The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
AID SCOTTSBORO
FUND DRIVE
TUUL Called to Get
Behind Campaign
BY WILLIAM q. FOSTER.
National Secretary of the Trade
Union Unity League).

DJ WAGAAHAuL Gs HOD Lns
National Secretary of the Trade
Union Unity League).
MASS pressure by the American
HA working class and the workers of
the entire world has brought about
a partial victory in the fight for the
unconditional freedom of the nine
Scottsboro boys by forcing the U. S.
Supreme Court to grant a new trial
The members of the revolutionary
trade unions and the revolutionary
trade union oppoSitions in this and
other countries make up a consider
able part of the weight of that mass
pressure.
T.U.U.L. In Fight.
The Trade Union Unity League
and the revolutionary unions, leagues
and oppositions are in the fight for
the ScottSboro boys with every ounce
Of energy. The Trade Union Unity
League and the revolutionary unions,
leagues and oppoSitions are class
struggle organizations and as such
they deem it one of their main tasks
TO be in the forefront in the fight
on the terror against the Negroes
and on discrimination against the
Negro workers. One of the basic
points in the program of the revolu-
tlonary unions is the fight against
the lynch terror, against every sort
OF discrimination against the Ne
groeS.
1t is the conscious policy of the
{, William Greens and the other mis-
leaders of the American Federation
OF Labor to call for and enforce dis
elimination against the Negro work
ers, With nthe A. F. of l.. and on
the job. 1t is the policy of the
Greens, at the express order of the
ruling class, to endorse the lynch
ing of the Scottsboro boys, as evil
denced by Green's statement on the
day OF the picketing of the U. S.
Supreme Court attacking the pick
citing and calling on all A. F. of L.
members not to support the fight for
the Scottsboro boys. This is the
policy of the class deliberations
henchmen of the capitalists.
AL Leaders Continue Discrimination
The Convention Of the officialdom
Of the American Federation of Labor
at Cincinnati has reafIirmed its en-
nifty to the Negro workers. A Negro
servant of capitalism, A. Philip Ran
dolph of the Brotherhood of Sleep
ing Car Porters, introduced a milk
and water resolution stating that lin
accodance with the traditional policy
of the A. F. of L. that this organi-
zation make a verbal stand against
discrimination. The A. F. of L. off,
cialdom refused to pass even this
wiShy- washy resolution, but stated
falsely that there is no discrimiaa-
ton in the A. F. of l.. and that "the
door is vide open to Negro workers
through the formation of unions af-
filiated with A. F. of Lin short,
jim-crow, discrimination unions for
the Negro workers.
The boss class terror which in its
most hideous forms aims to lynch,
legally or Illegally. the nine Scots
boro boys, has been felt by the mem
bership of the revolutionary unions
and leagues in the struggles they
have conducted against the attacks
by the bosses and the bosses gov
eminent. Murder, deportations,
frame ups, kidnappings, brutal beat
ings have been used against the mil
liant workers engaged in struggle
against starvation.
The revolutionary unions and
leagues have found the International
Labor Defense the leader of the de-
Tense fight for the lives of the nine
Scottsboro boys, to be also the leader
of the fight against the boss terror
in the struggles of the workers
against starvation.
Negro Boys Still in Danger.
The fight for the Scottsboro boys is
by no means oyer. They are not free.
They still face 1ynching. They are
still at the tender mercies of the
Alabama courts, controlled by the
hateful southern white ruling class.
They are in danger of lynching,
either legally, at the hands Of these
courts, or Illegally at the hands of
the rope and fagot boss-incited mobs.
The blow aimed by the boss class
at the Scottsboro boys Is a blow
aimed at the whole working class,
and at the revolutionary working
class movement in particular. Side
by side with the plan to murder the
nine Scottsboro boys, with the terror
against the Negro workers, goes the
infamous Dies Bill, aimed TO crush
the entire revolutionary working
class movement, including the revo-
lutionary trade unions.
Help Fund Drive.
The revolutionary trade unions
can not sit back while the boss class
aims these crushing blows at the
working class. The forefront of the