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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11
The Nine scosboro Boys Threatened By Lynch Mos

On June 9th, w. G. Roberts, agent
for the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
way Company, said that he would be
very glad when they burn those mig
gers so it would stop the noise from
the North and SO the niggers would
be kept in their place without any
trouble.
On June 28th, Oscar Pearson, SIS
Vine Street, said he would like to see
all of them niggers burned and all
of their lawyers with them.
On November Bird, 1.-THE Community
Builder" of Huntsville, said editori
ally:
"And in the face of the feeling that
exists at Decatur, as well as through
out the Tennessee Valley, against any
lawyer claiming to represent the In
ternational Labor Defense League, we
suggest that it would not be we'll for
these lawyers to again show up on
any soil at any point within this
valley. We do not need that type of
cattle down here, and their further
appearance is wholly unnecessary"
1t is with such indisputable EVIL
dence Of sentiment and organized eff
forts, involving officers and men Of
the National Guard called by the
Governor to furnish protection" to
lynch the Scottsboro boys and their
attorneys, that the state officials con-
tinue the preparations for holding
the trial in Decatur.
The Daily Worker has thrown a
search-Ight into the lynch-ridden
community of Decatur and the State
Of Alabama. It has found out where
the lynch sentiment comes from and
by whom it is being organized. It
has published only bits of the great
collection of this kind of evidence
it has on hand. 1t will continue to
publish more of 1t day by day.
The main thing now is to organize
the mass support for the Scottsboro
defense, to food the state authorities
and President Roosevelt with de-
mands that this murder conspiracy
end at once and the Scottsboro boys
be released Internationally, with
whatever arrangements to protect
them from the lynchers and lynch
'-aders may be MISUNDERSTANDING
the right Of Negroes to arm in self
defense.
On the 18th and 10Th of this
month, there will be held a public
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11
Proclaims Watchword
Of "Land, Freedom
And Equality"

for fighting against it; the strug-
giles of the sharecroppers in Ala
bama against serfdom, which is only
first step in the struggle for land;
the growing solidarity of white and
Negro workers as shown In the
struggles of recent years.
Thus extends the path to free
dom. No utopian dreams Of escape
to Africa preached by Garvey, but
struggle here for the freedom and
land in the Southern Black Belt, for
the right of the millions Of Negro
people there to say: This land
which we have titled for generations
belongs to us; these counties which
hold our majorities we will weld
into a new state where we shall
have authority and where the whites
as minority will have equal rights
with us. It is here that the Negro
people shall have the right of self
determination--th right, If they
choose, to proclaim an independent
country.
Only then will the American Ne
groes appear upon the world stage
as an independent and free people,
equal to all and subservient to none.
A Call to White Toilers
And to the white workers it must
be said: Without the Negro masses
you cannot be free. with them the
future belongs to you. The Negro
workers are your powerful black
hand. Would you 90 to battle with
: one arm severed? Would you not
equip that arm with the best OF
weapons2 Then disown the vile
Islander against the Negro people
which has been foisted upon you
step forth free from the filth OF
race hatred, to claim the Negro
masses as your friend and ally.
Step forth to strike out for Negro
freedom, to strike out for Negro
rights. Only in this way can you
convince the Negro masses that you
are worthy Of an alliance, that they
can entrust their battle to you as
you entrust your battle to them
United, in mass effort, you can Their
shatter the chains from your legs
thrust the burden from your Shout.
ders. Especially now, when the Ne
groes are struggling as they never dit
since the Civil War period, can vol
mend a century Of error, by extend
ing your arm in fraternal clasp.
Support Struggles of African and
Other Colonial Slaves
Throughout the whole world col
ored and oppressed peoples are als'
struggling for freedom. The fight TO
the independence of Africa and tn
West Indies, for freedom in Soutl
and Central America and in Cub
is also our struggle. Our victory
also their victory: In solid phalanxe
we battle the same enemy--worlt
imperialism.
To support the struggles that ar
. now going on and to extend then
there is crying need for militar
, central organization around whic
can be grouped all those organiza
, tons and persons, whether they b
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11

