The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Interesting Letters To The Editor
Pickens Says Editor
Has Been Misled

| am sure that the Editor who
had the courage to express his opin-
ion that the N.A.A.C.P. was not quite
justified in its attitude toward Com
munist tactics in 1.-THE Scottsboro
Case" will also have the courage and
the fairness to publish this attempt
to correct that opinion.
In the first place the N.A.AC.P.
has never refused any mother of
any of the condemned boys the right
to speak at any N.A.A.C.P. meeting.
No mother has ever applied to any N.
A.A.C.P. program committee for that
privilege. The usual tactics are that
group of Communists will bring
out some woman to an Association
meeting, and just at some critical
point, usually just before the col
lection is taken, and with the plain
purpose of disturbing and running
the efforts of the meeting, one of the
Communists will take the floor, un-
invited and without pre-arrangement
with the presiding officer even, and
announce: 1--WE have here the moth
err of one of the boys who would
like to speak" And then he will at
tempt to make a speech himself, Gin
Producing" her. In no case have
they tried to see the program COM
mittee and get their representative
properly placed on program, or even
to bring such person forward at be-
ginning of meeting and introduce her
to the presiding officer, so that she
could be properly presented to the
audiences. In every case it is an
effort for Communists to get the
floor" and break up the meeting.
! They have a scheme which they call
turning a meeting into a Commu-
mist meeting" In no case have those
in charge of meeting been assured
or been given any chance to inquire
and learn whether the dummy"
they offer to introduce is actually
a mother. After one great meeting
in one great city, the local people
said to Association officers: at is
good thing you did not let those
people get away with pretending
that that woman was mother of
one of the Scottsboro boys. That
woman is member of the under
world, and has been a character
here on Wylie Avenue for years"
And when this immoral effort of
the Communists to break up your
meeting is prevented, they will say:
"The N. A. A. c. P. refused to let a
mother of the boys speak" That is
the regular tactics of this propagan-
da group. They have no sense of
honor or respect for truth. When
they make such move, they have
figured that it will be to their adj
vantage, whatever you do: if you
allow them to speak and take over
your meeting, they will break it up;
if you prevent them from running
your meeting. they will tell innocent
outsiders that you closed the door
in the face of mother"
When some Negro editors fall for
this lying rot and publish that the
N.A.A.C.P. is unfair to these poor
little, innocent. unoffersive Commu-
nists, and imply that to oppose the
crooked tactics is not right, the wish
is father to the thought. That is
not true in the case of the editor of
this paper. | know him too well. He
has been mislead, however, by some
1 VI IHcse pfopdBdHulSlS.
Throwing brick-bats at an Ameri-
can in Dresden, Germany, won't dc
a thing for black boy in an Ala.
bama Jail except help to hang him
The Communist nonsense, nuisance
and violence have already made il
not only impossible for Communists
to help those nine boys, but they
have made it exceedingly difficult
for sane and honest people to save
them. The Communists are playing
into the hands of the anti-Negro
elements of the south.
The NA.A.C.P. officers know
just what these liars are after: they
want Negroes to join their party, ant
s they want to fool Europe into be
lleving that they are turning thi:
country into Communism. The,
will not do that by bullying the off
GERS of the Association meetings
When they come into these meet
ings in the wrong way, they will NEE
bad-luck, every time.