The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1932, Page 4

Vage Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1932 Dail Yorker Perty USA Published by the Comprodsily Publishing Co., Inc., da e J 18th St.. New York City, N, Y. Telephone Algonquin 4- Address and mail checks fo the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th ss aS i} | SUBSCRIPTION MATES: By mail everywhere: | exeepting Borough Canada: One year, $6; six months, 33.50. Manhattan an@ Bronx One year, $9; 6 months, 1 month, ee Foreign and ene eR: One Yenr_$0:_§ months. 85; 3 months, $2 ____ Tae Asiatic rs Ge Anniversary of the Workers School | MUHE increasing and sharpening class battles call for the development of TRAINED leaders. The working class and the capitalist c are coming to closer grips. In this period of revolutionary upsurge, when the working class is called upon to give body blows to dying capitalism, [the | conscious and organizing role of the proletariat is decisive. Now more | jan ever before must we arm ourselves with revolutionary THEORY. | ‘snore than ever before must we popularize MARXISM-LENINISM. | The WORKERS SCHOOL in its ten years of existence has been the | | | | | 3 months, $2 New York City. 35; 3. months, center for training proletarian forces—the center for the popularization of Marxism-Leninism. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the school which will be celebrated this Friday in Irving Plaza, the DAILY WORKER sends its revolutionary greetings. The WORKERS SCHOOL is, based on the principle of the class iggle. It is training for the class struggle. It grew and developed by its uncompromising struggle against any attempts to revise Marxism- Leninisr gainst any attempts to “improv Marxism-Leninism by pervert with the “advanced Anglo-Saxon” culture against the at- empts to separate Leninism from Mi ism (Eastman and others). The WORKERS SCHOOL is based on the principle of the closest unity between theory and practice. It takes the position that only the Communist International can enrich Marxism-Leninism; that only the Communist International can interpret and apply Marxism-Leninism. The Workers School therefore carried on a fight against Lovestoneism with its theory of American exceptionalism, against Wolfe's. scholastic perversions and his bourgeois interpretations of the tage of the American working class. The school, its teaching of | Leninism, basing itself on Lenin’s best disciple, Stal carried on the sharpest fight against the counter-revolutionary theories of Trotzky. ° * * revolutionary heri- | in (APITALIsM in its dying days is desperately spreading its bourgeois fascist ideology. Monopoly capitalism, preparing for imperialist war fs 2 way out of the crisis, is increasing chauvinist Monopoly is also increasing its theoretical front inside the working class. The Rand School of the Socialist Party, the Brookwood Labor College of Muste, on the theoretical field, want to make Marx less’ “doctrinaire . more “Anglo-Saxon”. On the front of the class struggle, this means class collaboration, preparing the way for fascism, leading strikes in order to behead them—and under the guise of Americanizing Marxism, to keep the | working class chained to bourgeois ideology. THE WORKERS SCHOOL, STANDING ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE, CAR- | RIES ON A SHARP FIGHT AGAINST THE OPEN AND SUBTLE RE- | | VISIONISTS OF MARXISM-LENINISM. It is especially important to INTENSIFY the popularization of Marx- ism-Leninism in the United States. Because of certain historical reasons (space does not allow a discussion) Marxian’ teachings and literature are not as well Known and as rich in the U. S. as in the European countries. We must now, because of the present higher stage of the class struggle, make up for our historical backwardness. The crisis which is under- mining bourgeois ideology is developing in the country a great interest in Marxism-Leninism. The Workers School must now become even more the great center in POPULARIZING Marxism-Leninism. One of the great weaknesses of the Workers School is its relatively weak working class composition, although of late there has been an im- provement in this respect. So far, with few exceptions, it is mainly con- fined to New York. The celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the School should also serve as a means of radically changing the social com- position of the school so that its student body becomes representative of the decisive section of the proletariat, and developing a net of Workers Schools throughout the country ‘The Workers School was founded on the Leninist principle that “without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary