The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-28


unless they posted bonds Of $1,000
each.
In the meantime, the first delega.
ton which had been forced back intt
Tennessee Saturday, reported tina
four students who had been sent TX
Pineville to protest the outrageous
violation of their rights as students
and citizens" had not been hearc
from They had left Knoxville al
4:30 o'clock and were expected bach
within a few hours. When at II
o'clock that night no word was
heard, the delegation, fearing that
the committee had been attacked
sent the following telegram to Gov
Laffoon at Frankfort, KY:
'EIinor Curtis, Herbert Robins,
Willard Spence and Margaret Bal
ley, students of our group sent to
PineviIle late this afternoon TO in
terview PineviIIe officials are re-
ported missing. The Pineville
United Press correspondent has re-
ported seeing the group there. Of
ficials say no students are in jail
and claim the delegation did not
come there. We demand imned-
late investigation by state and
safety of students assured"
In spite of official refusal of the
United States government to take
any steps to insure the safety Of the
students as stated in the answer sent
the telegram transmitted to the U
S. Attorney General by Donald Hen
derSon, president of the College
Committee of the National Students
League, the students delegation in
tends stopping at Washington on its
way back to lodge protest against
the brutla treatment accorded and
to demand a congressional investiga-
ton Of the terror conditions in the
Kentucky coal fields.
A protest will also be lodged al
the British embassy against an at
tack upon Gabriel Carrit by a Bel
County sheriff when Carrit came tc
the rescue Of a girl student whose
arm had been twisted by q Bell
County thug. Carrit is British sub
ject.
Donald Henderson, instructor in
economics at Columbia University
and president of the National Stu
dent League College Committee left
for Washington last night to demand
an official hearing before the At
torney General of the United States
and various congressman.
The United States government is
attempting to pass the buck by
claiming that it has no jurisdiction
over the matter and that it is purely
a matter of state right"
These actions should be enough to
convince all students of the direct
hook-up of the representative, dem
ocratic government at Washington
with the coal operators and other
capitalist groups in the country.
Notice of intention to take legal
action against the high handed
treatment of the student delegation
was given yesterday by Forest Bailey
Of the American Civil Liberties
Union. Margaret Bailey, daughter Of
Forest Baily is one of the members
of the student delegation. She was
told that "she ought to be ashamed
of having such father by Walter
B. Smith, Bell County attorney.
The Civil Liberties Union in a
statement released last night con-
demned the breach of law and COM
mon sense" the "affront to the au-
thority of the state" and the out
rage Of the rights of citizens"
While taking action against the
attack on the students, the Civil Lib
critics Union by the wording of its
charge intimates that this action is
violation Of the policy of the state
rather than one more example of
the class character of the Wall st.
government in Washington and the
state of Kentucky.
Protest kilograms have been sent
to Washington by Social Problems
and Liberal Clubs III many eastern
and midwestern colleges. Tremen-
dous sentiment has been aroused and
the students plan holding a number
of mass protest meetings.
Profiting by his experience Satur-
day, when the first students group
had made him look like fool in
the investigation" carried on public
ly, the Bell County attorney "in-
vestigated' the political and religious
beliefs of the students in the bus
privately while it was being forced
back into Tennessee. He told them
that they we're lucky they were not
thrown in Jail and put on the rock
pile and limited that If they had
no coed into Harlan thev would have