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Montana labor news., 1934-08-30
U.S.. BUILDS 48 FARM Cities
TO SHORTEN THE RELIEF ROLLS

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Forty
eight farm cities" are already under
way in the federal governments ma
tionwide program to solve the problem
brought on by chronological unemploy-
ment, the Subsistence Homesteads
Corporation reports.
Subsistence homesteads are being
created from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific with the intention of providing
part-time farm work to supplement
part-time wage work. Many home
steads will be used as industrial mod
els, it is expected. A number OF large
corporations have indicated their in
terest in reducing their payrolls by
creating such centers so as to be able
to employ workers only part-time and
be sure they will support themselves
quietly the rest Of the year.
Homes in the communities are being
built in styles native to the particular
section of the country. In Arizona
adobe houses are being put up, and in
Florida, homes with a Spanish touch
are being erected, according to Charles
f. Pynchon, general manager OF the
corporation.
In many places construction work is
being carried on by homesteaders
themselves and land is put under cul-
tivation as the building goes on.
Most of the homesteads will sell for
about $4,000. In the center near Dal-
las, Texas, where 78 homes are being
constructed, more than 5000 bids have
already been received.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-30
Courts, Cops Violate
Constitution, Says
American Lawyers

NEW YORK.-(FP)-"As Ameri-
can lawyers who believe in our con-
stitution, we protest" the violations
in California "of the constitutional lib
critics OF freedom OF political belief and
freedom of person from lawless ar
rest" So say rs of the most famous
lawyers in America.
No police protection was given to
workers, even though it was known
that raids were being planned, the
statement charges. police did make
arrests. They arrested not the raid
ers, but the victims of the raids" For
political motives, the police disregarded
the liberties guaranteed by the consti-
tuition of the U. S., the lawyers
charge. Mayor Rossi's threat to
drive from San Francisco" political op-
ponents was scored.
Those signing the protest include
among others: Prof. Zechariah Cha
fee, Jr, Harvard Law School; Henry
T. Hunt, general counsel for the PWAi
Prof. Jerome Michael, former specia
assistant to the U. S. attorney general
now professor of law at Columbia Uni
versity; former U. S. Judge c. F
Montana labor news., 1934-08-30

moment to protect" the mails or fed
eral property, without waiting author
ity from Washington. (This excuse
originating in a framed incident, it was
later proved-was used for federal
troops to intervene against the Pull
man of strike l894) In addition, fed
eral troops were held in readiness for
any call from Gov. Merriam of Cali
fornia to the president, regardless OF
threats to the mail
But with all the powers Of rulership
and organized repression on its side,
Washington still shuddered as the
amazing wave of labor solidarity broke
on the Pacific Coast. For even guns
cannot stop the waves or the tide, and
an unpredictable element enters when
workers are stirred to realization of a
common cause and a common enemy
In a moment all the careful work of
generations of rulers-to keep each
group OF workers in mental blinkers
and organizationally divided-seems
to be swept aside.
Almost anything may happen when
labor rejoices, if only for a moment, in
the enthusiasm of new-found power
For one thing, new responsibilities are
thrust upon the workers, not only for
self discipline but for tasks of public
administration carefully kept from
their hands in ordinary times. No
wonder soft hands tremble when they
see the strong and horny hands Of
workers at the controls, if only for a
short time in one locality.
With all the powers in the hands Of
state and federal authorities, did any
one hear any talk even of furnishing
the employers whose grasping money
madness and insistence on oppressive
hiring practices drove the workers on
strike; OF checking or Furnishing the
legalized murder OF striking workers !;
or OF forcing the granting of the
workers moderate demands? On the
contrary, every weapon OF cajolery
and force was for one purpose only
to break the general strike.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-30

WACO, Tex.-(FP)-Over 1000 Te-
xas workers and farmers answered a
recent attempt of the Silver Shirts
fascist organization, to organize in
Waco by gathering in a protest meet
ing on the courthouse lawn. The cal
for the counter-meeting was made by
the McLennan County Workers &
Farmers Council
Montana labor news., 1934-08-30

Amidon; James F. Minturn, retired
justice of the Supreme Court of New
Jersey, now dean of John Marshall
College of Law; Clarence Darrow;
Morris L. Ernst, Arthur Garfield Hays
and A. L. Wirin of the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-30
The Washington Scene


