The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-22
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.


National Chairman of the In
ternatiOnaI Labor Defense, who
yesterday died of pneumonia in
Moscow, following a six months
tour of Europe In behalf of the
ScOttsboro boys.
THE European tour Of the Scots
L boro Negro Mother through six
teen countries in six months must
be considered as an outstanding
working class achievement in the
period of mounting terror and
growing war preparations. 1t has
now been successfully ended on the
eve Of the World Congress of the
3 International Red Aid which or
ganized and carried through the
tour.
1t was the roar Of European and
world protest that originally halted
the judicial lynching decreed by the
Scottsboro Judge. Hawkins, of
Death by the passage of a current
of electricity through your bodies,
and now has stayed the lynching
again by forcing the U. S. Su-
preme Court to grant the Scots
boro boys another trial.
In an effort to stifle this pro-
test the prosecuting attorney in
Alabama threatened the telegraph
agencies with contempt of court,
which might mean several months
in prison, if kilograms of protest
were received and delivered.
FEAR MASS
PROTEST
But the waves of protest con
tinued to lash against the whole
judicial structure and the lynch
system of Alabama so that When
the official lynch mob raided a
meeting Of Negro share troopers
at Camp Hill, Alabama, murdered
the leader, burned down the church
in which the meeting was held,
and made numerous arrests, imme-
diately the international Labor De-
Tense took up the fight, all the
prisoners were freed, because, said
these official mobsters, 1--WE do not
want another Scottsboro easel"
WHEN Mrs. Wright left New York
W for Europe in April the Scots
boro boys, two Of whom were her
own sons, had been condemned to
die on June %. At that moment
the Federal Government at Wash
ington stood ready, and still does,
to give the lynch courts of Alaba-
ma every possible aid In carrying
through the mass burnings in the
electric chair.
President Hoover's department Of
state, at Washington, because Of
the mass proportions of the Scots
boro campaign, did not dare stop
Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two
of the Scottsboro Negro boys, and
]. Louis Engdah1, National Chair
man of the International Labor De-
Tense, leaving the United States,
although it had their every move
ment under surveillance, tried to
bring pressure on various European
governments to accomplish its pur-
pose.
Thus the New York Times, which
speaks quite authoritatively of the
activities Of the Wall Street gov
eminent in Europe, said at the very
beginning of the European Scots
boro tour, that:
"The American Embassy Der
iln) Is reported to have brought
informally the proposed agitation
10 the attention of the foreign
office, which In turn has referred
the matter to the local police at
points where the woman mrs.
Wright) il scheduled TO appear"
The German government, like the
government OF the dollar reaction,
would not assume the responsible
ity Of suppressing the Scottsboro
tour. 1t left this task, for the most
part, to social-democratic police
presidents, who, nevertheless,
failed in their task, for the German
tour was ended successfully.
CONTINUE THEIR DRIVE.
But this In no way ended the
activities Of the dollar diplomats in