The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

C.P. set MIN up as true deScendanG OIL JoIln
Brown. But today, their patron saint proves
himself to possess the same characteristic quality
as Mr.. White and Mr. Pickens. It's the fee that
counts, sir. Who's the highest bidder?
John Browns Anniversary
Today 1872 years since John Brown was born
in 1900, the Negro bourgeois press is paying lip
service to the fighter for emancipation of the
enslaved Negroes. In fact j. Max Barber. of
the Philadelphia NAACP, writes in the Pitts
burgh Courier this week, urging annual pill
grimage to John Browns grave "Let us build
a monument to John Brown" he urges.
(While you are speaking of pilgrimages, gent
lemen of the N.A.ACP, why not include pill
grimage to Kilby Prison. where the nine Negro
Scottsboro boys languish in their cells, awaiting
Juae "a? Why not tell them what you're
up toO
Messrs. White Pickens, and Du Bois, silver
tongue speakers, explain again to us your ideas
on how to save the Scottsboro boys? What about
a fair trial remember the Massie easel what
about dampening mass pressure: what about
appealing to the fairness of American capital
ist institutions? What does your Mr.. Darrow
advise today?
The Senators and Statesmen"
The Masse case and Mr.. Darrows role in it
has forced the N.AACP.~ medicine men to
streak their faces a different color and to
emerge today with the following incarnation,
This country believes in mob law. 1t condones
the action of mobs who take the law into their
own hands. We have it from senators, from
leading editorials from statesmen, from lay
men in these United States. The Massie trial
has established beyond question that the deep
seated conviction in the minds of the white
people of this country favors lynching and mob
violence pittsburgh Courier, May D.
What white people, precisely? If you mean
the senators, the statesmen, the government
which is in the hands of the ruling class, then
correct But you deliberately set out to further
mislead the Negro masses in this country, when
you do not mention the hundreds of thousands
of white and Negro workers in this country who
have by militant mass actions three times forced
aside the death-date for the nine Negro Scots
boro boys.
Mr.. Darrow, The Chameleon
And do you not join polluted hands with the
senators. statesmen" for lynch law. when you
urge reliance upon the gentle mercies of the
Alabama lynch court? Of course you do, gent
lement of the NAACP., bosom friends of Mr..
Darrow. the chameleon who cried out for the
"Sanctity of White Womanhood" in the Massie
case.
You pay lip service to the memory of John
Brown, Mr. White and Mr.. Pickens. But I'M
like Mr. Darrow, and yourselves John Brown
had no $1.98 set of principles. Under sentence
OF death he wrote, II have enjoyed life much
but why should complain on leaving it? We
have only one life to live, and once to die; and
if we lose our lives it will perhaps do more for
the principles we've fought for than our lives
could be worth in any other way"
That was John Brown speaking. Not Mr..
Darrow not Mr.. White not Mr.. Pickens In
deed not. The sacred hides of this trio as well
as their own class interests and fear of the
masses whisper to them to seek the forces that
are in power: the senators, the statesmen" the
courts.
can Attorney Has His Price"
Even the Electromagnetic press, under pres
sure Of the indignant masses of Negroes, is
forced to admit John r. Williams, of the Cali
fornia Eagle) that IAN attorney Darrow) usu-
ally has his price and might Understandings
defend the same sort of law-breakers that he
prosecuted only yesterday" This paper con-
tinues But after having SO long a time arrayed
himself on one side of the fence as to have be-
come looked upon as symbolic of the principle;
of that particular side it seemed a shame to see
Mr.. barrow swap horses, even for an unusually
large fee"
But the MACE. rnouthpiece, the Pittsburgh