SHARE CROPPER GIVEN
LIFE IN MURDER
FRAME-UP
Lexington. S- C.—Henry Fields,
Negro share-cropper, has been con
victed and sentenced to life-imprison
ment here on a framed charge of
murdering his former landlord, G
Fred Rast. last summer- Even Mrs.
Rast, the landlord’s wife has admitted
she does not believe Fields was guilty.
Fields, who had worked as a share
cropper for Rast, had left his farm
several months before he was ar
rested. last July. He lived with his
wife and four children in a cabin sev
eral miles away, and came to work
for his former landlord off and on.
Rast was killed about 5:15 in the
morning, July 5. The only witness
was his foster son, who at first de
nied that Fields was the man he saw
kill his foster-father, but later
“changed his mind ” The evening be
fore the murder, Rast who was no
torious for his brutality both to his
tenants and to his family, had trou
ble with his foster-son. A few days
before he was shot, he evicted a white
tenant, taking all the man possessed
in payment of a small debt
Protest against the sentence passed
against Fields should be sent to Gov
ernor Ibra C. Blackw'ood, Columbia,
s. C. I
GEORGIA WHITE COM
MITTEEMAN GOES
FREE OF MURDER
Athens, Ga—-No indictment has
been handed down against James W.
Arnold, Republican national commit
teeman who shot and killed George
Hawks, Negro tenant on his farm |
near Watkinsville, January 18.
Arnold was serving papers on
Hawks and his father, Henry Hawks,
evicting them as “unsatisfactory ten
ants.” He had h's shot-gun along to
help. He charged that Hawks ad
vanced on him with an axe when he
came to throw them off their farm.
FLORIDA LYNCHES
THIRD IN YEAR
New York—The total number of re
ported lynchings for 1933 rose from
47 to 49, according to the records of,
the International Labor Defense,
with the discovery that Will Walker,
was lynched in Bartow, Ga., Novem
ber 19, and Ernest Bell on the night
of December 31
An unidentified Negro was lynched ■
in the same place January 9.
Florida last week added the third
to the list of reported lynchings in
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January when Robert Johnsc~ w" ■ j
lynched near Tampa January 33. He ■
was in the custody of Deputy Con
stable T. M Graves, who was taking
him from Hillsboro County Ja:l to a
state prison- Graves was held on a j
charge of petty larceny, but after j
the lynching, police gave out the re
port that he had been ‘'partially iden- |
tified” in an ,‘attack on a white wo- i
man”.
Graves, w-ho for reasons he has not
explained, ttook Johnson out of jail
at 3 in the morning, told a fantastic
story of being kidnapped by a gang
of men who murdered his prisoner
and stole his car
Other lynchings this year were of,
the unidentified Negro near Bartow, j
January 9, and of Rex Scott, 20-year
old Negro at Hazard, Ky.
NEGROES SPEAK OF WAR
By Langston Hughes
President of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights
When the time comes for th ne>:
war, I’m asking you, remember th
last war- I’m asking you, wh;: ..oh
fought for, and what you wos.ti he
fighting for again? I’m askin; how
many of the lies you were t ;d do
you still believe? Does any Negro
believe, for instance, that the world
was actually saved for Democracy?
Does any Negro believe, any more,
in closing ranks with the war mak
ers? Maybe a few soldiers believed
Dr. Moton when he came over to
France talking about “Be nice and
tight for the nice white folks. Be
meek and shoot some Germans. But
do any Negroes believe him now,
with lynched black workers hanging
on trees all around Tuskegee? I’m
asking you
And after the Chicago riots and
the Washington riots and the East
St. Louis riots, and more recently the
Bonus March, is it some foreign army
needs to be fought?
And listen, I’m asking you, with all
the war ships and marines and offi
*
cers and Secretary' of the Navy go
ing to Cuba, can’t they send over one
sergeant after Shamblin in Alabama ?
And with all the money they' got to
buy bombing planes, why in the hell
can’t they pay the teachers for my
kids to go to school?
And even if I was studying fighting
(which I ain’t) why couldn’t I do a
wrassling w>£h pots and pans, or
join the marnes (the lily white ma
rines) and see the world or go in the
air force where you never admitted
Negroes yet? I’d like to be above
the battle too. Or do you think you
gonna use me for stevedoring again?
