The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1932, Page 1

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White Croppers Shield Hunted Negroes BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dee. 20.— Among the eleven croppers arrested already (late afternoon) after the Natasulga battle are Andrew Cobb, Emmet Wood and Charles Moss. These three are in Macon Sey jail at Tuskegee. Two out of the three held in El more County jail at Wetumpka ar e| missing and probably haye been | murdered. Clifford James, a croppers’ union | leader, is seriously wounded but has | evaded capture up to now. Judson} Simpson, who was shot and nearly} killed in his cabin, is now reported being hidden by white share crop- pers. Jim McMullen was killed inside the James cabin, where the deputies started the fight, His 12-year-old son was wounded. In spite of the Sheriff's attempt | to blame the croppers for opening | fire and their declaration that they have records showing the supplying of arms to the union members, even. ‘the lying reports of the deputies show that the croppers massed in the James cabin acted in heroic self- defense of their lives. The sheriffs now refuse informa- tion to newspaper reporters and hers on the scene. Sheriff Young of Tallapoosa County press, but threatens: mass arrests and massacre of the Negro share croppers. One of the most significant things | in this whole affair is the splendid | solidarity shown by the white farm- | ers, who defend and keep hidden the Negro farmers in hiding, even according to reports in the capitalist press. It took all the deputies of five counties to make up the armed posse because the poor white farmers re- fused to be deputized or join in the lynch gang. ‘There is a widespread attack on the Communist Party in the news- papers of the South. Headlines Seream for more terror and for the arrest of leaders of the workers. The press howls that a race riot is in progess. | A big mass potest movement is under. way against the terror cre- ated by city, county, state and fed- eral government forces. In the Day’s News ns “STALIN IS 53 YEARS OLD MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Dec. 20.—Jos- eph Stalin, Secretary of the Commu- nist Party of the Soviet Union, is 53 Yeurs old today. There is no public ebration, though working class or- ganizations have passed resolutions ‘of good wishes. . MARCHERS REACH KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 20.—The % delegates left in Columns 2 and 3 of the National Hunger March ar- rived here yesterday and leave for Denver today. They had forced au- ‘thorities of Columbia, Mo., to pro- vide them with 50 gallons of gaso- Workers provided them with in hotels last night, the first time they had slept in bed for weeks: C2 ONS YEN LEAVING FOR MOSCOW GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 20.— * Dr. W. W. Yen, announced as the ‘Ohinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union, is preparing to leave for Mos- cow. He was head of the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations’ hearing on Manchuria. + + 8 ADJOURN MANCHURIA HEARING GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 20.— , The League of Nations committee on ‘Manchuria adjourned today, an- ' nouncing that it “could not arrive at ‘a decision.” No action was taken on a previous motion to invite the United States and the Soviet Union to sit in on a conciliation body. Sir Eric Drummond, secretary of the League of Nations, and a committee of five keep up the pretense of ‘‘con- ciliation,” Meanwhile Japan keeps Manchuria, hie * TA FARMERS MARCH IN, Alberta, Canada, 20.—Hundreds of farmers, first “by unemployed coal min- have started their march on the Parliament to demand re- It is expected 3,000 will join in, police threaten, to attack, “MORE FARMERS; ‘WoRE TAX SALES 1 Secale il D..C., Dec. 20.— ‘The Department of Agriculture fig- ures show that so many unemployed | workers have fled back to the farm that the farm population now num- , bers 31,504,000, nearly up to the high point of 1910. | At the same time word was re-/ ceived that about 7,000,000 acres of farm land in South Dakota was be- ba i WHOLE FAMILIES TOIL, ALABAM A LANDLORD STEALS THEIR COTTON Both Negro and white share croppers are exploited. Here is a white farmers in Alabama, who got | 30 cents a hundred pounds for | picking cotton, and was told by his | landlord that he had picked only | 100 pounds a day. That's 30 cents a day, when the landlord keeps the hooks! FORCED LABOR IN NEWARK, N. J. No Wages. ‘Paid 4,000 Snow Shovelers BULLETIN. LONDON, England, Dec. 20.'