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Wrapped III newspapers containing
stories of the case. They did not stop
to consider all papers contained such
stories.
Old Time Worn Stunt.
Damage from the explosion was
slight, being confined to bursting open
a locker in which the bundle was
placed.
Similar occurrences were frequently
reported during the course Of the
agitation in 1927 to save from the
electric chair Sacco and Vanzetti One
such happening was reported as hav-
ing occurred in New York subway
station under circumstances identical
with that of yesterday.
1t is an old trick of provocation to
plant bombs" that explode with
much noise but slight damage in an
effort to frlghten people away from
support of mass movements against
the working class frame-ups Of
the police, the courts and other
branches of the government.
On some occasions these explosions
do considerable damage, but without
exception all such cases were proved
to have been instigated and carried
out by police and agents of capitalist
interests. Among the most famous Of
this type of frame-up were the Hay
market affair in Chicago which en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19

Of one dazed by this vindictive Bit
terness on the part of the white man
who for two years has tried to burn
her son in the electric chair.
Solicitor Wright of Morgan Coun-
ty ri5es 10 his full bulk, towering,
tremendous, a strapping. hulking
man Of the South with roaring
voice that thunders through the
courtroom
Il don't know much about this
case" he begins.
The mothers eyes follow him Here
at least is white man who does
not know much about this case,
man not from the county where in
famed passions and prejudices of
centuries are demanding her sons
life.
But the man who does not know
much about this Gaze bellows OF other
and almost as deep prejudiccs COM
mon throughout the South.
These northern lawyers these
Jews from New York defending Mig
gers. e." these niggers who commit
The infamous and horrible crime Of
lspe 80"
Il don't krlow much about this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
William Patterson in Stirring Call for
SCottSbOrO Unity


NEW YORK. 49, Two thousand
workers, Negro and white, roared their
approval time after time as William
Patterson, National Secretary of the
International Labor Defense, ripped
the mask from misleaders who are
shouting united front" in the Scots
boro case. Patterson's speech elm
axed the Scottsboro protest meeting
that filled the Abyssinian Church in
Harlem, Monday night.
The I. L D. national secretary fol-
lowed a list of speakers that included
Walter White Of the N. A. A. G. P.
Haywood Broun, Reade of the Ma
tional Urban League, Benjamin J.
Davis, Jr., attorney with John Geer
in the Angelo Herndon case, Mrs.
Joyce Busheu from the Harlem DEM
ocratic organization, William Davis,
owner of the Amsterdam News and
others.
Il want to touch upon two points,
unity and concrete action to save the
Scottsboro Boys, First however, I am
going to tell you facts and let you
draw your own conclusion, Patterson
said in opening his tempestuous
speech.
Observation-Disclosures of Haiti
The Liam in the White House is
the man who drafted the constitution
thai is holding the people Of Haiti in
slavery. CThe audience interrupted
with stamping Of feet and cheers and
cSclamaJionS Of that's right'--he
continued. You have heard lot
about the united front tonight. We
want O united front and we're going
to have one. We're going to have
that kind of united frcnt that will
save the Scottsboro Boys Ccheers).
Mayor O'Brien and Tammany Hall
are trying to make a political foot
ball cut OF the Scottsb0ro case just as
the ruling class politicians have made
a football out OF the misery of the
Negro people for $50 years.
Tonight speakers have told you
thar 5000 Negroes have been lynched
since the Civil war. Yes there have
been 5000 such lynchings and the Re-
publican and Democratic Parties have
dcnc nothing about it. you've got to
learn how to fight every inch Of the
way-a3ainst every act Of national
oppres sion. Tonight they have spoken
to you about the flag and the home
of the free, right on this platform.
They told you here tonight that there
was no discrimination in Harlem, in
the ri A. D. What about That butcher
shop, Harlem hospital? what about
the extra rents you have to pay?
What about the restaurants and
hotels right in Harlem that you can't
enter? These are your Scottsbcros,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
International Labor Defense
Challenges Judges Statement
Horton Compelled to Continue Cases Because
of Mass Pressure

