The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-07
The Latest Outrage Against
Negroes Calls for Action
of the Masses!
By ROBERT MINOR

ROBERT MINOR
THE cowady shooting of the Negro coal miner Willie Peterson
sheriffs presence with apparent
should black white
gavey situation South This attempted murder
incident violence against those who
the political significance happenings of this kind blind
indeed
Throughout capitalist
homie crisis the parasite classes capitalists and landlords are engaged
system
In the southern United especially being
made to throw the burden the shoulders Of the laborng
Iois +he o,d ar ns terror aers the Negro masses Increased
During Mississippi of the
wholesale Just this crisis today the
ruling class Of the southern states turning violence
terror and economic robbery price
ruin throughout the cotton bewhch also the black beD
The burden of the crisis was naturally to the white ruling
shifted shoulders OF the helpless Of eozed
agricultural share-croppers
In farming regions the white landlords stopped supplying food to
the the in
desperation would leave the standing the field and would forfeit
their clashes
because of Historically the fight HILL Alabama where the
Negro sharecrpers fired for daring to organize the Share
And classic up against Negro peOpe-the
Mdeous insane lie superstition handed down from slavery
daysthe traditional ape sweeping through the South
the trail Of farm ruin and bank failure.
scottsboro only of this
Nine innocent condemned death framed trial
which the county fair the local merchants
facing bankruptcy with the falling cotton prices hoped to big
crowd from the mountains for the sake of the revival of trade they
went far to obtain brass band from the local textile mill to add
the attraction of the niger trial. to keep the crowd in
town for a busy day or two of booming trade.
OF truth the scurrou lie that Negroes
inherent tendency commit violence white than
lie that the Jews murder Christian children to use their blood for the
the lies
ting off chdrens hands and the eating of the dead bodies of their
The peculiar turning Of the n ut the slave into the sun
thing
tory accident
plantation owners in the Congo Of cutting off the right hand of slaves
the
the wartime lies about the huns cutting off the hands children
Belgium the southern United States centuries of slavery which
centuries Of the violation of the wOmannd the slave by
white historical which the
pattern Of lies to justify the present terror against the still nsved Negro
people.
by propaganda rape
mounting only recently
deciding farewell
Shot by Negroes The truth however was exposed During the past
IuH,,r IIs sa u WI, s c . p s hi pcis
from that she had been raped by Negro
oath william Harper was identified the police produced confession
Harper by torture the Negro was sentenced to
death finally victim
narrowly escaped murder the gaows through the white woans
white slapped
the wrist by the law for having merely attempted bring about the
death of "nigger.D
And just now Of the william
Carver white real estate took out insurance $4,000 his
murdered working which
niger" exposed
And now the Peterson rings through the South!
NEGRO" against
white while
$4,000 by woman having caught bk who
supposed robbery
pointed out before that known bit of evidence indicates that the
supposed robbery committed white criminal
who not have resod the device of darkenng
his face for the occasion The surviving described him Having
straight hair speaking educated which in the
Of the white South would nothing than that
ne looked and spoke IKE white man. But the oa ana ponce OF
relative the white
carried with him pistol the of the sheriff shot down
gravely reaconar
ple that this incidents terror
against Negroes not of political significance.
aroous the heels of the Scottsboro
and the Hill together with flood of similar violence
another call the the aborng population black
white their resistance The International Labor Defense
Struggle
calling the to defend the victims this
terror But the Negro and white must come to the support of
these organizations
the same time ocus to the South where they
had the operate beforeh acna leaders of the
National Association Advancement of Coored Peoehave in
useful the sheiff
the Of against
National Association Adj
goadng the police
break organizations and meetings for
victims of white ruling class Justice The
Advancement Of
Birmingham contribute