The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1932, Page 1

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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘In the Day’s News MOTHER OF 4 IN HOLD-UP NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—With her Pausband unemployed, three children hungry and a fourth one expected soon, the mother, Alice Scribner, 24 years old of 212 McLean Avenue Yonkers, took her husband's pistol and held up a chain-company shop at 60 Hawthorne St., Brooklyn, tak- g around $50. She was captured vy the woman manager of the shop The mother is now facing charges of ssault, robbery and illegal posses- ion of a pistol. 4,283,753 ILLITERATE WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Those otally illiterate in this country were put at 4,283,753, by the estimate of the National Advisory Committee, ppointed by President Hoover three ears ago. ITALY HARBORS NAZI KILLERS BERLIN, Dec. 30.—With the find- ng of the body of a Nazi storm trooper at Dresden, apparently mur- iered by members of his own party, “he democratic newspaper, Tempo, harged that Italy has become an sylum for Nazi refugees who com- 4¢ murders or other criminal acts 1 Germany. Evidence uncovered by 1e Dresden police in connection with ae murder, points to three Nazi ‘oopers who are said to have fled » Italy. t SO. AFRICA OFF GOLD BASIS CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Dec. °0.—The government of South Africa, one of the richest gold producing ‘egions of the world, has abandoned che gold standard. Following a con- inued run on the banks, the gov- ‘rnment detached the currency from ‘he gold standard, thus releasing the ?eserve Bank from the liability of re- ‘eming notes in gold. cae arr ANGHT IN CITY ‘JOB RACKET” NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The deep- ding corruption permeating the city dministration which forced the res- nation of Walker, cropped up again indictments drawn up against a y employee and a detective who @ charged by three witnessses with stortion of around $1,000 from each nder fake promise of jobs in* the ity administration. The indictments soint to the tail end of an extensive job-fixing racket. ‘ 100 FURNITURE ‘WORKERS STRIKE Fight Fourth Wage Cut in Single Year HOBOKEN, N. J., Dec. 30.—Three wndred furniture workers 5 are on trike in Hoboken, at Ferguson Bros. tovelty Furniture Co. The strike is 00 per cent solid. All walked out then they got, in addition to a ten er cent wage cut, the fourth this ear, also a cut to five days a week ith proportionate reduction in pay. The strike started yesterday. 'To- 7 the strikers held a mass meet- % with nearly all present, and ard organizers of the Furniture orkers Industrial Union. The or- inizers called for united struggle, 1d rank and file control of the rike and united front of all in the ‘op. / The strikers, although Musteite , } pokesmen had come into their meet- %, accepted the proposals of the rniture Workers Union. They elec- 1 a strike committee of 15, on ohutcn the Furniture Workers Indus- , ‘tial Union organizer is a fraternal member. Hoboken is a town of considerable police terror. Distribution of leaflets has many times been interfered with by the police. Already the author- ities are raising the cry of “Outside Agitators.” But the furniture worker strikers are determined to win. “The strikers . e now trying to draw the foremen and chauffeurs into a sympathy strike. isabled Vet Denied Job on Fake Excuses ‘EW YORK—Plain violation of the il Service law by Tammany graft- “in order to reserve jobs for their ‘chmen only, is revealed in a letter .t to Athenaces Deliapostolo by the ‘Ml Service Commission, Deliapos- ad applied for a job as a stone wer, on the claim that he was a isabled veteran and was by law en- swited to preference for the job. | The letter answering him stated - at his claim was disapproved be- use, the letter said, “you were not U.S. citizen when you enlisted, “@.you are not a veteran of the xte of New York.” chat this argument was 2 '¢ ex- 3-to deny a job is shown oy the 3 that all those entering the U. 8. ny automatically become citizens, 4 the further fact that ,ough Deliapostolo joined the army Jersey City, he had been a re- ‘at in New York State for 20 years. DEMONSTRATION HITS U.S. AID TO ‘SO. AMERICA WAR rkers Led by Com-| 7 munists at United Drydocks “STOP SHIPPING ARMS” Score Colombia War Recruiting in N.Y.C. NEW YORK. — Yesterday morning at 7:30 A. M. over one hundred workers responded to the call of the South Brooklyn Section’ of the Communist Party of the U.S. A. and gathered at the United Dry- dock, 27th St. and 3rd Avenue, | Brooklyn, to protest the fitting out of