The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
SCOTTSBORO CASE

Iecherous capitalists and landowners Of the
South Camp Fill is and was no accidental or
isolated event. 1t is a symbol and sharp mani
festation of what is developing in one form or
another throughout the entire Black Belt Of the
South This the former shareholders under
stand quite well
The Negro masses must be taught lesson"
The Negroes must be taught their place" The
grumblng and kicking must be stopped-So the
bourgeosie Of the South have figured No use
arranging single or double Iynching-that would
not be dramatic" enough Something had to be
done, and done right away "in big way"
And therefore eight young Negro lads, ranging
from Is to 20 years Of age, chosen as hostages,
to be legally lynched or framed up on vile
charges Of rape.
The textile, shoe leather, and other capitalists
Of New England states chose Sacco and Vanzetd
as victims to be burned to death In the electric
chair in order to keep the frriners in their
place" in order to lntinldate the Italian, Portu-
guese, Greek Syrian, and other workers in Law
renee, New Bedford, Fau River Lowell, Haver-
hill, ETC. 1t was challenge to the revolutionary
working class the world over.
This decision of the state supreme court OF
Alabama comes IN the midst OF the sharpest
crisis that American capitalism has yet expert
enced-and the bourgeois economists themselves
The decision to reject the appeal for new trial
cannot be separated from the fact that war is
actually raging in the East. American imperial
r ism is coming into sharper conflict with japanese
imperialism concerning the rediVision Of China
The danger OF attack and war against the Soviet
Union is immediate and direct-and American
imperialism will undoubtedly play the leading
role in such an attack.
The masses must be told In advance that no
unrest will be permitted in the rear" The
American bourgeoisie wants to have passive
working class, willing and ready to lay down its
life for the glory Of American foreign invest
ments, American trade, American markets and
| spheres OF inf1uence-for the glory" Of Yankee
imp erialism. The sop and the whip are being
used--a few crumbs OF charity for the unem-
pIoyed, and jails, beatings and murder of rebel
! lous workers-white and Negro,
In the Scottsboro boys we have symbol Of OPP
preston of the Negro nation in America, 1t is the
lear and vile boast Of the brutal oVerseer, ruling
! oppressive, Yankee Imperialism that 1t can do
with its niggers Just as it damn pleaseS," It IS
| the legal justification of tynching, jim Crow
laws, the chain gang, peonage, contract laboring
economic, political social inequality and oppres
sion 1t seeks to impress upon the oppressed
Negro nation in America its supremacy--backed
by the executioners lever attached to the electric
ClalI, WHICH III ILLS case mas IeplACcu Lie IOpS
and faggot Of the past
1t is therefore not only challenge to the
workers of the world, but especially to the colo
NAL peoples throughout the world, who are
doubly and trebly exploited by imperialism in
| Asia, Latin America and Africa
The mass protest movement developed around
the Sacco-Vanzetti case can and must be revived
on much higher plane In connection with the
Scottsboro case throughout the entire world.
| The white workers in America, especially, must
be aroused; tremendous campaign Of demon
STATIONS must be initiated in every capitalist
colonial and semi-colonial country in the world.
The campaign must be linked up with the strug-
| gle against the war danger, against the attempt
| of capitalism to make the workers and colonial
peoples bear the burden of the crisis OF world
capitalism. Only through mass struggle, mass
pressure can the Scottsboro boys be saved They
must be saved! We must never permit them to
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