The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-26
The Willie Brown Case-An Attack
Against the Entire Working Class

or write, writing, yes, or even debating, such
confession. THERE is BUT ONE CONCLUSION:
THE CONFESSIONS WE'RE FORCED FROM
WILLIE BROWN. The police at the trial stated
"innocently."
Why is it that the police refused to allow the
defense attorneys to see the confessions before
the trial? The answer is obvious-THE CON-
FESSIONS WE'RE FALSE AND THE POLICE
WE'RE AFRAID OF EXPOSURE.
The legal defense was handled by Raymond
Pace Alexander a Republican politician, who
claimed the case was legal" proposition and
not a class case.
Mr.. Alexander pretends not to see that the
Philadelphia ruling class is deadly afraid Of the
growing unity of the white and Negro workers
this city. Mr.. Alexander, who is a lawyer for
the scab-herding P. R. T. Co., is not interested
in fighting the case on a class basis. He knows
as well as the class conscious workers do that the
reason for the Willie Brown frame-up is not only
because of the inability of the police to find the
real murder but because the growing unity of
the unemployed white and Negro workers is
forcing concessions from the boss class Of Phila-
delphia, and the bosses are trying to intimidate
the Negro workers through legal lynching pro-
gram from organizing with the white and Negro
workers to fight for the right to live.
The Willie Brown Case is not the case of boy
being tried for murder but 1t is the case Of
unemployed Negro boy being framed on muir
der and the being utilized to create lynch
spirit against the Negro workers. 1t is
being used to divide the white and Negro workers
and thus IT is AN ATTACK UPON THE EN-
TIRE WORKING CLASS.
The working class of Philadelphia was too slow
to enter into the case. Their attitude was this
at first: eve will wait and see what turns up.
We will see whether or not he is really guilty"
They did not realize that this case was an attack
upon the entire working-class. Even after the
militant section of the workng-class entered the
case there was serious attempt to mobilize the
membership of the various left-wing organiza-
tiOns. Even today, many, many left-wing workers
are against the defense of Willie Brown claiming
that it is not a class case. These comrades
playing into the hands of the BOSSES for this
is exactly the theory of Raymond Pace Alex
ander and the Negro reformists, the assistant
hangmen of the bosses, who are responsible for
Willie Brown being sentenced to the chair,
that this is purely Legal one.
The Willie Brown case is being utilized by the
bosses to create terror against the working class
and it was the preparatory step In campaign Of
terror more vicious than the Philadelphia workers
have ever faced in the past.
The Willie Brown case is only the Philadelphia
link in the nationwide campaign Of terror against
the Negro masses and the working-clas as
whole. Scottsboro, Orphan Jones, Tom Mooney,
Roth and Adams, Edith Berkman Philadelphia
victims Of police terror dncluding Willie Brown
are only the outstanding cases of boss oppression
The boss class is now, more than ever attacking
the worldng-class on thousand different fronts,
and in a hundred ways In Soot*sboro the
frame-up was clumsy one; 1t fooled nobody
but in Philadelphia the police were more subtle.