The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
Negro, White Relief
Meeting Is Raided
In Southern City
LID. Organizes Mass
Defense for Jailed
Negro Workers

24.-Charging violation of the
city jim-crow ordinance which
prohibits joint meetings of
white and Negro workers,
Birmingham police last Sunday raid
ed the delegated conference called
by the Unemployed Council and Rank
and File Trade Union Committee to
discuss the Community Chest unem-
ploynent relief" racket, and to map
a program Of struggle against the
NR.A. starvation codes, and its Spe-
cial discrimination against Southern
workers in the low wage differential
for the South.
Invading the Old Pythian Hall, the
police swung their clubs left and
right in a wild orgy Of savage bru-
tally. Negro workers, and white A.
F. OF L. rank and file members who
had defied the jin-crow, class col
laboration policies of the A. F. Of l..
bureaucracy, were especially singled
out for vicious beatings. The docu-
ments of a Railroad Brotherhood
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The police arrested three Negro
workers. John Howard, viii Hosea,
Homer Martin, and four white work.
ers, Bill Stone, sgd Brown, Marcus
Eais, Communist candidate in the
recent elections for head of the City
Commission, and Writ Taylor, organ
izer of the Unemployed Council. All
seven are charged with vagrancy,
which carries chain gang sentence,
in addition to violation Of the city
jim-crow ordinance.
Tearing on the charges will be held
before Judge Henry Martin on We'd
nesday, Oct. IS. The International
Labor Defense is organizing mass and
legal defense for the defendants, and
calls upon all organizations through
out the country to Immediately wire
protests to Judge HenEy Martin, city
court, Birmingham, Alabama. The
LID. announces tkat the central
point of the defenSe will be a re-
lentless fight agaiHet the city jim
crow ordinance, which Is aimed at
isolating the Negro masses for the
most intensive exploitation, while at
the same time preventing a Joint
struggle Of the Starving Negro and
white toilers against their common
enemy-the white ruling class.
The Southern Office Of the LID.
has wired vigorous protest to Gov.
Miller of Alabama and President
Roosevelt demanding the release Of
the defendants and recognition of the
right Of the white and Negro workers
to raeet together and organize to bet
ter their conditions.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 24.-The
authorities of this city have answered
the demand of the unemployed of
Birmingham by a vicious raid on a
meeting of unemployed workers and
representatives of the rank and file
of the A. r. of L. AS a result of
this raid John Howard, viii Hosea
Homer Martin, Negro workers, and
Bill Stone, Sid Brown, Barcus Ellis,
Communist candidate for the City
Commission and Writ Taylor, organ
i5er of the Unemployed Council were
arrested at the Old Pythian Hall.
The Unemployed Council of Biz
minghasn called a. Conference on
October list at which a program of
demands and struggle was drawn up
sEhe meeting that was raided was
Sollow-up meeting for the purpose of
imobiltZing workers for struggle,
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-The Ma
tional Committee Unemployed Coun-
ellis called upon all working class
organizations aid particularly the
Unemployed Councils today to send
protests, kilograms and resolutions to
the Mayor of Birmingham and to
Gov. B. NJ. Miller, Montgomery, Ala,
demanding the immediate release of
the seven workers and all others who
are in jail fighting against hunger.