The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1932, Page 1

/ 4 x The Ninth Annive the Daily Worker is New Year’s Eve, D izer of the American Bronx Coliseum, D: Vol. IX, No. 311 In the Day’s | News “FLU” EPIDEMIC SWEEPS U. S. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—An in- fluenza epidemic, which is reminis- cent of the post-war epidemic of the winter of 1918-1919, has gripped the entire United States, Puerto Rico, British Colombia and some parts of Mexico, according to the report of Washington health officials. The cause is attributed to widespread destitution of the toiling masses of these countries as & result of the fourth winter of the crisis, * GODOWSKY’S SON ENDS LIFE NEW YORK, Dec. 28—Gordon Godowsky, 26-year-old son of the noted composer and pianist, Leopold Godowsky committed suicide by in- haling gas in a rooming house at 46 West 72nd St. Illness and destitu- tion were attributed as the motives for the suicide. * STORM KILLS SAILOR NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—J. H. John- ston, one of the crew on the steam- ship Majestic, was crushed to death by tons of water which swept him against the main bulkhead. He was buried at sea on Dec. 25. The ship is said to have been hit by one of the worst storms at sea the vessel ever encountered. STEEL PRODUCTION DOWN NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Steel pro- duction continues to decline, and stands this week at 13 per cent of * capacity as compared with 14 per cent last week. Sustained mostly by the automotive industry, steel pro- duction, outside of the districts work- ing on automobile orders, has dipped as low as 10 per cent. Cae are INSULL GOES SCOTT FREE ATHENS, Dec. 28,—As previously predicted in this column by the Daily Worker, Samuel Insull will not be brought back to Chicago to face charges of fraud by means of which he milked millions of dollars out of investors in the bankrupt Insull power trust. The Greek government obligingly released the U. S. Gov- €rnment from responsibility by re- fusing Insull’s extradition. U.S. gov- ernment will cease extradition efforts to the statement of the American Legation today. a 8 Oe TWO KILLED iN SOFIA CLASH SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 28.—Mace- donian revolutionists, demonstrating today before the royal palace here Shortly after the wesignation of ‘Permier Muschanoff, were attacked "by the police. A policeman and an e of the War Ministry were led and eight others wounded, HUNGER “GREAT OPPORTUNITY” PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 28.— Josephus Daniels, secretary of the ‘navy under Wilson, characterized the crisis as “the great opportunity of the Democratic Party,” in a speech at the Wilson Day dinner here to- day. He said Roosevelt had three Main problems: farm and unem- ployed relief, resubmission of the 18th amendment and balancing of the budget. NINE WORKERS IN PHILIPPINES HELD Jobless Councils Hit Arrest of Leaders NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee of the Unemployed Councils | has just received information that nine leaders of the Sept. 15 unem- ployed’ demonstration in Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippine Islands, are being held in jail. Eight of them, Remere, M. Gutierrez, Remigie Sande, Salus- tiane_ Rames, Deminader Ambresio and Modiste Balubayan are charged with “resisting the authorities.” ‘while the ninth, Nicasio Magtibay, 1s charged with “assaulting a public officer.” Severe sentences are ex- pected fo be handed out to them. ‘The National Committee of the Unemployed Council has sent a let- ter of protest to the Commissioner of the Philippine Islands in Wash- ington with the following demands: 1—The immediate release of the nine arrested workers. 2.—Immediate inauguration of a broad relief campaign for the starv- ing workers and farmers. | 3.—No evictions of the unemployed and part-time workers. 4-~Unemployment insurance at the expense of the employers and the government. 5.