The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1932, Page 1

concert and ball the Daily is leading. ONLY 8 DAYS OFF! The Ninth Annivers: the Daily Worker is only eight days off— New Year's Eve, Dec. 31. haye Make this a powerful demonstration for the fighting champion, leader and organ- izer of the American workers. a demonstration for all the struggles that y Celebration of A meeting, been arranged, Make this Bronx Coliseum, Dee. 31. "Vol. IX, No. 306 2. Dail Central eNOS oe — (Section of the Communist International) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of March 8. 187%. Party sympathetic greetings. All not later than Jan- 8. SEND GREETIN ANNIVERSARY _EDITIO orker | usm. * Get your friends and S FOR THE ' Send greetings for the special Ninth Anniversary-Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker, Jan. 14, Shopmates and organizations to send greetings must be in CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents In the Day’s News OREGON STATE HUNGER MARCH ON SALEM JAN. 8 REFUSE TO EXTRADITE BURNS | TRENTON, N. J., Dec. State of New Jersey yesterday re-| fused to extradite R. E. Burns, who | twice escaped from a Georgia chain gang. At the hearing before Goy- ernor Moore, John L. Spivak, author of “Georgia Nigger” gave evidence and produced pictures of the horrors on the Georgia chain gangs. | EIGHT ITALIAN SOLDIERS KILLED ROME, Italy, Dec. 22.—Three were led in an explosion of aeronautic jares at Fort Appia today. At the ame time exactly, five soldiers were illed by explosion of an artillery Shell at Nettuno, 40 miles away. PERSIAN PARLIAMENT FOR CANCELLATION TEHEHAN, Persia, Dec. Persian Parliament has approved the | cancelation of the Anglo-Persian Oil lease. The government rejects dir- ect negotiations with England be- cause of the threatening nature of | the British notes, and send Mirza | Hussein Khan Ala to negotiate through the League of Nations. | WRECK KILLS 3 WORKERS LIMA, Ohio, Dec. 22.—The engin- | , eer, fireman and two switchmen were killed when an Erie R. . train derailed on a split switch here smashed the tower, and rolled down a ten food embankment last night. | ‘Many passengers were injured, and here may be more dead in the | reckage. } Companies Can Call) CHICAGO, Il.., Dec. 22.—THe' 1,500 ) Railroad union chairmen agreed y | terday to the companies’ proposal to | extend the ten per cent wage cut -for-nine~months-amere,~and—io. allow: ; the companies to demand a still further cut on June 15, 1933. was made last January by the com- panies and union heads without con- sulting the workers. The agreement expired Dec. 31. During the sum- mer the companies demanded a 20 per cent cut, to take effect Jan. 1. .\\ The Trade Union Unity League re- | olf] scheme of the companies and road brotherhood heads, to ne- g@liate over a demand for a cut .|| about twice what the companies re- ally want, then to “compromise,” and tell the workers they have been “saved from a more serious reduc- tion.” An Old Trick It was in exactly this way that the February cut, now continued to ) Oct. 31, 1933, was put over. The agreement to cut the wages; loentedly warned that this was the | 22.—The | | of unemploged workers, —AILROAD WAGE | CUTS CONTINUED | ganizations. for New Cut in June | } | | FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF "tx" By Truck to Portland and ‘Last 0 Miles on Foot; Delegates from Farmers and Workers \Struggle for Relief Increas es in Many Cities; Jobless Found Starving, With Frozen Feet Speed-Up in Oregon BULLETIN RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 22.—T. H. Stone, secretary of the unem- ployed council here, was arrested while leading a delegation of %5 to demand relief for 25 families | The po- | lice brutally attacked a protest meeting Friday night, a \ PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 22. —A state hunger march to} reach Salem on Jan. 8th, and present relief demands the, next day is now being or- ganized. A very successful! state united front conference} on Dec. 11 called for it. A} total of 39 delegates were present at | the conference representing 13 or- | Ty was called by the) Unemployed Council of Portland. Out | of town as well as local delegates | made reports of wage cuts, relief | discriminations, etc. Farmers dele- | gates likewise reported. It was the unanimous opinion that there should be mass action on the part of work- ers and farmers alike for immediate Bf a Tea lals Sale Sata The farmers are losing what little they poss Wholesale evictions | and foreclosures are the order of the | day. through ever and speed-ups. Forced Labor Unemployed workers in small