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All greetings must be in = Bronx Coliseum, Dec. 31. not later than Jan: 8, {Section of the Communist Re “DECEMBER 22, 1932 WHITE CROPPERS SHIELD AND DEFEND NEGROES HUNTED BY ALABAMA LANDLORD -POLICE LYNCH GANGS | Man Hunt by Sheriff Posses Called Off As Firm Solidarity of the Tallapoosa Toilers — First Wave of Organized Terror Entered as second-class matter at the Pest Office at New York, N.Y., under the Aet of Mareh 3, 1879. cITY EDITION EW YORK, THURSDAY, Vol. IX, No. 305 Price 3 Cents EP (30 DELEGATES OF HUNGRY: NEW JERSEY CHILDREN ON “MARCH TO STATE CAPITAL! | Hunted in U. S., Honored in U.S.S.R. | In the Day News . ’s QUAKE SHAKES WESTERN U. S. >) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.—A| iid earthquake last night Maree h try. It was said to have been the Most severe in this region since 1925. No serious damage was reported. SENTENCE TURKISH COMMUNISTS ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 21—Sev- enteen. members of the members of the Turkish Communist Party, in- cluding two women, were sentenced | to from four to seven years in prison Ai today for revolutionary activities. ‘Eighteen others were acquitted, but | 12 were immediately re-arrested for Protesting against their comrades’ | Sentences. Though the Communist | Norfolk Tenants’ Oroanimatiin Spreads, Unites With Dallas Unemployed, Forced to Work for Food | Only, Demonstrate, Demand Wages TRENTON, N. J., ‘Dee. 21.—About 50 Negro and white | children, boys and girls, are leaving New Jersey cities tomor- | row for the state capital at Trenton, to present demands for | food clothing, medical care so children of the jobless can live through the winter. They are the elected delegates of meet- Struggle for Relief and Insurance Communist Party Leads aati Workers in Militant Defense of ' Negro Masses; I.L.D. to Defend A rrested Croppers TWO MORE NEGRO. NEGROES STILL Protest Wires Pour In to Ala. While Negro Croppers of Alabama are being terrorized and hunted down for resisting landlord robbery avd police terror, a group of Negro ily gaining in influence among the | masses. COURT HOUSE WRECKED i LISBON, ©., Dec. 21—When offi- ials came to the Columbiana Coun- ty Court House today, they found) that the interior of the building had been wrecked by dynamite set off by | safe robbers. ANALYZE CANCER CAUSE LONDON, Dec. 21—After many years of experiment, the exact chem- ical nature of the substance in coal | tar that produces cancer has been discovered. The discovery has be2n Feported to the British scientific | Magazine, “Nature,” by Drs. J. W. Cook, I. Hieger and Hewitt of the Cancer Hospital Research Institute here. This type of cancer afflicts Party is illegal in Turkey, it is stead- | ie ie < RAILWAY OWNERS. WITHDRAW OFFER) Employes Should Make} Ready for Struggle CHICAGO, IL, Dec way managers’ Dec, 21.—The rail- spokesman, W. H. Thiehoff, served notice on the 1,500 railway union and_ brotherhood chairmen, that the companies refuse to continue the present agreement, for a ten per cent wage cut, for six months, even if the employes give up all hope of the cut being rescinded at the end of the period. ‘ings of children and parents, and of open hearings on chil- dren’s starvation. They come | from Paterson, Camden, Bayonne, | Atlantic City, Toms River and Doyer.| cotton » field in Uzbekstan. production in two years. cotton experts have found honorable empioyment in the Soviet Union where the October Revolution wiped out all forms of national oppres- sion and exploitation of man by man. The above photograph shows a Negro cotton expert helping his Russian comrades make a test in a The U. S. S. R. has doubled its cotton The column leaving Paterson to-| morrow morning at 10 a. m. will ar- | tive in Military Park, Newark, at noon, lead a demonstration of city | workers there, and pick up the New- ark delegation. Demand Moore Meet Them “a A letter has been sent to Governor Moore notifying him of the Chil-| dren’s Hunger March to the state! . capitol and demanding that he re- ceive the delegates and provide food} and shelter for them. during their | overnight stay in Trenton. This March is one outcome of the| National Hunger March to Washing- Hoover Delays Arms Ban to Force Terms on Paraguay | Anti-Imperialist League’ and Lithuanian Lit- erary Society Endorse Anti-War Congress | \hunt organized by Use Threat of Continued Munition Shipments | |in Undeclared War Instigated by U.S., Britain | CROPPERS JAILED |Right of Self-Defense A Burning Issue | DADEVILLE, Ala., Dee. 21. Two more Negro croppers were arrested yesterday in the man the Jand-| lords and their sheriffs fol-| lowing the struggle at Nota-} sulga, Tallapoosa County, inj} which 150 Negro croppers her- oically defended themselves against the organized landlord-police terror. Reports persist that seven croppers were killed in the battle at Notasul- ga. Several others were badly Authorities NEW YORK.