The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-10

little The doctor says there's a
growth over his eyes, but we amt
never had money enough to care for
him right.
Robbed by White and Black Bosses
'He used to carry meals for the
men that work in the foundry. Some
times he'd make a dollar week.
Then, when the foundry kind of
shut down, Roy picked up old junk,
and paper, and rags and iron, and
tried to sell them to the junk man.
He made pretty good at that. Roy
wasn't no Stacker, no sir! He used to
make three and maybe four dollars
a week sometimes.
After while, Roy went to work
with Andy on the dump pile. You
know, picking up things out Of the
city dump. A black man run the
dump, but he wasn't no better boss
than the white folks. He wouldn't
pay the boys regular. so they quit.
l reckon he still owes Roy and Andy
three or four dollars.
Andy, he tried awful hard, but
jobs was hard to get. Andy run
truck for a produce house down
town, and he was doing well enough,
though they always give him the
longest runs and paid less than the
white truckers. When the old man
died, and young boss came in, he
didn't like 'niggers.' He said he didn't
want no 'niggers' working for him.
Times was getting hard, and they
was laying off the colored folks first
anyhow. So they fired Andy. t
MY, times was awful hard for Us.
No jobs for neither OF the boys; and
you couldn't get nothing for junk
any more either
Then, one day Andy said he was
going down to Memphis, Folks say
I,,can get job loading boats IN
Memphis, now he said I'm going
down and send you back some money
for to live on And Roy, Of course
he wanted to go along. Them boys
was always together. you never could
separate them nohow. Roy said he'd
go to the hospital and get his eyes
fixed in Memphis. So told them
where they'd find their auntie ir
} Memphis and sent them along.
THAT was the last time saw them
) free.
Next morning my neighhor woman
3 said. Ada, where's your boys I said:
n They left town, looking for job in
. Memphis And she answered: They
9 amt in Memphis, Ada. Look-a here.
And she showed me the paper saying
0 my boys was arrested and accused Of
1 trying to hurt some white girls that
was riding on a train In overalls.
MY boys would never do nothing
like that. Everybody knows my boys
would never do nothing like that.
0 Mother Learns Nature Of Lynch
y Terror
8 Quickly Mrs. Wright learned that
0 Negro boys need not do anything like
) that to bring mob bowling on theiI
heels, to have a judge stand up in a
Southern court and sentence then
9 one by one to deathl
Keep the niger in his placel II
0 you let him up. If you don't terrorize
: and starve him, he will want more
D money, more power, a decent living
If he wants more, the white worker
0 will want more. If you keep the
. Negro down, you keep the poor white
down. Unite them and they arr
: stronger than U.S. the rulers Of the
South. Turn them in hate upon each
. other and we have them both at ou
! mercy"
} So say the landowners, the store
owners, the factory owners of Am
: erica
14-Year Roy "a Game Kid"
0 In their cells in Alabama, in hel
, miserable little hovel in Chattanooga
Roy, Anda and Ada Wright have
9 learned this.
Now they have turned to the l. L
9 D. and the workers. black and white
in America to save them.
0 THAT boy Roy" says George w
n Chamlee, Chattanooga attorney fol
. the I. L. D., sis the gamest little kio
/. ever saw. He said to me in Jail
I'm innocent and I'm counting or
the workers to set me free. That
D rich Ruby Bates told the white folk;
when we got off the train that VIC
\ never touched her. Twice one of the