com- increasing wage nel munities are getting meager relief | through a forced labor system, | Although Portland still has relief based on “emergency” work for reg- | istered “citizens,” the single work- | ers and particularly the migratory workers who developed the Northwest are forced to shift for themselves. | Thousands of them are lining the banks of the Willamett River living | in hovels, in “Hoovervilles.” i} Woodpile Swindle The ‘Unemployed Citizens League In| has 26 locals or commissaries here. | | February there was an additional | The members are being held in check swindle: the companies promised in| by a reactionary leadership. ‘Thou- | consideration for the cut to put back | sands of cords of wood cut during the | on some of the thousands of men | summer and fall by Citizens League Instead they laid off more. | members laid off. his time they promise nothing. Negotiations back and forth for eral months on the new wage cut jmand of the companies resulted ly in the meeting in Chicago, ‘Nee Dec. 12, in the high priced Imer House | hotel. Conferences Weloped a lot of oratory, finally days ago the managers, through vir spokesman W. F. Thiehoff, itened to break off negotiations, lorder to throw the discussion into ‘small committee of both sides. ere the job was put through, and ‘1,500 chairmen accepted it. | Prepare for Action jae T.UUL. and the Railroad hoods Unity Committee both that this is only a four and a if months’ postponement of the cut, and call for formation of ittees of the rank and file in ry brotherhood lodga and local ion on the roads to prepare a juggle against wage cuts. it is very clear from these nego- ions that the brotherhood and a .L. unjon heads will not do any- * against wage cuts. “HOMELESS WANT "CITY BUILDINGS - Delegation Goes Today Promise Not Kept YORK.— The city govern- has not kept its promise to mployed and homeless men. a sharp struggle by the un- loved, and several delegations to ioner of Public Welfare Taylor, the board of es imates near- ly a week ago promised to open up all yacant city buildings, schools, etc, for them, It has not been done. “Today at 10 am., a committee of the City Committee of Homeless Men and the Unemployed Council of Greater New York will go to Com- | { lorer Taylor and demand he open up these buildings, also that committees of the unemployed have of them. A letter setting forth these de- has been drawn up to go to , and leaflets explaining the ituation are distributed. 9 sa eaSIE MOY CA | to the state legislature when it con- are still piled up in the country. Transportation promised by the leaders fell ‘flat. The workers who cut this wood find their homes without fuel. The leadership of the Unemployed Citi- zens League condemned the state hunger march through the capitalist press. State Conference The state hunger marchers will as- semble at Salem on Jan. 8 where the | final all state conference will take | place. Delegates will be elected to) present demands the following day | yenes. If a sufficient number of | workers can be mobilized the Port- | Jand marchers will join with march- | ers from the town north and north- | east of Portland to hike the distance | from Portland to Salem (50 miles) | with ae stop-overs along the route. Delegates should have at least two blankets ‘each. Parade in Portland A monster demonstration and pa- rade will be held here Jan. 5, the | day before the hike is to take place. Delegates going by car or truck will leave their respective localities in time to be in Salem for final state conference on the evening of Jan. 8. Funds are badly needed. Donations should be sent to Louis Olson, chair- man, State Hunger March Commit- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Mother Mooney Js Greeted in N, Y. On Arrival from U.S.S. R. NEW YORK.—Mary Mooney, 84 year old mother of Tom Mooney ar- rived last night on the “Europa,” 6:30 p. m. She was greeted at Pier No. 4, Brooklyn, by delegations rep- resenting the International Labor Defense and Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee. Mother Mooney is returning from the Soviet Union after bringing a letter addressed by Tom Mooney to Joseph Stalin in which Mooney thanks the workers of the Soviet Union for saving his life by mass demonstrations of Leningrad work- ers. While in Moscow, Mother Mooney attended the Congress of the In- ternational Red Aid of which the International Labor Defense is the American section i: . ‘STATE WIDE MEET STEEL WORKERS PLANS ACTIONS HEAR MARCHERS fg cate| Suet Wage Cuts and Demand Release of 4 Farrell Delegates GARY, Ind., Dec. 22—The steel workers of the Calumet Region have enthusiastically responded