The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1932, Page 8

‘ave Four nun DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1932 see Growing Oppression --- Mounting Struggles (Continued from Page 1) Communist literature. Released as result of .working-class protest, Snow Hill, Md, — Orphan Jones Negro and white real estate owners | denied right of choosing as his law- and other bosses, shoot and kill 3) Negro workers, John O’Neil, Thomas Page, and Abe Gray, for their part in a demonstration led by the Un- ployed Council protesimig the evic- tion ..or” ah unemployed Negro worker. One hundred thousand workers of all nationalities attend their funeral and pledge themselves to carry on the fight. Dadeville, Ala. — Pressure of | working-class protest forces release | of twenty share-croppers held in jail for organizing the Croppers Union. Birmingham, Ala.—Wave of lynch terror sweeps Alabama. Negro workers are beaten and shot on any and no pretext. Working-class lead- ers, Negro and white, are arrested. Record of known lynchings for July and August includes: Four Negro share-croppers sent to “chop wood” ty the sheriff at Camp Hill, Ala., and his mob of wealthy landlords. The body of one was found in a river, Oscar Livingston, lynched near} New Orleans, July 22, charged with “attempted rape.” Sixteen year old Negro boy was lynched near Haynesville, Ala., sho’ 32 times on August 5. Major Harrel, lynched by wealthy | farmer and Negro assistants, at Conway, Ark. | John Parker, lynched by wealthy farmers and a Negro lackey at Conway, Ark., accused of some peaches. September, 193 Birmingham, Ala.—Willie Peter son, unemployed and tubercular} Negro veteran, arrested on framed- up murder charge of two white so- | ciety women. Terror wave rises higher in Alabama. The list of known lynchings for September includes: Landrom Lewis, Negro, killed in church by officers at Shrevesport, La, Richard and Charlie Smoke, Ne- groes, taken from jail and lynched at Bluntstown, Fla. Clyde Payne, Negro, husband of Viola Payne, murdered by boss be- cause he tried to protect his wife | | stealing 1 yer, attorney hired by Internationa: Labor Defense, I. L. D. and other working-class organizations open determined fight for his freedom. Secret report of Howard Kester of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, is made public by the Daily Worker. This report shows among other things that in the neighborhood of Birmingham alone, in the summer of 1931, 75 Negro workers were lynched or otherwise murdered by police. December, 1931 . Sixteen hundred and fifty hunger marchers, over one-fourth Negroes, march on Washington from every section of the United States, to de- mand unemployment insurance, calling for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, and appealing for fight on lynching and Jim-Crow. The hunger marchers smash Jim- Crow lines, angrily spurning all of- fers of Jim-Crow lodgings, and set an unforgettable example of soli- darity, Baltimore, Md. International Labor Defense and other working- class organizations enter fight to ave George Davis, Negro worker, ramed on charges of “attacking a | white woman.” Davis almost lynch- ed by businessmen’s mob) New York City——Workers force f of Sam Brown, William Campbell, Arthur Williams and | James Warfield, Negro workers, ar- rested on fake charges of robbery, but really because they held work- ing-class meetings in Harlem, Of- ials of U. N. I. A. assisted in the frame-up, Houston, Tex.—Barney Lee Ross, -year old Negro boy of Dainger- field, Tex., sentenced to death on fake frame-up. The trial lasted two hours. Workers rally to his defense. International Labor Defense de- 92 jmands a rehearing. Winston-Salem, N. C. — John Moore, jobless Negro worker, sen- sentenced to die for theft of pair of worn-out shoes, Workers protest. Salisbury, Md.—Matthew Will- iams, 35-year old Negro worker, burned jm 40 gallons of gasoline, by unmasked mob of big business from assault. No arrests. Bill Fane, Negro, ached by mob of wealthy merchants and planters at Little Rock, Ark. .ecause he} refused to do forced labor. In ad- dition a boss-incited mob tried to lynch little Julian Hardy, Negro, 13, at Clayton, N. C. | October, 1931 Cleveland, O.—Police murder John } Rayford and Edward Ja on, Negro | workers, for their part in a demon- | stration led by the Unemployed | Council against the eviction of a! jobless worker. Sixty thousand | workers, Negro and white attend| funeral. | Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy Wright, two of Scottsboro | victims, tours country for defense of | boys. St. Mark’s A, M. E. Church} and other wealihy churches close | their doors to her, Baltimore, Md.