The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-07

The testimony of Ruby Bates, smashing so COM
pleely the whole frame-up perjury Of Victoria Price
the other witnesses the crude contradictions be-
tween almost every word of the prosecutions case the
naked ugly face of the frame-up. glarngly evident
to the most resctonary observers-an this made
no difference to that lynch court,
The capitalist judicial machinery Of Alabama no
longer strives even to conceal it's unity with the lynch
gangs of the plantation landlords They are united
that the limp, chared bodies Of these innocent Negro
boys must be flung into The faces OF the Negro people
and the tong masses of the world as the grim sym
Dol CT their ruling class authority.
IN LITTLE than six weeks the Alabama rulers
plan TO strap these two innocent Negro boys to the
electric chair and drive agony through their brains
with the turn Of the powerful, electric switch
Now nothing stands in the way of the swift ex-
ccution of these lynch verdics but the same power
that has kept them alive since they were seized
in Paint Rock Alabama, three years ago. the might
Of world protest
The ruling class of America part and parcel of
tie whole lynch machinery Of the South, part and
parcel OF the whole lynch incitaton and Jim Grow
system of oppression against the Negro people, is now
attempting to play new game to disorganize this
sole, effective defense, of the scottsboro boys
The capitalist press is attempting to pour into
the minds of the the insdious poison that it
is now hopeless to expect Justice" of the Alabama
courts, and that faith must be placed in the
siustice7 of the United States Supreme Court
The capitalist press no longer able to cnoceal the
too crude lynch savagery of the ruling class of Ala
bama Court and too fearful of justfyng these obvious
frane-up lynch verdcts in the face of the world pro-
test and indignation Of the masses, now attempts to
create the fatal illusion that Alabama is an "excep-
ton that the Supreme Court will be "farer."
Against this dannable strategy, against this at
tempt to dsorganze the of the scottsboro boys
protectors, must fight with the greatest fury and
vigilance.
THE Supreme Court just as much part Of the whole
ruling class lynch machinery as the Court at
Decatur Its decisions, its actions, its members are
all at the service Of the Wall Street ruling clique that
organizes and profits from the lynch oppression Of the
Negro people.
There is only voice that these capitalist judges
can hear That is the giant roar of world protest
Of mass actions, of mass angerl That is the only
Language they understand and feari
It is this huge world protest that alone saved Tom
Mooney. 1t alone can save the Scotsboro boys from
execution. Nothing else All other ideas about
the fairness of the Supreme Court have only one
prpose-to put a brake on the present mass anger
at the death yerdicts in order to permit them to 90
through unhindered
It is upon the international Labor Defense. the or
ganization that first wrested the boys from the hands
of the lynchers and the organization that has so re-
entessly fought for their lives that the responsibility
falls to stir the of America and the world to
Instant action!
THE LID must galvanize the masses Negro and white
into fury against these hideous murder verdicts
Increasingly, it must hammer home that the most
able legal defense in the world is futile without the
support of the oppressed mllions Behind it's legal
defense it must organize the real power of the de-
fense-the articulate anger Of the masses
The lynch challenge Of the Southern masters can
be answered only by the rising up of an enormous
wall of mass anger, mass determination to seu be-
tween the Scottsboro boys and the lynch executioners
The country must rock with the activity of the
masses in every factory in every trade unon in every
NINE street neighborhood, and home, the workers of
America must resolve that the ynchers will not mas
sacre the innocent Negro Scottsboro boys, that the
lynch challenge Of the capitalist rulers will be an
swered.
IT is the Communist Party, the revolutionary van
guard Of the toiling masses that must Immediately
become the lever to set these waves of mass anger
into motion.
Immediately the whole Party apparatus every
district section, unit and fraction must leap TO &C
ton organizing the protest against the lynch yerdcs
Upon every Party member rests the direct respon-
siblity for immediately responding with the maximum
energy to the life and death task saving the Scots
borc boys! The Party must go everywhere among the
masses with the burning call for organized protest
against the lynch verdicts!
THE Negro people and the toilng Of the coun-
try millions upon millions, must be organized by
the Party and Its fractions into the greatest United
Front army of the toing masses, regardless of pc-
htical afliaticn, creed connection united for the
right to free the innocent scottsboro boys from, the
hands Of their lynch executioners!
The ruling class masters call for the blood Of the
Scottsboro boys They unleashing savage, bloody
terrorism against the oppressed starving Negro masses
against the whole toling population.
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