ships for the Colombian govern- ment to be used in its imperialist war and against the recruiting of men in the United States for this war. The demonstration lasted for over an hour. Placards were carried by the workers, bearing such slogans as “Down with the United Drydock which fits out ships for the Colom- bian war.” “Hoover-Roosevelt gov- ernment Send Ships and Men to Kill South American Workers.” “We De- nounce Colombian Consulate — Re- cruiter in New York for Colombian War”. “Workers: Stop Shipment of Men and Munitions to South Amer- ica”. “Defend the Soviet Union — Friend of the Colonial Toilers.” Protest Recruiting. Doretta Loew of the Communist Party introduced the subject and the speakers at the demonstration. “This meeting is called by the South Brook- lyn Section of the Communist Party to protest the recruiting of starving sailors in New York and shipping them as cannon fodder for such lackeys of U. S. imperialism as the Colombian government, which is now (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Vet Organizing Squad To Leave On Midwest Tour Jan. 3; Need Aid NEW YORK.—The seven members of the Kansas City contingent of the National Bonus March to Washing- ton, who have formed an organizing squad to tour the Great Lakes region and rally the veterans for the fight for local relief and imme- diate bonus payment, expect to leave New York about Jan. 3. Harry Smith and Nicholson of the organizing squad, have received cred- entials from Post 2 of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, and are asking workers, sympathizers and es- pecially veterans on the way of their tour to assist them. They will need | funds, food, clothing and housing. * be Vets’ Enemies Meet NEW YORK.—Though the organl- zation claims a membership of 2,500 in New York, only 75 showed up at a meeting of the local chapter of the American Veterans’ Association, held at the Bar Association. This is one | of the outfits fighting immc~'te | payment of the ex-servicemen’s. .2ck wages, known as the bonus, and de- Manding cuts in disability allowances. Big Demonstrations Called for Today at 2 Bronx Rent Strikes | BRONX, N. Y.—Two rent strikes are in full swing under the leader- ship of the Middle Bronx Unemploy- ed Council, of 1400 Boston Road. One rent strike, at 1392 Franklin Av. is noted by the fact that a youth committee has been organized to help the strikers. At this house there will be a mass picket line and de- monstration at 1 p.m. today. The other rent strike, at 1433 Charlotte Ave., has already establish- ed such a wide mass base that 300 to 400 workers were present at a mass meeting which lasted all day yesterday, A mass picket line and demonstration will be held in front of that house at 3 p.m, today, | this city, yesterday sent the following | its puppet states in South America | ening to engulf the populations of ] Against Soviet Union ei EE Norman Thomas, whose job in the Socialist Party is to mislead the workers with radical phrases while the Hillquits and O’Neals do the more open work of helping the bosses. Thomas, who has posed as a “friend” of the Soviet Union, has just made an attack ‘on the first Workers’ Republic, though here too his language is more polite and deceptive than Hillquit’s, Photo shows Thomas stowing away a sumptous meal at a bosses’ ban- quet during the election campaign, in which he ran as 8S. P. candidate for president. HOOVER GETS * WAR PROTEST Hit Colombia Arms Shipment from U. 8. NEW YORK.—The American Com- mittee for Struggle Against War, with headquarters at 104 Fifth Ave., telegram to Hoover protesting against the arming by U. S. imperialism of for the two undeclared wars now raging in that continent and threat- the whole continent: Columbia Gets War Supplies “Yacht Sea Fox being prepared United Drydocks, South Brooklyn by Colombian government for service in war against Peru. Carries skele‘on crew signed on as instructors for six months for Colombian Navy. Colom- bian government also bought bomber plane from Consolidated Aircraft Co. Hundred of South Brooklyn workers this morning demonstrated demand- ing cessation recruiting forces and in United States for South Am- rican wars. With support your ad- ministration the Colombian and Bo- livian Governments have been stead- ily buying munitions, airplanes and recruiting forces foy war. Hoover “Peace” Is Sham “This contradicts your proposal of embargo on munitions, your talk of peace treaties and neutral commis- sions. Your administration permits this because Colombian and Bolivian Governments are helping American imperialism in its struggle for su- permacy against British imperialism. We protest against South American wars and declare our solidarity with the Latin American Anti-War Con- gress to be held in Montevideo, Uru- guay on Feb. 28, 1933. We demand the Sea Fox be stopped from leaving port.” Fruit Racketeer Gyps Unemployed Man NEW YORK.