The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07

InlS Fe0eratlng convention ADOPT
ed the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill and the Unemployed
Workers Relief Ordinance sponsored
by the Unemployed Council.
states, including yourself. LyI1chings
are method of turning the wrath
Of an exploited southern white farmer
class away from the real cause of
their misery. Diverting the anger OF
the ruined southern white farmer
from the southern ruling class Of
bankers, SPECTATORS, and other ex-
ploiters to the Negro as a scapegoat
is a method of divide and conquer"
which is not unknown to history.
The Communist Party is growing
very rapidly in the South as well as
in the North. AS it's standard-bearer
in the current election campaign in
New York, am fighting against the
same system of persecution and in
equality of the Negro masses in the
slightly different forms of the North.
The Communist Party is destined to
lead the white and Negro masses of
the State of Maryland and of Amer
lea to united and successful strug-
gle for the complete overthrow OF
the brutal system that you repre-
sent-the system of capitalism, land
lordisln, and national enslavement of
the Negro people.
You defend that brutal system
which is now starving the people of
Maryland, both black and white. And
in order to defend it, you quite logic
ally support the murderous extra
legal and legal terror against the Me-
groes. The Scottsboro case, the Will
lie Peterson case, the Fuel Lee case,
and hundreds of others are, however,
having an effect of waking up the
masses of the South, both white and
black The white workers and labor
ing farmers of Maryland are not
fools. It will not be long before they,
under the whiplash Of hunger, begin,
like the farmers Of Iowa and other
northwestern states, to discover who
their enemies are. We are helping
them to understand, through ex-
planning these lynching cases, the
brutal method that you have Of
binding the white masses, particu-
larly Of the South. History is moving
fast. 1t is my firm belief that in
the near future both you, Governor
Ritchie, and the other officers Of the
law in Maryland who have partici-
pated in the lynching of Fuel Lee,
will yourselves be brought to court
in which you will have to make a
better explanation Of your action
than you have made In your letter
to me.
I am coming to Baltimore, where
I shall speak on this subject at a
mass meeting of white workers and
Negroes on Nov 10. I shall invite
you to be present.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Robert Minor,
Candidate for Mayor of New York
on the Communist ticket.
Governor Ritchies letter to Robert
Minor follows:
Albert c. Ritchie
Governor
Executive Department
Annapolis, Maryland
October 81, 1888
Robert Minor, ESQ.
Communist Candidate for Mayor Of
New York Civ
Dear Sir:
have received two kilograms
signed by you in regard to the case
of Fuel Lee, and I arm answering
them because anyone who runs for
so high an office as the Mayor Of
New York should be interested in the
truth.
Fuel Lee was convicted Of mur-
dering four innocent people while
they slept peacefully In their beds.
He was tried in county removed
from the scene Of the murder, where
there was not the slightest prejudice
against him. He was found guilty
by two juries. Every conceivable legal
right the Negro had was fully pro-
tected, and the case was thoroughly
considered and decided against him
by the Court OF Appeals OF Mary
land, after which the Supreme Court
of the United States, the Federal
Court for this Circuit and the Circuit
Court of Appeals at Richmond all
declined to review the case or to
certify that there was any reason
able doubt about the correctness Of
the decisions. consider 1t inexcus-
able that you, supposedly respon-
sible person, and without any knowl-
edge whatever of the facts of the
case, should presume to charge that
there has been frame up or that
Lee was innocent. The sentence OF
the Court was carried out last night.
and Lee was hung for the murders
of which he was guilty beyond the
slightest question at all.
Very Truly yours,
(SigneO Albert @. Richie,
Governor.