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rr v ■ * , I CENTS ,T~XT ■ ----- 1110 N .- PER COPY /JUSTICES EQUALITY — ■■■■■■■MMMBBMBMMMMMMMMBMMWWWBMMWMMMBaaB ^—^———b^—————b^—————1^—— VOLUME EX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY OCTOBER 19, 1935 NUMBER THIRTY-ONE At a time when fascist news papers axe publishing pictures supposedly "proving’’ Ethiopian barbarism, in order to justify fas cist asrgression, it is timely to pub ish this document on fascist bar barism. Coming now to the abuses prac ticed by the constituted author ities (in fascist Italy), w^e shall mention the national annesties which had the effect of releasing some of the fascists sentenced by the ordinary courts for misdeeds | committed "for patriotic ends.*’! We shall mention, also, the ex ceptional laws, the decay of par- i liamentarv mandates, the institu ting of special courts, the aboli tion of the "Statute’’ (Italian constitution), the imprisonment; and the sentencing to solitary j confinement and to deportation of thousands of anti-fascists, the j systematic violation, on the part of fascism, of the laws which it has itself passed, the dissolution of all trade union, political, cul tural, posit, artistic and religious organizations which are not fas cist in character. We shall mention also the levy ing of forced contributions on ;the workers for the purpose of : maintaining the fascist trade un j ion heads and a network of spies, the militarization of the schools and the limitation of the right to attend the high schools and uni versities, the militarization of the whole country, the suppression of the press and of the right of freeI speech and opinion. This slavery exists even inside the fascist organizations, where there is no freedom of speech whatsoever. Measures are taken against the fascists themselves if they dare to exercise any of their | rights. It is forbidden to send any aid of any kind to political prisoners, even from family and friends; the money sent them is seized in a thousand ways, of which one, and the most characteristic, is as fol lows : a policeman follows the bearer of the message, and at the moment when the money is to be turned over the policeman steps in and takes it. under the pretext 1 that “illegal aid’’ is being given: thus, it is impossible to send any I assistance, even through the moth er or father of the political victim.! The years 3925, 1926 and 1927 were filled with instances of vio lent reaction, based on the acts of arson, destruction, pillagings, beatings, massacres, and arrests winch to fascism are a matter of course. Bologne. Milan, Turin, Flor ence, Rome were the chief scenes of these acts of savagery and violence. The Case of Zamboli, Age 17 On October 31, 1926, at Bologne, Mussolini was the object of an I attempted assassination ”, actual ly organized by fascism in order to justify the enactment of ex ceptional laws. Nearly 20,000 anti fascists were arrested on Musso lini’s orders. The first victim, Zamboli, a youth 11 years old, was lynrhed by the fascists, who accused him of being the would-be assassin. A decree of November 3, 1926, promulgated by fascism itself, states: ‘ ‘ No fascist may comment I in public, in any way whatsoever, I on the events of the last few1 days, under pain of expulsion from the ranks of the party.” (Continued on Page 2) PICKET NEW YORK PAPER WHEN FIRED EMPLOYEES DEMAND INVESTIGATION .___/a Mitchell Denies Statement Of War Washington, Oct. 19—(ANP)— A. denial that he had advised Ne. erroes regarding their actions in the Italian-Ethiopian situation was made by Representative Ar thur W. Mitchell of Illinois, di rectly on his return to this city last week. Congressman Mitchell, whose i frequent statements have kept! criticism pile idabout jhim since being elected, was reputed to have edvised Negroes not to demon strate against Italians in this country. Several white papers, in cluding many in the South, im mediately published editorials lauding the Mitchell stand. The Negro democrat said here that while he saw “the attitude of Italy as being a well planned ; and deliberate move to exploit what she regards a sa weaker na-1 tion,?’ he refrained from recom mending any eourse of action to members of his race in this coun_ I try. Negroes, he added, should not be held responsible when they are attacked, as they were in re cent eases. He referred to inci dents in several cities where Ne groes and Italians have become involved in demonstrations. Pullman Porters Wagre Case Is Now Before | Mediation Board ASK FOR PAY INCREASE - Chicago, Oct. 19—In compliance with the provisions of the Rail way Labor Act as amended by the Seventy-third Congress, the Broth erhood of Sleeping Car Porters' has appealed to the National’ Mediation Board to intervene for the settlement of the dispute on wages and rules governing work ing conditions between the Broth erhood and the Pullman Com pany states A. Philip Randalph. National President. Conferences for the negotiation : of an agreement with the Pullman ’ Company for the purpose of reg_ ulating hours and increasing wages began July 29th. followed by an adjournment for several veeks. They were resumed Sep tember 16th, and continued through the 18th. Then an ad journment followed, at the re quest of the Pullman Management in order for the management to study the cost of the agreement to it. On October 2nd. confer ences