—A worker, Sam Sei- denberg, went to John Rich Produce Co., 196 Reade Street and purchased some fruit to peddle. The fruit was condemned by the health inspectors and he brought the receipt to Rich who refused to redeem it. This is happening to a large number of workers who try to eke out a few cents in this manner and apparently is a racket of the health inspectors and the merchants. THOMAS ATTACKS USSR Echoes Lies About 5-Yr. Plan ‘Failure’ NEW YORK.—Norman Thomas, who has consistently been put for- ward by the Socialist Party as a “friend” of the Soviet Union, dropped part of his mask when he told the 50 delegates at the 17th annual in- tercollegiate conference of the League for Industrial Democracy: “Look more towards America and not so much towards Russia. Russia has not fulfilled the hopes placed in her only eight months ago. Those who eight months ago hoped that Russia would accomplish something as a solution for the breakdown of the present system haye been disap- pointed.” Thomas here cchoed the capitalist press lies about “hunger” in the U. S. 8. R., and the ‘failure’ of the Five-Year Plan. Though he attacked the Soviet Union, Thomas continued his usual display of “left” phrases, talked about the imminent collapse of capitalism and criticized the “par- lor radicals” in the Socialist Party. He was careful to avoid the whole question of proletarian revolution and the necessity of organizing the strug- gle for the overthrow of capitalism. aily Worker Anniversary Oth ANNIVERSARY FETE TO BE MASS DEMONSTRATION | Thousands to Attend Affair at Coliseum ; Bedacht to Speak READ FOSTER MESSAGE Big Concert Program, Followed by Ball All out to the Ninth Anni- versary Celebration of the Dai- ly Worker tonight! Gathering in the Bronx Co- liseum, 177th St. and West Farms Road, workers of many na- tionalities, Negro and white, will take part in a mighty mass demonstra- tion for the central organ of the Communist Party, the champion, leader and organizer of the Amer- ican workingclass—the Daily Worker. It will at the same time be a de- monstration of support for all the struggles that the Daily Worker is leading, a challenge to the capital- ist rulers and a show of determina- jon on the part of the revolution- ary workers of this city to fight on under the leadership of the Com- munist Party and its central organ against the whole starvation and terror program of the bosses. Demonstration For All Struggles The celebration will be a demon- stration for the release of the Scotts- boro boys, Tom Mooney and all workers rotting in capitalist jails; a demonstration against. the murder- ous assault on the Alabama share- croppers; against wage cuts and for unemployment insurance and imme- diate relief; for the second Five- Year Plan, which begins with the new year after the successful com- pletion of the first; against impe- rialist war and for the defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Un- ion—for victory of the toiling ‘mil- lions. whose clarion voice the Daily Worker is along every front. Mass organizations of every na- tionality have rallied their member- ships to be present at the celebra- tion with their banners. Charles Alexander, Negro worker, will be chairman. The chief speaker will be Max Bedacht, of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, who will talk on the significance of the Daily Worker's anniversary and role of the “Daily” in the struggles of the Americar workers. Message From Foster A special message from William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President in the last elections, will be read by C. A. Hathaway, organ- izer of the New York District of the Communist Party. Foster is still too ill to attend in person. The celebration will start at 8 p. m. The program consists of a con- cert and ball of unusual character. Sergei Radamsky, making his last appearance before leaving for the Soviet Union, will sing songs by Soviet composers; the mother of Langston Hughes, famous revolution- ary Negro poet, will recite a poem of his, following which it will be sung by Marie Radamsky; the New Dance Group will present two new revolutionary dances; the Interna- tional Workers Order Symphony Or- chestra of 75 musicians will play, and proletarian songs will be sung by the Freiheit Singing Society and the International Choruses of thc Workers Music League. After the concert there will be a grand march of all the organizations carrying their banners, followed by dancing until dawn to the music of a double brass band of Negro and white musicians. ‘Tickets on sale at the Daily Work- er, 50 E. 13th St.. are 40 cents in advance, with a 20-cent press fund tax if bought at the Coliseum. 