—The International| Labor Defense sent the following protest telegram on Tuesday to Gov Miller of Alabama and the sheriffs | leading the murderous landlord-po- | lice terror against. Negro croppers in Tallapoosa County “The International Labor De- fense demands end to white land- lord and cheriffs murderous ter- ror against Negro share croppers. Immediate, unconditional release of imprisoned Negro sharecroppers. | Withdrawal of white armed forces. Right of, share creppers to self- defense." No disarming of share- croppers. We demand immediate punishment of murderous sheriffs and deputies. This massacre is IN GREAT DANGER | Only Mass Protests Can Save Them BIRMING HAM, Ala, Dees 21.—Solidarity of the whit# | croppers of Tallapoosa count’ with the hunted Negro crop: ! pers has broken the first wave of the landlord-police terro j against the Negroes, resulting in a great initial victory for the Share Croppers Union and its correct program of uniting white and Negro croppers in the struggle | against starvation and landlord rob- | bery of their crops. Lynch incite- The answer of the chairmen, whose ton for winter relief and unemploy- Rn) | wounded, including a member of the ment in the boss press has received chimney sweeps and workers in coal ar industries. | JOBS AND PAY DECLINE WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The crisis continues to grow. Industrial employment declined one per cent in November and payrolls 3.1 per cent, | the Bureau of Labor Statistics an- | nounced today. All industries showed | declines excep; bituminous coal and | metal mining. The fact that wages | dropped even more than employment shows that wage-cuts and part-time | work are on the increase. BLAST DESTROYS TENEMENT CHICAGO, Dec... 1.—Many. work- ers’ families were left homeless when | an explosion, followed by a fire, de- Stroyed a tenement here. At least five occupants of the house and a fire department lieutenant were in- jured. CHINESE DEFEAT JAPANESE MUKDEN, Manchuria, Dec. 21— Chinese insurgent troops continue to) make it hot for the Japanese invad- | rs. Today they attacked Japanese | forces 30 miles east of Tashihkiao, a ukden-Dairen railway station some | ‘100 miles southwest of here, killing | pie Japanese and seriously wounding | our. GERMAN JOBLESS | INCREASE 250,000 Huge Demonstrations Force More Relief (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Germany, Dec. 21.—The | number of unemployed in Germany | inmereased a further quarter of a mil- lion in the first two weeks of De- | cember, according to newspaper press | reports, | A wave of raids on. food stores by groups of the jobless is spread- ing over the whcle country, in spite of threats of stern police action and | in spite of the offer of substantial | rewards for information leading to| the arrest of those who raid stores. "Today there were a series of such ‘izures of food in Berlin, Groups yf unemployed descended suddenly } | | wage cuts }of the brotherhoods to rally the, | men’s League here is planning to put spokesman is Whitney, head of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers, | was that the unions had granted “the | substance of everything the com-} panies ask,” and that negotiations should not be broken off. Thereupon an agreement was made | for more negotiations by small com- mittees from each side. Form Committees Below! | ment insurance and will be a prelude to @ mass statewide Hunger March to Trenton at the opening of the state legislature. The children will present the following demands to the state government: 1. An immediate appropriation by the state of $1,000,000 from the $20,- 000,000 relief appropriation to set up| ; feeding stations in every school in In an attempt to force Paraguayay Commission of Neutrals composed of layed his promised special message to The arms embargo would effect by U. S. imperialism. ‘The