The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20

message an announcement that he is going to
demand from Governor Miller Of Alabama an
immediate and unconditional release for the
nine. innocent Scotsboro boysP Or perhaps
(happy thoughtD President Hoover is just 60
ing to ask this conference of Negro misleaders
to be sure TO round up all the Negro votes and
deliver them, as usual, safe and sound, into the
republican camp, thus to make sure of continu-
ing a nice quiet lynch-law program.
Senator B. M. Cutting Of the Southern state
Of New Mexico is going to be at the N. A. A. g.
P. Conference, too, and everybody is looking
forward to seeing this veteran fighter for the
rights Of Negroes-though the only fighting he is
going to do is to present the Spingarn medal to
good old DR.. r. r. Motion OF Tuskegee where
they teach Negroes to be nice and "unassuming."
Has Senator Cutting done anything about the
ScottSboro case? Is anyone at the conference
going to talk about the Scottsboro case, or the
Orphan Jones case, or the plight Of unemployed
Negroes who don't happen to belong among the
bourgeois miseaders Of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Colored People?
The N-AA.C.P. reports that in Monroe, Louisi-
ana, city judge whose name Is not given, but
who has been judge for 81 years. announced
(atter hearing William PickenS speak, that he
was going to give money to the N.A.A.C.P. 81
am making my contribution to this organiza-
people ought to do your best by it," Since when
have white Southern judges advocated the best
interests Of Negroes? Is this white Southern
Judge protesting the legal lynching OF the Scots
boro boys? Or is he supporting the N.AACP. ex-
actly BECAUSE the NAACP doesn't bother
about the Scottsboro boys, and therefore is right
in line with the wishes of the Southern bossesP
The NAA.CP. quotes approvingly an editorial
from the New York Evening Post about Justice
to the Negroes" but not word appears in the
editorial about the justice that has been dealt
the ScottSboro boys. What is the meaning Of
NA.AC.P. justice to Negroes? Why all this
soft optimism?
The NA.A.CP. news releases give prominent
space to their worries about bill that has been
introduced into Congress providing for Jim
Grow veterans hospital as Senate bill S-33o2,
and introduced by Senator David A. Reed. The
matter seems to be nicely settled, however, since
Senator Reed assures Walter White, NAACP
secretary, that he merely introduced the bill "at
the request OF the American Legion" and didn't
consider himself as committed to 1t in any
way" On the other hand, General Frank r.
Hines, Administrator of the Veterans Bureau
assures the N-AACP. that all veterans receive
"the same high standard OF medical care and
treatment, without discrimination based on race
color OF creed" So now everything's rosy and
tIlC IN-aea.O-Es 11dS NOll great
except for the fact that JIM Crowism Is as ram
pant as ever, and Clarence Darrows name still
appears without criticism or comment on his
recent lynch-law propaganda, on the Board of
Directors Of the National Association for the
Advancement OF Colored People. DarroW was
too old and too tired, he said in letter to the
International Labor Defense, to take part in
the Scottsboro Defense. But he was not too
tired to defend the white lynchers of the Ha-
waiian boy, j. Kahahawai.
The association does one thing which has a
slightly new ring: 1t uses considerable amount
of revolutionary phraseology. Though it re-
fused to carry the Scottsboro case to the masses,
1t speaks Of holding mass meeting" and it
announces that it is wagng war on Jim Crow
ism on many fronts" Now what does this
means? 1t means what revolutionary phrases and
treacherous deeds always mean in the maze of
the class struggle-that the msleaders of the
Negro masses, like the misleaders of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor and of the socialist
party and of all such camps, are trying the
same old scheme Of deceiving the workers in
order once again to betray them.
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