— Three hundred police charged a big crowd of London unemployed workers going with the National Hunger March committee to pre- sent to parliament a list of a mil- lion names signed to a protest against cutting the dole. The crowd was broken up, but the delegation entered the Houses of Parliament, where cabinet officials told them to “write it and send it in”, NEWARK, N. Dec. 20.—Trade Blisters for Stew” says a jeering cap- tion over a picture in a capitalist paper here. The picture shows un- employed workers of the bread line and municipal lodging house shoved into the work of cleaning up_the snow. This is not voluntary labor; it is forced labor. It is not paid for in wages. Mayor Jerome T. Congleton announced yesterday that all 4,000 of the unemployed on the city’s poor list would have to do the work, in return for carrots and cabbages and what little other food they get from the clty, Lie to Jobless. The first several hundred workers from the Municipal Lodging House who were put on this forced labor Sunday, found that they were not even given any extra food in return for the hard, cold labor, nor any extra clothing. They stood for hours, shoveling madly, in shoes through the worn soles and cracks of which icy water soaked. They froze their hands and face, and got only a cup of coffee for their lunch. To quiet the murmers of discon-| tent, the authorities promised them | “a big feed” when they would finish the day’s toil and return to the lodg- ing house. But they were swindled even out of this. They got the usual Tiny Negro girl, who has to labor ten or eleven hours a day chopping cotton in Alabama. The whole fam- ily has ‘to work under the savage exploitation system of the Southern landlords, who now massacre these share croppers because they de- manded the right to sell their own cotton. Alabama Negro Farmers Tell of Conditions Causing Struggle No Food, Clothes for the Negro Share Croppers Landlords Work Whole Families and Take Away Entire Crop {By a Farmer Correspondent.) NOTASULGA, Ala.—Here where I am js in the heart of the Black Belt. 1 write you this to tell you about the conditions we get here. We are being The landlords whose places we stay on want us treated worse than dogs. to work for them for nothing. If they do happen to pay us something for our work they want us ols take it and buy food, when it is e—. their business to furnish us with | food. The landlords have half-furnished us all this year. for food I™know they have it-in the house, but they won’t give it to me. By the time they get ready to give it to me there will not be any need for it. When TI started in they put every- thing I got on’ my book. But now we can’t get them to tell us how much we owe. About our part of the crop—they are going to take everything we| make this year. This leaves us bare- footed, naked and hungry. My wife has been doing washing for them this year, but they won't pay her. They want her to take old clo-hes. and a little left-over food for pay. We haven't had sufficient clothes and shoes to wear to church this year. When I went to church I would borrow other peoples’ clothes to wear. When we go to them for our pay they say they have no money. Then they will go to town on the same} day and get their children new suits of clothes and all sorts of things they need. When Igo to them | = | it brought, but he claimed I owed | |Landlord Makes Shacks like these take the place | of the old slave barracks, and are cheaper, Many Alabama Negro | share eroppers have to live in | wretched shanties like this, built of | oid fragments from the junk pile. The white landlord still has his pillared colonial mansion, | White Landlords In Black Belt Lie To Cheat Negro Croppers (By a Farmer Correspondent.) NOTASULGA, Ala.—I am here on . 