Leibowitz's Characterization of the
jurors and citizens of Decatur SIS
lantern jawed morons," and big
OTIS"
1.-THE unfortunate statement at
tributed to Mr.. Leibowitz with which
the Southern ruling class now wishes
to shield its bloody legal lynch sys-
tenn. was an unjust Characterization
of the Southern working class" Pat
terson said, in answer to both. 1.-THE
miserably oppressed and exploited
white workers cannot be Jumped to-
gether with that sleek and bloated
ruling class whose slogan Of white
supremacy and whose system of eco
nomic and political bribery has been
the means of dividing the Negro and
white workers at the bottom, and
thus perpstuating the misery and de-
humanization of both.
Not Bisots.
THE white workers of the South
are misguided. The white workers
of the South are not bigots Proof
of their tremendous revolutionary
will to resist the most deeply en-
bedded traditions of hatred and BIZ
gotry of the South was given at the
trial by the heroic testimony of Ruby
Bates. who found the true road to
womanhood in Scottsboro, and of
Lester Carter. These white workers
took the first step toward the smash
ing of the ruling class myth of the
Negro as 'rapist.' Their testimony
helped to expose the economic char
acter of lynching. Their testimony
is one of the greatest advances to-
ward the unity of Negro and white
workers.
Judge Horton is seeking to hide
the fundamental issues raised by the
International Labor Defense in the
Scottsboro case. He is trying to block
the exposure of the bloody oppres-
sion of the Negro people and white
workers in the South. The rulers
of Alabama, whose mouthpiece he is,
think they can allay the protest of
the masses against the Decatur
lynch-verdict by waiting while
before proceeding With their further
moves to burn the boys. They are
mistaken"
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you who are not in Alabama. cheer
ing) These must be fought if the
ScottsboTo Boys are to be saved.
Those who are trying to divert the
growing unity Of the Negro people are
playing with dynamite and we're let
ting them know it now. Cheering.
mo More Betrayals!"
L tell you MIR Davis (owner of the
Amsterdam News)-for two years the
I. L. D. has led the struggle for the
nine innocent scottsboro Boys. OPP
preston OF the Negro people, of the
white workers, jim crowisn1, lynching,
all these must be brought into the
Soottsboro case because the I. L. D. is
not going to form united front with
the lynchers of America Shouts Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19

NEW YORK.-The effort of Judge
James E. Horton of Decatur, Ala, as
representative Of the white ruling
class of the South, to place respon-
sibility for the impossibility of OBJ
tanning a "fair trial. for the Scots
boro boys in Alabama upon the de-
tense was challenged in statements
issued today by William L. Patter-
son, national secretary of the Inter
national Labor Defense, and by Sam
uel s. Leibowitz, chief trial attorney
in the case for the LID. At the
same time, Patterson took exception
to the statement attributed to Mr..
Leibowitz in which he was quoted as
Jumping together Of the rulers and
the white workers of Alabama in a
sweeping and derogatory character
ization. as "bigots."
He pointed to Ruby Bates. the
white girl who oourageously took the
stand to repudiate her former framed
testimony of Grape" and to Lester
Garter, the white boy who also testi-
fed truthfully on behalf of nine in
nocent boys, as proof Of the awaken
ing consciousness of the poor white
workers Of the South.
The milestone around the necks
Of the Scottsboro boys is that Ala
bama attitude which made twelve
Decatur jurors guffaw as they pushed
Haywood Patterson toward the chair
last Palm Sunday morn" Leibowitz
said. ut is a piece with the action
of Attorney General Knight gleefully
clapping his hands during the trial
and in calling defendant that
thing
"Impaling me on cross Of fancied
insult to the citizens of Alabama
county will avail the partissns of
weird Morgan County justice moth
ing. Nor will it divert me or my as
sociates for one moment from the is
sue which the sovereign state of Ala
bama must face in this case-equal
justice for the colored race"
Points TO Ruby Bates.
Judge Horton, in an effort to get
out from under the fact that mass
pressure forced him to adjourn the
Scottsboro trials, laid the blame for
the lynch hysteria of Alabama on
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Case"
But he does know a great deal of
Southern prejudices against the
black man. He does not talk of the
case at all. He talks OF 'niggers'
who want to show their indepsnd-
ence and sit on juries. He talks Of
black men who want to rise from
their bondage. He tslks of Jews and
Jew money from Flew York and the
buying of Alabama justice -.
His voice bellows furiously. The
saliva drips from his mouth onto
his chin and he wipes it with the
palm OF hand. The mother stares
at him in horror, her hands clasping
and unclasping. She realizes that
this man is making an appeal that
will be hard for the white Jurors
to forget and because Of that her
boys life may be taken not on
evidence of guilt not OH facts, but
because his skin Is black
Lejbowitz rises. Re Is the big
northern lawyer she has heard about
who was going to help the Inter.
national Labor Defense save her boy.
HIS voice is soft, restrained. She
leans forward, anxious not to miss q
word. He Is appealing to "nen OF
reason" pleading that they forget
her sons skin is black and give him
fair trial. Her hands arc clasped
together. The knuckles of her hands
show the intensity OF her emotion.
The handkerchief is buried between
her palms
Leibowits's arms are appraised His
long, four-hour summation is end
ing. He is making last plea to
the Jury TO forget race and color and
religious prejudices aroused by the
prosecution.
For jew and for Gentle. For
white man and for black man -
The words fall upon hushcd spec
tstors. Even some of the hardened
whites vino have been lustlng for
the blood Of this boy on trial for
Ills life are vipine their tears.
The tears are running down her
face. She is crying despairinsly.
This white lawyer would soon fin
ish. And then there would be Moth
ing more TO say. The Jurors would
go into the very room where che
now stood and decide whether she
was to have her son alive--or dead,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19

