The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-07

makers OF the law had no deSlr
sale juvsnile labor.
DR.. F. L. Underwood, state health
officer Of Miss, recently issued a
statement which said in part: "The
inhabitants of the Mississippi delta
are threatened by an outbreak Of
pellagra, due to lack Of milk in the
region" After the flood subsidized,
many babies died and others were on
the verge of starvation, as the farm
ers in the valley had lost all their
cows. The Red Cross sent in canned
milk and other supplies as fast as
possible, but for a while the suffer
ing was intense The authorities
feared the development of insanity as
well as pellagra if relief was delayed
too long.
Arthur Hit, the Negro farmer Of
Alabama who was forced, after
severe flogging to sell his farm for
pittance, is living somewhere in pow
erty., The prosecutor, Jim Davis, who
is irving to discover how a former
grand cyclops happens to hold the
deed to Hits farm, has had his life
threatened. Many other floggings
have come to light in the state since.
Emory Cobb and Lilly Cobb Of Biz
mingham, Ala, have been found IN
Cleveland, o. They say they will re-
turn to Ala. to testify about the whip
ping of Lilly Cobb by a masked band
one night, if promised protection.
An order signed by Judge W. H. 5.
Thompson and filed in the Federal
Court. directs the K. K. X. to show
why it should not be expelled from
the western district of Penn, and a
receiver appointed for its affairs. A
letter written by former member OF
the Khan in that state, charges, among
other things that the Khan was re-
sponsible for the the lynching OF a
Negro at Beaver Falls, Pa.
The Native Registered Voters Re
lief Act, passed in 1887, has been re-
pealed by the South African Parlla-
ment. Those legislators who fought
for the retention of the law called 1t
the Magma Charta of the natives.
They denied that it served solely TO
allow natives to purchase liquor. The
repeal of the law leaves the natives
with no legal protection whatsoever.
The Act was their only safeguard
against the Pass law, Curfew Bell
law. the Color Bar Bill and the Urban
Areas Land Acts. The slogan is be-
ing heard more and more. africa IS
a white mans country" This slogan
has been repeated in the South Afr1-
can legislature. The Act had never
been operative in the Cape province.
According to the Cincinatti Union,
that city has sunk very low as re-
cards fair play to the Negro. Segre-
cation has become very extreme
From separate housing, separate
churches, separate schools and separ-
ate bathing beaches, has come to
separate play streets for colored chill
dren. The Welfare Association, COM
posed of militant colored citizens, is
fighting this growing prejudice. But
because of colored parasites, (thls Is
the Unions name for them the AS
sociation's task is difficult. Wher-
ever colored people are segregated q
certain number of the group can make
a profitable living
The Los Angeles branch OF the
N. A. A. C. P. has won its fight
against discrimination toward coloreo
citizens at Manhattan bathing beach
Though both the pier, and the beach
are public property, they had beer
leased by the city to Oscar Basson-
cite for the sum of one dollar. Since
Bassonette acquired the lease ne has
, consistently barred colored bathers
Recently DR.. Hudson and party OF
friends from Los Angeles, were or.
dered to leave the beach by Basson'
cite. When they refused to do this
they were arrested. The local N. A
A. C. P. Immediately retained Attor
ney H. Macbeth, who made vigorous
fight. He won the case. Basonette''
lease has been cancelled.
An editorial in the South African
World calls an address of Clements
Kadalie in England, incorporate. TIT
propaganda of united front of white
and colored workers, organized t.
liberate themselves has hideous dan
gers, they declare. "Why it sounds
like Communism" says the editor
Though Kadalie did expel all known
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