's place. I gave hima note of $60 for rent for the place, and he was to see that I was backed up to market the crop. He made me give him a lot off my farm and then he came back later and said he couldn't help me a bit but he, still kept my note for $60. Early in the year he rented my | pasture to a Northern man, and put | ten cows in and paid me 50 cents a | month-a head. When the landlord | found out about it he made the man take the cattle out and I had to} make good again all that I was| paid. Please tell me what to do. Last year he sold my cotton and/ most of the seed. I don’t know what him $400 after all that. And I still! owed the $60 rent. He promised to} get planting seed for me but I had to get my own planting seed. | Simultatieous with this announce-' Negro share croppers waiting for | their white planters’ cotton, which Four Sheriffs Wounded; Goy. Mil ler Threatens Militia; 3 DEAD, MANY WOUNDED AS NEGROES | RESIST MURDEROUS TERROR OF POLICE AND LANDLORDS IN “BLACK BELT” Pitched Battle Occurs Near Camp Hill When Southern Bosses Launch Savage Drive to Wipe Out share ee > Union and Its Leaders Lynch Posses they have picked, to be ginned. | a a es , Spit sea nite cs gl ‘ a ‘They get 25 to 40 cents a hundred Recruited from Adjoining Counties as oo White Croppers pounds, and the most they can Refuse to Attack Negroes pick in a day is about 200 pounds. Usually they are swindled out of = = - ae tareer sath, exon of: that, The white and Negro workers of the South have already begun a flood of pro- TEES PATE TTS Ree tests against the organized terror now raging in Alabama. The workers and farmers of FAKE U.S. MOVE IN S. AMERICA Ban on Munitions Af- ter Puppet Is Armed WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The, SCOPTSBORO PART ment of munitions to the scene of| | 2 i -P: yi ae ee eae eee Td: Head Calls for] | Giant Campaign port of the share croppers. at Dadey ille, drawing up a message to Congress along these lines. The American government is ing this move to fool the mass: believing it really wants peace the Bolivia-Parauay war has going on for more than a half year, during which time the U. S. has pro- vided its puppet, Bolivia, with suf- ficient arms to start a sharp of- fensive ‘against Paraguay, which is controlled by British imperialism. | mak- YUMA, Ariz—An armed mob of | rich farmers stormed the jail here | in an attempt to lynch Curtis Crisp, 26-year eld Negro farm hand, held with his father and brother on a charge of kill’ng a white farmer, following the latter's refusal to pay | them their wages. ee | NEW YORK.—“The savage! pment, comes the “héws trom Chile/ terror unleashed by Alabama! that 500 more tons of munitions, un- | doubtedly of American manufacture, landlords and police on Mon- have just been, transported to Bo-| day against the Negro share) livia. | Hoover's message will propose, ac- Toppers and their union arises cording to capitalist press reports, an out of the same conditions as the hideous lynch verdicts | embargo on arms shipments “to any country regarded as a possible or actual threat to international peace.” | #8ainst ithe imnotent — Scottsboro } This means that it will be possible to| boys,” William L. Patterson, gen-| eral secretary of the Internationa! continue shipments to any country | | that Wall Street is interested in sup- | Labor Defense, pointed out yester- porting since it will always be the day. other country that is “a possible oot Menstrous National Oppression. actual threat to international peace. “Those conditions”, Patterson con- | Anti-War Congress to Fight tinued, “are the monstrous nationa! Imperialists learn of the Negro majorities But the growing sentiment of the| in the Black Belt, the wholesale rob- working masses and intellectuals of | bery of the croppers by the landlords Latin - America for a determined) through a system of crooked book-j struggle against these wars instigated | keeping, and the use of the courts and supported by the imperialists is|to hold the Negroes in debt slavery expressing itself in the preparations| and on the chain gangs for hiring | now being made for a united front | out to white landlords and for Anti-War Congress, to be held in| ploitation by the county authoritie Montevideo, Uruguay, Feb. 28, 1933.| for forced labor in the building of | oe fies ete, | “The Scottsboro frame-up and the 'Daily Worker Alone | | present murderous terror against the | country drgan mass 11 Send Demands of the harecroppers’ Union in Ala. The right of the cropper his own cotton . No forced pooling to sell of (giving up cotton to the land- lord) ation of dek . No ictions of c the Jand. . No coniscation of live A minimum price of per pound for cotton. . Free bus transportation to and, from School for the children. SECOND DRIVE TO KILL CROPPERS Tallassee “and Hill Battles CAMP HILL, Ala., murderous. attack on prers from stock. 