The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
PHILADELPHIA
POLICE SHOOT
IN COLD BLOOD
NeighbOrs Put Up Mass
Resistance to Aid
Jobless Workers
WAS CUT OFF RELIEF
Murder Climax of Wave
of DispossessiOns in
Negro Section
Especial to the Daily worker)

knpcciEt TO the DAny hOFker)
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 81. Will
liam Heaterly, 25-year-old unem-
ployed Negro, was shot and killed
in his home today, and his brother,
Samuel. severely beaten and then
arrested by policemen seeking to
evict them from 1O11 Callow Hill
Street, in the Negro section Of the
city.
Police had come for the second
time in a week to evict Heaterly
and his wife, his brother and four
children. Neighbors massed before
the house. and put up a desperate
struggle to prevent the eviction.
Others, on roofs, rained milk
bottles and other missiles on the
police as they battered at the doors
of the Heaterly house.
Shot in Cold Blood
Reserves were called, who broke
through the massed workers,
smashed down the door, and cor
nered Heaterly in his house, where
he was shot down in cold blood.
His brother was battered almost to
insensibility and arrested The
house was ransacked, and all their
belongings thrown into the street.
Policeman Joseph Anderson, of
the Tenth District Court, was later
arrested on technical charge of
manslaughter, pending an investi-
cation designed to whitewash the
police murder.
Last Monday the police had
broken into Heaterly's home and
smashed furniture. They said that
they would be back soon. They
came back today to murder him.
William Heaterly had been de-
MED relief of any sort by the We'll
fare Department, because his wife
worked one or two days week at
odd jobs His brother, Samuel,
father of four children, had been
living with the family since his own
eviction.
Wave of Evictions
| The dead mans wife had re-
peatedly offered to pay a few dol
lars a week from her meagre wages
to stall off the impending eviction.
The offer was refused by the land
lord who proceeded to carry out the
eviction.
The terror and eviction of Heat
erly is not an isolated incident here.
A relentless wave of eviction has
been unloosened upon the unem-
ployed Negroes. The relief depart
ment, paying them the barest mini
mum of relief, maintaining
double standard of relief which
blatantly discriminates against the
Negroes, have been part and parcel
of the entire wave of evictions.
Hundreds of Negroes have the
threat continually hanging over
them. In some sections, the Unem-
ployment Councils are daily guard
ing the homes of Negroes to stop
| the evictions.
Unemployment Councils Act
Recently H BismarH, an organ
izer Of the Unemployment Coun-
Gil, was arrested while speaking at
a mass meeting in protest against
an eviction. The worker who was
to have been eyioted. John Sutko,
was arrested on the trumped-up
charge of attempting to kill a
consta bic"
A vast protest movement is be-
ing led by the Unemployment
Councils to demand the immediate
repeal of al eviction laws and the
/ passage Of city ordinance de-
manding an end to all evictions.
With this as their central de-
mand, committee from the I'm
employment Councils will visit the
City Council when it meets Thurs
day at 2 p. m.
The Unemployment Councils,
who are in constant touch with the
family of the murdered man, have
arranged for a mass funeral march
of all workers behind his cortege.
A mass protest Meeting will be
held Monday night at o'clock, at
1850 Cherry st.