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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Governor Tells Sick to
Buy Luxuries on
3 Cents A Week

leaking roofs, rusted screens and
sewer line destroyed. Private in
dividuals are asked to donate out
NODDED and outworn bathing suits
in order that the lepers may take
treatment in the sea. Here's the
punch line: Three cents a week is
made available for members of the
colony, with which they may buy
such luxuries as can be secured for
that money" This sentence is on
page "a of Governor Pearson's re-
port for 1925. WI
President Roosevelt is especially
interested in the Virgin Islands as
naval base and coaling station for
Wall Streets fleet. The Virgin
Islands, strategically situated to
protect the Eastern end of the
Panama Canal, is only one of a
string of naval stations that the
President will give the once-over in
the course of his trip to Hawaii.
MI. Roosevelt's itinerary is not en-
tirely designed for a rest-cure or a
pleasure jaunt; it is part of Roose-
velts ornaments race and war
preparations.
The est. Croix Tribune" in be-
half of the local petty bourgeois
elements, is hammering away for a
change of governors. Virgin Island
toilers can rest assured that should
the Hoover appointed Pearson be
replaced by Roosevelt choice,
there will be no improvement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
The Arrest of Laevson

uOW desperately the Alabama ruling
n classes are trying to suppress any real
exposure of their vicious rule of terror
against the Negro masses and the white
workers of that state is shown in the latest
arrest in Birmingham, Ala, of John
Howard Lawson, noted playwright and
writer.
Lawson, member Of delegation investigating
conditions in the South including the bestial tor
ture Of the ScottSboro boys and Angelo Herndon
by their jailers is charged with printing and cir
culating seditious literature" The charge is based
his exposures in the Daily Worker several months
ago of the murderous attacks by mine owners their
courts police and fascist thugs on the heroic Negro
and white mine strikers struggling against ntoler-
able conditions. At that time Lawson was also ar
rested and ordered to leave the city
The arrest of Lawson is directly aimed at sup
pressing the last vestges of free speech in Alabama
at police censorship of the workers press and, in
particular, at driving the Daily Worker out of the
South, where it is playing tremendous role in unit
ing the Negro and white toilers in Joint struggle
against jim-crow oppression of the Negro masses
and its accompanying degradation of the white
workers, and in defense of Angelo Herndon and the
Scottsboro boys.
Every workers organization, every person sin
cerey opposed to lynching and the violent suppress
sion of the rights of the working class must raise
a thunderous protest against the arrest of Lawson
against the attack the workers press against
the proceeding fascination of the state apparatus of
Alabama. Rush protest wires and resolutions to
Governor B. M. Miller, at Montgomery, Ala TO
Commissioner Downs. Birmingham, Ala. Demand
that the charges against Lawson be dropped! De-
mand abolition Of the police drive to censor the
workers press and bar the Daily Worker from Ala
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
By Burck

geois, to receive and mislead,
recruit the scum and the petty
bourgeois Negro national reformists
who act as propagandists for main
tanning the rule of the white capt.
talists over the Negro people.
George Schuyler, a writer for the
Pittsburgh Courier, a Negro paper
controlled by the Roosevelt admin
istration, declares in the columns
Of that paper that the Scottsboro
boys can thank the I. L. D. and
the Communists for their plight.
Mass pressure and international
ballyhoo and stupid legal defense
did the trick" he says. These are
the words, effectively, of an agent
Of the ruling class who at the same
time is a leader in the ranks of
the so-called Musteite American
Workers Party; it is their contribu-
ton and aid to the ruling class
against the Negro people.
Neither are the Socialist leaders
in the U. S. A. behind their broth
ers in Europe in helping the ruling
class to break the unity of the
workers. 1 recall that from this
platform a very unusual incident took
place few months ago. At the height
of the anti-fascist struggle of the
workers in Austria who had
been betrayed by the leaders
of the Socialist Party, the Com
munist Party and its leaders were
carrying out with great energy plans
for unifying the broadest forces in
support of the Austrian workers.
From this platform Negro lead
er of the Socialist Party, in an at
tack upon leaders of the Commu-
mist Party, who always stand in
the forefront of the struggle for
Negro rights-this Negro leader of
the Socialist Party declared that
Communists are pigs because they
have the nature of pigs" We can
now declare with the fullest logic
of facts of recent events that So
cialist leaders are scavengers for the
capitalist class, or to use the very
appropriate words used by Chinese
workers: They are running dogs
of capitalism"
Comrades, now we are in the
midst of the greatest campaign for
the release of Thaelmann, the
Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern-
don. Not a moments rest for the
judges and governors of Alabama
and Georgia and for President
Roosevelt as long as the Scottsboro
boys and Angelo Herndon are i'm
prisoned!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Nazis Chauvinism, Vilest Instrument of Capitalism

