The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11

tant workers organizations in the
city. Another letter that Morrison
wrote to William L. Patterson of the
international Labor Defense reveal
ed him to be rabid anti-Semite
But the workers organizations in
the city did not know this at the
time.
They trusted him, and since he
lived in a well-to-do section of the
city which unlike the Negro and
white workers neighborhoods. was
not disturbed by police raids. they
Kept their literature at his home.
Terror Drive BEGINS
Then, about the time that the
new vicious Herndon decision was
handed down about three weeks
ago, Morrison turned over all names
that he had in his possession-of
Party and mass organization mem
bers and sympathizers, and all the
literature that he had, to the DO
lice, who Immediately began their
terror drive in the CITY
The cops made from six to twelve
raids on workers homes daily. seiz-
ing all literature they found. threat
ening all workers. They declared
that the New Masses, Daily Worker
Labor Defender, Soviet Russia To-
day and other working class pub
locations were illegal, and got the
post Office to cut off all bundle
orders. Many were beaten and
slugged during this terror-fest;
many live in constant fear and dan
ger-but the work of organizing
goes on, undaunted,
Warrant Out for West
A warrant was sworn for Don
West on the basis of Morrison's in
formation, charging him with Gin
citing to insurrection;" the charge
was based on Vests unfagging or
ganizational work, his frequent
street meeting speeches and talks at
meetings-his genuine Communist
work.
Willie feathers, a renegade who
had been expelled from the Commu-
mist Party, went around to the
homes of Negroes, offering them as
much as $50 if they would tell
where West was hiding out" But
the Negro workers, who had worked
side by side with West, wouldn't tell.
Five times, West said, the police
and thugs came to the doors of the
houses in which he was hiding. And
five times, foreWarned by workers
whose vigilance was greater, based
on deeper stuff than that of the
cops. West eluded them by escap-
ing from back and side doors, from
cellars. There were cops and plain
clothesmen on every corner in the
Negro section during these days"
said West, "all looking for white
men, whose very presence among
Negroes would tell that they were
Reds"
But West bided his time and fin
ally found the opportunity to escape
the city whose police and hoodlums
wanted to get him dead or alive"
Works for Herndon, Atlanta Six
Now Don West, in New York, is
busy at the National Committee for
the Defense of Political Prisoners,
where he is working with those who
are fighting for the release of An
gelo Herndon and the Atlanta Six,
and fretting to be back in the South,
at his pioneer work again.
How is the movement in
Georgia." I asked him.
It's spreading, surely and deeply"
he said. why, one farmer who came
30 miles to Atlanta to hear Clarence
Hathaway speak on May First, re-
turned to his own territory where he
is now organizer of a Communist
Party unit Of eight members. And
that's an indication of what's going
on in all parts of Georgia"
Don West will be one of the
speakers at a Herndon protest meet
ing to be held Wednesday at g pm.
at the Imperial Elk Lodge, 100 w.
10th st. Other speakers will be
Richard B. Moore and Ann Burlak,
Of the National Textile Workers
Union. This meeting will be one Of
a series planned in the campaign
to free Herndon and expose the
frame-up judicial apparatus of the
South against Negro and white
workers.