The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
NJ ASSES IN.
NATION -WIDE
PROTEST SAT.
Scottsboro Boys Firm
Stand Defeats
Betrayers
N.A.A.C.P.Lawyer Out
Boys and Parent is
Stand Firm For
Mass Fight

NEW YORK-The Southern Dis
trict of the International Labor De-
Tense has reported to the national
office that when General George V,
Chamlee, southern I. L. D. attorney,
recently visited Dadeville, Alabama,
he found that the sheriff responsible
for the murder of Ralph Gray Negro
cropper, together with the local
sheriffs and jailers had cleared out
of town. The I. L. D. attorneys visit
to Dadeville had became known
dav prior to his arrival and word
had spread that Chamlee was coming
to Tallapoosa County to prosecute
all responsible for the terror let loose
by the plantation owners and their
police against the Negro choppers.
The troopers were murderously att
tackled by landowners and police for
daring to organize into the Share
Choppers Union to resist the swindl-
ing by the landowners. In the meet
ings of the union they had also pro-
tested against the legal lynching of
the SCOTS boro boys and joined the
international working class in the
demand for the unconditional release
of these innocent victims of Jim
Grow capitalism. In addition to
Gray, who was looked on by the
landowners as one of the leaders Of
the choppers, four choppers were
lynched by the bosses, five wounded
and scores arrested.
AS result of the militant fight
put up by the I. L. D. and the Share
Choppers Union, backed by millions
of workers throughout the world, the
Alabama landowners have been forced
to dismiss their frame-up charges
against most of the troopers.
The troopers still in Jail are Tho
mas Gray, Doizer, Miner, James
Gray, Jasper Canada and Will Drake.
They are all reported to be "staunch
in spirit and more than ready to
carry on the struggle against exploit
tation and racial discrimination The
I. L. D. is fighting to have them re-
leased on bail. Money is urgently
needed for the defense of these work
ers and of the Scottsboro boys and
workers are urged to rush funds to
the I. L. D. Room 430, 80 East 18th
Street, New York City.
Beddow out of Case
Alabama newspapers report in an
interview with Beddow of Fort,
Beddow and Ray, N.A.AC.P. attor-
news, that they are mo longer
defending the Scottsboro Negroes"
THE reason this firm has dropped
out of the case,' says a statement
by the 1. L. D., sis becaur2 Ter
found that the boys cd
parents want the Intern So
Labor Defense, the League 9.
Struggle for Negro Rights and he
United Scottsoboro Defense Com
mittees to have charge of the case.
Beddow, Fort and Ray found them
selves without clients. The parents
and the imprisoned boys realize
that only militant defense back
ing court action can win this
struggle and that legality alone has
never given the Negro workers
Justice. The courts are controlled
by the white ruling class and dec
AIDES of persecution and legal
lynching have been a bitter ex-
perience for Negro workers. The
Scottsoboro boys will be freed
through the united struggle of
Nero and white workers against
the ruling class"
Workers. Demonstrate August %!
Demand the release of the Scots
boro boys and the Camp Hill crop
pers, Of Tom Mooney, of the militant
mine strike leaders, and of all class
war prisoners! Smash the boss terror
against the working-cla DEMAND
amnesty for 81 class war prisoners!
Demonstrate this Saturday, Aug. %!