of a bourgeois ruler for the rights
of people take the action of Pres
ident Roosevelt who ignores the
plea of the mothers Of the Scots
bore boys for their release, to say
nothing of the judges and the gov
ernor of Alabama.
And if you want to understand
the idealism of Communism and
its meaning in the lives of millions
of Negroes, then take the action
of the Communist Party of the
U. S. A. in stirring up the entire
world and millions of white workers
and middle class toilers to the sup
port Of the Scottsboro boys. The
Scottsboro case represented to the
Communist Party the oppression of
Negro people in America. The strug-
gle for the freedom of the Scots
boro boys was brought forward as
symbol of the struggle for the
national liberation of the Negro
people, who are allies in the strug-
gle against bourgeois reaction.
Fascism Intensifies Lynch Terror
The oppression of the Negro
people is nothing new; the lynch
ings and brutal terror against the
Negro people is nothing new. What
is new in this period of fascism in
other parts of the world and fas-
cist tendencies in the U. S. A. is
that fascism intensifies the oldest,
lowest medieval lynch terror; it in
tensifles these old forms of bour-
geois darkness. There is no more
deliberate bourgeois callousness,
medieval darkness than the new de-
cision unfolding the death sentence
against Haywood Patterson and
, Clarence Norris, for execution on
August 81.
In the U. S. A. also you find the
most vicious rule of bourgeois terror
applied against Negro and white
workers who dare to organize to-
gether to better their conditions.
The white rulers of the South
tremble at the rising movement of
Negro and white workers in the
very heart of the black-belt and they
bring forward the most vile acts
of terror and torture against the
leaders. The Georgia ruling class
sentenced Angelo Herndon to Is
years on the chain-gang, the worst
form of bourgeois terror and per-
secution in the South, it is the old
est form of feudal slavery persecu-
ton. Angelo Herndon was forced to
sleep in cell with dead convict;
they used the most brutal and re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

quate wages, and even hunger ap-
pear on every hand"
I AND, the life blood of an agricul-
Il tural people, is a monopoly in
the hands of few, mostly absentee
owners. Of all the arabic land 80
per cent is held by per cent of
the families; and of 1878 persons
engaged in agriculture only 273 own
farms. On st. Thomas 60 per cent
of the land is held by IL owners,
while on St. Croix 10 per cent of
the land is held by IA owners.
The per capita wealth in the
islands is less than $3.50, as COM
pared with ten times that average
in the States. Only 10 per cent of
the population has enough money
to pay taxes. There is a property
qualification for voters stipulating
that voters must have an annual
income of at least $500 or prop
erty income q $50 year. Only
1900 men out of population OF
$4,000 qualify for the franchise.
The stock phrase, funds are not
available for this purpose" recurs
frequently. School teachers receive
salary of $40 a month The an
nual federal appropriation for the
islands is 100000, or less than 25
per cent of the interest on the
money invested in single battle
ship.
The leper colony on st. Croix is
classic example of how Wall Street
bears the white mans burden
The governor reports that the col
ony's buildings are in a sad state
of repair, including cracked walls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Mobilize A. F. of L, Unions
for Thaelmann!