white or black, determined to fight
for the liberation Of the Negro peo-
pie. Such a center will unite and
centralize the efforts of the various
organizations and individuals on the
basis of a definite program, welding
them into a powerful united force
-~ein-t Moro oppression
Militant Unity Against Imperialist
Enemy
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights is such an organization. It's
program and platform shows the way
for the liberation Of the Negro peo-
pie, to which all sincere fighters m
this cause can adhere.
The terrific needs Of the Negro
people have dictated this program.
It is based upon the experiences and
traditions of three centuries OF strug-
gle against oppression. Its sharpness
has been tempered in the blood OF
Negroes murdered by the white rul-
ing class oppressors. Turn 1t into a
powerful weapon in the struggle for
Equality, Land and Freedom!
Join the League OF Struggle Tor
Negro Rights
! Affiliate Your Organization!
National Council
League Of Struggle for
! Negro Rights
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Crowd in Subway
Aids Negro Worker
Defends Him Against
False Accusation
lBv a Worker Correspondentl

by a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; had just stepped
from a northbound express at Penn
sylyania Station, IR.T., at 8 am.
There was an unusual commotion.
Three guards stepped from the train
pulling with them a tall slender man.
CHANGING back I observed the man
to be a Negro. stopped, hurried
back and soon became one Of q
rapidly growing crowd.
do you want him arrested" yelled
one of the burly guards.
yes" a young well-dressed man
replied, she stole my wallet"
Just a minute" a voice demanded,
'how do you know he took it2"
"WelD he was the only one near
me and when the train pulled in I
discovered my wallet was missing.
Yes, he picked my pocket"
81 amt got nothing, not even a
wallet of my own" the Negro worker
protested. "C'mon, search me and
see"
eve not got right" the guard
insisted, "the police will do that"
BY this time large militant group
of workers surrounded the guards
The Negro worker grasping this
show Of solidarity, especially by the
white workers, vigorously protested
Its because my face is black, that;
why you pick on me-"
The workers grasped and repeated
this militant defiance, shouting theil
support Of this contention.
The young fellow pressed by these
angry protests made show Of going
through the pockets Of the Negro
worker, and found nothing but some
papers, Ga copy Of the election plat
form Of the Communist Party In
| cIuded)
The guard made a last effort tc
pull him along, but the workers hlr-
ried him along into an outgoing trair
and closed shut the door to anothei
attempt at railroading Negro work
ers.
Only by quick, militant action car
we defeat these low-down attempt.
to victin1ize our class brothers will
a black skin. j. 4.
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Solomon. Crosswaithe). At bottom
contemptuous of the Negro masses,
they are compelled by their desire
to keep their hold upon the rank
and file Socialist Party members to
gloss over their support of white
supremacy with such hypocritical
remarks as: "Let us first liberate the
white workers; then we'll work for
the Negroes. This is the answer
that only those can give who are
quite content to see the Negro
people enslaved, who support the
white ruling class in keeping the
r-egro people enslaved.
N.A.A.C.P. Leaders Betray Negro
People
In this emergency have the So
allied leaders of the Negro people
taken up the cudgels for the rights
of the masses? Many Of them grovel
at the ante-room to President
Roosevelt's chamber seeking place
of honor at the feast of the rulers.
Some Of them, like the leaders of
the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban
League (Walter White, Dubois, Spin
garn, Pickens, Eugene K. Jones, etc.
murmur against the wage differen-
tiaI. but thu noeo-s of srlprc~t -
the New Deal" drown out even
these feeble whisperings. Major Mo-
ton, in that domain at Tuskegee,
left as heritage of the betrayal of
Booker T. Washington, continues his
same grovelling and scraping before
the feet of the mighty. DR.. Dubois
the so-called Socialist, has found
that the path of enlightenment leads
to meme ether than B. T. Washing
ton, and he is now preaching the
gospel, SO long ago discredited. of
nul,'n@ or---'f ~ by the boots-raps.
No meter that the N.A.A.C.P. was
born in a movement of protest
against the betrayal policies and &C
tions of the "great" Washington.
New times, old songs"-the mis-
leaders are now almost unanimously
preaching the gospel of alliance with
the ruling class, Of maintaining in
all its basic conditions the present
order of things, Of rejecting the
proffered alliance of the white work.
ers in the struggle against oppres-
sion and tyranny.
Time Has Come for Courageous
Fight
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights calls upon the Negro masses
to reject the treacherous policies OF
these misleaders and to establish q
close alliance with the militant
white workers. The time has long
since come for clear, courageous
basic struggle on the part Of the
Negro and white masses for equa
rights for Negroes, against lynchine
and persecution.
For Land, Freedom, Equality!
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights proclaims Land, Freedom anG
Equality as it's watchwords. We hal
the struggles of recent years as tn,
forerunner of the decisive struggle
for land and freedom-a struggl
which was betrayed in so dastardl,
a fashion by the Northern rulin
class after the Civil War. Suc]
struggles are the fight for the free
dom Of the Scottsboro boys whicl
has made clear before the Who'll
world the conditions Of oppression
of the Negro people and program
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11

