The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-12
Thousands of Harlem Workers.
Swarm Streets; Protest Verdict.
BY JOHN ADAMS

NEW YORK.--ThouSandS OF Har-
lem workers keep pouring out into
the streets TO give voice to their anger
at the lynchers of Alabama. Over
night the temper Of the people and
appearance of the streets changes.
Replicas Of electric chairs are on
the street corners. They bear signs
of proteSt-"SCOTTSBORO BOYS
SHALL NOT DIE" Women, men
and children stop In their hurried
walks 10 drop their few pennies,
many all they have, into the collec-
ton boxes Of the International Labor
Defense.
Conversations start at these points.
No longer are they strangers. THEIR
BOYS ARE IN DANGER. Soon a
group Is talking and meeting u
under way. More and more the I'M
derstanding of the unity Of all OPP
pressed is growing. White workers
receive attentive ears and applause
when they mount the speakers
stands.
| In front of the Harlem "Liberator,"
different kind Of Negro paper"
one woman said when she heard OF
it--a meeting is in progress all day
and late into the night. In front OF
the Amsterdam News, too, O meeting
goes on.
GtyUE'LL stay right here and fight"
| W A veteran is answering speaker
who paints a Utopia on Africa's
shores. The crowd around him clap
their hands in agreement.
at is not only we Negroes that
suffer, but also the poor whites,
workers and farmers The Interna-
tional Labor Defense fights for all
those who are arrested in the fight
against hunger. The Scottsboro boys
would be dead II 1t we're not for the
fight of the last two years. The fight
must be stronger. We will push back
the clubbing police who try to stop
us from shouting the story Of Scots
boro from the housetops and We will
all fight harder than before. THEY
MUST NOT DIE" The young white
worker receives 8 tremendous ova-
ton at street meeting.
| ftdIICUt AEVuScus
All Harlem is aroused over the &C.
ton OF New York police in attacking
The 5000 who marched from Penn
sylvania station, fighting every inch
of the way in mighty protest &C
ton for the Scottsbofo boys. Speak
ers denounce the alliance Of north
ern police with Alabama lyncherS
Ever-increasing crowds listen to the
story Of this heroic march. They I'M
derstand that to attack this march is
to aid the lynchers. The action of
the porters who did not work while
the demonstration took place IN the
PennsyIvania station terminal receive
tremendous cheers. The call OF the
International Labor Defense for a
mighty outpouYing Of Negro and
white workers into Union Square to-
night receives the pledge OF thou
sands Of Negroes to attend.
THERE are two thousand at a meet
l ing when Clarence Hathaway
New York organizer Of the Comnu-
mist Party, mounts the speakers
stand
'The International Labor De-
Tense went into . little town, De-
catur, and fought this case. At
our meetings we have had very few
Negroes. Now is the time for the
Negroes to fight shoulder to Shout
der with us, to come 10 Union
Square by the thousands"
A tfiunderous cheer goes up from
the crowd at this point. Hathaway
goes on and tells how the Corintu-
mist Party fights for all the OPP
pressed, tells of the emancipation Of
the national nainorities in the Soviet