The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-04-14
eve Have Just
Begun To Fight"
Announces The LID.
TIL FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR
THESE BOYS AS LONG AS l LIVE
Voiced Leibowitz
By John l.. Spivak


Exclusively For The Associated Ne
gro Press)
Chattanooga, Tenn, April 18th CAMP
The waging OF an unonding fight I'M
til the nine Scottsboro boys are torn
from the hands Of a white lynch mob,
rnasquerading as law officials was
son, secretary of the International La
Dor Defense, who arrived in Chatta-
nooga to-day to confer with Defense
Counsel on the next steps in the de-
tense of the boys
Patterson said he left New York i'm
mediately upon receiving the flash that
laughing jury of twelve, Alabama
whites had found Haywood Patterson
guilty of the framed charge and re-
commended that his sentence be death.
The |. L. D. Secretary went into con-
ference Immediately upon arrival with
Joseph Bredsky, l. L. d. attorney from
New York who participated in the de-
fence in Decatur, and Gen. G. w.
Chanlee of Chattanooga.
"The fight has just begun" said
Patterson in an exclusive interview
with the Associated Negro Press. Our
irst steps will be nation wide petition
circulated demanding an adjournment
of the Weems trial scheduled for the
18th of this month, until after an appeal
has been taken in the Patterson case.
Simultaneously the /. l.. d. and its attl-
lated bodies as well as the petitions
will demand that charge OF venue be
granted by Judge James 4. Horton from
Morgan county to Birmingham. The
Patterson decision is evidence or the
iInposslbility of getting a shred OF
Justice tor a Nero in Morgan county.
Secondly, the International Labor
Defense has already cabled all OF It's
International aifllates 10 demonstrate
Lefore American embassies and con-
sulates abroad demanding that public
opn4ons OF the workers throughout me
world be heard that those boys be given
a fair and unbiased trial in a place
where bigotry does not run rampant
ar.d armed mobs threaten the lives not
Only OF the defendants bu, OF tne az
torneys who are trying to save them.
every one of the case, Patterson
continued grimly," will be taken to rhe
Lnl,ed Ota.e supreme cOurC ii the
shocking Haywood Patterson decision
IS not reversed by the Alabama Sup
Gne court.
"Hcretofore men throughout the
world have regarded the American
judicial system as operating on the
theory that man is innocent until
l.roVen guilty but thls lyncA-IaW dec
sion handed down by twelve laughing
and grinning, bigotted white men, has
,.Anl4,ely established that in Alabama
man, if his skin is black, is conside-
req guilty until he is proven innocent
and even then is guilty if the accusation
IS brought even by white prostitute,
of if he is accused by the moneymasters,
as in Tom Moneys case.
This decision has resulted only in
strengthening the solidarity of the black
and white workers throughout the
world, it means a stronger, united and
more inhuerinal l. l.. d. seeking to
safeguard the rights of all workers be
they black or white.
Countless thousands have regarded
the Scottsboro case as of interest to the
rights of Negroes but the struggle, con-
tested so bitterly by the attorney gene
raj of the State of Alabama, to have Ne
gro Jurors on an Alabama jury, is OF
vital interest to whites who are depriv-
ed of their rights also under the system
in vogue here. The question of whether
Negroes are to be systematically ex-
cluded from juries in Alabama as well
as the south must be settled by the
United State Supreme court"
It is understood that the defense
attorneys will insist firmly that the
case OF Charlie Weems be postponed
until such time as they have appealed
the Patterson case or, at least until
they have been given sufficient leng-
tn of time to raise the funds to arrange
the defense which they estimate will
take months Any effort on the par
of the state of Alabama to oppose this
Patterson explained, may be received
by the black and white workers o.
the world as a clear effort to rush the
boys to their death without giving hi'
attorneys the proper time to arrange
the defense.