holding @ |up of the move for an arms em- | | bargo is, therefore, a threat against Paraguay for the further arming of Bolivia unless Paraguay accepts the | the state; to provide free milk food, | terms the U. S. is trying to impose | n acceptance of the proposals of the U S. puppet states, Hoover has de- congress asking authority to declare | an embargo on arms shipments to Bolivia and Paraguay. only Bolivia, already heavily armed. BuildWar Plavies for Brazil Meanwhile the union leaders, eager | Sh02s, clothes and medical attention | through its so-called Neutral Com- |} to grant “the substance” of whatever | the bosses want, have made absolutely no preparations for resistance to the cut. ‘The Railroad Brotherhoods Unity | movement has warned from the be- ginning of these demands by the | companies, a month ago, that the | union leaders were not putting up a! fight for the men. It calls for for- mation of committees in each lodge | rank and file for a real struggle | against the wage cuts. VETS IN CHICAGO PUSH ACTIVITIES To Build United Front! for Relief, Bonus Guu Dec. hicago contingent of the bonus | | tance to Washing‘on now on its | | way back, the Workers Ex-Service- | 21—With the | new life into its activities in accord- ance with the decisions of the Rank and File Conference in Washington last Thursday. The W.ES.L. has grown tremen- dously within the past year and has | recruited a large number of new | members. In all the recent Chicago | demonstrations, hunger marches, | strikes and other struggles it has | played an outstanding role. The Washfhgton Conference, held after the bonus marchers had ac- complished their aim of presenting their demands to Congress, decided that immediate payment of the bonus could be won by building the united front of the veterans in local | to all needy children! feeding sta- tions to be supervised by committees | of parents in the neighborhoods of (CONTINUED ON PAGE. THREE) 3,000 DOCK WORKERS GET PAY cuT SAN PEDRO, Cal.—Approximately 3,000 dock workers will reeeive 65 cents an hour instead of 75 cents in | the future, and car-stovers will re- ceive 55 cents instead of 65 cents. The wage cut affects Los Angeles waterfront workers. SCAB MINER KILLED KINCAID, [l.—Arthur Garner, | Scab, was killed while working in Mine No. 7 of the Peabody Coal Co. when he was caught under a fall | of rock. Garner had been imported by the Peabody Co. from Benton, Il. He had a deputy sheriff’s com- mission. fos | Boss Press Is Playing Down the | Drive on Negroes |, \| Although capialist press dis- | | Patches tell of the presence of | | newspaper photographers at the | | scene of the landlord-police terror in Tallapoosa County, Ala., not a | single photograph of the murder- |ous terror has been published, | north or south. | While in the South, the Iynch- bosses press is inciting to mass lynchings against Negroes, in the North their allies, the northern capitalist press is already playing down the story of the tremendous | struggle of the croppers against the landlord-police terror. The Daily Worker is printing The mission. Bolivia U. S. Pawn. | ‘The present Bolivian government | is a pawn of the-U. S. {nits bitter struggle with its. Britisl: imperialist rivals for control of the markets and natural resources. of South America. | The arbitration proposals of the Neu- | tral Commission is aimed to fore- | | stall the entry of Argentine on the | side of Paraguay, a puppet state of | British imperialism. | . Support Anti-War Congress. | NEW YORK.—The Anti-Imperia- | list League of the -U. S. A. yesterday | endorsed the call of South American } | workers and intellectuals for an anti- ‘War Congress to meet at Montevideo, Uruguay, beginning February 28, | 1933... The Lithuanian Workers Li- terary Organization, Branch No. 29, {unanimously adopted the following resolutions protesting against the imperialist war drives in South Amer- | ica: | Resolution on the Wars in South America. | Whereas, for the past months, war has been going on between Bolivia and Paraguay, bringing misery and death to the workers and peasants | of both countries, and other South | American countries, and Columbia and Peru haye now also plunged in- to war, threatening to draw in the whole South American continent, and Whereas, these wars letween Bo- livia and Paraguay, and between Columbia and Peru are directly in- stigated by American and British imperialisms through their native puppet governments in the rivalry of these imperialist powers for domi- nation and exploitation of South America as an attempt to find a way out of the crisis at the expense of the toiling masses. Be it resolved, that we protest | By a Worker Correspondent CINCINNATI, Ohio.