Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-21
ARRESTED FOR ORGANIZING
NEGROES, SIX WORKERS TO
GO ON TRIAL FOR LIVES
JUNE 10TH IN ATLANTA
Workers in Nationwide Protests
Against Efforts Of Southern Bosses
to Electrocute Two Negroes and
Four Whites.
CRUSADER News Agency

Atlanta, Ca, June.-The trial oil
six workers held on a charge OF IN
clCing to insurrection," based on al
old Civil war Law which is beng
used for the first time against work
my class leaders who have incurred
the haired Of the southern white rul-
ing class because OF their inslstence
IN organizing Negro and white work
ers together, has been set Tor June IL.
ilne charge carries the death penalty
if convictions are obtained. And the
Atlanta bosses and their state ma
chinery are making every effort TO Sc
cure convictions and send these work
ers to their death as a terrOristic de-
terrent 10 the breaking down OF the
age-old wall OF race prejudice and
hatred which the white rulers OF the
South have so carefully built up
against the unity or black and white
workers.
The six workers facing the cleo
trio chair as result Of their de-
fiance OF the theology of Negro IN
teriority and racial separation with
which the imperialists justify the
particularly brutal oppression of the
Negro masses at home and abroad
are elmer Bracy, Field Organizer Oh
the American Negro Labor Congress
who, at the time of his arrest, was
touring the South for his organiza-
ton, with Atlanta the tenth point IN
his itinerary; Anna Burlak. Inter
national Labor Defense organizer
Mary Dalton, National Textile Work
ers Union organizer, Henry Story,
local Negro Communist, H. NJ. Pow
ers, organizer for the Communist
Party; and Joe Carr, organizer for
the Young Communist League. Pow
ers and Carr were arrested two
months ago for holding meeting OF
Negro and white workers. Brady,
Story, Mary Dalton and Anna Burlak
were arrested May 2lst at lynching
protest meeting held by the American
Negro Labor Congress at which
Brady was the chief speaker. Brady
and Story are Negro workers. The
others are white.
Denied Bail
So far every effort on the part OF
the International Labor Defense
which is conducting the defense to Sc
cure bail for these six workers has
been resisted by the prosecutor OF
Fulton County and the Atlanta
courts. j. Louis Engdahl, general
secretary of the International Labor
Defense, who has just returned iron
the South where he visited the prs
oners and addressed several success
full mass protest meetings reports 9
growing mobilization of hostile senti'
ment by the Ku Klux Klan and the
American Legion. The Khan ever
neid a demonstration near the Full
ton Jail where the prisoners are con
fined, Engdahl reports. In the mean
time, the prisoners are being harassec
in every possible way. Joe Carr is
confined in the death cell in muir
derers row. Brady and Story, the
two Negro workers, are held in soil
tary confinement, having been re
moved from the jim-crow quarters OF
.Ahe Negro prisoners among whom
Brady had started a class in econom
les. The prisoners are denied al
lights and may not receive newspa
pers, even the reactionary papers be
ing kept from them. Meals SEM
them by the International Labor De
tense are stolen by the prison guards
as a rule. They are allowed no Wis
itors, Engdahl managing to see then
only after the sharpest struggle.
Make Sharp Protest
In a letter sent to the Genera
Solicitor. Sheriff j. Lowry and the
Fulton warden, the six workers pro,
test sharply against the unabatec
prosecutions they are forced to under
goat the hands of the prison author
tiles. In no uncertain terms they
demand the right to receive news
papers and magazines, the removal oil
Carr from the death cell and the dis
continuance of the solitary confine-
ment of Brady and Story.
Workers Wrath RISING
In the meantime, mass meetings Of
Negro and white workers being hello
throughout the country under the
of the American Negro La
pr Congress, the International La
n Defense, and the Trade Unior