'To get to the Coliseum, take the East Side or West Side Bronx Park subway to 177th St. Hunger Kills Child; Demard Relief for Father and Family BROOKLYN, Dee. 30.—Frank Fia- metta, unemployed worker and fath- er of four hungry children, received a telegram from the Kings County Hospital, informing him, “Vincenza Fiametta died at 8:45 p.m. Call to| see Dr. Zimmerman tomorrow morn- ing.” Vincenza is one of the 9 months old twins placed in the hospital be- cause the family was too destitute to care for them. When the mother came to the hos- pital the nurse told her that the child was so famished, when brought to the hospital, that it could not re- sist the cold from which it suffered. ‘This statement was in contradiction to the official statement that the baby had died from pneumonia. The _ Bensonhurst Unemployed Council is arranging a mass demon- stration which will expose starvation as the true cause of the death of Fiametta’s child, will demand imme- diate adequate relief for this worker's family, and the burial of the child at the expense of the city. The de- monstration will be announced in a few days Celebration Tonight! WORKERS’ PROBE PROVES MURDER OF JAILED NEGRO CROPPERS BY ALA. BOSSES Witnesses Testify Authorities Denied \ Tedical Aid to Cliff James and Milo Bentlé: in | ’ I. L. D. Investigation Negro and White Unite; Stop Eviction BirminghamWorkers Arranging Mass Funeral for Murdered Cropper Leaders; Jailed Croppers Denied Civil Rights Returning the furniture of an evicted unemployed family at Prairie and 37th St., South Side, Chicago. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 30.—A thorough investigation into the deaths of Cliff James and Milo Bentley, Negro cropper leaders, reveals that both died not from the wounds received in the Reeltown (Natasulga) Battle with armed landlord-polic> lynch gangs, but from criminal neglect and denial of medical MOONEY’S MOTHER ducted by representatives of the International Labor Defense in “Must Be Reason to Believe Innocence” Left Wing Wins Local Nine Election; Second Largest in LL.G.W.U. Workers Defeat Both Lovestoneites and the “Forward” Gang; Elect All Officials New Officers Ran on Program of United Front Struggle for Better Conditions and Wages NEW YORK.—The Left Wing in Local 9, cloak finishers, the second largest local in the International Ladies Garment Workers, threw out the old officials and won all 19cal offices in the election just ended here. The Left Wing candidate for manager, Cooper, was elected, so was the Left Wing candidate for chairman, Lauder. The Left Wing candidates for © the three offices of business agent conjunction with a number of other workers. The bodies of the two mur- dered leaders show that the wounds had become infected as a result of neglect. Workers who visited the | two croppers st ral days before their | death testified that several of the ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 30.—The mass | wounds had not been dressed at all, campaign for release of Tom Mooney | and that even those wounds which has forced an admission from Pres- |had been dressed had not received ident-elect Roosevelt that: | further attention, the dressing being “I feel sure because so many people | unchanged for days. believe Tom Mooney is innocent that | “ The murdered Cliff James was there must be some reason for be-| one of two Negro croppers turned lieving in his innocence.” | over to the landlord-police lynch Roosevelt was interviewed by a| gangs by the reformist heads of committee and by Mrs. Mooney,| Tuskegee Institute, where the crop- mother of Tom Mooney, in Albany} Pers had sought refuge and treat~ today. | ment of their wounds in the Tus~ The committee included: Louis| kegee hospital, affiliated with Tus- ROADS FIRE MEN was written, the ballots for executive board members were still being ‘Pay Cut Saves No Job’ But Agrees to Cut counted, it was already assured that the Left Wing candidates are elec- CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 30.