—The cessation of the govern- ment terror against workers and farmers. ‘The letter denounces the fake “in- dependence” maneuvers of the U. S. Congress and calls on all American ‘workers, especially those on the West and in New York City to sup- vort these demands. pene LODGING FOR OUT OF TOWN COMRADES All Party members who can ac- - commodate one or more comrades . in their homes on Saturday night, Dec. 21, please report IMMEDI- ATELY at the District Office of the Party, 50 E. 13th St., 5th floor. js needed for about 60 per- ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT concert ‘and ball haye been arranged. Make this a powerful demonstration for the fighting champion, leader and organ- a demonstration for all the struggles that the Daily is leading. Mass Organizations, Attend Daily Worker Celebration Saturday Bronx | Coliseum! rsary Celebration of only two days off— ec, 31. A meeting, workers. Make this ec. 31. Dail Central Oxss (Section of the Communist International) AT the Da Get your friends sympathetic greetings. not later than Ja re) organizations All greetings must be in SEND GREETINGS FOR THE NIVERSARY EDITION! 1. Send greetings for the special Ninth Anniversary-Lenin Memorial edition of Worker, Jan. 14. and shopmates and to send n- 8, Entered as second-class matter <=>" Kew York, N.¥,, under the Act of March & 187%. at the Pest Office at NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1932 CITY EDITION | | ' NDIAN TRIBES TO SEND _ DELEGATES WITH JOBLESS _ IN MONTANA STATE MARCH | Indians Starve, Imprisoned on Reservations; | | Negroes Denied Either Work or Relief Southern California Conferences Organize to Send Strong Delegations to Sacramento. BUTTE, Mont., Dee. 28.—Indians herded into starvation Roosevelt Gorges COMMUNIST MAYOR NAILS PRESS LIES “U. P.” Distorted His Statement on Cut in Officials’ Pay |; CITY WORKERS NOT CUT on the reservations, Negro workers denied both jobs and relief, and thousands of unemployed workers and ruined farmers are electing their delegates for the Montana State Hunger | March. The march will culminate in¢ ployment in Helen, the eeate| SEABURY PLAN IS BANKERS’ RULE capital, Jan. 3, and presentation of demands for relief. |Charter Proposal Hits At Workers a week, with all kinds of wage cuts. The copper dictatorship grinds down | By JAMES CASE on the farmers, whose land is mort-| NEW YORK —A bankers’ dicta- gaged, interest and taxes unpaid. _| torship! This is the new yoke pro- | The Negro workers here are segra- | posed for the working masses of Am- gated, discriminated against and are | erica's ‘greatest metropolis. starving, With New York City having ex- 17,000 Indians Starve | ceeded its debt limit and hundreds There are 17,000 Indians, crowded |0f thousands of men, women and on reservations where they can not children starving, finance capital, oe make a living. They are not allowed | der to save its immense invest- to hunt game, they are given insuf-|™ents in bonds, has contrived to Montana is ruled by the Anaconda Copper Mines Co. and allied corpor- ations, Practically no relief is given, Most of the mines and smelters are closed down, or working a day or so Worker Depositors | CROSBY, Minn., Dec. 28.— | A statement issued by Emil) | Nygard, Communist Mayor- ‘elect of Crosby, charged that |the United Press interview! which was widely quoted in| | the capitalist press throughout | ‘the United States distorted] | some of his statements and failed to print others. “I stated in the inter- view with the United Press corres- | pondent that I favored cutting sal- | aries of municipal officials, and they | | wrote it up as meaning all city em- | | Hospital Workers —_— jrade Nygard himself is cutting his . 7 salary to $35 ith, |Demonstrate Against 7, e"eatmsr press suppressed Firing Foreign Born While the President-elect was in conference with the big banker and industrialist Young, of the “Young Plan,” they brought him in his dinner, Nice layout, Yes? Mean- while Roosevelt's henchmen, Gar- ner and Collier, in Congress are “losing” the demand of 3,000 Na- | tional Hunger Marchers, and the jobless starve. | that part of Comrade Nygard’s state- |ment, which declared that “the| | Workers of America have two alter- | | i 1] . | Associated Press || NEW YORK—Today at 3 p.m. | committee of the hospital workers of | this city will see Commissioner of Alexander F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, He looks and he lives like a boss, on $15,000 a year salary and expenses. But he's really just the bosses’ agent who recently agreed to‘nine months’ more of ten per cent wage cut for the railroad workers. BREAK SAFETY |17-Year LAW AT SHAFER GovernmentAdmits No | Precautions At All (Photo on Page 3) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. Safety provisions were completely Looks