— Orphan Jones (Yuel Lee) -sixty year old farm hand | of Snow Hill, Md., faces lynch mob. He was falsely accused of killing a white farmer. He is tortured for fake confession. N. A. A. C. P. aids lynchers by announcing Jones’ guilt. Working-class organizations take | up his defense. j Record of known lynchings and | murders of Negro workers in Oc- | tober include the following: | Scottsboro boys. | ganizations. intensify campaign for | lice. men. Williams committed the crime of asking his boss for.a raise from 15 cents an_ hour, Report compiled by worker-in- vestigators shéw a total of 79 known lynchings and 32 murders by police of Negro workers in 1931. Countless lynchings are never re- ported. January, 1932 Lewisburg, W. Va.—Tom Jackson d George Banks, two Negro work- rs, lynched by mob of 60 white business men Darrow and Hays, NAACP attor- news, refuse to enter defense of the Working class or- their release. Letter of Buby Bates, chief witness in the Scottsboro trial, in which she admits the boys were framed, suppressed by Huntsville po- Lawyers for International La- bor Defense, in hearing before the Alabama Supreme Court, January | 21, expose Scottsboro verdict as bra- zen legal lynching. Baltimore, Md.—Orphan Jones, |framed Negro worker, is sentenced to death by an all-white jury in 34 minutes of deliberation. All evi- dence at trial proved innocence of Jones. Negro workers barred from jury in spite of demand of defense counsel. International Labor De- a white, murdered | fense plans appeal of case to Mary- i Tayolr, Negro, 13 years old,| land Supreme Court. } Baltimore Md.—George Davis,} “Hus white plantatior framed Negro worker, sentenced in hot and killed Will Jones, | Secret court session to 16 years at ant, and his family ot 5, | bard labor. Workers protest. » “Jones had talked back.” Sapulpa, Okla.—Jess Hollins, 22- Dorothy Holdren, young Negro | ¥ear-old Negro worker, arrested in qwesian, shot and killed by railroad | S@Pulpa, charged with “rape.” He watchman, because she fished on | 8 sentenced to death in 30-minute the “white side’ of the Desplaines | trial in night court. The girl whom river. | he was supposed to have “raped Negro worker of Pontiac hanged had been his friend for two years. and left for dead by bosses in ef-|. Houston, Tex.—Barney Lee Ross, fort to stop Michigan County Hun- [ee vomest Bee, rae ee ee Ed Cooper, Negro, shot and killed | Oe cane Pg i rs man (hywers by white man. No arrests. cent, but it is sometimes necessary Frampton Williams, Negro, 15,/ +9 purn a house in order to save a shot to death by Atlanta police. village.” November, 1931 Birmingham, Ala.—Willic Peter- Birmingham, Ala.—Ben Irby, 2/| son is convicted of murder and rape Negro worker arrested in Dallas|on framed evidence. Jury recom- County on charge of possessiitg |mends death. Roderick. Beddow, x lawyer whom the NAACP had tried to get Scottsboro boys to accept, joins prosecution of Peterson after repeated statements before witness- es that Peterson is innocent. Bed- dow also announces his intention of defending Dent Williams, white man who shot Peterson in jail Coroner’s juries in Salisbury, Md., and in Lewisburg, W. Va., refuse to take action against known lynchers of Negroes. Chicago, Illi.—Wave of terror is Sweeping Chicago’s South Side. Many Negro and white workers ar- Tested. ~ Minneapolis, Minn.—Negro and white workers under leadership of League of Struggle for Negro Rights and Young Communist League begin fight for release of Ernest McDuffy, young Negro worker of Anoka, Minn., railroaded to seven years in St. Cloud reformatory. Wave of lynch terror sweeps Ha- waii. Bosses prepare martial rule. Admiral Pratt, chief of naval op- erations, openly calls for lynch law. Eighteen thousand Negro and white miners in Kentucky, under leadership of National Miners Union strike against starvation and Jim Crowism. February, 1932 Cleveland, Ohio.—Worker-invest- igators uncover vicious frame-up of two Negro children Jimmy Lee Mc- Due and David Palmer, on fake rape charges, in Massillon, O. Mass pro- test forces their release. New Haven, Conn.—Workers rally for fight against deportation to North Carolina of family of David Brisbane, jobless Negro worker. This attempt to deport Brisbane is one of the opening guns in a cam- paign of the bosses to ship back to slavery on the Southern plantations, the jobless Negro workers and their families. Chicago, MWil—Anti-terror con- ference of Negro and white workers protests police terror on South Side, demand ousting of “killer police.” Newby, Okla.