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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

owning ruling class. Even capital
ism could not go forward except
to carry out four years civil war
to smash that solid South"
Fires of Revolt Light Up South
Comrade Browder then showed
how after capitalism had won its
victory with the aid of the Negro
masses, it betrayed the Negro peo-
pie and "re-enslaved the Negroes
in new slavery, if anything more
complete and far-reaching than the
old chattel slavery
Three years ago." he declared,
there seemed not a ray of hope
in the South. There was no light
anywhere. Everything was black,
dark reaction. Today that is no
longer true. Throughout the South
today the fires that were lighted
by Angelo Herndon and his COM
rades light up every nook and cor
ner of the South.
Throughout the South today
there are sparks of revolt against
this slave empire which are being
rapidly famed into flames OF
mass struggle, and it was because
of the deadly fears of the white
ruling class, fear of this program.
that they seized upon young An
gelo Herndon, the fearless bearer
OF this program and sentenced
him to Is to 20 years on the chain
gang, for the crime of holding
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

Of Negro and white workers being
achieved under the bold, correct
leadership of the Communist Party.
Browder Greets Herndon
Comrade Browder greeted Hern-
don in the name of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party,
and briefly and concisely outlined
the issues involved in the Herndon
case:
What is it that made the name
of Angelo Herndon travel with
such swift wings around the world?
1t is because Angelo Herndon stands
as an outstanding example of
those who have begun revolution
in the United States, who have be-
gun to transform the rotten, re-
dictionary solid South of feudal re-
action, to organize the forces of
revolution in the South, who have
started The process of unihcation
of the oppressed black and white in
the struggle which is already
changing the solid South so that it
is no longer so solid.
THE solid South is spoken of as
solid because it was the solid basis
for reaction in the United States,
The blight of this reaction has been
not only over the white and Negro
toiling masses in the South but over
the entire country. Every forward
step this country ever made had to
be against the solid South because
the solid South meant a slave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Free Speech
Fight Waged
In Portland
Six jailed for Speaking
AT August l Meeting
Fight City Ruling

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 16.-
Portland police and the Fascist
Citizens Emergency League earned
guard of the Chamber of Com
merce) are bringing to a head the
issue of free speeih here. Six of
the speakers at the Aug. l demon
stration, held under the auspices of
the American League Against War
and Fascism, were arrested, charged
with speaking in public park with
out written permit.
The ordinance which was violated
has not been enforced for so long
that the Mayor, who gave the
League verbal permission to 'hold
the meeting wherever they liked"
pleaded ignorance of it. The ar
rests, which included DR.. Virgil
MacMickle, Rev. N. B. Akerman,
chairman of the City COMMITTEES
of the League; Richard Lovelace.
disabled American war veteran:
Kenneth Fitzgerald, young working
class journalist; Henry Robinson,
and Beatrice DeBorde, unemployed
worker, did not take place until
Aug. 7, when DR.. MacNdickle was
arrested as he entered the Masonic
Temple, where the Rosenfeld- Bevan
meeting was taking place, and
where he was scheduled to speak.
The Red Squad. accompanied by
other officers, made the arrests.
The cases were continued indef-
initely" by the Municipal Court
after Mayor Carson Numbered on
the witness stand, admitting that
he had declared the meeting per-
Missile. Although the speakers
escaped sentences, it is predicted
that the incident is the start of a
free speech war in Portland, partic-
ularly pertinent to the formation
and rapid influence of the Ameri-
can League Against War and Fas-
cism here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
IA w omen
Back From
Paris Farley
Continued from Page y