Like a Boss | |ficient food and no money. They | are prisoners of the government, not | its wards. | | The United Front Hunger March | Committee calls on unemployed work- | ers, workers’ organizations, and farm- | ers in their neighborhoods to hold | meetings, elect and instruct their del- egates, The Committee urges the Indians to! hold meetings, tribe by tribe, and} elect official representatives of their tribes, All delegates should reach Helena Jan. 3 or before. ar) 10 State Hunger Marches A state-wide delegation was to go| to Lansing, Michigan, to demand re- lief Dec, 27, but news of it has not been received, Other state hunger marches being arranged are as follows: Montana, Jan. 3; Connecticut, Jan. 4; Oregon, | Jan, 8; Washington, Jan. 9: California, | Jan. 10; Utah, Jan. 10; Colorado, Jan, | 23; Illinois, Jan. 29 and Pennsylvania jin February or March. Kd gir Prepare to March LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 28,—To- | day a Southern California united front conference on preparations for the California State Hunger March is tak ing place. The marchers will reach | Sacramento, the state capitol, to join with delegations from all other parts of the state, on Jan. 10, A Los Angeles preliminary confer- ence was held Dec. 21, and temporary ocmmittees organized. A large com- mittee of speakers is being sent to rank and file members of the unem- | ployed “co-operative relief” organia- tions, and to the Hoovervilles, On Dec. 20 a committee of the Hun- ger March Conference spoke ot the meeting of the jobless in the Hoover- | ville at Alameda and 84th St. Three delegates were elected there to go on (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) openly take over all the publie build- | in, , the control of the budget and administration. This is the es- sence of Samuel Seabury’s latest re- port to the Hofstadter Investigating Committee. The program {s by no»meens Sea- bury’s brain child. It was proposed first"by Alfred E. Smith, spokesman for Raskob, Young and Baruch, the democratic triumvirate of financial czars. Almost immediately there- after, this scheme, in slightly dis- guised form, was submitted by Act- ing Mayor McKee, lickspittle for Mitchell of the National City Bank, and Wiggins and Aldrich, of the Chase National Bank. In the Sea- bury report for charter revision, the Wall Street barons have placed one of their trump cards on the table. Tammany Looted City Treasury Through the steady looting by the Tammany robber machine, the city treasury has been drained to the bottom, while a public debt of $2,- 500,000,000 has been foisted upon the backs of millions of workers and overburdened small taxpayers. Not only do the bankers demand this money, but they are clamoring for $200,000,000 interest per annum on the debt. In the three years of the crisis, with industries toppling, un- employment increasing and wage- cuts the order of the hour, the bank- ers bought up issues upon issues of city, state and federal bonds. In doing this, they were consolid- ating their own assets at the price of suffering and starvation on the part of the nation’s workers and farmers. Now, to safeguard their securities, they are shouting for higher taxes and assessments, and on a more varied scale (which the workers must pay), wage slashes for the workers all along the line and fur- ther decreases in the number of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Theodore Dreiser, famous author, has sent the following message to the Students’ Congress Against War now being held in Chicago; The recent gathering of represen- tatives of 30,000,000 people to forge @ united front against capitalist wars must be heralded as the most signi- ficant step toward peace since the Russian Revolution. ‘This mobilization of the peoples of the world has not come too soon. The pent-up rivalries in the capital- ist world have begun to explode. In the past year, we have witnessed the beginning of a new series of wars. Similar to the ones preceding the world catastrophe of 1914, these herald a new, major world slaughter. War Plans Hastened. If, in 1914, the capitalist world was forced by its jammed industrial system, its choked arteries of trade to find a way out in war, it is even more so being pushed to this tem- porary solution in 1982, Not only have the instruments of production been greatly improved, and possible markets for distribution greatly