The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11
DEMONSTRATION in union SO. TOMORROW
EDITORIAL
The Tevo Years Struggle Mast
Rise to Higher Stage

alarm squirting to action millions of Negro and white workers
and farmers.
Never before has one act Of ruling class tyranny and
brutality set motion such of toiers against the
shameless and bloody despom of the American boss class
The roar Of fury Numbered against this verdict shows
the time passing when campaigns of murder against
workers. even though disguised by capitalist legal FORMS
be carried out without determined resistance that is cha
enge to the ruling class itself.
Within an hour after the announcement of the verdict
of thousands of and children IN the Negro
districts the cities of the country swarmed into the streets
On every hand in white and Negro working class sections
could be heard unsrned denunciaon of the justice Of the
changang and lynch ruling class that passed this terror
sentence in order hold in subsection to American imperial
the millions of Negro toilers in the Black Belt Of the
South.
But this mass fury that appeared spontaneously burst
forth was by no accidental the result of the
toyears unreentng struggle of the Communist Party and
the international Labor Defense against terrific odds which
first took the Of these and defenseess
boys that made possible this movement The names of these
boys and of Scosboro in which the first trial
held are now known throughout the whole world they SYM
boze the struggle for Negro rights the struggle against the
oentureod slavery of the Negro of this country
the fight seKdeemnation of the Negro majority in the
Black Belt
1t was the International Labor Defense that first
TO the rescue these victims of ruling class butchery that
snatced them from the hands of the lynch ends that fought
for them and carried their throughout the world during
the long they the shadow of the electric chair
that appealed this the Alabama Supreme Court thence
the United States Supreme Court where that tribunal
compelled in face of the rising tide OF world Indignation to
decree new trial Last week in atmosphere of lynch ter
ror at Decatur Ala the international Labor Defense shat
pieces in the court of the ynchers the whole
fraeup pored before the whole world the GRIM
consprators out the lynch policies of the South
ruling class.
Seldom has the workings Of the legal machinery of
tast vengeance been completely and Devastating
H exposed The stormy reception that greeted the verdict
thu
will the Scotsboro boys has taken deep
root among the masses.
It is this mass fury the result of two years mplacabe
struggle that rising to higher FORMS is the guarantee of
victory against the murder conspiracy OF the lynch ruling
class
This rapidly growing movement also proves that
the long fight against all elements who tried to disrupt and
disnegrate the struggle and induce the Negro and
white workers to place their hope in the "impartay of
capitalist justice is completely indicated.
Each of these attacks was met by systematic exposure
and further mobilization in united action of all elements sin
cerey interested in fighting to free the Scosboro boys 1t
this constantly rising movement this united front
action broke the stubborn resistance Of these ee
ents and compelled them, after another either to
port the struggle to free the Scotsboro boys to refrain
from further attacks upon the defense forces.
The historic struggle enters a stage, but the
struggle must continue and to higher levels along the
same fundamental line Of action that thus far has held back
the hand of the executioner
This verdict is arousng to mghter action the of
Negro white toers immediate and complete freedom
and safety the Scotsboro boys The of thousands
even hundreds of workers that have been swept
into the against this lynch verdict must be mob
zed on the of the broadcast united front action to
free these boys 1t is this movement that alone is the guar
antee that group Of former leaders disappointed
leaders will be able again to impede the struggle of
them did early days Of the development of this
ment.
The further struggle to FREQ the Scotsboro boys must
of the main points for united front action of all
organizations sincerely interested in fighting against lynch
iustce and capita # reaction in every form.
In the future all the past the Communist Party will
fight in the vanguard of this movement until these boys
definitely and permanently taken from the shadow of the
electric chair liberated from the dungeons Of the slave
sa1dssA ~ So a.