WASHINGTON. Up Action
by President Only Hope of Break
ing Strike" read a headline in a
Washington paper on the first day
of the San Francisco general strike.
Outwardly the ship of state seemed
like rudderless vesse suddenly hit by
squall. So much power had been
concentrated in Roosevelts hands, his
prestige had been so deliberately built
up and so carefully protected, that his
absence made the officially declared
policy OF "hands-off' and no comment
seem like uncertainty.
But no appearance could have been
more deceptive, The president was
constantly in touch with Washington
and the Pacific Coast by radio and
could determine policy just about as
easily from the Pacific Ocean as from
the White House. Secretary of Labor
Perkins, the National Labor Relations
Board the War and Navy depart
ments and half a dozen other depart
ments all kept in closest touch with the
situation. They had their fingers on
the controls OF the elaborate strike
breaking machinery OF modern state,
part Of which was already fully in mo-
ton.
Two considerations dictated the de-
clared but deceptive "hands-off" pol
icy. Unlike King Canute who ordered
the waves to recede, the Washington
authorities did not feel like making a
public demonstration of their impo-
tence to order back a movement so
elemental as a general strike wave.
And secondly they wished to distract
labor attention from the mobilization
of national strikebreaking forces,
whether quietly in action or held in
reserve.
National Labor Board machinery is
not yet developed to the point where
government board may sit in judg-
ment of general strike, decree SEN
tence Immediately and order it en-
forced with all the powers of the state.
The National Labor Relations Board
has been gaining vicarious experience
from Pacific Coast situation, while
the presidents special longshore board
did the immediate job in hand Gov
ernment "mediators' were available in
any number, from little known spe-
calists to prominent figures like SEN
ator Wagner. And even General
johnson, undaunted by the drubbng
he received in the steel situation,
barged in to stop the strike.
But behind all the boards and medi-
ators, Washington modified other
forces. The Federal Emergency Re
lief Administration, with power to
withhold bread from the straving
watched carefully to throw its weight
against the spreading strikes. And
army and navy were kept ready at a
minutes notice to bring to bear the
last resort and most powerful weapon
of the federal government-armed vio-
lence. The police and National Guard
Of course had long been in action-as
dead and wounded strikers bore
tragedy testimony But the attempt
was made as long as possible to pre-
serve the fiction Of federal aloofness
to a state situation
Major General Malin Craig, com
mander of the Ninth Corps Area al
San Francisco, with more than 13,O0(
soldiers under him. and Rear Ad-
miral Thomas J. Sem and Yancey
Williams, with naval forces at theii
command, were on the scene from the
start. They were ready to act at any
Montana labor news., 1934-08-30

MILWAUKEE. - FP) - Milwua-
kee Electric Company workers have
struck against the companys defiance
of an NRA order to reinstate unionsts
and hold elections by departments.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26

DEADL NEIL VVL14VNEO
We want to tell you, as well
as show you, that another men,
ber is enrolling in The Times
Adventure Club. Look, this
great BIG boy, Baby Neil Vein
reb, of 5000 Connecticut Ave.
N. w.. pictured in the column
today. We think that it is the
cutest picture that we have seen
in ages.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WITH THAT MAO
WIZARD, THE
COBRA, SAFELY
OUT OF THE WAY,
AND THE
SAELDONS AND
TOMMY LORD
RETURNED TO
AMERICA.
MANDRAKE AND
HIS GIANT
BLACK SERMN,
LOTAAE, REMAIN
M ALEXANDRIA,,
THE GATEWAY
TO EGYPT.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
Times Adventure Club

