
Radaelli will be in the cast. Other
operas of the week include Lucia
di Lammermoor, tonight; "Rigo-
letto," Tuesday night; Samson and
Dalila," Thursday evening; Nine.
Butterfly" Friday night; Faust,
Saturday afternoon; Aida" Satur-
day evening and Norma" on Sun
day night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
"Pirdtes of Penzdnce" Gt
Majestic Theatre Tonight

Gilbert and Sullivans 1.-THE
Pirates of Penzance," which was the
second operetta to be revived by the
group at the Majestic Theatre, will
return this evening for a run of
one week. Beginning next Monday,
the Chartock players will bring back
"Pinafore" and Trial by Jury" for a
second time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Philadelphia, Pa.

SYMPOSIUM Republican, Democratic,
Socialist and Communist candidates will
present program for the Crisis in Educa-
ton" Harry M. Wicks, Communist can
didate for senate, will speak. Friday. May
IL, pm. Lulu Temple, Broad g. Spring
Garden SITS. auspices Unemployed Thea
tres Council. Admission Csc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
HITLER'S REIGN OF TERROR.
Produced by Jewel Productions.
Now playing at the Mayfair The
atre, New York.
Reviewed by
LEO T. HURWITZ

THE Nazi terror is given only slight
visual documentary form in Hit
Iers Reign of Terror now playing at
the Mayfair Theatre, a crudely
edited potpourri containing some
excellent newsreel shots smuggled
across the German border by Cor
neliuus Vanderbilt, Jr, some re-
created scenes, photographed here,
Of events and interviews which
Vanderbilt, Jr., could not photo
graph in Germany, and short
speeches by Seabury, Rabbi Wise,
Leary Of the American Legion,
Matthew Vol of the Federation Of
Labor, Michael williams, John
Haynes Holmes, Raymond Moley,
and Representative Dickstein Of the
House Committee to Investigate
Nazism in America. The star Of the
film is Vanderbilt himself in the
role Of the young adventurer. brsv-
ing death and destruction, who sp-
pears in practically every shot that
he is given credit for having pho
tograp hed-a very neat trick Ed
win c. Hill, Hesrst's special distor-
ter Of the Human Side Of the
News supplies the running COM
mentary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
WHAT'S ON
Monday

POLITICAL PRISONERS and the
Press" lecture by Allen Taub, 1853 w. 23rd
St., $50 p. m, auspices Press League
Lecture to follow open membership meet
ing.
opera Of authentic African folklore, ad-
mission 35c. Unity Theatre, 1925 E. 2srd
St, p. m, closing May 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Dear Mike:

have had letter from Merscough says in part:
and hSten am to the Pittsburgh
st my bed were only the other side of this
70 see it this afternoon for the hospital West
ark where the the speaking
I'm so near and something of it though
it IS only the shouting"
Tom Myerough Of Union now minus two
pieces OF cartilage in his legs, and is getting
In your column the other s94 was
received think it only fair
collected privately before the column spoke
has number OF ympars Acknowledgement
this much is due them
ETIQUETTE STICKLER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

NAZI Ambassador Luther and
Nazi Consul Jaeger succeeded in
getting the police to suppress this
film for several days in Chicago.
The New York censors refused to
reject or pass the picture and it
opened at the Mayfair without the
censors' approval. Despite this Of
fetal boycott and despite the fact
that the film is anti-Nazi. contain
ng manv documentary sequences ex-
posing Hitler's terror scenes of the
destruction and boycott Of Jewish
shops, of the beating Of Jews and
workers in the streets and concen-
trstion camps. of Nazi storm troops
riding into throngs Of workers
workers who see this film should
be aware of the cloak Of demagogy
which it wears.
The Nazi reaction Is treated
purely as a wave of brutality
against the Jews. Nothing is said
of the millions Of workers who have
been enslaved by Hitler, nothing Of
the destruction Of the revolutionary
party and the trade unions. moth
ing of the Reichstag frame-up
against the Communist leaders Of
the working class, nothing about
the power behind Hitler, the forces
of big business and finance capital.
Hitler, according to Edwin G. Hill,
the commentator, is just a clever,
mad, Snowman, a combination Of
Jimmy Walker, Huey Long, Billy
Sunday, and Al Capone;" that he
is the psychopathic hired murderer
for SHINES, Metz, Krupp and COM
pany is carefully left unsaid. For
while this picture is anti-Nazi, it
is pro-fascist: in quite the same
way that Dollfuss and Mussolini are
anti-Nazi.
Mussolini and especially DolIfuss
are treated as heroic defenders
against the spread OF Nazisrn in
Europe. Brave little DnIifuss is
shown marshalling his Heimwehr
forces to defend" little Austria
against the Nazi invasion. But the
makers of this picture have no
words Of indignation against Doll
fuss's besieging of the workers
quarters in Vienna and other Aus
trian cities; Ed Hill does not cry
"red terror" at the destruction of
workers organizations and the en-
slavement Of the Austrian people in
the "totalitarian state" Hitler is
pictured as threatening a European
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28

