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DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934 Page Three CALL FOR MILK STRIKE Body Wracked, Head Unbowed, Angelo Herndon NEW ORLEANS SEAMEN Asks News oj Workers’ Struggles and SovietUnion SOUNDED BY BENTZLEY, Heroic Negro Organizer Jailer Scowls as White PLEDGE SUPPORT OF mend mercy." Sentence was from Confident Workers 18 to 20 years on the Georgia chain Woman Shake* Hand* Will Free Him gang. Jack Spivak in his book. PENNA. FARM LEADER "Georgia Nigger.” showed what a with Famous Prisoner BALTIMORE STRUGGLE torturous death-trap these gangs Bv MYRA PAGE are. the case, he has not seen Angelo VTarnsThat Victory sombre walls of Fulton County The jailer shoots a stream of Hernrion before. In all this filth., Plan Fight for porker 4 Arrested Stopping walls of Fulton County Prison, ’baccy into the ,-pitoon. “That gol that lad has kept himself clean as Nurses, Supervisors Against Wallace Plan THE whistle, where Angelo Herndon is entombed, dern nigger! The one I set all th-m a inside and out. "You’re Control of SearoetTa Scabs at Campbell right..” he whispers hurriedly, in Mu6t Be Defended rise in the very heart of Atlanta, telegrams about—demanding I re- “he Ten-Minute Strike Belief Strike "cultural center of the South.” The lease him. Imagine that! Demand- just doesn’t belong here.” in Camden jail doorbell jangles several minutes ing!” At my involuntary grin. We introduce ourselves: Angelo at Chicago Hospital i Pa., Bv a Seaman Corrernondent PHILADELPHIA. before the jailer bestirs himself from (Comrades, let's send more and Herndon puts out his hand. “Hello, April 26.—Warning the dairy CAMDEN. N. J., April 26. his comfortable chew and gossip- more!), the keeper's fury pulls him comrade! ’ The words ring through (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) NEW ORLEANS. April 26.—At a farmers of the milk shed here Four Campbell Soup strikers were ing with a bluecoat, to let us in. to his feet. “That blasted coon! the gloom. We shake hands; the ] j CHICAGO. April 26.—’Twenty mass meeting held by the Marina arrested yesterday in front of We spy him eyeing us idly through be on the chain gang, that’s jailer glowers. "What kinda monkey and eight super-risers Workers’ Industrial Union here last the Oughta nurses that their recent victory plant, as they stopped scabs a grilled window, like some slow- what. Where I'd put him too.” business is this,” he fumes to the j went cut on a ten minute dem- week to protest against the federal from entering the re- against proposed plant, and witted Bossie behind a barbed-wire (Yes, but for those wires!) lawyer, “a white woman calling on ' enstration strike yesterday at the government's taking the relief out the Wallace sisted police attempts to of the drive fence. and shaking hands with a nigger!” : Francis E. Willard Hospital, hands of Baltimore seamen, milk reduction plan is only away. They Not Visiting Day “For Niggers” de- them were all dis- The heavy door swings back. He Herndon Speaks of Dimitroff, Asks manding a sls a month increase it was voted by all present to send causing plan charged by Judge Remembering lawyer’s the same to be put Pancoast. takes us into My the quite News of U.S.S.R. in the present wages $6 wires a.nd letters of pretest to Presi- under another guise, Lewis his office. com- i of a Rcoscvcit, forward While police were breaking up panion, member of a well known wide connections, our host jingles We hear him, and shake again, week, working seven days and 12 dent Administrator Hop- Bentzley, farm leader of the United His MYRA PAGE i kins the picketing at the plant. Man- Atlanta law firm whom the Inter- his keys. bearing modifies. Barely a quarter of an hour we’re j hours a day. and Baltimore local authorities. Farmers’ Protective Association, ning, the Socialist leader of “What you mixing in such It was also agreed upon to the national Labor Defense has just in- up a allowed; we have to talk fast. He At t>.e same time a petition for put urged the farmers of the Phila- union, was getting ready to case for?” queries, adding quickly, my forth immediately all eftorts to es- sit terested in the case, produces his he —or starve?” I called friend. speaks, not of himself, but of his I the demands was presented to delphia milk shed to strike against down to another conference with “Come on. ain’t tablish seamen's relief-control here. card. The jailer's waddling person This visiting day We both sat down and