—Floyd Phillips, in- vestigator for the International La- bor Defense, threatened wth lynch- ing for uncovering the facts of the frame-up of Jess Hollins. Flood of telegrams forces Governor Murray to stay execution. Mother of.Tom Mooney addresses huge mass meetings and calls for fight for freedom of Scottsboro boys. Workers .of England and France send telegrams demanding Scotts- HE ASKED FOR HIS WAGES The Negro worker hanging here was tynched in South Carolina because he dared to demand his wages. bero boys'_telease, American work~ ers ii Leningrad factories protest Scottsboro frame-up. March, 1932 Philadelphia, Pa.—Worker-investie gators uncover vicious frame-up against Willie Brown, a Negro youth, on fake charges of rape and murder. Negro and white boss class papers join in whipping up lynch spirit . Clarence Darrow, member of the board of directors of NAACP, who refused to enter Scottsboro defense, takes defense of white lynchers in Hawaii who murdered Hawaiin na< tive. Atianta, Ga—State presses case of two Negro and four white work- ing class organizers arrested in 1930 on charges of “insurrection.” Death penalty is demanded on basis of law of 1861 designed to crush slave insurrections, A leaflet showing & Negro and white boy shaking hands, which was distributed by the de- fendants, is basis of demand for death penalty. Birmingham, Ala.—Dent Williams, white assailant of Willie Peterson, Negro veteran, who shot the latter through the bars of the jail, ac- quitted in 40 minutes by all-white jury. Chattanooga, Tenn.—Oscar Mc- Dowell, Negro worker, sentenced to one to five years in jail and $50 fine, on framed charges. His real “crime” was helping to organize the All-Southern Scottsboro Defense Conference. ILD appeals case and forces its dismissal. Baitimore, Md.—Salisbury Grand Jury whitewashes known’ lynchers of Matthew Williams, -claiming it “can find no one remotely connect- ed with the lynching.” Montgomery, Ala.—Percy Irvin and Isaac Mims die in electric chair for theft of silver half-dollar, Clifton, N. J.—Workers meet to plan fight on police terror against Negro workers, breaking up of in- ter-racial dances and arrest of Ne- groes who associate with whites. Little Rock, Ark.—Richard and Mary Oliver, Negroes, charged with assault as result of their efforts to gather a little fuel from the rail- road tracks. They are defended by the International Labor Defense. Mass protest forces their release. Alabama Supreme Court upholds death verdicts in case of seven Scottsboro boys. Workers of all countries protest this vicious sen- tence. ILD prepares to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court. Baltimore, Md.—Whitewash of Salisbury lynchers is followed by at- tempt to frame Louis Berger, ILD secretary, for having called Salis- bury jury by its right name of the “Jynch jury.” Shreveport, La.—John Bullen, 70 years old, is taken for “ride” by “night riders’ and beaten. His death results a few davs later. April, 19 Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy, two of Scottsboro boys, accepts invitation to tour Europe extended by German Red Aid. Law- yers for ILD take steps to secure release on bail of Ray Wright and Eugene Williams. Negro and white workers in every important city in U. S. pour into streets on April 6 demanding immediate release of the Scottsboro boys. Chicago, Ti.—-Mass workers forces removal cops” from South Side. Omaha, Neb.—Roger Porter, Ne- gro worker, arrested for attending mixed dance sponsored by League of Struggie for Negro Rights. George Stalker, local Party organizer, who comes to his defense, is arrested and charged with “vagrancy” Chattanooga, Tenn.—Twelve Ne- gro and three white workers ar- rested for attending orderly Scotts- boro protest meeting. Ten were fined $50 each. Labor Defense ap- peais the cases. Five Negro railway workers ot the Mississippi Valley Railroad murdered by boss-inspired lyné> mobs. This is an attempt on the part of the bosses to turn the minds of the un- employed workers away from the struggle for jobs and insurance. and towards race hatred Crockett, Texas.—Dave Tillis, Ne- gro, lynched on usual lying charge of “insulting a white woman.” Share croppers in Holmes County go on strike, refusing to remain in slavery to landlords. pressure of of “killer