Thaelmann's condition, saying:
1.-THE trial will start in two
weeks; then you can see him and
get an eyeful of your Thael-
MANN"
The Berlin "Volkszeitung" admits
that the Thaelmann: trial will be
the first big trial conducted by the
newly established Peoples Court .
This Nazi dispatch means that
Ernst Thaelmann will be deprived
of even the most elementary rights
as a defendant, rights which even
the Nazis have not dared to abolish
up to now.
The court is empowered to start
the trial without notice, in
desperate effort to catch the whole
world by surprise and rush the
death sentence through before
world opinion can be modified in
mis- defense.
Only the most determined pro-
test of the best-organized sort
delegations to German Consulates,
letters and kilograms to the Ger
msn Embassy and TO the Nazi
~ ter ef Justice in Berlin
paralleled by mass demonstrations
N factories and collection of pro-
test signatures can stay the hands
of Thaelmann's executioners,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Leaders Send Back
Minneapolis
Under Arbitration

Congressman Shoemaker today
told the Daily Worker: 7 am re-
sponsible for this settlement with
the trucking companies. Other Of
ficials Of the State are trying to
steal the credit from me, but they
won't get away with it, he said,
apparently referring to Gov. Olson.
Communist Party Active
The Communist Party and Trade
Union Unity League in Minneapolis
supported the strike and picketing
in such an energetic fashion that
Roy Weir, organizer Of the Central
Labor Union and Farmer-Labor rep
resentatiYe in the Minnesota Legis-
lature, found 1t necessary to tell a
crowd Of more than 10000 workers
at a recent meeting: we sppre-
ciate the help of the Unemployed
Councils and the Communist Party
which have sent in their best fight
ers in this strike"
The strike, which began on May
IS, stopped all trucking and taxi
operation.
Beer, milk and ice were delivered
during the strike as a result Of the
existence of agreements.
Strikers Spirit of Solidarity
Last Monday and Tuesday the
strikers defeated not only the DO
lice but hundreds Of hired deputies
as well and showed the bosses OF
Minneapolis that no amount of ter
rorism would break the strike. Al
most at the same time as the
strikers we're driving the deputies
from the market union leaders
agreed upon a 24-hour truce with
the bosses, and called off all pick
citing.
At the end of the "a hours, the
truce was continued indefinitely. anc
was in effect at the time the strikers
were persuaded to accept the present
agreement.
The workers, through their mill
tant strike, and the splendid re.
Spouse Of the building trades work.
ers have written a glorious page il
the history Of American labor. Theil
ranks remained unbroken even by
the brutal terror of the Farmer.
Labor Governor Olson's Nationa
Guards, and the hundreds of police
and fascist bands of special DO.
lice" and deputies.
The workers were sent back t,
work only because of the maneuver,
Of the union leaders. The com.
panies however, had to promise NJ
discrimination, such was the spiri
Of solidarity of the strikers.
1t now depends on the workers tx
remain vigilant and insist upon theil
demands in the arbitration board
and to rely only on the fightins
capacity they have displayed IL
the strike. Unless this is done. they
will be robbed of any gains and vii
suffer new attacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28