from Ethel Virginia Higgins,
of 5109 Quarles st N. E., but she
finally remembers that it is time
she was finding out something
about us. She writes;
"How are you and your mem
bers getting along? Fine I hope
old pal. I haven't written you in
q long time. have been so busy
with my lessons. I go to Elliot
Junior High School. I am In the
seventh grade. MY teachers
name is Miss AbuSon, she is very
nice.
Kit, old pal Of mine. Here is
a problem for you and the mem
bers. Once there was a man
across the rive. He had goat
a wolf, and a head of cabbage.
He could only take one across
the river at a time. If he took
the wolf, first, the goat would
eat the cabbage. How could he
get across? Boys and girlS-can
you settle this problem for Vir-
giniaD
IT have a new member for
you, Louis Dennis, age 8, birth
day May "a. His address is ELL
Quarles st. N. E.
II nope you have a nice
Thanksgiving. So long old Pal"
Here is something cute
Baby Neil had presented this
picture to his Grandpa last
New Year. He wrote on the
back of it, ITO my Great
Grandpa, I wish him loads OF
good health for the New Year"
We imagine he is Grandpa'S
pet, as well as Grandma's.
Neil is only year and 3
months old. In fact. to be
exact, he was IS months old
November IA.
We are proud to announce
that Billy Deviny. Of 1907 Thir"
CeenL0 SC. N. g, WOu1o ukS 10
become a member Of the club.
He writes the following note:
II wish to belong to your
club. / am 8 years old and my
birthday Is October 20. I am
in the fourth grade at st. An.
thongs School"
GREETINGS
FIVE club members celebrate
their birthday anniversaries to-
day. They include Julia M.
Price, 1915 L st. N. W.; Mau.
rice RoSenthal, SOC Columbia
Road N. W.: Thelma Abram-
son, 801 H St. N. E.: Margaret
SekaS, 4218 Chewton Ave. s. E.,
and Louis Caspar. 1914 Corbin
Pl. N. E.
Happy Birthday.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26

My, my, it has been such a
long time since we had a word
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

1lg uH record Harry EaSWoou
of petty thievery for Crawford.
With such energy on the part of the
defense to convict client, is it any
wonder that the prosecution needed
to go to very little trouble in the
case?
Crawford had a record of pre-
vious offenses, said Houston. What
does this prove? That Crawford is
"criminally inclined" as Houston
insinuates? No! 1t proves that
Crawford is one more in that enor-
nous number of Negroes prosecuted
by the police, picked up for any
offense and none, bounded and
driven by the agents of the ruling
class. This petty persecution serves
the purpose of keeping the Negroes
in state of terror and fear; it
serves also the purpose of creating
a background for future frame-ups
against almost any Negro the state
wants to hound
Did Houston expose the real
meaning of this previous record
OF Crawford's? No! Instead he used
the previous persecution of his
client in the way the lynchers use
ito help convict an innocent man.
Houston did not even pursue the
ordinary legal tactics of an ordinary
lawyer in an ordinary case. He sat
at t'>> table of the defense. but his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Crawford Case A Classic Of ~ A. A. C. P Treackery

heart and soul, his mind and his
talents and his energies, were at the
disposal of the prosecution, Of the
lynchers' courts of law.
To the suggestion that Negro
witnesses against Crawford were I'M
der duress, Houston raises his
hands in horror. Duress? Impos-
sible! Who ever heard of Negro
being threatened, tortured beaten,
inundated in the South? Who
ever heard of enything but the most
gentlemanly procedure between
white police and detectives and
Negro men and women? Prepos-
ferrous!
So, when the case closed, an in
nocent Negro sat behind bars for
life, all evidence having proved his
innocence. Every opportunity to
fight for the rights of the Negro
people had been ignored, brushed
aside. And in the face of this,
Walter White, speaking in the name
of the N. A. A. c. P, hailed the
Crawford case as "one of the most
distinguished victories for justice to
the Negro yet won"
Is this the way the N. A. A. C. P.
fights new bred Scott case? Is
this the way the N. A. A. c. P.
establishes new underground rail-
road" from slavery to freedom?
In the face of such treachery,
many honest supporters of the N.
A. A. c. P. have asked themselves
the question posed by Helen Board
man in her article: rs the N. A..
A. c. P. retreating?' Miss Board
man also asks: HAS the South's
best tool in establishing such a pro-
cedure legal lynching) been the N.
A. A. C. p"
To the second question, we may
answer unhesitatingly, yes. But to
the question, rs the N. A. A. C. P.
Retreating?" we give different re-
ply. No, the N. A. A. c. P. is not
retreating. The treachery of the N.
A. A. c. P. leaders in the case of
George Crawford is but the logical
climax to its treachery in the Scots
bore case and many other legal
cases and other events The treach-
cry in the Crawford case is only the
logical outcome of it's whole theory,
its whole policy, its whole basis of
existence.
The N.A.A.C.P. Repudiates Struggle
The N. A. A. C. P. is not retreat
ing. II is going forward on the line
of non-resistance to the white mas
tiers, to the white lynchers. 1t is
going forward, inevitably, logically,
inescapably, along the line of re-
pudiating all struggle for the rights
of the Negro people.
Says Houston: Racial relations
iii Virginia were improved as a re-
suit of the trial" This sounds in
credible. Yet Houston's statement
is in a certain sense, true. BY help
ing to Jail Crawford. by abandoning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Saued BY Workers, Victory
Joins Fight on Lynch Courts

