The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
NEGROES STILL
IN GREAT DANGER
Only M ass Protests
Can Save Them

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, DetL
21.-SOlidarity of the whita
troopers of Tallapoosa county
with the hunted Negro crop.
pers has broken the first wave
of the landlord-poiIce terror
against the Negroes, resulting
in a great initial victory for
the Share Choppers Union and
its correct program Of uniting white
and Negro troopers in the struggle
against starvation and landlord rob
berry Of their crops. Lynch incite-
ment in the boss press has received
a tremendous setback But the
struggle is by no means over.
Terror Hits Snag.
The Birmingham News was forced
today to admit that the organized
landlord-police terror against the
Negroes had hit snag in the exist
ance Of a firm solidarity between
Negro and white troopers in TaIls-
pocsa County. 1t reports that the
white choppers not only refused to
respond to the landlord-inspired ter
ror but actually rescued, hid and de-
Tended Negro troopers wounded in
Mondays pitched battle when the
Negroes heroically defended them
selves against the murderous attack
by armed sheriff posses The Biz
mingham News also reports that
the man hunt by the sheriff posses
has been called off, with the ex-
PLANTATION that the sheriffS will wait
for the Negro choppers to return to
their miserable shacks. The real
reason, Of course, is the splendid SOL
idarity of the white troopers with
the Negroes and the militancy of the
latter who are known TO be ready
to sell their lives dearly.
Birmingham Workers Rally.
Birmingham workers, white and
Negro, are rallying in a mighty pro-
test to the defense of the Negro crop
pers. This growing mass protest has
already forced the Birmingham News
to publish in full the protest tele-
gram sent by the Communist Party
district organization to Sheriff
Young, at Dadeville, Ala, demand
ing sop to the terror.
The Southern district Of the In
ternational Labor Defense is taking
over the defense of the eleven crop
pers reported arrested. It is send
ing its representatives into Mont
gomery, capital of Alabama, and
near the scene of the armed slug
gle between the troopers and the
landlord-police lynch gangs. A del
egation is also being organized to
visit Gov. Miller TO demand the re-
lease of the arrested troopers and
the punishment Of the murderous
sheriffS and possemen.
Two Arrested Choppers Missing.
Three of the arrested troopers are
held in the Macon County Jail at
Tuskegee. These three are Andrew
Cobb, Emmett Wood and Charles
Moss. OF three others taken to the
Elmore County Jail at Watumpka
two are missing and probably have
been murdered.
Clifford James, the leader of the
Sharecroppers Union at Notasulga,
scene of Mondays battle, is seriously
wounded, but has evaded capture up
to now. Judson Simpson, who was
shot and almost killed in his cabin
is reported among the Negroes being
hidden by white troopers.
Local White Choppers Refuse to
Attack.
All members of the landlord-sher-
iff lynch gangs were recruited from
adjoining counties, the local white
troopers having refused to join the
attack on the Negro troopers and
their union. The landlords launched
their terror on the return of the six
Southern delegates to the Farm Re
lief Conference in Washington, where
a united front was established be-
tween the impoverished white and
Negro farmers Of the North and
South.