the congress hall-the most remark
able women in the world.
"The biggest delegation was from
Great Britain, outside of France, of
course, which had over six hun
dred. Great Britain had seventy
seven. We were third with forty
But I think we were the broadest
because we represented about
100000 women, you know"
Mother Bloor told how she led
delegation from the congress to
the German Embassy in Paris to
protest against the Imprisonment of
women in the concentration camps
of Germany.
They tried to shut us out" she
said. Il went in alone while the
girls stood outside and waited. Po-
lice outside kept pushing the girls
about, but they all stuck together
until came out"
Saw Paris Sights
What did you do after the con-
gress?"
THE congress ended on the sew
enth. We left France on the tenth.
In those three days the girls
roamed all over the city and saw
more than tourists could see in a
month"
The ship was about to dock.
Girls" Mother Bloor called
we've got to stick together" She
turned toward the reporter.
rs there anybody at the pier
waiting for us?" she asked.
There certainly was.
A large banner blazed forth the
words: Welcome Anne eric an
Women Delegates to Women's In
ternational Congress. Forward to
the Defeat of War-makers and Fas-
cists in the U. S. A."
Welcomed At Pier
A committee of about so women,
representing Women's Councils,
trade unions, anti-war groups, the
Communist Party and other or
CARNATIONS, leaned forward eagerly
to catch the first sight of their rep
resentatives to the Paris Congress.
lies Soviets Partout." Soviet
everywhere!
A cheer went up as the delegates
came into view. 1t was the well
come of American women to their
sisters Who had brought with them
the message of an international
gathering against war and fascism
it was the welcome to delegates
who brought back renewed hope
and an inspired program of strug-
gle to defeat the twin horrors of a
decaying bourgeois society, the hor-
rcrs of imperialist war and fascisnl.
Returning with Mother Bloor as
pare of the delegation were Mabel
Byrd, secretary of the delegation;
Clara Bodian, Anna Barnett, Leila
Jackson, Ida Kunca, Martha Lew
andowska, Maggie Pritschau, Mary
Rayside, Elizabeth Nicholas, Ida
Haltunnen, Jennie Palermo, Capt.
tolie Tasker and Olga Botchvaroff.
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method for self protection. These
workers must be fed if we are to
continue peacefully, avoiding vio-
lence. There has been much dis
elimination against these striking
employees through the local branches
of the Federal Relief Agencies in
the State of Alabama. We feel that
the Federal Relief Administrator
Harry Hopkins, and the State Ad-
ministrator, Thad Holt, are not
aware of these terrible discrimina-
tions."
A resolution was unanimously
passed yesterday protesting to the
N.R.A, to Frances Perkins and to
the Department of Justice against
the use of the National Guard in
strikes.
Green Agent Wants Sailing
George L. Googe, of Atlanta, sent
by William Green, president of the
A. F. OF L., to address the conven-
ton, pleaded with the delegates to
go to Roosevelt before September
for arbitration of their demands.
Googe praised Roosevelt and the
New Deal and said he did not be-
lieve Roosevelt knows of the condi-
tons of the textile workers, other
wise he would act.
The only applause he got was
when he demagogically mentioned
militant picketing."
Wednesday night the delegates
passed resolutions calling on the A
F. of L. executive board to arrange
a world labor unity conference
against fascism, and criticizing the
United States Government for CIV
ing credits and loans to the Nazi
government. The resolution made
no mention of the persecution be-
ing carried out in Germany against
Communists and said nothing about
Thaelmann, Torgler or any politica
prisoner in Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
VISA ASKED FOR MNE SUN VAT SEN FOR ANTLWAR CONGRESS
Memorial Meeting
Set in Los Angeles
For SaccO-Vanzetti

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 16.-
Memorializing the seventh ami
versary of the legal murder of
Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti by the capitalist class,
the International Labor Defense
in Los Angeles will hold a mass
meeting Aug. % at the Cultural
Center, $50 S. Spring Street.
BETTING the memorial for
class war victims, the meeting
will be used to rally sentiment
against increasing fascist terror
of the vigilantes in California
in San Francisco, San Pedro,
Imperial Valley, throughout the
agricultural areas of the State
and for the unconditional release
of Angelo Herndon, the Scots
boro boys, Ernst Thaemann,
Tom Mooney and all class-war
prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
LID. District Ready
For Five Tag Days
Starting Tomorrow

NEW YORK-Boxes and other
materials for the Scottsboro-
Herndon Defense fund tag days
to be conducted by the New York
District of the International La
Dor Defense from tomorrow to
Wednesday will be available
throughout this period at the
district office, $40 Broadway, it
was announced yesterday by N.
Bruce, assistant district secre-
tary.
The response to the call of the
I. L. D. for the broadcast partici-
patton in these tag days by
working class organizations has
been excellent, Bruce said, and
it is expected more than 1000
collectors will be on the streets
during the fiye-day period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Harlem Throng Creets HeradOn as Symbol
of Revolutionary Unity Of Black and White
Heroic Negro Tells of
Struggles Which Led
to His Persecution