DETROIT, Mich, July 9.-James
Victory Negro worker recently ac-
quilted on a charge of assault
through the efforts of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, has
just issued a statement regarding
his arrest and acquittal.
The statement follows:
81 was framed because I am
Negro. 1 was freed only because
the International Labor Defense
and the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights modified thousands
of Negro and white workers, who
fought shoulder to shoulder in my
defense.
My case is another ScottSboro
case. 1t grows out of the terror
izati0n and slave driving of the
Negroes by the ruling class. Just
as the I. L. ID. has fought to save
the lives of the nine innocent
ScOttsborO boys, so they fought
and won for me.
Il appreciate the splendid work
of the l. L. ID. and the i. S. N. r.
as well as that of the able at
torneys headed by Maurice Sugar
in behalf of myself as well as the
entire Negro people. / thank all
those Negro and white people, who
SO quickly came to my defense.
What happened to me, might
happen to any Negro. j am going
to speak under the auspices of the
international Labor Defense and
the League of Struggle for Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

and "our" foreign markets Owned
by the same class who sweat, starve.
tear-gas and shoot him at home)
will he be able to protect and in
sure his share.
The mimeographed announcement
released last winter by the Reserve
Officers Association of the United
States, described the patriotic &C
tivities planned for National De-
tense Week" February 12) by such
organizations as the Morga
Schwab-steel corporation founded
Navy League, the reactionary Amer
lean Legion leadership, the Military
Order of the World War, the Coali-
ton of Patriotic Societies, the
United States Naval Reserve Off
GERS Association, And Other Patri-
otto and Civil Organizations.
This announcement, sent wide
spread thru the capital newspaper
correspondents, said: Through the
Chapters and Posts of the partici-
pating organizations, Speakers Bu-
reaus have been organized to furnish
speakers on National Defense before
Civic, Fraternal and Patriotic Or
CARNATIONS as well as Educational
Institutions. Essay contests are be-
ing sponsored among students at
schools and colleges on such SUBJ
jects as Peace Time Activities OF
the Army The Economic Value oil
the Soldier, "A Navy Second to None.
'Preparedness-A War Proven
tive The Navy and Our Trade
Lanes etc, with prizes and honor
able mentions to be awarded to the
best thereof" That's what you call
propagandizing war-mindedness.
At 1870 pm. on Feb. Is, 1894
over ]. P. Morgans National Broad
casting Company's National Press
Club Building, Washington, D. C..
studios, national defense" speeches
under the Craftsmanship of General
Chemical Warfare Service, were
radioed throughout the land
Said McSwain, the chairman Of
the House Military Affairs Commit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

all struggle for the rights of Ne
groes, the relations between the
white lynch-rulers and their Negro
lieutenantS-such as Charles Hous-
ton and other N. A. A. c. P. off
cials-were considerably improved
How could the lynchers of Virginia
fail to appreciate the contrast be-
tween the suaVe and polite behavior
of Houston and the behavior of the
attorneys for the Scottsboro boys?
The lawyers Of the I. L. D., had
no regard for the feelings of the
lynch-courtS. They were deter
mined to free the boys; they were
determined to expose the whole
monstrous frame-up and the basis
for it; they were determined to
fight for every right that the state
of Alabama had denied to the Negro
people. The defense of the Scots
boro boys was neither suave, nor
polite, nor considerate of the feel
ings of the lynchers. The defense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