to the mass meetings called to greet the return of the National Hunger Marchers and hear their reports. Friday at Roumanian Hall, Gary, over 300 heard the report of the Gary:| delegates. They heard the report of the hardships, of the treatment at the hands of police in Washing- ton, D. C., of their successful march, and the return trip. Pledge Fight. They pledged to struggle, with the | leadership of the Unemployed Coun- cil, against the hew starvation plan of the Township Trustee, Mrs. Mary Grace Wells. Instead of the tickets which are given out, through which the job- less workers on the relief lists can buy $2 or $3 worth of groceries a week (at higher prices) at local grocery stores, the township trustee proposes to save 20 per cent on re- lief-costs by stopping this method of distribution and instead delivering baskets of groceries to the homes of jobless workers. This means outright starvation. Miserable as the relief is at. present, still workers can chose whether they shall “€at “beans or cabbage." With baskets they have no choice and are forced to accept what slop is ladled out to them, ;.. | Mrs. Wells complains that with the | | Workers now employed are going] present system workers buy “luxur- | ies,” on $2 a week which must feed 5 or 6 children!’ The Unemployed Council is organizing struggle against this new system to start January Ist. ‘The workers of Hammond heard their delegation to the National Hunger March report at K. of P. Hall, Dec. 20. Workers of Indiana Harbor will hear their delegation at the Workers’ Hall, 3517 Main Street, December 23rd. - ase} Farrell Report Dec. 27. FARRELL, Pa., Dec. 22.—The trial of the Farrell delegates on the Na~ tional Hunger March who were ar- rested on Dec. 16 at the Croatian Hall where they were to make their report on the fight for immediate relief and unemployment insurance, will take plate Tuesday, Dec. 27 at the Farrell Court House. The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Un- | ion and the Unemployed Council has issued thousands of leaflets calling upon the workers of Farrell and Sharon to attend the trial to protest this terror against the unemployed. The arrested workers are Archer and Thompson, Negro delegates and Fox and Lonchar youth delegates who were on the National Hunger March. The arrests and breaking up of the mee‘ing were carried out un- der the direction of the “liberal” Cov. Pinchot's state police: Mayor Frank of Farrell gave full assistance be- cause he knew that the Unemployed Council would expose the purpose of his “Investigating Committee” which NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER , 1932 ORDER SUBWAY AND ELEVATED | | ‘Receivers Taunt Men; NEW YORK. — Receivers! | Victor J. Dowling and Thomas E. Murray, Jr., yesterday or-! dered the wages of all IR.T.| workers, on both subway and} elevated lines, cut from ten to 30 per cent, beginning in January. Just to rub it in, they published a statement praising the employes for the “splendid manner” in which they “co-operated to bring about the wage reductions.” Then, to show that it was not be- cause the eompanies needed the cut; so bad, the receivers ordered the amount lopped off the first two | weeks’ pay of the workers, at least | $110,000, to be turned over to the | Gibson Committee. $3,500,000 Lost to Workers The amount “saved” for I.R.T. owners and lost by the workers on the lines, is estimated at $3,500,000 in the one year of 1933. The wage cut is not supposed to apply to those getting under $22 a week. But the largest section of the workers get between $22 and $25. The LR.T. is in a complicated maze of ownership and control, the B.M. T. lines holding stock of the In- terborough, and making scooping up the profits while leaving the debts with the IR.T., and the subways | carrying the elevated losses. of that, the New York courts ap: pointed two receivers when the com- pany went technically into bank- ruptey recently. These receivers are responsible to | the courts, and this wage slash is | therefore just another example of ; the ‘bankers - Tammany. . “economy drive” —all at the expense of the On top; ‘PROTEST ARREST | OF MANN, LIAS '15,000° Jobless Fight Police in Glasgow NEW YORK.—The Natio! Committee of the Unemployed Councils has cabled to the British Unemployed Movement its ex- pression of solidarity with Tom Mann, Lewellyn and Elias, and its demand to the British government | to release them. | (Cable by Inprecorr) LONDON, England, Dec. 22.