practice”. In | this spirit it will continue to grow. ‘Daily’ Leads Struggles of Negro Masses — By WILLIAM L, PATTERSON re American working class and the toiling masses are passing through the most critical period in the class struggle in America. Mass unem- ployment and mass starvation have reached almost unbelievable proportions | and show no visible signs of decreasing. The preparations of the Tuling | class to smash the National Hunger March, The Bonus March, the march of the impoverished farmers to their conference in Washington, and local | Struggles for immediate winter relief and unemployment insurance, are | becoming more open and are characterized by their utter ruthlessness. This is a clear expression of the determination of the Wall Street government | not to yield an inch in its policy of placing the burdens of the crisis upon } the working class, except under m pressure, Ej Terre however, one of weapons of reaction. ne racial chauvinism are as effective weapons. working class from within and prevent it from developing successful strug- | National and These effect a splitting of the gies. It is precisely because of this that today the ruling class and its | agents increase the incitement and provocation of white against Negro, | and native-born against foreign-born workers. The growing unity of the | masses, conditioned by their growing misery, determines the haste with | Which the ruling class seeks to create a more intense hatred of the Negro | masses. Yet, despite and because of this, the united front of the exploited | masses is assuming higher form, more definite shape and organization than ever before. y Sts can be no question of the fundamental role of the Daily Worker | in the development of this united iront of the masses, It has come forward exposing the historical roots of national and racial hatred created | by the ruling class. The Daily Worker has launched a relentless attack upon those who in the labor movement are the bearers cf this deadly working class poison. This exposure and attack have laid bare the united tront of reaction and the role assigned to its several sections. This united tront includes the leadership of the American Federation of Labor, of the Socialist Party, the Negro reformists (particularly in the National Associ- ation for Advancemént of Colored People), the American Legion and the Klu Klux Klan. The last three years have been marked by @ tremendous spread of the idea of class unity The Daily Worker has been the chief bearer of these ide: struck root even in the most backward section of the American work ass. This is not an accident. The Daily Worker is leader of the cl struggle against American imperialism, | its chief task is the creation of a united front of all forces struggling against Wall Street exploitation. ‘HE! Daily Worker has precisely for this reason been the champion of the } liberation struggles of the Negro masses, It has raised this struggle | to a higher political level around the slogans of “full economic, political and social equality for the Negro masses”, and “the right of self-determin- ation for the Black Belt.” ‘The Daily Worker has seriously called upon white workers to take thelr place in the front ranks of struggle to give life to these slogans. ‘This it correctly proclaims as a road to working class solidarity. In these struggles, the illusion of white superiority, flowing from false theories of national and racial chauvinism, will be smashed and | the consequent distrust of the Negro m: s of the white workers overcome. Thus will revolutionary working class unity be achieved. Tt has not been accidental that beginning with the almost spontaneous unicy of Negro and white farmers in struggle against starvation in England, Arkansas, in 1929, we have passed on to consciously-led struggles uniting thousands of Negro and white workers and poor farmers, * . . OUGH the columns of the Daily Worker, the exposure of these strug- gles are passed on to workers in every part of the country. These experiences of struggle have proved the correctness of the position of the Daily Worker on the Negro ‘question. ‘It was ‘therefore possible for the Daily Worker to initiate the defense struggles for the freedom of the nine innocent Ne) of ,Sgott ‘0, Alabama. Under the eid hye: Aimee ends of the working class in this strug- gle, the workers have won glorious victories, International working class molidarity hasbeen raised: to new high levels. Against the special forms of the oppression of the Negro masses, the Daily Worker nds as a mighty weapon, The present critical moment | dey i one hundredfold greater use of this weapon. It must find} {ts way into homes