began again and extended through the 4th. Because of disagreement over the matter of wage rates and hours and miles of work, follow ing the presentation of the eco nomic arguments in behalf of the porters’ case by Dr. Edward Ber man. Consulting EconomLit for the Brotherhood, and Professor of Economics in the University of Illinois, the conferences were broken off and application was immediately made through tele gram. invoking the services of the National Mediation Board to adjust dispute. The Pullman Company flatly (Continued on Page 7) The Dominican Republic’s rapidly expanding new starch industry has been seriously threatened by drouth in the region where yurea has been grown the past three or four years. New York, Oct. 19—(ANP)— Pickets paraded in front of the Amsterdam News office, 2293 Seventh avenue. Wednesdav when •r members of the staff went on strike, after three editors and sixj editorial employes had been dis charged. The picketeers claimed that t hev had been locked out I of the office after they had pre sented the cases of the discharg ed employes to the Newspaper Guild of New York. The Guild is a labGr union formed by editorial workers of the cit yand headed by Heywood Broun, famous white Columnist. The workers discharged were1 Obie McCullom, managing editor, Mrs. Thelma Boozer, society ed itor and T. R. Roston .city editor, together \^ith six editorial and 1 l secretarial assistants. The picket eers were joined by white mem-; bers of the Guild who thus show ed reciprocity fo rthe loyalty of | Amsterdam News workers who aided in picketing a white news pape rin Newark last summer. In the shakeup which occured, Mr. William Davis, president of the corporation was replaced as j general manager by Romeo L. Dougherty, veteran employe of I paper who for many years has been sports an dtheatrical editor.! The 1000 shares of stock in the j publication are owned by Mr. j Davis who controls 405 shares and his wife ,Mrs. Sadie Warren Davis and her daughter Mrs. Odessa Gray Morse, who retain 505 shares left them by Mrs. Davis late husband who was the former jmbliher of the Amter. dam News. Mrs. Davis declined to treat with the Guild members when they presented demands for im-i proved working conditions or; with a ci^peen’s committee which sought to arbitrate the matter. She announced that the discharg es were motivated b ythe neces stiy for economy. Matcatfe Elected Class President At Marquette Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 19, (ANP) Internationally famous as a sprint s.ar, Ralph Metcalfe of Marcpiette uni\ ersitv added another attainment to his long list of achievements when he was elected president of the senior class of the college of liberal arts last week. He had transferred to that department from the law school. It is not generally known that At calf e is considered a brilliant student. Sports followers know him as the athlete w'ho broke world rec ords during his college career and as a star of the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles. No longer eligible for intercollegiate competition, however, Metcalfe is looking toward the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and is training for the tryouts next spring. Ne^ro Serves On New Orleans Jury Trying Long: Aide (HNV) ‘61 “*>() ‘■^I ‘sueopo —Selection of a Negro member of a jury to try a high political associa tion of the recently assassinated Senator Huey P. Long, considered generally a friend of Louisiana Ne groes, was one of the queer twists developed in the local courts last week. The juror is Talor Segue. Trial was that of Abraham L. Shushan for income tax evasion. Segue was the last juror selected of the panel of 12. On Housing Committee ME. BERNARD SQUIRES Executive secretary of the Om aha Urban League who was ap pointed to the five man board of the Mayor’s Housing Committee. The committee was formed to study and plan situation of slum districts and select sites for hous ing renovation. Mr. Squires will represent the interest of the raoe W oman Is Given Thirty Days For the Cutting Of Jealous Lover TAILOR IS VICTIM On October 10th, at 11:15 p. m., Alfred Sessum, 42. a tailor at 2020 X. 24th street, was cut by Elizabeth Alls, 1910 N. 25th st. Mr.^Sessum had been having an affair -with Miss Alls, and on the night of October 10th, in a drunken frenzy, he ac cused her of having an affair with someone else, and threatened to Tix’ her so no one else would “look at her twice.”' Miss Alls states, in self de fense, she grabbed a knife, and Mr. Sessum suffered lacerations to the right side of his chin, left side of throat, left arm, first finger of left hand, left thigh, and to the left side, all of which were minor cuts. Mr. Sessum was taken to the Lord Lister hospital for treatments and returned home. Miss Alls received 30 days for as sault and battery. Arresting officers were Detectives Jenkins, Jones, Trotter and Winison. NEWS BRIEFS New York, Oct. 19,-^Toe Louis will engage in a series of bouts with four or five mediocre heavyweights during the winter months, according to information released to the press this week by Joe Jacobs, promoter who handles Joe’s bouts. The list will include Abe Feldman. Baer’s chief sparring mate, Ford Smitli, Tony Galento, Paolino Uzcudun and Ray Icpllittiere. The bout with Max Schmeling, German heavyweight, is scheduled in December. Omaha, Neb.