And speaking of France, our once
beloved ally, where Negroes can still
eat in the restaurants in spite of
Woodrow Wilson—don’t let that fool
yTcu. Someone ought to put the French
black Africans wise to the fact that
they ought to treat them, well in Par
is when they are drilling them by the
hundreds of thousands to stop bullets
with their breasts and bombs with
their heads and fill the front line!
1 cnrhes for dear old France (that
only a handful of them have ever!
seen) in the next war- Or have they
got a French Dr. Mcton to lie to:
rack Africans, too. I'm asking you? '
t
And when the. next war comes, I
want to know whose war and why- ;
For instance, if it’s the Japanese |
you re speaking of—there's plenty of j
perils for me right h-re at home that
needs attending to: what about them
labor unions that won't admit Ne
groes? And what about all of them
factories where I can't work, if even
there was work? And what about
th schools I can’t go to. and the
states I can't vote in. and the juries
I can’t sit on ? And what about all
them sherixs that can never find out
wi o did the ynehing? And what
about something to eat without put
r. rg on a uniform and going out to
killing folks I never saw to get it?
And what about them “Separate col
c st- " codes in the NRA? And what
ut a voice in whose running this
c tntry and why—before I even think
t’\ ssing the water and fighting
in ?
Who said I want to g > to war? If
I do, it ain't the same war the Presi
dc-nt wants to go to. No, sir- I been
hanging cn a rope in Alabama too
long. -
NEGRO LYNCHED IN FLORIDA
Tampa, Fla- (CNA) Feb- 3.—Rob
ert Johnson, young Negro worker,
was taken out of the Tampa jail and
lynched here on Tuesday while Presi
dent Roosevelt was having a big
I country wide radio and special birth
j day party.
Johnson is the fifth victim of lynch
! terror during the first month, he was
; lynched after being charged with
i petty larceny, however, after he had
i been lynched by the cellebration par
ty, the usual fake charge of rape or
attempted rape was made against
him.
'i he lone officer who took Johnson
from the jail for “safe transfer” met
j the lynchers on the outskirts of town
and proceeded to have himself “kid
napped” so that the innocent Negro
could be lynched without it being re
ported that the officer was present at
the time.
The Other Six
Other lynchings this month were
in Georgia, Kentucky. Two Negro
workers were murdered in a girl’s
school in Chicago. Their bodies were
mutiated so badly that there is no
doubt that they were killed by sever
al men- None of the girl inmates
have been permitted to testify cor
rectly about the murder gang!
ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
HEARINGS FEBRUARY 15
Senate Committee Invites Govs- Rolph
and Ritchie to Appear and Give
Views on Lynching; Other
Distinguished Persons to
Testify
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the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynehing
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bill begin February 15, it was an-,
nonneed here yesterday by Senator
Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana, j
chairman cf the Senate sub-commit-1
' - h' h is to consider the bill
Chairman Van Nuys announced
.hat he has invited Governor James;
Hi Rolrh jr- of California and Gov
anar Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland
to appear ar^d state their views on j
lynching- Gov- Rolph gained world- j
wide notoriety last November by his |
stat ments that the San Jose lynch
ers had given “a fine lesson to the i
nation ' an ! that he would pardon |
anyone convicted of partic:pating in
the lynching. Governor Ritchie,1
while a strong advocate of state's i
rights, has had the power of the
state challenged severely by the peo- '
pie of the Eastern Shore who attack
ed militia sent to arrest alleged lynch
ers.
A list o' distinguished colored and
white citizens from bo.h the north
and the south have been invited to
testify for the bill by the National ‘
Association for the* Advancement of
Colored People- Among the lawyers
will be, Charles II. Tuttle, former
U. S. attorney for the southern dis
trict of New York; Herbert K- Stock
ton; and Prof. Karl Llewellyn of
! Columbia university law school. The
Writers League Against Lynching
has designated Fannie Hurst, Hey
wood Broun, Stuart Chase, Harry
Hansen and Faith Badwin to appear
for it
It is expected that the hearings will
! last at least three days- Senator Van
Nuys has taken over the chairman
ship of the committee because of the
pressure of other work upon Senator
Clarence C- Dill, who was chairman.
Senator Pat MeCarron of Nevada has
been added to the sub-committee.
Individuals and organizations thru
out the country are urged to continue
writing and telegraphing their sena
tors from their state urging passage
of the Costigan-Wagner bill. It is
suggested also that letters be sent
Senator Van Nuys urging the favor
able action upon the bill
Senators and Congressmen
Promise Cooperation in
Porters’ Fight.
MOVE LAUNCHED TO AMEND E.
