The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30

NEWS Vi the deaths In jan OF
James and Milo Bentley-the
derous landIOrd-police terror III
Negro troopers Of TalIapoosa
County.
Cliff James, the leader of the
Sharecroppers Union at Notasulga
(Reeltown), was turned over to the
police by the heads Of Tuskegee In
stitute. when he tried to secure me
dical attention at the Tuskegee hos
pital for his wounds, following the
Battle Of Reeltown in which Negro
choppers heroically resisted the arm
ed attacks of landlord police lynch
gangs.
Landowners, Govt Responsible
White and Negro workers hold the
rich landowners and their state and
county authorities and reformist
agents at Tuskegee Institute Jointly
responsible for the murder OF James
and Bentley. James was the second
Negro cropper betrayed to the police
by the Tuskegee Judas leaders. There
is every indication that the Tuskegee
heads participated with the landlords
| and police in every step Of the muir
! der drive to crush the resistance OF
the choppers to their starvation con-
ditions and to break up the Share
choppers Union, leader of that re-
SiStance.
Lynch Inciting Reformists
The Tuskegee officials not only
! aided the bosses in their drive on the
Negro troopers and exploited farm
ers, but actually joined in the lynch
Indictment against the Negro masses,
as shown in the false information
given the police by DR.. Eugene A.
Dibble, in which he deliberately mis-
quoted Cliff James as stating "he was
sorry he didn't kill any of the Off
GERS A few days before his death of
neglected and infected wounds, James
categorically repudiated Dibble's lying
information to the police. Jancs
and Bentley we're denied medical at
tention by the sheriffs. Following
the death of James, Bentley was
rushed to the Kilby prison hospital
in dying condition. He died two
hours later.
With the death of James and Bent
ley, the total toll of landlord police
murders of Negroes in the present
struggle is at least seven-not three
as enormously reported in today's
Daily Worker. Several sheriffs ad-
mitted Seeing the bodies of or 5
Negroes" in the fields after the
Battle of Reeltown. In addition, two
OF the arrested Negroes are reported
missing"
Mighty Protest in Birmingham
Birmingham workers are rallying in
a mighty protest against the land
lord-police terror. A number of pro-
test meetings already have been held
here. The International Labor De-
tense and the Communist Party have
issued thousands of leaflets, acquaint-
ing the workers with the real facts
in the tremendous struggle in the
BLACK Belt Sympathy with the
struggles of the Tallapoosa troopers
and exploited farmers is widespread
throughout among the Southern
toiling masses. From Andalusia, Ala,
white farmer sends the following
message of solidarity:
RE ioice to learn how game Tai
lapoOsa farmers are. Our farmers
are behind Them
Preparations are under way for q
mass funeral in this city for Cliff
James and Milo Bentley. The bodies
which are now in different under
takers establishments in Montgomery
will be brought here. Tentative
plans are to have the mass funeral
next Monday, starting from the
Pythian Hall.
Force Release of Choppers
AS result of the tremendous pro-
tests by indignant workers, poor
farmers and intellectuals, the au-
thorities have been forced to re-
lease four of the arrested troopers
held in Dadeville Jail, Tallapoosa
County. The four are L. Simpson,
Wood, Greathouse and Bentley, who
bears the same name as the murdered
cropper leader, Milo Bentley.
Every effort is being made to mob
ilize ever broader masses for a still
greater protest and defense move
ment to force the release of all the
defendants who are in danger every
movement they remain in jail, as
shown by the murder Of Cliff James
and Milo Bentley, Mass organiza-
tons, unions and churches are being
visited, and protest meetings called
throughout the whole South.