The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11
Against Lynch Conspiracy

THE refutabe proof presented by the Daily Worker"
exposure Of the fiendish preparations of the Ala
baa ruling for gang-lynchng of the Scotsboro
Boys must arouse the Negro masses and the whole
working class to increased vigilance and thunderous
protests against this threat to the lives Of the nine
innocent, framed-up victims of capitalist justice and
its lynch courts.
The brutal rulers of Alabama, robbed of their vic
TINS four times in succession by the worldwide
fight for the Scottsboro Boys are now preparing to
add another damnable crime to the bloody record of
violent repression of the Negro people of vicious at
lacks against Negro and poor white toiers uniting in
struggle against starvation and fascist terror.
Since last April when the Negro and white toilers
rejected the monstrous verdict brought in by grin
ming all white jury against Hayward Patterson first
Of the boys be retired under the decision wrested
from the U. S Supreme Court by the fight, the
Alabama rulers have carefully prepared the ground for
this lynch conspiracy.
Through series Of rape" frame-upS and lynchings
of Negroes in and around Decatur the double ynchng
of Dan Pippen, Jr, and A I. Harden in Tuscaloosa,
a lynch atmosphere has been created against the
Scottsboro Boys and the entire Negro people.
this, the ruling class of Alabama has been aided
By the ruling class throughout the country attested
by the than forty reported lynchings this year.
The hdeous lynchng of George Ar1nwood in Maryland,
the legal murder Of Fuel Lee the refusal of the u S.
Supreme Court to review the appeal filed by the IN
tarnaticns Labor Defense attorneys for Fuel Lee;
Roosevels refusal to intervene to stop the legal muir
der the action of Gov Ritche of Maryland in rush
{ls, ILLS uOOoC0t worker to the gall VS. were all by
nay CT preparation for the Scot boro trials and the
lynch orgy planned by the Alabama ruling class.
TyfiE Scotts1oro Case has become not only symbol
OF the oppression of the Negro people, but symbol
o. the growing unUv Of White and Negro toilers and
The rng resentment OF the Negro masses to their op-
preston It is this unity Of white and black toers,
this growing resistance of the Negro Masses that the
white ruling class Of the whole country have joined
hands to crush.
75ct only the scorJsDoro Boys, but their defenders
threatened b. the present lynch conspiracy between
Alabama officials and Ku KluX Khan lynch gangs.
The DAILY Worker presents unanswerabe proof of the
4-sHs TO lynch tho boys and the defense attorneys
ard Witnesses
Cnly immediate action by the Negro and white
workers ard sympathetic elements stay the
eerous hands of the lnchers and smash the officially
inspired preparations for lynch orgy when the boys
taken to Decatur for the trials" This action
must take the form Of vigorous protests by
CARNATIONS Negro and white, of protest meetings
throughout the country to expose the plans Of the
iynches before the and of the fullest support
to the Anticipating Conference to be held in Balti
more Nd, on Nov. IS and 49, Elect delegates from
your organizations and mass meetings to the Balti-
more Conference.
Bush protest kilograms to Gov B. NJ. Miller, Mont.
sonlery, Ala and to President Roosevelt, demanding
the Immediate, unconditional and safe release of the
nine innocent Scottsboro Boys!
4 The boys innocent! Judge Horton, chief lynchcr
At the Decatur trial. has been forced to admit their
Innocence.
Demand their immediate release and at the
time support the demand of the international Labor
Defense for a change of venue from Decatur for the
trials demanded by the State Of Alabama