THE campaign for the freedom of Ernst
Thaelmann, leader of the anti-fascist
German masses, is taking root among
large sections of the workers in this coun-
try. This is already expressed in the many
mass actions, picket demonstrations and
other acts of solidarity organized in vari-
Gus parts of the country
One Of the most encouraging signs in the devel-
opment of the movement is the willingness of the
A. F. of L. membership to join in the fight for
the freedom of Thaelmann and in general in the
struggle against Hitler terror Dozens of A F. of L.
unions in New York, Chicago and many other
cities have already gone on record demanding the
release of Thaelmann. Among them are the build
ing trades locals bakers locals textile workers,
etc. How great is the readiness of the A. F. of L.
workers to fight jointly with the Communists for
the release of Thaelmann be seen from the
actions of the National Convention of the Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union, which went on
record demanding the release of Thaelmann This
motion was carried despite the fact that many of
the Socialist leaders of the union did not favor
this motion But they did not dare oppose the
will of the delegates
But these important actions of the A. F. of L.
workers which generally express the sentiments of
all organized workers as shown by the fact that
not only the unions of the TUUL but also the
independent unions mechanics Educational Society
locals of the Afnalgamated Food Workers etc. are
still too few. Why? Because the Communists and
the revolutionary workers generally in the A. F. of
L. unions have not yet with sufficient boldness
taken up this campaign in the local unions. They
have not yet exposed sufficiently the role of the
Greenwich leadership which is trying to hide its
failure to mobilize the A. F. of L. workers in the
struggle against fascism with lip service to the
boycott of Nazi goods.
1t is clear that the rising sentiment for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

freedom Of Thaelmann and the struggle against
Hitler is closely connected up with the realization
the part of the A. F. of L. workers of the
growing danger of fascism in the U. s. as expressed
in the growing terror against the workers in the
strike struggles the struggles of the unemployed.
The Communists and the revolutionary Oppo-
sitions in the A. F. of L. unions must come for
ward in all local unions in all central bodies
with the anti-fascist campaign and the demand
for the freedom of Ernst Thselmann. This cam
paign can become powerful weapon not only
in support of the struggles of the German masses
bat also for forging powerful united front in
the struggle against the attacks of the capital
lists and the terror campaign of the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
viii See Flags and
Feasts Not Mass
Poverty
BY SAMUEL WEINMAN


president ROOSEVELT off on
i a vacation journey, visited the
Virgin Islands - the Pearl of the
Antilles. The capitalist press bal
lyhooing the stunt with customary
fervor, and proclaimed that the
streets, stores and houses we're
decorated with bunting and bou-
gainvillea, recalling the old days
when the island was famous for its
carnivals" In the headlines, at
least, Virgin Islands Hall Roose-
welt"
What have the $4,000 Virgin
Islanders, over 80 per cent Negroes,
to hail Roosevelt about? Seventeen
years have passed since iInmedi-
ately prior to the World War, the
United States purchased the islands
from Denmark to strengthen the
approach to the Panama Canal.
The poverty of the island masses
is so deep and widespread that IS
per cent of the population receive
pauper burials. The death rate per
1000 is 81, as compared with IL in
the United States, Infant mortal
ity per 1,N children amounts to
145, as compared with SO on the
mainland.
Sugar production in st. Croix and
shipping in st. Thomas were once
the mainstays of economic activity
Since 1Q20 tho Mast T,,Jioo C,,nor
Factory. the Lagrange Sugar Co.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Roosevelt Goes Summing in the Virgin Islands

and the Central Sugar Factory have
been tightly shut down most of the
time.
st. Thomas, located on direct
line between Europe and the
Panama Canal, used to be bustl-
ing trans-shipment point. Today
the harbor is almost deserted. In
addition to the disastrous effects of
the general crisis of capitalism the
port has suffered from the Prohi-
bition Amendment, and the closing
of the local Hamburg American
Line Offices since the World War.
Women employed carrying 90
pound baskets of coal from the
wharf to the vessels earn 60 cents
a day, or $120 a week, since an
average of only two ships a week
call for coaling.
Even pre-crisis wages at the high
est in the cane and sugar industry
were 20 to 40 cents for a nine-hour
day. The seasonal character of the
industry made further inroads into
the workers income.
ut is needless to say" official in
vestigators asserted, that with a
wage scale as low as this, housing
conditions could not well be worse.
In the majority of cases the homes
of the laborers consist of single
room-dining room, living room and
bed room in one. >. The principal,
and in most cases only, article of
food is fungee, primitive mess of
corn meal and fish boiled together
unpalatable and lacking in nutri-
tive value. This lack of food is
reflected in the weakened physical
condition of both infants and
adults. -. Unemployment, made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