of hundreds of thousands of Negro worke’ The Negro | macses must know it as their leader, Through the day to day struggles tg which it gives direction, the struggle against the 1 oppression of the ro imusses must be inseparably united with the struggles of the working | class as 2 whole The Daily Worker must therefore systematically and consistently week to clarify and popularize the Negro question. The task of forging the unity of the Negro and white workers is the acid test of the American cevolutionary movement. The Daily Worker is destined historically. to play 4 leading role in meeting this test, | Revoisstionary fl "| Paper, . Dec. 17 By TOM DE. FAZIO, Loe OPERAIA is the name of the Italian revolutionary paper the first issue of which will be off the press on Dec. 17th. The masses of ftalian workers in this country are very much in need of a revolu- tionary paper, especially at this time of capitalist. crisis and sharp- ening working class struggle. Since I Layoratore was suspend- ed, partly due to the fact that the post office deprived that militant organ of second-class mailing priv- | ileges, the Italian workers have been without an organ to mobilize and direct them in the struggle for unemployment and social insur- ance; for unemployment relief, against wage-cuts and all other struggles of the working | ‘Therefore, L’Unita Operaia wi an important gap. IMPORTANT EVENT | The appearance of this paper is | an important event in the struggle because the Italian work- ers—who are not able to read Eng- lish, are compelled to read Italian- American bourgeois papers which are crammed full of nationalist and fascist propaganda. Moreover, besides outright bourgeois Italian dailies there is one social fas- cist daily, “Stampa Libera,” which is the mouthpiece of such traitors | of the working class as Luigi An- tonini, Bellanca, and the whole gang of A. F. of L. and Amalgamated trade union bureaucrats with its demagogy it is even more poisonous than the outspoken fascist press. ‘There are also dozens of weekly and daily local sheets in the field prey- ing upon the Italian workers. Some of those papers march under the cloak of anarchism; some of them | pretend ts be “friends of labor,” using working class phraseology but, all of them have one purpose—to confuse and split the Italian work- ers. Every one of these papers is | openly or in a concealed form an j enemy of the Soviet Union. “Oe fE must win the Italian workers for the revolutionary ‘move- ment. This ts an important task for us, first of all because those masses are in contact with Italy where fascism is most developed. If neglected by us, they will con- stitute recruiting grounds for fas- cism here in the U. S. American imperialism is conscious of this, and | the depriving of Il Layoratore of | second class mailing privileges is proof of this. Secondly, the Communist Party of Italy has decided to break thru the fascist illegality and to fight } the battles of the Italian working | class in the open. No doubt this | will have its repercussions among the Italian workers here. In such @ situation we cannot leave the Italian workers in this country without a revolutionary paper to guide them. The bulk of the Ital- jan workers here are unskilled and were among the first to feel the brunt, Ae, crisis. Unemployment. for them is more devastating than any other foreign-born workers. They are the hardest fit by the present wholesale departation of foreign-born workers. PARTY MEMBERS INCREASE Due to these conditions the Ital- ian workers here are showing an uiprecedented readiness to organize and struggle. We have more Ital- ian workers in the Communist Par- ty now than at any other time in the ‘history of our Party. These workers have come to our Party thru the fight for unemployment insur- ance and against wage cuts. But, in order to retain them, to attract thousands of others and to develop them politically, we must furnish them an organ in their own lan- guage. L’Unita Operaia must be- come this organ, * ie Loe it becomes the duty not only of the Italian workers, but of every Party functionary to see to it that this paper is cireu- lated among the Italian workers of every city in the country. Further; until the paper wins the struggle for second-class mailing privileges, the Party functionaries must see to it that the Italian comrades in every city organize an apparatus to dis- tribute the paper. Every class con~ cious worker must help spread this paper among the Italian workers wherever he finds them in shops, trade unions, clubs or any other places. L’Unita Operaia must reach thousands of Italian workers. Tt must become the agitator and the organizer of the broad masses of