The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-10
By TOM HOLMES

GENERAL months ago the ever-groVing unity
of the white and Negro workers became so
noticeable to the bosses of Philadelphia that
they frantcally looked around for a means to
crush this growing unity.
To them the organization Of white and Negro
workers together into militant workng-class Or
Plantations meant disaster. The miserable relief
which was being given to an extremely small part
OF the working class was being cut down The
resentment of the unemployed masses was in
Creasing, the Unemployment Councils were
growing by leaps and bounds. EvictionS we're
successfully being resisted where the workers
were organized. A certain amount of extra relief
was forced from the Lloyd Committee, hunger
marches exposing the grating, corrupt Ware
Moore machine were staged, ever new sections OF
the working-class were being drawn into active
struggle against hunger and war. The bosses
SAW THAT A UNITED WORKING-CLASS
WAS DETERMINED TO FIGHT FOR THEIR
RIGHTS TO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO
LIVE AND AGAINST THE STARVATION
LYNCHING - WAR PROGRAM OF THE
BOSSES. .s g.. .-.. ..
The first major step In the boss campaign Of
terror was to frame up innocent Willie Brown,
a Is year old Negro boy on charg eof murder.
All of the facts in the case undoubtedly prove
police were looking for Negro to frame up as
can be easily seen from statement made by
leading police official:-"We (the pohce) do not
know who committed the crime but we feel that
1T WAS EITHER A DARK SKINNED WHITE
MAN OR A LIGHT SKINNED NEGRO" After
making about so arrests Of which As were Of
Negro workers, the bosses selected innocent Will
lie Brown as a victim
The fact that q white mans hair was found
on the person of the dead girl that the detective
who arrested Willie Brown admitted that he
arrested him because he looked suspicious; just
played hunch," that the only evidence against
Willie were confessions" extorted from him by
brutal third degree methods and repudiated by
Willie Brown after he was let out Of cold
storage" Willie Brown was railroaded to death
sentence
The police and boss papers used this case in
order to create race riots and lynch spirit against
the Negro masses The trial" was rushed through
in a court filled with race prejudice, without
a Negro on the jury. The vicious boss Judge
Harry S. McDevitt told the jury to bring in a
verdict of guilty. All this proves definitely that
it Is not only case of an innocent Negro worker
being framed up but also COLD-BLOODED
DELIBERATE SCHEME OF THE BOSS CLASS
TO CREATE RACE DIVISION AMONG THE
wORKNG-CIAS IN ORDER TO STOP THE
GROWING UNITY OF THE WHITE AND
NEGRO WORKERS OF PHILADELPHIA And
not only ttrs but TT WAS THE FIRST PRE-
PARATORY STEP IN THE MOST VICIOUS
CAMPAIGN OF TERROR TIE WORKERS OF
PHILADELPHIA has EVER FACED. In the
tssrne-up of Willie Brown, the bosses we're ably
asded by their assistant hsngmen, the traitorous
Negro naisleaders
The International Labor Defence as well as the
@koer IssS~wing working -claSs organizations took
Up NE light for Willie Brown as soon as the
character Of the case became plain. The L L D.
&<poeed the case 80 thoroughly and clearly to the
Aoxkers that the police department launched
&akh campaign Of terror against the workers
and especially against the International Labor
befense. Workers were arrested for speaking at
hastings. distributing leaflets, attending meet
angz walking along the streets. Tor being present
IA working class officea
u must be mdertood that the mass fight for
Mf3ns Brown was linked up with the general
MS1ls against boss terror and the necessity OF
ne working -class to organize for better condi-
Sons and against the boss program Of hunger.