voting relics of the past to terror
ize and torture. But here the bour-
geois landlords see as the fascist
bandits saw at the Leipzig trial
what leaders Communism produce.
Angelo Herndon flung into their
faces courage and defiance. He de-
clared: do what you will with me,
thousands will come to take my
place.
Contrast the policy of fascism in
Germany and the oppression of the
Negro people in the U. S. A. with
the policy which has led to the
freedom of nationalities formerly op-
pressed by the Tzarist regime, with
the present policy in the Soviet
Union, where the right of self-de-
termination and the equality of
races and nations is based on the
voluntary union of all races, color
and nations on the basis of prole-
tartan solidarity.
The policy of the Soviet Union
is directed towards the rapid de-
Velopment of industry and culture;
the policy of fascism is directed to-
wards the obstruction of culture and
the use of industry to enrich the
capitalists.
Contrast the policy of fascism
where Jewish people are defiled,
with the setting up of an autono-
nous state for the Jewish people
in the Soviet Union, at the time
when Hitler attacks against the
Jewish people were at their height.
Those who fail to see the great gulf
between fascisrn and the Soviet
Union fail to understand the great
est political event in the history of
the world
Contrast the policy of the Soviet
Union with the deliberate cultiva-
ton of race prejudice in America by
the capitalist press, the theatre, the
schools and the courts.
Pogroms are impossible under the
Soviet regime, while lynchings of
Negroes are rapidly increasing dur
ing the period of the capitalist
crisis.
Fascism operates on the basis of
the Oldest reactionary social forces.
Bourgeois exploiters and fascism re-
cruit their leaders from among the
corrupt and the scum of their So
ciety. Among national groups and
oppressed people, they seek out the
most corrupt elements either of the
previous ruling class or the present
DECEASED elements. For example,
among the Negro people the bour-
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Continued from Page q

held. Over a hundred thousand
German workers including foreign
seamen in the port of Hamburg
Thaelmann came all the way from
Berlin to address his Hamburg
comrades. He spoke in this great
demonstration about the Scots
boro boys and led the demand for
their release. Thaelmann was the
conscious leader of the defense of
the Scottsboro boys in Germany
and helped to organize the tour of
Louis Engdahl and Mother Wright
in Germany.
Along with Thaelmann, as a
friend of the Negro people, Is
another Communist leader who is
with us tonight, Comrade Will
Munzenberg, leader of the League
Against Imperialism and for Ma
tional independence of the colonial
masses.
So when Hitler and his fascist
bandits imprisoned Thaelmann and
threaten him with medieval execu-
ton they figure against the logic
of the whole forward development
of mankind, against Communism.
which unifies all the oppressed
against fascism, against capitalist
imperialism and for a new society.
In the United States we find a
] ~ oyn{ayAt a<1inzyol
methods of Hitler faScism, in the
persecution of the Negro people.
We find examples of the most bar
barous torture to enforce the spe-
cial oppression of the Negro people.
If you want to look for what fas-
cism means just take a look at the
plight and torture of the Negro
people in the U. S. A. at the hands
of capitahst-landlords and their
bandit thugs Take the Scottsboro
case which has behind it a history
Of thousands of known lynchings
and tortures of Negro people in the
U. S. A, to say nothing of the
unknown" lynchings over a period
of years; which has behind it
decades of national oppression and
bloody terror of the Negro people. If
you want to have examples of the
Oldest forms of bourgeois and
medieval reaction just take Prin-
cess AIMEE, Maryland (of which
there are thousands of examples
where a Negro was dragged by the
neck with a chain through the
streets. If you want to find the
most callous contempt on the part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Refuge for German
Seaman Is Sought
By N. Y. Workers
Death Awaits Eggaling
If He Is Returned
To Germany