—A. F. Whitney, president of the Broth- erhood of Trainmen knew what he was doing when he accepted, for the railroad workers, a continuation of their wage cut of ten per cent for nine months more. He can not plead ignorance, and he can not claim, as he did in February when the cut first began, that if would give more jobs to the railroad workers. Speaking before the A. F. L. con- vention here,he said: “The experience. the railroad in-| dustry has had with wage reductions | has proven the absurdity of the con-| tention that reduction in wages will| stimulate business and increase em- ployment,” More Are Fired “In June, 1932, five months after | the ten per cent wage deduction in| the railroad industry, there were | 69,996 less employes than in January, | 1932, the month preceding the wage | deduction and a month in which it) Was reasonably supposed that ra’ road employment had already reach- ed the irreductible minimum.” But this same man heard his; masters’ voice and sold out the rail-| road workers for nine months more | of wage cut! | Government figures show that rail- | road employment, which gave work | to approximately 2,100,000 men in| 1926, has fallen to 1,100,000 now. Ap- proximately half the railroad workers have lost their jobs, under the lead- ership of such as Whitney, in those years. In addition to that, those who still have jobs get, wage cuts. MOTHER SHOWS ~ BOY IS INNOCENT Proves Negro Lad Is .Frame-Up Victim NEW YORK.—Further. facts have been brought to light by the Interna- tional Labor Defense proving con-~ clusively that Edward Griffin, 17-year old Negro boy who is faced with be- ing railfoaded to the electric chair, 4s absolutely innocent of the charge. Griffin's mother, when interviewed by an I. L. D. representative at the boy’s home, 183 McKibben St., Brook- lyn, stated that at the time the mur- der of Benjamin Selati, of 202 Varet St.) Brooklyn, took place, Griffin was attending the wake of his aunt, who had just died. Griffin's mother stated she had four witnesses to prove that the boy was present thru- out the wake, which lasted all night. Mr. Griffin also declared to the I. L. D. representative that her boy ted. The elected candidates ran on an Open militant program, for struggle for improved conditions and wages in the"tfade, for workers’ control of the union, for unity with. all workers in open shops or in the Industrial Un- ion in the struggle. Beat Both Cliques The campaign was very spirited. Opposed to the workers’ candidates were two cliques. One was a com- bination of the Lovestoneites and the Weinstock, national secretary of the AF.L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief; William L. Patterson, national secretary of the International Labor Defense; Alfred Hirsch of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, and Louis B. Scott, of the Tom Mooney -Moulders Defense League. Roosevelt promised to write to Gov- ernor Rolph on the case as soon as he retires from the office of governor. | It has become known that Roosevelt has asked Attorney Felix Frankfurter to prepare # memorandum of the Edward was always a good and obedi- ent boy, and had never given her trouble. He was unemployed, she said, but he was always anxious to work, if he could get a job, to help anarchists. The other was the out | Mooney-Billings case to lay before and out “Forwards” (socialist) clique. | the President-elect. But the election of the Left Wing Though Roosevelt admits the prob- candidates was not due to a split in the right wing forces. The majority |@ent that his letter to Governor for the Left Wing was greater than |R0lph is to come from him after the votes of the two cliques put to-|he ceases to be governor and before gether, he is sworn in as President, to keep This is the second big 1.L.G.w.v, |¥P the “Private citizen” story. local to swing over to a policy of | militancy and control by the rank | and file. Two Charges Against Sam Weinstein Are Dismissed at Hearing NEW YORK. Two weeks ago, the full left wing cloak- ticket, was elected in. Local 1 maker operators. The winning of the office ¢ two largest loc of the LL.G.W.U.} against Sam We is a victory for the w ts of the) Muskin Mfg. Co. strike came up greatest importance, and will | y in the Bridge Plaza C strength to the cont d drive to- | wards a united front of all needle trades workers in the struggles loom- ing before them. rge was malicious mischief other was disorderly ct. This second charge was not only aced against Sam Weinstein but also against six other workers. th XLASSES ON ION STRATEGY | cases were dismissed for “lack of cLas [cake 5 evidence. The winter term of the Workers’ | The: wo! ca Brae rae = Se cases demonstrate what | School, 35 E. 12th St., will have two | should be done in the manslaughter classes in Trade Union Strategy and Tactics, one class to be conducted by Sam Nessin every Monday and the other by Sidney every Friday night This. course. will study the social historical roots of the labor move-| Broadway, Room 338, ment, and apply the methods of | nd a t work of the Red International of | joo dt seams Of Protest, denoun s ‘ |cing this frame-up and demanding Labor Unions to concrete probens |e immediate and unconditional re- and struggles of the revolutionary} jease of this innocent worker to unions. 