Italian workers, Viva L’Unita Operai: Mother and Daughter) Among Those Framed by Tampa, Fla. Bosses A few days ago a short sketch was printed here on Mario Lo- pez, one of the victims of Tampa campaign against the tobacco workers there. Here !s more. Per- haps you do not know that two of those imprisoned as a result of the November 7, 1931, frame-up are women: Frances Romero, aged 52, and her married daughter Caro- lina Vasquez are serving a year’s sentence each because they dared to inquire of the police whether or not their son and brother had been arrested. Meanwhile the men of the family are black-listed on the books of all the tobacco companies in the vicinity. The family, in- cluding an old mother, consists of ten people all of whom are com- pletely destitute and in daily fear of eviction. They have absolutely no way of earning even the smal- lest sum. You must help them. Get the Prisoners’ Winter Relief coupons at the I. L, D. Hand out the leaflets which the 1. L. D. has for you, collect money for this case. Send all contributions to 40 ao 8t., New York City, Room FARHER fH A Disciplined Army of 3,000 Hunger Marchers in Wash. | iFirst Hand Discription of Internment ‘of Delegates of the Unemployed; Police Provocation; the Triumphant March, By N. HONIG HE blistering cold, bleak night of Monday, December 5, 1932, will always remain seared in the minds of the 3,000 Hunger March- ers who were imprisoned on the short stretch of highway just out- side the city of Washington. Only the finest discipline ever displayed by any body of American workers prevented that night from being bloodier than Bioody Thurs- day, July 28, 1932, Hoover's grue- some day of murderous attack upon the bonus marchers. ‘The nieht began with the march of 4,000 Hunger, Bonus and Farmer- Marchers, thrice around the cul- de-sac into which the marchers had been led by the police. The march was a full display of the strength of an iron-willed army of starving workers. Right up to the police lines on both ends of the prison-encampment marched the hunger fighters. In perfect order, column by col- umn, division by division, their ranks stretched a solid mile. Rank and File Conference "Then began the big rank and file conference of the Hunger March- ers, to decide on the next. steps. Three thousand workers, men, women, youngsters, encircled the rude platform of benches, their solid ranks unbroken. Benjamin starts to speak: “We are surrounded by the biggest dis- play of armed force the U. S. gov- ernment has ever sent against the workers,” he begins. This is the signal for the provocations to begin. The police are itching for a chance to use their sub-machine guns, their sawed-off shotguns, their tear bombs. 5 The begin to throw stones into the crowd. A low rumble of anger sweeps through the Hunger March- ers. They have had to stand * for a lot from the police, in their long march across the coun- try. They do not fear the police and their terror equipment. But they know it would be slaughter, a blood-bath. And working-class dis- cipline prevails. The capitalist press men are there. They know the police are deliberately provoking the workers. But if trouble. comes, their papers will say that “the Communists incited the rioting.” Benjamin points out for their benefit what is happening. He points out, too, the splendid disci- pline of the Hunger Marchers. And the stone throwing continues, But. it doesn’t work. The police are a bitterly disappointed lot. taht Silas HE sun disappears. In the omi- nous dark, the conference goes on, out in the open, wind-swept. stretch of highway. The marchers are tense, From each column a chosen speaker mounts the platform and speaks, telling of experiences on the road, battles with police, splen- did receptions and demonstrations of solidarity by workers and farm- ers.. ‘The conference goes through with clock-work efficiency. It must be conducted rapidly, for trouble might be brewing. ‘The conference ends, and the workers march back, ranks still solid, to their trucks. The police have failed to start the trouble they had counted on. The tear gas squads continue to line the embankment above the highway. They are cocky, confi- dent that they'll get a chance to use their bombs before the night is much older. FOOD ARRIVES Food trucks begin to roll in. The police jeer the drivers, hold them up. Tires are punctured. A cheer goes up when the workers hear that water is coming in.. «There are no facilities for water In this prison. There are absolutely no sanitary facilities at all. The marchers theniselyes built a toilet). Chow is eaten in silence. ven, while they are eating the marchers may be attacked. It takes one tiny incident to start