—The Waco Aireraft of Troy, Ohio, has deen busy the past three months filling a contract with the Brazilian Gov ernment for 59 fighting planes to be used against the struggling workers in Brazil. The bosses have . funds with which to make attacks on the working class (this contract amounts tv $500,000), but claims to have no funds when the question of we ates asad comes ap Police Attack Jobless ‘in Edmonton; One Cop 3 Demonstrators Hurt EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada, Dec. 21.—Police attacked a demon- stra‘ion of several hundred unem- ployed here. The workers mobilized to present demands, and in prepara- | tion for the arrival here of thous- and of ruined farmers, marching on the capital of the province to de- | mand government relief. The unemployed .had approached the provincial parliament buidings when the attack was launched. They | fought the police, and injured one cop. Three demonstrators were wounded. Provincial Premier Brownless or- | dered the demonstration dispersed. Anti-War Congress in South Amer- ica, that we denounce the sale of the battleship “S. S.- Bridgeport” lumbia by American imperialism and the supplying of United States mili- tery instructors to the Bolivian army, that we demand cessation of the/| shipments of munition from the United States to the warring coun- tries. Be it further resolved, that this protest resolution be sent to Secre- to Co-| Communist Party. At least four deputies were wounded in the fight. Charged with Fighting Foreclosures. ‘The two croppers arrested yester- day were surprised and shot down by a posse in the hills of Macon coun- ty, adjoining Tallapoosa. They are charged with being “Communist | (leaders of the revolt against fore- closures and seizure of live stock.” They are held at Tallassez whey they are being tortured in an attempt to | force them to reveal the names of! j other members of the Share Crop- ‘pers Union, which the landlords are | attempting to break up, The union \-several months ago. wrested a yic- tory from the landlords for the right of the croppers to sell their own | cotton | Raid Croppers Cabins. The cabins of croppers driven into | the swamps and hills by the lynch posses have been raided for litera-} ; ture of the Share Croppers Union.. The authorities admit they have; found no literature “inciting to re- | | volt.” They, however, are making a great to-do over an alleged nae ment in one of the seized pamph- lets which “warned members of the | union not to meet in empty houses } and avoid use of. firearms ‘except when necessary’.” The last three | | words, asserting the right of the | croppers to defeng themselves against the armed gangs of the landlords, are to be used against the arrested croppers in an attempt to “prove” | incitement to revojt. This use of ‘the assertion by the Negroes of the | ‘right of self-defense in the face of an open and brutal denial of that right will be used as the basis for | mew lynch-provocations against the | | Negro croppers and further disarm- i ing of the Negro toilers of the South. Immediate Support Needed. | All persons opposed to lynching. organized massacres and the brutal | national oppression of the Negro | | people are urged to €t once rush pro- test telegrams dem*nding a stop to) | the terror, demanding recognition of | the right of the Negroes to defend | themselves and protesting against any attempt to disarm them. De-/ jmand the release of the arrested croppers. Demand the punishment | of the murderous sheriffs leading the | landlord lyneh gangs! Send protest wires to Gov. Miller at Montgomery, | Young, at Dadeville, Ala | | aimed to halt mass protest of Ne- | gro and white sharecroppers against starvation and in behalf of Scottsboro boys. It is part of | yout preparation for a new lynch | trial in Alabama. We demand im- | ate freedom of the Scottsboro | PATTERSON I, L. D. (Signed) WILLIAM L National Secretary | Similar protest wires are reported | to be pouring in to the Alabama} authorities from all over the country. ; In -the South a vigorous protest movement is under way with both white and Negro workers rallying to| the defense of the croppers and their union, The I.L.D. is urging all | workers and workers’ organizations, | all sympathizers, to send immediate | protest telegrarns to Governor Miller, Montgomey, Alabama, and to Sheriff NEWS FLASH FROM ALABAMA: 21—} BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec.