The daily worker., 1932-01-22
9 BOYS And.
MOTHERS ASK.
MASSES AID.

Negro boys confined in the
death cells at Kilby Prison,
Montgomery, Alabama, is directed to
the young workers of the whole world.
To the Young Workers of the World
From the death cells here in Kilby
Prison, eight of us Scottsboro boys,
is writing this to you.
We been sentenced to die for some
thing we amt never done. Us poor
boys been sentenced to burn up on
the electric chair for the reason that
we is workers-and the color Of Our
skins is black. We is none of us
older than 20. Two Of us is II and
one in 10 years old.
What we guilty of? Nothing, but
being out of ajob. Nothing but look
ing for work Our kin-folk was starv-
ing for food. We wanted to help
them out. So we hoped a freight
just like any one Of you workers
might a done-to go down to Mobile
to hunt work. We was taken off the
train by a mob and framed up on
rape charges.
At the trial they give us in Scots
boro we could hear the crowds outside
yelling, Lynch the Niggers." We
could see them toting those big shot
guns. Call at a fair trial? There
can't be no fair trial for black man
down South here,
And while we lay here in jail, the
BOSNIAN make us watch 'en1 burn
ing up other Negroes on the electric
chair. "Tliis is what you'll get" they
says to us.
What for? We amt done nothing
to be in here at all. All we done was
to look for a job. Anyone of you
all might have done the same thing
and got Trainer up on the same charge
just like we did
Only ones helped up down here
been the International Labor Defense
and the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights. We don't put no faith in
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People. AL
they do, try to stir up trouble. They
give some of lis boys eats, to go
against the otherboys who talked for
the lid. But we wouldn't split, no.
how. We know our friends and our
enemies.
Working class boys, We asks you to
save us from being burnt UP on the
electric chair. Yves only poor work
ing class boys whose skin is black.
We shouldn't die for that
We hear about working class people
holding meetings for us all over the
world and in Soviet Russia. We asks
for more big meetings. tn take 2
lot Of big meetings to help the lid
and LSNR to save Us from the boss
man down here.
Help us boys. We amt done moth
ing wrong We are only workers
like you are. Only our skin is black.
Signed,
Andy Wright, Haywood Patterson,
Eugene Williams, Willie Robert
son, Ollie Montgomery, Clarence
Norris, Charles Weams, Ozie
Powell.
Issued through the United Front
Scottsboro Defense Committee youth
Comnnittee),
CHATTANOOGA, Jan. co.
The mothers of the eight inno-
cent Scottsboro boys, who have
been railroaded to death SEN
tences in Alabama, makes the
following appeal to the toiling mas
ses Of the whole world to rally to the
mass fight which alone can save and
free their boys. The hearing of the
appeals filed by the attorneys of the
boys and the International Labor
Defense comes UP before the Ala
bams Supreme Court today. Recog-
nizing the role of the courts OF the
ruling class, the boys and their par
I ents place their faith in the work
ing class.
Workers! Rally in tremendous pro-
test demonstrations and by inne-
diate contribution of funds TO the de-
tense of these innocent boys. Rush
protest kilograms to Gov 3. NJ.
Miller Of Alabama and to the Ala
bana Supreme Court at Montgomery,
Ala. Rush funds to the Ir1ternation-
al Labor Defense at 30 East 18th st.,
New York The appeal Of the moth
ers follows;
To the working class mothers of the
world
We are the mothers of the nine
Scottsboro Negro boys who have been
sentenced to die on the electric
chair The world knows our poor
boys Is innocent We appeal TO all
working class mothers to help us
save our boys from being killed.
1t might have happened to any
working class mothers boy. We've
been starving all our lives and forced
to live from hand to mouth, working
| for as low as $3.50 a week down here
in the South and our boys wanted to
go out and find work TO help lis out.
We didn't want to let them go be-
cause they are almost only babies.
One of them is thirteen years old,
and two only fourteen. The oldest
amt over twenty.
And now here they is in Kilby