frame-up, the hospitals with the vic
tins Of police brutality. Each new
insult and degradation Is sharper
and more singing than the last.
The bloodhounds of terror seek
cut every head raised above its fell
lows in protest against poverty, hun
ger, unemployment, starvation wag-
es, disease, death which has set
tied with a double weight upon the
Negro people. ALI the suffering and
degradation which have been visited
upon the white masses by the crisis
have been applied with double force
against the Negro masses.
N.R.A. Blood Stained Slavery
The eagle of N.RA. has buried its
claws with a firmer grip upon the
body OF Negro labor. The New
Deal" Of 1893, administered by the
Democrat Roosevelt, recalls the
New Deal" promised the Negro
people by the Democrat Wilson.
Then Wilson, seeking the co-opera-
ton Of the Negro people, In the
waging Of a war which benefited
only the rulers and the rich, prom
ised the Negroes the full rights OF
citizenship. Today Roosevelt, also by
promises, seeks to make the Negro
people bear the heavy end Of the
burden OF the crisis. Then, on the
battlefield Of the crisis, Roosevelt
gives his official sanction to the
double standard Of American de-
nocracy by condemning, In off,
cial legal action. the Negro worker
% the lowest paid category; by
signing the death warrant for Negro
troopers in the plowing-under and
7creage reduction program; by ruin
ing the small Negro business men.
Never, In recent years has there
been such a program Of humiliation
decreed for the Negro people.
Nor has the New Deal" altered
In any respect the whole system of
social degradation, segregation and
jim-crow. It has put It's official
stamp upon IL. Delegation after
delegation has presented President
Roosevelt with the facts Of perse-
cution Of Negroes. Yet the President,
despite his promises, has not ut
tered q single word Of protest or
made q single move to punish lynch
ers. or in any way or form guar
anteed the enjoyment Of equal So
cial and political rights by Negroes.
He has, instead, signified his ale
glance to the Southern slave-drivers
by appointing an outstanding white
Southern bourbon as guardian" of
the Negro in the industrial recovery
machinery. The Bill Of Rights, pre-
sented by the League Of Struggle for
Negro Rights In the Scottsboro
March on Washington, has been
thrust into the waste basket by the
President.
Chains OF Serf Labor Extends 10
the North
Chattel slavery has given place to
serfdom on the Southern planta-
tons; the slave regime, to all forms
Of legalized and tacit prosecutions
and oppression. To this day the
small farmer and sharecropper does
not own land, the Negro worker is
handicapped, the Negro professional
people and business men are being
driven out. The right to free and
equal public education, to vote. to
hold Office TO bs an equal citizen,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11

sentiment against the Scottsboro
boys In and around Decatur, and of
the preparations made to lynch them
through farcical trial or by extra
legal means.
The intentions of the state author
tiles of the State of Alabama are
shown in telegram just received by
Osmond 4. Fraenkel from Thomas E.
Knight, Alabama's Attorney General,
and the moving spirit in the whole
lynch conspiracy. The telegram
states: "Have recommended payment
of costs taxed against State Of Ala
bama Scottsboro cases. My recon-
mendation approved by Governor
Costs will be forwarded to the clerk
OF the Supreme Court"
Since one Of the main issues locally
was the cost Of a new trial. the deci-
sion of the state authorities to pay
the costs indicates their decision to
bring the Scottsboro boys before the
bar Of lynch justice again.
The overwhelming proof Of the in
nocence Of these boys does not sway
the Alabama authorities. They are
going to bring the boys to trial once
more in county where the Daily
Worker can prove preparations are
under way to lynch them.
The Daily Worker yesterday pub
nshed a few statements Of residents
of Morgan County in the towns Of
Decatur and Hartselle. They were
chosen at random from more than
five hundred such statements secured
during q three-week investigation in
and around Decatur.
More than this: The evidence In
possession Of the Daily Worker shows
that through use Of the Jewish issue
sentiment has been created and the
foundation laid for organizing the
Iynching Of attorneys for the Scots
boro boys and anyone else who ap-
pears In their defense.
Today the Daily Worker furnishes
further unimpeac enable evidence, TAX
en- from sworn affidavitS, Of the lynch
conspiracy and Of the connection of
Attorney General Knight with this
conspiracy:
1.-THE restaurant owner on Main
Street, HartseIle, said that they ought
to burn Ruby Bates and them mig
gers all together. He also said: Tom
Knight should have hit that damn
Jew lawyer In the mouth for calling
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l. S. N R. CALLS FOR RELENTLESS FIGHT ON LYNCH TERROR