demonstration.
The conference Thursday had
delegates from the Electrical In
dustry Employees Union, Independ-
ent Leather Workers of Cove Cities
Relief Workers Union of Albany
County, Fur Workers Union, Young
Communist League, Communist
Party, Socialist Party, Young Peo-
pies Socialist League, International
Workers Order, United Farmers
League, Italian Club and other or
CARNATIONS. Harry Hart, Section
Organizer of the Y.CL., delivered
the main report.
NEW YORK.-The Recreation
Leaders Association, an organiza-
ton of 700 youths employed as
leaders in Fairgrounds and schools
throughout the city, voted to par
ticipate in the National Youth Day
demonstration and parade on We'd
nesday, the Youth Section of thu
American League Against War and
Fascism announced yesterday.
The parade will start Wednesday
l pm, at 10th st. and Second Ave
Lerner Speaks to Needle Workers
NEW YORK. = Workers in the
needle trades will hear Jim Lerner
secretary of the Youth Section
American League Against War ano
Fascism, speak at the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union Audito-
rum, 131 w. 18th ST., tonight,
pm, on National Youth Day.
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Lefty as those were. Furthermore,
there can be little doubt that it will
prove as satisfactory.
IT is hard to see, however, how
l MeLarnin can fail to win. On
the basis Of past performances. he
has an exceedingly better char
than Ross. He has discountenanc !
men who were actually terrors. Ru Y
Goldstein, Sid Terris, Al Singer,
Billy Petrolle, Louis Kid Kaplan,
Ray Miller, Stan Loyaza and Young
Corbett III, are among the worthless
he has defeated. Ross has no such
garlands on his brow. He dragged
one or two outstanding gentlemen
like Tony Canzoneri and Billy Pet
role through the dust but he has
doused mostly dim lights. I think
Singer could have out-boxed him;
and poor Al lasted only three rounds
with the hero of Vancouver.
Singer, though, was not too
serious about the business when
he stepped into the ring with Nc
Larnin. He had already made mp
his mind to quit the ring; and
this was but a final lunge at the
pef. have heard critical re-
marks about the intentions in that
bout, too.
But Ross is ambitious and still has
to reap the wampun. A victory over
McLarnin will give him such pres
tige that everybody will salaan no
less than three times upon coming
into his presence. For McLarnin, a
setback from this lighter man will
be a signal for the end. AS box
Office attraction he will be worth
little, thereafter. And the boys,
naturally, sometimes think OF money
as well as charity and glory.
1t is likely, indeed, that Nc
Larnin will win by knockout.
He is a harder puncher than Ross
and though he often swings
rOundhouse blows, he is far from
impoverished as boxer. The idea
of his being slack in training and
in poor condition we may credit
to the preSs-agents. He is a con-
scientious being when it comes to
training for fight. Let us hope
that he and Mr.. Ross deal con-
scientiously with us in this fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Youth to Rally in Streets
On Natl Youth Day, May 80
Scottsboro Parade in BrookIvn

