The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-08

innocent Negro DOyS WHO
were framed up on a
Grape" charge in Scots
boro, Ala, and originally SEN
fenced to die in the electric
chair on July 10, 1881.
This partial victory is a di-
rect result of the international
campaign of protest organized and
led by the Communist Party of the
U. S. and the International Labor
Defense. In practically every coun-
try of the world mighty demonstra-
tions of protest were held, and mil
lions of workers-Negro and white
modified behind the campaign to
force the freedom of the Scottsboro
defendants.
Does Not Mean Boys Are Free!
The decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court means that the Scottsboro
boys get new trial-it does not
mean that they go free!
While the decision postpones the
execution in the face of overwhelm-
ing evidence of their innocence, the
U. S. Supreme Court turns the
Scottsboro boys back into the hands
Of the court which engineered the
original frame-up.
A careful reading of the official
decision shows that the Supreme
Court has taken great care to in
struct the Alabama authorities how
properly" to carry through such
lynch schemes and thus to bolster
their discredited judicial" institu-
lions.
Cue for New Lynch Verdict.
Thus, the failure of the defend
ants to obtain adequate legal repre-
sanitation" is given as the sole ground
for granting the new trial.
In its ruling it based itself on
mere legal technically 1t ignored
the fact that the boys were framed
up from the start; that the lawyers
for the defense" assigned by the
court and approved by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People actually worked on
behalf of the prosecution; that the or
iginal trial was held in an atmosphere
of lynch law-with armed militia and
a mob of 10000 outside the court
bowling for the blood of the innocent
Negro youths. 1t ignored the fact that
Negroes we're excluded from the jur-
les in the Scottsboro trials.
These fundamental questions of
Negro rights were contemptuously
passed over by the court as of mo
material weight" Taking the cue from
the miSleaders of the NA.A.CP. in
their attacks on the mass fight to
free the boys, the Court characterized
the defendants as young, illiterate
and ignorant"
Meanwhile, in Fort Payne, Ala,
Judge A. E. Hawkins, who imposed
the death penalty on the Scottsboro
boys, said that the new trial will be
set for the March term of the Circuit
Court at Scottsboro. He said that
the trial date would be set within
the next few weeks, and that he
would ask for troops at the second
trial, over which he probably will
preside. "The presence of militia
will be more imperative than ever"
he said.
Ask Immeriate Lynching.
A dissenting opinion was rendered
by Judge j. G. McReynolds and Pierce
Butler, two judges who upheld the
contention of the Alabama authori-
ties that the judicial murder of the
Scottsboro boys should proceed with
out further delay
Even as the court was in session, a
militant demonstration of several
hundred Negro and white workers was
held on the capitol grounds yesterday
afternoon. Defying the police. who
had modified TO prevent picketing,
the workers battled with them as they
held their banners aloft demanding:
Free the ScottSboro Boys"
Twelve we're hurt, including several
policemen, and 13 Of the workers
we're Jailed.
Five hundred police patrolling
every inch of the capitol grounds
launched a tear gas attack on the
picketers. The capitol was an armed
camp. Motorcycle police patrolled
all roads entering the Plaza. The
picketers marched in the face of
drawn revolvers in the hands of po-
lice. Only gas attack and four
to-one mobilization of police dis
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