white workers to this fundamental
fact. They have excluded Negroes
from unions. They are supporting
the special codes which assign low
er wages to those industries where
Negroes are chiefly employed; they
have accepted the difference In
wage scales and working conditions
for the North and South. They are
q part of the Roosevelt machinery.
They are doing their best at the
present time to halt the widespread
mass revolt against the N.R.A. They
are doing their best to divide the
white and Negro workers even fur
Their.
Of the same mould is the leader
ship OF the Socialist Party (Thomas,
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preacher, shot to death by boot
Logging gang in Clarke's Mill, At
lanta County, Ga, September %.
32-Bennie Thomson, taken out Of
jail at Ninety-Six, S. O., october 8,
by four men who had requested his
arrest, and who testified Chief OF
Police Rush agreed to leave the door
open for them. He was beaten to
death with rubber hose.
33-An unnamed Negro plantation
worker was taken out Of jail and
lynched In Labadieville, La, Oct. IL,
He was held for investigation in the
death of a white girl.
34-George Armwood. lynched In
Princess Anne, Maryland, Oct. 10,
by mob which beat, tortured, hanged,
and burned him.
35-Sevis Davis, 45-year-old Negro,
died In Lumpltin, Ca, jail, Oct. 23 Of
wounds inflicted previously by a gang
Of lynchers,
80, 81, 80 and 39-Four Negroes,
three Of them women, lynched near
Arcadia, Fla. Identified as jackson,
his sister, Lessie May, Theresa Nor
gan and Jessie strewmsn,
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is denied.
The slave conditions which reign
in the Southern Black Belt have
plagued the Negro wherever he has
gone. The chains of serf labor in
the South extend TO the cities In the
North and enshackle the Negro in
dustrial worker. The shackles that
bind the Negro also bind the white
worker. The Negro worker in the
North cannot free himself as long
as the Negro masses are chained.
The blow that strikes the shackles
from one must strike the sfackles
from the other.
The leaders of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor CWon Green, Lew
is, etc. have blinded the organized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. T.
Freddy Moore, Negro plantation
worker Of Labadieville, Louisiana,
was hung from the girderS Of a bridge
near that town. by a lynch mob Or
ganized BY white plantation owners.
'Niggers, let this be an example
to you. Do not touch for "a hours.
Mean H."
Norman Thibodeaux was hung from
the same bridge on the same night,
Oct. II. Poor white farmers cut him
down and he escaped alive. The
lynching was dismissed by capitalist
newspapers with brief mention and
1t was not until Thibodeaux had
made his way to New Orleans that
he dared relate details Of the occur
ence to the international Labor De-
Tense. He is now in this city. Threats
have been made to lynch him If he
ever returns to Labadieville, and at
tempts have been made to find him
and take him back there.
The excuse for the lynching was
that Moore and Thibodeaux were
friends OF Anna May LaRose, a white
girl Of the neighborhood, who was
murdered while on visit to her
sweetheart in Labadieville.
Moore was arrested and held In
the parish Jail at Napoleonville.
Plans were Immediately made for his
lynching, but 1t was postponed until
the next day because the landlords
wanted to invite some friends from
New Orleans to enjoy the orgy.
The jail was unlocked, Moore
taken out, beaten, tortured with red
hot branding irons, then hung from
the bridge.
Beside the sign on his body, an
other one was posted on the front
Of the post-ofdce, saying:
WARNING TO NIGGERS! No
niggers allowed on bridge, in front
Of church, In front Of post Office.
Keep moving"
This sign remained there for nine
days on U. s. Government property,
directly opposite the Roman Cath
ole church of the community.
No evidence was ever brought for
ward connecting either Of the youths
with the murder OF the LaRose girl
1t was openly said that any real &C
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To the Oppressed Negro Reopte!
To the White Toiiers of the United
States!
To All willing to Fight Against
Lynching and Persecution!
The renewed murderous onslaught
by the ruling class upon the Negro
people calls for immediate and de-
oisive action II whole nation of
100000 Is not to be trampled into
the dust.
With rope In one hand and torch
In the other lynch terror stalks the
land allotted and organized by the
powers that be. In the very shadow
of the White House, on the Eastern
Shore Of Maryland, the charred body
Of George Armwood has been tossed
upon the scrap heap OF King Lynch
as the 34th victim Of the year. In
preparation for the wholesale legal
lied lynching planned for the
Scottsboro boys, the State of Ala
bama has thrown back into the
teeth of the mass movement Of pro-
test the lynched bodies Of its VIC
Tins at Decatur and Tuscaloosa. It
has released murderouS rifle and
machine gun fire against the indom-
table and courageous Negro share
choppers OF TaIlapoosa County.
U. s. Supreme Court Directs Terror
Rising to the occasion, the Su-
prene Court has ordered that Craw-
ford be returned to the lynch-in-
tested courts Of Virginia and that
Fuel Lee be sent to the electric
chair. The date of execution has
seen set for Willie Peterson Of Bir-
mingham. Georgia, which has already
thrown Angelo Herndon into It's
dungeons to serve q 20-year SEN
tence, Is now moving to invoke the
death sentence against the six Ne
gro and white labor organizers. Not
to be outdone, the authorities In the
North are deporting Negroes to the
homeland of lynch terror, filling
the jails with the victims OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11
$3.50 a Week in
South Carolina
Get Six Hours Work
in Seven Days
BY a Negro Worker Correspondent

