The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-06

International Red Aid Calls for Redoubled
Fight Thrnont World for the ScottSboro Boys
DELEGATION OF
W @ R KERS IN
WASH'N, OCT. s
Mass Demonstrations on
World Scottsboro Day
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NO0bAo OJ AhptCCOEIl
BERLIN, Oct. 5.-Louis Engdahl,
who with Mrs. Ada Wright, is
completing stirring tour of Eu-
rope in defense Of the Scottsboro
boys, reports that the last Austrian
mass meeting at Lin with over 1000
present protested against the
Scottsboro frameup and organized
committee to continue the cam
paigf.
A big demonstration accom-
panied Mrs. Ada Wright, mother
of two Of the Scottsboro boys, and
Louis Engdahl at the railway sta
ton despite the police prohibition.
Six mass meeting and one con-
ference were held during the Aus
TRAN tour.
The International Red Aid, Of
which the International Labor De-
Tense is the American section, has
issued worldwide call to the work
ers, farmers and intellectuals of the
world to redouble the fight for the
freedom of Tom Mooney and the
Scottsboro boys, whose case comes
before the u. S. Supreme Court fol
review on Oct. 10.
The nine boys face legal lynchine
In the electric chair on frame -uI
rape charges, unless sufficient mass
pressure is raised to halt the Ameri.
can ruling class in its hideous aims
Oct. will be World Scottsboro,
Mooney Day. On this day there viii
be mass protest demonstrations in al
American cities, and in the rnajoi
cities throughout the world, for thu
release of the Scottsboro boys, Ton
Mooney and against terror agains
Negro workers and poor farmers.
The International Red Aid appea
calls on all workers organizations a
well as workers to intensity their &C
civitie: in these two outstanding case
and 20 make Oct. a day of i'm
pelling protest and demonstration.
While the workers of the worl
prepare to take part in the grea
mass demonstrations of Oct. 8 TO
the Scottsboro boys, widespread prep
arations are going forward for tn
hearing before the Supreme Court o.
Oct. 10, it is announced at the head
quarters of the International Labo
Defense, which is defending tn
boys.
Workers Delegation to Washington.
At the national convention of tn
International Labor Defense, on Oct
8 and in Cleveland, a delegation o
Negro and white workers will h
elected to present themselves il
Washington on the day of the hear
ing.
Walter B. Pollak, who has argued
many cases before the Suprem
Court, will represent the boys for tn,
International Labor Defense. Pollal
and George w. Chamlee, the Chat
tanooga attorney who has defended
the Scottsboro boys, have prepared
the brief.
The plea TO the Supreme Court foi
a reversal of the death sentences OF
Ozie Powell, Willie Robertson, Andy
Wright, Olin Montgomery, Haywood
Patterson, Charlie Weems and Clar,
ence Norris are based on the con-
tentions that "the denial of fai
and impartial trial before an un
biased and unprecedented jury consti-
tutes violation of rights under the
Fourteenth Amendment; that tht
refusal of a change of venue was G
denial to the defendants of theil
rights under the Constitution of thu
United States; that the demonstra.
ton and excitement attending thu
trial constituted a denial OF due
process; that the defendants were
compelled to go to trial represented
by attorneys who by their own ad.
mission in court, stated that the,
were not prepared Roddy and the
N. A. A. G. P. attorneys, who arr
against the boys-Editor) that the
trial of the defendants before jurie;
from which qualified Negroes WERE
by custom long standing excluded
was a violation of the Fourteenth
Amendment"
The workers must hold no illusions
as to the fairness of the U. S. Su.
preme Court, which represents the
capitalist class of the u. S. A.; they
must remember that only mass DEM
onstrations and protests of the toll.
ing masses, reinforcing the legal eff.
forts of the LID, can force the free.
dom of the framed-up Scotsbort
boys.