+ } The sheriff's posse has been forced by the flood of protest telegrams and | rising resentment of workers, both | North and South, to temporarily halt | their latest murder plans. The number killed is unknown. | The number wounded is at least 15.{ The number of arrested share croppers is unknown, but is probably ; 12. They are held in Macon, Elmore | and Tallapoosa County jails. Some have been beaten and threatened with lynching by the officers. All are held incommunicado. Sheriff Young of Tallapoosa County declares | he is “already being worried by tele- | grams from Birmingham Commu- | nists.” He refuses to allow report- | ers to see the prisoners, or even to} give their names. | Anti-Communist Law. | State representative Lovelance of Dadeville has issued a statement) that the legislature will pass drastic | anti-Communist laws at its special | session, starting Jan. 31. Late last night the International | Labor Defense office in ite aes was raided. Police gagged the Ne- gro janitor and tock his keys. neal | pocsa County. a tremendous set-back. But the struggle is by no means over. Terror Hits Snag. The Birmingham News was forced today to admit that the organized landlord-police terror against the Negroes had hit a snag in the exist- ance of a firm solidarity between Negro and white croppers in Talla- It reports that the white croppers not only refused to respond to the landlord-inspired ter= ror but actually rescued, hid and de=_ fended Negro croppers wounded in Monday's pitched battle when the Negroes heroically defended them~ selves against the murderous attack by armed sheriff posses. The Bir- mingham News also reports that the man hunt by the sheriff posses has been called off, with the ex- planation that the sheriffs will wait for the Negro croppers to return to their miserable shacks. The real reason, of course, is the splendid sol- idarity of the white croppers with the Negroes and the militancy of the latter who are known to be ready to sell their lives dearly, Birmingham Workers Rally. Birmingham workers, white and Negro, are rallying in a mighty pro- test to the defense of the Negro crop- pers. This growing mass protest has already forced the Birmingham News | to publish in full the protest tele- gram sent by the Communist Party district organization to Sheriff Young, at Dadeville, Ala., demand- ing a stop to the terror. The Southern district of the Ip ternational Labor Defense is taking over the defense of the eleven crop- pers reported arrested. It is send- ing its representatives into Mont- gomery, capital of Alabama, and near the scene of the armed stug- gle between the croppers and the landlord-police lynch gangs. A del- egation is also being organized to visit Gov. Miller to demand the re- Jease of the arrested croppers and the punishment of the murderous Sheriffs and possemen, Two Arrested Croppers Missing. Three of the arrested croppers are held in the Macon County Jail at ‘Tuskegee. These three are Andrew Cobb, Emmet Wood and Charles Moss. Of three others taken to the | Elm County jail at Watumpkea, | the facts of this struggle. dicat: vaharachlig adainne hecel biosie they stole papers, records and litera- | PUT0re y i ‘on’ provision stores, poultry shops and groceries, seized food, packed it | into sacks and fled with it before the police arrived. Once the pdlice came in time to) fire on departing groups of the job- | less, but they escaped. Yesterday there were huge dem- Scene of the unemployed in throughout Silesia, Thurin- * gia and Mecklenburg, and in the city of yee and other places. cases the demons‘rations Leth the granting of extra winter relief. The increased activity of the masses has caused more intense a ‘lee pe persecution of the Commun: Scherer, a Communist member of e Reichstag, has just been ar- ‘ed, in violation of his parliamen- tary immunity, and charged with “betraying military secrets.” The Communist Party Conference in Gotha, in Thuringia, was raided and another Reichstag deputy, Rosel, was arrested. HARLEM YOUTH SEND ALABAMA PROTEST NEW YORK.