—A “trusty” in the city workhouse-^ was sentenced to serve an additional 10-day sentence when it was found that he had taken an inner tube from the city garage where he had been working out a five-day sentence. The man, Paul Reed, 1204 Pacific street, swears that the tube wasn’t worth it. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 19.—The public will again be given the needs and functions of the Omaha Community Chest during the financial drive as the first speeches of the 1935 cam paign were made Wednesday night at the Masonic Temple, where Dr. G. B. Lennox, speaker of the North Side Division announced the opening of the drive and his plans. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 19_James J. Braddock, world heavyweight boxing champ, stated in an interview here last week when he refereed a wrestling match, that he could fin ish Joe Louis in five rounds. The champ, a “ham and egger” before the Baer fight also stated that he was not eager to part with the championship and that it would be several months before he climbed in the ring against the Brown Bomber from Detroit. PAUL ROBESON j BROADCASTS SUNDAY Internationally Famous Concert Singer Will 1 Be Heard at 9 p. m. j NBC THROUGH WOW The third program in the current series of the General Motors Con certs will be presented on Sunday night, October 20, with Emo Rapee conducting the General Motors Or chestra. Paul Robeson, great Negro baritone, will be the guest artist. A coast-to-coast network of 65 NBC-WFAF stations will broadcast the Concert between 9 and 10 p. m., C. S. T. It was announced today that Station KGU, in honolulu, 1 Hawaii, has been added to the hook up for these programs. Mr. Rapee's program for the j third broadcast will open with the first movement from the Symphony No. 8 in B minor by Schubert—the composition so well known as “The Unfinished Symphony.” Following Mr. Robeson’s first solo number, Mr. Rapee will conduct the j orchestra in three of the most de j lightful examples of French ballet music from the works of Dtlibes, i Gounod and Bizet. These will be Variation from “La Source,” the Adagio from the “Faust” ballet and the Farandole from “L’Arlesienne” Suite. Alter the intermission, the or chestra will present the “Fetes” by Debussy and Liszt’s “Second Hun garian Rhapsody.” Robeson, former Rutgers football (star who has achieved fame on the dramatic stage, in the concert hall, on the screen and on the air, will sing well-known and liked numbers from his extensive repertory of bari tone songs and Negro spirtuals. In the first part of the pro gram he will sing “Light” “Homeland Mine” by Gretchaninoff and the popular “Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve Seen’" in a new ar rangement by Lawrence Brown. Following the intermission, he will be heard singing “Deep River,” “Water Boy” and “Short’nin’ Bread” —all songs which this great bari tone finds he must include in his concerts wherever he goes. Critics consider Paul Robeson one of the most versatile stars of the American theater and concert stage. He has established this reputation because of his stirring performances in Dubose Hevword’s “Porgy” and Ziegfeld’s “Show Boat” on the stage; on the screen in the motion picture version of Eugene O’Neil’s “Emper or Jones;” in London in Shakes peare s “Othello;’" and in innumer able concerts throughout the world. The detailed program follows: GENERAL MOTORS CONCERTS October 20, 1S35 GENERAL MOTORS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERNO RAPEE PAUL ROBESON Conductor Baritone PROGRAMME (1) Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (“Unfinished”) 1st M o v e mont r* i_i_, ' .—....uv.iiui/vl t General Motors Symphony Orchestra ■“) ^a) Light ._.Sinding (b) Homeland Mine .-.—. Gretchaninoff (c) Nobody Knows de Trouble | I’ve Seen .Arr. by Lawrence Brown Paul Robeson (3) (a) Variation from “La Source” ..—-—.— Delibes (b) Adagio from “Faust” .-.-.—Gounod (c) Farandole from “L’Ar esienne” Suite ...Bizet General Motors Symphony Orchestra (4) Fetes —. Debussy General Motors Symphony Orchestra (5) (a) Deep River —.Arr. by H. T. Burleigh (b) Water Boy .-—Arr. by Avery Robinson (c) Short’nin’ Bread —.-.Jack Wolfe Paul Robeson Lawrence Brown at the Piano (6) Second Hungarian Rhapsody - Liszt General Motors Symphony Orchestra U S. SUPREME COURT REFUSES REHEARING OF _ANGELO HERNDON CASE Ethiopian Women Spur Men On To Deeds Of Glory Addis A^>aba. Oct 19, (ANT)— If the women of the two warring na tions, Ethiopia and Italy, can be taken as a basis of judgment, then Hafle Selassie’s countrymen will more than offset mluch of the ad vantage Mussolini has in the way of ammunition and equipment. The contrast begins properly with Signora Mussolini and Empress Waizeri of Ethiopia, wife of Selas sie. The mate of II Duce is never thought of when the Premier of Italy is mentioned. She has pursued her husband’s theory that woman’s place is in the home and there she has re mained. During the first seven years of II Duce’s power he kept his spouse and children at their modest villa in Forli. Neither she nor any other Italian woman enjoy any kind of place in the political life of Italy. On the other hand, Empress Waizeri has been constantly photo graphed, has issued innumerable statements on the conflict, and is one of her husband’s most trusted advisers. A descendant of Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba, she com