The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07

case because they didn't have enough money
to handle 1t and blamed the Negro workers for
not keeping the NAACP well supplied with
money. But they didn't explain and they can't
explain why they announced that Jones was
guilty just because they didn't have enough
money to fight the case. After the workers saw
what kind of tricks the NAACP plays on them
and that it is really boss class organization
just like the courts are, it was necessary for
the officials to try something else. They there
fore decided to scare the 7. L. D. out of the
case. That is why they arranged the mob at
tack on the lawyer and investigators
Gov. Richie Denies Protection.
When the International Labor Defense branch
in Baltimore heard that the mob had sur
rounded the Court House in Snow Hill and was
beating up the l. L. D. lawyer and Investigators
they telegraphed Governor Ritchie and demand
ed protection. But the Governor said that he
didn't have anybody to send down there This
was a lie because later when the Interna-
tional Labor Defense exposed this situation and
began TO tell all the workers about it, Governor
Richie became afraid of the publicity and
quickly got together rs state police and 200 Ma
tional Guards with machine guns ,bayonets and
gas bombs as fake gesture of protecting Jones
and the I. L. d. lawyer
Well, of course, in all of the excitement Jones
had not yet been put on trial and that would
have to be done sooner or later. So the l. L. D.
asked Governor Richie what he was going to
do about protecting the I. L. D. lawyer who
would have to go back to the Eastern Shore to
defend Jones' Governor Ritchie said that he
wasn't going to do anything and that the l. L. D.
lawyer had no business going back that the
Court had appointed a very good lawyer to de-
fend Jones' You see they wanted to frighten
ant Of thc hxyr
him from the lynch mob. But in order to make
sure that he couldn't do any good even if he
came and wasn't lynched they wouldn't let him
course, the lawyer couldn't find out from Jones
where he had been when the murder was COM
nntted and couldn't get any witnesses together
SO the lawyer filed a petition in the Baltimore
City Court asking the Judge there to compel the
warden of the Jail to let him see Jones
Lawyers Alone Can't Defend Jones
When the boss class violates the law, when
they want to railroad workers to Jail and to the
electric chair, then lawyers and laws alone are
useless because the bosses who made the laws
don't hesitate to break them But the workers
still have the best defense in the world And
that defense is organized protest on mass
scale. SO the members of the International
Labor Defense went out on street corners and
from soap boxes they explained to the workers
now The 1rame-up OF the nine innocent Scots
boro boys was being repeated in Maryland with
the assistance Of Governor Ritchie. They went
into churches and spoke to the congregations
about the legal lynching of Orphan Jones that
the boss class courts were about to arrange with
the assistance Of the Governor. They went into
labor union meetings and into meetings of the
unemployed councils and told the workers what
the bosses were doing to Orphan Jones and
what would be done to them next.
Workers Flood Governor With Protests.
The International Labor Defense has branches
all over the United States and the branches In
Washington and Philadelphia did the same thing
there that the Baltimore branch was doing And
these meetings OF workers sent kilograms Of pro-
test to Governor Ritche. Mass meetings Of
white and Negro workers were called and reso-
lutior1s OF protest against the frame-up and legal
lynching of Orphan Jones were adopted and sent
TO Governor Rtchie.
Workers 10 power In the world can withstand
the organized might of the working class When
the day arrived for the hearing in court to see
v1sether THE l. l. q. lawyer had right to zee
Snnss sha ooveeunw asrA - psssoual friend end