began to Joy that Dimitroff is free. is ! ' Paul Gebhard. manager, any efforts of the officials to the of He business All persons present, put president the company, exudes an Ingratiating importance. for niggers, but seeing as it’s you, read the handbill. Near the bot- eager hear and F. showed their program. to more news of the ' j Cyrus Campe. trustee. The over a reduction Dorrance, before the National And what may he do for us? Mr. Langley.” tom was the announcement of a determination to back the Balti- Labor movement, the Soviet Union. In his j hospital w-orkers are determined by taking "The milk companies are after Board. His glum waddle precedes us to a meeting for 3 o’clock in the more seamen prompt ac- “We came to see a prisoner—An- called pocket is a “Daily Worker”: he is j on a real strike if their demands tion against Federal some kind of cut in the milk sup- gelo high steel door, one side of a barred heart of the town by the Unem- not Administrator Herndon.” so eager to enter as much as he are met. Early of the Emergency Relief, in ply, through one form or an- cage. Within are penned way there The keeper's jaw sags. “That gol human ployed Council. AH the can into things, even from his cell, Their petition is to have a his policies of starvation and forced other,” Bentzley stated. "This is beings. In the half-light, at square myself, ‘lt’s It’s hearing April dern nigger! You come to see him!” I said to war. war. to be a part. He is sure that the 30th. labor for the s-amen of this port, their only way of maintaining Closing peepholes stand bedraggled white So I might as well get into it now Force of Perplexed fear in his eyes, his bear- American workers will soon set him 90 Cents “Relief” their huge profits. We have al- ” to Seamen ing resumes its old hardness. men, receiving their families. On as any other time.’ free. So am I. But Angelo Herndon i seen this in the action of He Administrator go; ready surveys me and I him. with the outside, staring through the bars The Negro youth finds white and has been waiting two years. His j E.-rly his train- Wills .Tones, who was mutual now. ing in the workers Supplee Gyp Employment To think at their father are three small chil- colored workers uniting—something case has been to the starving during contempt. that this bi- appealed Pittsburgh ten years sprved forced to withdraw his 30 per rent dren with their worn mother. Their new South. His friend is Mass in which h- as ped has in his keeping that rare in the Georgia Supreme Court. Since last i the Community rut on the basic only because of faces, and man's are wet, head of Chest in spirit and working class fighter, An- the strick- afraid, but Angelo joins, goes to his October he has waited for a deci- : Birmingham. is mass resentment. But this means en. He is a “Poor Ho the man who Agency in N. Y. gelo Herndon! White,” tenant first demonstration. When the Na- sion. Workers, unions, mass orgnni- ’ invented that the companies will only try Youth Delegation forced labor for the unem- may farmer or mlllhand. Nothing cruel tional Unemployed Convention is will you raise a pro- another scheme." He manhandle and insult a-s zations. such l ployed in this country, and put it in his face. However, he may have held in 1930 in Chicago, he is elected test that the Judges must grant Continuing his call for militant The Hotel Union Opens he likes our young comrade, sen- j into practice in Birmingham over 20 years on broken the rich man's law, it is a delegate. The a new trial, action against the whole Roosevelt- tenced to the chain- Kluxers distribute and Angelo Herndon j Stops Relief Cut three years ago with the aid of spe- gang organized clear that poverty has been his threatening handbills, stage night- Mtlk Company program of reduced Campaign Against for having Atlanta’s be set free? cial donations from wealthy indus- jobless main crime. parades. Angelo’s try message bring milk supply in order to boost retail in a march to the Fulton shirt relatives For the I from trialists, without even waiting for Labor Racketeers County to jailer pushes woman and to going to Mas of a grant be prices in the cities, Bentzley de- Commission demand re- The the persuade him from the our comrade in Fulton Prison is Delegation 150 to voted by the City lief. This alone has been his children aside, unlocks the door. We convention for fear their home will grave, urgent. True, no terror or Council. Policemen clared : Demands End carried the NEW YORK iF.