The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
"The Real Significance of the Decatur Trial Verdict
LAUNCH CAPITOL
MARCH In FIGHT
FOR NEGRO BOYS
LID. Issues Stirring
Call to Action
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the /. L. D. in the Scottsboro case
that the attention of the whole coun-
try and many parts of the world
has been focused upon the sore spot
in the fabric of American capital
ist society-the brutal social, poll
teal and economic oppression of the
fourteen million American Negroes.
Forces of Reaction Gathering
Already the forces of reaction are
gathering in an attempt to crush
this movement, to stem this mighty
upsurge. The Democratic Party,
through its Tammany Hall agents
among both Negroes and whites, is
forming alliances for this purpose.
In answer to this effort all honest
elements who sincerely wish to fight
for the freedom of the Scottsboro
boys must unite their forces.
The LID. welcomes every moral
and material aid from all who wish
to support the struggle, but at the
same time the masses must be on
their guard and fight with every
means at their command against
anyone who seeks to hamper and d.
vert the clear purpose Of the masses
to smash the whole system of
brutal national oppression of the
fourteen million Negroes in the Uni
ted States-a system which breeds
Scottsboro frame-upS, lynchings, and
Jim Grow, and which violates their
every fundamental human and de-
mocratic right.
The masses are in motion. They
are demanding immediate militant
and uncompromising action, not only
for the defense of the Scottsboro
boys but also on the whole question
Of the violation of the elementary
constitutional rights Of the Negro
people. dramatically symbolized in
the Scottsboro case. They are de-
handing immediate action on the
part of the Roosevelt government
the allies of the Southern white
rulers, to enforce the rights guaran-
teed under the Thirteenth, Fourt-
zenith and Fifteenth Amendments OF
the United States Constitution.
Concrete Action
The LID. therefore proposes to
the Emergency ScottSboro Conference
as called by the Scottsboro Unity
Defense Committee for this Sunday,
and to all working class and pro-
eressive organizations of every color
and nationality, of every political and
religious belief, the following:
l. To organize a Free the SCOTS
bor0 Boys March upon Washington.
2. To collect and present to Pres
ident Roosevelt 100000 signatures,
demanding the immediate, uncondi-
tional and safe release OF the nine
Seottsboro boys.
). To present TO Congress n bill
to be passed at once, providing for
immediate and strict enforcement of
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments to the Constitu-
ton.
The LID. suggests Friday, April
%. as the date on which thousands
Of Negro and white workers are TO
arrive in masses from nearest points,
in delegations from farther ones, be-
fore the White House and Capitol.
In the course Of preparation for
the Free the Scottsooro Boys March
these shall be the immediate de
nands:
1. A new trial for Haywood Pat
terson.
2. POstPonement Of the other
trials until after the appeal has
been acted upon in Haywood Pat
tersen's case.
3. Negroes and white workers TO
serve on the jury.
4. Transfer of all Sc0ttsboro
trials to Birmingham.
5. Full safeguard for the Scots
bOro boys, all lawyers and defense
witnesses in the case.
6. Immediate, unconditional and
safe release for the nine Scots
bOro boys.
Upon receipt Of this Gail let the
Scottsboro Emergency Conference
and every other Organization not yet
within this body take up and endorse
our proposals and jointly with us
get to work at once Oh all the details
that will place upon an organized
basis the tremendous movement Of
the black and white masses TO COM
pei the ruling class TO let go OF their
victims, the nine Sccttsboro boys, ard
to grant the Negro masses every con-
stitutional right.
Long live the unity Of the black
and white masses, North and Soulful
Only the masses can compel the
freedom OF the Scottsboro boys, Tom
Mooney, Angelo Herndon, and every
ether victim Of ruling class terror
and national oppressionl
On to Washington