—The Young Com- munist League of Harlem has sent | tional Economy League an organiza- communities throughout the country on the basis of tying up the fight for winter relief for unemployed yets with the struggle for the bonus. Site haar A Starvation Program, WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The Na- | tion uniting both republican and democrats in Wall Street’s drive against the ex-servicemen, yesterday pushed its program to starve about 400,000 disabled vets at ‘a hearing before the joint Congressional Com- mittee that is paving the way for drastic cuts in veterans’ benefits, Government Breaks Treaty Not to Tax Indians; Takes Land APPLETON, Wisc., Dec. 21—The government has been driving Oneida Indian families off their land here for non-payment of taxes. This seiz- ure of land is in violation of ‘the treaty made between the tribe and the U. S, government when the In- dians were driven to Wisconsin from New York State, their native honie _@ telegram to Governor B. M. Miller - of Alabama, demanding a halt to the terror against Negro share-croppcrs. The telegram states: “We Negro and white Harlem end of terrot workers demand against Alabama share-croppers. We demand sheriff's posse be disbanded. We demand immediate release of | croppers arrested. We protest mur- der of croppers and demand punish- ment of murders. We pledge support. struggle and right to or- i where some fragments of the tribe | still live. The treaty provided that “as long es the sun rises in the Bast,” the Tn-| dians could live on the Wisconsin | land tax free and ,rent free. The, land is extremely barren, but it is | all they have. The struggle against taxation has been led by Chief Shenandore. Yesterday, under pres- sure of threat to take their land, a faction. in favor of surrendering their ancient rights was formed, i | | Daily Worker supports the strug- | gles of the oppressed Negro na- tionality, and calls on the entire working class and all sympatlietic elements to rally to the defense of | the croppers, | “RUTHER BE SHOT THAN STARVE” SAY CROPPERS Hungry, Huddled Over Fires in Miserable Shacks, Negro, White Organize The National Hunger Marchers of Column 6, starting from New Orleans, came through the section of Alabama where the murder cam- paign against Negro share croppers is now raging, and saw the devel- oping tension at that time, in the last week of November. The fol- lowing article tells of this. » 8 By W. C. McCUISTION. \N the 27th of November a small group of Southern Louisiana and Eastern Texas Hunger’ Marchers to- gether with the New Orleans Sea- men's Section of the March, left New Orleans on their way to Washington. Despite all forms of intimidation and threats, the delegates, Negro and white, men and women, travelled to- | gether ignoring the “Jim Crow’ laws, uniting to show the workers of the South that the dictates of the white ruling class could not stand in the face of united working class deter- mination. The route of Column 6 led north- eastward over a zig-zag route through imperialist wars, that we declare our solidarity with the mass demonsira- tion against war in Bolivia, that we declare our solidarity with the re- fusal of Paraguay soldiers to shoot down Bolivian soldiers and with the tary of State Stimson, Washington, | D. C., and to the ministers of the | wacring countries at Washington, D. ) C., to the press and a copy be sent | to the Anti-Imperialist League, 799 | Broadway, Room 536, New York, N. ¥. Ala., and to Sheriff Young, at Dade- | ville, Ala. Hold protest meetings and demonstrations everywhere! Sup- port the struggles of the Negro toil- | ers of the South against starvation and for the right of self-determina- tion in the Black Beltfi Mississippi; western Alabama line ‘and northward through the share cropper belt to Birmingham, From Birmingham northeastward to Chattanooga, thru Gadsen (ten miles from Scottsboro) and the northwestern corner of Georgia. From Chattanooga eastward to Knoxville, over the mountains through Ashville to Charlotte, N. C. and from Charlotte northward thru Richmond to Washington. From the start the marchers were greeted with the outstretched hands and cheers of the workers and the | grim scowls of the gun-thugs, police, | deputies and bosses who kept their! hands on their guns but who feared | to draw or use them because of the | wholehearted support the workers gave the Hunger Marchers. “New Emancipators” A white share cropper in Central Alabama