les- sened, thus precipitating a demand for the redivision of the world’s markets, but the sftccess, in Russia, of a different sort of society whose every day of existence demonstrates what road the masses can and should follow, serves to hasten the war planners. At present, there is bloody war being waged on several fronts, in the Far East and Latin America, to men- tion. two. In these wars, al} the rive alries tearing the capitalist world asunder are clearly expressed. In Latin America; Bolivia, Paraguay, Colombia, and Peru are entangled in struggles, prepared and coached by the rival forces of British and Amer- ican imperialism, each of which is intent on controlling these markets. In the Far East, the war on the Chinese people bears the germ of an onslaught on the Soviet Union at the same time that it makes tenser the situation between Japan and the United States, Combat Danger Immediately. Enough has been written and said on these struggles to make clear the danger that this siuation presents to the free people of Russia, and to the workers and sincere intellectuals of the world. This danger must be combatted immediately. The youth of the world would have, as always, to bear the greatest burden of a ma- jor war, and they must be taught and shown the way to defeat that fate. To delay is suicidal. The young workers of the Soviet Union have the task lald out for them. With the eyes of the world watching, they are constructing the new society which thrives on peace and freedom. Every brick they lay, every new success of Socialist con- struction, their Magnitogorsks, and Dnieprostroys are blows against the war makers, Their watchfulness, expressed in. the strong Red Army; in the exposure and scorne of the intrigues of the imperialists, is a guarantee that they Hospital Greef and demands no more firing or diserimination against for- eign-born workers in that depart- | ment and reinstatement of the 1,400 mand the eight-hour day and aboli- |tion of the last wage-cut. The. committee of 25,,elected at a big protest’ meeting of hospital work- Greef's office. Ployed and unemployed hospital workers to assemble at the Municipal Building today at 3 p.m. for that purpose. Workers of other city de- partments are invited to come, too. They will present a petition along the line of the demands signed by large numbers of workers in this industry. ‘Sentenced to 20 Days for Trying to Save Wife from PoliceThugs | NEW YORK —Nat Leroy, a young | unemployed worker and a father of | guilty in a capitalist court and sen- | protested the brutality of the police in slugging his 20year-old wife. Leroy and his wife were present in a crowd listening to a speaker already dismissed. They will also de- | ers Dec. 21, will have the backing; | of the masses when they go into! They call on all em- | above, | |@ 10 months’ old bady, was found | | tenced to 20 days in jail because he | Now Admits 103,799/ Communist Votes, The Associated Press now admits | 102,785 votes for Foster and Ford | throughout the country, as “cer- tified by state officials.” For some reason it places 994 votes for Ford, in California, where the Party was ruled off the ballot, in a separate column. The total Communist | vote, according to Associated Press figufés, then is: 103,779. The vote admitted by capitalist sources for Foster in 1928 was about 48,000, or an increase of more than double in four years. There is evidence of wholesale stealing and miscounting of Com- munist votes. The A. P. gives the Socialist | | country—wide vote as 881,951. It | | puts Roosevelt's vote at 22,81 H 3,786; | | bition Party is given 77,528; Lib- | |erty Party, 53,446; and Socialist | Labor Party, 34,034. “Father Cox” got 740 votes, 725 of them in| Pennsylvania. | The A. P. has hitherto pub- lished reports of the nationwide Communist yote as “8,000, “6,300” and similar ridiculous figures. | Natives, either the rev fonary path explain why the furniture of a poor | 0 Socialism suchas they have in the woman had just been returned by | Soviet Union, or continued and in- lacking in the Shafer mine at Mo eaqua, Ill, where the 54 unemployed miners were killed the day before | | Christmas. | This. admission is made here by | Daniel Harrington, chief of the safety | division of the U. 8. Bureau of Mines. |He stated today that reports from his agents in Mowequa were to the effect that the mine was burning when the men went below, that there was no rock dusting to prevent coal | dust explosions, and that the men had to work with open lights, ensur- ing a gas explosion as soon as there | was enough gas. | The fire in the Moweaqua mine generated the gas. ‘The miners knew the dangers, but as they were stary- ing and this was the only form of relief given, they had to go down 6 More Found Dead MOWEAQUA, Ill, Dec. 28.