The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-04

class: and Mr. Pickens Is afraid the Comn1u-
nsts will "sap" and menace" the white rul-
ing class in these good race relations" He is
less interested IN saving the Negro boys than
in saving the white ruling class from any agi-
tation among the Negro masses.
Pickens in his Chattanooga speech Chat
tanooga Tines declared that there is some
doubt" about the guilt or innocence of the
nine Negro boys This is his contribution to
the southern ruling class, an effort to shake the
confidence Of the masses in the Justice of the
cause and to sabotage the growth of the mass
movement.
Walter White Secretary of the NAACP, calls
upon the Negro people to rely upon "a fair
trial. in the Alabama courts where Negroes are
framed Up before jim crow juries and to expect
exact justice regardless of race This is the
policy that put the innocent Negro boys in the
electric chair. 1t is in accord with this Shat
the NAACP retains the Ku Klux Khan lawyer
Roddy whom they still pretend is lawyer to
defend the wine Scottsboro boys
At the same time the NAACP leaders are
openly calling for suppression of agitation and
organization among the Negro masses This is
the same policy as that of the Ku Klux Khan
William Pickens' cowardly denmciation of
Negro workers to the police of Tennessee and
Alabama is the only course consistent with the
whole position of the NAACP. It is quite logical
that the Rev. J. R. Bowen, chief representative
OF the NAACP and president of the Ministers
Alliance in Chattanooga, openly went to the po-
lice to ask that the Chattanooga Conference for
the Defense of the Scottsboro boys be raided by
the police and the delegates arrested At the
request of the agent of the NAACP eleven dele
gates to the Chattanooga Defense Conference
were put in Jail
The NAACP leaders pretend to think that the
boys, case would be injured" by the fact that
radical organizations sympathetic to the Com
mun1st Party have come to their defense But,
IN the first place, there would have been no
defense If the Communist Party had not started
1t. The boys were already condemned to death
with the connivance of lawyer hired by the
NAACP, before the Communist Party rallied a
mass movement for their defense. The NAACP
argument amounts to the theory that the South
ern white ruling class court would give 'sfair
trial" to Negroes if nobody would Interfere"
The NAACP leaders complain that the Com
mun1st Party started the mass movement to de-
fend the innocent Negro boys
Then why did not the Republican Party start
the defense of the boys?
Why didn't the Democratic Party start 1t?
Why didn't the Socialist Party start it?
OF course these are ridiculous questions. Every
body knows that the Republican, Democratic
and Socialist parties would never start any
movement Of this kind, because those parties
are capitalist parties-supporters of the ruling
class and the institutions of capitalism and
white supremacy.
The NAACP has always been allied with the
politicians of the Republican party, and some
OF the Democratic party. Now the NAACP is
finding its closest ally in another party Of white
supremacy - the Socialist party. The NAACP
recently boosted that in Vermont the Socialist
party is giving the closest cooperation to the
NAACP campaign which is campaign to break
up the movement for the defense of the Scots
boro boys.
At the convention Of the NAACP of June 80
to July 4. 1881, at Pittsburgh, the NAACP con-
soldates Its alliance with the sociafascists (the
so-called Socialist" party by having as two of
its main speakers Norman Thomas, whose at
ttude has always been one of reaction, who has
never uttered one single word in favor of the
liberation Of the Negro masses, and Haywood
Brown, who not long ago wrote in the New York
Telegram:
IF I were candidate for high executive
office, or judicial office, I would say, even
without being cornered, that would not sane
ton the efforts to enforce the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution Of
the United States"