(By a Negro Worker Correspondent
COLUMBIA, S. C.-EncIosed please
find something as payment for the
Daily Worker. We Negroes are
catching hell now in South Carolina.
We get only one days work per week.
$1.80 for six hours. We must pay
rent out Of this, also eat something.
This is what we are getting now all
over South Carolina. This is part of
the New Deal.
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[ hronology of the 34-Month
Mass Fight for 9 Negro Boys
Nine Innocent T ads Menaced nv New lynch
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

ScottsborO lynch trial Nov 81 and
further menced by the Statefod ncang conspiracy exposed
electric chair
and eight months Their lives been several times
threatened lynch and gangse introduced
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Negro Farm Hand Reveals Story
OF Lynching A ter Escaping Mob

cusation should be levelled in the
direction of her step-father, who was
opposed to her marriage because by
it he would lose her services.
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Startling Rise in Lynching
Features Fourth Crisis Year
Thirty-Nine Lynch Victims Listed by LID.
Declared to Be By No Means Complete

lynhings the fourth
following list of thinin reported ynchnss
=.
II must be emphasized complete since
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Manifesto De clares
Existence Of Negroes
Threatened

To the Oppressed Negro People!
To the White Toiiers Of the United
Evening star., 1933-05-28
TEXTILE MACHINERY
INVENTIONS GROW
New Ideas Are Resulting in Big
Increase in Industrial
Activity.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 27-While textile
industries report gains in distribution
and production, as reflected in rising
quotations for raw materials. products
labor and securities, they are steadily
bringing out new ideas to maintain or
increase present operations.
A mechanical textile designing ma
chine is one Of the latest developments.
1t Is built somewhat on the idea of a
spectroScope, one OF those old-fash-
ioned cylinders with o peek-hole at the
top and bits Of colored glass at the bot
tom. BY shaking the cylinder the bits
Of glass form various designs.
Rayon yarn for tire cords is another
new idea-one not entirely pleasing to
the cotton trade, which asserts 1t might
replace the use of $4,000 bales Of cotton
year. Up to the present all tire cord
has been made of cotton. There Is a
belief in some quarters that rayon fla
nents will make tires strong. because
smooth yarn creates less friction, which
is an important element in wearing out
automobile tires Recently some tire
makers have been complaining because
their products were so good that they
lasted too long to prove profitable to
their manufacturer.
Cotton combined with fax in a fluid
form. permitting the Interviewing of
the two threads into a product hard to
shrink, rip. stretch or wrinkle, Is a new
product introduced here.
(Copyright, 1889