The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
NEGRO PRESS AND NEGRO
BOYS FACING DEATH

frame-up in quotation marks and trnid question
marks and we are not so patient about the
proper time" to defend our boys from murder.
We are not supported by white millonaireS With
benevolent" attitudes toward Negroes and are
not sensitive therefore, to the refined reticence
about denouncing a ruling class murder as
murder
The writer Of the Courier article, while hon
estly admitting that the Communist Party is
fighting to save these boys and while commend
ing our Party for it, nevertheless expresses the
fear that we are doing more to confuse the
situation than any other source" OF course this
fear is only the usual reaction Of conventional
people unable to throw off their blind faith In
the ruling class courts Of law, even in the pres
ence of the most CHASTITY crimes Of these ruling
class courts. So deeply ingrained is the super
stitious respect for the paraphernalia Of capi-
talst class government, that at times this super
stitouS respect so completely overcomes thu
minds Of those who are subject to 1t that they
will kiss the rope that hangs their brothers. II
only the rope is blessed by ruling class Judge.
The writer Of the Courier" evidently believes In
the fetishes and conventional lies about the Gus
tice" of our vhite-supremacy capitalism based ON
the peculiar institution Of peonage and lynch
ing Just so, rs years ago, millions still believed
in the sacred" government Of the southern slave
oligarchy and the peculiar institution Of chat
tel slavery, on which it was based, and could not
imagine that it was soon to be overthrown. And,
just so. 200 years ago. millions Of European peas
ants still believed in the sacredness Of the feudal
state and the mystic purity Of the feudal lords
who. held them in Serfdom; and these millions
believed then that such institutions were per-
manent and that to question their sacredness
was confusing"
We suggest to the editors of the Negro news
papers that eight OF these nine boys are SEN
fenced to die on July 10th, and the white su-
premacy' ruling class Of Alabama will not hest
tate to carry through the murder. We need q
united front Of all-not tirnid united front, not
a united front with quotation marks and question
narkS-but determined united front Of all who
are willing to fight to compel the bloody beast
Of 'Wnite Supremacy" to release these innocent
young victims Of their greed We urge all edi-
tors Of Negro newspapers to join with us uncon-
promisingly in this fight which. with mass pro-
portions. may be able to save these boys and
hundred more victims Of lynchings to come.
But words will not save them Only the ac-
tons Of hundreds Of thousands in mass move
ment Of protest can save them Such move
ment will reach its first high point four days
from now-on May First. The workers Inter-
struggle against unemployment. wage cuts speed
up, imperialist war and race oppression Of the
Negroes-has this year placed the saving of the
nine Negro boys at Scottsboro in the center OF
its program
The masses Of the Negro workers will be, to a
considerable extent drawn into this denionstra-
ton which is the most effective means Of giving
big impetus toward rescue Of the boys. Will
the Negro inteIectuals also join2 Or are they
still surrounded by quotation and question
marks?
The Negro masses will learn much about s'lead-
ers" in this fight to rescue our working class Ne
gro boys of Scottsboro.
But the main thing is to set in motion mass
movement to save their lives.
Stop the legal lynching Of the nine Negro
working class boys
These boys are innocent; demand their i'm
mediate released
Demand new trial before jury composed
of workers. at least half to be Negroes, to ex-
pose this frarne-upl
Equal rights of Negroes in all courtsl
The national guard is tool Of the land own
ers and capitalists; create an armed volunteer
guard of Negro and white workers to defend
the prisoners against these lynchers
Landlords are melting the starving white ten
ant-farmers and share choppers to lynch Ne
groes; the landlords and capitalist and not the
Negroes, are starving the tenant-farmers, both
white and black!
Demand immediate cash relief for starving
farmers and unemployed workers-Negroes and
whites equally!
Down with peonage, JIM rowism and perse-
cution of the Negro people, For full equalityi
For fighting alliance Of the oppressed Ne
gro people and the oppressed white workers and
tenant farmersl
Demand the confiscation of the land from the
landlords for the Negro and white tenants and
croppers!
Negroes can never get Justice" In the courts
Of the white capitalists and landlords!
Demand the right Of self-determination for
the Negro people-the right OF Negro state in
the black belt!
Stop the lynching OF nine Negro working class
boys
Death to lynchers!