The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-21
Visit to Tallaboosa, Scene
of Sharecrobber Struggles

that shelter from IL to Is people.
Afraid to sleep in their own homes,
many families are going to a
neighbours house each evening.
Broken windows, shot out sash,
torn up floors and roofs riddlsd
with bullets can be seen in many
ShackS.
More than so people, members
Of over u families, are facing eyic-
ton. Landlords have told them
they must vacate their homes.
Most of these people have no
where to move. Their landlords
have also attempted to prevent
land owners in the section near
Tuskegee, about Is miles away,
from allowing the homeless farm
ers to move into unoccupied lands.
IMAGES in the section are as low
W as 40 and so cents per day.
Working hours are from sun to
sun. In cases where board is fur
nished the workers, it often con-
sists of cold scraps left from the
white tables. Some farmers have
been told they would have to move
from their land if their wives did
not wash for the white landlords.
Many landlords are now visiting
their tenants several times a day
and telling them to keep quiet and
not talk to anyone. They are also
inquiring for local news.
Stories of the worst brutality are
heard on every hand. One school
teacher, boarding with the family
OF farmer, was whipped with
ropes by mob of whites Sylvia
Warren, a woman nearly 100 and
blind, was severely beaten and cut
with pistols in the hands of white
men. Shells and bullets that were
shot at women and little children
can be obtained at almost any
cabin in the Liberty Hill section.
Other men have sent defiant mes
sages to DULLES who have threat
ened them with death. These
farmers say that they may be
killed but they will at least die
fighting.
A virtual urfew law is in effect.
Many farmers state that they do
not dare to go away from home.
Hundreds have been warned to
stay away from the Liberty Hill
area. Whites stop strangers Of
either race on the roads and in
quire their business. In spite OF
this men connected with the In
ternational Labor Defense have
operated efficiently in the section.
Every effort is being made by the
whites to break up the Share Crop
pers' Union in the trouble zone.
The organization is young in that
immediate locality. No trouble has
been experienced near Camp Hill,
where deputies murdered Ralph
Grey, a leader Of the Share Crop
pers' Union, summer before last.
Rumors that large force of armed
and well disciplined Camp Hill
men were about to start to the de-
Tense of the Liberty Hill men when
the prowling mob withdrew are
heard on every side. These stories
are believed by the farmers who
assert that Camp Hill men are so
well organized that they can pro-
tect themselves and the white ruff
fans know it and leave them alone
as result. There are several
white tenant farmers in the Camp
Hill Share Choppers Union. More
are now seeking admission.
TUSKEGEE Institute is coupled
l with the sheriffs' gangs in the
angry conversation of many farm
ers. They assert that it is as much
opposed TO them as the landlords.
Direct questioning of over SO peo-
pie revealed that no one in the
section is at all familiar with the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People or its
activity.
Though held strictly under cover
a great amount OF union organi2-
ing is now being carried on. Plans
are already being laid for an eX-
tensive campaign for the right to
vote, guaranteed them by the
Constitution and denied them by
the mob, on the part of the farm
ers. This program is being coupled
with the union work. The situa-
ton is uneasy and tense, the
threatening danger is that the
white mob will commit further