bines in her portly person not only the glamour but also the force and brilliance of her famous ancestors. The “Queen of Queens” has backed her husband staunchly in' his de cisions to defy Mussolini. Recently she addressed an appeal to the women of the world to pray for peace. She has been married to the Negus 23 years during which time they are said never to have had a quarrel. He is her fourth husband and she his only wife. They have six children, incidentally. The Empress has often stated her desire to march with her husband into battle. Princesses of the royal family have aided in every way pos sible the Ethiopian fighting men. All this indicates that if it is true that “the female of the species is more deadly than the male,” then the Italians have attecpted more than they realize, for the soldier of this kingdom is himself one of the worlds fiercest fighting men. In some of the tribes women fight along with their men and deem it a disgrace not to march in battle against the foe. Still others follow their husbands from camp to camp, cooking for them and providing the necessities of life. Woizero Abelath Charkose, one of the wealthiest women in this land and a titled lady, has been granted permission from Selassie to personally lead her army of 10,000 well equipped troops into battle. This is typical of Ethiopian sentiment—at the other extreme of the quiet, stay-at-home attitude of Italian mothers, wives, daughters and sweethearts. Mrs. J. H. Harrington, wife of Rev. J. H. Harrington, prominent Austin, Texas, clergyman, and sister of Dr. G. B. Lennox, prom inent local physician and sur geon, is convelescing after a major operation performed with the as sistance of her brother in an Om aha hospital. She is said to be well on the way to recovery. Seeff To Ban Book At N. Y. College New York, Oet. 19, (ANP)—Be cause a textbook in use at City Col lege is said to contain a story in de fense of lynching, in the South, President Frederick B. Robinson promised to investigate a pprotest by the Student Council against the use of the book. The book, an anthology of selections of English prose en titled, “Models and Values" is con demned by the students because of the story by William H. Davis called “Unwritten Law." The story is only a “sychological treatise portraying a mental state," according to Prof. William B. Otis of the English de partment, but it is sufficiently ob jectionable to cause the Student Council to object to its continuance in the college sponsored by New York City. Must Return To Georgia For 20 Yr. Sentence On Chain Gang ORGANIZED LABOR -— Angelo Herndon, militant Labor leader was ordered beck to the Georgia chain gang by the United States Supreme Court this week after the body refused the motion for a rehearing of the trial. This means that the young Negro must return to this living hell within 10 days. Herndon was arrested in Georgia in July, 1932 after he had organized a group of unemployed Negro and white workers and marched on the Fulton County Relief Agencies de manding food for those nearly starved. The state ordered him to trial and convicted him on the anti seamon law 01 1861 Of the state. It had never been used before and was not expected to stand before the Su preme Court of the United States. Herndon is now out on a $15,000 bail posted by friends and the Inter national Labor Defense. The bail will be forfeited unless he returns this week. However, his return is assured and doubt is expressed by physicians that he will be able to stand the rigors of the prison camps in Georgia due to his physical condi tion. The Georgia camps made nation ally famous by the escaped convict Robert Burns who made it to New Jersey and wrote the famous book, “I am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang.” is noted for its ex treme eruelty and methods. Herndon made a transcontinental speaking tour in his behalf last year. Much money was raised for his de fense and the best lawyers of t h e country presented bis «tse before the Supreme Court. The only recourse now is the hope that by presenting a million names, signed to a petition, the Governor of the state will grant him executive clemency. The Angelo Herndon De fense Committee asks those inter ested to send their protest by letter or card to Governor Eugene Tal madge, Atlanta, Ga., demanding the release of Herndon. German postal officials have adopted coin operated vending ma chines to sell stationary and matches in addition to postage stamps. For temporary’ use a nail has been invented with one head above the other to facilitate drawing it from wood into which it is driven. CAPTURED IN OHIO * - “* WILLIAM WARD Alias Blossom Ward, age 34, was captured and held at Cincin jnati, Ohio, on a charge of criminal assault at that city is also wanted in Omaha for a similar charge | for the allegde rape of eight year old Ima Jean Butler. 2113 N. 26th street on August 25th at the cir cus grounds on 30th and Wirt. I There ar etwo charges against Ward in Ohio. On his release from that state h ewill be brought to Omaha on a habitual criminal charge. H ehas served time in the Ohio state prison at Columbus for criminal assault. He survived the disastrous fire at the prison several years ago. He was paroled latr eand became a circus follow er. Detectives Burch and Rose handled the case. • -■ l«„:- ." 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