The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-01


tional mass movement to force a
new hearing for the eight young
Negro boys and secure their re-
lease from death cells at Kilby
prison, Montgomery, Ala.
January 8, 9, and 10 will be
"Scottsboro Protest Days" for
100000 International Labor De-
Tense members and members of
affiliated worker organizations,
according to J. Louis Engdahl, /.
L. D. secretary. In 80 large Am
erican cities protest meetings will
be held, demonstrations staged,
and a sweeping publicity cam
paign launched to focus a glare of
public attention upon the legal
Ilynching of these innocent young
Negro workers.
Parents Visit Boys
Seven parents and relatives of
the boys were sent by the l. L. D.
to visit the boys in KiIby Prison
last week. General George w.
ChamIee, celebrated Chattanooga
attorney, retained by the I. L. D.
to defend the boys in their APP
peal, writes of the visit:
"The southern district of Gne l..
l.. D. provided expense money for
visit to the prison by Mrs. Ada
Wright, Mrs. Beatrice Maddox,
Mrs. Lula Jackson, Mrs. Josephine
Powell, Mrs. Ida Norris, and two
girls, sisters of Roy and Andy
Wright. l have been to Kilby
Prison and visited the Scottsboro
boys a number of times, but do
not think they were ever as hap
DIV to see their families as they
were this time. The boys are very
grateful for the assistance furn-
ished them by the 1. L. D."
Mr.. Engdahl denied categorical
I1y today the statement issued to
the press by the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People that Mr.. Chamlee was
ruled out of the appeal because
Circuit Judge A. E. Hawkins "dio
not approve" the bill Of exceptions
filed by the 1. L. D. attorney.
I. L. d. In Case From Start.
'The International Labor De
, Tense is in the Scottsboro ease
with both feet-as it has beer
from the beginning, before the N
A. A. C. P. dared to take a stand,
says Mr.. Engdahl, "and it intends
! 30 remain in the case. By thu
} ltFishes of all the boys and al
their parents and nearest of kin
? 1.-THE l. L. D. will argue the appea
!, before the Supreme Court OF
: January IS.
Z "The N. A. A. C. P. has beel
: carrying on a persistent attacl
: against the 1. L. D., claiming tina
we are not defending the boys
? that the N. A. A. c. P. was in tn
case first, and that the policy o
: our organization-which saved tn
D boys originally when their live
t were in immediate dangers cal
culated to harm these young Ne
n gro workers.
"None Of these statements ha
r a scrap Of truth to stand on. TIL
;, I'M A. A. C. P. has been engage
s for months in issuing a strear
: of falsehoods and distortion
: against the /. L. D.
: Typical of this sort of N. A. 4
. &c. P. propaganda is the story ths
1 mrs. Jamie Patterson, mother {
u Haywood Patterson, who was bal
red from the platform when sh
attempted to speak at the N. A. 4
&c. P. convention in Pittsburgl
u was not Mrs. Patterson at all, bl
an 'impostor.'
N eff the N. A. A. G. z. was
| the case from the beginning, WI
did Stephen Roddy,-original d
\ tense lawyer who betrayed Il
J boys by urging them to plead gui
ty-say to the Jackson County Sc
n Etinel, Scottsboro, on April 8, TIL
he was in the trial at the inst
CATION of some friends of the Cha
= tanooga Negro accused and tn
he had not been employed or pa
: by any organization Of any kind
"Walter White has also be,
declaring that the l. L. d. h
- tried to buy off some Neg
- newspapers TO support our car
!, paign. This statement, like t
e others, is a blanket falsehood. T
- Pittsburgh Courier, official org
% for the N. A. A. c. P. runs an
dignant story of how two I. L.
Representatives brought to the ?
IT per's office Mrs. Wright, moth
! of two of the boys now being he
y in the death row in connecti
with the infamous Scottsboro ca
We coming 10 Pittsburgh to speak
a. a monster mass meeting.
Mock Mother of Sentenced 30
70 This is foolishl' cries t
Courier, sneering at Mrs. Wrig
of as poorly informed but thorOug
an Ily excited over the affair! F
w cause the l. L. d. wanted M
lr- Wright to tell her people the ste
ad of the framing up of her two so
the Courier captions the ste
lie with the blatant headline: Il
RS Courier Refuses to be Stamped
ON for Cashl In the article itss