4 3 Charles B. McLaughlin, District At- Registration is now going on. torney, Bergen Bldg., Bronx, N. Y. CITY EVENTS DAILY WORKER CONCERT TONIGHT Daily Worker Concert and Ball, tonight at Bronx Coliseum. details in another part of this issue of the Daily Worker. | frame: | come night | . | uary 5. loomfield | U2"Y ip of Sam Weinstein that wi p in court on Thursday, Jan- Workers are urged to read | ing the case, which can be obtained jat the District I. L. D. office, 799 See EX-SERVICEMEN TO MEET Post 2 of the Workers Ex-Service Men's League calls for all mem- bers to assemble at Post Headquarters today for special work and for an open air meeting at 4 p.m. at 125th St. and Fifth Ave., from which they vin go in a body to Bronx Coliseum, UNG eee WORKERS’ CENTER BANQUET Provisional Committee set up by the Central Committee has ar- ranged a Banquet to help save the Workers Center, which is in serious financial danger. Banquet is at Workers Center, 35 East 12th St., Second Floor, at 7 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 8, Special program, All mass organiza- tions urged to prepare for it. eta Sate PROTEST MURDER OF SHARE CROPPERS International Labor Defense calls a mass protest meeting against the murder of Alabama share croppers. The meeting is at Tremont and Pros- pect Ave., Bronx, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, 2 ee HUNGER MARCH FILM SHOWN MONDAY “Hunger”, the Workers Film & Foto League moving picture of the National Hunger March, and the conditions that led up to the struggle of the unemployed, will be shown at Fifth Ave. Theatre, Broadway and 28th St. from 10 a.m. to midnight, Monday. At each showing of the film, one of following will speak: I. Amter, Mike Gold, Herbert Benjamin, Malcolm Cowley, Felix Morrow or Edward Dahlberg, able innocence of Mooney, it is evi-| and popularize the pamphlet describ- | kegee Institute, Bring Bodies to Birmingham, Arrangements are being made to bring the bodies here from Mont~ gomery. ..A- tremendous mass f= neral is being prepared for next Mon- day from Pythian Hall. Members of many working class organizations and Negro lodges and churches will march behind the bodies of the mur» dered leaders. Many of these orga~ nizations already have adopted reso~ jlutions vigorously denouncing the jthe murderous landlord-police ter= tor in Tallapoosa County and the Judas role of the Tuskegee reform- ist leaders. The resolutions demand | the punishment of murderers, the immediate, O mal release of all of the arrested croppers, and the right of the ppers and exploited farmers to nize against landlord robbery of ir crops and expropri- ation of their mules and cows. The resolutions also demand the release of the nine Scottsboro boys, point- ing out that the hideous frame-up o7 same conditions of national oppres- sion and e lous struggles in nd on the thun- S swelling from derous mass prot all part; y against the murdero! and whole. | sale arrests © members 0: | the Sharecr Union. This policy | of suppress: ne news follows on the heel rence of Dr, Mi Tuskegee Insti- the white ves of t ggle would lt the role of the |Teformist leaders of mis} | Negro masses and_ betray struggles rialist oppres- sion and capital m-crow reaction, Forced by this mass protest of in= dignant white and Negro workers and farmers to release four of the | arrested croppers, the Alabama au~ | thorities continued today to deny the civil rights of those still held in the | various county jails, State Attorney | General Knight brusquely refused # | request by the International Labor ttorneys, Frank B. Irwin Schwab, for a private in~ terview with the remaining defend- ants. At all previous interviews be~ tween the defendants and their at- torneys, sheriffs and deputies have been present in onen violation of the civil rights of defendants, Hearing on the petition of the £ L. D. attorneys for writs of habeas corpus in the case of the remaining defendants has been set for January 5 before. Judge Leon McCord. The I. D. attorneys will endeavor to force the sheriffs and deputies who particl- pated in the outrageous attack on the croppers at Reeltown on Dec, 19 to testify on the causes of the struge gle, and the subsequent brutal treate ment of the arrested croppers which resulted in the death of Cliff James and Milo Bentley. Southern workers and exploited farmers are following the develope ments with the closest interest and are especially interested in the grow- ing evidence of militant support of the white and Negro workers in the north to the rising struggles in the South, 5 make Negro ading the a