R. T. A. TO BENEFIT PORTERS
AND MAIDS SAYS RANDOLPH
NEW YORK. February 6—A vigor
| ous campaign is under way to mob
; ilize forces to amend the Emergency
Railroad Transportation Act, of 1933,
i so as to bring the Pullman Company
under its jurisdiction, and thereby
place authority and power in the
hands of the Federal Coordinator ov
er the labor conditions and relations
of the porters and maids as he has
over the engineer’s trainmen, train
j conductors, firemen, shopcrafts, tele
graphers and other workers of car
riers by railroad, states A. Philip
Randolph. National President.
Some of the letters from Washing
ton Solons follow:
Dear Mr. Randolph:
Thank you for your letter of Jan
uary 16, inclosing a copy of your
letters to (he President relative to
the present conditions of Pullman
porters and maids. I am very glad to
have year views in regard to this
matter and assure you they will have
my earnest consideration
Very sincerely,
E- P. COSTIGAN, Colorado.
Dear Mr- Randolph:
When the matter comes before
Congress, I will give, careful consid
eration to the communication and
statement made by Mr. Green, Presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor.
Very truly yours
JAMES COUSENS. Michigan.
Dear Mr. Randolph:
We are now. as you know, consid
ering the gold devaluation bill. But
as soon as that is over. I shall have
time to consider your matter.
Very respectfully
WILLIAM BORAH, Idaho
Senators Robert F. Wagner of New
York, Bronson Cutting of New Mex
ico, C. C- Dill of Washington, Burton
K- Wheeler of Montana and others,
have replied expressing their inter-1
est in the struggle of the porters and
maids for Industrial justice, said
Mr. Randolph at the National Head
quarters of the Brotherhood of Sleep
ing Car Porters, 207 W- 140th Street,
New York City.
When asked whether he intended
to place the case of the porters be
fore all of the Senators and Con
gressmen, Mr. Randolph replied, with
confidence and assurance for the fu-1
tare, yes, and we are also earnestly i
requesting and urging all Negro men \
and women of courage, vision and
pride of race and working class de
votion, to write the Senators and ]
Congressmen of their state and dis-:
trict, to back the heroic, valiant and
epochal fight of the porters and
maids against one of America’s most
cruel industrial monarchs, The Pull
man Company, for their economical
rights.
AUSTRALIAN “LABOR
DEFENDER”CARRIES
SCOTTSBORO APPEAL
ON COVER
—
New York—“Save the Scottsboro
Boys!” is the slogan across the cover j
of the December issue of the Austral-1
ian “Labor Defender,” organ of the
I. L- D. of thatt country, copies of
which have just been received here. J
A photograph of a Negro boy is the
cover picture.
The Australian “Labor Defender” j
carries an appeal for action on behalf '
of three Scottsboro boys, also, as the
leading article in the issue- It calls
for the flooding of the American con
sulate at 7 Wynard St-, Sydney, Aus
tralia, with protest resolutions to be
passed by working-class organiza
tions.
ALABAMA CONTINUES
PREPARATIONS FOR
FEB. 9 HOLOCAUST.
Montgomery, Ala- —Commutation
of sentence for Leo Fountain, one of
nine Negroes sentenced to die Feb
ruary 9, by the state supreme court,
has been recommended by the pardon
board, as the result of the campaign
of protest against this proposed holo
caust which has been organized on a
national scale by the International
Labor Defense.
The state Supreme £ourt has re
fused to grant a re-h -aring for Teen
er Autrey, Negro woman among the
nine, also framed on murder charges,
and who has not been granted even a
“clemency hearing” by Governor B.
M. Miller.
Such a hearing will be held Febru
ary 6, for Willie Peterson, Negro
tubercular miner and war veteran,
framed also on murder charges, and
betrayed by his “defenders” the lead
ers of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
Desperately trying to stifle the mass
protest against this legal lynching
which the state of Alabama is deter
mined to carry through with their
assistance, the N. A- A- C. P. leaders
sent out a statement which was car
ried in practically the entire Negro
press to the effect that Sheriff Haw
kins of Jefferson countty (Birming-;
ham), one of the framers of Peterson,j
would save his life.
Peterson is sentenced to die Feb
ruary 16. The U- S. Supreme Court
last week refused to review the case
Governor Miller has already denied
clemency to Solomon Roper, Ernest
Waller, and Ben Foster, all of Dallas
county, who are among the nine sen
tenced to die February 9- The frame
up and torture of Foster was exposed
yy the International Labor Defense
n complete detail.
