The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
ScOttsbOr0 Mothers Wait for
Boys to Come Home

through. so There can be a full
and complete celebration of full
and complete victory.
IT I were making that animated
4 map of the South, would draw
another line, straight from Kilby
prison in Alabama, to Atlanta.
Georgia, where Angelo Herndon.
another young Negro worker is in
Jail, sentenced to a living death on
the chain gang,
Angelo Herndon wished to help
unemployed white and Negro work
ers get the relief that the city Of
Atlanta had promised them. These
workers were without food, and the
city of Atlanta was keeping back,
$4,000 which would give them food.
Angelo Herndon led a crowd of
white and Negro workers to the
City Hall to demand that the city
use that money to keep them alive
The Getty Fathers" Of Altar ta
were forced to give the food, but
they revenged themselves by hav~
ing Angelo Herndon arrested. They
dug up an old law under which
they could convict him.
Since these Fathers" ave gns
terested in digging into the past
they might also remember that
the Declaration of Independence
says that every citizen has the
right to life, liberty, and the purs
suit of happiness" 1t is evident
that they do not think workers
are Citizens and that they feel
that anyone who leads workers
toward life, liberty and the pursuit
OF happiness, should be punished
with d life that is really death.
a life of hard work, of blows from
a chain gang guard, OF heavy
chains and sweat box punishment.
In thinking of the Scottsboro
boys, we must not forget this other
boy who was brave enough to risk
his life in order to lead these work.
ers toward life.
1t is curious fact that the
prosecutor who had Angelo Hern-
don arrested, who is trying with
all his power to send him to the
chain gang, is preacher. This
preacher sings at church that
hymn which says, Rejoice We pure
in heart, rejoice, give thanks and
sing" He believes that the "pure
in heart" will go to heaven. He
believes that workers who will &C.
cept starvation, who do not fight
fer the right to live, are pure in
heart" And if they do not fight.
he promises them heaven when they
die. He, really, leads them to
death. Angelo Herndon wished to
lead the workers to happiness on
this earth, to life. For this the
death preaching prosecutor is try
ing to give death sentence to
this young Negro.
We want, with our words, our
fist appraised together, with all the
money we can give, to save Angelo
Herndon from the living death
this preacher and the rich peopIe
he represents have prepared. for
him. We want to give Angelo
Herndon life. Then we can re.
io.ce It will be workers rejoicing
In Life when we have freed the
Scottsboro boys.
I'VE may never see them. We may
W never see their mothers. But
we will feel that line drawing rs
to them, and not only to them, but
to all workers who are tf1inkinH
of life for the working class in.
stead of death. We will look about
us and say, when we have freed
them-"This is not only my toy.
1t is the Joy Of the whole work.
ing class. Others are rejoiced."
But in order that we may saw
this, there is, between now and the
trials Of all these young Negro
workers, much to be done-pennies
and nickels TO get together. A
steady stream Of them must 90
down from the Office of the In
ternationaI Labor Defense in New
York to the offices in Atlanta and.
Alabama, Let US help with all elM!
ncw@ 70 swell that ssErars, w~'
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