10 cents Camp Dec. 20—The the Negro share cropers in Tallassee, Ala., was | | the second major blood bath of the Negro masses there. The firs’ attack took place in Camp Hill, Ala. The shots which were fired in the murderous raid led by Sheriff Young on, a meeting of the Croppers Union, of Camp Hill in July, 1931, and which killed a militant Negro share-crop- per, Ralph Gray, not only focused | the attention of the toilers in this| to the horrible persecution and exploitation prevailing in the | South, but proclaimed at the same | time the birth of a united struggle ot Negro and white croppers against | the landlord-capitalist regime. cotton | | They even make me send my little children to work for them and they give them a little sugar to pay for | working a whole day, All we have to eat is lard and flour and we have a hard time try- ing to get that. (See page 3 for additional letters.) coffee and stale roll. The weekly basket of food distri- buted instead of wages to heads of families doing this forced labor, is worth, even at retail prices, only 93) cents. ‘The Unemployed Council is rally- ing workers for a struggle against forced labor, demanding full wages. The pay in New York across the river from Newark, is $6 for a twelve hour shift, 1,500 MINERS STRIKE HALIFAX, N, S., Dec. 20.—Work- ing miners, 1,500 of them, joined hands with the unemployed of this city today by declaring a strike and closing down its five mines, until the authorities increase relief allowances tor the whole community. The same has occurred at Reserve, a nearby town. The miners said that they, while | unemployed, had not received enough | food to keep thein in proper’ con- dition for work underground. s 8 Maine Delegate Reports, PORTLAND, Maine, Dei Delegate Halper from this c' on the National Hunger March, re- ported to mass meetings called by the International Labor Defense, Tuesday, and to one called by the Friends of the Soviet Union Thurs- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) * 20.—! ‘Cropper Leave Cow). ‘Publishes Facts on) Conflicts in South) for Rent in Moying | (By a Farmer Correspondent.) NOTASULGA, Ala—We are or- ganizing in the Share Croppers Un- | ion. The bosses are dotng their best | to stop us. The mighty Pee raging in| |the South show that the lynch | ‘and chain-gang rule is being in- | creasingly challenged! Events are| | unfolding that the capitalist rt i | DARE NOT REPORT because the There is one worker here, the boss | very facts will spur other oppres- | is trying to make him move and | sed workers and. farmers on “i leave his cow for rent on the house. | ite Is there anything we can do about | |Cnallenge their exploiters. fighting this? | | the DAILY WORKER prints the | | facts on these developments. Only, || the DAILY WORKER will carry || special reports on the develop- | ments in Alabama and the spread ‘of the struggle in the South. De-| ‘mand the DAILY WORKER from, | your newsdealer. Subscribe to the | | DAILY WORKER. | JAIL 184 IN ARGENTINE BUENOS AIRES, Argentine Re- public, Dec. 20.—Martial law is de-| | clared throughout the country and | the government has arrested so far | 184 persons, chaging them with com- plicity in the Irogoyen plot. Only | | croppers show clearly the increasing | use by the landlords and bankers of their police and courts in the at- | tempt to crush the rising militancy | | of the Negroes, bea: back their strug- | jgles against starvation and block the | | growing unity of white and Negro | workers, croppers and poor farmers in the struggles for relief. Mighty Protest Needed. “The white and Negro toilers of ides whole country, and all others opposed to lynching, must rally to- day more than ever for a mighty | protest movement by sending pro- | test telegrams to Gov. Miller of Ala- | | bama, at Montgomery, Ala., to Sher- \iff Young at Dadeville, Ala. de- |manding a stop to the terror, de- | manding the release of the arrested | eroppers. “We must back up these demands ‘by further development of the world- 55,000 Negro cabins in the South deserted since last year give mute testimony to the combined effect of deepening depression, the catos- trophic decline in the price of cotton, and the plunderous and ruthless (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) wide fight for the Scottsboro boys and the national liberation of the Negro people. On with the fight against lynching! cic struggles of the toiling Negro masses! For the immediate, uncon- ditional release of the €“ottsboro vic- tims and the arrested croppers! For unconditional equality for the Negro people throughout the whole