The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
LYNCH TERROR OF
SOUTHERN BOSSES
is UNLEASHED
THREE NEGRO WORKERS ARE
1LYNCHED IN WEEK TO
CYPRESS MASSES.

BALTIMORE, Md.-With an
epidemic of lynchings and racial
persecution against Negro work
ers sweeping through the south,
the International Labor Defense
is throwing its full force into the
task of saving Orphan Jones, 60
year old Negro farm worker, and
George Davis, % years old, from
legal lynching in hate-inflamed
country courts of Maryland.
Following the lynching of
Matthew Williams in Salisbury,
mass protest aroused by the In
ternational Labor Defense and q
flood of kilograms sent by worker
organizations to Governor Albert
C. Richie forced the indefinite
postponement of the trial of Orph-
an Jones. The international La
Dor Defense is now demanding
that Bernard AIDES, lid lawyer
asked by George Davis to defend
him, be given the right to consult
with this worker.
Arrange Mass Protests
A series of huge mass meetings
will be held throughout the Lynch
section, the LID has announced
At the first of these in Baltimore
on Dec. 10, Cecil Hope, head Of
the Negro department of the LID
spoke to hundreds of Negro anC
white workers who demanded thai
the governor stop the fury o.
lynchings on the Eastern shore o.
Maryland.
The international Labor De
tense lays a large share of thu
blame for the lynching of viii
liams at the feet of Governor
Richie. The governor ignored
appeals for protection sent by TIL
LID after lynch mobs had search
ed jails for Jones and Davis ant
had beaten AIDES and Helen Mays
% year old LID investigator
Stung by repeated protests ant
kilograms, the governor attacks
AIDES and said he did not want t.
be "annoyed" by "such an organi
cation"
Several days later, Williams wa
dragged out of a hospital cot
hanged, hauled through the street
of Salisbury to the Negro section
and there burned in 40 gallons o
gasoline. Williams had quarrele'
with his employer, Daniel J. Eliot
over wages of Is cents an hour
The International Labor Defens
has learned that Elliott shot a
Williams wounding him. The EN-
ployer was killed when the Negr
worker sought to defend himself
Lynch Two Negroes In West Va
In the same week two Negr
workers, Tom Jackson, 25, an
i George Banks, 81, were take
from the Lewisburgh, w. Va. jat
by gang of men in the middl
of the night and hanged from
telegraph pole. The victims wer
charged with killing a constabl
who with a mob had attacked Ne
gro dancers in hall at Leslie.
Despite these lynchings, off
Gals on the Eastern Shore @
Maryland insist that call is quie
here. Nothing has happened an
nothing is going to happen" The
maintain that trials for both Day
is and Jones may be held wit
"safety" at Cambridge and Ell
horn, both within 100 miles of tn
town where the brutal lynching
Williams was staged.
In fact, the attorney appointe
by the court for Davis has not e.
en- requested a transfer of I'll
trial to less inflamed sectio,
Davis, in a letter published in Il
Baltimore press, has repudiate
the court-appointed lawyer, d
manding to be defended by AIDE
and the international Labor D.
tense. AIDES first move will be
transfer the trial to Baltimore.
Workers have no faith in Il
Investigation" promised by Lev
S. Bailey, states prosecutor, IL
lid declares. According to Il
Baltimore Post, Bailey was so u
concerned about the lynching TIL
ne refused to return from a neigl
boring town when telephoned, ar
when he did return, Immediate
went to bed.
Chief of Police Michael Hollar
of Salisbury who witnessed IL
: whole lynching, now asserts th;
he "cannot recognize any of Il
men," Helen v. Wise, superb
tendent of the hospital from viii,
: the wounded Negro was take
who is reported to have told Il
. lvnchers to go after their victi
: "quietly," now refuses to identii
any mob leaders.