told how he had sat up all night with his wife and baby | wit waiting for the “Hungry Marchers.” the heart of the black belt, through } An old Negro grandmother in Tusca-; tions and the miserable hovels of the the Mississippi delta on to Meridian, | loosa (right near Tallapoosa County) | | share croppers were all thence to the central| Alabama, wept and embraced the hungry families huddled around a Hunger Marchers declaring that “the new emancipators are coming.” A Negro filling station attendant) insisted on paying for gasoline for} the New Orleans truck and a white steel worker in Bessemer, Ala., do- nated his last sixty cents. Camp Hill and Scottsboro At every stop the marchers spoke about Camp Hill, the Scottsboro case and organization. The workers told about starvation, foreclosures, chain gangs and lynchings. Negro workers with gaunt starved | looks spoke in low determined tones | “We ain't goin’ to stand no more— ruther be shot dead than starve | dead.” White workers when questioned | about racial equality replied, “Ain't | no difference between us and Negroes no more, we're all starving.” EM ied eae rows of BeBe ne houses and 7) the same, | fire, slowly <Aarving on their ration of salt pork and hominy grits. Always the spectre of the day when the deputies would arrive, take their furniture and live stock and throw them out. “Rather Be Shot Than Starve” But these plantation workers and share croppers no longer waited meekly. Some of them still said they had “ruther be shot dead than starve dead,” But the majority waited | grimly with the family smooth bore | or shot gun near at hand. Many of the families had pamphlets and) in many of the hovels, around many | of the fires both white and Negro} | workers huddled together in groups, as they termed it: “Gittin’ together | and talkin’ it over.” | It is right in this section of Ala-~ bama that the struggle rages; these are the people involved, and this is warped | the spirit of solidarity of Negro and plane | wate abare croppers . eee ete ee a iid ture. Birmingham workers © @ protest against the eaking raid | ; and demanding the return of the | material stolen by the police. | Prosecutor Knight, who Tailroaded | the Scottsboro Negro boys to death sentences, declares himself ready to Prosecute the International Labor Defense, Share Croppers’ Union or | Communist Party district leaders if this part of the country. In spite of all this terror, the mass campaign to free the Scottsboro boys is grow~- ing in Alabama. ‘The Southern capitalist press fea- tures on the front page all latest new developments in the attack on the workers and farmers in Alabama. This is an exactly contrary policy to that of the Northern papers, which try to conceal it. The Southern papers, although they screamed “Race War” and in- cited to violence against the crop- pers, also print in full the telegram of General Secretary Patterson of the International Labor Defense in New York. Patterson sharply con- demns the murder campaign in Ala~ bama and declares the I. L. D. will rouse the workers of the world against the murderers of Negro and white share croppers. He demands release of the prisoners. OPEN COMPLAINT OFFICES NEW YORK.—The complaint of- fices of the Needle Trades Workers’ Unemployed Council are open all day at 131 W. 28th St. and 140 W, 36th St. Workers who face eviction or © preparing | two are missing and probably have | been murdered. g. Giitrord James, the leader of the Sharecroppers Union at Notasulga, scene of Monday's battle, is seriously wounded, but has evaded capture up to now. Judson Simpson, who was shot and almost killed in his cabin is reported among the Negroes being hidden by white croppers. Local White Croppers Refuse te Attack. All members of the landlord-sher- iff lynch gangs were recruited from adjoining counties, the local white croppers having refused to join the attack on the Negro croppers and their union. The landlords launched their terror on the return of the six Southern delegates to the Farm Re- lief Conference in Washington, where @ united front was established be- tween the impoverished white and Negro farmers of the North and South. Seamen Demonstrate Today for Relief from Finn ( Consulate Consulate today at 2 pm, manding unemployed aid from the Consulate. The demand of the Finnish Satlors is for 65 cents nish sailor to sult of unemployment are invited to| money for that come with ae >