The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-14
MOVE 5 NEGRO
YOUTHS FROM
SCOTTSBORO
Nationwide Protest
Against Legal Lynch
ing of 8
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Of white and Negro workers to form
defense corps to guard the eight
youths against the threat Of lynch
ing raised by the bosses in their press.
Mass Protest Scare Boss Lynchers.
Resulting directly from the militant
protests of many working class Or
CARNATIONS and mass meetings, the
eight boys have been transferred
from the local prison to Birmingham,
where the danger of their being vic
tins of mob lynching is somewhat
lessened. The protest kilograms and
resolutions being sent the governor
and trial judge are plastered over the
southern press and the bosses are be-
ginning to show great concern at the
extent to which the vicious nature
of the trial is being exposed and the
working masses, white and Negro,
modified for the defense Of the eight
Negro youths.
Among the organizations known to
have sent kilograms of protest so far
to Governor B. M. Miller, at Mont
gomery, Ala, are: The Trade Union
Unity League, the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, the International
Labor Defense, the Anti-Imperialist
League of the United States, and the
Young Communist League. Protest
kilograms have also been sent from
mass meetings of 1900 workers in
Cleveland, Ohio; $4,000 at the Fret
heit Ninth Anniversary Celebration,
at Bronx Coliseum, New York City;
and from nearly a thousand Negro
and white workers who packed St.
Luke's Hall, 125 West 13oth ST., New
York City, last Friday night.
Demonstrate May Day!
The rising working class protests,
together with the nationwide prep
arations for militant, gigantic May
Day demonstrations against the boss
terror and frame-ups, against starva-
ton and wage-cutS, and for unem-
ployment relief and insurance, for
the rights of the Negro masses, has
struck terror into the heart of the
Southern white ruling class.
The workers, white and Negro, ma
tive born and foreign born, must
continue the fight to smash the muir
derous frame-up and planned legal
lynching of these eight young Negro
workers.
Workers! See that your organiza-
ton wires protests at once to the
governor of Alabama; Negro workers!
Break down the treacherous coop
Grafton of the Negro misleaders with
the Southern lynching gang! Raise
militant demands in your organiza-
tons! Send committees to the Negro
reformist papers and demand that
they stop printing news of the "trial'
from the bosses point of view! De-
mand that they stop peddling the in
famous lie of a flair trial" of pro
lection" by the National Guard! De-
mand that they give more than two
inches on an inside page to this at
tempt to crush out the lives of eight
Negro lads on a frame-up charge of
raping two prostitutes!
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Workers in the A. F. of L.! See
that your locals protest this mass
murderl Break down the resistance
of the fascist bureaucrats! Join the
struggle to save the lives of these
young workers and crush the terror
of the bosses against the Negro and
| foreign born workers!
Rush your protests to the governor
of Alabama! Rush funds immedi-
ately to the national office of the
International Labor Defense, at 80 E.
18th St., so that the defense may not
be hampered! Join the struggle for
Negro fights, for the right of the
suppressed Negro majorities of the
Black Belt of the southern states to
determine and control their own form
of government, for national liberia
ton for the masses of Africa and the
| West Indies!
Arrange mass meetings, arrange
street and factory gate meetings
Rouse the masses to the menace
against these eight young members Of
our class! Mobilize the workers anc
poor farmers for the defense of these
eight victims of boss frame-up anc
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