The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
TUSKEGEE HEADS
BETRAY CHOPPERS
Turn Them Over To
Alabama Police
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wounded and have been placed in
the hospital ward. The other two
are Jiggy Moss and Ivy Moss. The
Montgomery Advertiser carried
small item buried on an inside page
explaining the move as due to the
crowded condition of the jails in
TallapooSa and Hdjoining counties
in the heart of the struggle. Sheriff
Riley has refused information as to
the whereabouts of other prisoners.
The International Labor Defense
attorneys here are taking steps to
try to see the five prisoners here.
According to the local boss press,
Sheriff Riley has ordered the five
held incommunicado.
Donald Burke, southern organizer
of the LID, now in Montgomery
to organize the defense of the ar
rested troopers, announced today
that Frank B. Irwin of Birmingham
has been employed by the LID to
defend the choppers. Irwin arrived
here on Thursday. Together with
Mrs. E. M. Cooper, a representative
Of the LID, he visited various jails
where officials were declared holding
the prisoners. After a conference
with Sheriff Young and the solicitor
Of Tallapoosa County, Irwin was per-
nlitted to speak to ten prisoners held
at Dadesville. These are Ned Cobb,
Emmett Wood, Cornelius Wood Wal
ter Pogue, Lloyd Simpson, Wilbur
Cobb, Edgar Cobb, Clinton Moss and
Alfred White, Irwin also saw Andrew
Cobb at the Wetrmpka County Jail
and Sam Moss at the Opelika County
Jail.
In every instance, Mrs. Cooper.
I. L. ID. representative, was refused
permission to speak to the de-
PENDANTS. Sheriff Young stated
he would not permit any repre-
sentative of the I. L. D. to speak
to his prisoners. Young also
denied the constitutional rights of
the defendants to speak privately
with their attorney. Young and
the sheriffs of Wetumplxa and
Opeda counties were constantly
present taking notes.
At Tuskegee, Sheriff Riley abso-
lutely refused to give any irforma
ton on the number of prisoners he
had or their condition. He arro-
gantly refused to permit Attorney
Irwin to see single one. He later
removed five prisoners, including
Clifford James. to the Montgomery
County Jail, where be still holds
them incommunicado.
Before returning to Birmingham,
Irwin conferred with Gen. George
w. ChaInlee and Irving Schwab at
the Hotel Jefferson Davis here.
Chamlee and Schwab are in Mont
gomery in connection with the pre-
parations for the new Scottsboro
trials. Following the conference,
Irwin stated that business required
his return to Birmingham, but that
he would return here to secure writs
of habeas corpus demanding the re-
lease of all defendants, the recogni-
ton of their civil rights and an I'M
mediate hearing
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It will defend all of the victims of
the outrageous landlord police at
tack on the Negro choppers organic
ing to resist landlord robbery OF
their crops and for the right to
live. In statement, Burke dec
Jared "the I. L. D. will wage a de-
termined and continuous fight for
the rights of southern workers and
farmers to organize and to exercise
freedom of speech and assembly.
"The /. L. ID. will not be intimi-
dated in the fight for the Scots
boro boys and the Tallapoosa crop
pers by attacks made ON it, such as
the police raid of its southern dis
trict officers in Birmingham and
the arrests of its representatives"