—Six more bodies, a total now of 45, have been raised from the Shafer mine here. | | Capuani, Wagner, in Jail: Jobless March in Westchester Soon WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Dec. 28.— Employed and unemployed workers eae ..| of Westchester County, the wealth- HOBOKEN, N. J.. Dec. 28—Thurs- | aalghostinod) Suede day (today) the workers of Hoboken | will pay their last tribute to Anton |Hoboken Workers | in Mass Funeral | | for Bezich Today the workers after an eviction, when |the police charged the crowd with- out warning and began slugging left and right with their clubs. Magistrate Steers, of the Gates Ave. Brooklyn Court, declared that because Leroy had dared to demand the right of free speech and had tried to save his young wife from the police thugs, he must serve 20 days in jail while his wife and baby are left destitute. Dreiser Says the Call for Defense of USSR Receives Echoing Shout of Millions struggle against the war makers. The sharp, straight from the shoulder demands for disarmament made by the Soviet delegations at the disarm- ament. conferences, to hypocritical statesmen have won th eadmiration of millions, and added new strength to the forces of peace. It is their duty to continue to build up the strength of the Soviet Union at a hastened tempo. By so doing, they stay the hands of the imperialist bandits. Youth Under Capitalism. The youth of the capitalist world has a different and more difficult task, Surrounded by incubi of hatred, the spawn of a prostituted journalism and a literature which serves a dying system, the enlight- ened sections of the youth must her- oically forward the struggle against imperialist war, must convince the present and prospective members of the armed forces that the enemy is not far off in that one-sixth of the world where misery has been put away into dark archives of a dead system, or in the Far East, where the Chinese people have begun to con- struct their own government, but right at home. Thst the enemy is that group, that order of things which is responsible for the unem- ployment, for the waste of human lives, for the terror which is killing thousands who struggle for bread. Here we read of fathers killing their children because they cannot creasing mass misery under cap- Takes Office Jan. 3 The Communist Party and other | workers’ organizations of Crosby par- | ticipated in a victory celebration last | Friday night, where the Communist Mayor-elect made a speech reiterat~ ing his determination to carry out th> working-class program on which | he was elected. The inauguration of the new Crosby mayor will take place on Jan. 3rd. | But Comrade Nygard is not waiting | until then to take over his duties. He has already served notice that he intends to fight for the protection of worker-depositors in the bankrupt First National Bank and for the funds of the city, needed for the re- lief of the unemployed miners, which are also tied up in the bank. At a conference between the new City Council and banking officials, | where the bankers tried to force | through their proposals, the young | miner Mayor-elect practically told | the banking officials to “go to hell.” Rent Strikers Fight Evictions; Two Mass | Meetings Today NEW YORK. — Tenants at 1392 Franklin Ave, declared a rent strike yesterday, and are now being sup- ported, together with the 1433 Char- lotte Street rent strikers, by the Franklin Ave. Clinton Ave, and 170th St., Block Committees of the Unemployed Council. Picketing began yesterday morn- ing, in spite of the rain, and con- tinued all day. The strike began | when one of the tenants received an | eviction notice. | ‘Mass demonstrations and picketing will be carried on all day today at both places, 1392 Franklin Ave., and at 1433 Charlotte St. Workers are urged to attend either of these de- monstrations to help the rent strik- ers win their demands. Both strikes are being conducted tor the following demands: No evic- tions, 10 per cent reduction in rents, i | italism.” | Bezich, Communist