The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-19

tackS upon Negroes and white organizers of the
Trade Union Unity League at GreenviIe, S. c.,
the widespread mob violence of the Ku Klux
Khan and other fascist bands the increasing
lynch frame-ups and lynchings.
At Greensboro S. c., white landlord Broadus
Hughes, shot Negro tenant-farmer Will JONES'
and all his five children when Jones talked
back to him" A four-year old girl was seriously
wounded. This mounting murderous terror on
the Black Belt of the South, is the direct and
sharpest expression of American capitalist class
justice
This legal and extra legal class terror is the
bloody weapon of the white, ruling-claSs slave
masters to maintain the vile system of peonage,
national and racial oppression, by which these
exploiters coin super-profits out of the increas-
ing starvation, misery, toll, and blood of the
millions of enslaved Negro toilers, 1t is for the
purpose of maintaining the whole system of
landlord capitalist robbery and exploitation I'M
der which millions of white workers and poor
farmers are being crushed down ever more and
more to the miserable level of the douby OPP
pressed Negro masses.
Cleveland Unemployed Murdered
The murder of two unemployed Negro work,
ers John Crawford and Edward Jackson, by the
bosses police thugs in Cleveland at a demon
stration against eviction, follows closely upon
the shooting of Peterson -Four white and Ne
gro workers were seriously wounded and scores
of workers, including H. Larkin organizational
secretary of the CommuniS. Party, are held in
Jail prevented from seeing anyone. This is the
latest Of the many widespread murderous at
tacks upon the millions of starving, jobless
workers, white and black. Only short while
ago the Chicago police murdered three Negro
workers while they were resisting tie eviction
of an aged, unemployed Negro woman worker,
wounding and arresting scores of white and Ne
gro workers. In Warren and Youngstown Ohio,
three unemployed Negro workers were recently
killed by police. And wave of chauviniSt per-
secution, police brutality and mob violence rises
against the Negroes in the North (Barberton,
Minneapolis, Portland, Pittsburgh, etc..
Terror Throughout Capitalist World
The frame-up and shooting of Willie Peterson,
the rising terror on the Black Belt of the South,
the murder of CRAWFORD and Jackson the chau-
whist terror in the North are part Of the bloody
wave of capitalist terror rising against every
section of the working-class white and black
native and foreign-born throughout the u S.
and in the colonies. We witness the death
frame-up of "a white and Negro miners in Har-
Ian, KY; the silk bosses murder frame-up of
5 white workers in Paterson, N. j.; the savage
jail terror against Mooney, the Imperial Valley
organizers, and thousands of militant workers.
the drive to deport Yoknen, Serio, and the per-
secution and deportation of thousands of for
eign-born workers; the bloody suppressions in
Cuba Nicaragua, Haiti, the Philippines, and
other colonies crushed under the iron heel of
the Wall Street imperialist exploiters
This murderous terror rises furiously as the
crisis deepens throughout the capitalist world,
against all the toilers to smash their unity, to
plunge them deeper and deeper into the abyss
Of slavery starvation misery, and death This
savage capitalist terror can be met only by the
united. militant mass struggle of all the OPP
pressed and toiIing masses. Realizing this, the
white workers everywhere must fight in the fore
front of the battle against the Jim Crow lynch
system of national oppression, against the whole
vile capitalist terror system shoulder to shoulder
with the doubly oppressed Negro toilers.
Unite! Protest! STRUGGLED
The International Labor Defense calls the en-
tire working class to action against the lynch
frame-up of Willie Peterson and the murder of
Crawford and Jackson. We call upon all work
ers' organizations to send protest kilograms and
resolut. ms to sheriff Hawkins and mayor Jones
at Birmingham, to governor Miller at Montgo-
merry Ala, demanding proper medical attention
and the right of friends and defense to see Pet
erson; the immediate release Of Peterson, the
Scottsboro boys and all other victims of the
boss terror; the prompt Stoppage OF the whole
campaign of police terror, lynch violence, and
suppression of the militant workers organiza-
tions the right of the Negro toiers and white
workers to organize and defend themselves.
Send kilograms to mayor Marshall at Cleveland,
Ohio and governor White at Columbus Ohio,
protesting against the murder of Crawford and
Jackson demanding halt to the terror against
the starving jobless workers; the right OF the
workers to organize and defend themsclycs; the
immediate release of Larkn and all the arrested
workers.
We call upon all workers and sympathizers to
rally in mass protest meetings and demonstra-
tons to rush funds for the defense, to build the
united front defense movement of militant mass
struggle. Expose the treacherous middle-class
Negro misleaders, who rushed TO offer rewards
in the Birmingham slave masters lynch hunt
the real estate sharks, who melted the murder
Gus attacks upon the unemployed Negro work
ers in Chicago and Cleveland. the treacherous
leadership of the NAACP which has viciously
attacked the movement TO save the lives OF the
Scottsboro bows which hcy taken the lead in
this sinister campaign of betrayal of the Negro
masses into the hands of the lynch oppressors.
Fight against the fascist Jim Crow labor takers
of the A. F. of L., the chauvinist officials Of the
socialist party, the liberal takers and all the
tlpholders of the bosses lynch system. Build
the united front from below! Build the mass
defense into mighty struggle that will halt
the capitalist terror and compel the release of