The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
AYR. OLD ROY
WRIGHT SENDS
LETTER TO LID,
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guilty of such hideous crime. Oh,
to think have got to suffer so as
to say spiritually and only physic-
ally living to my prison inmates.
You know that really is hard for
me, MIR. Maurer. hope I'll get out
of here soon with the help of you
all and my prayers. You know
pray every night of my life. Maybe
he knows that know nothing of
that crime. / mean the good mas
ter above.
May God have merck on such
people as those to accuse me of
such. am not guilty, whether
anybody believes it or not.
wouldn't even attempt to do such,
even If had ever thought of such
a thing in my whole life. So you
know that almost runs me crazy in
here.
You know I am idle in here and
] think the whole thing over and
over. To think there is people so
unjust that they put things on
people they don't know anything
about. Well, nevertheless the good
lord don't like ugly things 50 I'll
trust in him for those that try to
punish me for a deed I didn't
commit.
forgot to tell you that I got
a letter from Mama. She's Ok.
Well I guess I'll close for this time.
/ hope 1 get out Of here this month
so I'll close.
from yours as ever
Poor little Roy Wright.
This letter from 14-year old Roy
Wright tells its own story more
than anything else could
do. This innocent child suddenly
snatched up by the white terror of
the south, has suddenly snatched up
by the white terror of the south, has
no idea what it is all about and is
almost losing his reason turning it
over in his childs mind without
finding any solution or explanation
for his suffering. He does not I'M
derstand that thousands of Negroes
have suffered as he is suffering now.
He does not understand that he is
suffering not because of any crime
but because of the attempt of the
white ruling class to continue his
people in oppression.
Little Roy has been taught like
most workers in the capitalist and
colonial countries that there is a god
that watches over the rich and poor
alike. So Roy waits and prays for
that god to perform the miracle that
will cause the jail doors to swing
open to permit him to go home to
his mother. But he sees that this
god of the white bosses allows him
to suffer although he is innocent.
He does not understand that this
god is just one of the many illusions
with which the ruling class fills the
minds of workers. He does not I'M
derstand that he will only be freed
as the working class rallies to his
defense; as the fear of the working
class is thrown into the hearts of the
southern boss lynchers
and as the masses sweep aside the
white and Negro reformists at the
head of the N. A. A G. P. who are
cooperating with the white bosses
N attacking the mass defense move
nent which alone can free little Roy
and the other eight children in the
clutches of the southern master
class.
If this child, Roy could under
stand something something of the
gigantic movement for the unity
Of Negro and white workers which
had arisen as the result of the at
,empts of the bosses to murder him,
ne would not feel so lonely and sad.
If he could understand the class
forces lined up in the fight against
and for him, he would have the
answer to all Of his questions. On
one hand he would see the southern
posses, backed by the United States
backed by capitalists
all over the United States and
throughout the world. trying to muir
der him, and on the other hand,
opposing these forces and their muir
derous oppression of his people, little
Roy would see the mighty millions
Of the international proletariat,
to his defense under the
leadership of the Communist Parties
n every country of the world. He
would see in the Soviet Union, a
mighty people standing as one in his
defense. He would see white and
Negro workers uniting on every
hand, with millions of Chinese, In
iian and other Asiatic workers, for
the fight to free himself and the
eight other child victims of muT-
ierous capitalism.
Workers. On with the fight to
mash the Scottsboro Frame-up!