meetings of black and white
workers together"
Herndon told of his work among
white and Negro unemployed of
Atlanta, Ga, the victory of the I'M
employed workers in forcing the
city authorities to continue relief,
and Herndon's subsequent arrest
and frame-up He paid a glowing
tribute to the powerful protests of
white and Negro workers and in
tellectualS, protests which, he de-
clared, forced the lynch rulers to
hold their hands and finally won
his temporary freedom on bail
pending appeal to the U. S. Su-
preme Court. He called upon the
Negroes present, especially, to take
note of the victories won by the
united struggles of Negro and white
workers, and to repudiate reformist
misleaders, like Walter White,
William Pickens, George Schuyler,
etc, who consistently betray the
Negro liberation struggle.
Call For Intensified Fight
Anna Damon, of the national
Office of the International Labor
Defense, Israel Amter, national
secretary of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, William Fitzgerald, Harlem
Section organizer of the I. L. D.,
Ruby Bates, key witness in the
Scottsboro case and others appealed
for an intensified campaign for the
complete freedom of Herndon, the
Scottsboro Boys, and Ernst Thael-
mann, courageous leader of the
German working class.
Ben Davis, editor of the Negro
Liberator and one of Herndons de-
Tense attorneys, told of Herndon's
courageous conduct in the Lynch
court, of his ringing defiance to the
lynch rulers of Georgia and the
whole South.
The assembled workers and in
tellectualS pledged themselves to a
relentless fight for the complete
freedom of Herndon, and the
Scottsboro Boys and Ernst Thael-
mann, and emphasized their de-
termination and sincerity with a
flood of dollar bills for the Hern-
don and Scottsboro appeals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Barge Strike
Solid Despite
Split Tactics
Only 10 of 100 Strikers
Follow Bosses Tool
in Scab Move

ST. LOUIS, Mo. Aug. 16.-With
the strike on the Mississippi Valley
Barge Line now in its seventh day
the employers are attempting to
split the ranks of the men by de-
stroying their confidence in the
strike leadership.
The bosses found pliable too
for this end in a man named Stokes
who managed to have himself
elected to the strike committee
using his position to gain the con-
fidence of some of the weaker
strikers. On Monday Stokes at
tempted to lead a mass walk-back
to the job. OF the 100 on strike
he succeeded in persuading only ten
men to go with him.
When he was confronted on the
hill stretching to the riverfront by
a committee of strikers, Stokes
brandished a pistol. Police close by
made no attempt to disarm him
but instead helped him and his
cronies to the dock.
Despite this, and the increase OF
police forces, the men are even
more determined than ever to stay
out for their demands, the most
important of which are: Fifty cents
an hour instead of IS, proper start
ing time and an eight-hour day
when called out, time and hall
for overtime, workers control Of
hiring and recognition Of the dock
committee.
Many truck drivers and teamstsrS
have pledged not to handle freight
from this scab company. While the
bosses threaten to fill the jobs with
white workers, they are finding ii
very difficult to get men.
The strikers are very much en-
couraged by the support that is be-
ing rendered by the members of the
T. U. U. L., the Unemployment
Council, who have given their head
quarters for the use of the strikers
and the Communist Party, on the
picket line and otherwise. A thou
sand leaflets were spread today by
the strikers and the T. U. U. l..
calling for mass support and ex-
posing all the issues of the strike
The two terminals of the Federal
Barge Line in st. Louis, both or
ganized in the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union, have pledged sup
port, and in their spare time the
men on these docks help picketing,
which is carried on day and night
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
BrOwder Cheered As He
Speaks of Breach in
Reactionary South
By CYRIL BRIGGS