candidate in the last elections for the state legisl; ture and his wife in a mass funeral | and Jackson Sts., starting at 8:30} a.m. “Bezich died as ® direct result of | undue exposure in jail to which he was sentenced for 90 days for dis- tributing National Hunger March leaflets. His wife died 3 days before him, after a breakdown due to his imprisonment. |Jan. 25 to demand ANOTHER NEGRO CRO Price 3 Cents ALABAMA BOSSES KILL OF JAILED PPER LEADERS Milo Bentley Dies Soon After Cliff James Who Was Handed Over to Murderers by Negro Reformists Pian Mass Funeral; Masses Must Protest Mur- ders; Authorities, Negro Reformist Heads Responsible BIRMINHAM, Ala., Dec. morning in’jail. His death occ that of Cliff James, leader of FRAME YOUNG NEGRO TO CHAIR Old Lad Is Facing Death NEW YORK.—Edward Griffin, 17- year-old Negro boy, is being rail- roaded to the electric chair on 2 | framed charge of murder, in another | attempt to terrorize Negro workers. | Griffen, of 183 McKibben St., Brook- lyn, is charged with holding up and | killing Eenjamin Selatid, business }man of 202 Varet St., Brooklyn, in | the latter's home. | Police traced a hat with the ini- | tials S.B,, left by the hold-up man, |to a hat store, the owner of which |said that Griffen “looked like” the jone that bought it. At the time of the slaying Griffen was at the funeral | of a relative. ‘The initials in the hat ar> obviously not his. The International Labor Defense will defend the boy, despite the an- tagonistic attitude of the lawyer al- |ready hired. The Griffen family hired this lawyer before the LLD. Knowing of the | heard of the case. militant defense of the Scottsboro boys, Griffen’s parents have ex- | pressed full confidence in a worker's defense. Workers are urged to immediately send telegrams of protest to the Homicide Court, 35 Snyder Ave., Brooklyn, where the hearing will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 4, at 9 am., after being postponed today. De- mand the freedom of this boy. iest idence | of New York City, will march on the board of supervisors at White Plains immediate and | adequate cash relief, exemption from |from Hoffman's Funeral Parlor, ist | Payment of taxes, no evictions, etc. Ignacio Capuani and Erwin Wag- ner appeared in White Plains yes- terday to serve the rest of their 30- day sentences on “unlawful assembly” charges for leading the jobless in relief demands in Yonkers on July 18. They also served notice on the board of supervisors that the fight is not over. ‘Labor Organizations Rally for “Daily” Fete Saturday NEW YORK.—Workers’ organiza- tions throughout the city are mobil- izing their membership for the great mass celebration of the ninth anni- versary of the Daily Worker this Saturday, Dec, 31, at the Bronx Col- iseum, 177th St. and West Farms Road. Every organization is coming with its own banners, and will join in the grand march around the Col- iseum that will take place when the concert part of the program is over and the ball is ready to start. Among the organizations that will participate are the International Labor Defense, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the Workers International Relief, the International Workers Order, the National Textile Workers Union, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial League, the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union and many others. The celebration will be a demon- stration of thousands of workers in support of all the struggles that the Daily Worker is leading. An elabo- rate program has been prepared, in- cluding the following: the Interna~- tional Workers Order Symphony Orchestra of 75 musicians; Sergei Radamsky in songs by Soviet com- posers; the recitation by the mother of Langston Hughes, noted Negro revolutionary poet, of his lynching poem, “Dixie,” after which it will be sung by Radamsky; the New Dance “Hunger group in two numbers: Dance” International Choruses of the Work- ers Music League. The concert wil be followed by dancing till dawn, with music fur- nished by a double brass band of Negro and white musicians, Tickets are 40 cents in advance and can be bought at the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., fifth floor. Demonstrate Friday tf Against Attempt to Frame-Up A. Burns NEW YORK.