—The mass demand for the release of Tom Man, Elias and Lewellyn, sentenced for their leadership of the British National Hunger March, has forced the Labor Party and Trade Union Congress leaders to join the demand for release. The Liberal press has also had to! approve these demands, otherwise it would lose influence. The general council of the Trade Union Congress (which hold in England the same relative position as the A.F.L. in the U.S.A.) has declared to the govern- ment that these arrests and sen- tences are a “travesty on jus ice and represent political persecution.” But the general council shows that it is forced to this action for fear of losing the confidence of the workers, | by adding a subtle attack on the! | unemployed workers’ leaders in these cords: ‘The persecutions are more | likely to imperil public peace than any Communist incitement.” } A similar protest, largely in the in- terest -of capitalism, was made by the executive of the Independent | Labor Party. i} . { workers, employed and unemployed. | DEBT BARGAINING AWAITS MARCH 4 ‘Roosevelt to Use Issue | for War Maneuvers | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—War debt bargaining in the interests of | U. S, imperialism will mark time | until the inauguration of President- has been the upshot of the lengthy | correspondence between Hoover and | Roosevelt on the question of joint action on the war debt question. The talks between Hoover and Roosevelt were conducted in such a manner as to create the impression that fundamental differences exist | between them over the war debt problem, and to hide the fact that the final say on the question comes from Wall Street. Both are agreed on the main Wall Street tactic of using the uncollectable war debts as a weapon for trade grabs and cut- ting arms of the rival powers to U. S. | imperialism. The only difference be- | tween Hoover and Roosevelt arose | Jomatic channels or through a special congressional debt commission. In a statement, issued today, Pres!- dent Hoover says: “Governor Roose- velt considers that it is undesirable for him to assent to my suggestions for co-operative action on the for- eign problems outlined in my recent massage fo Congress. I will respect his wishes.” It was frankly acknowledged even in the administrative quarters that the above statement and dropping of his plan for naming a commission to deal with the present international is planning to cut down relief of Problems by Hoover, simply means the jobless and their families. Build Block Committees. The Unemployed Council calls for the broadening out of the fight in Farrell for immediate relief from the city government. This can be done only if the workers build street and block committees in the neighbor- hoods, By JAMES W. FORD. When the white landlords of Ala- bama this’ week sent out their posses to murder the Negro share-croppers who were organizing into the Crop- pers’ Union, they knew that they could count on the unqualified sup- port of the misleaders of the reform- ist Negro and white organizations, particularly the misleaders of the National Association for Whe Ad- vancement of Colored People. The landlords had good reason to know this, When, in July of last year, the share-croppers of Camp Hill, Alabama, heroically defended themselves against the terror of the Jandlords, the N.A.A.C.P. rushed for- ward, first and foremost, to assure the landlords that it had had no part in the organization of the starving Negro farmers. As Eugene Gordon, well-known militant Negro writer, said at the time: “The only evidence the Association has pg that i knows the struggle is going on Pickens’ that the debt question. will stand still until March. KILLED BY “RELIEF” WORK. CLEVELAND, O.—Theodore Eland, structural iron worker, who was out of work for two years, went to work with a local coal company to pay for coal he got last winter, NEGRO REFORMIST ALLIES OF THE LANDLORDS How N. A. A. C. P. Aids Boss Terror in South elect. Roosevelt on March 4. This| over the question of carrying on the | debt maneuvers through regular dip- | (Cable by Inprecorr) | Demonstrate in Glasgow. | _ GLASGOW, Scottland, Dec. 22 | Fifteen thousand demonstrated he: today demanding winter relief and the release of the leaders of the | unemployed. |" ‘the city-council-refused te-receive | a delegation and seven members of | | the city council were put out of its, | meeting by force when they pro- | tested against the refusal of the majority of the body to meet and! | hear the demands of the delegation | from the unemployed. | The police clubbed the demonstra- | tors, and a fierce fight resulted in which there were numerous arrests. | Ten police were sent to the hospital, | five seriously injured. |Commerford, Labor ‘Faker, Tammanyite ‘Gets One Year Jail | NEW YORK.