The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Girl Exposes Fathers
Frame-Up of Day; Will
Testify in Trial Today
Nettie Samberg Tells How
Landlord Concocted Case
Against Oscar Day
AZ Told to JEAN BOLAN

L want to tell you how Mr.. Marko-
TitZ, my father, framed his Negro
isnitor and how the International
Labor Defense is fighting for his
freedom"
It was Nettie Samberg speaking.
Nettie is a member of the Young
Communist League and a fighter for
full democratic rights and mcondi-
tional equality for the Negro people.
Indignant at the attempts of her
father, aided by bourgeois politicians
end the courts, to railroad an inno-
cent Negro worker to jail, Netty came
to the office of the Daily Worker to
expose the vicious frame-up Of Oscar
Day, Negro janitor. Her story fol-
lows
Day Paid $40 a Month for Drudgery
This Negro worker, Oscar Day.
worked for three years as a janitor
OF a tenement house at 259 Rlving-
ton St., Manhattan, which my
father owns. My father paid him
$40 a month and an apartment of
three small rooms, rent free. For
this $40 Day had to give three to
four hours of homework to my moth
er, help out in my fathers grocery
store for one or two hours a night
as well as be the janitor Of the
house. He was so well trusted by
my father that he would carry huge
sums Of money TO the bank every
week to deposit in my fathers &C
count. My father often told Day,
l trust you more than I trust my
own children. You know one of
my daughters stole $50 from me. You
Ia trust with anything
And so, for three years, Day kept
shaving away for my father.
Landlord Furious when Day Gets
Sick
ON December %, Oscar couldn't
show up for his usual drudgery. My
father went to his home and de-
manded that he come to work. I'm
sick. 1 have heart trouble. I can't
work today
"'You lousy Niger" said my father,
and he tried to grab Day by the
throat. Thereupon. oscar provoked
BY the name that weighs heavily
upon all Negro toilers, turned back
and hit my father.
Eighteen hours later, Oscar was
arrested on q charge Of assault and
battery. My father. not contented
with this, sought ways and means of
revenge. MY father is a Democrat.
a lackey and henchmau of Edward
AHearns District Club on Scanned
and East Broadway He quickly hit
upon good plau-'W Why not frame
Day on long term? Assault and
battery? That's not long enough for
me. No, no, let me think
Thought Up Vicious Frane-Up
And roy father did think-and
hard. The next day, on entering the
cellar TO make the steam heat and hot
water, he found some tools wrapped
in newspaper. Just the thing I
want. He took the bag of tools to
court the next day and Immediately
had the charge of assault and bat
terry changed to Robbery with intent
to kill The Neg-o intended to kill
him and then ron MIN. rob him of
all his money, said my father"
Here Netty clenched her teeth We
asked her to tell us something about
her life.
when ! joined The Young Com
muniSt League, after breaking away
from the lying, hypocritical leaders
of zionism Gny parents are very re-
ligious and brought me up the same
way, 1 was ostracizsd by my family,
who made my whole life miserable.
They could not understand why /
should be dissatisfied, since they
gave me every comfort. I couldn' t
stand it any more and I left home.
1 was 1872 years old when was
thrown out of my home, and soon
afterward found that 1 could not
stand the hokum that was handed
me i'll the schools. I looked for a
way out and found it in the Young
Communist League"