enough in the capitalist campaign
to keep the workers chained to star
walton, misery, and oppression. In
addition to propagandizing workers
with the fiction that they have a
stake in American capitalism'S for
eign possessions and hence should
be willing to stab and shoot down
other workers (who get the same
tale from their own imperialists)
Americas Astors, Schwabs, Taylors,
Morgans, Rockefellers and other
rulers seek to get from the white
collar, the small business man and
the working class a domestic mill
tary base to protect the monopoly
fruits of the N. R. A.
The trigger finger rulers of this
country are straining every nerve
to set up what the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States
called a citizen army" Hitler gave
them their historical name-Storm
Troops. These misled and brutalized
workers, farmers and clerks, would
be prepared to meet amy emergency
that might arise" according to the
plans of the corporation heads and
their military marionettes who stage
Army Day.
Imperialist demagogy realizes
that the rape" of another little
Belgium-its cruel exploitation of
African natives in the Congo Is not
mentioned in polite imperialist So
ciety-wouldnt fool the masses to-
day Imperiahst war planners have
decided that that sort of game won't
hold water now. The fathers of the
Navy second to none and the steel
corporation inspirers of national
defense" campaigns have decided
that, in the main, it is to be our"
markets in the Far East which must
be protected, "our trade lanes"
which must be kept open by few
hundred thousand tons of floating
and flying armor. The worker will
be given to understand that only by
Amos A. Fries, A. E. F. head of the
fighting to protect "our trade lanes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10


of the ScOttsboro boys was a bat
tering ram against the ancient walls
of discrimination and oppression.
The attorneys in the Scottsboro
case, following the policies Of the
I. L. D, knew that they could gain
nothing unless Scottsboro became a
rallying cry for millions through
out the world struggling against
oppression.
Reward for Treachery
The lynch-rulers Of Virginia were
delighted with the contrast pre-
sented by the attorneys for The
Crawford defense. They took Hous-
ton and his aides to their bosom.
If we leave out of account the
starved share choppers and tenants
and plantation workers of the Viz
ginia farms, the sweated workers IN
Virginias mills and mines, the
Negro unemployed, the victims OF
Virginias jails-then we may truly
say with Houston that racial reia-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Cooperation of NAACP
Lynchers Welcome Fine
Leaders

lions in Virginia were improved as
a result of the trial"
Says Houston: For Crawford to
have demanded a second trial in
order to challenge the jury issue
would have put him in the position
of not letting well enough alone"
A life Sentence-well enough! The
conviction of an innocent man
we'll enough An all-white jury to
sit on the case-well enough
ct would" Houston goes on to
say, "have taken him off the defen-
sive and placed him on the offensive
against the county. The law itself,
the very existence o the N.A.A.CP,
is that the Negro can gain full citi-
Zenship and equal rights only with
the cooperation and goodwill of
the dominant majority. The prob
lem before the n. A. A. c. p. was
not simply to force the issue, but to
force it in such way as to pro-
woke the minimum amount of
resistance" my emphasis-H. H.
LET the Lynchers Be"
And there's the kernel of the
matter. There's the basis of the
policy of the N. A. A. C. P No Of
fensive against the lynchers. No
offensive against the system of jim
Crowism. Cooperation with the
dominant majority-that is, with
the white rulers. Do not struggle,
do not raise your voices in protest.
Join hands with the white rulers.
Depend on the courts-even though
these are the courts of the lynchers.
Depend on the judges-even though
they wear beneath their official
robes the regalia of the Khan. Do
nothing to disturb the relations be-
tween master and servant, oppresSor
and oppressed.
For the N. A. A. c, P. represents
that small group of Negroes who
live well by virtue of segregation.
To the Negro real-estate dealer,
Jim Crowism is salvation, a means of
livelihood. To the Negro insurance
broker, the policies of the white in
surance companies give him path
to wealth. Within the JIM Grow
confines, within the walls that hem
in the Negro millions and keep them
in untold suffering, the Negro up
per class grows rich and fat. To
this group, Jim-Crowism is the
breath Of life. Then why attack
it? Why abolish it? Why not do
everything to continue it in power,
regardless of the agonies of the
Negro workers and farmers to whom
jim CrowiSm is crushing burden?
ITO be Continuedl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Akron Relief Workers
Demand Pay Rise

AKRON, Ohio.-A committee rep
resenting 500 relief workers here
who have signed a petition demand
ing guaranteed weekly wages of not
less than SIS met with George
Missig, county relief administrator,
on July 2.
Pointing out that the present
wages of SO a week on F. E. R. A.
jobs forces starvation conditions
upon all relief workers, the COM
mittee demanded that Missig state
his position on the workers de-
mands. Missig's reply was that If
the workers are not satisfied with
present wages they can quit the jobs
and apply for direct relief.
The relief workers will meet TO-
night at 8, at 4o1 S. Main st. Regu-