NEW YORK, July 10.-Working
class organizations were asked yes
terday by the National Committee
for the Protection of the Foreign
Born to join in an effort to save
Theodore Eggaling, German sea
man, from the Nazi axe which
awaits him if he returns to his
native land.
Eggaling, visiting IN Yorkville
during shore leave from the Ham
burg American liner Albert Bal
lin" on June 6, publicly expressed
anti-Nazi sentiments and was at
tackled by Nazi thugs and beaten.
He was arrested for disorderly con-
duct. After his release from jail
he was seized by two private police
men Of the Hamburg American line
and shanghaied aboard the Albert
BALM. An LID. representative,
who witnessed Eggaling's virtual
kidnapping from the steps of the
Yorkville Court, succeeded in rescu-
ing Eggaling from the ships brig
with a writ of habeas corpus a few
minutes before the ship left it's pier.
Eggaling is still in grave danger,
it was explained yesterday by the
Committee for the Protection of the
Foreign Born, unless the Immigra-
ton Bureau can be compelled to
give him permission to remain in
this country.
The committee, whose fight for
Eggaling has been endorsed by the
American Civil Liberties Union, is
also pressing for the introduction
into Congress of bill granting the
right of asylum to all political
refugees, pointing out that while
Tzarist refugees are permitted to
enter the country, political, racial
and religious refugees from fascist
countries are Systematically ex-
cluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
On the
World Front
By HARRY CANNES

''Putzy'' and TrOtzky
Their Refrain on Germany
In Place of ROehm's Name
Evening star., 1934-11-17
METROPOLITAN UNIT.
JOSEPH ID. KAUFMAN, Chairma

2EA chairman Edwin n. Lewis Vice Chairman Mrs Donne Hewet
11-Chaman, Gorrel; Vice Chairman Burdette
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-30

with som e sections reporting as high as 20 per cent increase in collections and 16 per cent increase in. credit-sales. Michigan shows a healthy increase over October 1883 but records slight falling off in current collections and sales, due to automobile factories shut down in Detroit.
 Collections and credit-sales are both reported good in Minnesota, while. Nebraska reports collections fair and credit-sales good
 In Wyoming, credit-sales while ten per cent above last year, are reported as being temporarily slow, due to "out-of season warm wealth er, and continued drought. On the other hand, governmental aid to farmers has helped them material ly in paying up old accounts.
 In California collections In credit-sales are reported as good, both showing an increase over last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-30
BUSINESS IS
 MUCH BETTER
 OVER COUNTRY
Retail Stores Report Good Buying-Bills Are Paid
 More Regularly

MT. and Mrs Consumer were buying more from the retail stores and they were paying their retail bills with more promptness than they were in October last year, ac-
 cording to the nationwide survey | of the Research Division of the National Retail Credit Association | for October. just received by Charles Waynor, Manager, Alaska Credit Bureau, Valentine Building.
 Retail collections for Oct b e I show an increase of 98 per cent and retail credit-sales an increase of 12 per cent over October last year. Translating dry statistics into human values, these increases are attributed to strengthened confid- ence on the part of the average consumer as well as better financial condition. In other words, the public is buying the necessities of life and paying as it goes instead of "hoarding" for a rainy day" !. Eighty-six per cent of the cities covered by the survey report in- creased collections, 8 per cent re- port decreased, 6 per cent mo change" over October 1883, while l88 per cent show increases, per cent decreases and 4 per cent mo change" in retail credit sales. In the New England States, col iections and credit-sales are report ed as gradually coming back to normal, following the settlement of the textile strike.
 In the Southern States collec- tions and credit-sales continue up- ward although merchants in Ar kansas report that unusually warm weather has slowed up sales of clothing.
 In Missouri. especially in the
 Kansas City and St. Louis trade areas, the trend continues upward. Special sales had a tendency to sharply increase buying and col lections continue to show improve rlent. The outlook is favorable for good Christmas business in this
 district. Iowa shows healthy in-
 srease in credit-sales with the de- nand for credit accommodations lowe that in 1883.
 Chic is one of the bright spots
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-30
DR. C. FIRESTONE HAS REJOINED US. BUREAU
 OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Dr. Charles Firestone, formerly in charge of the U. s. Bureau of Indian Affairs hospital in Juneau, who also served with the Bureau in charge of other hospitals in the Territory, has returned to Government medical work after spending the last few years spec ializing in eye, ear, nose and throat work in Seattle, according to word received by friends of Dr. and Mrs. Firestone.
 Dr. and Mrs. Firestone and their small daughter are now in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he is connected with the U. s. Bu- reaH of Indian Affairs hospital After they left Alaska, Dr. and Mrs. Firestone and their daughter spent year in Vienna, Austria, where Dr. Firestone did special medical work before he began practicing in Seattle.