The daily worker., 1931-05-18
ZOO ORGANIZATIONS JOIN FIGHT
TO OSAVE 9 SCOTTSBORO BOYS AT
NY. UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE
525 Delegates Cheer Mrs. Ada Wright Mother
Of Of The Boys; Unanimously Adopt ResOIu-
tions DenOunce Frame-up; Demand New Trial
Denounce Treachery of NAACP Leadership,
Elects Class War Prisoners to Defense Com
mittee; Organizes Action Committee

NEW YORK.-Greeting the City
United Front Defense Committee
Conference called together yesterday
by the League OF Struggle for Negro
Rights and the International Labor
Defense, Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of
two Of the Scottsboro Negro boys,
told the delegates, that all the boys
now framed for murder were good
boys who had left their homes to try
to find work." because their folks
were starving.
Mrs. Wright explained that Eugene
Williams father gets only two days
work a week, that in her own case
she has been both father and mother
to her children, since her husband
died seven years ago, that her earn
inss amount to $6 a week, out Of
which she must pay 14c day for
carfare and $25o week for rent,
which leaves exactly $3.50 a week for
the family to live on.
Mrs. Wright's moving appeal to
save the nine Scottsboro young work.
ers from the hands of the legal
lynchers, ended with the remark,
"the International Labor Defense
and the League OF Struggle for Ne
gro Rights-they call them Reds at
home, down South,-I don't care
what they call them,-they are the
only ones who are trying to save our
boys, and am going to live with
them and die with them"
200 Organizations Represented.
Three hundred and twenty-three
delegates representing 200 organiza-
tions attended the Conference held
at the Finnish Workers Hall, 10 w.
126th St., and unanimously declared
in favor of fight to the finish to
save the ScottSboro 8 from the cleo
tric chair.
VIM. Patterson chairman of the
conference, won the enthusiastic ap-
proval of the delegates for the pro-
possl to elect an Honorary Commit
tee of the Conference Of working
class fighters now in the jails of the
capitalist class to include: Mooney
and Billings, the nine Scottsboro
boys, the five jailed Paterson Textile
strikers framed for murder, the Gen.
trslia victims, Turner and Slopes, the
Red Builders now in the workhouse
for selling the Daily Worker in the
subways, Sam Brown and Dan1 War
field, two Negro workers, and the 80
revolutionary fighters of Meerut, In
ola, imprisoned for participating in
the struggle against British imperial
ism.
Elect Committee Of Action.
A Committee OF Action composed
Of A. B. Ar1lis, Alice Lewis, E. A.
Wiltshire, Frank Capable, W. Duff,
Carl Hacker and A. Yokinin, was also
elected.
Greetings were extended to the
Conference by c. Edwards, for the
Young Communist League. who
pledged the support of National
Youth Day, May 30 and 81, to mobil-
ization of the Youth, Negro and
White young workers, for united
front in defense of the Scottsboro
nine. Sam Nessin for the Trade
Union Unity League Unemployed
Councils assured the support Of the
militant ranks of labor for a united
struggle in this fight to wrest the
nine young workers from the hands
of the lynchers. The son of Comrade
Lieb, one of the Paterson five still in
jail, stressed the need for solidarity
Of the workers on all fronts. Tom
Johnson, brought greetings from the
Southern workers. Walter Wilson,
representing the Southern students,
declared this attempt to lynch nine
young Negro workers at Scottsboro,
Ala, an attempt OF the ruling class
to terrorize the Negro and white
workers from uniting their forces in
the common struggle against the boss