—All workers of Co- ney Island, Brighton, Bath Beach and Bensonhurst are urged to de- monstrate Friday at 9 a.m. in front of Coney Island Magistrates Court on West Eighth St., Coney Island, against the attempt of the police to frame up Arthur Burns. Burns will be brought up for hear- ing at that time and place, on charges of “inciting to riot.” He was arrested Dec, 5 at a meet- ing of unemployed workers seeking relief at the Home Relief Bureau at Benson and 25 Ave., Brooklyn, The call for ‘mass protest is issued by the Burns Defense Committee and the Orphan Jones Branch the International Labor Defense, 28.—Murdered by the landlords | and their police, Milo Bentley, a Negro cropper leader, died this urred ten and a half hours after the croppers in their heroic re- sistance to the attacks of armed landlord-police lynch gangs at © Notasulga (Reeltown) on Dec, | | 19, and handed over to the po- | lice by treacherous officials of | Tuskegee Institute, the famous col- lege for Negro students which has fallen under control of the Rocke- | feller interests. Another Negro farmer was mur- | dered outright at the scene of the | shooting, so that the bloody total jof three murders is made by the |deaths of Bentley and James,. who were wounded by the lynch gang and then thrown into prison. Both Croppers Murdered. There is no question that both of the cropper leaders have been mur- dered. Cliff James’ body is covered Pa bruises. James was shot twice in the back by the sheriff posses | His body shows no bullet wounds in front. Bentley's body has at least seven bullet wounds in the head, the back, and the arms. The wounds on both bodies are highly infected. It is obvious that wounds had not been dressed for several days. Some of the wounds were not dressed at all and are completely uncovered and exposed. That It was the intention of the authorities to murder the two share cropper leaders was evident from the time of their arrest. Both were taken in an ordinary automobile from the Tuskegee jail to the Montgomery County jail, quite evidently to die. Sheriff Scroggins told visitors on Sunday that he, expected both to die. Despite this, the two wounded lead- ers were denied medical aid and com- letely neglected by the county phy- cians, Dr. Fred Reynolds and Dr. | William Gunter, Jr. When a private | physician was secured by a local group to visit the men, he was re- | {used permission to treat them, Dr. Gunter declaring he would “take care }of them.” As far as known, no physician was in attendance on them before or at the time of their death. Held in Pitch Darkness. When visited by local residents last Sunday both men were confined in an upper cell block, with the windows closed tight, no ventillation and the place in pitch darkness. Both were lying on filthy and flimsy blankets on the floor. Cliff James was lying naked on the floor in a separate cage, delirious from the loss of blood and with blood-soaked, dirty dressings over those wounds which had been dressed. James died in the Montgomery County jail. Following his death, a conference was held at Montgomery between Goy. B. M. Miller, Deputy Sheriff Scroggins and Dr. Reynolds. It was only then that Bentley was removed from the Montgomery County jail in a dying condition to the Kilby Prison hospital. The death |of James, which occurred at four | o'clock Tuesday morning, was not re- | vealed until eight o'clock. Bentley was removed to the Kilby Prison hos- pital at 12:30. He died two hours later. LL.D. Active in Case The International Labor Defense attorneys, Frank B. Irwin .of Bir- mingham, and Irving Schwab of New York City, today secured writs of habeas corpus for the five croppers held incommunicado in the Mont- gomery County jail. The writs are returnable on Jan. 5, before Judge Leon McCord, circuit county judge. Plan Mass Funeral A mass funeral is planned for the two murdered cropper leaders. The body of James is at the H. A. Love- less undertakers establishment; that of Bentley is at the Ross Clayton Funeral House, both in Montgomery, New sections of the white toiling masses are rallying to the defense of the Negro croppers as mass anger mounts throughout the South against these latest murders by the rich landowners and their police. Pro- tests are pouring in from all parts of the country on Gov. B, M. Miller, himself a rich landowner in the “Black Belt,” where he owns 50,000 acres. Workers and their organiza- tions and all ‘sympathetic elements are urged to continue and’ the protest campaign and defense movement for the arrested share