—A year and a day in j the federal prison at Atlanta, was | | the sentence imposed in federal court upon the no‘orious Tammany | crook and vice-president of the New York State Federation of Labor, Patrick J. Commerford. He was convicted of evading payment of federal income taxes. At the trial | it was brought out that this labor faker, as local head of the Oper- ating Engineer's Union, received tens of thousands of dollars to break strikes of the membership of his own union, to stop strikes. When | favored a strike it was only in order that one contractor could get the best of his competitor. Never, at) any time did this person aid the workers who paid him a small part | | of his big income in the form of a ¢uary of a union official. He is typ- \ ical of all Tammany “labor leaders.” | The year and a day meted out to Commerford in reality means from | | ten and a half to eleven months and | | is a trivial price to pay for the) | thousands of dollars he got through | graft and terror in collaboration with | bosses, Tammany politicians and | ‘Tammany police. | | He collapsed the second day and | | died, “from heart attack”. When | Police investigated they found he had | but 15 cents on him! |relief and unemployment insurance. WAGE CUL OF 10 TO 30 PER CENT Communist Mayor Emil Nygard, leader of employed and unemployed workers’ struggles, elected Mayor of Crosby, Minn., the first Communist mayor in the U. 8. A. CONGRESS TALKS | BEER, NOT RELIEF Democrats Busy Pul- ling Wires for Fat Jobs WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The up- roar over the beer bill is still be carried on to try to detract the starv- ing masses from the fact that cor ress is utterly refusing to do any thing to relieve suffering this winter. The beer biil authorizing 3.2 beer passed the house by a yote of 930 te 165. It now goes to the senate where a favorable vote is ected But Hoover's veto is certain, he has said that under no conditions will he sign any sort of beer bill Cannot Override Veto. Since these is not two-thirds majority in both houses to set aside any veto by Hoover this issue will be ‘Congress Tries to LoseMarchDemands; | ‘DemandAction Now! H The National Committee of the Unemployed Councils calls upon the workers orga ns thru-| out the country and especiaily the ‘Unemployed Councils to mobilize | | |the workers and send protest re- | | solutions to Speaker Garner and | | Vice President Curtis and James. | W. Collier, Chairman of the Ways | d Means Committee demand- ing that the propssals of the Na- tional Hunger March be taken up in Open Hearing: Garner has notified the’ Na- tional Committee that the propo- sals are before the Ways and Means Committee, Collier passes |the buck back to Garner. carried over to the special session that is expected to begin shortly after Roosevelt's inauguration in March. | Thus congress and the senate de- votes weeks to a bill that cannot at | this time be put into operation, while the masses starve. Dems Talk Peiitical Spoils. Supporters of Roosevelt who are in a majority in both houses of congress are devoting their time mostly to conferences, interviews, all sorts of wire pulling about the poli- tical spoils that will fall into their hands after the inauguration. Every congressman and senator has his own favorite list of political hench- men that he wants to put into soft government jobs, while the people “back home” that elected them are suffering increased misery, disease and death as a result of the refusal of these same congressmen and sen- ators to put through bills for winter thing to do with it.” Reformists Justify Murder, The N.A.A.C.P. also hastened to justify the murder of the Negro farmer, Ralph Gray, by claiming that the blame was mot to be placed upon the white landlords and sheriff, but upon the “Gommunis’s” who were active in organizing these crop- pers against landlords. In other words, says the N.A.A.C.P., the crop- pers should not have been so foolish as to organize, nor should militant leaders have assisted and led them in’this work of organization. Had the croppers only been content to sit back quietly, accept their starvation and misery and say and do nothing about it, the massacre of the crop- pers would never have occurred! What did the Negro reformists, the , upholders of the white landlords and white bosses and the whole boss- landlord system, have to say when they received word of the heroic Said W. E. B.DuBois, editor of the; Crisis, organ of the NAACP.; | “The final exhibit at Camp Hill is worthy of the Russian Black Hundreds, whoever promoted it: black share-croppers ,hali-starved and desperate, were organized into a ‘Society for the Advancement