The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
WORKING CLASSIN
MIGHTY PROTEST
Demonstrate May Day
Demand Release!
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have not raised whisper to save the
lives of these nine framed victims of
Alabama boss law.
Negro Workers Send Protest
The First Baptist Church Of De-
troit, sent the following telegram to
the governor of Alabama:
Governor M. M. Miller,
State Capitol,
Montgomery, Alabama.
1--WE, 800 Negro workers, assembled
in our Congregation of the First Bap-
list Missionary Church of Detroit,
condemn the conviction and attempt
to electrocute nine young Negro work
ers in Scottsboro, Alabama, on the
charge of supposed rape of white
girls. We demand that you release
these workers at once and we hold
you responsible for their safety.
(Signed) Rev. J. S. Scotch"
The following protest was wired by
the first Baptist Church of Ham
tramck, Michigan:
The first Baptist Church of Ham
tramck protests against the frame-up
of nine young boys in Scottsboro
Alabama, and the attempt to legally
lynch them. We hold you RESPONSE
BILE and demand their immediate and
unconditional release.
(Signed) Chairman, First Baptist
Church of Hamtramck."
Many Organizations Join Protest
Protests we're also sent yesterday
by the Federation of the Workers
League of Philadelphia and the Phil
adelpllia branch of the Freethought
League of North America, American
section of the Proletarian Freethought
international of Vienna, and the
Youth Section of the international
Workers Order
A protest was also sent by the Uni
ted Front Conference for National
Youth Day held April 10 at 35 East
18th Street and representing 81 dele
gates from IL youth organizations
with total membership of 5000
young workers. A resolution de-
nouncing the frame-up and death
sentences was also sent by the
Young Worker" conference in De-
troit, with delegates from the follow
ing organizations, Young Commun-
ist League, Young Liberators, Young
Jewish Workers Club, Junior Icor,
Red Star Athletic Club, Unemployed
Council No. 6, Unemployed Council
No. and Harmonic Singing Society.
Rochester Workers Join Denunciation
Rochester, N. Y. workers in mass
meeting April IA, sent the following
protest
Hundreds Rochester workers as
sembled mass meeting vigorously pro-
test legal lynching nine Negro youths
framed in Scottsboro. Rochester
Young Communist League will organ
ize all Negro and white young work.
erS against rotten capitalist system of
which you are part. We demand i'm
mediate release of the nine.
Young Communist League of Ro-
CHESTER"
Throughout the country protest
meetings are being arranged by the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
the International Labor Defense. and
scores of other class struggle organi-
cations.
Smash Frame-up! Demonstrate
May LIST.
Workers attending these meetings
are being urged to raise the demand
Tor protest in their organizations and
to smash through the resistance of
the bureaucrats and reformists to this
demand.
Workers! Smash the courtroom
lynching of nine Negro youngsters in
Alabama! Rally to their defense!
Send protest kilograms, hold protest
meetings! Mobilize the masses for
the May Day demonstrations and
struggle against the boss system of
lynch law, starvation, wage cuts, per-
secution of fTegro and foreign born.
frame up and failing Of militant
workers, and preparations for war on
the first workers republic, the Soviet
Union.
Demand Immediate Release!
These boys are innocent. Demand
their unconditional released
Demand immediate cash relief for
starving farmers and unemployed
workers---Negroes and whites equal
lyi
Down with peorage, -Crowisn
and persecution Of the Negro people
For full equality!
Negroes can never get Justice in
the courts of the white capitalists and
landlords!
Demand the right of seIf-determin-
alton for the Negro people-the right
to a Negro State in the Black Beltr
National independence of Africa and
the West Indies!
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