The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-21
GEORGIA ADMITS
IT HIT TOILERS
Herndon Verdict Is in
Hunger Plan
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leading and supporting the struggles
OF the masses. both Nero and white.
for their immediate needs and for
the abolition of the system of rob-
berry and class-terror and national
oppression Of the Negro people.
He declared;
"Herpden has dared to defy us
and make the irluudent. blatant
statement of the hardened revolu-
tienist, telling us that he did not
care what became of him. I ae-
cent his CHALLENGE. He arnouats to
nothipg as he has said. The damn
able Communist system which he
represents is being dra~gcd into
the light fer the first time in the
State of GEORGIA il not for the
first time in the United states. 1T
Is that which, we must kill because
tiny spark may set the entire
country on fire."
NEGRO and white workers and
synnpathizers throughout the coun-
try must answer this attack on the
working class, this attempt to crush
its STRUGGLES AGAINST starvation and
to illega1ize its political party, the
Communist Party. with thunderous
protests and the building Of q ire
mendous mass movement for the re-
lease of Herndon, and the squashine
of the charges against the Atlanta
Six:
Der,and the immediate and I'M
conditional release Of Eerndon! De-
feat the GeOrgia Slave Code of
1861. Demand the right of free
speech, press and open MEETINGS
and the right of Negro and white
workers to organize together in
STRUGGLE against starvation and op-
preston! Demand the right of the
Communist PARTY and other work
ing-clasS organizations to leeal
existence! Demand abolition of the
chain game. Unconditional Free
dom for the Atlanta Six!
Stand for Equality for Negroes.
For hours at time. the assistant
prosecutor attacked the Communist
position on the Negro question, the
Communist demands for full. uncon-
ditional equality for the Negro peo-
pie end for DIFFERENTIATION for
the Negro majorities in the BLACK
Belt. The court room was prac-
ticallv turned into political forum
No attention was paid to the ordi-
nary forms of a regular trial.
The defense attorneys answered
the Red-baiting of the prosecution,
by boldly raising the class and ma
tional oppression issues in the pro-
secution Of Herndon. Descriptions of
the two horrible lynchinss, from
GEORGE Padmore's book THE Life
and Struggles of Negro Toilers" were
read into the record by the defense
attorneys. A clear ANALYSIS of the
crisis of capitalism with it's mass I'M
employment and drying up of in
dustry. and the fostering of race
prejudice by the bosses to incite
lynch terror against the Negro mas
ses was given by the defense at
torneys.
Witnesses State Hirelings.
In a direct attack on Assistant Sol
icitor General John Hudson, who had
conducted the trial during its first
two days, Attorney Davis exposed the
fact that the state had no grounds
on which to ask conviction aside
from race and class prejudice which
it was attempting to stir up. The
fact that all witnesses for the state
are employed either by the state or
county was stressed. mot evidence,
but prejudice is being stirred up by
John Hudson, declared Attorney
Davis. HE can come here and
preach q sermon---I think he is a
preacher, anyway-full Of empty
words but he has no evidence that
Angelo Herndon in any way at
tempted TO incite to instruction"
The prosecution of Herndon was
conducted under an old slave law of
1861. Six other working class orga-
mixers, two Negroes, and four white,
including two white girls, are facing
prosecution under the same statute.