The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-14

furore that Florida convict bosses confine their
murderous attacks to Negro prisoners only 1t is safer
1t is reported that when asked whether he thought
the state authorities would investigate the death of Rid
ey Captain Foster, head of the camp replied: 81 don't
think They don't investigate lynchings, why
should they go to the trouble to bother about how
Wet died"
The report comes from Whiteville North Carolina of
the attack by Is white the home of John Steven
son, Negro, for the sole that Stevenson had
caused search warrant to be issued for Joe Billiard
(whte) following the loss of some personal property
Stevenson refused to leave his home upon the demand
of the mob that had to his house at midnight.
Thereupon the attacking party opened fire the frame
dwelling many of the bullets passing thru the windows
and doors Stevenson escaped injury but four of his
children hit by bullets The firing continued until
the ammunition of the attacking party exhausted
Out in Chicago bitterly fought habeas corpus action
is now in progress Samuel Kennedy is wanted in Mad
son, Georgia. for Shaping" white The Georgia
sheriff has spent than month in Chicago trying
to get his man.
But out in Wmot, Arkansas, has been arrested
for the recent lynching of the 19year-od Negro boy
Winston Pounds who accused of an ATTEMPTED as
sault The charge is explained by the statement that
he went to house and tried to break in. He touched
no person and saw woman But he was hanged. The
Arkansas Gazette, in of it's headlines declares mo
Arrest for Wilmot Lynching." That is the old story
especially for Arkansas 1t only repeats the story of
last spring when John Carter burned to crisp at
Little Rock about stones throw from the local Ma
sonic Temple. This happened at high noon The mob
wore no masks. The leaders all we'll known. But
no arrests.
In the midst of which we find widelv-read Negro
publication in Chicago loudly praising the local admin
stration of Mayor William Hale Thompson. For Thomp-
is republican, and the republican party has been
in power in this land with few ntermissons since
the Civil War.
Altho Cal Coolidge "does choose" to succeed him
SELF the indications that the republican party will
elect the next president in 1928 But that will not i'm
prove the conditions of the millions of Negro workers in
the future any than has in the past Lynchng
will the land just the same, and Mayor Thomp
son will say little and do less about it.
There some indications that there may be split
in the democratic party. Some sections of the party in
THE Solid South for breaking with the Tammany
Hall domination from New York City.
But that will not help the Negro workers in the South
The segment of southern democrats that may break
away will be made of the worst enemies of the Negro
as we'll white workers
1t is the Labor Party that the Negro worker
of the South, well to workers of all races and ma
tionalities, North East, South and West as an eman
cipating force,
Before the roaring flames devouring human flesh at
the stake in the shadow of the dangling moose in men,
DRY of the murders committed thru the agency of the
"sweatbox" we'll the electric chair, white and
Negro labor must forget differences press
ward united working class banded together in the
trade unions, united under the banners of the Labor
Party for common victory against the OPP