Death Penalty Demanded: The Case of Georgia Against the Communist Party.New York: Workers Library Publishers, n.d. [1930].Illustrated pamphlet issued by the Communist Party, USA in defense of two of its organizers -- M.H. Powers (age 26) and Joseph O. Carr (age 19) -- tried in a capital case in Atlanta, Georgia in April 1930. The pair had conducted a meeting which had been disbursed by police advocating the unity of white and black workers against capitalism. The pair were charged under a Civil War era Georgia state statute making the fomenting of revolution ("sedition") a capital crime. Others were later charged under the statute in 1930, including 19-year old Communist organizers Mary Dalton and Ann Burlack, and two black organizers for the CP-associated American Negro Labor Congress, Gilmer Brady and Henry Story.Bond totaling $33,000 was collected for the six prisoners, who were represented by the Communist Party's International Labor Defense organization and the American Civil Liberties Union. No trial was held and the cases were continued at least through 1934 as the prosecution sought a ruling by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Angelo Herndon before proceeding.Published in the USA between 1923 and 1978 with no notice of copyright in first publication, public domain.Digitized from microfilm by Tim Davenport ("Carrite") for Archive.org.