The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-04
|. |. D. ATTORNEYS PREPARE
PLANS FOR DEFENSE OF ROY
WRIGHT WHOSE TRIAL NEARS

white and Negro agents to betray
the mass fight to free the boys con-
tinues. Will Alexander, Executive
Director of the Inter Racial Com
mission of Atlanta is the same Inter
racial Commission which a few
weeks ago issued the statement that
it would interest itself in the defense
campaign for the boys because it
was confident the boys had had a
fair trial.
That bunk did not go over so big,
however. The white and Negro mas
ses refused to swallow it. They con-
tinued to rally to the mass fight to
save the boys. A huge mass move
ment, based ma fighting alliance of
Negro and white workers, began to
take form. And Mr.. Alexander who,
like Pickens and Walter White, are
fearful that this mass movement will
smash "the present excellent rela-
tons" between the boss lynchers and
the frightfully oppressed southern
Negro masses. has found that after
all he is interested in the case.
In an attempt to smash the class
and national oppression character of
the case, he declares:
II have great faith in the Ala
bama Supreme Court. The case
has nothing TO do with the class
struggle. 1t grew out of contacts
between low class whites and low
class Negroes who happened to be
cumming way on freight train. 1t
requires great deal of magma
ton to see this as second Sacco-
Vanzetti Case. The case has been
complicated by outside agencies
interested in class propaganda"
Attacks Not Lynch Courts, But
Defenders of Boys
Yet but for these "outside agen-
cies" Che Communist Party, the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights,
the International Labor Defense)
these nine innocent boys would have
been legally lynched on July 10 while
the N. A. A. G. P. leaders were con-
graduating themselves that the boys
had had their day in court, and the
Inter-racial Commission was refus-
ing to be interested in the case be-
cause "the boys had had fair trial.
But Alexander attacks not the lynch
courts, but the defenders of the boys.
Workers will also remember that
it was not the white boys on the
train who railroaded these nine Ne
gro youths to the electric chair. 1t
was not "the low class whites" as
Mr.. Alexander calls the white work.
ers. 1t was the ''best citizens" and
their lynch courts. The white boys
were not allowed to testify at the
"trials." Only the two white girls,
who happen to be notorious prostit-
-utes and who were threatened with
being jailed unless they played ball,
were called by the State. And it
was precisely because the nine Negro
youths were workers Glow class Ne
groes" as Uplifter Alexander terms
them, that the white and Negro up
lifters in the N. A. A. c. p. were not
interested in their fate, until the
question became a challenge to the
continued existence of Negro OPP
preston and white supremacy.
Workers! Build the mass move
ment to free the boys! Forward
to the forging of a fighting alli-
ance Of Negro and white workers
against lynching and national op-
preston. Demand unconditional
equality for the Negro People. in
Guiding the right of self deternin-
alton for the Negro majorities in
the Black Belt, in the West Indies,
In Africa, ETC.! Fight against
starvation. wage cuts, imperialist
war and the boss poison Of race
hatred. Demonstrate August First
against imperiaIist war and for the
freedom of the nine innocent
/, Scottsboro boys