The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-24
T.U.U.L PROTESTS
ALABAMA TERROR
Calls on Workers tc
Defend Negroes

NEW YORK.-A call for a might
protest movement against the blood.
attacks on Negro troopers and thei
union by the Alabama landlords anC
police was issued yesterday by tho
Trade Union Unity League over the
signature Of William z. Foster, its
general secretary The call follows
Only the organized protest ano
struggle of the white and Negro
workers and farmers can put an enc
to the murderous appropriation o
the Negro tenant farmers and share
troopers now being carried through
in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, an6
other sections of the South, by the
white landlords and capitalists.
Attack On Living Standards
This attack is part and parcel o.
the attack now being waged by the
ruling class against the living stand
dardS of the masses. This attack
in Tallapoosa County is not an $50
lated attack. 1t is a continuation o.
the murder drive at Camp Hill, o.
the frameup of the nine ScottsborC
boys, of the countless shootings anc
lynchings of Negro toilers by the
white rulers in the South. 1t is part
of the attempted capitalist way out
Of the still growing crisis
In this attack the responsibility lies
not alone on the white rulers Of Ala
banla but also upon the shoulders Of
the Hoover Government and Pres
ident-elect Roosevelt and his party
which is solidly supported by the
white southern ruling class. Respon-
sibility for this attack also falls upon
the shoulders of the socialist leaders
who Jim Crow the Negro workers in
the South, upon the shoulders Of the
leaders of the American Federation
OF Labor who only at the recent
convention in Cincinnati reaffirmed
| their policy of barring Negro work
ers from joining the unions and Jim
Growing them into ineffective sep
| arate federal locals. Responsibility
| for this attack also falls upon the
shoulders Of the Negro naisleaders
the Republican De Priest, the liberal
supporters of Roosevelt and the so.
cialist Randolph, all of whom are
preaching obedience to the rule Of
the white masters.
White Farmers Rally to Support
1t is encouraging to note how the
poor white farmers and farm labor
ers Of the South are rallying to the
| support Of the Negro farmers. Here
is a development before which the
white rulers will be compelled to re-
treat. Here is a development which
will unmask the Negro misleaders.
But this support is still insufficient.
The white workers and farmers the
| country over must take the lead in
| fighting for the rights of the Negro
farmers, for the rights Of all Negro
| toilers.
We call upon the white workers to
join hands with the Negro toilers
everywhere to protest this murderous
attack. To demand from the Gov
ernor Of Alabama, from the local Of
ficials from Hoover and Roosevelt
that an immediate stop be put to
the appropriation and murder. We
call upon the white workers to ioir
in the actual defense of their Negro
brothers. We call upon unions Of the
TUUL, upon all workers organized
in the ALL, the Railroad Brother.
hoods, upon all white workers to
adopt protest resolutions, to hold pro-
test meetings. Demand the inlnedis
ate release of all arrested. Demand
the punishment of the white murder
ers. Demand indemnity to Negro
farmers. Demand relief to starving
Negro farmers. Let US not only stop
this attack but develop a broad fight
for the immediate needs and the
rights of the Negro toilers.
WIN. 2. FOSTER, Gen. Sec'y,
Trade Union Unity League