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playing a leading role and uniting with their white fellow workers to defeat the bosses' attacks.

The strike of Negro and white workers on the biggest vegetable and state farm in the U. S. A., including the canneries, has cost the employers a lose of 100.000 dollars.

Led by the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, the workers struck in April and won an increase of wages from 17 cents tot 25 cents an hour for women and 30 cents for men. In June the owners broke the agreement and discharged workers as well. The workers struck again. Negro men and women battled alongside their white mates against the police attacks of tear gas bombs and shot guns. The struggle continues as the employers refuse to rehire certain strikers and a reign of Ku Klux Klan terror has been employed against the active union members and strike leaders. (See pictures.)
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Herndon out on Bail.

Workers and sympathizers promptly rallied to the appeal of the International Labour Defense (USA) and supplied the bail of 15.000 dollars which has snatched Angelo Herndon, the heroic young Negro Communist organizer, from the Chain-Gang, while the appeals in his case is pending before the U. S. Supreme Court. Altough Herndon has languished in the Georgia prison for 19 months, his militant spirit is not broken. He issued greetings to the American working class urging them to carry on the fight. He vowed to use his temporary freedom to continue the struggle for working class emancipation.

This short release by no means indicates that the fight for Herndon is over. Only through energetic, mass pressure on the part of all workers will Herndon be snatched from the 20-year sentence on the Chain-Gang.
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British Fascist Touring West Indies,

Edward York, a representative of Oswald Mosley is on a propaganda tour of the West Indies on behalf of the British Union of Fascists. The Blackshirt agent intends to form groups of his gangster party in Bermuda, British Guiana and the West Indies, to instruct the colonial slave - drivers in some of the latest Hitler methods in dealing with militant natives.
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For national Independence of the Colonial masses Against Imperialist War and Fascism
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U. S. Government sends Agent to Liberia.

Mr. Harry A. Mc Bride, one of the Special Assistants of the Secretary of State, has been sent to Liberia. It is claimed that his mission is to prepare a firsthand report. Mr. McBride was at one time Receiver of Customs and Financial Adviser to the Liberian Government. His real mission, however, will be as a representative of the American financial and rubber interests to demand a show down on the part of Liberia. It will be recalled that the British Government has promised <