The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-10
NINE STRIKE SPREADS TO OHIO; JOBLESS MINERS MARCH
Mr.. Pickens Takes the
Handkerchief


of Negro people for the whole of the working cass
of whom condemned the electric Alabama
has looked the the
knows that the boys innocent Their condemnation death al
aftor oa~ j.; tha t+o cnst Is ots osnooou ~ w. ~o,o
Scarcely week
roade to death sentences to long for such
disputing the battery
of their
white there nothing
of the ordinary procedure OF the southern courts that nine innocent
Negro boys the two a. roaded
to death false charges of rape
The only thing irregular" about the scotboro is that the
by wide stirring which has
them chance for their lives the first chance that they have had
These boys would without the slightest question doubt
straight to their death in the electric chair there had not been ire
Struggle Rights
boys will still their deaths the
can stopped
kept the matter quiet all of the and looked
upon merely rape" leaders
tu pr~ K who h connance With the court and necuto
appeared attorney
coaboaed in KuX Klan fashion the raioadng of the
boys to their death sentence publicly refusing as
the acquttal when his address the
ME- PICKENs Secretary the NAACP at
l against policy
front the
boys But the aconary wealthy white people who control the
NAACP policies called Pckens to order pushed him line with
discharge position Mr. Pckens has
cawed wed before begged for forgiveness To
atone Pickens
NAAcP its campaign against the defense the scotboro boys
appeared
the most contemplate and oway betraya OF the nine Scsboo
the the which
with treason since the time when Negro betrayed
revouon Denmark to the slave and
to death
pickens knows that the nine scosboo boys are innocent But in
Chattanooga Pickens groved before the white
that could deliver nine
the hangman of Alabama The Pken
speech Chattanooga that
guilt
whether
that
and impartial could not have had the conditions
rounding the Scotboo Mr. Pcens And the groveln
Mr. Pcens then not the release the boys
their He does not dare ask unevoca
for reta of the but speaks only for rial or
view OF the procedure ana the evidence lhS shows the eaiI OF
the policy the Kux Klan Roddy seeking the
liberation of the review by that south
ruling class the pardonng and committing and the leaving
boys life the prisons
with the handkerchief
proceeds to his real mission IN the South Tor which ne was sent by his
York mission the sacrifice of the
liberty
the southern ruling classic win for the NAACP the tolerance and
operation of the police Khan that
good" "whte
useful to the white ruling class fighting
awakening spirit of protest of the
Pcken his speech attacked the Communist
Sensational defense
NOR ignorant of the colored population"
Consistent with this evil Picken defending
up innocent Negro boys th
threatened authority
they have threatened violence offered
by
liberty of the nine Negro
of protest the
logical present to
create new and hueer race problem in the South
other words Dean William Pckens delivers
the southern ruling class just little
supremacy licking the boots of what he calls
whites delivering into even
slavery.
betrayal Pickens one-even though
of white man;
Negro than his associates he came
out Fundamentally endorsing the united front call