coun- try! For self-determination for the Stop Reign of Terror Against Alabama Negroes REIGN of mass murder and terror has broken out in full force in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, deliberately organized by the ruling class of white landlords, bankers and capitalists against the sharecrop- pers, tenants and farm laborers. —_ Already three deaths of Negro sharecroppers are reported, and armed gangs headed by landlords deputized by the sheriff of Tallapoosa County are now hunting down and shooting at sight every Negro sharecropper encountered. Mules, cows, and farming implements belonging to Negro tenants have been seized by white landlords and other mortgage holders. The Negro farmers are being driven out of their homes into the winter weather and the sheriff's gang 1s dealing out death as the penalty of refusal of any Negro to give up all he possesses. “Take your family, but leave your mule and cow, and get out!” is the wholesale decree of the white landlord skinflint to the Negro tenant farmers. Cattle, plows, wagons, household furniture, and remainders of the crops are being stolen by force from the sharecroppers and tenants behind the screen of the reign of terror. } FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE . ‘The white landlords and capitalists of Alabama and other parts of the South who live on the double exploitation of Negro toilers are al- ready celebrating the election of Roosevelt, whose backbone support they represented, through bloody attacks and expropriations of the Negro tenants, share-croppers and farm laborers. President-elect Roosevelt, President Hoover and the whole federal government are responsible for this brutal attack. The masses will hold the “liberal” Roosevelt and Pres- ident Hoover responsible for this attack. White emer apn rt eben igh Mg? by the white landlords and capitalists, But these robbers, in order to (Statement of Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S A.) divide the -thite sharecroppers from the Negro sharecroppers and to prevent the unity of white and black farmers which would defeat this robbery, are trying to incite the white sharecroppers and farmers to begin a@ “race war” against the Negroes, ACCUSE WHITE RULING CLASS OF ALABAMA ‘The Communist Party accuses the white ruling class of Alabama, who exploit the white and Negro tenants and share croppers, of deliberately instigating this campaign of semi-civil war against the Negro masses! ‘We accuse that parasite class of attempting to cover up its own crimes and the sordid motive of robbery, by stirring up a “race war,” by inciting the white tenants and sharecroppers against the Negro sharecroppers and tenants with lying stcries about “Red plots.” At the same time, by their attacks on the mass actions of the Ne- gro masses and by their efforis to undermine the mass supvort for the Scottsboro defense, the corrupt misleaders cf such organizations as the so-called Nationai Association for the Ad ement cf Colored People, have deliberately prepared the way for this crime against the Ne- groes by calling upon the wealthy white ruling class to suppress the efforts of the starving Negro sharecroppers to organize! CONTINUATION OF CAMP HILL ATTACK This terror campaign, which bursts out today again in full flame, is a continuation of the murderous activities of the Alabama ruling class that were begun many months ago and which includes the murderous atiack of the sherif upon the Negro Shasecroppess Union mecting ab oe : i Black Belt! o Camp Hill, Alabama, and the murder of the Negro farmer, Ralph Gray. | This same terror campaign is the result of the landlords’ effort to plunder the working farmers, both black and white, in the present hard more than half the cost of raising it. The white landlords, bankers and merchants seek to save their own pockets by plundering those who labor to make the cotton crop. This same terror campaign, which the Alabama ruling class tries to transform into a ‘race’ question between their white victims and their Negro victims, is the cause behind the frame-up and sentence to death of nine innocent Negro boys at Scottsboro, Alabama. ‘This terror campaign is an attack against the whole of the working and farming classes of the United States, no matter what the color of their skin and no matter where they may labor in poverty to make wealth for an idle parasite class. ANSWER THIS ATTACK White workers, black workers, white farmers, black