NEW YORK.-In a magnificent
display of fighting solidarity of Ne
gro and white workers, nearly 5000
persons roared a thunderous well
come to Angelo Herndon, young
Negro Communist hero of the At
lanta, Georgia, slave code trial,
Wednesday night at Rockland
Palace, Harlem.
The throng, 70 per cent Negroes,
gave a stormy ovation to Herndon,
Earl Browder. national secretary of
the Communist Party, Joseph
Brodsky, Scottsboro defense attor-
ney, and other outstanding leaders
of the revolutionary movement. In
significant recognition of the Com
munist Party as the organizer and
leader of the fight for Negro liber-
alton, the whole crowd, including
many Negroes heretofore unfamiliar
with the revolutionary movement,
came to its feet singing the Inter-
rationale as Browder was intro
duced.
Mighty Shout Greets HerndOn
Another stormy scene ensued as
cheers from outside the hall
heralded the arrival of Angelo
Herndon. AS one, and with a
mighty shout of welcome, the au-
dience came to its feet cheering and
applauding as Herndon was borne
up the isle on the shoulders of
white and Negro workers. The In
ternationale again rang out, as the
assembly greeted the heroic Negro,
temporarily rescued from torture
and death on the Georgia chain
gang by the protests and dollars
and pennies of the working class.
The meeting, from beginning to
end, held the character of a spirited
demonstration of iron determine
ton to struggle against Negro OPP
preston, against lynching, hunger,
faScism and imperialist war, for
Negro liberation and the emancipa-
ton of the entire working class.
Outlines by various speakers of the
Communist program on these vital
questions were greeted with cheers
and applause, as were appeals to
further build and cement the unity
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Cotton Strike Is
Voted By U.T.W
Continued from Page II

in their reports Enthusiastically
showed that Southern mill condi-
tons are unbearable and called for
support from the North in strike
action. A delegate from Florence,
Ala, where the mills are striking,
told of the increased speed-up and
declared, 1.-THE strikers of Alabama
are looking to the North for sup
port Starvation methods have
been used against us in Alabama.
have affidavits with me to prove
that the bosses have demanded the
virtue Of young mill girls working
under them"
Attack Stretch-Out
J. Dooley Of Roanoke Rapids,
S. c., spoke in condemnation of the
stretch-out (speedup). j. A. Frier,
of Columbia, S. c., showed how in
few years time the stretch-out
has increased the number of picks
per minute from 100 to 176. 1--WE
are determined to have reduction
in the machine load" he declared.
C. w. McAbee of Inman, S. c., told
of the domination Of the company
store. Workers are forced to sell
company store coupons at Is per
cent discount in order to obtain a
little cash, he said.
I'VE have met with the North on
common ground and in a common
cause" said R. G. Strickland, of
Selma, N. c. He showed how now
six workers do work formerly done
by %; and there are now four
loomfixers doing work which a few
years ago was done by ten loom
fixers. Picks per minute have been
speeded up from 1876 to 144 Wages
of weavers were $2795 and now are
S21 for 40 hours. All workers, out
side of weavers and loomhxers, get
only 80 cents an hour. "We hope
the convention will go on record
against the differential, which
makes us work under lower wages
than the North" he declared. 1--WE
don't want your wages dropped
down to our level, but we do want
you to help us bring our level UP
to yours"
Support Alabama Strikes
A resolution of A Cox of Hunts
vile, Ala, was unanimously passed
on the Alabama strikes, which de-
clared: The employees of the tex
tile r'onts cf ITlntsvillo, hlNN7ma
we're forced to strike as a las
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Taxi Drivers
ayNRACode
In W ashington

WASHINGTON, D. O., Aug. 49,
Presenting a taxi code drawn up
and approved by the rank and file
taxi workers of New York, Samuel
Orner and William Gandall of the
Taxicab Drivers Union opposed the
proposed MIRA. code at the ma
tional taxi code hearings held here
on Wednesday. They charged that
the proposed code was drawn up by
fleet owners and General Motors
Corporation, which seek to lower
the already poor living and work
ing standards of the taxi drivers.
The Taxicab Drivers Union dele
cation, as the only crop which in
Guided Negroes, met refusals on the
part of the Pennsylvania Hotel to
accommodate the Negro delegates
with an emphatic protest. The en-
tire delegation composed of Elmore
Britt and Timothy Hill, Negro driv-
ers, and Adolph Rabin, Orner and
Gandall, registered at the Whitelaw
Hotel.
In his speech at the taxi hearing,
Orner emphasized the fact that the
proposed code does not eliminate
Negro discrimination, or provide
decent living conditions for the
drivers. Gandall exposed the pro-
posed set-up of the code authority
as giving the taxi workers no repre-
sentation whatsoever. Pointing to
Article 5, Section b, of the proposed
Code, Gandall showed that the
code legalizes the company union
even as Section IA of the MIA.
does.
The American Federation Of La
Dor, represented by Boris Shiskin
gave tacit approval of the Code
Authority as proposed. He spoke at
length on "the right of collective
bagaining," but failed to explain
the strikebreaking role of William
Green and the other misleaders of
the A. F. of L.
Get SuhS for the ffnaiIvO nuri,,o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Governor Of Illinois Pledges
Cuardsnren to Fight Workers

