The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

Ave. A large NUMBER OF Negro ana
white workers are expected to be in
the court. Dorfman will be defended
by the Harlem section Of the LID.
Robert Minor Communist candi-
date for Mayor, and James w. Ford,
will testify as witnesses to the
brutal attack upon Dorfman.
NEW YORK.-Stirred by the order
of Police Commissioner Bolan to
bring in the Gorilla Man, dead or
alive" nearly 800 Negroes, mostly
from Harlem, swarned into Central
Park on Tuesday night for the pur-
pose of preventing possible lynch
ing against innocent Negroes who
might become victims of the police
dragnet.
Planned Southern Manhunt
The Police Commissioner order to
his men followed new, unsupported
reports that two more women we're
assaulted by an unidentified Negro
dubbed by the metropolitan press as
Gorilla Man"
The Negroes who converged upon
Central Park divided themselves into
small groups and patrolled the park
until nearly midnight. Their action
was speeded by a lynch-inciting item
in Mondays issue of Hearst's New
York Evening Journal"
Although white workers have not
joined the movement against the
lynch-frenzy in sufficient numbers,
actions are continuing in Harlem
in an effort to smash the police
inspired attack on Negroes thru
out New York City.
Tonight a mass meeting is being
held in st. Luke's Hail. 125 West
130th Street, to protest the murder
of James Matthews on Welfare Is
land-as exposed in the columns OF
the Daily Worker - as well as the
wave of lynchings which is raging
thruout the South The meeting is
being called by the Young Commu-
mist League, Harlem section, in CO.
operation with the League of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights.
Speakers will include Herman Nc
Awain, Bonita Williams, Mrs. Bernice
Da Costa and other national ano
local leaders Of the L.SNR. The
protest will lay plans for the cleo
ton of a mass delegation to visit
Mayor O'Brien at City Hall. The
delegation will demand that prompt
action be taken against the officials
responsible for the murder of Mat
theTs.
Protest Attack
1t will at the same time protest
the brutal attack upon the Harlem
workers who met last Tuesday night
in trent of the Abyssinian Baptist
Church to denounce the Matthews
Staying. The crowd was attacked by
police after Rev. A. Clayton Powell
Jr., pastor of the church, had refused
the use Of his church for the meet
ing.
On Monday over $50 Harlem work.
ers attended an indoor meeting called
by the Young Communist League al
100 w. 133rd st. At the conclusion
Of the meeting, three workers joined
the Communist Party and nine the
Y.CL.
Prepare for Mass Trial
Plans are moving forward for E
mass trial Of all those responsible fol
the Matthews murder. Workers anc
ex-prisoners will be called to testify
and prison officials as well as rep
resentatives of the District Attor.
ney's Office will be called to the pub.
lie trial
This morning at 10 o'clock Alvir
Alfred, 25-year-old Negro, whom pc,
lice are seeking to frame-up on {
charge of attacking white woman
in the 23rd Street subway station
September 10, will come up for tria
in Jefferson Market Court. Worker;
are called upon to fill the courtroom
Alfred will be defended by lawyer
for the LID.
Lynch Louisiana Negro
OPELOUSAS, La, Sept. 81. -
Charged with an attempted attack
on a white woman, John White, (
young Negro, was lynched YESTERDAY
by a gang of white men. White wa!
handed over to the lynchers by {
deputy sheriff
The Negroes body, riddled with bull
let's, was found in thicket. Thu
sheriff's Office announced that no ar.
rests had been made in connection
with the lynching.
The lynching of White is the 29tt
reported this year in the U. S.
Mississippi Negro Lynched
MINTER CITY, Miss. - Richarc
Roscoe, 39-year-old Negro deacon
was lynched here last week, his body
dragged through the streets tied tt
the sheriff's automobile, and depo-
sited on the steps of his house with
sign saying, Let this be a lessor
to all darkies"
According to ye-witnesses, Roscoe
was attacked by j. F. Matthews, ar
agent on the B. G. HUMPHREYS planta.
ton, as he was picking cotton ir
the fields. When Roscoe resisted the
attack, Matthews fired three bullets
into him, but Roscoe, wounded as hi
was, took the gun away from him
and struck back Friends took him
home to have his wounds dressed.
Matthews came back an hour later
with a gang Of white landlords, tool
Roscoe out of his bed, and fired 81
bullets into his body.
The lynching of Roscoe is the thirc
reported from Mississippi.
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