Arizona republican., 1919-10-07
NEGRO FOsTERED ELAINE UPRISING SAYS COMM TEE
Days Of Old Carpet L
 In South Recalled By Re cent Disorders In Ark Bl ok Leader Planned Wholesale Slaughter Of Whites For His Profit
IRepubIican A. p. Leased Wirel

HELENA, Ark. Oct. 6.-A statement was made today on the recent riots by E. NJ. Allen of the committee of seven authorized by local officers and Governor Brough to investigate the trouble, charging that the affair was an organized negro uprising, fostered by a negro who preyed on Ignorance and superstition of a race of children for monetary gains"
 Mr. Allen, who was one of 21 lead ing men marked for death, after hear ing confessions, examining circulars and other evidence procured by state and military officers in connection with the work of the committee. issued the following statement to explain what the committee had found to be the situation leading to the killing Of five white men and upwards of a score of negroes.
 Not a Race Riot
 The present trouble with the negroes in Phillips county is not a race riot. It is a deliberately planned instruction of the negroes against the whites directed by an organization ] known as the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America estab- | lished for the purpose of banding negroes together for the killing oi white people. This union was started 1 by Robert L. Hill, a negro 26 years | of age of Winchester, Ark, who saw l in it an opportunity of making easy money. He had been farmer all his 1 life but lately had been posing as g private deteGtive doing work in this and all foreign countries
 He started his first union work il April of this year. He organized the ratio lodge in May of this year. H. tcld the darkies that he was an agent i Of the government and because the senators and representatives in Wash ington were white men and in sym ! pathy with the white men of the south it was impossible for the negroes t. set the rights that had been promised them for service in the army and SC l the government had called into exist. clce this organization which would L, sbprorted by the government in de fense of the negroes against the whitt reople. He told them t was necessarl for all members Of the union to a.Ii themselves in preparation for the da, a'hen they should be called upon to at tack their white oppressors. M
 'The slogan of the O. ganizatio4 i we battle for our rights The pass word of all the negroes was we hay, just begun.
 He told them that those member who were unable to buy ammunitiuI would pc supplied by the union iron tsc government store at Winchester
 The purely mercenary side of it dc velops as follows:
 Negro men were charged $1.5O en trance fees and negro women 50 cents At the second or third meeting. h. would bring Dr. V. E. Powell of Win chester with him who purported to b the examining physician for the gov ernn1ent in it's work of registering tn negroes in defense of their right. certificate was filled out and signed b the doctor and given to each negro upo payment of 90 cents. This certificat was supposed to be the registratio document. Those negroes who wer possessed of funds in amounts from : to $25 were enrolled in an advance section of the union and upon paymen of whatever sum he fHilD could pro cure in excess of 8 a certificate wa given entitling the holder to attend tn congresses of the union at Wincheste and speak on the floor of the meetin regarding any questions brought u and to assist in keeping the constitu
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