and tell what further troubles may
be in store for us.
But with an efficient National
Guard we can look forward to-
wards the future with feeling OF
some degree of security regarding
the peace of our state"
Governor Horner's idea of peace
was shown by his ordering of the
police attacks against the Hunger
March Of 1888, and his participation
in the Montgomery County frame
up.
The governor told the guardsmen
with you on guard there is little
danger of the violence of Commu-
nism."
Horner, who has claimed that the
State of Illinois has no more money
for relief of the unemployed, adj
mitted that the state had had
plenty of funds for the National
Guard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
LeagueAgainst
+ aSCISna and
War Sends Bid
Chinese Anti-Imperialist
Leader Is Invited to
u. S. Gathering

NEW YORK 49, Application has
been made by the American League
Against War and Fascism in Wash
ington for a visa for Madame Sun
Vat Sen, widow of DR.. Sun Vat Sen.
who was the first President of the
Chinese Republic. Madame Sun Vat
Sen has been invited to the United
States to address the Second U. S.
Congress Against Wa and Fascism,
which opens in Chicago on Sept. %
and continues for two days. Maxim
Cork and Roman ROLAND have
also been invited to attend, and APP
plications for their visas filed.
Madame Sun Vat Sen is a leader
in the struggle against japanese i'm
perialism in China, and only re-
Gently made an appeal to all China
TO unite lin holy war against
japanese expansion" in her native
land. She is q member of the
powerful Soong family, and received
her education in American univer-
sites. Her brother is T. " Soong,
and her sisters are the Madames
Chang Ksi-shek and H. H. Kung,
wives of leaders of the Marking
government, of which she is an
ardent political opponent.
The Second U. S. Congress
Against War and Fascism is ex-
pected to bring thousands of dele
gates from all sections of America,
and several noted delegates from
abroad. At the first Congress, held
in New York last year, Henri Bar
BUSES rousing addresses against
the world trend toward war and
fascism were feature This Con-
gress instituted the first American
mass movement of protest, and
brought together in common cause
many peace, labor, farmer and pro-
fessional organizations. This year
an even larger number Of delegates
is expected.
Special attention will be paid 10
the prevailing situation in Ger
many, the Far Eastern ambitions
of Japan, the war now raging in
Latin America, the struggle in Cuba
where actual warfare exists, despite
official denials and regardless Of
the various meetings of the League
of Nations.
The Congress is expected to make
vigorous protest against the eX-
tensive preparations for war now
being made throughout the world,
and especially in the United States.
1t will rally the American masses
against these war preparations, and
will work toward the stoppage of
munitions manufacture and trans
port in the advent Of war. 1t will
demand the transfer of all war
funds to social relief, and will urge
all peace and anti-war organisa-
tions to support the total and uni
versal disarmament policy. 1t will
oppose all attempts to attack the
Soviet Union, whose peace policy is
sincere.
Among the well-known Ameri-
cans who are members of the Elk
ecutive Committee of the American
League Against War and Fascism
are DR.. Harry F. Ward, Robert
Morss Lovett, George S. Counts,
Lincoln SteffenS, Anna N. Davis,
Roger Baldwin, Earl Browder,
Dorothy Deter, E. c. Lindeman,
Reverend william Spofford, Colston
E. Warne, Leroy E. Bowman, and
Rabbi Benjamin GoldStein.
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DAILY worker Midwest Bureau)

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 16.-Gov-
ernor Horner of Illinois pledged the
use of the National Guard against
all working class movements in a
speech at Camp Grant Sunday.
Speaking to 10000 guardsmen en-
camped for preparations for the
military exercises which will cul-
inmate in a march to capture"
Chicago, the governor pointed the
way for intimidation and suppress
sion of struggles of the starving
workers.
This march Of the Thirty third
Division of the National Guard has
already begun. The guardsmen plan
to reach Chicago tomorrow.
Admitting in his speech the fail
ure of every capitalist attempt to
solve the crisis, Horner stated.
These are days of stress and I'M
certainty. No one can look ahead