The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Two Socialist
Mayors and
Scottsboro
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL

Doth Vienna, in Austria, and zu-
rich, in Switzerland, have So
cialist mayors. The Scottsboro
Negro mother, Ada Wright, spoke
in both of these cities.
The Scottsboro mother, however,
received with laundering enthusi-
asm by the great mass of workers,
and by broad strata of non-worker
elements, became an object of close
surveillance under Socialist orders.
Socialist Police Shadows
Vienna, Socialist Vienna" of the
Bauers and Kautskys, pride of the
so-called cleft" Socialists the world
over, where the Socialist, Seitz, is
Burgermeister, where the Socialists
have the overwhelming majority in
the municipal council, through its
ruling regime, did not greet the
Scottsboro mother nor protest the
Scottsboro judicial lynching. In
stead, while its police followed the
Scottsboro mother like a shadow
all the time she was in Vienna. the
Socialist official family had as it's
guest the American ambassador,
Gilchrist Stockton, at the unwilling
of a tablet designating one of
Vienna's municipal housing projects
as George Washington Hof." The
Vienna socialists thus fawned upon
the lynchers and their spokesman.
Outmaneuvering the Police
But the workers did not let this
pass in silence. In fact, the mass
demonstration became mass indig-
nation against the Scottsboro per-
Secution; against the speech of the
Socialist mayor, the speeches of
workers; against the attempted
speech of the American ambassador
the mass distribution of red leaflets
among the holiday throng demand
ing, Free the Scottsboro Negro
Boys!', and when the police had
carried through numerous arrests,
and thought they had the situation
well in hand, huge truck appeared
carrying workers with their faces
blackened to symbolic the victims
of the American 1ynch-terror. This
was the signal for a storm Of ieer-
ing--the piercing 'Pfuiruf" of the
German workers-as the Socialists
and their American boss class allies
sought to place in position the
Washington Memorial Tablet.
Meanwhile the police renewed
their attack on the masses, arrest
ing the young workers and the
chauffeur on the truck, and seizing
the truck itself. While mass arrests
were being made, the dedication
program, much shortened, was hur-
riedly completed and the American
ambassador sought an escape in
his automobile, more jeering and
some stones Fastening his depar-
ture.
Words and Deeds
These Vienna Socialists are the
social-fascists who brazenly raise
the slogan Of Hands off the Soviet
Unionl" at the very moment when
their tribute Of the slave-owning
American president is attended by
the Polish ambassador, the spokes-
man Of the -Slovakian am
bassador, a representative of the
Chinese Marking government, and
similar instruments for the prepara-
ton Of the war against the Soviet
Union.
While the workers were demand
ing, Free the Scottsboro Negro
boysl" the Socialist mayor was
speaking, in part, as follows:
ut is 200 years since the birth
Of George Washington. This ami
versary is not only celebrated in
the United States, but in all the
countries of the world. We cele-
brate this occasion also In Vienna.
George Washington has become
the symbol Of the forward strus-