The daily worker., 1933-07-01

MO batch OF lies was ever written
~ or pennearby The hand of man,
taah- the bath ofslies sent out from
Scottsboro about these innocent
bov7 and if you will bear with me,
ill tell you about it.
In order to make the women
sweat lies aud stick to it they were
beth, locked. sup in the same Jail
with tie wiite boys and Colored
boys, in separate cells, but why put
tl,s women nn-ia1? Put in there to
hold them in line and make them
tel lies, so Ruby Bates has said.
Why, put those seven white boys
in Jail? Put them in Jail to make
them swear lies so Lester Carter
says, but not one of the white boys
ever testified against my son, Hay
wood PattersoiC Qrville Gilley was
put in Jail but he refused to tes-
tify against Haywood Patterson, in
ScottseWo. a1pi all the white boys
were released and not one of them
ever testified ip~ any case against
Haywood Patterson. Did they see
a crime committed? No, sir Well,
why were they kept in Jail at
Scottsboro?
They told my son and these other
boys that it was a frame-up lie
and they Viz net going to testify
to such batch of lies as that was,
and they did llet-testify to it. Not
one ef- the white boys ever took
the witness. stand against my boy.
When the trial came on, two wit
nesseS, Victoria Price and Ruby
Bates, testified against all these
nine boys and they were convicts,
and while that mock trial was go
ing on the International Labor De-
fense had a man from New York
sitting in the :, audience who re-
ported that it, was the greatest
mock trial ever held in the State
of Alabama This case was held
when was afraid to go to Scotts-
boro, for fear of mob violence, and
employed George w. Chamlee,
attorney. of Chattanooga, Tenn, to
represent my son, as he had been
my lawyer before that time. Just
at that time Mr. Brodsky Of the
International, Labor Defense, and
its chief counsel, from New York,
came to Chattanooga, and said he
would help me pay the expenses of
this case on. an appeal, and the
appeal was taken, and new trial
granted in the Supreme Court at
Washington and the expenses of
nrintinh that record was about
$500 alone.
If it had not been for the Inter
national Labor Defense coming
to our assistance, quickly, in time to
file a motion for a new trial and
set UP a realQs defense, the boys
would all haYe-been killed, although
they were all. innncent.
IN one of ~your editorials. you
suggested tliatsail; we needed was
some good Southern attorneys, like
Mr.. Roddy and Mr.. Moody and
the boys would have chance to be
acquitted.
Well, Judge Hawkins had them,
while Hthe trial in his court was
on, and when the States Attorney
got up and shook his finger in the
faces of these boys, denounced
them, demanded the death pen
atty for them, no attorney got up
and offered one word of argument,
or any summation, on behalf of
these nine boys, and then a second
attorney for the state demanded the
death penalty. and Mr. Roddy and
Mr.. Moody declined to argue the
cases.
WE HAD A TRIAL RECENTLY"
We had a trial. at Decatur re-
Gently. and tfr State had one star
witness, Vict0faa~e Price, an under
world character, who had been con-
victed in the courts of Huntsville
for vaefancy saewdness and violat-
ing the prohibition law; she had
broken up the family of Jack Tiller,