PEONAGE IN AMERICA.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17107, 31 March 1921, Page 7

PEONAGE IN AMERICA.

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(By CsMe—Pr«»s A<#ocla.tiofi—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z4 C&bfo Association*)

(Received Jlfflteh 30th, 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 29. Judge Parks declared he will ask for military pfot-ection during tho trial in Atlanta of tho peonage murders. Governor Dorsey, in a statement, said that in certain sections of Georgia brutal landlords tvero driving theiii labourers away by cruel treatment,' and making it.ifhpossiKe to Becuro operating capital for the plantations. There is an undercurrent of resentment at the action of the National Association for t>h© Advancement of tho Coloured llace in despatchingtelegrams to President Harding, Mr Dougherty, Attorney-General of the United States, and Governor Dorsey, making charges that peonage is practised generally in Georgia and other cotton-growing States.

Wi.liams denies the charges against him. His «>ns have been releascdi Reports from other parts of the State have been circulated that the negroes 6laft an uprising Against tho whites. Many other rumours" are current, tending to engender race hatred. The people of the State are aroused over tho situation. All the authorities pfomiso strict end quick justice.