The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-20

for his intervention to prevent
"a massacre of both defendants
and their Attorneys"
Roosevelt Asked to Intervene.
This plea was made after
Governor Benjamin NJ. Miller
had refused to order out troops to
provide adequate protection. The
telegram to the President follows:
we earnestly osk you to persuade
Governor Miller OF Alabama to order
out SUFFICIENT Nstional G'ssrdsr,ei1
to proYids adequate protection for
the nine Scottsbcro boys and their
attorneys, who are TO appear iii De-
catur tomorrow morning for the ar
raianmert of the defendants and for
trial on Nov 9th.
IN previous trials this Spring, Cir
cult Court Judge Horton, presiding,
took Judicial notice OF incipient mob
action TO lynch defendants and at
torneys by ordering the soldiers in
open court to shoot il necessary, to
preserve the peace Shortly after the
trial, Judge Horton. Who has since
been supplanted. adjourned courS on
his own motion because of the tenn
per of the citizens. Since the last
trial two Negroes in the custody OF
the Sheriff were recently lynched IN
the Tuscaloosa case. A Negro, named
Royal was lynched in the very CITY
Of Decatur in August, and a moo
visited the Decatur i2il to lynch q
Negro prisoner named Brown. Only
his removal TO Huntsville Jail before
the mob arrived, prevented his as
sassination. The situation now is in
flnitely more tense.
Have afidaVits naming many per-
sons in Decatur and neighboring
towns who have openly voiced their
intention Of getting the niggers and
the attorneys. Editorials today in
the Birmingham Age Herald and
Post show their appreciation Of an
irnninsnce OF danger and urging the
officials to call the militia, Despite
this extremely grave situation, the
Governor has rejected the plea for
State Troops to guard prisoners and
attorneys. The probability Of & mas
sacrs of both defendants and their
attorneys is extremely grave. We
urge your Intervention"
:. The telegram was siened by Samuel
S Liebowitz. George w. Stanley and
Joseph r. Broosky.
Decatur Tense rs Hour of Hearing
Nears
q DECATUR, Ala, Nov 19.-This
town is tense as the hour approaches
for the appearance of the nine Scots
/ boro boys for their arraignment in
the Morgan County Court here to-
morrow morning and the arrival of
lthe International Labor Defense At
ltorneys Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph
Brodsky, against whom open threats
of death have been repeatedly made.
Run1ors that the Scottsboro boys
will never reach the court house alive
are sill over town.
State officials are still standing pat
in their refusal to call out the Ma
tional Guard in anticipation of
trouble.
Protests From Workers Pouring In
Photographers from the Birning-
ham newspapers and one from the
New York Daily News, are keeping
vigil outside the Birmingham County
Jail to follow Sheriff J z. HAWKINS
and his deputies, when he transports
the boys to Decatur late tonight or
tomorrow morning.
Telegraph condemnation of the
States refusal to provide the mill
tary to protect the nine boys and
their attorneys, is flooding this
town. They are coming from all
over the country and abroad.
simultaneously, the Birmingham
newspapers have written strong edi-
torials condenning the state officials
for their refusal to supply adequate
protection, and urging q reconsider