of Colored People’ (this is itself a lie. —J.W.F.) and were induced to meet and protest against Scotts- boro.” A terrible crime, Mr. DuBois! These “backward” share-croppers dared to protest against the murder of eight innocent Negro boys when well-educated, bootlicking offi- cials of the N.A.A.C.P. staff hung back threw doubt on the boys’ in-/ nocence! (“When we hear that eight colored men have raped two white girls in Alabama we are not the first in the field to defend them,” boasted the “Crisis” in October, 1931). But with struggle of the Camp Hill croppers? Here are some samples of their treachery: © ‘ys i * the share-croppers didn’t agree the NAACP. misleaders that the Scottsboro boys should be left to the this was instigated by Communists,” says Mr. DuBois, “it is too despicable for words.” Defense of Capitalists. Then comes the crowning lie. “The persons who are killing blacks in Northern Alabama and demanding blood sacrifice are the white workers — share-croppers, trade unionists and artisans. The capitalists are against mob-laws and violence (!) and would listen to reason and justice in the long run.” The reason and justice that Mr.! DuBois refers to are no doubt the | reason and justice that are starving | out the croppers and farmers; that | are doing their best to burn the Scottsboro boys; that murdered and lynched thousands of Negroes for many years before the Communist Party was organized! | Who send the sheriff's posses to) kill the croppers? Who is responsi- ble for the starvation of the crop- | Farme | farmer without w! | rested, ter | at your disp | tion ot these responsi | tricts and on PROTESTS GROW AGAINST MASS ARRESTS OF NEGRO CROPPERS IN ALABAMA More Lynch Gangs Recruited from Outside Tallapoosa County; White Croppers’ Homes Searched for Negroes Farmers Relief Conference, W.I.R., and Others Join Nation-Wide Protests Against Landlord Terror DEMAND RELEASE NEGRO CROPPERS Denounce ‘Attacks by Landlords BULLETIN NEW YORK.—Capi ist press reports from Birmingham state that a change of venue for the Scottsboro Negro boys’ trial will be taken to Birmingham. They state that Attorney Irving Schwab is there for the International La- bor Defense. ‘ . WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.— Lem Harris, executive secre- tary of the Farmers’ National Relief Conference, yesterday telegraphed Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama, and Sheriff Kyle Young of Tallapoosa County, Ala-, protesting in the name of rmers of 26 states the bloody land- i-police terror against Negro ppers in Tallapoosa and edjoin- ing counties. The telegrem read: “The Farmers’ National Relief Conference representing farmers and farm organizations in 'twenty-six states emphatically protests armed warfare against Negro farmers in Tallapoosa and adjoining counties on return of their delegates from the National Relief Conference Washington. According to the in Associated Press the armed attack | by deputies grew out of an attempt to confiscate livestock of a Negro nh he could not foodstuffs for himself and Fighting for the right ro farmers weve shot, ar- produce his fan to live 2 hills and swamps by fifiy cars of armed possemen For Right To Organize. ‘rom press reports we feel the mpaign is being waged against Share Croppers Union in Alabama | We insist that the right of farmers to organize for security and a decent standard of living guaranteed by nited States Constitution -be up- held and protected by all the forces We demand im- n of persecution, re- Cobb and other rrest, prosecu- le for the mur- ders of John McMullen, Judson Simpson and other Negro farmers. We hoid you responsible for the safe- ty of those arrested.” Farmers’ ienat Retief Conference, Lem Harris, Executive Secretary. cer eta Crispus Club Protests. NEW YORK.—At a discussion on the Daily Worker last night, the new Crispus Attucks Club at 2330 Tilden Avenue, Williamsburg, hailed the support given by the Daily Worker to the rising struggles of the op- pressed Negro masses in the South, and unanimously voted to send a telegram to Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama protesting against the land- lord-police terror on Negro croppers in Tallapoosa County. pores mediate ces’ leas of Bentle: © eroppers ut For Right To Live. NEW YORK.—The Workers In- ternational Relief yesterday pledged full support to the struggles of the Negro croppers in Alabama, and called upon all its branches and dis- the whole working- class to vigorously protest the mur- derous terror against the Negro crop- pers A statement issued by the W.LR. declares, in part: “The right to live for the Negro and white southern share croppers, their fight against starvation, disease and death, is based upon their right to speak freely, meet freely and or- ganize.” Protest Meet in Norfolk. NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 22.