the police off, for they finger their gas-bomb bags expectantly. ‘They taunt the Hunger Marchers. ‘They insult the women. This es- | pecially makes the men sore. But they don’t answer. They ignore the cops. Not that they're afraid—they’ré | afraid of nothing. But they have come here for one determined pur- pose, to further the fight for un- employment insurance and for cash winter relief. Their aim is to get their demands before Congress, and they are not going to let police | provocation stop them. | Every once in a while a tear | bomb goes off. “Just an accident,” or “a fulty bomb,” the police chiefs tell the reporiers. ‘The | Hunger Marchers know better. } | CONTINUED } PROVOCATION | It becomes increasingly harder | for those in charge of food supplies, housing for the women, etc., to get | in and out of the prison camp. Almost every auto belonging to them has its tires slashed. The cops use ice-picks, for an ice-pick puncture is hard to detect. As the marchers stand about in little knots, talking, the motor- cycle cops careen at mad angles up and down the encampment, missing the marchers by an inch. | This is kept up all through the | night. dust o4> more form of | | provocation. Around nine o'clock marchers begin to “hit the hay.” Only the “hay” in this encampment is the cold, bare concrete of the high- way, or the muddy ground of the left side of the road, beneath which is a drop of twenty feet to the railroad tracks. © ERE and there bonfires are built by the marchers, with what | little wood they can get for fuel. Dee. “Communist” Out; Contains Many | Important Articles | ‘HE December issue of The Com- munist contains important ma- terial of great value. The editorial on “The United Front Policy and the Struggle Against Sectarianism,” the article by Comrade Williamson, “The United Front—A Tactic of Struggle, Not Peace,” dealing con- cretely with the application of the united front tactic in the Chicago struggles of the unemployed, the lessons and mistakes of this strug- gle, can serve as an important lever by which to guage and improve the mass work of the Party and the revolutionary organizations in every locality. These articles should be carefully studied by every Commu- nist and every worker. * | vy The “Scotisboro Decision” Harry Haywood lays down the fun- damental line of struggle which is to be pursued in the further devel~ opment of the Scottsboro case and the struggle for Negro rights, and contains an analytical political ex- posure of the role of the Negro re- formists and the Socialists. Other articles contained in the December issue include: “The Ex- panding Inter-Imperialist Wars in Latin America,” by William Si- mons; “Distorters of the Revolu- tionary Heritage of the American Proletariat,” by James 8. Allen; “Situation in the Philippines and Tasks of the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands,” by S. Car- pio; “How Many Unemployed,” by John Irving (continued from last issue); Book Reviews. i Order your copies from Workers’ Library Publishers, P. O, Box. 148, Station D, New York City. Twenty cents a copy; $2 per year; $1 for Force Release of Sharecrop Leader | CAMP HILL, Ala., Dec, 8.—Release of Euther Hugley, Negro leader of | | the sharecroppers of Camp Hill, | framed on charges of vagrancy, was won by mass pressure and legal de- fense mobilized by the Interhational Labor Defense, Negro tenant-farm- six months. | . The police, stationed by the hun- | dreds on the embankment, build huge bonfires. They shout down filthy remarks. Chief Davis is anxious to have it appear that he is all for “peace.” Lady Astor has been through the encampment, and found it “dread- ful.” (She felt sorry for the poor police, she said.) A couple of Senators and Congressmen have strolled through on a slumming trip, comfortable in fur-lined ove: coats. They too have found it dreadful. The “progressive” Con- gressmen have found it “inhu- mane,” even for “misled men.” So Davis wants to make a good impression. He's going to deny no Hunger Marcher the’ right, to leave the encampment if they can prove they have lodging in Washington, POLICE STAGE-PLAY So, with a side-glance at the re- porters (at which they all draw round him), he begins to “rebuke” his cops. “Get back behind the lines,” he tells them. They have been steadily surging forward towards the marchers. “You my orders, Don’t ask questions. He turns to the reporters, to re- | ceive the approbation. * They're the dumbest sons of bitches I ever had under me,” he sa; “you know they're itching for | trouble. They want to start a fight, Chief,” a reporter tells him. | “Not that I blame them,” he adds | hastily. At which Davis beams. If the police should happen to