The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07

Hospital, where he was held under
arrest, that:
He was robbing me. He only
paid me fifteen cents an hour"
Lynch Gang Workers LeisureIy
Swathed in bandages and clad only
in a hospital night gown, Williams
was dragged out through the side
entrance Of the hospital while local
police made a pretense of guarding
the front entrance, He was pushed
and pulled to the court house square
in the exact center of the city. He
was hanged from q tree in front of
the court house.
The boss pres admits that Will
Jams was left hanging for nearly an
hour. Placed on a pile Of boxes, the
body afterward was burned" This is
proof that the lynch gang took their
time in carrying out the murder Of
this Negro worker. They knew they
need have no fear of interference
II O41I OOoDCp IJOl4bCs
Under the pretext of preventing
further possible demonstrations or
riots" but in reality to stifle the
resentment of the Negro workers, the
chief Of police Holland pressed all
extra policemen and deputy sheriffs
into duty'-after the lynching was all
over. The mob leaders are well
known, but no arrests have been
made. While Williams was arrested
and held by the police with easy &C
cess for the lynch gangs, the son of
the rich manufacturer, Elliott, was
not arrested, although he had shot
Williams in the gun fight in which
the older Elliott was killed.
Lynch Gangs Threaten Orphan jones
The lynching of Williams is OF spe-
ciaI and sinister significance in view
of the repeated threats of lynching
against Orphan Gee) Jones, whose
trial opens today in Cambridge on the
Eastern Shore. The judges in re-
fusing the petition of Bernard AIDES,
International Labor Defense lawyer,
for change of venue to Baltimore
brazenly denied, in the face of lynch
gang activities, that there was any
danger of lynching to Jones. This, in
spite of the fact, that the lynch gangs
have been searching jails in Snow
hill and Cambridge in the hunt for
Jones and George Davis, another Ne
gro worker arrested on a framed-up
charge. The lynch gangs have been
busy for weeks now. Gov. Ritchie
and other Maryland authorities have
refused to take any steps to curb
them, but have openly supported the
lynch terror against Negro farm
hands and workers.
On the very day that Batthew
williams was lynched in Salisbury,
Gov. Ritcfie was spouting his rotten
social demagogy in a speech at the
Hotel Plaaz in New York City. In
this speech, the Maryland executive
whose state government attempted
to deny even the constitutional rights
of Orphan Jones to have and select
his own attorney, handed out the
follwing hypocrisy:
Eve have shown in this country
that political liberty can be made
political reality, that freedom of
speech, of the press, of religion, of
self determination, of self govern
ment are more than abstract ideas
All this is proof that popular SOW
ereignty Is not a myth that ex-
preston is better than suppression"
i This; from a representative Of the
American ruling class which brutally
suppresses the Negro minority and
clubs and shoots down Negro and
white workers for protesting against
unemployment and hunger, against
lyncI1ing and for unemployment relief
and social insurace, for Negro rights!
Workers Plan Militant Protests
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
makes its usual paper protest against
the lynching, but has not one word
to say against the legal lynching of
Orphan Jones and George Davis,
which the bosses courts are now at
tempting to carry out. AS usual, the
N. A. A. G. P. traitors see no need for
a mass fight against the bosses lynch
terror.
Negro and white workers of PHI
ladeIphia, Baltimore and other cities
are planning protest demonstrations
this week TO mobilize the masses
for militant fight on the boss
terror, and for the fight to prevent
the lynching, legal or otherwise, of
Orphan Jones and George Davis.
All workers organizations are urged
to Join In determined fight or
lynching and national persecution
of the Negro masses, Hold protest
meetings eyerywhere' Flood the
Maryland boss government with
protest kilograms! Organize self
defense corps of white and Negro
workers! Defend the Negro masses!
Smash iynching!
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