tarmers—the Communist Party of the United States calls upon you to understand your own interests and to rally together to support your class brothers who are now faced with the beginnings of a war of extermination in Tallapoosa County, Alabama! Protest! Organize demonstrations and mass meetings in support of your Alabama brothers! Send your pro- tests by wire immediately to the governor of Alabama and to the sheriff of Tallapoosa County! To President-elect Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., to President Hooyer at Washington! Especially to the working farmers, both white and colored; of Lee, Chambers, Macon and other counties, joining Tallapoosa County, the CONTINUED ON PAGE ‘TERED | Support the her- | times when the price of cotton is down to six cents a pound, hardly | the North, Negro and white, the intellectuals and all clements opposed to lynching, orga- nized massacres and the national oppression of the Negro people must rally to the s Rush protests! Pass resolutions in your shops, in your organizations! Alabama and eover gor Maller’ 4 at Montgomery, Shs sup- ieetings and demonstrations! telegrams to Sheriff Young ~ | MASS ANGER SWEEPS SOUTH iW hite, Negro Workers in Mighty Protest | (Special Wire to | BIRMINGHAM, | 20.—Negro croppers in the heart of Alabama's “Black | Belt” heroically defended ‘themselves on Monday against an organized bloody terror launched Alabama ~ jand- | lords and their police in an at- tempt to break up the Share Crop- pers Union, which has been orgd- nizing the efforts of the croppérs | to improve their conditions. | Three leaders of the Negro croppe: | were killed by sheriff lynch ga: | } ily Worker} Ala, Dee. by and several mortally wounded, in- | cluding a member of the Commu- | nist Party. The landlord press ad- mits that at least four of the sher- iffs and possemen were wounded, two | seriously. That press is now en- } gaged in a rabid campaign of lynch incitement against the Negroes. First Blow Against Leader of Share ‘Croppers: The landlords directed the first blow of their new terror drive against Cliff James, Negro cropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union |in Notasulga, Tallapoosa County. | Notasulea is only a few miles from | Camp Hill where in July, 1931, land- jlords and their police shot up @ ; meeting of the union. | Monday's attack by the landlords and their police was opened when | armed deputies visited the cabin of | Cliff James and attempted to seize {his mule and cow. They pointed |their guns threateningly at James, | but were driven off by other crop- | pers who at once rallied to the de- fense of their leader. The deputies later returned with a lynch gang at their backs and |} Opened fire on the croppers. These jlynch gangs had to be recruited |from adjoining counties because of {the strong sympathies of the local | white croppers with the struggles of the Negroes. By this time, 150 croppers had gathered in the cotton patch around James’ cabin and a pitched battle (ensued, with the Negroes heroically resisting the landlord-police terror. In addition to the croppers reported | killed and wounded, six of their jleaders have been arrested and are | threatened with lynching. Lyneh | gangs, organized and led by land- |lords and sheriffs are-hunting down | the croppers with the possibility thas many more have since been killed. Heart of Struggle Area. The terror is taking place in the heart of the croppers struggle in Tallapoosa, Macon, Lee, Chambers, Montgomery and Elmore counties. It comes on the heels of a partial victory wrested from the landlords {by the union for the right of the croppers to sell their own cottom The attack is aimed at crushing the union and is directed against both the Share Croppers Union and the Communist Party, which supports the struggles of the Negro croppers. The boss press in Birmingham and throughout the “Black Belt” is éal- ling for a mass lynching against the Negroes, already terming the tre- | mendous struggle a “race riot.” All | the reactionary forces and their re- | formist tools who defended the lynch | verdicts against the innocent Scotts- | boro boys and the Camp Hill attack jon the croppers are rallying to, the support of the terror. Premeditated Attack. The organized, premeditated char- acter of the landlord-police terror is shown by (1) the fact that the local leader of the Share Croppers Union was picked out, for the first attack; (2). by the preliminary organization