suc- ceed in starting trouble, the “news- paper boys” are going to tell their papers how he tried to avoid it. Despite Davis's hypocritical | “peaceful intentions,” the cops continue their insults and taunt- ing of the marchers, right in front of Davis. They dare the marchers to come out and fight. A strapping Pacific Coast Indian, almost seven feet high, looks the cops over con- temptuously. He could tear any three of the cops to pieces. But he’s here to help the fight for un- employment insurance and relief. The Red Front Band, which has cheered the Eastern marchers with revolutionary music, now serves another important function. Mem- bers of the band join hands, and become a regular Red Front guard detachment, They tell the march- ers to go back, away from the cops. | A deadline is established beyond which no marchers can go except on special business. Now the marchers begin to call Davis's bluff. He said he'd let any marcher out who could obtain lodg- ing. All right. Lodgings have been obtained for 250 more marchers, from comrades and sympathizers in town. (Six hundred women had obtained lodgings the night before.) For this test case the sick march- ers, and those who had come from the Far West, are selected. ‘Taxis and cars are sent for. Davis is at first: inclined to back down. Bub the march leaders are determined. The taking out of the 250 is sabotaged and delayed. Tires are again slashed. Bach auto carrying five or six ill or Western marchers is surrounded by a squad of motor- cyele cops before it is allowed out. ‘The marchers try to sleep. But there is no sleeping that night. Trouble is in the air, Each divi- sion selects many guards, who patrol the encampment. They patrol in two shifts, 11 pm. to 3 am, 3 am. to 7 a.m. ‘When the cops are able to get hold of a marcher alone, they beat him up. Several beatings occur, ITHIN sight of every marcher is the U. S. Capitol, its dome lit up. Two miles away, it is the ob- jective of the marchers in the morning. Will they reach it, or will the hopes of the bosses’ police be realized—will the Capitol done again glow red, as it did on Bloody ‘Thursday? Stiff, tight-lipped workingclass discipline means the marchers will " a lass Ry ened vailed, Workingc! pre’ and the Hunger Marchers marched on Tuesday morning. HE ASKS PER: orgia Nigger” { cation of the Negro ma roling class term, “nigge: treatment of Negroes which it symbollx order to paint 2 trae picture of these horrible condition: to use this term as otherwise he would have put into the mouths ef the bows hyzch- ich thay are terms of reepect for Negroes | NEGRO SLAVERY TODAY John L. Spivak’s Stirring Novel "GEORGIA NIGGER” smashing exposure of the hideous persecution and The Daily Worker ts relentlessly o1 "and to the ression ané ‘The author shares this view, bet, i he considered i mecesssry thay do not wse.—Edlter, INSTALMENT 34 HE cook raised his head from the pots and pans. “You got somethin’ I kin put on | Con's tantly. “T reck'n so.” His large, flat nos- trils quivered. He took two broken pitckers and a dented pan from a shelf and gave them to him. “Too bad ’bout dat boy,” he said sympathetically, “Yeah,” said David. MISSION He walked awkwardly towards the warden with the pitchers and grav David asked hesi- pan in his arms. Ebenezer, smok- , Strolled towards them David's legs seemed weighted with added steel and a cold sweat broke out when he saw Bill Twine and the guard look at him. “Pleas, suh,” the boy said timid- ly, “I got dese f'um de cook, sub, an’ I was wond’rin’ if I could put ‘em on po’ Con's graye,” “Hell!” “These damn niggers'll have a grave time!” Then, with a tolerant shrug of his shoulders; he said: “Sho, if you'll make it snappy. Near tume fo’ bed, y'know.” Yes, suh, 'Thank-ee, suh,” David stammered. BEX EZER approached, bowing and smirking. “Skin I go too, suh?” he pleaded. “I was jes’ figg’rin’ "bout him all alone out dey—~” “Ain’ you done enough mourn- in’?” the warden laughed. He glanced instinctively at the chains and the boy’s outspread legs. “alright! But make it snappy,” he said good-naturedly. The gyard grinned. They watched the warden exclaimed. | spike caught almost immediately in a tangle of roots and he jerked his leg desperately beforé he freed himself. “Put yo’ feet careful on dem | Toots,” Ebenezer cautioned nery= ously. “Feel yo’ way. Hit’s dark~ er'n a voodoo hell in here!” Sor BRE ‘ALL TREES and intertwined branches heavy with leaves shut out the sky except for scattered patches through which stars shone brightly. David followed blindly, holding on to his companions’ coat. Under a cowled cypress was solid | ground, some wild creature’s path, and he stepped on it with relief. Ebenezer heard the