The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
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pledge ourselves to avenge this
workers life by greater organiSa-
tional efforts in fighting against the
boss system of robbery and violence
which you represent. For the
murder of this worker We hold you
responsible"
The I. L. d. issued the following
call to the workers and their organ
izations to join the mass fight to free
the Scottsboro boys:
"Scottsboro"-A Call To Action
In the prison at Kilby, Ala, eight
innocent Negro working class boys
Willie Robinson, Andy Wright, Hay
wood Patterson, Glen Montgomery,
Clarence Norris, Charlie Weenls, Ozie
Powell and Eugene Williams-are be-
ing held for the electric chair, for
death by legal lynching. Another boy
Roy Wright though not even con-
victed is held in the Birmingham jail.
For eight months they have endured
the turture of awaiting death on
framed charges.
During all the time the lynch terror
has ragged high all around them. The
murder of Camp Hill share-croppers,
the lynch attack upon the exWar
veteran Willie Peterson, the massacre
of white and Negro miners in Harlan
Kentucky, the fiendish hanging and
roasting of Matthew Williams, the
hanging to a telegraph pole of two
Negro boys-Tom Jackson and George
Banks-in West Virginia, the lynch
attack upon Orphan Jones and George
Davis, the recent roasting in the
electric chair of young Barney Lee
Ross on frame-up charge by the
Texas government, and the lynching
of unreported scores all over the
South, are parts of the definite plan
expressed in the savage outburst in
Scottsboro.
"ScottSboro" is basic attack of
the capitalist landlords and bankers
upon the working class. 1t is direct
attack upon the developing unity OF
the Negro and white workers engaged
in struggle against unemployment,
wage-cuts, starvation, misery, and war
preparations. 1t is inSeparably con-
nected with the campaign of the de-
portation of the foreign-born workers
and the imprisonment of the native
born, under Criminal Syndicalist laws,
etc. 1t is the epitome of the South
ern landowners government attacks
upon the National liberation struggles
of the Negro masses in the Black
Belt of the South. "Scottsboro" is
challenge to the American and world
working class.
January Is, will be day of mass
and legal struggles. On January 18,
the Southern land-robbers will make
another desperate attempt, through
the Alabama Supreme Court, to carry
through this mass lynching. They
will be supported by the entire capt.
alist class of the country and their
agents of the Socialist" party. which
exists for the sole purpose of mis-
leading the workers, the leaders OF
the National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People, the
running dogs of American Imperi-
alsim and betrayers of the Negro
masses, the Church, which breaches
the love of god, while assisting the
rich in robbing the poor, and the
capitalist press-all the hosts of rob-
berry and hell will be lined up on the
side of the Southern bosses.
Against this array of plumber, mass
terror and treachery, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense supported by
millions of workers and poor farmers,
black and white, nationally and in
ternationally, will lead in defending
the Scottsboro boys against the lynch
ers, in defending the Negro masses,
and the entire working class.
Together with its legal preparations
for the gigantic struggles ahead, the