—The lo- cal Unemployed Council has sent a vigorous protest to Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama demanding a stop to the murderous landlord-police _ terror against Negro croppers in Tallapoosa and adjoining counties. The tele- gram demands punishment of the sheriffs who lead the lynch gangs. The council is organizing a pro- test meeting here against the Ala- bama terror as well as the murder last night by local police of an unemployed Negro worker seeking shelter from the cold in the door- way of a warehouse at the west end of Water Street. 10 FOUND DROUND SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec, 22.—Boti- ies of ten men murdered by tying to iron rails and drowning in the har- bor, were discovered accidentally by a diver today. They are thought to be the bodies of workers’ leaders. ized and hunted through | NEGRO WOMEN DRIVEN 10 HILLS Many With Babies in Their Arms DADEVILLE, Ala., Dec. 22- —Beaten back in their first terror drive against the Negro croppers by the splendid soli- darity of white and Negro croppers of Tallapoosa County, the white landlords and their police are rallying additional forces from the adjoining eounties for a new murderous drive agains’ the Negroes. Over 250 white men, recruited outside of Tallapoosa Coun- ty, are now patrolling the Liberty Hall section of Tallapoosa County where Monday's fighting occurred. Conceal Number Dead. The authorities continue their at- tempts to conceal the number killed in Monday's pitched battle when armed deputies attacked the crop- pers and attempted to seize the mule d cow of Clifford James, ‘local leader of the Sharecroppers Union at Notasulga. John McMullen and , Judson Simpson are two of- the | knowndead among the croppers. That the bodies of other dead crop- pers are being concealed by the au- thorities is shown in the admission by Col. Moon, personal representative of Gov. Miller, of knowledge of “four or five dead Negroes laying about the field.” Only the bodies of Mc- | Mullen and Simpson haye been re- covered. Mass Artest of Negroes Mass arrests of Negroes are being carried on in an attempt to seize the leaders of the Share Croppers Union which is leading the fight against starvation and landlord rob- |bery of the already impoverished Negro croppers. At least 11 Negro croppers are known to be in jail { All Negroes suspected of the least militancy are being driven out of the and their property looted by ne lynch gangs of the landlord: | The homes of several white croppe | have been searched for Wounded | gro croppers, known to have been | rescued and protected by white crop- pers. The roads to the hills are czowded with Negro women babies in their arms fleeing the landlord terror. | Four Deputies Wounded At least four deputies are known | to have been wounded in Monday's | battle. These are G. A. Ware, C. E. Elder, ‘Stool’ Alford and J. M. Gantt. | The last two are from East Tallassee | —further proof that Tallapoosa land- lords were forced to recruit their “law and order” lynch gangs outside of Tallapoosa County on account of | the strong sympathies of local white croppers with the Negro croppers as @ result of the work carried on by the Share Croppers Union and its |correct program of uniting white | and Negro croppers in joint struggle | against starvation. ‘NEWS FLASH FROM ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 22.— Twelye share croppers are in jail. |Seven are charged with intent to | murder. Judson Simpson is severely wound- ed in jail. The sheriff refuses a doctor or medical aid. Lawyers of the International La-~ bor Defense are on the scene to de- fend the prisoners. The Southern press has intensi- fied its tirade against the Commu- nist Party. Tuskegee College, an “Uncle Tom” school for Negroes, has openly sided with the landlords in the lynch cam- paign against the Negro masses, This college has called upon the Negro masses to remain “peaceful,” in the face of the shameful attack by the Southern white ruling class. For this the college has won liberal praise from the same newspapers that are inciting the lynch spirit against the masses of Negroes. The International Labor Defense has called a mass meeting at Old Pythian Hall, 1524'; Second Ave. North Birmingham, at 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 2, to protest the mur- der and imprisonment of Negro share croppers and to demand their right to organize in their own interests,