The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
Protests Rise
Over Shooting
Of Negro
|. J.. ID. Moves to Stop
Frame-Up of Wounded
Worker

HARTFORD, Conn, Nov To-
Seething indignation is sweeping the
Negro population and militant white
working class here against the bru-
tai police shooting of Joe Allen, %
year old Negro c. c. C. worker, last
Sunday morning. Allen lies in the
Hartford Municipal Hospital suffer-
ing acute pain with a bullet in his
hip bone. Six eye witnesses to the
attack have sworn that Allen was
shot without the slightest provoca-
ton by Patrolman William Smith,
long infamous for his persecution
Of Negro workers.
Allen and his parents have re-
tanned the International Labor De-
Tense to fight framed-up charge
of breach of peace" made by local
authorities in an attempt to white
wish the criminal attack by the po-
| liceman.
Leaflets DenOunce Shooting
Negro and white working class
neighborhoods are being flooded
with leaflets denouncing the shoot
ing and frame-up, and exposing the
systematic terror against the Negro
masses, eliminating in the shooting
Of Allen. Mass meetings under
united front auspices have been
held throughout the city with the
support of the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights, American League
Against War and Fascism, National
Students League. Trade Union
Unity League, Communist Party,
| and Young Communist League. Pro-
test resolutions are pouring in upon
Mayor Beach of Hartford from
these meetings and from many or
CARNATIONS demanding the firing of
Patrolman Smith, the dropping of
the framed-up charge against Al
len, a stop to the vicious terror
against the Negro people and pay
ment of indemnity to Allen and his
family.
Officials Inciting Race Riots"
The fierce indignation of the Ne
gro masses has alarmed the city
officials, who are making every eff
fort, behind the scenes, to split the
united front protest movement. The
Hartford Negro Ministerial Alliance
mas called an independent protest
meeting for Nov. 10, in the union
Baptist Church. The Alliance has
been approached by the LID. with
a plea for unity, and Rev. Hopes,
one of it's leading members, has ex-
pressed himself in favor of the
united front but states he would
have to consult the local N. A. A.
G. P. leaders.
City officials are also circulating
rumors of impending race riots
and are evidently preparing the
ground for attacks by fascist gangs
on Hartford Negroes. To defeat
this vicious plan, the revolutionary
working class movement is ener-
getically seeking to involve as many
white workers as possible in the de-
Tense movement, and a series of
mass meetings will be held tomor-
row throughout the white working
class districts.
| Raise Demands for Scottsboro 8
Inc L. Il. u. Is organizing prOao
united front delegation to visit
Mayor Beach with the demands of
the defense movement, and is also
seeking to set up an impartial in
vestigating committee of prominent
white and Negro intellectuals to lay
bare the vile Jim Grow and segre-
cation policy out of which the pres
ent wave of terror arises.
Resolutions demanding the release
of the Scottsboro boys, and de
nouncing the projected legal muir
der of two of the boys on Dec. 7,
were adopted by the various mass
meetings held throughout the city.