with this article we begin a
series of feature articles by John L.
Spivak on the Decatur trial of Hay
wood Patterson, one of the nine
Scottsboro boys.)
DECATUR, Ala.-Haywood Patter-
CONS mother is in the colored wit
ness room. The door is open, for the
first of the famous Scottsboro cases
is drawing to 8 close. Only the
sunmations Of the prosecution and
the defense are left and then twelve
white men will tell her whether her
son is to live or die.
The afternoon sun beats upon her
blue dress and tear-stained face
through screened window. She
peers hopefully, wonderingly at the
immobile faces Of the jurors. These
are the men who will give her son
back to her-aliye, or a blackened,
charred body.
The perspiration shows on her fore
head. The white handkerchief In
her hands is rumpled nervously.
The judges voice, soft and meas
ured instructs the attorneys to sum
up. Solicitor Bailey Of Jackson Coun-
ty, who had first prosecuted the
Scottsboro boys and sent them into
the shadow of the electric chair, rises
to his full, dignified height. The
mother listens as in trance. She
does not grasp what he is saying and
leans forward, rs though her hearing
is at fault
This Niger is guilty of the foul
est of crimes"
She looks hungrily into the faces
of the twelve white men but they
tell her nothing. They are cold,
solemn faces with not flicker of
emotion upon any OF them.
THE State demands that for the
safety Of white womanhood in the
South you send him TO the electric
chsirl"
She bites her lips and tears at
the pathetic, soiled little handker-
chief in her hands. Her bosom rises
and falls heavily and she leans
against the window weakly
When the jackson County prose-
outor finishes she looks at him won
6eringly. There Is no hatred in her
eyes; only the look OF one terribly
hurt, and whose does not know why,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
MANY SCOTTSBORO MEETS IN
CITY AS NEGRO AND WHITE MASS
FOR PROTEST MARCH TO CAPITAL

