The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-07
Bodies Of Victims Ars
Moved to Odd
Fellows Hall
Workers Keep Guard
Angry Masses Pa C k
Coroner's Inquest
Hearing

CHICAGO August 6.-Thc bodies
of Abe Gray and John O'Neil, two
Of the three Negro workers murdered
by the Chicago bosses and their po-
lice in the massacre of last Monday
when scores of white and Negro
workers we're shot down vile pro
testing the eviction of an unem-
ployed Negro worker, we're removed
this morning from the undertaking
parlor to the Odd Fellows Hall, 1897
South State Street. This was dpre
in order to give the enraged white
and Negro masses of Chicago the op-
portunity to view the bodies OF the
latest victims of boss terrorism.
The mass funeral will take place
from the Odd Fellows Hall at 2 p.
m. on Saturday, marching through
the streets of the working class dis
tricts to the cemetery route. In ths
meantime hundreds of Negro and
white workers have been detailed for
the Guard of Honor which will re-
main with the bodies, day and night,
until the time Of the moss fu.,eral
To Demand Permit.
A delegation has been elected TO
visit the City Hall to get a permit
for the mass funeral. The delegation
will demand the right of the workers
to follow the bodies in a funeral
march. At present, the bosses have
large attachments of police Surroum-
ding the undertaking parlor from
which the bodies have been removed.
Massacre Was Deliberate.
At the coroner's inquest the In
ternational Labor Defense submitted
witnesses and evidence completely
establishing the fact that Mondays
massacre was deliberately provoked
by the police, who rushed up in pa
troll wagons and Immediately opened
fire with machine and riot guns
on crowd Of workers, including
many women and children who were
demonstrating against the eviction
OF Mrs. Rose Warrick. The District
Attorney was not able TO produce a
single witness or any evidence what
ever to the contrary.
The police who. fired on the work
ers and participated in the mass
murders claimed at the inquest thst
the workers opened fire. They were
unable to produce the slightest eU-
dence TO support this lie. Policeman
Fred Graham admitted that he
killed Abe Gray. Gray was mem
Der OF the Communist Party.
Workers Pack Courtroom.
The court room was packed by
angry workers. One Negro worker
was elected by the police and beaten
up.
The coroner's jury which is trying
to whitewash these police murders
OF unemployed workers was COM
posed Of three Negro and three white
business men. thus further exposing
the collaboration of the Negro mis-
leaders with the white bosses. At
torneys Dental, Pickler. Tyler and
Gallagher. for the LID. we're able
to prevent Herbert Turner, president
OF the local National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
from serving on the jury. They chal-
lenged him on the grounds that he
was prejudiced against the Unem-
ployed Council and its struggle
against evctions. They further
pointed out that he was responsible
Tor the sentencing to six months il,
jail OF Negro Communist when
on jury.
The police, supported by the Me-
gro reformist tools Of the bosses
have terrorized the family Of Thorn
as Page, the third murdered worker.
against having Joint funeral for
the three victims, The families OF
Gray and o'Neil have refused TO I've
and have already given
permission for the mass funeral