Scottsboro Parade in Brooklyn
BROOKLYN.-A mass rally and
parade to prepare for National
Youth Day will be held tonight
in the Brownsville and Crown
Heights sections of Brooklyn.
Young workers and students will
congregate at various points and
march to the Bethel A. NJ. E.
Church, Schenectady Ave. and
Dean ST., where Ruby Bates, Her
man Mackawain and others will
speak at a Scottsboro protest
meeting.
Socialists Try to Split Schenectady
Conference
SCHENECTADY, May Failing
to push through resolution that
would result in forbidding the sale
of the Daily Worker Young Worker
or any Communist Literature at the
National Youth Day demonstration
May 30, the Young Peoples Socialist
League delegation of eight left the
National Youth Day Conference held
Thursday night in the Mott Terrace
High School, where 60 delegates rep
reSenting 10 organizations and 15C
visitors met.
The Socialists reported to the
Chief of Police that they had left
whereupon the chief announced that
he had been fooled" and that nc
demonstration would be held. A
committee from the conference
however, held a long discussion with
the chief, the result of which
brought official sanction for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
n. Y. Workers To
Hit Toledo Terror
In Union So. Today
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ing viciOusly attacked is our strug-
gle. The brutal use by the capt.
talists of poison gas, troops, bay
Onets and rifle-fire against these
strikers is the immediate concern
of all strikers.
Into Union Square today at
4:SO pm!
While New York workers were
preparing for the huge Union
Square demonstration, similar pro-
test actions, on national and local
scales, were in progress throughout
the country.
In Washington, 1900 veterans
drew up a resolution demanding
the withdrawal Of troops from the
strike area, stressing their protest
against the use of militia Wher
workers we're fighting for their ele-
mentary rights.
The city of Detroit was flooded
with leaflets yesterday calling or
workers to take part in the protest
demonstration before the Hearst
Building on Times Square, Cass al
State, on May 80, which will also
be the scene of the Youth Day dem
onstration against terror, fascisn
and war. A protest conference at
Finnish Hall, 1869 18th ST., wa:
scheduled for today. Detroit work
ers going to Toledo by bus and or
foot we're stopped by police Is miles
north of the strike-city.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union in Pittsburgh anc
New York, whose members are ir
the midst of their preparations fol-
the huge steel struggles in June
sent a resolution of support, promis-
ing aid to the Toledo strikers.
In Cleveland, 100 organization
representing a combined member
ship of $1,000, meeting at the United
Anti Fascist Conference, dispatched
a telegram to President Roosevelt
to Governor White of Ohio anc
Mayor Klotz of Toledo demanding
the cessation of the use of troops
Another telegram was sent by thi'
conference to Gov. Olson of Min
nesota.
The Hudson Auto Local of tn
A, F. of L. and the Mechanics Edu'
cational Society of America passed
resolutions, on the motions of mill
tant sections of their rank-and-f1l'
members, condemning the calling O
troops to Toledo and the murder
and injuries of strikers.
Other protest actions, too numer'
Gus to list, were taken by trad
unions, workers and youth clubs
John Reed Clubs and cultural or
CARNATIONS, sports groups and mass
and fraternal organizations.
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ominous silence to arguments on
the International Labor Defense
motion for reversal of the death
Verdicts against Patterson and
Norris. Only two justices placed
questions: Chief Justice Anderson
and Justice Knight, Sr,, father Of
Attorney General Thomas E. Knight
who has taken personal charge of
the campaign to burn the Scots
boro boys in the electric chair.
knight appeared before the court
TO oppose the I. L. D. motions.
Defense Attacks Jury Exclusion OF
Negroes
Attorneys for the defense in
Guided Gen. Chan1lee of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, and Samuel Leibowitz
and Osmond Fraenkel of New York
City. Leibowitz concentrated his
fire on the systematic exclusion of
Negroes from juries in Alabama,
and the crude forgery of names Of
Negroes to the Morgan County jury
roll after this issue had been raised
by the I. L. D. Fraenkel also struck
out sharply on this issue.
F'raenkel entered strenuous objec-
tons to the entire demeanor of
Judge Speed" Callahan during the
third Decatur trial, when sentence
Of death was imposed upon Patter-
son for the third time and on Nor
ris for the second time. The de-
tense attorney cited many instances
Of Callahan's prejudice.
Attorney Ceneraf Knight, declailn-
ing in typical Southern court fash
ion under the adniring gaze OF his
father, Justice Knight defended the
States exclusion of testimony, de-
claring the State had the right to
decide itself what evidence to sub
nit. He defended his appeal to the
race prejudice and passions OF the
all-white jury, and admitted telling
the jury it couldn't help Victoria
Price and Ruby Bates any more,
that they had already been in
jured," but that the jury could help
white womsnkind. This passion and
prejudice he still holds, Knight de-
clared.
Leibowitz Exposes Contradictions
BY State Witnesses
In summing up for the defense,
Leibowitz went infinitely into the
glazing contradictions in the tes-
timony of the State witnesses, and
the contradictions between their
stories and the testimony of Ruby
Bates, former State star witness, who
repudiated her original testimony
and openly declared that she had
been coerced by State and county
officials into periured testimony
against the boys.
Leaders of the I. l.. D. yesterday
pointed out that the nature of the
decision will depend upon the power
Of the mass fight within the next
period. They called for intensified
protest actions, with protest meet
ings throughout the country, and
kilograms and resolutions to the
Alabama Supreme Court, Gov. B. M.
Miller of Alabama, both at Mont
gomery, Ala, and to President
Roosevelt, demanding the immediate
unconditional and safe release Of the
boys. They also issued an urgent
appeal for funds with which to
carry on the fight.