meeting. William Patterson, Nation
al Secretary of the International La
Dor Defense, and Joseph Brandt, sec
ton organizer of the Communist
Party, will speak John Adams, Har-
lem reporter of the Daily Worker,
will preside.
Scottsboro meets will take place to-
night at p. m. in the following
places: BRONX: Prospect Workers
Club, 1857 Southern Boulevard;
MANHATTAN: Manhattan Lyceum,
&C East 4th Street; LONG ISLAND:
Pythian Temple, Rockaway Beach.
Mrs. Patterson at Needle Meet To-
morrow
The Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union and the LID. have ar
ranged a nesting for tomorrow.
Thursday. at 7:30 pm. at Bryant
Hall. Sixth Avenue corner of And
Street, where Mrs. jamie Patterson
will speak. The main speaker will
be William Patterson, National Sec
rotary of the LID. Other speak
ers will include leaders of the N.T.W.
III. and the Communist Party, Sec
ton 2. Signature petition lists will
be circulated at the meeting as well
as registration lists for the march to
Washington.
On the same night meetings will
be held in st. LuRes Hall, 125 West
t3Oth Street in Harlem under the
auspices of the LID, the Commun-
list Party, Section 4, and the Y.C.L.
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A tense silence hangs over the
courtroom when Leibowitz finishes
The mother slunps into chair. The
jury's faces ere irnmobile If their
hearts have been touched they do
not show it,
Attorney General Knight rises 10
conclude for the State. He hnrps
on the clothes of Ruby Bates and
Lester Carter. Clothes. That is all
he talks Of in his sharp, bitter voice
He points finger al Patterson.
II am not murderer! I would
let him loose in two minutes if
we're not convinced that he is guilty
That is why ask that you look at
this black thing"
The Attorney General is shrewd
lie does not want these white jurors
to forget that Patterson is after all
niger
The mother rises at this contempt
uous phrase that carries with it all
the prejudices Of the South against
the black man.
BLACK thing" The words echo
and re-echo through the courtroom.
Stand upf' Knight shouts.
The BLACK thing" stands UP, look
ing helplessly and despairingly at
the prosecutor who is venting his
hatred upon him as the symbol of
race protesting its oppression.
The mothers tears are no longer
running now. Her face Is suffused
with anger. Her firsts clench. This
white man demanding her sons life
is using every means possible to pre-
judice these jurors against him.
BLACK thingl"
There is little said about the boys
guilt or innocence. There is little
said about evidence. There is little
csid except appeals to sectional.
etate. racial and religious prejudices
deeply engrained IN the hearts OF
those sitting in judgment on thi
boys life.
Black thing!"
Over everything the prosecutlo
has said, these two words stand on.
with all their implications.
The little white handkerchief
crumpled in fury Forever and eFc
che will understand what the bl7e
man is TO the white rulers of til"
South.
Black q 4
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abled the Mccormick Harvester COM
pany to railroad to the gallows four
workers, the San Francisco prepared
ness parade bomb for which Mooney
and Billings were accused and are
still in prison although their limo
cence has long ago been proved. An
other frame-up attempt that failed to
yield victim was the So-called Wall
Street bomb plot, which was Matched
By the police and government stool
pigeons after a Du Pont powder
wagon exploded, killing a number OF
people during the rush hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
RECOGNITION DEMONS
TRATTON IN WEST BRONX

NEW YORK. - Swinging into &C
ton, in the campaign for Reoogni-
ton Of the Soviet Union, Mt. Eden
branch of the Friends of the Soviet
Union. has arranged for a demons
tration to take place tonight at SIS
PIN. at 10th st. and walton Ave
The Mt. Eden Branch calls upon
all workers and sympathizers to be
present. Recognition of the Soviet
Union at this time is q matter of
vital Importance to all. A vigorous
protest will be made at this demon
Stration against the N.B.C. studios,
who are to broadcast an anti.soviet
program this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
Strikers Beat Back
Thugs and Landlord

NEW YORK. Thugs hired By
Hunter landlord of 1866 Washington
Avenue, Bronx, to smash rent
strike got taste Of workers defense
when their attempts to attack
picket line was repulsed by workers
Of the neighborhood, who routed and
severely beat the thugs and landlord.
The workers Of the reighborhood
demanded the arrest of the landlord,
Tomorrow at p. m. the picket line
will form again supported and de.
Tended as today by neishbors from
further attacks. Other workers are
urged to assist picketing.
The strike Of 80 tenants started
four weeks ago and is led by a House
Committee and the Middle Bronx
Unemployed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19

no-no). Only the I. L. D. is authorized
to collect funds for the Scottsboro
case. Those who are collecting money
Davis is collecting funds for a
march" on Washington that has al
ready dwindled down in his state
ments from $4,000 to a group of re-
preventative citizens of Harlem) bet
ter see that it gets into the right
not to the l. L. D. but to these 1000
channels or they will have to answer,
workers and all the Negro and white
workers of New York. fright, right,
cheers.
Il know that you (the Negro peo-
pie and white workers. are tired OF
betrayalS. know you want to fight.
We don't want to fight anyone claim
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
Letters from Our Readers
"DAILY" KEPT WORKER,S
SOLID nv BRIGGS STRIKE
Detroit, Mich.
Cou1rsde Eaitor,

