The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
NEGRO WORKERS SENTENCED TO DIE BY LYNCH court
Workers, Negro White!
Stop the illegal" Lynching of Nine
Negro Boys in Alabama!

IL Scottsboro Alabama the southern white ruling class
is now engaged in ynchng Negro boys from 16 to
20 years of age The ynching carried on in legal form
in the courthouse while outside of the courtroom armed
mob organized by wealthy leading citizens of that
muny and supported by thousand soldiers of the Ala
bama National Guard experimenting the ynching of
these defenseless boys
There have been illegal" lynchings in the United
States already this year.
burning public except that
through all of the forms of the law but with
the mobthat the
swift death of the victims
without the slightest shadow of a real defense
these Negro boys arrested and al
eight been convicted lightning speed amidst the cheers of
death The yncng of the ninth boy is
helping of the judge all the states officers
and the so-caled attorneys for the defense
southern white gentlemen they would
the extent of weeks months
these boys members of and class
which are considered only as material 1or exploration Oh e LABOR by
which rules the South Therefore they given
u" as would he obtained b nbic burning on the c streets Some
declared themselves favor
execution the boys whom they supposed defend
The Communist Party of the United States calls all workers and
exploited in vicinity bncng
out the whole country and the world to rally to the defense of these
boys of our class and to stop the court house Iynchng
for this mudeous treatment working class boys
landlords capitalist classes the South
white backward southern communities The capitalists
this organization will destroy the
basis OF their uper-expoaon of southern labor agricultural and
industrial
ceeding Negro white
stand the need of organizing militant trade unions and their working
political
100000 unemployed workers and their families in this country white
organ
ng together in unemployment councils they DOING and
polling relief at the of the capitalist The parasite landlords
and capitalists of Alabama know that the uniting of Negro white
will
breaking the of the parasite classes of the South
The southern ruling class therefore proceeds to whip
portuny the widest hatred against the Negro farming and industrial
workers They
temat murder workers Wherever possible the
workers in their ba nc6 cm KNOWING that v e vo T'
effectively oppose the
The mass murders with stake and pe which are the classic init
ton" of the southern ruling
several the yncer attain the
by hearts hypoccal pnses of lega pro-
which, swftness brutality ignoring rights
defendant different from the booded illegal nc
Negro working farmers
which has continued
slaverychesp labor
The directed
shareoppers against white workers
wherever the white workers show the slightest
exploitation of the
strike organizer Ella May Virgins at Gastona the
textile strikers in Marion c. and the recent kidnapping and attempted
nchng OF TWO white Cooler and Hurst Dallas
evidence that the southern ruling directs its
all OF the working class Who resist their exploitation.
The Communist upon the white
OF the white workers of the whole South the whole
defense Of these Negro bows who are being nched in " ~
The Communist Party calls organ
zaion to adopt strong resolutions
the Daily Worker But wires to such cant
st officials you organize the greatest
possible speed mass meetings militant against
this crime Let the southern ruling working
not tolerate further continuance of their bloody
organizations
OF the Negroes such the National
Colored People, the Universal the Urban
League etc. fact the middle class
osts who perfectly upon to rally
those organizations in defense scotsboro These
eost leaders can be expected Negro
masses and In this it betay
these getting
to be against Illegal ynhng The Party upon the
rank and Tile members of these organizations their
support to the campaign these
We demand united working farming masses of this
country to stop the legal lynchng a Scotsboro
Workers black and wheoganize meetings militant
longer!
1ne death penalty Tor nches Stop ynchng Scosboo!
AWVlnaoer~~n-~---- - CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
Y COMMUNIST PARTY OF o. s. A. : !,