The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

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neglect and denial of medical
aid by the authorities.
The investigation was con-
Quoted by representatives of
the International Labor Defense IN
conjunction with a number of other
workers. The bodies of the two muir
dered leaders show that the wounds
had become infected as a result of
neglect. Workers who visited the
two choppers several days before their
death testified that several of the
wounds had not been dressed at al.
and that even those wounds which
had been dressed had not received
further attention, the dressing being
unchanged for days.
The murdered Cliff James was
one of two Negro choppers turned
over to the Iandlord-poIice lynch
gangs by the reforrnist heads of
Tuskegee Institute, where the crop-
perS had sought refuge and treat
ment of their wounds in the Tus-
kegee hospital, affiliated with Tus-
kegee Institute.
Bring Bodies to Birmingham.
Arrangements are being made TO
bring the bodies here from Mont.
gomery. A tremendous mass IN
neral is being prepared for next Mon.
day from Pythian Hall. Members
OF many working class Organizations
and Negro lodges and churches will
march behind the bodies Of the muir.
dered leaders. Many of these orga.
nizations already have adopted reso..
lutlons vigorously denouncing fine
the murderous 1andIord-poIce fer.
ror In Talapoosa County and the
Judas role Of the Tuskegee reform.
lSt leaders. The resolutions demand
the punishment of the murderers. the
immediate, unconditional release o.
all OF the arrested troopers, and the
right of the troopers and exhibited
farmers to organize against landlord
robbery of their crops and expropri-.
alton OF their mules and COWS. The
resolutions also demand the release
OF the nine Scottsboro bows. point.
ing out that the hideous frame-up o.
these innocent lads arises out of the
same conditions Of national oppres-
sion and economic robbery agains5
which the choppers are struggling.
Lynch Press Now Silent.
The southern lynch bosses press
has suddenly clamped down on all
news of the tremendous struggles in
TaIapoosa County and on the thun..
oerou5 mass protests swelling from
all parts of the country against the
armed attacks and whole
sale arrests against the members o.
the Sharecroppers Union. This policy
oil suppression Of the news follows
on the heels of a conference of DR..
Motion, president of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, with representatives Of the white
ruling class press. In that confer.
enee, Motion suggested that all news
OF the landlord police terror and the
choppers resistance be played down.
DR.. Notion feared that news Of the
tremendous struggle would make
more difficult the role Of the Negro
reformist leaders of misleading the
Negro masses and betraying their
struggles against inperialist oppres-
sion and capitalist jinl-crow reaction.
Forced by this mass protest of in
dignant white and Negro workers
and farmers to release four of the
arrested choppers, the Alabama au-
thorities continued today to deny the
civil rights Of those still held in the
various county jails. State Attorney
General Knight brusquely refused q
request by the International Labor
Defense attorneys, Frank B. Irwin
and Irwin Schwab, for a private in
terview with the remaining defend
ants. At all previous interviews be-
tween the defendants and their at
torneys, sheriffs and deputies have
been present in omen violation of the
civil rights of defendants.
Hearing on the petition of the I.
l.. d. attorneys for writS of habeas
corpus in the case Of the remaining
defendants has been set for January
before Judge Leon McCord The
I. D. attorneys will endeavor to force
the sheriffs and deputies who partici-
pated in the outrageous attack on
the troopers at Reeltown on Dec. 10
to testify on the causes of the strug-
gle, and the subsequent brutal treat
ment of the arrested troopers which
in the death Of Cliff James
and Milo Bentley.
Southern workers and exploited
farmers are following the develop.
ments with the closest interest and
are especially interested in the grow
ing evidence Of militant support Of
the white and Negro workers in the
north to the rising struggles in the
South.