Detroit, Mich.
Comrsde Editor
Enclosed is money order for 81.
cannot let my mind dwell too long
on the harm the masses would SUI
fer If the Daily Worker was not here
to protect our interest. We must not
permit the Daily" to suspend. Only
the Daily Worker exposes the ra-
pactous wall Street Government.
The Daily is indispensable as the
organizer and mobiliser of the work
ing class; a fountain of proletarian
education.
am a member of Plumbers Union
Local 90 ALL, where we recently
ousted our drunken strike breaking
business agent, Charles Gould, who
tried to send his henchmen to scab
on the Briggs strikers; but the rank
and file would not tolerate his
treachery. The Daily played no
small part in informing our rank and
file OF the nature of the strike and
in cementing our solidarity; provok4
Ing such replies to the raislead, ut
they are for the working class, We
should DO with them" (rneaning the
Communist Party.
I congratulate you on the splendid
improvement In the Daily Worker.
Forward, comrades. to the day
When the Daily will be the oticisl
organ Of all our trade unions ana
The Ir1outhpiece Of the Soviet United
States OF America.
Conrs6ely yours,
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DISTRICT COMMITTEE
AND LANCER FUNERAL
A letter from unit to the N. Y.
District Committee
4.A l.

- tSbsca thoht a hstAb w bhE lNs
District Committee
To District Committee Communist
Party.
New York City.
Dear Comrades:
The unit membership OF unit 5
section 2 having carried out a dis
cussion of the funeral of conrsde
LANCER, resolved to categorically crit
icize the part played by the district
committee for the following reasons
l. Failure to see the full poll
tical significance Of comrade who
held such a high position in the
union, also one who was practically
charter member of the G. p. Of
the U.S.A. and who met death at
the hands of the bosses in such an
outrageous manner.
2. Insufficient preparation to mob
ilize the members of the G. p. and
sympathizers of this district. The
funeral march began after I o'clock
when the workers in the market had
rome back to work.
5. The funeral throughout was
permeated with a feeling of senti-
nentalism and the pressure Of the
masses was lacking throughout.
4. There ives q conspicuous ab-
sencc of militant slogans with the
possiole exception Of two big plac-
ards.
5. The role Of the Daily Worker
1 regard to mass demonstrations OF
5he major character is conspicuously
weak and particularly so in mass
uneral Of this kind.
These criticisms were brought up
nd thoroughly discussed by the unit
membership and unanimously passed
Upon.
Comradely yours,
Unit Section 2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
DELEGATE
REPORTS TONIGHT; GEISER,
HENDERSON TO SPEAK

NEW YORK.--Karl Geiser, who has
just returned from the Montevideo
anti-war congress where he was sent
as delegate, will speak on the re-
suits of the congress and the wars in
South America at Irving Plaza, Is
st. and Irving Place tonight, 8 p. m.
Donald Henderson recently expelled
from Columbia University for his
working-class activity will also speak
William Simons will be the chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
Tammany Cops Draw Guns to Stop Speech on
Scottsboro from Harlem Liberator Office
But Are Baked by Workers

NEW YokkThree Tammany police with drawn attempted
stop the bodcastng OF Scotboro the
lem Lbo 2l49 when crowds
OF Negro and white workers speeches continue
policemen to shoot
if the loud speaker not removed but
mass of hem
600 workers continued
The numbers the shields
nd the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19
WEINSTEIN TAG DAY.

To raise the necessary $4,000 for
appealing the conviction Of Sam
Weinstein, who was railroaded to
Sing Sing, the Weinstein Defense
Committee will hold a Tag Day
this Saturday and Sunday, April
% and %. Contribute. Help fight
for the release Of Sam Weinstein,
framed-up because he fought
against wage cuts.
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shoot Into Spanish Strikers.

BARCELONA. April 1s.--Police TO-
day fired yolley Of revolver shots
into a group of building trades strik-
ers, wounding one. The building
trades strike against wage-cuts, which
began yesterday, is rapidly spreading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19

NEW neutrality-suspicious. for the
ScottSboro March ON Washington
are going ahead full speed as New
York workers are answering the
lynch challenge Of the ruling class
The New York District Of the In
ternational Labor DefensT reports
that it being literally deluged with
requests from churches. fraternal Or
carnations, clubs and worker groups
Tor help in the organization of new
LID. branches and Scottsboro pro-
test meetings.
Form Haywood Patterson LID.
Branch
Residents Of North Harlem organ
lied an LID. branch named after
Haywood Patterson, sentenced to the
electric chair by the Alabama lynch
ers.