The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-08
F;ebt Oppression of Negro
Masses in French Colonies
and in Scottsboro
DEMAND AMNESTY
French Workers Remember
Sacco and Vanzetti; VIII
Continue the Struggle
(Bv LOUIS ENGDAHL)


last stand in the Paris Commune,
was the scene of the first Scots
hro demonstration III Paris. Here
was raised the cry OF the French
workers for Amnesty" with the
ScottsbOro boys and immediate
lease of Negro boys facing the
electric chair in Alabama.
Until now we had been in the
countries Germany, Czecho-Slo-
yaha, Austria, Switzerland, with
out colonial possessions. Now,
however, we were in imperialist
France with its French Congo,
French East Africa, and French
West Africa, and Amnesty" and
"Scottsboro" are raised as rally
ing cries against the brutal and
bloody oppression of the Negro
millions in Africa.
Many Negroes at Meeting
Numerous Negroes came to the
meeting, and it was shown that
the longest sentence being served
by French political prisoners is the
life sentence against a Negro
charged with having distributed
leaflets at Baker, capitol of Sene-
gal, a circumstance which, it il
claimed, led to an uprising. Sever
others were put to death. Fhret
others are serving prison senten
ceS with no news as to theil
whereabouts.
The Belleville district had elect
ed its Communist spokesman to
the Chamber of Deputies at tn
recent elections, and he was on
Of the speakers at the meeting
The workers in the audience, mer
women, and children, were prole
tartan to the core.
Great Ovation for ScOttsbOrO
Mother
The Scottsboro Mother was
given tremendous ovation, wit
singing of "The Internationale" i
French. A red flag was drape
over the tribune from which AID
Wright spoke. She was listene
to carefully. The piecemeal trans
latiOn was effective. There wa
storm of rage as she told of tn
efforts made to bride her son, Ro
Wright, into turning states ev
dence against the other boys.
turned into a storm of applause {
she related the words of Roy, to,
TO her during a visit to the count
jail at Birmingham, Ala, tina
we are all innocent. If the 9th,
boys die in the electric chair,
want to die with them"
Send Delegation to u. s. Embasl
Jean Chauvet, secretary of Il
French International Labor D
tense, called for support of til
ScOttsboro Campaign. l told he
the campaign was growing in t
other countries and the measur
mat were being taken to strengt
en- 1t. Resolutions were adopte
A delegation was elected to go
me American embassy, scores e
rolled in the organization. Hu
oreds came up after the meetir
% shake Ada Wright by the ha
and pledged her personally the
greater efforts.
This whole district of Pa,
Oreathes proletarian power. The
are numerous cooperatives, inclu
ing cooperative restaurants, wht
sle workers gather. We we
taken to one of these restauran
. vast affair, the Restaurant
Deilevllolse-owned by the Bel
vile Workers cooperative. 1t "
noon and the place was crowd
mere was absolute silence, no
ever, as Jean Bureau, secretary
tne Partisan Region of the II
spoke briefly on the presence
we Scottsboro Negro Mother,
the meaning of the Scottsboro p
secution, and then all rose SD
Saneously singing the "Inter
Pledge Support in Struggle
When we again left the res
want and went out into
OfOWded narrow street, a YOU
y, yorker rushed up to Mrs. Wris
Assed her on both cheeks, and
Ss ~ words pledged the supp
" the youth to the struggle
aS e liberation of her boys and
O'ner Scottsboro prisoners.
" france remembers Sacco
,nzetti French workers are
ssrmlned that the ScOttsbOro
sro boys shall not suffer the s.