The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-01
ORGANIZERS ARE BRUTALLY
BEATEN UP In OKLAHOMA

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erty" hustled their victims outside
and into Comrade Ingerson's car.
Take Believer in Free Speech
There were now five of US as
they had captured the town paci-
sthwhen he dared to raise his
voice in protest at the brutal at
tack on two unarmed men at
lawful assembly. This man, Mr..
Schouse, who is not Communist
was also badly beaten up and
threatened with lynching as a re-
ward for his courage and belief in
free speech.
Ingerson was ordered to drive
north toward the Kansas line and
make no false moves or something
worse would happen. We were
ordered to leave Immediately and
never come back. eve have ten
feet of rope for you and plenty of
tar and feathers" they told US
from time to time. Three men
stood on each running board and
continued to insult and threaten
the comrades inside.
When Comrade Ruby, who has a
weak heart, tainted it was with
difficulty that Comrade Whidden
persuaded them to stop for water.
The water was dirty and must
have been dipped from a puddle as
they were afraid to ask at any
house.
Workers Truck Overtakes Thugs
The delay was fortunate howev-
er for just a little later a truck
loaded with workingmen overlook
the Hdnapers. The truck edged in
between the cars and seemed to
want to be part of the procession
The lynchers first found this en-
barrassing and then alarming and
their bullying attitude began to
give way. The men on the run
ming boards in particular must
have begun to feel very much ex-
posed for the car stopped and four
of them got inside.
Told to Leave State
After going a few miles farther
the procession stopped and ou1
hdnapers suddenly became our
protectors. They told us that we
would be permitted to go back and
collect our belonging, but there
was mob ahead which might ode
anything" and for "our" good we
must all go back to Blackwell
with a last threat that if the In
gersons were not out of town will
in Sc hours, and Comrades Ruby
and Whidden in IL, something
terrible would happen, they left u.
and fled-but not before we haC
gotten the license numbers Of
three of the cars.
District Attorney Investigating
The district attorney is now Gin
vestigating" the case and evil
punish anyone who has broken tn,
law" But he refuses protection tt
US, probably leaving that to tn,
police, who were just outside tn,
: hall at the time the outrage tool
place and seemingly did not know
anything was going on. In whicl
case it must be presumed tina
they are all both blind and dea
and hardly fit for their positions
1t is undoubtedly true that thi
cowardly plot was undertaken wit
the knowledge and consent of tn
police.
: WILL REMAIN IN BLACKWELL
We will of course stay in
Blackwell. The bunch of yellow
r wOuld-be lynchers are not rep
resentative of the decent work.
, ing people of Blackwell and vi
cinity. Their cOwardly attack
and their still more cOwardIy
retreat at the first hint of a
little OPPOSITION show the type of
yellow, bOOt-licking ours they
are. They were not capitalists,
| but were probably backed by the
/ petty bOurgeOisie.
The workers of Blackwell an,
other places are waking ND to
the meaning of E1iberty'' under
capitalism - liberty that means
for the worker only beating and
starvation. They can see also
why the workers of the world
have for their emblem the red
flag. Whatever color they might
use would soon be red-red with
the blood of workers shed in the
class struggle.
Statement Is Issued by
Ashbel Ingersol
In regard to my and ]. 1. Whid
t den'S treatment nv cram n