The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05

NEW Notwithstanding the col
Liberation of the New York police
department. with the southern boss
1ynchers and calling upon the white
and Negro workers to mobilize their
forces to smash the frame-up and
planned legal massacre Of nine col
ored children in Alabama, the Trade
Union Unity Council of Greater New
York yesterday sent letter to Mayor
Walker, declaring, in part:
THE smashing of the Harlem dem
onstration by the police which re-
fleets the policy of the government,
indicates very clearly that program
Of suppression and terror IS being
organized similar to that followed in
the Sacco- Vanzetti murder, similar
to that used to send Mooney and
Billings to a living death in Folsom
and San Quentin penitentisries, an
attempt to suppress by terror the
workers defense in order to insure
the legal lynching of these nine
Young Negro workers.
Try Smash United Front.
1T is quite natural that Tanrnsny
Hall should give & lead in the at
tempt to terrorize the white and Ne
gro workers, so as to try and keep
them from forming powerful unit
cd front that will stop this wholesale
legal murder. New York City has
the largest Negro population of any
city in the world, and more and more
the Negro and white workers are be-
ginning to realize that the white
man" (cspitalist) laws Of white SUI
periority, Jim-Crow laws in the
South, and segregation in the North
without written law, are the methods
used very successfully up to re-
centiy) to divide the white and Me-
gro workers SO that your program of
wsge-cuts. speed-up, unemployment,
hunger and misery can more effec-
lively be forced upon the working
class as a whole.
The frame-up of the nine young
workers to the electric chair in Ala
bams, takes its place in American
labor history in long string of bru-
tai murderous frame-ups, dating
back to the beginning of trade
urionisnl-the outstanding one of
which was the hanging of the five
workers in Chicago, in the year 1886,
whose only crime was that they were
leaders in the great strike for the
eight-hour day called on May First,
1886, in Chicago, and which gave
birth to May Day as an International
Day of working class struggle. Gov
ernor Algeld years later, in pardon
ing Neebe, Swabb and Fielding. adj
mitted the frame-up, but Parsons.
Spies, Fischer, Engel and Ling, we're
murdered just the same.
Brutal Suppression of Negro Masses.
with the Scottsboro Negro boys
the situation differs, in only one
sense, but a very fundamental one,
they are Negro workers and in that
lies the whole story Of the struggle
Of the most exploited section of the
working class with all the added
features of a suppressed minority,
against intensified exploitation. not
only as workers and poor farmers,
but whose exploitation is increased
because they are Negroes. In the
South, robbed as share troopers, en-
shaved in chain-gangs, worked as
poems on white farms-at starvation
wages in the industries, subject to
the law of the mob, jim Crowed, dis
franchised; in fact, subject to all the
brutal exploitation of capitalism,
there is added to it many of the most
brutal suppressions suffered by CO.
lonisl peoples. In the North the
same general policy is pursued, al
though not to the same marked de-
gree as IN the South. Segregated by
program if not by Law, the Negro is
compelled to pay higher rents for
uiisanitary homes, they are given the
hardest work at the lowest wages,
they are the last to be hired and the
first to be fired.
''The nine young Negroes OF
Scottsboro are not leaders-their ar
rest for stealing ride on freight
train while looking for a job, was
seized upon to further terrorize the
Negroes who are organizing espe-
cially IN the South, yes organizing
with the white workers in Joint
struggle against wage-cuts, speed-up,
Unemployment, for immediate relief
and for unemployment insurance,
and what is more, for social, politi-
cal and economic equality for the Ne
groes. This sends shivers down the
spine Of the whole capitalist class, es-
pecially the Southern gentlemen"
b, your police under your instruc-
aens smash a white and Negro work
ers' demonstration in Harlem organ
ICED to help to stop the legal murder
of these nine young Negro workers.
Convenient Lynching Excuse.
"Of course, the charge against
these young workers is "rape"-the
convenient excuse used to lynch Or
burn q Negro. Just as they can get a
Mcdonald or an Oxnan to swear
! they saw Mooney throw q bomb, or 4
Harry Orchard to testify against Bill
. Haywood, or paid witnesses to swear
: the lives Of Sacco ana vansetti away,
50 it is very easy to get a prostitute