The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-04
EDUCATORS MAKE VIGOROUS
PROTEST AGAINST KY. TERROR
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National Committee that Theodore
Dresser led delegation of writer's
into Harlan and Bell Counties last
November. All members of the dele
cation we're later indicted for Grim
inal Syndicalisn. A miners relief
expedition Of writer's, under the lead
ership of Waldo Frank, novelist and
critic, was forcibly expelled from
Kentucky last month, Mr.. Frank
and Allan Taub we're at that time
beaten by self-terned might riders. +"
Harold Hickerson, playwright, and
Doris Parks, both members of the
relief delegation, were jailed on
charges of criminal syndicaHsn. Mr..
Hickerson has since been released.
1t was while leading a group Of
miners to the writer's relief trucks
that Harry Sims, 19-year-old mine
organizer and member Of the Young
Communist League, was shot and
killed by a deputized mine guard.
The complete text of the educators
protest follows.
THE undersigned, members Of the
faculties of academic institutions or
connected with scientific publications,
wish to record our protest against
the recent occurrences in Harlan and
Bell Counties, Kentucky. We cite
only the Well-authenticate facts
about the situation in this region
the cruel repression of starving
striking coal miners, seeking to
change intolerable conditions; the
framed-up murder charges against
their leaders and their trials OBJ
viouSly conducted in prejudiced
manner and an unjudicial atmos-
phere; the shooting and beating of
strikers, their organizers and sympa-
thetic press correspondents; the ter
rorization Of the entire community
by the mine operators and the sher-
ifs and deputy Sheriffs whom they
have enlisted in their cause; the ar
rogant and hostile treatment &C
corded to committees unconnected
with the organization of the strike
and seeking only to ascertain the
true condition of affairs and to dis
tribute relief; the way in which the
committee members have been ar
rested on trumpedup charges, threat
ened with violence, kidnapped, In
some cases severely beaten up and
forcibly expelled from the state.
"These events show that the con-
stituted authorities are clearly taking
sides in the industrial struggle and
have themselves thrown Kentucky
into condition Of open class war
fare. We cannot but view with grave
concern such q use OF the powers of
government, We cannot remain I'm
moved by a series of events which
involves the suspension of liberties
under a supposedly constitutional
regime, the institution of reign Of
lawlessneSs and violence connived at
and abetted by those who are looked
upon as the guardians of the law.
Their acts, involving the disregard of
even the most elementary decencies
of human behavior, call forth our I'M
qualified protest
Columbia University.
Franz Boas, Coriss Lamont, Irwin
Edman, Leo Wolman, Lindsay Rog-
ers, James w. Angwell, Carter Good
rich, VIM. Pepperell Montague, Geo,
B. Pegram, Ruth Benedict, Otto
Klineberg, Carolyn Adler, John Her
man Randall, Jr., Horace L. Friess,
Ernest Nagel, David Sinclair, Jacinto
Steinhardt, Lucy j. Hayner, Bernard
Kurrelmeyer, I. 1. Rabi, Selig Hecht,
John j. Dropkin, Seymour Rosin
Marvin Fox, James P. c. Sonthall.
William F. Brown, S. L. Quimby, Will
liam Casey.
Columbia Law school.
Robert L. Hale, Herbert Wechsler,
Albert G. Jacobs, Milton Handler,
James P. Clifford.
Columbia College.
Fl. E. Hawkes., r. G. Tugwell, Harry
j. Carman, Joseph McGoldrick,
James Gutmann, John j. Co.'S,
Charles Woolsey Cole. Robert L.
Carey, Addison T. Cutler, Donald
Henderson, Thomas G. Blaisden, Jr,
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