The I. L. D- has called for renewed
and intensified protest to Governor
Miller at Montgomery, Ala-, and to
Presidentt Roosevelt against this
mass legal murder being planned by
the white ruling class of Alabama,
linking it to the legal lynch plans in
the Scottsboro case.
; IVY ANDERSON MAY SOON DROP
OUT OF THE DU£E ELLING
TON OUTFIT
_
Washington, (CNS)—Miss Ivy An
derson who has been with the Duke
Ellington outfit for several years
may be replaced by a “singer of dif
ferent type.” That’s the rumor and
while it could not be verified when
Duke w'as here this wreck the Elling
ton management is claimed to want j
a singer “not quite so dignified a* j
‘Ivy’.”
SPINGARN TO SPEAK OVER NBC
NETWORK FEB. 11
New York, Feb. 2.—J- E- Spingarn,
donor of the Spingarn Medal for Ne
gro achievement and president of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People will speak
over the network of the National !
Broadcasting Company as guest of j
the Southernaires, famous Negro
quartet from 10 to 10:30 a- m., East
ern standard time, Sunday, February '
11. He will talk on the 25th bii-th
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day of the association
New York, Feb- 2.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has just forwarded to
Harry L- Hopkins, Civil Work.; Ad
ministrator, at Washington, a com
plaint charging color discrimination
in the allocation of C. W. A jobs in
Tampa, Fla
i he complaint came to the Associa
tion from Edgar Newton of Tampa,
who charged that although he is a
man of family and had registered for
CWA work in November, he has
been replaced by a white man.
SORORITY CONTRIBUTES $25 TO
N. A. A. C- P. CAMPAIGN
New York, Feb- 2—The National
Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa has just
contributed $25 to the Twenty-fifth
Anniversary Campaign of tne Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, saying, “Accept
th.s contribution as an expression of
our appreciation of the groat work
of your organization.”
The contribution is the result of
the efforts of Mrs- Gertrude Robinson
of New York City who presented the
matter to the last Conclave of the
sorority.
N. A. A. C. P. DURHAM CAMPAIGN
WINS 500 MEMBERS
New York, Feb- 2.—Dr. J. N Mills,
President of the Durham. N. C
branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple has just reported to the National
office the gaining of 200 cash ami 300
partially-paid memberships as a re
sult of the recent drive headed by
Mrs. Daisy E. Lam.pkin, Regional field
secretary of the Association.
A check for $100.50 accompanied
Dr- Mills’ report.
WHITE LAUDS- LAG U A RQflA’S
CHOICE OF DELANY
New York, Feb. 2—In a telegram
to Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia of New
York City, Walter White, Secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, has
expressed the gratification, of his or
ganization over the appointment of
Hubert T. Delany, a member of its
board of directors, as Commissioner
of Taxes and Assessments.
“Not only is he eminently qualified”
the wire declared, “but it is pleasing
to all citizens to see that character
and integrity are recognized regard
less of race and color.”
MARY WHITE OVINGTON ON
FLORIDA TOUR
New York, Feb- 2—Miss Mary
White Ovington, Treasurer of the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People and one of its
founders, left today for a tour of
branches in Florida- Miss Ovington
is making the journey in the interest
of the Association’s 25th Anniver
sary Penny-a-Negro Campaign ar.d
will be absent during the entire
month of February and part of
March. She will visit Jacksonville,
Ke.v West, Pensacola, Daytona
Beach, Sanford, Orlando, Tampa, St
Petersburg, West Palm Beach, Miami.
L S N R HOLDS MONSTER AMT
LYNCHING CONFERENCE AT
SCENE OF SAN JOSE
LYNCHING
San Jose (CNA) Feb- 3—Langston
Hughes, President of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights was one
of the main speakers at the Anti
Lynching Meeting held here under
the auspices of the League of Strug
gle For Negro Rights. Matt Craw
ford, a member of the National Ex<
ecutive Committee, also addressed
the meeting at St. James Park, scene
of a recent San Jose Lynching. More
than 2,000 people attended
136 delegates were present at the
Conference, representing organiza
tions in Washington, Oregon, Cali
fornia, Arizona, Utah, Colorado,
Idaho and Nevada. The credential
committee estimated that these dele
gates represented 784,000 people- A
large number of the delegates were
Negroes, Chinese, Japanese and Phili
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