firm step and with an irritable mutter pulled him. roughly. “Git offen dat path!” he ex- claimed. “You wanter leave @ trail fo’ dem dogs? Whut’s de | | | | The older convict felt his way with the instinct of a jungle ani- mal. They were wet to the knees. The chains were troublesome and | the spikes more so. Once David had to extricate himself by tear- ing feverishly with his hands at the roots in which it caught. He | could scarcely take five steps with- out the long prongs catching in | Toots or sinking in the slimy mud. | THE ESCAPE | DISCOVERED { It seemed to them that they had been in the swamp a long time before the first, faint ery came with the warning that they were missed. The boy plunged forward in a spurt of desperate fear. “Doan you go to losin’ yo’ haid now!” Ebenezer exclaimed angrily. “Dey ain’ a-comin’ through dese here swamps wid no houn’ dogs, i OFFICIAL WHIPPING REPORT com, WH. For the Month of. Sepvonver... pare NAME OF CONVICT Bes Charlie Booker Bon jawin tiugnes Ci Baeard Letuan Parks BA11 Mullins Bill Morrison ‘eeodore Gay Jona Raney Allie Kiddlevrocks Hoary Arwold Howard Corb, Willie Niddlebrooka Flenay Komp Frank: Bates Albert zolmes Watlie Gipbs Willian Robison Equard i:tLlean Avert Holses Gharlte Booker Fill ie Jackson Harolé Ke: ‘Allie Hiddlevrooks The above Month of... wal! in 4 Disobeying Camp Rules 45 Mts _ Loafing on Job 45 Uta ng 2 lire dir. 45 ain * 45 uin $= Abin © 8 ‘ Disobeving Comp Rules Alterpttng Escape Loafing on Job 45 Min 43 Min lar. Lahr. 45 hit 45 tik. Lin, Lopudenee to” Lon fing on Jo e : 4Skin & 45min ® #0 tits 50 idta 30 Kin 30 in Bisobe$ing Chi Oruor By camp Rules tor Bouin 8 8 Min 8 8 4 correct list of Convicts whe have been punished by Whipping at seid Comp for the (Siga her).. At 4 FAs THOSE WHO TRY TO ESCAPE GET WORSE—Another torture record of a Georgia chain gang. This is made out on the old whipping report cards, but since whipping had been forbidden by law, more “civil- ized” tortures are recorded here. These fall lin the category of “re~ tricted movement,” which may mean the stocks, “stretching” or being hogtied to lie in the sun. Note that many of the names appear more than once in the course of a month, while Plenny Camp was tortureif no less than four times. the two walk slowly to the stockade gate. “Keeps ‘em satisfied,” Bill Twine said. “Makes ’em les trouble to keep in line, am they're safe. A three-year-old kid kin outrun 'em.” 1T WORKED! Beyond the stockade gate Eb- enezer chuckled. “Lawd! Dat was casy!” “Yeah,” said David excitedly. Tt had been so simple. Excluding the first low chuckle of satisfac- tion, neith® uttered a sound. At the mound they slipped behind the little cluster of bushes. Not twenty feet away was the first pool of stagnant water and the darkness of the unknown, ‘The lanterns on the cross were bulbs in the distance and the lighted windows of the mesg hall and kitchen, glowing, squares of light. 'BENEZER fumbled around in the bushes. “I got hit,” he called tensely. He held the file close to his body. Tt was a foot long. David threw the pitchers and pan on the mound and stood shaking with excitement, staring at the darkness of the swamp’s edge. “Lawd, I cain’ go ten feet in dey widout gittin’ cotched in dem roots,” he whispered. “An’ di Tl) be, stuck dey, waitin’ fo’ de houn'’s!” “Dis ain’ timé ter start yo’ worry- in’, boy. If we ain’ back in ‘ten. minutes dey'll be huntin’ us. Come on! I knew dese swamps better'n de stockade!” INTO THE SWAMP With a frightened look at the tranquil, star-drenched land, David. slipped after him into the swamp. ‘Water from @ pool seeped into his shoes with soothing \ $$$. If dey do dey'll go by de paths.” He moved quickly to a motion« less mirror of water over which the { sky hung like a lighted dome, and paused to listen. re ee | To smell of rotting fish hung over the water. Frogs croaked, By the starlight they saw that the peol extended several hundred feet, triangle shape. The bank to their left was lined with cypress trees. “Dis cain’ be much deeper,” Ebe enezer whispered. “Le’s mek dem ress shadows.” They waded through the pri- Bil Twine roar, but the words were indistinct. Another and still in- distinct cry sounded, followed by shouts and the crash of men plung= ing into the swamp. “Dey cain’ go far,” whispered. “De dogs’ll lose de scent ee weird, frantic baying of the dogs became clearer, but the brush an@ trees and leaves were so dense that they could not even glimpse the torches. Ebenezer whispered en- couragingly. If the search reached the pool, they would submerge until only their heads were out of the water; but even while he was whispering, the hunt was recalled, sounds of crashing matter wif you?” _